News / Anti-Defamation League want Macierewicz (Poland defense minister) appointment withdrawn - GW [42]


Because "anti-defamation league" is the same as "league against defamation".


Yes, 'democracy' and 'rule of law' are the keywords. Otherwise, those who win the election may feel free to do whatever they want and thus democracy quickly vanishes from their agenda.

News / Should Poland traitors face the death penalty? [105]


It is quite amusing what you say and shows how little you know about Poland or about life. The principal name in question is undoubtedly Róża Gräfin von Thun und Hohenstein. First, her Christian name is RÓŻA, a lovely sounding Polish name. Then she was born in Kraków, a lovely Polish city. And last but not least, she married Franza Graf von Thun und Hohenstein, hence her lovely German surname.

The kind of attention and sort of malicious satisfaction they give to the pronounciation of her German name on the Wiadomości news bulletin, the main speaking tube of government propaganda on TVP1, amuses me enormously and shows how childish people can be at their silly games. It sounds at least as she were one of the Hochmeisteren of the Teutonic Order which we success fully defeated in the battle of Grunwald in 1410, such a bombastic pronounciation this is.

News / Anti-Defamation League want Macierewicz (Poland defense minister) appointment withdrawn - GW [42]


Shall I report the Defence Minister then who had promised to unveil the plot behind the crash in Smoleńsk and nothing whatsover has come out of it so far. It's clearly some defamation of Poland and a stain on the reputation of the country...

Anyway, it seems to be more serious that reporting Mafketis and his silly games on this forum, for example ...

News / Anti-Defamation League want Macierewicz (Poland defense minister) appointment withdrawn - GW [42]


I wonder what these are? If there are many of them, can you provide just one example?

I also wonder whether they have something similar in America (the US). If the US is the most developed and the richest country in the world and also is a kind of a role model for Poland as far as democracy is concerned, they would have something like that, surely.

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


Why do you call Our Dearest Leader Chairman Jarosław Kaczyński names? Is it you Harold posting under the hat of Gumisiu?

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


This very copy of the Atlas bearing the dedication of the chairman was sold at an auction for 25,300 zloty and the income went to an Animal Rights Advocacy Group.

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]

Jadwiga Staniszkis, who had been a fervent supporter of PiS Chairman Jarosław Kaczyński until the time when PiS won the parliamentary election and took power in Poland in 2015, now says the chairman should retire along with some other senior members of the party, but he simply has no place to go away.

- He should retreat from politics in his present state of mind - she added.

86,5% among those who voted in an opinion poll on the wp.pl shared this opinion of hers,
12,1% voted against,
1,4% said they did not know.

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


When will President Trump (hallowed be his name) drop an H-bomb on North Korea?


It's quite the opposite, Johnny Reb, we worry about store being closed on Sunday in Poland.

Off-Topic / American Jew Voice in Poland [93]


And what is more to it, Adolph Hitler was Polish in disguise of an Austrian.

Off-Topic / American Jew Voice in Poland [93]

We welcome your American Voice!

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


Now, that is really appaling. A party who proudly holds "law and justice" in their name and which is able to fine Jurek Owsiak for using some swear words being part of his artistic image is not prepared to something to stop this kind of modern slavery executed in Poland by the North Korean sadistic dictator?


Are these the typical Polish words attesting the Polish traditional hospitality expressed from... Norway, Mr North Pole?

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


I'm not sure if you follow the Polish media scene very closely. In fact, the pro-government press is in minority: Gazeta Polska or Gazeta Polska Codziennie are still niche papers. "W sieci prawdy" (sic!)in its present form is a typical propaganda weekly and it will never reach an audience wider than that consisting of the hardline PiS supporters. Do Rzeczy is better, but is still behind Newsweek Polska, Wprost or Polityka which is in my view the best Polish weekly. So it is important to underline that we still enjoy the existence of the free press and free media in general. The qualty of the media scene is even better than it was under the PO rule when, for example, all major TV channels were singing unisono and any news on what is going in Warsaw in the context of criminal reprivatisation under the auspices of Warsaw's mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz must have been intentionally blocked on all the three major TV channels just because the mayor was vice-charman of the ruling party.

