News / Poland - Ukraine. Młodzież Wszechpolska against Ukrainians. [180]

@Crow

You really just exemplified how little you know about Ukraine-Polish relations. My closest friend in Kyiv is a diplomat for the Polish embassy. It is Poland's MOST IMPORTANT diplomatic posting! They share a common enemy, Russia, and because of that the relations between Kyiv and Warsaw have never been stronger since 2014. There are 0 "Nazis" on the streets, 0 "nazis" in Parliament, and this Banderistan, Banderovyts nonsense is largely Russian propaganda seeking to drive a wedge between Poland and Ukraine. You base your opinions off of the propaganda you see on TV, and I base mine on first hand knowledge, first hand relationships with Ukrainian diplomats, military officers, and battalion fighters. As in, I WAS THERE, you weren't.

News / Poland - Ukraine. Młodzież Wszechpolska against Ukrainians. [180]

@Crow

If Donbas wants to be autonomous, they can do it with the crap sliver of land they are squatting on with their Russian parasite buddies, but it will not be a part of Ukraine. The geopolitical impetus for wanting an 'autonomous' Donbas within Ukraine is so that Russia can exert its influence over independent Ukraine. They no longer have a puppet in office like Yanu, who is willing to pilfer $40bln USD from one of the poorest countries in Europe and put it in his personal bank account (que Putins personal slush fund Rosinvest). Ukraine will never let that happen.

If I believe the Russian lies that all of the Russian soldiers who have been captured in Ukraine were there on "vacation," or that the day before they were captured they were discharged from the Russian Army, well then I would really like to see one of our ships with 5,000 US Marines dock in Odessa for "holiday."

Poland supposed to be the main topic here

News / Poland - Ukraine. Młodzież Wszechpolska against Ukrainians. [180]

@Crow

Do I care that you're Serbian? Not really.

Ukraine's borders were agreed to, as was its constitution by all oblasts, POST-Soviet and POST-Communism. Under the Ukrainian constitution no oblast can declare independence without ALL oblasts voting in a referendum. Hence, the referendum in OCCUPIED Crimea is illegal under international law, and was held at gun point. The Eastern regions of Luhansk and Donetsk AT MOST had 25% ethnic Russians, and of those many still spoke Ukrainian regularly. You didn't like when Kosovo declared independence, why would you defend people who do something similar in another country? That totally ignores the fact however, that it was NEVER a grass roots movement in Ukraine for separation, and instead a Russian GRU military operation spearheaded by Igor 'Strelkov' Girkin and his useful Ukrainian idiots Vyacheslav Ponomarev (since executed like all the other Russian parasites - Motorola, Givi, etc). In the post WWII order, borders were agreed upon, these are international norms and we ought to respect them (I am and was against the independence of Kosovo by the way).

The fact remains that Russian terrorists are occupying parts of Ukraine. You're going to tell me about Ukraine, when my best friends mom had her apartment blown to bits by Uragan rockets fired on CIVILIANS by Russian terrorists. Again when I lived in Ukraine in the summer of 2015, Russian terrorists fired Uragans on Mariupol and killed 30 civilians. There were no military targets, only apartment blocks. Ukraine is defending its sovereignty and territory. The Donbas-1 and Donbas-2 battalions are comprised almost exclusive of people FROM Donbasa. The Ukrainian 95th Paratrooper regiment is almost 80% residents of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.

Sell your Russia Today, Rossiya 24, TASS, lies and propaganda to someone who didn't live in the country and experience this, to someone who doesn't own a business in the country.

SLAVA UKRAINI.............GEROM SLAVA

News / Poland - Ukraine. Młodzież Wszechpolska against Ukrainians. [180]

@Crow

What total and utter nonsense. Have you lived in Ukraine? I have. Have you been offered Ukrainian citizenship for what you've done for the country? If not, then your opinion is seriously off the mark here. Ukrainians are Ukrainians, end of story. They're proud, extremely patriotic, and there is NO support for Russian terrorists in the East of the country. Ukraine will not give up 1 inch of territory without extreme bloodshed, as it should be. The Budapest memorandum guarantees the territorial inviolability of Ukraine, and despite the international community dropping the ball, the Ukrainians now have the largest standing army in Europe. You people can talk about whatever you want, but how DARE you propose carving up Ukraine, do you know how offensive such a proposal is to Ukrainians and people who love Ukraine?

