Every spring Poland and other countries are celebrating a victory over the Nazi Socialists - Hitler's Third Reich - terrorizing Eastern Europe and many other countries - from 1939 till their total defeat in the spring of 1945. Thus on Apr. 19 - 2020 - today's non-Communist - Poland - celebrated - by the national moment of silence - the heroes of Jewish Ghetto Resistance - the fighters who staged a Warsaw Ghetto uprising in 1943 which lasted several weeks and required a lot of fight by the German Wehrmacht's - the most advanced army in the world. They suppressed the Warsaw Ghetto's - heroes - of course - but the heroes died on "their feet" fighting the diabolical forces. A smart observer once said that the "hero will die only one death while coward - dies a thousand deaths - every day." Elaine Landau wrote a good book on that subject - "Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 1943".
It needs to be noted that the Battle of Stalingrad (now called Volgograd) - a Soviet city in West Russia by the river Volga - which took place from August 1942 till Feb. 1943 - decided on the fate of the World War II by turning the tide of the unstoppable Nazi victories. It was the Nazis' - first big defeat. Two million people lost their lives. According to "Duckduck.go" search engine the best book on the subject was written by a German war correspondent - Hans Schroter - in 1958.
The anecdotal tales regarding the Soviets' heroism - had allegedly - the officers "encouraging" with their revolvers - the enlisted soldiers - so they would jump on the German tanks (the strongest ones in the world) - by first drinking the bottle of Russian vodka then throwing the second one onto the tanks - thus blowing up a lot of them. Those kinds of famous "Molotov's Coctails" are purported to blow up a lot of metal structures.
Copyright@L.Hadley and Lilian Bajor - 2020. Research - by Yula Gogol - 2020.
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