Life / What kind of antiques are popular in Poland? [49]

My christmas tree is done every year in old glass, hand blown ornaments from Poland, they are beautiful. I also have the round glass oil lamp, I have never used it but love the colors. Do you have alot of used book stores in Poland, I have "The Black Book" and many other great books.

Life / What kind of antiques are popular in Poland? [49]


I purchased pictures 100+ years old on Ebay from Ukraine, I did end up paying alot for shipping but it I saw icons that reminded me of my grandfather. I watch one site that sells of alot of item from Ukraine, including homes for as low as $3,000. US dollars.

News / What you think about the Polish President, Kaczynski? [53]


I also think Tusk is doing a good job, he handled his visit with Russia in a very respectable way while holding his ground.

News / What you think about the Polish President, Kaczynski? [53]

I think he is neat. IMO it is what Poland needed to break out of there shell of silence.

USA, Canada / Polish, American, Polish-American - what am I to you? [34]


Look at the studies with twins that are raised in differant area's and households, they come together and still are very much the same.

Life / School for 6 year olds an obligation in Poland soon? [19]


I guess you are right there is good and bad in any system. I wanted my children to have the buddies and structure of school. I also continue to try new learning with trips of our own. I'm not sure yet who enjoys the trips more, me or the kids.


This seems like child abuse, why take on the resposibility of your own childs mind with such selfish behavior. I view my children as my most important job I will ever hold. They learn so much is such a short time, IMO many US schools do not challange the ability to learn enough. I always strive to introduce new views and learning experances. How sad for a child to be denied a sound foundation.

USA, Canada / Polish, American, Polish-American - what am I to you? [34]

This is where you are wrong, dna is your past and your future. Why else can you explain the pull for children born in another country to there homeland?

USA, Canada / Polish, American, Polish-American - what am I to you? [34]

One fact that maybe Polish are not aware of, if your name is "ski' in USA most refer to you as Polish. It really does not matter what you speak. Many of the Polish that were born here after "Communist Poland" was born, have lived in another country that segregates them into this "Polish" grouping. To put it bluntly, we are not considered American and now that Poland is free it hurts to hear Poland say we are not Polish. I don't care if a person is deaf, dumb, and blind, it's what is your blood.

My Gradfather was born in Rzym, Polska yet my father and aunts were eastern Poland (now Ukraine) are we Ukrainian or Polish?

UK, Ireland / British/Polish baby [29]

British/Polish baby, Peter and the Wolf. Great job.

Life / School for 6 year olds an obligation in Poland soon? [19]


Where in the USA are you? In Connecticut the children are monitored by the state, they must achive high standards. I send my children to school, but I have been impressed with children's education level that are home schooled here. Our public schools IMO repeat vs new up to date material.

History / Kresy-Siberia, Galicia [16]

This is a link for the location of "Katyn" massacre. Not all of the murders took place here and we still wait for location of additional burial locations from Russia.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre - this 2nd link give the pictures of the memorial and alot of information.

katyn.org.au/memorials.html

this is the original order signed by "Stalin"



Hope this helps

Life / School for 6 year olds an obligation in Poland soon? [19]


This is a great point, for that reason the children are able to take classes in schools, like music, art or even math, english. Whatever the child would do better in school with. Plus we have alot of extra after school sports. My daughter stated kind. this year and her class consists of 11 children, it's great because they all get lots of attention and no child falls behind. She started at 5 years old and they want the children reading and writing when they start in Sept.

History / Kresy-Siberia, Galicia [16]


Thank you, this is one of the ones I enjoy: lots of information. The picture you see is our memorial in Warsaw, it's the cattle car used to deport and each train track is the different areas. Feb. 10 it is lite with candles and so beautiful. I gave a link if you were sent to Siberia to add your family.

electronicmuseum.ca/Poland-WW2/soviet_deportations/deportations.html

Life / School for 6 year olds an obligation in Poland soon? [19]

"real trouble"

Do you have home schooling? In the US we can homeschool and must have the children pass a test from the state. Studies show that most of the homeschooled children do better.

History / Kresy-Siberia, Galicia [16]


I can't believe how many times this area has changed hands. This is why I wanted Ukraine to join NATO as a way of keeping it.

History / Kresy-Siberia, Galicia [16]

No this is where the army reserve where given homes after 1920. Look at all the Catholic church's. We all lived side by side in peace, Jewish, Catholic's and Ukrainians.This was my families home and birth place.

