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Bratwurst Boy   
30 Sep 2010
Life / The Polish national 'brand' [21]

This world cup changed Germany and the impression of it greatly.
It's now talked about as the "Wunder von Bern", the "Wirtschaftswunder" and even the re-unification.

You can kind of pin it on the invention and development of the Fan fests...Germany opening the games from the closed stadiums to all fans and their families who wanted to come to the party but couldn't get a ticket..putting up fanmiles and big screens everywhere.

For four weeks it was just a happy party with happy people under a blue sky. Millions of people could watch it on TV world wide, Germany in the midst of Europe got "invaded" by millions of Europeans many of whom could take a look for themselves at the new, modern Germany and all that changed the perceptions greatly and in the long term.

During and after the games Germany led all popularity polls...the power of images full at work here!
And yes tourism soared during and afterwards..

I don't see why Poland can't achieve the same..you are practically in the same situation (for other reasons) as Germany was till shortly before the games. Searching for yourself and your place in Europe.

But you can bust this chance too...South Africa wanted to achieve the same...they studied all what Germany did, they spoke with german experts etc...but we can now already say that South Africa did not make the best of this opportunity.
Bratwurst Boy   
30 Sep 2010
Life / The Polish national 'brand' [21]

Believe it or not...the Football EC will be Polands biggest chance to make a brand name for itself.
Hopefully the polish PR-manager know this.

Show the media what a nice country you are, advertise tourism to get known...every tourist is a multiplier because he is telling at home about it...and you will make changes big time in the minds of the world.

For Germany in 2006 it worked fantastically!
It didn't happen accidentally...

brandsandbranding-online.co.za/how-germany-won-the-world-cup-of-nation-branding-and-how-south-africa-may-clinch-the-title-in-2010-dr-nikolaus-eberl/

Poland could achieve the same turnaround!
Bratwurst Boy   
27 Sep 2010
News / Coach crash in Germany. Polish coach... many dead [26]

It seems the people on this coach were from the town near me , they were forestry workers and their families returning from their annual holiday in Spain..

I'm so sorry!
Bratwurst Boy   
26 Sep 2010
News / No de-Communisation in Poland? [41]

*shrugs*

Maybe you are right! I'm not so knowledgeable with inner polish workings.

But I for one are glad to know that some of our biggest arseholes couldn't go on after the wall came down as if nothing happened.

And that alot of those whose lives had been destroyed found some justice in the end.

In my opinion it was good for our society, not dividing it.

Having to watch criminals of old again in high power positions and doing their things unpunished would had been bad for all of us.

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. That's his everlasting legacy.

And???
That has to do with this topic what exactly?
Bratwurst Boy   
26 Sep 2010
News / No de-Communisation in Poland? [41]

Why? If it had gone after your folks he (Göbbels) should had been allowed to live on happily ever after as all was over.

Why divide and disturb the society even more with going after him and his crimes, right? Riiiiight?
Bratwurst Boy   
26 Sep 2010
News / No de-Communisation in Poland? [41]

Sounds like the classic Kaczynski argument - "YOU'RE NOT MASSIVELY ANTI COMMUNIST THEREFORE YOU ARE A COMMUNIST".

Well...sorry...when you talk about "hot headed Poles" as a reason not to go after the criminals what else do you want us to believe?

That no trustworthy person in Poland could be found to take the job either???

That are no real arguments and you know it...

So why all this talk? Do you think Nazi crimes should had gone unpunished too?

Let's bear in mind here that going after criminals - well, Germany prosecuted them under BRD law, not DDR law. Morally - that's about as dodgy as it gets. Victor's justice, no?

Well..so was persecuting Nazis and Holocaust mass murderer...your point being?

Lustration would simply have divided society and caused much more problems than it would fix

How so?
Bratwurst Boy   
26 Sep 2010
News / No de-Communisation in Poland? [41]

Erm, surely Wessies had nothing to hide, and yet they hardly prosecuted many people?

Umm...it wasn't their Stasi crimes...it wasn't their duty to go after them now.
Ossis queued up for this job!

I'm still not sure what you are trying to sell? Are you a commie? To much sympathies???
Because all your arguments for not going after the criminals sound fishy...
Nothing which wouldn't had been doable with abit determination. It really paints the picture
as if there are the old Seilschaften still working...
Bratwurst Boy   
26 Sep 2010
News / No de-Communisation in Poland? [41]

But - also - you could generally trust Germans to behave themselves with the information. Would you really trust hotheaded Poles?

Wot??? What is that for an argument???

Even in Germany, you can see that there was no desire to thoroughly punish them

Sure...by those who had to hide something. Since when get the criminal to decide if he should be persecuted or not???

