History / Interactive map of Poland 960-2004 [43]

Nice, as they say the rear view is always 20/20.

Now, would you please post your desired maps for 2020, 2030, 2050?

Life / Poland needs more immigrants and their children - which nationalities are the best? [518]


Polish women do you hear the call? Just make sure you get Polish guys, not just Polish speaking...

News / 70% of Poles like Komorowski. Do you? [120]


Why? Komorowski will be running against his own record, so let him explain what he meant by rapid retirement age extension,
his public gathering bill, etc. etc.
I see plenty of older statesman types on right, not Kaczynski (professor), not Maciarewicz (unpleasant voice). I don't know if
'Ziobro is the future', he hasn't convinced me yet.
Again without access to prime media (you know the issue with TV Trwam), why would anybody step out of the line now?
4-6 months before elections, yes, but not now.

Backwards village peasant.

News / 70% of Poles like Komorowski. Do you? [120]


In my backwards village peasant (I really, really like it) view, maybe the opposition doesn't want its candidate, him, or her,
exposed like a punching bag to regime media for extended time? They say you cannot beat a sitting president, but they
certainly can drawn themselves.... so maybe it makes sense? Of course in my backwards village peasant way of thinking.

News / 70% of Poles like Komorowski. Do you? [120]


Anybody that cares about Poland would be better. Let's see: 38 million Poles in Poland plus 10 million abroad.
Subtract old people, children, sick, afraid of public speaking, afraid of serial suicide killer, 5 million left.
Subtract PO, Palitiger, communists supporters - 4.9 million left.

So there it is: 4.9 million better candidates.

News / 70% of Poles like Komorowski. Do you? [120]


This video has visibly been altered, music added, and pretty sure many he-he-he's added as well.
Anyway, if he did something wrong (and I don't support statements that Tusk was terrible, he was not),
was it reason enough to kill him (and 95 others)?

History / Forced Polonisation campaign? [16]


and why is this thing still occupying the center of Warszawa? Rather symbolic of PRL-bis, wouldn't you say?

News / 70% of Poles like Komorowski. Do you? [120]

hague1cmaeron


What a joke!
Two biggest accomplishments of this president: 1. support of anti-Polish movie 'In Darkness', 2. anti-constitutional law re. public gathering
And one more: quick signing of retirement age extension.

Regarding original question, the answer is: media manipulation.

News / Will EURO 2012 be a proud moment for Poland and its people or set back Poland 20 years? [86]

Why I am not surprised that this has not been answered?
Anyway, it deserves to be repeated, again and again.

Life / Catholic "Telewizja Trwam" from Poland - your thoughts? [98]


Can we ask for links or it is too much to ask and we need to take your statements as truth?

Don't forget the filth they put on regime media, so be careful what you describe as 'shoddy'.

Anyway remind me how do we call a country with entire official media supporting government and de-humanizing oposition?
Is there a special name?

News / Don't go to Poland ... because you could end up coming back in a coffin [313]

Stop this silly UK Poland comparisons.

Go to Poland and/or Ukraine for EURO and then if you can afford it go to London for OG!

You will have time of your life, believe me I've been to both places.

The only difference is food, but as I am biased I won't say which one is better. Most important, the beer tastes the same.

Life / Catholic "Telewizja Trwam" from Poland - your thoughts? [98]

Ironside


100% true.

Regarding TW Trwam the government made a mockery out of court. I really expected them to make peace before national holiday/great
event that EURO will be. They just proved that their life depends on shotting down TW Trwam, they absolutely cannot coexist with
one TV station not running their official propaganda. They just lost any legitymacy they may have still had. This can be only compared to
situation in 1981 when communist government claiming to be 'working people government' imposed martial law against trade union composed
of 10 million working people.

Love / Polish girls hard in relationships [156]


Is this ok with PF rules?

History / Why are Jews pestering Poland for "proper" WW2 monetary restitution/reparations? [750]


You think no court would be able to rule on these?

• 
  Ossolineum.jpg
  
• 
  ostrabrama.jpg
  

History / Why are Jews pestering Poland for "proper" WW2 monetary restitution/reparations? [750]


Yes, there must be a cut off, but my common sense tells me that in Polish history the partitions had such significant importance that they warrant an exception. I think this exception should also apply to native Americans and black people in the US. Otherwise it is hard/impossible to talk about justice.These things should be decided summarily

by a special UN congress.

History / Why are Jews pestering Poland for "proper" WW2 monetary restitution/reparations? [750]

That's a powerful argument, but surely it's not based on 'I say so' standard, right? Can you cite some case law or treaty, or something else

to back up this 'living memory' limit?

History / Why are Jews pestering Poland for "proper" WW2 monetary restitution/reparations? [750]

No, I do not belong to some ancient group living there... as much as I know :-)
As far as I am concerned you can claim the property of your ancestors, I'd only ask for it to be conditioned
on assigning the same rights to Polish people who lost their property due to partitions and world wars.

Of course then a question would arise, if there were no known survivors would some Polish organization
be allowed to have a claim, or better yet a summary payment for all properties.

History / Why are Jews pestering Poland for "proper" WW2 monetary restitution/reparations? [750]


Answer:

enjoying it after the treaty of St. Petersburg, January 26, 1797, declared

"to abolish everything which could revive the memory of the existence of the Kingdom of Poland, now that the annulment of this body politic has been effected…the high contracting parties are agreed and undertake never to include in their titles…the name or designation of the Kingdom of Poland, which shall remain suppressed as from the present and forever…"

but I am sure he thinks that it was legal, proper and just.

