Warsaw is another European city devastated–turned to rubble–during the second war. With a pre-war population of 1.5 million; 30,000 remained at the end. Images for Warsaw 1945 offers some sense. The old city was rebuilt remarkably well. Other parts were replaced with an architecture reflecting the message and concepts of the conquering heroes; the Soviets. Honest work and the family, foundations of any society, leveraged into propaganda for the state. To see the country today and to meet a Pole is to marvel at the resiliency of the human spirit.
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