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Oh you tease!

Why don't you leave your retirement, and go work at Goldman Sachs or JP Morgan?

This way, you can share your excellent tips with thousands of institutional and high net worth clients, and actually get paid 8-figures a year for handing out advice.

Surely a more rewarding path than dangling tips in front of the PF crowd?

Off-Topic / Serbia etc. thread 3 [437]

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

Even this thread is easier to digest than what Ukrainians claim when they talk about "building Russia".

Does ANY other country have this problem, where there are people going around claiming they actually created your country?

News / When did things went wrong for Poland and what went wrong? [21]


It's a long history, brate... and a sad one.

One should probably say, that the first wrong move was the turn away from Svetovid. Mieszko I committed a great mistake by allowing himself to be baptized by Vatican agents, and since then Poland has been paying the price.

The second grave mistake, was to orient their diplomatic policy towards Western countries instead of Serbia. This was a mistake for many reasons, but I will try to explain. As you know, Serbia is the source of all spiritual strength for the entire Slavic civilization. It is also the only country about which you can say with certainty, that it wishes only good things for Poland. As a caring mother, Serbia cares for all her children - even those that behave recklessly. However, Poland needed to make a step in Serbia's direction first, but instead it continues to fruitlessly pursue acceptance in the West.

Next, and with a heavy heart, I must talk about Polish mistakes vis-a-vis Russia. This is connected to wider Polish madness of engaging with the West, instead of its immediate spiritual family. Through Vaticanic and Germanic machinations, Poland has for a long time positioned itself as an antipode to Russia, and ignored Serbia (it is why I said Poland had to make the first step). Just like in life, where you will never find happiness without managing a good relationship with your family, so is Poland in constant turmoil because it refuses to align with Moscow and Belgrade.

Believe me brate, the greatest age in Polish history will begin when they finally embrace our common roots in Great Sarmatia.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


Thanks for at least not doing a "Paulina", and calling us invaders from Mars or Jupiter.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


This makes me think you were yourself a bad student.

Bad students drag down good ones. Fact.

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


Wow.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]

@Lenka

Harvard and some... Oklahoma State.... are not that much different.

The economics professor at Oklahoma State could very well have finished Harvard.

The economics textbook used at Oklahoma State is probably the exact same one as used at Harvard.

Why then, do Harvard and Oklahoma State produce such different graduates?

The difference, I suspect, is in that most of the class at Harvard is already composed of exceedingly smart kids. They keep the professor on his toes with their questions, and he has to constantly provide them with extra material to read.

This seems to me like a simple scenario. Do you disagree with it?

Can you imagine, transposing this model onto the elementary, middle and high school levels? Would the same factors drive different results?

Do you think you are super virtuous and Christian as a society, if you make a bunch of smart kids artificially limit their potential - so that the other 70% of idiots could feel good?

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


Nothing in particular that didn't exist in your system, but was subsequently washed out.

In general, I'm not a pedagogue, and can't offer much intelligent commentary on difference in methodologies, etc. I can only comment on the empirically observable results, and my own experience.

The Russian system is inherited from the Soviet Union, which in turn was largely inherited from the preceding Imperial system.

Personally, I feel the Russian education system right now is a piece of sh*t compared to the imperial system. When I read about what Russian mathematicians, or authors, or philosophers were producing when they were 18-20 years old - it puts to shame most current inhabitants of Russia in the group 30-60.

People used to be just much smarter, if they were in schools or universities.

Now any kind of trash can get in, and this brings down the entire level of discussion. You can have a genius professor, and a brilliant textbook, but you'll still move only as fast as the biggest dumbas* in the class.

This may be one difference. The Russian system is more brutal, and in it there is less space for making sure the retards can keep up. This way, the talents are less squandered.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


In case you question my premise that the Chinese system is basically a carbon copy of the Russian system - you should read about the early days of its formation.

Same with Vietnam.

It's the same in Africa.

In the Caribbean.

Again, I'm not claiming we are top of the world, and everything is great. But the education system was, and is, a good one.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


I noticed you completely ignored my references to democratic India (the world's largest democracy) and Brazil.

They have cheaper labor than China or Vietnam. India, in fact, has a larger population than China.

Yet, Tim Cook is now struggling to relocate his Apple supply chain at least partially to India. The Indians cannot manufacture the iPhone without at least a 50% rate of dud devices.

Tim Cook himself says, that India and China are heaven and earth - when it comes to engineering talent.

Why do Russian education systems produce more intelligent people than British or American ones?

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


Can you explain to me, why your capitalist overlords prefer to place production in Communist China and Vietnam?

Why not democratic India?

Why not freedom loving Brazil?

Why are some of the most successful countries in the "emerging markets" part of world, at least currently, those that benefited from Russian instruction... and not British or French or American?

The reason is education. The reason is healthcare. The reason is "actually caring about what makes for the fundamental dignity of man".

You may be richer and stronger than us for the moment, through various tricks of financial engineering, but we have the truth :)

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


By raising hundreds of millions out of poverty?

By giving them an education, which they now trade for a Green Card?

By liberating them from the clutches of greedy predators like France and the UK?

By giving every man and woman, in the developing part of the world, a sense of dignity and pride?

Russia is protector of the weak, and defender of justice. Hope you choke on this sentence.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


We suffered for the world.

