The Warsaw Uprising was a terrible crime, its detonation a meaningless waste of Polish blood. all year I remind my text with Polish Thoughts (No 31-32 2-9.08.2010) with amended anniversary date. I consider the uprising to be an insurrectional madness. I'm doing this now so I don't get into discussion on August 1st.
The 81st anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising passes. This is 1 of the most tragic chapters of our Polish history. At that time 40,000 soldiers went to senseless death and disability – including the most self-sacrificing young Poles. They sent children to die! 200,000 of our people died, and the capitals were turned into a pile of rubble and debris.
The treasures of national culture are gone – our monuments, infrastructure, industry, collections. The uprising met Hitler's political goals better than ours – Polish ones. “From a historical point of view, it is simply a blessing that Poles do so. After 5 or six weeks, we'll get out of this. And after that Warsaw, the capital, the head, the intelligence of this erstwhile 16-17-million people of Poles will be destroyed, this nation that has been blocking the East for 700 years and has been on our way since the First conflict of Tannenberg. And then historically the Polish problem will no longer be a large problem for our children and for all those who will come after us, but even for us" – he happily reported to Hitler Heinrich Himmler. After 63 days of fighting, Warsaw died.
Instead of any analysis, contemplation and drawing conclusions, there will be a patriotic beating of foam again. Where are all those on August 1st anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, October 3rd anniversary of the surrender? What was the political and military sense of this uprising? What was his intent and could it give Poland anything? At the celebrations of his tragic anniversary, there are again idle claims to Stalin and the claim that the moods were already so revolutionary that it could not be contained and the order to emergence had to die. But was it so hard for the analysts of that time to foretell what they could do and how Stalin would behave? They knew precisely what the USSR's optics were and what the overarching nonsubjective was. I hear memories that we were hoping for greater aid from the English. Really? Why was it not learned from the faithless attitude of the Allies in 1939, but naively put everything on the same page again? Was there anything done to keep the hearts and heads cool and pour more sense into them? Where was the political work of the then leadership and command? How much was the “London government” worth?
The elite of the time failed. They only had the ability to succumb to the romanticist temper of the street. The answer to these questions is besides provided by the present state of awareness of Poles, which is inactive in general akin to that. These elites have continued on the political scene today. For many years there has been a pattern of irrational hatred of everything from the East, and inactive the same naive belief in automatic aid from the West. inactive the same idiotic belief that we will force any gratitude there or that we have a work to belong there.
It is idiotic for politicians to say that we have proved something to the planet and to ourselves. There are scandalous statements saying that thanks to the uprising we may have avoided the destiny of 1 of the USSR republics. The leaders and present-day leaders have forgotten the informing of Roman Dmowski: “By risking Poland, its future must not be lost either by an individual, or by organizing any, or even a full generation. due to the fact that Poland is not owned by 1 or another Pole, 1 or another camp, or even a generation."
The Warsaw Uprising has long plunged us as a nation into human and moral infirmity. Henryk Sienkiewicz wrote that "blood does not regret, as long as it does not go for nothing". But it's the blood's grief. Regret it, due to the fact that it's in vain in the name of the romanticist bullshit that the irresponsible politicians put on young people. It is not adequate to break and remember – this wound must be scratched and drawn to conclusions. Sometimes you gotta die for your country, but more crucial to live wisely for it. And in order not to repeat these unforgivable mistakes again, you request to advance sober patriotism and honest reasoning about politics. Praise the brave insurgents – those from AK, AL, BCh, NOW and NSZ. Shame on the perpetrators of tragedy.
Finally, 3 opinions on the Warsaw uprising:
Paweł Jasienica (1909-1970) he was right "The Warsaw Uprising was directed militarily against Germany, politically against the Russians and indeed against Poles themselves".
Prof. Wiesław Chrzanowski (1923-2012) wrote – "The uprising is simply a criminal crime for which any Polish centres are responsible. This is how these accidents are judged by Polish society, how they look in reality. The guilty must be held accountable."
Prof. Jan Ciechanowski (1930-2016) stated: “The uprising ended in a terrible disaster, disaster and ruin that had not touched any another capital in Europe since the Huns invaded Rome. 200,000 people were killed, 500,000 were exiled and sentenced to dissension. The city was razed. This is the biggest mistake made by the AK Command.”
Łukasz Jastrzebski
