Polonia / Possible Green Surge in Germany [118]

Well, the chance for a green chancellor was there in May/June, but the thoroughly inexperienced (and some would say unqualified) Baerbock blew it. The Green party will almost inevitable be part of any coalition, but they are not going to get the chancellery.

News / Heavy fighting. Legia Warszawa brutally attacked in Croatia by pro-German fanatics saluted by local mob ! [49]


None of whom I might add had done any harm to him or Serbia. Ferdinand was completely sidelined from government since the Emperor disliked his well-known sympathies for the minorities in A/U.

News / Should Poland leave the EU institution? [147]


Merkel has done a lot of things right. Managing the Euro crisis, forging an European response to Russia's agression against the Ukraine, brokering Minsk II to name some examples.


Merkel allowed the EU to mess up the vaccination program - although the diverging demands of various countries were mostly at fault - yet she gets also credit for getting through the crisis better than any other mayor European country (or the USA for that matter) in terms of victims. And while the vaccination roleout was slower than it could have been, we are catching up to the likes of the UK who did benefit all that much from their advantage all things considered (they still had and have restrictions).

No doubt what will define Merkel's legacy is how she has dealt with the two challenges that will have the biggest impact on future generations: The survival of the EU and Climate change. If the EU survives Merkel's departure for say 30 years, then her place in the history books is assured. As for climate change, she has done more than others, but maybe not enough. That being said, most of her contemporaries will be judged harshly as well, many of them even more than her.

News / Should Poland leave the EU institution? [147]

Looks like the Spectator is still salty that all its predictions about the imminwnt demise of the EU during the Eurocrisis and later after Brexit have again and again by frustrated by Merkel. No doubt there is also some jealousy that she is Europes' most impreasive politician of this generation while the UK (and the conservative party) has only produced failures and mediocrities.

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


No, because there were no independent polls in Nazi Germany and the regime had obviously no intention on casting doubts on the German resolve for war. We have however many Gestapo reports that inform us about the mood at social gatherings and at bars, and they are overwhelmingly pessimistic. Germans knew from their experience in WWI that there would inevitably huge suffering for both soldiers and civilians.

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


The acquisitions maybe, but we know that most Germans were unhappy about the outbreak of the war, as many Gestapo informers noted.

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


And commited a genocide within that short time frame. Though admittedly the Nazis were later even more "efficient" in that regard. It is good that we finally acknowledged this and settled this issue with rather paltry amount of money.


Well, the Soviet Union did not exclusively consist of Russians, most of the fighting was done in what is now Belarus and the Ukraine, and in terms of percentage both people suffered higher losses than ethnic Russians. Many Ukrainians are in fact annoyed that the suffering and triumph is often solely attributed to the Russians.

Besides, nobody calls the Weimar Republic German Reich, even contemporaries rarely did. Nazi Germany or the Nazis is and perfectly valid description.

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]

And that is the estimsted based on the inflated numbers given by the GDR. By 1989 a citizen of the GDR earned officially 1/3 of his counterpart in West, though in reality it was more like 1/5.

News / Should Poland leave the EU institution? [147]

MLP has pledged to cut the Cohesion Fund for Eastern Europe and is - together with Salvini - interested in forming a partnership with Russia. I imagine that neither of those things are within Polands' interest. MLP also wants to leave NATO. Think about what that means for Poland's security in the future. An America that is increasingly unwilling to defend Eastern Europe against Russia. A Germany that can't defend Eastern Europe. And France who simply won't defend Eastern Europe. Not exactly an appealing scenario in my court.


Amen to that.

News / Should Poland leave the EU institution? [147]


Why, it is de facto the same thing, or where do you see differences?

News / Should Poland leave the EU institution? [147]


And true. And expensive, since Poland received already far more money than any European country via the Marahall Plan. In fact, given that the Marshall Plan consisted of approx. 150bn€ in todays money, then Poland is close to getting what all of Western Europe received.


Tradition television is dying anyway. More and more people are watching Netflix, HBO et al.

News / Should Poland leave the EU institution? [147]


It is called EU cohesion fund ;)


Indeed. Springer and Co. want (and need) to make money.

News / Should Poland leave the EU institution? [147]

Well, their direct interventions were neglible, but they certainly helped funding the democratic reeducation of the German people and provided an additional safety net (that was thankfully never needed). The EU is trying to do the same for Poland but sadly for the democracy in Poland, their options to interfere are much more limited.

