News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]

Engineering has a lot of branches and it is not without the reason programmers are called software engineers…

History / Why did Russia attack Poland in WW2? [178]


yet the initiative is backed by Putin, and let's not kid each other here, what he says goes...

History / Why did Russia attack Poland in WW2? [178]

gee pardon my confusion and allow me to quote the article which in turn quotes the book, A History of Russia, 1900-1945:

The book, A History of Russia, 1900-1945, will be used as a teaching guide in Russian schools, 55 years after Stalin died.

It is produced by the country's leading school book publishers Prosveshenije, a state-supported company that used to have a monopoly on the supply of classroom texts in the Soviet era.

Editor Alexander Danilove said: "We are not defending Stalin. We are just exploring his personality, explaining his motives and showing what he really achieved."

Alexander Kamensky, of the Russia State University for the Humanities, said the manual was a sign that teaching history in schools has become "an ideological instrument."

as you can see Alexander Kamansky differs from your assessment, no offence but I'll take his word over yours

History / Why did Russia attack Poland in WW2? [178]

do you deny the ongoing white-washing of Stalin's legacy in Russian textbooks???

History / Why did Russia attack Poland in WW2? [178]


Really? So why is Putin so hell-bent on sugar-coating Stalin's image??

It is designed for teachers to promote patriotism among the Russian young, and seems to follow an attempt backed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to re-evaluate Stalin's record in a more positive light.

telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/2672717/Josef-Stalin-acted-rationally-in-killing-millions-claims-Russian-textbook.html

History / Why did Russia attack Poland in WW2? [178]


my sentiments and thoughts exactly, though it is hard not to poke fun at guys like CK who try to revive decades old soviet propaganda just because his current PM is a Stalin fan boy lol

History / Why did Russia attack Poland in WW2? [178]


this is probably the new Putin-revised russian history books' take on this 'very insignificant incident' from September 1939 lol

History / Why did Russia attack Poland in WW2? [178]


LOL

- The earth is flat!

- erh...what? why...??

- because comrade Putin says so and what he says is the truth!!

History / Why did Russia attack Poland in WW2? [178]


LOL comrade history is a wonderful thing, so much ahead of you to 'rediscover'. Enjoy, I almost envy your ignorance, what a bliss :)

World War II, or the Second World War (often abbreviated as WWII or WW2), was a global military conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945,...

The war is generally accepted to have begun on 1 September 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany and Slovakia, and subsequent declarations of war on Germany by France and most of the countries of the British Empire and Commonwealth.

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]


Indeed this policy is largely considered symbolic and populist. The government agreed to it as a concession to its coalition partner Dansk Folkeparti in exchange for their support for its budget reforms. People in the border lands are fuming against it as well as the numerous experts who are quick to point logical fallacies of this policy. Nevertheless Polish and Romanian burglars are a pestilence in Denmark.

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]


Same happens in Denmark and it is really sad, though ironically it's the Polish burglars that are the main reason behind the resumption of the border control

Life / Uptight Poles [262]

I'd be uptight too if I ever so often had my outhouse stampeded into smithereens by a bison herd...

History / Why did Russia attack Poland in WW2? [178]


me no have no polish dentist... me no have no teeth..:(


lol packs of feral sausage dogs bearing down on Harry, the meanest and toughest of them all, the ones that, in their bloodlust, didn’t choke themselves to death on babcias’ leash…

;)

History / Polish and Russian soul anno 1914 and today [45]


PF does that to you. Anyways that's your observation, no need to be ashamed of it ;)

History / Polish and Russian soul anno 1914 and today [45]


Did that take place in UK? I friend of mine (English)used to work as a bartender in a club in London. The place was co-owned by Russians and Poles and frequented mainly by these two nationalities. According to my friend Russian and Poles were getting along just fine.

News / Do Poles take Kaczynski seriously!? [199]


goes without saying


don't forget a fluorescent bulls-eye in the front

Seriously what's the latest election prognosis? They are going to lose, right?