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


A typical of that group would be Ferdynand Kiepski from the TV sitcom "Świat według Kiepskich" who pompuosly anounces to his wife from time to time: - "Ja jezdem Polak, ja jezdem katolik!" (the audience laughs) trying to illustrate the very well known cliché "Polak-katolik".


This vision seems to be much broader than a "Catholic country" alone. This point is developed deeper in an interview with Karol Modzelewski to the POLITYKA weekly:

polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/historia/1727206,1,prof-karol-modzelewski-o-przyszlosci-polskiej-polityki.read
Karol Modzelewski was a well-known dissident in the communist times (it was him who invented the name "Solidarity" for this famous labour movement in 1980) and also is a well-know historian of medieval times (his fascinating book "Barbarzyńska Europa" on the barbarian Europe was translated into English as well as into French, German and several other languages). In the interview he argues that the opposition makes a mistake talking to the public of a possible "authoritarian state" under the PiS rule because these are words of foreign origin which most of the public would not comprehend. - What words should the opposition use here then ? - asks the journalist. - This is simple; they should talk of the "police" state [in the future] instead - says Modzelewski and evokes the case of the 22-year-old Igor Stachowiak who had been mistaken for a drug dealer by police and died as a result of the detention at a police station in Wrocław. Afterwards the authorities tried to sweep the true reasons leading to his death under the carpet for more than year until the time when a footage leaked from the police station to the hands of a journalist and was shown on TVN24.

(This most appaling case is desribed here pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Amier%C4%87_Igora_Stachowiaka

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


Do they sell vodka on Sunday in Ireland, Ms. Atch?

That sounds really worrying. If the current Electoral Commission did not manipulate the results of the last parliamentary election so as PiS could win, the question would be whether the new one is good enough not to manipulate the election results so as PiS could loose.

To put it in another way: can we expect a time where PiS will never be able to loose an election?

History / Recommended Poland's history books [257]


Also, it is worth mentioning that AdanZamoyski is a descendant to that aristicratic family of Zamojski which a long time ago could even afford to build their own town Zamość, luckily enough on our side of the river Bug otherwise the town would have been lost to the Soviet Union in 1945.

I think Adan Zamoyski was born and bred in the UK at the same time being a heir to his Polish family long-standing tradition. And indeed, he is able to look at Poland objectively and from a distance. He could perhaps be seen as a prime example of the modern-style Polish intelectual elite which had little chance to develop in the long course of rather unfortunate historical processes. I read his book on Stanislas August, the last king of Poland in which he indeed gave a "fair and balanced" account of the king's deeds set against his political circumstances.

An excerpt from the critical review of the book by Robert Frost:
Zamoyski deals splendidly with the multifarious aspects of Poniatowski's reign. [...]
He united disparate groups of reformers to transform a state which had long been in an advanced state of decay, and the Constitution of May 3rd, 1791, Poniatowski's personal triumph, was one of the great achievements of enlightened Europe, although that was not how the enlightened rulers of Prussia, Austria and Russia saw it.

It is also worth quoting the review as saying that the last king of Poland presided over an astonishing transformation of Warsaw, which more than trebled in size during his reign and became one of Europe's great cities.



historytoday.com/robert-frost/last-king-poland

History / Recommended Poland's history books [257]

"Poland. A History" by Adam Zamoyski originally written in English and published in Harper Collins Paperbacks ln 2015.

Zamoyski's fully revised history of Poland looks back over a thousand years of turmoil and triumph, chronicling how Poland has been restored at last to its rightful place in Europe.

UK, Ireland / My bad experiences with Polish neighbours in UK (not meant to offend) [173]


Crow, that was perhaps in the 19th century and not today. Britain had lost the empire and changed a lot. So it seems ...

