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celinski   
13 Mar 2008
News / More countries sign visa free travel agreement with the U.S. Still no Poland? [16]

Eastern European bilateral agreements in visa dispute

Following the Czech Republic's example, Latvia and Estonia have now also signed individual agreements with the United States which exempt their citizens from visa requirements for travel to the US. The EU is trying to negotiate a common visa agreement for all member states. What repercussions will these independent initiatives have on Europe's common foreign and security policy?
celinski   
12 Mar 2008
News / Polish leader promises compensation for confiscated propery in Poland [17]

Tusk, meeting Monday at the Polish Consulate in New York with representatives of several major Jewish organizations, promised that legislation would be introduced this spring that provides some measure of compensation for confiscated property under previous authoritarian regimes.
celinski   
11 Mar 2008
History / Poland Betrayed in WW2 [243]

however just going round and round in circles helps nobody and especially yourselves.

Funny thing is Stalin and Hitler thought the same thing. In fact, Communist Poland made sure they were silent. Sorry tornado, we are free as is all of Poland to speak out. I will be the judge of what is good for me. I repeat, if it bothers you so much why do you stay. Are you Russian by chance, they were used to telling Poland's people what to do and getting there own way.
celinski   
11 Mar 2008
History / Poland Betrayed in WW2 [243]

I am working on this very issue. I sent you my link and there are alot in the files. Sadly we are Polish victim's and Stalin wrath... they seemed to have forgotten it was Poland that was attacked and Stalin killed more than Hitler. 1939-45 eastern Poland sent to Siberia to die. Katyn massacre 22,000 /25,000 killed on Stalins orders.
celinski   
11 Mar 2008
History / WW2: Britain Declares War on Germany to Save Poland [290]

Why say there was an aggreement if Brits never intended to keep their word. The guns fell silent. Why so they could hear Poland being slautered. Britian never so much as tried or had any intention to,this was just there way IMO of assuring Poland did not join Germany and head toward them together. Mind you that just MO
celinski   
11 Mar 2008
History / Poland Betrayed in WW2 [243]

Not to mention if you don't want to talk about the past then don't come into "Poland betrayed in WW2" ya think it may be the past.
celinski   
10 Mar 2008
News / Should Polish citizens living abroad have the right to vote in elections [69]

In order to vote they must fill out an absentee ballot. If they are a citizen that would go through this process they are most likely in the military and have every right to have their vote counted. I don't think it's a matter of 20 years and all of a sudden someone decides to vote.
celinski   
10 Mar 2008
History / Poland Betrayed in WW2 [243]

how are you going to achieve closure if you keep talking about the subject, what has happened has happened, you can't change it, its not like a contempary issue is it?

Well lets start with the whole truth, I am not taking "Nazi" here, I am referring to "Soviet". This was not as told in history books across the nation, Poland included, a "Jewish Holocaust", this was directed at "Polish". How many victim's were Greek/Roman Catholic? How many were victim's of "Stalin's"? Where did "Stalin" start killing off the "Polish in eastern Poland"?

Enough with the lie's about history. We have a choice here, include the "Polish victims of Stalin" in the "Holocaust" or name the ones silenced by a nation. Millions of people were killed, slaved, exiled from our country. You can't comprehend we have a right to be added. I am not just speaking of "Katyn" I am speaking Poland's military reserve and their families. Poland's hero's that fought on the front line to free Poland in 1920. Then once more when they recieved amnesty they were your "Ander's Army". In the end to be betrayed and loose the country they fought for. Now today when Poland is free you say, why talk about it? Is this how you respect your hero's.
celinski   
10 Mar 2008
Life / What kind of antiques are popular in Poland? [49]

I often wonder what happened to all my families belongings from eastern Poland when "Stalin" sent them to "Siberia". Things like pictures of my family and my grandfathers journal to me are priceless. One journal was taken from my aunt in Iran but the others were left at the estate and they covered his capture and front line in WW1.
celinski   
10 Mar 2008
History / Poland Betrayed in WW2 [243]

You don't need to infect the new generation with negative talk, yes the history is important but it should not be param

What is it you fear? Give the new generation credit. Or are you referring to Feliks and myself? We are the ones that lost our fathers homeland. You see Poland has victims that have a right to speak. Kind of funny the way "Communism" silenced the people and now the very people our fathers fought to protect think they can silence us.

I remember!

Reading Stalin's Secret Police Files of the Executed

Stalin said to himself: "Who's going to
remember all this riff-raff in ten or twenty years time? No one. Who
remembers the names now of the boyars Ivan the Terrible got rid of?
No one.... The people had to know he was getting rid of all his
enemies. In the end, they all got what they deserved."

voices of fear, agony, anger, resistance, despair and resignation
from people faced with execution. Even their forced silence often
sounds eloquent. These people were condemned to oblivion by Stalin
for whom their lives meant nothing. Ironically, Stalin's attempt to
extinguish their voices was the instrument that has preserved them,
in the depths of their case files. At least hundreds of thousands of
similar files are still waiting to be read in the archives throughout
the former Soviet Union.

hnn.us/articles/47625.html
celinski   
7 Mar 2008
History / Poland Betrayed in WW2 [243]

The polish have a lot to be positive about from where i'm standing why do you need to keep rolling back the years to times of misery and bad memories, its almost like you enjoy doing it.

