Poland biography of the country

We tell the world about Poland: Poland. Her second name history all knows about this, but for many in the world a surprise may be the fact that not only Germany attacked Poland. This was the implementation of a secret agreement signed on August 23 between Nazi Germany and Bolshevik Russia. It was this day that was declared by the European parliament by a pan -European day of memory of victims of all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes.

She has developed the rules of democracy unusual for that time, limiting the power of kings. Even in the Middle Ages, representatives of Poland formulated the “Polish school of the right of peoples” - a rejection of aggression and wars against pagan countries. Poland showed unusual tolerance, and it was thanks to her that scientists from all over Europe came or fled from persecution to the Polish kingdom.

It was the support of the Jewish diaspora, which has been supplanted from Western Europe from the time of the Middle Ages. The invaders were suppressed by the uprisings, destroyed the Polish culture, and the children studied in foreign languages. After five generations, in a year, in just a few months the Poles restored the state, creating an army that saved Europe in the year from the invasion of Bolshevik Russia, which wanted to introduce the communist order on the old continent.

A year after this battle, called the eighteenth most important battle in world history, it should be remembered that Poland committed an act that was not the result of its economic or military power at that time. The decisive factor was a kind of gene of freedom, which the Poles carry in themselves. In the year, the first shots of World War II sounded in Poland, and two totalitarian regimes again deprived Poland of freedom.

This time, wanting to simultaneously physically destroy the people. During the war, about 6 Poles died, of which more than 3 were Polish citizens of Jewish origin. It was on the Polish lands that the Germans committed the Holocaust. The Polish elites were subjected to planned destruction. Over Polish villages, their inhabitants died and destroyed their houses.

It was for the Poles that the Germans built the largest death factory-Aushvitz-Birkenau. The Soviet state, which occupied almost half of Poland, killed over 20 Polish officers. Hundreds of thousands of Polish citizens were deported into the depths of Russia, where they died from hunger and as a result of slave labor. Economics and agriculture were completely destroyed.

The Poles handed the French and the British decrypted Enigma machines, which changed the course of the war in favor of the allies, and Polish engineers invented the Ministry of Defense and the Walkie-Talkie for allies. In the Poles there was still a gene of freedom, which ordered him to fight - on earth, in the air and at sea - with the Germans in Africa, in Italy, in France and England.

The Poles performed extraordinary exploits during the German occupation - in Poland, as the only country occupied by the Germans, helping Jews designated the death penalty. Irena Sendler, a social worker, helped save almost 2 Jewish children. Sister Matilda Getter led out of the ghetto and saved several hundred children. Together with the front, Soviet special forces entered Poland, people who fought for freedom were arrested and massively killed.

When the West celebrated the freedom acquired again, from the Poles, once again, Soviet Russia took it. A rather vivid example was the story of Vitold Piletsky, one of the greatest Polish heroes of the war, a man who is a world symbol of the struggle against totalitarianism. In his youth, he fought against the Soviets in the war of the year. After a year, he became a participant in the underground.

He ended up in hell on earth - Auschwitz - where he prepared for the allies a report on how the Germans killed people in the camp. After the war, Vitold Piletsky was arrested by the communist authorities, and after a cruel investigation, when they wanted to get him to confess, he was sentenced to death in a false trial. Shortly after the sentence, he said: "Auschwitz [auschwitz] was a game." At a time when half of Europe was influenced by the Soviet Union, Poland rebelled.

There was no such time without protests, bloody suppressed. The scale of resistance to the communist government is evidenced by the fact that more than 10 million Poles entered the Union “Solidarity” created in the year. Since the creation of "solidarity" the destruction of Soviet communism began. Ten years after her birth, all of Europe could again rejoice in freedom. The Soviet empire collapsed, the countries of Central Europe again became democracies, and people in them again gained freedom.

Europe has become one - it is also the merit of the Polish gene of freedom. Photo 1.