News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

It'll never go away, like crab grass, unless attacked at the root!

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

Perhaps because it is fertile soil for nut jobs and yahoos ready, willing, and able to give vent to that ol' familiar scapegoat, anti-Jewish bias:-)

The Mods recognize they must remain above the fray in order for there an area for there to be a fray in the future!

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

Much appreciated, guys.

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

The newpaper report from whence this discussion came, of course-:)

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

I'm confused. Please send me the link in Polish! Thank you.

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

In the end, only the irretrievably cynical could imagine that it's solely about money. It's more about intangibles such as denial of ultimate, sometimes complicit responsibility. At least the Polish gov't. admitted to the possibility of a crime, unlike the Turks with the Armenians!

Polonia / POLES vs BULGARIANS [160]

Right.

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

When is "just" ever just enough? Too little is always too late, lest you neglect your Christian duty! Being a human being means especially when it's INconvenient-:)

Polonia / POLES vs BULGARIANS [160]

From the little I've learned, the Bulgarian language differs radically from Polish. The former apparently has so-called "Balkanisms" similar to both Romanian and Albanian, further sharing charactarístics with Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian! Bulgarian also has more verb tenses than Polísh-:)

Polonia / POLES vs BULGARIANS [160]

The Bulgarians I've met and seen on the whole are definitely darker and often not as tall as Poles:-)
About the only similarities in common are their Slavic heritage, but as Bulgarians are South and Poles
are Northern Slavs, there's little commonality between them!

Language / English translation of cuteczka? [8]

Those diminutives are what make Polish, Russian too, so charming:-)
Malgorzata, Malgosia, Gosia, Gocha, Gochu.... I LOVE IT!!!

Law / Work permit as a chef in restaurant business (Poland) - can it be rejected? [2]

Welcome! In addition to the obvious, legal documentation and so forth, make certain you secure the requisite Polish language skills for such a career move. Try not to rely on local's attempts at English, instead, allow yourself the independence of experiencing Poland on your own-:)

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [599]

Katyn and Auschwitz oughtn't be mentioned in the same breath. Both ghastly for sure, yet clearly not for the same reasons!

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [599]

Beware all the EXTREME dangers of historical relativism! Katyn cannot be compared with Auschwitz as posted ad nauseum on this as well as other
Forum threads, any more than Babi Yar can be compared with My Lai, The Rindfleisch or Lincoln Massacres with early Christians being thrown to the lions etc.

Murder, either manslaughter or mass mureder, is never relative and cannot be equated with other such actions, killing in pure, justifiable self defense cases notwithstanding.

Polonia / Poland, Germany, France, Spain or Greece? [35]

I was only in Prague.

USA, Canada / Poles Living in the Chicago Area [343]

Good to know, people.

Polonia / Poland, Germany, France, Spain or Greece? [35]

Next to Budapest, Prague aka Praha, is the third most strikingly beautiful city on the Continent, perhaps only behind Paris or Barcelona.
The city square is breathtaking, as was my view of the Charles Bridge from our hotel. That was in the late '90's, and so I'd imagine more ordinary folks know English. When we were there, my Viennese girl friend at the time and I found nobody except for much, much older people, who even admitted to knowing either German or English. Knowing Polish was a partial help, but my Czech was practically non-existentLOL

USA, Canada / Poles Living in the Chicago Area [343]

On that festive note, crying' shame we don't live anywhere near Greenpoint, Bklyn.! Lodi?? Don't make me laugh! Closest to any "polskosc" 'round these parts would probably be Doylestown, PA and the American Czestochowa Pilgrimage Site. From Fort Lee, that's ooohh, 'bout a two hour drive easy(:-

Haven't been to a Polish bash in at least four years and I'm gettin' mighty itchy. Thanks for the upbeat post, Johnny, especially in these COWID times-:)

Life / Polish patriotic music! [44]

Why 's that?

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

However, if the Germans had won, Warsaw, as with the rest of Europe, would have become Nazi satellites anyway, so the question is academic.

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

An uprising, incidentally, quashed by General Juergen Stroop in '44!

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

Indiscriminant "carpet bombing" remains incomparable with the most relentless, discriminant murder of Jews along with Roma in the Holocaust The only difference was that the Jews of Germany and Austria, including Hungary, was solely the degree of assimilation among the Jews. Furthermore, mass deportations or depopulation of entire communities are the salient features of actual genocide.

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

Do I smell a double standard here?

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

Or as the Germans like to say: "They hang the little guys and the big fish get off scot free!"

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

I mentioned the Roma in a prior post.

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

Anywhere near the Poconos?

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

Obsessing, Maf?? Justifying it is as bad as ignoring it!

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

Only a deranged maniac exterminates a group of humans solely because of who rather than what they are. Jews were reared in a certain manner, some people are as they are, yet who justifies genocide except a miscreant!

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

Correct, Ironside. Katyn was political, Auschwitz was ideological/biological-racial.

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

Among Red Scarers, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."!