Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread

Polish-Persian brotherhood: 1942

Polish-Iranian friendship started much earlier than... polishforums.com/history/pol-shorpy-photo-88175/15/#msg1951117.
For thousands of Polish refugees from USSR during WW2, Iran became a home away from home.

Writer Ryszard Antolak noted, "The deepest imprint of the Polish sojourn in Iran can be found in the memoirs and narratives of those who lived through it. The debt and gratitude felt by the exiles towards their host country echoes warmly throughout all literature. The kindness and sympathy of the ordinary Iranian population towards the Poles is everywhere spoken of".

Iranians truly set an example of hospitality which has not been forgotten in Poland until this very day.

In the meantime this friendship was forbidden.

:)

If you say so, Alien. If you say so.

Sssshh...

Requiem for an artist: 2024

"Today the pace of my films seems too slow. However, after cuts and speeding up the narration, they would lose their atmosphere. (...) It's also a question of my temperament - I hate being in a rush", said late Janusz Majewski.

The great director, who gave us Zaklęte rewiry, C.K. Dezerterzy (with the unforgettable character of Gefreiter Kania played by Marek Kondrat) or Lekcja martwego języka among many other films, died last month, on 10th January.



One could write a lot about the chevalier of Polonia Restituta and Gloria Artis orders but I think his work speaks the best for him and itself. For me, personally, he was the greatest adapter of literary fiction for screen in the history of Polish cinema.

Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine...

That`s what AI generated when asked about Polish motifs
the women`s protest against discrimination and Independence Day nationalist demonstrator.
Poland divided into two..

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AI is intelligent but not very original.

Men care about things greater than ourselves like nationhood.

Women only care about themselves and aren't interested in who provides them with comfort and utility just as long as they get it and preferably for little to nothing in exchange.

Men are makers and women are takers.

That alone wouldn't be bad.
The bad is when some old sucker believes that he met the love of his life in a three-time divorced lying bi*ch who recently discovered the alternate use for antifreeze.

Sadly, there are many such cases.

Are you saying that women's inventiveness knows no limits?

Not women some fringe leftis minority.

A million turned out in Warsaw alone.

Women care about everybody else and sacrifice their time, energy and resources to make people happy coz such is their nature. Goddess bless them all.

At the same time, it is males who are mostly selfish and uncaring in life and think only about pampering their sick egos. Too many males are mysogynist azholes, just like Poloniusz. Women refuse to form relations with such losers, that`s why they become so embittered and frustrated..

Goddess, don`t bless those azholes - punish them with even more frustration. hahahaha

A typical Polish city according to AI - it sports the features of Warsaw, Gdańsk and Krakow.

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A touristy city anyway, perhaps instructed by whoever worked the AI to contain specific elements.

The result would probably differ if it was asked to synthesise Wloclawek, Sieradz. Nowy Dwor and Grojec.

Nice picture though, although it looks more like a dove or than the atmosphere of a city in Poland.

That`s what my MI - Monkey Intelligence - associates with Grójec:

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There's quite a nice kebab shop there.

And of course plenty of apples.

Sad duty: 1939

Looking at general Tadeusz Kutrzeba's face you can tell that he's not happy. In the photo you see him approaching the commander of German 8th Army, general Johannes Blaskowitz, to discuss the capitulation of Warsaw (which Kutrzeba would sign on 28th September)

We all know the story, no point to sprinkle salt on old wounds; there is however something that escapes many historians and commentators - 1939 was the last year of Polish independence. After the war we were a Soviet satellite for 44 years and then - when the chance for independence finally appeared - venal scoundrels and various foreign agents ensured a rather smooth transition into being an American satellite.

The year 2024 is the 85th consecutive year of Poland being a dependent vassal state. Last time we waited 123 years to regain our independence. Will we have to wait equally long again?

Do you have a high fever? Because you're talking nonsense.

Am I?

In this case, yes.

Oh, how I wished I was talking nonsense, Alien.

Alas, that's the sad reality. Look at the vomit-inducing, obsequious servilism of consecutive Polish governments towards the USA and tell me we don't act like their vassals.

I agree.

Dwoje na jednego? Banda rudego?

xD

Applying your logic, a country like Germany is not independent either, and has been since 1945.

The one thing is a dependency on your ally when your ally is significantly stronger in every way and quite the other that song, dance, and circus that Polish politicians from both parties are doing, I would say PO ones are worse in this regard but only some.

What we have is something I have been talking about for a long talking here a lack in Poland of proper elites and decent political representation in this country. The quality of our politics and journalism is low.

We deserve better!

Exactly!

Damn it, the older I get the more I agree with you on everything (almost), Iron. 0_0


Hear, hear!

This should make you think about it.

Maybe you should start not only thinking but reflecting upon yourself for real!
Unless you are a renegade in that case you should withhold your worthless opinion.

Take a deep breath: 2023

Szklarska Poręba, located among mountains and forest, enjoys a unique microclimate which is perfect for people with respiratory system illnesses. The building you see in the picture is a well-known lung disease sanatorium, Izera Centre for Pulmonology and Chemotherapy. I visited my grandma while she was being treated there and was absolutely enchanted with the place.

There is nothing Polish about kebab shops. Obviously that's why you like them.

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