01/08/2026
"The tragedy of Warsaw kept worrying me, and the realisation that it was impossible to launch a major rescue operation was agonising"
-- Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky
When Polish leader Bor-Komorowski launched the rising on 1 August 1944, he had 40,000 troops at his command, with only 2,500 armed.
Neither London nor the Polish Government in Exile could deliver anything remotely approaching what was needed to redress the mismatch between the courageous but misled Warsaw fighters and their fascist occupiers.
The battle-hardened German army, debased beyond all humanity from its war in the East, held the city securely. The garrison of 15,000 doubled in size to 30,000 as soon as the rising began.
On the first day of the fighting, 2,000 Poles died fighting. The N***s proceeded to murder at will, even slaughtering 1,300 staff and patients at Lazarus and Wola hospitals.
To blame the Red Army for failing to support the uprising is a baseless and shameful rewriting of history, yet a whole industry has grown up to 'prove' that the Soviets wilfully refused to commit enough troops to support the insurgency. Historians are anxious to portray the Soviets as having contempt for human life while condemning them for not wasting more. Stalingrad had provided a clear understanding of what it took to fight for cities, further evidenced when they entered Berlin.
The Red Army had just completed a 600km advance, without respite. Rokossovsky's troops were stretched between 18 and 100km from the city when the rising began.
As they approached, the Soviets discovered that the fascists had blown all the bridges crossing the Vistula.
Those who talk of Soviet betrayal need to explain how Soviet tanks could take a city they could not enter.
Red Army officers were parachuted into the city to liaise with the insurgents. Bor-Komorowski rejected every attempt at liaison.
The citizens of Warsaw paid heavily for Bor-Komorowski's precipitous action, and the fascists held the city long enough to mine it and reduce it to rubble.
It is a calumny to claim that the Soviets stood idly by and watched the suppression of the Warsaw uprising - an initiative, let us remember, which had been planned and executed with the specific intention of excluding the involvement of the Red Army.
