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Joined: 13 Mar 2017 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 16 hrs ago
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Bobko   
10 Jun 2024
History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [77]

Enough for today.

Tomorrow, I decided, I will give another go to Rokossovski.

One of the most exceptional Soviet commanders in all of WW2 (perhaps, the most talented).

Born in Warsaw in 1896, he started indicating Velikiye Luki as his birthplace, after being awarded two consecutive Hero of the Soviet Union orders.

Known to us as Konstantin Konstantinovich, he was born Konstantin Ksavyerovich. Some historians assert that his real birth name was Kasimir.

His father was Ksaveriy Yuzefovich Rokossovski (Glyaubich and Orsha arms). Inspector of the Warsaw railroads.

In 1949, the Polish President Bolesław Bierut, requested the Soviet government to send the Pole Konstantinos Rokossovski to Warsaw to serve as Minister of Defense.


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Bobko   
10 Jun 2024
History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]

@Novichok

This post... I feel owe you a State Award from the Russian government.

This is what we have believed all along.

They were delighted when the Nazis and Bolsheviks were butchering each other. Then when the communists started making startling advances, they finally got going.
Bobko   
10 Jun 2024
History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [77]

rus. transl. Кржижано́вский

Do you feel the Russian writing and resulting pronunciation is accurate to how Poles would pronounce it?

How do you rate Russian in general at producing Polish sounds?

There's no r sound

Which makes me wonder why we put the R back in there in Russia, when Poles don't use it. Seems wrong. Thanks for this!
Bobko   
10 Jun 2024
History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [77]

the zh (Polish ż) sound is not present in German (but present in English as in garage)

I noticed a long time ago that Germans write our Zh sounds as Sch, though.

It makes them sound very funny when they speak Russian. The German accent in Russian is probably one of the most funny ones.

What do you propose they use instead if you say yourself they don't have that sound?
Bobko   
10 Jun 2024
History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [77]

Wow! :)

Omg, haha. I butchered his last name in transliteration.

It is not "Kri-schi-SCHIV-onowski"

It is "Kri-schi-SCHAN-owski"

I will admit, Poles could have simpler names and it would make life much easier.
Bobko   
10 Jun 2024
History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [77]

How do you speak that?

Well, it's technically only three consonants. The Russian Ж, becomes Zh in Latin transliteration.

It's pronounced Kry-zhy-zhyv-onovski.

How can the Polish noble surname Krzyżanowski be so mistreated?

We literally spelled it exactly as it was written in Polish, but using Russian letters. You should say thank you. In America this would become Krysanovski.
Bobko   
10 Jun 2024
History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [77]

Today's Great Russian Pole - Gleb Maksimilianovich Krzhizhanovsky.

Born to an old szlachta family, he was one of Vladimir Lenin's oldest and closest friends.

In the early days, he was the editor of the Rabotnik newspaper, and a cofounder of the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class.

Later, when sitting in prison with Lenin, he wrote the Russian words to the Warszawianka.

However important his work was in the early revolutionary circles, Krzhizhanovsky is most remembered for something else. That is, being the head of the GOELRO and the first Chairman of the GOSPLAN.

It's hard to identify two organizations more important to Soviet life in the first decades of its existence. GOELRO, was the state plan for the electrification of Russia. That plan is responsible for the building of the mighty hydroelectric dams in Ukraine, and across Russia proper. The industrialization of the Soviet Union was inextricably linked to the GOELRO plan, administered by this Pole.

The GOSPLAN, is of course the Soviet ministry which managed all of planning in our centrally planned economy.

After his death, Krzhizhanovsky was buried along the Kremlin Wall in the necropolis along with other heroes of Russian history.


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Bobko   
9 Jun 2024
History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [77]

an incorrigible imperial Russian. :):):)

If you know that I am "Imperial" - then you must understand that I am not a nationalist and not a xenophobe.

