Why Poland achieved nothing at all?

Poland is a defender of democracy and Poles are fighting "for our freedom and yours". So much for Poland's contribution to the world.

...which is as stupid as fighting climate change. Or swimming up Mississippi...Or over Niagara Falls...

I have a piece of advice for you that is as brilliant as it is practical...
Every country, no matter how poor and rotten has the elements of every political system known to mankind. The only question is who is privileged to enjoy the best parts.

That's why my departure from Poland in 1966, by train with no shots fired, is so confusing to some here.
The smart ones find that sweet spot. Revolutionaries and patriots end up in gulags or shot.

There are many famous polish people and some contributors in sciences, arts. However considering the fact how many of them are. 38 mill Compared to smaller countries like switzerland or hungary, denmark... etc. Something is off. There are no great polish companies, the industry the gdp is trash, the youth is heavily on drugs, no perspectives. Otherwise if the country is so great why are they going to the west? To chicken farms in the U.K for example. Or literarily as plumbers in the U.S.

Someone mentioned that its a new silicon valley. What are you talking about? Just wtf are you talking about mate? Why did armfor example invest in greece the last year, building another dev site next to Sofia Antipolis? Lol there is no next silicon valley anywhere, the companies go where they get profitable Buissness environment by corrupt governments that sell out the land. Cd project red? And? Even adding 5-6 tech companies wouldnt make any place exceptional, since MOST countries (especially eu)do contain a large number of foreign(or self made) tech companies in clusters next to each other around their capital... or a uni town...

Imo poland is a big but impotent cock.

You are disillusioned with your own failures in your pathetic life and you need to take it out on sb. I understand and forgive you coz I am a decent person. Ha!

I forgot Kopernikus.

AHEM!

Now, let's not go in there again. :)

And Sralec - under his various guest usernames - is best ignored and left to rot in his own misery.

....better for my cough too! :)

Good coz the case is dubious - latest research proves she was a woman. Ask Maximilian Paradyz.

B.B. relax, don't have kittens, will ya? Mach dich doch nicht nass, Kinder!
Pawian as well. Kopernikus is a Pole to the Poles, but a German to the Germans,
same with his home town, Torun or Thorn? You pick.

Hey, the French claim Chopin, whilst he WAS born in Zelezowa Podolia,
and therefore Polish by birth:-) His whimsically passionate, ever capricious
themes though, e.g. his Etude in E flat, is pure, unadulterated Polish and can
bring tears to one's eyes.

To Pole he is a man, to Germans she is a woman. Simple.

?? I didn't get the joke, sorry.

Lyzko;
Pomnik Mikołaja Kopernika.This is written on his monument. Only that "Mikołaja Kopernika" suggests a female form.

No sh't Skecorc. The answer is the 19th century and geopolitical landscape. If you are smart you got your answer and if you are not ...that is the answer.

Sorry, pal, but even I know the difference between the genitive masc. singular for
names as opposed to the feminine "KopernikOWA"!!!
Geez, give me a little credit here.

Koperkowa is much better. Tasty soup, btw.

Ha-ha!!

For me, koperek is what makes Polish food, particularly your
chlodnik, so darned tasty:-)

Simple. Whenever Poland was close to achieve sth, Germans, Russians, Swedes, Czechs attacked her and destroyed everything. Together or seperately. E..g, in 1939 Soviets and Nazis had an alliance to crush Poland.

Germans reformed and are new people today. So did Swedes and Czechs.
While most Russians are the same imperialists they always were. When will they reform at last???
I don`t want to experience another destruction.

Hahaha.

In Russia, we say, that for a bad dancer the testicles get in the way.


Relax yourself.

Not so easy - imperialist Russia is our neighbour. :):):)

Yeah, and you support them and collaborate with them....because your family benefited from Russian Communism.
Didn't they?

Russia remained and remains the largest nation on earth, often quick to bully and cow
smaller neighbors perceived as weak, such as Poland or Ukraine, into submission.

Only territorially but not quantitatively.

Don't be so sure! The first human, as well as animal, in space was/were
from the former Soviet Union. In addition, without Mendelejeff's Period Table,
chemistry as we know it might still be in the Stone Age. Furthermore, before
either Hermann Oberth or Robert Goddard, a Russian first envisioned space travel.
Lobatschevsky pioneered higher functions in mathematics, Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Chekov, and
Tolstoy made sizable contributions to literature, not to mention Ilya Repin, Malevitch in visual
art, Tschaikovsky, Scriabin etc. in music, Fokine, Diaghelev in ballet, along with Eisenstein, Pudovkin
Dovzhenko, and Vertov in cinema...

Come on, Alien. You can do better than that.

Come on. That was really sophisticated hoax. They didn`t travel anywhere. Well, they did, but within the Moscow Film studios.

You've got it confused with the Americans and their landing on the moon.

To be fair, other chemists were exploring the periodic relationships between different elements at that time. Mendeleev just pipped them to the post.


Possibly Gagarin too.

Mendelejeff simply codified them, you mean, Yes, jon. That's correct.
However, his singular attempts did catapult them to importance in the
world of chemistry.

Oh, yes and how could I have forgotten to mention Dr. Pavlov in my
list of crucial Russian contributions. Or even the first Putin before the
current Czar Vladimir[The Last], RASputin, the "Mad Monk". Mme. Blavatsky etc.....

Conversation overheard at a party:

Random guest: Anybody here know what Pavlov fed his dog?
Pilot: I don't know. Was the dog flying tourist or first class?

Yeah.... none of the people you mentioned were involved in setting state policy..... no one denies there have been brilliant russian individuals. That just makes the overall failure of russian society all the more frustrating... huge potential they waste on imperial idiocy....

There I couldn't agree more, Maf!