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Ironside   
8 Nov 2015
History / How come Polonization never works? [87]

Listen, even if the numbers were as low

Listen, that was a common practice of the world at the time that governments expected their citizens to be able to communicate in the official language of the state. Even today most countries adhere to the idea.

Go and cry somewhere else, those few years that Poland actually started to implement some limited measures that every country in the world deemed normal, are nothing to be ashamed or to apologize for. I find it strange that some people getting hysterical and overworked over that, after all you could point out countries where such a practices were even harsher, its not as if people couldn't talk or conducting everyday business in their own relative languages, hell they could even use their own language on signboards.
Ironside   
8 Nov 2015
History / How come Polonization never works? [87]

Oh, but don't take my word for it!

Search this forum for my thread on the very subject, I'm not going to debate it all over again with somebody who doesn't even deem right to register.

the choice between Polish and anti-Polish sources, "expat" will always choose the latter.

That seems to be a pretty save bet on PF, at least in regard to those few "very specific" posters.

Moral of the story

People see what they what to see rather than talk about facts. Like you. Come on register, tell us what part of Russia you call from and we can talk shop.
Ironside   
8 Nov 2015
News / IBM fears racist attacks on employees on Poland's independence day [63]

The Wrocław branch of the multinational technology firm IBM, located in southwest Poland, has warned its staff against venturing into the city center on Independence Day 11 November.

That is a pretty standard warning they issue if they are some events that might cause unrest. I'm sure that they have issued same warnings in the past. What changed?

Seems like press is using that warning for political ends.
Ironside   
7 Nov 2015
History / How come Polonization never works? [87]

Easter voievodships - wołyńskie, tarnopolskie, stanisławowskie - were mostly Ukrainian.

No they weren't and aren't, end of story.
Ironside   
7 Nov 2015
News / Kiszczak burial without state or military honours [44]

PAP has reported the Defence Ministry announcing that Czesław Kiszczak would not be alloted a plot in Powązki Military Cemetery nor would he be buried with any military honours

A very good decision I wholehearted support.
Ironside   
7 Nov 2015
News / Don't read "Gazeta Wyborcza" Polish newspaper -- wPolityce.pl [83]

Do nor read "Gazeta Wyborcza"Representatives of intellectual leftishness are enemies of their own country and direct all their effort into turning the nation against their own tradition - says news portal wPolityce.pl.

Sure Pol, that true enough but if somebody would like to read it - that's his problem.
Ironside   
29 Sep 2015
Life / Expats` opinion on alien immigration to Poland - for or against? [87]

And you are quite incorrect about the tax burden falling on the average Joe - in most Western countries the top 10% of earners pay around 40% of the tax. In Germany then the top 1% of earners pay almost 25% of the total income tax receipts.

It depend on country and methodology.

Ironside, like most armchair socialists its always the bankers fault.

I'm pointing out facts and you are the one who started talking about bankers, and presenting them as model citizens who are a cream of a society and who contribute more than all the rest of a society. Which isn't biased at all according to you. So, we know now who is paying you, nothing more.

not long past we have seen as those upstanding citizens and major contributer had their privet debts and losses paid by public money. Shouldn't they go bankrupt if they are ardent supporters of a free market, competition and capitalism?

My post was not about that, more an answer to Pawian's post that immigrants in Germany generate more cash than they take out in benefits - a claim which I consider to be very debatable.

Immigrants is a very broad term, if you mean refugees than of curse it is clear they do not generate anything, expect maybe for new jobs created to address their needs.
Ironside   
29 Sep 2015
News / Russo-Polish row over who started WW2 [34]

The Russian ambassador seems to have forgotten

Russian ambassador acted on instruction form his boss. Whatever or not he was right or factual has no bearing on this political operation..
Ironside   
29 Sep 2015
Life / Expats` opinion on alien immigration to Poland - for or against? [87]

In Germany for example about half of that surplus comes from about 100.000 people paying very high tax on very high earnings - foreign bankers in Frankfurt,

you simply do not understand a very basic fact, money are not money anymore, its currency - spot the difference. What has value and what adds to wealth of a country is work, meaning people doing something useful for other people, that creates wealth. Bankers do not add anything, looking only on numbers is useless and misleading.

Also the richest people do not pay majority of taxes those are being paid by average people. Also those bankers do get more back in all tax rebates, privileges and exception that they pay in, not to mention a fact not that recent that public currency had to pay for private bankers misdeeds and it was quite a sum.

In regard to immigration, if people are willing to work and pay their way they are a useful added asset if they refugees and don't need to work they are a burden.

In time pasts refugees had to prove that if they go back to their home countries they will be killed or at lest put in prison, nowadays they need to come for the general area of some conflict.

In short refugees are not an asset and shouldn't been mistaken for immigrants.

