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truhlei   
20 Jul 2007
History / Are irregulars necessary in former communist states? [14]

Hi, Grzegorz,
I'm happy there are peopli thinking in such way. The majority listens to budget vampires from DEfence ministries.
The point I'll oppose is that home army may be created only in case of danger ind it is no need to organize its possible participants beforehand. Even not frequent trainings before signify much.

And my second objection is that home irregulars are very important as potential of middle class in time of peace because it can controle regular forces as well as lower classers.

I'm sure postcummunism can be overcome also only by this method, not by lustrations or investigations
What do you think on that
truhlei   
20 Jul 2007
History / Are irregulars necessary in former communist states? [14]

We are often told the present is only for regular and high professional armies and militias aren't strong enough to reject foreign agression.
We are often convinced irregulars were efficient only untill 17 century.
A great share of truth in such ideas.
But one cannot forget there are not only foreign thereats exist.
Armed state bodies are also sometimes dangerous by so called praetorian syndrome i.e. the possibility th rebel, detrone nhe superior power, impose its concepts or at least threaten doing that. That was the reason why following the independence in 18 century USA dismissed regular army. Only militias of the states were left. We can notice a huge social progress in the USA of those years in comparison with Latic American states based on regular armies. Latin American governments had to think first about the interests of general and military officers and rich clans connected with them. They could rebel and people were out of militias and unable to resist regulars and their clans. In the USA the vice versa. militias of farmers was a real force capable to resist preatorian games. So their interests was the first subject of governmental activities.

Besides that, there is a numerous clan of lumpens and in general people downstairs who are sure everything in their living standarts depends not upon their activities but state care only. They never realize changes in economy and social life require personal force to assimilate to a new situation. They always blame authorities for any problem and usially are very jealous about the successes of people nearby withiot any attention to the cost of this successes.I think everibody knows people like that and knows that in different degree it is common with the vast majority of population of each European state today.

Such croud can be always used by politicians able to promice them high living standarts without any possibility to fulfil the promice. That can bring to power extremist populists in each country.

In order to avoid it today governments try to support lumpens taking rosources and prospects from middle classers. Middle classers work hard, solve their problems in each complicated situation. They are a golden fund of each Nation, but defensless today. They know only labour now not protecting of their rights and liberties while lumpens are organized quickly (not so efficiently and not for a long time, but they can represent a real force when middli classers are only undividuals separated one from each other).

Polish middle class szlachta (the majority of szlachtic were really middle classers of the Polish Golden Age), some 10-15 per cent of population could cope with 85-90 per cent of population. No peasant wars in RP exept only rebels inspired by kosaks and inefficeint in internal regions of RP with high percentage of szlachta (only magnate regions of Ukraine).

In Great Britain at the beginning of 19 century upper classes did much to support beggars taking money from farmers. The result was that many of middle classers following high taxation in favour of lumpens had to sell their property and to live for America.

But later an irregular army so called YEOMANRY was created. The majority of the irregular were middle classers, farmers that were able to keep a horse for possible battles. This irregular organization was created to reject possible Napoleonic agression but it never participated in external armed conflicts. Only in internal dosturbances and tensions defending the interests of middle class. Later anothe irregular organization appeared - volunteer courps. They all were able to put limits to Chartist populist movement and to the emerging Marxism and Anarchism. That was a real force of middle class.

American National Guard in the 19 and early 20 centuries was also inefficient in case of an external war but in internal conflicts it participated with many successes.

As to former communist countries there are very few irregular armies (for example KASP in Lithuania and Kaitseliit in Estonia) but they don't occupy an adecuate position in the state. The majority of former communist countries don't have irregulars at all.

What do you think on this?
truhlei   
19 Jul 2007
History / Unban - no, Mocherowy berety - yes. Opinion of a Moskal [20]

Russians aren't interested in a cold war that may require money for arms race. As to soft cold wars it is possible because for today only gas selling (not interrupted by a cold war) connects Russia with EU. Russians don't feel they loose anything in case of such situation.

Did you hear about the the Russian planes flying into British air space?

I read some Russian articles on this subject. Militars inform they don't penetrate into British space. Tnay have training flights over the ocean and that is similar NATO planes do along the fronteer Russia - EU for 3 years.
truhlei   
19 Jul 2007
History / Unban - no, Mocherowy berety - yes. Opinion of a Moskal [20]

I don't think they lost anything, but I think if they do it again they might do :)

No secrets interesting to Russian air intelligence in Great Britain. No interests to provoke British Government. It could be interesting if some people in Russia loved EU and it was necessari to show them that EU is unfriendly and there are absurd accusations. But Russia doesn't have too many people who "adore" West Europe. That was in the Soviet Union when the West was attractive. Now people are offended by the West but have an utilitarian approach. Exept those who love some western cultures. I for example love Victorian England? volunteer courps and Home Guard

If a Russian is from a poor town or village he usually don't go to other countries to gain money (exept scientists, artists etc. and prostitutes). He leaves for Moscow, Saint Petersbourg some petroleun regions. He is not ilegal there and his salary may be higher than in West Europe for iligal workers.
truhlei   
19 Jul 2007
History / Unban - no, Mocherowy berety - yes. Opinion of a Moskal [20]

Nothing to be anxious about, we're very civilised in the UK and I dont think that we're going to start deporting people just yet

Russian people in general aren't interested in ilegal imigration because they have rich megapolis within the state
truhlei   
19 Jul 2007
History / Unban - no, Mocherowy berety - yes. Opinion of a Moskal [20]

Neither Great Britain nor Eu in general can now blackmail Russian authorities. It is more impossible than in case of Soviet Union. Soviet Union was military stronger but it had many vulnerable "friends" in different continents. Its ideology was expansionist and it was impossible to loose even one sphere of influence.

