Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread

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Although these photos do not lie, Poland is not as beautiful as it might seem just from these photos. In fact, Poland is still very underinvested in terms of infrastructure.Just leave the beautiful new highway to avoid the traffic jam and you immediately realize how much improvement there is to make in Poland.

Especially for you, Alien...

Gone fishing: 2018



Local inhabitants of Sławno District stage a protest against the state of Cisowo-Kopań district road.

" Dr. Zbigniew Religa anxiously watches a screen to see how his patient responds after a heart transplant. In the lower right corner, you can see one of his colleagues who helped him with the surgery fallen asleep."

rarehistoricalphotos.com/zbigniew-religa-story-1987/

@Feniks
Thanks for the info.

Of course but that`s not what I was asking about. I even warned not to provide such simple answers.
I asked: why is he sleeping in the corner of the room?


No, Polish nurses have dignity and don`t sleep like that.

Because he might still have been needed if things didn't go according to plan and there was an emergency?

I've just read this though concerning that photo, have you seen it?

gazetaprawna.pl/wiadomosci/artykuly/1072183,prof-zembala-tadeusz-zytkiewicz-byl-najdluzej-zyjacym-pacjentem-z-przeszczepionym-sercem.html

Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!! :):):)


No, I don`t want to read those stories anymore. I read one article which proved that ALL those males who survived the heart transplant operation felt like newborn and decided to change their lives completely. That meant the change of the partner primarily - they all dropped their old but loving wives who had supported them during times of trouble.

Fekking bastards those males are.
Women, remember - when your hubby has a heart transplant and survives it, he will find himself a new partner to start a new life.

This story says that the guy in the National Geographic photo was NOT Tadeusz Żytkiewicz. It was confirmed by Prof Zambala, director of the Silesian Center for Heart Diseases in Zabrze.

"Były rzeczywiście swego czasu pewne kontrowersje co do tego, kto jest na tym zdjęciu. Dlatego wraz z zespołem przeanalizowaliśmy to zdjęcie, plan operacyjny i mogę jednoznacznie powiedzieć, że to nie pan Żytkiewicz jest na fotografii. Widoczny na niej pacjent nie żyje. Pan Żytkiewicz był operowany w sali obok dwie godziny później" - powiedział PAP prof. Zembala.

I adore these old photos....a window into another time, another world.....so rare!

But they make me melancholic too...all dead and gone now...


*thinks back on the epic Kopernikus-war on PF*

Hach ja....these good, old times! :):):)


They rebuild it wonderfully....

Which would confirm the Aliens theory, which was also created after analyzing this photo.

Words, words, words...: 2022



On its 275th anniversary, the National Library in Warsaw opened six new reading rooms, each with a charming copper ceiling to provide healthy and relaxing reading conditions for everyone.

Godzina 5... minut 30... kiedy pobudka zaaagrałaaa: 2023



2022-2023 period saw the largest number of reservists being called for military training since the dissolution of Warsaw Pact, as well as the increase in numbers of territorial defence and (re)introduction of voluntary military service (28-day basic training + 11 months of specialist training).

Yes it would!! You were right all along. I don't think that stubborn Pawian will read my link though, he thinks the story is about something different.

What link??? What pawian?? What stubborn??? :)_:):)

I wrote I had already read such stories and don`t want anymore coz they are sad, in fact. Why do you want to torture me with stories of male azholes who paid their nearest and dearest with black ingratitude? Fekk them, not read stories about them!

Looks like a very warm and elegant space.

The story is not about anything like that! The guy in the National Geographic pic is NOT Tadeusz Żytkiewicz and he is DEAD. Alien was right :)

"Były rzeczywiście swego czasu pewne kontrowersje co do tego, kto jest na tym zdjęciu. Dlatego wraz z zespołem przeanalizowaliśmy to zdjęcie, plan operacyjny i mogę jednoznacznie powiedzieć, że to nie pan Żytkiewicz jest na fotografii. Widoczny na niej pacjent nie żyje. Pan Żytkiewicz był operowany w sali obok dwie godziny później" - powiedział PAP prof. Zembala.

But I don `t care who he is or was and if he is dead or alive and if he is wanted or not. I just don`t want to read any stories about those azholes.

Beautiful Helena: 1938



Which of the two lovely ladies preparing to travel on this rapid (140 km per hour in 1938!) passenger train was called Helena? The answer is neither. Piękna Helena (Beautiful Helena) was the name of the aerodynamic steam engine that pulled this train (it received golden medal at Paris Exposition of Technique and Arts in 1937).

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pm36#/media/Plik:Parow%C3%B3z_z_otulin%C4%85_aerodynamiczn%C4%85_serii_Pm36.jpg

Christmas Eve: 1904



Christmas Eve celebrated in Warsaw's Fine Arts Academy. Professor Konrad Krzyżanowski and his student (who will later surpass the master) Witold Pruszkowski, among others, are looking at us from this charming old photo.

Calm Before the Storm: 1914



Group of tourists enjoying their summer holidays in Tatra Mountains (Morskie Oko).

Sad Christmas: 1939



It was a sad Christmas in Cracow that year but people tried not to lose hope. In the photo we see krakowianie purchasing Christmas trees in the Main Square.

There are no Germans in sight.

Christmas Fair in Wrocław: 2023



Nowhere near the magic of Gdańsk Christmas Fair, of course, but still worth visiting if you happen to be in the Lower Silesia.

Candles for the Fallen: 2014



Still in Lower Silesia. For many years the monument stood at Bankowa Street in Jelenia Góra. The city authorities resisted the pressure to raze the statue, and instead moved it to the cemetery, where people light candles under it to this very day.

I hope it's a Polish soldier.

It is a Soviet soldier from the old Monument of Gratitude to the Red Army. It used to stand in Jelenia Góra's city centre, and was quite popular in communist times (below a photo taken in 1982)...



... after the fall of Eastern Bloc some scoundrels wanted to raze the statue of the soldier together with the monument but the people protested and local authorities (very wisely!) preferred to listen to their people instead of hints from Warsaw, and instead of razing it they moved it to the cemetery where every year on All Saints' Day people light candles and pray under it for the souls of fallen soldiers.

Apparently normal people have more common sense than politicians and internet haters. Go figure. :)

This reminds me other moments of Polish history.

German soldiers taking photos in the Main Square in occupied Krakow in 1940. In the background- famous St Mary`s Cathedral.

Photo 2 - German troops march into the Wawel Castle

PS. Nazis believed Krakow was a German city coz there used to be a lot German settlers in the Middle Ages.

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До свидания, друзья: 1993



Over 30 years ago the last echelon of Soviet troops left Poland. In this historic photo we can see the boys of 6th Vitebsk-Novgorod Guards Division waving us goodbye as their train rolls towards Tver, where their new headquarters were to be located. The withdrawal was peaceful and agreed upon already in 1989 when the first non-communist government took power in Poland.

Welcome, friends: 2014



Polish 6th Airborne Brigade paratroopers march together with their allies from 173rd US Airborne Brigade who arrived at Swidwin air base for joint exercise with one of their sister units.