Work / Poland - Expat Careers [26]

@cms

Great advice, thanks CMS.

Work / Poland - Expat Careers [26]

@Roger5

I meant that more as a sentiment than honestly believing I was going to have some welcome parade from the Poles. This isn't my first rodeo, I lived for the past 3 years in Estonia, I speak fluent Russian, and I am quite familiar with slavic culture being that I'm engaged to a Pole and all. The stoicism is not unfamiliar to me.

Work / Poland - Expat Careers [26]

@Dirk diggler

Dolce bellum inexpertis!

I agree with that. I could move to Japan and get citizenship, but I will NEVER be Japanese. America is a truly unique place that welcomes people with open arms, and allows you as a 1st generation immigrant to be one of us. I would hope I receive a warm welcome when it is time to make the permanent move to Poland, some of the comments here don't give me hope however.

Work / Poland - Expat Careers [26]

It would depend on which metric you wanted to use to determine that. I wasn't speaking empirically, but emotionally, of course I love the country which allows me to travel the world, which offers amazing consular services wherever I am in the world. Honestly, I hope everyone feels that their country is the greatest in the world. I am certainly not the "Murica F-yeah" guy in the room, quite to the contrary, and if you read my posts you can see I have a great deal of respect for the nations that have hosted me as a resident. We can save the debate on the relative power of the early Roman Empire versus present day America for another thread, it would be interesting, as there are some striking similarities.

@rozumiemnic

You may be amused, I don't feel any contempt for you either, but rather pity that things didn't work out in your country of register and now you feel disdain for your countrymen. I feel bad for a person that makes assumptions about other people they've not met (career). I can't make any assumptions about you because I don't know you, I'd never be so haughty as to do so.

Work / Poland - Expat Careers [26]

@rozumiemnic

Right, because being patriotic is a problem? I guess you should drive around Chicago and tell the people with Polish flags hanging from their porch that they have to go back to Poland. That doesn't bother me, they add something great to America. I hope you can sort out whatever inner issues you have that makes you behave this way with disdain and hate.

Work / Poland - Expat Careers [26]

@Sparks11

I'll be an expat until I have a Polish passport. Even so, I still have allegiance to America, and dying though it may be, it is still the best and most powerful country in the history of human existence, and the greatest country on Earth.

Work / Moving to Krakow, what can I afford for $2k per month apartment plus utilities? [14]

The OP posted this in 2014. I'm sure he's returned to his country of register by now.

Work / Poland - Expat Careers [26]

@cms

Thank you for an excellent reply bro.......I thought along the same lines as you. The vetting will not be a problem as I'm currently working on a 1bln$ contract administered by the US Army, I jumped through 6 months of hoops and BI's before I deployed here to the middle east. You are right that if I need a TS for any of those jobs, my foreign contacts from my years in Estonia will all need to be investigated, and that just means a long arduous process.

I wouldn't be able to survive on a salary teaching English, what do those guys make, $800/month? That's cool for a backpacker, and I am only 29, but I'm a grown up, ESL is not a career.

I thank you for the other leads you mentioned, I'll be certain to investigate those thoroughly. Props on the expat definition, I don't really understand the hostility when I was just asking some questions and being polite.

Work / Popular expat jobs in Poland [14]


I didn't know about this site. Thank you for the useful link! Much appreciated.

Work / Popular expat jobs in Poland [14]

@Wulkan

If that person does not speak Polish as a requirement of their job, that would be great, thank you!

Work / Poland - Expat Careers [26]

Wulkan.... Thanks for the precision of language and the Ben Shapiro quote. It is the prevailing term used, but I actually have no problem being an emigre since I'm marrying a Polish citizen. Perhaps I should have clarified, careers for westerners who do not speak Polish?

Work / Popular expat jobs in Poland [14]

I know this is an old thread, but if any of the western expats wouldnt mind contacting me regarding what they do career wise, I'd appreciate it. I am looking for opportunities anywhere in Poland.