History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [297]

...not to forget the billions of EU-funds (money!) flowing from Brussels to Warsaw!

Every true patriot would look to milk that some more before hoisting the anchor.....

Donald Tusk's newly elected government has been pushing to restore Warsaw's fraught relationship with Brussels. The European Commission will next week start unblocking payments of up to €137 billion in EU funds earmarked for Poland that are currently frozen due to issues related to the rule of law.

politico.eu/article/commission-to-unblock-over-e100-billion-in-eu-funds-for-poland/

Alone in that regard Tusk is much more patriot than K. ever was!

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [297]

...and football too! :)

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [297]

*eye roll*

...you are really a Putin troll, are you? Only in Moscow that would make sense....

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [297]


Yeah well....I asked you?

Maybe british Labour is really different to what counts mainland-Europe leftist!

I guess it's the same with polish Tusk....and it could be the same with the new german leftist party led by Wagenknecht: less immigration, more for the national workers...less woke...less green...but already differing on Ukraine....interesting times!

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [297]


You know the old saying?


Berlin could do what it wanted as long as our economy did well, or rather looked like it was well. The mystery of Merkel's long rule and moving their party and the whole gov left and green ways!

Now, that doesn't work anymore....the economy sinks and the discontent of the german people rises! Every now upcoming election will mirror that development....that will have consequences for our leaders and their parties of course too!


Are they so different?

What is Labours stand on immigration? And the war in Ukraine? Are they woke or not?


They are not nationalist? Then they have no problems with the EU?

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [297]


How so?

As I read it (from Berlin, mind you) it looks like the leftist Brits will win the next elections...leftists who are usually rather pro-immigration and anti-nationalist!

One could think you could have had that if you stayed...but actually the EU is about to change ways more right....less leftist...to a big part because of the anti-immigration and nationalist movements in the member states. (Sunday are the big EU-elections!)

You see? It's abit confusing....

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [297]


.....and we all dislike chinese take overs, don't we!

And before that, when our national prides moved out to China....leaving unemployed Europeans behind.....for less taxes and regulations and bigger profits!


True!

But they see also that the promised better, more successful border-control, a thing many mainland Europeans wish for too, never came to pass either!

That it might make more sense to change the immigration laws from the inside....to build the "Fortress Europe" together in Brussels....

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [297]

You have no idea how many EU-Europeans agree with you, Iron!

The best and probably the only way is to make the EU so that they fit you....from the INSIDE!

After a Polexit Poland will have so much influence in Brussels as London has now, zero!!!

That's how these things work...there is no other way....so, vote for politicians who can move things IN the EU. Voting instead for ones who only ever fights the EU, wants Poland out, is not helping Poland at all. Logical, right?

Even Orban doesn't want out, instead he uses his vote to annoy EU-politicians mightily....with that he has so much power in Brussels! Since many decisions need unanimity he can block and sway things he doesn't like. Hungary out of the EU would have a very quiet voice only...he would achieve NOTHING!

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [297]

.....WHAT???? You mean Germany is not all-powerful and controls Poland with our dicks?????

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [297]

...and super interested in dicks...and testis.....and cants....and faking....:)

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [297]


But you can't...Germany rules everything, you said so yourself! We took away your freedom...you can't fight our dicks!!! *laughs madly*

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [297]

....and how powerful we are! That's so awesome....

News / Polish Government of runs on 2 engines: Bribery from EU and Polish inferiority complex about being Polish [25]

....I see the day coming Germans go over the border and steal polish cars....I do!

News / Will Poland as a NATO member be drawn into the Israel/Iran war ? [151]


Now....I would call THAT propaganda, Iron!

It has been awhile since Germans showed a big ego.....and had reason to....

History / Honoring - Otto Schimek [47]

I guess he still has to work through the polish ice hockey defeat against Germany in Ostrava today! :)

History / Honoring - Otto Schimek [47]


No Gruni, I didn't want to criticize you, that is a misunderstanding....I only mentioned that because some could wonder why I as a German put doubts of his bravery into this thread....I didn't do it because I judge this man, not at all!