This most recent generation are the future of your country and these are the ones that should be concentrated on.

The ones that were brought up under a "Communist lie" and told they could not speak. Do you understand Polands people lost the country they also loved and there next gen was born in another country due to this loss. Maybe when the lie's are corrected in history we will be able to let go, until then I from the USA was denied being a part of this most recent generation. Or are our feeling not to matter.

You also have a choice, this is not the only post, you can just pass it by rather than try to silence the very people that are now free to speak.
celinski   
7 Mar 2008
History / European Union to learn facts "WW2 Polish expellees" 70 years later? [3]

"A forgotten Odyssey" or "The Other Truth" yes it would be great if Jagna Wrights work was included and that the presentation be set up within Poland itself as well. I would love to see more on this presintation and what it fully consists of. It did not show a date, maybe there will be follow up.
celinski   
7 Mar 2008
UK, Ireland / Interesting documentary tonight about white Brits.... [9]

“It isn’t our area any more, it is theirs.

Why anyone thinks a show like this is acceptable is beyond me. This is just going to hurt feelings and lets face it maybe this nation needs to understand we do not own, we are borrowing this planet. This makes the Brits look like stuck up snobs that feel they are better. Judge not, least we be judged.
celinski   
7 Mar 2008
History / How long was Poland "lost in history"? [21]

E.H. Lewinski-Corwin and published in 1917

What aboout 1939-45 when 40% of Poland was gone? People are still alive to tell and yet no one hears.
celinski   
7 Mar 2008
History / How long was Poland "lost in history"? [21]

Are you kidding look at the reply's to this post:

European Union to learn facts "WW2 Polish expellees" 70 years later?

History is being altered and no one seems to care, please tell me I'm wrong?
celinski   
6 Mar 2008
History / European Union to learn facts "WW2 Polish expellees" 70 years later? [3]

WW2 Polish expellees on display at the European Parliament

The exhibition is on display at the European Parliament building.The
European Parliament is hosting an exhibition on expulsions of Poles
between 1939 and 1945. The event gives an excellent opportunity to
present unknown facts to the European public.

'There is a lot of ignorance about the fate of Poland during the 20th
century and particularly during the Second World War. This gap is
filled with absurd stereotypes. Therefore the main goal of this
exhibition is to make Europeans more familiar with Polish history.'

Has there ever been a country that the history has been silenced, denied, ignored for 70 years? Millions of people have not been added to the price paid in Poland 1939-45, the people I speak of are the ones born right there. Is it guilt (countries that did not help), or fear of paying compensation, having to face lie's that were told for 70 years?

I am shocked that this is not front page headline, numbers will alter history books and the full truth will be told. Did Poland's Army flee the country due to lack of love for Poland? Or did they loose the very country they fought to protect?

Carol, USA
celinski   
1 Mar 2008
Food / poppy seed bread recipe [10]

I have a great recipe for poppy seed bread.

Gloria,
Can you send me a copy? Thank you, Carol
celinski   
1 Mar 2008
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

Please use the link and read the full artical.

Please educate yourself on what Russia is up to before you respond to this post...

Polish defiance built on British intel
By Gordon Thomas

Britain's Secret Intelligence Service has played a role in providing Poland with information allowing the Warsaw government, which came to power last November, to let America base its "Son of Star Wars" missile defense system in the country.

The Polish deal has infuriated Russian President Vladimir Putin and damaged his carefully laid plans for his successor, Dmitry Medvedev, to develop Russian influence in Central and Eastern Europe.

Poland's decision to allow the defense system to be sited on its soil is a bold defiance of Moscow and could yet have far reaching consequences in the struggle between Russia and the West that has increasing echoes of the Cold War.

canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/2084
celinski   
28 Feb 2008
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

Nobody is concerned about Poland. Just there is such small country, just a country, little country.

Seems to me for a little country she is growing "Pretty Big and Strong". Please do not speak for others, the way I see it a super power is concerned about Poland. Need I say more.
celinski   
28 Feb 2008
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

Was Iran not the country why Poland really needed the anti missile shield to be aimed toward? The connections are and have been there IMO.
celinski   
28 Feb 2008
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

Last night on BBC I heard that Pres. Putin is going to join the west with santions on Iran, could Putin really be concerned for Poland? I couldn't believe this, here he give the Iran the means to make this threat and now he's made this statement. I had to wonder if Putin himself ran into difficulity working with Iran or is this a way for him to change the way Russia fits into the puzzle, any thoughts?