I learned more history from this song than I did in class as a kid. Gives me chills every time. And that's saying something cuz I've heard it a million times.
seeing this song played in Poland looks amazing from the videos, I have seen one but can't find it where the crowd sing something before it, i think..... historically the uprising was a harsh bitter and nasty engagement while the Soviets just watched, and as some grim trivia, the UK and France should have also declared war on Russia for invading
@@angelsvortex the alliance with Poland was meant to put the Germans off invading or at least pause so that both nations (Britain and France) can arm. also the Polish equipement was from the late 20s early 30, so very out of date. As well tThe Molotov-Ribbentrop pact between Germany and the Soviets, which in essence was a land grab for both sides. So Poland was then occupied for the rest of the war and had a Soviet puppet government put in place once it was over. Thats the first bit. The second was the Warsaw Uprising took place in Aug 1944 as the German Army was falling back. The citizens of the city thought that as the red army was approaching it was time to strike against the occupiers and so they did. What they didn't expect was the red army to stop, and basically have a picnic. Stalin thought it was best for those that cause trouble to be taken care of by his enemy, and so they watched as the Germans and Polish resistance fought a bloody and botter street fight were at the end, all of the resistance were either killed or sent to camps. The Red Army then went in to add more carnage to the streets of the city The second part is pretty well covered in the song, hope that helps :)
The Soviet union was just outside the city, but their commander had decided to wait and let the nazis destroy the uprising. So that when they later went in, they had no problems taking the city for their own.
@Pat Ludwa В конце июля 1944 года Красная армия вплотную подошла к Праге, району Варшавы, расположенному на восточном берегу Вислы. Это событие вызвало переполох в стане руководства АК, поскольку они посчитали, что сама столица Польши будет взята советскими солдатами в ближайшие дни. Однако переброска резервов немцами, растянутость коммуникаций советских войск и поражение в танковом сражении под Радзимином не позволили 1-му Белорусскому фронту под командованием маршала Рокоссовского продолжить наступление. Но генерал Тадеуш Коморовский по кличке «Бур», командующий Армией Крайовой, 1 августа 1944 года объявил о начале восстания в Варшаве с целью опередить СССР в деле освобождения столицы Польши. Восстание стало полной неожиданностью как для «аковцев» и польского населения, так и для немецкой агентуры, поскольку решение о нем было принято буквально накануне. У бойцов АК на момент начала восстания катастрофически не хватало оружия, не было четкой организации и планов по взятию стратегических объектов. На обвинения в бездействии и неоказании помощи Варшавскому восстанию с нескрываемым чувством горечи отвечал Константин Рокоссовский. Объясняя в своих воспоминаниях отказ от взятия Варшавы объективными причинами (растянутость коммуникаций, отсутствие резервов, создание немцами крепких оборонительных рубежей и подтягивание ими свежих сил), он прямо указывает на настоящих виновников поражения, Коморовского и одного из лидеров АК Антония Хрусьцеля по кличке « Монтер » , добавив при этом: "Они сделали свое черное дело и ушли, а расплачивался за все спровоцированный ими народ Разыгравшаяся в Варшаве трагедия не давала покоя. Сознание невозможности предпринять крупную операцию для того, чтобы выручить восставших, было мучительным." Варшавское восстание изначально было обречено на провал. Не имея адекватного представления об обстановке, о собственных силах и средствах, польское правительство в изгнании и лидеры АК сознательно обрекли своих соотечественников на бессмысленную гибель. Пока поляки с оружием в руках бились с врагом, их предводители делили шкуру неубитого медведя, не признавая границу с СССР и уже считая своим Кёнигсберг. Варшавское восстание вошло в историю как одна из самых печальных и бессмысленных авантюр, ценой которой стали тысячи жизней.
@@Tatyana_Chervova too bad that you don't mention Stalin's direct order to halt all advance until the germans destroy all opposition in the city, thus also expending their resources for a potential defense / counterattack against the red army. Documents confirming that were declassified and made public a couple of years ago. Also, the uprising was planned for for months ahead. The only question was "when?". One more thing that you are not explaining is: If the soviets weren't helping Warsaw only because of their own problems with communication / supplies... why was it that they didn't allow other allied forces to perform supply drops into Warsaw? Any normal person in that situation would be like "well, I can't do anything, but if you can help them, sure go". In the meantime the Soviets didn't help and would not allow anybody else to help either. They wanted the uprising to be put down. They wanted Poland vulnerable and subjugated. They wanted the Polish people down on their knees and enslaved. And the decades of terror that followed after 1945 during the soviet occupation of Poland are undeniable proof of that. I have lived through these times. I was born in soviet controlled Poland and my relatives have lived through the "soviet liberation" in WW2. The rapes, beatings, plundering... I was forced to learn russian in school, and venerate soviet national heroes above our own. We were taught that "all communist people are brothers... but russians are better in every way". We had food rationed out like prisoners, or cattle. We were not allowed to travel. We were not allowed to leave our homes after dark. We had people beaten, imprisoned and tortured just because they didn't want to become members of the communist party. What our leaders did wrong back in 1944 is one thing. And I am not excusing their mistakes. But NEVER tell me the soviets were all just about helping back then, and that they just couldn't help, but really wanted to. Bullshit. I have nothing against the current generation of russians, they aren't to blame for history. But I will never forget or forgive what my people and my family had to suffer through at the hands of the soviets, and may they all burn in hell for what they did to my country.
