Warsaw 1944 and South Korea 2018

Koreans pay silent tribute to the patriotic martyrs on the Memorial Day of June 06, and the Poles stop walking to on August 1st. This August 1st was the day when the Poles under German occupation rose in revolt. In the year 1994 when the World WarⅡ was running to its final stage, the German troops which previously invaded Russia were defeated to retreat to east of Warsaw. Liberation of Poland was just before their eyes. And then, the Polish resistance militia began to rise in revolt on a large scale in Warsaw against German troops, and it was 5 O’clock PM August 1st, 1944.

This Warsaw revolt was not well known to the world as Poland was forced to become a satellite country of Soviet Russia soon after then, but it is the movie “Warsaw 1944” that shows dramatically well what the Warsaw revolt was like at that time. This Polish movie, which was produced by a young Polish director in 2015, looks like an epic dedicated to the Warsaw revolt. But this movie was as tragic as the Polish Amageddon which you may imagine to see, because the Warsaw revolt ended in failure. As Russian Army had already exhausted their troops, they had to stop advancing on the other side of the river, German troops had the time to take a breather, and then started massive supressing operation against the Polish resistance militia. One year before Warsaw revolt, Warsaw suffered another severe massacre and destruction. There occurred a ghetto revolt one year ago. While the heroes of the revolt were Jews, Warsaw revolt was raised by Warsaw citizen, and the battlefield were the streets of Warsaw. The scene which was full of drops of blood, torn-up meats and the debris pouring down over the head with the destruction of the buildings, suggested that this movie is not to beautify the Warsaw revolt, but is describing the actual tragedy of Warsaw. In the 63 day long resistance, all the resistance militia were annihilated, and 200 thousands of citizen were massacred. And everything of Warsaw was totally destroyed.

Poland was a land of tragedy located between Big Powers. In 18th century, Preussen, Russia and Austria took Poland by dividing it into three, and in 20th century, German and Russia took half of the divided Poland each. In time of World WarⅡ, Russia massacred 22 thousands of Polish elite in Katin forest, but Russia did not recognize it until as late as 2004. Auschwitz concentration camp was a name symbolizing the lesser power of Poland, and the fallen leaves were paper money of Polish government in exile. The gunfire-stricken sky of Torun city was the sky of lementable national ruin, and Poland was the name of lesser power who were not prepared for the war.

The tragedy of Poland is not a sad story of others far across the sea. South Korea is a Poland of Asia. Korean folks often had their country taken away and had to give deep bow to Big Powers. Political and circumstancial situations are quite similar to Poland. Korea is surrounded by three Big Powers of the world of China, Russia and Japan, and these countries are capable enough to swallow Korea any day taking chance of changes in international situation. But now politicians are not taking any measure to prepare for war, and are wasting time blindly being fallen into an ideological inertia of so-called peace.

What makes the future of South Korea more gloomy is the national traits of stupid ignorance. As people are more influenced by their emotion than rationality, so they are likely to be swayed by propaganda. That’s why people are easy to worship idols, fall in sheer non-sensical logic and bring a tragedy on themselves. Because of this stupid and ignorant national traits, riots have been changed into pro-democracy movements, and the murderer and dictator of the North is highly esteemed as dear friend. Is there any country other than South Korea in the world who helps the enemy country to make nuclear bomb and speaks out that they have been doing it for peace. There is no other way but the nation have to pay the price dear for this kind of absolute stupidity.

The reason Warsaw citizen rose in revolt was, not only because they had a plan to secure the status of an independent country by participating in the war as one of the Allied Forces in co-operation with Russian Army, but also because they might have had the ambition to show off national self-esteem of independent Poland all around the world. South Korea once was on the brink of being perished by the invasion of Communists Forces, but was able to be born again by being saved by liberal countries of the world. Now Moon Jae-In’s regime, however, is trying to invite Kim Jong-Un, and by doing so, he is showing it to the world that south Korea is the silliest and spiritless country. While doing so, he keeps doing absurd things like asking a neighbor country to make an apology by finding fault with the incident of 100 years ago, consequently making South Koreans the most absurd and contemptible tribe in the world.

Would there be a future for this kind of tribe? To such tribe as organizing BaekDoo protection guards far from plotting assasination of Kim Jong-Un, a tragedy of Warsaw shall have to be an inevitability. When the hail of “Long live the great leader Kim Il-Sung” echoes around to spread out high up on GwangHwa Gate Square, and when drops of blood and torn-up meats pour down on Jongro street like hailstorm, only by then will we be realizing that the movie “Warsaw 1944” is the very story of us. So you the stupid tribe standing on the verge of the ruin of your country, have a premonition of a tragedy of your country watching this movie.