Czas Honoru Powstanie

This is Season 7 - called "Czas Honoru: Powstanie" or "Time of Honor:  The Uprising. It is about the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 which lasted 63 days (not to be confused with the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943.) I thought it deserved a separate post since it was the best season of the entire series and because it was the single most major event in Warsaw (not to mention Poland and Europe) during World War 2. The Polish Home Army wanted to start the Uprising when the Soviet Red Army was close to Warsaw so they (the Poles) could help liberate their city from the Germans. The Soviets saw the Polish Home Army as anti-Communist and didn't want to help them so they waited just outside of Warsaw while the Polish heroes and ordinary civilians were butchered. The Soviets remembered the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (when the Soviets lost) and also the difficulty they (the Soviets) had when they invaded and occupied eastern Poland from September 1939 to June 1941 when they had to deport, arrest and murder the Polish resistance, Polish soldiers and non-Communist Poles. The Soviets would rather sit and watch as the Germans did the job for them. The Soviets would not even let the other Allies land on Soviet territory so not many supplies or weapons could be airdropped to Warsaw.

This season showed the fight on both sides: against the Germans and the Soviets. It showed the affect on the Home Army as well as the civilians. The Home Army was out-numbered and out-gunned and so didn't do as much for the innocent men, women and children that were caught in Warsaw when the Uprising started as they should have. Of course the Germans used the civilians as human shields and also massacred them for no reason. As with the whole series there was a lot of gun-fights and high-action scenes, but there were also "calmer" scenes that showed how the fighter and the civilian dealt with the Uprising. I thought a little more attention should have been shown on what happened to both the soldiers and the civilians after the surrender. After the 63 day Uprising in which around 10,000 Home Army soldiers and around 200,000 Polish civilians were killed the Germans decided to deport everyone from Warsaw and then went around fire-burning the whole city. Around 15,000 Home Army soldiers and 700,000 civilians were deported to labor, concentration and death camps after the Uprising.

Seasons 5 and 6 of the series showed, a little, how the Soviet abandonment of Warsaw in 1944 during the Uprising helped to keep the Polish people anti-Soviet and Anti-Communist as a whole until the 1990s. Of course there were Polish Communists, but the true die-hard believers were those that had been in the Soviet Union during the war.

I really hope this series continues since it is very well-written, well-acted and action-packed.