@@gotharion 27 июля 1944 года польский посол в Лондоне Рачиньский официально уведомил Черчилля о предстоящем восстании (Миколайчик уже находился на пути в Москву), а министр обороны эмигрантского правительства Кукель озвучил в связи с этим конкретные требования: подкрепить восставших силами польской воздушно-десантной бригады и авиацией. Британский комитет начальников штабов в письменном заключении на меморандум Кукеля отмечал: «По нашему мнению, союзные операции в Польше могут проводиться исключительно при полной координации с русским наступлением». Посылку польской воздушно-десантной бригады комитет посчитал нереальной, так как перелёт над Германией привел бы к тяжёлым и неоправданным потерям. Как практически неосуществимые оценивались и возможные бомбардировки немецких аэродромов под Варшавой. Следует отметить, что, согласно советскому плану операции, утверждённому И.В. Сталиным 28 июля 1944 года, Варшаву предполагалось брать не в лоб, а обойти с севера и юга, создав для этого плацдармы на Висле. Такая тактика учитывала и необходимость сохранения города как одного из центров славянской культуры. 28 июля - 2 августа 1944 года советские войска создали плацдарм к югу от Варшавы и передали его частям Войска Польского, которые должны были, наступая вдоль реки, войти в Варшаву с юга. К этому времени войска 1-го Белорусского фронта (командующий - Маршал Советского Союза К.К. Рокоссовский), находившиеся под Варшавой, пройдя с непрерывными боями более 600 км, были крайне измотаны. К тому же тылы отстали, отсутствовало воздушное прикрытие, так как 16-я воздушная армия еще не успела перебазироваться на ближайшие к фронту аэродромы. Так что для советского командования восстание началось в самый неподходящий момент, ибо приковывало к Варшаве пристальное внимание гитлеровцев, перебросивших сюда дополнительные силы. В беседе со Сталиным 9 августа тон Миколайчика был уже совсем другим: он просил быстрейшей помощи повстанцам оружием. Сталин не возражал. Однако он справедливо отметил, что восставшим требуется прежде всего тяжёлое оружие, а сбросить его с самолётов технически не представляется возможным. В целом советский лидер расценил восстание как «нереальное дело», так как у немцев под Варшавой три танковые дивизии и много пехоты. «Просто жалко этих поляков» (т.е. повстанцев). Сталин весьма откровенно сказал, что вначале считал взятие Варшавы советскими войсками делом нескольких дней, однако противник перебросил под город дополнительные силы и теперь освобождение польской столицы потребует времени. Тем временем восстание принимало характер всенародной борьбы против оккупантов: героически сражавшиеся варшавяне не знали о закулисных манёврах руководства АК и истинных мотивах восстания. А в печати АК усилились нападки на СССР, который, якобы заранее зная о восстании, не оказывает теперь никакой помощи. В качестве ответной меры 13 августа 1944 года публикуется заявление ТАСС; в нём подчёркивалось, что Советский Союз не имеет к восстанию никакого отношения и оно с ним предварительно не согласовывалось. 16 августа в ответ на обращение Черчилля о помощи восставшим, Сталин сообщил, что сначала он распорядился «интенсивно сбрасывать» вооружение в район Варшавы, затем советское командование, убедившись, «что варшавская акция представляет безрассудную ужасную авантюру, стóящую населению больших жертв», пришло к выводу, «что оно должно отмежеваться от варшавской авантюры, так как оно не может нести ни прямой, ни косвенной ответственности за варшавскую акцию». Понимая, что восстание не удалось, эмигрантское правительство пыталось свалить ответственность за его начало не только на Москву, но и на Лондон. Так, в начале августа поляки пожаловались американцам, что англичане, пообещав якобы оказывать восстанию помощь, что, как говорилось ранее, не соответствовало действительности, теперь отказываются это делать. Однако английская авиация небольшими силами 3, 4 и 13 августа 1944 года осуществила сбросы над Варшавой оружия и продовольствия. Как и ожидалось, потери бомбардировщиков от зенитного огня противника оказались непропорционально тяжёлыми: в среднем на тонну сброшенного груза пришёлся один сбитый самолёт. При этом большая часть грузов, особенно во время последних вылетов, попала в руки немцев, так как сбросы приходилось вести с больших высот. Попытка Миколайчика побудить к помощи США также не возымела успеха: американцы сослались на то, что АК в оперативном отношении подчиняется Лондону. Правда, 14 августа 1944 года американцы попросили СССР о разрешении использовать советские аэродромы для челночных полётов на Варшаву, но СССР не пошёл на это, так как не желал показывать свою причастность к авантюре АК. На позицию СССР, несомненно, повлиял провал переговоров с Миколайчиком в Москве: последний опять отказался признать восточные границы Польши в соответствии с «линией Керзона». К тому же, советской стороне стало известно, что грузы союзников, сбрасываемые с больших высот, достаются немцам. Характерно, что в середине августа западные союзники и сам Миколайчик признавали в переписке с советским руководством, что восстание началось преждевременно.
I am proud to be Polish and more and more people are interested in the history of my country and the people who created and fought for Poland. Glory to the Heroes
Some kind of help did actually show up - by a polish bomber wing, positioned in Italy that loaded all ammo they could fit in their airplanes, and tried to get this stuff to the heros in Warsaw - knowing their fuel wouldn't acctually be enough, to make it back. As German myself, I just can have the biggest respect of all to these heroes, raising up in Warsaw.
Which is why my friend from Poland has always said Polish people hate Russians. They watched as Polish Patriots died trying to free themselves and did nothing.
