Warszawo,

Walcz!

Powstanie Warszawskie to mam w przyslowiowej krwi. Pokadzielni Zarembowie porozrzucani zostali po calym swiecie, zas pomieczowi Kuciaki to stare Warszawiaki. Pradziadek Kacper Kuciak mial az 5 corek, ktore powychodzily za maz i mieszkaly na Woli przed wojna.

Choc mieszkalem w Ustce, za lat mlodosci i mlodzienczych czesto spedzalem wakacje w Warszawie. Grasowalem na Jelonkach z moim kuzynem Andrzejem. Piekne czasy. Historia Warszawy, a szczegolnie Powstania Warszawskiego, to szkielet mojego wychowania. Nie tego z podrecznikow komunistycznej historii, ale od Rodziny. Bo tam bylo prawdziwe wychowanie historyczne.

"Polska jest w geograficznym sercu Europy, a co wazniejsze: w polskim narodzie widac dusze Europy. Wasz narod jest wielki, bo jestescie silni wspanialym duchem" - DONALD TRUMP

Latem 1944 r. armie hitlerowska i radziecka szykowaly sie do stoczenia w Warszawie straszliwej krwawej bitwy. W piekle na ziemi, jakie im zgotowano, Polacy staneli w obronie swojej Ojczyzny. To dla mnie ogromny zaszczyt, ze sa obok mnie weterani i bohaterowie Powstania Warszawskiego. Oddajemy czesc Waszemu poswieceniu i przyrzekamy, ze zawsze bedziemy pamietac Wasza walke o Polske i wolnosc.
Pomnik ten przypomnina nam, ze w stracenczej walce z uciskiem zginelo ponad 150 tys. Polakow. Po drugiej stronie Wisly wojska radzieckie zatrzymaly sie - i czekaly. Przygladali sie, jak nazisci brutalnie zrownuja miasto z ziemia, mordujac okrutnie mezczyzn, kobiety i dzieci. Chcieli na zawsze unicestwic ten narod, zabijajac w nim wole przetrwania. Ale nikomu nie udalo sie zniszzyc odwagi i sily, ktore znamionuja charakter Polakow.
Polski meczennik, biskup Michal Kozal, dobrze to wyrazil slowami: "Od przegranej oreznej bardziej przeraza upadek ducha u ludzi" (Donald Trump, "Polska zawsze zwyciezy! Przemowienie Prezydenta Stanow Zjednoczonych Donalda Trumpa Pod Pomnikiem Powstania Warszawskiego w Warszawie", GAZETA POLSKA, 12 lipca 2017).

The message read: 'WE ARE ALREADY FIGHTING..." The Commanding Officer was immediately called into the Control Room. He ordered that the content of the message be conveyed to Headquarters. There, the general who had dismissed the previous unciphered message a week earlier decided to dismiss this one likewise. Apparently, he just put it on one side. He did not inform the Chief of Staff.
During those same hours, Barnes Lodge was unwittingly involved in yet another mysterious incident. Late on 31 July, a telegram had arrived from the staff of the Commander-in-Chief, who was temporarily in Italy. At 2240 it was properly forwarded by teleprinter to HQ. The Communications Company would not have understand its coded contents, which, as the post-war records show, were of absolutely crucial importance. Yet, for some reason, it had taken three days to reach London from Italy; it was never given top priority; and it was not deciphered for at least twelve hours after arrival. Even then, it was never passed on to its intended destination. In other words, it was taken out of circulation in much the same way and at almost the same time as the unciphered message number (I)350. Despite the devoted work of the Communications Company, something, somewhere, was amiss.
The military events of 1 August were reported in the British newspapers on 2 August. But Wednesday's news was much the same as Tuesday's. In the West, 'US tanks cross the river into Brittany'. In the East, 'All Roads from the Baltic to East Prussia Cut' and 'Arc Drawn Around Warsaw'. The Fuhrer himself was being forced to evacuate the Wolf's Lair at Rastenburg: 'Hitler Seeks New HQ'. The Times leader addressed 'Britain and India'. There was even space to print a letter from Australia announcing the birth of a baby duck-billed platypus.
Just before noon, one of the receivers at Barnes Lodge crackled into action once again. The transmission began '-/xxx/999, Lavina to Martha'. The words of the following text were, as usual, unintelligible. But the staff at Barnes Lodge knew whose cryptonym Lavina was, and they could have little doubt that the long-awaited news had at last arrived. They were right. Deciphered at Headquarters in the early afternoon, and translated for wider consumption, the message was electrifying:

...1 August 1944. To the Premier and the Commander-in-Chief: The 

date for the beginning of a struggle to capture [the capital] was jointly

fixed by us for August 1st at 1700 hours. The struggle has begun.

(Signed) Home Delegate and Vice-Premier, C.O. Home Army

The date was odd. The telegram appeared to be a day old. And the verb 'was' in the English translation struck some people as strange. Otherwise, everything looked genuine enough. The telegram had come through the correct channels and in the correct code. Unlike its predecessor, this one was accepted. Action was urgent. No more time could be lost. The Liberation of an Allied capital was in progress. A Rising had begun (Norman Davies, RISING '44 'The Battle for Warsaw' ", PAN BOOKS, London 2003).

KUCIAK Henryk "Henryk", s. Jana, ur. 10.12.1924 r., strzelec. Od 3.08.1944 r. Wola: Stare Miasto, zgr. "Radoslaw", bat.. "Parasol", III komp. Polegl 18.09.1944 r. - Czerniakow. -1-2-

ZAREMBA Ryszard "Tramp II", s. Edmunda, ur. 29.01.1921 r. Warszawa, strzelec. Czerniakow, zgr. "Kryska", bat. "Tur". Ciezko ranny 12.09.1944 r., zmarl - punkt opatrunkowy ul. Solec. -2-

ZAREMBA (ZAREBA) Stanislaw "Maciek", podporucznik Ochota, Reduta Kaliska, od 7.08.1944 r. Srodmiescie sztab "Montera". -2- ("WIELKA ILUSTROWANA ENCYKLOPEDIA POWSTANIA WARSZAWSKIEGO", Bellona, Warszawa 2009).

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