Talk:LWD Szpak

A fact from LWD Szpak appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 April 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the LWD Szpak (pictured) was the first Polish-designed post-World War II airplane?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/April.

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Poland liberated in 1944?[edit]

The Development section begins:

"The war destroyed the whole Polish aviation industry. As soon as the Eastern part of Poland was liberated by the Red Army in October 1944 ..."

Liberated? From whom? This junk reads like communist propaganda. The Poles must have so loved this "liberation" that it only took them nearly half a century to get around to deciding that they'd like to try independence again. I don't read or write Polish, but running the Polish version of this article through the Google translator reveals enough to show that the English article was heavily ad-libbed from the start. It's this kind of writing that's giving Wikipedia an increasingly poor reputation. The entire article should be edited for POV. I'm sure with a little effort the politics could be taken out to make it an NPOV technical/historical piece. —Quicksilver^{T @} 14:48, 17 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]