News / A devestating verdict on the Polish church [279]

So the religionists were only sleeping :)
Very funny that they refer to Father Wiśniewski as "this priest" and "these" accusations.
It has to be hard for them not be able to attack the author of the open letter, having a genuine anti-PRL and anti-Stasi background...

Instead they slander GW, which of course only published the letter. So could the religionists please answer Father Wiśniewski's main points? ( How hard it has to be for you Dmowski-ites not to be able to proof he is a freemason/jew/communist)

News / A devestating verdict on the Polish church [279]

Where are the religionists ?

Study / Going to Medical School in Poland (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn / and others) [51]

Which country are you from?

News / Polish President Lech Kaczynski and gov officials die in a plane crash in Russia [686]

Here at work my Polish colleagues do not give a ** about this PIS-Smolensk obsession. Instead when the next PIS moron comes on air, explaining he does not know how Gosiewski died (being on a plane crashing, probably having been shot down by PO flying saucers), they yawn, roll their eyes and joke it could have been a train accident on his private IC station.

Main topic in the office these days: 1. The weather 2. Price of Christmas trees this year
I think the majority of the Polish people think like that. Except the Polska-B Radio Marija part of course.
PIS could be very well able to dig up Cold Lech his bones from Wawel just to make headlines in the news.. Excellent idea by the way. They could be sent back to Warsaw, and not disturb the Old Marshal anymore.

History / Roman Dmowski-Patriot, Nationalist, Anti-Semite? [251]

The Old Marshal would spit on you. If there was any clearcut symbol of Polish fascism it was Dmowski.You have no relatives in the Świeokrzyskie Brigade?

The Old Marshal stood for a cosmopolitan idea of Central Europe. A Mitteleuropa which has vanished. He also saved Europe from the Bolsheviks. Dmowski was just a Polish fascist.

The Old Marshal was a plain heroe.

History / Roman Dmowski-Patriot, Nationalist, Anti-Semite? [251]

Dmowski was a genuine and hardcore antisemite. The Old Marshal was every inch more a Pole as this guy. Who rescued Poland from the Bolsheviks?

Law / Polish EU Drivers Licence - can I get one the easy way (by paying for it)? [185]

That is why I am very happy to go to work these days by tram and bus :)

Law / Polish EU Drivers Licence - can I get one the easy way (by paying for it)? [185]


You mean, like not getting a license the regular way but buying one = i.e. illegally?
Not that getting a license in the legal way guarantees anything. What I see here in Warsaw on the roads in one day...I did not see back home in a year :)

News / Polish in vitro treatment fully refundable - bonkers! [62]

"Being excommunicated", this sounds so very Torquemada. In which century do these frocks live?
I do not think the Polish episcopate has to teach anybody a moral lesson. They employ former SB guys to rob the country from its hospitals and schools. Getting "back" property at rock bottom rates and sell it to the highest bidder. Files of priests spying for the commies are not available or denied.

They were too coward to condemn the religious nazis on Krakowskie P. They are not able to suppress Radio Marija. They cannot silence the fascist mouthpiece "Nasz Dziennik".

They instruct people how to vote.

In Vitro during all these years has allowed thousands of normal people in civilized countries to get their children wish fullfilled. People who were not able to get children by another way. How cruel you have to be to be blind to this?

But we are talking about an institution which allowed child-molesting by its frocks during generations. Why should we be surprised? What do they know about normal family life?

Life / Polish authors, books & literature. [95]

The number of Polish authors translated into Ducth is limited...
Lem of course (I really like him). Kapuczyński... Miłosz...
And more recent... "Madame" from Antoni Libera. And there was also a novel about young people in Wałbrzych - cannot remember title and author... But it was depressive.

There is also a collection of essays by Adam Michnik - also good.

History / Poland is great Mother of all Slavs from Baltic to Balkan [177]


I heard that the Cathedral of Our Lady in my beloved Antwerp had a Serb architect?
I could be mistaken though - after all these Serbs are everywhere these days.
Sadly there are a few locations where they have never been - all locations where they mass-murdered Croats and Bosnians. Strange....

History / Poland is great Mother of all Slavs from Baltic to Balkan [177]

I could have known :)
But like real books, published by real historians in the real world?
Even Norman Davies if you have to. Did you ever read "God's Playground" ?

History / Poland is great Mother of all Slavs from Baltic to Balkan [177]

Serb, when can we expect your contribution to which books about Polish history you have actually read/like/dislike, and why ?

History / Polish history is 100% glorious [297]

MG, there is no sense in discussing with hardened antisemites as IS.
I wonder why he still likes the Old Marshal. He would never have understood this kind of Dmowski-ite persuasion.

