Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread

So I'm not alone in this!

But really, "früher war alles besser", right? Right!

...okay...even better after 1989....the best! :)

No, that's not correct. Cars, for example, broke down more often.

... sure. But then... sometime in 2000s, the entire demonic, woke, neo-marxist angriff started. :-/ Or maybe not started but became more obvious and impudent.


Not if you knew how to take care of them. Then they never broke down. Ever heard of Mercedes W123?

beer and coke tested better that for sure..

Beer was often unpasteurized and there was no Coke Zero.

Talking about one-syllable things that were better in the 1980s: pope.

EDIT: church, girls, food. All one-syllable things were better.

From today's point of view, very conservativ, but he single-handedly overthrew communism.

....nah, that honor belongs surely to Gorbatschow....he started it all in Russia.....and he denied East-Berlin the military to end the protestations in a bloody chinese way....who knows, the wall would maybe still stand without him.

For an East-German that all was Gorbatschow, not the pope!

So is the difference in worldview between an East German and a West Pole.

....na ja...it's understandable....the pope back than was a famous Pole....of course he had his own people cheering for him! :)

Totally agreed.

I was brought up as a Polish Catholic but lost my faith many years ago but could still see that the Polish Pope was the best Pope in my lifetime.

Certainly not


It's just your imagination, we were all younger then.
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churches were fuller, that's a fact, but only in Poland.

Both very depressing.

There's beauty in industrial architecture. I've never understood why some in PL turn their noses up at Łódź but consider bungalows pretty.

It is too vulgar and crude to me.

I think when many people think of Łódź they automatically think of Ziemia obiecana.... that remained my mental picture of the city until I visited a summer or two ago. Now I have a different mental picture that's much nicer (and leafier!)

And stuccoed bungalows aren't? Industrial environments can be sophisticated and beautiful like a Lowry townscape.


It's got that feel that only planned towns of a certain period have. In a way it was more atmospheric when it was a bit shabbier; one reason filmmakers like it so much. I could happily live there.

Sorry, I don`t know what you mean.

Not so sure some were into inhaling glue or somesuch and do weeds. and kompot.

the mongrel, for example. That glue sucked out his brains completely.

Farmers' Rage: 2024



"Down with the EU's climate policy", "Let EU maniacs eat worms themselves" - says the banner on this farmer's tractor. Farmers' protests, caused by the EU attempts at cooking the frog a bit too fast, continue all over Poland. EU geniuses decided to destroy European farming and at the same time import food from huge, owned by international concerns, farms in South America and Ukraine (where EU farming laws don't apply and the European norms for pesticide use are very often exceeded twentyfold (!)). Polish farming can feed 120 million people and it's a strategic resource of primary importance for Poland.

It's a bit ironic that the group that benefited the most from Poland's EU membership is at the moment the most euroskeptical (to put it very mildly). If only the Marxists ruling the EU could possibly go a bit easier on their leftard agenda, all this could have been avoided. Alas, leftards will leftard.

Perhaps the Brits knew what they were doing when they left the Union?

The EU isn't ruled by Marxists.


Of course.

And Poland could leave too, however geographically it is in a weaker position.

And economically. Brits got a cough after brexit, Poland will acquire TB and pneumonia.


Why are you so radical????? :):):)

Well, I should have written neo-Marxists.


... and surprisingly many people are talking openly about it these days.


You're right. Calling them geniuses was going too far. :)

Not much of one, however we have more deep water ports than the rest of Europe combined, have London which if it was a separate country would be richer than most in Europe and have the northern industrial base as well. That and a culture wehre panicking and over-analysis are rare.

Poland is of course stuck right next to Germany who see the EU as the next stage of their mercantile ambitions. That and the EU agricultural policy; existing to satisfy 'farmers' in southern France and Italy with just a few hectares and a mixed output combined with an intense lobbying from the factory farms that exist to provide what people actually eat.

In a transnational organisation like the EU there will always be winners and losers. The losers will not be in France, Germany, Northern Italy or the Netherlands.


You could've, however it would've been equally meaningless.

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Otherwise, you will be nominated the governor of Northern Poland Oblast by the Kremlin regime. hahahaha

Or conversely don't do as the romans...

When you are among crows, you need to caw with them.

Or scatter some corn soaked in warfarin...

Neoliberals....