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pol-ski · 2 years

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Armed Forces Day, known also as the Feast of the Polish Armed Forces (Polish: Święto Wojska Polskiego), is a national holiday celebrated annually on 15 August in Poland, commemorating the anniversary of the 1920 victory over Soviet Russia at the Battle of Warsaw during the Polish–Soviet War. Armed Forces Day is held in conjunction with the Day of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, itself a separate public holiday. The event is marked by military parades, equipment reviews, showcases and remembrances by all branches of the Polish Armed Forces across the country.

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military1st · 2 years

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Polish Soldiers during Exercise Saber Junction 2019 (SJ19) in Hohenfels Training Area, Germany.

The U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Henry Villarama (2019).

#military 1st #military #army #polish army #polish soldiers #polish military #polska armia #wojsko polskie

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sollannaart · 1 year

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A visit of Polish soldiers, who survived 1812 campaign, to prince Józef

Today let us continue the topic of Prince Józef’s last year.

Having survived the Berezina crossing, Poniatowski followed with the remnants of the Grand Armée to Wilno (Vilnius) and then to Warsaw. There he arrived on the 12th of December, and in a couple of weeks later, on the 28th, there happened a scene, depicted in the painting below, which I would like tell you about.

Jan Czesław Moniuszko, Prince Józef receiving the banners saved from the 1812 campaign

Or, rather, quote an eyewitness, countess Anna Potocka (née Tyszkiewicz, II voto Dunin-Wąsowicz), prince Poniatowski’s first cousin once removed:

A few days after his return, as we were sitting around the prince, still confined by severe pain to a chaise longue, and listening with lively interest to the story of the changing turns of the campaign, the aide reported that the courtyard of the palace was full of soldiers in disarray, demanding in a great voice to be allowed to hand over to their commander the eagles they brought. Unable to walk, the prince had himself carried to the courtyard. <...> As soon as Poniatowski appeared in the driveway, all those brave hearts started hurrying towards him, folding their eagles at his feet. The soldiers had not let these signs out of their custody at a time when others had only been thinking of saving their lives. Dying from hunger and cold, they had passing them on to the stronger ones, so that they would not fall into the hands of the enemy. Only one eagle (eagles figures placed on standards are meant here - A.) was missing, what the prince noticed with a fond smile.

‘Ah!’ shouted all at once ‘it’s is the one whom a cannonball tore off its head, our companion has been ashamed to show it in in such a sorry state!... Well, come closer, pal, give your bird back, it's not your fault, he had just broken his neck.’

And everyone started to laugh out loud giving way to a young man of about twenty years, with arm in a sling and coat in tatters. From the pocket of the ragged garment he pulled out a witness of his bravery and, with an embarrassed face laying it down next to the others, started to explain why he brought an eagle so mutilated.

‘This is because he is still young,’ the eldest soldiers explained ‘he always goes forward as wanting to roast his eagle, and once brought it so close to the fire that its head burned.’ Then the soldiers began to shout: ‘Long live Poland! Long live our beloved leader! Long live the motherland!’

Unable to contain his emotion any longer, the prince started to rub his eyes surreptitiously. The soldiers probably imagined that this was a symptom of sadness, and in order to console him announced that most of the cannons would soon return.

'Let Your Grace not be alarmed,' they said, 'those who are carrying them can't be as quick as we are, because the cannons are, after all, much more heavier. But they will come in a few days, let your highness be calm. When our horses died or were eaten, we came up with the idea of harnessing ourselves to the cannons. We took turns pulling, to keep up our strength. Just get back to health, and you'll see everything will be fine!... We'll fight, we'll avenge the defeat!... We'll follow you even to hell.’

There followed cheers again, hats were flowing into the air, and what a hats whose were, good God! Shreds, rags tied together! Not a single one of these people was warmly clad, not a single uniform retained its color, not a trace of footwear! The happiest people had their feet laced with cloth selvedges, some walked barefoot. And yet they were all cheerful and ferocious, ready, if necessary, for a new effort the next day or even the same day.

The prince ordered all the money he had in his coffers be distributed among the soldiers. Refreshments prepared on the spur of the moment were served in the courtyard. We were pouring the soldiers champagne, they were enthusiastically toasting his chief's health. All of the prince's servants, as well as the guests present at his house that time crowded around the soldiers, who only seemed surprised to be hosted in such a way: they thought they had only done their duty.

