text: This very sad chapter of WWII points out the amazing odds the Poles faced as well as their incredible bravery. At the start of the war, two super powers attacked them from west and east, smashing their country and killing countless people. At the time when the Warsaw uprising was surpressed, vastly superior Soviet forces were in the vicinity and waited to act until the uprising was extinguished.  Again, the same super powers seemed to work together against the unfortunate Polish people. How awful!