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celinski   
6 Mar 2009
History / Why communism failed in Poland? [275]

KGB is the official name, cough cough cough.

check out the newest post from communist "Russia to outlaw criticism of WWII tactics".
celinski   
6 Mar 2009
History / Russia to outlaw criticism of WWII tactics [57]

Did they say "punish" anyone who criticises the manner in which Stalin?

Russia to outlaw criticism of WWII tactics
The Russian government is to outlaw criticism of Soviet military tactics during the Second World War in the latest example of its heavy-handed approach to dissent.

Sergei Shoigu, the emergency situations minister, has called for a law that would make it a criminal offence to suggest that the Soviet Union did not win the War

Mr Shoigu indicated that the legislation would also seek to punish eastern European or former Soviet states which deny they were liberated by the Red Army. The leaders of those countries could be banned from Russian soil, he said.

Liberal Russians fear that the legislation will be used to punish anyone who criticises the manner in which Stalin conducted the war or addresses incidents such as the Soviet massacre of 22,000 Polish prisoners of war at Katyn Forest in 1940, which Moscow maintains was not a war crime.

The battles are little known in Russia, and even Marshall Georgy Zhukov, the Soviet war hero who led the Rzhev operations, barely mentioned them in his biography.

"It has become the fashion to smear the heroic deeds of the Soviet people and to defame the Soviet way of life," said Ivan Korbutov, a retired general who heads the Russian council of war veterans. "Such actions, orchestrated at the behest of the West to discredit our glorious past, must be brought to court and the journalists responsible punished."

telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/4943814/Russia -to-outlaw-criticism-of-WWII-tactics.html
celinski   
5 Mar 2009
History / Why communism failed in Poland? [275]

IMHO Russia is still run by Communist Putin and his croonies.

fluffinski

It's not fluff, it's feathers.
celinski   
5 Mar 2009
History / Why communism failed in Poland? [275]

communism didn`t fall when stalin died though.

No but have you seen Putins new and improved school books and how everything the Soviets did they had a right, even if they had to make up a story?

lol fluffinski
celinski   
5 Mar 2009
History / Why communism failed in Poland? [275]

off topic my fluffy bunnies

Communism failed because Stalin was a brutal dictator that killed for the sake of killing, his own included. There is that on topic enough.
celinski   
5 Mar 2009
History / Why communism failed in Poland? [275]

Glorifying past Soviets actions

projecting that guilt and shame onto others

Well then shame on you. We are talking about the behavior of this goverment today. One thing to silence the victims in the past with death threats, no more this is 2009.

and even projecting that guilt and shame onto others

Guess they should have thought of that before reviving the past.

"Holocaust, slavery, colonialism... all of it."

How about none of the above, Polish Catholic victims of Soviets are not in the Holocaust. Poland was attacked and lost a country to communisn. Yet God Forgive we not appreciating Stalins return, what were we thinking,.
celinski   
5 Mar 2009
History / Why communism failed in Poland? [275]

absurb indeed.

Killing peoples family I would not concider absurd, and today to want the ones Glorifying past Soviets actions. Do I want to see them feel shame. Yes, shame is an understatement, look at what Germany has been put through. News flash, NKVD was just as bad as Nazis, if not worse yet the Jewish can get the Pope to his knees should someone question the Holocaust. Who was fighting in the NKVD, Jewish. What did Jewish want, "anti-Semitism" it got them Israel. If Jewish can point at Nazis and now Soviets, Ukraianians what makes you think Poland has no right to set the history right. If you are guilty of a crime this horrific you cannot deny forever. Alter history books, lie to your people, hail Stalin but the truth is still the truth and the ones continuing to lie look rather sad.
celinski   
5 Mar 2009
History / Why communism failed in Poland? [275]

Wouldn't you rather spend your time on PF talking about Polish recipes, Polish sayings, Polish language and Polish whatever-else?

nope.;)
celinski   
5 Mar 2009
History / Why communism failed in Poland? [275]

The time comes with any such turn of history, to move on and get on with paving a future with what is available rather than living life dwelling on what could have been, if only...

In order to have a good road the foundation must be secure and built on trust. No one will ever trust Russia until the past is dealt with, including their own. Build on substandard ground ther first frost will show the sink holes I say.

Not to mention how long do you think the victims should wait for an apology.
celinski   
5 Mar 2009
History / Why communism failed in Poland? [275]

What I don't undertand is .....the Russian folk I know refuse to talk or even accept things that have happened in thier recent history. It is as if somthing like " If we don't like the truth then forget the truth and it will go away". For some reason is seems uncomfortable to look at reality. Reality being basic facts relating to history which are laid on the table and you can't change. I would be interested in your opinion on this.

