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Why is there so much prejudice against the word "nationalism" in today's world, which not so long ago was identified with the word "patriotism"? After all, this word comes from the word "nation" and every person is a member of some nation. I suspect that the reason for this is the conflict of interests existing between the goal of neo-Marxist globalists, whose ideological tentacles have already taken over almost the entire world and who want to rule this world, and countries and nations that want to remain sovereign and preserve their identity. This is an obvious reason. But what is the obvious excuse to debase the term "nationalism" so furiously? I suspect, or rather I am quite sure, that the nationalism of the Nazi Germany period was used, which proclaimed "Germany, Germany above all" and everything that surrounds it must be conquered and what does not want to submit must be destroyed. Thus, the German nationalism of the past period is no longer nationalism in its pure, innocent and noble form, it is chauvinism. So why do neo-Marxist globalists refuse to see the difference and call things what they are? Well, precisely because it stands in the way of destroying the concept of nation and "unifying" the world on their terms. Polish nationalism, on the other hand, is still identified with the term patriotism, because Polish patriotism is derived from the teachings of the Catholic Church, which commands and encourages love towards one's own country and nation, as well as respect and friendship with neighbours. We Poles have no reason to be ashamed of our nationalism and, contrary to neo-Marxist attempts, we are and will be proud of it. As for the concept of "extreme or far right". This is also an obvious neo-Marxist invention. Everything that is not compatible with the left-wing ideology, such as: religion, moral matters and customs, attachment to one's country and nation, love of freedom and sovereignty, etc. So everything that we consider human, normal, deeply patriotic and conservative is for the left so-called "far right". We in Poland do not care about it, we have been dealing with it for 50 years (Soviet occupation) and we know very well what it results in. It always ends in destruction in every aspect of human existence. You don't argue with it, you just fight it. th-cam.com/video/LlbTUktPUHs/w-d-xo.html
Rob, what do you really mean by "far left" or "far right", especially "far right"? Please give your definition of these terms. In my opinion, the word "far" is an invention of the left to exaggerate and discredit conservatives and traditionalists - the right, which postulates the rule of law, private property, freedom, civil liberties and attachment to tradition. The left, on the other hand, is a bunch of usurpers who, under the guise of defending the proletariat, strive with empty promises to gain power, which, according to assumptions, it will hold forever. The rule of law, private property and civil liberties will then be just citizens' dreams and will be replaced by totalitarian dictatorship and lawlessness. Kind of like North Korea today and Stalinist Russia in the past. BESIDES, POLES NEVER SAID OR DISPLAYED THAT THEIR PATRIOTISM AND ANYTHING THEY REPRESENT ARE BETTER THAN THOSE OF OTHER NATIONS. DO YOU UNDERSTAND? N E V E R !!! POLISH NATIONALISM = PATRIOTISM unlike GERMAN NATIONALISM, WHICH = CHAUAVINISM. PLEASE LEARN TO DISTINGUISH THESE TWO CONCEPTS.
7:34 Stop here. One of those American pilots was Merian Caldwell Cooper. A legendary guy. He flew assault aircraft and chopped down Bolsheviks with machine guns. He volunteered for the Polish army, feeling an obligation to repay a debt: his great-grandfather fought at the Battle of Savannah alongside Casimir Pulaski, a Polish general commanding the American army (they were friends). Shot down by the Russians he was taken prisoner and was imprisoned near Moscow. He escaped from captivity with two Poles and traveled nearly 1,000 kilometers to find himself back in Poland. Cooper was awarded Poland's highest medal, the Virtuti Militari for his valor. After winning the war, he returned to the US where he became a film producer and director and made the first film about King Kong in 1933. He won an Oscar in 1952. 😃
There is an interesting thing about Tadeusz Kościuszko. He was a Polish general who fought for the freedom of Americans. Later Americans fought in Kościuszko Squadron for freedom of Poland in 1920. What is more interesting, 303 RAF squadron (Polish) was also named after Tadeusz Kościuszko and was saving Britain from Germans in 1940. Legendary man.
Incidentally, Merian C. Cooper was a co-founder of Pan American World Airways, which maintained a relationship - despite communism - with Poland as being the only American airline flying to Warsaw until Pan Am's dissolution in the early 1990s. I remember seeing Merian Cooper in 1970, at the 50th anniversary commemoration of the Battle of Warsaw held at the Shrine of Our Lady of Częstochowa in Doylestown, PA. He was an Honored Guest who appeared in his Polish Army uniform. I was 9 years-old at the time.
..and Hollywood still produces films about landing in Normandy and Gladiators from Rome.. :).. the winged Hussars have been guarding the gate to Europe for all ages
I would rather not want Hollywood to produce anything about Poland. We'd end up with black Sobieski, Asian Piłsudski or Arab Mieszko. Netflix already created Witcher (based on Witcher books written by Pole - Sapkowski, about Slavic culture) with whole Hollywood diversity but forgot about... Poles!
The selfless hero ignored and belittled by the world, however I will always admire the Polish people’s fight (whether it’s by the winged hussars or its WW1/WW2 army) against the Red Army, The Nazis, the Ottomans and the Mongols, thereby securing the rest of Europe from invasions and adopting intolerant, oppressive and poverty-inducing ideologies or falling to governments where the elites are the only ones living a successful life.
Now some Poles willing to abandon Ukraine when they fighting to save the world from Russians. They hate Ukrainians more than Russians shouting one word: UPA. Its so hypocrite.
But we didn't save anyone. Two poor countries fought in this war. One just after the uprising, the other a while, and basically during the civil war. The Russians in this war were the first to be attacked by Piłsudski. Piłsudski thought that when they were busy fighting the rest of the Whites, he would regain the borders of the First Polish Republic, but he miscalculated, it turned out that due to the Polish threat, former generals and soldiers of the Whites who had already surrendered or who were hiding came to the army of the Red Army. Piłsudzki had too small forces to operate in such a large area, seeing that the less numerous Soviet armies were outmaneuvering his troops, he ordered a retreat to the next positions. It was a strange fight between two forces that each tried to outmaneuver. We retreated to fortified positions on the Vistula. There was no miracle, in fact, Poland had a larger army than what the USSR sent to Poland. In addition, a much more modern army, armed by France. The Soviet forces of the time were unable to defeat anyone.
@@burkosalw maybe the soviet army itself was too weak to defeat the rest of Europe, but it was so messy at the time that if the red army marched everywhere the workers would rebel and join in. Also, before Piłsudski attacked Lenin directly said that they will "bring revolution to Europe through the corpse of white Poland".
@@polishscribe674 that was Lenin's wishful thinking. he knew that he had no strength for Poland, let alone for any important country in Europe. The only thing that the USSR could afford at that time was to conquer mini-countries or countries where most citizens were not sure of their statehood (then Ukraine). Lenin hoped that as soon as Soviet troops entered a given country, a nationwide uprising of workers would suddenly break out in that country, which would itself overthrow the given government. He really didn't stand a chance. The fact that he had no chance is perfectly evidenced by the fact that earlier he wanted to make a deal with Piłsudski about the border in the east and give up quite large areas to give himself time to control the country. let me remind you that the communists in Russia themselves did not have much support and right after the civil war with the whites, the greatest threat to them were peasant revolts.
Poles saved Europe several times. 325 years ago, on September 12, 1683, King John III Sobieski of Poland, at the head of the combined Polish forces and Christian armies from several European countries, defeated a huge Turkish army. The Battle of Vienna was one of the decisive, most important and decisive battles in the history of the world. At that time, Sobieski not only saved Vienna, besieged by the Turks, and not only Austria, but he saved the whole of Europe from the onslaught of armed Islam. Once again Poles saved Europe in 1920 during the Battle of Warsaw
What defines your country, any country is: Own language, own traditions, own money, similar values. If any of these are disturbe then your country will die slowely
John III Sobieski and the Polish Winged Hussars saved the German small states from the Ottomans and certainly not the world. By the way, here is a short addition to the video! That's not even an exaggeration with "That time Poland saved the world..." Indeed, the Polish victory against the Bolsheviks had also an extreme European impact but also even a global impact. According to the British politician and diplomat Lord D'Abernon, who was part of the inter allied Mission to Poland in 1920, during the Polish-Bolshevik war, the 1920 Battle of Warsaw was one of the most important battles in world history because as he said "had the Battle of Warsaw ended with a Bolshevik victory, it would have been a turning point in the history of Europe. As there is no doubt that with the fall of Warsaw, Central Europe would have been left open to Communist propaganda and Bolshevik invasion." So long as the Bolsheviks were preoccupied with the Civil War, they had nothing in mind beyond their survival. But, having conquered the Russian heartland in the course of 1919, they began to heed the dictates of their ideology, which told them that the Communist Revolution should be exported from Russia to the rest of Europe. The Second Congress of the Communist International deliberated in Moscow between 19 July and 7 August 1920. Lenin spoke of the increasingly favorable odds for the accomplishment of the World Proletarian Revolution, which would lead to the World Soviet Republic. The road to Europe opened up when Germany lost the First World War and signed the surrender on November 11th 1918. The German troops then systematically retreated from the occupied lands of Ukraine, Belarus and other Baltic states. They were immediately followed by the Bolshevik Red Army, fulfilling Lenin’s orders to begin its “freeing” march west. This operation had a telling codename according to the Polish river - “Vistula”. Because the aim of the coming Bolshevik attack should be Poland. The most important job of the Bolsheviks was to break through to Germany and Austria which were filled with revolutionary atmosphere. To do that, they needed to get rid of the “barrier”, meaning, as Joseph Stalin wrote, “the national states which wound up between the two huge sources of revolution in the East and West”. One such barrier was, first and foremost, Poland which just regained independence following the defeat of Germany and Austria. On November 17th 1918, at the Red Army briefing, its commander Leon Trotsky predicted the sovietisation of Poland and Ukraine as “the links binding Soviet Russia with future Soviet Germany” and the first stage in building “the Union of European Proletariat Republics”. Poles lived also at the territories of modern Belarus and Lithuania, which were invaded by the Bolsheviks. A Polish Self-defense was created there, counting 10 thousand men, which was part of the Polish Army and its commander, Gen. Władysław Wejtko followed the orders of Chief Commander Józef Piłsudski. Between the 3rd and 5th of January 1919, Polish self-defense units tried to defend Wilno on their own. However, in the face of an overwhelming opponent Poles had to retreat from the city. Thus, the Polish-Bolshevik war actually began on January 3rd 1919, although not formally. The march West was accompanied by the creation of puppet Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Ukrainian and Belarusian Soviet republics. On January 8th 1919, the Soviet newspaper “Izvestia” announced the creation of the Revolutionary War Council of Poland, a cornerstone for the planned communist government in Poland. Later