News / Do Poles take Kaczynski seriously!? [199]


Exactly he seemed like someone who tried to be nice and accommodating towards his guest whereas the village fool to his right…. got what he deserved in the end. And to think he was buried among the Poland’s finest, seriously they should exhume his body and dump it into the moat.

News / Do Poles take Kaczynski seriously!? [199]


lol I just watched it, what a complete and utter moron he was...

History / Polish and Russian soul anno 1914 and today [45]

Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised since the thread was moved from Society and Culture to History of Poland section (wtf!?!) hence the paranoid nonsense.... foooooking hell it's already the 21st century!

History / Polish and Russian soul anno 1914 and today [45]

It would more interesting and certainly more on topic to hear people's views and insights into the mentality of modern Poles and Russian and see if they somehow overlap N. A. Berdaev's observations from 1914. Personally I think they do.

Love / Hot Polish girls in clubs - why don't they dance/talk with the most attractive men only? [148]

ok I detect ambition... perhaps not a mercy fcuk after all, hmmm something else... an old flame from the time when the flammenwerfer ruled supreme..?

Love / Hot Polish girls in clubs - why don't they dance/talk with the most attractive men only? [148]


starting with the last line and then adding to it, I'd say these four verses would do:

a moment of happiness at no cost
from cradle to grave so full of days
having found what was forever lost
at the heart of the human maze.

;)

Love / Hot Polish girls in clubs - why don't they dance/talk with the most attractive men only? [148]

no but my evil uncle used hum for me before attemting to breast feed me with his hairy b!tch-tit, it tasted like chicken...

Love / Hot Polish girls in clubs - why don't they dance/talk with the most attractive men only? [148]

phew that was a close one... a hair's breadth away from crow.

Love / Hot Polish girls in clubs - why don't they dance/talk with the most attractive men only? [148]

You are aiming straight for a mercy fvck, well... at least it might get you somewhere unlike Jerkova who'll soon end up raping whipped cream waffles ;)

History / Polish and Russian soul anno 1914 and today [45]


Mother Russia, why have you forsaken me ?;)

History / Polish and Russian soul anno 1914 and today [45]

Your Mediterranean insight would be the obvious one to start with as the most natural and intuitive to you as a Greek.

History / Polish and Russian soul anno 1914 and today [45]


true true yet one wonders what would have happened if the Soviet Union didn't arise, mind you in all likelihood there wouldn't be any Ukraine, Belorus and Baltic states wedged in-between thus forcing Poland and Russia to have a 'closer look' at each other.


Cool, and I will I was just kidding with this it-all-about-me-and-my-thread retort :)

History / Polish and Russian soul anno 1914 and today [45]


No I don't and probably never will as I the list of books I'd like to read is already far too long... but that's not the point here. Your prickliness however is totally misplaced here. It's the general notions in this almost 100 year old text I find fascinating as they, at least in my opinion, ring a contemporary bell loud and clear regardless of their literary references. But hey go on puff yourself up with your indignation and sense of intellectual superiority which btw seems to be a very Polish thing to do.

History / Polish and Russian soul anno 1914 and today [45]


good I'll get to it some other time :P Now back to my find:) Here another interesting passage apropos Polish gf's being control freaks:

In the Polish soul there is a terrible jealousy over women, a jealousy, often assuming repulsive a form, spasmodic and convulsive. This power of women, the slavishness of sex is sensed very powerfully in the contemporary Polish writers, Przybyszewski [Stanislaw Feliks, 1868-1927], Zeromski [alt. Zheromski, Stefan, 1864-1925], et al. In the Russian soul there is no such sort a slavery over women. Love plays less a role in Russian life and Russian literature than with the Polish. And Russian sensuality, with genius expressed by Dostoevsky, is altogether different, than with the Polish. The problem of women for the Polish is posited altogether differently than it is with the French -- this is a problem of suffering, and not of delight.