Poland got nothing because Poland struggled for nobody but Poland.
Liar.
battle of Britain
Just one example.
Stop lying Harry.
Plastic Poles like to lie about how Britain did nothing after war was declared.
That would be a silly lie to make, wouldn't it. By your own account, the Poms bombed Wilhelmshaven successfully in Sept '39 (another lie, because the link you provided contends it was unsuccessful), dropped leaflets and invited individual Poles to the VE Day Parade.
Further, how dare you appropriate the memories of all those brave Cth. pilots who died for Poland during the airdrops of the Rising by contending that individual acts of courage and selflessness were somehow indicative of the British general attitude toward assistance for Poland as a whole. Have you no shame?
Aside from speculating as to what the Poms could have done for Poland in the strategic/tactical sense, I've mentioned the following before on this thread, but you and your mates ignored it, so here it is in CAPITALS. It sets out what the Poms could have (or, more correctly, shouldn't habve) done for Poland:
1. POLAND WAS SOLD OUT BY THE POMS (AND THE USA) AT TEHERAN.
2. POLAND WAS NOT ADVISED OF THIS. POLAND WAS PROMISED BY THE POMS THAT THEY WOULD, AS THE POMS FIRST ALLY, REMAIN UNDIMINISHED OR WORDS TO THAT EFFECT. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS WOULD SUGGEST THIS WAS MERE RHETORIC TO INSTILL A DESIRE IN THE POLES TO FIGHT AND DIE FOR THE POMS - IT WORKED.
3. NOTWITHSTANDING, THE POMS CONTINUED TO USE POLISH SOLDIERS UNDER THEIR COMMAND FOR END PURPOSES OTHER THAN WHAT THE POLISH SOLDIERS THOUGHT THEY WERE FIGHTING FOR. THE POLES THOUGHT THEY WOULD BE ASSISTED BY THE POMS IN AT LEAST EXERTING SOME LEVERAGE ON RUSSIA. THE CONTRARY WAS THE CASE.
4. REPEAT - THE POMS USED THE POLES, KNOWING THEY HAD STABBED THEM IN THE BACK THOUGH CONTINUING TO USE THEM FOR THEIR OWN IMPERATIVES. THEY DID NOT INFORM THE POLES OF THIS DEAL WITH STALIN AND THEREFORE THE POLES WERE NOT ABLE TO CHOOSE WHETHER THEY WISHED TO CONTINUE TO FIGHT FOR SOMEONE ELSE WITH NO PROSPECT OF MUTUAL GAIN.
5. THE POLES ACTED IN GOOD FAITH. THE POMS DID NOT. THE POLES THOUGHT THE POMS WERE THEIR FRIENDS AND ALLIES. THE POMS CHOSE WHAT SOME WOULD CALL REALPOLITIK OVER AN ALLY. THEY KOW-TOWED TO A FORMER GERMAN ALLY (RUSSIA) AND ABANDONED A PRONE, VULNERABLE AND ESSENTIALLY HELPLESS FRIEND. THE POLES DID NOT.
6. AFTER WW2, POLAND WAS OCCUPIED BY AN ALIEN NATION WITH A PUPPET REGIME. BRITAIN WAS NOT. TENS OF THOUSANDS OF POLES DIED FIGHTING FOR THE POMS DURING WW2 ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF SHARED GOALS, AMBITIONS AND MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL OUTCOMES. THE POMS OBVIOUSLY HAD A DIFFERENT UNDERSTANDING.
7. THE USA WAS COMPLICIT IN THE ABOVE. THE DIFFERENCE HOWEVER WAS THAT THE POMS HAD AN AGREEMENT WITH THE POLES. THAT IS WHY LINES OF ENQUIRY ARE DIRECTED AT THE POMS. YOU EXPECT MORE FROM A FRIEND THAN A FRIEND OF A FRIEND.
8. MANY POMS FOUGHT AND DIED FIGHTING FOR POLES AND WERE DISGUSTED WHEN THEY LEARNED OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING TO THEIR FRIENDS AND COMRADES. HMG ENSURED THEIR SACRIFICES WERE IN VAIN BY VIRTUE OF THEIR POLICY TOWARD POLAND AND THE RUSSIANS (I recommend you make a small sojourn to your nearest ex servicemen's club and speak to one who fought with the Poles - it will foster y our understanding of this theme).
just as second generation Aussies rarely let the chance of a bit of casual racism pass them by (as Ozi Dan proves in his posts).
Liar.The word "Pom" is not a racist term, and you are well aware of that. It's akin to "Limey", "Yank" etc. Please stop lying and misrepresenting to try to make me look bad and you look aggrieved. You just look like a goose.
Further, I find your continued reference to the rich aboriginal culture of Australia as being some kind of sport where Australians hunted them quite frankly sickening and you've mentioned it quite a few times on this and another thread. Please keep the implied racism out of your 'arguments'. It's bad enough that you think it OK to use harassing and intimidating language toward women on this forum and now you want to bring racism into it. I won't mention the physical threats you made to me on the that other thread.
For the record, I'm actually first generation Aussie. See how easy it is to tell a lie if you don't bother checking the facts.
Good to see that as always you refuse to answer any of the questions which I or anybody else put to you.
The questions as I recall them were in essence the following (with my answers). Please do put any other questions to me that I may have missed when drinking in the words of wisdom from you and your Pomgolian friends on this thread:
1. Q. What else could the Poms have done to help the Poles? A. I honestly don't know, but I suppose they could at least have told the Poles they were fighting for nothing after being sold out by them and to expect that once they stopped fighting for the Poms they may not have a home to go to as it would probably fall in annexed Russian territory.
2. Q. I set this thread up to get a rise out of the Poms. A. You got me. An Aussie never misses a chance to do that.
3. Q. The Poles were invited to the VE Day Parade but didn't bother to turn up, did they? A. Certain individual Poles were invited on the night before the parade when it became apparent tot he organisers that the Communist faction wouldn't show. Saying that they didn't bother to show up is another lie Harry. The invites were cordially declined.
I think that's about it, but refresh my memory if I'm wrong.
Here's the lesson Harry (I seem to have to keep giving them to you) - have you heard of the phrase "not seeing he forest for the trees"? It means not seeing the greater picture because you are so focused on component parts, thinking those component parts, taken in isolation, are the whole and indisputable truth. I think you suffer from this condition. Blind adherence to what you call 'facts', without analysis of the situation and context which usually change the meaning of those facts, is risky. The more you stick to the 'facts', without realising they are just components, the more you start looking like a dill when someone paints the whole picture.
They would have taught you textual analysis at Uni wouldn't they? Oops - my bad - you don't need a degree to slap together and sell tourist fliers, do you?
I had more to dish out, but it's 2009 and a New Year and I thought I'd give you a reprieve from the hammerings you usually cop.