Food / What is your favorite Polish Vodka? [653]


Vodka is vodka. Can taste good, can taste bad.
Although if you still want to find a difference you may consider one Orthodox and the other one Catholic.

Food / Russia vs Poland Vodka war [76]


Easily. Those could be some tribe of nomads too... :) I'm sort of serious now. However I can't imagine how one can get to the bottom of the issue and what I actually say is that there's probably no sense in looking for the answer. A way more important is who is doing it better right now.

Food / Russia vs Poland Vodka war [76]

To tell the truth I don't think and I haven't heard communist caring about this issue that much. The image of Russians drinkers/vodka producers had been formed ages before commies had a first breath.

Food / Russia vs Poland Vodka war [76]


I don't see any sense in doing such a research yet whoever likes it... please go for it.

The research given in video has no historical/scientific or even analytic (their conclusions are totally groundless) value.
The real question is who makes better vodka nowadays... and I guess Swedes and Finns are doing better on that way than either of us.

Food / Russia vs Poland Vodka war [76]


;) How I understand you... You might wanna try so-called European shops (in my area these are shops kept by Jews where Ukrainians sell Polish and Russian goods.. he-he...). Although the best one I've tried here was in Ikea. Buy the one by "Abba" not the "ikea-food".

Köttbullar (meatballs) are for some reason a way better in Moscow's Ikeas.

Life / Languages understandable by Poles? [38]

This is not good in Russian either. :) Initially came from Yiddish.

Life / Languages understandable by Poles? [38]


urod - an ungly man
blad - is a slut

divka is just a vulgar form of address to a woman :)

Life / Languages understandable by Poles? [38]


Most of the time they have the same or at least close meaning (in case they sound similar). Just my observation...


The fact that the Polish is not your native tongue plays into your hands in such a situation. You do not expect Russian to sound any closer to your native tongue whereas I as native speaker of Russian do. And as soon as I hear a similar word (and some words sound eerily similar:)) I subconsciously expect that a following word will be clear too and when it's not I lose the train of thought thereby.

Although I'm convinced if two people (a Polish and a Russian) speak slower than usual they will be able to understand a lot more. Unfortunately the only place I hear Polish speech are films and TV-programs... there's no way to slow them down. :)

As for the Lithuanian... even though it's considered proto-Slavic language I can understand very few.

Food / Russia vs Poland Vodka war [76]

The film is full of bias... :) why the hell is he taking on truth that it was mentioned first in Poland disdaining Russian sources? Why don't he mention the very origin or the word? I'll answer you... because as I believe "woda" (water) is the very same word in both Polish and Russian.

Besides the owner of brewery is lying about the corn being added to Russian vodka.

EDIT: But I like the conclusion!

Food / Russia vs Poland Vodka war [76]

Gotcha!
На молоке, Мърная

I've never drunken it. :) To tell the truth I like beer more than vodka and I don't almost drink the latter.

The milk (and eggwhite) filtration is the way how they did it in ancient Rus'. They put milk and eggwhite to vodka, they reacted with fusel-oils, congealed and gravitated to the bottom. Kind of a natural way to filter alcohol. :)

Food / Russia vs Poland Vodka war [76]

The taxi driver barely speak Russian to say nothing about English. :)
*Sasha felt homesick after watching Moscow :(*


I guess it's Parliament. Can't of any other filtered by milk... I don't like it at all, some of my friends do though.

Ona?

Genealogy / Polish and Russian DNA? [52]


The fact that we Russians don't have alike anecdote about Poles is very telling. :) Feel free to further open your most intimate feelings towards us...

History / Why Poles love Russia [105]

Wiedzmin_fan

Dobro pozhalovat, buddy!


Hmmm... Look at that, a new-wave intelligent English gentleman here. :) Where are those good old times?



Oh... here they are... :)

History / Why Poles love Russia [105]


Very good and thoughtful post!
Aren't you a Russian by any chance? No... you don't have to reveal yourself... :)


Polonius has been holding antirussian and antijewish campaign on this forum since the very start harping on the same stuff over and over again. Besides his personal attitude shines through all of his posts (except for those that dedicated to names where he only can be normal). Is it healthy for a person of I assume >30 y.o. be on that kind of wavelength every time? I guess it's not...

