News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]


I can not only read but also speak and write and even curse in Polish how about that? :-D


Our definition of success is very different then. My ambitions are a bit greater than that ;-)


Konfederacja has the youngest voters in Poland and that's what counts the most to me. They are the future of Polish politics. And now, they are becoming our presence as well.

News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]

@pawian, you're making an attempts on creating Reality Distortion Field but you're not Steve Jobs and you're not advertising an iPods to a global audience :-)

The facts are that PiS has won again and, which is more important in my opinion, Konfederacja has enter Polish Parliament.

They will same a similar purpose as Jobbik does to Fidesz in a Hungarian Parliament - they'll "keep PiS real"

So I assume that PiS will policies will shift right and be more radical due to those circumstances

Life / Famous Polish people (that we have actually heard of) [231]

Maria Kwaśniewska a Polish athlete who compteted in 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany and openly mocked Hitler during the ceremony

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


And yet it was PiS, a party which is attacked by the EU beaurocrats and rulers, who won a recent elections in Poland and not a PO which is widely perceived as a pro-EU party in Poland.

Not to mention that far right-wing Konfederacja, which I do support, has entered the Polish parliament for the very first time.

So hide your opinion polls, BratwurstBoy, because a general elections are the best opinion polls there are :-)

News / Should Polonia and expat Poles lose voting rights in Polish elections? [85]


What can I do with it then? Hopefully you don't mean anything rude? :-)

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


Germany is in a very peculiar position now. Sure they would like to cut the fundings and "teach those bloody Poles" [how to become a proper neomarxist state]. But there're few things that need to be taken into account:

- Any direct attack or/and sanctions on Poland, and it's government, would be counter productive since Poles don't like the others, Germans especially, to influence our internal politics.

- Poland, due to a fast growing economy, would not be a "net beneficiary" or those said funds in the next decade so the pressure could be no longer maintaned in the future

- Poland, and V4, are the main tradining partner of Germany in Europe. The main source of component for German main [automotive] industry. Hitting Poland and Hungary would directly hit German economy as well

News / Should Polonia and expat Poles lose voting rights in Polish elections? [85]


On many important matters Poland is so far ahead of the West :-).

So far Polish society has predicted, and blocked, two major threat to European Christian civilisation: population swap (invasion of so called "refugees") and LGBTqwerty indoctrination and sexual depravation of the youngsters.

News / Poland Parliamentary Elections 2019 [93]

Janusz Korwin Mikke is not "neo-liberal" but a Liberatarian Conservative of classic Austrian school of economics. "Economy stupid"! :-)

News / "POLISH death camps" term used by "Parade Magazine" Anti-Polish Bigots [249]


In that case Lenin (who is a commie darling as opposed to blood thirsty Stalin) whose direct and indirect decisions has managed to kill even more people by spreading "social justice" in the USSR. There would be no bolshevik revolution without Lenin and there would be no Stalin, who was Lenin's handyman, without Lenin also. Had he not died on syphilis he would put Stalin's "petty" crimes in shame. But seens neomarxist needs at least one leftist saint to justify their twisted ideology all the crimes are blamed on poor old Stalin :-)

News / Poland Parliamentary Elections 2019 [93]

After election fewer on PolishForums, I see :-)
So many long faces. Long march trough institutions didn't work in case of Poland and "liberals" got kicked in the bottom again. And long mocked Konfederacja has found its place in a parliament as well (to which event my humble person has also contributed). Happy days :-)

History / Communism fell 20 years ago, Poland led the fight since WW2 [341]

@pawian, No wonder you're so aggressive since you may not intelectually fully comprehend it but you've instinctly sensed the danger of such a statement that I've made.

Removing few crucial bricks, like Bolek, from this wall of lies on which IIIrd Republic was build upon will cause its collapse. That's why so many "moral authority figues" are so invlved into defending the old system of beliefs based on "legends" such as Bolek Walesa.

Unfortuanately for them, the process has already started and there's no stopping it.

Life / Are Poles suspicious of Facebook? [50]

@Rich Mazur, altruism is just a higher, and more sublime form, of egoism ;-)

If you take a look at the list of a famous hmm altruists, you're see that for most of them their ekhem altruism has paid off handsomely in a form of a substantial material gain.

The brightest example in Poland is Owsiak and his charity scheme.

History / Communism fell 20 years ago, Poland led the fight since WW2 [341]


You're naive Pawian. And being naive is cute when you're a young girl but not an old man living in a countryside.

Communism was trembling. And it was collapsing because of the 10 million strong Solidarity movement. Communists knew that it's not going to hold so they made, so called a "leap forward". The've placed countless agents in the movement and activated "sleepers" like Walesa who was recruited by SB in early 70's.

Those people we're crucial to add legitimacy to the new political order when commies started planning political transformation in Poland. Basically communist wanted two things: to be safe from the revenge of the people and to keep a dominant political and economical position in new Poland.

So to be clear: I bow to the great Solidarity movement but I dispise commie collabolators such as "Bolek" Walesa who sold out the great idea.

History / Poland in a Slavic Union/Alliance/Federation? [335]

The way that Serbia got treated and that most of the EU and Western world in general supported Kosovo is unfortunate. Poland should have never recognize kosovo as an independent state just like a Hungary didn't do so.

And those who are crying now about Crimea being occupied by Russia (and earlier on support forming an independent Kosovo) are the biggest hypocrites.

That said, 3SI is a chance for Serbia to grow. If not 3 Seas then what? An alliance, or rather a servitude to Russia? There's no future in that.

