News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]


there were a couple of SKOK's who just simply went bankrupt - others have thrived - what's there to misunderstand

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


Andrzej Wajda who in one of his films promoted the myth that Polish cavalry in 1939 would attack German armor with sabres and lances - or who filmed an eulogy of the crook Wałęsa? - I don't hold him as any kind of authority to be honest

News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]


there was just one single SKOK that was a scam and that was a SKOK Wołomin which was run by ex military intelligence people - more or less anybody could establish a SKOK

GetBack has nothing to do with PiS appart from the fact that the scandal surfaced under their rule


yes I believe they can afford them - printing an add that pays 100 PLN costs perhaps 5 PLN

News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]


this is just your speculation based on your personal prejudice - nothing more

News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]


what's the problem the income from advertising is huge compared to the cost it takes to publish the advertisements - (except maybe from niche media but I can't think of such at the moment) - also I believe (or maybe just hope) that the tax is aimed mainly at Google, facebook and similar

News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]

children don't drink from małpkis - if their parents do they have only themselves to blame - you still can't count

News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]


you probably can't count or your favourite pastime is exaggerating and spreading histery on web forums

the proposed tax on addvertisment in media is 5 per cent (on the income I guess) so what's the problem

Off-Topic / This is why I say Poland is so far behind in tech [29]


if you write your CV's and motivation letters like you do here it's no wonder they don't want you around their businesses

News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]


do you have children? if so do you hate the 500+ as well?

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


and you base your statement (on the alleged IPN non-neutrality) exactly on what?

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

to be honest I have never read Gross's books (including the one on Jedwabne) - what I heard about it is from the sources close to Polish nationalists - I believed that the crime of Jedwabne was perpetrated by a couple of dozens of Poles (this is what the 1950's trial established and what initial Polish critics of Gross maintained) - and I was perplexed how a few dozens of people without firearms managed to cattle 1600 people (as Gross claims) into a barn to burn them alive

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


yes - only Jews are known for their neutrality - or maybe experts on everything like yourself

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


however the IPN investigation doesn't agree with Gross on the number of victims if this is consolation to anybody

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

okay - I didn't know enough about the Jedwabne pogrom - I just read a paper by IPN which for the most part agrees with what Gross stated and it made sense to me (in the context of what I read before on the internet) - so while Gross is not a historian (and Princeton can kiss my ass about it) what he wrote (even if it was mostly one man's account of what happened there and the documents of the trial from 1949) was mostly true

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


he studied sociology both in Poland and in the US - in my book this is not an educated historian - that Princeton made him a history professor is only because of the juice

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]



Jan Gross is not even an educated historian as far as I know

Food / Is brain-damaging vegan fad growing in Poland? [176]


introduced species destroy isolated ecosystems routinely - also read how elephants in South Africa destroy bush and turn it into savanna - East Africa could also probably be a forest if elephants didn't tear through higher and not spiny vegetation

Genealogy / Cities/Villages - Hawastwana, Stemslaw, Hainistariew and Hainstaodie [16]

you're welcome - have a nice day :)

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

you think too much especially when you're drunk

Genealogy / Cities/Villages - Hawastwana, Stemslaw, Hainistariew and Hainstaodie [16]

The name of one of the children of Agata is Bronisław (it's a Polish male name) - other children are Władysława (female), Józefa and Maria (both female) - the rendering of Stanisławów (which is probably where all of those people where born) differs among the documents but these are most probably just clerical mistakes


that's as close as English names get to Bronisław indeed

Genealogy / Cities/Villages - Hawastwana, Stemslaw, Hainistariew and Hainstaodie [16]

@CLS

The name of one of the children of Agata is Bronisław (it's a Polish male name) - other children are Władysława (female), Józefa and Maria (both female)

Genealogy / Cities/Villages - Hawastwana, Stemslaw, Hainistariew and Hainstaodie [16]

@CLS

Birthplace of Agata Scibak looks like Stanisławowsk (or something similar)(maybe Stanisławowa) but it states that it is in Galicia (so most probably in nowadays Ukraine) and I only know a couple of names of major cities there

the nearest relative is named as Karol Rudek (or Rudak) - and his location as Złotniki, Galicja - which I identified ((it's in Ukraine now in the region of Ternopil (Polish Tarnopol) - thanks google)

the children of Agata Scibak seem to be born in Stanisławów (today in Ukraine known as Ivano-Frankivsk)

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


i don't know but I have encountered opinions (stating some facts) that Jedwabne case is far from explained and that Gross's book is in no way a historical study

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


do you believe in courts jon? - cause Polish court in 1950 aquitted the man in question (the war-time mayor (mayor for sołtys sounds hillarious) of Malinowo) of collaboration with the Nazis and similar :)

Genealogy / Cities/Villages - Hawastwana, Stemslaw, Hainistariew and Hainstaodie [16]

@CLS

try posting a scan(s) of the document(s) here - maybe somebody could help you

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


I said: 'not in Poland' meaning it's not on the news in Poland - which a different search on Google proved me wrong (but with only one result - so hardly a breaking news)

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


I never said Malinowo in question is not in Poland (only that there is no town called Malinowo in Poland) - I meant I haven't seen an article on it in todays Polish internet (but I confirmed since that I found an article on that after a different Google search)

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


not in Poland

edit: sorry I haven't googled it properly - it apparently is on the news in Poland too (but on a site with paid-access) - maybe it's also in the paper edition of the newspaper the site belongs too (but I don't read newspapers)

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


there is no such town as Malinowo in Poland (there are multiple villages of the name though) - I don't say anything on the veracity of the claim on the massacre of Jews there and Polish role in it

Food / British food products in Poland? [334]


because of the preferences of the Polish populace - Poles prefer waxy potatoes to powdery potatoes