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GefreiterKania   
22 Jul 2023
News / Despicable Ukrainian lies [144]

I just don't get that idea or need for it.

The older I get and more I read of your posts, Iron, the more I agree with you.

You are absolutely right -- f*ck their apologies. But we should be allowed to bury our dead and that's not negotiable. Unfortunately, our dear Ukrainian friends do not allow the exhumation of the victims so that we could at least give them proper burial.

I should have listened to you all those years, but I was young and naive and I wanted to be friends with everyone, hold hands and sing kumbaya. F*ck that. :-/

Is got paid by t hose who have a vasted interest in selling that stuff in Poland.

You mean he's corrupt? A corrupt Ukrainian prime minister??? Well, I never... So, that's why he's spreading all those outrageous lies? Hmm... one more reason for president Zelensky to do something about it, isn't it?
GefreiterKania   
22 Jul 2023
News / Despicable Ukrainian lies [144]

No, this thread is not going to be about the lamentable inability of the Ukrainian government to apologise for the Volhyn Genocide. It is a separate topic that would require a separate thread, especially in the light of the total scandal connected with the recent 80th anniversary of the genocide. How many times will Poland allow the descendants of OUN-UPA genocidal animals to spit in our faces is indeed an interesting question.

But, shhhhh... hush, hush... let's not talk about it at this moment...

... this is about something else.

This is about the lies of a certain creature - Denys Shmyhal - who happens to be a prime minister of Ukraine and who said that "Poland intends to continue blocking the export of Ukrainian grain to the EU".

tvn24.pl/tvn24-news-in-english/kyiv-condemns-unfriendly-polish-decision-to-extend-ukrainian-grain-ban-7249900

Now, considering the fact that Poland has NEVER been blocking the export of Ukrainian grain to the EU, such scandalous lies cannot remain without serious repercussions. Let's remind the lying Shmyhal some basic facts:

- the transit of Ukrainian grain through Poland to the EU continues uniterrupted as it has always been;
- in January 2023, Poland transported 114,000 tons of Ukrainian grain to the EU, in June it was already 260,000 tons - so, the transit of Ukrainian grain through Poland has more than doubled in the last six months.

So why is the Shmyhal lying? Another interesting question.

Not only is the aforementioned creature lying but also somehow forgets to mention Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Hungary - four other countries who also, just like Poland, allow the transit of Ukrainian grain but don't agree to destroy their own farming by letting it flood their own markets. It is only Poland - the country that sent about 400 tanks (among tons of other stuff) to Ukraine and accepted 4 million Ukrainian refugees, giving them all social security benefits/health services that Polish citizens get - that gets criticised. Quite interesting.

Now, let's look at another lie by our good - by now - acquaintance Mr Shmyhal: he claims that Poland not opening Polish market to Ukrainian grain is a "move that will severely impact global food security". Quite the contrary, Mr Shmyhal, the grain that you are talking about is needed in hungry Africa not in Poland, isn't it? Poland has enough of our own grain. We bought the "our Ukrainian grain will be sent to poor hungry Africa" lie last year, and it ended up flooding the Polish market. Fool me once and all that.

Mr Zelenski - when he is not busy awarding the titles of Hero of Ukraine to OUN-UPA criminals - should find some time to discipline his prime minister, who seems to be dangerously talking out of his anal orifice recently. Quite dangerously.
GefreiterKania   
2 Jul 2023
History / Poland and World War 2 -- Many history books prior to the wars end [37]

pomorska.pl/rewizja-niezwyczajna/ar/6681891

The article you linked gives the number of 358 German victims. Also, it confirms the existence of the 5th column (from German sources)...

Ale w 1966 roku ten sam Dwinger przyznał, że przyczyną "krwawej niedzieli" i polskiego odwetu byli dywersanci przerzuceni z kontrwywiadu SS do Polski

I'm not saying Poles are angels who don't have, as you said, "dark spots in our history", but compared to both our dear Western and Eastern neighbours, I'd say we are not that bad.

Please, forgive Kashub - he's only a young fellow and a bit emotional, hence the hilarious attempts at insulting you. You both are partly right about PiS: they are, by and large, a socialist party who plays on primitive fears and instincts of the uneducated part of Polish society (hence the anti-German scaremongering) but they are not "nationalists" in the Western European meaning of the word (deeply ingrained Catholicism of Poles is a firewall against that).

