STANDING UP TO TYRANNY AND OPPRESSION 1830 1794 I 194 863 FBIPOLEMICAL POLISH MEMES IS a POLISH TRADITION on This Day in 1863 the Polish January Uprising Was Launched Against the Russian Oppression and Occupation of 19th Century Poland What Started as a Spontaneous Protest by Young Poles Against Conscription Into the Imperial Russian Army Soon Transformed Into a National Movement That Saw Hundreds of Thousands of Poles Taking Arms and Fighting Through Guerrilla Tactics Against the Russian Army It Took the Russian Army More Than a Year to Put the Rising Down and This Humiliation Prompted Russia to Exact Terrible Revenge on the Polish Population in the Form of Executions Arrests and Deportations to Siberia of Tens of Thousands of People This Rising Formed a Part of the Long Historical Polish Tradition of Rising Up to Tyranny and Oppression in the Name of Freedom and Democracy Let the Memory of the January Uprising and All the Other Uprisings in Polish History Serve as a Reminder to Present Day Outside Forces and Their Lackeys Inside Poland to What Happens When You Try to Impose Tyrannical Policies on the Polish People