Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread

Not really, they only did it because they were continuing stupid green policies of the EU. Same with dub EU laws concerning so-called illegal migrants.

But it doesn't help. To change things it's necessary to understand what's going on...

This guy doesn't necessarily overtly connect what's going on with neoliberalism but he does have some good insights... (his specialization is the 'new elite' in the UK and how completely out of touch it is with reality)

youtube.com/watch?v=lJOH3i2WFdA

It's half a century already!: 1974

In July this year it will have been 50 years since Grzegorz Lato became FIFA World Cup top goalscorer. Lato, who will be 74 in April, was a beast of a forward - fast, strong and aggressive, he could take on several opponents and dribble through them as if he were a senior player teasing U-15s. He might not have had Robert Lewandowski's killer instinct in front of the goal but he had the grit, he had the pace, and he had a much stronger team behind him to facilitate his success. He remains until today the only Polish player to win the top goalscorer World Cup crown.

An embarassing mistake: 1968



In August 1968 Poland made an embarassing mistake. We were supposed to send Red Guitars band on tour to Czechoslovakia, but someone made a mistake and we sent Red Berets instead. Some Czechs still haven't forgiven us this little misunderstanding.

Who is we? There were not we. Those were Soviet puppets nominated by Moscow. WE had no say in it!

Unfortunately, there is legal continuity between PRL and the Holiest Republic, just as there is one between USSR and Russia, Third Reich and Bundesrepublik etc. etc. Hence, the use of "we" is justified, even if it weren't literally "we".

I always thought it was BS. Lame excuse to keep commies out of harm's way and after 30 years it's blowing into our faces.

If you think it is BS, then Silesia is also BS :)

The City of Kings

The first capital of Poland, Gniezno, stands proudly among forests and hills of Greater Poland Lake District. In the upper photo you see the view from the marketplace towards the Royal Gniezno Cathedral (full name: The Primatial Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Shrine of St. Adalbert). If you ever find yourself in this ancient eagle's nest then, apart from the Cathedral, make sure to visit the Polish Origins Museum (Muzeum Początków Państwa Polskiego), the Royal Route (Trakt Królewski) and - last but not least - Dobry Browar (The Good Brewery). :)

We visited it once. We checked into the Cathedral to see the silver statue of St Adalbert who had been stolen by burglars in 1980s and melted. The new statue is a replica. That robbery made headlines decades ago - some journalist called it the most audacious theft of communist Poland.

On the night of March 19-20, 1986, there was a burglary, during which the thieves used crowbars and saw blades to tear out and cut out the decorations, devastating the whole work of art. They stole the silver figure of Saint Adalbert from the sarcophagus as well as a bishop's crosier, a silver pillow and three angels. They also broke the wings of six eagles. They tore off a piece of silver sheet metal from the lid of the coffin. They were captured in Gdańsk , but the silver had been melted down

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On this day in 1945...

On 28th March 1945 Red Army and People's Army of Poland entered Gdańsk. Soldiers put up Polish flag on Artus Court and it marked the return of Gdańsk to its maternal land after 152 years. The city was to be settled with Poles and its history once again immersed in the history of Rzeczpospolita. May this day be remembered by the coming generations as the symbol of common Polish-Russian struggle against nazism which even today raises its ugly head in certain places in Europe where nazi genocide perpetrators are celebrated as national heroes.

The celebrations in Gdańsk will start today at 11:50. Detailed program in the link below.

gdansk.pl/wiadomosci/Bialo-Czerwona-wrocila-nad-Gdansk-78-lat-temu,a,239415

Sure... lol

Hey, Poland also had a non-aggression pact with the III Reich (1934-39), and had Piłsudski been alive and in charge in 1939, the things might have gone a different (not necessarily better) way.

Besides, I meant what happened in March 1945 as the symbol, not the earlier lamentable events; but you always have to find quarrel in a straw, Paulina :-/

You are inconsistent. First you provoke decent patriotic Polesses and Poles with your stupid RuSSophilic opinions, and when we bite back at the Russian ass licker like you, you withdraw into depression and leave the forum for a few weeks. And when you come back, you complain how badly you are treated here.,

DFY, Russian ass licker. And your stalinist grandpas, too!! Why don`t you move to Królewiec aka Kaliningrad at last??? Short drive from Gdańsk.......


Torq is truly popierdolony in his mind.

Indeed but for him there is hope for you only a tent in Russia.

No, I won`t go to Gulag. No way. Russian barbarians won`t take me alive. :):):)


And what do you base your opinion on ??? :):):)

There is a chance he isn`t fekked up in his mind. He only intends to become a Russian sock puppet governor of Gdańsk region if imperial Russians occupy northern Poland. :):):)

It is not depression that drives me away but:

1. boredom (after all those years I can predict with 99.99% accuracy exactly what most people here will say),
2. newly found hobby (a rather nice fish tank :)).