Russia today is defending. Today ideology is not so expansionist. Now it is an ideology of persecuted Nation. For such state it is not dangerous to loose any sphere abroad or even a separatist region within: that only confirmes the thesis of persecution. As to Russia in general it is nor Kosovo or even Iraq it is a strong state nobody can occupy or even isolate.

So the only policy is to propose smth interesting to the upper classes and inevitably to the man in the street. As to proposals. the West in general doesn't have any. The only thing now is to open fronteers because from Russia as from Brasil few people can emigrate (they live only for megapolis within the state). But this process is stopped be British government

Did you hear about the the Russian planes flying into British air space?

Do you really think they lost smth there?

the Russians enjoying life in the UK would dissagree, but hey!

Very few people in Russia are anxious about them
truhlei   
19 Jul 2007
History / Unban - no, Mocherowy berety - yes. Opinion of a Moskal [20]

The main point for today is Litvinenko case.
I'll mention some facts and you will oppose me when I'm wrong.
1. Litvinenko was poisoned by polonium, that can be produced only in special and closed centers. That means that Lugovoy if his is guilty isn't alone: there are some influential forces behind him if he is murderer. If he is not guilty, well such forces still participated in the crime.

2. The goal was to make everybody knew that Litvinenko was killed by a strong clan. It is clear that sooner or later Patalogoanatomists could determine the reason of Litvinenko death. I shall reject all versions that polonium is a great secret poison nobodi is able to find . In some African province maybe yes but in Great Britain when such person dies and radioactive reason is evident as the only one sooner or later polonium is suspected. It was found quickli by chance, but don't forget: for 4 mounths polonium is active. My conclusion: the guilty clan planned the the public reaction beforehand and was interested in that.

3. It was not the murder in order to punish Litvinenko or fright other Litvinenkos. For that an ordinary murder was sufficient. All dissidents could understand the danger but of the murder it was quite possible to accuse smbd. else like Berezovski's.

4. President Putin was absolutely unintrested in such murder. He has a great raiting in Russia and Russians are ready to elect a man he chooses or to support the changes in Constitution that permit his third period. He doesn't need any conflict with the West to gain popularity.

5. So only two clans were interested in that:
An strong Russian clan that is interested in confrontation with the West militarization of Russia and putting today President and thu future one in dependence of enforcement bodies. IOf in this case Lugovoy isn't in prison yet, that means: authorities don't have enough force to fight against such clan.

The second suspected is a plot in the West that is also interested in European Union confrontation with different countries in order to keep popular attention away from EU problems.

The point is that independently upon the guilty part we can state only one thing They have achieved their main goal. Relations became worse.
I'm sure that was made against Putin and the future president

1. Russian reaction:
Lugovoy can't be extradicted. Russian Constitution doesn't permit extradition of Russian citizens. That's a dry fact. But I'll add that it is a Constitution of 1993. It was admitted following the confrontation with last Russian Parlament elected yet during Soviet Parlament. Before constitutional reforms it was dismissed and reacted by President Eltsyn's detronement. That confrontation ended with Parlament's bombing by tanks. approximately 150 victims of people who came to defend dismissed power. Only after that a democratic constitution became possible. Now I support President Yelzin but not in that moment (I was ia witness of that bombing). I tell that in order to give you a knowledge, that such Constitution establisher in such way can't be openly violated following British demand. Nobody will understand that in Russia. By the way that Contitution and especially Human and Citizen Right articles were strongly approved by British Government in 1993.

British position: diplomate case is adecuate. Government has to react and to tell people about some measures.
To stop conversations on visas is inadecuate. That supports the plot's mill with water. The possibility to travel to Europe is the only thing that connects today Russians with EU. The possibility to spend vacations looking at Big Ben, drinking beer in Munich etc. No other interest. Only Gas selling and money receiving. If visas persist, Russians will give up contacting with Europe at all because there are many other out of visas countries they may travel. So that will signify the compleet separation of Russian middle class from EU and posterior sonfrontatiopn, the goal planned by those who organized Litvinenko murder.
truhlei   
19 Jul 2007
History / Unban - no, Mocherowy berety - yes. Opinion of a Moskal [20]

Unfortunately there are narrow-minded people in Russia that quote, show by TV and organize internet-conferences with Jerzy Urban, editor of Nie newspaper.
I'm watching one of his conferences now.
What a silly idea to give auditorium to each people criticyzing Polish attitude toward Russia.
Generally I support Russian official today posicion in collision with Poland exept some peculiar things.
But I'll never support those who use as traveller fellows people who in my opinion ironizes in case of Catholic Church and Polish patriotism.

That is quite a cynical position. There are many Poles who understand Russians and don't laugh at Polish values, such as A. de Lazari. Why not represent oftenly such people.