When I hear this song, I remember a story told by a dutch naval officer. He escaped from Colditz pow camp and ended up with the polish resistance during the uprising. A couple was fighting Germans from their balcony using hand grenades and a submachine gun. When they were about to be overrun, the husband called to his wife to go inside and kill their children. Afterwards he killed her and then himself. They had no illusions about their fate if captured.
I'm from Wasaw. As a child I was used to see all the scripts on the walls, on the streets, "here the nazi's have shoot 300/200/100 poles" and I had always the feeling of walking on blood. Like if It was still in the streets, in the stones. Like if my city, all my life, was built on the sacrifice of so many people. That's something you cant't forget. I will always be proud of being born in Warsaw, a city that suffered so much and that had such a great history.P.S. some of the scenes of this musical video come from a movie but, but, many others are original from '44. There were two brothers that were cinematographers and made a documentary of what was going on during the uprising. Recently the Warsaw Museum of the uprising has restored their shootings and made a movie with the original tapes but on DVD. It's something spectacular. You can feel like if you were there during those 63 epic days. At the beginning of the video we can see "100 polakòw za jednego niemca" that means that 100 Poles had to die for the death of one German.
Thank you for a great reaction! I introduced my son to Sabaton when he was 12 year, he love history now, and look into every story told by Sabaton, so much that he took over much of WWII history class when he was 15.. School do not teach history, they teach snippets and not enough to make students interested. Greetings from Norway
Sabaton is important to us, Poles. It shows the modern world what the then world did not want to know. We were the only occupied country that had an underground army, schools. If you learn about our history, you will learn that our boys took part in many fights in the world during World War II, but we were refused participation in the victory parade. We do not complain. For our freedom and yours - it's us.
Great reaction! Sabaton has a way of bringing out the emotional side of history. Another epic story, brought to us, with an awesome song, is "No bullets fly" (animated story video). Such a great story!! Greetings from Sweden!🤘🇸🇪
I recommend the film "The Pianist" by Roman Polanskii. The action of the film takes place during the Warsaw Uprising, and it reflects the emotions of those days quite well
It's more about perspective of jewish civilian who lives in ghetto. And it's reflects whole occupation, not only Warsaw Uprising (It also shows Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and other tragic moments of occupation of Warsaw). I think City '44 is more about Warsaw Uprising.
Tragic Polish history .. seems people never learn and history will repeat itself over and over again ... looking now a days we only have to watch News feeds ... For music like this you can also go to: Manowar - Die with Honor
from the great tour they played this song in warsaw and joakin changed the song for - and the blood you shed - that small change made it even more chilling to hear take a look when u can
Their vids are VERY VERY powerful …. Was watching one of their interviews and they stated that for the most part all the props etc that they use are the real thing. I think they even bought a tank (german ?? ) from that era (WW1) …. The research they do is so incredibly in-depth ….
The polish never stopped resisting foreign rule, when the German, Austrian, and Russian empires ruled it, when the nazis ruled it, and even during the Cold War when the Soviet regime ruled it it never stoped the polish government in exile stayed in existence until the Soviet fell in 91
A very detailed and moving reaction, great vid. Already sub, greetings from Poland! If you liked that part of Polish history, maybe you can react to IPN - Unconquered? Cheers mate!
The scenes shown in the music video are from other production (not made by Sabaton): Miasto 44 (City 44) - Polish production from 2014 about Warsaw Uprising.
I love this reaction channel the only bad thing is that there is no reaction to Wardruna & Aurora - Helvegen or else some other song by Wardruna. Feels like a must to me ;D
The History behind the song is when The Polish underground launched a coordinated uprising at the same time the Soviet Army should reach the city, the phrase "The allies turned away" refers to that and in 1939 when they were first invaded and the British and French basically did nothing.
to give some intresting contest fot those who dont know, the officer burning warsaw was symbole of destruction of warsaw after uprisinig this is why in warsaw we dont have much old buildings and a lot of them are not ogrinal beacuse they were rebuilded after war ;)
If you haven't already you may check out Woodstock in poland i think 2012, live. Uprising, 40:1, Ghost Devision, etc. The Sound and Show are amazing and the growd with about 750k people is something else.
IMy grandmother was involved in this uprising, she was 16, her brother was 20, he died, she almost died, she was buried under a building, she almost lost her leg, but a young doctor that later on was a creator of polish orthopedics had saved her leg. She survived, had 7 kids, 5 of them were brought up in the system, only my my dad (RIP) her eldest and her youngest were brought up by her,. The experience broke her and broke her kids.. There was no happy ending and she was one of many. The songs is great, but the facts behinds it not so much. I'm the third generation after that, but I still fill the aftermath. My dad was born 1951, died 2014, I was born 1975 and still remember
Peter Stormare, he has done a lot of supercool movies. Since hes swedish he knows he never be the lead actor, instead hes always plays some badass european I specially like him in Fargo and The Big Lebowski He liad about to be able to do an hungarian accent but nobody knows in hollwood anyway
It is good to mention that out "brothers" the Soviet Army stayed on the other bank of (Wisla) Vistula and watched how Warsaw was burned down. Also Russia never allowed British air crafts to use their airports to support people in this Upprising. So they had to go to Poland from Brindisi ( Italy) over predominantly German occupied territory. Not from save Russian side. On the end Russians decided to "help" On the end of Upprising but they throwing guns without parachutes so gun was broken.
The Soviets hung the fighters in Warsaw out to dry. They stopped just short of the city and allowed the nazis to wipe out the freedom fighters. Around 200,000 civilians would pay the butchers bill.
