Background to the Warsaw Uprising.
In October 1939, the Germans completely occupied all of Poland, and while annexing the Polish Corridor including Poznań and Gdansk, they imposed brutal fascist rule on the Polish people.
But Poland was a brave people, and in the face of nazi obscenity, they did not choose to submit, and under the leadership of the Polish government-in-exile to Britain, the Polish people began an indomitable struggle against aggression. With the support of Britain and the United States, the Polish Resistance forces established an armed group called the "Home Army", which was large and well-equipped, and in 1944, the total number reached 400,000.
At that time, the Soviet-German battlefield, the Soviet army in the Stalingrad defense battle after the victory into the counter-offensive, the German army was gradually defeated, had to transfer the army to the battlefield, the German army in the Polish rear of the gap, the German army defeat has been inevitable. In this case, the leadership of the Polish government-in-exile decided to launch an armed uprising in Warsaw to seize the fruits of victory so as not to fall into the hands of the Soviets.
By the time the Warsaw Uprising broke out, the Soviets had already marched into Poland and launched an offensive against the Germans in strategic Poland. The Soviets were so close in Poland that they soon reached the outskirts of Warsaw, but the Soviets did not assist the rebels and watched as the uprising was suppressed by the Germans. The uprising lasted 61 days and killed 250,000 civilians and 18,000 Polish fighters.
Why did the Soviets see death and not save it?
There are both historical and practical reasons.
Historical reasons: Russia has divided Poland four times, you are not merciful, I am not righteous
In 1767, the Russian army invaded Poland, and in August 1772, Russia, Prussia and Austria signed a treaty to divide Poland in St. Petersburg, and 130,000 square kilometers of Polish land belonged to Russia.
In 1792, Russian troops invaded Poland. On January 23, 1793, Russia and Prussia signed a partition agreement in Petersburg. 280,000 square kilometers of Polish territory, including most of Ukraine, Lithuania and Minsk, were annexed by Russia.
In November 1794, on October 24, 1795, the representatives of the three countries again signed a partition treaty, dividing up the remaining Polish Commonwealth territory.
According to this treaty, Russia occupied Lithuania, western Belarus, Courland, western Warren, and most of western Ukraine, with an area of 120,000 square kilometers, and was incorporated into Russia.
After World War I, Poland was restored. He fought fiercely with the Soviet Union, took advantage of a lot, and snatched back a lot of territory.
On August 23, 1939, Stalin and Hitler signed the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed that in the near future the Naraf, Vistula and San rivers would become the boundaries of the Soviet-German sphere of interest. On September 1, Germany invaded Poland from the west. On the 17th, the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east. On the 28th, the Soviet Union and Germany signed a treaty of border friendship, and Poland completely disappeared as a sovereign state.
Moreover, after the occupation of Poland, in the spring of 1940, the Soviet army created the heinous Katyn Massacre in Poland, in which some 22,000 Polish soldiers, intellectuals, politicians and public officials were killed by Soviet troops. Given the history of the four partitions of Poland by the Russian nation, as long as they are not forgetful Poles, they have an instinctive fear and a very high degree of vigilance against the Russian fighting peoples.
The pro-Soviet Polish government was 'traitorous'' and the two governments were incompatible.
There were two governments in Poland at that time: the Polish government-in-exile, which fled to Britain after the fall of Poland on 18 September 1939, and the Polish National Liberation Council.
This ''Polish National Liberation Committee'' was a pro-Soviet regime fostered by Stalin in July 1944. At the same time as the establishment of this regime, it decided to curry favor with Stalin, betray polish interests, and sign an agreement to make the "Curson Line" the border between Poland and the Soviet Union.
Thus, the Polish government in exile in England regarded Stalin's Soviet Red Army and the pro-Soviet "Polish National Liberation Committee" as inseparable enemies. With the gradual victory of the Soviet army in the Polish battlefield, Warsaw would soon fall into The hands of the Soviets.
In order to prevent Stalin from controlling Poland again and implementing the Soviet system in Poland, the Polish government-in-exile decided to take the lead and launch an uprising to control Poland before the Soviet army reached Warsaw.
In the summer of 1944, the commander of the National Salvation Army, Tadeusz Komorowski, wrote a letter to the Polish government-in-exile in London, saying in his heart: 'If the National Salvation Army does nothing, the Poles will fall to the side of the Communists. ''
The Polish government-in-exile therefore hoped that the Polish "Homeland Army" (the National Salvation Army)" would quickly launch an uprising and avoid Stalin's encroachment on Poland with the 'self-liberation of Warsaw'.
Since the original intention of the uprising was against Stalin and the polish pro-Soviet regime "National Liberation Committee", the action was strictly confidential to the Soviet side and would not reveal a single rumor to Stalin.
Moreover, although the uprising was aimed at the German occupation forces militarily, from a political point of view, it was aimed at the Soviets and the "National Liberation Committee", and the rebels and the Soviets were nominally allies, but in fact rivals.
Because of this, the Soviet government and the Red Army command are not stupid, not to mention that they do not know the plan of the Warsaw Uprising, that is, they will not move, waiting for the German army and the National Salvation Army to kill and lose. Relying on the Germans to weaken the strength of the home army was the best choice for the Soviet Union. Therefore, the Soviet army under the city of Warsaw took the initiative to stand by and watch as it changed.
After the final defeat of the rebel army in the city, they preferred to surrender to the Germans rather than ask the Soviets for help, of course, they also knew that the Soviets could not count on it.
Poles still have a deep understanding of the Russians, they know the wolf nature of the "fighting nation", they only know aggression and expansion, so they will slowly become lonely in Europe, they will be guarded against by European countries as tigers and wolves, and they will let their neighbors fall to NATO and join the camp against themselves.
While the country expanded exponentially, Russia paid the price of fame for its own barbarism and greed. In this year's Resolution adopted by the United Nations condemning Russia's occupation of Crimea, only a few countries voted in favor of Russia, but the fighting peoples should not care about this result, and their reputation is almost worthless compared to the country.
Looking back at the Warsaw Uprising, although the Soviets' practices at that time were widely criticized by later Western scholars, there was actually nothing wrong with them, and the Poles would not blame the Soviets for not helping each other, because they had long known that the Soviets would not save each other, and you yourself were acting against the Soviets, so why would people save them?