History / Why Poles love Russia [105]

Jaså... jag har alltid trott att de nordiska folken förerdrar vara neutrala. :)

History / Why Poles love Russia [105]


We get along well with Serbs merely because we don't border. :) If we had it with Greece you would now most likely rest with polonius-like brain-dead reasoning about semi-Slavic mongrels from Kalmyk steppes. Think twice buddy... :) At least now Russians can with a safe conscience leave their money on Greek resorts fraternizing with locals on the ground of common Orthodox values.

Territory issues make troubles... :(

History / Famous Russian Poles [243]



Leonid Mularczhyk is a pensioner from





Tunnel can sustain 60 tones truck.



Everything has been done by a single man at his own expenses.



5-tv.ru/news/21738 - Video in Russian

History / Why Poles love Russia [105]


Good for what, sky? :) To keep the fire burning?

History / History of Poland in 10 minutes. Really worth seeing! [169]


Me neither, however one can sometimes make a good use of it. The feature I appreciate in Poles the most is that they are usually straightforward. They don't bother their head on how to come across wearing put on political correctness. That appeals to me; that's how I'm trying to behave and that's how I expect others to behave, since it casts a seed for a sincere and open discussion which finally reveals who is who.


Then "dobro pozhalovat" (welcome). :) Yet it seems like you read Russian forums, blogs dedicated to Poland. Would be great if you could share your perspectives on what you pick up from there.

History / History of Poland in 10 minutes. Really worth seeing! [169]


Pay attention to the date of this post and the general atmosphere of the discussion with Mac. :) We'd been at odds first time. :))
Besides, Dekameron was obviously referring to some my posts in other threads.

History / Heil Poland!.....? Poland is a pro-Nazi state? [121]


Kostushko, aren't you tired yet? This ain't a whit funny...

News / RUSSIA TO MAKE PUBLIC THE KATYN FILES... [274]

Uncle... they weren't on their soil. That's my point. I'm not going to justify the Poland's invasion by Soviets.

News / RUSSIA TO MAKE PUBLIC THE KATYN FILES... [274]


Darun, here we've got basic distinction between pro-Soviets and pro-nazi speaking in general terms. Whatever underlay the WW2, whether it was M-R pact or something else one thing under no circumstance can be overlooked. The Soviets were nominally a victims, they defended, thereby obviously not all who go in your book as pro-soviets were extremists/criminals whereas all pro-nazi were (more or less). My grandpa who made shells for Soviet army under constant bombing. Was he pro-soviet? Kind of. He did his best to help his Rodzina (the SU) at hard times. Was he a criminal? Hell no. My uncle died in Belorussia aged 18 defending his homeland, the SU. Was he an extremist? Negative. Same actually goes I believe for the most of Soviet soldiers who defended their lands with a sad exception of few.


Am I right in that you solely blame the SU for that all poor lambs joined the SS and Wermacht for the only reason of Soviet oppression? Romanian, Austrian soldiers along with German ones under Stalingrad... were they oppressed too? They simply thought the fascist would win and they would be able to share the pie. They were wrong. Although I don't like the price we paid to prove them wrong.

Am I right in that you find the response appropriate and well-deserved when Croatian ustashi killed Serbs or when UPA exterminated any disloyal civilians including Ukrainians, when finally Latvian SS burn alive Russian women/ kids and Polish POWs? You're now perking your finger in Russian bear who is on its slow and uneasy way of guilt's admission marvelously ignoring the snake within easy reach who has never felt guilty. What is that? Is that kind of self-castigation or what? If someone stole your property would that be a sufficient excuse for you to go on killing spree?

You were right many peoples collaborated with Nazi but there's always a tangible distinction between victims and criminals? So where those Baltic fascists brought to books? They're on the picture above doing alright. Where the information about them to learn? The best one can find in English wiki is precisely nothing.

Long story short... double standards that's what I actually don't like. I'm not interested in what they say as long as they honour fascist cutthroats.

