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

Not alone but in Europe of national states. With some friends around us but also a few old enemies, like Germany, which will have to collaborate with Poland since now we've got a strong economical connections.

Free european single market without ideological and political frame, just and economical [and military but only within NATO] cooperation. A free Europe in which Poland would flourish.

And don't give me that old song: "do you remember what happened in Europe before the EU" because that would only prove that Germans are barbarians that needs to be caged forever.

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

I don't care if they vote for leftists since I don't live there nor ever planning to move there.

What I know is that if the elect LePen that would mean FREXIT, which would directly lead to a collapse of the whole [ever tighter] EU since it cannot really exist without France.

That would be a favorable turn of events for Poland.

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


Unfortunately, I do have idea. The whole concept of the EU is based on works of Altiero Spinelli an Italian communist who envisioned the EU as a leftist federation with no independent states.

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


Cause it's not. Those people knows that something is not quite right. They don't know what that is [yet] but they know something is fishy.

Those who protest are taxpayers and they are being ripped off.

We're talking about France so obviously nobody will say that the main fault lies in a Socialism System which guarantees high taxes by default. Like Margaret Thatcher said the problem with socialists is that "they always run out of other people's money

So those protesters are kind of clueless but their anger and their desperation is real. And that's enough to make major changes in France's politics.

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


50 000 people has demonstrated this Saturday according to French Interior Minister. That's a substantial number for a continuous riots. Over 2500 people were arrested since the beginning. Police used not only a tear gas and rubber bullets but also a stunt grenades against their own citizens.

thelocal.fr/20181214/french-police-blasted-for-maiming-yellow-vests-with-tear-gas-and-rubber-bullets
edition.cnn.com/2019/01/05/europe/france-protests/index.html

And the EU sponsored police riot car was used to pacify them. A hint about the future of the totalitarian state of the EU?

cdn.images.dailystar.co.uk/dynamic/1/photos/121000/620x/yellow-vests-747052.jpg


The EU army would be an useful tools for eurocrats to deal with citizens in all EU countries, especially the "stubborn ones" in Visegrad group.

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

So it looks like there's no stopping of yellow vests in France and they won't stop themselves until Macron resigns.

And just 2 months ago that boy wanted to militarily challenge the US...

youtu.be/KGXPLFj4ris

Language / I'm Moving from UK To Poland to learn Polish and live there [11]


That's a good decision. My only hope is that you would fight off the temptation to try to make Poland to resemble the UK just a little bit.

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


A "1000 year" IIIrd Reich would economically collapse in 1940 had they not started the war in 1939 [a leap forward]. Germans wanted to emulate ancient Rome but their creation looked more like the USSR in 1989...

histclo.com/essay/war/ww2/tol/ger/eco/nazi-eco.html

History / Arthur Szukalski - Polish sculptor [6]


Before you start lecturing me about Polish culture, which I find quite amusing :-), first you have to get familiar with what socialist realism was and in which era it was the most active and the most influential style in Poland.

That would be the period from right after WWII to 1956, that is to Polish Thaw. So for over 10 years no work of art which contradicted socialist realism was allowed. That's hardly an environment for an independent artist.

During that time a Polish future nobelist Czeslaw Milosz defected to the US and wrote his best novel which describes a communist totalitarian mind control "The Captive Mind". Czeslaw Milosz was banned [censored] in People's Republic until winning his nobel prize in 1980 when commies could no longer deny his existence and his talent.

After 1956 the freedom of artistic expression has widened [but was still not very vast] until the collapse of a communist block. Yet up until 1989 every major work of art such as film had to be approved by the office of censorship and obviously financed by the government since there were no private film or recording studios in Poland back then.

Was any significant work of art created after 1956? Yes, plenty, but it had to be apolitical.

Artist were not allowed to criticize communist party and communism as a whole and even a sensitive historical subjects, such as past Russo-Polish affairs were heavily censored or completely banned. Historical works of Polish nobelist Sienkiewicz, such as With Sword and Fire, comes in mind .

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_realism


It didn't took off in minds of most of the Poles yet it was officially enforced on Poland, and this ugly building founded by Stalin himself is one of the most visible signs of it.



pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrealizm

History / Arthur Szukalski - Polish sculptor [6]

Yes, he is not very well known in modern Poland since he emigrated to the US right after the end of WWII and commies officially banned those that they couldn't control.

