When Marysia visited me in 1986 (she writes about her on the blog DATES AND FACTS) she wanted to see Mielec. I lived in Chorzelów, next to Mielec. She had a very circumstantial wish. Johnny, where's the bridge on Wisłoka? It should be from the west side, it's from where the Germans entered Mielec, which was already occupied by an industrial city without a fight. This was where the Moose plane was manufactured. Later general Stanislaw Maczek, then the colonel who was expected to defend the city fled. He figured he'd make a line of defence in Sana. He just couldn't find it Sanu. There was specified a drought that he confused the river with a meliorative ditch.
We parked a white “Poldka” (Poloneza) Marys at the Oborski Palace and we went on the way to Tarnów towards the bridge on Wisłoka. In September 1939, this bridge was destroyed. The Germans bombed him in the first days of the war, said Mary. But you can defend yourself here! You can defend yourself everywhere – you just gotta have a chief! Mary's cheeks started twitching. I hugged her. She calmed down. This is where we lost our ends. If the Kościuszkovists under Lenino had surrendered to Respublica Polsza we would have been called.
I described the situation many times, but it was only present that I realized why Majka was so angry. I didn't think it was possible to defend the city at the time, so I thought that since Macie, the later hero of the Normandy fight, he was right. Now I'm watching Ukrainians defend Pokrovsk. So what if the Russians are everywhere? Ukrainians know that they will either not be there or Ukraine will not be in the EU. For us Poles this will mean that what happened in September 1939... Russia – then the russian part of Poland gave up. Now it will definitely belong to Putin Russia.