News / RUSSIA TO MAKE PUBLIC THE KATYN FILES... [274]


That's a flag of Latviešu leģions aka Lettische SS-Freiwilligen-Legion. Willingly collaborated with Nazi Germany in WW2. They're involved in numbers of war crimes in Soviet Russia, Belorussia and Poland (in Podgae, can be wrong spelling). At times they were even more enthusiastic and inventive in killing civilians than the German SS. They have a finger in the pie but silence the issue and moreover have the annual nazi-party.



Even wild-wild Russia express more and more understanding about stalin crimes. Why does Latvia prefer to push all the blame upon stalin?

News / RUSSIA TO MAKE PUBLIC THE KATYN FILES... [274]


Luzhkov is an exemplary case of an idiot who, by a twist of fate, happened to be at the helm. As far as I know the issue is being discussed, hopefully it's not gonna come true. Or did it already? (I'm not currently in Msc).


They're not the party to be asked on that, since they have a good reason for nor being completely fair. "The Soviet Story" sponsored largely by the BS could be a good watch, if they didn't set a goal of drowning personal fault in tears about stalin.

News / RUSSIA TO MAKE PUBLIC THE KATYN FILES... [274]


It takes two to tango. :) Seriously it's the same the other way around. How many of you guys ever been to Russia to perfectly know how things here are?

Most of my friends are used to read both Russian and Western press to compose the final opinion.

News / RUSSIA TO MAKE PUBLIC THE KATYN FILES... [274]


Do you consider it's a measure? If so, then measure to what? You can't forbid people's thoughts, that's as a matter of fact the best way to make people think of it. Forbidden fruit is sweet. There're still lots of open and latent admirers of Hitler in Germany. So what is this measure for? If you impose ban on an idiocy, an idiot won't cease to be one.

I actually think that ban on swastikas and some certain gestures is undemocratic and in a way harmful. That only makes certain people groups disguise their action, which in a turn makes them more dangerous.

News / RUSSIA TO MAKE PUBLIC THE KATYN FILES... [274]

BB, no problem. That's just a discussion.


That's a completely different question. There always be kind of those who are admired by the SU. It's actually as pointless as trying to convince one who's had only bad experience with Russians (put here any nationality), that Russians may be nice. You can't change their stance once they've only had positive personal experience (if that promoted their welfare or gave the opportunity to educate oneself which is often the case, etc). Is there a need to do that? Why not just wait till the problem resolves itself? The people who you mentioned were raised with a belief that they were doing it right and the most of them did that right with the only slight remark of loving the SU and Rodina. One's deeds this is what actually matters. As long as they're clean of innocents' blood, I'm fine with not bugging them about stalin. Yes they were brainwashed up to a point but can we blame them for that since each of us is (more or less)?!

News / RUSSIA TO MAKE PUBLIC THE KATYN FILES... [274]


BB, Bandera and UPA is a good illustration of how things end up. Betrayed, going on killing spree... Slava Ukraine! *here's a gesture that's prohibited in Germany AFAIK*

News / RUSSIA TO MAKE PUBLIC THE KATYN FILES... [274]

BB no offense but you seem to misinterpret the incoming information.
Those who we "honour in May" has little to none to do with mass murders of Russians/Soviets/Poles. You must have confused NKVD with regular soldiers. NKVD was completely different department consisted of so-called "tilovaja krisa" (swivel-chair warrioirs, "reaward rats" if stick with literal translation from Russian) who were responsible for execution of defectors and so on. Does one need 1000 people to execute another 1000? Obviously not. Thus the overall quantity of NKVD-members is really tiny compared to veterans who we praise and they hardly have anything to do with veterans. Even if there are some among them there's a juridical term such as presumption of innocence. If you want to judge them, prove it first. Or should I in your book turn my nose up at all of them for the only reason that some of them are possibly guilty? That's not gonna work. :)

In case you still want to judge NKVDshnikov... Most of them I believe are already gone, those who gave orders even long ago. Having said that, I agree with that the government shouldn't let it slide. The ones who are guilty must be sued.


Certainly grates on my ears. I only cherish a hope that this piece of art is not what they write in your press. BB, we don't praise murderers. We praise people who laid their lives for the my opportunity to speak Russian and live in this at times inhuman, in patches dirty but in general lovely and, I want to believe, kindhearted country.