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Sokrates   
3 Sep 2009
News / The most spectacular errors in Polish politics. [264]

Why would that be arrogant?

Because history proves otherwise which means you either dont know the history of the paritions or know it but ignore it.

130 years - 5 uprisings and constant resistance.

It happened to others countless times in the past

However Poland proved itself to be unique in this particular aspect.

What makes you think that Polish people are completely
different than everybody else in this respect?

History.

Show me a country that faced such odds for 130 years and then took back its independence without much support, a country that wouldnt grow weary during a century of occupation?

Yeah none, except Poland.

In a pill, during 130 years Poles fought 5 uprisings, 2 of which were regular wars which gave the occupants a run for their money, they established a continous underground thriving education system and kept their culture alive and thriving.

Some of the best Polish writers and poets come from the partition era writing about? Independence.

Then Poland goes peacefull for 40 years only to rise in arms the second an occasion comes which proves no one assimilated, no one gave up, everyone was waiting and the entire nation took a chance the moment it came.

In light of this it didnt matter whether the chance came after 130 or if it would come after 300, if our history under partitions doesnt prove we're absolutely unbendable regardless of time or odds i dont know what does.
Sokrates   
3 Sep 2009
News / The most spectacular errors in Polish politics. [264]

If oppression would have been unbearable before WW1,

Which it was not since Polish culture thrived even in Prussia.

I believe that without WW1 the Poles simply would have continued to arrange themselves with the system

I hate romanticizing but there's no way around it, you would need to read some actuall books to realise just how absolutely uncompromising Polish patriotism was in times of crisis, of course some chose the easy path but ultimately assimilation would not happen, Poles did not let go for even an inch for 130 years, what makes you think they would magically change their position in 5 or 50 or 500 years?

If a nation holds on to an ideal for over a century despite such enormous odds its clear enough its not going to let go, ever.

and would have stayed "good"

Read up on the subject, some Poles chose to stay "good" and still work for Poland, by and large there was no acceptance towards occupation and no signs it would ever change.

German, Russian or Austro-Hungarian citizens while keeping their Polish culture.

However what happened was that Poland stayed "good" for 40 something years and the moment the opportunity came to kick the occupying forces out there was a nationwide rise to do it, history showed that Poland did not and would not give up so WW1 or not the first European conflict or crisis would see Poles take back whats theirs anyway.

Saying that we'd assimilate when we stayed strong for 130 years and never gave a sign of wearing down is pretty arrogant.
Sokrates   
3 Sep 2009
News / The most spectacular errors in Polish politics. [264]

Not necceserily, Poland would become an influential minority in all paritioning countries, restitution of Poland was only a matter of time WW1 or not, you cant wipe a large nation off the map permanently without extensive genocide, especially not an old one like Poland where with history comes national integrity.
Sokrates   
3 Sep 2009
News / PUTIN'S LETTER HAILED BY TUSK POLISH GOVT [17]

So....what more could Poland possible want?

For Russia to stop f*cking with us and start being a responsible partner, Germany managed it.

Apart from our political wh0res the majority of the establishment does business with Russia only because its neccesary, no one takes Russians seriously anymore, eventually Russia will want to improve relations and no one will be interested.

Amusingly enough its much more important for Russia to have good relations with us then the other way around, Russia remains only a tiny part of our export and we still are a large importer and a transit country so fvcking with us will eventually hurt them plenty.
Sokrates   
29 Aug 2009
News / The most spectacular errors in Polish politics. [264]

Russians never said they were going to help the uprising.

Yes they did, what you want to say is that Stalin never gave an official promise, he did however ordered radio broadcasts that encouraged Warsaw to rise, such broadcasts could be interpreted in only one way.
Sokrates   
29 Aug 2009
News / The most spectacular errors in Polish politics. [264]

The Soviets had no intention to get common borders with Nazis.

But they had every intention of subduing Poland, they'd enter with their armies and duke it out here.

wanted the states between them and Germany to work as a buffer to keep the german forces away.They would just keep bases without changing the government in Poland.Soviets wanted to have bases in Finland,Hungary,Poland,Romania and even Denmark.

Oh please Southern, a country that repeatedly stated that Poland needs to go would just keep bases? Is that some cheap provocation or dont you know your history, 19 years before they tried to wipe us out and you're expecting people to buy that?

