The BEST Guide to POLAND
Unanswered  |  Archives [3] 
  
Account: Guest

Posts by Torq  

Joined: 2 Dec 2023 / Male ♂
Last Post: 7 hrs ago
Threads: 16
Posts: 1523
From: Gdansk
Speaks Polish?: yes

Displayed posts: 1539 / page 30 of 52
sort: Latest first   Oldest first   |
Torq   
30 May 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Duel of Seasons: 2022

This duel between winter and spring took place in April 2022 in Tatra Mountains (Polana Chochołowska). After all, as old Polish proverb says: kwiecień plecień, bo przeplata trochę zimy, trochę lata. :)
Torq   
30 May 2024
News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]

But why such world needs the Eastern Europe re enslaved by Russia?

It doesn't.

Why could't be Poland becoming a regional power

It could (just read my previous post above).

and Russia collapsing and completely dependent and upon Polish sphere of influence?

Keep it real, Korvinus. Besides, Russia doesn't necessarily have to be our enemy in the future. We need to avoid old mental blueprints... they are not always useful.
Torq   
30 May 2024
News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]

But not fighting Slavic civilization.

1772, 1792, 1794-5, 1830-31, 1863, 1920 - were we fighting Slavic civilization? Russia does not embody Slavic civilization, alas. If she did, we would be the first ones to support her. If Russia was to Slavic countries what the USA is to anglo/western countries - a big brother that protects and supports them, not a bully and oppressor, we would be delighted.

Slavic South would be next and then Poland itself

That's why we need Intermarium. An alliance of countries with common roots and history, and with common problems. Countries whose very right to existence was undermined and even outright denied by the c*nts who considered themselves better, and could decide whether we can be free or not. Intermarium is the alliance of the weak, despised, murdered and trampled upon. Poland is willing to lead it, so that no nation of Intermarium is denied its right to freedom ever again. Will Serbia join us in this noble cause, as an important piece of the southern puzzle, or will she help gold toilet sh*tters to enslave Central European nations and put them into their "sphere of influence" again? Think about it: Intermarium as one of the poles of the multipolar world - from Prague to Kharkiv, from Tallin to Belgrade. So what's it gonna be, Bрана? Are you with us or against us?
Torq   
30 May 2024
News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]

Actually, they're willing to risk their lives to reach that 'reviled West'.

All true.

It is, however, by and large a matter of western economic advantage. It's not like all those blacks are coming to France because they like Molière and Proust, and all the Pakis swarm into England to have easier access to the works of Shakespeare. :) That's why I think multipolar world is neither "nonsense" nor "sh*it" but a fairer and more interesting option for the planet.
Torq   
30 May 2024
Off-Topic / thinking of writting a book about myself [219]

These are the sick twisted thoughts of a pervert.

... and he's a poacher too. Shooting tame deer at the place where he feeds them. *facepalm*

Johnny, for f*ck sakes, get a grip of yourself.
Torq   
30 May 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

No, nothing special.

Don't be modest - you did the right thing, went beyond the call of duty. You could have taken them for a hike in the mountains or to Masurian lakes or something but you gave them a lesson in patriotism instead. Am I surprised? Yes, but I like to be positively surprised by people. :)
Torq   
30 May 2024
News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]

All this multipolar nonsense is just sh*it

Oh, come on, Korvinus... I like Americans, they are our allies, but wouldn't it be poetically fair if they had to work equally hard and equally longs as, I don't know - Costaricans, to earn their wages? If an average Chinese consumed the same amount of Earth's resources as an average American we would need three additional planets like the one (only one) we have. Do you think it's fair?

If something is not fair, and everyone with a tiny bit of objectivity must admit that the world today is deeply unfair, then God cannot tolerate it for too long. Sure, he tolerated Sodom and Gomorrah but only up to a point. Perhaps Deus lo vult and all that? Vatican seems to be on Russia's side anyway (put that in your pipe and smoke it, Crow).
Torq   
30 May 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Stones for the Rampart: 1943

Jan Bytnar "Rudy" is smiling to us from this well known photo (here in the colorized version). Rudy, a hero of Grey Ranks, died shortly after being freed from German captivity by Polish resistance. His death was the result of bestial interrogation and torture by SS-Oberscharführer Herbert Schulz and SS-Rottenführer Ewald Lange. In retaliation both Schulz and Lange were liquidated (on 6th and 22nd May 1943 respectively). Many schools and over 150 boy scouts teams in Poland are named after Jan Bytnar.
Torq   
30 May 2024
News / THE ARMY OF POLAND - THE REALITY [493]

Their range is up to 900 km.

Hate to quote myself but...