If you want to know more about history in this song I recomend cheking out Sabaton history. This is their channel where they talk about history in their songs so you can understand what The song is about. Maybe you could react to it?
Witam i Pozdrawiam z Polski . It's already covered in the comments for sure. The story is about the Warsaw Uprising. The Polish underground, seeing that the Nazis were losing the war, decided to liberate the Polish capital in order to protect Poland from another partition. Unfortunately, the Red Army advancing on Staln's order stopped on the other side of the Vistula and watched the events. In the end, the uprising collapsed, and the Nazis razed Warsaw to the ground, destroying about 93% of the city, according to various estimates, about 150-200 thousand people died, of course, mostly civilians. Get to Warsaw sometime on August 15, when this day of the beginning of the largest civil uprising under the German occupation is commemorated.
An hour ago we had got 79 th. Anniversary of Warsaw Uprising. The most heroic, however the most tragic spurt in polish history - City was devasted in 80%, Germans kills 200 000 civilians, and 17 000 of polish solidiers, and they eliminetaed 19 000 of Germans. I will not judge this, because who the hell am I to do this - to judge decision of people who lived in this horrible times of World War II, however we - i mean polish people - have to learn from history so that it does not repeat itself as a farce.
"The help that never came" we had the russian army on the right bank of the Vistula river. They not only did not helped, they were waiting for our failure to enter the city like saviours without doing nothing. They shooted to anyone that was trying to escape from the battle crossing the river. In the district of Warsaw where I was born (Praga) there was a statue, a monument, made by the Soviets to commemorate the soldiers that "helped" us to fight against the Nazis. Guess what. It was called the four asleep, because they did nothing. Everybody in Warsaw was calling that monument the four asleep soldiers. And now It has been removed. We have enough of false allies. Look at what happened in Yalta after the war. They sold us to Stalin. We have fought with the allies, we won at Monte Cassino, we saved Great Britain in the battle for Britain thanks to our pilots of the squadron 303 that joined the RAF and had the best results with the minimum loss. And when the war ended they did not even invited the Poles to the great parade in London. Thank you allies. Good job.
Only in America = never heard of Warshaw Uprising = we had this obligatory in school but that is us , Europe..You should not be proud of your ignorance especeially when listening to Sabaton.
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Warsaw uprising is a tragic part of polish history. Greetings from Poland
Greetings back. 🤘🤘🤘
I learned more history from this song than I did in class as a kid. Gives me chills every time. And that's saying something cuz I've heard it a million times.
seeing this song played in Poland looks amazing from the videos, I have seen one but can't find it where the crowd sing something before it, i think.....
historically the uprising was a harsh bitter and nasty engagement while the Soviets just watched, and as some grim trivia, the UK and France should have also declared war on Russia for invading
@@CadarnTheMad1810 What I don't know is WHY Poland got the shaft. How come that location and those citizens didn't matter?
@@angelsvortex the alliance with Poland was meant to put the Germans off invading or at least pause so that both nations (Britain and France) can arm. also the Polish equipement was from the late 20s early 30, so very out of date. As well tThe Molotov-Ribbentrop pact between Germany and the Soviets, which in essence was a land grab for both sides. So Poland was then occupied for the rest of the war and had a Soviet puppet government put in place once it was over. Thats the first bit.
The second was the Warsaw Uprising took place in Aug 1944 as the German Army was falling back. The citizens of the city thought that as the red army was approaching it was time to strike against the occupiers and so they did. What they didn't expect was the red army to stop, and basically have a picnic.
Stalin thought it was best for those that cause trouble to be taken care of by his enemy, and so they watched as the Germans and Polish resistance fought a bloody and botter street fight were at the end, all of the resistance were either killed or sent to camps.
The Red Army then went in to add more carnage to the streets of the city
The second part is pretty well covered in the song, hope that helps :)
The Soviet union was just outside the city, but their commander had decided to wait and let the nazis destroy the uprising. So that when they later went in, they had no problems taking the city for their own.
@Pat Ludwa Stalin: "would you like country with resistance or would you like country beaten" answer is obvious
@Pat Ludwa В конце июля 1944 года Красная армия вплотную подошла к Праге, району Варшавы, расположенному на восточном берегу Вислы. Это событие вызвало переполох в стане руководства АК, поскольку они посчитали, что сама столица Польши будет взята советскими солдатами в ближайшие дни. Однако переброска резервов немцами, растянутость коммуникаций советских войск и поражение в танковом сражении под Радзимином не позволили 1-му Белорусскому фронту под командованием маршала Рокоссовского продолжить наступление. Но генерал Тадеуш Коморовский по кличке «Бур», командующий Армией Крайовой, 1 августа 1944 года объявил о начале восстания в Варшаве с целью опередить СССР в деле освобождения столицы Польши. Восстание стало полной неожиданностью как для «аковцев» и польского населения, так и для немецкой агентуры, поскольку решение о нем было принято буквально накануне. У бойцов АК на момент начала восстания катастрофически не хватало оружия, не было четкой организации и планов по взятию стратегических объектов.
На обвинения в бездействии и неоказании помощи Варшавскому восстанию с нескрываемым чувством горечи отвечал Константин Рокоссовский. Объясняя в своих воспоминаниях отказ от взятия Варшавы объективными причинами (растянутость коммуникаций, отсутствие резервов, создание немцами крепких оборонительных рубежей и подтягивание ими свежих сил), он прямо указывает на настоящих виновников поражения, Коморовского и одного из лидеров АК Антония Хрусьцеля по кличке « Монтер » , добавив при этом:
"Они сделали свое черное дело и ушли, а расплачивался за все спровоцированный ими народ Разыгравшаяся в Варшаве трагедия не давала покоя. Сознание невозможности предпринять крупную операцию для того, чтобы выручить восставших, было мучительным."
