- Warsaw Uprising with the eyes of Witka Piekarski.
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"AK Command undertakes on 3 X 1944 from 7 a.m. German time (8 a.m. Polish time) to remove barricades which are primarily closest to German lines."
This is the beginning of part II of the surrender agreement.* Oh, my God *signed in the evening 2 X 1944 by representatives of the AK Colonel Iranka-Osmecki (the most intelligent officer of the KG AK, chief of intelligence - W.) and Colonel Dobrowolski and commander of the German suppression forces He will emergence as SS and Police General von dem Bach. Despite belonging to this criminal organization of Germany, he had to agree to Polish demands to exclude SS troops, police and foreigners from care, safety and defender over Polish prisoners. These and another concessions were won by a nine-week unbelievably fierce attitude of the insurgents, which forced even specified fierce enemies and perfect Nazis to pay respect to the fighting Poles. (here I would like to point out that in the full text of the agreement of 2 X 1944, there is not a word about surrender, but only about the temporary cessation of armed actions in the area of left-wing Warsaw - It's very meaningful!)
Circumstances of the negotiation and decision-making were perfectly presented by Juliusz Machulski in the performance of the tv Theatre Facts Scene entitled "Stopping War Action"
possibly I won't come back again.
possibly I'll gotta do the same.
Like, so much, so many thousands
Polish soldiers died
For our liberty and cause,
I in Poland, Mom, I believe so much
And on the sanctity of our cause
present I'm going to fight.
Don't cry, don't be happy, like me,
My heart is in my chest,
My heart sounds so good today.
It's so terrible to have Sten in your hand.
And laughter death in the face,
And then measurement - and wash - without fear
To the country! To our honor!
present I'm going to fight.
1st August We honor the memory of the Warsaw Uprising, pay tribute to the fallen, dead and surviving veterans, residents of the capital, who were participants and victims of those events. Taking our head over the heroics of soldiers and civilians, we sometimes criticize mistakes, and even sometimes we straight condemn the command of military and political leadership for the tragic decision of the outbreak of combat against the incomparable and ruthless enemy.
The terrible effects of starting the W-hour at 5 p.m. on August 1st summertime day are mostly known:
- about 180 1000 civilian residents of the city were murdered (in fact, it is about 3.5% of all Polish fatalities of planet War II, but this absolute number is shocking anyway),
- 16 1000 soldiers were killed by AK and another organizations, in the majority of ideological patriotic youth, who were just beginning to live an adult life and were just about to influence the formation of the Homeland, which was devoted to and faithful as those from the Thermopil 2400 years earlier (before the war and the conspiracy sets of Greeks were an essential component of education, even the mediate 1 - we remember the memories of a defective gymnasian).
- destroyed, completely destroyed the capital of the Polish state, its central political, cultural and social centre;
- the spine of the Polish Underground State, its military strength of the Home Army and administrative and management structures were broken.
But all these victims did not go to waste - apart from propaganda and political importance (to the planet at the time it showed how the politics of the USSR and its leader Stalin, who was so-far called the generous Uncle Joe, were shown to the makiawelistic, pragmatic, inhumane. After not sharing, and even preventing the transportation of Polish aid to anti-fascist patriots the sympathy of the "free world" to him became very cold) and
teaching value (for future Polish generations:
- and a informing as to how we can number on Western "sociants" (in the 21st century besides current!),
- and how Poles can fight and die erstwhile they have to),
Maybe the sacrifice and sacrifice of the Warsaw Uprising saved the Old World before the ominous possible of the super-totalitarian states that have taken over Europe and the remainder of the planet described by Orwell.