"550 km to Smoleńsk, 720 km to St. Petersburg and 800 km to Kursk. In those lovely cities our Slavic brothers built nuclear power plants."

polanda.com/off-topic/poland-aid-ukraine-russia-invades-part-88342/109/#msg1969211

You were absent and you missed my Polish-Russian war scenario. :)
Torq   
30 May 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

And the 80% refers to centrum

Nope...

polskieradio.pl/39/156/artykul/3042908,zaglada-miasta-zniszczenia-warszawy-podczas-ii-wojny-swiatowej

... "Łącznie od początku II wojny światowej Warszawa została zniszczona w ponad 80 proc. ".
Torq   
30 May 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

That picture could almost be today.

Well, "only" 80% of Warsaw was destroyed, so I supposed something was left. :-/
Torq   
30 May 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Warsaw by night: 1935

Pre-war Warsaw, a city that remains only in the memory of fewer and fewer living survivors and in old photographs. Warsaw was razed almost entirely to the ground by barbarian hordes from the west. That's Polish history in a nutshell: barbarians to the east, barbarians to the west.
Torq   
30 May 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Corpus Christi: 1934

The octave of Corpus Christi celebrations in pre-war Poznań (3rd June 1934).
Torq   
29 May 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Childhood memories: 1920

To an untrained eye this probably looks like Masztalerska Street in Poznań (looking towards Wroniecka). However, it is actually Zaułek St. in Bydgoszcz, and the kids in the photo probably didn't even realise that at that very moment a huge battle was raging on the outskirts of Warsaw, the battle to decide the future of their country and of Europe. Aaah, to be a child again, blissfully unaware of all the horrors of the world. :)
Torq   
29 May 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Hey, Pawian :) Where have you been, you Polish swine?

Not that I missed you, but I was kinda worried.
Torq   
29 May 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Always on the move: 1939

Bombs or not, the tram services must run. Tram no. 3 taking the right turn from Królewska Street into Marszałkowska.
Torq   
29 May 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

They see us rollin', they hatin': 1920s

Three gentlemen enjoying the drive in the countryside. Notice the perfect condition of the road.
Torq   
28 May 2024
News / Polish coal will be back [141]

The government of course

Wasn't it the British government who closed the mines in the first place? I remember seeing some blokes in England and Scotland wearing "I still hate Thatcher" t-shirts circa 2015. :) I can only imagine how "popular" she was when still in office!
Torq   
28 May 2024
News / Polish coal will be back [141]

German *****

Hey, on this board we refer to our German friends and neighbours without the use of words which are replaced with asterisks by the forum software. :)
Torq   
28 May 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Lived to tell the story: 1939

Ludwik Nowakowski, a veteran of January Uprising (1863), in a radio studio in 1939. I don't know if the recording survived.
Torq   
28 May 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

How much is that doggy in the window?: 1939

As many as 400 Luftwaffe planes took part in the bombing of Warsaw in September 1939. In the photo we see a Polish girl standing on the ruins of her house at Żelazna 8. She went out to play with her friend and meanwhile He-111 bombers came over Warsaw. The dog survived, her family didn't. No Luftwaffe pilot was sentenced for war crimes in 1939 - they were honourable soldiers, just following their orders. Until today no reparations have been paid by Germany for 6 million dead Polish citizens and unimaginable material destruction.
Torq   
28 May 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Calm before the storm: 1938

A Jewish craftsman calmly walking through Zamenhofa street in Warsaw...
Torq   
27 May 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Chariots of Firemen: 1920s

In 1920s Warszawska Straż Ogniowa (Warsaw Fire Brigade) exchanged all their old horse-drawn fire engines (some of them 100 years old!) into brand new motorised ones. In the second photo, taken in 1925, we can see brave Warsaw firefighters with one of their newly acquired cars. They distinguished themselves in September 1939, heroically fighting fires in bombarded Warsaw, and during the German occupation hundreds of Warsaw firemen joined firefighters' resistance organisation Skała (Rock).
Torq   
26 May 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Dark Matter: 1947

Wincenty Pstrowski (in the photo above) was a hero of socialist labour. His portraits hung on the walls of schools and government offices; streets, mines and ships were named after him. He came back to Poland in May 1946, after working for 10 years as a miner in Mons (Belgium). In February 1947 he hacked through 72.5 metres of tunnel (240% of norm), 85 metres in April (273% of norm), and 78 metres in May (270%). His tunnels had 2 metres of height and 2.5 metres of width.
Torq   
26 May 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Commie blocks before commies: 1937

What looks like small commie blocks from 50s-60s is actually an example of then-modern blocks of flats in pre-war Warsaw (Potocka Street, Żoliborz).