Travel / Are Polish people as unfriendly as Slovaks? [84]

@MarieAntoinette, I fail to see your point.

Life / Problems adjusting in Poland [43]

Coming from an Anglo-Saxon culture, I can imagine that a formerly Black Market culture could be extremely daunting, to say the least.

News / "Lack of Common Sense in Politics and Society" - political correctness in Poland [33]

"Cygans" = Gypsies

News / "Lack of Common Sense in Politics and Society" - political correctness in Poland [33]

Pity that. Don't you think?

News / "Lack of Common Sense in Politics and Society" - political correctness in Poland [33]

At least in the States, political correctness is admittedly the often misguided attempt to undo, redress, past wrongs meted out against those in our society whose sole "crime" was/is NOT being mainstream. In Poland, I've observed the famous handkiss over many years and as a man, I see nothIng particularly offensive, certainly demeaning, therein. However, this shouldn't of course ever license to abuse a woman as fair game by men who have no standards of common decency:-)

History / Poland or Germany: Which country rebuilt more of its architecture? [5]

Thanks, pawian.

History / Poland or Germany: Which country rebuilt more of its architecture? [5]

What many abroad don't realize is that compared with Germany, Poland was dirt poor after the war! Naturally, even with an essentially wrecked infrastructure, it took the Germans but several years of unceasing, methodical labor to all bv resurrect their country. Warsaw's downtown took roughly twenty some years to rebuild, from '47 - '68, not out of sloth, but rather poverty.

Life / Another reason Polish people and Poland pisses me off [52]

My point exactly!

Life / Another reason Polish people and Poland pisses me off [52]

@Novi, for the buzillionth time, English makes no more or less "logical" sense than any other language!! Ethnocentric bilge.

News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]

Let's hope it sticks.

News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]

I was under a different impression. Intererting.

News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]

It seems that Poland's apparently intense dislike of the EU is motivated more by sheer self-protectionism along with her historic rivalry with Germany (more than even with Russia) compared with for example BREXIT which was motivated by Britain's desire for economic independence.

Life / Another reason Polish people and Poland pisses me off [52]

Poles will ALWAYS speak Polish, the French will always speak French.. etc.

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1090]

Human aka Judeo-Christian vs. animal aka heathen. I'm not defending the Crusaders either!

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1090]

Over simplified in your Globish vernacular, but essentially correct.

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1090]

The issue though is far more involved than meets the eye. Most issues worth discussion are:-)

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1090]

And still, no other peoples submitted en masse with such nearly unstoppable gusto to the unparalleled anti-Christian barbarism of the Third Reich as Hitler's million hordes! This then begs the eternal question "Why Germany?"

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1090]

There's a thesis which maintains that the Germans never truly Christianized, but remained heathens at heart.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

None to my certain knowledge, novi.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

The "Jesus argument" might well be the most tenable one yet...if you know a thing about history:-)

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Look at who was in the influential public eye such as the prelates Jozef Kardinal Glemp, Wyszpanski, not to mention the arch nationalist politico Moczar!

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [192]

Thanks. Schulz though was noteworthy for being Jewish!

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

I did no such thing! The Poles, as with other gentile Europeans, hated the Jews because the latter were demonized as Christ-killers, plain and simple.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Whom else?

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [192]

A contemporary of that British chap Bacon?

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Your thinking is typically American, ignorant and simplistic!

Why do you like or dislike somebody? Usually, there is no reason, good, bad or indifferent.

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [192]

2O15 you mean, otherwise the chap died before he was even born LOL

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Question is hardly simple, novi.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Jews were initially perceived as too shrewd, too ready to see the wrong doings of others:-)

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Israel was still virgin territory by the fime the European-Jewish settlers, the Jabotinskys and so forth, arrived in the Holy Land! Try teaching Holocaust studies to Israeli youth. "So why didn't those in the schtettl simply blow 'em all away with their semi-automatics?", was the usual response from high schoolers.