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Our today's interviewee:
Romuald Malinowski (born in 1929) was a soldier of the Home Army who fought in the Warsaw Uprising in the "Kiliński" Battalion. He recalls events of the Warsaw Uprising, often survived by chance, such as the bombing of the Main Post Office and - a few hours later - the bombing of a tenement on Sienna Street, during which his entire unit was killed. On the first day of the Warsaw Uprising in the Wola District, he and his two friends hid behind a pile of bricks. A German sniper shot the soldiers on Malinowski's right and left side, but Malinowski survived. He also talks about the fighting in Śródmieście District, near the National Philharmonic and an encounter with a dying Ukrainian soldier serving in the German army. Knowing about Ukrainian atrocities during the Wola Massacre, the Poles had no mercy and left him to die slowly. Malinowski also recalls the harsh living conditions of Warsaw civilians, who were reluctant towards the Home Army soldiers at the end of the Warsaw Uprising.
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