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1jola   
8 Nov 2010
USA, Canada / Wearing a white over red in America - Independence Day (11 November) [3]

Perfect. Of course, when I graduated from college in the States and got my first job with another graduate from my university, he was shoched to find out that there was a French Revolution. He's only heard of a Bolshevik revolution. Be prepared to answer dumb questions from puzzled, but well meaning, folks that there are other independence days other than 4th of July. Tell us how it turned out.
1jola   
4 Nov 2010
History / POLISH IDENTITY-shift from communism to democracy [28]

The "educated" ones leaving are the unemployable ones who got poor grades at university studying something plastic, like sociology.

Interesting to finally find out why you left Scotland. Your special skill of speaking English just wasn't that marketable there. I understand.
1jola   
3 Nov 2010
History / POLISH IDENTITY-shift from communism to democracy [28]

Anyway, don't you have anything valuable to contribute?

I would if I understood the question. But you've been here a couple of years so you go ahead. You're doing good, don't hold back. I want to learn something.

Many of the things present in PRL times still exist to this day - such as the presence of the Eagle everywhere.

Perhaps you don't understand the question either.
1jola   
3 Nov 2010
Life / Queues in Poland - everyone in line is sandwiched [44]

Must i be in constant physical contact with an ugly obese polish babka

Try lining up behind a hot babe instead.

You will not get used to it, but it will prepare you when you will have Poles and Russians queing up together, say at Sharm airport. That almost comes to handfights.
1jola   
3 Nov 2010
History / POLISH IDENTITY-shift from communism to democracy [28]

You will have to wait a little because our experts on Poland and anything Polish, including "Polish Identity," Harry and Delphi that is, are taking a break now.
1jola   
3 Nov 2010
Life / Legal Graffiti Walls in Poland? [45]

A legal graffiti in Warsaw:

In memory of Zdzislaw Beksinski, painter, murdered in this building. No little shits have defaced it for 3 years now.

Beksinski's art: google.com/images?q=beksinski+graffiti&um=1&hl=en&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=2
1jola   
3 Nov 2010
History / Maus by Vladek Spiegelman - animals to represent Poles? [68]

I entirely agree. My point was that that did not happen "often" as you claimed and that the statements of Police Battalion 101 show that to be the case.

If you are dying to quote some German soldier, do it, man. Don't play the coy virgin. You know you have the quote ready, it's sensational, and it obligatorily has something to put Poles in bad light. Do it. After all, that's what you're here for.
1jola   
3 Nov 2010
History / Maus by Vladek Spiegelman - animals to represent Poles? [68]

a) That isn't a law.

Oh really, you mean the German people didn't vote on it in a referendum? Why did they post it? To amuse people?

b) It says nothing about executing entire families.

But whole Polish families were executed.

You might have some mental problems to keep argueing about this. lol
1jola   
3 Nov 2010
History / Maus by Vladek Spiegelman - animals to represent Poles? [68]

I see that you can not link to the supposed German law which has a death sentence for entire families of Poles,

I posted the law in German, Polish, and even so you can read it - in English.

will receive capital punishment, but that the same punishment awaits those, who knowingly aid such Jews by harbouring them.

The Germans meant it:

3. AFTYKA, Józef, 54, living in Wola Przybys³awska, near Garbów, Lublin prov.
4. AFTYKA, Aniela, 52, Józef's wife

5. AFTYKA, Marianna, 14, daughter

6. AFTYKA, Zofia, 17, daughter

murdered by Germans on Dec. 10, 1942 together with a group of Jews sheltered by them and with W³adys³aw Abramek. On the same day Czes³aw and Leonard Gawron from the same village were also killed together with Aniela and Stanis³aw Kamiñski, 5 members of the Nalewjka family and 5 others of the Ochmiñski family - a total of 19 people (see: 1, 137-138, 209- 210, 390-391, 411)

Here is more: holocaustforgotten.com/list.htm
1jola   
3 Nov 2010
History / Maus by Vladek Spiegelman - animals to represent Poles? [68]

I was asking about the German law which imposed death sentences on whole Polish families for hiding Jews.

Playing the idiot again? From the law:

will receive capital punishment, but that the same punishment awaits those, who knowingly aid such Jews by harbouring them.

Your arguments is probably: What if a single person, living alone, was hiding a Jew? The Germans couldn't have executed the his whole family, because he didn't have one. You got me there, I must admitt. You are good at this,Harry.
1jola   
3 Nov 2010
History / Maus by Vladek Spiegelman - animals to represent Poles? [68]

I've never heard of any such law before.

What have you heard then? That Poles were discouraged from hiding Jews?

