On the 1944 Warsaw Uprising

August 1 is solemnly celebrated in Poland as the anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. The anniversary is included in the official „historical policy”, in which the tragic fate of the uprising is presented as the effect of the „Soviet stab in the back” of the heroic Home Army (Armia Krajowa, AK). To deal with this reactionary posing of the question, it is necessary to put it in a broader historical perspective.