"During the Warsaw Uprising, Germany murdered 200 1000 Poles and completely destroyed Warsaw. We will never let them forget it!" - wrote Sławomir Mentzen on social media. The politician went with fresh Hope MPs to Berlin to "worship the memory of the insurgents at the Brandenburg Gate".
At 5:00 p.m. in all of Warsaw, sirens were heard, and residents stopped for a symbolic minute of silence to celebrate the memory of the fallen.
On the occasion of the 81st anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, the Co-Chairman of the Confederation took the floor, Sławomir Mentzen. In a social media publication, the entry recalled the tragic consequences of the uprising. He wrote, among others, that during the fighting Germans murdered 200,000 Poles and destroyed Warsaw. He stressed that "We'll never let them forget it.".
SEE: "W" hr in Warsaw. The city stopped, sirens howled
Mentzen besides reported that he and his fresh Hope MPs commemorated the anniversary in Berlin, paying tribute to the insurgents under The Brandenburg Gate. The entry was accompanied by a photograph from the place of the event - parliamentarians kept the flares fired, were wearing T-shirts with the symbol of the Fighting Poland and developed a banner with a message addressed to the Germans, so that they would not forget the victims of the Warsaw Uprising.
81st anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising. Mentzen paid tribute to the Berlin Uprising
Before the statue of Gloria Victis at the Military Cemetery on Powązki in the hr of "W" representatives of the authorities, including the president Andrzej Duda, President-elect Karol Nawrocki, Marshal of the legislature Margaret Kidawa-Błońska and veterans and city residents they paid tribute to Warsaw insurgents.
At 5 p.m., at which on 1 August 1944 - 81 years ago - the insurgents started in Warsaw, sirens cried out. Gathered in front of the monument Gloria Victis in a minute of silence, they celebrated the memory of the insurgents. Mazurka Dąbrowski was sung and the Warsaw musical was played.
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The Polish bishop Wiesław Lechowicz refused to pray for the fallen insurgents. A salute was besides given to celebrate the 81st anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising.
The celebrations in front of the monument Gloria Victis are the climax of the celebration of the 81st anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising. They were besides attended by the Deputy Prime Minister, the head of the MON Władysław Kosiniak-KamishDeputy talker of the Sejm Piotr Zgorzelski (PSL) and president of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski.
Warsaw Uprising It broke out on August 1, 1944 at 5:00 p.m. Around 40-50 1000 insurgents entered the fight. It lasted 63 days and ended on October 3. About 18,000 underground soldiers and nearly 180,000 civilians died.
