News / CHERNOBYL...threat to Poland? [29]

I think Poland needs to worry not as much about Chernobyl as about those 4 aging nuclear power plants that still operate in Ukraine. Two of them are located in Western Ukraine, not too far from Polish border. They are all in emergency condition due to lack of funds and old age. They all were built decades ago by technology similar to Chernobyl power plant.

Language / Polish words that sound funny? [224]

wynalazek, wynalazca

Language / Polish words that sound funny? [224]

Świnoujście, Zakopane, bzdury, pierdole, chalupa.

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]

Russia, Ukraine and Belarus aren't in EU yet, but if they would then power of Germany as EU economic center probably will grow many times. And maybe even exceed that of USA in some senses.

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]


Completely forced? And what would happen if Poland refused?

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]


The larger part of the former Eastern Prussia went to Poland and Lithuania and only smaller one to Russia.

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]


The source you provided claims Soviets took 15-20 billions of reparations. But this source estimates Soviet economic loses in 200 USD (in 1945 USD value). So, this is already an order of magnitude higher.

caseagainstbush.blogspot.com/2005/04/financial-cost-of-world-war-ii1u.html

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]

It depends on what you mean as "a lot". In what amount you would estimate the total loses of USSR in WWII?


This is interesting statement. But what about particular examples? Did he mean only Soviet Army war trophies? And someone needs to calculate money flows both ways during few decades. But I'm not too interested to do it.

I hope that 21 century will pass under sign of friendship and extended economic and political cooperation between Germany and nations of Eastern Europe.

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]

In any case Italy, Japan and Western Germany (which was larger part of entire Germany) hardly paid any reparations and you have to regard as good luck.

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]

That's interesting. Could you describe in detail mechanism of this exploitation? And provide links to some trustworthy info?

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]

BB claimed that Moscow literally ROBBED HALF OF EUROPE for 50 YEARS. Do you think this is literally correct?

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]


And what they do today?

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]

Interesting logic. So, citizens of USSR who suffered in WWII deserve no regret just for been citizens of "another empire"?

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]


This sentence doesn't seem to be correct grammatically. Who plundered whom for 50 years? Moscow sent trains with wheat to save Czechs from hunger and fed Germans in Berlin in 1945 when their own people starved. And what about Ukraine, Poland, Belarus?

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]


In this year we will mark 80 years as WWII begun. A largest war in known history that ended without any significant reparations to those countries that suffered most of all...

History / Give Poland back it's lost land ! [132]

More important, I think, is that there is no objective reasons for open war between NATO and Russia. Is there any?

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]


Did Russian brutally enforced on Poles Dostoyevsky and Pushkin?..

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]


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Language / Polish and other slavic language differences [60]

Your memory played a typical trick on you. You wasn't able to remember a Ukrainian phrase exactly and in dare attempt to recover it started to substitute Ukrainian with Russian.

Language / Polish and other slavic language differences [60]

I don't remember any case it would be used in Ukrainian.

Language / Polish and other slavic language differences [60]


There is no "ли" in Ukrainian. This is purely Russian word. A regular expression for this in Ukrainian will sound like:

"Czy wy howOryte Ukrajins'koju"? or " Czy wy rozmowliAjete Ukrajins'koju"? Or " HowOryte/rozmowliAjete Ukrajins'koju"? - for short form.

History / Give Poland back it's lost land ! [132]


Can you give some example? Where did you take it from?

Language / Polish and other slavic language differences [60]


That's correct. Always with "t" in Russian.

Language / Polish and other slavic language differences [60]

Similarities are often complementary. For example, if you can't find some similar word to some Russian word in modern Polish vocabulary, go to search Bulgarian or Slovak and surely you will find it!

Many Russian words sound more similar to Southern Slavic languages (Slovenian, Serbian, Bulgarian and Croatian) than to Western Slavic. So, we may say that kriss-cross complementary similarity is nearly complete.

Language / Polish and other slavic language differences [60]


Sure. I have no doubts all Slavic languages have very many similarities. The are many of the between Bulgarian and Russian/Ukrainian. I have no doubts there are many of them between Bulgarian and Polish/Czech as well. Most evident these similarities become when you go to older and basic words. For example is you know modern standard Polish AND Czech/Slovak (most regular words, not even dialects!) you would be able to understand around 90-95% of basic Russian vocabulary.

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]


What history teaches us is that to have excellent diplomatic skills often more important than to have an excellent army.

History / Give Poland back it's lost land ! [132]


I feel that in the last few years Russia started to behave like a cornered bear which afraids of almost complete political isolation. Yet, the Europe doesn't need to loose hope and attempts to normalize relations with Russia and even integrate it. This is a policy which turned to be successful during Gorbachev times, for example. Fortunately, Russia has no more serious ideological discrepancies with the rest of Europe like it was 40 years ago.


I'm not sure majority of Russians feel this way. What kind of "empire" Russia is now? Ethnic Russians constitute more than 80% of its population.

History / Give Poland back it's lost land ! [132]

I was born in Ukraine and my native language is Russian, but I speak Ukrainian as well. I hope that all Europe will unite some day and such countries as Ukraine, Moldova, Russia and Belarus will become EU members. There will be no need for NATO because any hostility will disappear and no more weapons directed at each other will be needed. We are all the humans and therefore share common values. I like sound of Lithuanian language.

History / Give Poland back it's lost land ! [132]


Are you sure? I'm not aware of this.


And what about Ukrainians and Belarussians?

Language / Polish and other slavic language differences [60]


That's true. Similarly to Czechs or Slovaks Ukrainians pronounce "g" character softly in difference from Russian. Ukrainians even introduced a special character for those very rare cases when "g' is pronounced hardly (mostly in borrowed words). Serbians and Bulgarians also use word "govoriti" for "to say".