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Photos The Peoples Army of Poland (World War II)
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This eagle pattern which @Bombardier shows was in link to Wikipedia introduced by order of January 1, 1945. and it was unlikely to be put into use during combat operations.
Earlier, in the Polish Armed Forces in the USSR, a new eagle's pattern was introduced, modeled on the image of an eagle from the sarcophagus of Władysław Herman in the cathedral in Płock. In the assumptions he referred to the Piast tradition (the first Polish royal dynasty). It was made of patinated brass, 4.5 by 5 cm. The eagle's pattern, dated June 1, 1943, went to Moscow factories. Popularly called by "kurica" (hen) or crows.
The first batch of eagles was officially introduced by the order No.39 of the Commander of Division of July 12, 1943. The eagle's emblem was worn on caps and forage caps. He was painted on helmets, heavy weapons and military equipment. He was the emblem on all banners made in the SRR Union.
Many soldiers who have kept their eagles from the 1939 campaign. he wore them, after bending the crown, instead of the official eagle. Sometimes the soldiers would put the eagle upside down and joke that the crown had fallen.
They tried jokingly to cope with the awareness that this is a sign of a partial loss of Poland's sovereignty.
The soldiers had little to say if they wanted to fight alongside the Soviets or at the side of the British. Most often the case was decided, but independently on which side they fought to free the homeland.
Unfortunately, during the Second World War both Hitler and Stalin deliberately, with full awareness, destroyed the Polish scientific and political elite.
Earlier, in the Polish Armed Forces in the USSR, a new eagle's pattern was introduced, modeled on the image of an eagle from the sarcophagus of Władysław Herman in the cathedral in Płock. In the assumptions he referred to the Piast tradition (the first Polish royal dynasty). It was made of patinated brass, 4.5 by 5 cm. The eagle's pattern, dated June 1, 1943, went to Moscow factories. Popularly called by "kurica" (hen) or crows.
The first batch of eagles was officially introduced by the order No.39 of the Commander of Division of July 12, 1943. The eagle's emblem was worn on caps and forage caps. He was painted on helmets, heavy weapons and military equipment. He was the emblem on all banners made in the SRR Union.
Many soldiers who have kept their eagles from the 1939 campaign. he wore them, after bending the crown, instead of the official eagle. Sometimes the soldiers would put the eagle upside down and joke that the crown had fallen.
They tried jokingly to cope with the awareness that this is a sign of a partial loss of Poland's sovereignty.
The soldiers had little to say if they wanted to fight alongside the Soviets or at the side of the British. Most often the case was decided, but independently on which side they fought to free the homeland.
Unfortunately, during the Second World War both Hitler and Stalin deliberately, with full awareness, destroyed the Polish scientific and political elite.
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The victims of the massacre were officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the Polish Army, largely from the reserve (scientists, doctors, engineers, lawyers, teachers, government officials, entrepreneurs, professionals) who, after the USSR's aggression against Poland, agreed by the USSR with III The Reich, on the basis of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, were after September 17, 1939 disarmed and detained in various circumstances by the Red Army on the territory of the Republic of Poland as prisoners of war. A group of several thousand members of the State Police, Border Protection Corps (KOP), Border Guards and Prison Service were also murdered. In addition, there were over 7,000 of the victims. civilians, police officers and officers without the status of a prisoner, imprisoned in the occupied by the USSR Eastern Borderlands of the Republic of Poland. Families of the victims of crimes staying in these areas - about 22-25 thousand. Families (over 60,000) - displaced in April 1940 to Kazakhstan based on the resolution of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of March 2, 1940, taken at the request of Lavrenti Beria and Nikita Khrushchev.
Victims of the Katyn massacre were buried in mass graves in Katyn near Smolensk, Miednoje near Twer, Piatichatki in the suburbs of Kharkiv, Bykownia near Kiev and in the case of about 6-7 thousand. victims in other unknown places (probably, among others, Kuropaty in Belarus). Executions was made in strict confidence, but already in 1943, the collective graves in Katyn near Smolensk were revealed.
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Only political. Both Hitler and Stalin deliberately and systematically exterminated the elites of the Polish nation. A nation without the elite that transmits history and tradition ceases to be a nation. It is easy to empower people and territory.
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There are other wrinkles as well. A lot of Poles along with other minorities for obvious reasons took part in the Russian Communist revolution of 197. For example, Felix Dzerzhinsky founded Cheka, a precursor of KBG while Mikhail Tukhachevsky became one of the prominent Soviet generals of the 1920s - 1930s. They were not good guys because of their Communist Party affiliation, but Stalin identified himself as a Russian rather than Georgian, and couldn't stand rivals from minorities (primarily Jews, Poles, and Blats) who were better educated than the Russians and whom Stalin eventually eliminated. The conduct and the consequences of the humiliating for the Soviets conclusion of Polish–Soviet War of 1920–1921 also played a role in Stalin's attitudes towards Polish people. For example, he imprisoned, but fortunately for the Soviets didn't execute the future Marshall of the Soviet Union Konstantin Rokossovsky, who later on de facto ruled Poland with iron fist until 1956
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Everything you wrote about this is true, but it does not change the fact that executions on the Polish elite had a political goal - subordination and absorption of the Polish population. The possibility of revenge on the Poles was somehow "by the way". The continuation of these activities took place after the war - during the war the Poles became "useful" for Stalin.
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The anniversary has passed, but I think it is worth mentioning - from March 8, 1945, the 1st Polish Army, fighting alongside the Red Army, fought fiercely with the Germans for mastering Kolobrzeg. The city, previously converted into a fortress, defended itself for eleven days. The battle for Kolobrzeg was a key stage in the fighting in Western Pomerania, which is considered the largest regular street fighting in World War II with the participation of Polish troops.
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Medium tank T-34 from the 1st Tank Regiment during the parade after the oath of the Polish 1st Infantry Division, Sielce, July 15, 1943.
On the turret, the "Piast eagle", which was the hallmark of combat vehicles in the LWP (The Peoples Army of Poland).
Foto. Zbigniew Lalak- "Armored Weapon in the LWP 1943-1945".
Medium tank T-34 from the 1st Tank Regiment during the parade after the oath of the Polish 1st Infantry Division, Sielce, July 15, 1943.
On the turret, the "Piast eagle", which was the hallmark of combat vehicles in the LWP (The Peoples Army of Poland).
Foto. Zbigniew Lalak- "Armored Weapon in the LWP 1943-1945".
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Column of the Polish 1st Armored Brigade during the rest. In the foreground, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, in background a ZIS-5 truck. Foto. WAF.
Tank of the Polish 1st Armored Brigade in Gdynia, March 1945.
Tank of the Polish 1st Armored Brigade in Gdynia, March 1945.
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