Poland can be authoritarian at times, but she cannot be totalitarian. Poles can be patriotic but they are very rarely nationalistic (I am yet to meet a Pole whom I could call a "nationalist").
GefreiterKania   
2 Jul 2023
History / Poland and World War 2 -- Many history books prior to the wars end [37]

PiS, PO or PSL?

PiS - the level of milking of Poland achieved by PiS has reached an unprecedented level recently, and the way they bought the Catholic Church's hierarchy is nothing short of disgusting; besides, someone has to stop the money printing machines ASAP. NO

PSL - if only they hadn't entered into alliance with this weirdo Hołownia. NO

Lewica - we don't really have proper Lewica in Poland, who would fight for workers' rights and pay conditions and equal chances for everyone, and not for gay children adoption and abortion. NO

KonfedeRosja - I would rather emigrate than have people like Mentzen (remember the famous "piątka"?), Bosak (my dog would manage to get an MA these days, too bad Mr Bosak wasn't able to do it, despite repeated attempts), and Korwin-Mikke (it's not really a good time to replace Brussels with Moscow) ruling Poland. NO

PO - with them in power any sort of Polish resistance against islamisation of Europe, neo-marxist cultural revolution and green fascism would stop. NO

All the others are plankton, so I might as well stay at home or go to a polling station just to write: "you are all a bunch of sorry c*nts" on the ballot paper as a sign of powerless anger. :-(
GefreiterKania   
2 Jul 2023
History / Poland and World War 2 -- Many history books prior to the wars end [37]

that's why I always fight for common sense on PF

...and let's not forget about your wine recommendations!

As for centrist parties' supporters and common-sense defenders - it looks like we are in minority. Why can't we go back to proper Christian Democracy similar to West German 1960s-1970s ordoliberalism? It worked so well; why did Europe have to switch to political correctness and leftist retardity? My disappointment with PiS stems exactly from the fact that they started well, with something that looked like Polish version of the good old German ordoliberalism but it evolved ever more towards authoritarian Orbanism (albeit with Catholic undertones).

Czech camps were Chech camps, that country was independent at least till 1947. Moscow took over after that date.

Correct. My mistake.
GefreiterKania   
2 Jul 2023
History / Poland and World War 2 -- Many history books prior to the wars end [37]

Czech "concentration camps".

Which were also run by communists (even Stalinists at that time). We don't, however, hear about "Stalinist camps", "NKVD camps" or "communist camps" - they are always Polish or - apparently in Germany (that's where you are, right?) - also Czech camps. German camps, on the other hand, are no longer German but "Nazi". Interesting development, isn't it?

Of course, it's only a part of a larger picture of historical revisionism. Nothing can ruin Polish-German relations better than what the EU is currently doing by stopping funds for Poland, constantly lecturing us about "democracy" and forcing us to accept suicidal immigrant policies, but historical revisionism doesn't help either. Poles and Germans are able to go along quite well with each other, as long as politicians on both sides don't try to stir sh*t. PiS is doing too much anti-German scaremongering and Germany/EU still treat Poland as a schoolboy who needs to be lectured. Nothing good will come out of it.
GefreiterKania   
1 Jul 2023
History / Poland and World War 2 -- Many history books prior to the wars end [37]

you Polish nationalists

Polish nationalists? Here? Do you know of any Polish nationalists, Iron? Perhaps they exist. I've never met any though.

Let's talk about

Not much to talk about. The subject of those camps, run by NKVD and communist authorities after WW2 is a well known topic. Countless articles and books have been written about it (Polish patriotic moms used Salomon Morel as a bogey man to scare their kids with when they were nasty). What's there to talk about?

Polish concentration camps

See... that's the problem, Pawi. That's the f*cking problem right there. Nobody ever speaks of Austrian or Czech concentration camps, German ones have magically turned into Nazi concentration camps, and we are left with Polish concentration camps only. Is that fair? No, Pawi, I don't think that's fair at all.

the file name isn't obvious so it's hard to find

Yes, not obvious file names are a nightmare. Happens to me all the time. Oh, well... let us know when you find it. And let us know when you find some Polish nationalists - I would like to ask them a couple of questions.
GefreiterKania   
30 Jun 2023
Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]

RuSSia under Putin can't even fix roads lol

But they can send men into space.

