History / Origins of Poland national differences? [41]

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History / Origins of Poland national differences? [41]



Maybe just a brief period of deportation to Kazakhstan during WWII, but for example Americans
did the same thing.

News / What should Poland do to solve the population crisis? [101]

I have doubts that Russian GDP will exceed that of Germany in 2030.
Natural resources of Russia will be seriously depleted to this time.
Even if it will happen it will be probably for account of Germany decline.

News / What should Poland do to solve the population crisis? [101]


Russia, of course, is quite strange example to follow with its distance between the richest and
the poorest which is probably the highest in the world.Are you sure that only Russia and not any other
country should be an example to follow?..

History / Origins of Poland national differences? [41]


Honesly I do not know what is my own haplogroup.It would be interesting to know.
In Ukraine haplogroup ``I`` is also common which is associated with Southern Proto-Europeans
how they are called on a map you provided.But few more haplogroups could be met too, though rarely.

Personally,I would be not against to be an East Asian.
They have strong community values.They protect their cultures from invadors.

History / Origins of Poland national differences? [41]

From this map you could clearly see that 1Ra is associated with Northern Indo-Europeans,while 1Rb with
North European eurASIANS.So 1Rb is closer to Asians in fact.

History / Origins of Poland national differences? [41]

So you are seriously concerned that Russians deluted Berlineans with Norwagian-like haplogroup?

History / Origins of Poland national differences? [41]


R1a also found among:
1) 27% Norwegians
2) 26% Austrians
3) 23% North-East Germany
4) 19% Sweden

eupedia.com/europe/Haplogroup_R1a_Y-DNA.shtml

History / Origins of Poland national differences? [41]


Your claims are just rediculous.First of all haplogroups of Russians and Germans are somewhat related.For Germans one of the main haplogroup is R1b and for Russians R1a.What seems to be just slightly different variety of the same haplogroup.And approx. 25 % of East Germans already have R1a haplogroup which is associated with the Slavs (and other Indo-Europeans).

Eastern part of Germany was originally Slavic land which was conquered by Germanic tribes in 11-th century.For example such cites as Leipzig and Dresden derive their names form Slavic ``Lipsk`` and ``Drežïany``.

The origin of the name Berlin is unknown, but it may have its roots in the language of West Slavic inhabitants of the area of today's Berlin, and be related to the Old Polabian stem berl-/birl- ("swamp").[22] Folk etymology connects it to the German Bär, a bear, and a bear appears in the coat of arms of the city.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin#History

So in any case of intermixing there was not to much allien haplogroups brought in.This is at least in case of ethical Russians.But because in Soviet army there were people of different ethnicities,I cannot bet for all of them.

Ukrainians also have plenty of I haplogroup which is associated with early European cromagnoids.But in Northern Germans and Scandinavians this haplagroup is also common.

But maybe those were not ethnical Russians?For example this is how Russian soldiers are depicted by passional German painter HERBERT SMAGON.So maybe they will ultimately address their claims to...Kyrgiz???

And why events of 70 years due is so much concern?Soon Gemany will become a muslim country.Currently 1/3 if no more children in Germany are not Germans.At least Russians never persecuted Germans because they are Germans.And never bothered if they mix with Russians.In early 1990-th there were 2 millions of ethnical Germans in Russia.Ages ago they were welcomed to live in Russia.Lots of them intermixed.Nobody opressed them.Now they immigrate in Germany in large nubers.But in Germany they mostly treated like ``Russians``.So what should be you larger concern???

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


But it was in the very beginning
when only some boyars who supported False Dimitry.But he still was Russian and only promiced allegence to Polish King.
There was no talk that Russia suppose to become colony of Poland.But when majority of Russian cities and regions refused to recognize power of False Dimitry Poles and Lithuanians invaded Russia and destroyed many cities.Nobody in Russia welcomed them to do such a things.War with Poles continued for many years and Poles even tried to kill Russin tzar Michail.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Muscovite_War_(1605%E2%80%931618)

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


I`m agree with you.Personaly I`m more interested in question what do I owe to slaveowners
than what some Slavic nation owes to other.

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

So to what ethnicity did they belong?And where Russians came from?Galicia-Volhynia Principality was remnant of Kievan Rus.

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


To your knowledge:

During the wars over the succession of Galicia-Volhynia Principality in 1339 King Casimir III of Poland undertook an expedition and conquered Lviv in 1340, burning down the old princely castle.[11] Poland ultimately gained control over Lviv and the adjacent region in 1349. From then on the population was subjected to attempts to both Polonize and Catholicize the population.[18]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv#Halych-Volyn_Principality

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


Probably you confuse Russia with USSR or Russian Empire.
Catherine the II who partitioned Poland was German.
Felix Dzerzhinsky was had of Cheka and ethnical Pole.In childhood he
dreamed to become an iezuit priest.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Dzerzhinsky
Nobody mentioned that in 1612 Poles captured and plundered Moscow,
invaded Russia and attempted to convert Russians into slaves.
They caused Times of Troubles.
In 14-th century they invaded Wolynea-Galicea Rus and conquered it.
They destroyed many orthodox churches.

