70 years on...

[oldrider]

You just about did. Just then.

Nylon stockings affect different people in different ways.

I applied through the official information act and found out what the secret was!

It was the day "I" was born, they knew they were doomed to fail against such odds!

[XRVrider]

Poland at times was huge, which included all of what is now Belarus and much of Ukraine and Lithuania. Most borders in Europe have moved back and forth, plenty before WW1 and a lot after. Slovakia or what it is now has attacked both Poland and Czech, as they were their own country but wrapped up in the Czechoslovakia name tag. They had their own dialect of Czech or actually Slovakian language, and still do. So parts of, or rather people from certain areas fought to claim their own land as they saw it. No-one is clean and or situations as clean cut as we might think. Poland (Czech too) in recent times (last 100 years) has copped a lot of crap from bigger more powerful countries, and Russia has had the biggest influence, for example Russian language was a compulsory part of Polish school curriculum until 14 or 15 years ago. Strangely enough the Russians helped keep Germans out near the end of WW2, but the Poles, and maybe the Czech's, paid a massive price.

There will always be localised history and legends from areas of eastern europe that are overlooked and are horrendous. But the big picture will show that eventually the Brits came to help and as well as the Americans who liberated much of Czech and Poland. A fact is that this area is eternally grateful to the Yanks (amongst others) as many monuments, statues etc contest.

[Indiana_Jones]

-Indy