Варшавское восстание изначально было обречено на провал. Не имея адекватного представления об обстановке, о собственных силах и средствах, польское правительство в изгнании и лидеры АК сознательно обрекли своих соотечественников на бессмысленную гибель. Пока поляки с оружием в руках бились с врагом, их предводители делили шкуру неубитого медведя, не признавая границу с СССР и уже считая своим Кёнигсберг. Варшавское восстание вошло в историю как одна из самых печальных и бессмысленных авантюр, ценой которой стали тысячи жизней.
@@Tatyana_Chervova too bad that you don't mention Stalin's direct order to halt all advance until the germans destroy all opposition in the city, thus also expending their resources for a potential defense / counterattack against the red army. Documents confirming that were declassified and made public a couple of years ago. Also, the uprising was planned for for months ahead. The only question was "when?". One more thing that you are not explaining is: If the soviets weren't helping Warsaw only because of their own problems with communication / supplies... why was it that they didn't allow other allied forces to perform supply drops into Warsaw? Any normal person in that situation would be like "well, I can't do anything, but if you can help them, sure go". In the meantime the Soviets didn't help and would not allow anybody else to help either. They wanted the uprising to be put down. They wanted Poland vulnerable and subjugated. They wanted the Polish people down on their knees and enslaved. And the decades of terror that followed after 1945 during the soviet occupation of Poland are undeniable proof of that. I have lived through these times. I was born in soviet controlled Poland and my relatives have lived through the "soviet liberation" in WW2. The rapes, beatings, plundering... I was forced to learn russian in school, and venerate soviet national heroes above our own. We were taught that "all communist people are brothers... but russians are better in every way". We had food rationed out like prisoners, or cattle. We were not allowed to travel. We were not allowed to leave our homes after dark. We had people beaten, imprisoned and tortured just because they didn't want to become members of the communist party.
What our leaders did wrong back in 1944 is one thing. And I am not excusing their mistakes.
But NEVER tell me the soviets were all just about helping back then, and that they just couldn't help, but really wanted to.
Bullshit.
I have nothing against the current generation of russians, they aren't to blame for history. But I will never forget or forgive what my people and my family had to suffer through at the hands of the soviets, and may they all burn in hell for what they did to my country.
@@gotharion Да, 600 тысяч человек положили свои жизни напрасно... Можете плюнуть на их могилы, возможно, вам станет легче.
@@gotharion 27 июля 1944 года польский посол в Лондоне Рачиньский официально уведомил Черчилля о предстоящем восстании (Миколайчик уже находился на пути в Москву), а министр обороны эмигрантского правительства Кукель озвучил в связи с этим конкретные требования: подкрепить восставших силами польской воздушно-десантной бригады и авиацией.
Британский комитет начальников штабов в письменном заключении на меморандум Кукеля отмечал: «По нашему мнению, союзные операции в Польше могут проводиться исключительно при полной координации с русским наступлением». Посылку польской воздушно-десантной бригады комитет посчитал нереальной, так как перелёт над Германией привел бы к тяжёлым и неоправданным потерям. Как практически неосуществимые оценивались и возможные бомбардировки немецких аэродромов под Варшавой.
Следует отметить, что, согласно советскому плану операции, утверждённому И.В. Сталиным 28 июля 1944 года, Варшаву предполагалось брать не в лоб, а обойти с севера и юга, создав для этого плацдармы на Висле. Такая тактика учитывала и необходимость сохранения города как одного из центров славянской культуры. 28 июля - 2 августа 1944 года советские войска создали плацдарм к югу от Варшавы и передали его частям Войска Польского, которые должны были, наступая вдоль реки, войти в Варшаву с юга. К этому времени войска 1-го Белорусского фронта (командующий - Маршал Советского Союза К.К. Рокоссовский), находившиеся под Варшавой, пройдя с непрерывными боями более 600 км, были крайне измотаны. К тому же тылы отстали, отсутствовало воздушное прикрытие, так как 16-я воздушная армия еще не успела перебазироваться на ближайшие к фронту аэродромы. Так что для советского командования восстание началось в самый неподходящий момент, ибо приковывало к Варшаве пристальное внимание гитлеровцев, перебросивших сюда дополнительные силы.
В беседе со Сталиным 9 августа тон Миколайчика был уже совсем другим: он просил быстрейшей помощи повстанцам оружием. Сталин не возражал. Однако он справедливо отметил, что восставшим требуется прежде всего тяжёлое оружие, а сбросить его с самолётов технически не представляется возможным. В целом советский лидер расценил восстание как «нереальное дело», так как у немцев под Варшавой три танковые дивизии и много пехоты. «Просто жалко этих поляков» (т.е. повстанцев). Сталин весьма откровенно сказал, что вначале считал взятие Варшавы советскими войсками делом нескольких дней, однако противник перебросил под город дополнительные силы и теперь освобождение польской столицы потребует времени.
