Life / Are Polish people open to others? [20]

Strangers generally receive an inscrutable, polite mask- my friend just got back from Krakow- stranger's still address each other in the third person- if one person addressed the other eg on the bus as "you" you'd get a smack in the mouth before you'd get an answer.

To close family/ friends the mask drops away (if in the same age group), much more relaxed- however I address my husband's Aunt/Uncle in the third person whom I have known for 18 years.

Life / Are Polish people open to others? [20]


So untrue, although I understand why You feel this way. My husband had a panel beating/mechanical shop, with casual workers- I often saw them sleeping in the wrecks , wake up, drink Italian coffee and back to it. The finished cars were done in record time, the quality/standard of work irreproachable- they would check and recheck for any discrepencies- not 1 complaint from any customer. Only problem was: once paid,

no-where to be seen for the next job: moonshine. So,my husband knew where they lived and would pull them out of bed.
magdalena.woln, I found this on the Internet- a ceremony by" the Queen of the Netherlands,31 May 2006 at the presentation of the insignia of the Militaire Willemsorde to the First Independent Polish Parachute Brigade and the insignia of the Bronze Lion,posthumuosly,to its commanding officer,General Sosabowski" polamb.nl/ned/przemowienie.html

The gratitude shown to the Poles strikes me the most.
I am curious has the Queen of England done something similar?

History / Poles and Russians -- love-hate relationship? [209]

Yes and now there is Putin,ex NKVD...

History / Poles and Russians -- love-hate relationship? [209]


So did Hitler...


Agreed, Russia is not -a democracy.
Tranparency- countries still need their own secret service(for want of a better word) for obvious reasons.A pretty naiive country to give up classified info to another without a good reason.

Australia / Polish community in Sydney, Australia [93]

Dear ZenGirl, I live in Adelaide and holidayed in Sydney- it has a Dom Polski Centre same as in Adelaide which you could get info from or there is Globus, Regards, Anielka.

Dear ZenGirl, I live in Adelaide and holidayed in Sydney- it has a Dom Polski Centre same as in Adelaide which you could get info from or there is Globus, Regards, Anielka.

News / Polish & other children legally stolen from their parents in Germany [82]

What stunned me was a documentary about Polish infants, children stolen, due to their Aryan appearance and raised as Germans.

When their Polish families eventually tracked them down these children, now adults, had an attitude of " why, what for " in regards to contact to their Polish Mothers, Fathers, brothers, sisters- quite arrogant really, considering their families had gone to hell and back to find them. They have Polish blood in their veins- not German.