That’s how it happened. The only difference between the story and the picture above is that in reality everything happened not inside prince Józef's house, but outdoors, in the courtyard of the Copper-Roofed palace.

How the courtyard looks like can be seen, for example, in the picture below:

I intentionally made it black-and-white, not to detract from the first image and the text. But if you’d like to see it in full color, you can do it, for example, here.

#Poniatowski #józef poniatowski #1812 #józef poniatowski's last year #jan czesław moniuszko #copper-roofed palace #Anna Potocka #1812 campaign #polish soldiers

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defensenow · 7 days

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kewpiekills · 4 months

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finally finished this up from a handful of months ago

#kewpie's art #tf2 #demoman #soldier #still not gonna draw more of these guys unless i want to. i am no longer obsessed with tf2 #this was just almost finished so i figured i’d polish it the rest of the way up #and post

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illustratus · 2 months

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Vive l'Empereur! by Wojciech Kossak

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nautical-poe · 7 months

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Wojtek the Polish War Bear for my Illustration class! Prompt: Historical Event

#my art #illustration #bear #wojtek #Poland #polish #ww2 #world war 2 #smoking #cigarettes #smoke #lighter #lighters #soldier #soldiers #war #real people #class art

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pushing500 · 7 months

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You have no idea how upset I am that Wookshys is such a good partner to Albina. This proposal is the nicest one so far!! It looks like he planned it out and everything, set up a cute little hot-tub date for just the two of them before he popped the question! Baz proposed to Zonovo in the freezer!! Why is Wookshys so darn good at what he does? This is tragic!

also, congrats to the happy couple and stuff, I guess

In brighter news, I have a quest that could give me a healer mech serum to cure Wendy's dementia! Huzzah!

We left pacifist anxiety-ridden Vu at home to look after the kids, Andy and Henry, as well as Wendy, who is still in bed with resurrection sickness.

I like to imagine lil' Hussar Henry is upset that he doesn't get to go on cool raids despite being my third-most-competent melee colonist alongside Kawoo.

Here's everyone heading back to the shuttle after finishing their "aerial assault". I did not get screenshots of the actual fight going down because I forgot about it in my panic, but basically:

Candlelight shot her T'au Rail Rifle at the wall until the Wasters came out to fight us

Albina used her bramble maze psycast to grow a patch of thorns and slow the Wasters' down as they advanced

Hazrov, the absolute legend that she is, used her long bow to take out two of four Wasters in less than a second

Brennan used her flameball psycast to kill another Waster, but not before he'd thrown a tox grenade which caused a bit of coughing for Albina, Zonovo, Debby, and Barghest

Tamarind used her skip psycast to pop Irwin and Xanxalbur next to the last Waster who was shooting at us with a bolt-action rifle, Irwin took him out quickly but got a bruise on his torso first

Irwin then destroyed the only turret and the door of the base to see if there was anything interesting inside (there wasn't)

Tamarind used her waterskip psycast to put out the fire from Brennan's flameball

Everyone piled back into the shuttle to head home while Vu and the kids gathered the rewards inside and waited for the returning heroes

So now we have a healer mech serum! Hooray! No more dementia for Wendy.

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radykalny-feminizm · 8 months

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Right now I'm reading a book about female fighters in Warsaw ghetto uprising and it enrages me that we know so little about them. There's so little sources describing them. Why? Because they were always pictured merely as men's companions. As if only males were the real heroes, while the women were only there to help them by doing some less important things. And when there was a woman who was willing to fight and die and was so brave, then she was described as "man-like". It's ridiculous. But I'm glad that women in history are slowly getting their autonomy back.

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yorksnapshots · 1 year

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Wojtek, the soldier bear.

A memorial to Wojtek in Princess Street Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland.

For the heart warming story of Wojtek just put a search on the net.

#Bronze #Statue #Sculpture #Art #Artwork #Aesthetic #War #History #Historic #Poland #Polish #Scotland #Memorial #Animal #Animalcore #Bear #Soldier #Public Art #WW2 #Hero

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burninblood · 1 year

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just a little raw and unfinished endgame bucky sketch. sad boy.

#bucky barnes #bucky #endgame bucky #bucky with the good hair #and beard #winter soldier #fanart #mine #sketching #I tried to polish this but I like the messed up version better

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cienie-isengardu · 3 days

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Whenever the Lin Kuei go out on a mission, they probably use fake names that they draw out of a hat to avoid suspicion.