Abandon all hope, you who try to understand Russia.
GefreiterKania   
30 Jun 2023
History / Poland and World War 2 -- Many history books prior to the wars end [37]

a few thousand Germans were killed simply because of their ethnicity.

Nope. The estimated number of losses on German side is 350-500, including those who died fighting Polish troops.

No 5th column or such BS.

Wrong again. Wehrmacht weapons (exactly the same made and models) were found with those who were firing at withdrawing Polish units. Typical 5th column. Of course, in the war chaos and in the absence of police some mob rule and lynching happened but the scale of it was wildly exaggerated by the nazis to justify the atrocities they commited.

There was a Polish-German commission about 10 years ago

Links?
GefreiterKania   
24 Jun 2023
Language / Will Germans be able to understand Polish enough? [77]

The Pole the blond hero and the German the dark Mongol?

Well, those were small details. I meant the overall message.

a common history book of our both peoples would met difficulties... :)

:D

Yeah - imagine Kaczynski and Chrupalla sitting down to write a chapter or two!
GefreiterKania   
24 Jun 2023
Language / Will Germans be able to understand Polish enough? [77]

it seems as if Poles got educated to hate Germans

No, I wouldn't go that far. After all, the textbooks/comics that we read reflected pretty accurately the events from our history. It was more about cultivating the memory and remembering the past as a warning for the future.

And we all (or almost all) learnt German at school as the third language.
GefreiterKania   
24 Jun 2023
Language / Will Germans be able to understand Polish enough? [77]

beautiful and logical

I agree with the logical part. ;)

But jokes aside, the "ugliness" of the German language is perceived by connotation. We all watched tons of films where Germans were the baddies and we learnt to associate evil with the German language. I had this problem when I started learning Deutsch but it passed after a couple of months of listening exercises (I used a trick of selecting audiobooks with female reading voices and watching YT channels with female teachers).

P.S. But still, if a male voice shouted "Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung!" behind my back at midnight, I'd probably run for cover. :)
GefreiterKania   
24 Jun 2023
Language / Will Germans be able to understand Polish enough? [77]

There is even a translation of Hottentottenstottertrottelmutterbeutelrattenlattengitterkofferattentäter possible, but I'm not sure if I would like to see it in print. :)

EDIT: Hmm... or should it be Beutelrattenlattengitterkofferhottentottenstottertrottelmutterattentäter?
GefreiterKania   
24 Jun 2023
Language / Will Germans be able to understand Polish enough? [77]

Schmetterling!

Try "Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung" (but not in presence of the elderly, not to inadvertently cause a heart attack). :)

SZCZYZ

That's Szczyż (with "ż" not "z" at the end) - I know the guy! :) And it's a surname, so it can be both male and female.
GefreiterKania   
24 Jun 2023
Off-Topic / Terms of Russian Surrender [116]

unrest? Uprising? Big movements?

Not very likely.

If Ukraine is accepted into the EU, and eventually becomes a reasonably wealthy country, people will just get on with their lives. Well-fed people who are treated fairly don't start uprisings.
GefreiterKania   
24 Jun 2023
Love / Cheating from spouses. Is cheating very common in Poland ? [116]

Gdańsk is capitol of Kashubs am I right?

There's quite a few cities competing for the honorary title but, being a capital of Pomeranian Vojvodship, I suppose Gdańsk has the right to call itself that.

However, if you are looking for a conservative, Catholic wife, you need to go to the Kashubian interior. Forget big cities. Look in villages around Kartuzy, Kościerzyna, Sierakowice etc. Ladies there are still unspoiled and you can find some real beauty there. Good luck! :)

Grunni's big muscles and his even bigger ego

Some women like both these things, as I can attest. :)
GefreiterKania   
24 Jun 2023
Off-Topic / Terms of Russian Surrender [116]

This thread needs updating.

