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1jola   
20 May 2010
Life / Is the word "Polack"rascist? [185]

If Pollack jokes bother you, you should laugh anyway. Then tell the one about a Pollack, a kike, and a raghead walking through the desert.
1jola   
18 May 2010
History / Casimir the Great (Kazimierz Wielki) started anti-Semitism? [101]

Shall we take it for granted moreover?!

You are quoting Eva Hoffman not me, and no reason to freak out. We haven't gotten to the religious aspect yet. When we do, you tell us all about the Judaic prejudice toward Christianity and Christians.

I wonder Poland is a member of European Union, but some Polish opinions dont appear to be in unison with EU beliefs ).

There is no thought control in EU yet, but I'm glad you have the prescribed and correct thoughts and opinions.

the best description I could give for the obvious "racist" ideas fallaciously generalizing intolerance

So, a phrase like "Polish anti-semitism" would be racist, right?

Once again. Do you not agree with Ms. Hoffman that Jews were also prejudiced toward Poles and Christians?

We tend to forget that minority groups are not powerless in the perceptions

1jola   
18 May 2010
History / Casimir the Great (Kazimierz Wielki) started anti-Semitism? [101]

No one says any thing's wrong with asking questions.

Linguist rejects this question outright because his concept of antisemitism is that Jews are automatically victims of deranged prejudice.

The question is not wrong if you bother to look at the issues. Eva Hoffman writes:

In this respect, the nature of the Polish-Jewish relationship is exceptional.

pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shtetl/reflections/excerpt.html

Eva Hoffman, Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews (Boston and New York:
Houghton Mifflin, 1997), 8-9.
1jola   
17 May 2010
History / What are the key features of the Polish Eagle? [56]

kind of.. PL hasn't been a kingdom in over a couple of centuries so the crown really doesn't fit to be on the head but for some reason it's insisted on.. i don't get it.

You don't change symbols at will. The crown is a well established feature and since the communists removed it, it is now also symbolic of their defeat.
1jola   
14 May 2010
History / Anita J. Prazmowska's "The Polish Century" [24]

So, what do you think? Is she any good?

Does she have merit? On the surface, she is only climbing on the Holocaust circuit and she is only ridding on the coattails of "Polish antisemitism hunters."

She has published widely on Polish foreign policy during the interwar and the wartime period and is presently working on a book about the establishment of Communism in Poland.

I don't know where she has published widely, but certainly she is not known in Poland.

Since you have brought her up, let's see what she writes.
1jola   
13 May 2010
Genealogy / Travel and migration in late 19th - early 20th centuries [9]

Was this migration encouraged by the government?

At that time, that region was under Russian occupation.

An application he filed in 1936 says he was born in Warsaw in 1893.

Try to come back with some coherent info if you want answers. What application?

Get your thoughts together, make some notes, and then post.

I'm trying to learn how my Polish ancestors lived.

What does that mean? How would anyone know your grandfather's personal story?
1jola   
13 May 2010
History / Thinking of changing Wikipedia's Holocaust article to include genocide of Poles. [78]

I guess they could somehow make believe they were German kiddos and simply deny they were Polish. But indeed, this never happened to Jewish babies.

Never? There were plenty of Jewish babies and kids who were saved by Poles, as you may or may not know. You had to deny they were Jewish or you faced death. Adolf Berman, Jukub Berman's (head of Stalinist terror machine against Polish patriots) brother, went around Poland basically stealing these kids from their new families after the war and placing them in orphanages in kibbutzes in Israel. Irena Sendler, who worked with Adolf Berman in Żegota in saving these kids, was very much against this, and now you know why it is Schindler who gets a shrine in Yad Vashem and not Sendler.
1jola   
12 May 2010
Language / Ski Or Ska? - Polish surname endings [44]

You can make a generalization that in the US -sky are Polish Jews. It would be very unusual for ethnic Poles to change their name from-ski to -sky but very ususal for Jews to do so.
1jola   
12 May 2010
History / Anita J. Prazmowska's "The Polish Century" [24]

Now you can have a snowcone.

Well then, show me a historian who is in your opinion completely unbiased and tells the whole truth.

I don't read Holocaust writers, and she hasn't reached the status to be even acknowledged. I have made recommendations to you of reading on this period of time, but I see you're back to Holocaust pûrn.
1jola   
12 May 2010
History / Anita J. Prazmowska's "The Polish Century" [24]

M-G (expects Sokidonkey and Jola to call her a liar or sth, but that wouldn't do honor - she is fair and views both sides, imo)

From your link in the OP she writes from London:

Truthfully speaking, for a Jew it would be unwise to publicly display any symbols or signs of Jewish faith outside of Warsaw because people would simply react to it and make life very difficult.

From Warsaw, Jola writes:

I like sailing. Every summer, six of us rent a 8 meter sailboat and sail around Mazury. The amount of drunken sailors from all over the country you meet up with every year is staggering. I would say that you meet a good crosssection of our population. A few years ago, at the Paris Air Show, I got a white hat which I now wear sailing. Not once has anyone commented on the menorah on it, the writing elevating any doubt - The Israeli Export & International Cooperation Institute. Not once.

