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Paulina   
5 Sep 2024
Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]

@Bobko, yeah, that was a good suggestion.
I've been for so long on this forum that I sometimes forget how normal forums operate and I get used to such stuff.

I suspect I'm not the only one who was oblivious to these changes.

Yup, I had no idea...

Perhaps the Admin can make some kind of a sticky thread where the updates are posted, but discussion is locked? Actually... would be nice to be able to make suggestions too.

Nah, that would be too logical and user-friendly... That's not Admin's style of operating on this forum... lol

What may seem super obvious to the Admin is definitely not always obvious to us peasants.

yup

A sponsor finally said it! Yay! lol
Paulina   
4 Sep 2024
Classifieds / introduce my job products from china [27]

@jon357, so where is RuSSia calling the Chinese "Nazis", right? What China has been doing to Uyghurs is far worse than anything that was done by Ukraine to RuSSian speakers before 2014:

bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-22278037

due to the copyright issue of Kalour coloured pencils and Ohuhu markers, I may only be able to put similar quality and low-priced related products on my store

Hmm, sorry, but I don't understand... What has selling stuff in your store to do with copyright issues? 🤨 Kalour coloured pencils are, for example, being sold by Empik and Polish art stores, from what I can see, just like products of many other brands, so what's the problem? Or are you a producer too? 🤔

hard not to

Yeah, that's the problem...
Paulina   
3 Sep 2024
History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]

But back to the AK - the lack of weaponry, in a way, makes things even more impressive.

Yes, we had people, but we had no guns :(((

a relatively minor atrocity by a peripheral Polish unit, cannot be equivalent to massive and systemic atrocities by numerous Ukrainian formations

I agree with that. However, for me the issue is not about numbers - the problem is that a Polish government honoured a Polish unit that collaborated with Nazis and murdered Jews. This fact alone is what matters from a moral point of view. It shows that there was something wrong with that government and with people who supported that government (if they supported that gesture):

wyborcza.pl/7,75398,25074121,podejscie-pis-do-brygady-swietokrzyskiej-jest-odbiciem-przeswiadczenia.html
Paulina   
2 Sep 2024
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1301]

..liberation wars as long as they are not where she lives.

Yes, lying idiot, that's why I was against the invasion of Iraq lol You make perfect "sense", as usual! 🤦

Poland was free and democratic enough not to get this gift from hell...

It was neither free nor democratic, but fortunately the Soviet Union fell apart and thank God, the West and the stupidity of communists for that! :)))
Paulina   
2 Sep 2024
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1301]

This sounds like part of Polish society:

Many in the east still associate that period with high unemployment, mass closures of industrial companies and the "devaluation of people's life experiences" in the GDR "which has continued into the present".

In Poland that part of society usually votes for PiS.
Judging by what you quoted it looks like East Germans have their own "bogeyman" from the communist times - the US and PiS voters have their own - Germany. At least that's my take on it. 🤔
Paulina   
2 Sep 2024
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1301]

Western countries imposed diplomatic and economic boycotts on the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact nations.

Good.

This significant economic support led to marked disparities in economic development between West and East Germany.

Oh and communist planned economy didn't have anything to do with that by any chance? :D

You can relate to this yourself in how PRL 'Poles' will warmly welcome foreigners while openly despising Polonia.

You are truly not right in the head. Me and other Poles don't despise Polonia. I only despise psychopaths like you and Novichok.
Paulina   
2 Sep 2024
History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]

@Bobko, I'm not comparing. I'm correcting your false info.

It also says there that this was done a formation that LATER joined the brigade.

Still, those soldiers did it.
And two murders (including the second one that you quoted) was done already by the Holy Cross Brigade.

[Czaryś k. Włoszczowej]

Btw, I have family in these parts of region.
Paulina   
2 Sep 2024
History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]

but that their proportional popularity was much weaker.

Of course it was. That brigade was on the fringes of Polish society and not even part of the Polish Underground State. According to AK reports the attitude of Polish civillians towards the Holy Cross Brigade was hostile.

Another reason for me to be puzzled at why Soviets are such "bad actors".

If after all this time on this forum, all the info and explanations you're still "puzzled" then you're truly a hopeless case.
Paulina   
2 Sep 2024
History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]

@Bobko, the Holy Cross Brigade was a kind of rogue unit - it was one of the units of NSZ that didn't follow the order to join the Home Army (AK) and didn't submit themselves to the Polish government in exile in London. NSZ were nationalists - they were the third Polish underground force in terms of numbers (75 000) after the biggest Home Army and the second biggest Peasant Battalions.

there were no documented cases of Holy Cross Brigade soldiers directly murdering Polish Jews due to their ethnic origin."