by order of the Bolsheviks, the Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee as a Polish puppet government had been formed to organize administration of the Polish territories captured by the Red Army. This puppet government had very little support from the ethnic Polish population and recruited its supporters mostly from the ranks of minorities, primarily Jews. With these additional resources from conquered Poland and the Baltic countries, the communists planned to advance further into the west. Poland should be the "Red Bridge" for Communist ideology to the West. So conquered Poland should serve as a red bridge to conquer all of Europe. The aim of conquering other European states as well is also confirmed by the order of Mikhail Tukachevsky called “Red Napoleon”, commander of the Western Front of the Red Army. In his Order of the Day he wrote in July 2, 1920: "To the West! The fate of the world revolution will be decided in the West. The way to set the world on fire leads through the corpse of white Poland. On our bayonets we will bring happiness and peace to the toiling masses of mankind. March on Wilno, Minsk and Warsaw and onward to Berlin over the corpse of Poland!" Tukhachevsky also boasted that his men would be "galloping through the streets of Paris before the summer was out." By the way, Tukhachevsky was one of the first military commanders killed in Stalin's purges in 1937. Tukachevsky called Poland white Poland because the communist propaganda called free Poland white Poland. The term whites were used to designate anti-communists. But the Polish victory prevented setting the world on fire by communists. So the main reason for the outbreak of the Polish-Bolshevik war the threat to Poland’s independence by Bolsheviks, as well as the attempt to implement the idea of a permanent revolution, and the export of the communist revolution Europe-wide but actually worldwide. What is also worth noting the fact that if Poland had been conquered by the communists, the Baltic states would have been conquered too. Poland was therefore allied with Latvia in this war. Poland and some few others European countries were not infected by the red virus. In Poland the overwhelming majority of the population was anti-communist. But Poland was the absolute exception in Europe! In various European countries at that time there were strong communist movements that would have supported the communists in their advance. Moreover, there were also attempts by the communists to take power in other parts of Europe! So these are examples of communist successes outside the Bolshevik state at the time of the Polish-Bolshevik war. The Hungarian Soviet Republic was the communist state of Hungary from 21 March 1919 until 1 August 1919 (133 days). Until the anti-communists prevailed and abolished this Soviet republic. The other communist republics and communes have survived just as short as the Hungarian Soviet Republic but that makes it clear that there were strong communist influences throughout Europe. The Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic more commonly referred to as Red Finland, was a proclaimed Finnish communist state that ruled parts of the country during the Finnish Civil War of 1918. Another example of an attempted communist takeover of power in Europe was then the Alsace-Lorraine Soviet Republic of 1918 in France. The Limerick Soviet was one of a number of declared Irish soviets that were formed around Ireland 1919. The Slovak Soviet Republic was a short-lived Communist state in southeast Slovakia in existence from 16 June 1919 to 7 July 1919. Commune of the Working People of Estonia existed from 29 November 1918 to 5 June 1919. In 1918, announced the formation of the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic. A communist revolutionary Red Guard was founded in Austria and an attempt was made to proclaim a Soviet Republic. Like in Hungary during the German November Revolution, the communist Karl Liebknecht proclaimed the communist republic in Germany on November 9, 1918. But the communists' seizure of power then failed, although later there were repeated attempts by the communists to gain power in Germany or parts of Germany. Like with the Bavarian Soviet Republic which was a short-lived communist state in Bavaria during the riots of 1918-19 in Germany. Then there were another attempts by the communists to come to power in German areas. The Bremen Soviet Republic was proclaimed which was a short-lived state in Germany, existing for 25 days in 1919. The communist Spartacist uprising with the goal of an all-German Soviet Republic were armed battles in Berlin from 5 to 12 January 1919. I'll continue my explanation in the next comment.
Continuing of the comment above: Bolshevik propaganda was strengthened in many European countries and e.g in Germany, posters appeared with a Red Army soldier freeing the country from chains. The congress of the Communist International issued an appeal to workers in all countries, asking them to forestall their governments' efforts to aid "White" Poland. So the Bolsheviks, as part of a huge propaganda action under the slogan: “Hands off Soviet Russia”, mobilized communist parties and leftist trade unions across all of Europe to work against Poland. Many western journalists were on the payroll of Bolshevik propaganda. Workers and dockers in various European countries were sympathizers of the Bolsheviks also refused to load the support supplies for the fighting Poles against the Bolsheviks. The refusal of the dockers in Gdansk (Danzig) was particularly unfavorable because all deliveries to Poland were to be made via this port. Also the British trade unions followed the Communist propaganda and blocked British military supplies to Poland. So the Trades Union Congress and Labour Party responded by threatening national strike action and established Councils of Action to resist any possible efforts by the British government to supply Poland with arms or other supplies. On August 6, 1920, the British Labour Party published a pamphlet stating that British workers would never take part in the war as Poland's allies, and labour unions blocked supplies to the British expeditionary force assisting Russian Whites in Arkhangelsk. French Socialists, in their newspaper L'Humanité, declared: "Not a man, not a sou, not a shell for reactionary and capitalist Poland. Long live the Russian Revolution! Long live the Workmen's International!" Since the communists had enough supporters all over Europe after the desired victory against Poland the communists would have in Europe either provoked revolutions through agitators or they would have intervened militarily. If the communists had conquered Europe, which was by far the most economically important continent at the time, they would have had a good chance of "exporting" communism worldwide as well. That this is not an exaggeration can be seen by comparing the strategy of the communists after World War II. Even in these later times, communism was "exported" to countries around the world, and as a result there were countries around the world ruled by communist dictatorships. After 1945, as in 1919, the communists had the goal of a world completely dominated by communism. The goal was that virtually every country would become communist. That is why the Polish victory of 1921 definitely had not just a European impact but also a global impact. Here I also explain the reasons for the Polish victory! The French and British support was not crucial to the Polish victory how often it is falsely claimed. The Polish victory in the war against the Bolsheviks 1919-21 was the result of the superiority of the Polish army, the Polish army command and the Polish secret service. The Polish soldiers had much higher combat morale than the soldiers of the Bolshevik Army. Because the Poles fought for the freedom of their homeland and were determined to defend their country. Critically, the Polish Army benefited from a vast influx of volunteers. Even Polish women volunteered to fight! Even battalions of women fought at the front for Poland. One of this Polish female soldiers was Maria Wittek which would become the Polish Army's first female general. In fact most Polish soldiers were anti-Communists and despised Bolshevik ideology. The soldiers of the Red Army, on the other hand, fought for the spread of an ideology in other countries. Bolshevik soldiers were supposed to fight for an abstract political idea. It is very likely that the majority of Red Army soldiers were not communists at all. Many were forcibly recruited and did not want to fight at all. The communist propaganda told the Red Army soldiers they would be greeted as liberators however, they quickly realized that they were viewed as enemies by the Polish population. In summary, it can be stated that the Polish soldiers were much more motivated to fight than the Red Army soldiers. The Polish high command led by First Marshal Piłsudski showed its superiority on various occasions such as at the Battle of Warsaw. The Polish high command understood the course of the front and the situation at the front much better than the Bolshevik high command. Piłsudski and General Rozwadowski knew that the only way to defend Warsaw and prevent its encirclement of the city was with a counter-offensive. Their plan was to exploit a weak opening between two Russian fronts. The plan that he and General Rozwadowski thrashed out was for Polish forces to secretly regroup at lightning speed and then strike at a weak point between major Red Army battle groups. After this advance, the Polish Army would then be in a perfect position to deliver the decisive blow. Piłsudski knew how important the coming battle would be and took direct command of this army. The plan worked and the rapid Polish drive north managed to split the Bolshevik fronts and threw Bolshevik army into confusion and chaos the Red Army started to disintegrate. In the following months, several more Polish follow-up victories saved Poland’s independence. It was a hard-fought battle, which took place in August 1920 near Warsaw and ended in a decisive Polish victory over the Red Army. It was won by the skill, discipline, and determination of the Polish defenders, by the patriotic spirit of a large numbers of volunteers, and by Marshal Piłsudski's brilliant counterattack, which stopped the Bolshevik offensive and with the counterattack, the Bolshevik troops were forced to flee.
I am not sure if you know but the Vistula Miracle was only possible, because of the Battle of Zadwórze near Lviv, where 330 volunteers recruiting mostly from Polish scouts and youths fought off the entire Russian 1 Cavalry Army (aka Budyonny’s Horse army) advancing towards Lviv from the East. Following the Lviv they would have continued towards Warsaw, but because they were delayed near Zadwórze for the entire day, they did not manage to get to Warsaw in time, making Polish counteroffensive possible. Budyonny’s Horse Army was 17 000 strong, including 60 cannons and 300 heavy machine guns, as well as a few armoured trains, aircrafts and armoured vehicles. Budyonny’s Army charged at Polish positions 6 times, but could not get though, as Polish forces were very well dug in. It was only after Polish volunteers run out of munitions, Russians managed to break through and eventually killed 318 out of 330 volunteers. Russians were furious that a few Polish youths managed to halt Russian advance for so long. As a retaliation they quartered bodies of the fallen and drove horses over remains so that there was almost nothing left of them. The Battle of Zadwórze is probably one of the greatest battles in the military history ever fought, however, it is not well known. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Zadw%C3%B3rze
Thank you for your information. I am an American of Polish heritage, and I had never heard of this battle. I intend to visit Poland after I retire, but for now I work, take care of my 95 yr old mother, and learn more about Poland every day from kind people like you!
In Poland, we do not think that we are better than the rest of the world. We believe that we are no worse than the rest of the world and we can fight for that.
There is a parable in Poland: After death, a Pole came before God and asked: God, why did you put Poland between Germany and Russia? We suffered so much because of it. God replied: because only you Poles were able to survive it. It may be a funny, childish story, but looking back on history, it's hard not to notice a grain of truth in it. Especially that there are more such unnoticed examples as the miracle on the Vistula River.
Well, Polish army was in Moscow long before Russian army was in Warsaw, so no idea why the victim card is always on the table. Empire failed by geography and government.
