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Greater Poland Uprising (1918-1919)


Poznan  5 | 46
24 Oct 2008   #1
After culture and economic war in Poznań (won by Poles) we had WWI it was great opportunity...

The Greater Poland Uprising of 1918-1919, or Wielkopolska Uprising of 1918-1919 or Posnanian War was a military insurrection of Poles in the Greater Poland against Germany.

Poznań remembers this victory:

great Poland
McCoy  27 | 1268
24 Oct 2008   #3
my great-grandfather fought in the uprising.
OP Poznan  5 | 46
25 Oct 2008   #4
If you go on Stary Rynek (Old Market) around old Towns Hall you will find nice exhibition around buildings. 90 anniversary is very close and there are nice pictures presented there. I have been looking for them on interenet but I couldn't find them. They are realy interesting.

Old Market durring up rise whole in Polish flags (Old market has been always in Polish "hands") etc.
Prince  15 | 590
11 Nov 2008   #5
Today in Poznań everybody have been eating "Rogale Marcińskie" We eat them during Poland's independence day.
RubasznyRumcajs  5 | 495
27 Dec 2015   #6
Merged: 97th Anniversary of Greater Poland Uprising (Powstanie Wielkopolskie)

97 years ago another uprising started- it was different than others, because it actually succeeded without costing thousands of Polish lives; that's also one of the reason it's almost a forgotten anniversary; clearly celebrating catastrophes (like Warsaw Uprising etc) committed without much thinking is a much better thing to do than to celebrate actual victories.

url in English
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Poland_Uprising_%281918%E2%80%9319%29

Video in Polish

youtu.be/L0szPkk6bbE
pawian  221 | 25287
18 Feb 2020   #7
There is a good film made about the Rising: Męskie Sprawy - Males` Job. See the skirmish between insurgent Poles and Germans at 1:22:45. Made in 1980s so the special effects aren`t too good.

youtu.be/HcUGU9I9MIM
Ron2
27 Aug 2024   #8
Over 100 years of the modern German oppression of Poland. The EU is not military oppression, but some argue it's a political oppression. All kinds of arguments may be made in either opinion.
Novichok  5 | 7885
27 Aug 2024   #9
clearly celebrating catastrophes (like Warsaw Uprising etc) committed without much thinking

You are too logical and now without friends here.

Thinking and "dying for your country" or another azhole's "freedom and democracy" are mutually exclusive.
pawian  221 | 25287
28 Aug 2024   #10
but some argue it's a political oppression

Which Poles and Polesses agreed for on their own by voting in a referendum. If you say A, you are supposed to say B - that`s the proverb of the Polish bees.

now without friends here.

Quite the opposite - we are without Rumcajs nowadays.


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