Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]


Yes I can imagine.

We had a cannibal - Andrei Chikatilo - who killed and ate like 100 women.

We also had the FBI send their special agents.

The idea was that serial killers were a uniquely American phenomenon, that our criminologists just couldn't wrap their heads around. Since it's a completely anomalous crime in Slavic countries.


I have not seen any statistics, but this is something that everyone seems to believe is true based on empirical/anecdotal evidence.

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]


How does a police state prevent a rape or a burglary?

Do you read what you write?

A more logical response would be:

1) Housing was widely available (even if cramped) - reducing homelessness to near zero.

2) No large ghettos or underclass districts were formed - since the state controlled urban planning tightly

3) Full employment and vocational training. Even if you were some kind of dummy, they would train you how to fix a carburetor or weld a joint.

4) Free and universal education.

5) Limited wealth inequality.

6) Limited access to weapons, except those used for hunting.

7) Strong community ties and sense of social responsibility.

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]


Another uncomfortable fact for people that insist that the period from 1945 to 1991 was one non-stop hell.

How did the socialists manage to virtually eliminate violent crime?

Why did crime explode post-1991?

Off-Topic / God and Religion Talk [451]


Ok. I need to introduce you to a forum user named Crow.

He's incredibly elusive, so it won't be easy... but next time I see him I will put you both in touch.

You will not find such an opponent of the Catholic Church anywhere in the world.

He is also able to explain to you why Winston Churchill, Queen Elizabeth II, and yourself - are all actually Serbs.

UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [295]


You have been talking to the Josef Pilsudski of this forum. He will not receive this information well.

UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [214]


This is higher in priority than the other things you've recommended, yes?

UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [214]

@mafketis

Is it at all like the Discovery Channel's "Pawn Stars"?

UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [214]

@Torq

I trust you, like I trust my control officer at headquarters. So I will watch this.

Life / The Best Things About Poland [65]


:)

UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [214]

@WarSore

I used to watch Polish action flicks (with Russian dubbing) when I was a kid, and then didn't watch anything Polish until 1670 last year.

So I'm pretty excited to see what you've recommended.

UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [214]


Care to give a recommendation? I watched 1670 on Netflix, and it was fantastic.

Life / Poland is horrible and I have to live here - somebody call a whambulance! [95]


Nearly every movie is based in New York. Sometimes I'm sitting in a movie theater, and a scene comes up that features the actual building in which I'm sitting in that very moment.

But it's not all Devil Wears Prada and Sex in the City. We also get to see the city destroyed by aliens, asteroids, terrorists, etc. If it's an American city getting wrecked in some movie - it's always NY and never Chicago.


There's a lot of New Yorkers everywhere. In Miami, in LA, in Denver, in St Louis - literally everywhere. They carry their NYC attitude with them, and it pisses people off.

John Updike said:

"The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding."

Then Woody Allen also said, that a real New Yorker sees traveling outside New York as "camping".

These people weren't making it up - some New Yorkers are really this insufferable.

Some anecdotes from my own experience:

1) Took some folks skiing. In the middle of nowhere. Had to go to like 5 places, before it was decent enough for them to eat in. Then they started ordering fancy cocktails, from a bartender that only serves Jack and Coke or Coors Light. They didn't even understand why he hated them.

2) Again, took some folks upstate, to show where my plant is located. To the people in the car, it was like a safari. A girl in the back, kept asking me: "What do people do here? Do they have jobs? Where do they work?". I had to explain to her, that it works like any other economy. You need a haircut, so there is a barber. You need food - so there is a supermarket clerk. She couldn't believe me, that these people were actually seriously trying to live their life out there.

3) I had a girlfriend, that for trips outside New York, would pack food for herself for every day, because she felt she could not find edible food in the rest of this huge country.

So yeah, New Yorkers can sorta be blamed for the hate they attract. They think other Americans are insects.

Life / Poland is horrible and I have to live here - somebody call a whambulance! [95]


No one moves because of this. No active or potential entrepreneur.

If Poles are at all like Russians - then it may be a larger problem of attitude.

In Russia, if I share with my friends that I'm starting a business, they'll give me 50 reasons for why it's not gonna work.

In America, everyone wishes you luck, and tries to connect you with somebody who could be useful.

Britain has the same problem though, if not worse. Not sure the business climate is any better in Britain than in Poland.

Life / Poland is horrible and I have to live here - somebody call a whambulance! [95]


In Annie Hall, Woody Allen said this about New York:

"Don't you see? The rest of the country looks upon New York like we're left‑wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers? I think of us that way sometimes-and I live here."

New York is Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots, and Abominations of the Earth.

People hate it for its arrogance, its sinfulness, and its greed. Same reason people hate Moscow.

People hate its power. The state used to be called the Empire State, because New York had its long tentacles dipping into every single pie. Whether it was the studios of Hollywood, the factories of Detroit, the oils derricks of Houston, or the meat packing districts of Chicago. The whole country worked for New York. The same way all of Russia works for Moscow.

Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]


Maybe never.

Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]


We can't talk about this, until the right time arrives.

Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]


Under a dysfunctional system.

A capitalistic Russia will let loose all the demons of Polish capitalism.

Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]


Maybe we have criminal and barbarian understandings... possibly.

But all criminals and all barbarians respect strength.

Russia is a one thousand year exercise in building strength.

We want to be strong, and we respect only strength. Poland - just like Ukraine - is incredibly strong. You,
Yourself, do not understand how strong you are.

Together with us, we can be unstoppable. We will dominate this sorry planet, and then make every other world we encounter our b*tch.

If you want a strong planet - you want a strong Russia.

Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]


I know this man, and every Russian knows him.

Again - respect. This is strength. This is faith. This is Jihad.

You don't understand us Russians... we respect this.

Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]


You must see this.

He maintained his dignity, and did not give these homosexuals one moment of satisfaction.

Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]


This is our Slavic inheritance. Nobody can take it away from you.

Although... many years ago, there was a video of an Italian special operations operator caught in Islamic State occupied Mosul. They took him, and his colleagues, outside the city and shot them.

They recorded the video and posted it to YouTube. Idiots. It backfired.

The Italian in the video tries to pull off his hood, and says: "Vi faccio vedere come muore un italiano!"

"Come, see how an Italian dies!"

When I first saw this video, it made me cry. To be in the middle of nowhere, with a hood on your head, and on your knees - and to muster this kind of a riposte...

Even an Italian became Russian for a moment.

Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]


No, for sure, those officers in Katyn met their death with honor.

Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]


This is true. I have a military family, going back many generations. Everyone has only good words to say about Polish bravery.

Poles played the sh*t hand of cards they got, as well as they were able to play it.

But they never allowed themselves to скурвиноваться.

Even the behavior of Polish officers at Katyn, caused
Russian executioners to lose their nerves. Poles were relaxed and jovial - as if they would still reach us in the next life. Truly brothers.

Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]


Well... likely if you lost just to us, instead of the Germans, then the war would largely happen on your territory instead of Ukraine's.

We would have recruited millions more Poles than we actually recruited, and they would have died in large numbers. Disproportionately more than our own soldiers.

We would use your men to breach lines, and break fortresses.

So maybe you would end up in the same place you ended up in, and nothing would have mattered.

Hard to be a Pole.

Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]

@Paulina

Noted.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


To understand your statement, I should take a length of rebar - 5 feet long - and hit myself on the head with it for 45 minutes.

Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]


This shocks me - that you say this.

I also read this in Polish archives. Polish leadership preferred a "hot war" with Germany, to occupation by the Soviet Union.

They thought if they could hold off the Germans long enough, the French would come to help. But if they ended up in Russian slavery again, then no one could save them.

This was a huge mistake.

As you know - they ended up in Russian slavery anyway, but minus 5 million people.

The correct choice was not to ally with Germany, but to come to the Kremlin on your knees, and beg forgiveness from Stalin.

Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]

@Novichok

I forgot to mention a couple other very important reasons. But I suspect Iron is aware of those.

A big one - misplaced faith in France and Britain. The same way Poles today worship America, thinking it will protect them.

Next - total and complete intelligence failure. The Soviet secret services had managed to weed out nearly every single Polish agent. Even after the USSR attacked, for some hours the Polish leadership thought it was only a "tactical" move, and not a prelude to the total destruction of Poland.

--//--

To recap:

1) Poland refused to align with the USSR,
2) overestimated Western guarantees
3) underestimated the risk of German-Soviet cooperation.

The result was a strategic catastrophe: a two-front war that no mid-sized power could survive.

Their doctrine assumed they'd be fighting one giant, not two together. In geopolitics, isolation plus hubris is fatal.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


lol. Do you ever read what you write?

Were Christians doing better when they were thrown to the lions in the Colosseum?

Were Christians doing better, when there was just a few thousand of them - living along the edges of the desert - rather than the billion plus Christians we have today?

Were Christians doing better, when their crusader kingdoms in the Middle East were permanently destroyed by the Caliphate's armies?

Were Christian's doing better - when Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot were doing their best to exterminate Christianity?

You live in a nutcase world of NewsMax talking points, that could only ever make sense to a person such as yourself.

If you need to feel like you are "under attack like never before" to get a hardon, that's your problem.

Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]


From my understanding of what happened:

1) Poland refused any kind of cooperation with the USSR pre-war. When Britain and France tried to include the USSR in a mutual defense pact against Germany, Poland flatly refused. It would not allow movement of Soviet troops through Polish territory, even in the case of a hypothetical German invasion. Stalin interpreted this not as a Polish veto, but more foot dragging and scheming from the Brits. This pushed him into the embrace of Hitler.

2) Poland's expert community judged the USSR as "too weak" to mount an invasion, especially in the aftermath of Stalin's purges. The general expectation was that the USSR would not be able to reconstitute its forces well into the 1940s.

3) Poland saw the Nazis and Bolsheviks as ideological enemies. Even though they were aware of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (though not its secret sections), they calculated that mutual hostility between Germany and Russia would make any such alliance unstable and temporary. Certainly not durable enough to pull off a joint military operation.

4) Poland tried to pursue its age old policy of "Equal Distance", trying to balance between Germany and Russia, and deterring them through diplomatic rigidity. In reality it left Poland friendless and exposed. What it had to do - was make the difficult decision of choosing between the lesser of two evils.