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sofijufka   
2 Oct 2012
History / People the Soviets planted in Poland [75]

He wasn't just a commie, he was the worst kind of Communist - a Stalinist betrayer.

o yessss! And he had horns and hooves and a tail. Oh, I forgot - he had also a red pitchfork...
sofijufka   
1 Oct 2012
Life / Polish Werewolves [30]

Once Jarosław Kaczyński said that Donald Tusk had wolverine eyes.

Nelly Rokita said so, not JK
sofijufka   
30 Sep 2012
History / People the Soviets planted in Poland [75]

The fact that he was trusted enough to install things in the American Embassy tells us all we need to know about what kind of man he was

have you any proof for that? And that Rajumnd was a member of PZPR?
sofijufka   
28 Sep 2012
News / Rest in Peace Anna Walentynowicz or is it...?! [63]

I don't like her too - I don't like liars. She lied also that the whole ground at Smoleńsk was digged up to 1 meter from the surface and all the fragments of bodies and passengers' belongings were find. It was not the truth...
sofijufka   
26 Sep 2012
History / Polish Royal Bastards [23]

I know about 8 of these bastards:
- Maurycy Saski mother Maria Aurora Königsmarck
- Fryderyk August Rutowski - mother Fatima Spiegel
- Jan Jerzy, Chevalier de Saxe - mother Urszula Katarzyna princess Teschen-Lubomirska
- Maria Aurura Rutowska - mother Fatima Spiegel
- Anna Orzelska - mother Henrietta Rénard
- Augusta Konstancja Cosel, married Friesen - mother Anna Konstancja Cosel
- Fryderyka Aleksandra Cosel, married Moszyńska - mother Anna Konstancja Cosel
- Fryderyk August Cosel - mother Anna Konstancja Cosel
sofijufka   
23 Sep 2012
History / Polish Royal Bastards [23]

hmmm... could it be "herb uszczerbiony" [abatement of coat of arms]?
sofijufka   
23 Sep 2012
History / Polish Royal Bastards [23]

There is a special word for it, which I do not remember right now).

bar/bend sinister?
sofijufka   
20 Sep 2012
News / IPN apologises to Adam Michnik [15]

Michnik's mother was a writer of stalinsit textbooks in the posotwar period whose purpose was to brianwash and Sovietise Polish schoolchildren.

You know, it's funny, but I think that her books might have quite the opposite effect. I've found in my library her book "History of Poland till 1795" - and I believe, that this book could teach young people 'think historically", that each event has it's own cause and effect . Her conclusions were wrong, of course, but later published textbooks were good only for repetition. My mother teached history, year after year she had to have a new textbook, and each of them was "thinner" and good only for test's exam.
sofijufka   
19 Sep 2012
Genealogy / Coats of arms of Polish cities [51]

In 1317 the townspeople of Lublin visited Prince Władysław the Short (pl: £okietek) to ask him to grant them civic rights. As the prince agreed, a decision on the city's emblem was to be made. The delegation told the prince about hard times of Lublin when its townspeople had fed on goats' milk. The prince considered a goat a good symbol. However, in order not to evoke unhappy memories, he ordered them to put in the emblem something that would be associated with joy, namely a grapevine.

[i]In Antiquity the goat was an attribute of Venus and Bacchus. Found in mountainous regions, the goat became a symbol of human pursuit to lofty ideals and to God. The goat was also associated with fertility of nature blessed by God. In order to exemplify this fertility, the coat of arms pictured a goat leaning against a vine and gnawing at its leaves. Such a picture can also be seen on the left door leaf of the cathedral in Gniezno, the first capital of Poland.


and more

loitik.eu/historia/herb_uk.htm
sofijufka   
12 Sep 2012
History / Polish Officer in NATO, Col. Ryszard Kukliński. [145]

As opposed to Adam Michnik, whose brother's father was murdered by the communists.

communists are queer people. One of my mother's friend [a communist] was send at Siberia by soviets, her child died from malnutricion, her husband was shot - and she was a commmie till her death...
sofijufka   
12 Sep 2012
History / Polish Officer in NATO, Col. Ryszard Kukliński. [145]

yea, you are right, but one can't sell such a flat, and member of family couldn't inherit it [especially if they don't live here]

Interesting that they bought the flat in 1981, too.

why? My landlady bought her flat in the same year - the town council was more flexible then...
sofijufka   
12 Sep 2012
History / Polish Officer in NATO, Col. Ryszard Kukliński. [145]

You mean out of charity from the PRL state?

no, it wasn't charity, PRL state often practised carrot and stick approach - it was easier where citiziens were working for free at rebuilding of ruined cities, than to pay for rebuilding.
sofijufka   
12 Sep 2012
History / Polish Officer in NATO, Col. Ryszard Kukliński. [145]

Such as the ducks' father?

oh. I'm fed up with such accusations! I know a lot of people, who knew family Kaczynski! One of my friends lived from childhood in the town house, where Kaczynskis lived [by the way, Rajmund Kaczynski was one of the people who rebuilt this building after the war and was given flat in award - just like my father in Lublin]. He was liked very much by his neighbours.

I was working 10 years at the Warsaw Technical University and spoke with the people, who remembered Rajmund - and have only good to say.
I knew Jarek's boss from library of Instytut Badań Literackich of PAofSc. He said Jarek was very hard working and intelligent. I'm 61 years old, so I remember, how it was to live in commies' Poland - and it's easy for foreigner and member of Polonia to accuse people of treason, because they didn't really understand how it was then... And I know a lot of people from Agora, and - let me say - they often write one thing, and think another....

My collegue from daily was Maleszka's wife - she told me a lot about Agora morals...
sofijufka   
12 Sep 2012
Genealogy / Coats of arms of Polish cities [51]

naleczow.com.pl/lang/en/history.html

here is history of Nałęczów - from the beginning to today
sofijufka   
11 Sep 2012
Genealogy / Coats of arms of Polish cities [51]

Nałęczów, do you guys know what the coat of arms mean?

the red ones is Nałęcz, coat of arms ofStanisław Małachowski, the blue one - Pilawa [coat of arms of his wife]
sofijufka   
10 Sep 2012
Language / how to say drum in polish? [7]

gram na bębnom,

gram na bębnie [~~bembnie]: gram na bębenku [bembenku]
sofijufka   
26 Aug 2012
News / 70% of Poles like Komorowski. Do you? [120]

It is believed that Tusk's grand dad was serving in the German Army as s Volskdeutsch... A treator to the Polish state...

yes, he was Wermacht soldier it's true, but earlier he was arrested by gestapo als polish fanatic, who was a great threat to III Reich. He was in Stuthoff camp, and later in KZ Neuengamme (his number was 5939). He was released in 1943. In 1944 Hitler had a great need for 'cannon fodder' , so in August Józef Tusk [like other Kaszebe] was by force conscripted into the army. In October 1944 he escaped and enlisted in Polish Armed Forces in the West