There were (read the section "Mordy na Żydach"):

pl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brygada_%C5%9Awi%C4%99tokrzyska
Paulina   
2 Sep 2024
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1301]

@Poloniusz, RT lecturing someone on democracy and exaggerating about calling someone "Nazis" is indeed laughable, given the present day context :D

American influence that favored their Western compatriots and left them with a lower standard of living

What kind of nonsense is this? :D

Didnt some of the Russian executioners end up being purged by Stalin and Chrustchev for unrelated reasons?

I have no idea, it's possible I suppose. Apparently they often died young or went crazy. I think I remember reading that some of them allegedly killed themselves, but whether they did or someone "helped" them to shut them up maybe - I guess only God knows (and Putin)...

The thing is that some of them got to live to the 1990s and RuSSians had this one chance after 50 years of lying to do the right thing. But they didn't. The RuSSian investigation lasted till 2004 until all of the perpetrators died and the reason given for ending the investigation was that... the perpetrators died. The results of investigation got classified. So not only the families of Katyń victims didn't get any justice - they are still being denied the knowledge about the massacre which RuSSians have. The families and the whole of Poland:

fakt.pl/hobby/historia/kim-byli-oprawcy-z-katynia-niektorzy-zyli-jeszcze-w-latach-90/dtgc95z

RuSSians even refused to classify the Katyń massacre as a war crime. I have no words for this.
Paulina   
2 Sep 2024
Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [574]

@GefreiterKania, but I'm just parroting the narrow-mindedness of your fellow "real Poles" :))) How does it feel, eh?

Guilty as charged.

Indeed.

They have a missing part of our soul -

No, they don't. They defenitely do have something missing in their soul though.
Paulina   
2 Sep 2024
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1301]

Would you, Germans, hang the Nuremberg lovelies?

Would your pals, the Soviets or RuSSians hang the "lovelies" responsible for the Katyń massacre?

How many of them did the Soviets or RuSSians execute?

If you don't know I'm going to tell you right away - none.

From Wikipedia:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre

"In 1991, the Chief Military Prosecutor for the Soviet Union began proceedings against Pyotr Karpovich Soprunenko (1908-1992), the above-mentioned former head of the NKVD's Prisoners of War and Internees affairs department, for his role in the Katyn killings, but eventually declined to prosecute because Soprunenko was 83, almost blind, and recovering from a cancer operation."

"Poor" thing. That monster got to live to 83. There is no karma.
Paulina   
2 Sep 2024
Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [574]

Good point. The posts from these self-appointed experts consistently reveal an understanding of Poland

I find it hilarious that we're being denied Polishness by a Plastic Pole who wasn't even raised in Poland and a Russophile who was ready to become a Calvinist and is downplaying what the Soviet Union did to Poland and Poles o_O

Did you change your mind??? :):):)

He often does that lol

Women are complicated - they say one thing, they think something exactly opposite.

You wish lol

Your trolling gets boring, Kania.
Paulina   
2 Sep 2024
Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [574]

@GefreiterKania, sure, that "narrows down" the choice to majority of Polish people lol It's incredible how arrogant and full of themselves you right-wingers and nationalists are. You don't have a monopoly on "Polishness" o_O Majority of us were raised on the same stuff - żurek, bigos, John Paul II and Lech Wałęsa, so I'm afraid you'll have to drop that ridiculous conviction that you're so terribly special :)))
Paulina   
2 Sep 2024
Classifieds / introduce my job products from china [27]

@jon357, it's not just Chinese products that are suspected to be made in such a way - don't forget about many Western companies:

businessinsider.com/companies-brands-china-supply-chains-illegal-forced-labor-2022-12

"The 2020 Australian Strategic Policy Institute report identified Google among the companies that could have directly or indirectly benefited from forced labor in China.

The company declined to comment for this story."
Paulina   
2 Sep 2024
Classifieds / introduce my job products from china [27]

@sun rain.sun, I don't know what kind of stuff you're selling, but maybe art products? I've heard that Ohuhu markers are good and affordable - they're all the rage on YouTube. They're already being sold on Allegro, but what I haven't seen yet available on there, I think, is a Ohuhu sketchbook for markers. So maybe if you'd put it up on sale you'd have an advantage over other sellers, because people could buy both the markers and that sketchbook at your store. Just a thought :) Apparently also Kalour coloured pencils are good.
Paulina   
1 Sep 2024
History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]

@GefreiterKania, people don't throw that word "far too easily" - it simply has more than one meaning - not just the literal one (keeping a person as your slave):

collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/enslave

"2. To enslave a person or society means to trap them in a situation from which they cannot escape."
Paulina   
1 Sep 2024
History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]

I don't know about Poland, but eastern Germany's old men squad would had been nothing without Moscow's thumb....