Тем временем восстание принимало характер всенародной борьбы против оккупантов: героически сражавшиеся варшавяне не знали о закулисных манёврах руководства АК и истинных мотивах восстания. А в печати АК усилились нападки на СССР, который, якобы заранее зная о восстании, не оказывает теперь никакой помощи. В качестве ответной меры 13 августа 1944 года публикуется заявление ТАСС; в нём подчёркивалось, что Советский Союз не имеет к восстанию никакого отношения и оно с ним предварительно не согласовывалось. 16 августа в ответ на обращение Черчилля о помощи восставшим, Сталин сообщил, что сначала он распорядился «интенсивно сбрасывать» вооружение в район Варшавы, затем советское командование, убедившись, «что варшавская акция представляет безрассудную ужасную авантюру, стóящую населению больших жертв», пришло к выводу, «что оно должно отмежеваться от варшавской авантюры, так как оно не может нести ни прямой, ни косвенной ответственности за варшавскую акцию». Понимая, что восстание не удалось, эмигрантское правительство пыталось свалить ответственность за его начало не только на Москву, но и на Лондон. Так, в начале августа поляки пожаловались американцам, что англичане, пообещав якобы оказывать восстанию помощь, что, как говорилось ранее, не соответствовало действительности, теперь отказываются это делать. Однако английская авиация небольшими силами 3, 4 и 13 августа 1944 года осуществила сбросы над Варшавой оружия и продовольствия. Как и ожидалось, потери бомбардировщиков от зенитного огня противника оказались непропорционально тяжёлыми: в среднем на тонну сброшенного груза пришёлся один сбитый самолёт. При этом большая часть грузов, особенно во время последних вылетов, попала в руки немцев, так как сбросы приходилось вести с больших высот. Попытка Миколайчика побудить к помощи США также не возымела успеха: американцы сослались на то, что АК в оперативном отношении подчиняется Лондону. Правда, 14 августа 1944 года американцы попросили СССР о разрешении использовать советские аэродромы для челночных полётов на Варшаву, но СССР не пошёл на это, так как не желал показывать свою причастность к авантюре АК. На позицию СССР, несомненно, повлиял провал переговоров с Миколайчиком в Москве: последний опять отказался признать восточные границы Польши в соответствии с «линией Керзона». К тому же, советской стороне стало известно, что грузы союзников, сбрасываемые с больших высот, достаются немцам. Характерно, что в середине августа западные союзники и сам Миколайчик признавали в переписке с советским руководством, что восстание началось преждевременно.
I am proud to be Polish and more and more people are interested in the history of my country and the people who created and fought for Poland.
Glory to the Heroes
Bracie bądźmy dumni z naszych korzeni, proud Polska my Brother
Some kind of help did actually show up - by a polish bomber wing, positioned in Italy that loaded all ammo they could fit in their airplanes, and tried to get this stuff to the heros in Warsaw - knowing their fuel wouldn't acctually be enough, to make it back.
As German myself, I just can have the biggest respect of all to these heroes, raising up in Warsaw.
Which is why my friend from Poland has always said Polish people hate Russians. They watched as Polish Patriots died trying to free themselves and did nothing.
Respect for you for such attitude.From Poland❤
Nigdy nie zapomnimy.!!!
When I hear this song, I remember a story told by a dutch naval officer. He escaped from Colditz pow camp and ended up with the polish resistance during the uprising. A couple was fighting Germans from their balcony using hand grenades and a submachine gun. When they were about to be overrun, the husband called to his wife to go inside and kill their children. Afterwards he killed her and then himself. They had no illusions about their fate if captured.
I'm from Wasaw. As a child I was used to see all the scripts on the walls, on the streets, "here the nazi's have shoot 300/200/100 poles" and I had always the feeling of walking on blood. Like if It was still in the streets, in the stones. Like if my city, all my life, was built on the sacrifice of so many people. That's something you cant't forget. I will always be proud of being born in Warsaw, a city that suffered so much and that had such a great history.P.S. some of the scenes of this musical video come from a movie but, but, many others are original from '44. There were two brothers that were cinematographers and made a documentary of what was going on during the uprising. Recently the Warsaw Museum of the uprising has restored their shootings and made a movie with the original tapes but on DVD. It's something spectacular. You can feel like if you were there during those 63 epic days. At the beginning of the video we can see "100 polakòw za jednego niemca" that means that 100 Poles had to die for the death of one German.
Thank you for a great reaction! I introduced my son to Sabaton when he was 12 year, he love history now, and look into every story told by Sabaton, so much that he took over much of WWII history class when he was 15.. School do not teach history, they teach snippets and not enough to make students interested. Greetings from Norway
Sabaton is important to us, Poles.
It shows the modern world what the then world did not want to know. We were the only occupied country that had an underground army, schools. If you learn about our history, you will learn that our boys took part in many fights in the world during World War II, but we were refused participation in the victory parade. We do not complain. For our freedom and yours - it's us.
They were the only ones that kept an underground government I believe.
Dopiero tu zobaczyłem że w 5: 23 występuje Generał Wojska Polskiego Skrzypczak we własnej osobie .
Great reaction! Sabaton has a way of bringing out the emotional side of history. Another epic story, brought to us, with an awesome song, is "No bullets fly" (animated story video). Such a great story!! Greetings from Sweden!🤘🇸🇪
wow i like it. love poland people from Turkey
I love you too:)
Albania dont Love Polish People but we Poles love Turkey a lot :) we know why from History :)_
Love them sooo much!! They rock 🤘🤗 and what a unique voice 🙃
🇵🇱Kto z Polski dalej ? Jesteście tu?🇵🇱
Jasne, pamiętamy!
Oczywiscie:)
I met Sabaton thanks to you. I didnt know Sabaton before. Thank you
That's awesome man 👌
From a long time Sabaton fan, I bid you welcome into our ranks! You're going to love their music! 😊
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I recommend the film "The Pianist" by Roman Polanskii. The action of the film takes place during the Warsaw Uprising, and it reflects the emotions of those days quite well
It's more about perspective of jewish civilian who lives in ghetto. And it's reflects whole occupation, not only Warsaw Uprising (It also shows Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and other tragic moments of occupation of Warsaw). I think City '44 is more about Warsaw Uprising.