In last year's memo on the actual end of the conflict of Warsaw 1944 on October 5th "The Meaning of the Warsaw Uprising for Europe and the World" [on our portal 5.10.2011, ed.] I described in item the possibilities that faced Stalin after the largest German forces pogrom in planet War II, i.e. after the highly successful completion of Operation "Bagration". Wehrmacht has not only lost almost 1 million killed and wounded soldiers, 3,000 tanks and a cannon, 631 aircraft, but besides any but the local strategical initiative. After specified losses, there could no longer be only talk of winning the war, but besides of defending ourselves against the invasion of German territory against the coming power of the Red Army from the east. Moreover, in the areas between the Vistula and Berlin, there was no crucial force between the Carpathians and the Baltic that could halt the coming millions of soldiers of the Workers' and Boys' Red Army, along with tens of thousands of top tanks of the Second War and non-violent aircraft. respective armoured divisions casually thrown from the Western front (tightly weakening it) at the end of July'44 (which has escaped the attention of the 'loss' from the KG AK) temporarily halted the momentum of the already tired winners from Belarus and Ukraine, but could no longer counteract the recently thrown, prepared reserves of the russian General Staff, alleged Stawka.
After capturing and maintaining the capes on the left bank of the Vistula River, it no longer constituted a serious terrain partition. Besides, after forcing wider and much wider rivers - Dniepra, Dniesny, Prypeci, confederate Bug, Hearing, Horynia, Dniestra and others RKKA had a large experience in this matter. Another offensive that would come out of the Vistula River within a month-two would scope Odra and from there only 60 km to Berlin. Of course, the capital of Germany is not the full Deutschland, but only about 450-600 km from it to the western ends ... just 1 more jump. By the end of 1944, real... If Stalin had resigned from occupying the peripheral, mediocre Balkan (Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia) and threw all his offensive forces towards the German direction - surely so.
The red colour shows areas occupied by the Red Army until March 30, 1945. If not for the Warsaw Uprising, they could have been occupied by 30 October six months earlier -
Whether, by freeing Germany, a peaceful and charitable russian nation would let it to be returned to the Tow. Stalin back in the greedy paws of capitalist bourgeoises, cartel and trust owners, bankers and another working class leeches?
I think that this rhetorical question and anyone who remembers a small bit of the rhetoric of the "camp of peace and progress" will agree with me that Joseph Stalin loved workers, peasants and intelligence working, besides German, after all, was a large Internationalist to do specified harm to them. A state with a sickle and a circus (German Democratic Republic) would occupy the area to the Rhine, to the border with France, the Netherlands and Belgium.
Given the popularity of Communist parties reaching 50% in this western prosperity (+ Italia), it is possible to imagine that they would embrace governments, at the beginning of the coalition, according to the Lenin rule "One step back and then 2 forward".
Only a step-two would stay for the imagination of a communist, totalitarian Europe (with the Islands) described by Orwell.
Stalin had to presume that gathering the tens of thousands of National Army with russian troops would not be easy. The fanatical loyalty to the superiors and the large patriotism manifested by respective 1000 Vilnius Accidents after the Red Army's shared liberation of this city and after the treasonous disarmament of fresh comrades of weapons allowed to estimation a multitude of problems that could make respective times greater Polish strength in central Poland. The absolute submission of the AK soldiers, after "filtering" uncertain officers, was not real. The independent armed force, the enemy classy and worldviewal origins of Stalin alongside his army would not bear. A NKVD unit, even with the aid of the Red Army front troops, would not be adequate to control it without blood. And the Soviets' fights against uncompromised any collaboration with the Nazis of Polish patriots could have unpredictable political consequences between the USSR and the Free World. It's a very embarrassing situation. The detonation and defeat of the Warsaw Uprising caused by the AK and weakening it both militarily (number, personnel) and, above all, propaganda were highly beneficial for Stalin. Perfect.
Both russian and KG AK staff specialists (where did russian intelligence have accurate leaks about the AK - about this in the next post) predicted that the opposition of respective 1000 barrels of handguns with a supply of ammunition for respective days could last a week, a maximum of 2 weeks ("Colonel. Monter estimated that we could work 3-4 days, and then hoped for the prey and supplies from the air. He felt that a individual could stand up to 14 days" - Colonel Rzepecki's account).
Therefore, the premature outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, its sinking into the blood of AKowce and the inhabitants of the capital, the work of the AK and the London government, and then the liberation of the shot city in mid-August was perfect for Stalin for events.
The Red Army would then teardrop down its power "On the Fall" and within a month-two would scope Odra. After her, as I wrote earlier, only 60 km of Berlin, and 100 km more with allies the boundary of the chapter on the Elbe. This could have been in the fall of 1944, erstwhile the Allies in the West of Europe did not even occupy all France, did not scope the Rhine, and the US Army was busy with dense battles in the Philippines.
