PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoWitold Pilecki (fought the Nazis, worked w/ Polish resistance, got captured to infiltrate Auschwitz, fought in Warsaw uprising, executed 1948 by the communists for working with "foreign imperialism")en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up189arrow-down10cross-posted to: wikipedia@lemmy.world
arrow-up189arrow-down1external-linkWitold Pilecki (fought the Nazis, worked w/ Polish resistance, got captured to infiltrate Auschwitz, fought in Warsaw uprising, executed 1948 by the communists for working with "foreign imperialism")en.wikipedia.orgPhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square12fedilinkcross-posted to: wikipedia@lemmy.world
minus-squareJubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·9 months agoHero. Small footnote to the uninitiated in Slavic languages: it’s pronounced “Pileski”. Because “c” in Cyrillic alphabet is always an /s/ sound, but sometimes it’s not transliterated into an “s” in Polish (which uses Roman alphabet).
Hero. Small footnote to the uninitiated in Slavic languages: it’s pronounced “Pileski”. Because “c” in Cyrillic alphabet is always an /s/ sound, but sometimes it’s not transliterated into an “s” in Polish (which uses Roman alphabet).