- Without the Silesian insurgents who fought for independence, for the Republic, 99 years ago here, it can be boldly said, there would be no free Poland. There would be no Poland as it emerged from the rubble after the partitions, after 123 years. The young homeland was subjected to enormous pressure in a very short time, and it was here, in Silesia, Opole Silesia, that various battles took place. Battles as part of the Third Silesian Uprising, exactly 99 years ago. Common sense suggested: stay with the Germans. But the logic of the heart was different. Therefore, every insurgent who took up arms then, every Silesian family that had Poland in its heart then, belongs to the pantheon of our heroes. The pantheon of the founding fathers of our independence. The borders of the Second Polish Republic, as we well know, were not drawn with a pencil on a map, but were drawn with the blood of heroes. Heroes like the Silesian insurgents, who took up arms then and fought for the Polishness of Silesia. The battle remained undecided then, but it decided something fundamental. About the Polishness of Silesia. About the fact that there is no free Second Polish Republic, about the fact that there is no free Republic without Silesia, without Silesian hearts, which then so beautifully declared themselves for Poland - said Mateusz Morawiecki during a media statement in front of the Monument to the Insurgent Deed on St. Anne's Mountain.