News / Poland's Murky Stream Media - Rydzyk [36]


Free-will donations? Are you sure about that? Would you perhaps like to explain why he "lost" money donated to save the shipyards? Or perhaps explain his connections to South American characters?


Wallowing in luxury? His financial statement is there for all to see - hardly luxury.


Sorry, but how do you know his kids didn't get there on their own accord? Just because some people obtained good positions in life by collaborating with regimes doesn't mean that everyone did. As for qualifications, as I recall, his son is well qualified in his own right and his daughter has a very popular internet blog. And you?


I don't seem to recall Jaroslaw Kaczynski doing anything about the taxation of the old.

News / Poland's Murky Stream Media - Rydzyk [36]

Could Rydzyk perhaps like to explain the sources of his funding, then?

It is strange that a niche radio station has the money to keep on operating, isn't it?

News / Poles in EU structrues are traitors? [5]


In other words, Poles are much closer to Christianity than the Polonia.

Law / Registration of right hand drive cars in Poland - possible? [82]

It's safer than letting Pawel the racist meathead drive like he normally does in a RHD car.

News / MA in Poland without much studiyng? [3]


Utter nonsense. It would make far more sense for it to be eligible to those over 25 - so those who have acquired significant real world experience can apply it to their studies. For what it's worth, the idea is nothing new - it is a common part of UK education, and in Poland, it is common (but by negotiation with individual lecturers).


It is the same - as long as there's a standard process for recognising prior study (for instance, by submitting a portfolio) - then it's more than equal.

News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]


Another made up saying, given that Poland can leave the EU by a majority vote in the Sejm and Senat. I dare say that those that oppose the European Union today didn't oppose the cushy lifestyle that Comecon offered them.


Comical Polo!

News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]


It won't. The whole idea is more or less dead as it is, and the only people mentioning it are people who are furious with the Third Republic for ending their comfortable nomeklatura lifestyle.


I suppose some people did prefer Comecon.

Study / Top Warsaw university recommends remedial classes to new students [20]


In other words, you discovered that in order to obtain the highest grades, you need to do extra reading outwith the proscribed material. That's what I'd expect from someone in the last year of high school.


That's because you didn't bother to read non-course materials. It's obvious that the Advanced Matura level requires considerable effort on your own part.


No, you don't. You could obtain the relevant documentation for the subject at Matura and base your own learning on it. If you want the top grades, that's exactly what you have to do. What do you think your private Chemistry teacher was doing?

News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]


That won't happen. Gowin is no fool - he knows that should he put up a good fight against Tusk but lose, his Krakow support base will make sure that he runs for the city Presidency next year. He's not going to risk forming a splinter party when he knows that previous ones (PJN, Solidarna Polska, etc) all lost considerably in the next election. Then you're also forgetting that Gowin's free market ideals clash with Kaczynski heavily - Gowin has problems with the social democratic wing of PO, he's not going to get on with a party backed heavily by trade unionists, is he?

It's also worth pointing out that while Gowin has a strong regional support in Krakow, he doesn't have much support in other PO heartlands such as Szczecin and Poznan.

History / Not only Mazowiecki damned an innocent bishop [74]


Don't you trust obscure Usenet postings?

Anyway, Mazowiecki was hated by many of the "Nomenklatura" as many of them stood to lose considerably under a non-Communist government. There were many people who - despite not being actually PZPR members - enjoyed significant privileges as a result of their work with the Communist Government. When you consider that there are murmurings of him also being Jewish - then you understand why PRL loyalists would hate his guts. A man that not only ended their privileged position in life, but also possibly belonged to the hated (in Communist ideology) ethnic group was always going to end up slandered and smeared by his enemies.

News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]


Very true. The polls so far suggest that even if PiS win, they have no chance of forming a coalition. Their only viable coalition partners, Solidarna Polska are failing spectacularly - and with it, the chances of PiS forming a coalition with anyone.


Not really. A landslide would mean winning by a large amount - most polls are showing a 6% lead for PiS. That's anything but a landslide, and worse still, the results show that the 'lost' PO vote is going straight to the SLD.

It is interesting how many Communist collaborationist scum now support PiS, isn't it?

Life / Polands' Generation Y = instant generation [22]

Generation Y was the early 90's generation, not now.

And furthermore, they can get it - there's a shortage of good IT specialists in Poland.


Never seen that yet.


Never seen that as well.


Depends what their job is. Most sensible employers don't restrict access to Facebook, they only ask that they don't overdo it.


No. Sounds like a terrible description.

The real story is that today's graduates are entering the workplace too late and are often lacking in solid work experience.

News / Gazeta Wyborcza of Poland losing readers [301]


Could you perhaps detail how Adam Michnik protects him?

Anyway, if we're going to talk about how people are responsible for what their families did, then we must investigate Jaroslaw Kaczynski immediately.

News / Gazeta Wyborcza of Poland losing readers [301]

A grand total of...zero days?

Always helpful when one's father has connections to the boys in charge.

News / Gazeta Wyborcza of Poland losing readers [301]

No Polonius, it isn't "common knowledge". You've made an allegation that Mazowiecki was up to no good, now it's your job to prove it.

News / Gazeta Wyborcza of Poland losing readers [301]

Why? You're the one alleging that he did something wrong, so it's your job to provide proof.

I see you still can't bring yourself to tell us the real reason why you hate him.

Travel / Accommodation (student friendly) in Poznan [11]

I suggest talking to the international office at the university.

