History / "How Poles Built Russia... [26]

Russians are honorary people, so in return for building their country they gave us some of their brilliant inventions. One of such inventions is...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTS_(vehicle)

... we have over 250 of them -- the 1969 PTS-M version. The wiki entry says "to be replaced" next to Poland but we've been hearing this "to be replaced" since the late 1990s when those remarkable vehicle were supposed to be scrapped. But then of course the great flood of 1997 came, and the Russian gift turned up to be a gift from heaven. Did anyone in Poland say 'thank you' to Russia back then? I doubt it.

Guess which machines saved many Poles and their possessions in the great flood in 2010? PTS-M.
What about the most recent 2024 flood? Yip, PTS-M.

Looks like there is another great flood coming this year, and our brave government announced full readiness to fight the powers of nature, but the question is, which equipment will prove vital again? You guessed it - PTS-M.



We could use a newer vehicle but unfortunately the only country making machines capable of transporting fully loaded Jelcz 442.32 trucks across water is... Russia, and we can't currently buy military equipment from them (our allies would react with unhappy noises). Therefore, if nobody else is willing to do it, then I will say "thank you Russia for the over-half-a-century old vehicle that will once again save Polish lives and property in 2025".

geekweek.interia.pl/militaria/news-pts-m-znow-beda-walczyc-z-wielka-woda-to-wozy-z-lat-60,nId,22163213

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:)

Good point.

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You might not like it though. Professor Nowak is a top class intellectual but when it comes to Russia he's brutally honest and his approach is 100% realistic. You will not find Panslavic poetry there but only cold facts and political realism. Not a book to soothe our poor панславянские души, I'm afraid.

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]

Apparently there is an English version of Andrzej Nowak's Polska i Rosja. Sąsiedztwo wolności i despotyzmu X-XXI w. ...



domksiazki.com/Details?id=42660

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


0.1%? One in a thousand? No way. More like 0.000001% and that's probably an exaggeration as well.

Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [283]

Both ("Germans of Turkish origin including both citizens and non-citizens").

Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [283]


... that's not what AI thinks.

ChatGPT says that in German prisons like those in Bautzen, Görlitz, or Dresden, the largest foreign inmate groups are actually Turks, followed by nationals from countries like Romania, Syria, Italy, and others-not Poles or Czechs as the primary groups. It also says that German government report in Saxony (you said Bautzen, Gorlitz, Dresden) do not list Poles or Czechs as top groups in prisons but Turks consistently as the largest group.

It makes sense, as there are far more Turks than either Poles or Czechs in Saxony and Germany in general.

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... but there is need for populism?


I know what it means, I just don't know why the German government is fighting a populist party with populist methods (so they are, in a way, turning into populists themselves). It's like fighting communism by turning into communists.

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How do you post YT videos? I keep getting error messages. :-/

This one's even nicer...

youtube.com/watch?v=ZYHZzVayPpg&list=RDZYHZzVayPpg&start_radio=1

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:D

That's just brilliant. haha

Are AfD anti-semites? If they are then, according to your theory, the government will fight them with even more anti-semitism? xD

I always knew Germans were collectively bipolar but I didn't know it's that bad!

Off-Topic / Hillary Clinton Doesn't want Americans birthing Children, Immigrants do this. [46]


Why does AfD have so many voters? Why don't they want migrants if they are such a treasure to Germany? Why does AfD love Poland so much that they want to give us those precious migrants?

You're not making much sense, Alien.

Off-Topic / Hillary Clinton Doesn't want Americans birthing Children, Immigrants do this. [46]


So why does German police keep sending them through the border to Poland if they are such a treasure? :)

Off-Topic / Hillary Clinton Doesn't want Americans birthing Children, Immigrants do this. [46]

@Alien

3 million? If Poles keep having 1 child on average, then eventually 38 million will turn into 19 million, then 9.5 million etc. 3 million wouldn't be enough even for Poland, not to mention the entire EU.

Besides, if we import tens of millions of people from 3rd world sh*tholes, then inevitably we will become a 3rd world sh*thole as well. Not a good idea.

Off-Topic / Hillary Clinton Doesn't want Americans birthing Children, Immigrants do this. [46]


Nah, the current retards can stay but they have to introduce...

- more incentives to have children (more tax reliefs, longer paid maternal/paternal leaves,
more free creshe/playschool places etc.)

- more disincentives for childless parasites (additional taxes, public shaming, social exclusion,
ban from holding public offices etc.)

- subsidies for culture creators who promote traditional values

- dekurvisation of media and entertainment industry

... and, of course, huge religious revival (supported and subsidised by the state) would be in order as well.

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@Bobko

No mystery.

