I think Gliński's could add some more elements to his article:
Nazis had plans to turn Warszawa into a provincial but yet a model Nazi town in Pabst Plan [1], by completely demolishing it and rebuilding anew. But after the Uprising, they just simply destroyed it [2].
In the 1952, Stalin offered Bolesław Bierut (president before the office was disbanded; later he become the chairman of the Council of State) a choice between building an underground network in Warszawa, building a housing estate or PKiN (the Palace of Culture and Science). The answer was: "The underground is unnecessary, we can build the housing estate ourselves" - and so, out of Bierut's choice, the Palace was built.[3] Some criticize the decision and today even the very existence of the Palace that shares style with Moskow's Seven Sisters skyscrapers [4] and is considered as a monument of Soviet and Russian influence over Poland. It's still a quite hot political potato for all sides.
It's also somehow intriguing to think how Łódź would look like if it would permanently become the country's capital; the city itself changed much in last 12 years mainly because of new communication hub that Łódź Fabryczna railway station become. But that's still not the same as being the capital.
The underground network was started but scrapped and later erased from history due to the failure (flooding they couldn't fix) of the tunnel under Vistula river - the tunnel still exists, abandoned, with collapsed openings - no idea if the tunnel collapsed in part or not.
Nazis had plans to turn Warszawa into a provincial but yet a model Nazi town in Pabst Plan [1], by completely demolishing it and rebuilding anew. But after the Uprising, they just simply destroyed it [2].
In the 1952, Stalin offered Bolesław Bierut (president before the office was disbanded; later he become the chairman of the Council of State) a choice between building an underground network in Warszawa, building a housing estate or PKiN (the Palace of Culture and Science). The answer was: "The underground is unnecessary, we can build the housing estate ourselves" - and so, out of Bierut's choice, the Palace was built.[3] Some criticize the decision and today even the very existence of the Palace that shares style with Moskow's Seven Sisters skyscrapers [4] and is considered as a monument of Soviet and Russian influence over Poland. It's still a quite hot political potato for all sides.
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pabst_Plan
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_Warsaw
[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Culture_and_Science
[4] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sisters_(Moscow)
It's also somehow intriguing to think how Łódź would look like if it would permanently become the country's capital; the city itself changed much in last 12 years mainly because of new communication hub that Łódź Fabryczna railway station become. But that's still not the same as being the capital.