The Symbol of Poland Fighting (Polska Walcząca) Today — do we use it right?

Alicja Łais
4 min readSep 30, 2019

On the 1st of August Poland celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising. On that day (and now still) the internet was (and still is) overflowing with news and other articles regarding the Warsaw uprising and its commemoration. Every year we pay tribute to the heroes who fought for the freedom of Warsaw and Poland during World War II. If you look at the articles, photos, or any other type of online content regarding this event, you will have stumbled upon this symbol:

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Alicja Łais

curating for Medium / writing and translating for LBC