Gene Thomas Gomułka is a retired Navy (O6) Captain / Catholic Chaplain and prolific writer who, during his 24-year military career, was awarded the Alfred Thayer Mahan Award “for literary achievement and inspirational leadership.”
P.S. My second cousin (my grandfather's brother's son), Władisław Gomułka, was the first Polish de facto head of post-WW II Poland from 1947 to 1948 and from 1956 to 1970.
It would be interesting to see what grades Joe Biden and Kamala Harris received in history when they were in high school and college. Based on their handling of the crisis in Ukraine, I would be inclined to believe they failed miserably. Unfortunately, there are many people who don’t have an appreciation of history, especially the period surrounding World War II.
In order to understand how the Ukrainians must be feeling at this time, we need to go back in time to the Battle of Britain that took place between July 10 and October 31, 1940. After conquering Poland, Belgium, France and other European countries, Hermann Göring, the commander-in-chief of the German Luftwaffe, assured Adolf Hitler that he would destroy the Royal Air Force which was a necessity prior to undertaking an invasion of Great Britain across the English Channel.
The history books of Russia that Vladimir Putin read when he was growing up in the 60s did not admit to the fact that following the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, Josef Stalin ordered the massacre of nearly 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia in the Katyn Forest. Some Russian historians believe Stalin ordered the mass murder as an act of revenge for the defeat of the Soviets during the Polish-Soviet War when they attempted to annex newly re-created Poland between 1918 and 1921. It would not be until fifty years after the 1940 massacre that Mikhail Gorbachev admitted that the NKVD, the Soviet Secret police, had executed the Poles.