History / Poland Betrayed in WW2 [243]

OK, enough smiles. Let's get back to more serious matters. I'm taking this place over ;)

USA, Canada / OBTAINING POLISH CITIZENSHIP (living in the USA). Petition documents? [28]


Not true.

My daughter was born in the US. Both parents are Polish. She has been living in Canada for the last 15 years. She has a triple citizenship. While Americans probably do not realize she holds Polish citizenship, they do know she has a Canadian passport as that's what she sometimes uses when going to the US. She was advised by the US border control to claim US citizenship even if entering the US with a Canadian passport.

News / Polish citizens given away to foreign law courts - is this normal? [29]


I commented on the question of grounds for the possible prosecution by Polish legal system. The provisions described sometimes are chosen not to be applied. In most cases, if the harm has been done in a foreign country and if that country requests extradition, or simply decides to prosecute a Pole (since he/she is already there) then Polish law provides for some elasticity based on individual circumstance. In this case I see no reason why Poles would prefer to prosecute the man in Poland, instead of allowing British courts to do so.

As a side note, I have a feeling he would get a much stiffer sentence under Polish law.

History / Poland Betrayed in WW2 [243]


What's debatable is whether they would have found those jobs sooner.

History / Poland Betrayed in WW2 [243]


The benefits/flaws of the New Deal are still debatable in regards ot the Great Depression.

History / Poland Betrayed in WW2 [243]


What would you cal HIS achievements?


But we know what they knew about Stalin


You really need to read up on Stalin's crime. Greed was not in the least the main one.

History / Poland Betrayed in WW2 [243]


In the case of Stalin, yes. If you know the man is a monster then there should be more reasons than a smile in Yalta to believe otherwise.


Stalin wasn't given an inch. He was given a mile.


Perhaps becuase that's what Poles fighting alongside the Western Allies were told? Or perhaps because that's what 6 million Polish voters were told before 1944 US elections? By now we all got used to the fact that election promises are just that, and that honor is a concept foreign to most politicians.

History / WARSAW 1939. BETWEEN THE WARS [14]

As you know, about 90% of Warsaw was destroyed during WW2 and that included most architectural documentation. The city's rebuilding effort was in a large part based on drawings and paintings of Bernardo Bellotto (Canaletto):

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bernardo_Bellotto,_il_Canaletto

Life / Why are Polish people cheap? [126]


So you are Polish?

Love / Polish-Islam Relationship Union [450]


If indeed guilty of rape then he is a rapist, whether his victim was wrapped in a black robe or not, and regardless whether her face was covered or not.

Islam in fact has less rapists since, in practical terms, in Islam more often than not a rape is a woman's fault. Some women have a nerve to try to convince all that they were raped but when confronted by the sympathetic and understanding Islamic justice sysytem very few of them are capable of providing witnesses. All they need to do is to provide merely 4 witnesses and they still can't.

There.

News / Polish citizens given away to foreign law courts - is this normal? [29]


Prisons in Poland are no different. Rapists are treated as the lowest of the low.

Love / Polish-Islam Relationship Union [450]


I don't get it. I should educate myself about Islam because you're a muslim? What if you were a Wicca? Would I have to educate myself about then? What kind of argument is this? Didn't you mention the word "intelligence"?


So instead we should all listen to you?
Some nerve :)

News / Do Polish people feel there is a danger of communism growing stong again? [69]


I saw the photo. Indeed, it loooks sexy with all those little ropes attached to the uniform. The must be handy for BSDM :)

Love / Polish-Islam Relationship Union [450]


Hmmmm, lotsa bikini wearers in the muslim world. Good they all have swimming pools too.

What is shocking to me is the extend of skin cancer on the muslim world. What is even more intriguing that this form of cancer seems to be attacking women only.

Life / Cigarette Smoking in Poland [146]


Poland exports the tobbaco it can't afford :)
It has for a while. Philip Morris is one of the major buyers.

News / Polish citizens given away to foreign law courts - is this normal? [29]


In Polish law a person can be prosecuted in Polish courts if one of these apply:

- a person is Polish and commits crime anywhere in the World
- a person comitted a crime against a Polish person of Poland's
- a person comitted a crime within Poland's border's

This is not unique to Poland at all. Most countries use that approach.

For a Polish person to be punished by Polish law, that person must break a foreign law that is also punishable in Poland. There used to be also a clause about a Polish person breaking foreign local laws not punishable by Polish law, but it was controversial and hard to implement. I'm not sure how this part looks now.

Life / What makes you proud to be Polish? [150]


That's about all I was taught in Polish history classes under communis rule.


In fact you know s.hit, as usual. Nowa Huta was built to counter the ati-communist resistance of Cracovians. Commies (similar to the ones you came to love and admire while studying in Moscow) wanted to bring down the high intellectual level of the Cracow area by introducing masses of blue collars and former peasantry. In the end Soviets rather regretted saving Cracow.