@@OurThirdPlanet After the political changes in Muscovite Russia, it was the Russians who started the conflicts. The first 7 conflicts were provoked by the Russians. The eighth conflict was provoked by the Polish side and it was only a preventive conflict during which we captured Moscow. If Russia had not signed a pact with Sweden at that time to attack Poland, the second Polish-Muscovite war would not have happened.
@@wurduar as i remember there were no land with catholic polish population under moscovites control. the gaining side wants status quo, the others not, sounds logical.
"Socjalizm każdemu równo nosa utrze. Bogatych zdusi jutro, a biednych pojutrze." - Aleksander Fredro (Roughly translated to: Socialism will make everyone miserable equally. It will strangle the rich tomorrow and the poor the day after tomorrow)
Dzieciaczku nie porównuj socjalizmu z komunizmem bo to znaczy że nie odróżniasz dupy od cipy. Komuniści mordowali socjalistów uważając właśnie ich za największych wrogów. Kto walczył z komunistami w roku 1920 właśnie polscy socjaliści pod wodzą Piłsudskiego z PPS czyli polskiej partii socjalistycznej i wtedy polski narodowiec Dmowski wielbiciel Rosji uciekał na zachód . Jestem socjalistą który nienawidzi komunizmu bo komunizm jak sama nazwa wskazuje mówi że wszystko jest wspólne a my socjaliści bronimy kapitalizmu przed kapitalistami którzy wykupując wszystko niszczą system doprowadzając ludzi do nędzy i rewolucji
About father Skorupka. There is a chance that he would survive the battle if he didn't do it, but there is also a chance that then the battle would be lost. What he did was boosting morale of soldiers. Imagine if some priest told you and your fellow soldiers going to battle that you may die, but that's fine because it's right thing to do, and then you see that priest leading with example that it's not just words
Thank you Rob for being English and trying to understand our Polish mentality. For me, a Pole, your behavior is more motivating than some Polish patriots. Thanks
The problem with words like nationalism is that they changed their first meaning. Patriotism originaly meant love for your motherland, nationalism meant love for your nation and chauvinism meant thinking that your nation is better than the others. Now, as these words changed their meanings, chauvinism is associated only with thinking men are better than women and nationalism became new chauvinism. I remember this from my sociology classes.
Once I was talking with my grandfather about the geographical location of Poland. He told me something that God made man of clay and Poles of iron so that they could survive any invasion since they have such neighbors in the west and east. He also said to me, 'Child... remember this. We Poles are Slavs. A nation of Eagle, Wolf and Bear, but we have soft hearts like a dove. So that we can stand guard and defend, not conquer. And that's our strength.'
"Nationalism is an ideology that emphasizes loyalty, devotion, or allegiance to a nation or nation-state and holds that such obligations outweigh other individual or group interests." - From Brittanica. So Rob You see, many of us tend to stick to definitions. Just looking realistically. We consider ourselves nationalists. Because we take care of our country first. However, we try to never forget our allies. Now look on Winston Churchill or Franklin D. Roosevelt. I don't know if you would call them nationalists - but they put the good of their countries first - at the price of Polish blood. Which they gave to Stalin. ;) Healthy nationalism is good. Nationalism is not fascism or Nazism. It's like a square and a rectangle.
In 1920, the Polish army consisted of soldiers from three different partitions, in the "inheritance" we got three types of command, three types of weapons and even uniforms. On the anniversaries of the miracle on the Vistula River, we celebrate the Polish Army Day. The only national holiday when the weather is always nice ;)
"Na drzewach zamiast liści będą wisieć komuniści" or "On the trees instead of leaves there will be hanging communists" was a popular slogan in 1980s Poland. I think it's very appropriate in May when many people celebrate the communist Labour Day on the 1st of May and on the 3rd of May the Polish celebrate our Constitution.
You can imagine, after II World War and Poland being under soviet influence, the history shown in this document was missed at schools. My mother did not learn it at young age...
That’s true, they never taught us that. Maybe I am an ignorant, soldier daughter…I didn’t know I was not born in free country…when I discovered I was crying over the phone to my dad…
the last time poland failed to be a bulwark of Europe was post ww2 and it meant half a century of cold war. Poland stood for a 1000 years, but yeah the east is scary if its allowed to encroach across europe.
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I am always enjoying your videos, this one is very good. I live in UK for while and when I talk with others , only older people know some details about wars and not always right ones etc.
in Poland, one of the main features of growing up is an attempt to show the concept of Polish messianism, the so-called ''polska winkelriedem narodów''(Juliusz Słowacki 1809-1849)
You nailed it with one thing particularily, Rob. It wasn't nationalism that saved Poland, it was patriotism. It's a shame that many people don't even know that there's a difference between these two concepts. We just want to be free and left alone in peace to enjoy out ways of life. Thanks for another great movie. Come back to Poland as often as possible. There's so much more left for you to see.
Yes I think it’s very sad to hear in the U.K. how you won the war and how bad you had it during the war because you had to send children to the villages. Poland 🇵🇱 suffered the most, fought the most, lost the biggest amount of people and still England takes all the glory for Churchill. Oh I forgot! British people are “very grateful” for the help of the Polish pilots in winning the war. It always makes me angry when I hear this!!
Cześć. Twój kanał jest niesamowity. Szokuje mnie, że tak pięknie potrafisz mówić o Polskiej historii i całkiem nieźle ją znasz. Dziękuję też za promowanie Polski w Twoim kraju. A propos , bardzo lubię Depeche Mode :) :) :) Jeśli mogę Ci coś polecić z Polskiego humoru, lub filmów komediowych to polecam film pt: "Seksmisja", po angielsku to chyba będzie "Sexmission"? :) Genialna polska komedia. Pozdrawiam z Polski
Polish nationalism has always tended towards patriotism, it has never been an extreme, unlike Russian or German nationalism. Even now, Germany wants to impose its way of looking at the world on the whole EU, they want to dominate other nations. They used to do it militarily, but they lost wars, so they drew conclusions and now they do it economically, using EU institutions for this. Germany has not changed. Apparently the Russians don't either.
So true! I dont get why other dont realise this. EU introduces rules and regulations that negatively affect polish agriculture, fishing, energy, culture etc...the list goes on.
The Polish nationalism I’d different due to the experience with partitions. We Poles appreciate other cultures and respect them. But we are demanding in opposite the same for us. Our Polish culture is not better as any other but it is like every other culture special and unique. This cultural diversity is a treasure that should be protected by the human been. The poles are loving their culture because if you don’t respect yourself how you can demand respect from others.
Actually, Polish native speakers often mess up the words in English, so they use national, nationalism and patriotism interchangeably. Esp. the adverbs national and nationalist - most Poles don't really know the word "national" so they use "nationalist" instead as a calque from Polish. In Polish we have two different words "narodowy" (national; naród = nation) and "nacjonalizm" (nationalism). So they're not as close as in English because the first one uses the Polish root. So when we want to say "narodowy" in English we translate it to "national" and add the suffix -ism or -ist as with other words (i.e. sense - sensual - sensualism) which creates the mess.
I love when i watched this video and another one which went more into the battle itself because during the 1920s and 1930s i never knew wars were going on then besides the start of ww2 obviously
Please note that the German system during World War II was called National Socialism. It is considered to be the extreme right wing by the national note. Socialism, on the other hand, is something typical of communism. It was not without reason that after World War II there was a socialist system in Poland (a little less repressive communism, especially after the death of Stalin, who murdered more people overall than Hitler). Summing up, the structure in germany was a bizarre hybrid of communist and nationalist slogans.
Truth. The narrator in the material presented has a very specific and appropriate voice. Remember we like your too, Rob :) Thank you for selecting that video. I have to admit that it is very well done.
"Far left and far right, I don't see any difference". Exactly. If you go far enough to the left you arrive at far right and vice versa. Never forget that nazis were socialists, while the communist party members always become the new aristocracy. The political "compass" is actually a circle.
When I tell socialists that NAZIs were socialists, their heads explode. It's rather fun to watch! Reminds me of the silly movie "Mars Attacks!" when people discover that yodeling is a good defense against martians.
The Poles then occupied the whole of Belarus in a counter-offensive and... at the peace of Riga they gave up their lands. This is probably the first case in history. The Soviets were shocked and Lenin and Stalin that the Poles could destroy them and ... they gave up. I am a Polish political scientist working in the UK!
Hi Rob. We have been and still are as Poland, the guardian and guarantor of Europe's peace and freedom. Today our Ukrainian brothers are fighting on the front line, we will never abandon them. Greetings.
Communism is equal to nazism. We in Poland know this for sure. As for communist ideology in Poland some people say "wszystkim równo wszystkim gówno" which can be translated as equal for everyone = shit (nothing) for everyone
When socialists tell me everything should be evenly divided, I tell them I will have to chop down my grapefruit tree into little tiny bits so I can evenly distribute it to everyone on the planet. They usually turn to stone for a moment before they try to speak again, but they just stutter and say nothing.
Natio z jezyka lacinskiego znaczy Nacja ...wiec Narod , ktory ma poczucie wspolnoty patriotycznej, politycznej, gospodarczej, etnicznej, kulturowej i jezykowej!!!
The best thing was that Marshal Józef Piłsudski was a socialist who liked Marx, and Poland was then ruled by the Polish Socialist Party (PPS - Polska Partia Socjalistyczna).
Poland had Soviet regime in 45-89 and now many people in power comes from that era for example the top TVN journalists are Monika Olejnik or Kuba Wojewódzki
Wiele jest takich resortowych dzieci ale juz nie pieprz glupot o rezimie. Polska sie rozwijala. Mielismy przemysl, fabryki, wszystko a teraz za uni co mamy, nic. Jestesmy wyrobnikami zachodu.
You said right and left are not good the middle is just perfect. Dude I see you become more and more a proper Pole. You start to see the world with Polnisch eyes 😅😅😅
Nationalism was something that was uniting Poles in the times of occupation, but it was a different nationalism then we know now. Actually Poles created a few nationalist doctrines, that is: Romantic Nationalism, National Democracy, National Radicalism and Zadrugism (National Collectivism). Where National Radicalism and Zadrugism are totalitarian and National Democracy is in fact authoritarian, the Romantic Nationalism is about freedom of individual and democracy. Romantic Nationalism (the name Romantic is because of the Romantic era, when this type of nationalism was written) was basically saying that the people are making a nation and the nation should be the biggest value of an individual. It was the times when Poles had identity crisis, caused by the lack of a country that they could identify with. So Romantic Nationalism just says that nation exists even without a country and this nation should be the greatest value for an individual. I think creator of this video wanted to mention this ideology, as in 1920 there weren't such things as National Radicalism or Zadrugism, there was however National Democracy, but I am pretty sure this is not what he wanted to mention.
