History / Why Poles love Russia [105]

Over the generations Poles have had countless reasons to love Russia. There were three successive partitions which wiped the country off the map, Siberian exile for freedom-fighters, forced Russification and the imposition of Eastern Orthodoxy and the 1920 attempt to Bolshevise Poland and the rest of Europe. There was the Comintern and its attempt to incite subversive activity in and destabilise between-the-wars Poland, the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, breaching the non-aggression pact with Poland and stabbing her in the back. There was Katyń, standing idly by during the Warsaw Uprising, and the post-war repalcement of Nazi occupation with Soviet occupation. There was the refusal to return the one-half of pre-war Poland annexed by Stalin and the murder of Poland’s top leaders in Moscow. At least the Germans were punished by being downsized, but Soviet Russia bloated by keeping all its territorial gains arranged with Hitler from Finland to Romania. Poles also love Russia for the Katyń Lie and reprisals against those who dared speak the truth about it, for Soviet 'aid' to the brother-Hungarians in 1956, for exploiting Poland economically under Comecon (RWPG = Rosji wsio, Polsze gawno – everything for Russia, sh*t for Poland)). Also for forcing Poland to invade Czechoslovakia in 1968 under the Brezhnev doctrine, for Gorbachev's anti-Katyń (fabricated accusations of mistreating soviet POWs after the 1920 war), for blackmailing and intimidating finally free Poland over NATO membership, for banning Polish food exports under sanitation pretexts (as if Russia is so hygienic?!), landlocking the Port of Elbląg by closing the Vistula Lagoon to navigation, by snubbing the Polish delegation to the 2005 Victory Day celebrations....

These are but a few of the reasons that readily come to mind. There are many, many more examples of the crimes and misdeeds of a genetically flawed semi-Slavic/semi-Mongol nation which knows only intrigues and brute force against its own people and their neighbours.

Genealogy / Is your line of the Polish family noble? [74]

Whether any coat of arms is attached to a given Polish surname can be found in any armorial. Much more difficult is determining whether someone's line of a given family was of noble rank. In different periods of time and depending on which surname was involved, from several to maybe 12% of a name's bearers were of gentry background. Only a professional genealogist can conduct the necessary research and try to find the answer. One such firm is the Institute of Genealogy. Those interested may visit:

instytut-genealogii.com.pl/index.php?lang=en