Differences between Poland and Russia

Russians are stubborn, just like Poles/Polesses.
While Trump hates any opposition.
I predict Russians refuse to yield to Trump`s demands for negotiations and he will impose extremely radical sanctions on them in result. The mother of all sanctions. Including the transfer of high tech weapons which Biden refused to supply to Ukraine.
Russia will be cooked for decades.

Pooof!! Russia is gone!!! Go into space after your Sputnik and never come back!!!! hahaha buhahaha

Excellent!!!!!! Kurwa mać, ludzie, trzymajta mnie bo odlecę w kosmos za nimi!!!!!

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@pawian▲ 0▼ 0

Historically, Poland has often been forced to take a back seat to her larger, more powerful
neighbor to the East, not willingly, but simply by means of Russia's cultural and geopolitical
hegemony!

For centuries, Poland has sought to get free of the yoke of German and Russian domination,
yet has remained subjugated by Moscow and has been made to feel like a backwater.

@Lyzko▲ 0▼ 0

Geopolitical, yes.
Cultural, no. Muscovite Russians were barbarians still living in outback forests when Poland experienced her Golden Age.


By crude numbers only. There were always 4 times more Russians than Poles/Polesses so it is no wonder they finally overwhelmed us with the help of Germans.


E.g, in 1939 when Nazi Germans and Soviet Russians made a pact to invade and share Poland.

The difference is that in Poland we never appreciated possessed Russian Rasputins.

Only foreign bands came to Poland to sing about them:

Sopot International Festival, 1979, communist times:

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@pawian▲ 0▼ 0

@Pawian, you raise a solid point which I apparently overlooked, thanks:-)

@Lyzko▲ 0▼ 0

It`s OK, glad to be of service. :):):)


Ra Ra Rasputin
Lover of the Russian queen
There was a cat that really was gone
Ra Ra Rasputin
Russia's greatest love machine
It was a shame how he carried on

He ruled the Russian land and never mind the tsar
But the kasachok he danced really wunderbar
In all affairs of state he was the man to please
But he was real great when he had a girl to squeeze

@pawian▲ 0▼ 0

a polish will put the white flag up in a second and a russian will fight until the final

@espana▲ 0▼ 0

Polish people value freedom and human dignity and human life.

russians value none of those.

@mafketis▲ 0▼ 0

He would only fight because he sold the white flag for vodka early on. 🤭

@Alien▲ 0▼ 0

We already know you are an idiot.

@Novichok▲ 0▼ 0

Russians fight till the end to save their family from oppression back home by the brutal authorities led by a crazy dictator. Today Putin, in the past Stalin or Ivan the Terrible. Those Russians are really miserable.

A joke from Cold War times:
US and Soviet military organise a meeting. Officers decide to test their soldiers` discipline and loyalty.
An American soldier is told by his superiors to leap off the cliff into certain death below in the name of Ronald Reagan. He refuses: I can`t. I have a wife and kids.
A Russian is told the same by Soviet officers to die in the name of Leonind Brezhnev. He quickly climbs the cliff and is going to jump when Ams stop him and ask. Are you crazy?? Go down and back to the camp!
He replies: I can`t. I have a wife and kids.

Similarities also exist. E.g, Russians can be as crazy as Poles/Polesses.

E.g, In 1694, the Tsar Peter the Great organized a wedding for one of his jesters. Together with the highest state dignitaries, he rode behind the elegant carriage in which the newlyweds sat.

The procession consisted of unusual mounts for this type of ceremony: dogs, goats, pigs and bulls. All guests were required to wear clownish costumes: straw shoes, colorful dresses, wooden hats and squirrel and cat tails.

For three days straight they ate and drank. Alcohol flowed freely, and those who couldn't keep up with the pace of the partying lay under the tables in their own vomit.

@pawian▲ 0▼ 0

Indeed...a great party.

@Alien▲ 0▼ 0

There is a problem here. Most Poles during socialism used to think everyone who speaks a Russian-like language is Russian. Now, because many Ukrainians live in Poland, people mix up Ukrainian and Russian traits. So, if you talk about a Russian person, they might in fact describe a Ukrainian and the other way around.

@Ron2▲ 0▼ 0

"No Pole SPEAKS Russian, but everyone understands it!", according to an elderly Polish acquaintance.

@Lyzko9bda5804d1f▲ 0▼ 0

The more Polish I learn, the more hilariously similar Russian seems. Sometimes it almost seems like Polish, just spoken through a Russian accent. Every other word seems the same. They say blyat instead of kurwa, but a lot of the rest is very, very similar. I'll be watching a Russian movie and then start laughing uproariously when a character says what's basically a Polish word in a really Russian way. The other day it was 'люди' - basically 'ludzie' but with a huge characteristically Russian Y sound after the L. This kind of thing cracks me up.

Poles hate it when outsiders bring up their similarities to Russia and Germany - the comparison is gigantically insulting to them - but they are much more similar than they'll ever admit.

@PolandAndRussia▲ 0▼ 0

Don't just confuse Polish "pukac" w/Russian "pukat"!

@Lyzko9bda5804d1f▲ 0▼ 0

@Lyzko9bda5804d1f

Haha, that's a good one! Never heard that before.

Reminds me of this, a very funny Czech electronics retailer.

Elektro Odbyt probably sounds fine as an 'electrical outlet' in Czech. But in Poland, Electro Anus! Amazing name for a band, maybe. "He's the lead guitarist for Elektro Odbyt".

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@PolandAndRussia▲ 0▼ 0

In Czech even worse!
"szukac" (Polish) = to look for
"sukat" (Czech) = to screw

@Lyzko9bda5804d1f▲ 0▼ 0