So, now when Prigozhin overthrows Putin and somebody else takes his place (Navalny? Kasparov?) do the terms of Russian surrender remain the same or should we propose some changes? Surely we can't be as harsh on - let's say - Гарри Кимович, as we would be on Putin. Your thoughts?
GefreiterKania   
23 Jun 2023
Language / Will Germans be able to understand Polish enough? [77]

now the Oder River is the border

Yes, but it used to be Elbe River (Łaba)...

... as educational comic books taught us in our childhood. :)

How ironic in Polish history that these days we have hostile Slavic nations to the east and friendly Germanic nation to the West. And what am I now supposed to do with all the old comic books?

Also, notice how Aryan the Slavic warrior looks like and how slightly Semitic is the Germanic one; all the subliminal messages that we got as kids - unbelievable.
GefreiterKania   
20 Jun 2023
History / Enemies, Strangers, Friends. Poles and Germans. [82]

that idea would be less popular in Germany than Poland.

Yes, some people would like us to believe that "capital has no nationality" whilst it so often turns out that it has.

I'll never forget how the EU drove Polish shipyards to bankruptcy by demanding that they return state subsidies whilst German and French shipyards had been receiving state subsidies for ages without any consequences. I remember how shocking it was for me to hear from Janusz Lewandowski that "in the EU some countries are allowed to do more than others" (all animals are equal but...) It was a huge disillusionment for many people in Poland, but still it didn't put Poles off supporting the EU (92% of support for EU membership must be one of the highest in the entire Union).
GefreiterKania   
19 Jun 2023
Life / Why do Poles talk so badly about Poland? [25]

@Paulina @Lenka

Well, that's probably because you work with honest, upright people - like yourselves - who have nothing to hide from the tax office. Apparently, I move in morally lower circles and judge everyone by these low standards. My apologies. :)
GefreiterKania   
19 Jun 2023
Life / Why do Poles talk so badly about Poland? [25]

Traditionally Poles when asked would use the lowest possible number (basic take home) and still knock some more off...

Common sense.

Usually people make quite a lot "on the side", in the grey zone without bragging about it for obvious reasons (the almighty Urząd Skarbowy and all that). Also, it's better for people not to envy you too much to avoid anonymous letters to the abovementioned US. :)
GefreiterKania   
18 Jun 2023
History / Enemies, Strangers, Friends. Poles and Germans. [82]

anti-Slavs

Quite right. I don't think many people in Germany still have any old Übermenschen delusions (well, not in racial sense anyway ;)). And if they do, they wouldn't be our dream tourists anyway. :)
GefreiterKania   
18 Jun 2023
History / Enemies, Strangers, Friends. Poles and Germans. [82]

broadly Warsaw and Berlin have the same long-term goals

Exactly. There is a wide economic, educational and cultural cooperation, and we are in the same political (EU) and military (NATO) blocks. There will always be differences but there's just not much space for any real enmity anymore.

in Polands case it's France

... or Italy. If I'm ever in Germany it's only in transit to one of these countries and I very rarely stop for tourist purposes (well, if I drive to Italy, I usually stay for one night in Ingolstadt but that's it). If it wasn't for my wife's fear of flying we would most likely never even set foot in Germany. *blushes* So, no - it's not only Germans. Poles are equally to blame in this "lack of interest" affair.

better it never has been between us in our both history....so....heads up! :)

Indeed. And it will only get better with time. :)
GefreiterKania   
18 Jun 2023
History / Enemies, Strangers, Friends. Poles and Germans. [82]

Absolute lack of interest in foreign (Polish) culture, etc.

Unfortunately it works both ways, we can't blame only Germans.

For Poles in general, the only real interest in Germany is among the lower classes, people who consider emigrating there permanently or temporarily to earn money. If a Pole is slightly better off, he/she is much more likely to be more interested in Italian or French language or culture, there are people who love Ireland, UK, Czechia or Hungary; also Spain, Croatia, Greece and Turkey are popular tourist destinations but if someone says that he is going to spend his holiday in Germany, they are going to get a lot of strange looks.

I suppose it's still the consequence of WW2. I am 44 and I remember what my grandparents told me about the war and occupation; I grew up with those stories, so it's still a personal thing for me. Younger generations might have a different attitude, hopefully.