News / Romney visits Poland: Gets support from Lech Walesa? [29]


I remember great enthusiasm of numerous Poles IN POLAND about Obbama when he was fighting for the presidency. It seems many Polish Americans voted for him. I remember some of their comments about him were simply worshipful. It seems the attitude towards him has changed as a result of his policy of "reset" in America's relations with Moscow, as well as his keeping the Afghan war going. I personally was disgusted by his and other big wigs watching live the assasination of bin Laden. You seem to assert that the Republicans are worse for Poland than Obama, but do they say there was a "Polish death camp"? I actually read their sharp criticism of Obama for using the expression. He hasn't properly apologized for using it yet. And are the Republicans for a "reset" in America's relations with Moscow meaning having good relations with the Muscovites at Poland's expense? Are they for not having an American anti-missile system in Poland? We'll also see if Romney's wife will accompany him during his visit to Poland. Obama's wife didn't accompany him during his (very brief) one. By the way, Obama doesn't seem to be friendly towards Lech Wałęsa. Reportedly, it was him who didn't want Lech Wałęsa to receive from his, Obama's hands, a Medal of Freedom on the late Jan Karski's behalf.

Are Obama and his wife prejudiced against the Polish people?

News / Polish newspaper websites to start charging for access in September [9]

We'll see what comes out of it. They tried already to charge for access in the past, and then went back to free access. Few readers used the service?

Personally, I don't mind if the Gazeta Wyborcza charges for access. I never read it as I find it useless as a serious source of information on Poland.

Love / Best way to find a Polish husband...ideas? [120]


Do you mean PolkaTagAlong resides in Poland?

Love / Best way to find a Polish husband...ideas? [120]

And I respect that you respect she's honest about her views and that you may disagree with some of them.

:)

Love / Best way to find a Polish husband...ideas? [120]


Hahah, she is a bit arrogant too, but it's all right. What I like about her is that she is herself; she is honest and not falsely humble about her seemingly impossibly high standards. And she's got genuine grounds for being a princess because she's good-looking and smart, oops, intelligent.

Way to go, Polka, I'd say.
:)

News / Work begins on 'Polish Disneyland' [37]


Do you say Poland takes UK tax-payers' money deposited in the EU? Do you mean Poland actually nicks British money deposited in the EU?

Show your wisdom - prove Poland does it.

History / Did British public protest against the sell out of Poland to the Soviets? [286]


You say we allegedly re-wrote history before? When? Give specific facts proving we allegedly re-wrote history or are rewriting it right now.

Facts show it's not us who re-wrote somebody's history but it's others who re-wrote our history numerous times.

News / Work begins on 'Polish Disneyland' [37]


And what free money you're allegedly giving us?

Give facts, please. You've been making claims here already againsty us but never backed them with facts, only tried to quoted some hate-propaganda from Daily Mail and the like.

So what's the facts YOU're giving us free money?

Love / Best way to find a Polish husband...ideas? [120]


Isn't she on the internet?


What's wrong about being fussy? She wants to get the real goods instead of trash in a nice wrap. She is dead right and wise about it.

Also, she has the right to have any skin colour preference she pleases, or, in truth, any at all preference she pleases.

Travel / I discovered Poland - a nice country [62]

Glad to hear you liked Poland. And where are you from yoursel?

History / Questions about Polish borders, Galicia and Cossacks. [50]


But you wrote you were an ethnic German. Would you regard the Germans as Slavs?


Well, the quoted statement of yours doesn't seem Polish at all, but more like Russian. Very few Poles are pan-Slavic; I've never met before a Polish person using the expression "Slavic countries." Therefore I doubt you're Polish. Also, I doubt Slavicaleks is what he or she says he or she is. You seem, people, (Russian?) trolls to me.

History / Questions about Polish borders, Galicia and Cossacks. [50]


A very good book. Also, Norman Davies's books dealing with the subject of Eastern Borderlands seem indispensable. If I remember it right, in "Europe" he speaks critically about some Ukrainian historians who attempt to propagante a chauvinist version of Ukraine's history.

