That is a lovely video!
My gf is from Warsaw and it is amazing to see everyone stop in places I know to be busy streets.
When I was there at Christmas it was the 30th anniversary of the Solidarity riots which was pretty emotional. There was a really good photo exhibition on Nowy Swiat, which is the main street in Warsaw. Very powerful.
It is a shame that more people don't know what Poland has been through over the last 70 years. A wonderful country with so much heartbreak in its history.
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Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Wed 1 Aug 2012, 23:11,
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I've only been to Poland a couple of times,
once to Katowice and twice to Krakow, but do feel an affinity for the place, despite not (knowingly) having any family connections, to the point where I decided not to visit Birkenau, as I didn't think I could handle it emotionally.
Its sickening that there's a small but visible extreme right wing element in Poland, considering everything the country has been through over the decades.
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 0:40,
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The suffering of the country is immense throughout the years.
My gf's family live in a place called Wawer, right on the edge of Warsaw. At Christmas time it was also the anniversary of this massacre from the second world war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wawer_massacre It was very moving being there on the memorial day.
Also, what seems to get mentioned very little is the amount of Poles who fought for us, particularly in the RAF.
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Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 10:40,
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