A Pole serving Russia, is equal in my eyes to a Russian serving Russia, and above a Russian who is Russian in name only.
Bobko   
9 Jun 2024
History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [77]

Just because I quit the "Polish Aid..." thread, does not mean I am done.

As mentioned, I enjoy being an advocate for my beloved homeland. However, I am not here to autofellate my patriotism. The goal is to talk to Poles.

Poles have made crucial and formative contributions to the development of Russia as a modern state. I wanted to start a thread dedicated to important Poles in Russian history. I already made separate threads in the past about Dzerzhinsky and Rokossovski, but wanted to continue within a new thread going forward.

My list of greatest Poles in Russian history is as follows:

1) Nikolai Przhevalsky - probably one of the greatest Russian geographers and naturalists. He put Central Asia on the map, discovered many species considered lost (including the ancestor of all horses - named after him), and created maps important to Russia's Great Power competition with Britain for control over Afghanistan.

2) Konstantin Tsiolkovsky - as Wikipedia says: "Along with Hermann Oberth and Robert H. Goddard, he is one of the pioneers of space flight and the founding father of modern rocketry and astronautics." This Pole helped Russia beat the West in the Space Race, and is legitimately considered the father of Russian space exploration.

3) Dmitry Shostakovich - one of the greatest and most accomplished composers and pianists of Russia's Soviet period, whose stature grows every year since his death. Perhaps one of the greatest composers of the 20th century.
Bobko   
8 Jun 2024
History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]

D-Day was the turning point of the war

Do you smoke crack?

For those of you out there that are not history buffs - D Day was a large allied amphibious landing in Northern France. It represented the long awaited opening of a second front against Hitlerite Germany, from the West.

It occurred on June 6, 1944. I will repeat that - June 6, 1944.

We had been begging the allies to open a second front every year since 1941. Every year the operation was delayed under some new and very convenient excuse.

I think the Americans and Brits were happy to watch the Nazis and Bolsheviks slaughter each other.

By the time the Normandy landings happened, Germany was a shadow of itself and retreating in the East as fast as the German soldiers' legs could carry them.

Turning point of the war... This is a spit in the face of millions of Soviet citizens. Ever heard of Stalingrad? There, in an attack on a single tractor plant, Germany lost more men than in the Battle of France.

I repeat, a smaller episode of street fighting in Stalingrad was bigger than the entire collapse of France.
Bobko   
4 Jun 2024
News / Polish coal will be back [141]

Literally "public furnaces", installed for purpose of keeping people warm, and fired by coal.

I'm sure this is not a phenomenon present in Warsaw, Krakow, Gdańsk... but I have seen plenty of photos.
Bobko   
4 Jun 2024
News / Polish coal will be back [141]

@Lenka

What horrifies me, even as a Russian, is the little coal furnaces Poles install throughout their cities - including bus stations.

Seriously?

It's not even that cold, what the hell are you protecting yourself from?

In St. Petersburg it can be minus 25 on a good day in the winter, and there are no coal burners.

The best place I saw for this was Oslo. They had glass tunnels throughout their city which were warmed by air conditioning.
Bobko   
4 Jun 2024
News / Polish coal will be back [141]

Tbh I'm not too happy about solar farms

They are ugly... but most people will only notice them for 30 seconds as they drive past. Is it better to "uglify" the environment but breathe much cleaner air, or to let that land continue as pasture for livestock?

They also make buildings uglier, and then cities as a whole. A good example of this is Athens, where the tight Greeks almost all have solar panels on their roofs.

Everything comes with a trade off.
Bobko   
4 Jun 2024
News / Polish coal will be back [141]

More cost I would say.

No, not just cost.

When it comes to wind - Polish legislators made it so that it's practically impossible to build a wind turbine farm. Though recently this has been changing.

The initial regulation was that a wind turbine has to be located 700 meters from the nearest building. When taking into account all the protected nature preserves, and locations of certain population centres - this meant that 99%+ of Poland's territory was not fit for wind development.