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

Episode 21 is the one starring PM Beata Szydło, right? At one point Chairman JK tells her to relax and asks her to tell a joke. So she tells him this joke on Antoni.

In my view, Robert Górski as Jarosław Kaczyński is even more convincing than the real Chaiman himself. Can you recognize who his companion (Mariusz) is in real life?


Political satire is very good for that. I remember some monologues of BBC Radio 4 Weekending's Mrs Thatcher to this very day!
- I am not dogmatic! Everyone who says I am is wrong! And that is all there is to it !!!

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]


Rumor is that 'stuknięty Antek' (is 'cuckoo Tony' a good translation?) will stay. Have you perhaps seen Episode 21 of the "Ucho Prezesa" series?

Language / Polish Proverbs (American style?) [21]


Bogacz ma tylko dwie dziurki w nosie jak i ubogi


Mowa jest srebrem, a milczenie złotem

Law / How do I verify a Polish company's existence? [249]


A cool name!

Life / Hanging out with Polish Banda street people in Berlin [9]

Can anyone with some more time on hand make a short summary of the OP's ranting, please? It is simply too long for reading...

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]


You may perhaps add 'Przecieszyn pod Brzeszczami' to your list. The village is home to Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło.

Language / Polish language would look better written in Cyrillic Script? [212]


Most probably he confounded the cyrillitic with the glagolitic script, the oldest known Slavic alphabet which was created in the 9th century by Saint Cyril, a Byzantine monk from Sołuń (Thessaloniki in Greece). He and his brother Saint Methodius were sent by the Byzantine emperor to Great Moravia in 863 where they invented Glagolitic (glagolica - Ⰳⰾⰰⰳⱁⰾⰹⱌⰰ) as the Slavic language could not be easily written using either the Greek or Latin alphabets.

So the mystery has been solved! (More popcorn, please ...)


I doubt it, too. As the chronicler Gallus Anonymous says: "following his custom, he enjoyed his seven wifes" (wedle swego zwyczaju siedmiu żon zażywał) while being pagan, so was there really any need for another one?



Above: Mieszko I at play with the four of his seven pagan wifes shortly before taking conversion to Christianity


This is a very brave hypothesis indeed and even the more brave because you have misspelled their name: Obotrites/Obodrites (Latin) or Abotrites/Abodrites (German) or Obodrzyce in Polish.

Feedback / How to reply to a thread on this website? [28]

Well, the system objects to her posting from Google Chrome for whatever reason. AI is at our doors ...

Feedback / How to reply to a thread on this website? [28]

Wow, you've managed post a reply! This means my message was well worth replying, so the system did not object :-)

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]


C'mon, Roger. This is an old tune for a long time played by Harry

Language / Polish language would look better written in Cyrillic Script? [212]


Where did you get the idea that Gniezno was ever part of the Great Moravia? The latter ceased to exist in 907, the former was founded around 940.


The concepts behind adopting Christianity by Poland's Mieszko I are being somewhat disputed now. It is said that one of his principal motives for marrying Dobrava was to break the alliance between the Czechs and the Veleti which endangered the very existence of his state. Mieszko's army was defeated by the Veleti in 963 in which war they even killed his brother. After 966 he fought them successfully with the help of the Czechs.

Feedback / How to reply to a thread on this website? [28]

First, you should consider if the given message is worth replying at all. My guess is it is not and the techical system of the forum is able to detect this. Therefore it tends to be reluctant to give you a clue as to how to reply. You know, the system employed by the PF is extremely smart.

Language / Polish language would look better written in Cyrillic Script? [212]


Or it was the other way round. First, Mieszko had coined a plan to become Christian and then as part of pursuing his plan he decided to take Dobrava from Czechia for wife.

The possible motives behind Mieszko's decision are best (in my view) explained in the book "Nawrócenie i chrzest Mieszka I" written in Polish by Philip Earl Steele, an American historian from Ohio.