You're a grandpa yourself, Pawian. And "banderists' cox sucking grandpa" doesn't sound all that better than "stalinist grandpa". :)


If Russia invades, I will actually be fighting them as a reserve soldier. You, on the other hand, will keep drinking moonshine in your village and posting spiteful, vile words on PF.

Why? Are you going back to your native country a soviet trolland? bye bye !
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By the way chances of Poland becoming a part of Russia had increased greatly thanks to the trash that rules in Poland now.

Yes, you will be fighting Polish patriots! DFY.


Good move! Fish tanks with colourful fish excellently reduce depressive emotions. :):):)


It does sound better coz stalinist grandpas of yours did their best to subjugate Poland to Soviet Russians. While banderist Ukrainians only wanted to get their lands back from Polish and Soviet Russian occupation.

The wife, kids, and I have been talking about getting a fish tank. What kind of fish you got?

Golden mollies, guppies, neon innesa, Puntius titteya and Xiphophorus hellerii - together with a bunch of Corydoras Sterbai to clean the tank. :) Nothing too fancy, they're all pretty standard fish, suitable for a beginner like me. But I had a professional setting the tank up for me, putting in all the plants, rocks, wood, installing the external filter and nice lighting (with various special effects, storms and thunders etc.).

It's great fun :) It all started with my son wanting a fish-tank, so I got him a smaller one. Now we have five tanks altogether - the big one, the smaller one and three shrimp sets for shrimps and fry, including a big one that my daughter is responsible for, with blue velvet shrimps and Carinotetraodon travancoricus. I am like this guy who bought a toy train set for his kids. :D


A brilliant idea, but I warn you: this stuff is seriosuly addictive.

Pumpkin, but it didn't invade the Soviet Union together with the Nazis and didn't partition it between themselves and didn't send the Soviets to f*cking gulags and didn't deport them from their homes, didn't execute them and lie about it for decades, etc.


Oh, and you added an unrelated mention of "nazi genocide perpetrators celebrated as national heroes", because you want peace on the forum so bad, sure :))) Btw, this is why I decided to remind you of what the Soviets did in 1939 (and what today's RuSSians are defending and downplaying, just like you did).

Haha. I know what you mean.


When I was a kid, my uncle had this addiction. He spent his money on beer and fish. Beer to deal with memories of Viet Nam and 6 fish tanks...to help forget his memories of Viet Nam.

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I hoped it worked the way he intended.

For me there's nothing more relaxing than taking care of my tank and watching the fish. I regret not discovering this hobby earlier.

He's still here and not gone out of his mind...and he still has a couple aquariums.

The Otłoczyn railway accident: 1980

At 4:30 a.m, on 19th August 1980, a freight train collided with a passenger train which ran from Toruń Main Station to Łódź Kaliska. As a result, 65 people were killed and 64 injured, out of which additional two later died, bringing the total number of dead to 67. To date, it is the deadliest railway accident in the history of Poland.

Until this day, for the memory of this tragic event, every time a train passes the place of the tragedy it sounds the RP1 signal...

Scythemen, forward!: 1794

This month we celebrate the 230th anniversary of the victorious Battle of Racławice. In this battle, scythe-bearing peasant recruits - exhausted after a long march, very often marching barefoot (shoes were seen as a bit of a luxury in the Polish countryside those days) - attacked, under heavy artillery fire, the positions of Russian army under general Александр Петрович Тормасов. Russian forces were crushed and in the process a lot of weapons/material were captured, including: 12 cannons, 1200 rifles with bayonettes, cossack pikes, three times more ammunition than Polish forces had before the battle, and last - but not the least - supply wagons with shoes which were given to the peasants as a reward, so finally many of them could march into the coming battles of Kościuszko Uprising like any decent soldier should. :)

In the famous painting of Józef Chełmoński above, we see Kosynierzy (scythemen) praying before the battle to Saint Virgin Mary Queen of Poland. Many years later the legendary bravery of scythemen was adopted together with their symbol by Polish fighter pilots...

^^ to be historically honest, one must mention the dark side of the Battle of Racławice: in the midst of battle Polish scythemen were slaughtering also those Russian soldiers who shouted 'Pardon!' which meant that they surrendered. Of course, you could argue that the knowledge of French among Polish peasants was rather rudimentary back then but still it casts a bit of a shadow over the victory.

155th Anniversary



Stanisław Wyspiański, a famous Polish playwright, painter and poet, was born exactly 155 years ago. When Polish currency underwent redenomination in 1995, the value of banknotes with Wyspiański went down from 10000 zlotys to just 1 measly zloty...

... luckily the works of the author of Wesele (The Wedding) never underwent redenomination, and they are still valued highly as timeless classics.

Станислав Выспяньский - in the Orthodox tongue.

Not a very popular guy in Russian literary circles, suffice it to say.

A big fan of the painting of Ivan the Terrible's ambassadors begging at Stepan Bathory's feet :)