Polish goverment didnt buy it then (quite correctly) and its hardly a mistake.

Chose to fight with no perspectives and no help from the West for a lost cause.

But we chose to fight instead of just bending over and watching our women raped, economy plundered and elites murdered, that was the Russian intention all along, it would happen anyway, the only thing we could keep at that point was our pride.

Why towards Germany?Most probably they would ally with Poland,Czechoslovakia against Germany.

Mainly because RUssia caused the great hunger and Germany was another anti-Polish state with power, no one gave a dime about Czechoslovakia back then since it was outside the main game.

Czechoslovakia refused to fight.

Again your lack of historical knowledge, Czechoslovakia was willing to go to great lenghts to achieve a compromise with Poland, with a huge Polish army backing them they were most definitely willing to fight and given their level of motorisation and strategic positioning together we would have a good shot at Germany, maybe not conquering it but definitely breaking its military.
Sokrates   
29 Aug 2009
News / The most spectacular errors in Polish politics. [264]

Soviets proposed an alliance and a secret treaty of mutual defence which was rejected by Poland.

I know what they proposed, the problem was that in reality it meant becoming a Soviet province, it was obvious (and in light of the later Soviet actions proven correct) that once they entered Poland they would not leave.

The goverment simply chose to fight rather than give away our freedom willingly, it would be an agreement to a horrible occupation only marginally better than the Nazi one.

There would be two states in common danger which would cooperate and not one nation feeling betrayed and oppressed ready to cooperate with Germans or communists for their independance.Poles were short sighted in 1923 unlike the communist leaders of that period pho saw the future more clearly.

Ukrainian nationalist forces were militarily weak, politically and economically they were virtually non existent, creating a weak buffer state that might shift towards Germany (Ukrainians back then were quite pro German) would be counter productive.

Poles were short sighted in 1923 unlike the communist leaders of that period pho saw the future more clearly.

No they were not, the situation was difficult, Poland had no friends in the region and no means of creating them in the short term, it could invest in Ukraine of course but Ukraine was and would be too weak to be of any meaningfull support.

The only thing i agree was a huge mistake was not helping Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovaks had a relatively powerfull army, working with them might have accomplished more than the phony alliance with the West.
Sokrates   
29 Aug 2009
News / The most spectacular errors in Polish politics. [264]

2.No alliance with Soviets in 1939

Soviets didnt want an alliance.

1.No recognition of independant ukrainian state in 1922.

How would recognizing Ukraine benefit Poland?

Also Southern in 1968 we did not have much choice, to refuse invasion of Czechoslovakia would mean getting invaded ourselves and while this invasion was ceirtanly a bad thing to happen interests of Czechoslovakia were not worth another destructive war for Poland.
Sokrates   
26 Aug 2009
News / What needs to happen in the world so that Poland and Russia form alliance? [297]

At least you will not have a border with them :) Thread of another occupation will decrease.

Kaliningrad doesnt count anyway, for all intents and purposes we dont have a border that would threaten us.

I have not seen Kaliningrad but there are a lot of Russian

One of the highest HIV rates in Russia (which is Africa-esque when AIDS is concerned anyway) and scrub poor, Russians are like a reverse working Midas, everything they touch turns into ruined crap.
Sokrates   
26 Aug 2009
News / Jews use American congress to pressure Polish government to PAY [63]

Lame or not, no Polish goverment will ever agree to pay, it would mean permanent political death to every single member of the leading party/president and anyone who'd support it, the public would never forgive it.

Our politicians may be wh0ring for votes but thats exactly why those greedy Jews aint getting a penny, an outrageous claim too.
Sokrates   
25 Aug 2009
News / Russia opens archives and Poland demands minority rights from Germany [60]

Rzeczpospolita is not the same as GazWyb.

Crap i was thinking Wyborcza and writing Rzeczpospolita... But the point still stands, someone is proxying for people who would not like Polish-German reconciliation.

then I can see the issue as a response to the Steinbach issue.

Steinbach is an anti-Polish populist and opportunist, she's suspected of sympathizing with neo-nazis, she was against Poland joining NATO and EU, do you really expect she's interested in any arguments Poles might forward?
Sokrates   
25 Aug 2009
Love / How to gain the attention of a Polish man? [71]

"Hi you're hot"
"Yeah i am wanna fvck?"

