AH Challenge: Successful Warsaw Uprising

Is it possible for there to be a successful Warsaw Uprising in a recognizable WW2, with the large majority of the fighting force being the Polish Underground Army?
 
Is it possible for there to be a successful Warsaw Uprising in a recognizable WW2, with the large majority of the fighting force being the Polish Underground Army?

Some problems were (at least to my knowledge) some mistakes in coordination in the rising leading to some of the surprise being lost and also a large lack of weaponry. The lack of weapons where mostly due to the Germans raiding a few warehouses and underground factories in the months leading to the rising. This was due to the high command getting scared of some of the stockpiles being found and so they scattered them into the countryside, where ironically many where found. (I think, I'm no expert)

So, if you could stop this, then you have a better armed AK. Then, you need to try and get the groups better organized and informed. That would lead to less fubars.

However, the main problem is Stalin and the soviets. In OTL Stalin waited for the rising to be crushed before advancing to get rid of what would have been the main opposition to a communist Polish government. So, he naturally also did not many allied supply drops, as they would have to land in Soviet territory to then refuel and fly back to England or Italy. So if you can fix this problem, then you can have a successful rising. However, if you remove the problem of a uncooperative Soviet Union, then the reason for the uprising is mute, as its main goal was to set up a recognizable Polish government before Stalin set up a puppet, and any cooperative Soviet government wouldn't have plans to set up a puppet, IMO.
 
As mentioned, the Uprising instigators were mainly counting for the Red Army to intervene, as Soviet propaganda had given them the impression that they would. So I would agree that a change of heart on Stalin's part is what is needed. That, or possibly more of the German garrison shipped off to the front.
 

yourworstnightmare

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You need to have a different Soviet attitude towards Poland, so the Red Army intervenes and aid the uprising. Otherwise it's doomed to fail.
 
define success? Best case, the Germans pull out instead of reacting with massive force and the Home Army manages to gain control of the city before the Soviets arrive.

But unless Stalin drops dead the Soviets still set up the Lublin government and send everyone in the Home Army to Siberia (or a ditch with a bullet) after the war. Just like they did in the Ukraine (fighting there postwar continued into the 1950s). I can't see any kind of positive outcome for Poland torn as it was between the two worst tyrants of the 20th Century.
 
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