News / Polish minority abroad and minorities in Poland [71]

Sure thing! They have a reputation for being cold. However, I'll decide when I go. Ask SeanBM here, he goes quite often.

History / Poland before WWII or Poland now what would you choose? [390]

A GDP growth of 1.2%, down from 1.5%, can hardly be described as a crisis, Ironside. Poland is still shaping up well and I have plenty figures to support that claim.

News / Polish minority abroad and minorities in Poland [71]

Thanks for the link, Ironside. I know that the Lithuanians are rather, um, 'frosty' when it comes to most Poles. It has been strong recently. I'm going there in August. I'm gonna try out an idea. Speak in Polish, see the reaction, then speak in English. I got some bad looks in Belgrade for speaking English but I was fine with Polish.

No worries :)

News / Polish minority abroad and minorities in Poland [71]

I was kidding on the first point, Ironside.

How good is my Polish? Well, I could understand most newspapers 2 years ago if that gives you any idea.

History / Poland before WWII or Poland now what would you choose? [390]

What's wrong with modern Poland in an economic context, Ironside? Poland has taken the impact of the crisis quite well.

History / Russia: Poland responsible for WW II [300]

Any input, Wrocław? How on earth could the Russians claim that?

History / Russia: Poland responsible for WW II [300]

It's complicated, that's what I will say. Conspiracy theorists at least acknowledge that there is an intricate web of factors going on and that things run deeper. Hardly uneducated, gumishu.

People go missing when they are potentially dangerous to certain causes, nothing new there.

Some French helped out the Albanians too. Kouchner, for example.

Anyway, let's not digress.

News / Polish minority abroad and minorities in Poland [71]

And the Poles don't have the right to contest that in Lithuania's national courts? They have NO redress?

Well, if it's a Polish school there, why isn't Poland providing some funding? You could say the same about Polish schools in Poland ;) ;)

News / Polish minority abroad and minorities in Poland [71]

For example? I'm listening

History / Russia: Poland responsible for WW II [300]

Well, independence is a compromise solution. Albania tried to claim it by a sham election but it didn't work. Fair enough!

Yeah, let's steer it back to Poland and WWII. Poland was guilty for housing many Jews ;) ;) ;) ;)

History / Russia: Poland responsible for WW II [300]

I'm aware that they overstretched in a big way, BB. They had no right to carve up Bosnia. You must criticise Tudjman too in that case. I disliked the fact that when Milosevic talked about Yugoslavia, he really meant Serbia.

The film was about the lies in the Kosovo situation, BB.

History / Russia: Poland responsible for WW II [300]

BB, those pictures were from Srebrenica, not Kosovo. Oh, you meant the non-existent Serbian concentration camps in Pristina? Watch the video, your own intel figures refute the claims rather nicely.

WB is right, Auschwitz is not in a bad state. What did you expect, a glowing pristine complex with palm trees and swimming pools? ;)

Ironside, the 997 AD attempt to overthrow the Prussians didn't work, now did it?

History / Russia: Poland responsible for WW II [300]

The KLA were a peaceful organisation, were they? Ethnically cleansing Serbs was peaceful, was it? I see you haven't watched the video containing all the lies and deceit from Herr Sharping :(

History / Russia: Poland responsible for WW II [300]

BB, the Serbs can only do that through genocide or forced removal. No political settlement is gonna wash in Kosovo. Did you get that link showing the bogus German lies about Kosovo? The film directors are German and did their homework objectively.

How would you plan to resettle people without an army, BB?

History / Russia: Poland responsible for WW II [300]

OK, maybe I was being too hypothetical. Let's examine a real problem, namely the ME. In 2005, the number of Jews in Israel was 5.2 million whereas there were 5.3 million Palestinians. In 2008, the Palestinian population rose by 3% whereas the Jewish one only by 1%. So, more Palestinians.

Now, they are not getting a chance for lebensraum. What if loads of Serbs decided to go into Kosovo to reclaim what they believe to be theirs? Shouldn't the Jews just bow down and acknowledge the greater Palestinian numbers, like Albanians in Kosovo?

Oh, the Prussians were removed from Gdańsk btw. If you raise the argument of age-old contributions, you have to be fair and acknowledge the age-old contributions of Serbia to Kosovo.

History / Russia: Poland responsible for WW II [300]

Like European politicians really care about the evils of war and bloodshed when political and financial gains can be made ;) ;) Come on BB, wakey wakey.

Aha, so it would mean the destruction of Turkey but what about the new position in Germany? Needless to say, the Germans have built up Germany virtually single-handedly. What if all the Turks actually came across and took everything over? You didn't really answer that.

"Can't say really". Aha, so the criteria is numbers or contributions over time? Let us be clear.

