News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

What's with this obsession with Germany being the problem? Many European countries don't see it that way - the Czechs and Slovaks already made it clear that they don't have any issues, the UK never had any issue with Germany, the Nordics and Baltics don't have any issue with Germany, the Croats and Slovenes don't have any issue with Germany, the Iberians don't have any issue with Germany... why is it that it only happens to be the populists in Poland, Hungary and Italy that keep screaming and shouting about it?

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Ah, but these ones are German owned and operated. They're just Polish in the sense of being physically located here, but they actually cater for Germans and are staffed by low-cost workers who speak a bit of German.

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For who? Such an alliance could only be made up of countries economically dependent on Germany, like Poland. What happens if Germany forms an alliance against that alliance, and proceeds to turn off the flow of cash? Who wins? Not Poland.


You're openly boasting about people like JKM, Le Pen and Salvini, all of whom are supporters of Putin and who have received Russian cash in the past. Tell us, how can this be in Poland's interest? What happens if Italy and France decide that they no longer want to support Poland financially, and that they would rather divert the money into countries with closer links to Russia, such as Bulgaria and Hungary?


When when when. Flights cost 39zł from Stansted. Get on the plane, start business. It's easy.

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So why would you support anything that supports Russia? That doesn't sound particularly pro-Polish to me.

Anyway, if you were really pro-Polish, you'd pay taxes in Poland.

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Isn't it so strange that you keep pushing the same anti-German attitude on here while praising pro-Putin parties in Europe.

I wonder what could be your agenda. Hmm.

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Makes perfect sense really. Young educated people aren't staying in Hungary, they want to live a normal life, and they're not going to get it in the poorly funded and corrupt Hungarian healthcare system.

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What I find interesting is that despite that claim, the amount of Germans actually leaving to Hungary are minimal. I suspect that there are retirement homes for Germans around Balaton - a quick look shows this, for instance - pflegeheim-balaton.eu and a bigger list here - beste-seniorenheime.de/pflegeheim-ungarn - from what I can see, it's a popular option.

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Ziemowit, you may find this interesting: thelocal.de/20170810/here-are-the-top-countries-where-germans-immigrate-to

In short, Germans are emigrating to other multicultural societies.

Germans moving to Lake Balaton aren't moving there for work, they're retiring there because a German pension goes a hell of a long way in rural Hungary, especially as everyone speaks German around Balaton anyway.

Spike has some very curious ideas about Poles abroad though. I've been to Berlin many times and I've never seen a Cyfrowy Polsat dish.

History / Arthur Szukalski - Polish sculptor [6]


Your knowledge of that era seems to be lacking. Quite a lot of good art came out of the PRL - for instance, there's something interesting here: artmuseum.pl/en/filmoteka/programy/filmy-artystek-polskich-z-lat-70

Socialist realism never really took off in Poland.

News / Mass-media in Poland: which are left wing, right wing or centrist? [44]


It does, there's no arguing about that. Kukiz had a great 2015, but he simply wasn't up for the task of actually leading a political party in parliament.

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You do know that the "enquiry" was a complete farce, and that they failed to provide a single piece of evidence to suggest any sort of cover up or Russian involvement?

It's been over 3 years now, they've also inspected the wreck in person, yet there's still nothing. Why? More importantly, it's important to note that they haven't even made any of their "calculations" available for analysis. Why?

And for a laugh, do tell us about the experts on aviation disasters on the commission in question. How many are experienced accident investigators?


That rhetoric has hardly any supporters in Poland. Most people don't want football hooligans and free for all capitalists to run Poland, as witnessed by their constant electoral failure.

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It's treated as a joke in many circles now. Even a PiS supporting friend openly admits that the only purpose of it was to mobilise the disenfranchised section of society, nothing more.

If they were interested in a real investigation, they would have put together an investigative commission with real experts, not clowns looking for easy money.

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For a start: dw.com/en/stoking-anti-german-sentiment-in-poland/a-16456568

Then you can follow it with - foreignpolicy.com/2018/10/05/polands-new-populism-pis/- particularly:


And you can follow it up by reading the next paragraph, which shows how Russia is barely mentioned on the news, while anti-German pieces appear frequently. Please do explain to us.

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That really does sound like propaganda taken straight from TVP.

PiS are always ranting on about how countries have the sovereign right to dictate their own affairs, so why don't they shut up and keep out of internal German affairs?