USA, Canada / Better life in USA or Canada? - expats opinions and your comparison [143]

In some place I found such info that 2/3 of working Americans work for 14$/hour or lower wage.
This info was dated year 2000-2003 or something like this.I wonder if its true because you could
barely survive in U.S. on such money.Basic pension is just over 1000 a month.
If believe to some calculations than more than 50% of Americans should be poor or below powerty.

USA, Canada / Better life in USA or Canada? - expats opinions and your comparison [143]


But this is official unemployment only.If person doesn`t have job for more than 6 month they just downgrade him/her to non-existance.According to this chart real unemployment in U.S. for now is at least 15.3%.And this is more likely without underemployed count.

Those states with small unemployment typically have very small population,low population density,modest sallaries and severe weather conditions.Nobody want to move in those ``holes`` and therefore there is ``low`` unemployment.

In any case they would not be able to provide jobs for any unemployed Americans.They are just too small in population.
People just cannot migrate there in large numbers.They just would not be able to ``digest`` all the unemployed.

USA, Canada / Better life in USA or Canada? - expats opinions and your comparison [143]

When I was in Los Angeles and walked around, accidantelly I went into a neighbourhood that I probably didn`t suppose to.I prefer to make my legs out of there.Well,local people know where to go and where not but for a tourist this is a real catch.Maybe they will post a warning signs?Another time some guy in local subway decided that I looked at him and asked me if I am a foreigner.For some reason he believed that nobody has right to look at him even occidentally.


Maybe this is partially explains it...

USA, Canada / Better life in USA or Canada? - expats opinions and your comparison [143]


I never new that Canadians have any inferiority complex toward U.S. It sounds strange to me.Well,in some places of Canada not too long ago existed traditions brought from Western Europe that when you will step on somebodies foot he/she will appologise before you, instead of smashing you into face or call you a moron.Now those traditions are slowly vanish.I feel that I seriously miss traditional Western European culture.

U.S. turists often could be easily recognized in Canadian subway.They are very noisy and their behaviour is bear like.
In a moment he will step on your foot with his heavy leg and after that strike your back with heavy hand and with stupid smile ask you if you forgive him.This is my general concept of American.They wear colourfull shirts and short at least in summer.Will have red hair and be very fat and tall.

USA, Canada / Better life in USA or Canada? - expats opinions and your comparison [143]

I lived for some period of time in both countries.I do not claim that I personally great witness
and still use some widely known statistical data for comparison.
Up to early 2000-th the U.S. was one of the main distination for Canadians to immigrate,at certain
periods there were up to 100.000 of Canadians who immigrated in U.S. anually.Mostly it was
associated with better job prospects and payments for a certain categories of highly educated
specialists.For now prospects seems to be largerly equilazed as situation in U.S. worsened a
lot.And unemployment is even higher than in Canada, what was unseen before.
From what I know advantages of life in Canada over U.S are
1) A way lower rate of crime.Especially heavy crime.Cities are much safe to live and to walk at
night.But this is only comparatively.Be cotious in Canada too.
2)Possibly, higher level of general culture.I do not know about all parts of U.S. but it is usually
assumed that Canada is much cleaner in average and closer to Europe in culture and architecture.
In U.S. architecture just awfull or absent in sence of art.And personaly I feel rather uncomfortable with
American stile of interpersonal communication and would prefer something closer to English or French.
But again this is only comparatively.Majority of people who lived in best places of Europe before prefer
Europe over Canada.
3)Free medicine and slightly better social service.In U.S. you may get in real trouble if you are
poor and have no medical insurance.Welfare seem to be more difficult to get in U.S. than in
Canada even though it is difficult to imagine.

Advanteges of U.S. over Canada.There is few if any in my mind.
1)Better climate in some places.But in majority of U.S. states climate is far from sugar too.
Entire East cost from Boston to Florida is extremely wet.Summers could be very hot.
In winters, especially in Boston, and New York frosts could be strong.Entire Southern States
are extremely wet too and extreme heat in summers.North Western coast where is Seattle
is extremely wet and they call it a ``rusted city``. Mid Western states where is Chicago and
Detroit are chilly frozen in winter and windy.Personally I do not like even climate of Los Angeles.
In evenings you get chilly winds from the ocean from local cold current and ma think to use winter
coat even in April if you have to walk at evening or at night.Summers could be very hot and dry.
But the most interesting city is Phoenics.In summers temperature +40°C is very common.And may
not be precipitation for a weaks.But they say people could accustom to such climate to!..
In any case life in U.S. requires efforts of pioneers and cannot be compared to that of Europe (best places).
2)Generally cheaper prices.But I`m not sure about general balance if you need to count prices for doctors,
lawers and housing in New York of Frisco.
3)May be better prospects for job in certain areas.Mostly for high level specialists such as Air Space engineers,
scientists or similar.But not for majority of fields.Currently unemployment in U.S. is staggering.