History / Poland Betrayed in WW2 [243]


Sorry to tell you but you got it wrong. Churchill had little to say. England after all was but a paper tiger during WW2 and without USA's aid it could have perhaps stayed out of conflict with the Nazis for some time or forever, but they stood no chances to fight them on the Continent. They simply had no resources. It was Roosevelt who practically gave Poland away (yes, for free as the US did not benefit from it) and even Stalin seemed surprised that it was so easy (in Yalta). If there was any attempt to save Poland, and to keep one's honor it was on the part of Churchill. Roosevelt's only purpose after 1940 elections was to be elected in 1944. In fact he was a pretty mediocre politician to say the least.


Jokes are OK in this thread but, c'mon, by 1940's the US and the English had few reasons to believe in Stalin's goodness of heart.

History / Poland Betrayed in WW2 [243]


Actually, while Churchill made some half hearted attempts to convince Roosevelt to be a bit tougher in regards to the Polish question Roosevelt brushed him off repeatedly. At times Roosevelt went as far as mocking Churchill in front of Stalin (in Yalta) and he definitely did not have any help for Poland in mind. Not even when he was posing with Polish-Americans before 1944 elections. For the photo-op Roosevelt requested a map of Poland with the 1939 borders. Those borders, Roosevelt knew very well, had nothing to do with what he, Churchill and Stalin agreed to. But hey, there were about 6 million Polish votes at stake and the photo-op trick worked.

Did the US sell Poland? I dunno. Poland and US had no treadty before WW2, and then it all may be a question of semantics, but the American government certainly lied to Poles during WW2. Call it betrayal, call it lack of honor, call it unreliable ally. Up to you.

Love / More beautiful Polish women: in Warsaw or Krakow? [37]


Does that include your mother?

History / Poland Betrayed in WW2 [243]


I have a little problem with that being an alleged "fact". Commies were a lot of bad things but they did have pretty good sense of propaganda. If they claimed that Poland was sold (and thus ended up being under the great rule of the Soviet saviors) then the selling was actually a good thing to the commies, wasn't it? If the allies did not sell Poland then Poland might not have been under the majestic and live-giving rays of the sun named Stalin.

Life / Cigarette Smoking in Poland [146]


I can't answer the question that contains a false statement and is thus leading. Nicotine, in none of its forms, is nimber one killer anywehere in the world. The number one killler is time. Then there are heart diseases and various cardiovascular diseases. Some of the cases occur in smokers, all of them occur in eaters. Quit eating?


No. I am never down the precious last 2. I plan ahead :)


What kind of savage idea is that? Smoking in bed? Do you realize that smoking in bed can cause fire and death?


I didn't start smoking to prove anything. If I quit smoking it won't be to prove anything either.

Now, speaking of will power - why don't you prove you have some too. Having given a lecture (some of it containing blatantly false information) let people make a choice, while you keep on not smoking.

History / Poland Betrayed in WW2 [243]


Defended India from whom? From the English?

the [Indian] Congress pointed out the inherent contradiction in the British argument of going to war with Nazi Germany for the sake of freedom, since India was denied that same freedom

History / Poland Betrayed in WW2 [243]


Who'd like to own a 5th century AD vehicle anyway ;)

History / Poland Betrayed in WW2 [243]


Incidentally, that statement pretty much sums up your knowledge and debating skills. Oh well, keep trying.

History / Poland Betrayed in WW2 [243]


Chamberlain had more than a couple of seconds of thought in the years leading to 1939. Also, I would think the English did have more than a couple of seconds to think before they signed military pacts with Poland. Or perhaps they knew they wouldn;t honor it anyway?

Life / Cigarette Smoking in Poland [146]


In your prior post you wrote it was the nicotine.


You're making me nervous. This is not good for quitting smoking. I think I'll have one ;)

Also, one may want to weigh the cons and pros of nicotine which, like everything in life, has it side effects - good and bad :)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine#Therapeutic_uses

Relatively few things in moderation will kill, but many of them in too large dozes can kill, including our friendly H2O.

History / Poland Betrayed in WW2 [243]


Actually, England did NOT come to the rescue. Initially England didn't have the balls, then it was too weak, so Americans had to come to England's rescue. Poles played their part in rescuing England too.

Love / Polish-Islam Relationship Union [450]

and her husband will abandon her in the afterlife for 72 catholic nuns

Life / Cigarette Smoking in Poland [146]


The carcinogenic properties of nicotine in standalone form, separate from tobacco smoke, have not been evaluated by the IARC, and it has not been assigned to an official carcinogen group. The currently available literature indicates that nicotine, on its own, does not promote the development of cancer in healthy tissue and has no mutagenic properties


Every smoker has 100% chance to quit, whether they call you or not ;)
As a matter of fact, every smoker WILL quit.