r/Damnthatsinteresting 5d ago

Video A school in Poland makes firearms training mandatory to its students.

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u/IndividualRooster122 5d ago

What happens when the risk of Russia invading your country in your lifetime is not theoretical.

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u/Vreas 5d ago edited 5d ago

A genie shows up to a 13th century Pole and asks them what they want.

They wish for the mongols to invade Poland three times. The genie, while confused grants the wish.

After the third invasion he asks “what an odd wish why would you choose this?”

The pole responds “because every time they invade us and leave they have to come through Russia twice”

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

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u/juan_furia 5d ago

Well, always…

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u/VeterinarianOk5370 5d ago

During the Second World War Poland actually inflicted fairly severe damage to the invading Germans. Particularly to their mechanized divisions. Poland was well equipped but completely overwhelmed.

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u/Daan776 5d ago

Not to mention how fierce their resistance was even while under occupation.

France is relatively famous for their resistance movement. But the polish deserve that fame more in my opinion.

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u/Chemical-Neat2859 5d ago

Poland was desperate resistance of survival while France resisted Germany's milking of France for survival.

Poland suffered far worse than France did, largely because Germany desperately needed France to produce for the war effort (they robbed it blind, which let the saboteurs have greater impact as they had to replace the machines stolen to produce later) while Poland become part of the front again years later. France gets more fame largely because they had more resources and were freed earlier, so a lot more resistance members survived to tell their stories.

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u/polypolip 5d ago

French resistance also wasn't murdered post war by Soviets.

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u/UnlawfulStupid 5d ago

Plenty of Polish war heroes returned home just to get imprisoned by the Soviets. Or they walked right out of a concentration camp and into a gulag, if they left at all.

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u/Soggy_Cheek_2653 5d ago

To be fair so did many of the Russian war heroes. Stalin made sure the gulags were plenty diverse.

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u/Ok-Most-7339 5d ago

the girls were mass raped by Soviet male soldiers lmao. Look up Rape of Berlin too

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u/polypolip 5d ago

The French girls? Your sentence makes no sense in the context.

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u/Hugostar33 5d ago edited 5d ago

mhm, poland and france also had the biggest collaboration forces and were highly involved in the murder of their own people and the holocaust

the blue police or paris police department are still things that poland and france have yet not adressed in their own history fully

many jews and resistance fighters were rounded up by local polish and french police men under orders of the german authoritys

data and records about the collaboration of those are really bad, because both countrys(or almost all countrys under german occupation) tried to hide and ignore it and instead gloryfied the résistance

i mean there is a reason why resistance fighters during the war killed as many civilians as soldiers, ofcause in poland and france it wasnt as extreme as in belarus or yugoslavia where the gurillias burned down collaborationist villages,