USA, Canada / Historic(al) Americans and their ties with Poland/Poles [78]

...to be precise, pawian, a disappointed office seeker.
When FDR was nearly assassinated back in '38 during a campaign stop, the Polish-born mayor of Chicago, Anton Czermak, took the bullet instead.
Sadly, there are many among us who wished it would have been the other way round.

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]

Thanks, paw!

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]

Remind me then in which film did he play a soldier or something similar.
Could have sworn it was "Kanal"!

Guess I was wrong. He's still a wonderful actor, and that voice:-)

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]

I was impressed by Andrzej Lapicki's performance in "Kanal". Forget his character's name though.

History / Polish treasures in Sweden? [18]

Absolutely correct, paw!

If anything, the onus lies with Sweden who may well have '"purloined" said artifacts, as I already posted earlier.
It was once again, Sweden, not Poland, which had considerable trading hegemony throughout much of Europe during the 17th, up through the middle 19th century, only to be overtaken (with a vengeance, I might add) by Germany:-)

History / Polish treasures in Sweden? [18]

Ohhhho, Crow!
Be careful before you castigate your Swedish "brethren". After all, wasn't Rurik, the "first " Slav, actually an ancestor of the Swedes??!
:-)

History / Polish treasures in Sweden? [18]

As the realm of the Vasa extended well beyond her own native domain, not too much of a stretch that, as with the Hanseatic League, the Swedes might indeed have plundered Polish national icons.

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

Ask yourself first why said minorities were oppressed to begin with, and perhaps you'd have a different answer.

History / The reasons of Polish pride? [112]

@Rich,
You should be smart enough to think of such lines! It was also true, as Hitler was to be sure the very worst scourge which modern humanity had yet encountered, not including of course Genghis Khan or later, the Crusaders, yet for totally different reasons.

Social Darwinism is also a disease, roots perhaps somewhere in Kant, later a misreading of Charles Darwin, whose "Survival of the Fittest" related
solely to the four-legged species of fauna, NOT MAN!!
:-)

History / The reasons of Polish pride? [112]

Yet many are still a bunch of separatists.

History / The reasons of Polish pride? [112]

As the Victor Laszlo character in "Casablanca" said it best: "If we stop breathing, we die. If we stop fighting the world will die!"
Never in recorded human history were the battle lines more sharply drawn, nor was self-sacrifice more as much an unthinking matter of
course.

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

Appreciate the heads up there, B.B.
Will try to access the link provided and print out.
:-)

History / The reasons of Polish pride? [112]

Touche, Joker!
:-)

And he was a bad one, boy, just think back to the Dems National Convention in your home town back round about '68.
Dicky had the cops bash Dan Rather for asking too many questionsLOL

History / The reasons of Polish pride? [112]

Poles are to Chicago what Irish, Italians, and Hispanics are to New York, for example.

In addition, Chicago had its version of a "Polish mafia", dramatized in the classic "Calling Northside 777" (1947) with James Stewart, featuring a fictional Polish-American, down on his luck sort named Frank Wiecek (pronounced "WHEETCHECK in the movieLOL) and his involvement with the Meatpacking Mob, which our hero, Jimmy Stewart, tries to infiltrate!

History / The reasons of Polish pride? [112]

Not forgetting about renowned Polish-Americans from the Windy City, such as Art Royko.

History / The reasons of Polish pride? [112]

You forgot Kazimierz Pulaski:-)

Of course, mike larry, that's my whole point in post #8!

Love / Just started dating Polish guy - what is typical of a man from Poland? Cultural differences. [78]

Beats me:-)

Love / Just started dating Polish guy - what is typical of a man from Poland? Cultural differences. [78]

Might even be transgender, you could be right!

Love / Just started dating Polish guy - what is typical of a man from Poland? Cultural differences. [78]

Men typically tend to rush things a little in the beginning. Women usually take it slower, understandably:-)

History / The reasons of Polish pride? [112]

Jan Sobieski, Kopernikus, Chopin, Mickiewicz (first great modern nationalist poet), the composer Karol Szymanowski, Mme. Curie, Jan Kiepura, Karski, Wojtyla.
Andrzej Wajda, Tadeusz Kantor, Jerzy Grotowski.... are plenty good reasons for me.

Travel / What is the ugliest city or town in Poland? [89]

Wawel is practically a shrine to most Poles, so I've been told and read. What I've seen of the Sukiennica is stunning and I hear Krakow has one heck of an opulent Christmas Market:-)

Life / Why Polish singers are not popular abroad? [95]

The only ultra-popular female German pop singer with whom I'm familiar is Nina Hagen, but that was in the late '80's on into the mid-90's and so likely she's more of a grandmother to the current generation:-)

Travel / What is the ugliest city or town in Poland? [89]

Although I've only visited Szczecin, I was under the impression, from Poles in particular, that Krakow was a beautiful city,
chiefly because of her touristic and historical interest.

Only last week took a gander at some pics on a friend's iPhone of the Old Town in Wroclaw and it looked most inviting:-)

Life / Why Polish singers are not popular abroad? [95]

Is that true?

While I can't recall their names at present, I must have seen countless Polish pop female vocalists advertised in our local Nowy Dziennik:-)

I'm speaking only of the contemporary, not the classical or even folk, genre.

History / Why did Hitler call Poles Half Jews? [98]

Russia, for example.

History / Why did Hitler call Poles Half Jews? [98]

Look, Brate! We didn't said for nothing Hitler was a fecking Jewish

(Pardon the gross caricature, mods)

History / Why did Hitler call Poles Half Jews? [98]

I referred originally to Dame Judy as looking to my mind quintessentially "English", aware as I was, that her mother was Irish, therefore, of Celtic extraction:-) That was all.

History / Why did Hitler call Poles Half Jews? [98]

Never said she had.
Are you sure YOU'RE OK, Milo?

History / Why did Hitler call Poles Half Jews? [98]

Native American admixture among so-termed "regular" Caucasian US citizens is quite common! Look closely at Sen. Bob Dole and his (UNDYED) jet black hair, or the faces of Bob Barker, Johnny Carson, among numerous others:-)

As to whether Judy Dench has a Celtic cast to her face, is not the same thing as suggesting a hint of Asiatic influence, is it?

Life / Getting a Polish Heritage tattoo - how would Poles react? [26]

Therein lies the fundamental difference between Poland and present-day Germany!

A German flag tattoo anywhere outside perhaps of a soccer event, and it will definitely cause some unpleasant comment.