Farewell of Slavianka - who is able to understand Poles ?

Sroka in Polish would be sb who steals from others. If an object is left lying, they will swipe it. That's what my Polish wife told me she understands by magpie.

Yes, and we have Great Britain and the United Kingdom :) You don't even have the Soviet Union, just Russia.

Your mighty country couldn't even take on tiny Chechnya, LOL. What's wrong with trade btw?

Thanks Boria. :) I liked the text. It sounds humane to me, as if it's first and foremost written by people and for people (not for the governmental needs).


Kostia, priwet! Do you personally know any Poles and whatever your answer is... how would describe then a Russian character? Wouldn't aforesaid fit him either?

Sean, do you speak any Scottish or it's as dead as Lenin? :)

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So is in Russian. Konst's simply making up new meanings. :)

CK is quite the character, ascribing new meanings to this and that ;)

I speak Scottish dialect and understand basic Gaelic greetings. However, we weren't given the option of Gaelic in school and I'm from the east coast where it isn't really spoken.

There is no widespread effort to suppress it. I don't think many Poles are that hard to understand.

sroka would rather be someone who compulsively takes possesion of bright/ visually attractive items (or anything that happens to attrats his/her interest) no matter what it is its practical value

You will see, we shall restore it under new name, it always have happened in the past!


Yes, he was veeery polite and agreeable person! But nation as a whole....brrr...

Russians are perfect creatures!

I agree with that too, gumishu. You have just qualified what I said with more precision. Do you fit that bill, Gumi? ;) ;)

Ah, ah.....that is precise description of Pole....

This comment contain much of true. Russia will recognize Kosovo right after Serbia.

yeah pretty much :)


well they have to be - noone would survive that long on 'spirt' based diet as Russians do :)

For a short moment I thought you were for real but then I read...


...LOL - nice wind-up attempt. ConstantineK :)

Look at prominent 'Russians', CK. Kasparov, an Azerbaijani by birth but with Armenian-Jewish roots. Jozef Dzhindhashvili, a Georgian and Fyodor Emelianenko, born in Ukraine :)

Should I be rummaging through the archives for some Baltic Russians? LOL ;)

Should I remind you that word "Russian" is adjective? You can write or say "Englishman" and it will be correct grammatical form for English language, but "Russianman" is nonsense!

You may have evem Jewish roots, but you are still Russian, if you were born in Russia.

You are getting into linguistics but in a foolish way, CK. He was born in Azerbaijan, not Russia. Georgia is not Russia. Chechnya is not Russia. Ukraine is not Russia. Start checking out maps, CK.

Crow - you know why there is not that much sympathy in Polish society towards Serbia? - most people have no idea what kind of damage or what extent of damage has been brought upon Serbia by the American bombings - you probably know who is guilty of that - yes it is journalists - most of Polish journalists are PC ****** ( w.h.o.r.e.s. - I don't know the realities in other countries but in Poland it is einfach spectacular - this is the only reason why PO (also falsle called Platforma Obywatelska or Civic Platform) gained power in 2007

the journalists will 'shy away' from any subject that is not 'in line', they will try to diminish, twist or discredit things there is no way to stop hitting the news

Then they are ignorant feckers. I saw only part of the devastation in Belgrade as major parts have been rebuilt.

I find it hard to believe that such BS could be written. What motives did those Polish journalists have to paint only one side of things? I don't get this. Then again, who are they in bed with? Those warmongers, the US and Britain.

From a perspective of time, this is indeed fascinating example of how mainstream western media serve as a lapdogs of political establishment. Politicians influenced proper people in media outlets to justify their military aggression. This is OK to bomb innocent civilians from the sky as long as they claim that their motivations are human rights and democracy. This is OK to portray a nation to be some kind of animals as long they are on the other side of barricade. Warmongering and nationalism is fine as long as this is western socialist establishment the one who encourage these primitive behaviours. Sjam, perhaps you have something to say about how your beloved western media performed during Balkan wars?

in this case yes - there are various bandwaggons though - perhaps there is no conservative bandwaggon - this kind of journalists here tend to be quite independent - the thing is the more 'liberal' journalism here the more herd instinct is there too it - the more blinkers and scorn - I get to believe this is valid to the whole PC phenomenon - in many Polish media entities individuals who ask difficult questions are not welcome

Lesser, don't ignore the trappings of capitalism either. NYC PR firms gladly signed up to represent the cause of the Bosniaks, spearheaded by Allah Izetbegovic. Serbia could have played that game but didn't. They stuck with the truth. America does this, they finance both sides whether it be Iran Vs Iraq, Israel Vs Palestine or IRA Vs Britain. In my view, this is worse than what socialists do.

Gumishu, liberals like Fisk will write what they see and not take allegiances. Independent journalists can present the truth without significant bias. This is what we want, even if it yields 'undesirable results'. This is the opposite of the herding effect. It just leads to more questioning people who will pursue the truth.