Ach, I better leave here...it's not my place!

History / Honoring - Otto Schimek [47]


I would never judge since I can only hope to do the right thing in their situation....

History / Honoring - Otto Schimek [47]


You know....he was Austrian!

And I don't think it's only a few Nazis at Wiki:

....In 1993, the TV station Telewizja Polska created a 40-minute documentary show entitled Casus: Otto Schimek.[5] In 2011, the journalist Martin Pollack and the writer Christoph Ransmayr, both Austrians, published a description of their sources, "which counteract this heroic narrative and make the case appear as simple desertion."[6]Genesis of a legend made visible as a guided event of interpretation and the actual fall of Shimek to the exemplum."[6] In 2013 the Polish magazine Wprost adopted the criticisms of the two Austrian authors and described the story as a second-hand hero saga from the sister of the executed soldier.[7]...

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Schimek

Not that I would want to denigrate that "only a desertion"....that too was not that easy back then!

History / Honoring - Otto Schimek [47]

Now I got it, thanks!

That worked:

youtube.com/shorts/hhoj-65MD-U

History / Honoring - Otto Schimek [47]

At least he isn't totally forgotten in the german speaking part of the world....he got mentioned on a memorial plaque:

geschichtewiki.wien.gv.at/Gedenktafel_f%C3%BCr_Gefallene_mit_Befehlsverweigerer_Otto_Schimek

History / Honoring - Otto Schimek [47]

Now I googled him....an Austrian btw....

The german Wiki says the story is untrue....there are no trustworthy sources for that....developed by his sister?

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Schimek

History / Honoring - Otto Schimek [47]

You sure that this is the right link? I only get a youtube guide how to make shorts???

History / Slovakia - Poland's neglected neighbour? [63]

...any link! Don't have to be western rates....

History / Slovakia - Poland's neglected neighbour? [63]


Where do you get your rankings? Any link?

History / Slovakia - Poland's neglected neighbour? [63]


In Germany you become a rightist extremist radical already easily when you just oppose the leftist open border policy.

So much of your political standing is defined by your political adversary! And not where you see yourself.

It doesn't need much for a confused person to take this propaganda for truth and do the "upstanding" thing and go attacking the "future Hitler"....that's the danger. And yes, I fear there is much more of that coming....people already don't take care at all anymore to denigrate and dehumanize a political opponent with words. Deeds are only following that!

History / Slovakia - Poland's neglected neighbour? [63]


Really? Leftists don't hate rightists? Maybe where you live....here in Germany both sides hate each other freely!


See what I mean?

With that explanation every attack on a not-left-politician becomes acceptable....every one.

After all if someone had killed Hitler in time.....


It's not the Ukrainians which are disputed....rather non-Europeans....people from far away places, with strange cultures and foreign religions...those who find it the hardest, often are just unable to integrate, to adapt to european standards.

History / Slovakia - Poland's neglected neighbour? [63]


Sadly, doesn't have to be!

Just reading the comments in left leaning news outlets shows that the "shock and awe" is limited and the understanding for the attack is barely concealed, after all Fico is kind of "AfD". In some circles even such murders are now kind of acceptable for the "defense of democracy" or to avoid a "fourth Reich".....

The whipped up leftist hate is no less on the self declared "good" side, surely not less righteous....as long the victims are the "others", the rightist enemy.

I fear there is more coming! The 70's had the RAF, we will have the Antifa and Co.....

Off-Topic / Eurovision - Today I will be ashamed to be Polish [481]

Beautiful! :)

Maybe she would have a chance at the next ESC???

Off-Topic / Eurovision - Today I will be ashamed to be Polish [481]

Finally, ich am NOT last! :)

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Off-Topic / Eurovision - Today I will be ashamed to be Polish [481]

....come on Croatia!!!!

Edit: mennooo....