By the way recently some idiots were again bombing Syria WTF? Maybe those doing that bombing would like to take few millions Muslim in?
Ironside   
28 Sep 2015
News / Russo-Polish row over who started WW2 [34]

Do you think that the Western Allies would have defended the USSR

They had a very good change and allegedly were considering that option in 1945, after all the had A-bomb long before Soviets.
General Patton was strongly lobbying for it, he died conveniently in a road accident.
Ironside   
28 Sep 2015
News / Russo-Polish row over who started WW2 [34]

Seems like Putin is playing at establishing zones of influences again and that diplomatically orchestrated dig at Poland is aimed at provoke something which he would call as some kind of conflict and by that eliminate Poland from notations about Ukrainian conflict which is due to start anew in few months.

Putin even can back off form Syria, or offer an agreement which would see Assad resigning, not his people though.

Never quite understood the Warsaw Uprising for that exact reason.

Polish Government in London had been depended on France and than Britain and strongly influenced by that fact. Even first government which constituted in Paris was heavily influenced by France, they demanded that Sikorsky became Prime Minister instead of President of Poland nominee.

So, even you reasoning make sense as well as elimination of Soviet agents and terror groups on Polish territory, in practice instruction from London ordered them to thread them as allies.

NSZ wasn't bound by that loyalty and were defending local population against Soviet groups and hence their name are being blackened even today by ideological progeny of Soviets and by Harry.
Ironside   
28 Sep 2015
History / Stalin's Holocaust Against Jews And Poles As "Self Defense" [36]

Right about first part, Ironside!

Right about both parts.

However, the Russians always had been devout Christians in their hearts and minds.

I'm sure, some were, how many I don't know but definitely a not majority as you are implying not even close to.

he Communist atheism was merely a smoke screen, paying lip service to those aparatchiki who were indeed non-believers:-)

Rosy picture Luzko indeed.
Ironside   
28 Sep 2015
News / Russo-Polish row over who started WW2 [34]

Lol.you dont get it.you dont know how situation would fold

Yes, you know it all, obviously and you have been there and done it all. Thank you for sharing your wisdom with us, simple folks.
Ironside   
28 Sep 2015
News / Russo-Polish row over who started WW2 [34]

You still dont get it

No, you don't get it.

Prewar politics of Polish government was erroneous in that regard that they trusted France and Britain as well as were overconfident and so on.
Ultimately Soviets and Germany totalitarian regimes are to blame, they were harboring aggressive and totalitarian schemes.
They started the WWII as they wanted to start it. That war would started in 1939 regardless of whether or not Poland would give in to Germany. The only difference would be that another country would have been first to became an object of German aggression.

s stupid diplomacy,arrogand and blinded by some french empty assurances.

Getting emotional doesn't help in diplomacy or politics.

Yes, I still wonder to this day what would have happened if Poland had joined such an alliance.

Well, Germany would attack France in 1939.
Ironside   
28 Sep 2015
History / Stalin's Holocaust Against Jews And Poles As "Self Defense" [36]

but don't forget, Russia was and remains overwhelmingly Eastern Orthodox.

I think you are deluding yourself. Russia during Soviet time weren't eater Orthodox or anything in general, revival of Christianity stated after Soviet regime crumbled.

As regards sheer numbers of slaughtered, again, Hitler murdered out of purely ideological-biological reasons. All full Jews had to be systematically eliminated; Stalin murdered only those whom he saw as a threat. the result may have been the same,

Hitler murdered those he saw as a thread as well.
Difference between them is simple Hitler was getting more and more insane and sick, prone to emotional reactions and decisions, probably didn't fully comprehend consequences of his orders.

Whereas Stalin was a cool, very intelligent and composed,but he was a psychopath.
Ironside   
28 Sep 2015
News / Russo-Polish row over who started WW2 [34]

But of course you didnt read anything of his works.lol.i did.

I read the rise and fall a long time ago, but contrary to you I don't became what I read. It his point of view, no more nor less.

o be very critical towards polands foreign diplomacy.but cant blame him for that.bunch of idiots and thieves they were.

Yeah, sure idiots who were to navigate a cure in such a way as to remain neutral or at least to not tie Poland to any of the two potential suitors both worth each others both totalitarian aggressive regimes, unfortunately Poland had them for neighbors, you cannot fight with geography, the only fault I can find in government at the time is a fact they didn't recognize need for giving in to Hitler's demands at the time and instead choose to take word of the two world leading powers France and Britain - a huge mistake - thinking they were talking to gentlemen.

Who is to blame?
Germany and Soviets of curse.
Ironside   
28 Sep 2015
News / Russo-Polish row over who started WW2 [34]

Nah.all he said was historically accurate.poland diplomatic stupidity was partly to blàme for creating hostility in europe.litvinow was very polands friendly.he was replaced with hostile to poland molotov after litvinov failed to forge soviet-poland anty hitler alliance.read some boks.william shearer is good to start

William Lawrence Shirer the rise and fall of the third Reich, American correspond in Berlin until 1940.
He was clearly biased and doesn't know what he is talking about when writing about Soviets.
He was named in Red Channels i.e.The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television.

