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rozumiemnic  8 | 3875
28 Dec 2023   #121
Besides what did your "compatriots "do? Mmm?
rozumiemnic  8 | 3875
28 Dec 2023   #122
If you don't want to think about it..it kind of makes you morally bankrupt.
Joker  2 | 2312
28 Dec 2023   #123
join the decent ones or remain a moral outcast.

Join? Who in their right mind would join your tampax mafia? You're the antithesis of decency.
OP Torq  8 | 955
28 Dec 2023   #124
The old borough of Krak: 2022

Once again we take a quick look into the old eagle's nest to soothe our Polish hearts and souls. :)
OP Torq  8 | 955
28 Dec 2023   #125
Господи, помилуй: 2023

... and to get in touch with the more eastern, wild, steppe part of our souls (by and large lost and forgotten these days) let's raise our hearts to God while looking at this lovely, traditional, wooden cerkiew in Trześcianka.
OP Torq  8 | 955
28 Dec 2023   #126
Summer thunderstorm: 2023

Burza z piorunami rages over the night Warsaw skyline.
pawian  221 | 25699
28 Dec 2023   #127
Join? Who in their right mind would join you

11 million Poles who ousted PiS rightist bolsheviks from power???? Ha!!!!!

You're the antithesis of decency.

Opinions by pimping rightist bolsheviks are nothing to me and other decent Poles and Polesses. Ha!
OP Torq  8 | 955
29 Dec 2023   #128
First day of school: 1931

Beginning of a school year. A group of schoolgirls (a lot of schools back then were not coeducational) are waiting at a tram stop in Warsaw.
OP Torq  8 | 955
29 Dec 2023   #129
Tourist magnet: 2023

No, it's not a still from a Disney movie but a popular tourist place (hotel, restaurant, huge park) organised at historic Moszna Castle (former Schloss Moschen) in Opole Vojvodship, between Prudnik and Krapkowice.

ruszajwdroge.pl/2021/05/zamek-w-Mosznej-ten-palac-trzeba-zobaczyc.html#
OP Torq  8 | 955
29 Dec 2023   #130
In the Gryphon's nest again: 1962

Seat of Słupsk's District Office, as seen from Blacksmith Bridge (Most Kowalski) over the Słupia river...

... and the same building these days, renewed for the 120th anniversary, seen from the same spot.
Alien  24 | 5900
29 Dec 2023   #131
Moszna Castle

I was there, I saw it.
OP Torq  8 | 955
29 Dec 2023   #132
I was there

What's it like? Is it as impressive in reality as in the photos?
Lenka  5 | 3529
29 Dec 2023   #133
Is it as impressive in reality as in the photos?

Not in my opinion. It needs investment. But then I was there about 12 years ago so...
OP Torq  8 | 955
29 Dec 2023   #134
Not in my opinion. It needs investment.

Thanks. I'll be going to Wrocław in February, it's about 100km from there, so I might check it myself.
Alien  24 | 5900
29 Dec 2023   #135
What's it like?

It looks a bit like castles from Disney movies. There is now a hotel there, i.e. it has been restored. Worth seeing.
OP Torq  8 | 955
30 Dec 2023   #136
Hello, Mum? I might be a bit late for dinner: 2020

Driver in Warsaw stuck between a police cordon and a group of protesters against the ruling of Constitutional Tribunal on abortion. Protests lasted about a month and spread all over the country.
OP Torq  8 | 955
30 Dec 2023   #137
And my next wish, Golden Fish, is that...: 1937

Two million litres of unrefined spirit flow through the streets of Poznań after a lightning struck a huge spirit container in Akwawit distillery at Tama Garbarska street.
Ironside  50 | 12413
30 Dec 2023   #138
Yeah, Torq, I see... your thread, What can I say>? Good job.
OP Torq  8 | 955
30 Dec 2023   #139
Good job.

Thank you. :)
OP Torq  8 | 955
30 Dec 2023   #140
Wooden gem: 1936

Wooden architecture dominated in the Polish countryside until XIX century. This traditional wooden manor (larch wood), in Rogów near Opatowiec, burnt down during WW2 and was never reconstructed.
OP Torq  8 | 955
30 Dec 2023   #141
Well deserved rest: 1938

Roman Dmowski, one of the fathers of Polish independence, spent the final months of his life in a lovely country manor of Niklewicz family in Drozdowo near Łomża. In the photo we see him accompanied by Maria Niklewiczowa (a poet and author of children literature). Dmowski died on 2nd January 1939 and was spared the sight of Poland's fall.
Alien  24 | 5900
30 Dec 2023   #142
and was spared the sight of Poland's fall.

I assure you that the Germans would have found him something to do.
OP Torq  8 | 955
31 Dec 2023   #143
The look in their eyes!: 1908
Here again we see one of the greatest Poles of interwar period, again in Drozdowo but 30 years earlier, accompanied by Lutosławskie sisters, Maria and Izabella.
OP Torq  8 | 955
31 Dec 2023   #144
General and his aide-de-camp: 1916

General Haller taking a short horseback ride accompanied by his adjutant, 2nd Lt Teodor Chmielowski.
OP Torq  8 | 955
31 Dec 2023   #145
In the beginning there was nothing... : 2023

... only God walking through the streets of Gdańsk. Please, forgive me if I exaggerate. ;)

And, of course, I have to agree with Andrei from the comments section (and overlook the spelling mistake ;))...
OP Torq  8 | 955
1 Jan 2024   #146
Mountain shrine: 2020

The Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God is a liturgical celebration observed in the Catholic Church on January 1st. In the photo we see a group of pilgrims attending a Mass at the shrine on the John Paul II Peak. Groń of John Paul II is the only mountain peak in the world which was named in honour of the Polish Pope. Karol Wojtyła often hiked to the tops of Jaworzyna (the previous name of Groń) and Leskowiec, even as a bishop.
OP Torq  8 | 955
1 Jan 2024   #147
Visit of an old friend: 2010

Ksenia Starosielska (Ксения Старосельская, 1937-2017) in front of an old tenement building in Łódź. Pani Starosielska, the greatest translator of Polish literature into Russian, visited Poland (to which she always referred to as "my Poland") for the "Dialogue of Four Cultures" festival. In the photo we see the Lady of the Order of Merit of Republic of Poland being observed with reverence by two dresiarze/gopniks standing in the gateway.
OP Torq  8 | 955
1 Jan 2024   #148
observed with reverence by two dresiarze/gopniks

...although the one on the left should really take his hands out of his pockets in the presence of a lady. Zero manners.
Ironside  50 | 12413
1 Jan 2024   #149
.although

I think I have killed Pawian thread - we should apologize to Ukrainians. lol!

posted in random I-S
OP Torq  8 | 955
1 Jan 2024   #150
I have killed Pawian thread - we should apologize to Ukrainians

*goes checking*

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