Fascinating

Its a shame that Polish soldierds in UK (200 000 )wasnt event present

@thegamersfaction6343

Жыл бұрын

History will remember polish soldiers with gratitude. Many polish pilots fought in the Battle of Britain 🇬🇧🇵🇱

@CraigGlover

6 ай бұрын

How do you know they weren't. This video is 8 my ins long.

@apollyon713

6 ай бұрын

​​@@CraigGlover "The British government initially invited the government in Poland to send a flag party to represent Poland among the allied forces in the parade, but did not specifically invite representatives of the Polish forces in exile that had fought under British High Command. Britons including Winston Churchill, figures in the RAF and a number of MPs protested against the decision, which was described as an affront to the Polish war effort as well as an immoral concession to communist power. After these complaints, 25 pilots of the Polish fighter squadrons in the Royal Air Force, who had taken part in the Battle of Britain, were invited to march together with other foreign detachments as part of the parade of the Royal Air Force. Last-minute invitations were sent by Foreign Minister Bevin directly to the Chief of Staff of the Polish Army, General Kopanski, who was still in post in London, and to the chiefs of the Polish Air Force and the Polish Navy and to individual generals. These invitations were declined, and the airmen refused to participate in protest against the omission of the other branches of the Western backed Polish forces in exile."

@kachunchukachu6584

4 ай бұрын

​​@@apollyon713 In 1945, the UK (and her Colonies) was flat broke; bankrupt. Was this country really in a position to pick a fight with the new Government in Poland?

@freebeerfordworkers

Ай бұрын

@@kachunchukachu6584 Absolutely true and it wouldn't be picking a fight with a new Polish government it would have been picking a fight with the Red Army.

May 1, 1946. The day that my maternal grandfather turned 47. And now, he was officially a grandfather as the previous January (12), his daughter (my aunt) and her husband had welcomed their first child (a son) into the world. Also, the previous December 23, my other aunt and her fiance tied the knot. It was a better birthday this year for him. One year ago, my first aunt & uncle tied the knot on April 1, 1945, which was Easter Sunday. Then about two weeks later, they got a letter from the Department of the Army in Washington D.C. that their son (my uncle) had been killed in action in Germany on April 1. That will always be a bittersweet day for my family.

@freebeerfordworkers

Ай бұрын

War is one long tragedy years ago I saw an interview with a sergeant in the tank corps who was in this parade. When the war had only a few hours to go they were ordered to stand fast and wait till the end which they did taking cover and leaving a man on radio watch in one tank. Almost at the last minute they were mortared and through incredible bad luck one bomb went into the open turret hatch killing the man on watch. Let's say the man was called Trooper Smith. There was a pause in the parade and a woman recognised him stepped out and said your sergeant XYZ aren't you? I'm trooper Smith's mother. He said it really took the edge off any triumph he felt

I imagine how happy they must have been in this parade because it’s after the allies won the Second World War! Very nice 👍🏻

@lxdead5585

Жыл бұрын

Who? Definitely not Poles, whos forces fought on each frong of WWII just to get sold to Soviets and not be even invited to take part in this parade. "British gratitude".

My late Mother worked as a Naffie Girl in Great Yourmouth and when the war finished they had no thank you no nothing and that I thought was disgusting

crazy that this is what london looked like once

I believe the Polish were not there, disgraceful.

Amazing

does anyone know if this was a BBC broadcast?

@boomboy5546

10 ай бұрын

It would have been as that was the only form in those days

Congratulations, you made yourself Londonistan.

Sad to think that the Admiralty arches were sold off and turned into flats.

Any country missing?

Fascinating but weirdly anti climactic. Why is the Emperor not in Field Marshals uniform and mounted. Why is Churchill in civvies not full dress uniform why is the entire general high command not on horseback and everybody else on a viewing rostrum similar to Lenin’s mausoleum reviewing balcony. The Russian victory parade was much better. Marshal Zhukov cantered onto red square on an enormous white charger and reviewed the parade remaining mounted whilst Marshal Stalin watched on from the centre spot of Lenin’s tomb-rostrum, 40 feet above the parade. The troops marching past threw the captured colours of the vanquished nazi state at the feet of their supreme commander. Hundreds of flags were chucked onto the floor right below Stalin. The canon fire that accompanied the salute and national anthem, shook the domes loose on St. Basil’s and the glass windows out of the Kremlin. That was a VICTORY parade.

@redjive4182

2 жыл бұрын

I feel the Soviet's were more ceremony than celebratory. Notice how the soldiers in Britain wave at the crowd, and the Red Army just felt like a machine(when on parade) rather than humans.

@kingstannisbaratheon7974

Жыл бұрын

The reason they didn't do those things is because they were focusing on the equal and collective effort of all against an aggressive authoritarian regime. What good would it be to win the war against that style of enemy simply to take on the same imagery? The soviets on the other hand were aggressive and authoritarian before, during and after the war so it suited Stalin to use the victory as an opportunity to reinforce his own authority and might domestically and on the world stage the same way Hitler had done after the Anschluss and Sudetenland and Mussolini after Ethiopia. Fundamentally, it comes down to the difference in attitude towards the war and the different purpose each nation had in organising a victory parade.

Except they left out the polish airforce fighter pilots that helped save britains asses in the battle of britain because churchill didnt want them in the parade. thats they only downside

@lxdead5585

Жыл бұрын

not only Polish Airforce Fighters. Polish forces fought on each and every front (maybe except for Japanese one) of WWII, just to get sold out to Soviets. You had gen. Anders Army (respected a lot by gen. Patton himself), there were divisions of gen. Sosabowski and gen. Maczek, liberating Netherlands. They were marked as "unwanted element" by British. Sosabowski worked in a factory, without any support, and without veteran pension denied by British army. The way these people were treated is just beyond understanding. They were giving all they could and received only disdain in return.

@peterrhodes5663

Жыл бұрын

@@lxdead5585 Polish underground and spies provided a mass of information to Britain during WW2. Enigma coding machine was provided to Britain and deciphered by the Poles before WW2 started. Maczek had to work in a bar in Edinburgh. Also no pension. When half your family are ex-Polish Free Forces, you learn the stuff that Britain either hid, of stole the glory of. Some of the 'galant' British troops at siege of Tobruk used a strange salute and had a red shoulder badge that spelled POLAND.

@Anakin_Sandy_High_Ground

11 ай бұрын

sorry we sold you out to appease Joseph Stalin

@Anakin_Sandy_High_Ground

11 ай бұрын

@@peterrhodes5663 "Enigma coding machine was provided to Britain and deciphered by the Poles before WW2" helpful but the Germans changed enigma before WW2 started

@peterrhodes5663

11 ай бұрын

@@Anakin_Sandy_High_Ground You need to inform yourself before making such stupid comments. Some of the staff at Bletchley Park were also Poish code breakers. You probably think that they were all 'jolly good English chaps' too. Get onto Google Poland and discover some of the other Polish stuff that Britain has claimed as its own. People there are still pissed off about it.

if bad for the innocent poor people in Palestine 😔💔