After the Russian invasion, the Sejm made some changes and now it's 500 meters. This led to a 25-fold increase in the availability of land for wind investment (from 0.28 percent to 7.08 percent of Poland's area).

For solar, it is a more permissible environment, but also with huge amount of regulations. I'm not talking about people putting stuff on their roof, but large commercial operations.
Bobko   
4 Jun 2024
News / Polish coal will be back [141]

Which is a high percentage

A huge percentage.

Poland has made huge strides in attracting investment and growing its economy - but its energy mix resembles that of a country from the 1950s.

I understand there are objective reasons for why hydro and nuclear are difficult to implement, but when the topic touches on solar or wind - Poland has only its own legislators to blame.
Bobko   
3 Jun 2024
News / Polish coal will be back [141]

The only thread you need to read about Polish coal was the one Jon and I participated in several years back.

Why is this thread not being merged?
Bobko   
30 May 2024
Off-Topic / thinking of writting a book about myself [219]

@johnny reb

Weak stuff, but I could not expect more from a b*tch like you.

I'll go and die in Ukraine, when you grow a pair of balls and begin behaving as a male older than 12 years old.

How old are you again?
Bobko   
30 May 2024
Off-Topic / thinking of writting a book about myself [219]

Liar

Ahahahaha!

Liar?

B*tch I'm tired of you complaining like a child about people "diminishing" and "bullying" you.

Are you an adult, or some kind of handicap?

I'll "bully" you and "diminish" you until you understand fully and completely that you are as the dirt beneath my nails.

I got your number, you worm, and Novichok won't protect you.
Bobko   
30 May 2024
Off-Topic / thinking of writting a book about myself [219]

I noticed that you didn't deny it.

Hey, fish f*cker.... I noticed you don't like responding to my posts, regardless of how deep in the sh*t I dip you.

What is it?

Some girl like Lenka or Paulina writes you, and you are effluent with diarrhea. I write you, and you tuck your sh*t-stained tail between your legs and disappear. What gives?

Maybe you enjoy the humiliation?
Bobko   
30 May 2024
Off-Topic / thinking of writting a book about myself [219]

but after running an ip: check on them

This is the snitching/ratting, snakelike abomination that you have decided to hitch your wagon too, Richard.

How can you look at this pathetic excuse for a human being, and think - "there's an ally there"?
Bobko   
30 May 2024
Off-Topic / thinking of writting a book about myself [219]

Bobko, my friend, to earn the right to talk to Americans that way you should be a US citizen

I talk to anybody, Americans included, as I see fit to do.

You standing up for this moron, that alternates between pouring sh*t on you, and dancing the can-can for you - doesn't paint you in a positive light either.

I think my instincts regarding who is a good actor have been more on point, than yours - if we are to look back at the history.
Bobko   
29 May 2024
Off-Topic / thinking of writting a book about myself [219]

you are already the densest individual here

I just stopped to consider the factual veracity of this statement, and realized that it's likely correct.

Not gonna lie - that's a pretty impressive achievement. We have people with mental illness, here, and also Cargo Pants.... yet JR outshines them all.

Congratulations Johnny - you're a special kind of stupid - in a league all your own.
Bobko   
26 May 2024
Off-Topic / thinking of writting a book about myself [219]

I think I'm gonna write a book too.

"Debating With Poles: My Years in the Ring"

I will ask Novichok to write my foreword.

The cover art will be Pawian's portrait.

Chapter 1: "Into the Abyss"
Bobko   
25 May 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

True.

During his confirmation speech, he ended it by saying:

"I have always believed in an important principle in life, which guides my daily actions. That is, 'It's permissible to make mistakes, but it is not permissible to lie'."

This got many of us very excited.

The fact that he does not have hundreds of millions of dollars, or a yacht, or a villa, or a supermodel lover - and instead talks about his solemn oaths to the Virgin Mary.... well.

That's just f*cking scary.
Bobko   
25 May 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Nice

This man is a big change from the lover of ceremony and regalia that was Shoigu.

Ukraine should tremble.