There is a Polish movie, 2011 "1920 Bitwa Warszawska", (1920 The Battle of Warsaw ) and a very old movie "Cud nad Wisłą ", (Miracle on the Vistula). The films are in Polish but you can probably find an English version or with English subtitles
One thing ill tell ta mate.. We Will all die in the event of WWIII but Poland will remain. Poland - Polish 💗thank you for all you did 🙏 me, most of my life, i grew up in UK but i love Polish and Poland! My grandfather was fighting for Brits and for Poles. He came back to Poland after many years just to be Polish again and die Polish. Poland will never disapear 💗 we always fought for Europe, we always fought for freedome
My grandfather's father, when he was a child, said a word in Polish at the train station and his father (my great-great grandfather) had to pay a fine for it, this was in the part of Poland under Prussian rule. Prussian officials also often misspelled names and names of places, there was also malice in it, twisting names into dirty words, and that is why there are funny or slightly vulgar names. You didn't speak German, so you had a problem to protest it to the occupiers. Changing the name misspelled by the clerk was an additional problem and resulted in confusion in papers such as property deeds. In Poland, the partitioning powers widely used the categorization of Poles under partition, and they were often Germanized or Russified. Currently, funny names in Poland are not always the result of tradition or the use of the old Polish language, but a sign that was left after the partitions.
Intresting thing is that The Miracle Over the Vistula Polish radio operators were disrupting russian communication reading a Bible over and over again.
Innoway, what’s going on with Ukraine and Russia is similar to the battle of Warsaw some 100 years back, where forces of conformity are being repelled by forces of non conformity and pluralism. The situation right after the first world war, and the Soviet revolution also included strong elements of Ukraine, and the birth of that country, and the two different fractions. One of which was more aligned with Western power, and Poland. The other one was leaning further to the east - Soviet Union. This is a fascinating. In European history, with far more reaching potential consequences that were averted by heroic actions of Polish army, as well as superior intellect that allowed for decipher of secret Soviet Communications. The same was repeated by the Polish cypher bureau in the early 1930s with the breakage of the enigma machine (Rejewski en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Rejewski), which was passed on to the French in 1938, and eventually to the British resulting a war had become Bletchley Park and Alan Turing.
As I approach ANZAC day on Tuesday this week, it's great that you are covering some of this history. I agree with you that it is poor in the extreme that more of this was not taught in schools across the world. Thankfully, or perhaps I should say unfortunately, I was exposed to much of this in my history classes, which has given me a great appreciation for those individuals and families that have suffered as a result of war. Consequently, I am fully fed up with politicians who say when, and moreover, WHO will go and fight on their behalf - saying who gets to go and die giving their life/s for the sake of their country. It fairly gives me the shits! Name one pollie that has died for the cause? On a brighter note It'd be great to catch up with you and Charlie on you next visit this year, but if we can't make it happen, then I wish you a pleasant trip nonetheless. Well I wish a pleasant trip regardless of course. Keep me informed of you "join me for a cuppa" vlogs, and I'll see you in the next one! Ciao.
The leader of a Polish nationalist organization was murdered in Auschwitz for helping and rescuing Jews. This is what nationalism looks like, it's the same as with food, for some food is shit (like Germans), others pork chops with potatoes (like Poles), so if you say you don't like to eat it doesn't mean anything.
10:13 I see that you raise the issue of nationalism not for the first time. This term was given a falsified definition/description/legend and it was done by the same people who were held back in the Battle of Warsaw. Nationalism is the view that every ethnic community, should organize politically into a state. This is why we have modern states in place of former kingdoms and empires. Patriotism is taking care of these ready-made states. What you dislike and think is nationalism is in fact _chauvinism_ . A chauvinist believes that his nation is superior and in order to give his own nation a better life, he has the right to murder others.
This. Nationalism has been the commie's boogeyman all the way since Marx. And it's simple really. Nationality for many people is the most common denominator. Sure, in more homogenous states it can also be ethnicity or religion, but generally it comes down to nationality as even countries like Poland will have non-christians or non-whites who would still identify as Polish at the end of the day. If two people share something common between them it's much harder to pit them against each other. Sure, they'll argue, they'll fight, but the moment an outside force appears they will stand side by side to combat it together. You can't really introduce concepts like class warfare to such a society now, can you? That's why commies want to destroy everything people have in common with one another: nationalities, ethnicities, religions, old customs and traditions, etc. They want to own the only common denominator (members of the ever-discriminated working class) to fully control people's hearts and minds. Rob, don't let yourself be tricked by the anti-nationalist propaganda. Commies lost on the battlefield in 1920 (the last fair battle they were part of, later they always preferred backstabs and oppression of the defenceless), they lost again due to their own incompetence in 1989, but that doesn't mean they were completely defeated. They just changed their methods to subterfuge and infiltration into all levels of Western society.
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"This Guy" is really amazing - he promotes and explains many things on YT, showing ignorance to people... he often shows symbols (people can't distinguish "forbidden" from "righteous"), events, etc it's a real massacre, especially among "anglosases" where the level of knowledge is practically zero. the same is happening now in Poland, although people aged 40+ know things about the whole world+- (ofc dumbs exist here too) or at least the most important things (maybe they don't know the specific dates, but they know that such an event happened and where it happened) its massacre what gov doing now with young peoples in our countries (from 20 years knowledge is systematically killed and history changed for new one).
I think maybe the huge part of European history and culture, which is central European contribution, is often overlooked because for decades when our countries were enslaved, it was easier to not look at them too closely and not think about how much of the peace the west was enjoying had been bought by these peoples' blood.
Tell that to polish people where they have 35 years of independence tell them nationalism is bad cause its not like they fought for 80 years+ just to have a nation come on man wake up look at what people went throu
10:06 I am very sorry but You are wrong. Nationalism isn't thinking that you country and all its elements are BETTER than any other country. That is chauvinism. Nationalism is thining about Your country as Your home, Your culture, Your family. Nationalism is thinking that You should cherish Your nation and take care of Your compatriots first. Then You should think about others. Nationalism is nothing about other countries. It is nothing about being superior to others. Nationalism isn't Nazism neither Fascism. I am Polish and i'm nationalist in the way i described it. It is far left who made the term "nationalism" to be considered as something wrong. Actually i have my own theory on how fascism emerges and it comes from radical liberalism. Liberalism leads to the division of a nation into more and more social groups that are created around some common values (like LGBT, race, language, culture etc.). We can see it happening already throughout so called Western World. Everyone is offended by anything. Such situation is extremely dangerous because it leads to emerging of groups that (as You said) feel superrior/better than other groups. That way it later leads to chauvinism and chauvinism leads to fascism. Sorry for my English.
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i think u mistaken nationalism with chauvinism. because in first u love ur nation above rest, and in second u hate most of rest
Why is there so much prejudice against the word "nationalism" in today's world, which not so long ago was identified with the word "patriotism"? After all, this word comes from the word "nation" and every person is a member of some nation. I suspect that the reason for this is the conflict of interests existing between the goal of neo-Marxist globalists, whose ideological tentacles have already taken over almost the entire world and who want to rule this world, and countries and nations that want to remain sovereign and preserve their identity. This is an obvious reason. But what is the obvious excuse to debase the term "nationalism" so furiously? I suspect, or rather I am quite sure, that the nationalism of the Nazi Germany period was used, which proclaimed "Germany, Germany above all" and everything that surrounds it must be conquered and what does not want to submit must be destroyed. Thus, the German nationalism of the past period is no longer nationalism in its pure, innocent and noble form, it is chauvinism. So why do neo-Marxist globalists refuse to see the difference and call things what they are? Well, precisely because it stands in the way of destroying the concept of nation and "unifying" the world on their terms. Polish nationalism, on the other hand, is still identified with the term patriotism, because Polish patriotism is derived from the teachings of the Catholic Church, which commands and encourages love towards one's own country and nation, as well as respect and friendship with neighbours. We Poles have no reason to be ashamed of our nationalism and, contrary to neo-Marxist attempts, we are and will be proud of it. As for the concept of "extreme or far right". This is also an obvious neo-Marxist invention. Everything that is not compatible with the left-wing ideology, such as: religion, moral matters and customs, attachment to one's country and nation, love of freedom and sovereignty, etc. So everything that we consider human, normal, deeply patriotic and conservative is for the left so-called "far right". We in Poland do not care about it, we have been dealing with it for 50 years (Soviet occupation) and we know very well what it results in. It always ends in destruction in every aspect of human existence. You don't argue with it, you just fight it. th-cam.com/video/LlbTUktPUHs/w-d-xo.html
Rob, what do you really mean by "far left" or "far right", especially "far right"? Please give your definition of these terms. In my opinion, the word "far" is an invention of the left to exaggerate and discredit conservatives and traditionalists - the right, which postulates the rule of law, private property, freedom, civil liberties and attachment to tradition. The left, on the other hand, is a bunch of usurpers who, under the guise of defending the proletariat, strive with empty promises to gain power, which, according to assumptions, it will hold forever. The rule of law, private property and civil liberties will then be just citizens' dreams and will be replaced by totalitarian dictatorship and lawlessness. Kind of like North Korea today and Stalinist Russia in the past.
BESIDES, POLES NEVER SAID OR DISPLAYED THAT THEIR PATRIOTISM AND ANYTHING THEY REPRESENT ARE BETTER THAN THOSE OF OTHER NATIONS. DO YOU UNDERSTAND? N E V E R !!! POLISH NATIONALISM = PATRIOTISM unlike GERMAN NATIONALISM, WHICH = CHAUAVINISM. PLEASE LEARN TO DISTINGUISH THESE TWO CONCEPTS.
Nazis and communists as well as fascists are all socialists. Nazis are not right-wingers, they're the right wing of the left.
7:34 Stop here. One of those American pilots was Merian Caldwell Cooper. A legendary guy. He flew assault aircraft and chopped down Bolsheviks with machine guns. He volunteered for the Polish army, feeling an obligation to repay a debt: his great-grandfather fought at the Battle of Savannah alongside Casimir Pulaski, a Polish general commanding the American army (they were friends). Shot down by the Russians he was taken prisoner and was imprisoned near Moscow. He escaped from captivity with two Poles and traveled nearly 1,000 kilometers to find himself back in Poland. Cooper was awarded Poland's highest medal, the Virtuti Militari for his valor. After winning the war, he returned to the US where he became a film producer and director and made the first film about King Kong in 1933. He won an Oscar in 1952. 😃
Thank you for this information!