No reasons for Urban publicity in Russia. More interest for Russians to listen to mocherowy berety. There are closer to Russians despite their rusofoby
I want Poles to know the majority of Russians could say the same thing if they read Urben wrote about Polish Values.
truhlei   
19 Jul 2007
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

What happened after the Winter War is another story, and Finland really did some bad choices and we paid costly for those in the end.

I'm sure Suomi heroism during 1939-1940 was the main Reason communists gave up even thinking about its sovietization after 1944.
My grandfather's brother participated in the war 1939-1940. He told that at the beginning of the war soviet militars were told Finland is becoming a Soviet republic (later soviet archives confirmed that), but as he told me in 1980 occupation was possible only in case of murder of all Suomi people.

He was stroken by Suomi heroism.
My relative died in soviet epoch. He was a man of his epoch and didn't know secret for soviet population information we know now. He thought that war although being bad attempt to occupy Finland helped to defend Saint Petersbourg in 1941-1944 because before the Finish border was only 30 km from the city and it was easy to take the city by sudden avance.

Now I know 1939-1940 was the only reason of Suomi participation in the WWII and that without 1939-1940 the troops circle surroundinh Saint Petersbourg was impossible as well as hunger in the citi and more than a million of hunger victims.

But my relative didn't have access to that information. Despite that he told me: I'm happy I didn't kill any Finish soldier. Believe me: these words mean much when they are pronounced by a Russian man in Russian province closed for foreigners (Nizny Novgorod Volga region) in Soviet period.

As to Suomi mistakes, I shall mention its participation in that hunger blocade and cynic cooperation with Soviet power in 1960-80 not only by fear but by economic interest

Maxxx Payne
I have some questions on Suomi history. My e-mail is truhlei@mail.ru
truhlei   
18 Jul 2007
News / Nazism in Poland - A recipe for mass suicide? [176]

I was also wondered your topic suddenly dissappeared.
Despite I opposed to your idea nazism is a real danger in Germany, I'm unable to understand why such discission is non grata.
Maybe some ideas that Germany state reburth was a mistake were not totally politically correct but it is better to allow some free discussion in order to avoid secret rumors. It is better when Euripeans know the ideas of each other and can persuade opponents on opened discussion
truhlei   
18 Jul 2007
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

Let us returned to the topic Poland-Russia: never-ending story?.
Soviet-Suomi relations is a good topic for a detailed discussion apart.
truhlei   
17 Jul 2007
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

There were also other reasons. They were fighting for detronement in past and didn't have any obstacles to "detrone" Stalin.
A praetorian syndrome was a real danger. I'm sure there was a plot among militars. The text or Trial of Tuhachevski is still a secret.

In ChK-GPU-NKVD I didn't manage to find even omly one man of State Security who entered political police before 1935 ind honorably came to pension after 1957, a typical situation for law enforcement bodies all over the world

Besides that a sanation was required because the majority was composed of criminals. I read many researches on Soviet History and only two or three times met the mentioning of Red Guard (Russian SA analogue in 1917) veterans as Soviet servants in 30.

As to Kuusinen (in Soviet Union he was Otto not Ville), we know very few facts about him. To be invissible is the mail mean to survive in Soviet Nimenklatura.

I only know all his familiars (wife and daughter) were fanatic communists and also very unhappy people. His only grandson died in childhood. Kuusinen died being one of 10 Soviet leaders but he was so lonely.

Maxxx Payne you are from Suomi? I have some questions on Shutskor (irregular Suomi troops in 20-30). It is away from this forum. My e-mail is truhlei@mail.ru I'm speaking English Spanisp and a little Portuguese

I think you'd be happier if the US (AND ALL THE PPL IN IT) was just wiped off the map. But I don't feel that way about Russia!

Why do you think so? Do you know the principle of bicycle race? To be the second. Less force. The leader spends more force. USA are comfortable for Russia and many other ex rivals. But sometimes it seems USA are comitting a suicide as superpower. They don't have enough force to controle all the world and pay more attention to democratic propaganda and direct actions without any attention to creation of social and economic circumstancies dor democratic development
truhlei   
17 Jul 2007
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

All people who made revolution were killed exept very few personalities. Without any interest to ethnicity. It is a French revolution phenomenon: Revolution eats its sons
truhlei   
17 Jul 2007
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

If yes, well, your suffering is your own affair; it's you who inflicted it on yourselves during your 'revolution' and later. But the Katyn, among others, is what you inflicted on us. We're not you, you know?

Admit that Russians follow the same logic: We are not Poles. Why should we pay enormous attention to their troubles? We have ours.
Because we are guilty? Well who personally or familarly at least. Our ancestors have a strong alibi.
We are guilty because our ethnicity established communism? But representetives of different ethnicities participated in revolition. Polish speaking people also gave communists in Russia. Not the majority but correspondent to their percentage in lands non-occupied by Germans during WWI (In CzK-OGPU-NKVD before 1937 this persentage was higher than Russian one if we take into account ethnic Russian and Polish speaking shares of our population).

You seem to still think we are part of your 'country.' But it's over and all the stars seem to indicate that it's so for good.

Nobody thinks on that. For what do we need a countri without Gas and petrileum and not an excellent well-developped economy?
Everything Russians need they have within their country. All Russian problems also exist within Russian territory. Some people think there are territories in for example East Ukraine that should be Russians by the desire of its population. But nearly the half of population are satisfied by our limits.

