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

Clearly the issue of culpability doesn't extend in fact to succeeding generations.
However, every country, Poland included, must bear the burdens of their history,
from which no nation is exempt, be it Palestine, Israel, France, Italy, Germany etc.

Curious though that while the Romans were responsible for the crucifixion of Christ,
we don't hate all Italians, merely because members of that time Italy (in which Rome
is located) produced a Pontius Pilate, Trajan along any number of other antisemites.

Off-Topic / I am a polish communist. [83]

Rich, in light of Germany's history, any thinking person can well understand their trepidations
about allowing untrammeled free speech at every bend and turn!

Hitler left indelible stains on Germany's future history and while you and others might see German
society as all but paralyzed, strangled, by political correctness, the alternative aka AfD. is to my mind
far more frightening.

At least Germany has been behaving herself for the past seventy-five years. We pray she continues.

Sahra Wagenknecht seems to be doing an American style Dem/Rep tango with the AfD and the SPD.
One wonders why.

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [366]

Kennedy apparently was considered a bumbler by colleagues and staffers,
but avoided the end of planet Earth with his resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis
in addition to founding the Peace Corps.

He did escalate the Vietnam Conflict, this is true, yet surrounded himself with a
coterie of intellectuals in contrast to the future Felon-in-Chief!

Even Reagan was less out of whack than Trump, although he did ruin the New Deal
forever.

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [366]

The whole idea proposed by President elect Trump is so ludicrous
as not to even warrant comment.

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

Often times though, the sins of the parents or the fathers in this case, are visited upon the children, unfair
as this may be.

I remind you of a once well-known publication from the late '60's or perhaps somewhat later, "Papa, hast du's getan? - Taeterkinder sprechen" (Is this what you did, papa? - Perpetrators' children speak out). Although by then the War had already been over for practically thirty years, the deep, indeed, barely healed, scars of the Hitler years, in particular the Holocaust, remained open wounds, as well as a source of bruising shame, in particular, for German nationals abroad!!

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [366]

Not certain I follow you, B.B.

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [366]

Ahemm, come off it, B.B!
The man is the average scion of an above average father, who was a former member of the KKK on Long Island where he grew up, made most of his
money via investments, much as Trump's grandfather "Drumpf", when the latter came over to America during the 19th century and struck it rich during the
Gold Rush.

These men didn't pursue professions as you or I (hardly couch potatoes, by the way), but became wealthy by dint of sheer cleverness rather than hard work alone.
How can one have any respect for a man who punched out his high school music teacher and never saw a day of detention, 'cuz the school principal couldn't really
touch the kid, as his old man was mega-rich Freddie Boy Trump, real estate mogul par excellence?

Well, finally that woman won her lawsuit before Fred died and received her money as an African-American who was denied housing in a Trump-owned apartment bldg.
Good for her!

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

However, in the case of Sigmar Gabriel, his father was in fact, both an avowed and
unrepenitent former Nazi.

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [366]

Trump's either crazy or possibly senile, one or the other!
Every other day or so, our President-elect comes out with another
odd ball notion...and nobody seems to stop him.

See how far Mafia connections and coming from a rich father can get you?

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

Guess we'll have to just wait and see.

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

Hmm, you mean then he imagines he can/could actually stage a comeback??

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

Ever since Scholz lost his own party to a vote of no-confidence, are we talking
about a potential Merz candidacy??

Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]

When posting in either Polish or even Swedish, Italian, any language I learned after my mother tongue(s) etc., I never ever rely on
machine translation, but instead attempt to think and then write in the language I intend
to post, mistakes and all!!

Anybody can dash off a perfect e-mail using GoogleTranslate. This of course is cheating. How often have I received e-mails in 100% native speaker English
from foreigners, only to finally meet them in person (not on Zoom) and notice the cavernous differences between how they "write" vs. how they
actually speakLOL

Incidentally, Ironside, I sent you a private message several weeks ago.

Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]

Precisely, just as long as they don't 'die Katze aus dem Sack lassen', he-he!
Americans "spill the beans":-)

Life / Why women's rights are not respected here in Poland? [160]

Money grubbing men too, Johnny! They're called doctors and lawyers, I mean
let's spread the greed around equally LOL

Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]

In German too I seem to recall a similar idiom.

Life / Why women's rights are not respected here in Poland? [160]

The campaign was indeed in the '90s, however the article
was from several years ago, as it was a retrospective on women's
rights (or the lack thereof) in Poland.