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


Particulary this aspect has always been puzzling to me.

Russia under Putin is a corrupt oligarchy that persecutes minorities and wages imperialistic wars against its' neighbours. All things those guys supposedly abhor, yet they always feel the need to defend Russia-

News / School shooting in Sweden. Should Poland be worried about a copycat? [24]


This is not entirely true. If we are going back in history, then we will always find cases in which deranged individuals attacked public spaces like the Cologne school massacre from 1964. Back then the explanation was that people who had experienced war were more likely to crack, but as we know now, this does not explain all cases.

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]

So he was a hero then?

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]

If Assad had that kind of support among the population, he wouldn't have needed Russia and Iran to bail him out, just as the GDR would not have needed Russian tanks to secure its' rule if it had truly received 99% of the votes. Lukashenko also wouldn't take such drastic measures if he had that kind of support either. Maybe Lukashenko did win previous elections fairly (though obviously not with the margins he claimed) because he could present himself as the anchor of stability, but as the previous year showed, especially young people are no longer satisfied with this.


Assad started the killing when he arrested and tortured people to death because they were peacefully protesting.


Very true. Say what you want about Merkel, but I think she nailed it when Putin tried to intimidate her with a dog. Like she said to journalists afterwards. This is all countries like Russia have: Intimidation, no succesful economies are attractive policies.

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]

Basically he is of accused of organizing protests against the government, aka something that wouldn't be punisheable in any democracy.

That he was tortured and now faces decades in prison for it tells you anything you need to know about Belarus.

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]

At least Biden is unlikely to side with Putin over American intelligence agencies.... . Or be intimidated by stories over a Moscow luxury hotel and what a Russian prostitute did there at her clients behest.

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]

Russias' brain drain of highly skilled expert to Western countries has in fact accelerated in the las few years.

thetimes.co.uk/article/russia-brain-drain-scientists-flee-spy-mania-vladimir-putin-wbbrknzkc

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]

This was really a stupid move from the regime of Belarus. The giy was a nobody outside of Belarus and now the world knows his name.

Life / Fat People in Poland? [161]

Probably because BDI does not take muscle mass into account, if you have decently sized muscle you will end up with a BDI above 25.

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]


You expect him to share/create on a Polish forum a link in which he is against Polish migrants - the largest group of migrants we had in the last 20 years?

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]


They are still culturally neither. The Sorb I recently met insisted that she was Sorbian first and foremost. She viewed Poles as fellow Slavs, just as she viewed the Czech or Slovaks. But she would have rejected the idea of being Polish.

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

I have read that some kindergartens near Szczecin are only open thanks to the many Polish children visiting them.

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]


I am fairly certain that, given his past posts, he wholly agreed to what Hitler did to gay people as well.


Polands problem is not the imaginary invasion by foreigners, but rather losing so many of its' people to foreign countries.

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]


Nonsense, any thinking person knows Hitler wasn't wrong with every decision he made, at least in the way it paid off for himself, or he would not have risen from a failed artist to (briefly) the most powerful man in Europe. Hitler was however completely wrong in his world outlook and the trajectory he put Germany on could only lead to disaster.

If you claimed that he "loved" Germany, you would probably be seen as either completely deluded or clueless since it is very clear that Hitler at best "loved" his vision of Germany and not the existing one. Otherwise he wouldn't have destroyed so much even when everything went his way, and later wouldn't have tried to destroy it when he failed.

News / Army of Poland and other kin Slavic countries [39]

Do Serbia and Czech have a combined military unit?

army.cz/en/ministry-of-defence/newsroom/news/czech-and-german-soldiers-to-train-together-under-new-agreement-130760/

News / Army of Poland and other kin Slavic countries [39]


The Czech Republic cooperates with Germany on a level that Serbia can only dream of.

nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_141113.htm

Polonia / Let's talk about Sweden and other Scandinavian countries [236]

I suppose being refuted with facts every single time is just too frustrating. Then again, nobody forces him to go into those arguments wholly unprepared.

At least he refrains from writing truly mentally unhinged crap like he did before he got banned.

There are reasons to be critical of Sweden, especially because of its callousness during the Covid pandemie, but they are doing very well on most issues.