History / Questions about Polish borders, Galicia and Cossacks. [50]


It's not true. The historical evidence shows the Easter Borderlands were Polish for long ages.


You're saying you're "pure Polish from Poland", but in your bio you write you're in Lviv, which is a city in the Ukraine. Besides, your saying that the lands east of the river Bug were never Polish is Polonophobic. So are you really "pure Polish from Poland," or rather a pure Ukrainian nationalist from the Ukraine?

History / Questions about Polish borders, Galicia and Cossacks. [50]


Are you saying everyone's grandparents come from different countries?


Not true; the Eastern Borderlands were Polish. They belonged to the Najjasniejsza Rzeczpospolita until the Partitions, that is the destruction of the Polish state in the late 1700s by the combined might of Muscovy, Prussia and Austria, and the division of the Polish territory between those nations.

Your minority theory is false. In reality, it's not the Poles, but the Cossacks, Ruthenian masses (today called Ukrainians) and the Belorussians, or rather White Rusins, who were a minority. Namely, they were a minority in the Polish state. The fact that in Florida the majority of inhabitants are Latin Americans doesn't make Florida Latin American; it remains part of the United States.

So the historical facts show that the Eastern Borderlands were part of Poland and then were grabbed from her by force. As such, many of us still think of them as part of Poland. And certainly we will never erase from our memory our powerful historical presence and rich culture there. During WWII Ukrainian chauvinists tried to slaughter all the Polish inhabitants in the Eastern Borderlands, and the present Ukrainian authorities have been trying to destroy any traces of our historical presence and culture there. History shows any such attempts are futile. Eventually, Ukrainians will have to accept the fact that we, Poles, also have the right to feel at home in the Eastern Borderlands.

History / Questions about Polish borders, Galicia and Cossacks. [50]

The Kresy (Eastern Borderlands) region IS also Polish, in spite of the fact that during WWII the Ukrainian UPA mass-murderers slaughtered barbarously circa 500000 Polish inhabitants who had lived there for centuries. It is Polish in spite of the fact that today the Ukrainian authorities are trying to wipe away any traces of Polish culture and ancient presence there. (By contrast, we, Poles, haven't wiped out, but preserved evidence of German culture and life in the teritories ceded to us after WWII.) We got rich archives; we have preserved evidence of our presence and pioneering role in OUR Eastern Borderlands. (As well as evidence of horrific in their crudity Ukrainian ethnic cleansings of our countrymen, including women, babies and old people - may their poor spirits find eternal peace. We remember; we will never forget.) In the times of the first Polish Commonwealth, there was no Belarus nor Ukraine. There were no such nations. The territories were Polish. They belonged to the Najjasniejsza Rzeczpospolita, and the population was part of the Commonwealth population. It was overwhelmingly rural. It was the Poles who brought civilization to those largely savage lands, built cities there. It was the Polish state that protected those lands along with their Polish and other inhabitants from the Tatar raids. Without the Polish army your "Ruthenians" would have been killed off and captured into slavery by the Tatars. Do you know what the word "jasyr" means? It is us, the Poles, the "Ruthenians" should be grateful to for the fact that they exist today. Moreover, a huge part of today Ukrainian population is derived from Polish runaway peasants and other fugitives. Are you saying the Russians allowed Ukrainians to develop their own culture, language? We know how the Ukrainian poet Shevchenko lamented over the Ukrainians' rebellions against the Polish Commonwealth and their foolish placing themselves in the Muscovite paws. The result was incomparably worse oppression than that in the hands of Ruthenian lords under the Polish Commonwealth. And the "Ukrainians" (actually then just the Cossacks) tried to rebel against the Russians as well. But the Russians weren't as gentle as the Poles and they crushed the rebels so hard there were no Cossack rebellions afterwards.These are the historical facts, not the fairy tales from wikipedia. Nor your Polonophobic family stories about the Poles allegedly being bad to the Poleszuks, and the Muscovites being better to them. So now you're saying your family is from the Polesie? Didn't did you say before they are ethnic Germans with Polish surnames? Are you not lying here?


Which stats relased by the Poles are allegedly "very biased"? Give them and prove they're biased.

