preemptively putting NSFW on this.

  • an uprising in a ghetto against a superior oppressive force
  • the ghetto destroyed in response, thousands arrested, deported, killed
  • the blame somehow falls on the people being oppressed

You don't have to dig hard to find contemporary people suggesting the Warsaw Ghetto uprising was a mistake and lead to innocent lives being lost, liberals and their proper processes, and civility, it never changes.

guess they should have voted harder. /s

  • Beaver [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    The timing was the mistake, the Polish Home Army started the uprising in August of '44, but the Red Army wasn't ready to assault the city until January of '45. The Nazis basically tried to kill everyone in the city in retaliation.