History / Controversial Chapters: Polish-German history texbook [8]


Good initiative. It should have been done long time ago.


I once met a German teenager interested in WWII who mistook Warsaw Uprising with the defence of Polish post office in Gdańsk.

Language / Czech language sounds like baby talk to most Poles. Similarities? [222]


You are making generalisations about Polish-Americans all the time. Racist and derogatory generalisations. Even in totally unrelated threads.


How is Czech being funny insulting to Poland?
I repeat it for the third time: let's take some test (that only a Polish person can answer correctly in a short period of time) and if I get better results than you, you disappear, crawling back into you troll cave.


No, if somebody reads this forum he will find lots of hateful, libelous, polonophobic BS from you, Harry and other non-Poles. No real Polish person would ever write such stuff. That's why I want you out of here.


That's understandable cause you are Russian.

Life / Homosexuality in Polish Culture [231]


There are many. Gumishu told you one. I add the second: to stop supporting greedy bankers, who try so hard to disguise various fees.

Life / Homosexuality in Polish Culture [231]

Why do you care? You claim to be tolerant but attack the guy for his private life?

Language / Czech language sounds like baby talk to most Poles. Similarities? [222]


I told you once and repeat it here for more people to see: I'm willing to take a Polish language, Polish literature and Polish history test and if my results are better than yours - you get the f**k out of this forum, crawling back into your hole. Why do you hide the fact that you are Russian?

Language / Czech language sounds like baby talk to most Poles. Similarities? [222]


That analogy is funny too ;) Seriously, it's strange that you have such strong feelings about it, when you know that Poles don't have bad intentions here. And they won't suddenly stop laughing at Czech language just because you find it offensive.

Life / Homosexuality in Polish Culture [231]

Unlike most people on this forum, I'm a Pole, living in Poland, so my opinion is actually worth something to you.
Basically the more homosexual men out there, the better for me, since it means more women are available.
Problem with Poland is that the most visible gay movement comprises of idiots who show their fat asses in pink lingerie on some parades. Understandably, many people get into active defense mode after seeing that kind of events.

History / What do Poles owe to Russians? [193]


If we aimed for any kind of equilibrium here, your Russian friend should have been shot or sentenced to 10 years of Gulag.

History / What do Poles owe to Russians? [193]


You mean Warsaw Uprising.
In 1794 they didn't wait but murdered in cold blood some 20 000 Polish civilians in the Praga district, before completing the destruction of Polish state. Very likeable people.

Language / Czech language sounds like baby talk to most Poles. Similarities? [222]


These are not my opinions. Just Polish people I talked to. I remember them because it was shocking to me, clearly contrary to what Poles would expect.

I also talked to a Brazilian girl who used to live in Prague and had the misfortune of having a "Russian look" and working as a waitress. The stay in Prague was very traumatic for her. In the end she got beaten up by a security guard for no reason and decided to leave Czech Republic.

I just had one day of a recreational stay in Czech Republic: I ordered some dish with a Polish name in a restaurant and they brought me something totally unexpected - I believe I ordered "krokiety" and and they brought me something like "kluski".

Language / Czech language sounds like baby talk to most Poles. Similarities? [222]


And then many come to Czech republic and are shocked to discover that Czechs are actually not as friendly or worse, they are very rude towards Poles.

Language / Czech language sounds like baby talk to most Poles. Similarities? [222]

1. This thread isn't about the similarity of Czech and Polish (although you made it so;). It is about how Czech language APPEARS to average Pole, specifically that it seems like baby talk.

2. I fully accept your arguments that Czech language is in fact much more different from Polish than it seems like. However, you still place it second, after Slovak. So me saying in another thread that "Czech is the closest language to Polish" is not a terrible mistake. Note the difference between "being the closest language to Polish from all Slavic languages" and "being very similar to Polish". I never claimed the latter.

3. No, I don't mean you when talking about resident polonophobes.

Language / Czech language sounds like baby talk to most Poles. Similarities? [222]


Probably because this forum is full of polonophobes (don't let the Polish sounding nicks fool you), who constantly look for opportunity to accuse and offend Polish people. As polonophobes they must have thought this thread is an attack on Czech people.

Language / Czech language sounds like baby talk to most Poles. Similarities? [222]

Antek_Stalich
Please, tell us which foreign language is closer to Polish than Czech?
(BTW that the same words have different meanings in Polish and Czech still implies more similarity than when different words have different meanings, like in Polish and some non Slavic language)

Language / Czech language sounds like baby talk to most Poles. Similarities? [222]

Antek_Stalich
I understand Czech is different from Polish. But then, which foreign language is most similar to Polish??

