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Posts by Bobko  

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Bobko   
30 Jun 2025
Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [221]

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

I can't retract the way they were thinking.

Who are you referring to?
Bobko   
29 Jun 2025
UK, Ireland / BBC launches new Polish language news service [87]

They're imitating a superior product.

Ukrainian Salo is the mother of all bacons.

How you British can call that paper-thin, half-crisp, limp excuse for a meat strip "bacon" is beyond me. In Ukraine, they use your bacon to wrap real food in, before throwing it to the dog.

British bacon... pathetic slices of apologetic pork, trembling under a drizzle of brown sauce. A breakfast item. A snack. Something your aunt packs in Tupperware for a train ride to Brighton.

Salo - on the other hand - is a slab of honor. A currency. A spiritual compass, or even... a potential weapon.

Come to think of it, I would rank Italian prosciutto and French poitrine also above the British variety of pork fat.

Bottom line - Ukrainians are gods of pig fat.


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

Since the CAW can not find his records in their files

Have you tried the Bundesarchiv or Deutsche Dienststelle (WASt)?

There could have been a transfer as a forced laborer, or reassignment via the General Government postal service.

If he was mobilized as a POW laborer, there may be Deutsche Dienststelle (WASt) records.

To Bobko and Torq, I hope these town/village locations kind of help you to trace and connect to some unit

I mean everything seems right, what is there left to find?

On September 3rd, two days after Germany invaded, your grandfather enlisted. The location of his enlistment was Zegrze, a known Polish military garrison and communications base north of Warsaw.

Him being a part of the 1 Pułk Łączności, makes sense, because it aligns with Zegrze's role as a center for signal troops in the interwar Polish Army.

Then, based on your description, it seems his unit undertook a rapid eastward retreat or redeployment across central and eastern Poland as the German invasion progressed from the west.

It seems that they were retreating virtually non stop. Because your grandpa served in a communications unit (signals regiment), he would've been involved in maintaining radio, telephone, or courier links between command - and this would been crucial during fast-moving retreats. So then it is likely that he moved in the vanguard of the retreating army, arriving first - before other formations.

It looks like he never spent more than a day in any given location, before he had to move again.

That final date is significant - September 17 is the day the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east, under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Because this path ends near Czortków, it's plausible that he was actually captured by the Soviets - as your relative claims.

After his capture, he was likely immediately deported into German controlled territory, as an ethnic German.

He must have appeared strange to the Russians. A 40 year old German corporal - somehow lost in a sea of Poles.
Bobko   
28 Jun 2025
UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [214]

imagine you're an American living in Russia and you have to see this s*t all the time

Yes, it must be pretty annoying.

But being a Russian in America is also no pleasure cruise.

If we get depicted at all, it's usually in caricaturish form - as wearing an Adidas tracksuit, while trying to penetrate a bear inappropriately with a bottle of vodka.
Bobko   
28 Jun 2025
UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [214]

Like I said before, do you see us, or the Ukrainians, or any one else making YouTube hit-pieces which are then responded to with hundreds of nasty comments?

I'm throwing Russians under the bus here... but it's actually quite a popular genre on Russian YouTube too. And in general in Russian comedy.

We had a guy throughout the 90s and early 2000s, Mikhail Zadornov, that built a whole career around "American" jokes. All his jokes boiled down to, "Geez, are these Americans stupid or what?"

After Zadornov died, a whole army of Russian YouTubers decided to carry on his legacy. The usual premise is: Russian YouTuber on the street in Times Square or Venice Beach, asking the "locals" a series of questions.

The questions are inevitably Russian-focused. Like, "Can you name the first man in space?" or "What's the name of the largest lake on Planet Earth?". When the Americans answer "Lance Armstrong" and "Lake Superior", laughter ensues.

Another favorite rubric is "America is a decaying sh*t hole". For these, the Russian YouTubers descend on the projects, and film close up reels of every fentanyl junkie.

Finally - there is the classic - "Let's humiliate service industry workers". This involves displaying towering Russian intellect versus check out clerks at Walmart or Burger King.

I hate this sh*t, because I feel like it feeds people exactly the type of fuel they need to maintain their sense of superiority.

You could do the same "blitz interviews" in the Russian street, and form the same opinion that Russia is a country of retards. But for some reason, this is the content people adore and always beg for more of.
Bobko   
28 Jun 2025
UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [214]

@Paulina

There's like three cakes in Russia.

