Life / Left-wing agitators in Poland [49]


Every country has its fair share of useful idiots. No offence there, this term was coined by Bolsheviks when referring to Western communist supporters and fits perfectly to describe modern neo-marxists and sjw's.

Yet in Poland extreme leftism is much less widespread than in countries such as France, Germany or Spain.

History / A History of Gdansk, Poland [130]


Are you serious now, or just playing naive? :-P

The democracy in Poland started with 10 million adult people signing up to Solidarity while still under communist rule. That was the first such a massive movement in the whole of the East Block (and as a side note, it was also aggressively opposed by the East Germany).

And later on with a controversial round table agreements.

If anyone from the outside of Poland had a significant impact on those changes that would be Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II.

Helmut Kohl? That's a joke :-) Stop forcing this distorted Teuton-centered version of history. It's PolishForums, not DeutscheForums, this won't fly here :-P

News / Anti Iranian conference in Poland [24]

This conference is a stupid idea. We are forcing an Israel's [which is not even a member of NATO] policy, at a cost of Polish political and economical interests.

I can see nothing which Poland can gain from this conference and an open conflict with Iran. Iran was always neutral to us, and there's plenty we can lose, including the future oil contracts.

Both Polish National Movement and Conservative Liberals are against it. The sooner we vote them into the Parliament the better, cause PiS it's losing its grip.

Life / Worst aspects of living in Poland? [82]

The purest and the most proper Polish is used by inhabitants of Lublin


That's a very ambitious goal. To understand a Polish soul and to be able to express it freely. Now at least I know for sure that you're not German, cause then you would never have such a wish :-)

Life / Worst aspects of living in Poland? [82]


I don't have an ear for various English accents but I do for have it for Polish accents.

I spoke with a 19 yo Polish girl from Western Ukraine once [from Kresy]. She has spent last 12 years of her life in Poland and she spoke a very good Polish. Yet I could hear that cute ringing tone at the back of her voice. I knew that she must be either from Belarus or Ukraine.

So if Polonia from Ukraine can't imitate it perfectly, I don't know about native english speakers :-P

Life / Worst aspects of living in Poland? [82]


What do you mean "aside form the language" ? :-D I love Polish language. The grammar and pronunciation is so difficult that you won't be able to master it unless you were born Polish.

From my point of view this is a great quality and a foundation of cultural and national integrity. Especially in today's world.

Take a delphiandomine for example. Do you think that he will ever be able to learn proper Polish? Nope, no chance. He will always be a funny, slightly leftists, character living in Poland and no one ever will take him seriously :-)

UK, Ireland / British men don't really like women [137]


Same here. Yet if I was a King of England - even for a purely decorative reasons - I would set an example and wouldn't transfer my income to Panama. This has caused much more damage than just few quids less of tax income from the Queen. A fish rots from the head down.

UK, Ireland / British men don't really like women [137]


I did not say whether it was legal or illegal. What I was even more interested is that from the moral point of view The Queen of the United Kingdom has avoided paying taxes in her own country and chose a tax haven instead. Maybe she's saving up for her second youth :-P

If the Queen of England is screwing Inland Revenue then how does it make you feel, you average PAYE Jon Brown? :-)


If there's a God, they would send her to Glasgow :-D

History / A History of Gdansk, Poland [130]


And especially specially since Germany isn't known for successfully exporting its values to other countries in a recent times. And voluntarism seems to be a foreign idea to Teutons :-P

What has worked in the past was a free trade (Hansa) and movement of people (settlements - but only to the point when it became a political weapon)

Aggressive indoctrination and attempts on domination on the other hand like germanization, some insane reich projects, and now an export of an aggressive leftist political agenda and migrant quotas are destroying this reserved relation that was pragmatically established between our countries.

The way I see it the only real platform of communication between Poland and Germany is an economical exchange. As long as Germany won't destroy it with another aggressive political move.

Poland and Germany was never a love story and it never will be. But it could become a story of mutual economical benefits.

History / A History of Gdansk, Poland [130]


TBH, I think they were never there. Just an absurd obsession of a couple of maladjusted, and maybe even physically deformed people who managed to sell their insanity to the whole society.

History / A History of Gdansk, Poland [130]

I'm not going to continue with pointless post exchange if you're not willing to accept a simple historical fact that Gdansk was under political and administrative rule of Poland. Just check the sources.


Nah, I'm just making fun. Making a comparison between the nazi propaganda posters and the descriptions of "german ubermensch" and the real-life German tourists walking on the streets of Polish towns is nothing short of amusing.

I mean, where all those supermen gone, right? :-) Most of them were close to half-foot shorter than me (and I'm not a giant, I'm 187, my younger brother is taller than me), some of them with beer bellies. Hardly any of them square-jawed. Are you sending us a second-class Germans or it it that the best you've got?

