History / Polish contribution to England during war [60]

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Why is War of Independence, Civil War, or Vietnam so important for the Americans?
Now consider this - none of those wars cost you almost 20% of the entire population, including the entire elite, a full decapitation of the entire nation. Would that have some tiny significance to you?

Add a fact that now, 65 years after the war, the Germans are demanding war reparations from us, the Russians are calling us openly allies of Hitler, pretty much the entire Europe writes freely about antisemitism as essentialy a Polish trait, all the world talks about Polish concentration camps, The Times writes about Polish responsibility for Holocaust, Izraeli newspapers print comics showing good nazi Germans and evil Poles forcing them to kill the Jews. Is this enough for that history to have some significance?

History / Polish contribution to England during war [60]

That's a bit of a misinformation, isn't it? UK is not a parliamentary democracy anymore (gravitating towards presidential system), the MPs are now just glorified voting machines. Whips have so much power that a "parliamentary revolt" (members of a party voting not in line with the party directive, which in other countries happens all the time) occurs only in times of greatest discontent and can cause great danger to the PM. So saying that Labour depends on Scotland for the votes is not entirely honest.

UK, Ireland / Sad life of a Polish migrant in UK. Ch. 1 - Staring [43]


You've got to be kidding me. It is hard to take a ride on a bus without being forced to hear some chav's 10 Greates Hits broadcast from his mobile, or see a group of kids shouting most vile abuse at each other. No one ever reacts in any way. And why should they? Reacting to this means being beaten up/stabbed by the chavs and then arrested by the police for assault.

I won't even mention what's happening on each Friday night. I can just tell you that people in Poland would be absolutely horrified by the level of barbarism that's on display.

As to the "staring" thing - no idea what that was all about. I've never heard about anything like that.

Life / Poland's westernization [44]

Polish westernization happened some time between X and XII century.
In late XX century most of Europe dropped the values and ideals of the western civilization, choosing instead... pretty much nothing. Poland will probably follow the same route quite soon.