History / "Poland's Concentration Camp" ?? [570]

I also don't see what the fuss is. I've seen much more insulting and misleading things in the press. But if so many people are bothered by it then I guess it would be better to be more careful.

UK, Ireland / Brit Polonia fighting anti-Polish stereotypes [46]


In ethnic Poles? Born and rased in Poland? Funny, I actually got the opposite impression.

UK, Ireland / Brit Polonia fighting anti-Polish stereotypes [46]


How many Poles are on this forum? And how many out of them show antisemitic or homophobic views? Numbers, please.

History / Leon Feldhendler: A hero murdered? [37]


Could be anybody. I guess we'll never know.


There had to be someone strong-willed and with large following who would organize and lead it. Perhaps there was just nobody like this in other camps.

History / Leon Feldhendler: A hero murdered? [37]


They were probably used as scapegoats. The communist government used whatever excuse it could to get rid of the resistance fighters.

Off-Topic / What language is this? [5]

Hutsuls are simply Ukrainian highlanders from Carpathian mountains of which part is in Poland so some of them might have been Polish citizens. Galicia was very multi-cultural, it was inhabited by loads of nationalities. But first you should check the dialect of Polish Carpathian highlanders, it differs from regular Polish as well and is pretty similar to the dialect used by other Carpathian highlanders. In fact, all Slavic languages are pretty closely related so what you wrote could be in any Slavic language and dialect. For example in regular, dialect-free Polish it would be "siadła baba na barana jechała na..."

If your grandfather said that he was Polish then he probably was. Especially if he was a Roman Catholic. Knowing songs in foreign languages and dialects doesn't change a person's nationality.

News / Next 100 years - Poland as great power? [35]

Poland won't become a major player in world's politics with the way things are right now. There's just nothign that would set us apart from other European countries, we're too average. I see several options that might change it:

1. We find a lot of oil on our lands
2. We start a mass production of rare, high-quality, valuable items (technology, not ham. Nobody gets a world acclaim for pig farms)
3. We change the way we look at politics (as in:we stop electing people based on their level of patriotism instead of actual qualifications and shaping our foreign relations through the prism of likes and dislikes rather than profit)

4. There's a third world war. That would change a lot of things in politics and economy.

History / The Pogrom on Jews at Eishyshok (Ejszyszki) in Poland [68]

Why did you start a new thread for that? There are far too many threads about Polish-Jewish relations. I propose a new name for this forum: polishjewishforums.com

Love / Inside polish women's psychology and mind [109]


;)


I can only feel sorry for them.


I don't want to waste my youth sitting at home 24/7 waiting for my children to come back from a school trip and tell me about all the exciting places they've been to which I'll never get to see and they didn't like because they're more interested in touring playgrounds than museums. My mother and aunts were younger than me when they had kids so I know what to expect from motherhood. It's not something I'm looking forward to.


Perhaps one day nature will kick in and I'll start wishing for kids. It won't happen anytime soon, though.

Love / Inside polish women's psychology and mind [109]

I can't speak for every Polish woman but I don't want to have children for the same reason why I don't want to have a dog - too much trouble, filth, costs and in addition to that I wouldn't be able to leave house whenever I want for as long as I want for some 20 years. No, thanks.

History / Poles and Russians -- love-hate relationship? [209]


I don't know. I wasn't the one who said it. And it's not like I can change the mind of a person who did.


So was I.

Study / Starting Polish University in Krakow in October, anyone else is studying in Krakow this year? [5]

I'm already studing somewhere else but I'd love to study at the Jagiellonian University. Unfortunately, the competition is very high there. I didn't get in previously, despite scoring 96% in one subject and 58% in the second one so the competition is a bit too high for me, this year probably too.

News / Polish Policeman shoots down a foreigner in Warsaw [300]


Wow, racist and wrong! Stay classy.

News / Polish Policeman shoots down a foreigner in Warsaw [300]


Lol, what truth? How do you know it? Are you a witness?


Who needs courts? You've clearly already judged him and declared guilty.

News / Polish Policeman shoots down a foreigner in Warsaw [300]


Check 1jola's link on the first page.

News / Polish Policeman shoots down a foreigner in Warsaw [300]

I can't believe what I'm reading here.

What the news say: Police chased a man who was selling something illegal. They caught him and then a bunch of other people started throwing stones at them and assaulting them. The policemen took out guns to scare off the other attackers. The man tried to wrestle the gun from policeman's hands, the man shot - accidentally or not , we can't tell yet.

The conclusion of some of the commenters here - those dirty, racist, nazi Poles murdering "Untermenschen"!

History / Casimir the Great (Kazimierz Wielki) started anti-Semitism? [101]


I'm not entirely sure what you mean here. Poland didn't have kings since it was partitioned and even before that for many centuries kings were elected and had little power. It was the Szlachta who ruled in Poland.

