Polonius3:
Poland has traditonally been a haven for dissenters, accounting for the large number of Jews who fled England
This is why I am soooo happy to be half polish. Polish are strong and has guts.
Only trouble being there is no basis in historical fact for his statement,sure Jews were kicked out in the middle ages,but a couple of decades after Poland had the oppertunity,but failed to take it of freeing the serfs Britain had a person of undoubted Jewish descent as Prime Minister in Benjamin Disraeli....you guys had to wait till the reds took over before a Jew or any non catholic pole took power....
I'd add one more to your list; Poles did not traffic in the slave trade like some other European nations did.
No,it only enslaved huge swathes of its native population,d'oh! Atleast we didnt enslave our next door neighbours we sailed halfway around the world and let other people sell their next door neighbours to us :)
First of all, we didn't have all those colonies to
milk for centuries (East India Company etc.),
less than 150 years actually old chap,east india company was just that,a company,the 18th century equivelent of one of say haliburton. The indian rulers invited in traders,made alliances and generally kept full independance untill around 1858,even after then most of india was administered and defended by native indians.......shouldnt spout garbage when a descendent of old Bob Clive is on the forum :)
secondly the country was in ruins
after the WW2
financialy so to was Britain,when will you numpties get it that Britain didnt recieve a penny from the Yanks after the war,unlike the rest of Europe.
after that
we had 45 years of socialism.
yeah,so,we had over 10 years of maggie thatcher,i'll take your gulags over that b*tch anyday ....
and we sank half the British fleet,
you also flew the last "enemy" flag over a British town Hall :)
During the Second World War, the Germans couldn't invade our country over land, (And they really had overwhelming numbers!)
Yes,but tanks dont generally float too well over flooded polder do they?(as Guards armoured and princes irene brigade found out in '44:( )