USA, Canada / American Polonia. Wisconsin - the most Polish state? [112]


A bit too many diacritical marks, in fact Ciszewski doesn't have a single one.
But anyway it's a nice story about a typical Polish-American family whose grandparents emigrated in the late 19th or early 20th centuries. Harry and other cynical Polonia-bashers on PF would do well to read and re-read your description so as to better understand the spirit and ambience of old Polonia and their descendants who still cultivate their heritage many generations removed from the Old Country. They would call that a defect -- the purpose of life is to discard your roots, enter the rat race and make a pile ASAP. Nothing else counts. Except somehow they cannot divest themselves of their Anglo-imperialist biases, penchants and urges.

Dziękuję, Pamelo, for your heart-warming Polonian story.

History / WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [900]


It should be remembered that Romania bordered Poland in 1939.

Po polsku / Ilu "polanoglotów" na PF? [25]


Dla Polonii nowojorska Parada Pułaskiego jest wielkim świętem polskości. Jej organizatorzy twierdzą, że jest to największa w świecie uroczystość ku czci Kazimierza Pułaskiego, bohatera narodowego Polski i Ameryki. Na to wydarzenie przybywają Polonusi nie tylko z Nowego Jorku i sąsiedniego stanu New Jersey ale także z Connecticut, Pensylwanii i innych stanów, również z kanadyjskiej prowincji Ontario.

Oprócz samej parady odbywają się nabożeństwa, koncerty, występy zespołów ludowych, bankiety i różne spotkania towarzyskie. Na straganach sprzedaje się polskie przysmaki i pamiątki. Przebieg parady i towarzyszących jej imprez filmują ekipy telewizyjne z Polski. Telewidzowie w kraju zwykle kojarzą widok tego pochodu ze znanym filmem "Kochaj albo rzuć", w którym Pawlak i Kargul oglądają podobną paradę, tyle że ku czci odkrywcy Ameryki i bohatera Italo-Amerykanów, Krzysztofa Kolumba.

Dziennikarze z Polski zwykle rozmawiają z uczestnikami tej polonijnej gali. Dowiadują się, że wielu Polonusów rok rocznie tu przybywa z całymi rodzinami. "Na co dzień zaprzątnięci jesteśmy pracą, domem i prozą życiową. Ale raz do roku przypominamy sobie o własnych korzeniach, czujemy dumę z polskiego dziedzictwa i świętujemy razem jako jedna, wielka polonijna rodzina" - podsumowała sprawę Polonuska z okolic Filadelfii.

News / Polish priest sacked by Vatican for being openly gay [54]

Merged: Polish homo priest stirs outrage at Vatican

A Polish priest, Father Krzystof Charamsa, who holds a sensitive Vatican post in charge of protecting Catholic dogma, has caused a major stir. The 43-year-old cleric called a press conference to announce he was a practicing homosexual and brought along his Spanish sex partner to ptrove it. Charmasa claims priests have a right to practice sex and accused the Church of being "backward" over the issue of homosexuality. According to the Polish weekly news magazine Wporst, Charamsa had sent offers of an "exclusive" interview to newspapers and television stations across Europe. Wprost found that the publicity was needed to promote sales of a book he has just authored. The Vatican responded that the announcement was ill-timed because the media pressure might affect the proceedings of a Bishops' Synod now getting under way. Charamsa has been removed from his post, since the views he is promoting run counter to the teachings of the Church.

wprost.pl/ar/522208/Dlaczego-opublikowalismy-wywiad-z-ks-Charamsa/


Another possibility suggested by a political insider whom I am not a liberty ot name was that the ostentatious coming-out was designed to harm PiS' chances in the election. Does that sound plausible? Does the long arm of the Platform reach as far as the Vatican?

Genealogy / Is Spojanka a Serbian or Croatian first or last name? [5]

The Stojan- root with different endings is very common in Bulgarian surnames. How similar is Bulgarian to Serbo-Croatian? Would they understand: Ja ću ići kući?

News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]


Not really. It all depends on teh polling technique and chocoie of sample. Fixed polling group, random respondents, proportionate sampling by region, cellphone, landline, man on the street all give different results. To be ideally fair the pollster would have to query as many people per region, social group and age group as exist percentage-wise in Poland, but I doubt whether many of the survey conductors go to all that trouble.

News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]


nowoczesna.pl would be a natural parnter for PO. Poor PiS would have no-one to form a viable foremal coalition with. Both Kukiz and Korwin are loose canons, adn forming a colaiton with either ot both would amoutn to politcal suice (shades of Lepper and Giertych!). If they both got in, they could back PiS during votes on jointly supported issues.