History / Casimir the Great (Kazimierz Wielki) started anti-Semitism? [101]

Vast majority of Poles at the time were peasants and peasants back then had no nationality. It's like yehudi said - Jews were a class. Germans, Armenians, Tatars, Cossacks and other nationalities had "extraordinary priviliges" too, why focus on Jews?

History / Casimir the Great (Kazimierz Wielki) started anti-Semitism? [101]


I'm wondering about this too. Ever since I started writing on this forum I've had three nightmares with Jews in them. These threads are driving me insane!

History / Casimir the Great (Kazimierz Wielki) started anti-Semitism? [101]

Casimir the Great was a smart, smart man who knew that the only way of preventing blood libel was making it punishable by death, so that nobody would get any funny ideas.

Language / Does anybody know of a list of Polish-English False Friends and True Friends? [60]

Prezerwatywy - Preservatives ;)

History / Thinking of changing Wikipedia's Holocaust article to include genocide of Poles. [78]


Because they weren't Slavs.

Nazis believed that Jewish blood was poison, Polish blood was worthless and German blood was like the specialest snowflake. Polish blood was worth something only if it was mixed with German blood. But even one drop of Jewish blood was enough to poison even the superior German blood. Get it? Or should I give you some three hundred quotes?

History / Thinking of changing Wikipedia's Holocaust article to include genocide of Poles. [78]

Here's what Jan Karski was told by the representatives of the Jewish underground, very interesting and true statement:

"You other Poles are fortunate. You are suffering too. Many of you will die, but at least your nation goes on living. After the war Poland will be resurrected. Your cities will be rebuilt and your wounds will slowly heal. From this ocean of tears, pain, rage and humiliation your country will emerge again, but the Polish Jews will no longer exist. We will be dead. Hitler will lose his war against the human, the just, and the good, but he will win his war against the Polish Jews. No -- it will not be a victory; the Jewish people will be murdered...."

As we all know, this is exactly what happened. Not only Polish jewry was annihilated but Jews in many other countries as well. And that's why Holocaust is mainly a specifically Jewish experience.


But they were the only Slavic babies allowed to live. Nazis believed that blond hair in Poles was a sign of German blood. Don't try to deny the obvious Anti-Slavic sentiment of the Nazis, there's too much evidence of it.

History / Thinking of changing Wikipedia's Holocaust article to include genocide of Poles. [78]


Funny, I thought the main difference between Jewish and Polish victims was that a Polish person was in mortal danger whenever someone accused them of being Jewish or hiding Jews. I haven't heard of a Jew under Nazis who would be in mortal danger due to being mistaken for a Pole.

As every Pole, I feel bitter that polish victims are often forgotten but let's not pretend that we had it "just as bad" as Jews, it's a lie. A lie.

History / Thinking of changing Wikipedia's Holocaust article to include genocide of Poles. [78]


Poles also have their own term, "Zagłada Żydów".

History / Thinking of changing Wikipedia's Holocaust article to include genocide of Poles. [78]

Dear god... don't you dare. Don't you fvcking dare! I don't want the whole world to think that Poles are butthurt, selective, revisionist attention wh*res.

Last time I checked, Poles were included under "other victims" - in their righteous place.

History / Anita J. Prazmowska's "The Polish Century" [24]


...I remember the time when you still made sense. I could expect that statement from joepilsudski but it's really disappointing to see it coming from someone who still manages to sound sane from time to time.

Antisemitism of the Poles is often exaggerated but to say it was nonexistent one has to be channelling some fantastic alternate reality.

History / Anita J. Prazmowska's "The Polish Century" [24]

I don't like historians who write about a country they have personal links to. It's impossible to be 100% objective, the bias, no matter how small, is always there and even if there isn't any then there will always be people who will believe that there is a bias and demand proof from another source for every argument used in a discussion.

History / To Understand Poland 39-89 (L.U.C - TRIBUTE TO STEFAN STARZYŃSKI) [17]

There are some bits I don't like but other than that it's amazing! It's a pity that no other track from "To Understand Poland 39-89" appeals to me.

Life / What's wrong with you, Polish people - is it an inferiority complex? [120]

Polishforums may seem like a good place to discuss Poles but it's not a good place to talk WITH Poles. The opinions expressed on this board come mainly from non-Poles or people with some sort of Polish ancestry who have never lived in Poland. My advice is to check the profiles of everyone whose opinion you're reading - if the answer for the question "Do you speak Polish?" is "no" or "some" then don't act like that person's opinion is somehow an opinion of a Pole or the entire Polish population.

Anyway:


I've never even thought about Jews before I started posting here. All those conversations, guilt tripping and blame games now made me obsessed with Jews or rather with the thought that a great deal of Jews hate Poles and have a warped view of Poland and their opinion is only reinforced by the foreigners who keep posting antisemitic crap here and are for some reason assumed to be Poles which results in lurkers and newcomers wondering wtf is wrong with the Poles and their 'obsession' with Jews.