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Originally Posted by Franek Grabowski
Tony
I am not sure what do you mean by Polish blood resources. Could you clarify?
Concerning Russian/Soviet experiences, they were actually born in Poland in 1920 when dare attacks of Polish Brisfits decimated and panicked Budenny's cavalry. Proper conclusion of this highly manouverable war were drawn and ground attack aircraft secured their place in Soviet aviation.
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My whole life has been spent with a conscience about Poland, for whom we went to war and which we left in Stalin's grip. What the German enemy did to Poland was one thing, but what our Soviet Allies did was another thing entirely. My father never stopped talking about our failure towards Poland, and in Warwickshire where we lived in the 1970s there was a camp full of old Polish soldiers who walked three miles to the village church every Sunday. It was enough to make us cry.
If the British and Americans had not distorted their armed forces by following the grail of the strategic bomber, then perhaps - and this is of course a what if - a balanced and integrated all-arms force could have got to Warsaw before Uncle Joe.
The distortion caused by giving the RAF half of Britains resources was paid with in blood; the blood of Harris' aircrew, the blood of the British army, whose daily losses in Northwest Europe exceeded the daily losses in WWI, and the blood of the Poles occupied by pitiless Germans and equally pitiless Russians.
That's what I meant.
Tukhachevsky studied their invasion of Poland in 1920, but he also, remember, studied Arras 1918.