News / American SM-3 ballistic missile site in Poland by 2018 [86]


Because the then acting defense minister Komorowski, his superior, pressed to fire him, did back him up against those fake accusations and now his career is over. Szeremietiew a man who knows a hell of alot more on the military than Komorowski. Komorowski was but in by his superiors, friends, not for his competence.


Haha, I think Szeremietiew is the one who is of Russian ancestry, that surname is very popular in Russia. Yet he was a loyal supporter of Solidarity during communist times, served 5 years in prison during that period.

News / American SM-3 ballistic missile site in Poland by 2018 [86]

As former assistant defense minister Romuald Szeremietiew said in a recent interview "Russia is spending 700 billion dollars on rearmament over the next 10 years, Belarus is also spending more on the military. Stationing Iskander ballistic missiles in Kaliningrad, having large join Russian-Belarussian military exercises on Poland's border with Poland being the enemy shows intimidation and aggression from Moscow. People didn't think Russia would invade Georgia and it did, with Europe doing absolutely nothing. Shows how indecisive and weak NATO really is. Maybe not today, but in the near future Russia could poise a very serious threat to Poland once again. It's our job to be ready" He also said how he doesn't understand how a liar like Komorowski has the backing of 69% of Polish society. A man who lied about his doctorate, about being part of Polish nobility, a man who accused the innocent Szeremietiew of corruption and pressed for his dismissal.

News / American SM-3 ballistic missile site in Poland by 2018 [86]

Roosevelt was a WASP prick. He knew nothing of Poland's history. He once even said 'Poland existing starts wars in Europe, and offsets the balance of power" so I guess in his mind Poland wasn't supposed to exist.

America wouldn't let anyone man their weapons. They paid for it and are responsible for them. Soviets occupying Poland and forcefully stationing troops there made Poland non sovereign. It's quite another thing when Poland invites foreign troops to stay on it's soil, just like Germany has. NATO promised to help if one of its members, Poland for instance, was attacked. This help could mean just declaring war and not doing anything, or some kind of a limited engagement. By Poland having American troops and billions of dollars or American equipment on her soil it gets a much better guarantee of intervention in case of war.

News / THE PARTYS OVER... NO MORE EUROS FOR POLAND'S ROADS [71]

EU freezes billions in aid for Poland pending price-fixing probe .. Those bastards!!!

News / American SM-3 ballistic missile site in Poland by 2018 [86]


Poland doesn't have long range missiles like the SM-3 or THAAD. I doubt that even if it wanted to purchase the system for it's own arsenal political pressure from Russia or maybe even some EU countries wouldn't let the transaction take place. Poland for it's own missile shield had weapons on the short range level, for medium range it need to purchase weapons abroad, read somewhere the French Aster-30 and Israeli David's Sling are prime candidates. btw legend, if Poland was to rely on its European allys it might as well just surrender. Time and time again they're sold her out or collaborated against her.

News / American SM-3 ballistic missile site in Poland by 2018 [86]


Poland will get the latest version of the SM-3, the Block IIA which is still in development form and will be a much more improved version of the missile. It will be part of new Aegis Ashore radar-missile system. Some 24 of the missiles are expected to be placed in Poland by 2018. Obama was critisized (to Moscow's amazement) by scrapping Bush's plan for the THAAD system to be placed. The THAAD is still more or less in its development stage. While the SM-3 has been proven to be effective. The SM-3 has a longer range than THAAD (over 500 kilometers) and max altitude of 160 kilometers.

defenseindustrydaily.com/land-based-sm-3s-for-israel-04986/

UK, Ireland / Polish is Britain's second language, says UK report [52]


LOL. It's funny I recently watched the British documentary about the Polish pilots during the Battle of Britain, and a Polish woman at the end ( remember far less Poles came and stayed in the UK after WWII then today) says how "I don't think we were ever really welcome here, I don't think they ever wanted us" Some hospitality.

youtube.com/watch?v=ptijNcDanVw

UK, Ireland / Polish is Britain's second language, says UK report [52]

Merged: Polish England's Second Language

Data from 2011 census reveals 546,000 people in England and Wales speak Polish. Polish is now the main language spoken in England and Wales after English and Welsh, according to 2011 census data released by the Office of National Statistics.