She is not worth reading, M-G. She is in the lucrative Holocaust/Anti-Semitism business, but she might be good reading on your level.
1jola   
9 May 2010
Law / Polish Citizenship for a foreigner whose parents was born in Poland [174]

So, you had called the Polish consulate and you didn't understand what they told you. Now, having failed to communicate with the experts on the matter, you have decided to contact the masses. I wouldn't do that, but that's just silly me.
1jola   
9 May 2010
History / "Europa" - An article about recent history of Poland [15]

Who is this Maciej Gdula, the author of this drivel?

To Mr. Gdula, the son of a former senior Communist Party official, a revival of the left can build upon such theatricsby tapping into the hopes of a younger generation alienated by the conservatism of the Roman Catholic Church.

What theatrics?

In 2008, its charismatic founder Slawomir Sierakowski, a 31 year-old sociologist, took part in a multimedia art show of the Israeli-Dutch artist Yael Bartana. He gave a rousing speech, accompanied by a guard of children in uniforms,calling for Poland's three million Jews murdered during the Holocaust to come back to save the country from its stifling homogeneity and stagnation.

LOL

"The right has defended Poland from this crisis while the left are parasites," said Stefan Niesiolowski, the deputy speaker of the Polish Parliament and a member of the governing center-right Civic Platform party. He said that not only are today's leftists out of touch with current issues, but many of them conveniently forget the atrocities committed under communism.

It is perhaps a sign of the times that in Wroclaw, in southern Poland, dozens of students gather each night at Club PRL - or the Polish People's Republic, the official name of Poland from 1952 to 1989 [...]

I wouldn't call them freaks; they are just carrying the torch their daddy's carried.

His daddy is the perfect, and I mean typical, example of a hardcore communist doing extremely well in today's "free" Poland.

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej_Gdula

I was surprised with Sławomir Sierakowski and the theatrics, because I enjoy his debates with Ziemkiewicz on TVP Historia and it seem odd. I looked it up and it was part of some Israeli film, so the NYT didn't get it exactly right.

I also forgot to link to the article I quoted:

nytimes.com/2010/03/13/world/europe/13iht-poland.html
1jola   
8 May 2010
News / 1945-2010 Poles will march on Red square [66]

The Poles march at 116 steps/min. and the Russians at 122. Since it is in Russia, our guys need to adjust to the hosts.

The French Foreign Legion has this death march step that is a sight, but I don't think they are coming.

Also notable is the marching pace of the Legion. In comparison to the 120-step-per-minute pace of other French units, the Legion has an 88-step-per-minute marching speed. It is also referred by Legionnaires as the crawl. This can be seen at ceremonial parades and public displays attended by the Legion, particularly while parading in Paris on 14 July (Bastille Day).

1jola   
8 May 2010
News / 1945-2010 Poles will march on Red square [66]

Kostia, it is not called Red Square anymore. I heard this from a Russian writer who lives in Poland; he called it The Beautiful Square. Is that true?
1jola   
8 May 2010
News / WHY DOES POLAND BUY GAS FROM RUSSIA? [105]

Polish shale gas reserves are enough to supply Poland for nearly a century...or the EU for nearly 2 years. Doubt much is going the export route.

EU negotiated the Baltic route with Russia bypassing Poland.

So they should have waited until after the elections?

Pawlak, on the Polish side, agreed to what the Russians wanted him to agree to. He walked into the negotiations with a pen in his hand. His and this government's(PO) loyalty is seriously questioned.
1jola   
8 May 2010
News / WHY DOES POLAND BUY GAS FROM RUSSIA? [105]

Just so we are on the same page. From the link above:

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is set to seal a key gas deal with Russia’s Gazprom days after the death of opponents to the contract — including Polish President Lech Kaczynski — in a mysterious plane crash in Smolensk, Russia, reports Polskaweb.

Under the contract worth an estimated 100 billion dollars – the biggest business deal in the history of Poland – Poland is to increase its imports of Russian gas.

The contract to buy gas from Gazprom until 2037 will make Poland 100% dependent on Russian gas for the next 28 years in spite of the announcement of the discovery of huge gas reserves in Poland in April just before the memorial service in Katyn, Smolensk.

1jola   
8 May 2010
News / WHY DOES POLAND BUY GAS FROM RUSSIA? [105]

American technology to produce shale gas is unleashing a scramble for drilling rights in Poland, where experts believe vast reserves of unconventional gas exist that could help to weaken Russia's grip on Europe's energy supplies.

business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article7087585.ece

Platforma Obywatelska and ex-communists prefer to make us dependent on Russian gas however. They're just doing their job. They just have a different vision of idependent Poland. PiS was such an obstacle.
1jola   
8 May 2010
Travel / Is September good for going to Poland? [15]

It's a joke Vivi, but now you can amuse your friends. But seriously, September is a much better time to visit Poland. There is a good chance of pleasant weather which means you can actually see something without rushing between indoor events. Either way, you'll have a good time.
1jola   
7 May 2010
Life / Poland = Broken country? [17]

Can somebody tell me why people are allowed to start these ridiculous assinine Anti-Polish topics here?????

This issue has been raised before. This forum is American and the mods are not Polish, so why would they care. It's a magnet for anti-Polish trolls.

They didn't fight communism. They just let that dictator destroy their country and rule every aspect of their twenty four hour day.

You are under the impression that this semi-literate as$hole can actually carry on a discussion. You aim low.
1jola   
7 May 2010
Life / Poland = Broken country? [17]

I see that reading stupid articles on the net improved your world view.

What article?