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I wonder if Warsaw would have been rebuilt if it had been destroyed by the USSR instead of the Nazis?
by senderista 2y ago
I wonder if Warsaw would have been rebuilt if it had been destroyed by the USSR instead of the Nazis?
- thriftwy 2y agoBoth sides did actually contribute. Urban warfire does not spare cities as they change hands.
- epolanski 2y agoThe USSR bombed it in 1941. And when the Warsaw Uprising started Stalin ordered Soviet troops to wait 20 miles out of Warsaw for a month so poles and Germans would kill each other. So the USSR has had a pivotal role in Warsaw's fall.
- paganel 2y agoBudapest was highly damaged during the battle there in late 1944 - early 1945 [1] and as far I as I know it did get re-built. [1] https://www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/culture_society/siege-of-budapest_wwii_winter-1944-1945_germans_hungarians_red-army/ https://www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/culture_socie...