Russians aren't ideological now. We are more pragmatic. Not all, there are many marginal people especially among old people but the transformation goes toward pragmatism.

Being pragmatic Russians are more inderested in business with the world to the west of Odra.
Russians are afraid Slavic world between West Europe and Russii will become and obstacle in this business despite the ideals of free commerce.
By supporting the Baltic gas tube Western people confirm Russian fear. Russians come in the conclusion that if such polici is supported within the EU the unanimity doesn't exist end West Europe doesn't have enough force to impose its economical and political standarts to Slavic countries.

And actually yes, Poles are very civlised people

It is evident especially when you use such terms as otyebitsya

Quoting: ConstantineK
that we are more powerful

And what do you wish to do with this power?

The majority of Russians are going to spend it within now Russian limits to construct a good life.
There are force bodies as secret services and Armed forces that prosper taking money from budget. They are interested in conflicts with the West to justify receiving money.

There are marginals that think a strong dictatorship will take money from rich people (in reality from middle-classers) and distribute it among lumpens.
No irregular troops of middle classers to defend free society.
West world provokes tentions and apparently justifies reaction forces activities

the Russians are incomparably less prejudiced towards us than the Germans. The Russians don't consider us inferior to them. That's something.

Not so now. For today Russians Germany is a symbol of Wealthy, Law, Order and Justice. Russians consider Germany France and Italy should lead Europe and teach Slavic nations within EU.

I didn't hear any different opinion in Rissia today

You were spreading crap after we decided to join NATO and what happened ? Nothing

For Russians that wasn't the Polish question. The point is that NATO violated its gentleman word given in 1989 not to expand NATO.
What happened? The loss of credit to gentleman word and marginalization of liberal movement in Russia that had persuaded Russians to trust the West. Nothing more because Nato even being expanded isn't dangerous to Russia by its impotence to establish order even in a small territory of Kosovo.

But as to changes in the mind Russiaans don't believe the West that can violate its honest promise.
Before that Russians didn't believe their Soviet leaders only. After NATO expansion and similar collisions came the turn of the West.
It should be repeated that liberal people here are as a moral hostages in case of such violations and nobody want to become pro West except some marginal circles

You have been thousand times worse invaders than them, also as regards your nvasion of Germany and the way you treated their women.

Imagine such people are still here in Russia. That's the reason why Katyn doesn't attract Russian attention. There are other problems

Your commie crimes are thousand times worse than the Nazi crimes.

Well, notice Germans don't accuse Russians as Pole do that despite your statement.
Why?
I think they are more developped and more realistic than romantic Slavs

But you're too weak, poor muzhiks, to make your desires get fulfilled.

Happy to hear that. It is high time to give up penetrating into other states and the affairs of other countries. It is high time to pay attention to Russian internal affairs.

The western politicians will give up provoking Russian agressive forces and lumpens? They seem to be interested in choosing Russians as enimies in order to take attention away from theis own losses within the EU.

Western budget vampires (army, military economy, secret services) willl support Russian volonteer pacification? USA vampires take nearly 600 billion USD for defending national interests of a country separated from all possible enemies by oceans. American secret services take 90 billion dollars.

But you're too weak, poor muzhiks, to make your desires get fulfilled. The Yanks have beat you up in the Cold War and they actually have you under their heal now.

My desires aren't fulfilled by intermal problems. As to Americars no force is required to beat them because they are committing a suicide now. They are too strong but their idea to put all the Universe in order requires the force they will never have. Sooner or later they will spend all their force. As to young Americans they are more interested in national self-existence. US will abandon its friends sooner or later.

Armija Krajowa veterans will tell you what does it mean to be abandoned when you are surrounded by barbarian forces

- Are you kidding? What chutzpah indeed. - How about the Caucasus? How about the Baltic states? How about Afghanistan? How about war-mongering abroad - in Africa, South America, Asia during communism?

What are Polish soldiers doing in Irak now? Still looking for nuclear weapon?
Are there any Russians in Afganistan now? Which foreign troops are there today?

I wonder no Pole commented on my post in https://polishforums.com/archives/2005-2009/history/poland-russia-ending-story-11550/3/ beginning with the words Grzegorz Poland and Litwa for Politology is the same thing that Roman Empire for Law.. Including the proper Grzegorz.

Dear Poles, is it quite a frequent thing when a moskal starts to doubt about the humillation of RP past?
Your opinions are very important. Please comment if possible.
Well, I'll repeat my post:
Poland and Litwa for Politology is the same thing that Roman Empire for Law.
You can give a term to each process in politics using only Polish and Lithanian History, their political system. Till today you can understand any political process if you know RP political system and history.

RP democracy managed to resist so great attack as Potop and English or American democracies could only fail in such circumstancies. There were no adecuate survivals of any democratic or non-democratic Nation. You know? I'm ignorant. Sritish and American traditional politology is nothing in comparison with algorytms of RP. They were happy to be separated from enemies by seas and oceans, but their internal Civil wars were terrible. I'm deeply convinced in that

But neither in Polish history nor all over the world nobody respects Sarmat perioud. A great perjury in historical researches. Sometimes RP is even not mentioned in history of democratic development.

I should laught at the idea that anarchy killed RP. But see there is nothing in the world that is accepted with such unanimity as this idea. Even the idea that 2X2=4 can find more oppositors.