It is because they never had to. Communism would not let the people speak. My beef is more with the Goverment and the way they lie to their own people. I know Russian Americans that look at the bs the Soviet opps Russian Goverment tells the people today and it's no wonder the description of Russian's is childlike. They are treated like children and spoon fed what has been said under Soviet dictatorship. It will not work this time as I see Russian citizens looking at their own powers and saying no, 2 + 2 does not =3.

When you look at the UK history and the Commenwealth this is a part of our history where we should feel ashamed about our past

They did what a military was told to do. Shame for what was done or was not that should have, comes from the commander and chief.
celinski   
5 Mar 2009
History / Why communism failed in Poland? [275]

but I don't want to look like commy booster. I just want everybody to be as fair as possible towards anything that happened in the past.

Fair would include taking responsibility for actions of Soviet powers, correct?
celinski   
24 Feb 2009
History / Responsibility for Murder of Catholic Poles during WWII ? [172]

Whats amazing is even "Katyn" can point at Polish anti-Semites as the cause if the writer wants to slander Polish. Such a horrific massacre and to have this finger pointing is ill.

. Also, the arithmetic of Katyń, like that of Schindler's List and Defiance, is dwarfed by that of the Nazi Holocaust, much of which occurred on Polish soil with the tacit complicity of many Polish anti-Semites.

observer.com/2009/o2/brutal-art-house-drama-describes-stalin-s-atrocities

celinski   
23 Feb 2009
History / Jewish love towards Poles [389]

I just find the slandering of Polish bs. I was just reading

(Why wouldn't Jews collaborate with the Soviets? They weren't trying to exterminate them.)

This says so much about anti-Polonism. NKVD are killing off Polish and if Polish tried to defend this attack and a Jewish Pole was fighting with NKVD, was this anti Semitism or being on the wrong side of the fence? How can this be stated without this fact being pointed out. Did they really think Polish would just let them forget this.
celinski   
23 Feb 2009
History / Jewish love towards Poles [389]

How sick is this. Like I have said in the past, Holocaust always claimed for 6 million Jewish, now that the truth is 3 million, where is the 1/2 that should have gone to Poland?

"Israel Singer, General Secretary of the World Jewish Congress stated that "More than three million Jews died in Poland and the Polish people are not going to be the heirs of the Polish Jews. We are never going to allow this. (...) They're gonna hear from us until Poland freezes over again. If Poland does not satisfy Jewish claims it will be "publicly attacked and humiliated" in the international forum."
celinski   
16 Feb 2009
News / Is Poland Provoking Economic Warfare With Russia? [26]

I would have hoped this was done in a quiet manner and not so open. But I think it's about time. I really don't think this is the encirclement of Russia, rather a protection from Russia.

What's that saying, "There's safety in numbers".

"[T]he Partnership would demonstrate the “power of soft power” and acknowledge that the conflict in Georgia in August had influenced the decision to launch the Partnership. " (PanArmenian. net, December 11, 2008)

celinski   
16 Feb 2009
History / UPA - Ukrainian Insurgent Army. How they killed poles in Volhynia (1943). [139]

Germans had a thriving civilization when Ukrainians were living in huts and plowing fields of polish nobles, Germans had well over 7 centuries of heritage before anyone in Ukraine even thought of himself as Ukrainian

You say "plowing fields of polish nobles" yet my family were plowing the fields, building homes, providing food for neighbors, schools built. You make it sound as if Ukrainians were slaves working the land vs. part of a growing, close society. Today the very home my Grandfather built is used by Ukraine as a school. Poland's short independent placement in the east to this day has Polish touch's. Orchards/wheat fields that were nonexsistant prior to 1920 seemed to be forgotten along with the neighbors that were concidered friends.

As for Soviets innocents in this, was it not Soviets that took the first Polish out of the area to Siberia, Katyn and then when the truth of crimes comes to light they quickly point at Ukraine, Nazi's and USA. I did not even mention 1932-33 and who aided Ukraine's people as the Soviets starved us to death.
celinski   
16 Feb 2009
History / Who Was Really Behind the Shooting of John Paul II? [21]

Who Was Really Behind the Shooting of John Paul II?

This might shead some light on the subject.

Soviets sent Bulgarian assassin to kill Pope John Paul II during Cold War, claims priest

Jan Zaryn, historian at the Polish Institute of the National Remembrance - set up to investigate war crimes committed by the Nazis and Soviets - confirmed the assassination attempt in 1987 from their files.

The Italian report stated security departments in communist-controlled Bulgaria were used to prevent the Soviet Union's role from being uncovered, and said Soviet Military Intelligence was responsible.

dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1146559/Soviet-spies-sent-Bulgarian-assassin-kill-Pope-John-Paul-II-Cold-War-claims-priest.html

celinski   
12 Feb 2009
History / germany prepares for invasion of Poland [43]

russians and germans have always been making fun of Poles getting beat

It is rather sad when you look at both Nazi and Russia having to try to take out Poland. Wouldn't that be the same as a man with a gun fighting a man with his hands tied behind his back?
celinski   
2 Feb 2009
History / Damning archives of cleansing in communist Poland [16]

Well worth reading in full.