Job security, no rat race, equal (lack of) opportunities, more or less equal material status of everyone, and not much more to do than babies.

Alas, with capitalism we need drastic measures to make people have more children.

Off-Topic / Hillary Clinton Doesn't want Americans birthing Children, Immigrants do this. [46]

4) ban on social media

5) huge tax relief for families with two or more children

6) huge additional tax on childless parasites (unless they join a monastery/cloister)

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Yeah, especially DINKs marriages. Or those with "dog-children" ("psiecko").

I don't know about the Japanese or Koreans but most married Poles (apart from religious groups like Neokatechumenat) have one child; two is already rare in my generation; and it's not about money. My brother-in-law is raking it in, he could raise an orphanage and still be well off - how many kids does he have? One daughter.

I'm telling you - it's the rejection of the Church's teaching, the diabolical sexual revolution, and the culture of hedonism.

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It's not marriages. Most of my primary and highschool friends are married and only one of them has two kids.

It's not Boomers either.

It's the decline of religion and mass rejection of the Church's teaching. Also, media, entertainment/advertising industry, the internet, mindless consumerism - all turned 30s-40s into entitled hedonists, escaping from any responsibility or duty. With 20s it's even worse.

If the West+Slavia disappear, we'll have only our own wickedness to blame.

My only consolation is that the number of Roman Catholics is growing (albeit not in the Old World), so the Church will survive.

Off-Topic / Hillary Clinton Doesn't want Americans birthing Children, Immigrants do this. [46]


That's why we are all endangered species, the West and Slavia alike.

That's what happens when you ignore God's command to be fruitful and multiply - you receive Darwin's award for removing your genes from existence.

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]

I can confirm what this guy is saying...

youtube.com/shorts/82Vbfezm2uQ

... I used to walk in Spartak Moscow jersey (a gift from a friend) in Gdańsk, Toruń and Poznań with zero problems or comments from anyone, and in a Вперед, Россия! scarf - the same thing.

Here we have a guy in a "Polska" hoodie in Moscow...

youtube.com/shorts/aVegaxq0BFA

... zero problems.

Take aways politics and Poles and Russians will get along just fine.

News / Should Poland pay for gas in rubles? [197]


Russia seems to have a serious architectural problem there - the most dangerous windows in the world.

Off-Topic / God and Religion Talk [459]


Don't be so ridiculous. Pope is the Vicar of Christ on earth. He doesn't need anybody's permission to consecrate things.

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Well, proper consecration of Russia to Immaculate Heart of Mary was done very recently, in March 2022 by Pope Francis (earlier consecrations weren't specific enough), so naturally it will take some time before your eyesight improves, but the mills of God have already started grinding and all that.

Приятного чтения!

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Brilliant.

Imagine how different the world would be if Russia had converted to the One True Religion back in 1612 and joined her forces with Poland - all the earth would bend the knee to our command!

USA, Canada / Are Polish male students more physically confrontational compared to Canadian male students? [9]


I'm sorry to hear that.

In Poland male pupils eventually grow up to be men. What do those testosteroneless freaks in Canada grow up to be?

Off-Topic / God and Religion Talk [459]

@Novi @Bobko

Please read Marcel De Corte's L'homme contre lui-même and L'intelligence en péril de mort. You are both intelligent and very cultured people, so I don't expect you to read them in French (unless you happen to enjoy that sort of thing)--any translation will do. When you finish you can also flip through Chateaubriand's Génie du christianisme.

When you do that you will understand that Europe (and her bastard children of USA, Canada and Australia) and Russia have to return/convert to Roman Catholicism if they are to avoid eventual moral and civilizational decline (which is already happening). You will also understand that comparing Saudi Arabia to any Catholic country is nonsensical.

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It is a deeply unfair thing to say.

In Poland freedom of religion is protected by law. People can practice any religion they want, including Islam, or they can be secular. Conversion from any religion to any other is legally permitted, and followers of all religions enjoy the same rights and can hold public offices. None of these things can be said of Saudi Arabia where there is no freedom of religion, apostasy from Islam is punished by death and you have sharia legal system enforced by religious police. It is ridiculous to compare Poland and Saudi Arabia in religious terms.


Well said.

Pope Benedict XVI (my personal favourite of the four Popes I've observed during my lifetime) said that the spiritual crisis widespread in the West is the most serious one since the fall of the Roman Empire. If what happens in the West with abortion, euthanasia, gay "marriage", open display of all sorts of sexual deviation etc. is called light, then indeed we prefer to remain in the darkness.

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Bringing smiles to people's faces is what I strive to do, both online and in real life. :)

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That would be a disaster for the EU.


That would be a disaster for Russia.


That would be a disaster for Poland.

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]


Hmm... patrole obywatelskie, eh? :)