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Joined: 19 Apr 2008 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 2 Oct 2015
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Posts: Total: 1083 / In This Archive: 320 		From: Moscow/Kyiv
Speaks Polish?: Russian, English, Swedish, Ukrainian
Interests: Slavic countries, politics, languages, culture, people

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Sasha   
10 Nov 2009
Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]

I was interested in the stereotypes (besides Nazi) that Polish people have for us!

Accept stereotypes from a Russian?
There you go. Germans are:

1) cold, aloof
2) good engineers, hard working
3) ill-mannered (farting on public), loud
4) mean (the expression "nemeckiy schet" (German count) is the same as "to go Dutch" in the US)
5) lustful, shameless, pûrnography inventors

I should say on the whole your people are highly respected.
Sasha   
2 Nov 2009
Genealogy / The surname Celinski and resources for Galician roots [17]

This is a surname of toponymic origin traceable to at least 10 localities in Poland called Celiny. It probably was derived from the feminine name Celina (Cecilia), so we 'might trnalsate it as Ceciliaville.

It might or might not be also related to the word "celina"=virgin land/soil. In my book it has obvious origins of ploughman/tiller. Good luck in your investigation!

Sean made a good point too. Contact Mrs. Celinski here on forum. Even though she's somewhat of obssessed with Stalin she's a nice lady and will help you.
Sasha   
28 Oct 2009
Love / Men and Women from Eastern Poland [37]

Poland are ok but whats wrong with people from Eatern Poland?.

Let's put aside that the sentence is self-contradicted. Still it's quite amusing to hear such a statement from the person who's always said "stop nationalism", "jews are cool" etc. What's wrong with you?
Sasha   
21 Oct 2009
News / WHY DOES POLAND BUY GAS FROM RUSSIA? [105]

their biggest enemy since, oh I dunno, the beginning of time

Did you ask them ["russian pigs" or "ruskies" I mean] if they knew about it? :)

Running into that kind of threads Sasha understands why he doesn't post here that much anymore...
Sasha   
12 Sep 2009
History / WAS KATYŃ GENOCIDE? Polish officers were killed [237]

WAS KATYŃ GENOCIDE?

Certainly not. Commies didn't fight nationalities. They fought "classes". This is their basic distinction from nazis. According to commies' stance there should be a "class war" after which there finally be a communism built. Soviet commies of Polish, Jewish, German, Latvian, Russian nationalities slaughter everybody who stand on their way regardless of their nationalities.

Do you really think if there were some Russians amongst Polish officers they wouldn't be murdered as well? If you still want to stand with a "genocide" word then add in front "all-non-commies".

he Holocaust was defintiely genocide, but what about the ethnic cleansing the Serbs unleashed in Bosnia and Kosovo or the elimination of tribal rivals in Rwanda?

What is finally your question?

Or Stalin's artificially induced great famine in 1930s Ukraine?

Yawn... if you own this version then you should know why he did it. So what was the purpose? And how about the rest of Russia having famine at the very same time?
Sasha   
28 Aug 2009
Language / Polish or any Slavic language key to any other Slavic languages? [126]

Having studied some Macedonian before I came to Poland I found some vocab was easier to learn/understand BUT there were also a lot of "false friends".

Example "utro" in Macedonian is "morning". "Godina" is "year".

Why do you say they're *false friends"? Does "utro" mean some different thing in Polish?
Sasha   
26 Aug 2009
Language / Polish or any Slavic language key to any other Slavic languages? [126]

I am Polish and I can assure you, I can't understand Russian. I think that most people who do just learned some Russian at school.

It's very individual. Plus it strongly depends on many factors such as person who you talk to, your own perception of the language etc.
Sasha   
25 Aug 2009
Language / Polish or any Slavic language key to any other Slavic languages? [126]

if i've studied polish, will languages like ukrainian or russian or czech be easier to learn?

The fact that you're non-native speaker of Polish makes it easier for you to learn other Slavic languages than for native Polish speakers. Similarity plays a bad role in this case turning into a false friend since you tend to pronounce similar words the way they're pronounced in your native tongue. For instance the word "grad" depending on stress means different things in Serbian ("town" or "hail") whereas Russian doesn't have so-called "musical stress" and can't differ those two words (we guess it on context).
Sasha   
17 Aug 2009
Language / FULL WYPAS, WYPASIONY, ZAJEBISTY? [20]

Interesting...

zajebisty

we use this word in Russian for the same purpose and plenty others but it's considered rough.

wypas

But this is only for livestock...
Sasha   
13 Aug 2009
History / WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [900]

Oh... Crow boiled everything down to mother Slavija again? :)
Think Poland is free to pick the hubby. Russia or Germany or any else... In the current state of affairs Germany seems to be by far more reliable ally than Rossija at any span (but of course first and foremost I mean economical cooperation). I should bitterly admit that...
Sasha   
6 Aug 2009
History / WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [900]

No one unfortunately, the soviets said they helped Poland but considering they killed the majority of the intellgensia and intellectuals

Many soviets have died defending Poland from fascists. You might wanna say they died for their future land, keeping in mind that the territory will soon be their. Could be... but Poland is still Poland and you're all have the opportunity to solemnly declare "I'm Polish".