I dunno its either sockpuppet accounts or unadjusted loners posting here. How much trouble can asking someone on a date be ffs, worst he can do is say no.

"Want to grab a coffe after work?"
"No you're unzipped and your boner is sticking out"
"K... "

That simple.
Sokrates   
25 Aug 2009
News / What needs to happen in the world so that Poland and Russia form alliance? [297]

Polish king invited

A Polish prince.

Prussians and Lithuanians

Just Prussians.

It gave them a foothold

They were given lands actually.

Slavs, like many other races, have a history of being given Christianity and then attempting to use it to dominate others.

Really? Prussian crusades were done mainly because the pissants wouldnt stop invading Polish duchies.

While Poland did conquer and dominate large swaths of todays Ukraine, Belarus and Russia it was done through cultural and military means, religion just piggybacked afterwards. Russia never crusaded either so i'm sorry while Slavs did conquer like everyone else unlike everyone else they were fairly tolerant when it comes to religion.

An American friend of mine once made a history professor in Skopje choke by asking, "Why are Kiril and Metodij seen as heroes?"

And thats what happens when buggersou post on the internet, i'm not insulting you, i'm just outlining that being uneducated you make a fool of yourself by making up little stories.

Ciril and Methody opposed German clergy in that they persisted in creating a Slavic version of Christian Church with intent of preserving Slavic culture which would otherwise in time be threatened by German missionaries, they also comprised the first uniform alphabet from many old Slavonic languages and you claim that a professor didnt know that and conceeded that:

"Oh, so two Slavs sell out their own people to the Greeks... and you make them heroes."

Professor (whispers) "OK, but I CAN'T say THAT!"

If i know that than an educated academic will know that too, there's other reasons for them being incredible heroes for the Slavs but fvck you for making shyt up you troglodyte, there's google so dumb dumbs like you could learn, dont make stuff up in the future.

These two guys are responsible for the fact that we dont have German speaking Russia today.

Because as a Catholic country Poland has always seen herself aligned to the West.

Rubbish, Polish culture up untill XVI century was a mix of west, east and turkish influences, Poland was for most of its existence a central power completely different from both West and East, you could find people wearing German fashion, Polish clothes, Hungarian clothes, Russian ones, Poland was an extremely mixed state.

Serious westernization starts with the partitions when two Western countries get a large swath of Poland and Russian part starts building up the industry.

Also i'd stop convincing Crow, he's some kind of a troll, he just keeps repeating himself over and over like a schizophrenic energizer bunny.
Sokrates   
25 Aug 2009
Love / How to gain the attention of a Polish man? [71]

Basically i have only ever gone out with english guys

We are absolutely no different than Brits, there are no special requirements, if he's some twisted serial killer keeping pickled babies in his closet thats because he's fvcked up not because he's Polish, treat him like you'd treat a Brit.
Sokrates   
25 Aug 2009
News / Russia opens archives and Poland demands minority rights from Germany [60]

This paper (and others) needs an english section (like Der Spiegel).
Would help neighbours to understand what's going on in these lands...

The paper is being owned by a Jewish communist who openly supported Gross' heavily anti-Polish book, i wouldnt its a big newspaper but not necceserily reflecting nationwide views.

I wonder why this paper wants to stir up useless trouble again?

Becasue Michnik (the guy who owns it) has an agenda, i'm not sure who's proxy he is but for years now the newspaper act like our forum Harry, except in softcore version.

One theory i have is that he's associating with post-communist Jewry in Russia, if he's a Russian proxy or just a post-commie Jews proxy he wouldnt like to see Polish-German reconciliation which is obviously bad for Russia who doesnt like EU as such as Poland-Germany is one of the oldest strains here, if it gets fixed entire Eastern Europe falls into German-Polish influence.

I kinda thought that we had already solved the minority agreements

We did solve it, it is honored, Rzeczpospolita is trolling like always.
Sokrates   
24 Aug 2009
History / Drang nach Osten. [79]

Didnt notice its thread necromancy - edited.
Sokrates   
24 Aug 2009
News / What needs to happen in the world so that Poland and Russia form alliance? [297]

If Russians give Kaliningrad to Poles as a gesture :)

Jesus Christ, you want to collapse our economy with a HIV infested 3rd world enclave? Have you ever seen Kaliningrad? They can keep it.

