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Post by Jaga on Mar 13, 2022 15:45:03 GMT -7
Today Sunday 3/13/2022
Russia attacked military base in Jawor, not far from Polish boarder
Russia kidnapped another city mayor, they are trying to form some autonomic republics that will "voluntarily" join Russia soon.
Odessa is like a fortress ready to fight
apparently some phosphorus missiles and cassette bombs were used again
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Post by pieter on Mar 13, 2022 17:15:01 GMT -7
Jaga,
The Russians can capture and occupy Ukrainian cities and towns and replace the mayors with Russian puppets. But in their hearts and minds the Ukrainian people in these occupied cities and towns will stay Ukrainian in their hearts, minds, mentality, mindset and behaviour. They won't accept the Russian puppet mayors nor the New Russian regime. And in non-violent and violent (sabbotage, armed resistance, Underground movements) they will keep resisting the Russians like the Armiya Krakjowa and UPA resistance fighters resisted the armed communist forces of the Polish Peoples Republic and the Ukrainian Soviet Republic in the SovietUnion after the war. But the Ukrainians will be better prepared, better equipped and more determined than even the Armiya Krakjowa and UPA.
After the Second World War, many former Home Army units decided to continue operations. The Soviet Union, and the Polish Communist Government that it controlled, viewed the underground, still loyal to the Polish government-in-exile, as a force to be extirpated before they could gain complete control of Poland. Future Secretary General of the Polish United Workers' Party, Władysław Gomułka, is quoted as saying: "Soldiers of the AK are a hostile element which must be removed without mercy." Another prominent Polish communist, Roman Zambrowski, said that the Home Army had to be "exterminated."
The first Home Army structure designed primarily to deal with the Soviet threat had been NIE, formed in mid-1943. Its aim was not to engage Soviet forces in combat, but to observe them and to gather intelligence while the Polish Government-in-Exile decided how to deal with the Soviets; at that time, the exiled government still believed in the possibility of constructive negotiations with the Soviets. On 7 May 1945 NIE was disbanded and transformed into the Armed Forces Delegation for Poland (Delegatura Sił Zbrojnych na Kraj), but it was disbanded on 8 August 1945 to stop partisan resistance.
The first Polish communist government formed in July 1944—the Polish Committee of National Liberation—declined to accept jurisdiction over Home Army soldiers; as a result, for over a year Soviet agencies such as the NKVD took responsibility for disarming the Home Army. By the end of the war, around 60,000 Home Army soldiers were arrested, 50,000 of whom were deported to Soviet gulags and prisons; most of these soldiers had been taken captive by the Soviets during or after Operation Tempest when many Home Army units tried to work together with the Soviets in a nationwide uprising against the Germans. Other Home Army veterans were arrested when they approached Polish communist government officials after having been promised amnesty. Home Army soldiers stopped trusting the government after a number of broken promises in the first few years of communist control.
The third post-Home Army organization was Freedom and Independence (Wolność i Niezawisłość, WiN). Its primary goal was not fighting; rather, it was designed to help Home Army soldiers transition from partisan to civilian life; while secrecy was necessary in light of increasing persecution of Home Army veterans by the communist government.[144][better source needed] WiN was in great need of funds to pay for false documents and provide resources for the partisans, many of whom had lost their homes and life savings in the war. WiN was far from efficient: it was viewed as an enemy of the state, starved of resources, and a vocal faction advocated armed resistance against the Soviets and their Polish proxies. In the second half of 1945, the Soviet NKVD and the newly created Polish secret police, the Department of Security (Urząd Bezpieczeństwa, UB), managed to convince several Home Army and WiN leaders that they wanted to offer amnesty to Home Army members, and gained information about large numbers of Home Army and WiN people and resources in the following months. By the time the (imprisoned) Home Army and WiN leaders realised their mistake, the organizations had been crippled, with thousands of their members arrested. WiN was finally disbanded in 1952. By 1947 a colonel of the communist forces declared that "The terrorist and political underground [had] ceased to be a threatening force, though there [were] still men of the forests" to be dealt with.
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Home_Army_Members_11_Nov._2008_Sanok.JPG/1280px-Home_Army_Members_11_Nov._2008_Sanok.JPG Home Army veterans at Sanok, Poland, 11 November 2008
The persecution of the Home Army was only part of the Stalinist repressions in Poland. In 1944–56, approximately 2 million people were arrested; over 20,000, including Pilecki, organizer of the resistance in Auschwitz, were executed in communist prisons, and 6 million Polish citizens (every third adult Pole) were classified as "reactionary" or "criminal elements", and were subjected to spying by state agencies.
Most Home Army soldiers were captured by the NKVD or by Poland's UB political police. They were interrogated and imprisoned on various charges such as "fascism". Many were sent to Gulags, executed, or "disappeared". For example, all the members of Batalion Zośka, which had fought in the Warsaw Uprising, were locked up in communist prisons between 1944 and 1956. In 1956 an amnesty released 35,000 former Home Army soldiers from prisons.
Even then, some partisans remained in the countryside, and were unwilling or unable to rejoin the community; they became known as the cursed soldiers. Stanisław Marchewka "Ryba" was killed in 1957, and the last AK partisan, Józef "Lalek" Franczak, was killed in 1963 – almost two decades after World War II had ended. It was only four years later, in 1967, that Adam Boryczka—a soldier of AK and a member of the elite, Britain-trained Cichociemny ("Silent Unseen") intelligence and support group—was released from prison. Until the end of the People's Republic of Poland, Home Army soldiers remained under investigation by the secret police, and it was only in 1989, after the fall of communism, that the sentences of Home Army soldiers were finally declared null and void by Polish courts.
Many monuments to the Home Army have since been erected in Poland, including the Polish Underground State and Home Army Monument near the Sejm building in Warsaw, unveiled in 1999. The Home Army is also commemorated in the Home Army Museum in Kraków and in the Warsaw Uprising Museum in Warsaw.
After the end of World War II, the Polish communist army—the People's Army of Poland—fought extensively against the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). The UPA remained active and fought against the People's Republic of Poland until 1947, and against the Soviet Union until 1949. It was particularly strong in the Carpathian Mountains, the entirety of Galicia and in Volhynia—in modern Western Ukraine. By the late 1940s, the mortality rate for Soviet troops fighting Ukrainian insurgents in Western Ukraine was higher than the mortality rate for Soviet troops during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Between February 1943 and May 1945, unlike most resistance movements, it had no significant foreign support. Its growth and strength were a reflection of the popularity it enjoyed among the people of Western Ukraine. Outside of western Ukraine, support was not significant, and the majority of the Soviet eastern Ukrainian population considered, and at times still viewed, the OUN/UPA to have been primarily collaborators with the Germans.
I can't help but see some similarities between Soviet occupied and Polish Stalinist controlled Poland of 1945-1956 and the present day Ukraine. The Russians want to install a puppet regime in Kiyv of henchmen again.
Cheers, Pieter
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Post by pieter on Mar 13, 2022 17:16:15 GMT -7
Today Sunday 3/13/2022 Russia attacked military base in Jawor, not far from Polish boarder Russia kidnapped another city mayor, they are trying to form some autonomic republics that will "voluntarily" join Russia soon. Odessa is like a fortress ready to fight apparently some phosphorus missiles and cassette bombs were used again Jaga,
The conflict is getting dangerously close to the Polish border and thus NATO territory. If attacked Poland and NATO will respond.
Cheers, Pieter
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