Polish endowments translate into Russian only historic researches that claim that anarchy was the reason of RP trouble in 1795. Even a moskal can't observe such self-humilation. in case the most RP deficiencies were more common with its neighbours (rokoszy, magnaty corruption). Nobody of these historians can even imagine that Three Black Eagles Union was a strong power. RP as well as each Nation in such situation was unable to reject. That a possible strong regular army could rebel, kill all liberties in RP kill half a population in Spy suspect take all resources of the country and then debilitated RP could be a more comfortable victim for enemies. Nobody noticed that.

Many democrates exist all over the world but when they look at RP they become to teach Tirania. Elected King is bad, reduced superior power is worse, Sejm votation in favour of war or against it is the worst thing. Nobody asked why the poor szlachta was eager to defend Golden freedom although among poor people were no Romantics. Sarmat obscurantism opposed to Enlightment is condemned all over the world - do you know the price of Enlightment, this pre-communism?

I don't speak in details about menor lie. When for example it is written that Liberum Veto killed RP, but only very few researches state that Liberun Veto ended in 1764. Many examples of the sort.

Everybody in the world condemnes RP in generar and sometimes glorifies some romantic heroes. Everybody says there was the worst in Europe the System that gave at the beginning of 16 century right to vote to a higher percentage of people than England in 1832 300 years later.

Polish literature about sarmat perioud isn't translated into Russian and even English. One cannot take from Internet in Russian or English books of Pasek or Rzewiski. Poland is fighting for Belarus democracy but it doesn't give texts on common past (Belarus ruling circles dismiss people researching Litwa history).

Many Polish public servants receive good salaries for Polish propaganda abroad but detailed Polish history isn't translated yet in the leading languages.
Everybody in the world hates RP history or loves it in some perverted forms: Many heroes bad political system.
Grzegorz, Imagine some similar is with Russia. Russia has sins but few people abroad know them (although we don't keep silence - you don't want to listen). And deficiencies you think the main sometimes are only the consecuencies as Soviet soldiers in Poland - they didn't have another way, everything started 30 years earlier. Why? By lack of democracy, poverty? Before 1917 there was a huge economic and political progress and Russia was winning a war.

I'm sure you weren't told about the reasons of communist victory.
truhlei   
17 Jul 2007
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

Why then you in today allegedly democratic Russia haven't even condemned those communist killers, let alone punshed them (if they are still alve)?

A nice question...
Who is rulling after communism? People away from the previous system without any knowlege how to rile? Without arms and status of public servant?
You think such people can go to power immediately or at least in some 20 years without the same atrocities, rebels and witch hunts?
No, some political technologies are required. Technologies nobody in the West toughy us. Technologies from the past such as irregular troops of middle class people etc.etc. As American militia of 18 century (existed to prevent praetorian syndrome), as volunteer courps en England in 19 century, as szhlachta of centuries 15-17.

That could take force structures away from a possible rebel or plot and in some 15 years convert them into strictly professional structures of democratic society.

The point is that we the Russian middle classers didn't receive this algorytm from Mr Clinton as well as Mr. Bush. Now we have to take it only from our pessonal historic studies and even not young people could start that work only after 1991 by the reduction of access to all information in Soviet period.

16 years isn't enough for that process. People's old-fashioning should be also taken into account.
I wonder you make such questions. In Poland you have a similar situation. Read investigation on Polish military Intelligence. Pay attention to the fact that such structure had nothing to do in Poland. Poland didn't require NATO secrets by entering this organization. Military Intelligence was unable to learn anything in East Europe because its officers were well known in our region. Military intelligence "acted" and its people received good salaries in 90 when all East European people were obliged to survive economically. And Military Intelligence supported the business of its participants using oficial status.

That occured in Poland depending of West Europe. That occured in the army integrating Nato.
Imagine such situation in Russia to which the WEst is physically unable to impose its controle.
Military Intelligence is only a visible top of an iceberg. Each powiat has its own postcommunist clan. Friends and cooperators from families formed during communism and some former dissident integrated.

One should be patient to their influence if they in change start to respect traditional Polish values but the point is that they impose their opinion to the rest of population and not the vice versa.

That occures within the EU in circumstancies of European countries mutual dependence. Imagine Russia away from EU.
I'm not sure Jaro Kaczynski will beate these clans. At least he doesn't offer any political technology with mass participation. At least he concentrated himself in lustration of ex secret service agents as if communist colaborators non-agents of secret service are less dangerous. As if secret contacts are with political police in the past is more dangerous than opened and agressive contacts op postcommunistas clans in present.

I don't think he will have any success.
Poland has nothing to teach Russians in thes sphere.

Why one of them - a KGB creep - rules Russia and the majority of Russians back him singlemindedly?

I'm sure the main progress in Russian social life (I wish it were forever) is that President in Russia is intouchable ian irresponsible as RP King in your tradition and in Constitution of 1791. The obedience is quite a different thing. I'm dealing with respect and safety of rulling person. One of the main reasons why 1917 became possible was the possibility to detrone Nicolas II and non admission of his son Alexis to trone despite legislature.

The head of the Nation is a ganantee of national unity even if he doesn't have power at all as Japanese Imperador now and sespite his personal assets. Rp is a nice example of that.

