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I know I did this on FB but that is a bit like making a statement in The Sun (news)paper so I will repeat myself. I caught by accident the secret Battles of Britain yesterday, stuff that wasn't generally known. It was a Channel 4 drama-mentry. It told the story of 303 Squadron based up the road from me at Northolt and retold the story of the Polish squadron, how they were first formed, treated, then relied upon because of their skills. I thought this was wonderful however, at the end, in the last 7 minutes we were then told how they were no longer welcome in Britain, sent back to Poland to a country that had been "given" to Communist Russia to appease the allies. I was dumbfounded. Then it was mentioned that 150,000 Polish fighters had "disappeared" in the workcamps whilst under Russian rule in the first years. I am ashamed of this country, and not for the first time. I dissolved into tears at the end of the programme. I know that other stories about promises made to other allied fighters were also hushed up, like the Gurkas, I wish I was the citizen of a more respectable civilised nation. Sorry guys!