It didn't help that he was a very controversial artist and behind iron curtain there was no room for experiments and only for socialist realism style.

To influence others with own creations and to spread new ideas is the highest level of achievement that one can have in his life.

Back then there was room only for false communist ideas in people's republic [with the exception for illegal independent underground press].

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


The large majority of any given population is not rational. That's why democracy in a long term usually leads to socialism.


You've got a PiS supporting friends? Well, well :-)

PiS is just a lesser evil (it is only good when compared to so called liberal opposition) and a proxy to bring a real change in a Polish politics that is National Movement and a real conservatives such as JKM, Braun etc.

Polish voters in general don't like sudden changes in politics so introducing Nationalists first to Kukiz 15 and then PiS makes them feel more comfortable with more radical National Movement and JKM rhetoric. The future is bRight

Language / Polish and other slavic language differences [60]

When it come to Mickiewicz, this may be more approachable for foreigners :-)

youtu.be/E1WCx006PiI

History / Arthur Szukalski - Polish sculptor [6]

Yes, this looks very interesting

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

Stefan Molyneux, a philosopher in Poland for 100th anniversary of Polish independence

youtu.be/dMZR8jXGTm8

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

To me it looks like the "new left" did a good job since WWII at depicting Hitler and NSDAP as a "right wing" despite the fact that most economical ideas of nazis were socialist to begin with.

The Nazi State is not a "bourgeois" but a "Socialist" State, on the strength of which it can afford to prevent workers from defending their own interests.

Aurel Kolnai, The War Against the West (1938)

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News / Mass-media in Poland: which are left wing, right wing or centrist? [44]

TVN is without doubt left leaning when it comes to social and political matters. And when it comes to economy no one knows, even themselves, where they stand.

Basically Polish left leaning media are more focused on cultural marxism than on economy. As long as you are a mindless drone supporting neomarxist "cultural revolution" they would not give a damn about your economic situation.

And if you happen to be rich and donate a substantial funds to the left cause you can even be a bloodthirsty capitalist in your private life, you can beat your wife and starve your dog, they won't care :-)

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


Lyzko, let's not forget than a Chinese "Cultural Revolution" have swallowed lives of 10 000 000 people in the People's Republic of China. Communism was as deadly as Hitlerism.

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


Hitler wasn't a communist but a socialist. National socialist to be precise. Right now in Europe we've got a plenty of international socialist politicians.

Nevertheless, their economical views are much closer to that of a Hitler than of any [real] right-wing conservationists such us Reagan or Thatcher .

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


Well, the history has proven otherwise. The main advantage of Russia over Poland was always a sheer brutality, primitive force and a bigger numbers.

As much as I value Russian writers such as Dostoyevsky (although I have to admit that the best writer ever born behind our eastern borders was an Ukrainian named Nikolai Gogol) when it comes to it, a Russian culture have not influenced Polish culture in any significant way. Even when it was brutally enforced on Poles.

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


That would be a very good standard. Roman Dmowski was one of the fathers of Polish Independence after WWI. He was well educated, a polyglot, and his works were written in a very logical manner. In my opinion he should be valued more than Pilsudski.

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


We were talking about Stanislaw Michalkiewicz in this case. Pay attention to the subject of a discussion.

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail


Don't be naive my friend. Why do you think the restrictions were placed on Russian's banks and big oil and gas companies in 2014? Why do you think US is protecting their IT industry against Chinese hostile takeover (Qualcomm case)?

Or even an old case of Vodafone attempt to takeover a German IT group (both EU members):

eurofound.europa.eu/fr/publications/article/1999/vodafones-hostile-takeover-bid-for-mannesmann-highlights-debate-on-the-german-capitalist-model

Those who makes decisions knows that money has indeed a nationality.

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

Why is Poland weaker than Russia?

That depends how you measure it.

Let's start with economy. If you look at a size gross domestic product, Russia has a bigger economy due to have 3.5 times as many citizens as Poland.

Yet, if you look at GDP per capita, then Poland is richer: Russia $10,608 per person, Poland $14,468 (this number will rise by 5% this year) despite the fact that in 1989 USRR had higher GDP than Poland.