As to presidential power, it may be reduced in some years. A parlament and Prime Minister may exercise administrative functions, but now Russia still doesn't have at least a bipartisan parlament.

That's the reason why I voted in favor of Putin despite his past only because Eltsin ordered him and I'm going to vote in favor of anybody ordered by Pitin next year.

For the most ignorant people I shall respond. Thai in nothing that means obedience to Moscow. That is only question of Majestas not gouverning.
As to gouverning in my 43 years I came only to one conviction^ Szlachtic in his home is equal to vojewoda.

Would you reply (as Russian natonalists seem to have done in the past) that the human mind is too limited to comprehend Russia?

Do you know such nationalists? Mention their names. I know only one in Russian history (poet Tutczew) but I don't think many people follow his ideas. His nature peotical describing is more quoted.

As to the rest of nationalists they are convinced Russia should follow old European culture. First millenium in religion, past centuries in social life because moral was respected in West society. As to economy and technology Russia should be more pragmatic and folow today examples
truhlei   
17 Jul 2007
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

But it was predominantly Russians who committed all those atrocities against their own countrymen, weren't they?

Puzzler, you are discussing Russians as citizens of Russian Empire? Russian Empire gone away before.
You are discussing Russians as ethnic group. Among Russians the percentage of people participating in Revolution wasn't higher than among for example Polish-speaking people here. Dzerzynski and Kosior (one of the authors of Ukranian hunger in 1933 - 10 millions of victins as some Ukranian say) were only the top of communist rule.

There were some ethnies who didn't participated in communist movement (islamic peoples for example) but as to Polish speaking people that is not so

You weren't invaded by another country, another people.

We were.

Sometimes it is better than to be invided by internal revolutionaries. You may learn that reading the works of Polish clergymen of the end of the 19 century. Such liberational movements as Red fraction led by Kalinowski in `1863 frightened them more.
truhlei   
16 Jul 2007
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

Let us discuss general point. I think the general point is whichi values should be first defended if you want to escape slavery. And the algorytms of their defence.

Grzegorz Poland and Litwa for Politology is the same thing that Roman Empire for Law.
You can give a term to each process in politics using only Polish and Lithanian History, their political system. Till today you can understand any political process if you know RP political system and history.

RP democracy managed to resist so great attack as Potop and English or American democracies could only fail in such circumstancies. There were no adecuate survivals of any democratic or non-democratic Nation. You know? I'm ignorant. Sritish and American traditional politology is nothing in comparison with algorytms of RP. They were happy to be separated from enemies by seas and ocans, but their internal Civil wars were terrible. I'm deeply convinced in that

But neither in Polish history nor all over the world nobody respects Sarmat perioud. A great perjury in historical researches. Sometimes RP is even not mentioned in history of democratic development.

I should laught at the idea that anarchy killed RP. But see there is nothing in the world that is accepted with such unanimity as this idea. Even the idea that 2X2=4 can find more oppositors.

Polish endowments translate into Russian only historic researches that claim that anarchy was the reason of RP trouble in 1795. Even a moskal can't observe such self-humilation. in case the most RP deficiencies were more common with its neighbours (rokoszy, magnaty corruption). Nobody of these historians can even imagine that Three Black Eagles Union was a strong power. RP as well as each Nation in such situation was unable to reject. That a possible strong regular army could rebel, kill all liberties in RP kill half a population in Spy suspect take all resources of the country and then debilitated RP could be a more comfortable victim for enemies. Nobody noticed that.

Many democrates exist all over the world but when they look at RP they become to teach Tirania. Elected King is bad, reduced superior power is worse, Sejm votation in favour of war or against it is the worst thing. Nobody asked why the poor szlachta was eager to defend Golden freedom although among poor people were no Romantics. Sarmat obscurantism opposed to Enlightment is condemned all over the world - do you know the price of Enlightment, this pre-communism?

I don't speak in details about menor lie. When for example it is written that Liberum Veto killed RP, but only very few researches state that Liberun Veto ended in 1764. Many examples of the sort.

Everybody in the world condemnes RP in generar and sometimes glorifies some romantic heroes. Everybody says there was the worst in Europe the System that gave at the beginning of 16 century right to vote to a higher percentage of people than England in 1832 300 years later.

Polish literature about sarmat perioud isn't translated into Russian and even English. One cannot take from Internet in Russian or English books of Pasek or Rzewiski. Poland is fighting for Belarus democracy but it doesn't give texts on common past (Belarus ruling circles dismiss people researching Litwa history).

Many Polish public servants receive good salaries for Polish propaganda abroad but detailed Polish history isn't translated yet in the leading languages.
Everybody in the world hates RP history or loves it in some perverted forms: Many heroes bad political system.
Grzegorz, Imagine some similar is with Russia. Russia has sins but few people abroad know them (although we don't keep silence - you don't want to listen). And deficiencies you think the main sometimes are only the consecuencies as Soviet soldiers in Poland - they didn't have another way, everything started 30 years earlier. Why? By lack of democracy, poverty? Before 1917 there was a huge economic and political progress and Russia was winning a war.

I'm sure you weren't told about the reasons of communist victory.
truhlei   
16 Jul 2007
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

Quoting: truhlei
No, Grzegorz, the point is that now without Soviet soldiers you are unable to write here that some traitors families still prosper following the opression of patriots in the past.

