Named after the Polish navy’s celebrated destroyer, the station’s name Radiostacja Błyskawica was chosen to reflect the country’s indefatigable fighting spirit and its undying strength.
Sirens wailed throughout Warsaw at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, the exact time of the August 1, 1944, outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising against the city's Nazi German occupiers, to mark the revolt's 79th anniversary.
Andrzej Duda, the Polish president, has praised the courage of the citizens of Warsaw who either fought against the Germans in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, or supported the insurgents and suffered for it.
The Polish capital on Tuesday commenced observances marking the 79th anniversary of the city's revolt against Nazi-German occupiers during WWII.
At exactly 5pm today, Warsaw will come to a stop to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising. For 63 days, the city rose up against German occupation in a bid for freedom. One of those documenting the day-to-day realities was accidental photographer Eugeniusz Haneman.
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Andrzej Duda, the Polish president, has said that the Warsaw Uprising should be seen as a lesson telling us how to take care of the homeland.
President Andrzej Duda and Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski met on Sunday with a group of insurgents as part of commemorative events to mark the upcoming 79th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising.
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The Polish and Lithuanian presidents have paid homage to the two Lithuanian pilots who died in an air crash near Pszczelnik, north-western Poland, shortly before the end of their nonstop flight from New York to Kaunas in 1933.
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