Polish resistance can refer to various resistance movements of the Polish people against foreign invaders, occupiers or puppet governments:
Read more about Polish Resistance: 1569–1795, 1795–1918, 1918–1939, 1939–1945, 1945–1989
Famous quotes containing the words polish and/or resistance:
“You will have to polish up the stars
with Bab-o and find a new God
as the earth empties out
into the gnarled hands of the old redeemer.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“The greatest, or rather the most prominent, part of this city was constructed with the design to offer the deadest resistance to leaden and iron missiles that might be cast against it. But it is a remarkable meteorological and psychological fact, that it is rarely known to rain lead with much violence, except on places so constructed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)