Good to see Peter Stormare got movies like Fargo after being commandant of Warsaw. Good for him.
Tragic Polish history .. seems people never learn and history will repeat itself over and over again ... looking now a days we only have to watch News feeds ... For music like this you can also go to: Manowar - Die with Honor
You should watch their live version of this song! Epic!!
Love from Poland ❤️
You really need to react to Sabaton 40:1 performed live at the Polish Woodstock Festival :)
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from the great tour they played this song in warsaw and joakin changed the song for - and the blood you shed - that small change made it even more chilling to hear take a look when u can
Their vids are VERY VERY powerful …. Was watching one of their interviews and they stated that for the most part all the props etc that they use are the real thing. I think they even bought a tank (german ?? ) from that era (WW1) …. The research they do is so incredibly in-depth ….
The polish never stopped resisting foreign rule, when the German, Austrian, and Russian empires ruled it, when the nazis ruled it, and even during the Cold War when the Soviet regime ruled it it never stoped the polish government in exile stayed in existence until the Soviet fell in 91
Sabaton also have a history channel about their songs
check it if you want a good detailed information about any of their songs
You definitely need to watch the new video they released of No Bullets Fly. My favorite WW2 story that they did a song about!
This song live from Poland is freaking epic
Watch the live version in Warsaw, it will give you goosebumps.
We dont beg for freedom we fight for it
Your voice, I'm impressed 😏 And yeah, I'm just a polish girl. Thanks for Your reaction 👍
A very detailed and moving reaction, great vid. Already sub, greetings from Poland! If you liked that part of Polish history, maybe you can react to IPN - Unconquered? Cheers mate!
YEEE it is intensive... Your greand pa have arange for us...
Well the Russians sort of showed up. But they stayed across the and didn't cross the river to help and just watched Warsaw burn.
Warsawo walcz respect from US
Some of the paintings are original authentic taken from the museum scenes with children are real 13 year olds sacrificed their lives for the homeland
greetings from Poland:)
The scenes shown in the music video are from other production (not made by Sabaton): Miasto 44 (City 44) - Polish production from 2014 about Warsaw Uprising.
We will never be slaves !
I love this reaction channel
the only bad thing is that there is no reaction to
Wardruna & Aurora - Helvegen or else some other song by Wardruna.
Feels like a must to me ;D
U do known many ppl have react to wadruna if u just search wadruna reaction
@@andreasgaming9765 I know that? Maybe I want to watch HIM react to them though:)
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Sabaton uprising history see this show you everything
John Abruzzi ! ;d Greetings from Poland ;)
The History behind the song is when The Polish underground launched a coordinated uprising at the same time the Soviet Army should reach the city, the phrase "The allies turned away" refers to that and in 1939 when they were first invaded and the British and French basically did nothing.
Nice reaction.
to give some intresting contest fot those who dont know, the officer burning warsaw was symbole of destruction of warsaw after uprisinig this is why in warsaw we dont have much old buildings and a lot of them are not ogrinal beacuse they were rebuilded after war ;)
Because we do NOT !! beg for freedom !! WE FIGHT FOR IT
watching this in March 18 2022 hits differently
Ayreon/Floor/Anneke/Marcela "Valley of the Queens..
The polish,blood in me is boiling as well as it is weeping
Warsaw Uprising - 63 days of glory!
If you haven't already you may check out Woodstock in poland i think 2012, live. Uprising, 40:1, Ghost Devision, etc. The Sound and Show are amazing and the growd with about 750k people is something else.
Zajebiste 😱😱😱😱♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🙋♀️
"You never hear about this" Well, educations gone to shit then eh?
Germany quickly invaded much of Europe and emerged victorious for more than two years due to a new military tactic called "Blitzkrieg"
It was s Nazi propaganda it definitely was as quick and easy as you think.
@@jankowalski6338 Tactic, even used to this days. A retired Marine writing this useless lines
@@OldSchool_Dad you should read more, retired marine
@@jankowalski6338 That the problem. no need to read (Final words)
@@OldSchool_Dad only if you want to improve your knowledge, grammar and punctuation.
That's very sad when someone don't know history and has no idea what he's talking about...
I have heard of this way before I found this
Do the live version woodstock 2012
Polska 🇵🇱💪💪💪
Another great song about Poland is 40:1.
Great reaction! Please, check 40:1 Woodstock Festival 2012
it's him and he plays in Prison Break :)
Everyone listening to this song wants to help the people in Poland
To się działo naprawdę. Muzyka świetna ale dzieje tragiczne. My, nigdy się nie poddamy.
This is not a lindeman lindeman, the vocalist of ramstain, the one in the video is Peter Stormare
IMy grandmother was involved in this uprising, she was 16, her brother was 20, he died, she almost died, she was buried under a building, she almost lost her leg, but a young doctor that later on was a creator of polish orthopedics had saved her leg. She survived, had 7 kids, 5 of them were brought up in the system, only my my dad (RIP) her eldest and her youngest were brought up by her,. The experience broke her and broke her kids.. There was no happy ending and she was one of many. The songs is great, but the facts behinds it not so much. I'm the third generation after that, but I still fill the aftermath. My dad was born 1951, died 2014, I was born 1975 and still remember
The Actors name is Peter Stormare
you need to do sabaton - the final solution lyric video
Watch Sabaton Uprising Live in Pol’and’Rock Festival 2012 (Woodstock) ruclips.net/video/BmerZbDPXns/видео.html
Or the great war tour version In Poland... Or any of the polish fan shot ones.... Its their song. The atmosphere on this song In Poland is unmatched.
