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The Saxon Palace was one of the most distinctive buildings in prewar #Warsaw. It was destroyed by Germans in #WWII.
A 🧵:

#PolishHistory #Poland #ReparationsForPoland #BeLikePoland #unredeemed #ReparationsNow #PałacSaski

The Palace, erected as a result of the expansion of the 17th-century palace of Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (a leading poet of the Polish Baroque), was rebuilt many times in the following centuries. During the Second Polish Republic, it was the seat of the General Staff of the 🇵🇱 Army.
After the destruction of the Palace by 🇩🇪, the only trace of it that remained was a fragment of the 3 central arcades with the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier–a symbolic grave commemorating the nameless soldiers who died in the defense of 🇵🇱”
#PolishHistory #WW2 #ReparationsForPoland
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“Poland will be great or she will not exist at all"
— Piłsudski

#BeLikePoland 🇵🇱

@JSaryuszWolski @visegrad24 @Tash_Witk @D_Tarczynski @PatrykJaki @andrewmichta @dominikacosic @PolishEmbassyUS @arekmularczyk @jakubiak_marek @michalrachon @CecilieHolter @ron__PL @AgainstRevisio1
#OTD, Sept 23, 1939, due to heavy artillery fighting Polish Radio @thenews_PL stopped broadcasting. Before this happened, listeners could listen one last time to a #Chopin concert performed by Władysław Szpilman.

#WWII #WarsawUprising #PolishHistory #History #Poland
Broadcasting the program was no longer possible without electricity from the Powiśle Power Plant. The damage was too extensive to allow for ongoing repairs. The audience had to say goodbye to the radio.
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Mam dosyć corocznych dyskusji o sensie powstania warszawskiego, o odpowiedzialności dowódców AK i o tym, że nie można oceniać decyzji o walce 1 sierpnia 1944. Przygotowałem wątek z chronologią zdarzeń, które doprowadziły do #WarsawUprising #1sierpnia1944 #PowstanieWarszawskie
Bez opinii, komentarzy, same suche fakty. Jak doszło do #WarsawUprising #1sierpnia1944 #PowstanieWarszawskie Co wiedzieli przywódcy Polski i dowódcy AK?
Zaczynamy od wydarzeń z 1943. Kilka zdarzeń miało decydujący wpływ na losy Polski w 1944. Pozwoli pokazać obraz sytuacji.
26 kwietnia 1943 zerwanie stosunków przez Sowietów z rządem Polski po ujawnieniu zbrodni katyńskiej
30 czerwca aresztowania gen. Grota Roweckiego, dowódcy AK
4 lipca śmierć gen. Sikorskiego, premiera i Naczelnego Wodza
#WarsawUprising #1sierpnia1944 #PowstanieWarszawskie
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Every year, on August 1, exactly at 5 pm, alarm sirens sound throughout #Warsaw🇵🇱.

The city freezes. People stop and stand in silence for a minute. They step out of their cars. Some salute. Some cry.

Read our 🧶 to find out why we do it⤵️

#WarsawUprising #Rising44
On August 1, 1944, at 5 pm, as ordered by the Home Army commander-in-chief, Gen. Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, the #WarsawUprising began.

For 63 days, the insurgents, old and young, men and women, fought heroically, and alone, to liberate Warsaw from German occupation.

#WeRemember🕯️
"The end. Everything over. Two hundred thousand people lying under the ruins. Along with #Warsaw."

- Miron #Białoszewski, poet 🪶

After 63 days of fierce fighting, the #WarsawUprising collapsed. It left the city in ruins and took between 160.000 and 200.000 lives 🕯️

#Rising44
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Reading Churchill on Stalin's betrayal of the Poles during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, it is impossible not to share his anger. His account of events as they unfolded, giving the context for this quote from Sept 4th 1944, follow in the thread. #WarsawUprising Image
The Soviets (and now Russians) deny they deliberately provoked the Warsaw Poles to rise up - with the intention of engineering the destruction of all those who might form a post-war anti-communist resistance. WSC was in no doubt that was Stalin's intention. Image
The Soviets refuse to have anything to do with the beleaguered Poles, the 'adventure in Warsaw' or help the Allies who need Soviet refuelling facilities to drop munitions and food.

WSC: Soviet obstruction will result in "wholesale massacre". That of course was their aim. Image
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