81st Anniversary of Warsaw Uprising

Maybe it would be good for you.

The best evidence that you are reading Western garbage is in "Nazi Germany".

Why these morons insert "Nazi" is not clear...To make Germany then look bad or Germany today look good...I guess it helps to express the author's selective moral indignation.

Never mind that the whole German nation - women and children - supported its army and conquests.

Strangely, nobody ever says "Democrat US" when discussing nuking Japan.

The same with Katyn...Never "Communist Russia" as this would imply that there was a good Russia that had nothing to do with that crime. It's always a blanket condemnation...
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The Nazis got their butts kicked royally by dint of Allied efforts....and I say BULLY!!!

....I guess this!

But usually many make also the distinction of "Soviet Russia"....and in Germany it is today often also "Putin's Russia....but you are right, it's rarely "Truman's US/America" and never "the Democrats"!

...curious!

And rightly so.

The sad thing is that some former ones were allowed to continue in public life after the war.

Just like Polish communists after 1990.

Compared with some other countries (Czechoslovakia, DDR, Bulgaria, Romania) the PRL was pretty chill. It didn't feel like that to many Poles but lots of things went on that were unthinkable in those other countries...

the equivalent of Pewex were off limits to citizens in the other countries but Poles were encouraged to use them, there were attempts to maintain relations with the diaspora, the church functioned as a de facto opposition party, talk with people (or people who lived in the cccp) and the differences were very stark.

This leads to the paradox: The easier a time a country had during communism, the harder it will be to figure out who can/should be excised from public life.

In the DDR and Czechoslovakia it was easier to figure out who to prevent from holding office. In Poland... it wasn't so clear.

Also, in Poland (I don't know about other Eastern Bloc countries) there was a large gray area between members of the communist party and those with no connection... people with connections to the party but who didn't belong and a fair number of party members did so merely for work-related purposes...

It's a tough question that will only be resolved by time.... (society changes, they say, one funeral at a time).

If "communism" was so evil, why even one "communist" wasn't tried and executed after "communists" lost it?

Becaue there was no communism in Poland and they were a lot less evil than Western colonizers and warmongers - for "freedom and democracy", of course...

Because communism is a satanic system that rots society from the top down. While warmongering exists in many regimes - modern America is the champion here - communist regimes have claimed the highest body counts in human history, all while claiming to serve 'the people.'

In Poland, real communism didn't exist, or it existed but only for a few years.

I am glad we have this one out of the way.

Now what about that horrible Soviet "occupation" and Polish collaborators...

Anybody charged and hanged?

"Real" communism has never existed anywhere.... even the cccp never claimed to be communist. Communism could only be achieved after a transitory period of socialism.

The problem was that socialism sucks and destroys economies (despite what marx thought) and so the level of prosperity needed for communism could never come into being.

Tell this to the morons here...commonly known as social studies students and professors...

The verdict is still not here who is dumber...