Law / HELP: ALLEGRO... Do most Polish buyers at allegro.pl use PayPal? [33]

Thread attached on merging:
Allegro experiences

What are your experiences with Allegro. I have already ordered a few times on E-bay (German and UK one). But is Allegro OK ?

Travel / Looking for a good map of Poland on the Net [19]

mapa.targeo.pl

Travel / Poland wildlife and similar wild life where you live. [244]

Ducks seem to be more sympathetic at home somehow.

Life / Polish authors, books & literature. [95]

Back home one a few Polish authors translated into Dutch in my young years was Lem (who I really like), Miłosz and Kapuczyński. Equally adored by me.

Humanist = guy who realized that bits and bytes are not everything in life :)

Adam Zamoyski - being blue-blooded magnat offspring - he writes very good books about Polish history.

History / Is there any part of Polish history that's at least a bit glorious? [196]


I think this country has more sensible things to spend money on. One good move was for example to lease from LOT Embraer planes for government use.

I think it is simply stupid to blame the Brits for Yalta. For starters Yalta was a confirmation of Teheran 1943. What could Britain do? Declare war on the Soviets? Perhaps with the remains of the SS? (that was a dream of Himmler).

How could Churchill have helped the foolish 44 Uprising? Sending Sosabowski on Dakota's to Warsaw?
If anybody is to be blamed, it is Roosevelt - and rather his cronies Alger Hiss and Dexter White. He thought Uncle Joe was a guy you could do business with.

George Orwell knew better.

News / What Polish diaspora need and expect from Poland, from Poles in Poland? [43]


You mean, like a Serb Ottoman asking this question ?

History / Is there any part of Polish history that's at least a bit glorious? [196]

Harry, as much as I side with you against the Polish reactionaries here...You have to admit that if would have been Chamberlain's and Halifax' choice, Britain would have stayed out if the war. Remember Leon Amery shouting at Arthur Greenwood "Speak for England" ?

Norman Davies is not objective. He seems to to think Poles were the greatest benefactors of the Jewish people ever existed.

History / Is there any part of Polish history that's at least a bit glorious? [196]


You could always buy Swedish - they are doing a good job at building great fighter planes.

History / Polish history is 100% glorious [297]


Like MG was rightly writing. The commies are gone for more than 20 years. Why moan about them? Buy a book about them in DSH.
The antisemitic gits are staying forever in this country.

History / Is there any part of Polish history that's at least a bit glorious? [196]

So tell me why Poland is so slavishly connected to the US? Iraq, Afganistan, Missile Shield, CIA secret flights... Everything to please the guys across the ocean?

And what do you get in return? Mothballed C-130's "upgraded"? F-16's which have continuous malfunctions (you could have bought first-rate Swedish Gripen planes, but oh - they are European)

LOT having to buying Boeing planes at any cost - ah yes they are American so they have to be super.
Visa restrictions canceled? Nope. You are still treated as illegal immigrants at the border.
What are you doing it for?

History / Is there any part of Polish history that's at least a bit glorious? [196]

I think 1920 is something definitely to be proud of for the Poles. Although I think the Marshal almost overplayed his hand with his invasion of the Ukraine (although his motives were understandable).

Vienna 1683 - Also. Of course the Poles were part of a bigger coalition, but nevertheless without the Polish cavalry thundering down from Kahlenberg, Europe I think would have been a different place now. Too bad Sobieski was a bad administrator on the domestic front.

Chocim, 1673. I think it is a battle often overlooked in the West but nevertheless essential instemming the advance of the Islam hordes.

History / Polish history is 100% glorious [297]


The Old Marshal was very much in favour of a representative government. He promoted the emancipation of the Jewish people. Does not that hurt a rabid antisemite as you?

Aha by the way - Your adored Polish Blue Police was selling their Jewish compatriots to the Germans wholesale, and making a profit out of it as well.

In Brussels the roundup of Jewish people failed because the police refused to cooperate.
Commies no doiubt, all of them :)))

History / Polish history is 100% glorious [297]


Really? The Marshal was all in favour of the old Commonwealth...the emancipation of the minorities. Actually I think he would have got along quite well with Bismarck. The same sense of pragmatism.

Dmowski would be proud of you. Hoess also I think.

What is interesting...Ask any Pole which of his/her neighbours he likes - that will be the Slovaks and Hungarians. Nobody likes the Czechs. The uncanny thing is - in the whole of Central Europe only the Czechs did not support the Holocaust. The only nation without an antisemitic tradition. Poland's friends actively participated.

History / Polish history is 100% glorious [297]


I think the Old Marshal would spit in your face and Dmowski would be proud of you. Cold Lech as well I think.
As the cross aliens and the PIS electorate and Polska B - all the same - you all should be proud of the reputation you are giving this country.