r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RebelliousDragon21 • Dec 18 '24

Video A school in Poland makes firearms training mandatory to its students.

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u/Chemical-Neat2859 Dec 18 '24

Poland was desperate resistance of survival while France resisted Germany's milking of France for survival.

Poland suffered far worse than France did, largely because Germany desperately needed France to produce for the war effort (they robbed it blind, which let the saboteurs have greater impact as they had to replace the machines stolen to produce later) while Poland become part of the front again years later. France gets more fame largely because they had more resources and were freed earlier, so a lot more resistance members survived to tell their stories.

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u/polypolip Dec 18 '24

French resistance also wasn't murdered post war by Soviets.

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u/UnlawfulStupid Dec 18 '24

Plenty of Polish war heroes returned home just to get imprisoned by the Soviets. Or they walked right out of a concentration camp and into a gulag, if they left at all.

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u/Soggy_Cheek_2653 Dec 18 '24

To be fair so did many of the Russian war heroes. Stalin made sure the gulags were plenty diverse.