Off-Topic / Nobel Prize and Oscars = Propaganda? [61]


That "now" was after protests in Iran. Do you remember what those protests were about?


I can, but I'm not sure if you can... Lech Wałęsa got awarded the Nobel Peace Prize after the period of martial law in Poland which was introduced in order to suppress protests. Over 10 000 people got arrested and 40 people killed by the communist regime. Here you can read about what significance that Nobel Peace Prize had for Polish people:

dzieje.pl/aktualnosci/danuta-walesa-odebrala-w-imieniu-meza-pokojowa-nagrode-nobla

I see the Nobel Peace Prize often as a symbolic sign of support for a nation or some cause, even though just one person usually gets awarded.

Off-Topic / Nobel Prize and Oscars = Propaganda? [61]


Hmm, I don't know, maybe speak for yourself? I suspect that this one meant something for people in Iran:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Nobel_Peace_Prize

Btw, winning the Nobel Prize in Physics can get you over 1 mln dollars usually, so I wouldn't call that "worthless" :P

Off-Topic / Nobel Prize and Oscars = Propaganda? [61]

@Ron2, have mercy ;D:


Obama didn't win an Oscar! ;D He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for God's sake... 🤦😂

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

@Bobko, my mother read the whole village library while pasturing cows... I discovered "The Lord of the Rings" (and fell in love with it) on a shelf at my grandma's house in the countryside...


Nonsense.

But that's enough of me feeding your trolling :)

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

@Bobko, what kind of stupid comment is that?

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

@PolAmKrakow, there are no police officers in Polish schools... Or metal detectors... Just saying...


That's what I think too, sadly...

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]


I don't seem to have such a problem on my Android phone... Besides, I don't use this function - I just type "[b][ /b]" and "[i][ /i]" by hand - it's faster for me personally (must be a force of habit from my second job though).

But what I've noticed recently - I sometimes have a problem with moving around the text window (with sliding through the text) when I'm writing my post - like it gets stuck/freezes. I'm not sure if it's a problem with the forum or with my phone or what... 🤔 Has anyone else experienced it?

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]


I meant that in a more general way ;)


99% of the time I'm using my phone to read and write on PF. I'm guessing that's how it's also with young people... Yesterday I read a Polish article that blew my mind - apparently because Gen Z grew up using smartphones some of them don't even know how to turn on a computer o_O


They seem to be a plague on the internet these days.

Classifieds / introduce my job products from china [27]


Easier said than done, I'm afraid... One of the components of a medicine that people with my illness have to take everyday for the rest of their lives is (or was?) produced only by a factory in China apparently. When the production at that factory was stopped (due to fire, or sth, I don't remember) there was a shortage of that medicine in Poland. And I can't just not take that medicine...

Almost 80% of active substances used in drugs produced by the pharmaceutical industry come from China. It looks like we've become too dependent on production in China.:

mgr.farm/aktualnosci/uzaleznienie-od-chinskich-substancji-czynnych-juz-wychodzi-nam-bokiem/


I know, I've seen stories of people buying more professional coloured pencils supposedly from Western brands on Chinese internet stores for lower prices and it turned out that quality was nothing like it was supposed to, so they were probably fakes. Intellectual property theft is also very common apparently - I've seen Western artists complaining about their art being stolen and printed on various products and sold on Chinese internet stores like AliExpress, etc.

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.


Yup, I had no idea...


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




A sponsor finally said it! Yay! lol

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

@Novichok, no, that war for "freedom and Russkiy Mir" was started by Putin.

History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]


If you had brains you would know that a Pole owning a gun in Poland under the Nazi occupation would get shot on the spot. You could get executed even for owning a gas mask.

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


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? 🤔


Yeah, that's the problem...

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]


But I did.


That one was started by RuSSia, moron lol

History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]


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


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

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]


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


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! :)))

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

This sounds like part of Polish society:


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. 🤔

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]


Good.


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


You are truly not right in the head. Me and other Poles don't despise Polonia. I only despise psychopaths like you and Novichok.

History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]

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


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


Btw, I have family in these parts of region.

History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]


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.


If after all this time on this forum, all the info and explanations you're still "puzzled" then you're truly a hopeless case.

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 (read the section "Mordy na Żydach"):

pl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brygada_%C5%9Awi%C4%99tokrzyska

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

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


What kind of nonsense is this? :D


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.

Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [595]

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


Indeed.


No, they don't. They defenitely do have something missing in their soul though.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]


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.

Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [595]


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


He often does that lol


You wish lol

Your trolling gets boring, Kania.

Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [595]

@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 :)))

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."

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.

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."

History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]


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...


You mean Tiananmen Square massacre?