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Palivec   
3 May 2011
History / Poles in the Napoleonic era [224]

btw what other minorities? the Danes? how many of them? some 50 thousand Lithuanians? a couple of thousands of Czechs?

Mainly French Huguenots and Kashubians.

Poles in the Prussian army:
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategoria:Polacy_%E2%80%93_wojskowi_armii_pruskiej
Palivec   
3 May 2011
History / Poles in the Napoleonic era [224]

It looks like (if my sources are correct) that conscription began around 1806. I am also aware that Prussia had Hussar and Uhlan units, were these made up of Poles but led my Germans?? This seems to be a very difficult subject to research!

No, conscription in Prussia started only after the Prussian reforms by Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, which were a direct result of the defeat in 1806. Conscription was first temporarialy implemented in March 1813 and finally began in 1814.
Palivec   
3 May 2011
News / Poland A and Ukraine B. Compare how far Poland has advanced. [282]

Look at those ugly advertisements near Warsaw - it looks as if their motto was: Give me a road and a plot so that I can start a business.

These advertisements all over Poland are horrible. The whole country looks like a huge bazaar. A free economony is nice, but some rules are needed.
Palivec   
30 Apr 2011
History / The Piast dynasty did most for Poland [24]

Poland's Piast dynasty united the West Slavic tribes on present day Poland's land into a common nation.

The Piasts were also responsible for the fragmentation of Poland, and one branch of the Piasts split off its part altogether and joined a different country.

History is, as always, a bit more complex.
Palivec   
28 Apr 2011
Feedback / Why are there so many on here, who do not like Poland [150]

But in the opinion of the article which you recommended to us it was. Which just goes to show how pathetic some of the content in Wikipedia about Poland is.

The result of a few staunchly nationalistic Polish editors. Look for a user called Molobo or the EEML case. Everything there becomes a battlefield if these guys are involved.
Palivec   
24 Apr 2011
History / The smallest Poland ever? [115]

Fair enough. But this doesn't explain destructions in the 70s and even 80s and the general lack of care even today. Monumens can also be reconstructed. I know Poland pretty well, and the difference between the traditional Polish lands and the so called "recovered territories" is striking. The cultural uprooting is evident.

But what about the United States - you haven't answered that?

You compare a tribal society without much cultural achievements with a complex high culture?
Palivec   
24 Apr 2011
History / The smallest Poland ever? [115]

You can't compare (natural) migration in pre-nationalistic times and ethnic cleansing in the 20th century. The former was often characterised by a fusion of old an new culture (England, Spain), ethnic cleansings in the 20th century often came along with iconoclasm, i.e. the destruction of symbols of the former culture. Before the rise of nationalism symbols of a nation weren't that important to the people.

And by these standards Lviv is in better hands than Wroclaw. Mickiewicz and Kiliński are still on their pedestals, while Eichendorff and Svarez are gone. And while Poles can visit Polish graveyards in Lviv Germans can't do the same in Wroclaw.
Palivec   
24 Apr 2011
History / The smallest Poland ever? [115]

Is that a fact? Your 6th post on this forum and you're showing your true colours already - good! :)

Just a logical conclusion. If you turn non-Polish regions into "true Polish land" you must erase the former culture. If you remove the former culture the region can't be in good hands. Simple logic.
Palivec   
24 Apr 2011
History / The smallest Poland ever? [115]

That is not the point - point is that only Wroclaw is in good hands and you know it.

we rebuilt the razed Eastern German provinces and turned them into true Polish lands,

That's a contradiction. Either they are in good hands or turned into true Polish lands.
Palivec   
23 Apr 2011
History / The smallest Poland ever? [115]

and who are you ?

A European who didn't know that redrawing borders is still a popular pastime in Poland.