History / Poland's Roads in the 17th Century [19]

Commonwealth (a conglomerate of todays Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine and Belarus) had several types of road.

Dirt roads - cross country roads, these were your typical dirt roads, maintained locally by the villages.
Beaten roads - gravel roads leading between larger towns, these were again maintained by towns.
Cobblestone roads - leading up to larger cities, maintained by them, Warsaw saw the cobblestone road some 30 miles out of the city, Kraków some 10 miles.

Roads were built by the state, local magnates and cities, the deeper country had no regular roads but rather paths along the intervillage lanes of transport, the real traffic was on the rivers.

USA, Canada / General differences between Poland and the USA? [184]

Poland is bigger.

News / Poland's Nationalists hold congress [132]


Because the National Movement aims for the same electorate that Law and Justice does, if National Movement gets support it will come from parts of L&J electorate.

That said there is an interesting social operation enacted by government affiliated media such as TVN, TVP and Onet. They put quite a bit of attention to the Nationalist Movement in hopes that it will weaken PiS come elections, this is done due to the fact that Civic Platform is losing a lot of support in the nation due to corruption and general mismanagement of the country.

There are two main issues with RN (Nationalists) - one is they have no real concept of what do to or how to act after they grab power, the other is that they're speaking in a voice that's at least 20 years too late, their rhetoric does not reach the general populace nor the younger people despite their bombastic claims, they're an old idea attempting a comeback and being very late for the party indeed.

History / Kaczynski's Legacy [88]

I must agree with Kaczyński on RAŚ, they're indeed pro-germanic going as far as praising the Nazis, while i disagree with Kaczyński a lot here he was spot on.

News / Poland's Nationalists hold congress [132]

I daresay both parties are to blame and Nationalists are veeeery happy that police provoked them, now they can trumpet it all over their circles.

News / Poland's Nationalists hold congress [132]


You're an uneducated idiot or a bare-footed troll. Comparing polish nationalist party to people who gassed an equivalent of a small nation measured in women and children is tasteless and plain wrong.