Nobody in the whole of Poland the people trust? No polish Gauck??? Hard to believe...
Bratwurst Boy   
26 Sep 2010
News / No de-Communisation in Poland? [41]

Well, East Germany had no say so - it was forced on them by the West Germans.

Crap!
The Stasi Behörde was called "Gauck-Behörde" earlier...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Gauck

Joachim Gauck (born 24 January 1940 in Rostock) is a German Protestant pastor, a former anti-communist human rights activist in East Germany, a co-founder of the New Forum opposition movement and a member of the only freely elected People's Chamber for the Alliance 90 in 1990, and following the Reunification of Germany, the first Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Archives, serving from 1990 to 2000.
As a Federal Commissioner, he earned recognition as a "Stasi hunter", exposing the crimes of the former communist political police[1].

Nothing Wessi about him!
Why do you think the East Germans should feel "forced" to hunt the Stasi criminals and their informers???

Let's not forget that the Stasi, among others, were very good at producing false records for the purpose of destroying people.

But still you would prefer to leave them alone? Those destroyed lifes leaving unpunished?
I don't get you at all...

The behaviour of the IPN tells us one thing - that lustration would be used as a weapon in Poland towards political enemies.

Well..if you think of commies and ex-secret service agents as political friends maybe...do you?
Bratwurst Boy   
26 Sep 2010
News / Coach crash in Germany. Polish coach... many dead [26]

Bild writes that a Mercedes wanted to drive up from the A113 to the A10...there doesn't seem anything wrong with that in principle (the driver, a woman, is badly hurt too).

The driver of the bus wanted to evase but both crashed together and the bus then crashed full into the side rail.

Maybe one of them saw the other to late or so...?
Bratwurst Boy   
26 Sep 2010
News / Coach crash in Germany. Polish coach... many dead [26]

One has to be a real *********** to refer to the bad technical shape of Polish buses in clear case like that !

Yes, I found it abit unpassend too, in a moment like this... :(
Bratwurst Boy   
26 Sep 2010
Travel / From Germany (Tegel airoport)-Szczecin! Erasmus student travelling 27-9. [7]

My main concern is wether i'll be facing a problem finding bus or train tickets (whatever you suggest) as soon as i get to the airport!

Nah..we don't have such things here...you will have to do it like everybody..take your bags and walk!

(Hitchhiking is a possibility too...if you can find a car that is...)

;)

berlinia.eu/en/szczecin_today.htm
bahn.de/p/view/index.shtml
Bratwurst Boy   
26 Sep 2010
News / Coach crash in Germany. Polish coach... many dead [26]

So sorry...it's raining cats and dogs here for awhile now...not a good weather for driving.

spiegel.de/panorama/gesellschaft/0,1518,719653,00.html

They write it had been mainly youth in this bus on their way to Frankfurt/Oder.
An inquiry office for Poles had been opened...
Bratwurst Boy   
25 Sep 2010
News / Poland could emerge as new European and world power. If? [116]

That doesn't mean there weren't ethnic enclaves in the beginning like having little Germanys, little Italys, little Polands, etc. in the US. But the people who made up little Germanys, little Italys, little Polands in the US didn't try to seize American land for their own ethnic interests or try to have Americans cater to them instead of the other way around.

I would rather say the reason for it was that all these groups had one thing in common...european heritage!

They showed that Europeans CAN work well together and build something great and successfull once they leave their little spats and centuries old grudges behind.

Modern Europe can do so too...but for that we need to develop an "european spirit", an european way of life, a european identity.

Poland, Germany and the rest of the european countries don't need more borders between them but less...meaning also mingling with each other.

Any european country alone has no big voice on the world stage whatsoever but together we are powerful!

The US faces the same problems with non-european mass immigration as does Europe!

Have you ever heard of Japan?

I adore Japan! :)
Bratwurst Boy   
25 Sep 2010
News / Poland could emerge as new European and world power. If? [116]

After that we can consider accepting
immigrants from: Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and EU countries (with a possible addition
of some Brazilians to improve our football.)

Brazilians are overrated!

;)

(including the development of our own nuclear
Force de Frappe, with the cooperation of our French friends and allies.)

Ha!
And here your masterplan falls apart! Poles need the french army as much as Germany needed the Italians in WWII! Totally useless...
Bratwurst Boy   
25 Sep 2010
News / Poland could emerge as new European and world power. If? [116]

Well you're denying the historical influence Poland had in the baltic region while im just giving you the facts.

Erm....I mentioned the Polish-Lithuanian empire, didn't I?

But you on the other hand seems to have no idea about the centuries of the Hanseatic League and that till '45 the german language and the german culture was important in Estonia and Latvia.

The same with Yugoslavia...I didn't deny the polish influence there but that this artificial construct had many default lines which broke up again after Tito's dead.

