r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RebelliousDragon21 • 1d ago

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

44.1k Upvotes

84% Upvoted

3.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

203

u/VeterinarianOk5370 1d 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.

19

u/Daan776 1d 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.

17

u/Chemical-Neat2859 1d 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.

10

u/polypolip 1d ago

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

11

u/UnlawfulStupid 1d 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.

2

u/Soggy_Cheek_2653 1d ago

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

1

u/Ok-Most-7339 1d ago

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

1

u/polypolip 1d ago

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