August 1 in Poland is the day (precisely at 5pm, at “W” hour) when classical logic is no longer valid. The basic alternative: to fight or not disappears. To go to the uprising or not?
The last question was absent in Polish culture at least until the late 1990s. That’s when it began to be raised here and there. Today it is already quite common, and it is a good measure of the westernization, the transformation of Polish culture at the beginning of the 21st century. Rationality, as it is commonly portrayed in the West, is based on the absolute compulsion to ask about the loss and profit account. This type of rationality is impossible under certain (unfortunately repetitive) historical circumstances in the East.
Of course, there have always been those who said that the uprising was not a good decision, such as Stefan Kisielewski demanding after the war that the higher AK commanders return the city to him.
But recognizing that the decision was wrong does not in any way limit the fact that this was the decision that had to be made. As can be seen, logic in Poland is extremely sensitive to the historical moment. Some call it – rather superficially – romanticism.
Podróże? Oczywiście, że tak
Majówka! Nogi same niosą. Te nasze podróże prawie zawsze są wyśnione. Podróże wymyślone bez otwierania oczu. Podróże na ślepo? Takie, jakie z