Small minded people like you cannot understand.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


If there are people to watch and contextualize the movie.

Otherwise, it's images on a screen.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


If you fight the bulldozer, then don't be surprised when it flattens you with the asphalt.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


We will try to locate and liquidate every single one.

These are the trash/refuse of the first war, that managed to escape.

It's excellent that they are all in one place, and openly identifying themselves. It will make it much easier to kill them all.

Then, finally, the job will be complete.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]

In WW2, Poland provided the Soviet Union with almost 300,000 infantrymen. Most of these serving in the First Polish Army.

They provided up to 10-15% of Zhukov's forces when he was pushing West.

They showed themselves as capable fighters.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


We need to see how much will return, first.

In the beginning of this war, the Chechens did not show themselves very well. More like tourists... waiting behind Slavic forces, and doing more "clean up" work.

This was very strange, for a nation that talks so much about its unparalleled fighting spirit.

We know that Chechens are leaders in ISIS and Al Qaeda, but we would also like to see them lead here :)

Now, thankfully, Chechen units are finally getting a taste of the real hellfire. Not everyone, but a good percentage of the formations.

If they survive, then they deserve more respect, but until then we will wait. This is not some mountain insurgency, this is war. Their chance to show us if they really are made from different material.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


We did it.

You want to have a European Taliban? Supported by Al-Qaeda and ISIS?

If you have especial appreciation for norms of Sharia law, and human rights protection, perhaps we should organize for you a meeting with the state security apparatus of the Chechen Republic?

If those animals raise their head again, and try to disrupt the life of good people just trying to live their lives - then we will do it again.


Are you comparing Chechnya to Poland?

P.S. - Did I also mention that Ramzan mobilized at least 30,000 of his men to send into our war? Much more than any other regional leader, even those that control a much larger population. For this alone, for these 30,000 - he must be forgiven a lot.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


Ramzan is a wild animal, but he has stabilized Chechnya.

In 1999 Grozny was the most destroyed city in Europe since Dresden. Now Grozny is a booming city with skyscrapers and wide, green boulevards.

In the late 1990s, it seemed like Chechnya could be the bomb that would blow Russia to pieces. The first signal, before the Tatars, Bashkirs and others started causing problems.

We scared everybody into submission by showing them the price of disobedience, but it was also important to show them why it is better to work with Moscow than against it.

Many other Chechens have claimed they could do a better job, and we never got a chance to see how it could have been. For the time being, we are stuck with Ramzan.

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It is... potentially more scary than that.

With this, you have touched on an actual nerve :)

The scarier alternative is that Putin is afraid of Ramzan. Many things indicate this.

It's okay if Putin does not want to punish his ferocious Rottweiler, because he is so loyal. There are some things, that may indicate that Putin feels certain fatherly feelings towards Ramzan, because he has observed him since he has been a teenager and may feel responsible for getting his father killed.

But there's also much to indicate that Putin is at a loss re: what to do with him. He sent several very influential people to be "federal plenipotentiary in Chechnya". These guys were either ex heads of special forces, or actually close friends of Putin. None of them managed to reign Ramzan in, and he somehow managed to engineer the firing of each of them.

Anyway, this is not the point, to discuss Russia's problems with Chechnya.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


To be Russian is to suffer.

Suffering purifies the soul, and brings us closer to God.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


1) Collectivization
2) Purges
3) Katyn
4) Prague Spring
5) Deportations
6) Murder of the Royal Family

There's a lot, but it's never what you accuse us of.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


Kind of an open secret in Russia.

Anna Politkovskaya was writing about human rights abuses in Chechnya after the war (kidnappings, summary executions, torture, etc). Ramzan did not appreciate her coverage of his efforts at stabilizing Chechnya. So he had her killed.

Boris Nemtsov openly called him a thug and a murderer who had no place in Russia. So, Ramzan also killed him. When the heat got to be too much, one of Ramzan's friends took the blame.

Chechnya is a medieval, feudal, and absolutely wild country inside Russia. We deal with it as best we can. Believe me, if you do not know what to do with Syria and Afghanistan - then you will have a very bad time dealing with Chechnya.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


Killed by Chechens.


For a dog - a dog's death.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


The GULAG system was shut down by Nikita Khrushchev in 1960. There are no GULAGs in Russia now for 64 years.


A dozen people perhaps, in as many years?

Name me one that did not deserve it? Skripal and Litvinenko were agents of Russian state security, that decided they want to live in London and make money writing books about Russian secrets.

The helicopter pilot in Spain that killed his fellow servicemen, and "donated" his aircraft to the Ukrainians?

A Chechen murderer, that managed to get refugee status in Sweden?

Which of these pieces of sh*t deserved to live?

The only real example is Navalny - and he was a man that challenged the old man himself for the top position. So, unless you are bidding for the throne, or you are a traitor - there is nothing to fear.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


You can criticize Putin all day in Russia. You can do it outside of Russia, as a Russian, as well.

What you cannot do, is:

1) Discredit the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

2) Receive money from abroad, and use it in attempts to influence popular opinion in Russia.

3) Send, or facilitate the sending of, funds to aid the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

4) Disseminate state secrets of Russia

5) Publicly call for the overthrow of the Russian government, or for the break up of Russia into a collection of smaller republics.

Not so hard to follow, no?