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11 Things Done Faster than Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 has been delayed – again! It made us wonder about how long this game has been in development, and we started to compare it to... anything that came to our minds, actually.

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Reconstruction of Old Town Warsaw after WW2

  1. Duration: 7 years
  2. When: 1945 – 1952

This was only the first stage of reconstruction, symbolically completed by the dissolution of the Office of Reconstruction of the Capital. Further work continued for years.

There's still a while left before all you Samurais will have a chance to burn the city. But you know that. Keanu Reeves won't visit you until December 2020. History shows that such a task can be completed with hellish efficiency and horrendous pace.

During World War 2, 85% of Warsaw was literally levelled by artillery shelling and a bombing campaign. After the war, however, a beautiful story was made by the Poles who strove to rebuild the historical old town, and the rest of the city. It took them about seven years to complete the former stage.

After the war, the city, just like Dresden, Berlin, or Hiroshima, was mostly a rubble. Imagine seeing your own city in complete ruins... The extent of the damage was so great that the authorities considered moving the capital south-west, to Lodz. In the end, this idea was abandoned.

Warsaw was rebuilt by a nation-wide effort, as the city was not only destroyed, but also largely depopulated. Workers were recruited all over the country, and flocked to the capital, often establishing their homes and families there. It is sometimes said that the reconstruction of Warsaw is one of the wonders of the world. The scale of that undertaking was immense.

Anyway, in 1952 the old town was finally reconstructed, symbolically completing the rebirth of the city after the blaze of war. In other words, no matter how dramatic it may sound, the Poles rebuilt Warsaw in real life faster than CD Projekt Red burned down their city in Cyberpunk 2077. That's a Platinum for Poland!

Matthias Pawlikowski

Matthias Pawlikowski

The editor-in-chief of GRYOnline.pl, associated with the site since the end of 2016. Initially, he worked in the guides department, and later he managed it, eventually becoming the editor-in-chief of Gamepressure, an English-language project aimed at the West, before finally taking on his current role. In the past, a reviewer and literary critic, he published works on literature, culture, and even theater in many humanities journals and portals, including the monthly Znak or Popmoderna. He studied literary criticism and literature at the Jagiellonian University. Likes old games, city-builders and RPGs, including Japanese ones. Spends a huge amount of money on computer parts. Apart from work and games, he trains tennis and occasionally volunteers for the Peace Patrol of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity.

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