The language-speaking figures recorded for the first time from a survey of 56.1 million residents of England and Wales show 546,000 speak Polish. It is now the second main language in England. There are still slightly more Welsh speakers in Wales at 562,000.

guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/30/polish-becomes-englands-second-language

News / New uniforms for Polish Army [30]


Yes I know only the Special Forces use it, they should change it and make it the standard field uniform for the whole army. The US Army is interested in a very similar design, it was for a while willing to adapt the Marine uniform. The Universal Camouflage Pattern it currently uses has been an utter failure. Universal meaning for all combat zones (forest, desert, snow) meaning it didn't work in any. Gray isn't a color appearing in nature in any climate zone.

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History / The Ribbentrop-Beck Pact [7]


Keep your friends close and enemies closer. If the French didn't wanna go to war together with Poland for their own benefit to weaken Germany, then they no way no how would ever attack Germany for Poland. Poland being between stronger states, Germany and Soviet Union had to choose an alliance with one or the other or be crushed.

History / The Ribbentrop-Beck Pact [7]

Yep, that's true. Hitler hated communism and admired as well as respected Pilsudski for how he dealt with them in 1920.

UK, Ireland / How much people in UK are manipulated by false anty- Polish propaganda [37]


The average of Poles is 99, same as Germany. dailykenn.blogspot.com/2012/06/by-dailykenn_19.html
I dunno where Flynn got his 'facts' or even if he's up to date with them.

Love / INTERACIAL DATING WITH POLISH.... ( my dilema) [8]


Jacqueline I know and have seen quite a few Polish men date, marry latina, Brazilian, black girls here in the US. Two of my friends actually have. There are just as many Latino or Black men who go to white bars, clubs, parties or simply hang out with white guys for the sole purpose to 'tap' a white girl. Everyone want's to try something else.


Then try dating a handsome, white collar Polish man. Good Luck!

News / €80 billion for Poland new EU budget [166]


Western Media, I'll give you an example of what an impact in has made on people. German fans in Poland before the Euro 2012 Germany Greece said of the Greek team "they're wearing Jerseys paid for by our money" !


Increased the living standards of the recipients. The wages were increased because there were shortages of workers and they had no other choice.

News / €80 billion for Poland new EU budget [166]


You mean buy out shares?



No doubt. My father's family were farmers during communist times he went to school and wanted nothing to do with it, became a manager or a supervisor at an armament plant. He told me how his family work very hard all their lives, there was absolutely no money in it. The had a house, food, some clothes. If it wasn't for the grandparents sending money from France they could have never afforded to buy a car. People were eager to work but for something. In the Soviet Union after Gorbachev came to power he allowed the collective farmers to grow small plots behind their homes. Those tiny plots produced some 30% of the USSRs grains, tomatoes, potatoes, fruits etc. A huge bountiful land land Russia had to import grain from the US? what a joke. People didn't do their job because there was nothing in it for them.

News / €80 billion for Poland new EU budget [166]


It was also partially stolen by our own corrupt politicians and there are claims that the Russians too had a hand in this. Investing large sums of money in steel mills (a thing of the past) in the 1970s?? No one in the west would have done suck a dumb thing.

"Around 1% of our GDP growth since 2008 is because of EU money," said Poland's Regional Development Minister Elzbieta Bienkowska.

"That's almost 300,000 jobs. It's an enormous change, a kind of miracle I would say."

Cohesion funds are not designed to work alone. There has to be matching investment on a national level. In Poland the result is that GDP per capita has risen from just over 40% of the EU average when it joined the Union in 2004 to nearly 70% now.

"We would probably have made this progress in about 20 years if we had been forced to go it alone, without EU development money," Mrs Bienkowska said.

bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20318959

'Nearly five months after the final whistle at the European football championships, economists and officials say that Poland is reaping the benefits.
According to the London-based Brand Finance Institute, Euro 2012 helped lift Poland up its 100-nation ranking, from 24th to 20th.

In financial terms, the value of the brand "Poland" jumped 75 percent.

"The impact on our image is going to be long-term," said Joanna Mucha, Poland's sport and tourism minister.