Bi-Han crossing fingers: Please don't be a awful name, please for the love of the gods-And it's Blake. Bland but it would be worse.

Cyrax: I got Conner. Not bad.

Kuai: I got Kandance...I don't know how to feel about this.

Sektor: For some reason, I got Simon. It just doesn't fit me.

Smoke cringing: I got Willow. It sucks. Can I pick another one?

Sektor: We don't have time for it.

Smoke groans.

Ha! But what if those dorks actually make up the weirdest name or pick the most difficult to say to mess up with people? I bet Tomas could pick Polish name like Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz just to be the pain in the ass while Kuai Liang and Bi-Han go with all the most unique variants of Ice or Cold in any possible language - or in case of Bi-Han, calling himself Shang Tsung just to irks one sorcerer if he is in mood to annoy him XD. Cyrax joins for the lulz, while Sektor is the only one trying to be not suspicious at all (and somehow always drawing the most attention because his life can’t be easy for once, not with those crazy bastards around 🤣)

But then again, Bi-Han may not bother at all; with the Mythologies: Sub-Zero's storyline, it seems he is destined for quick type of missions, as in get in, kill and/or steal and get out so I guess, one way or another, not many people will be left alive to tell his real name…

#mortal kombat #my replies #smoke #tomas vrbada #bi han #kuai liang #sektor #cyrax #grzegorz brzęczyszczykiewicz is a real name and one of popular joke from old film when captured polish soldier called himself that #just to mess up with german soldiers who didn't know how to write it down in documents XD #and when the poor soldier managed to write it the hero comes with even more bizzare address - Chrząszczyżewoszyce #just image tomas operating in USA & causing a scene just to distract people from his companions doing the job #while he patiently wait for some poor person to write that name down XD #so good old joke #let smoke be the chaos bastard XD

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widevibratobitch · 10 months

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when i say i am obsessed with him

#'indescribable insolence' <3333 #dumas writing aramis in '20 years after':#i am going to create a character that is so egdy sarcastic provocative and irritating to everyone around him #and im gonna make stirring shit being an asshole and gruesome murder his favourite hobbies #and he did just as he said. bless him.#most character ever #and what makes him even better is the contrast between 20YA!aramis and t3M!aramis. its hilarious.#my man really went feral. midlife crisis some call it. i call it character development of all time. i call it serving cunt.#aramis as a musketeer a soldier a man in a profession where you're literally paid for killing people:#sweetness and mildness personified writes poetry and theology essays in his free time never gambles dreams about dedicating his life to god #aramis as a priest: whooo boy i hope i get to fUCKING KILL A PERSON TODAY >:D #anyway. i love him a normal amount or something.#the three musketeers #alexandre dumas #anyway. i reread this scene and the charenton battle today because it's definitely in my top 3 aramis moments #also the english translation on the gutenberg page omits two lines of dialogue that i remembered from my polish translation #and it goes something like #de Chatillon says 'i think you're looking for a fight sir' to which Aramis basically responds with 'oh nooo you *think*? Imao'. iconic.#(and its even funnier cause that makes athos immediately go 'aramis stfu plz' and aramis just goes 'no <3' im obsessed with them)#vingt ans apres #do i have a #twenty years after #tag?? not sure tbh i think i dont but tagging just in case ig

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jellazticious · 2 years

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Doodle dump with Michel, the Engineer he thinks look cute, and their entire team

Little ramble of his backstory under the cut because I love Michel

So I will be telling this in shit post form. Sorry tumblr folks, my decent writing is for discord only snndxn

So Michel turned into that because the team Medic had a magnificent idea. Like one night he watched NatGeo and it happened to be how mischievous octopus are and he thought "lmao, what if Spy does that......

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WHAT IF SPY DOES THAT"

So yeah, he went to their Spy and went "you want to naturally become invisible without a watch?? And also make your bones like memory foam so you can squeeze through tight spaces??"

"you son of a bitch I'm in"

And so Medic like stole an octopus from an aquarium nearby and like took samples from it to make this serum he injects on Michel.

But like the effects kicks in slowly and hypothetically it would last a month.

Both Medic and Spy agreed to spam Uber on Spy to see if it boosts the serum since it kinda does stuff to your bloodstream. I dunno, it's Uber.

Three Ubers in and he can slightly control his camouflage, on like the eight time, he can completely change his skin to match the surroundings on command, is extremely flexible and they tried if he can squeeze through a closed window and he did. It's disgusting but he did

BUT IT DIDN'T STOP THERE

Yes, he got some desired effects from rushing it but one month is one month. He's gonna get more from the serum whether he likes it or now.

