Considering the damage to Poland, Warsaw uprising, in my opinion, was not worth its cost. Although, it was a good move and fight back by the poles to gain independence from the red army of Germany, the killings and destructions encountered in the process was not worth the sacrifice.
About 200, 000 people, one-quarter of the poles at the time, were killed. Students, doctors, educators, future leaders, families and lives were lost due to this incident. Poland would have been more developed, populated, and technologically advanced if the people were not killed during that period. In order words, the injury inflicted on the Poles cost more than their sacrifice. Almost all the buildings in ancient Poland were also destroyed with time during this uprising.
Expecting help from the Soviet Union, the insurgents’ battle was intended to last for only a few days until the Soviet Army would reach the city. At first, the poles succeeded in gaining control over some streets in Warsaw after some days. It seemed like a success. However, the German had developed weapons and armies to fight, but the insurgents had no anti-aircraft weapons to defend Warsaw from the attack. In rescue of the Poles, Soviet forces had reached a point a few hundred meters from the city, across the Vistula River, but decided not to further the journey because Joseph Stalin wanted the insurrection to fail. This dramatically contributed to the failure of the uprising.
October 2nd when the poles surrendered to the German soldiers, all hope had been lost. This showed that the uprising has failed, binging forth negative effects on Warsaw because most lives had been lost including the insurgents’, and buildings in Warsaw had been reduced to the ground leaving the city to rebuild itself.
In addition, the Uprising of 1944 was not worth its cost. This is because the main objective of the uprising was not accomplished by the end of the battle; instead they lost almost all they depended on (their families, shelters, schools, churches and so on).