Medovik (honey cake). Napoleon (kilogram of cream squished between wafers). Bird's Milk (soufflé cake made from mysterious substance called bird's milk).
Bobko   
28 Jun 2025
UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [214]

Cadburys chocolate egg on Easter morning? Nope, 50 kinds of hardboiled eggs at 9am.

I laughed out loud at this! A 100% accurate description of my childhood Easters.

One could see, on the television, what American children were eating for Easter. Marshmallow ducks, chocolate eggs, gummy bunnies, and what have you.

My eggs, dyed in different shades of brown using boiled onion skins, were quite underwhelming in comparison. Actually not all were brown. The green ones had fate notes of dill, and the red ones of beets. Sometimes they smelled of kerosene. But all were... in the end, undeniably egg.

It wasn't just hard boiled eggs, however. We also got to eat a tall cylindrical cake called a kulich, which was so dry it absorbed atmospheric moisture. It contained about as much sugar as an eggplant.

Anyways, eating candy on Easter is for Imperialist Americans. In Russia, sugar is for funerals. Easter is for protein.

Our food is not for foreigners to love

Hahaha!

I spat out my coffee!
Bobko   
27 Jun 2025
Off-Topic / PF members MEETUPS.....everyone welcome! [122]

used to do a bit of skeet shooting and target shooting (7.62mm bolt-action hunting rifles) with my Dad

Same, and then I got convinced by my coach at the local Dynamo range to enroll in some tournaments.

Climbing, because my friend and business partner introduced me to it. I'm nowhere near his level, but I can climb some 20-30 meter cliff outside the city (top rope, with all anchors already placed).

But diving, yeah, I love diving - no equivocations here. I don't need to dive something interesting. I don't need reefs, wrecks, or fancy fish. You can put me in a 45 meter deep former quarry - that got flooded - and I will happily dive there for a year.

I just like being underwater.
Bobko   
27 Jun 2025
Off-Topic / PF members MEETUPS.....everyone welcome! [122]

scuba?

I created the only scuba thread on PF. This is my true love. I went pass recreational certificates into industrial and navigational ones just for fun.

Like Johnny, I love fish. I love being underwater - where there are no laptops, no cell phones, and most importantly no one talking.
Bobko   
27 Jun 2025
Off-Topic / PF members MEETUPS.....everyone welcome! [122]

Do you lift weights?

I do, sir.

I climb. I dive. I used to shoot competitively (skeet shooting).

I barbecue. I marinate.

I am your dream of Russia - embodied in flesh.

Ready to love - or ready to kill - at a moment's notice.
Bobko   
27 Jun 2025
Off-Topic / PF members MEETUPS.....everyone welcome! [122]

@Torq

Think about how unusual it is, that we found ourselves on this obscure forum - with a vanishingly small membership - and we still split almost perfectly down the middle in our views. In everything.

This is something for scientists to study.

People want to argue. They want to talk.
Bobko   
27 Jun 2025
Off-Topic / PF members MEETUPS.....everyone welcome! [122]

You forgot BB, PAK, and Poloniusz...There are more but these three stand out...

It always makes me laugh, how many competing alliances we have within this tiny microcosm.

Homo Sapiens are incurable.
Bobko   
25 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

suggests it's more than likely the enriched uranium was moved beforehand.

Moving HEU is not as easy as it sounds, based on what I've read from papers in recent days.

It's not as highly radioactive compared to other nuclear materials, but still poses a high risk.

It can literally explode like an ersatz nuclear bomb, in what's known as a "criticality" accident. That will kill anyone that is near, and contaminate the area.

Maybe it's possible to move it on 24 hours notice, but it seems like it's hard.
Bobko   
25 Jun 2025
UK, Ireland / BBC launches new Polish language news service [87]

Drinking alone is a sure sign of alcoholism and one wants to avoid that.

My favorite form of drinking.

Am enjoying some fine bourbon, right this very moment, from AntV's home state. In utter solitude.

It's not about sadness, or drama. It's about ownership. You pour exactly what you want, exactly how you want it. No one judges your ice-to-whiskey ratio (zero). No one steals your olives. No one tries to turn the music up "just a little."

You can toast to absolutely nothing. Or everything.