History / Questions about Polish borders, Galicia and Cossacks. [50]


Hello, Funky.You've put it beautifully, and in lovely English. Szacun ( respect) from me, Puzzie.

By the way, I'm not a Germano-phobe, but more like a Germano-phile. I can see a difference between Germans in Germany and those abroad. On the average, the latter seem to be more nationalistic than the former. The same seems true for the Poles - the Polonia (Poles abroad) seems to be way more nationalistic than the Poles at home.

Love / Best way to find a Polish husband...ideas? [120]


It's hard to comprehend, darling, that a young lady as beautiful and smart as you are can have this kind of difficulty. Who the heck are the men where you live? Are they men at all?

Do you believe in comparing horoscopes? I'm asking seriously; it's been practiced for millenia in the East. The Asians say it's a very effective way of matching couples correctly.

All the very best to you, sweetie.

Ah, and I remember I owe you a reply in the thread on Polish individualism.

History / Questions about Polish borders, Galicia and Cossacks. [50]


But are sure it was the Celts who occupied our "Galicja", not the Austrians?

:)


Slavi, wikipedia isn't any trustworthy source on the subject. The texts you've recommended seem to have been edited by Ukrainian nationalists. Because that's the nature of wikipedia: any one at all - well, almost any one - can write whatever they please there. Lots of the time they don't care about historical truth, that is accordance of their statements with historical facts, only carry out political propaganda.

Hahah, you also sound like a German nationalist. A German nationalist from outside of Germany. Pardon my blintness, but such folks tend to be way more nationalistic and xenophobic than those in the old country.

By the way, when I lived in US and Canada I noticed that the local Germans and Ukrainians respected and liked ech other a lot, and often intermarried.

By the way, there was NO Ukraine till, if I am correct, 1991.

Also Berlin wasn't once a German city, only a Slavic one.

UK, Ireland / And you wonder why there is Anti-Polish feeling in the UK [187]


No offense, but I think you exaggerate, brother.

It's good that Brits and Irish come to Poland and make it their home. The more of them the better.

Our relations may be verbally tempestuous at times but that's okay - that's how it should be.

Szacun to you, brother.
:)

UK, Ireland / And you wonder why there is Anti-Polish feeling in the UK [187]

Ease off, professor. :)

When I'm in Poznan I'll buy you a pint or two in the pub of your choice, and we can talk about Irvine Welsh's novels and short stories. Sounds alright?

:)

News / US AMBASSADOR FEINSTEIN CALLED OFF FROM POLAND [14]


Oh, really? Are the newspaper reports gospel for you? Do they perchance come from the Economist or other intelectually phony and Polonophobic rag? But quote them anyway. Second, prove Sikorski has "terrible personal relations with Lithuania" - give pertinent facts. Third, are you saying Sikorski's statements about Lithuania are irrational and blown out of proportion and the Lithuanians don't deserve them? Actually, hasn't Sikorski and Poland's reaction to the barbaric agression against our minority in Lithuania been way too cautious and patient?

Buddy, Sikorski isn't my idol, but even I must admit that, as a politician, he is prudent and patient as Job, including his dealings with Lithuania.

News / US AMBASSADOR FEINSTEIN CALLED OFF FROM POLAND [14]

Oh? On what grounds you're saying he's impatient with Lithuania?

News / US AMBASSADOR FEINSTEIN CALLED OFF FROM POLAND [14]


You bet he wasn't if he supported frantically the HI wackos and pissed off even such a patient guy as Sikorski.

Law / Worked for a restaurant in Poland and the owner refused to pay me. [60]


You mean that if you have a contract with a Polish employer he may not pay you your wages? - If so, yes, it is possible, but, contrary to what for example NorthMincPole alleges, THIS SELDOM HAPPENS HERE. If you've got a contract they'll pay you. If they try to rip you off, you go the the Sąd Pracy and they'll get hard on the creep's a$$.

By the way, being ripped off by an employer is possible everywhere, re: the massive fraud of this kind in UK and Holland involving Polish employees. I can - and will - write about numerous cases of this kind. I mean REAL cases, not Harry-like ones.

