 the failure of the warsaw uprising and subsequent capitulation agreement left warsaw almost uninhabited. the city was almost totally destroyed with no major monuments left standing. this, however, was not the end. the home army was in disarray and unprepared to deal with the soviet nkvd which subsequently took control of poland and sent many of the former resistance fighters to their deaths in siberian gulags. the political effect is a matter of controversy. some claim that without the uprising, poland would have become a soviet republic, whilst others claim that the uprising itself was the mistake which enabled joseph stalin to arrange for his enemies to destroy his inconvenient allies and left poland fatally weakened. ==destruction of the city==  after the remaining population had been expelled, the germans started the destruction of the remnants of the city. special groups of german engineers were dispatched to the city in order to burn and demolish the remaining buildings. according to german plans, after the war warsaw was to be turned into a lake. the demolition squads used flamethrowers and explosives to methodically destroy house after house. they paid special attention to historical monuments and places of interest: nothing was to be left of what used to be a city. thumb|right|150px|one grave was left in the streets of warsaw after the uprising by january 1945 85% of buildings were destroyed: 25% as a result of the uprising, 35% as result of systematic german actions after the uprising, the rest as result of the earlier warsaw ghetto uprising (15%) and other combat including the invasion of poland (10%). material losses were estimated at 10 455 buildings, 923 historical buildings (94 percent), 25 churches, 14 libraries including the national library, 81 elementary schools, 64 high schools, warsaw university and warsaw university of technology, and most of the historical monuments. almost a million inhabitants lost all of their possessions. the exact amount of losses of private and public property as well as pieces of art, monuments of science and culture is unknown. however, various estimates place it at an equivalent of approximately 40 billion 1939 us dollars. the municipal council of warsaw is currently disputing whether claims for german reparations should be made. ==people hiding in the remnants== some people were hiding in the remnants of the city, e.g. wÅadysÅaw szpilman, who later wrote his memoir the pianist, filmed by roman polanski (the pianist, 2002). they became known as the robinson crusoes of warsaw. ==the legacy== due to lack of cooperation and often t
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