There is an interesting thing about Tadeusz Kościuszko. He was a Polish general who fought for the freedom of Americans. Later Americans fought in Kościuszko Squadron for freedom of Poland in 1920. What is more interesting, 303 RAF squadron (Polish) was also named after Tadeusz Kościuszko and was saving Britain from Germans in 1940. Legendary man.
Incidentally, Merian C. Cooper was a co-founder of Pan American World Airways, which maintained a relationship - despite communism - with Poland as being the only American airline flying to Warsaw until Pan Am's dissolution in the early 1990s.
I remember seeing Merian Cooper in 1970, at the 50th anniversary commemoration of the Battle of Warsaw held at the Shrine of Our Lady of Częstochowa in Doylestown, PA. He was an Honored Guest who appeared in his Polish Army uniform. I was 9 years-old at the time.
And there is no movie about that? amazing story.
..and Hollywood still produces films about landing in Normandy and Gladiators from Rome.. :).. the winged Hussars have been guarding the gate to Europe for all ages
Hollywood seems reluctant to ever produce a program which present Poland and Poles in a positive light. Just my observation....
Hollywood don't care about Eastern Europe
@@cherylk.2474 Yeah, the only real cameos from PL are the ones when we either play an immigrant, swindler or evil communist...
I would rather not want Hollywood to produce anything about Poland. We'd end up with black Sobieski, Asian Piłsudski or Arab Mieszko.
Netflix already created Witcher (based on Witcher books written by Pole - Sapkowski, about Slavic culture) with whole Hollywood diversity but forgot about... Poles!
@@jutrzenka7503 Holy sh*t - you are right! F**k the cameos!
Somehow every time we save the world we end up betrayed and abandoned.
The selfless hero ignored and belittled by the world, however I will always admire the Polish people’s fight (whether it’s by the winged hussars or its WW1/WW2 army) against the Red Army, The Nazis, the Ottomans and the Mongols, thereby securing the rest of Europe from invasions and adopting intolerant, oppressive and poverty-inducing ideologies or falling to governments where the elites are the only ones living a successful life.
Now some Poles willing to abandon Ukraine when they fighting to save the world from Russians. They hate Ukrainians more than Russians shouting one word: UPA. Its so hypocrite.
But we didn't save anyone. Two poor countries fought in this war. One just after the uprising, the other a while, and basically during the civil war. The Russians in this war were the first to be attacked by Piłsudski. Piłsudski thought that when they were busy fighting the rest of the Whites, he would regain the borders of the First Polish Republic, but he miscalculated, it turned out that due to the Polish threat, former generals and soldiers of the Whites who had already surrendered or who were hiding came to the army of the Red Army. Piłsudzki had too small forces to operate in such a large area, seeing that the less numerous Soviet armies were outmaneuvering his troops, he ordered a retreat to the next positions. It was a strange fight between two forces that each tried to outmaneuver. We retreated to fortified positions on the Vistula. There was no miracle, in fact, Poland had a larger army than what the USSR sent to Poland. In addition, a much more modern army, armed by France. The Soviet forces of the time were unable to defeat anyone.
@@burkosalw maybe the soviet army itself was too weak to defeat the rest of Europe, but it was so messy at the time that if the red army marched everywhere the workers would rebel and join in.
Also, before Piłsudski attacked Lenin directly said that they will "bring revolution to Europe through the corpse of white Poland".
@@polishscribe674 that was Lenin's wishful thinking. he knew that he had no strength for Poland, let alone for any important country in Europe. The only thing that the USSR could afford at that time was to conquer mini-countries or countries where most citizens were not sure of their statehood (then Ukraine). Lenin hoped that as soon as Soviet troops entered a given country, a nationwide uprising of workers would suddenly break out in that country, which would itself overthrow the given government. He really didn't stand a chance. The fact that he had no chance is perfectly evidenced by the fact that earlier he wanted to make a deal with Piłsudski about the border in the east and give up quite large areas to give himself time to control the country. let me remind you that the communists in Russia themselves did not have much support and right after the civil war with the whites, the greatest threat to them were peasant revolts.
thank you for promoting Polish history
Nationalism isn't, by the definition, a "my country's better" but rather "my country's my priority". That's a huge difference.
Poles saved Europe several times. 325 years ago, on September 12, 1683, King John III Sobieski of Poland, at the head of the combined Polish forces and Christian armies from several European countries, defeated a huge Turkish army. The Battle of Vienna was one of the decisive, most important and decisive battles in the history of the world. At that time, Sobieski not only saved Vienna, besieged by the Turks, and not only Austria, but he saved the whole of Europe from the onslaught of armed Islam. Once again Poles saved Europe in 1920 during the Battle of Warsaw
Jak się odwdzięczyła Austria wszyscy wiemy..🤬🤬🤬
@@danieldaniodanio7060 Niestety 😪
What defines your country, any country is: Own language, own traditions, own money, similar values. If any of these are disturbe then your country will die slowely
John III Sobieski and the Polish Winged Hussars saved the German small states from the Ottomans and certainly not the world. By the way, here is a short addition to the video! That's not even an exaggeration with "That time Poland saved the world..." Indeed, the Polish victory against the Bolsheviks had also an extreme European impact but also even a global impact. According to the British politician and diplomat Lord D'Abernon, who was part of the inter allied Mission to Poland in 1920, during the Polish-Bolshevik war, the 1920 Battle of Warsaw was one of the most important battles in world history because as he said "had the Battle of Warsaw ended with a Bolshevik victory, it would have been a turning point in the history of Europe. As there is no doubt that with the fall of Warsaw, Central Europe would have been left open to Communist propaganda and Bolshevik invasion." So long as the Bolsheviks were preoccupied with the Civil War, they had nothing in mind beyond their survival. But, having conquered the Russian heartland in the course of 1919, they began to heed the dictates of their ideology, which told them that the Communist Revolution should be exported from Russia to the rest of Europe. The Second Congress of the Communist International deliberated in Moscow between 19 July and 7 August 1920. Lenin spoke of the increasingly favorable odds for the accomplishment of the World Proletarian Revolution, which would lead to the World Soviet Republic. The road to Europe opened up when Germany lost the First World War and signed the surrender on November 11th 1918. The German troops then systematically retreated from the occupied lands of Ukraine, Belarus and other Baltic states. They were immediately followed by the Bolshevik Red Army, fulfilling Lenin’s orders to begin its “freeing” march west. This operation had a telling codename according to the Polish river - “Vistula”. Because the aim of the coming Bolshevik attack should be Poland. The most important job of the Bolsheviks was to break through to Germany and Austria which were filled with revolutionary atmosphere. To do that, they needed to get rid of the “barrier”, meaning, as Joseph Stalin wrote, “the national states which wound up between the two huge sources of revolution in the East and West”. One such barrier was, first and foremost, Poland which just regained independence following the defeat of Germany and Austria. On November 17th 1918, at the Red Army briefing, its commander Leon Trotsky predicted the sovietisation of Poland and Ukraine as “the links binding Soviet Russia with future Soviet Germany” and the first stage in building “the Union of European Proletariat Republics”. Poles lived also at the territories of modern Belarus and Lithuania, which were invaded by the Bolsheviks. A Polish Self-defense was created there, counting 10 thousand men, which was part of the Polish Army and its commander, Gen. Władysław Wejtko followed the orders of Chief Commander Józef Piłsudski. Between the 3rd and 5th of January 1919, Polish self-defense units tried to defend Wilno on their own. However, in the face of an overwhelming opponent Poles had to retreat from the city. Thus, the Polish-Bolshevik war actually began on January 3rd 1919, although not formally. The march West was accompanied by the creation of puppet Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Ukrainian and Belarusian Soviet republics. On January 8th 1919, the Soviet newspaper “Izvestia” announced the creation of the Revolutionary War Council of Poland, a cornerstone for the planned communist government in Poland. Later by order of the Bolsheviks, the Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee as a Polish puppet government had been formed to organize administration of the Polish territories captured by the Red Army. This puppet government had very little support from the ethnic Polish population and recruited its supporters mostly from the ranks of minorities, primarily Jews.
With these additional resources from conquered Poland and the Baltic countries, the communists planned to advance further into the west. Poland should be the "Red Bridge" for Communist ideology to the West. So conquered Poland should serve as a red bridge to conquer all of Europe. The aim of conquering other European states as well is also confirmed by the order of Mikhail Tukachevsky called “Red Napoleon”, commander of the Western Front of the Red Army. In his Order of the Day he wrote in July 2, 1920: "To the West! The fate of the world revolution will be decided in the West. The way to set the world on fire leads through the corpse of white Poland. On our bayonets we will bring happiness and peace to the toiling masses of mankind. March on Wilno, Minsk and Warsaw and onward to Berlin over the corpse of Poland!" Tukhachevsky also boasted that his men would be "galloping through the streets of Paris before the summer was out." By the way, Tukhachevsky was one of the first military commanders killed in Stalin's purges in 1937. Tukachevsky called Poland white Poland because the communist propaganda called free Poland white Poland. The term whites were used to designate anti-communists. But the Polish victory prevented setting the world on fire by communists. So the main reason for the outbreak of the Polish-Bolshevik war the threat to Poland’s independence by Bolsheviks, as well as the attempt to implement the idea of a permanent revolution, and the export of the communist revolution Europe-wide but actually worldwide. What is also worth noting the fact that if Poland had been conquered by the communists, the Baltic states would have been conquered too. Poland was therefore allied with Latvia in this war. Poland and some few others European countries were not infected by the red virus. In Poland the overwhelming majority of the population was anti-communist. But Poland was the absolute exception in Europe! In various European countries at that time there were strong communist movements that would have supported the communists in their advance.
