History / Polish Officer in NATO, Col. Ryszard Kukliński. [145]

My country's essential special services naturally had to foot the bill to provide security, safe haven and protection. Even so Kukliński's two sons both died in mysterious circumstances, suggesting that no place was too remote or sufficiently clandestine for the long

arm of the KGB to reach. Any blow levelled agaisnt the Soviet-installed PRL puppet state and its Polish-speaking mercenary traitors (Bierut, Gomułka, Gierek, Jaruzelski, etc.) doing the Kremlin's bidding is an act of patriotism. Bloiwng up the hall where the Polish secret police were planning a meet-up or sdplattering the Dzierżyński monument to Bloody Felix with red paint was an act of patriotism, not vandalism.

History / Polish Officer in NATO, Col. Ryszard Kukliński. [145]

Apparently all those PF-ers who are tripping over thermselves trying to show how sacred and iniviolable an oath or vow is to be are just doing so because they enjoy polemics. Many of the very same people hypocitically let off the hook and make excuses for the bastards who take an oath and then break it for convnience sake to get divorced. At least Kukliński was motivated by higher values, the freeedom of his homeland, and was willing to put himself and his familyat jeopardy to serve that cause.

History / Polish Officer in NATO, Col. Ryszard Kukliński. [145]

PRL was a captive nation, an illicit, bastard, puppet state so anyone who opposed it was a hero.

Love / More loveless sex of Poles living in the regained lands [73]

There are 4 'regained' towns in the top list of high divorce rates, and none in the low-divorce rate bottom listing. BTW, where is Warsaw? Capitals usually have high divorce rates.

History / Polish Officer in NATO, Col. Ryszard Kukliński. [145]

Workiing against the enemies of your country's freedom, in this case the Soviet-installed PRL regime, is not tresason. It is heroism!

Food / Anybody in Poland actually eats soup-mix soups? [27]

I eat only fresh, home-made food and am surprised that the fake-food epidemic has spread to Poland. One should think Poles would know better.

News / US-POLAND special relationship [20]

NATO membership enjoys greater support in Poland than EU membership. And even within NATO the Poland-USA friendship holds a special place.

Food / Anybody in Poland actually eats soup-mix soups? [27]

More power to you!

News / Anti-Szymborska hate content on Polish websites [38]

And you regard yourself as one, I presume. I was surprised (re the busia issue) that someone with such atrocious Polish as yourself would arbitraily set hismelf up as a defender of good Polish. A bit of humility might not hurt.

News / Polish immigrants are losing Polish heritage -- a goal? [10]

And yet, there are countlless Polish clubs, groups, dance ensembles, sporting associaton (including Polish Yacht Clubs in Chicago and Detroit), parishes, puiblications, websites, etc., etc. all over the USA. They are by and large populated and promoted by US-born Polonians who participate by choice, not becuase they don't speak English.

News / Anti-Szymborska hate content on Polish websites [38]

You seem to siplistically regard living somewhere as the the epitome of virtue and patriotism. Life ain't that simple, the vicissitudes of human existence unfold along diverse roads and meanders, influenced by interacting often unpredictable family, geographic, economic, cultrual, polticial and other factors.

History / Lech Kaczynski - was he a good leader? [88]

Au contraire, although PiS won it offeredean equal number of minsitreis to PO. It was PO that sabotaged attempts at a coalition. One would havemmerged if PO had won, but PO had to be top dog and were in a state of shock. They even demanded that colaaton talks should be held on camera, which is unheard of and ridiculous, because its hamstrings true negotiations, but PiS went along and still PO refused to form a coalition.

Love / More loveless sex of Poles living in the regained lands [73]

Does it not sound plausible? Many of the symptoms of rootlessness, as opposed to the stable, longstanding, traditional societies of southern, central and eastern Poland, are most prominent in the former German territories resettled by refugees from the Soviet-annexed east. This includes the crime and divorce rate, voting patterns and religious practices.

History / Lech Kaczynski - was he a good leader? [88]

The coalition with Giertych and Lepper was an alliance of necessity, not choice. PiS's win did not assure a majority government and a minority government was extremely difficult and involved begging for support in parliament before every crucial vote. Merkel also entered a coalition with the lefties all true Christian democrats despise, because she had no other way out. That is how politics works.

BTW, do you deny or are unable to discern the violent hate campaign waged against LK and PiS by the forces I have mentioned?

News / PO at lowest point since 2007 [7]

PO 27, PiS 22, Palikot 17, SLD 10, PSL 6 and SP 5.

History / Lech Kaczynski - was he a good leader? [88]

Regardless of how one assesses L.W.'s presidency, the undisptued fact remains that his victory and that of PiS in 2007 resulted in PO leaders going bonkers, foaming at the mouth and whipping themselves up into a hate campaign of unprecedented proportions. They were joined by post-communsits, the Michnik gang and others whose corruption and underhanded 'arrangements' (układy) were threatend by the PiS 4th Republic clean-up attempt,

News / PO at lowest point since 2007 [7]

I think this was the first time that Solidary Poland got over the hump with 5% backing.

News / Anti-Szymborska hate content on Polish websites [38]

Besides, this thread was not about Szymborska as such, but about the mental and moral predisposition of anonyumous online mud-slingers.

News / Anti-Szymborska hate content on Polish websites [38]

Foulmouthedness adn vulgarity are unacceptable regardless of political orientation.

Love / More loveless sex of Poles living in the regained lands [73]

Jealous? Nope! Syphlytic tarts ain't my cuppa!

Genealogy / Golash/Szynal [5]

I don't think so, but anything is possible where names are concerned.

Genealogy / Golash/Szynal [5]

GO£ASZ/GOLASZ: root-word probably goły (naked, dirt-poor); descriptiive of such a one. In modern Polish: golec. The diagraph 'sh' does not occur in Polish, so Golash was obviosuly a Stateside respelling.

SZYNAL: from German Schiennagel (rail nail, railway spike or nail used to fasten iron wagonwheel rims).