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Bobko   
1 Jul 2025
UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]

@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.
Bobko   
1 Jul 2025
Life / Poland is horrible and I have to live here - somebody call a whambulance! [95]

In my mind New York is the centre of art, fashion, etc. Many American movies were made there and I guess that made it a big tourist attraction.

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.

I just don't understand why people living outside of New York would hate the most famous and interesting city in their country?

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.
Bobko   
1 Jul 2025
Life / Poland is horrible and I have to live here - somebody call a whambulance! [95]

As for the UK I also heard about less bureaucracy - it's easier to set up your own company

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.
Bobko   
1 Jul 2025
Life / Poland is horrible and I have to live here - somebody call a whambulance! [95]

Why is that? Too cosmopolitan for their taste?

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.
Bobko   
30 Jun 2025
Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]

so maybe middle-class shopkeepers might be of some use too?

We can't talk about this, until the right time arrives.
Bobko   
30 Jun 2025
Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]

We had been together after World War II. You still lost the Cold War, and it was not great for Poland either.

Under a dysfunctional system.

A capitalistic Russia will let loose all the demons of Polish capitalism.
Bobko   
30 Jun 2025
Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]

Soviets can't be trusted

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.
Bobko   
30 Jun 2025
Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]

Reminds me of the captured Ukrainian soldier who said "Slava Ukraini!"

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.
Bobko   
30 Jun 2025
Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]

Well, there's a reason why Poland has Italy in our national anthem

You must see this.

He maintained his dignity, and did not give these homosexuals one moment of satisfaction.
Bobko   
30 Jun 2025
Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]

They sucked meeting death with honour with the milk of their mothers.

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.
Bobko   
30 Jun 2025
Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]

W życiu nie trzeba być świętym, wystarczy nie być kurwą"

No, for sure, those officers in Katyn met their death with honor.
Bobko   
30 Jun 2025
Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]

fault of our own, nobody can blame us.

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.
Bobko   
30 Jun 2025
Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]

Sometimes it's better to lose when other alternatives are below our dignity.

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.
Bobko   
30 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

you would understand my statement with an open mind.

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.
Bobko   
30 Jun 2025
Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]

the curse of actions was clear: joining Germany as a junior partner

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.
Bobko   
30 Jun 2025
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.
Bobko   
30 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

Christians are under attack like no other time in history

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.
Bobko   
30 Jun 2025
Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]

Would that be that we can win with Germany on our own, and we are certain that Stalin is not able to launch an offensive against Poland?

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.
Bobko   
30 Jun 2025
Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [217]

Some thoughts about Islamization...

In my opinion - it is not a serious threat to Europe. Why? Because you actually have few people (relatively), who are culturally/historically prone to Islamize.

In Russia, and around its periphery, the problem is much more acute.

We have Tatars, we have Chechens, we have Dagestanis, and we have millions upon millions of Central Asian migrants.

Formerly fully secular people, with completely modern outlook and values, are:

1) Growing long beards
2) Wearing funny clothes
3) Going to mosque for 4-5 hours every Friday
4) Treating women like property
5) ... and most importantly for me - completely switching their brains off. Ceasing to be intellectually curious about the world, and instead watching hours of YouTube videos every day recorded by some pedophile sheikh in his basement.

Now this is a huge problem. And this is in Russia. In neighboring Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, etc - the situation is much much worse.

Secularism and liberalism is losing to medieval grade Islamism. The legacy of 80 years of Socialist rule is being erased, faster than one would think imaginable.

I blame all this on the Turks and on the Saudis. They invest ungodly amounts of money in building religious schools in Russia, mosques, paying for trips for our mullahs to train in Egyptian and Saudi medreses, etc. They have been doing so from 1991, non stop.

Russia's Muslims were always peaceful and open minded, but they are now being infected by poison exported by Wahhabi and Salafi retards from the Hejaz.

They've already completely f*cked their own countries with their caveman's interpretation of Islam, and now they wanna ruin every other place that has moderate Islam.

If I were president of Russia, I would do what Islam Karimov does in Uzbekistan. See a guy on the street with a long beard and wearing sandals? Take him to the nearest police department for a "prophylactic" conversation.