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Wola is a district in western Warsaw , ___MASK20___ , formerly the village of Wielka Wola , incorporated into Warsaw in 1916 . An industrial area with traditions reaching back to the early 19th century , it is slowly changing into an office and residential district . Several museums are located in Wola . ___MASK20___ , officially the Republic of ___MASK20___ , is a country in Central Europe , situated between the Baltic Sea in the north and two mountain ranges ( the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains ) in the south . Bordered by Germany to the west ; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south ; Ukraine and Belarus to the east ; and the Baltic Sea , Kaliningrad Oblast ( a Russian exclave ) and Lithuania to the north . The total area of ___MASK20___ is , making it the 69th largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe . With a population of over 38 . 5 million people , ___MASK20___ is the 34th most populous country in the world , the 8th most populous country in Europe and the sixth most populous member of the European Union . ___MASK20___ is a unitary state divided into 16 administrative subdivisions , and its capital and largest city is Warsaw . Other metropolises include Kraków , Wrocaw , Pozna , Gdask and Szczecin . The ___MASK14___ ( EU ) is a political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe . It has an area of , and an estimated population of over 510 million . The EU has developed an internal single market through a standardised system of laws that apply in all member states . EU policies aim to ensure the free movement of people , goods , services , and capital within the internal market , enact legislation in justice and home affairs , and maintain common policies on trade , agriculture , fisheries , and regional development . Within the Schengen Area , passport controls have been abolished . A monetary union was established in 1999 and came into full force in 2002 , and is composed of 19 EU member states which use the euro currency . The Baltic Sea ( ; ) is a sea of the ___MASK46___ , enclosed by Scandinavia , Finland , the Baltic countries , and the North European Plain . It includes the Gulf of Bothnia , the Bay of Bothnia , the Gulf of Finland , the Gulf of Riga , and the Bay of Gdask . The sea stretches from 53 ° N to 66 ° N latitude and from 10 ° E to 30 ° E longitude . A mediterranean sea of the Atlantic , with limited water exchange between the two bodies , the Baltic Sea drains through the Danish islands into the Kattegat by way of the straits of Øresund , the Great Belt , and the Little Belt . The Workers ' and Peasants ' Red Army (: RKKA , frequently shortened in Russian to ; KA , in English : Red Army also in critical literature and folklore of that epoch - Red Horde , Army of Work ) was the army and the air force of the ___MASK5___ , and after 1922 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics . The army was established immediately after the 1917 October Revolution ( Red October or Bolshevik Revolution ). The Bolsheviks raised an army to oppose the military confederations ( especially the various groups collectively known as the White Army ) of their adversaries during the Russian Civil War . Beginning in February 1946 , the Red Army , along with the Soviet Navy , embodied the main component of the Soviet Armed Forces ; taking the official name of " Soviet Army ", until its dissolution in December 1991 . The Home Army ( abbreviated AK ) was the dominant Polish resistance movement in ___MASK20___ occupied by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II . It was formed in February 1942 from the " Zwizek Walki Zbrojnej " ( Armed Resistance ). Over the next two years , it absorbed most other Polish underground forces . Its allegiance was to the Polish Government - in - Exile , and it constituted the armed wing of what became known as the " Polish Underground State ". The ___MASK24___ , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( USSR " ) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991 . A union of multiple subnational republics , its government and economy were highly centralized . The ___MASK24___ was a one - party federation , governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital . ___MASK3___ War II ( often abbreviated to WWII or WW2 ), also known as the Second ___MASK3___ War , was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945 , although related conflicts began earlier . It involved the vast majority of the ___MASK3___ ' s nations  including all of the great powers  eventually forming two opposing military alliances : the Allies and the Axis . It was the most widespread war in history , and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries . In a state of " total war ", the major participants threw their entire economic , industrial , and scientific capabilities behind the war effort , erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources . Marked by mass deaths of civilians , including the Holocaust ( in which approximately 11 million people were killed ) and the strategic bombing of industrial and population centres ( in which approximately one million were killed , and which included the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ), it resulted in an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities . These made ___MASK3___ War II the deadliest conflict in human history . Warsaw (; see also other names ) is the capital and largest city of ___MASK20___ . It stands on the Vistula River in east - central ___MASK20___ , roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains . Its population is estimated at 1 . 750 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 3 . 105 million residents , which makes Warsaw the 9th most - populous capital city in the European Union . The city limits cover , while the metropolitan area covers . The Warsaw Uprising was a major ___MASK3___ War II operation by the Polish resistance Home Army to liberate Warsaw from German occupation . The uprising was timed to coincide with the Soviet Union ' s Red Army approaching the eastern suburbs of the city and the retreat of German forces . However , the Soviet advance stopped short , enabling the Germans to regroup and demolish the city while defeating the Polish resistance , which fought for 63 days with little outside support . The Uprising was the largest single military effort taken by any European resistance movement during ___MASK3___ War II . The Warsaw Insurgents Cemetery ( Polish : Cmentarz Powstaców Warszawy ) is located at 174 / 176 Wolska Street in the Wola district of Warsaw . It was established in 1945 and occupies 1 . 5 hectares ( 3 . 7 acres ) . It is the largest burial site of victims of the Warsaw Uprising , which broke out on 1 August 1944 and lasted until 2 October 1944 . Approximately 104 , 000 people ( mainly persons unknown ) are buried in the cemetery , mostly in collective graves . Its centrepiece is the monument to The Fallen Unconquerable ( Polish : Polegli - Niepokonani ) , created by Professor Kazimierz Zema , under which the ashes of 50 , 000 victims of the uprising are buried . The monument was unveiled in 1973 . Approximately 10 , 000 Polish resistance fighters and 200 , 000 civilians were killed during the 63 days of the Warsaw Uprising . Thousands of victims were buried in makeshift graves all over Warsaw and thousands more were never identified or given any sort of burial . The huge task of exhuming and re - burying the dead began in 1945 . The first transfers of human remains to the newly created Warsaw Insurgents Cemetery began in November of that year and the remains of victims from all over the capital continued to be buried there for the next two years . Other victims of ___MASK3___ War II are also buried within the cemetery , including defenders of Warsaw during its siege by the Germans in September 1939 and Warsaw inhabitants murdered during the German occupation . Most of these are also persons unknown . Warsaw Insurgents Cemetery is adjacent to the Wola Cemetery ( Polish : Cmentarz Wolski ) .