History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

"....since the liberation of Poland from the Germans was already almost a fait accompli....."

Really, Rich? Seems you're privy to certain primary source documents over which the rest of us mere mortals can merely salivate:-) Do tell, old boy!

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

I think your point is academic, Rich. If not the liberation of Poland, what else then?

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

The "primary", if not the sole, objective of the Warsaw Uprising, was naturally to kick Hitler's buttuski to Kingdom come!
They nearly succeeded. Oh, there were some malingerers in the ranks, I'm sure, but on the whole, the Poles (both Jew
and gentile) stuck to their guns, literally, and fought with their last ounce of blood.

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

So curious for me to read in certain posts here that in some circles, the Germans come off smelling better than the Russians who are are cast as the perennial "enemy", even while liberating your countries from Nazism.

News / "A merciful heart can share its bread with the hungry and welcome refugees and migrants" Pope Francis [89]

While turning the other cheek isn't usually an option either in my opinion, Jesus' teachings represent all the best towards which
we all should strive, even if we never make it.
Most of us though aren't even close:-)

News / "A merciful heart can share its bread with the hungry and welcome refugees and migrants" Pope Francis [89]

Being a generous person doesn't also mean being a doormat:-)

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

The latter I would think, a no brainer!

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [543]

Furthermore, as education is seen in Germany as a BASIC HUMAN RIGHT, and not merely an entitlement of a privileged class,
it is taken way more seriously than it is, say, here in the US!

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

Interesting. The Germans know him as the great Nueremberg sculptor Veit Stoss.
Guess it's like that Kopernikus vs. Copernick debate all over again:-) You guys claim him for Poland because technically he was born in Torun, the Germans claim him for Germany, since the German name for his home town is/was Thorn.

Genealogy / What are common Polish character traits? [425]

Dirk, add to those German attributes, more darkly cynical as well:-)

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

Yes, that was the series! It prompted one reviewer unfortunately to remark, that it seemed as though
the new breed of TV detectives all had some handicap, in the case of Columbo, it was his eyesight, in the case of Banaczek,
his being Polish was enough of a handicapLOL

This jibe wasn't funny back then, and it isn't funny now either.

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

George Peppard played a Polish-American detective in an older TV series once, and even he caught a lot of nasty flack for the character being Polish.

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

Ted Knight simply translated the Polish word for his last name into English:-)
He was though somewhat sensitive regarding 'Polish jokes'.
Once on Carson way back in the '80's, he appeared on the show alongside Buddy Hackett,
who typically made some sort of gaff and asked the show's host if he could tell this great
Polish joke he'd just heard, to which Ted Knight sharply retorted (although keeping up a
winning smile and calm), "Why don't you tell it in Polish?"

Buddy Hackett looked kind of chagrinned and ended up changing the subject.

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

While we're still on the subject, her former radio host, Curtis Sliwa, is half-Polish, half-Italian/Sicilian! Current replacement, Juliette Huddy's half Polish too.

:-)

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

I seem to recall some pretty harrowing scenes from the film "Przesluchanie" (1982). Anybody care to comment?

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

Of Polish heritage then, perhaps?

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

No idea. News anchor?

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

In that case, it must be an Italian, 'cuz Clyde Barrow and Dillinger had more W.A.S.P.Y along with ever so slightly Native American features.

If the photo's of a Mafioso, I'm stumped, sorry!

@That's right, Pawian.

I also saw that film about Bugsy Siegel and boy was he a bad one! His boys would work a guy over just like John Gotti or the like, no difference.

He even attended synagogue in a swanky Miami Beach temple. Similar to, for example, Vinnie Azzaro, wearing a cross and going
to church on Sunday.

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

Dutch Schulz (nee Arthur Flegenheimer), I think.
See, paw? The US had plenty of Jewish gangster types. Add his name to Bugsy Siegel, Louis Lepke (and Gurrah) plus a number of others.

Don't see what he has to do with Polish-Americans though.

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

I mean that he's a new breed of actor, so nearly as I can tell. If you compare him with
Zbigniew Cybulski, Leon Niemczyk, Andrzej Lapicki, going back even further to Danuta Szaflarska,
he's more intense instinct rather than charm, almost a Polish James Dean, a sort of Rebel Without
A Clue (whoops, "Clause" or was that "Cause"LOL).

Understand what I'm saying? Caught some of "Jedwabne" on YouTube and several others films
he's played in and this is simply my own impression.

Just curious that's all what you think about him as a film performer:-)

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

What do you all think of Maciej Stuhr, that is, as a new style- type of actor?

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

Precisely! Whoever that lone gunman was, he inadventently aimed at and shot Czermak, rather than Roosevelt. Pawian misunderstood the post.

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

Indeed, Lenka.
I meant to write "KTOS sprobowal zabic.."

Too much late afternoon ZubrowkaLOL

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

Czolgosz chcial zostac kandydatem. Leon Czolgosz wanted to be a candidate for US president.

W 1938r. ktokolwiek sprobowal zabic Roosevelt'a, ale on wypadkowo zastrzelal burmistrza Chicago Antona Czermaka!
Teraz zrozumiales, pawian?

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??!
:-)