Moreover, there were also attempts by the communists to take power in other parts of Europe! So these are examples of communist successes outside the Bolshevik state at the time of the Polish-Bolshevik war. The Hungarian Soviet Republic was the communist state of Hungary from 21 March 1919 until 1 August 1919 (133 days). Until the anti-communists prevailed and abolished this Soviet republic. The other communist republics and communes have survived just as short as the Hungarian Soviet Republic but that makes it clear that there were strong communist influences throughout Europe. The Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic more commonly referred to as Red Finland, was a proclaimed Finnish communist state that ruled parts of the country during the Finnish Civil War of 1918. Another example of an attempted communist takeover of power in Europe was then the Alsace-Lorraine Soviet Republic of 1918 in France. The Limerick Soviet was one of a number of declared Irish soviets that were formed around Ireland 1919. The Slovak Soviet Republic was a short-lived Communist state in southeast Slovakia in existence from 16 June 1919 to 7 July 1919. Commune of the Working People of Estonia existed from 29 November 1918 to 5 June 1919. In 1918, announced the formation of the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic. A communist revolutionary Red Guard was founded in Austria and an attempt was made to proclaim a Soviet Republic. Like in Hungary during the German November Revolution, the communist Karl Liebknecht proclaimed the communist republic in Germany on November 9, 1918. But the communists' seizure of power then failed, although later there were repeated attempts by the communists to gain power in Germany or parts of Germany. Like with the Bavarian Soviet Republic which was a short-lived communist state in Bavaria during the riots of 1918-19 in Germany. Then there were another attempts by the communists to come to power in German areas. The Bremen Soviet Republic was proclaimed which was a short-lived state in Germany, existing for 25 days in 1919. The communist Spartacist uprising with the goal of an all-German Soviet Republic were armed battles in Berlin from 5 to 12 January 1919.
I'll continue my explanation in the next comment.
Continuing of the comment above: Bolshevik propaganda was strengthened in many European countries and e.g in Germany, posters appeared with a Red Army soldier freeing the country from chains. The congress of the Communist International issued an appeal to workers in all countries, asking them to forestall their governments' efforts to aid "White" Poland. So the Bolsheviks, as part of a huge propaganda action under the slogan: “Hands off Soviet Russia”, mobilized communist parties and leftist trade unions across all of Europe to work against Poland. Many western journalists were on the payroll of Bolshevik propaganda. Workers and dockers in various European countries were sympathizers of the Bolsheviks also refused to load the support supplies for the fighting Poles against the Bolsheviks. The refusal of the dockers in Gdansk (Danzig) was particularly unfavorable because all deliveries to Poland were to be made via this port. Also the British trade unions followed the Communist propaganda and blocked British military supplies to Poland. So the Trades Union Congress and Labour Party responded by threatening national strike action and established Councils of Action to resist any possible efforts by the British government to supply Poland with arms or other supplies. On August 6, 1920, the British Labour Party published a pamphlet stating that British workers would never take part in the war as Poland's allies, and labour unions blocked supplies to the British expeditionary force assisting Russian Whites in Arkhangelsk. French Socialists, in their newspaper L'Humanité, declared: "Not a man, not a sou, not a shell for reactionary and capitalist Poland. Long live the Russian Revolution! Long live the Workmen's International!"
Since the communists had enough supporters all over Europe after the desired victory against Poland the communists would have in Europe either provoked revolutions through agitators or they would have intervened militarily. If the communists had conquered Europe, which was by far the most economically important continent at the time, they would have had a good chance of "exporting" communism worldwide as well. That this is not an exaggeration can be seen by comparing the strategy of the communists after World War II. Even in these later times, communism was "exported" to countries around the world, and as a result there were countries around the world ruled by communist dictatorships. After 1945, as in 1919, the communists had the goal of a world completely dominated by communism. The goal was that virtually every country would become communist. That is why the Polish victory of 1921 definitely had not just a European impact but also a global impact.
Here I also explain the reasons for the Polish victory! The French and British support was not crucial to the Polish victory how often it is falsely claimed. The Polish victory in the war against the Bolsheviks 1919-21 was the result of the superiority of the Polish army, the Polish army command and the Polish secret service. The Polish soldiers had much higher combat morale than the soldiers of the Bolshevik Army. Because the Poles fought for the freedom of their homeland and were determined to defend their country. Critically, the Polish Army benefited from a vast influx of volunteers. Even Polish women volunteered to fight! Even battalions of women fought at the front for Poland. One of this Polish female soldiers was Maria Wittek which would become the Polish Army's first female general. In fact most Polish soldiers were anti-Communists and despised Bolshevik ideology. The soldiers of the Red Army, on the other hand, fought for the spread of an ideology in other countries. Bolshevik soldiers were supposed to fight for an abstract political idea. It is very likely that the majority of Red Army soldiers were not communists at all. Many were forcibly recruited and did not want to fight at all. The communist propaganda told the Red Army soldiers they would be greeted as liberators however, they quickly realized that they were viewed as enemies by the Polish population. In summary, it can be stated that the Polish soldiers were much more motivated to fight than the Red Army soldiers.
The Polish high command led by First Marshal Piłsudski showed its superiority on various occasions such as at the Battle of Warsaw. The Polish high command understood the course of the front and the situation at the front much better than the Bolshevik high command. Piłsudski and General Rozwadowski knew that the only way to defend Warsaw and prevent its encirclement of the city was with a counter-offensive. Their plan was to exploit a weak opening between two Russian fronts. The plan that he and General Rozwadowski thrashed out was for Polish forces to secretly regroup at lightning speed and then strike at a weak point between major Red Army battle groups. After this advance, the Polish Army would then be in a perfect position to deliver the decisive blow. Piłsudski knew how important the coming battle would be and took direct command of this army. The plan worked and the rapid Polish drive north managed to split the Bolshevik fronts and threw Bolshevik army into confusion and chaos the Red Army started to disintegrate. In the following months, several more Polish follow-up victories saved Poland’s independence. It was a hard-fought battle, which took place in August 1920 near Warsaw and ended in a decisive Polish victory over the Red Army. It was won by the skill, discipline, and determination of the Polish defenders, by the patriotic spirit of a large numbers of volunteers, and by Marshal Piłsudski's brilliant counterattack, which stopped the Bolshevik offensive and with the counterattack, the Bolshevik troops were forced to flee.
Thank you for everything you do for Poland, for Poles. I have no words to express my gratitude. Brother.
Zadzo mu dziękujesz ze zarabia na tobie
@@Martin-ib5bj chłopie, idź stąd najlepiej.
Its just clicking well.
@@Martin-ib5bj "ić" być durniem gdzie indziej
@@rafagracz5031 Niestety on wszędzie jest durniem.
I am not sure if you know but the Vistula Miracle was only possible, because of the Battle of Zadwórze near Lviv, where 330 volunteers recruiting mostly from Polish scouts and youths fought off the entire Russian 1 Cavalry Army (aka Budyonny’s Horse army) advancing towards Lviv from the East. Following the Lviv they would have continued towards Warsaw, but because they were delayed near Zadwórze for the entire day, they did not manage to get to Warsaw in time, making Polish counteroffensive possible. Budyonny’s Horse Army was 17 000 strong, including 60 cannons and 300 heavy machine guns, as well as a few armoured trains, aircrafts and armoured vehicles. Budyonny’s Army charged at Polish positions 6 times, but could not get though, as Polish forces were very well dug in. It was only after Polish volunteers run out of munitions, Russians managed to break through and eventually killed 318 out of 330 volunteers. Russians were furious that a few Polish youths managed to halt Russian advance for so long. As a retaliation they quartered bodies of the fallen and drove horses over remains so that there was almost nothing left of them. The Battle of Zadwórze is probably one of the greatest battles in the military history ever fought, however, it is not well known.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Zadw%C3%B3rze
Thank you for your information. I am an American of Polish heritage, and I had never heard of this battle. I intend to visit Poland after I retire, but for now I work, take care of my 95 yr old mother, and learn more about Poland every day from kind people like you!
In Poland, we do not think that we are better than the rest of the world. We believe that we are no worse than the rest of the world and we can fight for that.
There is a parable in Poland: After death, a Pole came before God and asked: God, why did you put Poland between Germany and Russia? We suffered so much because of it. God replied: because only you Poles were able to survive it.
It may be a funny, childish story, but looking back on history, it's hard not to notice a grain of truth in it. Especially that there are more such unnoticed examples as the miracle on the Vistula River.
Well, Polish army was in Moscow long before Russian army was in Warsaw, so no idea why the victim card is always on the table. Empire failed by geography and government.
@@OurThirdPlanet After the political changes in Muscovite Russia, it was the Russians who started the conflicts. The first 7 conflicts were provoked by the Russians. The eighth conflict was provoked by the Polish side and it was only a preventive conflict during which we captured Moscow. If Russia had not signed a pact with Sweden at that time to attack Poland, the second Polish-Muscovite war would not have happened.
@@wurduar as i remember there were no land with catholic polish population under moscovites control. the gaining side wants status quo, the others not, sounds logical.
@@OurThirdPlanet That is much more to that story.
Here we are and here we will stay!
"Socjalizm każdemu równo nosa utrze. Bogatych zdusi jutro, a biednych pojutrze." - Aleksander Fredro (Roughly translated to: Socialism will make everyone miserable equally. It will strangle the rich tomorrow and the poor the day after tomorrow)
Russia is the evil empire
Dzieciaczku nie porównuj socjalizmu z komunizmem bo to znaczy że nie odróżniasz dupy od cipy. Komuniści mordowali socjalistów uważając właśnie ich za największych wrogów. Kto walczył z komunistami w roku 1920 właśnie polscy socjaliści pod wodzą Piłsudskiego z PPS czyli polskiej partii socjalistycznej i wtedy polski narodowiec Dmowski wielbiciel Rosji uciekał na zachód . Jestem socjalistą który nienawidzi komunizmu bo komunizm jak sama nazwa wskazuje mówi że wszystko jest wspólne a my socjaliści bronimy kapitalizmu przed kapitalistami którzy wykupując wszystko niszczą system doprowadzając ludzi do nędzy i rewolucji
God bles Poland! Thank You Poland
About father Skorupka. There is a chance that he would survive the battle if he didn't do it, but there is also a chance that then the battle would be lost. What he did was boosting morale of soldiers. Imagine if some priest told you and your fellow soldiers going to battle that you may die, but that's fine because it's right thing to do, and then you see that priest leading with example that it's not just words
Thank you Rob for being English and trying to understand our Polish mentality. For me, a Pole, your behavior is more motivating than some Polish patriots. Thanks
What this negativity is for Dear???Everyone should be patriotic
i am polish lad and i remember my grandma she always said ,it is better to die on your feet then live on your knees, i live by this credo
The problem with words like nationalism is that they changed their first meaning. Patriotism originaly meant love for your motherland, nationalism meant love for your nation and chauvinism meant thinking that your nation is better than the others. Now, as these words changed their meanings, chauvinism is associated only with thinking men are better than women and nationalism became new chauvinism. I remember this from my sociology classes.
