News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


Well...I always thought that to be crap! There is no european football team to cheer for.. :)

And this is a survey from this year...a majority of 62% identifies as Germans first and foremost and only 19% see themselves as Europeans first.

de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/235690/umfrage/umfrage-zum-identitaetsgefuehl-der-deutschen/

17% feel both and a whopping 2% has no idea (?)

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


I wonder why the EU is so popular in Poland then though....



pewresearch.org/global/2019/10/14/the-european-union/

A country shouldn't join a union if it prefers to be alone...and it looks like a majority of Poles has no problems with influencing and being influenced. The percentage ist even higher than in Germany.

You could rather say.....Germans don't like others, especially Poland, to influence our internal politics! :)

News / "POLISH death camps" term used by "Parade Magazine" Anti-Polish Bigots [249]

17 Million...that's astounding and horrifying!

..imagine Tamerlane would had had the means of Stalin!

But the rest is a legend, right? It's creepy for sure....

News / "POLISH death camps" term used by "Parade Magazine" Anti-Polish Bigots [249]

...so....now back to the "anti-polish bigots" or the mods throw us out! :)

News / "POLISH death camps" term used by "Parade Magazine" Anti-Polish Bigots [249]

Define dictatorship!

Hitler was voted in democratically....

And for me the rule of the church is nothing less of a dictatorship and that lasted centuries, with a cruel opression and millions of killed! Obeyed mindlessly by millions!

In Germany the Protestants rebelled, not in catholic Poland or France.

What about Kings and Queens and their dictatorships, don't they count too? And Poles submitted, or they wouldn't had been partitioned...twice....

That historical fisheye on Germany is severely skewed...12 years...a history of 2000 years explained through 12 years, oh please!

News / "POLISH death camps" term used by "Parade Magazine" Anti-Polish Bigots [249]

She likes self made potatoe soup....*shrugs*

News / "POLISH death camps" term used by "Parade Magazine" Anti-Polish Bigots [249]

Why do people keep taking drugs even as they destroy them?

News / "POLISH death camps" term used by "Parade Magazine" Anti-Polish Bigots [249]

He was most probably a drug addict...new studies found.

nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/world-war-ii-question-was-adolf-hitler-drug-addict-51032

It would be an explanation for some of the more erratic decisions during his reign...

"....And he suggested that the decision to invade Russia in 1941 was a direct result of his addiction. The move caused many to consider Hitler "virtually insane for taking such a risk," according to the Huffington Post. His erratic military tactics and poor decisions in the Battle of the Bulge only added to those perceptions of insanity...."

That sheds an interesting light on the cruel, cold blooded craziness during this time...

"...the entire Third Reich was permeated with drugs: cocaine, heroin, morphine and, most of all, methamphetamines, or crystal meth, used by everyone from factory workers to housewives, and crucial to troops' resilience - even partly explaining German victory in 1940...."

penguin.co.uk/books/294543/blitzed/9780141983165.html

Rather to watch out for some "inherently wrongness" in the german people...just keep the drugs away from them! :)

News / "POLISH death camps" term used by "Parade Magazine" Anti-Polish Bigots [249]

...and they got off lightly!

But still...nobody is wary of Austrians...not fair! :(

News / "POLISH death camps" term used by "Parade Magazine" Anti-Polish Bigots [249]

It's always difficult to speak about a whole people consisting many millions (alot of them with polish ancestry btw.) like that...

Why don't you speak directly to me and say what you think of ME, as an ambassador/stand in for the Germany on PF?

Are you wary of me too?

History / Polish military uniforms [57]

It's the Litzen on the collar, isn't it....

History / Occupation of Eastern Poland in 1939 [98]


What would you count as "ready"? They invaded the Saar territory! If that wasn't a sure sign than what is?

You can be ready and still be beaten in a war. Otherwise it would mean for all vanquished that they just hadn't been ready...

History / Occupation of Eastern Poland in 1939 [98]


Heh:) I still remember that one....


The French paraded proudly their Maginot-Line and in 1939 their army was bigger than the Wehrmacht...not to forget their invasion of Germany during the shortlived "Saar Offensive" in September 1939...what would count as "ready" then?

History / Do Polish people in general dislike Russia or Germany more? [369]

Prost! :)

History / Do Polish people in general dislike Russia or Germany more? [369]


We should unify...drunk! :)

History / Do Polish people in general dislike Russia or Germany more? [369]


heh:)


I dunno the numbers....the german borders have been always very fluid! :)

History / Do Polish people in general dislike Russia or Germany more? [369]


They are tinies with their only achievements to show off being cuckoo clocks, they don't count! ;)


What's not to like?


