Salvete Omnes,
in Poland the Day of the Damned Soldiers is celebrated on March 1. After 1944 - the beginning of the occupation of Poland by the USSR, and patriotic Polish fighters fought the Soviet Union and their servile Polish security forces.
Gloria Victis.
And going back to 1634AD, our king, Wladyslaw IV, vanquished completely Russian Muscovite armies at Smolensk.
War in Ukraine, the Russian invasion of that poor country, is becoming more and more like a typical XXI century war (like Iraq 2002-16, Afghanistan, Israel over the Palestine, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Kurdistan etc)- atrocities, powerful technologically driven weapons, misinformation and propaganda, but also a fog of war.
This map - so it is an attempt, by the Finnish military researchers, to observe incomplete and delayed developments on this war of aggression and imperial ambitions.
Ukraine needs some Polish winged hussars but
our Western leadership (POTUS will deliver SOTU today) is 'sin cojones'...
My friend Paul Zambrzycki( and owner of Persjarnia company ) with sponsorship from OLD Poland Bakery from NYC and with help from friends from Krakow's Kur Fraternity went across the Polish-Ukrainian border into Ukraine with a food-truck full of food and hot coffee and tea. The lines of Ukrainian refugees - women and children in cars, trucks, buses and vans - are long, last night they were about 50km long going to each of the border crossings (Medyka and Hrebenne are two largest border crossing between the two countries).
So let us pray for peace in Ukraine and pray for the Ukrainian peoples...
Valete
I love the pictures. Unfortunately I have no idea about that campaign. However we are reenacting the period and I love to read about more from every part of Europe what was going on.
ReplyDeletehey friend,
ReplyDeleteI may accommodate your thirst for knowledge in this matter, perhaps later on this year, God willing.
An interesting blog out have out there - will check it out as its contents are much to my liking. On Facebook there is a Polish 18th century reenactor Tomasz Karpinski, he does very meticulous research into the period military - costume/uniforms - including Prussian,Saxon and Polish-Lithuanian.
thank you for commenting