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Witold 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.org)

submitted 2 months ago by PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

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).