FIRST Time Reacting to Polish History - IPNtv: The Unconquered

Thai-Canadian Reaction to "The Unconquered: riveting story of Poland in WW2 narrated by Sean Bean."

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[Lorek]

Hi, you asked few questions, so here are some explanations.

In the end he mentions betrayal, because the efforts and the fact that Poland lost the largest % of its population, it have been "given to" the Soviet Union, becoming its satelite state. When Western Europe was fully independent, Poland was in ruins and governed by the communists. For example, Poland never received any aid like Marshall Plan which rebuild Western Europe, and Poland never received any war reparations. Three guys on the photo are Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin.

The army being reborn refers to the Sikorski-Mayski pact which restored the diplomatic relations between Polish government (during most of the war it resided in London) and the Soviet one. There were Polish soldiers fighting in the West already - the soldiers of the Anders Army were Soviet prisoners of war who happened to not be murdered in Katyń. The pact was signed after German invasion on the USSR, and the Polish POWs were to be freed - some remained in the USSR fighting alongside the Red Army (Berling's Army) while others left to join the Allies in the West (Anders' Army).
Monte Casino is in Italy - there was also a bear Wojtek who was in the Polish Army - there are some videos about him too.

The thing with the non-aggression pacts signed with Hitler is that these didn't have a secret part about dividing certain countries - the pact signed by the Soviets had, which doesn't make it non-aggression pact but rather alliance (even if temporary). Contrary to other pacts, it wasnt signed few years before the war, but around two weeks.

Sean Bean is the actor who keeps dying all the time - Boromir from LOTR and Ned Stark from GoT.

The paratroopers he talks about were Cichociemni (Silent Unseen) - some kind of special forces, they were Polish soldiers who came from London to aid the Underground.

[limadeltazulu]

Polish pilots did not shoot to shoot down the enemy plane, shoot to kill the enemy.
These are the words of their Canadian commander, when asked about their phenomenal effectiveness.
Poland has never given up, it will never give up. As long as the last Pole is alive.

[filipek]

Nie wiem czemu ale zawsze mnie ciekawią reakcje ludzi na nasz kraj :))

[MEEHOWtv]

4:32 Betrayed by who? Betrayed by Allies (UK, America, France ect.).
Polish soldiers fought for France. Polish soldiers fought for Britain. Polish soldiers fought for Africa. Polish soldiers fought alongside Americans in the D-Day, but when the time came to fight for Poland, no one remembered. You didn't even want us at your victory parades when the war was over.

5:30 Poland was invaded by Germany and Russia.
1.09.1939 German attack
17.09.1939 Russian attack

Imagine that on 1.09.2020 Canada attacks USA.
Imagine that on 17.09.2020 (16 days later) Mexico attacks USA.
Now imagine that we are not talking about Canada and Mexico, but about Germany and Russia. About two world's superpowers.
Yeah, that's basically what happened to Poland. We were preparing our kids for a new school year and suddenly BOOM! At 4 AM we were in the middle of WW2.

[niewolnik]

Polish army from russia was born from soldiers in stalin's camps, Monte Casino it is in Italy, Polish fighters ware the best in england.

[gmork]

I am Polish, my great-grandfather became a russian prisoner, deported to Russia and died in the Novosibirsk camp/prison during WWII.

[atomictsarina]

9:45 "There are Poles who save Jews..." He is referring to Irena Sendler who saved a dozens of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto. She was also called "A Mother of the Children of the Holocaust".

[wampirek]

Hitler: I have tanks
Stalin: I have army
Polish Army: We have a fuckin bear
Wojtek the Bear was bought by polish soldiers in Russia, they took him as a mascot (he was small then). When he was grown up he was used to be a guardian of the camp. During the battle of Monte Cassino he was carring amo. Pretty cool story.

Explanation of your questions:
Poland helped Britain and French during war and Britain betrayed us (i’m polish) so we were on the russian side of Iron Courtain.
These dates are dates of events of resist against communists. There was pretty rough, militia even opened fire to civilians. It was all ended when polish guy was elected as a Pope (his name was Karol Wojtyła and his pope name was John Paul II)
Enigma was a German coding machine, Codes created by this were so complicated that when a letter A was typed and it was coded as for example C, the next time when A was typed it could be typed as Y. Polish mathematicians broke the first code of Enigma by stealing one of machines in Gdansk and basing on that build decoding machine. Then British cryptologist (from the movie you were talk about, „mystery game” i think)broke the code basing on Polish works.
If you have any questions just ask :)

[mateuszlangner]

The Germans were terribly afraid of them, they called them "Black Devils" because of the color of their berets and long black leather coats, but above all because of the crazy, almost unprecedented courage that General Stanisław Maczek's soldiers had in their blood.

