“I would like to thank all living Warsaw Insurgents for their great sacrifice, the sacrifice of all their lives, a sacrifice that was not in vain. Honour and glory to the heroes”, said Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. During a meeting with the insurgents in the gardens of the Prime Minister’s Office, he stressed the role of the Warsaw Uprising and thanked the insurgents for their sacrifice and their fight for freedom at all costs.
The head of the Polish government pointed out that we are all children of that desire for freedom, which burst on the streets of Warsaw in August 1944. This raises the obligation not only to care for the memory but also for the truth about those times.
“The victory of the insurgents and all the heroes of that cruel time is all of us. We, who experience freedom today, live in the free Republic of Poland. Let us live in such a way that the insurgents of Warsaw, who are still among us today and those who are in our hearts and are looking on us from somewhere above, will be proud of us”, said the Prime Minister.
During the meeting in the gardens of the Prime Minister’s Office, talks with the insurgents touched on painful memories and the barbarity of the Germans during the Uprising.
Warsaw, according to the occupiers’ plan, was to be completely destroyed and wiped off the map. And the population was to be expelled or murdered. However, after the war, the Poles rebuilt Warsaw. As the head of the Polish government stressed, “they rebuilt it in a different shape, but as a great, beautiful and magnificent city”. I thank the generations of post-war Poland for the great effort of rebuilding Warsaw and many other cities, places all over Poland”, said Mateusz Morawiecki.
On the evening of 1 August, the Prime Minister attended the concert “Warsaw people sing (un)forbidden songs”. He thanked all those who care about the memory of the Warsaw Uprising and added that there would be no Solidarity without the Warsaw Uprising. “Thus, there would be no our contemporary freedom”, said Morawiecki.
Adrian Andrzejewski