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mbarti
2y ago
So the Polish intelligence selected 3 smartest mathematicians in 1929 and assigned them to the task of understanding the German encryptions. The team (Rejewski) had a breakthrough in 1932 and managed to break the Enigma codes. By 1939 they&
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2y ago
Also because Poland was under Russian de facto occupation 1945-1989 and the Russians mass murdered any possible threats to their power (intellectuals, poets, professors, former army officers - 100s of thousands sent to labour/ death ca