Ukrainian Resistance

[gzregorz]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=pEetVTw4Cds&feature=shares

[Giles]

Thanks for posting that. My heart also goes out to "Sascha" and the story he's been through. He had the bravery to resist and then when arrested and repeatedly tortured he did what 99.9% of us all would do: he broke, and told all he could. And now tries to live with the felt guilt/shame. Such a tough, cruel situation. Even though the other uncaptured resistance guys say at the end of the film that they would all break in that situation, that there is no shame here, he still found himself shunned by his friends as a 'collaborator' and had to leave the city. So, so sad.

[wiesiek]

This is kinda of >side note<, sorry, but anyone in Russian politics has to read his work:
(Bao and Windy particularly invited)

Włodzimierz Bączkowski 1905-2000

He was born in Siberia near Lake Baikal, where his father had been exiled for his activity in the independence movement. After the Bolshevik takeover of power and the outbreak of civil war, he was evacuated to Manchuria together with his family in 1920, where he completed his secondary education. He came to Poland in 1925, studying at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Warsaw. He graduated with a degree in law specializing in the Chinese legal system and English. At the same time, he began cooperating with the Eastern Institute, for which he prepared press reviews. He started working full time at the Institute at the end of his studies in 1930, making his debut as a journalist in the pages of the “Wschód-Orient” magazine. His most important articles were published from 1932 in the “Biuletyn Polsko-Ukraiński” (Polish-Ukrainian Bulletin) magazine and this was a publication for which Bączkowski wrote for throughout his lifetime. The “Biuletyn” was one of the most important magazines promoting Polish-Ukrainian reconciliation and the common interests of both nations. Bączkowski saw in the uprising of Ukraine and its political connection with Poland the possibility of weakening the Soviet Union, which he considered to be Poland’s greatest enemy. The removal of the Polish-Ukrainian dispute was meant to lead simultaneously to internal stability and the strengthening of the Polish state. Apart from analysing the problem of relations with Ukraine, Bączkowski also outlined the fundamentals of the Promethean movement, which he saw as “Polish Prometheism is a group of ideological interests of Polish thought with the liberation issues of the oppressed nations in the East and in Russia (the USSR) in particular.” He foresaw the break up of the Soviet Union "along the national seams", noticing it weakening as a result of the changes taking place in the east in the 1930s. In January 1939, “Biuletyn ...” was replaced by the magazine "Problems of Eastern Europe". Bączkowski was mobilized in August 1939 to join the Second Division of the Commander-in-Chief’s Staff, escaping to Romania after the September campaign. He stayed there until 1941 when he left for Haifa. After the war, he initiated the establishment of the Eastern Institute “Reduta” in Jerusalem and served as the honorary cultural attaché in the Polish delegation (of the government-in-exile) in Beirut. In 1955, after a stay in London, he went to the USA where he worked at the Library of Congress in Washington. Hi major works include: The Source and Size of the Decline (1935), Grunwald or Pilawka (1938), Russia Yesterday and Today: a Historical and Political Study (1946). In 2000, the Centre for Political Thought issued a selection of his letters entitled On the Eastern Problems of Poland (2000).

I just heard in a radio rep. about him.

[gzregorz]

Glad you enjoyed it.

Watching it I realized that victory for Russia will be almost impossible.

I agree about Sacha. He is a POW and suffered a fate most would in that situation.