History / Russians 'tortured to death' in Polish camps? [58]

Well...it beats putting whole armies as animals when 90 percent are behaved within the laws....
Listening to some of you one could think it was 100 percent of wild animals! ;)

But as I said, a real reconciliation with the East needs more time...probably some decades...
That it can be achieved shows the West, especially between Germany and France, arch enemies for centuries! :)

History / Russians 'tortured to death' in Polish camps? [58]


Again...for such a supposedly independent thinker you have bought all propaganda hook line and sinker!
Your hate is disturbing nobody, the Germans at least, but only yourself...like a wound festering and stinking under the skin.

It needs patience....

News / Poland-EU: Positive and negative features? [45]


Our smokers will have to invade Russia then...

News / Poland-EU: Positive and negative features? [45]


*mumble, mumble, mumble*

News / Poland-EU: Positive and negative features? [45]


...if it consoles you my posts will wander into the random bin soon enough.

News / Poland-EU: Positive and negative features? [45]

Honestly I find alcoholism much worse than smoking...there are rarely brawls because of to many cigarettes, nor beating of wives, nor driving under smoke with killing many innocents on the streets...nor any other criminal acts because of smoking contrary to alcohol.

Smoking is not half as bad and desastreous....(I'm an ex-smoker but I'm tolerant enough).

Banning smoking is to patronizing for me...like a nanny-state deciding for it's "underaged" subjects what's good for them. There is something definitely wrong here....

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]


"high-tech suicide" ;)

A combination of words you won't find here...one has to be a Russian to use that!

But yeah...let's compare our countries in 20 years :)

History / Russians 'tortured to death' in Polish camps? [58]

I agree with you....I would prefer a small plaque to the monster of soviet memorial in Treptow. But I also would fight for the right of the dead red armist to have a dignified place of rest in german soil. Most of them had been hapless boys far away from home too..

History / Russians 'tortured to death' in Polish camps? [58]


You know that the majority of those young boy did neither rape nor were part of any atrocities at all, don't you!

The Wiesenthal center itself put the number of criminal axis soldiers at less than 10 percent...which made them the exception not the rule. But you are only talking about these criminals, as if they had been the rule.

And there is (was) a system behind criminalizing and demonizing the enemy... in Poland that was enforced through communist rule as they and the Soviets were the only ones to gain from non-reconciliation of Poland with it's neighbours, keeping up the old antagonism!

History / Russians 'tortured to death' in Polish camps? [58]


Crap!

Nobody praises enemies, murderers or rapists!

In the West there has developed an understanding that the 18 year old conscript was just a young, hapless boy regardless the flag he fighted under. And that the vast majority of all armies pitched against each other by politics was made of young, hapless boys put to rot far away from home...not of demonized mass murderers only out to kill babies.

THAT is in my opinion the big difference.

That demonizing of the enemy soldiers stopped in western Europe shortly after the war, otherwise reconciliation and the building of a common Europe would not had been possible...but as seen again here, it never stopped in the East (at least till recently), quite the contrary it was a tool used by the soviet directed communists to hold up the wall against the enemy "fascist" west.

Decades of that demonizing is bound to leave it's traces...

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]


Okay..it's baseless discussion..let us come together in 20 years. It's a new kind of industry and technology...I'm quite sure there had been alot of russian doubters and mockers from their horses as the Germans put the first cars on the streets. ;)

But honestly I have much more trust in german industry/business than what a Russian thinks about math.
Our business was and is been much more often proven right than anything Russia did put out! ;)
They have an instinct for money and what will be a good sell!

History / Russians 'tortured to death' in Polish camps? [58]


I said before and that holds still true...In my opinion West-Germany and France were rebuilding democracies after the war, Poland was under communist rule which for decades got on with teaching hate and a kind of history which needed a common enemy which made the Russian the goodies...

The West had those decades to reconciliate, the East did not. More patience is needed!