How did he get the tentacles? Easy. Constantly being respawned. It's just like getting ubered but stronger since it rearranges the entire body rather than only affecting skin and blood.

One month after, he turned into THAT

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Now that's out of the way, I'm gonna explain the doodles badly

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The topmost doodles were the first doodles of Michel actually being a character. His gills are hella strong unlike regular fish gills that dies to a single grip. They're attached to his lungs so that's why smoke comes out of it. They're also extremely ticklish because yes-

Just don't shove your hand in it ffs, good lord, why would you do that-

The second one is a joke (*in the same cadence as "Dinkleberg"* Sussuri) because I'm pretty shit at anatomy in general

The ones under it are me showing off his squishiness. And messing around because of course I'd add that.

Then the painkillers one is because he grew two extra hearts and like he doesn't want them, it makes him feel icky thinking about it. It also feels weird when you're being active and you feel three heartbeats. Euughh, I wouldn't want that too. Yeah if you're gonna take off organs as vital as a heart while keeping the patient alive, you've want to douse them in painkillers while the operation takes like at least a day probably. He didn't get scars, they heal at an alarming rate

The next ones are mostly his Engie. His name is Sal (no last name yet) and he's newly transferred to the team. He's a rambler too. Michel being a listener finds that quite endearing.

Okay I can explain why he has legs. It's a disguise but it came from a specialized kit made by the Medic and the other Engineer. It was made to last for long periods of time and its harder to fade, it also does not disappear when the wearer attacks. However, it only has one guise and that's Michel pre-tentaspy

They totally did not prepare that because they know something will go wrong, nope, no siree! Guarantee!

My boy gained a bitch in the span of one day but the disguise had to fail because of course it would. Sal, like any rational person would, freaked out and tells the team, to which they all replied with "yeah he's an octopus" like it's a normal occurrence (technically it is to them) without any context.

It's okay, Medic told him exactly what happened

Also ignore how badly designed the entire team is, it took me *checks watch* 30 minutes while I was running on homemade chai latte. I did not look at actual cosmetics, I just slapped in what I remember. They cannot exist in game sbnddn

The two Pyros are the only ones with names (excluding Michel and Sal)

Dion (stock Pyro) and Mantha (kitty Pyro)

Also the Medic and Sniper here are together if that isn't already obvious sndndn

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Aye dont worry, Michel and Sal winds up together because I'm a chronic Engiespy shipper and of course they would

One last thing I'd like to add is that I gave Michel my beauty marks (two moles on the chin and one on the nose)

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undefeatablesin · 1 year

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Pls enjoy this fun sketchathon of my good hunter Ruza 👏🖤

#sin scribbles #bloodborne #good hunter #(FT HER UNIFORM FROM WHEN SHE WORKED AS A MILITARY CHAPLAIN TURNED SOLDIER FOR HER SECT)#(more on that later lol)#(RUZAS TINY FANGS.....MY LIFE. MY SOUL. MY BEING.)#(no reason she has them except im gay)#(baby you are my............ANGEEEELLLLL)#(i might polish up a few of these....who knows tbh)#(altars pages take me so long bc i have to clean up all of this scribbling LOL)

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city-of-ladies · 2 months

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“In 1919 after the outbreak of the Polish-Soviet war Wanda ‘Kazik’ Gertz became the commander of the 2nd Women’s Volunteer Legion in the Polish army. The legion fought for Vilnius which led to Gertz being awarded the rank of lieutenant as well as the Virtuti Militari medal. She couldn’t enjoy her position for too long though, as in 1922 she lost her lieutenant rank due to the lack of law stating that a woman can be an officer in the Polish army. Afterwards, ‘Kazik’ worked in different fields for 17 years – she worked in an engineering company, in Józef Piłsudski’s office, in the management team of the Belweder Museum etc.

In World War II Gertz created a pseudonym for herself: ‘Lena’, and became one of the first women to join the resistance movement Service for Poland’s Victory. Soon after that, she made history as the first woman to create and command a fully female military unit – ‘DYSK’ unit (Women’s Diversion and Sabotage Unit) as a part of the Polish Home Army. In 1944 she was promoted to the rank of major.”

#history #women in history #wanda gertz #poland #polish history #first world war #second world war #Women in World War II #women in war #20th century #warriors #women's history #female soldiers

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