What... ?

It is a lie? No post-communists prospering thanks to clan participation? Well, I'll look for Jaro's topics.

So you compare our problems with punishing traitors to your situations, when the whole country is run by "ex" KGB/GRU people ??

You know the number of KGB agents. You have managed to penetrate into KGB secrets.
As a matter of fact KGB was prohibited by party leaders to have too much agents. Because many agents could permit KGB rebel against party leaders. With the reduced number of agents Andropov managed to blackmail former party leader Breznew. Thet's the reason why only 5 per cent of Soviet people were KGB agents.

People were controlled in another way: party membership was inevitable for career, only party member could controle not only the whole USSR but also every street, every factory. A party member had to support party policy or he could be expelled loosing good career.

You see no difference with Poland

The difference is that you created communism...

Grzegorz, I think you can't undersand me because you have never contacted people whose Polish speaking ancestors spent the perioud between 1917-1945 within the Soviet Union and have an internal view of all the challenges in the USSR. If you were among them your ideas should be quite different.

I'm sure it is not your merit that your ancestors spent that period in Poland not in the USSR. It was not the mistake of Polish speaking people in the USSR that they faced communism earlier. Many of them were deported to Siberia earlier. Some public servants didn't have right to work among Polish-speaking people. Some left for internel Russian territories by unempoyment at the beginning of 20 century. After 1920 in some Soviet territories it was very dangerous to claim so called optation (return to Poland and its kresy). Many people didn't try to return by fear for their familiars.

In the 30-s hundreds of thousands of Polish speaking people were killed or sentenced to many years of imprisonment by suspect of being spies.
More victims thain in Katyn and post war Poland taken together.
When anybody hates yhat means that he didn't suffer much. Those who suffered much don't have force to hate, only to persist as individual.

For my Polish speaking grandfather the top of heroism was not to change his western name and etnicity in pasport. But his parents had to leave their house in Saransk Volga region and to die away from their home. They were afraid after 1939 when their familiars places Grodno and Oszmjany became Soviet NKVD will learn smth about their relatives that seemed to be successful in Poland.

Or course there were people that suffered more. But everybody for survival had to put their families past in secret from their children. My grandfather didn't return from the war and my mother - his daughter - died with good memories about grandies but with no information about her family. She knew only names and approximately the regions of burth. And admiration of their education and kindness.

Now after my mammies' dearth I learned their genealogy untill 17 century. visited Grodno and folwark my grand-grandfather was born. But even before I learned about their past in archives I visited more and more The places in ancient Great Lithuania they were from. It is like a prenatal instinct of Fatherland. After 40 I feel myself happy in that lands.

You see my family managed to see Soviet power from inside from the very beginning.
No idea that Russian community in general was more guilty in communism than my ancestors? than other Polish speaking people in the same situation.
Look for other people in Russia with Polish speaking ancestors. I'm sure they will tell you the same thing. At least the majority of them.

Litwa is my Fatherland but I'm proud of beeng Orthodox Russian
truhlei   
16 Jul 2007
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

without your soldats these people would never get power here

There is a real chain. No perspectives for traitors without Soviet soldiers...
But did the Red Army represent any democracy? Did it have any opportunitu to create any konfederacja as it was in Pospolitoje Ruszenje (pardon for spelling)?

In this case nobody could decide to invade Poland and dye for Brealau transmission to Germany.
Did they at least have any opportunity to escape as did thousands of Russian soldiers in 18 century in RP?
So, the reason why Soviet soldiers were loosing their lives in Poland we should find in the past, in Soviet system of opression after 1917.
Nobody elected Soviet power in Russia despite the existence of electoral mechanisms since at least 1906. In Czesz Republic by the way communists were elected in 1948 when Red army was away. But nobody was able to defend himself although the minority started rebels in 1917.

Do you know why this occured? Are sure any Nation is protected now against such tragedy? What do you know about possible protection? Please write it. I'm studying this topic more than 12 years. It is very interesting to learn your opinion
truhlei   
16 Jul 2007
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

The point is that without your soldats these people would never get power here, not even close to that.

No, Grzegorz, the point is that now without Soviet soldiers you are unable to write here that some traitors families still prosper following the opression of patriots in the past. Prospor because they still have clans that persecuted liberty in the past. Clans of mutual assistance (read Jaro respected by you as well as by me).

The point is that you can't mention next door traitors family and cut his hair as it was after war/ Or - in a human society - at least make yhese families remember their past and at least support your Jaro by fear of social boikot. The vice versa they make propaganda against twins.

Unfortunately Jaro didn't prepare well to that fight.
In such situation it is so easy to condemn all Russians. They are away, have their own problems and won't react to your words in such way as postcommunist clan with guys in your street may react.
truhlei   
16 Jul 2007
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

The difference is that you created communism...

And the same advice. Look for Polish communist colaborationists and their sons and grandsons. Their participation in Polish oppression was more evident than the participation of 99 per cent of Russians. Now they have a higher living standarts than the sons of their victims. But you won't look for them and repeat them everything you told me, unknown moskal. I'm long away. It is comfortable to accuse me. It is imposible to make Polish postcommunists give an explication whi they are still living better than their victims.

