I would have proceeded with the wreath laying ceremony and speech. Covered in red paint... fine... if that's what the Polish government allows it's citizens to do to an ambassador, then that's how we will honor those who defeated the Germans and freed Poland.... covered in red paint.
Leaving the ceremony only lets the idiots win. Staying there and going through with the ceremony, without wiping off any of the paint or trying to gloss over the situation, would be the right move.
Very true, they wanted the Communist Polish Party to gain control of Poland so did nothing to help the uprising. Politics on all sides has always screwed the people over. This would have been Stalin's orders. Lets face it, America only came into the war to ensure the German scientists where taken back to America to build the bomb first before the Russians. So much more to the war than just defeating the Nazi's.
I would have proceeded with the wreath laying ceremony and speech. Covered in red paint... fine... if that's what the Polish government allows it's citizens to do to an ambassador, then that's how we will honor those who defeated the Germans and freed Poland.... covered in red paint.
Leaving the ceremony only lets the idiots win. Staying there and going through with the ceremony, without wiping off any of the paint or trying to gloss over the situation, would be the right move.
Very true, they wanted the Communist Polish Party to gain control of Poland so did nothing to help the uprising. Politics on all sides has always screwed the people over. This would have been Stalin's orders. Lets face it, America only came into the war to ensure the German scientists where taken back to America to build the bomb first before the Russians. So much more to the war than just defeating the Nazi's.
Seems like it was a security decision. The Polish government allowed that attack to please their NATO masters.