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Old 08-02-2004, 03:23 PM
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Originally posted by Snibble
This was one of the reasons why Russia is/was hated by many Pole's. They wanted the Warsaw Uprising to be destroyed by the Nazi's in order for them(Russians) to have an easy occupation without the threat that Pole's might fight off the commies.
Being squeezed in between the big western continental powers France and Germany, and the other power Russia, Poland's tragic history of betrayal and deception goes much much further back than WW2. It's one of the saddest stories in Europe.
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