The 677,000 fans who flocked to Poland may be worth their weight in gold -- and not only because they spent 1.1 billion zloty (266 million euros, $341 million), or 33 percent more than forecast.

A mighty 92 percent of foreign supporters surveyed by the PBS Institute in Poland at the end of Euro 2012 said they would recommend it for a holiday, and 80 percent aimed to come back.

In 2011, three million foreign tourists visited this nation of 38 million. Experts forecast that number will grow by 766,000 a year through to 2020.

News / €80 billion for Poland new EU budget [166]


That's what upsets me with westerners and western media. They've been lead to believe that EVERYTHING that has improved in Poland after it joined the EU is because of the EU and the money it gives. For every euro the EU gives Poland Poland has to give one also, sometime 2! Poland's economy was growing quite steadily before the EU.


Actually that's partially true motorway and expressway building speeded up in the mid 1990s then stopped right by 2000.


The state of Poland's roads can be blamed on money, or rather lack of. There were ambitious plans during the Gierek era but since most of the western loans were squandered or spent on useless projects we see the results to this day.

News / 2014-2020 EU Cohesion funds for Poland [11]


That's what I wanted to know so in reality Poland will not get anywhere near the 68 billion euros for the 2007-2013 period. Hopefully they've learned by now to keep up with the deadlines.


It was in Wprost magazine, they wont let you access the archives unless you subscribe. All it said was that during the first year 2007, Poland was slow to prepare and do all the necessary things to utilize on the funds, and got some 14-16%. Next year 40%, so I'm assuming that by now (2012) they're pretty much getting all of it. I did find a new link from October 2012, as of then Poland had used up 78.5% of the EU funds allocated to her for 2007-2013 years. And that in the 2014-2020 we should expect 80 billion Euros, which should be mostly spent on infrastructure.

dzienniknowy.pl/blog/pokaz/1301.dhtml

Poland's prime minister said Friday was the happiest day of his life after it was announced the country would receive 105.8 billion euros over seven years from the new EU budget.

thenews.pl/1/12/Artykul/126783,Poland-to-receive-bigger-slice-of-smaller-EU-cake

History / Polish relation about Russians, Ukrainians? [281]


There are other ways to control a people or country then invading it. Russia has shown that doing business with it and politics are co existent. Poland had an issue with Russia, it cut off import of meats. The Ukraine had an issue it turned the knob on the gas pipeline. It seams that it expects things to be in it's favor or else... threats, intimidation. Even more so to it's Slavic neighbors it should be more of a big brother than a bully.

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History / Polish relation about Russians, Ukrainians? [281]

Because Ukraine is right in between them. It's not a rivalry Poland just doesn't want history repeating itself. Russia partitioned Poland, suppressed two uprisings in the 19th century, then Polish Bolshevik War, then WWII invaded with Hitler, then forced Communism in Poland when there were supposed to be free elections. It's not paranoia or some new phenomenon Russian involvement in Polish politics too often came to no good. Younger Poles (30 and under) in general don't have anything against the Russian people we're Slavs from the same cradle. People just don't trust their government.

History / Polish relation about Russians, Ukrainians? [281]


Historian Bohdan Osadchuk was a true friend of Poland. He worked his entire life to bringing Poles and Ukrainians closer together. I remember his comments on Lech Walesa's visit to Kiev during the Orange Revolution. " Walesa went on the podium lifted his arms and the crowd of Ukrainians shouted Polsha!!!Polsha!!! A group of Russians nearby looked angrily at the Ukrainians and ever more angrily at the Poles."

News / 2012 - 2013 Will be the most severe Polish winter. [38]


I remember spending the 01-02 winter in southeastern Poland. During that December the temperature was constantly 18-20 degrees below zero! During the night -25C.

History / Polish relation about Russians, Ukrainians? [281]


That's true. Supposedly even closer to Russians than Czechs! One can safely answer than the reason for the turmoil is 'the biggest problems are always within family"

History / Soviet/Russian Army leaving Poland 1992 [21]


Yea, I posted a video about this before.

Study / Times Higher Education rankings 2012 Poland's top universities at end! [93]


I was wondering the same. 14 of the top 20 American!!?? wtf, clear favoritism. I don't believe that the Jagellonian University is down on the same level as the University of Wyoming which I've never even heard of.