Here's a 2nd World War memorial in Warsaw that I passed the other day. It's a short distance up Solidarność from Ratusz Arsenał:
There are so many 2nd World War memorials around Warsaw that it's easy to just drift by them.
But sometimes, it's good to stop for a few moments to reflect on things.
How can you juxtapose the marching Soviet soldiers in a sad show of the hollow empire's power, presumably admiring it, next to a WW2 memorial in Warsaw which bled to death while the Soviet soldiers were watching from afar, ordered by Stalin, so that the country, which had been treacherously torn apart by two totalitarian allies, the Soviet Union and 3rd Reich in 1939, could be taken over and ovcupied by only one of them. Such callousness is beyond me.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I can see, modern-day Russia is a nationalist entity, and, thus, has very little in common with the old Stalinist Soviet Union. For me, the politically-'correct' regimes of Western Europe; Hussein Obama's USA; and Trudeau's Canada have far more in common with the Soviet Union and, for that matter, Nazi-Germany than modern-day Russia. With my lateral-thinking type of approach to life, I see both modern-day Poland and Russia battling to preserve their distinct cultural identities against the politically-'correct' Nazism that now infests the West.
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