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Poland Puts on Biggest Military Parade in Years
ABC ^ | Aug 15, 2014 | By VANESSA GERA

Posted on 08/15/2014 11:08:14 AM PDT by Grzegorz 246

Poland put on its biggest military parade in years Friday to mark its annual armed forces holiday, with the president saying the violence in Ukraine shows that conflict is still a "brutal reality" in Eastern Europe and Poland must be able to defend itself.

Fighter jets and military helicopters flew over Warsaw as tanks rolled through the capital. More than 1,000 Polish soldiers marched, joined by dozens of U.S. and Canadian troops who are in Poland for NATO exercises.

The parade came on the Aug. 15 holiday that honors a stunning Polish victory against Russian Bolsheviks in 1920.

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KEYWORDS: poland; russia; ukraine
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To: Grzegorz 246

Did the Obama administration's Official * U.S. Embassy Berlin float make the drive to Warsaw?

* Yes, seriously.

41 posted on 08/15/2014 12:55:15 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
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To: dfwgator
Poland kicked ass all during WWII....

It wasn't just at Monte Cassino that the Poles distinguished themselves they fought all the way through the Italian campaign as the right flank of the British Eighth Army.

The Polish 1st Armored Division played a key role in the destruction of the German 7th Army at the Battle of the Falaise Gap in Normandy.

42 posted on 08/15/2014 1:28:18 PM PDT by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: entropy12; dfwgator; snippy_about_it
Poland military is no match for Russian military.

We haven't got nukes and this is actually the only advantage that Russia has.

Yet, history taught us something. Faith in God and morality is more powerful than tons of steel.

Before the Islamic Army attacked Poland at Khotim in 1673, sultan Mehmed IV sent a chest of sand with a message to the king of Poland, Jan III Sobieski -"Surrender! It's pointless to resist. We are as numerous as the sand in the chest".
In return, king Sobieski sent a small box with grains of pepper adding the note, "We aren't as numerous as the sand. We are like the pepper in the box. Think twice before you try to bite us".

As a result of the battle, out of 35,000 Ottoman Janissaries, 30,000 were killed on the spot and only a few thousand managed to escape in panic and chaos from the battlefield. Poland lost less than 300 soldiers.

I think this should be very educative to all of the Russian admirers:

Catholic Poland repels the Communist invasion of Europe, A.D. 1920 (Poland vs Soviet Union)

Catholic Poland repels the Islamic invasion of Europe, A.D. 1672-1683 (Poland vs Ottoman Empire)

43 posted on 08/15/2014 2:10:23 PM PDT by Matt_DZ_PL
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To: Matt_DZ_PL

Never underestimate the value of “Homefield Advantage.”


44 posted on 08/15/2014 3:18:02 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

*the Poles would fight like badgers.*

That’s true!
They were very brave against the extremely unfair odds when Hitler came after them


45 posted on 08/15/2014 3:22:36 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: Grzegorz 246

Some video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMSUzvsfLAs


46 posted on 08/15/2014 3:26:35 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Matt_DZ_PL

??

Is that the Russian embassy?


47 posted on 08/15/2014 3:32:25 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: buwaya

Thank you, I was wondering what those were


48 posted on 08/15/2014 3:33:56 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: dfwgator

That map implies that Crimea wasn’t Russian back then, you will make some freepers cry


49 posted on 08/15/2014 3:35:03 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Matt_DZ_PL

The Poles used rockets! No wonder the invaders were in disarray.


50 posted on 08/15/2014 3:39:38 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: dfwgator

1638

That light blue section on the Baltic sea which is depicted in white, in front of the kingdom of Brandenburg, is the city of Stettin which was a Swedish enclave .


51 posted on 08/15/2014 4:18:38 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (Serious contribution pause.Please continue onto meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: mosesdapoet

Yes, Poland and Sweden would get to know each other pretty well in the coming years.


52 posted on 08/15/2014 4:20:46 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: GeronL

Bingo!


53 posted on 08/15/2014 4:33:09 PM PDT by Matt_DZ_PL
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To: dfwgator

Special unit of Military Police. The only GROM soldiers were in those 3 black SUVs.


54 posted on 08/15/2014 5:34:13 PM PDT by Grzegorz 246
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To: Tailgunner Joe; Matt_DZ_PL; dfwgator; snippy_about_it

Did NATO get involved in Crimea? Noooooooooooooooooooo!

Will NATO get into a shooting war with Russia over a small economy country like Poland? Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!

If Putin wants all his former Soviet countries back, he can do it. I hope he has better sense than that. That adventure will be extremely costly costly to Russian economy. But Putin is a megalomaniac like Saddam Hussein. Do not trust him.


55 posted on 08/15/2014 5:39:46 PM PDT by entropy12 (Obummer = worst & dumbest president ever, any republican would be much better.)
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To: GeronL; dfwgator
===The Poles used rockets! No wonder the invaders were in disarray.===

Actually, it was a few hundred scouts of Radzymin who stopped the entire so called unstoppable Soviet Army just 10 miles from Warsaw on Aug.12-15, 1920. Their fanatic fierce resistance for three consecutive days made the Russians believed that they had the entire Polish Army ahead. After three days, Russians finally defeated the Polish defenders of which almost all lost their lives. But, this gave the Polish Army the necessary time to encircle the Soviets and... the rest is history.

IMHO, this is the most beautiful chapter in the history of Poland. A few hundreds of teenage boys and girls, actually children, saved the entire Polish people from the nightmare of communism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g0x4sSl1gM

Ukrainians weren't that lucky. Russians conquered Ukraine and murdered from 6-8 million of them with famine in years 1931-32. The rest I don't even want to talk about...

56 posted on 08/15/2014 5:45:12 PM PDT by Matt_DZ_PL
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To: entropy12

Ukraine is not a member of NATO and Poland is. If Russia attacks Poland, NATO will retaliate. Russia cannot defeat NATO. If Russia attacks any NATO member, then World War III will begin and Russia will lose.

Hitler didn’t think the French and British would go to war over Poland either.


57 posted on 08/15/2014 6:55:00 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

NATO has zero history of going to war for any member,
much less a new member with small economy.

Why do you think Europe exempted Natural gas from sanctions on Russia over Ukraine situation? Yap, because without natural gas from Russia, Europe economy stumbles big time, not to mention Europeans freezing their behinds in coming winter.

JUST FOLLOW THE MONEY...and you can predict all current and future events.


58 posted on 08/15/2014 8:24:15 PM PDT by entropy12 (Obummer = worst & dumbest president ever, any republican would be much better.)
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To: entropy12

NATO went to war in Afghanistan when the USA was attacked, including Polish troops.

If Poland is attacked, NATO will go to war to defend Poland.


59 posted on 08/15/2014 9:25:57 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: lonevoice
A couple of grammar mistakes, but hey, it is a difficult language. Kochają was, wspaniale...
60 posted on 08/15/2014 10:33:05 PM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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