Life / Polish sentimental ballads [38]

do you like it?
youtube.com/watch?v=wcO-YZyK86M&feature=related
youtube.com/watch?v=YutTzWWLO6w&feature=related

and this one?
youtube.com/watch?v=g9z9kt1dx44&feature=related

or this?
youtube.com/watch?v=AXnUJCFKaKg&feature=related

History / Polish military uniforms [49]


hmmm... I could agree, if you said so about Cnut the Great's invasion in 1015....

History / What do Poles owe to Czechs? [83]

more insults? It's no use to write more...

History / What do Poles owe to Czechs? [83]


jon357
argumentum ad personam is no argumentum at all

History / What do Poles owe to Czechs? [83]

and what about these rapes by Red Army soldiers? My mother's friend was concentration camp prisoner of Majdanek - she told me, that "molodcy' raped even these starved and filthy, half-dead women....

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]


No, because in '43 AK have almost no weapons then!
From '43 to 44' they were producing machine gun Sten, hand granades {filipinka, sidolówka}, Molotov cocktails, flamethrowers, granade launchers, mortars, explosives, even buying weapons from german soldiers, whose morale was much lower then....


no, it wasn't

Language / Polish baby talk [20]

dzidzi - little child
amciu - eat
piciu-piciu - drink
tup tup [toop toop] - walk

History / What do Poles owe to Czechs? [83]


pathetic, even if it was meant to be a joke

as to the other polish Czechs:
Wacław Żywny - teacher of Fryderyk Chopin
Igor Neverly - writer [1/3 Czech]
Leopold Staff - very good poet, son of Frantisek Staff, confectioner from Lvov
Jan Styka - painter, son of Czech-austrian officer
Karol Szajnocha - famous historian, writer, son of germanized Czech, Scheinoha-Vtelenský, and polish woman
Aleksander Augezdecky - XVI century pilish printer and editor

History / What do Poles owe to Czechs? [83]

Jan Matejko - his father was Czech, who married polish woman and lived with his family near Cracow

Love / Polish Pet Names For Girls. [156]


it could be also: Tunia, Tuśka, Tusia

Love / Polish Pet Names For Girls. [156]


it could be albo Maryla/Maryjka or Maja/Majka or Mania
Marynia

Love / Cheating from spouses. Is cheating very common in Poland ? [116]

no, it's not

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]


in Rzeszów also were wailing...

Language / -ski/-ska, -scy/ski, -wicz - Polish surnames help [185]


hmmm... I think this 'owicz" suggested rather town dwellers [like -in Sebastian Klonowic/z] , if joined with first name for example: Bogdanowicz pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanowicz_(herb_szlachecki) - it means that this family was ennobled

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [586]


here is another link
upi.com/Top_News/2008/02/05/Fla-couple-hid-elderly-neighbor-in-Poland/UPI-97511202263237/

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [586]


Alleged is only that anyone from brothers Bielski killed these peasants with their own hands, but their partisants did. And brothers Bielski were no saints

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-495420/Jewish-hero-rescued-Jews-Nazis-charged-conning-Holocaust-survivor.html

upi.com/Top_News/2008/02/05/Fla-couple-hid-elderly-neighbor-in-Poland/UPI-97511202263237

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [586]

Fact. It's about murder of the whole polish villages: Koniuchy, Naliboki by jewish-soviets "partisans"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naliboki_massacre
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koniuchy_massacre

citinet.net/ak/polska.php?Page=66&Lang=EN
minelinks.com/war/bandits_1.html

Life / Polish home remedies for cold, stomach ache, migraine? [49]

my grandmother's receipts: to eat
1. The one peeled lemon without sugar -
2. a spoon of "anti-migraine" jam from the whole lemons

History / Where is Helena Wolińska-Brus buried? [52]


here you have a CV of Henryk Gołebiewski, one of child-actor from these times.
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Go%C5%82%C4%99biewski_(aktor)
Do you suggest, that his father also was a traitor and/or big commie fish?

History / Where is Helena Wolińska-Brus buried? [52]


unfortunately - it has. Wolinska claimed, that she was accused of court crime, BECAUSE she was Jewish... And she was as white and innocent as a lily...

News / The spiritual heirs of the Polish Communist Party [91]


why? And why is this "revelation"?

News / The spiritual heirs of the Polish Communist Party [91]

Freedom of speech depends of who is speaking. Bartoszewski can rave freely about "dyplomatołki" and "bydło", call grief after the Smoleńsk "nekrofilia", Niesiołowski is free to call X "chory z nienawiści", "kłamca" etc but Rymkiewicz has to shut up....

As to the freedom of speech in media, I'm a journalist and I have seen this "freedom" at work.

Life / Jerzy Kosinski - Polish author and liar [127]

there is a very interesting book by Joanna Siedlecka - "Czarny ptasior" {The Black Bird}, published in 1994 - about Jerzy Kosiński's youth

Life / Jerzy Kosinski - Polish author and liar [127]

better compare "Wystarczy być" {Being There?} and "Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy... "The Painted Bird" is another cup of tea