Russia is the evil empire
Thank you for showing this video.
There were many people before us who fight for our freedom.
Dziękuję Polsko za waleczność!
Thank you for your great videos about Poland
Nie nacjonalizm dobry człowieku tylko patriotyzm!!!
Once I was talking with my grandfather about the geographical location of Poland. He told me something that God made man of clay and Poles of iron so that they could survive any invasion since they have such neighbors in the west and east. He also said to me, 'Child... remember this. We Poles are Slavs. A nation of Eagle, Wolf and Bear, but we have soft hearts like a dove. So that we can stand guard and defend, not conquer. And that's our strength.'
"Nationalism is an ideology that emphasizes loyalty, devotion, or allegiance to a nation or nation-state and holds that such obligations outweigh other individual or group interests." - From Brittanica. So Rob You see, many of us tend to stick to definitions.
Just looking realistically.
We consider ourselves nationalists. Because we take care of our country first.
However, we try to never forget our allies.
Now look on Winston Churchill or Franklin D. Roosevelt.
I don't know if you would call them nationalists - but they put the good of their countries first - at the price of Polish blood. Which they gave to Stalin. ;)
Healthy nationalism is good.
Nationalism is not fascism or Nazism.
It's like a square and a rectangle.
As polish listening stories about my polish ancestors always gives me chills and boils my blood in veins as well and tears to my eyes.
Polish people have never been thinking we better than anyone else , we just believe that that’s our land and we will fight for it 😊
In 1920, the Polish army consisted of soldiers from three different partitions, in the "inheritance" we got three types of command, three types of weapons and even uniforms. On the anniversaries of the miracle on the Vistula River, we celebrate the Polish Army Day. The only national holiday when the weather is always nice ;)
In Poland, we have always said that communism is a fair distribution of poverty.
I couldn’t have said that any better myself.
Russia is the evil empire
Hmm
Hard to say better than this. Congrats
A good point about the difference between patriotism and unhealthy nationalism.
Russia is the evil empire
"Na drzewach zamiast liści będą wisieć komuniści" or "On the trees instead of leaves there will be hanging communists" was a popular slogan in 1980s Poland.
I think it's very appropriate in May when many people celebrate the communist Labour Day on the 1st of May and on the 3rd of May the Polish celebrate our Constitution.
Labour Day is not really communists. Look when and why it was created.
You can imagine, after II World War and Poland being under soviet influence, the history shown in this document was missed at schools. My mother did not learn it at young age...
That’s true, they never taught us that. Maybe I am an ignorant, soldier daughter…I didn’t know I was not born in free country…when I discovered I was crying over the phone to my dad…
But Poland never surrender with communism resime
the last time poland failed to be a bulwark of Europe was post ww2 and it meant half a century of cold war. Poland stood for a 1000 years, but yeah the east is scary if its allowed to encroach across europe.
Dziękuję za to, że chcesz poznawać nasz kraj i historię 👍❤🤓
10:28 as Pole I can reassure you that Nationalism is not what kept Poland going. It was always a patriotism
Stanisław Supłatowicz SAT-OKH , KOZAK, DŁUGIE PIÓRO ,połkrwi Indianin z plemienia SHAWNEE walczący w Powstaniu Warszawskim i nie tylko .Już masz temat.
I am always enjoying your videos, this one is very good. I live in UK for while and when I talk with others , only older people know some details about wars and not always right ones etc.
in Poland, one of the main features of growing up is an attempt to show the concept of Polish messianism, the so-called ''polska winkelriedem narodów''(Juliusz Słowacki 1809-1849)
You nailed it with one thing particularily, Rob. It wasn't nationalism that saved Poland, it was patriotism. It's a shame that many people don't even know that there's a difference between these two concepts. We just want to be free and left alone in peace to enjoy out ways of life. Thanks for another great movie. Come back to Poland as often as possible. There's so much more left for you to see.
Yes I think it’s very sad to hear in the U.K. how you won the war and how bad you had it during the war because you had to send children to the villages. Poland 🇵🇱 suffered the most, fought the most, lost the biggest amount of people and still England takes all the glory for Churchill. Oh I forgot! British people are “very grateful” for the help of the Polish pilots in winning the war. It always makes me angry when I hear this!!
Poland has been the Last Stand of Western civilization for centuries.
Cześć. Twój kanał jest niesamowity. Szokuje mnie, że tak pięknie potrafisz mówić o Polskiej historii i całkiem nieźle ją znasz. Dziękuję też za promowanie Polski w Twoim kraju. A propos , bardzo lubię Depeche Mode :) :) :)
Jeśli mogę Ci coś polecić z Polskiego humoru, lub filmów komediowych to polecam film pt: "Seksmisja", po angielsku to chyba będzie "Sexmission"? :) Genialna polska komedia. Pozdrawiam z Polski
Polska nigdy nikogo nigdy nie zdradziła... wspierajcie nas i brońcie przed uniookupupacją ...!!!
Prawda zwycięży...!!!
I love Polish people ❤ and Thank you for what you did for World ❤❤❤
Polish nationalism has always tended towards patriotism, it has never been an extreme, unlike Russian or German nationalism. Even now, Germany wants to impose its way of looking at the world on the whole EU, they want to dominate other nations. They used to do it militarily, but they lost wars, so they drew conclusions and now they do it economically, using EU institutions for this. Germany has not changed. Apparently the Russians don't either.
100% true
evil empire
Why didn’t you mention ukrainian strong nationalism? Never heard of it?
Is this is video about Ukrainie? No!, We all know whats happening but god
So true! I dont get why other dont realise this. EU introduces rules and regulations that negatively affect polish agriculture, fishing, energy, culture etc...the list goes on.
"Cause we don't bag for freedom, we fight for it " Gen Urbanowicz, 303 Kosciuszko Squadron leader , Battle of Britain 1940.
Stefan is a great guy. Great You discovered him ;).
I am Polish and I am wandering how you decided to make these programs about Poland.
Thank you
I think that "wondering" is a word you should use
Ideology is like riding a bike - if you swing too far left or too far right you will most likely flip over
In my small town, Zabkowice-Bedzinskie, citizen put money together and bought four heavy machine guns for the army
The Polish nationalism I’d different due to the experience with partitions. We Poles appreciate other cultures and respect them. But we are demanding in opposite the same for us. Our Polish culture is not better as any other but it is like every other culture special and unique. This cultural diversity is a treasure that should be protected by the human been. The poles are loving their culture because if you don’t respect yourself how you can demand respect from others.
Actually, Polish native speakers often mess up the words in English, so they use national, nationalism and patriotism interchangeably. Esp. the adverbs national and nationalist - most Poles don't really know the word "national" so they use "nationalist" instead as a calque from Polish. In Polish we have two different words "narodowy" (national; naród = nation) and "nacjonalizm" (nationalism). So they're not as close as in English because the first one uses the Polish root. So when we want to say "narodowy" in English we translate it to "national" and add the suffix -ism or -ist as with other words (i.e. sense - sensual - sensualism) which creates the mess.
Seeing such videos I stand by the thought that Warhammers' Kislev was made out of Poland only and all the other Slavs were put there as decoration.
I love when i watched this video and another one which went more into the battle itself because during the 1920s and 1930s i never knew wars were going on then besides the start of ww2 obviously
Poland the heart of Europe ❤
Please note that the German system during World War II was called
National Socialism. It is considered to be the extreme right wing by the national note. Socialism, on the other hand, is something typical of communism. It was not without reason that after World War II there was a socialist system in Poland (a little less repressive communism, especially after the death of Stalin, who murdered more people overall than Hitler). Summing up, the structure in germany was a bizarre hybrid of communist and nationalist slogans.
Nationalism is about loyalty and support your country's interest over other countries demands and needs, there's nothing wrong about it
History always repeat itself.
Truth. The narrator in the material presented has a very specific and appropriate voice. Remember we like your too, Rob :) Thank you for selecting that video. I have to admit that it is very well done.
Haha thanks buddy
"Far left and far right, I don't see any difference". Exactly. If you go far enough to the left you arrive at far right and vice versa. Never forget that nazis were socialists, while the communist party members always become the new aristocracy. The political "compass" is actually a circle.
When I tell socialists that NAZIs were socialists, their heads explode. It's rather fun to watch! Reminds me of the silly movie "Mars Attacks!" when people discover that yodeling is a good defense against martians.
Nationalism is the love to the Nation. Nothing else.
Yeah! My recommendation has been noticed. Thanks! 😄
The Poles then occupied the whole of Belarus in a counter-offensive and... at the peace of Riga they gave up their lands. This is probably the first case in history. The Soviets were shocked and Lenin and Stalin that the Poles could destroy them and ... they gave up. I am a Polish political scientist working in the UK!
Patriotyzm, Honor, God,Fatherland is Poland, real Poles!!!
Hi Rob. We have been and still are as Poland, the guardian and guarantor of Europe's peace and freedom. Today our Ukrainian brothers are fighting on the front line, we will never abandon them. Greetings.
Communism is equal to nazism. We in Poland know this for sure. As for communist ideology in Poland some people say
"wszystkim równo wszystkim gówno" which can be translated as equal for everyone = shit (nothing) for everyone
When socialists tell me everything should be evenly divided, I tell them I will have to chop down my grapefruit tree into little tiny bits so I can evenly distribute it to everyone on the planet. They usually turn to stone for a moment before they try to speak again, but they just stutter and say nothing.
Natio z jezyka lacinskiego znaczy Nacja ...wiec Narod , ktory ma poczucie wspolnoty patriotycznej, politycznej, gospodarczej, etnicznej, kulturowej i jezykowej!!!
Rob I love Your Channel. Good and great. Nice job, Love it ❤
I like how you know at least some of history, not only of Poland but whole of europe when doing this videos.
I don't know as much as I would like and that's why I'm trying to learn more ☺️
@@RobReacts1 And thats what I appreciate. You do contend about something and try to know more about that. Great work
Dziękuję , jestem pod wrażeniem . Jak to się stało , że interesuje cię Polska ?