....it doesn't get any better, that's for sure! :(

We might have crossed our zenith...but then, that's the problem of the next generations.

History / Do Polish people in general dislike Russia or Germany more? [369]


Who's standards are higher?

History / Do Polish people in general dislike Russia or Germany more? [369]

If "voting with their feet" really is a criteria then Germany must be the most loved country in Europe! :)

(Especially by Poles!!!;)

History / Modern myths and legends about communist past in Poland [250]

Why "surprisingly" ?

History / Modern myths and legends about communist past in Poland [250]


Well...you can say I have been socialized during the last decade of the GDR....during that time I developed my political consciousness in East-Berlin with the consequence to made a dash out of there the moment I could (with 18 years old)...I observed the break down of the wall a short time later in West-Berlin...watching the Trabis coming down the Ku-Damm....

I remember alot, it was probably the most memorable time of my life! :)

History / Modern myths and legends about communist past in Poland [250]


I REALLY REALLY REALLY think what you are calling socialism in the US has not much if at all to do with the socialism/communism of the european past. Demanding a social security plan for all is NOT communism! :)

Another point is that it is mainly only strong in those regions where they can still nurture such idealism because they never experienced the dreary reality of it. Like in West Germany too...


It wouldn't be communism...because the robots would still belong to a handfull of people....but the now unemployed plebs has to be fed somehow or else they will be burn the robots and hang their owners.

So the consequence could truly be a kind of free money for all...dunno...*shrugs*

History / Modern myths and legends about communist past in Poland [250]

Heh:) That's a good one! :)

But it's also misleading...that WAS the communists best shot...communism just isn't in human nature and will always end up twisted and perverted...

Better accept that as a fact and not try it again!

History / Modern myths and legends about communist past in Poland [250]

Well..that would mean that a bourgeois elite had developed already right under the communists nose....

Or more probable, that these two had been become interchangable. And that the patience has just worn thin with trotting out these old ideological mantras whereas the people only want to enjoy what the West offered, without being forced to play the party game...

The ideal of communism was officially dead, renounced even by its nominal followers!

I wonder where China is on this way right now...how long it will take there till communists become openly, officially and totally unashamed capitalists! :)

History / Modern myths and legends about communist past in Poland [250]


Well, doing NOTHING to help the assorted Vasalles to subdue their people was surely not part of the system, that had been done before regularly. This "brotherly help" was an important component of the whole system...

To denounce that was enough to destroy the socialist empire and to free the people. The jail door without an armed jailer behind, able and willing to shoot, is not much of a hindrance anymore...so, THANK YOU! :)


Which elite should that have been? The party sycophants? As you say, they got already what they wanted...

History / Modern myths and legends about communist past in Poland [250]

Most East-Germans know very well how much they have to thank Gorbatchov for...but in the same breath to pay your respect to Honecker and his ilk for what they didn't do is just wrong. They weren't reformer, they would had killed the protesters if they had could. BIG DIFFERENCE!

Gorbatschov was a historical stroke of luck, totally atypical for the system...the rest of the communist jailers still were the usual pestilence.


Well...the people had to wait for a Gorbatchow many years...in the meantime suffering either bloodthirsty madmen or bumbling idiots...without any means to remove them.

They lost the Cold War against western democracies for a reason! :)

History / Modern myths and legends about communist past in Poland [250]


That's not quite correct!

The old men brigade in East-Berlin was fully willing to do it like the Chinese...to bring out the military to subdue their own people...they had no qualms whatsoever....it's just for that they NEEDED the nod plus military/logistical support from Moscow and it's troops in the GDR (as they have done 1953 and 1968) but this time Gorbatchov was smarter than that. During his last visit during the (as we now know) the last days of the GDR he said "Nyet" to any kind of further support ....and that was the end of it!

If it had been only Honeckers and Mielkes decision you would probably read today about "the massacre on the Alexanderplatz"....

History / Modern myths and legends about communist past in Poland [250]


No, they weren't...on the brink of failure they opened the jail door a tiny bit and people used it to run! (Or else they would still exist).

After '89 the West didn't need to reform, he just WON! :)

Today, well...during the last decades some developments happened, without checked by great social, economical and cultural rival, that make reforms now rather necessary...

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]


Are they?

I met my last one about 10 years back..on a WWII forum...he claimed to have been an SS security detail at the Wolfsschanze...now living out his days in Florida though. I wonder if he's still kicking it..

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

.....most ended up in the Wehrmacht though.