Life / What is the reaction of Poles to Russian? [95]

In difference from Russian Ukrainian use ``i`` instead of ``и`` ; ``и`` instead of ``ы`` ; ``e`` instead of ``э`` ; ``є`` instead of ``e``.Letter `` ї `` sounds like ``ji`` (йи).It would be good if you will point to words that you would not be able to understand.


I decided to check dictionary of Turic borrowings in Russian and there seem to be not so many borrowings as you may think.One such list gives around 50 words,another approx. the same amount if not to count names of cities and countries and different forms of the same word.

turkportal.ru/projects/slovar-zaimstvovanij/tjurkizmy-v-russkom.html#А

But those words still are thematic and do not belong to most often used words in Russians with just a few exceptions.
Still I have doubts regarding some of them.For example they believe that such words as: tovarisch,bogatyr`,barsuk and tovary are Turic borrowings.But in Polish there is also words: towary,borsuk,bohater and towarzysz.I do not know if some of them are borrowing from Russian.

Life / What is the reaction of Poles to Russian? [95]


Is Polish your native language?Do you understand Russian alphabet?Ukrainian alphabet is a bit different from Russian.Or you want me to give you Ukrainian text which is writen in Polish or Latin alphabet?If you know Russian alphabet but not Ukrainian I will explain you differences and try to give some text in Ukrainian.

Personally as Ukrainian I think there is more important questions than language.What Ukraine really needs now is political,social and economic development.I could speak both Russian and Ukrainian and do not see any serious problem there.I even like that there exist differen languages,it allows for example to listen to music and poetry writen in different languages what gives unique flavour and taste to songs and versas.

As I know 60 % of Ukrainians use Russian lang. in everyday life up to now and 90% of Ukrainians could speak in it.In Kiev or Eastern parts of Ukraine there is often situations when one person speaks in Russian and other answers in Ukrainian and they do not make trouble from it.Ukrainian of course have some borrowings from Polish but it doesn`t only make difference with Russian.Some Ukrainian words are rather more similar to Czech in pronounciation.For example: zvíře - zvir (beast) , děkuji - djakuju (thank you), střecha - strikha (roof).

Off-Topic / What Slavic language is closer to Lithuanian? [16]

It is mentioned in Russian in upper right courner of the linked article.
But I have doubts that Lithuanian and Latvian share 45-47% of similar vocabulary
with Russian.Not even likely.

Life / What is the reaction of Poles to Russian? [95]


And in the same time Russian have much more borrowings from Western languages than from Eastern.It is clamed to be 10% similar to German due to borrowings.Start from a few: vagon,compjuter,divan,mebel`,stol,stool,lampa,careta,stal` (steel), moneta.And Polish words ``kon```, ``kobyla`` and ``oko`` which stand for ``loshad`` and ``glaz`` sound and mean the same in Russian.

Life / What is the reaction of Poles to Russian? [95]


Which exactly movies those pictures you posted are from?When those movies were shot?


I speak Russian and Ukrainian and often I could understend up to 70% of Polish text or more,though it depends on text.
Better if somebody speaks slowly and clearly like in documentary movie and use uncomlicated literature language.Pronounciation requires some adjustment but it is not very difficult to do.It depends on text though.Often I could understand a lot,sometimes not even a general sense.Quite difficult to undersand a speach that young Polish people use in informal conversation on differen tok-shows on TV.Those who use more archaic,simple, villegers language are way easier to undestand and sometime it resumble Russian to me.Some expressions are fully undestood.For example:

``ludzka podłość nie zna granic`` or ``Nienawiść wrosła w serca i zatruła krew pobratymczą``.

Off-Topic / What Slavic language is closer to Lithuanian? [16]

Is this research based on vocabulary similarities?I have doubts in it...

Off-Topic / What Slavic language is closer to Lithuanian? [16]

It difficult to tell because all of Slavic languages are distant enough from Lithuanians.
Slavic,Baltic and Germanic languages separated few thousand of years ago.

Life / What is the reaction of Poles to Russian? [95]

And Russians from Polish movies:

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Life / What is the reaction of Poles to Russian? [95]


Tataro-Mongol vocabulary?Well I decided to present here pictures of faces wich in my mind is common
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Life / What is the reaction of Poles to Russian? [95]

Do you personally dislike Russian language?What language sounds beautier to you Polish,
Russian or Ukrainian?