My grandmother always said "communism brings equality because if everyone has nothing, everyone is poor"
Very true
Battle of Britain victory may not have happened if it hadnt been for the legendary Polish air squadrons 👍
The best thing was that Marshal Józef Piłsudski was a socialist who liked Marx, and Poland was then ruled by the Polish Socialist Party (PPS - Polska Partia Socjalistyczna).
But the PPK had headquarters in Bereza Kartuska.
They stayed there together with Polish nationalists.
Learn the true story about Piłsudski.
Poland had Soviet regime in 45-89 and now many people in power comes from that era for example the top TVN journalists are Monika Olejnik or Kuba Wojewódzki
Wiele jest takich resortowych dzieci ale juz nie pieprz glupot o rezimie. Polska sie rozwijala. Mielismy przemysl, fabryki, wszystko a teraz za uni co mamy, nic. Jestesmy wyrobnikami zachodu.
@@Aa-dz4um bo jesteśmy kolonią, ale PRL to byli Sowieci
Watch 'Poland is beautiful' by Bogaczewicz ❤
Sabaton-- 40:1
My favourite English Man, and Charlie love You both ❤
If You want to be safe- go to Poland.That's the way Rob and Charlie go
Polska! The best place to live
You said right and left are not good the middle is just perfect. Dude I see you become more and more a proper Pole. You start to see the world with Polnisch eyes 😅😅😅
Thanks for Your excellent job.
We are "lucky" to be situated between the East and the West. An eternal battlefield. And our mentality is a mix of western&easter values.
Yep, Easter values! I wouldn't have said it better myself.
Russia is the evil empire
So we should be perfectly balanced :)
Nationalism was something that was uniting Poles in the times of occupation, but it was a different nationalism then we know now. Actually Poles created a few nationalist doctrines, that is: Romantic Nationalism, National Democracy, National Radicalism and Zadrugism (National Collectivism). Where National Radicalism and Zadrugism are totalitarian and National Democracy is in fact authoritarian, the Romantic Nationalism is about freedom of individual and democracy.
Romantic Nationalism (the name Romantic is because of the Romantic era, when this type of nationalism was written) was basically saying that the people are making a nation and the nation should be the biggest value of an individual. It was the times when Poles had identity crisis, caused by the lack of a country that they could identify with. So Romantic Nationalism just says that nation exists even without a country and this nation should be the greatest value for an individual. I think creator of this video wanted to mention this ideology, as in 1920 there weren't such things as National Radicalism or Zadrugism, there was however National Democracy, but I am pretty sure this is not what he wanted to mention.
I am proud that I am from poland
I wonder if anyone made a movie about this I’d definitely watch it
There is a Polish movie, 2011 "1920 Bitwa Warszawska", (1920 The Battle of Warsaw ) and a very old movie "Cud nad Wisłą ", (Miracle on the Vistula). The films are in Polish but you can probably find an English version or with English subtitles
Thanks mate I will try to find these movies
@@markjessop3432 We Poles made also tv series " Wojna i miłość 1920" ("War and love 1920").
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One thing ill tell ta mate.. We Will all die in the event of WWIII but Poland will remain. Poland - Polish 💗thank you for all you did 🙏 me, most of my life, i grew up in UK but i love Polish and Poland! My grandfather was fighting for Brits and for Poles. He came back to Poland after many years just to be Polish again and die Polish. Poland will never disapear 💗 we always fought for Europe, we always fought for freedome
Thanks to ours Hungarian brothers they sent ammunition and weapons to Poland, we will never forget.
My grandfather's father, when he was a child, said a word in Polish at the train station and his father (my great-great grandfather) had to pay a fine for it, this was in the part of Poland under Prussian rule. Prussian officials also often misspelled names and names of places, there was also malice in it, twisting names into dirty words, and that is why there are funny or slightly vulgar names. You didn't speak German, so you had a problem to protest it to the occupiers. Changing the name misspelled by the clerk was an additional problem and resulted in confusion in papers such as property deeds. In Poland, the partitioning powers widely used the categorization of Poles under partition, and they were often Germanized or Russified. Currently, funny names in Poland are not always the result of tradition or the use of the old Polish language, but a sign that was left after the partitions.
Intresting thing is that The Miracle Over the Vistula Polish radio operators were disrupting russian communication reading a Bible over and over again.
Wow, I didn't know that. Do you know what parts? The whole Bible or some specific verses?
Innoway, what’s going on with Ukraine and Russia is similar to the battle of Warsaw some 100 years back, where forces of conformity are being repelled by forces of non conformity and pluralism. The situation right after the first world war, and the Soviet revolution also included strong elements of Ukraine, and the birth of that country, and the two different fractions. One of which was more aligned with Western power, and Poland. The other one was leaning further to the east - Soviet Union. This is a fascinating. In European history, with far more reaching potential consequences that were averted by heroic actions of Polish army, as well as superior intellect that allowed for decipher of secret Soviet Communications. The same was repeated by the Polish cypher bureau in the early 1930s with the breakage of the enigma machine
(Rejewski en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Rejewski), which was passed on to the French in 1938, and eventually to the British resulting a war had become Bletchley Park and Alan Turing.
Polecam historię polskiej husarii. Pozdrawiam.
Cool video! Just one thing, isn't the sound in this one a little bit broken?
As I approach ANZAC day on Tuesday this week, it's great that you are covering some of this history. I agree with you that it is poor in the extreme that more of this was not taught in schools across the world. Thankfully, or perhaps I should say unfortunately, I was exposed to much of this in my history classes, which has given me a great appreciation for those individuals and families that have suffered as a result of war. Consequently, I am fully fed up with politicians who say when, and moreover, WHO will go and fight on their behalf - saying who gets to go and die giving their life/s for the sake of their country. It fairly gives me the shits! Name one pollie that has died for the cause? On a brighter note It'd be great to catch up with you and Charlie on you next visit this year, but if we can't make it happen, then I wish you a pleasant trip nonetheless. Well I wish a pleasant trip regardless of course. Keep me informed of you "join me for a cuppa" vlogs, and I'll see you in the next one! Ciao.
The leader of a Polish nationalist organization was murdered in Auschwitz for helping and rescuing Jews. This is what nationalism looks like, it's the same as with food, for some food is shit (like Germans), others pork chops with potatoes (like Poles), so if you say you don't like to eat it doesn't mean anything.
History likes to repeat itself. Just wait and see.
First volhynia massacre will happen. 2 nationalistic nation like Poles and Ukrainians can’t live together for sure . Just a matter of time
it repeats itself only now Ukraine is fighting the Russian carcass and their greed they will never change.
3:43 How easy is to convince the masses: 2016 Brexit is a new example.
10:13 I see that you raise the issue of nationalism not for the first time. This term was given a falsified definition/description/legend and it was done by the same people who were held back in the Battle of Warsaw.
Nationalism is the view that every ethnic community, should organize politically into a state. This is why we have modern states in place of former kingdoms and empires. Patriotism is taking care of these ready-made states. What you dislike and think is nationalism is in fact _chauvinism_ . A chauvinist believes that his nation is superior and in order to give his own nation a better life, he has the right to murder others.
This. Nationalism has been the commie's boogeyman all the way since Marx. And it's simple really. Nationality for many people is the most common denominator. Sure, in more homogenous states it can also be ethnicity or religion, but generally it comes down to nationality as even countries like Poland will have non-christians or non-whites who would still identify as Polish at the end of the day.
If two people share something common between them it's much harder to pit them against each other. Sure, they'll argue, they'll fight, but the moment an outside force appears they will stand side by side to combat it together.
You can't really introduce concepts like class warfare to such a society now, can you? That's why commies want to destroy everything people have in common with one another: nationalities, ethnicities, religions, old customs and traditions, etc. They want to own the only common denominator (members of the ever-discriminated working class) to fully control people's hearts and minds.
Rob, don't let yourself be tricked by the anti-nationalist propaganda. Commies lost on the battlefield in 1920 (the last fair battle they were part of, later they always preferred backstabs and oppression of the defenceless), they lost again due to their own incompetence in 1989, but that doesn't mean they were completely defeated. They just changed their methods to subterfuge and infiltration into all levels of Western society.
@@Mordring exactly! 😊
Good job ❤
hej Rob! super sympatyczny z Ciebie facet i rozumiesz wiecej niz inni! do tego masz swoje zdanie i bez wzgledu na to czy ja sie z tym zgadzam czy nie to jest to Twoja opinia. A moze zainteresuje Cie ten filmik, to niestety dlugi film ale wiele mowi o nas Polakach, dlaczego tacy jestesmy. Pozdrawiam i wszystkiego najlepszego zycze
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"This Guy" is really amazing - he promotes and explains many things on YT, showing ignorance to people... he often shows symbols (people can't distinguish "forbidden" from "righteous"), events, etc it's a real massacre, especially among "anglosases" where the level of knowledge is practically zero. the same is happening now in Poland, although people aged 40+ know things about the whole world+- (ofc dumbs exist here too) or at least the most important things (maybe they don't know the specific dates, but they know that such an event happened and where it happened) its massacre what gov doing now with young peoples in our countries (from 20 years knowledge is systematically killed and history changed for new one).
Do you know that that time Polish army it was about 1 mln soldiers and Soviet one - 5 mln!
I think maybe the huge part of European history and culture, which is central European contribution, is often overlooked because for decades when our countries were enslaved, it was easier to not look at them too closely and not think about how much of the peace the west was enjoying had been bought by these peoples' blood.
Tell that to polish people where they have 35 years of independence tell them nationalism is bad cause its not like they fought for 80 years+ just to have a nation come on man wake up look at what people went throu
10:06 I am very sorry but You are wrong. Nationalism isn't thinking that you country and all its elements are BETTER than any other country. That is chauvinism. Nationalism is thining about Your country as Your home, Your culture, Your family. Nationalism is thinking that You should cherish Your nation and take care of Your compatriots first. Then You should think about others. Nationalism is nothing about other countries. It is nothing about being superior to others. Nationalism isn't Nazism neither Fascism. I am Polish and i'm nationalist in the way i described it. It is far left who made the term "nationalism" to be considered as something wrong.
Actually i have my own theory on how fascism emerges and it comes from radical liberalism. Liberalism leads to the division of a nation into more and more social groups that are created around some common values (like LGBT, race, language, culture etc.). We can see it happening already throughout so called Western World. Everyone is offended by anything. Such situation is extremely dangerous because it leads to emerging of groups that (as You said) feel superrior/better than other groups. That way it later leads to chauvinism and chauvinism leads to fascism.
Sorry for my English.
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