
I was in Warsaw for less than 24 hours. The coolest sight, which for some reason I took no pictures of, was the museum of the Warsaw Uprising (for reasons that are unclear, they call it the Warsaw Rising Museum). It's a huge new museum with great exhibits, lots of photos and documents and videos and whatnot.
The Warsaw Uprising, not to be confused with the earlier Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, was toward the end of the war. The Nazis were about to leave and the Red Army was coming from the other direction. So Poland was like, ok, if we don't establish our own government right this second, we're going to be overrun by the Soviets. (It didn't work out.)
(The Ghetto Uprising didn't succeed, either. Read about the Warsaw ghetto here and the uprising here.)
4 comments:
Interesting - so Old Town Warsaw is the Colonial Williamsburg of Poland!
Ha! Good point Spice.
Munich also re-built a lot of its famous old buildings after the war. Actually, didn't Berlin, too?
Oh, sure, but I think reconstructing a whole neighborhood was pretty unusual.
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