To this day Russians, Germans and Jews believe they have legal rights to properties in Poland, which were confiscated from Polish owners during partitions and uprisings and given or sold for nothing to them. The victors' justice... I guess we have only ourselves to blame.

History / Poland did reasonably well in land terms out of the postwar settlement [270]


They all wandered away, probaly went to Manchuria.

Life / Why are Polish so conservative and religious? [240]


I don't know if fact that only about 150-300 thousand Jews were assimilated in II RP can support your statement
unless you believe in one nation/two languages theory.
Anyway it is an absolute truth that in Polish history we had a number of great Polish Jews, even Mickiewicz in
Pan Tadeusz wrote about Jankiel that "stary zyd Polske kochal".

Life / Catholic "Telewizja Trwam" from Poland - your thoughts? [98]


If you bothered to read the KRTV papers you would've known that it is NOT only business. They are supposed to
ensure that different point of views have access. It's called media plurality or something like that. Currently 100% of media
on multiplex is pro goverment...

Also, which one it is? It's "Rydzyk's empire" in which case obviously they have enough money to operate and should be

given licenese unless for politics.... or they are an unfunded poor strugling TV station, in which case they are no threat and
should be given license based on plurality...

Ooops, sorry, I forgot you want to have it both ways. It's just like with your famous tolerance that applies to one side only.

Love / help needed to warn off troublesome pole [25]


Please Wulkan do not interrupt the trolling going on here. It is pretty funny. The point is to distinguish who
are the trollers and who are the innocent victims.... Ooops, looks like I am the victim too.

Life / Polish word for 'queue' [18]


Maybe if you told them to 'get in line' instead of 'queue' it would work?

But seriously I don't understand the problem, doesn't everyone have an assigned seat at that time?
If they're rushing on board just let them, then you can board when it's empty. Of course I haven't seen it
but is it really that bad?

History / Poland did reasonably well in land terms out of the postwar settlement [270]


nor should it be


States? Why then all this talk about political integration, about 'regionization', about national governments being to big to solve small problems, and too small to solve big problems?


Is European influence shrinking? It did after WWII, but now? It may be growing in some regions. Anyway, the common interest. After 50 years of occupation followed by 20 years of 'reformed communist' and foreign corporations' government is it hard to understand that Poles feel nervous about Germany? Not the government but German people? How do they feel about the terrible deal that Poland got after WWII, when Stalin took more than half of the country and shifted her borthers west?

Life / Catholic "Telewizja Trwam" from Poland - your thoughts? [98]


It's about replacing analog with digital TV transmission (done in the US few years ago).
During this switch several digital frequencies will become available for transmission 'over the air', therefore free
of charge. The government wants only 'friendly' stations to be there. TV Trwam would have to be on cable
or satelite for additional fee.

Some of TV Trwam programming:

on raising retirement age to 67 (Polish)
on demographics/low birth rate (Polish)
on Smolensk tragedy investigation (English/Polish)
on winter problems with agriculture (Polish)

History / Poland did reasonably well in land terms out of the postwar settlement [270]


ph.news.yahoo/photos/german-chancellor-merkel-interior-mini ster-friedrich-bdv-president-photo-192056854.html

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich and President of the German Federal Association of Expellees (BdV) Erika Steinbach look at an interactive map as they visit the exhibition "Heimat Weh" (Aching for the Home Country) before the BdV annual congress in Berlin, March 20, 2012. REUTERS

Aching for the home country? A few bumblebrains?

History / Poland did reasonably well in land terms out of the postwar settlement [270]


So....current Polish inhabitants of Gdansk would benefit from separating Gdansk from Poland ... great .... and Poland would benefit as well, or it's
irrelevant?
Look, Germany started two world wars. Poland has been devastated in both, especially Warszawa in WWII, first 25% in 39, then 70% in 44.
As result of these wars Germany lost eastern provinces by no decision of Poland that didn't even exist before WWI and was a loser in WWII, despite

having 'right' legal treaties and and hundreds of thousands soldiers fighting 'on the right side'.
Polish people want to live in peace with its neighbors. If Germany takes ownership of nazism and 'Polish concentration and death camps', if they
pay reparations for 50 years of occupation, for physical and human costs (I cannot even start to think about this), if Polish cities of Lwow and Wilno

can somehow become Polish again, then we can talk about anything and I can assure you we want Germans to feel justice. However, since such

probability is nill for the next 100 years, let's forget this subject. Let's just say that Germany losing of Gdansk and Wroclaw was the price for returning

to sanity. They needed help, and this was the price. And lasting benefit is that they see what can/will happen if they lose sanity again.

History / Poland did reasonably well in land terms out of the postwar settlement [270]


you cannot be more wrong, but do continue to push your propaganda

btw I understand why they're cutting teaching history in Poland. If Polish youth learned what happened to their country during
WWII let's just say they would not be friends of England, USA, France, Germany, Russia etc.

The truth is already known (English hiding their archives only support it), the next is apology and reparations!

History / Should Poland be given ANY credit for ALLOWING Jews into Poland for 1000 years? [195]


Ladykangaroo, you are very dangerous to some people on this forum. And thank you for that.

Few facts about Poland:
in recent years 2 million Poles emmigrated to foreign countries, that is more than 5% of the population,
the birthrate is at 1.26, the lowest in Europe and 206-th in the world.

Can these numbers justify calling the situation in Poland 'peaceful extermination'?

History / Why have Poles contributed so little to Academics? (Particularly Science) [180]


Poles haven't contributed to media ownership, that much is true. Therefore they are nazis, collborators, stupid, scum etc.

Point in case: full face restoration surgery in the US. Huge media event, never mentioned Prof. Maria Siemionow nationality.