If noone has said the actors name, its Peter Stormare from sweden, one of their great exports
Peter Stormare, he has done a lot of supercool movies. Since hes swedish he knows he never be the lead actor, instead hes always plays some badass european I specially like him in Fargo and The Big Lebowski He liad about to be able to do an hungarian accent but nobody knows in hollwood anyway
Armia Podziemna ,czyli AK byla najwieka arm podziemna Europy ,ktora przez 5 lat walczyla z niemcami
And Poland is preparing to fight for our Country again, taking into consideration Ukraine.
You are right. Its Peter Stormare
It is good to mention that out "brothers" the Soviet Army stayed on the other bank of (Wisla) Vistula and watched how Warsaw was burned down. Also Russia never allowed British air crafts to use their airports to support people in this Upprising. So they had to go to Poland from Brindisi ( Italy) over predominantly German occupied territory. Not from save Russian side.
On the end Russians decided to "help" On the end of Upprising but they throwing guns without parachutes so gun was broken.
It may be redundant to mention, but if you want to know more, look up the related video on the Sabaton History channel :)
To nie scenariusz to cala prawda .Sabaton nic nie musial rezyserowac.My nie jesteśmy nieudaczniki a inni no cóż zdrajcy tchórze
Peter Stormer the actor (I think I butchered that...) also played a character in the horror video game 'Until Dawn'.
The Soviets hung the fighters in Warsaw out to dry. They stopped just short of the city and allowed the nazis to wipe out the freedom fighters. Around 200,000 civilians would pay the butchers bill.
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Ayreon/Floor/Anneke/Marcela "Valley of the Queens
hallo es ist Peter Stormare, ich mag ihn sehr, meistens spielt er ja den bösen , durchgeknallten Russen!
Genau, den meine ich 😎🤘
If you want to know more about history in this song I recomend cheking out Sabaton history. This is their channel where they talk about history in their songs so you can understand what The song is about. Maybe you could react to it?
Hey dude, do you have seen sabaton 40-1 ??? this is really awesom, it is about Polish brave soldiers at war !!
Yay someon recognized Peter Stormare ^^
Witam i Pozdrawiam z Polski .
It's already covered in the comments for sure. The story is about the Warsaw Uprising. The Polish underground, seeing that the Nazis were losing the war, decided to liberate the Polish capital in order to protect Poland from another partition. Unfortunately, the Red Army advancing on Staln's order stopped on the other side of the Vistula and watched the events. In the end, the uprising collapsed, and the Nazis razed Warsaw to the ground, destroying about 93% of the city, according to various estimates, about 150-200 thousand people died, of course, mostly civilians. Get to Warsaw sometime on August 15, when this day of the beginning of the largest civil uprising under the German occupation is commemorated.
the british coudnt show up france was occupied how we were supposed to get help to them?
That actor played in Prison Break
An hour ago we had got 79 th. Anniversary of Warsaw Uprising. The most heroic, however the most tragic spurt in polish history - City was devasted in 80%, Germans kills 200 000 civilians, and 17 000 of polish solidiers, and they eliminetaed 19 000 of Germans.
I will not judge this, because who the hell am I to do this - to judge decision of people who lived in this horrible times of World War II, however we - i mean polish people - have to learn from history so that it does not repeat itself as a farce.
Upadlincy nas zawsze mordowali a jednak te ich szmate na profilowce masz..
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No i gen. Waldemar Skrzypczak.XD tez jest XD Peter Stormare
Took 2 days before I dare to watch this.. its very uneasy even for me as a finn :/
City 44 - movie
Yes if U want to known something about Uprising from movies, this is the best.
To nie jest teledysk to są fragmenty filmu fabularnego przeplatane oryginalnymi scenami z drugiej wojny światowej
Little late butt his name is Peter Stormare and yes his swedish
My great grandfather die on those sheets fighting
Man Sabaton-40to1
You look at city 44 on Netflix
Peter stormare super actor
Te sceny w teledysku, to są sceny serialu "Czas Honoru" Polecam :-)
Nie. Nagrali te sceny specjalnie do teledysku Sabatonu.
"The help that never came" we had the russian army on the right bank of the Vistula river. They not only did not helped, they were waiting for our failure to enter the city like saviours without doing nothing. They shooted to anyone that was trying to escape from the battle crossing the river. In the district of Warsaw where I was born (Praga) there was a statue, a monument, made by the Soviets to commemorate the soldiers that "helped" us to fight against the Nazis. Guess what. It was called the four asleep, because they did nothing. Everybody in Warsaw was calling that monument the four asleep soldiers. And now It has been removed. We have enough of false allies. Look at what happened in Yalta after the war. They sold us to Stalin. We have fought with the allies, we won at Monte Cassino, we saved Great Britain in the battle for Britain thanks to our pilots of the squadron 303 that joined the RAF and had the best results with the minimum loss. And when the war ended they did not even invited the Poles to the great parade in London. Thank you allies. Good job.
Only in America = never heard of Warshaw Uprising = we had this obligatory in school but that is us , Europe..You should not be proud of your ignorance especeially when listening to Sabaton.
Do they teach about the pacific theater and the american civil war in europe?
Another scenario of self sacrifice waiting for help that won’t come. Remember the Alamo!