The Battle of Kolberg 1945

In two days we will be celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Kolberg in which the units of 1st Belarussian Front and 1st Polish Army took the German Festung Kolberg and once again, after 1000 years, Kolberg went back to its old name - Kołobrzeg (in the year 1000, when the city was part of Poland, it became the seat of the Diocese of Kołobrzeg, one of five oldest Polish dioceses).



The anniversary will as usual be quiet, with no central-level politicians present (or those who will attend won't brag about it in their social media) and no wide media coverage. It is not politically correct these days to remind about the brotherhood in arms of Polish, Russian and Belarussian soldiers. Some retards even went as far as calling 1st PA a "Polish-speaking Soviet army". Let's draw the veil of silence on their galactic stupidity.

The soldiers of 1st Polish Army were a varied bunch: came from all the regions of Poland, some had tough time in gulags behind them, some were communists and former BCh members, some were former Home Army fighters and Warsaw Uprising veterans - as I said, a varied bunch - but on this day they had one job, taking Kołobrzeg and reversing the historical process of Drang Nach Osten.

Poland came back almost to Her westernmost limits, came back to the cold Slavic waters of Oder river. Piast eagles were once again flying proudly over this ancient piece of Slavia.

Cześć i chwała bohaterom! Вечная слава героям!

We used to spend 1 month of each summer holiday there in 1970s. We stayed at the campsite located near the park amphitheatre. Thanks to that, we could attend the Festival of Soldier Songs held annually in Kołobrzeg.

At the time, I was too young to grasp the impact of WW2 on the city which was devastating cos it was razed to the ground due to the siege. I understood it later on why large areas in the centre were completely devoid of any architecture and the rest was built all over with ugly communist blocks. I saw it even better when I visited Kołobrzeg again as an adult man after the city council had completely restored the Old Town and nearby quarters.

No, it isn`t correct to boast of that imposed "brotherhood" cos patriotic Poles/Polesses still remember it was Soviet Russian and Belarussian soldiers who invaded Poland on 17 Sep 1939 in alliance with Nazi Germans. Then the 4th partition of Poland followed and Katyn Massacre. It was a matter of luck that Germans attacked Soviets in 1941. To Polish patriots, both Nazis and Soviets were the same thugs.
Soviets created the Polish Army but its officers were Soviet cos Polish ones had been executed in Katyn and other massacre sites in the USSR. Never forget about it.

Not true. Most officers of 1st PA were Poles. One of the Warsaw Uprising veterans, Stanisław Komornicki (later a general of LWP), distinguished himself in the Battle of Kołobrzeg, as well as colonel Jan Niewiński (kresowiak, and former Home Army fighter).


True.

And it is also true that in the later stages of the war Poles and Russians fought hand in hand against the nazis, forming brotherhood in arms which resulted in crushing the Third Reich and the rebirth of Poland, ethnically pure and with former Piast Slavic lands restored to our fatherland (in exchange for ethnically largely Ukrainian, Samogitian and Belarussian Kresy).

OK, we mean two different periods. I meant the initial stage of forming the army in the USSR. While you meant the phase when it encroached on Polish territory and could freely mobilise local Poles.

In such case you're right, but it's only natural because early on, when the army was formed, it was created and directed by the Soviet command, and our units had to be prepared to cooperate smoothly with Red Army units. Later, as the army grew and developed, more Polish officers were promoted into positions of leadership, and the Soviet influence gradually diminished. A very similar process took place in case of Czechoslovak Army in the Soviet Union.

No. The primary reason was Katyn Massacre.
The number of men kept growing. In August 1943, they formed the 2nd Division and hastily began to create the third. In the spring of 1944, they were transformed into the 1st Polish Corps. Its numbers were as follows: privates - 29,269, non-commissioned officers - 8,398, officer cadets - 1,277, officers - 4,564, or a total of 43,508. As before, the lack of officer cadres was clearly felt. Even if they were supplemented by Soviet officers - at that time they constituted 67 percent - ​​they were among the worst. 70 percent of them did not have a higher education, and 14 percent did not even have a secondary education. The atmosphere among the privates was also not the best.

Torq, it is really a disgrace you try to justify and embellish Soviet Russians who had first invaded Poland, then murdered thousands of Polish elites and common people in Katyń Massacre events and only then they created the Polish army whose officers had to be mostly Soviet Russians cos there weren`t Polish ones.
How low can a Pole fall???