It was the same in Poland and I'm guessing in any other Soviet Union's satellite state. They were called "satellite states" for a reason...

as in Peking on their monster-place...whatsitsname?

You mean Tiananmen Square massacre?
Paulina   
1 Sep 2024
History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]

@Bobko, you wouldn't even have to be "proud" of it. It's enough that you don't have a problem with it. It's clearly not enough of a problem for you if it doesn't stop you from glorifying the Soviet Union.

1) It was a great country

It wasn't a "great" country if it enslaved others :(

respected around the world

Respected or feared?

It wasn't respected in Poland. It was feared and despised.

4) We thought of ourselves as the good guys, defenders of places like Cuba, Vietnam, Angola, Ethiopia and so on. We fought Apartheid, and colonial exploitation.

And at the same time you colonised others yourselves.

You see, Bobko, that's why you won't understand each other with Poles, Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Esthonians, etc. Because majority of RuSSians seem to be still wearing those rose-tinted glasses when looking at the Soviet Union (or they simply don't care about what the Soviet Union did to others, which is even worse).
Paulina   
1 Sep 2024
History / How different would WW2 turned out if Poland accepted Hitler's offer [219]

@Novichok, the Soviet Union was comprised of different nations and ethnicities and that's why they're called collectively "Soviets". Nazi Germany was a one-nation state comprising of Germans. Nazi Germany is simply a colloquial name for the German Reich (later the Greater German Reich). Another unofficial name is the Third Reich.

We just lump them all into the Soviets to insinuate that they were all bad. We are a lot gentler with our new German friends.

Nonsense. First of all, in the Soviet Union there were conquered nations that didn't want to be part of the Soviet Union at all. Secondly, unlike in Germany where Hitler was voted into power, communists weren't voted in - they took power by force. That's why in Poland ordinary people living in the Soviet Union were viewed as victims of the regime.

On Sept 1, 1939, Nazis attacked Poland.

That's what we often say in Poland even though maybe not all of the German soldiers were followers of Hitler. Many of them deserved to be called "Nazis" though - because of what they did during the invasion of Poland, during the occupation and during the Warsaw Uprising.
Paulina   
1 Sep 2024
History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]

reveals that even you don't believe the crap you write (...) almost stupid broad...

I do believe what I write and I mean every word, you entirely stupid moron. Bobko has no problem with glorifying a state that enslaved my country for almost a half a century with Stalin being entirely dead during this time.
Paulina   
1 Sep 2024
History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]

@Bobko, you "let us go" after almost a half a century! Takie z was dobre pany! lol 😂 And not willingly either - the Soviet Union was collapsing - you had no other choice. Also, it wasn't so "bloodless" in case of some countries either.

Plus, sovoks like Putin seem to be regretting it.

and didn't ask for anything in return

What??? What a dying empire that enslaved and brutalized other countries could possibly ask for? (not that you got too much anyway)
Paulina   
1 Sep 2024
History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]

I have no problem glorifying the Soviet Union and the Soviet Army

And that's the problem. Because Stalin wasn't the only problem. The Soviet Union didn't let Poland go after Stalin died. And the Soviet Army soldiers raped, looted, murdered and burned in Poland, not Stalin. When you're glorifying something - then there's no room for criticism, for the truth, because uncomfortable truth is "tarnishing" the glorified image in people's heads.
Paulina   
1 Sep 2024
History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]

@Bobko, but RuSSia is doing the same. Parades. Fancy funerals. Monuments. "Documentaries" on television. You GLORIFY the Soviet Union, Stalin, the Soviet Army.

These are the people you gave so much weapons and money to, so that they could kill more of us.

So they could defend their country against an invasion.

Why are you not helping us?

Because what you're doing is wrong.
Paulina   
1 Sep 2024
History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]

Outside people attacking Russia over Stalin only leads to a reflexive rallying around the flag.

That's retarded though. RuSSia is attacked over Stalin only because they whitewash him.

What do you want from me? To tell you that I'm sorry Stalin did these things to your country?

I want you (and other RuSSians) to be able to admit that it happened and acknowledge that Poles have the right to feel angry about what was done to Poland and Poles. In other words - we'd like to see some empathy and understanding from you.

Of course I am sorry. Happy?

Yes, thank you.