At the moment, I think Russia would like for Poland to admit they started WWII and aknowledge our insane resistance to Russia's great efforts to bring peace and prosperity to all the workers in the world.

Sasha is partly right, this is not a start of some grand political offensive but rather demagogical attempt at shoving guilt under the carpet, we should issue measured responces and not allowed domestic idiots (politicians) to use it as their vote gathering bytch, its no big deal.

I don't think they can ever forgive us for stopping them in 1920 from flodding Europe.

A typical Russian sees Poland a small and insignificant country (despite us being 1/3 of their economy) of course most are buying the goverment crap to some degree but they dont blame us anymore.

"The best defense is an offense.

Which in this case is stupid because the majority of Europe stops taking Russian historical claims serious and once future generations of Russians will try and come to grips with their history for good no one will even listen to them.

The ball is in the Russians' court.

There is no game so how can there be a ball?:)

That said Russia is stuck at a medieval stage with failing economy and stagnant society, there cant be a dialogue when only one side is capable of talking, Russia is not evil (though it does evil) its simply a product of a century long path that ultimately leads to failiure as a state antagonizing everyone and their brother along the way.

Russia can't change even if it wants to.
Sokrates   
20 Aug 2009
Love / Abuse in relationships (my first Polish girlfriend) [216]

I will say this though; if a wacko woman smacks me hard on my face then I would likely smack her right back. I believe in teaching women real equality.

Which is why you're using internet dating portals, on the other hand women are physically weaker, you want equality start a fight that requires testicular fortitude, beating up someone because you can using a slap as an excuse makes you a sad creature.

In another thread I discussed 'women's shaming tactics' and listed a batch that women use.

There's one thing thats larger than my ego and thats my dick and even to me you seem to be compensating for your small penis syndrome, between your fantasies about women shaking ass at you and you beating them sensless for it when you're not curled in the corner hurt by an evil female you sound pathetic.

Lucky that you didn't run into this girl;

How about you stop bringing mental cases to the table, self defence is an obvious exclusion, what you're saying is that its beat up a woman for a slap.
Sokrates   
19 Aug 2009
Love / Abuse in relationships (my first Polish girlfriend) [216]

If you say that you would never use violence against a female, no matter what kind of situätion it is,

No, if she ran towards me with a knife or tried to mug me in a dark alley i'd probably get medieval but we're talking relationships here and yes you should never use violence in relationships, some situations take character not fists.

If you know it's your only chance to survive.

Calm down, Zimmy argued that we should discipline our women by an occasional gentle kick to the face if they get physical not that we shouldnt defend our lives if a local crackpot comes at us with a chainsaw, its obvious.

Tell me you're not that stupid. Let's say she's coming at you with a bat, or a gun, or a knife

Zimmy dont fvck the cat by the tail, you've been arguing that we should discipline women if they get uppity and suddenly it changes into Jenny the Jigsaw assaulting a man with a rusty nailbat.

You wouldn't say that to my face (without trembling).

Seriously man ... Between your milf fantasies and this i'm starting to feel sorry.

As to character, the next time a woman hits you with some object, lets say she pokes your eye out, just tell her you're leaving because you have more character than she does.

You know the way you're writing i'm wondering how did i even survive my dating years, its been over a dozen girls and somehow i managed not to end up a bloodied corpse.

Does a slap on the ass count as beating you up? ;0)

According to Zimmy thats practically murder!
Sokrates   
19 Aug 2009
Love / What are the perceptions of polish towards homosexuality? [106]

as long as str8 ppl are doing that, gay ppl will be doing that as well... seems like you’ve never been outside Poland… poor u.

I've been outside of Poland i've seen it in UK, Belgium and Holland, always felt uneasy and disgusted, men acting overly feminine or doing it with other men just disgust me, i'm not for equal rights, if gays want to live together let them and fry anyone who abuses them for it but dont treat them like you would heterosexual couples, no kids, no marriages, ever.
Sokrates   
19 Aug 2009
Love / What are the perceptions of polish towards homosexuality? [106]

As long as they dont feck each other in public, dont kiss each other on the buss or try to adopt kids i dont care.

Also if i ever see two men holding hands i'll make a point of throwing up on their shoes my enormous tolerance notwithstanding.