Why Poland achieved nothing at all?

A better person than history remembers him as. Some of his predictions were very accurate.


Actually an ethnic German. Before her marriage her name was Helena von Hahn. Something of a charlatan too.

@jon, name for me a single famous Russian who wasn't mixed with
something else!

Pushkin for instance was half black, Lobachevsky might have been part Jewish, Shostakovich
was half-Polish, the list goes on....

Putler?

Many people say he's a Mordvin, lol.

Did you even know of such an ethnicity?

Does it have anything to do with the murder?

Huh?

It's mostly Mordvins/Moksha that claim him, but also he seems somewhat obsessed with them. He talks about them often, in pretty glowing terms. This makes people think he may be one of them.

To be honest, I don't think there's any way to tell a Mordvin from a Russian. Technically, they are closer to Estonians and Finns.

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Yes.

Of course there's still the issue of his real parentage and the records showing him attending school in Georgia. That and the mysterious deaths of the journalists who published that story.

It's so typically russian.

My geopolitical analysis of the Polish history is best expressed with a maxim of one Soviet poet:

"ponaniosło zarazy z obu stron"

How can you achieve something with such friendly neighbors which invade you now and then as a matter of course? I sometimes think that one of the main reasons for the WW2 was making sure that there isn't a new European power, which Poland threatened to become, but that is probably just a conspiracy theory. I am proud of Poland because it is, despite having such friendly neighbors.