Life / Do you collect mushrooms in your country? Poles in Poland do. [94]

A friend of mine from Swabia in Southwestern Germany used to tell me about
"Pilzsuchfahrten" or "mushroom hunts" when he was a boy growing up around the
Schwaebische Alb.

Life / Why women's rights are not respected here in Poland? [160]

I recall seeing a photograph of a billboard in the Polish news magazine "Wprost", I believe, several years back,
to the effect that women in Poland still feel helpless if their husband comes home drunk and
becomes physically abusive!

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]

@Barney, it seems as though Netanyahu is going to lose his shirt over this.
Genocide though implies an ideological agenda rooted in constitutional or government
laws enacted in order to effect such an action, as for example in Nazi Germany with
the Nueremberg Laws.

Israel has no such laws on the books, her actions however despicable under peace time
circumstances, are solely predicated on the actions of the the Palestinians and their initial strike!

History / Poland must get back Lwow, Wilno and Brest back [345]

Lwow was once known as Lemberg during the height of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
By the logic of the current thread, oughtn't Lwow then be returned to Austria??
lol

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

Actually, Israelis show slightly more hospitality to their Muslim neighbors than
they do to American Jews:-)

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

In the light of that most recent attack in Magdeburg just prior to the Christmas Season,
there are sadly more and more public calls for deportation of refugees within Germany!

The new chancellor certainly has plenty to contend with.

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]

Pawian, once again you're letting ahistorical analogy cloud your judgement!

The Nazis were wreaking havoc on a people, namely the Poles simply for being Slavs,
whom they deemed "inferior". The Israelis are merely retaliating for attacks on them
by the Palestinians who intrinsically want to destroy Israel based on nebulous reasons
of some historic primogeniture.

Right-thinking Israeli Jews seek no such intrinsic revenge on their Arab neighbors. However,
even the most pacific human being will fight back, if necessary kill as an act of self-preservation,
if they, their family, their home is attacked. This is sheer animal instinct no matter how religious or
spiritual a person may be.

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]

@pawian, you need not remain ignorant! Sure you understood me before??

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]

You certainly can help it, by not kowtowing to willful ignorance!
If you desire to remains so, you will. If you desire to learn from your ignorance,
you won't, it's that simple.

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]

Once again, "Israeli Nazis" is a vile misnomer, pawian, I'm surpised at you, man!
Israel was attacked by the Palestinians first, for whatever reason, Israel was the
butt of a rival's vicious onslaught, and needed any expedient within reason in order
to fight back, just as with any other nation on earth who has been forced into submission.

The will to survive remains the strongest of all human emotions, don't forget.

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]

People like to irresponsibly label others as "Nazis", "Faschists" etc.as a knee-jerk, pseudo-liberal
response to anything they dislike! Say some high schoolers find their homeroom teacher too strict.
"Ahh, Mr.________'s such a fxxxxxxg Faschist... he doesn't like to give us recess!!" etc, ad nauseum.

Israelis are no more Faschist or Nazi than you or I.

Only those Holocaust survivors who experience true dictatorship are entitled to apply such epithets,
NOT anybody else!

Study / English or German speaking school in Poznan [4]

I sent you a private message as to your query the other day. Have you received it?

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]

Comparing Israel under Netanyahu with Nazism is downright sick, misguided, indicating
a complete and utter disregard for historical truth!

German anti-Jewish resentment and slow-burn, violent hatred of same, stoked above all by
Hitler. represented a centuries' long, indeed festering, animosity towards a single group within
a society, deemed "different", therefore weaker, by the majority host culture in whose midst the
Jews were living for hundreds of years before the Enlightenment.

The situation between Jews and Palestinian Arabs of the Muslim faith is one of singular denial
of their Jewish neighbors, the intent of whom, is stated as "to drive Israel into the sea".

The Israeli Jews have no other option than to defend themselves.
Had Germany's sizable Jewish population during the Third Reich been even more integrated
into German society, hence, with the effective use of firearms, hand-to-hand combat beyond merely
that of conscripted service in the First World War, Germany's Jewish citizens would have been able
to fight back tooth and nail, applying all the modern weaponry at their disposal.

As this was not the case, Germany's Jewish population appeared to the Nazis to lack the force of strength, an
attribute considered more important than any other.