Genealogy / Kruszynski, Krusinski, Krasinski, Etc.: Variants of Surnames, or Differences? [7]


It's a spelling thing. In Polish the sz cannot precede -iński so it turns into -yński.
It's either Krusiński or Kruszyński.

News / Poland: A Successful case of low criminality in Europe? [97]


Incidentally, a better word is religiosity. Religiousness may be found in some large dictionary but sounds somewhat strained and stilted.

Genealogy / Kruszynski, Krusinski, Krasinski, Etc.: Variants of Surnames, or Differences? [7]


The "sh" shows those two variants to be Anglophone respellings.
You might have also added Krósiński and possibly even Krószyński. No-one spells their surname that way in Poland at this time though.

Krusiński is used by more than 800 people in Poland, Krusyzński by some 5,000.
Krasiński comes from a different root - krasa (beauty). The Kru- ones from kruszyć (to crush).

News / Poland: A Successful case of low criminality in Europe? [97]


Your purely mechancal, natiowide approach (no. of communion recipients, etc.) does not show the full picture. Parts of the country that have low church attendance (the regained lands such as Lubuskie and West Pomerania) also have the highest crime rates. The lowest are in staunchly Catholic areas such as the Tarnów and Rzeszów regions.

Those recovered lands were settled by uprooted refugees and assorted riffraff, the Catholic church established itself but could not do the work of centuries in a few decades, the more so that they were hamstrung by the anticlerical regime.

The map in this link clearly points up that fact. You will probably dismsis it as unreliable, because time and again whenever any evidence contradicted any of your many biases, prejudices and self-declared know-all status, you disregard it as not a credible source. So what else is new?

foliags-o.geo.uni.lodz.pl/folia12/Mordwa_Struktura%20i%20typologia%20przestrzenna%20przestepczosci%20w%20Polsce.pdf

News / Poland: A Successful case of low criminality in Europe? [97]


Your obsession is skewed for 2 major reasons: first of all, church attendance alone is not a credible indicator nor the sole criterion of overall religiosity; it involves Poland's history, culture, lifestyles and overall heritage. Secondly a once-a-year attendance check in autumn is also dependent on external factors including the weather and rival events on that paritcular day. So your leading, but obsessively repeated lie is the fallcious claim that Poland is not a Catholic country. Any educated person in Europe or America knows that is NOT TRUE.

News / Poland: A Successful case of low criminality in Europe? [97]


So what is your explanation for the rise of theft from the 1950s in the US and UK alike?

News / Poland: A Successful case of low criminality in Europe? [97]


Probably thanks to the country's strong Catholicism. In Poland religion was a wudely accepted moral code and was not about burning heretics at the stake or waging war on religious dissidents (eg 30 Years War) as it was in the "enlightened" West! Today's Church-state separation nutters should take that into account. Harryesque nitpickers will seek out some isolated example to the contrary, but that's only the exception that proves the rule.


But probably a lot to do with the increasing lack of moral restriants common to consumerist-secularist societies.

Life / Expats` opinion on alien immigration to Poland - for or against? [87]


What's so good about foreign faces? Already Mickiewicz wrote:

Cudze chwalicie, swojego nie znacie.
Sami nie wiecie, co posiadacie.

(You praise all things foriegn and think they're the best.
But know not what you yourselves possess.)

Life / Expats` opinion on alien immigration to Poland - for or against? [87]


I wonder why Poland's leaders do not more widely explain to the world that Poland willihngly received from 80,000 to 100,000 Muslim Chechens without any EU or Merkel pressure. So far only some 5,000 Soviet diaspora Poles have been repatriated and many are waitng their turn in Kazakhstan and war-torn eastern Ukraine. Doesn't charity begin at home?

Travel / Polish people and their windbreakers on the beach [9]


It's like those big open offices of yesteryear, where everybody was out in the open. Then someone figured that even partial partitions provided a sense of privacy and seclusion and improved overall office productivity. Same out on the beach. Poles by nature are not exhibitonists and feel more ocmfortable behind a "parawan".

