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Generał Nil [39]
You have contact with Polish veterans in the UK, I believe. Instead of anonymously telling me that my parents weren't patriots, why don't you tell the veterans to their face who moved to the UK that they are not patriots and report to us on the outcome of that conversation.
This is a good point, and is one that I have spoken with veterans about previously even my own father when he was alive.
So I can report back:
The Polish Forces that were either stationed in the UK or were in western Europe and Italy during WWII swore a military oath of allegiance to the the Polish-government-in-Exile, which you might not know, was based in London after the fall of France.
After Yalta conference, the USA and Britain de-recognised the legitimate government of Poland based in London in favour of the communist Lublin puppet regime in Poland. However the Polish-government-in-exile quite rightly refused to accept this position as they were of course still the legal government of sovereign Poland and remained in London despite the recognition of the Lublin committee by the British.
The British decided that the Poles must be demobilised however General Anders was quite clear that Polish Forces were still under military oath to the Polish-government-in-exile despite whatever the British thought or did. General Anders firmly believed, as did his forces, that in the period after WII a war would break out between the USA and the USSR so his forces were best placed outside of Poland for this eventuality.
Anders plan to deploy all the Polish Forces from Italy, the UK and Europe in Germany in 1946 was naturally thwarted by the British and Americans. But Anders and his men remained loyal, bound by their oath, to their government. (BTW. Anders also tried to set up a military alliance with Franco in Spain as he believed Spain would become the western front of this impending war with USSR. Franco let Anders set-up an anti-communist propaganda broadcasting station in Spain, and discussed a Catholic alliance against the USSR and the stationing of Polish troops in Spain).
So there was no question over the patriotism of the Polish Forces in UK after the war, they remained loyal to their government though this was based in London. Many of these veterans were active in keeping the hope of a free Poland akive in the minds of the "west'. Without their support and efforts nobody (not even in Poland) would have known anything during the communist regime about Poland's contribution to the Allied victory over the Nazis.
Your parents were merely some of the 750,000 Polish economic migrants that left communist Poland during 1960s to 80's for the USA were they not? You said they applied to leave Poland behind and communist Poland agreed to let them go. Why aren't you questioning them about their lack of the patriotism that you seem to prize so highly now?