:)

Law / Worked for a restaurant in Poland and the owner refused to pay me. [60]


Let;s see if the guy "Acey" really exists along with his restaurant and the alleged dishonest Polish owner.

Or maybe "Acey" is really Harry, or Depuladomphine, or "Snubieski"? Those individuals seem to be the first ones to respond to such obvious trollie BS.

Harry, is it perchance you who wrote, among others, "Acey's" post in order to scare away those young people from e.g. America or Israel who want to come to Poland and work there?

:)

Law / Worked for a restaurant in Poland and the owner refused to pay me. [60]


Acey, not to worry. Write me on the private, give me the name of the restaurant and the owner's name. I'll phone him, talk to him and try to make him pay you your alleged dough. I'm a newspaper hack by the way.

Okay?

:)

UK, Ireland / And you wonder why there is Anti-Polish feeling in the UK [187]

I can say some atrocities are worse than others because they simply are worse. For example, there is a difference between killing 10 people by shooting them, and killing a hundred thousand by torturing them, chopping them with axes, cutting their bellies open with knives and watching them die slowly, impaling them, and the like (RE: the Ukrainian atrocities against the Poles during WWII). Don't you think there is such a difference? Give examples of those Polish alleged atrocities against Jews. Are you saying the British give those benefits to the Poles for nothing, i.e. that the Poles don't work, don't pay taxes? By the way, the British benefits paid to Poles abroad are a joke. Lots of Polish people who went back to Poland were refused those benefits. I've checked out the issue. It's a propaganda BS you're paying benefits to Poles abroad. As for the hate, I can give you numerous examples of the mistreatment of the Polish people in your country, including beatings and killings. Lots of these cases go unreported by your media. The hate propaganda against Poles in Britain by the Daily Mail, which seems to be your fav, is systematic and exceptionally virulent. As for our alleged ill treatment by the Germans in the future, let it happen. But for now, I think, they invite us to come and work there. Haha, they opened their job market and expected that scores of us would come in, but we didn't. We didn't come because lots of Poles still believed they'd do better in UK, Holland. Now it's changing; much more go to Germany to work. Lots of them buy houses there, especially in East Germany. I've got a house there. I wouldn't buy one in Brtiain, at least not at present, where there is so much anti-Polish sentiment there. Buddy, so far there hasn't been any systematic, shameless, openly racist hate propaganda in the German media against us. There haven't been any racist beatings - including cowardly collective ones - and racist killings of Poles there. Not by the Germans at least. Of course, Poles meet with prejudice there, but I don't think it's been as bad as in UK. So far so good. If it changes - be it.


I don't mind if your country closes the border and doesn't allow ANY Poles to come over at all. I don't mind the British doing criminal checks on any Poles coming in; I don't mind you government kicking out any Poles who committed crimes in your country, or any Poles at all. Actually, I don't like the fact lots of people leave my country and go to Brtiain or any other country where they are disliked, ripped off, beaten up, killed and reminded all the time what great favour the "host" is doing to them by letting them in and letting them do the shuttiest jobs. I don't like any of my people leaving my country, depopulating and weakening it. I want them to stay in and develop my country up. And I want them ALL, even those born in Britain, to pull out from Brtian and any other such country, and come back home. In fact, I've been persuading them all the time to do that. I don't want any Polish person to stay in Britain. At the same time, I reserve the right for us, Poles, to treat the Brtitish and Britain in exactly the same manner as they treat us, including their businesses in Poland, for example TESCO. Are you satisfied? And now show me the African, Arab, Asiatic (e.g. Indian, Pakistani, Chinese) and other such sites where YOU go and complain about their criminals in Britain.

Genealogy / If your ancestors were in the "Wehrmacht"... [217]

German.

History / Polish patriotic songs with anticommunist message [21]

What do you mean by "addicted to martyrdom"? Do you, for instance, slam the Jews for being "addicted" to the Holocaust memory?

Do you have any days of the year that are sacred to you?

Buddy, seems you've got no empathy with the Poles, only aggression towards them, in spite of the fact that, as I understand, you sit in Warsaw most of the time.

Why don't you get the heaven out to a country whose inhabitants you like and respect, snubyeski?