News / Pawel Adamowicz, Gdansk mayor, dies after stabbing [354]

I know that, but I would like to know how extremists justify the murder of a politician who was that popular that he was re-elected for a sixth term!

I'm really curious...I've known Iron for years.

News / Pawel Adamowicz, Gdansk mayor, dies after stabbing [354]


How did he do that?

News / Pawel Adamowicz, Gdansk mayor, dies after stabbing [354]


Yes, an enormous achievement. He must have been a great mayor!

And Torq is totally right....you only have to smear someone for long enough and some nutter will take it as an order...


Over 50% of the Danziger voted for him during the first round last November...he must have a huge family!

He is dead, what else do you want now?

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

@Lyzko
You just shouldn't mumble but speak loud and clear!

:)

News / Pawel Adamowicz, Gdansk mayor, dies after stabbing [354]

RIP Pawel Adamowicz

(I hope me saying the appropriate and polite isn't seen by certain nutters as proof that he was deep in Merkel's pockets and an agent of the fourth Reich to enslave the free polish people, if so I still don't take it back...)

Off-Topic / Ukraine, Belarus, Russia in EU in 2030? [105]


Some problems can't be solved with money...the EU had to learn that the hard way (Greece).

Off-Topic / Ukraine, Belarus, Russia in EU in 2030? [105]


...they have the potential to destabilize the whole EU. Not every country needs to be an EU member!


One thing is for sure, the differences were widely underestimated...and that's why I think we shouldn't make that mistake again with the Balkan countries. We have time!

Off-Topic / Ukraine, Belarus, Russia in EU in 2030? [105]

Frankly I don't want any Balkan country in the EU...we have to many differences right now since the latest enlargement as it is...

Off-Topic / Ukraine, Belarus, Russia in EU in 2030? [105]


Why is that plausible? That man Kononenko could also say the moon is made up of joghurt...would that be plausible too? Who is that guy?

I will wait for the german press to pick that up...till now there is nothing...so...

Off-Topic / Ukraine, Belarus, Russia in EU in 2030? [105]

Not Merkel said that!


And frankly...it's quite unbelievable!

Alone the accession protocol takes longer...even for stable new prospects. For difficult ones like Ukraine it could take decades (aka Serbia, Turkey)....

That's more realistic:

History / Occupation of Eastern Poland in 1939 [98]


We would need to borrow some functioning ones first...

History / Occupation of Eastern Poland in 1939 [98]

100 will be the new 50, I swear! :)

History / Occupation of Eastern Poland in 1939 [98]


...people get older nowadays...

I just read somewhere in an interview with such a smartie from Silikon Valley that the first "immortal" is already born...*get's goosebumps*

History / Occupation of Eastern Poland in 1939 [98]


Yeah...when the Russians are not part of the "human race", then where stand we Germans...we were much worse!

Life / Stereotypes about Polish people being stupid? [281]

Never heard of the norwegian study? If that is true not only for norwegians we get all dumber...


learningenglish.voanews.com/a/norwegian-study-iq-scores-dropped-for-decades/4445319.html

Off-Topic / Ukraine, Belarus, Russia in EU in 2030? [105]

It depends on the next 10-20 years, I think....

In the wake of Trump Europe needs to come to grips what it wants to be, where it wants to go...

Back to a more loosely connected trading bloc or the beginning of a "United States of Europe"...with a common government electable in all member states, common laws and rules, a common army, a common foreign policy etc.

Becoming a member of the first should be imaginable once you go through the accession protocol...the second is to far in the future to see.

History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]


He liked Germany though....Merkel speaks russian and he german...I wonder which language they use between them...

History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]

Here is an interesting link about Putin in the GDR...he didn't do much though....

rbth.com/politics_and_society/2017/08/08/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-putins-work-in-east-germany_818928

Off-Topic / Russophiles can no longer defend their beloved Russians. [84]


Yeah...that is abysmal...can it really be all the Wodka everybody blames?


Na ja, it isn't as if Putin gives a sh'it about it either...after all his support for the secessionists with money, public and weapons he is not really the victim here.

Imagine other countries could get the idea that a border change would be the thing to strive for..

Off-Topic / Russophiles can no longer defend their beloved Russians. [84]

Not killing journos and poisoning critics, not supporting secessionists and helping himself to some extra territories would be a good start...letting gays alone would be a nice touch too.

But migrants don't feature in that list...that's one topic they have already checked (better than Germany I would add):


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Russia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigration_to_Russia


Tha manly man Putin is quite pro-immigration...who would have thought, huh?

PS: Crowie better hurry with his slavic empire thingy...

Off-Topic / Russophiles can no longer defend their beloved Russians. [84]

I doubt Merkel would support the economical and political sanctions if we were..

consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/sanctions/ukraine-crisis/history-ukraine-crisis

Off-Topic / Russophiles can no longer defend their beloved Russians. [84]


Not really, no...it also works only in small doses.


Maybe we are to big for each other? I just dunno, Rich....

Off-Topic / Russophiles can no longer defend their beloved Russians. [84]


I wonder if that would be possible at all.

The dream of a russo-german alliance is old (even before Catherines times), the advantages for both clear, but are we compatible? Social, mental, cultural?


Na ja, but she was rarely seen as a rival to the own gov head either... :)

Off-Topic / Russophiles can no longer defend their beloved Russians. [84]


Yeah....I'm glad it's over and I can't understand people going all nostalgic over it.

No naked male breast on a horse can convince me otherwise...

Off-Topic / Russophiles can no longer defend their beloved Russians. [84]


I wonder how far that "liking" goes...the number of USians immigrating to Russia wanting to live under Putin's system is quite limited, isn't it?

Could you post a link to these polls?

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

I wonder if that insult would work the other way around too....Mongols with polish genes...some souvenir a rider brought back to the steppe...

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

....I'm still not sure if I should shuck out the money on Ancestry for my DNA test...interesting it would be though...

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]


Oh please...they raped what they got, even newly freed inmates of the concentration camp for women, Ravensbrück!

individual.utoronto.ca/jarekg/Ravensbruck/LastDays.html


That revenge rape myth may for you maybe kind of consoling, but it just isn't true:



telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/1382565/Red-Army-troops-raped-even-Russian-women-as-they-freed-them-from-camps.html

History / Lusatian-Sarmatic obsession of Poles [153]

Maybe something like:

"Dammit, I don't want a harp!"

? :)

History / Lusatian-Sarmatic obsession of Poles [153]

"They"?

Crowie, the mind behind this art is a japanese manga/anime artist....just google "Hetalia"...or how a japanese artist sees Axis/Allies Europe! :)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetalia:_Axis_Powers
hetalia.kitawiki.net/index.php?title=Germany
hetalia.kitawiki.net/index.php?title=Prussia
hetalia.kitawiki.net/index.php?title=Poland