Warsaw Uprising Monument

Warsaw Uprising Monument & Insurgents Museum - darkometer rating : 3 - A monument erected in honour of those who fought in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944; the small museum next door was set up by surviving combatants of the Uprising and mainly for them too, much less so for foreign tourists, but it may also be worth a quick look. > More background info > What there is to see > Location > Access and costs > Time required > Combinations with other dark destinations > Combinations with non-dark destinations > Photos More background info: For historical background see the relevant section in the entry for the Warsaw Uprising Museum . The complex of monuments referred to here simply as "The" Warsaw Uprising Monument is actually one of many such monuments dotted all over Warsaw , but it is certainly the biggest and most prominently located one. The place was also the scene of some of the fiercest fighting in the Uprising. Most of the monuments commemorating the general Warsaw Uprising of 1944 are comparatively recent, including this one, which was unveiled as late as 1989. During the communist era and the Cold War under Soviet dominance, the story of the Warsaw Uprising was not openly commemorated or much talked about. This is due to the fact that it was a sensitive subject from a Soviet perspective, in as much as it includes the fact that the Soviet Red Army had already reached Warsaw in the summer of 1944 but just stayed put on the other side of the river and did nothing to support the Polish insurgents or intervene when the Nazis brutally retaliated. In fact, surviving members of the Polish Home Army AK were persecuted and many sent to gulags in Siberia by the Soviets, who were well aware that the AK fought not just against the Nazis but also for national independence. But Stalin was definitely not having any of that.