You can sit in your kitchen in your underwear and listen to some obscure jazz or Soviet wartime marches or German industrial metal - whatever you, in that moment, feel like. You're not performing. You're not managing anyone else's vibe. It's just you and the glass, having a delightful conversation.
Bobko   
25 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

Are you quickly becoming my twin?

To use an astronomical analogy - I think we are like a binary asteroid.

Two bodies that orbit each other closely, when all other conditions are stable, but then suddenly have very volatile and collision-liable trajectories as soon as they pass a third body - which had exerted a momentary gravitational pull.

But...that's not how it is, so it ain't so simple.

Fine, have it your way.
Bobko   
25 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

indeed all of israeli/Palestinian milieu is so complex that a cursory view will not merely mislead but misrepresent. Hell, the way one area is ran is different in other areas.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Oh... sooo complicated. Sooo complex. So arcane and Byzantine in its internal structures... that we shouldn't even bother.

Come on AntV...

Occupation is occupation. Forced resettlement is forced resettlement. Expropriation is expropriation. Murder is murder. Theft is theft.

Nuance is important, and impartiality, but here I feel you are trying to make something that is pretty straightforward into something more complex than it is.
Bobko   
25 Jun 2025
Po polsku / Koniec Tuska [17]

Ale jeszcze w żadnym, kurwa, kraju na świecie nie zdarzyło się żeby opozycja przekręciła wybory.

Dlaczego nie chcesz omawiać takich tematów po angielsku? Myślę, że inni czytelnicy również byliby zainteresowani tym, jak ewoluowały poglądy Torqa.
Bobko   
25 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

WSJ is reporting that an effect of the Iranian situation, China is now thinking about restarting negotiations with Russia about a pipeline.

This leaves me with very conflicted feelings, hehehe.

On the one hand - I'm sorry our boy Iran got run over by a truck...

On the other hand... this pipeline business is just so freaking important. We've been chasing the Chinese for the better part of ten years, begging them to sign this contract. They've been wrinkling their nose, and furrowing their eyebrows, and making all sorts of ridiculous demands. They basically wanted the gas for free.

When we had Europe, we managed to negotiate the Power of Siberia pipeline - albeit on pretty ****** terms. When we lost our main customer, China really had us between a rock and a hard place. And now... how the tables have turned!

Too bad it's gonna take like 5 years to bring this pipe online. But once it gets going, it won't shut down for the better part of a century.

Supposedly China has some internal rule where they don't want more than 20% of their energy supplies coming from a single source. They're gonna have to amend that, and become like the Germans - sitting tightly on Russia's oil needle.

--///--

Maybe I should put this in the stock trading thread... but I have a near 100% confidence level in that Russia's European pipelines will be restarted.

It may take a very long time before it reaches the 150-200 billion cubic meters we used to supply annually, but it should rise to 50-75 bcm pretty quickly. This should act as additional pressure on China.

First, I think supplies through the southern corridor will increase. Then the Ukrainian pipeline will be relaunched (to help meet their budget needs, and as a "soft" form of reparations from Russia). The finally stage would be the relaunching of the Nord Stream pipes 1 and 2.
Bobko   
24 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

Italians are the heirs of the Romans

F*ck them.

We didn't get anything from them.

Everything we got, was from the Greeks in Constantinople.
Bobko   
24 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

Are you sure you're not copying these points from Młodzież Wszechpolska website?

Do you not see the answer - here?

We are one people. One leader. One empire.

ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF SLAVIC POWER!

Edit: I'm sorry, I had to.
Bobko   
24 Jun 2025
Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]

Strange history...

Not strange... but nearly impossible.

Something does not add up.

All sorts of people, during that period, had strange biographies - and this is one of them.
Bobko   
24 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

What is it?

1) Christ as King

2) Russia First - meaning immigrants, and everyone else has to get in line first

3) Peace through strength - we have been abused and taken advantage of. From now on, we shoot first, ask questions later.

4) Death to GloboHomo. No public displays of affection by homosexuals, zero visibility for transgenders, zero propaganda of tolerance in schools, zero understanding for their pain.

5) Destruction of any supranational entities that try to control people. EU. UN. WTO. NATO. Everything else. National will - SUPREME.
Bobko   
24 Jun 2025
Off-Topic / What is a woman? [846]

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Bobko   
24 Jun 2025
Off-Topic / What is a woman? [846]

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