There is no row, just Russian political action, its aim remind unclear as yet.
Ironside   
27 Sep 2015
Life / Expats` opinion on alien immigration to Poland - for or against? [87]

Hmmm , according to the polish constitution "freedom of religion is ensured to everyone",so until they change that to "Poland is a catholic country" ,it's not accurate to say that poland isn't a house (of any religion)

I disagree but instead of arguing on fine points of the Polish Constitution, I must say that my guts tell that you are as much Syrian as I'm Egyptian.

It seems that syrians (muslims and christians) are doing well in countries like Sweden and Canada, we need some time to judge how the newcomers will integrate in germany , but i'm pretty sure Syrians won't do any trouble.

Good for them! Syrians do not want to come to Poland, so three is nothing to talk about.

But Poland already has theTatar minority which integrated perfectly despite being Muslim.

I knew you will poop out of nowhere with you big ignorant nonsense.
There is alway an exception to the rule.
Ironside   
27 Sep 2015
Life / Expats` opinion on alien immigration to Poland - for or against? [87]

in Poland is that there is a strong stereotypical idea about the characteristics of any person with "muslim" faith, whereas muslims do differ greatly depending on the country they come from and their background ..

See, I know that all, when the sythe hits the fan or as some say ventilator, that when problems starts, why not avoid it all together? but Muslim are Muslim and they will not fit into country like Poland. Very few - maybe, few more - no thank you!

I have seen Bosnia in the 90' first hand. Thank you.
Saying that I know some Muslim are great people, I do respect them and their faith and I expect them to do the same if not I have a sword and know how to use it:) do not take me wrong, but they belong In the house of Islam and that House is not in Poland, God willing.
Ironside   
27 Sep 2015
History / Stalin's Holocaust Against Jews And Poles As "Self Defense" [36]

Hitler was preeminently a racist

Not really, he was going against Jews basing it on Marx works as Jews are main force behind financial systems and capitalism which leads to enslavement of the Aryan race. It was a flexible system, Japanese become honorary Aryans as well as some Bosniac Muslims.

So he was a kind of cultural/racist or he was a national Marxist coupled racial theories of 19th century, mixed with Nietzsche's idea of will and idea of superhuman.

Even Christianity was viewed as a plot of Jews to soften others and make them as a clay in their hands. So, he was reverting to the ancient times when steel of Aryan spirit was enslaved by some Jews venom i.e. Christianity and a health core of Roman and Germanic gods and pure Aryan values would make them victorious, superior and dominant.

Stalin was a psychopath but he was very intelligent. He wasn't Jewish. Thing is he murdered more people than Hitler, few times over and he was killing without regard to ethnicity with a sole exception of Poles.
Ironside   
27 Sep 2015
Life / Expats` opinion on alien immigration to Poland - for or against? [87]

Just curious that is, after all nobody have anything against Syrians,they have interesting history, but Muslims are different matter. Anyhow at least you have some connection to Poland even though you are a Syrian pole and not a Syrian Pole.
Ironside   
27 Sep 2015
News / The shame of Duda making late night visits to Kaczyński [79]

he keeps making embarrassing mistake after embarrassing mistake.

Kinda like hoping on any chair in sight and doing a little dance on it? No, I don't think so, only potential looser incoming election are getting cold feet and some are panicking, even hysterical, so they make no-stories a big story full or drama and Delphi is chirping in with his own.
Ironside   
27 Sep 2015
Life / Expats` opinion on alien immigration to Poland - for or against? [87]

What cultural heritage ?

What do you mean by that? Educate yourself instead of flouting your ignorance in here. Ignorance is nothing to be proud off.

You were under the control of Germany and Russia

What it has to do with cultural heritage?

Do you mean that you like to propagate the world and receive an income from it but it can't happen the other way around.

What are you driving at? What about all those countries and continents that Brits propagated and have been striping form resources for their own benefit? Your corporations still do it!

Also there billions of profits being taken out of Poland by foreign companies every year, you seems to be short on information and rich in opinions.

have no problem you wanting to keep Poland white, Christian and home of the Polska, but, leave the EU, stop receiving money to build your country from these country's that have Muslims in it.

Well, thank you for your permission kind sir.
Yes, I think that Poland should leave the EU and show it a middle finger for all good she received.

You do realise that money from the other EU member states has Muslim taxs in there, Muslim money is spent on Polish infrastructure.

Do your realize that those money are nothing in comparisons to profits that western companies have in Poland thank to open market. As for Muslim paying taxes , don't make me laugh, everybody are paying taxes - so what?Are you Muslim or just sad and lonely?

But like I say I have no problem,

In the light of your posts here I think that indeed you have many problems. Why don't you come clean and tell us all about it?
Ironside   
27 Sep 2015
News / The shame of Duda making late night visits to Kaczyński [79]

Even so called political opponents do socialize with each other. They argue with each other, they insult each other in public but nevertheless very often they socialize with each other.

Many do, some don't, fair enough.

@Ironside! not only that ... but as they are friends, isn't it normal to see each other, to go to each other's place, to have dinner together, etc etc.. ?

Sure, but unfortunately in so called Poland media and politics looks like it looks and they make a big issue out of nothing, even delph become infected.