My point is that of course communists brought a disaster to your country but it shouldn't be a reason to thoroughly reject their contribution to the final victory. Nobody knows what would Poland be like, if there were no soviets.
Sasha   
8 Jul 2009
News / Are Polish People Being Discriminated Against? Problems getting a US visa. [258]

I don't mind it being difficault for security reasons, but are Polish people being discreiminated against?

It's rather about politics than about security. Having Ukrainian passport is a great advantage for a Russian while applying for American visa. So I believe about being Polish. It's an advantage. Poles are generally treated very well by the US government AFAIK.
Sasha   
23 Jun 2009
Language / Ukrainian language similar to Polish? [236]

we just say chleb for bread, ch is like just h

chleb in Russian is "hleb". The sound "ch" merges to one letter "х".
Sasha   
29 May 2009
Language / Problems Polish People Have with Learning English [63]

The Poles use double negatives where we don't, e.g nic nie wiem whereas we say I don't know anything or I know nothing.

That reminds me of bash.org:

<Malagmyr> This linguistics professor was lecturing the class.
<Malagmyr> "In English," he explained, "a double negative forms a positive. In some languages, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative."
<Malagmyr> "However," the professor continued, "there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative."
<Malagmyr> Immediately, a voice from the back of the room piped up: "Yeah..... right...."

Sasha   
22 May 2009
Food / Polish food in Pictures. [277]

Quite ironic but kaczka in Russian is "utka" and we also cook it with "jabloki". So if I put "p" in front of Russian "duck", I could have post pictures of our pres with apples. :)
Sasha   
21 May 2009
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

Wow.. I've just noticed that I'd been mentioned in the omnibus. :) Thanks, szarlotka. I wish, I wielded the pen of English like you.

I've got my Peugeot bulletproof. ;)
Sasha   
18 May 2009
Language / Ukrainian language similar to Polish? [236]

The latter two examples would then explain a family name "Berezow"

How comes?

and looking deceptively similar to the Russian word for "birch tree".

Why not vice versa? :)
Sasha   
13 May 2009
Travel / Mushroom picking in spring in Poland? [35]

Just don't forget that not all morels are 100% edible. Most of them like the one pictured above are considered semi-edible in Russia. You may eat them (I ate them) but beforehand you gotta boil them and pour out a decoction for several times. I'm not sure if this worth it... that why I prefer a saddle fungus.
Sasha   
10 Apr 2009
History / Why will Poland always be the puppet of America? [159]

Whose bigger fault is it?

I don't know, it's not a good idea to compare the guilt. As it always happens it's hard to say now whose bad move was initially fatal. But someone should stop it first and I wish it was Russia.
Sasha   
9 Apr 2009
History / Why will Poland always be the puppet of America? [159]

It was a joke about a person who reasons about the shield like a typical Russian. I only suggested she should reveal her true name.

Typically Russian? Are you saying that there're no Poles with such a view? She equally may or may not be Russian but I don't see any reasons to purposely doubt her.

You can`t deny that black propaganda accusations like this

I would certainly stick with some softer words, but... do you agree it's true to some extent?

Can you say such propaganda is no more used in current Russian media???

No I can't. Neither I can say it's not used against Russia in your media.
Sasha   
6 Apr 2009
History / Why will Poland always be the puppet of America? [159]

Ok fine, No missles bases, then dont ever ask us for help, lets say the Commie Ruskies deciede to waltz in, they have a history of doing that??

You're living in your own miracle world. Sledz in Wonderland.

Teresa, I don't think Poland at present "has gut not to be anybody's puppet". At that point I find Czech foreign policy exemplary. The are doing good dealing equally well with the EU, the US and the RF. I wish Poland would follow their example.
Sasha   
4 Apr 2009
Language / Ukrainian language similar to Polish? [236]

Southern, how does Bulgarian or Croatian/Serbian sound to you? Funny Russian again?.. Yes, you are wrong. Ukrainian is a language as Polish or Serbian are languages too.

Slo all the languages has more or less in common. I guess what southern wanted to point out is that Ukrainian closer to Russian than many other which is not surprising since it ranks second (right after Belorussian) in the chart of similarity other Slavic languages to Russian, whereas Serbian would be somewhere at the bottom of a list.
Sasha   
12 Feb 2009
News / Poland Should Beef Up Military [286]

Poland is more reliable country than Russia.

Well... if you say so. Your word is the best proof.

Good quality and quite cheap, I recommend. :)

Nice to hear that. :) I didn't know we'd produced compasses after the USSR collapse.

For the same reason why Russian foreign policy was so concentrated on the Baltic states. Politicians must turn attention of the masses away from themselves.

Agree with the last sentence as for the first one I wouldn't have said they we concentrated but they did puff up antirussian moods in Baltic States to distract Russians from their actual problems.
Sasha   
11 Feb 2009
News / Poland Should Beef Up Military [286]

Prince, my questions:

1) do you personally suffer gas shortage?
2) why are you sure that Poland suffers gas shortage? considering your government's mainstream I wouldn't be any amazed if they simply made it up.

3) If this true, why are you so sure that it's Russia that should take responsibility for that shortage?

My general question is "are you sure that your view on the whole is not affected by some of your personal preferences which don't have anything to do with the objective reality"? I think that you should clear your mind of prejudices first.