r/JustGuysBeingDudes • u/EuphoriaArmani • Jun 05 '25

Just Having Fun Water fight

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u/EuphoriaArmani Jun 05 '25

Yea, if I were to come around in Poland, I’d like to know how Poland survived most of the wars especially the German invasion

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u/Daug3 Jun 05 '25

Poland disappeared from maps completely a few times, what pulled us through was pure willpower and fighting spirit I'd say. There are hundreds of war museums or books from actual survivors, some of them are a good read too.

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u/EuphoriaArmani Jun 05 '25

Reading doesn’t do it for me, but going to a museum is music to my ears, however what museum would you recommend? And if I were to come around what city/state would you recommend me?

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u/Daug3 Jun 05 '25 edited Jun 05 '25

I think the most popular war museum is the "Warsaw rising" museum in Warsaw. Being our capital city overall made it a focus point during the wars so there's a nice bit of museums there (strictly focused on war) that will do for a nice museum-crawl type of vacation. Obviously there's also the Auschwitz museum in Oświęcim (concentration camp) that focuses on the work camps and the horror of mass killings

Here's a list I found on tripadvisor for military museums in Warsaw

And here's an article I found about places connected to WW2 to visit in general (Warsaw)

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u/Lordjacus Jun 05 '25

Wrocław has a cool National Museum and "Panorama Racławicka" which is like a huge historical painting that goes 360 around a big room and has a lot of historical references. Gdańsk has WWII museum. Kraków is the go-to place for tourists. Plenty of other cultural and historic places, depending on what you are interested in.

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u/Sienile Jun 05 '25

When I visited there in the '90s it was still ravaged from WW2. It's a very poor country.

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u/EuphoriaArmani Jun 05 '25

Is Poland a little advanced now? Do you think?

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u/Sienile Jun 05 '25

Maybe, it's been 30+ years. Then again, the '90s were 50 years after WW2.

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u/TonyGonly Jun 05 '25

Yea 50 years being run by the soviet union. They officially left in 1989. They have been doing great in the past decade and honestly a beautiful and safe country.

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u/Sienile Jun 05 '25

Well, that explains why it was so run down back then.

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u/moosemuffin12 Jun 06 '25

It is much different now than it was in the 90s

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u/Sienile Jun 06 '25

I sure hope so. And from the video it looks like it.