Life / Are Poles suspicious of Facebook? [50]

I'm not suspicious of Facebook at all.

As a coder I'm fully aware that is a tool for extracting information and big data analysis :-)

The choice is all yours: you can sacrifice your privacy and sell (or rather give away for free) your sensitive data in sake of convenience or not.

History / Poland in a Slavic Union/Alliance/Federation? [335]

No offence, but so called "Slavic Alliance" or "Panslavism" is just another name for Russian political domination in this part of Europe. We already have a Three Seas Innitiative formed by V4, some Balkan states and Romania/Bulagaria, which is more than suitable.

And it's growing.

Three Seas Initiative Gets Investment Fund
total-croatia-news.com/politics/36352-three-seas-initiative

History / Heritage of partitions still present in Poland [107]

It doesn't take into account smaller sub regions. Mostly a bigger cities voted for KE (is it still a correct name since PSL left?) while smaller town and countryside in Western Poland voted for PiS.

History / Why do Polish people hate to be called Eastern European? [120]

@pawian, you wrote so much nonsense that I don't even know where to start...


So you love Russians. How many Russians do you know in person?

I met quite a few of them in Poland and even more of them in London (they moved to the UK disguised as Latvians, Lithuanians...) and I wouldn't say that I love them but I know how to deal with them in person.

Which brings me to the next point: the only way of effectively dealing with Russians is from the position of power. Any other approach is seen as a sign of weakness by a regular Russian. So yes, a mutual respect is possible only when both sides take hard line. That's how they are wired and that's how they've been conditioned for centuries.

When it comes to politics, obviously that kind of relations with Russia is something that only a strong conservative government is capable of. Even the US, the superpower, got slapped by Russia when they had a weak, incompetent, liberal president Obama.

And now, connecting Polish nationalist with some kind of pro-russian stance is an aberration shared by both tribes: PiS and PO followers. Polish nationalist have pro-Polish stance and in Polish interest is to cooperate with those who will bring - economical, political or any other - profits to Poland. Something which Viktor Orban does succesfully for Hungary.

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]

I criticized Germany for many things and political decisions but I never questioned importance of free economic exchange between Poland and Germany. That's what our relations should be restricted too. When it comes to politics and social matters, Germany is a bad influence.

I thought that "liberals" were always pro-choice, was I mistaken? :-P

I repeat: "[taking] all the parts that works without any parts which aren't necessary for harmonic cooperation between nation-states of Europe. Those unnecessary penalties are leftist ideological distortions which are omnipresent in the EU." And not needed at all.

Genealogy / What are common Polish character traits? [425]

Polish national traits are creativity, individualism, stubborness, contrariness, respect for family values, heroism in times of crisis

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]

Correction: we want all the parts that works without any parts which aren't necessary for harmonic cooperation between nation-states of Europe. Those unnecessary penalties are leftist ideological distortions which are omnipresent in the EU.

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]

What most Poles want are the things which are [falsely] associated with the EU like Schengen zone free travel agreement, free trade which was started by European Economic Community and existed long before the EU was even created.

A work needs to be done to make Poles realise that.

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]

I think they were really clear about it during the last party congress in Warsaw. They want Poland out of socialist driven EU, yet there are two factions: one - which I support - wants to destroy the EU from within to eliminate the threat of ever expanding socialist federation and the other one want Polexit which is a half-measure in my opinion but still better than remaining in the EU.

We don't need the EU.

For free travel we only need Schengen zone which is independent from the EU structures.

And for free trade we only need single market ie. EEC as established in Treaties of Rome in 1957 long before the EU was even a dream [or rather a nightmare].

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


A one minute video which says more about what [and who] they represent than most political parties says during the whole election campaign.

youtube.com/watch?v=oDqSWjI1a7Q

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]

Trade with the US has also grown significantly in the last 3 years

census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c4550.html

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


Iwonka, that's a very good question. Germans have broken EU law regarding state aid and donated money to their shipyards in Wolgast and Straslund in East Germany in 2012.

In the EU, like in Orwell's "Animal Farm" All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


That's because I've shortened it a bit and quoted it from my memory. Try:

"It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a program whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt."

History / Heritage of partitions still present in Poland [107]


It doesn't have to be a conspiracy but a simple intellectual laziness :-)


Yes, it is mostly an emotional act. Most people are much more emotional that they would care to admit. And very often a rationalization is done after an emotional act/decision.That's just how human brains are wired. Care salesmen undestand that very well ;-)

History / Heritage of partitions still present in Poland [107]

Partitions had some impact on the development of regions of Poland but there are also other factors which contributed to it.

A rural - because that doesn't apply to big cities - area of Eastern Poland is in fact much poorer than those in Central and Western Poland. The decades of neglect during communist era and "central planning" focused on heavy industry which favored regions rich in coal, metals and other minerals has also contributed to it.

Right now the unemployment rate in Poland is very low. That said the regions with traditionally highest employment rate in the past 30- years were Mazury and also West Pomerania (former german partition and a part of Germany until after WWII) and Podkarpacie (ex Austrian partition).

The most developed, and the richest, region in Poland is metropolis of Warsaw (ex Russian partition). Some may point out that it is a capital, so this is normal.

Yet it is not an universal rule since Berlin is one of the poorest cities in Germany. Same goes to Rome which is much poorer than Milan or Torino which lies in North Italy.

Those facts would break a simple narrative so maybe that's why it was ommited in this discussion ;-)

History / Heritage of partitions still present in Poland [107]


Not really. Silesian Uprisings against Germany were also succesful.

I would expect more from you since you are a teacher.