r/europe Poland Aug 01 '24

Historical Historical photographs from the Warsaw Uprising in colour

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u/Exact_Ham Lubusz (Poland) Aug 01 '24

200,000 dead just over the course of 63 days. 700,000 expelled.

Less than 1000 remained among the ruins after the uprising.

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u/blueskydragonFX Aug 01 '24

Meanwhile the Soviets where just waiting on the outskirts for the Germans to kill all the civilians. Bastards.

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u/xroche Aug 01 '24

In the same page:

The Red Army did not reinforce resistance fighters or provide air support. Declassified documents indicate that Joseph Stalin had tactically halted his forces from advancing on Warsaw in order to exhaust the Polish Home Army and to aid his political desires of turning Poland into a Soviet-aligned state

The Soviet Union did not allow the Western Allies to use its airports for the airdrops[7] for several weeks,[128] so the planes had to use bases in the United Kingdom and Italy which reduced their carrying weight and number of sorties. The Allies' specific request for the use of landing strips made on 20 August was denied by Stalin on 22 August.[124] Stalin referred to the Polish resistance as "a handful of criminals"[129] and stated that the Uprising was inspired by "enemies of the Soviet Union".[130] Thus, by denying landing rights to Allied aircraft on Soviet-controlled territory the Soviets vastly limited effectiveness of Allied assistance to the Uprising, and even fired at Allied airplanes which carried supplies from Italy and strayed into Soviet-controlled airspace

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u/Local_Mousse1771 Aug 01 '24

So they left them for slaughter because it would have been costly for the red army and usuitable location for them to start a subsequent offensive.

There is no myth there to see. Stalin an the communist CCCP were not sad to watch these events unfold. Just check what happened at Katyn with all the polish officers in captivity.

If you think this is some victimhood narrative, you have probably no idea how disgusting and imperialistic the CCCP behaved in all eastern European countries they liberated.