When it comes to military power Russia sits on 2nd/3rd place due to its nuclear capabilities and the size of an army. There's no doubt about it. Yet most of the military equipment like tanks and air force remembers better days...

And let's not forget that USRR has placed a countless agent d'influence in key places around the world. Russia can still use many of them for their political purpose.

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


And you're putting your own thoughts into my mouth again. I had restrictions on Chinese corporations controlled by the government to acquire key tech companies in the US on my mind, but you obviously know better than me what I think...


And what that doctrine would be? Is is clear to me that he is a devoted Roman Catholic, anti communist and an avid capitalism supporter. If that's what you mean by his 'doctrine' then I fully support it.


Lyzko, Soros doesn't need any 'veiled attacks' but a full frontal resistance. Everything this man represents goes against traditional European and Christian values.

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


No, that's not what I said. You're just putting your own words into my mouth. Is that really the only way you can win a dispute? :-)

Krzysztof Bosak, a vice-president of National Movement has capitalist views but he is also a realist and he knows that money has nationality.


Do I have to remind you that Korwin alone has already placed a few representatives into EU parliament in the last elections? And now they are combining forces which is good.

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


Nope. It's the domain of the left to build a heavily interventionist policy. The whole EU economic policy is build upon interventionism starting with subventions for farmers up to regulating the terms of employment for a delegated workers.

And lets not forget that in the EU a snail was proclaimed to be a fish (so Frenchmen can receive subsidies) and carrot is officially a fruit in the EU :-)

If you're looking for a ridiculous interventionist bureaucracy, look no further than to Brussels.


A doctriner is a French word and it means "to educate"

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


Well, he is against democracy in general. A famous quote from Stanislaw Michalkiewicz: "democracy is a system in which two hobos have twice as much voting power as a professor of a university".

Let's not forget that the democracy in Ancient Greece and Roman Republic worked only because the elites were ruling the country.


Actually, The National Movement's credo is: Classical heritage, Christian civilization, independent nation-state, ordered liberty

Which you can find on one of the movement, Krzysztof Bosak's, board:

twitter.com/krzysztofbosak?lang=en

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


That's true. He is popular with the youngest generation though.
I believe he will be more predictable under a conduct of National Movement and instead of making controversies will focus on a common goal which is gaining independence from the EU for Poland.

He is also an avid pro-capitalist and against bureaucracy which is great.

Life / Poland A, Poland B [75]


What you mean is how deep a cultural marxism is rooted in society? No so much. According to poles made by the most left-leaning agency IPSOS for OKO press barely 50% of Poles would accept gay partnership. According to same studies 38% would support gay "marriage" with 57% strongly opposing it.

So in reality those numbers are much lower, since IPSOS is very "progressive" and barely right on anything yet.

tvn24.pl/wiadomosci-z-kraju,3/sondaz-ipsos-wiekszosc-polakow-popiera-zwiazki-partnerskie,752514.html

And feminism is non existent in Poland, and those few feminists like Kazimiera Szczuka, Magdalena Sroda or Manuela Gretkowska are just a laughing stock and don't have support of any significant number of women.

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

Some more good news from Warsaw:

The National Movement (RN) and the "Freedom" party formed by the veteran libertarian conservative Janusz Korwin-Mikke have formed an alliance ahead of the European Parliamentary elections due in May next year.

They emphasize that what united them was opposition to the European Union and conservative, nationalist and Catholic values.

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


You're just trying so hard to squeeze me in some kind of frame that you could understand and then attack it with your blunt insults. I'm afraid I'm beyond your reach, mate.

Calm down and don't perplex yourself :-)


Here's the map for those of you who don't know where Wimbledon is before Atch push it further down to Brighton or maybe to British Channel :-P

*Blue line is a Greater London border, red line is the inner London border




Not really. Free market needs less rules than controlled market since you don't have to write a specific separate rules for each industry [and services]. Basically you only have to write a short list of what is forbidden and add that "what is not forbidden is allowed" at the end of the list.

So it's not about the complexity of such a step but about the control. Eurocrats wants to have a total control over the economy and over the societies which form the EU.