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


So..... that makes up for Rotherham? (and all othe other cases coming to light?)

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


Please explain why a commission with unlimited resources couldn't find any evidence in however long they had (and why J Kaczński himself has distanced himself from those pushing the 'Russia didi it!' idea)

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


Except that Kaczyński was deeply unpopular in Poland at the time and it was generally agreed there was no way he would be re-elected... why take such a risk to get rid of a politician who was on his way out anyway...

Also... whoever planned that trip should be put in jail (if they weren't on the plane) it was completely reckless and unforgiveable that they had so many top military figures on one single plane. Another reason for the Russia blaming is to distract attention away from criminal neglect of basic security protocol.

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


No, because all serious sources agreed it was the USSR. Only the USSR and those governments coerced into echoing the Soviet position pretended to believe otherwise.

Here, no serious source can point to any compelling evidence that it was anything beyond an unfortunate accident....

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


the article you linked to is 9 months old, that's all the PiS commission ever did, announce breakthroughs that were going to happen any day now.... and never did.

how long you can still believe in that process is a good indication of your emotional stability.

For the record, I wouldn't put it past Russia to do something like that if it thought it could and there was evidence, but there's no motive and no evidence, so.... no case.

History / Give Poland back it's lost land ! [132]


So what do you want to do about it? Invade?

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


Then a large majority of Polish people are not rational and you might want to rethink plans about living among such a deluded population...

The government poured vast resources into its smolensk investigations and has.... absolutely nothing to show for it.

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


It's all in fun here, but do not say anything of the kind in Poland unless you want people to think you're mentally imbalanced.

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


Very true.


I want to like this comment 487 (or maybe 514) times. The important thing to note is that both sides do it (for different reasons). No political party in Poland has a good grasp on how to deal with the issues that matter to voters and so they rile them up with marginal issues (similarly the diaspora doesn't have any good ideas for actually improving things on the ground and so they get themselves hot and bothered with issues that just don't matter much in Poland itself).

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


so not English philology.... (they split from Neofilologia (Polish name) a couple of years ago) but which department there are several and working conditions, morale, attitudes toward native speakers etc tend to vary a lot.

what are they offering in terms of housing?

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


of course it's disturbing but his weird obsession with it makes it harder to discuss (I sometimes wonder if he's on the payroll of someone trying to stop discussions related to failed integration in western europe)

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


on the other hand, the current government probably gave this pervert a visa... (I wonder if he ever appeared on this forum?)

tvnwarszawa.tvn24.pl/informacje,news,trzy-lata-wiezienia-za-probe-gwaltu-sad-skazal-dostawce-jedzenia,282085.html

Language / Polish and other slavic language differences [60]


I was working from memory... I'm sure about розмовляєте and по українському and was guessing at the rest from memory.. though

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


The Russian economy is still based on primitive resource extraction and elements of Russian culture (absence of rigorous property rights) mean that only fools or criminals invest in the economy.

History / Give Poland back it's lost land ! [132]


I'm reminded that when Putin tried to be international the Russian public turned against him and it was only when he began invading places that the public got behind him.

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


No longer. The defining feature of the modern age is that capital has no nationality and moves very quickly and national governments can do nothing to keep it withing any given territory... (they can do things that keep it out but nothing that keeps it in).

At is most demented (see the UK) almost all government activity is geared toward luring and tempting capital to stay in one place.

Language / Polish and other slavic language differences [60]


Many years ago I had a 'learn ukrainian' vinyl disc and IIRC 'Do you speak Ukrainian?" was something like "розмовляєте ли ви по українському" which seemed unnecessarily long and unwieldy

I'm not sure how standardized modern Ukrainian is (and to what extend the standard is actually used)


I think that should end with a -t, govorit (like "Marek mówi..." in Polish)

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


no, I mean that pierogi ruskie means 'ruthenian pierogies' (ruski is an older form of rusiński...)

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

He's a self-described royalist who doesn't think women should have the right to vote, he's only popular with younger voters as a protest candidate...

Language / Polish and other slavic language differences [60]

No... I'm not interested in Russian enough, after Polish my Slavic interest goes roughly Bulgarian, Czech, Slovenian (charmingly goofy)... then maybe Russian

Language / Polish and other slavic language differences [60]

Actually both robota and praca are used in Polish

robota - more like physical and/or unskilled work

praca - employment and general word

similarly

robotnik - worker

pracownik - employee


I think there are more lexical similarities between Polish and Bulgarian than Russian and Bulgarian... when I've looked at Bulgarian textbooks a large majority of words have more or less clear Polish cognates..

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


I thought that the ruskie wasn't Russian but Ruthenian... Rusyn)

Life / Looking for a hilly Polish town with commie flats [6]


the term used in Poland is 'deska' (plank, board)

Life / Poland A, Poland B [75]


His claims that he was a dissident in disguise are hilarious, especially when those in the dissident movement at the time said he was no such thing (there were prosecutors who did what they could to not make life miserable for dissidents and he was not one of them...)

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

What do they have against conservative, nationalist and Catholic values?

Language / Intermediate / Advanced Learners of Polish. How do you improve your language? [14]

Bolek, you might see how you do on these

kurspolskiego.pl/pl/Testy_on-line

Life / Poland A, Poland B [75]


By centralizing power at the top and decreasing transparency and accountability...
And also a lot of the corruption is nationalized - take the Smolensk investigation. How much tax money was plowed through in that fruitless endeavor? Who profited from AM's snipe hunt?

Life / Poland A, Poland B [75]


hype, corruption happened but was no worse than that currently being exhibited by PiS, if it was that corrupt then Poland wouldn't have avoided the 2008 crisis...

Life / Poland A, Poland B [75]


Same buraki! (a description by a friend who experienced life in Greenpoint)

This same friend said the movie "Szczęśliwego nowego Yorku" was not an exaggeration, if anything it softened what things were like among them in the late1990s.

They also pointed out that most of them were from the boonies in the east and would have problems negotiating Polish cities, much less NYC...

Life / Expat Communities in Far-Western Poland [46]


I don't believe this, what words did they use? I can believe they have less than progressive views but I've never heard a Pole talk like that...

There have been cases of violence against non-whites (Silesia was an especially inhospitable place for students from Africa) but on the other hand no African has ever had problems finding a girlfriend or three in Poland (take that daddy!)


They bring most of their problems on themselves (not all, but over 50%) and what on earth gives you the idea that they're dwindling? They have very high fertility (a probable problem in the long term for Hungary since there was a gypsy baby boom under the socialist government....)

they are one of the few groups that (to some extent) benefitted from communism as communist governments were more or less winning in the struggle to get them settled and in schools and then into jobs, but the end of communism meant they could follow their (terrible) instincts once more and re-segregate...