News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [559]

@pawian

yes indeed - I didn't know about the point b) - so let's look at the numbers - less than 4 thousand people in 2022 who claimed asylum in Poland or entered the EU in Poland and then sought to claim an asylum or were caught as illegals in Germany - it's not a staggering number if you ask me if you take into consideration that it was the middle of the Belarus border crisis - and also they could have crossed the EU border in Lithuania and were maliciously sent back to Poland by the Germans (there were numerous instnaces back then when Polish police and border guards caught people travelling from Lithuania to Germany through Poland being transported by human traffickers)

News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [559]


there was no actual referendum back then (2015) - PiS won on the promise they would no accept "migrant quotas" that Western European countries wanted to share with us - and they kept their word

wait a sec though - there was an actual referendum on this last year along the last elections - however the referendum was mostly boycotted by the followers of the then opposition (now forming a government) because they were told to do so by the oppositon figures (as our current prime minister, Mr Tusk said "I cancel this referendum")

because of the boycott the referendum had not enough people voting to be binding (less then 50 per cent of those eligible voted but the vast majority of those who did voted against the idea of "migrant quotas")

(the story is not quite as straightforward though, because there were actually four questions in the referendum and only one of those was on the topic of immigration - what remains though that people depraved themselves of the right to vote on important issues because of one deranged man (Tusk) who now poses as the one true defender of Polish borders against immigration)

News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [559]


only those who first claimed asylum in Poland afaik - if you have proof to the contrary feel free to post it here

News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [559]


the last referendum on migrants was held during the elections in 2015 when PiS won mainly thanks to strongly opposing the "let's share the migrants around in Europe we have too much of them in Germany" idea and then followed by doing whatever they could to stop the idea's realisation

News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [559]


I see - well, tell Tusk to revoke it then - he's the self-proclaimed protector of the Polish borders nowadays, isn't he?

News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [559]


which deal and when - sources please

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


the US didn't lose the war - Americans just reached a conclusion that they are not ready to sacrifice any more American lives to fight the war in defence of South Vietnam - it was South Vietnam that lost the war, that's for sure

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


that doesn't change the fact that if it weren't for American supplies your country would most probably have starved during the war


you can however bomb them into the middle ages - that helps your war effort quite a great deal if you ask me

News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [559]


yeah, Tusk will do better: he will connect the fence to electric power (the idea he himself ridiculed when the wall was being designed and built)

News / Polish PM Tusk- dictator or not? What Poles think? [455]


the number of your posts is shown in your every post - you only need to check your last one - so don't feel that flattered, pawian

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


most probably because the troops who defended it had enough food :P

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [314]


Górale speak their dialect every day just like many Silesians do - it's not just for the show

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [314]


"my som" is even easier to pronounce ;)


Górale are a stubborn folk and they like sticking to their traditions including their speech - if it was just for a financial incentive I doubt they would retain it

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [317]

@Alien
they mostly need to learn how to take care of themselves which many 16-year-olds are not quite able to yet

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


the US didn't invade Iraq twice - the first Gulf war was to liberate Kuwait from Iraqis - but feel free to correct me

also Ukraine IS low on heavy weapons and low on ammunitions for those heavy weapons - for every shell the Ukrainias fired Russians fired at least 10 - also the shortage of manpower has only been a problem for Ukraine for about last two or three months


actually the US bombed Japan into surrender - and I don't mean only the A-bombs

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


1) you don't take into consideration the impact of the bombing of the German cities and industrial facilities by the Western Allies

2) you don't take into consideration the material support the US gave to the Soviet Union (their army would probably starve if it weren't for America - there was a severe famine in the Soviet Union in the years FOLLOWING the WW2 - but of course it wasn't just food that the US supplied to Russians)

3) you don't take into consideration the intelligence assistance the Western Allies gave Russians - in case of the Kursk battle which cost Germans so many resources and where they lost any strategic initiative, Russians knew about half a year in advance about the planned German operation thanks to the British codebreakers - as a result Russians had vast preparations in the area with as much as six lines of defences and thousands of tanks, planes and aritllery pieces deployed in the area

News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]


yes, PiS is not without the blame in this case - however they at least had the balls to stand up to the EU and impose an embargo on Ukranian stuff

News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]


you haven't included "Who feed and defend" - and who are facing bankruptcy thanks to the current government refusal to impose an embargo on Ukrainian agricultural products

News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]


most farmers and "peasants" vote for PiS now if you haven't noticed so far

News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [363]

you asked for it, pawian :) Ironside is simply too intelligent for you (even if he has dys..typia(?))

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [317]

about 70 per cent of adult Polish females oppose giving voting rights to minors (16-year-olds are minors in Poland) according to a recent poll

News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]


as far as public health care is concerned Britain is probably not worse, alas

News / Polish coal will be back [141]


just like johnnyreb said, renewables are not reliable (especially in Poland where winter can be harsh and usually there is very few sunny days during the time)

News / Polish coal will be back [141]


they are not really making money - they just pay slightly lower rates for electricity (like 20 per cent lower IIRC)

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]


I would go with this one, yes

Language / Interesting Polish tongue twister. [69]


you think right

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]

you should learn Czech names of the months - they are all quite poetic (though May is... kvieten in Czech (ie should be e with hacek actually but I can't be bothered :P)

(well some are the same or very similar to their Polish counterparts - like 3 or 4)

History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [77]


I don't know about rz spelling but sz and cz spelling was borrowed from certain medieval German conventions and the spelling was present also in Czech conventions before Hus's spelling reform - I'm not sure how Polish ż (neither rz) was spelled before Polish ortography was sort of codified during the Renaisance

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


USSR was most probably behind the attempt at killing pope John Paul the Second (early 80's if I recall correctly)


I wouldn't go as far as this - Russia had millions of soldiers (the Dnieper crossing disaster left little mark on their army), it was constantly supplied by the US (food, trucks, airplanes etc etc) especially after the Battle of Atlantic was won by the Allies in 1943

History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [77]


not really afaik - Polish rz sounded more or less the same as now since the Renaisance - and Poles started appearing as part of the Russian society in numbers only after the partitions of Poland - the most probable date of Krzyżanowskis appearing in Russia is 19th century - I think this is may be just a Russian convention - confer Przewalski's surname (the same pattern)