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On 28 September 1939, after a three-week-long siege, Warsaw capitulated. Was defending the city a sensible thing or did it only cause unnecessary losses to Warsaw and its population?

33%
Defending an open city made no sense from a military perspective
67%
The decision to continue the city’s defence was of major psychological importance as it consolidated the resistance against the aggressors, both in the still fighting Polish Army soldiers and the allies (virtually passive until then)

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On 28 September 1939, after a three-week-long siege, Warsaw capitulated. Was defending the city a sensible thing or did it only cause unnecessary losses to Warsaw and its population?
The 1939 Polish defensive war ended up soon with a defeat, a shock to Polish society. The reasons for it were as follows:
In mid-August 1920, Warsaw outskirts were a site of a battle that reversed the course of the Polish-Bolshevik war. Researchers still do not agree as to who the mastermind behind that operation and its actual leader was. Which of the statements below seems most convincing to you?
According to what Jan Długosz reports on the battle of Grunwald in the second half of the 15th century, the Lithuanians left the battlefield in disarray after a brief fight. The Swedish historian Sven Ekdahl found in 1963 an undated letter to the great master of the Order of Teutonic Knights where one can read: ‘It may so happen that your enemies will allow one or two banners to retreat or flee: that will be premediated and done in the hope that your formation breaks down since people typically like to mount a chase just as was the case in the great battle.’ Do you think that the letter cited undermines the reliability of Jan Długosz’s reporting?
On 1 July 1569, the union of the Polish Crown and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was established in Lublin during a session of the general Sejm, known as the Union of Lublin. It continued until the end of the 1700s, thus becoming one of the most durable of such alliances in European history. What do you think were the key factors determining its longevity?
On 4 June 1989, general elections for the Polish People’s Republic’s Sejm and Senate took place. Several months later – on 28 October – the actress Joanna Szczepkowska during a live interview in the Dziennik Telewizyjny news bulletin said: ‘Ladies and Gentlemen, 4 June 1989 marks the end of communism in Poland.’ 30 years on,:
2 June 1979 marked the beginning of Pope John Paul II’s first pilgrimage to Poland. Do you think that it contributed to the founding of the Solidarity movement a year later?
On 5 May 1819, in a manor in Ubiel (the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania, now Minsk Governorate, Belarus) Stanisław Moniuszko was born, a composer, pedagogue and conductor considered the father of the Polish national opera. Do you remember (or can you possibly hum?) any melody from a piece composed by Moniuszko? If so, which of his works does it come from?
On 3 May 1791, the Sejm adopted a constitution known since then as the Constitution of 3 May. Did the state governance system it introduced offer a chance of reversing Poland’s fate?
On 23 April 1935, President Ignacy Mościcki signed a new ‘April’ Constitution. What is your assessment of the state governance system which it introduced?
Thirteen Years’ War: In April 1454, the Kingdom of Poland declared a war on the Teutonic Order, which was to last, intermittently, until 1466. What is your assessment of its outcome written down in the Second Peace of Toruń (Thorn)?
Was Solidarity right to take up discussions at the Round Table with the Communist authorities in spring 1989?
What, in your opinion, was the role of the Teutonic Knights in the Polish history?
What in your opinion was the First World War's influence on Poland's fate?
The Silesian Uprising was:
Do you think in our history there are:
Which designation best describes what happened in Poland in 1989?
Can you find sense in the history of Poland?
What is the balance of the rule of sanacja, the Polish government in 1926-1939?
Since what period can we recognize the Polish nation?
"As we understand the world, a German will never be a brother to Poles.” Is this sentence true?
If the Republic of Poland had taken the same direction as its neighbors and transformed into an absolute monarchy…
Who was Poland’s most outstanding elected monarch?
Who was the most outstanding Polish monarch from the Jagiellonian dynasty?
Who was the most outstanding Polish monarch from the Piast dynasty?
Polish society in exile after the Second World War was very divided by the argument about a positions toward the lost eastern borderlands. Columnists in the journal ‘Kultura’, run in Paris by Jerzy Giedroyc with Juliusz Mieroszewski in a top intellectual role, called for recognition of the newly imposed borders and reconciliation with neighboring lands, while the “unbreakables” in London opined that the imposed territorial changes would be only recognized by a fully independent Poland. Who was right?
How do you evaluate the figure of Stanisław II August?
Imagine you are a clerk for the Polish government-in-exile in London. You learn that, as a result of the Yalta Conference, Poland has ended up in the Soviet sphere of influence. What do you do?
What do you consider the greatest interwar economic achievement of the Second Republic of Poland?
What do you think about the baptism of Prince Mieszko I in 966 AD?
What is your opinion of the 1990–1991 Balcerowicz economic plan?