History / German Deaf/Mute able to give voices to Hitler's personal videos...scary [29]

I have 1/4 horses, they do the barrels quit well and "Ant" I call snoopy, she loves to snoop through the woods and taste the leaves.

As I read on your family they were just like mine. Being the first gen. born in the USA I grew strong with Polish blood that was never silenced. My Dad never spoke of what the family left behind. This was his way of protecting my childhood dreams. In the USA where I live the "Holocaust" was a crime directed toward Jewish victims. I also never meet my Grandmother, two aunts and one uncle. Black and white pictures of them I treasure as I seach them for answers. My father was born on a field in Wolyn and went from a happy young boy to hell. Life as he knew it was never to be the same. Growing up in the USA I was in school where the children told me to go back to Poland, I didn't belong here. As a child born here I never fully understood what they were saying. Today I do understand but maybe it is my being between two countries that I hold onto both, protect both and love both.

History / German Deaf/Mute able to give voices to Hitler's personal videos...scary [29]


I couldn't have said it better myself. Go to the link below, this group of people are waiting for history to document and give their stories there place in history. I will continue to yell, scream, stomp my feet (if need be) until this is done.

kresy-siberia.org

History / German Deaf/Mute able to give voices to Hitler's personal videos...scary [29]


Tell our stories. Maybe you feel your is documented, my family is left out. Being Roman Catholic in eastern Poland has left our families "forgotten". Don't believe me, look up "Holocaust", how many do you see. Thank you for thinking of my well being. My home is filled with love, I saddle my horse and go for a ride and my thoughts are of positive. When I come in here I feel I have a responsability to my family to be the voice they were denied. You cannot silence me as "Stalin" silenced Poland. My family were in the camps you speak of. My father cannot speak because it hurts and I know of his nightmares. I speak for him and all the people I have come to know and love.

I watched the video above and think of my father, a young boy in Siberia concentration camp, when the snow fell and they were the real victims. You see it's all on our past as to how we can view this.

History / German Deaf/Mute able to give voices to Hitler's personal videos...scary [29]



Thank you Julie. And as for you my pretty Filios1, I think you are right, it's time to move on and remind everyone of the past, make sure we "never forget" and put our loved ones in the proper place in history. As Julie says, "History repeats itself". A smart man once said, " the only stupid question is the one left not questioned"? Leave no stone unturned as this will be the one with the answer.

Besides I think the song is beautiful.

History / German Deaf/Mute able to give voices to Hitler's personal videos...scary [29]

He was a coke addick with SIDs. He had regular injections to con't. on his quest.

News / Will Poland stick to plans for "Anti missile shield" under new threats? [62]


I guess we will never know seeing as how Poland was betrayed? Poland was not on the map "communist Poland" is what I saw. What were the military fighting for in the first place, freedom and their country? What happened to Poland was nothing more than an extention of Russia.

Life / Cigarette Smoking in Poland [146]

In the USA we pay $6.50 a pack, time to quit.

Life / Cigarette Smoking in Poland [146]

damnit, I thought it might get kicked out so I always do.


I guess we can say it, damnit. dagnabit.

Life / Cigarette Smoking in Poland [146]

I don't drink , smoke or swear.

God Dammit I left my cigarettes at the bar.

History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]


Russian Army were peasants? Where is this from, seems to me Poland had the same trainnning as Russian. I have a picture of a 12 year old great uncle as POW, wonder what his trainning was?


That should be great uncle.

Well this went well. LOL

"If there were a prize for the world's sulkiest state, it would surely go to Russia. "

The Kremlin has a simple explanation: America, it believes, has never given up its ambition to contain Russia. And the eastward expansion of the Nato alliance is designed to achieve that.

But Washington dismisses those claims as mere bluster, aimed at reasserting Russian control of an Eastern European empire it lost with the fall of the Soviet Union.

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7252678.stm

History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]


Guess we can't all be perfect like the British snobs. lol

History / Polish-German history book for Schools [28]

No in fact the past may be starting to hold more accountable.


An 83-year-old former Nazi prison camp guard has been transferred to Italy to serve a life sentence for murder.

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7248502.stm

History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

Now we see peasants. lol I see military uniforms on both sides, and by the way where is this "west" ally you see?

Ammends to be made.



The Communist Party has not withdrawn a resolution it adopted at its
2005 convention, which describes Putin's "Bonapartist, bureaucratic
regime" as being "hostile to the people." Nevertheless, in private
the president, who has reintroduced the Soviet national anthem, is on
first-name terms with the head of the Communist Party.

spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,536060,00.html