Or maybe you want us to drop our guards? :-P Sneaky

History / A History of Gdansk, Poland [130]


Yes, a small bust on his gravestone in Highgate Cemetery. That's bit different than erecting a 6 meter tall monument in a center of a city in AD 2017.


You have no idea...


A list of German-named citizens of a Gdansk. What of it?

Many bürgers were invited to Poland since Polish society was run predominantly by nobility (and minor nobility) who lived in their countryside manors. There was a deep need for bourgeoisie in big cities which was filed by foreigners, mostly Germans. Poland has provided them with good opportunities since they came and stayed.

Does that change the fact that the city under political and administrative control of Poland? No, it doesn't.

Here's a full timeline of Gdansk and to whom it belonged throughout the history:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Gda%C5%84sk

History / A History of Gdansk, Poland [130]


Yes, some Germans were invited between XII and XIV century to settle down in different parts of Poland, including Pomerania.

Then more were invited with to Polish lands Teutonic knights by a Prince Konrad of Masovia. Once the Order was destroyed, the people remained on those lands. One of the worst mistakes in Polish history if you ask me. Almost like inviting 2 millions muslim "refugees" to Germany by Merkel.

Fast forward and more of them were a result of an enforced germanisation of Poles in Prussia during XIX century.

And now when you walk around a city you'll not hear German at all. Unless you encounter German tourists. You'll surely recognize them 'cause they're fat and smell of sauerkraut :-P

History / A History of Gdansk, Poland [130]


I'll trade you a question for question: In Poland we have plenty of Ukrainian economic migrants. Many great of them moved to Wroclaw in south-west Poland. It it an Ukrainian city in your opinion then?


Yet, it was under administrative and political rule of the state of Poland.


Everything it's neo-marxist about the EU. Starting with the founder of the whole idea, an Italian communist Antonio Gramsci up to a recent erection of the Monument of Marx in Trier, Germany in 2017

History / A History of Gdansk, Poland [130]


I'm in such a comfortable situation that I don't have to rewrite history [pun not intended]. I'll just stick to facts. Cause there should not be any misunderstanding between friends, right?

Gdansk under Polish rule benefited from trading and being part of a confederation of a merchant guilds named "Hansa". Yet that doesn't make it politically nor administratively a "German city". Yest Obviously, being a major port of Poland for centuries it benefited even more from serving the vast lands of Polish Commonwealth, so Hansa wasn't the only, and not even a major, factor which helped it to grow.

It's the same thing with the EU now, when common Germans are thinking that they are doing us a favour, when in fact it's just their industrial complex looking for new markets and skilled labour force. And obviously in the long run they would like to eliminate the competition, which I think will backfire on them once Poland complete building the sufficient infrastructure and industrial complex :-)

You should visit Poland anyway, since you've mentioned before that you have Polish blood in you. Maybe you'll open up a little bit and reconnect with your Slavonic inner self. It may change your life. But don't try to communicate in German while in Poland, you will be more successful even using a Klingon language :-)


It was a good idea of economical cooperation between cities and trade guilds. Yet that didn't entitle the providers of this idea to any special political or administrative rights over the lands involved in a trade. Have you ever heard Stockholm being called a "German city" because it was part of Hansa? Me neither.

If only a modern EU was more of this kind of cooperation without those neo-marxist foundations I would be much more content.

History / A History of Gdansk, Poland [130]


I don't recall any city named "Danzig" in Poland. Surely you mean Gdansk.

The fact that Gdansk under Polish rule benefited from trading and being part of commercial confederation named "Hansa", just like Stockholm or Riga did, proves nothing.

Now port of Gdansk is part of Maersk international line. Does that mean it belongs to Denmark? :-)

History / A History of Gdansk, Poland [130]

In its over 1000 years history - 1022 years to be precise - Gdansk has belonged to Poland for 712 years and to Germany for 271 years. That includes 146 - more than a half - years of Teutonic order occupation in XIV and XV century which has ended with 13 Years War won by Poland. The culminating Battle of Grunwald was the biggest battle of medieval Europe and is still being celebrated every year in Poland on the very same fields near Grunwald.

The city has flourished the most when it was part of Poland [1466-1569] and Polish Commonwealth [1569-1793]

So much for "german" Gdansk..

PS: Years excluded from calculations:

13 years of 13 Years Teutonic War when lands were swapped between both opposing sides
19 years of Free city of Gdansk between WWI and WWII
7 years of Free city of Gdansk during Napoleonic wars

UK, Ireland / British men don't really like women [137]

Of all of the things, the queen prefer tax havens. If you have had any doubt about paying them: the queen herself was caught with tax avoidance in the past. Such is a quality of a modern elites :-)

Polonia / Pregnant Polish woman stabbed in Germany, loses baby [77]


Especially in the age of automation. Let's be realistic; I don't see how any of those so called "refugees", due to lack of education + language and cultural barrier, being of any use in any professional field other than a simple manual work for the rest of their lives.