News / Poland-EU: Positive and negative features? [45]


Aha...a fanatic anti-smoker! ;)

News / Poland-EU: Positive and negative features? [45]


I'm an ex-smoker but I have some sympathy for the poor sods send out to freeze for a fag....

News / Poland-EU: Positive and negative features? [45]

Smoking ban is an EU-law now?

Just recently Bavaria implemented wide spread smoking bans all for herself....in other german federal states it is not as bad....

News / Poland-EU: Positive and negative features? [45]


Well...that not or we wouldn't experience such a crisis as with Greece or Portugal or Ireland today.
Every country can still make or break their economies for themselves..

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]

As Velund shows Russia still not got it what it takes to be successful....they just don't think!

Maybe it really makes a difference if you sit on free resources you can use and sell easily or if you have to use your brain to survive and become successful.

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]


"brainwashed"...that's funny!
Our industry wouldn't be leading if they are "brainwashed". Our business is nothing if not brutally interested in profits.

Green technology is the future...and as we Germans say "Vorsprung durch Technik"! Those who invest now will be ahead of the rest when it is time to cash in.

Green technology is already now an important industry and employment factor...

nuclear-news.net/2011/05/10/renewable-energy-making-good-business-sense-for-germany/

[quote]...Already, the country's share in the green-tech world market is 16 percent, which means billions of Euros in business. Renewable energy has generated 300,000 'green collar' new jobs in the past decade, Röttgen says.

Big companies like Siemens and Bosch are determined to become "green multinationals." Thousands of small- and medium-sized technology companies see green technology as an important part of their business and investment strategy.

...
William Reilly, the former administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, said on a recent visit to Germany that he was impressed by Merkel's energy turn and the example it sets for the rest of the industrialized world./quote]

In ten to twenty years we will have the technology which the rest of the world wants to buy...as it is today with german tech and machinery. They will run after german tech again, not russian or serbian! ;)

You should just start to think ahead...actually that is a requirement when you want to be economically successful. Germany is just that, for decades now, always standing on our toes to keep the cutting edge.

So please excuse me if I can only smile about your yesteryear arguments! :)

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]


Well...we just have to watch Russia to go "somewhere"...as you are such a shining beacon of success in all fields! :):):)

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]

Russia better keeps watching it's own problems...what you will do when you don't sell yo much of your gas and oil anymore because countries like Germany don't depend on your energy so much anymore? You can't stop the future ;)

Hopefully those great russian engineers working for Germany will then come home, as you will need them...

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]

Don't think so...we are concentrating more and more on renewable/green energies and our engineers will lead the field in that technology too in the future, even more so as they do so already...

German gov today decided to put billions into the electro car research/development/industry...watch this space in the next decade!

dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15077508,00.html

(When you probably will still drive your rusty Lada) ;)

Work / Holocaust and gender studies in Poland? [33]

Na gut...*hmpf*

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]

Well...the former get's all the media attention... :)

Work / Holocaust and gender studies in Poland? [33]

Oh...another holocaust by the Germans....look Ma!

Why don't you use some british holocausts as example??? :(

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]


It's that kind of thinking which stops you from reaching the real heights!

You should strife to develop a gleaming Mercedes fully fit to withstand everything Siberia can throw at you and still look great...not relying on some old, rusty Lada!

;)

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]

If I had a daughter I would forbid her to marry one....they are a pest!

Interesting article about engineering in Germany:
entdecke-deutschland.diplo.de/Vertretung/entdeckedeutschland/en/06__Wirtschaft/Deutsche__Ingenieure__en.html

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]


As long they don't want to become lawyers or bankers we will manage...

:)

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]


You are so right...when I want high-tech I first think about russian and serb stuff... "made in Russia" or "made in Serbia" has that special ring to it!

(Less beer would have been probably better)

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]

Where?

Tell me about the famous engineers coming out of Silicon Valley who NOT had to do a thing with computers?

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]


....to differentiate them from the real engineers.... :)