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2014-08-17 Europe

Poland holds largest armed forces parade in years

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Posted by ryuge 2014-08-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Making a statement to bearish neighbors? Poland has a fairly respectable military.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-08-17 08:08|| 2014-08-17 08:08|| Front Page Top

#2 ...Most people don't know that although Poland wouldn't have beaten the Germans in '39, they were laying some serious hurt on them - and had the Soviets not invaded, they might well have held them off into October or November, with changes to history we can't imagine. The Russians dislike the Poles intensely, but they know the utter ferocity with which they can fight - see also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_War

wherein the Soviets had their a$$es handed to them.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2014-08-17 09:08|| 2014-08-17 09:08|| Front Page Top

#3 ..this is how they view it, pop History Channel style (minus Pawn Stars, American Pickers, et al).

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-08-17 09:25|| 2014-08-17 09:25|| Front Page Top

#4 The Poles made great advances in cracking the German Enigma code in the beginning.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2014-08-17 12:46|| 2014-08-17 12:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Paraded those tanks right in front of the Russian Embassy.

Posted by newc 2014-08-17 13:56|| 2014-08-17 13:56|| Front Page Top

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