Stalin decided to throw his strategical reserves to the south of Poland - Slovakia and Romania. This first direction was intended only to bind the forces of the German army group of talented general Heinrich at the expense of the victims of the soldiers of the Czechoslovak and (western)Ukrainian nationalities, not very enthusiastically devoted to russian ideology... The attack on Romania was to detach this country from its alliance with Hitler, occupying it and neighbouring Hungary, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. By the end of 1944, it succeeded (almost everything but for the business of the northern parts of Hungary and Yugoslavia), but at the expense of stabilising the front on the Vistula. Part of the Balkans (because without Greece and Yugoslavia, whose leader Broz-Tito "successed the origin of planet socialism", i.e. he did not recognise Stalin's authority over himself and his state) in exchange for at least the northern half I don't think German is simply a good swap.
Therefore, erstwhile the American ambassador in Moscow Harriman flattered Soho that like the victorious Alexander I at the Vienna legislature 1814-15 dictates a fresh order to the world, he sadly replied in his voice that "his large predecessor occupied Paris, and he only Berlin and Vienna".
In another post,."Rise'44 scenes to decide the hr in Part 2" I will effort to show how Stalin (i.e. more specifically - russian peculiar services) could influence the premature outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising. These are, of course, hypotheses, without access to archives we will never be sure, but as far as the surveillance of the AK by communist agents goes, the conclusions about its combat capabilities could not be greater than the above quoted assurances of a very optimistic "wanted" - Colonel Monter, or 14 days.
In the 8.08 presented to the General Staff by the commander of the 1st Front of Belarus, Marshal Rokossowski's plan for further action on the Vistula line Warsaw was to be liberated about 25.8. However, this plan was rejected, and the reserves held were directed south. The erstwhile plan of Rokossowski's operation "Bagration" brought Stalin, as I wrote, the great, top triumph of this war. This time he did not perceive to the winning marshal, and even moved him to another front (2rd Belarusian). What effect did the russian Army have on the decision to shift reserves and further offensives against any military laws The Warsaw Uprising will never know, but we can guess. Great. The extraordinary bravery of Warsaw insurgents, their rat spy and thermopile victims even thwarted the chances and plans of the tyrant. erstwhile again, Europe owes its freedom and prosperity to the heroism of Warsaw and Poland. Like in 1920, like in 1830-31, it's a pity that Europeans don't seem to like it. But it is up to us to yet appreciate this Polish contribution to the United Europe.
On the occasion of 1st August, in addition to the memory of the victims and heroes, we should besides remember about a wonderful spirit of both the fighting and the population of Warsaw the first and subsequent days of August'44Without which the Rising would not have survived even half, even a 4th of its heroic, over eight-week duration. In this spirit I urge my last year's text, unfortunately in the subject of the movie besides current - "2nd August'44: For this 1 scene, I would give my life! When's the movie?"
It quotes from Jan Nowak-Jezioranski "Kuriera from afar", which I cannot repeat:
"We're watching a scene I won't forget while I'm alive.
Residents of close homes build a barricade without any order from above. any dig ditches, others throw them out the windows, whatever they want. There are not adequate shovels and picks, so any rip the pavement with their bare hands, but do so with specified incredible enthusiasm and dedication that in respective minutes deep ditches are created.
Then a German armored car appears away!
Ours with a painted PW anchor. There's an detonation of crazy enthusiasm. People reject pickaxes and - for a command - start singing "Warszawianka". He sings the full street from Napoleon Square to Marszałkowska Square. A low, powerful bass is sung by old Pełczyński, a pupil of the Apuchtinian school:
This is the day of blood and glory,
May the day of resurrection be?
I'm overwhelmed by the excitement I've never experienced and never again.For this 1 scene, I'd give my full life.
I can feel those from Belvedere and Arsenal. Invisible, they are now with us, active in this joyful crowd."
Film material No. 1
The most dynamic song from the Warsaw Uprising, somewhat forgotten.
Film material No. 2