I told peasantry spirit governs. That is one of such demonstrations, isn't it?
To be brave with unknown moskal, to condemn him without any knowledge about his familiars' possible participation in Polish tragedy and to keep silence with the postcommunist next door. Quite a peasant virtud
truhlei   
16 Jul 2007
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

;i think that states are like marriages;))if someone's not happy,then divorce.share your earnings,and split in peace.stay friends,for sake of people(children).politicians are responsible for people,not for their own dignity.
i personally believe that opressed people want out,and the opressors are trying to preserve their milking cows,if you get what i mean.

For any independence de jure (I don't discuss de facto one the kosovars have since 1999) a carantin is requires. North Cyprus is waiting for 33 years

Excuse me... ?

You don't read Jaroslaw Kaczynski's speeches. You don't like Jaroslaw? But there are some clever ideas in his speeches. The ways of its putting in practice isn't so clever.

But in any way don't ask moskal about Polish fight against postcommunism. Read more Polish newspapers

The difference is that you created communism...

I didn't create communism. There were some Russians who participated in that. But not only Russians. Study the ideas of Konstantin Kalinowski, red fraction leader in 1863. His "Red" term was used by Soviet communists.
truhlei   
16 Jul 2007
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

Truhlei,
Well, i don't know really. May be you are right. I think the extermination of noble elite in Russia won't be reimbursed ever. Gas tycoons (i used to work at Gazprom for some time) don't have a chance. Their childrean or children of their children - probably.

Atilla I'm sure we have a wrong idea of szlachta and Rissian nobility.
The image of these classes in the 19 century doesn't give us anything. To think about nobility or szlachta exploring the examples of the 19 century is the same thing that to learn about Helsinki 1952Olympic Games sportsmen preparation studying one of its champions today when he is after 70.

Nobility as well as szlachta were efficient in 16-17 centuries when their manners and education wasn't much higher than the lewel of peasants.
As to szlachta it can't be compared with Russian or Western nobility. It is a unique phenomenon. It wasn't a class or social group. It was a little people (some 15 per cent) within tle big people.

It is sometimes similar to communist party in totalitarian countries/ I mean social duties and prospects for career only for party members. I don't mean communist ideology by itself although the antihuman ideas turned communist states to totalitarian existence without any Golden Liberty for anybody.

It is quite possible now to establish an irregular forces with organization and honour tribunals. The participants will occupy all profitable posts in state politics or business and won't permit penetration of no-irregulars. That's the szlachta as well as nobility algorytm.

15 per cent will signify its penetration into all spheres. All major public servants, all major military officers (from major) all businessmen and all major managers. And volunteers downstairs as szlachta golota.

Everything is prepared for this. Everibody will join to have success and take duties. Such group (for Russia some 20 million) will controle everything and rebels will become impossible as well as reforms won't take into account lumpens' protests.

Poland and Litwa can teach us. Not contemporary one.
truhlei   
16 Jul 2007
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

and do you think kosovo should have independence?

Being Russian I'm against not only Kosovo de jure independence but also any kind of Osetian and Abhasian separatism from Georgia as well as East Ukranian Russian-speaking de jure separation from Ukraune.

Each state limit all over the world may be considered injust by somebody. Europe isn't an exception. Vilnius Lithuania is one of the examples.

Kosovo de jure independence wil provoke the similar attempts all over the world because despite Ahtisaari statements its situation isn't so unique.
Neither USA nor NAto will be able to control this situation

vs. peasantry? :)

Atilla you are Russian. You know that Russian middle class is defensless and even is unable to realize that it should defend itself. Our "elite" think how to distribute sone gas profits among lumpens. If gas disappears, lumpens will distribute middle class property (in direct or indirect way) Sarmats formed some 15 per cent of population and were able to controle all life in RP. 15 per cent and their social status - all this shows that the majority of szlachta belonged to middle class. A good example

of course,i think that slavic union is a total bull,we don't need russians to rule over us all.

Russians also reject slavic union. Slavic countries are qualified now as possible obstacle for Russian business and trade with "Old Europeans"

Living in a quasi-totalitarian state

First of all I'll see how Polish government wins postcommunism in Poland following only 45 years of communist rule and 18 years of postcommunist one under the controle of democratic powers.

Only after that you will receive a certain right to condemn a country which siffered from communism during 74 years and was not later controlled in its democratic development by free world.

I'm sure Kaczynskis don't have even a correct political technology to win in this sphere. As well as teache oter ex communist countries
truhlei   
16 Jul 2007
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

But I was talking about your current master.

My only master is president Putin. I'll respect the head of the state despite its personality/ Obedience is a different thing.
Shall you shame me for being a Sarmate ideals partisan?
truhlei   
16 Jul 2007
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

Truhlei, so you mean the Russians who were murdered during communism? I've read Solzhenitsyn many times; I often reach for 'The Gulag Archpelago.' I remember reading its first American edton, and then a Polish one published in Paris by the emigre Polish
publishing house Kultura, in, if I remember it rght, 1977.

Yes,
That is only one of thousands of books about communist terror.
truhlei   
16 Jul 2007
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

Living in a quasi-totalitarian state with a cult of personality of your master that's not really surprising.

Polish king was also respected even by rokosz participants. Exept Bar konfederacja partisans as far as I know no rokoszans required any detronement (Zebzydowski or Lubomirski rokosz). According to Constitution 1791 King is intouchable and inrespounsable/

That's not a totalitarian state.