News / Russo-Polish row over who started WW2 [34]


Among Poland's pundits and top commentators there seems ot be a rough consensus that the Russian ambassador's seemingly flippant remarks were part of a well-planned provocation. Putin could expect Poles to react vigorously and roll out their russophobic artillery, playing right into his hands. He will be able to say in future about any Polish plan, project or desire to negotiate in some international row such as Ukraine that Poles are zoological russophobes, obsessed about the past ("lets leave history to hsitorians and move forward!") and therefore lack credibiltiy. The broader implicaton is that if Russia weeds ISIS out of Syria and contributes to stopping or slowing the flow of refugees, Putin will become an international "hero" and "peace-maker" of sorts and no-one imposes sanctions on a hero. Also hardly anyone except the Ukrainians, Baltics and Poles will remember Putin's anti-Ukrainian aggression, bald-faced lies and destabilising machinations. Do you agree?

Food / Where can i find turnips (rzepa) in Poznan? [8]


Initially I didn't either but was told it was a hang-over from the Nazi occupation period. The brukiew, often the only solid ingredient in a big pot of water cooked into a thin swill, was a concenetration-camp standby so they must have been plentiful and cheap back then. After the war ended Poles wanted no part of it.

News / Russo-Polish row over who started WW2 [34]


If Russians troops were allowed to enter Poland they would never leave. Stalin would have found one of his devious, forked-tongue excuses such as protecting Poland against future German aggression or some such. Even making Poland a Soviet protectorate of sorts the same way Bohemia and Moravia were for Hitler. Our beloved Poland was a sheep between two rapacious wolves. Plus Stalin had a personal grudge against Poles -- his stupid self-willed insubordination of 1920 in Poland made the Bolsheviks lose the war.

News / Russo-Polish row over who started WW2 [34]


The anti-German pact Stalin propsoed to Poladn wold have entailed Russian troops entering Polish territory. The very thought was overwhelmingly abhorrent. Poland also turned down Hitler's offfer of an anti-Comintern alliance. Poland had non-aggression pacts with both Germany and Russia and both the USSR and Germany violated it with their dual invasion of September 1939.

History / Stalin's Holocaust Against Jews And Poles As "Self Defense" [36]


In anything except body count. He left many more millions people dead -- before, during and after the war -- than Hitler ever did. And he didn't discriminate -- Russians, Ukrainians, Georgians, Jews, Poles, Crimean Tatars, Volga Germans, whoever who might in any way be suspected of potentially restricting his unquenchable pursuit of power. One could argue of course that Hitler had only a paltry 12 years in which to perform.

USA, Canada / What do Polish people think of the USA [287]

moved from another thread


America never invades. America spreads freedom and democracy. Sometimes they must resort to more vigorous methods if the beneficiary refuses to cooperate.

News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]


Yes, because it's not people but values and policies that are important. So far they have represented a socially conservative pro-family, pro-Catholic and pro-patriotic platform. If that were to change and they adopted policies borrowed from the Grodzka, Palikot & Biedroń Show, I would definitely withdraw my support.


Latest Millward Brown survey: PiS 32%, PO 22%, Kukiz 7%, Petru 6%, KORWIN 5%.
No ex-commies, anti-clerical nutters or hayseeds have made it this time round!

News / The shame of Duda making late night visits to Kaczyński [79]


Indeed, poor Duda has already got a taste of the PO(O) PiS-bashing hate industry in action.

News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]


It's good to know where you stand. I think I could be called a socially conservative altruist, because I believe the underprivileged and disadvanatged should be helped and the market must have a humna face. But I bristle at the term socialism becuase I've actually lived through it, and to me it's not only or mainly about economics but about the falsification of history, atheisation of school children, political opponents killed or maimed in back alleys by "unknown perpetraors" (nieznani sprawcy), censorship (similar to what the PC dictatorship are now trying to impose on those who disagree with their dogmas), martial law and other "progressive" solutions.

Life / Expats` opinion on alien immigration to Poland - for or against? [87]


I surely don't know the vast mountain of Brussels-sprout paperwork by heart, but I strongly doubt whether there is any paragraph, point, subpoint or other proviso demanding of EU members forced cultural mongrelisation. Yes, Polish culture has been diluted by the partitions, Hitler, Stalin and now by the excessive import of America's cheap and tawdry commercial popculture. Nevertheless, there will exists a basic body of traditions, values and beliefs which could be referred to a the Polish heritage. The EU do not demand that it be further undermined, diluted or otherwise tampered with, do they?

Life / Expats` opinion on alien immigration to Poland - for or against? [87]


The point is there are many multi-culti countrries about -- why can't there be just a few for people who identify with their own cultural heritage? There's nothing wrong with that.

News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]


So you're saying Tusk did not sidetrack Olechowski and Płażyńaki, are you? BTW are you a big fan of the PO's PiS-bashing hate industry? They're the ones who know all about hate!