Language / Czech language sounds like baby talk to most Poles. Similarities? [222]


I once heard people saying that Poles are nowhere "u siebie", Poland included, so yes, I might be a foreigner :D
You seem to be more interested in my command of Polish than my Polish literature teacher.


You forgot to add Polish to this list.

Language / Czech language sounds like baby talk to most Poles. Similarities? [222]

Yes...

Life / The day Poland ran out of artists. [40]

I still remember "the artist" Rafał Betlejewski vandalising walls with his slogan "Jew, I miss you". Later on, he concluded in an interview in Gazeta Wyborcza that Polish police is antisemitic cause they detained him for vandalism.

I guess we should have sent him to Western European cities with an art project / sabotage mission. He would spray pro-Jewish slogans on their walls and if they complained, that would be a solid proof that they are vicious antisemites.

Language / You & The Polish Language: Just in One Sentence [11]


The most difficult language I know. Both in terms of grammar and pronunciation Foreigners told me it sounds like the noise from an old analog radio or the noise you make when walking over dry leaves in autumn. Poles admire any foreigner who learned their language.


The Czech language is the most similar to Polish, however it sounds like "child talk" to Poles.

History / What do Poles owe to Russians? [193]


False, their goals were pretty much similar from the very beginning:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo%E2%80%93NKVD_Conferences

History / What do Poles owe to Russians? [193]


Interestingly, Timothy Snyder in his book "Bloodlands" stated that the most persecuted ethnic group in the second half of 1930s, were not German Jews, but Poles living in the Soviet Union - 600 000 of them.

History / What do Poles owe to Russians? [193]


The last known German who tried to suggest such things was Erika Steinbach. Your German compatriots concluded she is nuts.

Life / How many Jewish people live in Poland? [145]


He is.
Last time I had to attend a catholic mass in Poland (funeral), the priest said something about "our brothers Jews". The pries who taught us "religion" at primary school, spoke very highly of Jews as well. They were disconnected from reality probably.

History / What do Poles owe to Russians? [193]


He did accept the help of Croatians.
The alliance was in fact proposed, problem is, Hitler would like to move Poland eastwards, somewhere east of Dnieper probably, cause for him it wasn't just about freeing the world of Bolsheviks, it was about Lebensraum, land and resources.


Too much reading of Volkischer Beobachter?

History / WW2 - The other side. What USSR, also that the Polish government has made not to admit WW2 [45]


Soviet Union under Stalin was an evil empire. It was guilty of genocide of millions of people of many nationalities, Russian included, long before the war started. Making pacts with Stalin and believing in his good intentions was pure stupidity with tragic consequences. Actually the only pacts that made sense were the likes of Molotov-Ribbentrop, when you expected to break them anyway.

Life / How many Jewish people live in Poland? [145]


Now tell me please how many non-Jewish Poles were killed in years 1945-1956 in Poland. And by the way, can you check what was the percentage of Jews employed in Polish communist oppression apparatus?

Life / How many Jewish people live in Poland? [145]


Did your family hand it down to you? Or do you belong to the "educated class"?
Only a half-wit can have such ideas.
From my experience 99% of Poles couldn't care less about Jews one way or the other, but various Jewish circles are nevertheless dead set bent on reminding Poles about their existence. Even when US president comes to Poland, a big chunk of his visit is about Jews. When The Guardian did a series of articles about Poland recently, guess what, they did a feature about Jewish life. From time to time Polish media report articles on Jewish sites claiming that Poles were the guards at Auschwitz. Recently, Poland was represented at an art festival by a Jewish artist, who made a project about... Jews in Poland. There is the infamous Gross. And so on and so forth.

To sum up, the average Polish person living in Poland keeps hearing about Jews more often than he would like to, much more than let's say about the French or Mexicans, and usually it is about Jews wanting something from him or accusing him of some bad things.

Life / How many Jewish people live in Poland? [145]


"We are not surprised to find that a high percentage of the respondents hold negative views of Jews, given each country's history of animus towards Jews. However, we are hopeful that, along with their other EU partners, they will take the necessary steps to make anti-Semitism unacceptable in their societies."

LOL, I wonder what those steps might be. I was sure that "not liking" Jews and being open about it is already a punishable offence.

History / Symbols & Signs in Polish History, Culture & Life [89]

Perhaps he meant Wisent
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisent
cause the last Aurochs died in 1627.