And that's still an optimistic scenario, cause I think they would not like to work at all and will claim unemployment and 'asylum seeker' benefits straight away

UK, Ireland / British men don't really like women [137]


:-)

It's good to have you both. You know what I should think before I even think about it. You also know what I should say before I say it. You are truly a unique human beings :-P

PS: You should get familiar with a definition of psychological projection: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection

UK, Ireland / British men don't really like women [137]

Paulino, it's not like British men don't like women: they are afraid of them first and foremost :-)

In countries such as Britain any interactions with women in the workplace should have strictly professional conduct .

Flirting at work is stomping on a thin ice - even if she likes it now, doesn't mean that she won't change her mind in the future. And any accusation of improper behaviour may result in getting sacked or even taken to count.

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]


You're finally honest about the foundations of the EU and to whom it benefits the most.


This will never happen since there's too much cultural disparity in Europe.
Especially since the "EU core" is based on neo-marxist values which are not being accepted by the more conservative countries with stronger national and cultural identities.

The EU Core's mouth is full of slogans about "diversity" yet what they really want to create is a Huxleyan EU Gulag.
medium.com/@AspieSavant/huxleyan-versus-orwellian-totalitarianism-987f2f1a03fb

Genealogy / Genealogy of Lecrenski (or Leczenski) - grandmother Gazda [9]


This looks like a misspell


Is clearly a Highlander [Góral] surname

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]


Yes, but only if the new generation learn from the past mistakes of their forefathers and don't follow their steps in the future

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]


Most likely a similar number to those of German workers who work in volkswagen in Germany and are using those imported parts and modules to build cars for export.

Germany is not doing us any favor. It's a simple economic exchange between countries, but obviously a bigger profit margins are on German side.


Who said anything about "coming under someone else's influence"?

I know that it may be difficult to comprehend for some people but there are other forms of political cooperation between parties than submission. Like forming an alliance to reach a common goal; in this case forming a large eurosceptic platform in the EU parliament.

Maybe you simply got used to this kind of "submit or be prosecuted" kind of politics since it's a standard procedure in Franco-German EU? :-)

News / German legal discrimination against Polish speakers [209]


There were suppose to be links pointing to the full material: excessive links removed.


I got your point. Obviously you and me know exactly who did what, but I wouldn't the so sure about the youngest generation living outside of Europe.

The reason why I'm using a term "Nazi Germany" is because mainstream media when referring to perpetrators of WWII are pointing to "Nazis" and not simply "Germans".

That's just one step from claiming that WWII was started by some mythical "Nazis" and not by ethnic Germans. So I want to put those both halves back together where they belong.

You've probably heard a false term "Polish Death Camps" when referring to German concentration camps in Poland which was used in some media and even repeated by some halwits such as Obama? I would like to avoid such a situation in the future.

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

Some more good news for today:

Salvini says populists could spark 'European Spring' as he meets Polish ruling party leader

"In Europe, one has always spoken about a French-German axis. We are preparing for a new equilibrium and a new energy in Europe. And Poland and Italy will be the protagonists of this new European spring, of this rebirth of true European values."

telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/09/italys-matteo-salvini-seeks-build-new-populist-european-order/

Life / Is there a website for used boat in Poland? [7]


There's one on offer on allegro.pl/oferta/cortina-480-lodz-motorowa-yamaha-f80-7644027296

News / German legal discrimination against Polish speakers [209]

Jugendamt is known for their hostile policies against Polish families in present day Germany.

"The group [of Polish mothers] said that the agency is "intentionally hindering them from contacting their children", and is even "taking children" with little or no legal basis."

They're simply following a long German tradition of stealing Polish children which was initiated during WWII.

"It involved taking children regarded as "Aryan-looking" from the rest of Europe and moving them to Nazi Germany for the purpose of Germanization, or indoctrination into becoming culturally German.

At more than 200,000 victims, occupied Poland had the largest proportion of children taken. An estimated 400,000 children were abducted throughout Europe."

/wiki/Kidnapping_of_children_by_Nazi_Germany

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]


I do have them and quote them (and link to them) very often. Just open your eyes and get familiar with sources outside of your comfort zone.


And Germany is one of the main benefactors of booming Polish economy.

A German automotive industry is being supplied by auto parts and modules from Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic.

So you're not doing us any special favors, you're just acting in your own interest. Which is fine with me and beneficial for both of us, but don't try to sell our free economic exchange as some kind of "economic charity" on German side.