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

one Russian (with no previous ties to Poland) that was thoroughly revered in Poland was Sokrat Starynkiewicz who oversaw turning of Warsaw into a modern European city in the late 19th century -

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokrat_Starynkiewicz

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


only in June 1944 the Soviet Bagration operation started that mostly sealed the fate of the German east front - during Kursk (summer 1943) battle Russians suffered heavy losses and in the late 1943 they suffered a big setback in crossing the Dnieper (with half a million Soviet prisoners of war captured by Germans)


this (Soviet) empire was responsible for killing more than 20 million of their own people - so yeah: why not call it evil (not to mention scores of victims from other nations they subjugated during and after the WW2)

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


no, it isn't - the Russians heard two "zh's" in Krzyżanowski but saw an 'r' which is not pronounced in Polish because it is part of a digraph 'rz' which sounds exactly as Russian 'zh' (sorry for the lack of cyrillic)


no - it is what Russians make of the Polish surname Krzyżanowski (simples)

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


there is in the Russian rendering of the surname (same as in Przewalski surname)

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


nonsense - and the zh (Polish ż) sound is not present in German (but present in English as in garage)

my guess German transliteration would be Kschischanowski

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [353]


Silesians and Highlanders still say "my som" instead of "jesteśmy"

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [353]


Polish "są" and French "sont" come from the same source (in ProtoIndoEuropean)

News / Polish coal will be back [141]


yes, it's called exploiting the naive

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


that's why Stalin virtually begged Roosevelt and Churchill to "open the second front"

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


Tusk is an egomaniac and a known liar

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


you know what often comes in the way of economic growht? corruption - and afaik Bulgaria is the most corrupted state in the EU to the point that even their top politicians are suspects

History / Did Poles living in Germany support Hitler's rise to power before World War II? [161]


yeah, suspicions - there were suspicions that they wanted to derail democracy but they lost power in a democratic election - and PO and company are somewhat suspect of breaking the constitution and a number of laws - how about that?

Love / Swedish Love for Poland [46]


Jeg elsker Danmark :P

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


yeah, a peasant party that will form a coalition with anybody but PiS - how ironic

History / Did Poles living in Germany support Hitler's rise to power before World War II? [161]


that's a lie - you clearly rejoiced when the "democratic opposition" won the last Polish elections

Love / Swedish Love for Poland [46]


the latest news is though that it was a Polish man on drugs who did it

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

I guess the purchasing power of Belarusias is even more on par with Bulgarians then the average salary suggests

Food / Poland-Tea or coffee land? [165]


I don't know about whether tea will make you sleep, however from my personal experience tea WILL NOT prevent sleep like coffee (afaik caffeine in tea is in a glucoside form which is probably why)

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


where have you seen things like that?

Love / Swedish Love for Poland [46]


this is perfectly fine - the google translate rendition was not appropriate

News / Polish coal will be back [141]


have you heard of any recent (last couple of years) breakthrough in photovoltaics?

News / Polish coal will be back [141]


which tech?

News / Polish coal will be back [141]


how exactly, if you care to explain?

News / Polish coal will be back [141]


Germany, which has similar hydro-electric potential to Poland produces less than 5 per cent of their electric power from that source

News / Polish coal will be back [141]


because hydro-electric potential in Poland is low? why not solar and wind power? becuase it happens so that there are days without much sunshine (most of the winter) and with little wind - on sunny summer days Polands solar capacity already can produce 50 per cent of the energy in the grid - so what, when it's not as reliable as nuclear power (or coal for that matter) - even the greenest of the green Germany doesn't fully rely on renewables (if I recall correctly less than 50 per cent of energy produced in Germany in 2020 came from renewable sources - you can check it on wikipedia I guess)

News / Polish Government of runs on 2 engines: Bribery from EU and Polish inferiority complex about being Polish [25]


prefer them to what? new foreing cars?

News / Polish Silesian Autonomy movement [67]


which brings us back to the fact that English (even if it is a local variety) is what children learn at home and it might somehow be the reason

for some Irish people learning Irish may some kind of a hobby or interesting pasttime like me learning Czech (although in my case I haven't really put much effort into learning Czech and I know some mostly because of its (if somewhat distant) similarity to Polish - while Irish is more like Klingon to those Irish people who learned English at home)

News / Polish Silesian Autonomy movement [67]


one thing was that the populace spoke Polish at home - this is where Polish children learned the language - any education in German or Russian started much later in school - this is not the case for the most part with Irish or Scottish Gealic (don't really know about the situation of Welsh in northern Wales but most people in southern Wales simply speak English) -

in general for 19th century Poland it was a question of 1) momentum (Polish just didn't vanish overnight) 2) identity (the German, Austrian and Russian occupants were perceived as hostile)

I'm not an expert on Irish - and my knowledge(?) on the subject stems from a quote from Sinead O'Connor's song "Famine" but... weren't the Irish in the time of The Potato Famine and afterwards, paid not to teach their children Irish?

News / Polish Silesian Autonomy movement [67]


the languages are unattractive because the language spoken daily is English, a practical language that also enjoys a world language status - why bother with some backwater (and a bit too complicated) language like some insular Celtic one

History / Honoring - Otto Schimek [47]


it is also interesting that we don't know of many such cases - meaning they were few and far between