Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread

But it was your compatriots who did it in the past. Why do Germans still apologise today? Why does Charles apologise? Why do Belgians apologise???? All of them and others do decades or centuries after events. There is something in it, isn`t there?

This sth is called basic human decency.

You have a choice - join the decent ones or remain a moral outcast.

I am.not a " moral.outcast" thank.you. you have no idea where my predecessors came from..
Not saying " we" when talking about history was lesson one in O level history. That's teenaged school stuff. But then I had a good teacher.

Although yes it's true that stuff like the transatlantic slave trade should be looked at more closely, that wasn't the point I was making.

Besides what did your "compatriots "do? Mmm?

If you don't want to think about it..it kind of makes you morally bankrupt.

Join? Who in their right mind would join your tampax mafia? You're the antithesis of decency.

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. :)

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.

Summer thunderstorm: 2023



Burza z piorunami rages over the night Warsaw skyline.

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


Opinions by pimping rightist bolsheviks are nothing to me and other decent Poles and Polesses. Ha!

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.

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#

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.

I was there, I saw it.

What's it like? 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...

Thanks. I'll be going to Wrocław in February, it's about 100km from there, so I might check it myself.

It looks a bit like castles from Disney movies. There is now a hotel there, i.e. it has been restored. Worth seeing.

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.

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.

Yeah, Torq, I see... your thread, What can I say>? Good job.

Thank you. :)

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.

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.

I assure you that the Germans would have found him something to do.

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.

General and his aide-de-camp: 1916



General Haller taking a short horseback ride accompanied by his adjutant, 2nd Lt Teodor Chmielowski.

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 ;))...

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.

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.

...although the one on the left should really take his hands out of his pockets in the presence of a lady. Zero manners.