page_title: Aftermath of the Warsaw Uprising
section_title: The legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Aftermath of the Warsaw Uprising / The legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Bullet holes on the walls of one of the houses in downtown Warsaw still visible after the Warsaw Uprising The holes are most probably a remnant of a German tank shell hitting the building. The narrow, darker veins seen on the stone wall are shapes of woodbine that once covered it and was burnt during the Uprising.
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: Due to lack of cooperation and often the active aggressive moves on the part of the Soviets and several other factors, Warsaw Uprising and Operation Tempest failed in their primary goal—to free part of Polish territories, so that a government loyal to Polish government in exile could be established there instead of a Soviet puppet state. There is no consensus among historians if that was ever possible, and if those operations had other lasting effect. Some argue that without Operation Tempest and Warsaw Uprising, Poland would end as a Soviet republic, a fate definitely worse than that of independent puppet state, and thus the Operation succeeded at least partially in being a political demonstration to Soviets and Western Allies.
caption: Shrapnel holes are still visible on the walls of many buildings in Warsaw
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