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"GENERAL NOTICE
W.r.t.: Capital punishment for support to Jews, who have left the jewish settlement without authorisation.
Of late numerous Jews have departed from the designated Jewish living district. They are as yet delayed in the District of Warsaw. I point your attention thereto, that by the third Decree of the Governor General concerning settlement allocation of the General Government (VBl. GG. S. 595) of 15.10.1941,not only the Jews who in this way, departed unauthorised from their allocated living district, will receive capital punishment, but that the same punishment awaits those, who knowingly aid such Jews by harbouring them. [...]"

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Afisz-kara_śmierci_za_pomoc_Żydom.jpg
1jola   
3 Nov 2010
History / Maus by Vladek Spiegelman - animals to represent Poles? [68]

The men of Police Battalion 101 wouldn't agree on that. But what do they know? They only killed thousands of Jews.

You mean German soldiers would not agree with German law?

You mean Jews can be complete and utter bastards too? Who would have thought it!

In Glorious Bastards Jewish fighters committing war crimes is celebrated as the noblest of deeds. A smashing hit!
1jola   
3 Nov 2010
History / Maus by Vladek Spiegelman - animals to represent Poles? [68]

I don't think that I have ever before read anywhere any statement that Poles passed death sentences on other Poles who were hiding Jews

Pole or Jew, when he turned in Poles hiding Jews, he often passed a death sentence on the whole Polish family. I think we all agree on that.

I guess I must have imagined the scenes in the Pianist showing Jews working with the Nazis.

Would you say that is the first one out of hundreds holocaust movies that shows Jews as eager participants in the Holocaust? The Jewish police often exceeded the Nazi quotas so they could plunder their victim's homes.
1jola   
3 Nov 2010
History / Maus by Vladek Spiegelman - animals to represent Poles? [68]

In the usual Polish fashion many of You guys fail to acknowledge that apart from a significant number of brave and heroic Poles that did all they could to ease the plight of Jews at great personal risk there was also a very visible chunk of the Polish population that sold Jews out to the Nazis for food or out of spite.

In the usual Jewish fashion, You have been fed that only Poles turned in hiding Jews, and also passed death sentences on the Poles who were hiding the Jews. This happened, we know that mostly criminal element profited during the war. This picture is incomplete. What it is missing is the biggest threat to hiding Jews - collaborating Jews. In Warsaw, there was a large network of Jews working directly for Gestapo. What do you think they did besides ripping off fellow Jews, and exposing Jewish and Polish resistance organizations. How deadly certain Jews could be to the Jewish community you should study the case of Stella Kübler in Berlin.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_K%C3%BCbler

In Poland, Gestapo was much better organized. Thousands of Jews worked for Gestapo, but you will not see movies about that.
1jola   
29 Oct 2010
News / Poland goes bankrupt? [110]

Rostowski hides the real informations about scale of debt.

As minister of finance he is concerned that his daughter gets a good secure job before the crap hits the fan. Who needs experience to be a 23-year-old advisor to the minister of foreign affairs?

The cross is more important ;)

...let's also concentrate on PiS and Kaczynski who are not in goverment. The posters here are not much different than the Polish population.

I blame tvn.

You're catching on, after all it plays a role of a government spokesman, with Dance with the Stars, You can Dance, Na Wspolnej, and all the other bullshit they and TVP feed people, who has the time to see what the ever popular PO gov is doing.

BTW, yesterday Palikot mustered about 100 people to scream insults at clergy in Warsaw. You don't need to sell him rope, he brought his own. His PENIS "party" is hovering at 1-2%. He is yesterday's news.
1jola   
27 Oct 2010
Food / Kotlet schabowy again. I love it. [47]

I got it. The thing is I waste a lot of herbs by adding them to the eggs. I like your idea better.
1jola   
27 Oct 2010
Food / Kotlet schabowy again. I love it. [47]

Pgtx, I'll ping you when I do my guide to basic meals for kebab eaters. :) I will try coating with herbs before dipping in egg. I see what you mean.
1jola   
27 Oct 2010
Food / Kotlet schabowy again. I love it. [47]

Here's a tip. Tenderize your cutlet with a mallet (beat your meat), coat it in egg but add herbs to the eggs, and then coat it with bread crumbs. Don't overcook. Serve with boiled potatoes and sliced cucumber with sour cream. Basic Polish dish.
1jola   
27 Oct 2010
USA, Canada / Polish Food - 40 flavors of pierogies in the US [113]

Maybe I'm alone on this one, but if you want to offer Polish food, it should be authentic. If people don't like it, there is always McDo or some other garbage. While I can stomach tuna melt, let's not call that Polish food.
1jola   
27 Oct 2010
USA, Canada / Polish Food - 40 flavors of pierogies in the US [113]

you've never tasted it before...

Peanut butter pierogi is just right for Americans; after all, they will chow anything, as long as the portions are big. I would propose mint jelly pierogi chased down with grapefruit juice.