Last summer, a vibrant new mural went up in Greenpoint at 261 Driggs Avenue, the location of the Polish National Home and the popular music venue, The Warsaw. Created by Polish-American artist Rafal Pisarczyk, the artwork commemorated the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising (not to be confused with the earlier Warsaw Ghetto Uprising).
The Warsaw Uprising was a major World War II operation by the Polish resistance…
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Nazi occupiers, executions by the Nazis. WTF Nazi? That was a Germans.
Nazi was in the government. It’s the same, republicans have attacked Iraq but democrats Afghanistan. They were not Americans.