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Originally posted by euges
mr Davies, Should the Soviet army just charged the city walls? The comparison of Paris and Warsaw may be romantic but the actual situation was quite different.
Poland preserved its statehood, enlarged its borders to the West and did pretty well for itself. I won't call it loss of freedom or occuppation of the kind parts of the Soviet Union suffered under Nazi Germans.
Why did the uncoordinated but brave uprising and devastation of the city occur in and to Warsaw and not to Bucharest, Sofia or Prague, or any other city Soviet forces "liberated"? [/b]
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Gienek, your comment belongs to a discussion lasting in Poland for decades. Yes, my personal opinion in this case is that the uprising should be delayed. I curse the London-based decision makers whose order concerning the uprising was unfounded. The price Poland paid was definitely too high. Tragically, both the Soviets and ther Nazies confirmed the worst expectations of how they would behave in the end. I remember how many years later gen. Berling remembered the course of things on our TV and Stalin in their private talk said to him:
Byerling, vy znayetye, v politikye nyet syentimyentov..
Yesterday, exactly at 5 p.m. a voice of sirens in Warszawa announced another anniversary and all people and cars stopped again and stood half a minute in silence...