Poland on Thursday was commemorating the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, the largest military insurgency of underground resistance forces in Nazi-occupied Europe and one of the most tragic events in the country’s history. On August 1, 1944, at 5 pm, members of the Polish resistance led by the Home Army (Armia Krajowa) took up arms in Warsaw against the Nazi occupier. The military goal was to free Warsaw from German occupation ahead of the arrival of the Soviet Red Army in order to prevent the creation of a Soviet-controlled government in Poland. However, the uprising f…