Law / Poland: the most attractive European country for future investors [55]

Well, Albania has done pretty well but it took time. Hungary didn't fare too well. I got the sarcasm, TheOther :)

Life / You know you have been living in poland too long when.... [73]

All my u's haven't become like oo yet :)

Life / You know you have been living in poland too long when.... [73]

You begin to overly imitate the natives

You think many foreign foods are actually Polish. Like goulash (gulasz), bogracz and other goodies. I've just eaten Hungarian goulash soup from Hungary as my fiancee has just returned from there. Super!

Love / My polish guy left me!!! Why do people post that here? [46]

Married to his right hand maybe

Love / My polish guy left me!!! Why do people post that here? [46]

He's still on my GG list, would you believe?

Love / My polish guy left me!!! Why do people post that here? [46]

There are exceptions to almost every rule ;)

Life / Looking for heartburn remedies in Krakow. [36]

For sure, I smoked a bit in Japan and developed asthma-like symptoms. I only have a puff at night now and I feel nothing.

Seriously though, try the mint tea for those moments when your chest feels cramped and tight. It's instantly soothing.

Life / Looking for heartburn remedies in Krakow. [36]

Cardno, drink some mint tea, it's a real palliative, trust me. Beer and heavy food are horrible for inducing it.

Smoking will not induce it.

Love / My polish guy left me!!! Why do people post that here? [46]

Women have more of a need to get their feelings out, that's why the do it. Still, I can see the point of the original poster

Life / Looking for heartburn remedies in Krakow. [36]

I take the tablets, Harry, so I've never seen the green bottle.

Life / Looking for heartburn remedies in Krakow. [36]

There should be Rennies, Cardno. There are Rennies in Gliwice, in Tesco 100%. If not, Manti for sure. I get this too and I know that it's zgaga as stated above. Indigestion is niestrawność. I even know them in Japanese as I had both there too (it runs in the family). Mune-yake and shokafuryo, lol.

History / THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN TO WISE OLD PIŁSUDSKI!!!! [67]

Let's face facts, Piłsudski didn't see the Germans as much of a threat either. The international community badly miscalculated, right up to the last.

History / THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN TO WISE OLD PIŁSUDSKI!!!! [67]

It was after 2 days, Dariusz, not 3. In relative terms, given the context, that could be interpreted as 'at once'. Look how long America had been preparing for Afghanistan, for years. Trust me, those plans were on the table in 1996/97, NOT 2001. They put on a good show though.

Anyway, WWII, the response was immediate, Dariusz. Final preparations needed to be put in place.

History / THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN TO WISE OLD PIŁSUDSKI!!!! [67]

What did the British do to the Polish? What do you mean?

News / JEW YOUTH SHOULD CLEAN UP THEIR ACT IN POLAND [420]

Yehudi, you referred to personal tranquility. Did you have Buddhism in mind? If so, I'm sorry to disappoint you but it's not a religion. Do you know of Taoism?

History / THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN TO WISE OLD PIŁSUDSKI!!!! [67]

Piłsudski captured the Polish spirit will but he died having unfulfilled some of his ambitions. He knew tough times lay ahead but he just didn't have the means at his disposal to instigate changes.

History / THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN TO WISE OLD PIŁSUDSKI!!!! [67]

Hitler called the bluff of the Brits. He relied on old partnerships in commerce and felt that they wouldn't detect their plans for lebensraum in such sinister fashion. I don't think the empire played much of a part here, Sokrates.

I agree on the German part.

History / THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN TO WISE OLD PIŁSUDSKI!!!! [67]

The point is, Pol3, that Piłsudski largely ignored what the Germans were doing, being so focussed on Russia. Poland, in 1932, had bought some breathing space when they signed a non-aggression pact with Russia. It was just naivety and complacence more than anything else.

Genealogy / Tracing my parents roots (Pawlusiak and Plonka) [14]

I know a Dominika Płonka here.

History / THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN TO WISE OLD PIŁSUDSKI!!!! [67]

Poland didn't have the technology that the Nazis had. They had 1 tank to Germany's 10. Piłsudski didn't even take steps to create sth like the RAF or Luftwaffe. Where were the armoured units?

The Polish army was depleted after its encounter with The Red Army. Piłsudski assumed that what he had was effective against the Russians and he never gave the Germans much thought, seeing Hitler as an idiot to be placated for barking.

History / THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN TO WISE OLD PIŁSUDSKI!!!! [67]

Piłsudski was overly buoyant too. January 1934 was a telling moment when he signed the non-aggression pact with Germany. His short-termism is what cost him dearly. French and British arrogance really didn't help. They blamed Poland for appeasement but that was carried through as far as 1938-39 anyway, they were guilty of that too.

They made a play for balance but it failed. Piłsudski didn't have the means to make Poland a great power as he failed to modernise. His romantic notions were badly exposed by Hitler and then we all know what happened.

Piłsudski just didn't have an answer but he knew there was trouble brewing. This was acknowledged by Prof Jędrzejewicz.

History / THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN TO WISE OLD PIŁSUDSKI!!!! [67]

When you go beyond the mainstream accounts, you always find that it's much more complicated than that.

You still haven't provided solid evidence for Britain and France joining an alliance, Pol3.

History / THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN TO WISE OLD PIŁSUDSKI!!!! [67]

Sokrates, that was my point. Nobody really knew the extent of the evil that he posed as they were secretly hidden maps and plans. It began to get more apparent but no insiders leaked anything to outside intel so everyone was in the dark outside of Germany.

History / THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN TO WISE OLD PIŁSUDSKI!!!! [67]

Pol3, on what basis would Poland have formed an alliance with France and Britain? Why do you think that they didn't opt for a more solid option to stop Hitler?

News / JEW YOUTH SHOULD CLEAN UP THEIR ACT IN POLAND [420]

Differences cause tension, simple point. Religion is about morality and belief more than it is about peace.

History / THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN TO WISE OLD PIŁSUDSKI!!!! [67]

Could it be attributed to romanticism? It's easy with the benefit of hindsight but they genuinely believed that Germany was nursing wounds and wasn't looking for a broader war. Maybe Poles didn't see the ovations that Hitler got and the sentiment he aroused as a palliative against Versailles.

Another salient point is that Piłsudksi was more concerned with Russia, having fought in the AK against them. Mustering support among French and Brits was never gonna be easy anyway.

History / THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN TO WISE OLD PIŁSUDSKI!!!! [67]

I wouldn't call it a failure. It was a token gesture that they wanted peace on all fronts to build up its identity and solidify.

International agreement was the standard mechanism to use but we all know that countries saw/see fit to abandon them.

History / THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN TO WISE OLD PIŁSUDSKI!!!! [67]

Well, exactly. Hitler bought time with non-aggression pacts and he gave some justifications for what should have appeared as imperialism. Chamberlain wasn't looking for a war, Germany and Britain had been trading partners and WWI had only finished about 15 years prior to Hitler's meteoric rise.

History / THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN TO WISE OLD PIŁSUDSKI!!!! [67]

Still, he hadn't begun annexing all manner of territories in 1933. Non-aggression pacts were the spirit of those times until the predestined course unfolded.

News / JEW YOUTH SHOULD CLEAN UP THEIR ACT IN POLAND [420]

Do you know that Iranians generally receive you well? You have voting and drinking rights there.