News / Mass-media in Poland: which are left wing, right wing or centrist? [44]

Only because the PO vote split with Nowoczesna. That statistic gets pulled up time and time again, and it only works if you consider PO and N. to be separate parties. Nowoczesna took almost all their support from the educated managerial/business owner class, and if they didn't exist, that group would have voted for PO en masse.


Yeah, a whole 300zł a month in contributions. Farmers are a huge burden on the system with the tiny inefficient farms.

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It was worse. They said nothing about Germany during the campaign, then as soon as they won, they started with this very obvious anti-German campaign. Meanwhile, Kaczyński also ordered PiS to tone down the rhetoric towards Russia. It's all rather strange, though makes perfect sense when you consider their electorate.

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It's even more peculiar that you see nothing wrong with all the insults towards Germany coming from PiS. Had they not been abusing Germany non-stop for 3 years, perhaps they might have more diplomatic power when it comes to Nord Stream.

Life / Poland A, Poland B [75]

Even the trade unions were exasperated with the constant management changes in KGHM. There's a good article here about it - polsatnews.pl/wiadomosc/2018-06-20/zwiazkowcy-z-kghm-bronia-spolki-przed-politykami-z-pis-dosc-zabawy-i-eksperymentow - essentially, it looks like there's a very deliberate policy within PiS not to allow senior management to spend too long in post. The jobs get rotated round, meaning that everyone gets 'their share' and that they constantly fight for position.

In this sense, they're even worse than the PZPR.

News / Mass-media in Poland: which are left wing, right wing or centrist? [44]


It's well documented in the Polish press that poorer/older/rural/uneducated voters go for PiS.

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

A philosopher? Try "Youtuber" at best.

It's sad to see such people promoting Poland in this way, because a meeting of village idiots once a year does not equal Poland.

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]


So, PiS are leftist trash in your book?

They hate freedom of speech (hence trying to prosecute people for saying "I'm pissed off"), they hate liberty (rushed through surveillance laws), they love to control society (centralising everything) and so on.

Work / Job question in Poznan (Lecturer) [11]

Which faculty? It depends on whether it's a job teaching only practical English courses, or whether you'll be expected to work as a normal lecturer. Salaries are pretty low, though if you're applying for a position in the Faculty of English, they're very professional, so don't expect to 'coast' there, and expect that you'll have to be up to speed very quickly.

If you don't mind me asking, where did you see the position advertised?

(PS: Go Flames!)

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

Interesting words, because many of his followers don't actually accept everything Polish, and they certainly don't accept the bad points in Polish history.

Life / Poland A, Poland B [75]


The problem with that is that governments are often tempted to raid those companies for money rather than keeping it for a rainy day. Norway did it right with the oil fund, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia are all doing it wrong because they're using those companies to prop up the budget.

The other problem is that governments often then use these state-controlled companies to destroy private business. There are so many examples over the last 30 years in Poland where a state-controlled company has called in 'help' to deal with a private rival. Did you see the case recently with the private printing company?

wiadomosci.radiozet.pl/Polska/Wojskowa-spolka-zawyzala-koszt-druku-matur.-Panstwo-stracilo-na-tym-miliony-zlotych

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Those of us who know Poland know that only trusted people entered law studies in the PRL. I

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Yet he's willing to enter into a coalition with a man who openly supports Russia and Putin, which as everyone knows is run by those that were around in the 1980's KGB.

Makes no sense at all, but then again, nationalists were never known for their ability to think logically.

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That sounds like a childish way of saying that Jewish people control money.


Yes, but Korwin was polling at 5-7% before the last European elections. Now he's at 2% and RN are nowhere.

They're only combining forces because Korwin's latest party has even less support than before, and he's desperate to get back into the European Parliament so he can continue to line his pockets. Neither of them would have a chance by themselves.

Law / Inheritance and Gift tax for non-resident Polish Citizens - laws in Poland? [10]


Krajowa Administracja Skarbowa. It's the National Tax Administration, and yes, they speak English.

Life / Poland A, Poland B [75]

It's also an important source of finance for companies. If the government oversees a collapse in share prices, then it becomes much more difficult for businesses to launch an IPO in order to raise money. Many pension funds also invest heavily on the stock market to provide greater than inflation returns.

A weak stock market means weak Polish companies.

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So you're admitting that RN have a hard left economic policy, then? Interesting, interesting.

Either way, both of them are polling about 2% at the minute, so they hardly represent anything worthwhile.