History / Russia: Poland responsible for WW II [300]

OK, fair enough. But note the word 'if'. It was a hypothetical question, BB. So, what if Turks did that? Or fuc*ed like rabbits and had many babies in Germany.

History / Russia: Poland responsible for WW II [300]

OK, BB. So what if Turkey joined the EU and decided to go, en masse, to Germany and repopulate vast areas. What then? You realise numbers more than building up an area and making contributions?

History / Poland before WWII or Poland now what would you choose? [390]

Smith was the founder of modern economics, Ironside. He was widely regarded as being so.

Developed enough to provide a vast array of opportunities? Look at the Jews, early days. They were poor before WWII (in Poland). They had to make opportunities for themselves to reach prominent positions.

History / Russia: Poland responsible for WW II [300]

BB, exactly my point. No sane Spaniard would claim modern-day America to be Spanish. BB, do you acknowledge Kosovo to be Serbian? They built it up after all, just like the Prussians did in Danzig.

youtube.com/watch?v=_scokGJga8c

Kosovo's status was changed based on these lies. It's in German language with English subtitles to confirm, BB :) ;)

News / Polish minority abroad and minorities in Poland [71]

On the first point, how do you know that they don't, lesser? If it was so 'lawless', as you put it, there would be much more international condemnation.

Property is so hard to adjudicate, lesser. Why do you think that an international property court hasn't heard any cases related to the property rights of Jews? It would open Pandora's Box (a can of worms), that's why. International relations would suffer.

Well, petition the Lithuanian government then, lesser.

I agree on your last point which is why we need to use our democratic rights to the max and not have everything diluted.

History / Russia: Poland responsible for WW II [300]

PP, so it's ok for America to expand into different domains and not Prussia? It just happened, aha, so you are not letting things take their own natural course based on 'need'?

I didn't mean the world's policeman in Gdańsk and you know it.

BB, I meant that America was discovered by Columbus but does that determine its future forever? Of course not! I was trying to discuss the importance of the founder and make a point that it isn't the founding that's always critical.

History / Russia: Poland responsible for WW II [300]

Good point by BB. Is America now Spanish or Portuguese? NOPE! So, BB, you accept 997 AD as the formation date. Did Mieszko I's son (Bolesław I Chrobry) defeat the Prussians in either 997 AD or 1015 AD?

PP, why does it matter so much to you? Look at James Baker who said that the US could "never" be the world's policeman. 10 years later, he was made to swallow his words.

News / Polish minority abroad and minorities in Poland [71]

Criticism is normal in democracy, people can speak out. Poles can do the same there.

Why was there a lack of re-privatization in your opinion, lesser?

I was being practical, lesser. If you can't orchestrate change from within, you need to read Desiderata. 'God give me the courage to accept the things I cannot change'. It's not an autocracy/totalitarian regime there, lesser, they can bring change about.

You think the Patriot Act in America was constitutional? This is reality, lesser, not an ideal utopian world.

History / Russia: Poland responsible for WW II [300]

You are BB, not PP. You have a helmet but I think you now need glasses ;) ;)

So, BB, let's be clear. When can you lay claim to any given territory? At the date of formation or can subsequent events change things? Do you accept 997 AD as the date of formation of Gdańsk? If so, would you apply the same standard to the ME problem between Israel and Palestine?

PP, need? Africans need food and better sanitation but do they get it? The West has milked and leeched off of Africa for a long time. Starving it of key natural resources. Don't the Palestinians need a place to stay? Don't refugees need safety from NATO bombs? America orchestrated a battering policy to make Yugoslavia needy. Is this the kind of example you want to set?

History / Russia: Poland responsible for WW II [300]

Come on, BB, I said Polish sources. Even suggest that Copernicus is anything less than 100% Polish and they get offended. I've seen it with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears.

Danzig was Prussian for a long time, PP. Look at your historical sources. 997 AD is accepted as the year of its formation. Was it Polish then? Or did Bolesław's army lose and try again in 1015? You tell me. It's not a question of need at all.

History / Russia: Poland responsible for WW II [300]

It's the same story as Copernicus. He identified with his German side as much as his Polish side but that isn't acknowledged in Polish sources.

History / Russia: Poland responsible for WW II [300]

Bolesław I Chrobry came with soldiers with the support of Adalbert. Hardcore Christians maintain that this Czech bishop, who was subsequently canonised, baptised the city and formed it in 997 AD. What most sources fail to mention is that their efforts to overcome the Prussians failed. I believe he tried again in 1015 and failed until the Teutonic Knights took over in the Prussian Crusade in the 1200's.

History / Russia: Poland responsible for WW II [300]

Ironside, objective history states that 997 AD was the year of formation of what is now called Gdańsk, true?

News / Polish minority abroad and minorities in Poland [71]

Lesser, if they don't like it they can either lobby for change or leave.