Ethnic Cleansing and Soviet Crimes Against Humanity
by Ataullah Bogdan Kopanski

During the period from 1939 to 1949, the Soviets committed mass murders of many peoples. Among those holocausted were: Baltic, Slavic, Caucasian and Turkic people, eastern Germans, and Poles.

vip.latnet.lv/LPRA/ethnic_cleansing.htm

celinski   
30 Jan 2009
History / Katyn executioners named, protected by Russian authorties [35]

What is your source for this statement?

This was from a gentleman that was in Siberia and had to wait until Anders convinced Stalin to release the non Jewish. This is in part why when you look at USHMM.org they refer to Anders Army as Jewish army.

General Anders and the soldiers of the second Polish Corps by Harvey Sarner

This does look very good and I'll read it. My Grandfather was in the 2nd Polish Corps.

The Ice Road' by Stefan Weydenfeld

Also looks very good. Thank you

The plight of the one-and-a-half million Poles deported as "enemies of the state" to the labour camps of the frozen Soviet Union has often been forgotten. Stefan Waydenfeld lived in the town of Otwock, 30 kilometres south of Warsaw, with his father, his mother and his older brother Jurek. Their idyll was broken in September 1939 when Germany invaded Poland and Stefan, aged 14, was forced to flee with his parents to safer territory. Unfortunately to the east were the Russians, casting a colder shadow under Stalin than the so-called "civilised" Nazis from whom they were fleeing. Overcrowded trains, hard physical labour, squalid living quarters, perpetual hunger and for nine months of the year the bitter Soviet winter, sought to crush a spirit within them that somehow remained resolute. --David Vincent

Are you saying Jews had high death rate or Poles released had high death rates.......in fact it applied to all released prisoners.

It would be both as the death rate was high and the conditions did not afford a long life span.
celinski   
30 Jan 2009
History / Question about Post WW2 Polish Jews etc [42]

Why do you avoid when talking of something negative in relation to Jews - using name Jews??

Because this is how they refer to themselves. I would be happy if they ID'ed what section of Jewish faith each was referring to.
celinski   
30 Jan 2009
History / Polish Anti-semitism - origins? [186]

"63 Years, 4 Months, and 15 Days since my family's property was stolen by the Poles."
?

ouch, why is it that this did not take place with the ones that were responsible for taking the property? This being Soviet's. After 1989 they come asking the "Forgotten victim's" (Polish) to be reimbursed. Look at the # of non Jewish victim's that lost their country, lives and yet were forgotten in Holocaust funds. Thanks for the site, but this is so hurtful.
celinski   
30 Jan 2009
History / Katyn executioners named, protected by Russian authorties [35]

Other ranks were sent to slave labour camps but this treatment of Polish deportees was no different to earlier deporations by the Stalinist regime of 'enemies of the state' from the Soviet republics and occupied territories, and not a specific policy directed against Poles per se.

See Kresy-Siberia.org for the full truth. This is the cattle cars that went in four differant waves to Siberia starting Feb. 10, 1940. This was women, children and men. How can children, babies be considered "enemies of the state"? Families were never intended to live to tell. When Nazi's attacked Soviets and amnesty was granted it was the "Jewish Polish" that were first released. Stalin did not want to release any more. It was due to Stalin being in need of more military that more were released. Even the ones released had a very high death toll due to the conditions they were in from the camps.
celinski   
29 Jan 2009
History / Polish Anti-semitism - origins? [186]

We were one of the "victor's" , forth in size.

all I see the Allied-Soviet victory as the least evil from the other options that were Axis victory

This depends on where you where in Sept. 1939. Evil comes in many forms. Hitler and Stalin were one in the same. When Nazi's were given directions on how to build "gas chambers" by Soviet's were they thinking of human suffering. If it had not been the need for hard labor workers the Siberia deportee's would have meet the same fate inflicted by Soviets. All one has to do is look at the death toll.

Where Hitler did not care for slaving people to death, Stalin felt he was in a win, win.
celinski   
28 Jan 2009
News / POLAND TO SIGN US MISSILE SHIELD DEAL TONIGHT [239]

There is another way:

I read this as Russia speaking for Obama. I stand by what I believe, Russia has no right to tell Poland they cannot protect themselves. Not to mention the on going should they move forward with the shield.
celinski   
28 Jan 2009
History / Polish Anti-semitism - origins? [186]

I haven't seen accounts of labelling the camps as Polish ones.

Fact is this is an on going problem. Majority of this comes from "Jewish" news from Israel, USA and beyond. Google "Polish Concentration Camp" then try "Nazi occupied Polish Concentration Camps" or for a real thrill "Soviet run Concentration Camps". Not as many Jewish in Soviet camps and they also ran the camps but they were also there.