And that some of the ex-yugo countries have a longer history with Germany/Austro-Hungary than with Poland.

Your problem is what exactly???
Bratwurst Boy   
25 Sep 2010
News / Poland could emerge as new European and world power. If? [116]

Polish nobility had huge land possesions in that area and kept many of the important seats there untill the late end of the 20'th century

*sighs patiently*

Yes...you-Lithuania / we-Estonia and Latvia

Iron fist or not, the fact still remains that without the support of certain polish noblemens Yugolslavia would have never came into reality.

*sighs some more*

No Yugoslavia anymore!
Bratwurst Boy   
25 Sep 2010
News / Poland could emerge as new European and world power. If? [116]

You're talking about the population, im talking about political influence.

Well...I do too...there aren't any Germans in the Baltics anymore since '45!
But shared history shapes alot of modern influence...

The Yugoslav idea was forged by the Polish Prince Adam Czartoryski.

Might be...but it was held together mainly by Tito's iron fist and proved an unsustainable concept without said "iron fist".
Bratwurst Boy   
25 Sep 2010
News / Poland could emerge as new European and world power. If? [116]

Well it's much harder for Poland to get a grip of the old Powerhouses in Europe such as Germany France etc etc.

Now that is a reasoning I can accept! :)
The US had their Wild West and we have our Wild East...;)

But it's not so clear cut as in Estonia and Latvia the German connections are more prevalent (Hanseatic League) as only in Lithuania the Poles are (Commonwealth).

Or in the Balkans Croatia and Slovenia are more on the german side but Serbia etc. is more polish (I think).
Bratwurst Boy   
25 Sep 2010
News / Poland could emerge as new European and world power. If? [116]

Erm...so did France in their history...Great Britain once ruled a third of the world, how do you think that happend? Through negotiations?...doesn't stop Poles.

Do you think that is a good reason for modern foreign policy? Do you think modern Germany is the same like Nazi Germany?
Why do you advise Poland to make nice with "Soviet" Russia? They attacked Poland too...

Hmmm...I wonder about your reasons!
Bratwurst Boy   
25 Sep 2010
News / Poland could emerge as new European and world power. If? [116]

But if they start to have a healthy relationship with the eastern countries incl Russia it will strenghten it's position in europe and the rest of the world.

Curios...when Germany tries the same we are branded traitors, backstabbers and what not by the polish media...why is that???

And if Ukraine is to become an EU member then Poland should really already now start to invest there heavily and really show Ukraine that Poland supports them to 100%. This would benefit Poland in a later stage when Ukraine joins the EU.

It's a win-win for all sides!
Bratwurst Boy   
25 Sep 2010
News / Poland could emerge as new European and world power. If? [116]

MW, you really shouldn't use Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia as good examples!

Yes, Hitler gave out medals for especially "successful" mothers but in the end he was only "successful" for the whole whopping length of 12 years.

Soviet Russia also came clashing down...now Russia is a superpower because of their resources not because of their people or because of their achievements in science, inventions or anything at all.

(What happens if renewable energy takes over big will be interesting to see..)

Not-Nazi-Germany with a shrinking population is one of the world leaders in many regards...up to par with the US (even as it has only the size of Montana and not even a tiny part of their natural resources).

The EU (this pit of tiny havenots) together have the same clout and power as every other big bully.

But many countries whose only resource are their babies are starving...THAT is not the way to go!

Like I said before, part of making a country stronger is to make it as homogenous as possible along with making its population younger and bigger.

So...what about the US then?

It's not quite the model of a homogenous country and still one of the most successful ever...
How come?

What are you doing to make the US more homogenous and younger???
Bratwurst Boy   
24 Sep 2010
News / No de-Communisation in Poland? [41]

Still trying to stir up trouble, are we?

Trouble for whom???

In Germany we had/still have the Stasi Behörde...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Commissioner_for_the_Stasi_Archives
bstu.bund.de/cln_029/nn_710332/EN/Office/office__node.html__nnn=true

All people can get access to their files the Stasi made about them and also all
people ever working for the Stasi, all informers and all crimes are investigated.
It was a great tool during the last 20 years to achieve justice and to start
the healing process.
It is still important as it is still a black spot on ones bio to have been an informer...several
officials had to step down from their offices after their files had been found and published as it is not taken lightly.

Yes, there was of course talk about leaving it all rest...as is now the talk of "enough already"
but estimates are that the archives will be open and used for another ten years.

Who was troubled by it you ask? The right ones..those who abused their power
and afterwards tried to hide it...to f'ucking bad!

The vast majority of people in Poland have moved on. We don't need "lustracja" or any witch hunts

I disagree...
For most Germans at least the Stasi Behörde was a good, necessary thing...I don't think the Poles are that different.

I would be suspicious of all people who would try so hard to push all this under the rug....