Powiedz (Tell Me) Tango (Skotnicki /Maciejowski) - Mieczysław Fogg & Orkiestra Syrena-Rekord, Syrena Electro 1936

NOTE: The slideshow is devoted to the last days of Warsaw in July 1939 - shortly before onset of the Second World War, the invasion of Poland by Germans from the West and two weeks later, on 17th of September and without the least declaration of war against Poland - by Russians from the East. Taken into a merciless hug by two greatest and most fanatic powers of the XX century, Poland had no chances to survive. After a few weeks of desperate defence, Polish Army collapsed. 22 000 Polish officers - the professionals as well as those who were, in August 1939 mobilised from the reserve, including the elite of the Polish Nation - were captured by Soviets, jailed in the camps in Katyń, Ostaszków, Miednoje (- and dozens of other places, still kept in secret in Putin's Russia) and after a parody of "investigation" carried against "the notoric enemies of the Soviet Union", executed in Katyń and Miednoje forrests, in April 1940.

Warsaw was being turned into ruins in three etappes: first, the Luftwaffe bombing in Septrember 1939, during the defense of the city directed by the heroic (and soon afterwards - executed by Germans) Mayor of Warsaw, Stefan Starzyński; second, was the partly annihilation of Warsaw's central area after the Jewish Ghetto Uprising in April, 1943. In revenge for that act of bravery and pride, nazis turned practically into the piles of rumble, the so called by the Germans "Jewish Ghetto" - area, where in the beginning of the war almost all of the Jews of Warsaw were concentrated , on purpose to have them in one place when the right time for the holocaust comes.
Third mass destruction od Warsaw - street by street and house by house -- camne after the collapse of the Polish Uprising in August 1944. The dying Third Reich, despite its agony, was still biting. Hitler's crazy command -- given imediately after the capitulation of Uprising's Leders in October 1944, was to destroy Warsaw to the ground.

Unfortunately for Warsaw, that mad plan was joyfully greeted by the Soviet army, that in the meanwhile has came in it's chase after the German army as deep into Polish territory as to Warsaw's outskirts. Being in power to attack and in a split second give an end to the massacre of the city, they waited instead, until January 1945, watching from the other bank of Vistula River at smokes and flames eating the whole substance of the proud and rebellious Polish capital. For Stalin, having Warsaw in ruins (with his own hands cvleand and blame for that barbaric act forever put on Hitler) and with the nation's elite eliminated in 85%, was guarantee that Yalta Pact - meaning installation in Poland the Soviet-like political regime - would meet no more obstacles from the wretched and rebellious Polish nation.

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