[Zawieszone]

*Bo my nie błagamy o wolność, my o nią walczymy...*

[lava]

After the invasion of Poland in September 1939, Germany and the USSR cooperated together until the summer of 1941. It was on Soviet oil that the Germans conquered Western Europe. It was only when Germany invaded the USSR that they suddenly decided that something was wrong. Just two bandits quarreled after the bank robbery and one attacked the other. In short speaking...
The Russians say that they liberated Poland during the 2nd World War. We Poles say that one invader (USSR) replaced the other (Germany).
Poland regained independence only in 1993, when the last Soviet left our country.

[stanisawsobczynski]

Soviet prisons were worse than german concetration camps, Witold Pilecki, Polish who went as volunteer to Auschwitz Birkenau, in his notes wrote "German Concetration camps compared to Soviet Prisons were nothing." After war a lot of Polish Heroes fighting for Independence were arrested and killed by communists

[krzysztofkornalewski]

In 7:48 you are wondering about how it is possible to create a polish army in USSR after killing 20000 officers, Katyń happened in 1940. The war between Soviets and Germans start in Jun 1941 and after that Stalin decided to create a Polish army in USSR from surviving Poles (civilians and soldiers). Gen. Anders (the guy who commands this army) heard rumours about Katyń because germans found tombs. After gathered every people he escaped from USSR to Persia (now Iran). From there he guided army to the war fields in north Africa and Italy.
The interesting fact is that gen. Anders took every Pole like women, kids, old men to save them from communism horror and left them in Persia with care provided by local gov.

[Zak]

to takie dziwne ale kocham patrzeć jak ludzie z innych krajów reagują na to co się działo u nas

[vert]

"betrayed by who?" by everyone
my fav is Great Britain, who was literally saved by our pilots during Hitler's attack on them (and saved from speaking german now), and after winning, they made parade to celebrate victory and they not only didnt invite us but told our pilots to gtfo of the country as they were scared of revenge from hitler
but we were betrayed by everyone
for centuries our solders helped and won battles around the globe, even Napoleon said that if something seems impossible, you can't do something, just send Poles, they will do it right away, yet after helping everyone, after all those pacts, when war came upon our home, we were alone

there are few movies good and bad, but show really well how it looked like, you should watch it for sure

also interesting thing is that Russia actually changes history now and teaches everyone that the war happend because of Poland and we are bad here

[uglarthenosmart]

In Yalta Poland was taked by Stalin and until 1989 ruled by Russia we not have independent.
Why betrail cos that was deal between Stalin, Churchil (UK) and USA. Polish soldgers wasn't invided on big parade in London cos of winnig but UK say that they should return to Poland. Some soldgers do this and died in gulags or were shoted by NKWD.
The date from 1945 to 1989 are date of protest or fight polish underground with Russia.

[ukaszzielinski]

My comment on 7:22 min Max and Sujy questions about Polish Army reborn.
After the defeat in September 1939 some Polish soldiers managed to escape to France and the UK. These soldiers were fighting alongside French and British troops, during the German attack on France, The Battle of Britain (Polish airmen/pilots), Norway, Normandy, Ardens etc. When Germany attacked the Soviet Union in 1941, the Soviets become allies to France, UK, and the US. At this point, it was possible to create an Army in the Soviet Union from Polish soldiers captured by Russians during September 1939 and youth (in 1939 most of these men were just youth, but in 1942 they were already adults). They were lacking polish officers because of Katyń massacre, but at this time only few people knew about the massacre. This army under the leadership of general Anders go to Palestine, Egypt, and then to Italy. The second army was created after the fact of the massacre was already known to the Polish Government and the relations with the Soviet Union was bad. This army under the leadership of general Berling was controlled by Stalin and had mostly soviet officers (polish were privates and lower rank officers). My grandpa was just 17 years old when he managed to "escape" gulag and joined this army. For him as for many, it was the only way to return to Poland and not being a Russian slave for the rest of his life.

[femmeNikita]

It was worse than "Call of Duty". My granny has been through 3 forced labour camps for kids before turning 16.

[stephallan]

As an Indigenous Native American Indian I know we had a code that was never broken...world war ll effected many. You should react to the story about the last code talker from the Navajo Nation...they were not allowed to share their story with their families and were shocked that they could speak their language let alone use it to assist the Military. The American Government I’m hoping you know has not always been a liaison or fair to my ancestors but we love this Country way before it was called “America”. 🙇🏻‍♀️🔍🇺🇸☝🏽✅🤷🏻‍♀️❤️

[kastore]

The one thing should also be remembered in that occasion. Poland is on many things accused of being nationalist country, almost same as nazis was Germany before WW2. You need to remember that Polish nationalism was fight to bring Poland back were it should be, where polish people lives, in opposite to German and some other country nationalisms, that they want to expand ther countries in cost of another. Poland never tried to expand their territory throught hostile and bloody invasions, Poland never has a single piece of colony, we have couple of nations like Ukrainians or Lietuvas that includes Poland, but they were free nation in Polish border. We even have our own muslims, Tatars wich were came here on our king invitation in some XV or XVI century, living here to this day peacefuly.