However, it's highly unlikely that any single rooms are unallocated now.

News / Gazeta Wyborcza of Poland losing readers [301]


In other words, you're presenting a post on USENET as somehow proof that Mazowiecki was up to no good. Not exactly credible, even by the standards of Polonia rags.

Be honest Polonius, there's a reason why you don't like him. Be a man and tell us why.

News / Gazeta Wyborcza of Poland losing readers [301]

Reportedly, by who?

Who said such things? Or are you just making it up as per usual?

News / Gazeta Wyborcza of Poland losing readers [301]


Interesting that you're insulting Mazowiecki, a man who is widely considered to be one of the leading Catholic intellectuals in Europe alive today. Could it be because Mazowiecki was instrumental in removing the Communists from the Government?


If they were "only" advisers, why did Mazowiecki find himself interned?


Could you explain how Mazowiecki "attempted" to take over?


Odd. I could have sworn that the Unia Wolnosci played a prominent part of public life for quite a while after 1989.


You seem rather confused with your political ideology lately Polo. Then again, your hatred towards Mazowiecki is entirely understandable.

USA, Canada / PolishAmericanReview's review of current events in America [48]


Found innocent by his peers. Who are you to argue?


What part of Poland never surrendered do you need explained?

Anyone with an even basic grasp of 20th Century Polish history knows that.


The website doesn't do anything to defend Polish people, in fact, it does a great job of portraying Polish people as being backwards village racists. Any website that goes on about "Liberals" and promoting "White Supremacy" is, by nature, trash.


Do I?

News / Gazeta Wyborcza of Poland losing readers [301]

You've been mentioning him throughout this thread, so why not tell us who you are referring to?

News / Gazeta Wyborcza of Poland losing readers [301]


I wonder why he won't tell us who this mysterious "Szechter" is.

Another person invented, perhaps?

News / Gazeta Wyborcza of Poland losing readers [301]


No, it isn't. You're deliberately trying to portray Michnik in a bad light while forgetting that Walesa was fighting with many others within Solidarity at the same time. There was no 'right' and 'wrong' during that time - they were completely unprepared to operate as a political party and the bitter infighting reflects that.


Who is Szechter? Why do you keep using such a name when no-one with that name was involved with Gazeta Wyborcza?


Working class? An interesting distortion, but the reality was that Solidarity were elected by a broad section of society. In fact, Solidarity were most concerned about the possibility of the badly educated working classes voting for the Communists, which says something.


No, the mood was that Solidarity couldn't work as a political party because what had united them now divided them. The communists were psychologically destroyed as a party once they were removed from the Government - it was obvious that the game was over for them. But we all know the story - Solidarity broke into so many factions that it was impossible for anyone to maintain order. Certainly Walesa wasn't fit to deal with the responsibility of running Solidarity - his behaviour, even in 1980/1981 was of a man that preferred to isolate himself rather than keeping order. He had interesting parallels with Izetbegovic of Bosnia in this way.

You may also care to note that some of the people most interested in the rights of workers also broke away from Walesa.


Yes, because Gazeta Wyborcza supported Prime Minister Mazowiecki rather than Chairman Walesa. All part of the bitter infighting that took place at the time.


Who is Szechter and why do you keep referring to that person?


There was friction because the whole nature of Solidarity was that it was very decentralised. Then there was the fact that Solidarity was very much an uneasy alliance between workers and intellectuals - both needed each other to win.

By the way, it's Jaruzelski, not "Jabberwocky" or any other such names. I'm sure you never wrote Jabberwocky or even mentioned it before 1991, eh?

News / Gazeta Wyborcza of Poland losing readers [301]

Except Solidarity at that time weren't in opposition, but were rather leading the Government.

You're drastically over-simplifying (on purpose) the whole situation at the time. Gazeta Wyborcza was just one wing of Solidarity among many others - and you know fine well that Solidarity was suffering from bitter infighting almost as soon as they took control of the Government. I see you also fail to mention how Solidarity (which, as a trade union, had swung very hard to the left economically) was fighting with even Walesa before the 1991 election.

Trying to say that Gazeta Wyborcza was "stolen" or other such nonsense is factually incorrect. You could easily say that Krzaklewski stole Solidarity from Walesa, too.

Still, at least Gazeta Wyborcza is owned by a publicly traded organisation with public accounts, rather than a shady foundation with closed books or a shady company with dubious South American backers.

News / Gazeta Wyborcza of Poland losing readers [301]


The growing feud between Rydzyk and the people behind Gazeta Polska/TV Republika et al is quite interesting ;)


We know the history. We know that Gazeta Wyborcza emerged as the voice of the intellectuals within Solidarność, and we know how those intellectuals rejected the worker concept of a socialist Poland.

Life / A Polka station in Poland? [27]

youtube.com/watch?v=JvxG3zl_WhU

You certainly couldn't go out without hearing this last year!

Life / A Polka station in Poland? [27]


The funniest thing was that if Disco Polo was in English, it would probably have taken Europe by storm at some point...

Life / A Polka station in Poland? [27]

Nice to see that proponents of Polka judge women on their looks than their personalities.


Endorsing theft, too.


Alcoholism too.

Travel / Just visited Poland - here is my random rant [154]

What's funny Fuzzy is that you will say absolutely anything to prove your point that America is somehow superior to Poland.

But don't worry - I'll just leave it at this -

bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23373066

Night and day indeed.