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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 9:50 am
by Spirit
The usual drop aircraft (c-47) didn't have the return range for a drop on Warsaw. Nor were the Soviets ever co-operative when it was suggested the aircraft stage from Russian bases.
Meanwhile the Russian armies were happy to sit by the river pleading 'logistical problems' while the best in-country Polish force was exterminated.
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 12:32 pm
by Michu
true true Spirit
but that was how things were then,
they thought (naively) that they were trained for homeland (ie in Poland) operations
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 7:35 pm
by hubird
Michu, what's your opinion then about the rehabilitation of the Poles?
I mean, they did the job after all?
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Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 10:25 am
by Michu
Huub
of course they deserve it.
one thing that you could not tell about Poles in WWII was they lacked motivation to fight Germans.
tho' i don't think anyone could accuse Dutch people of being ingrateful or something. i was told that older people from Breda remember till now and are very emotional about the fact that polish armoured units took part in liberating this city.
Polish way of telling things can be skewed too.
for example just now we have anniversary of "stab in the back", ie of Red Army's strike on Poland on 17th of September 1939.
yet hardly anyone remembers that we did more or less the same thing by taking over Zaolzie a year before when Hitler was anecting Czech Republic (Czechs tend to remember that till the day)