History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


Unfortunately that's not how most men dress these days. A street in any European city a hundred years ago looked much more civilised.


Not nearly as ugly as sleeveless, bellyless crop tops and leggings on some women. Some things just cannot be unseen 0_0. If we are to tolerate this new fashion, then there have to be weight limits introduced for certain items of clothing and police should come down like a ton of bricks on women who don't respect the limits.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


Are you trying to pick a fight, girl? Find someone your size. :)

News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [363]


It's not blocked. I'm in Gdańsk and I could watch it but the huge logo, made to look like it's TVN, is a major red flag. It indicates vicious PiS propaganda, so I'll pass.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Kielce - what went wrong?: 1920s

If one compares the fashion in the streets of Kielce (or any other European city) 100 years ago and today, one cannot help but wonder what went wrong meanwhile?

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Making Orange Marmalade: 1975

Euro 1976 qualifiers, the Dutch were vice-champions of the world and they thought they were hot-shots. Then they came to Poland. The rest is history. In the photo we see Andrzej "Diabeł" (the devil) Szarmach who scored two goals in that game.

Today, almost 50 years later, it's time to make some orange marmalade again, boys! GO POLAND!!! :)

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


He's mild alright. Or rather mildly amusing.

News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]


As far as I know, CPK has not been cancelled.

As for migrants, millions will have to be let in because Poles don't have enough children. The point is to select the migrants we want instead of taking the thugs that Merkel let in. If Tusk is doing that, he's an idiot.

News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [363]

*yaaaaawn*

Whatever, guys. Maybe one day you will open your eyes.

News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [363]


Oh, yes, no worries, proper investigations are being conducted, but as I said - it has to be dragged out in time for about a year until the new president takes over. We don't want the prosecutors' and judges' work to be ruined again by some convenient presidential acquittals.


It's unbelievable that after all this sh*t you are still trying to defend them... mind boggles. I suppose it's true what they say about PiS: they don't have voters/supporters, they have cult followers/confessors.

News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [363]


Sure. Or the Silver Towers affair, or Mejza's "medical" services, or the famous wybory kopertowe. It was so much that a normal person can't remember it all.


Don't call them rightists, they're f*cking bolsheviks.

News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [363]

Oh, and one more "strawberry on the cake", as Tomasz Hajto would say - millions in bonuses paid to PiS government officials right after the lost elections.

Between 15th October and 13 December 2023 they paid themselves over 40 million pln in bonuses. :) I know, I know - compared to their other "businesses" it's pocket money, but it shows perfectly well what kind of people they are.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Traffic accident: 1938

Ford AA truck crashing into the barrier on the Pancer Viaduct in Warsaw.

News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [363]


Are you kidding me??? :D

OK, here goes...

Coal power plant in Ostrołęka - five years of pumping money into it, 1.4 billion pln losses, change of plans from coal to gas power plant and razing the C block to the ground :D But, no worries - those who were supposed to make money on it, made their money. It's only Polish taxpayers who lost.

Orlen and Lotos merger, resulting in Saudis taking over the shares and Hungarians (Russian puppet concern) taking over Polish Lotos stations. Thieves who were supposed to make money on, made their money. It's only Poland that lost. Magically, somehow Obajtek ends up owning 35 million pln in real estate only :) But he must have shared with whom he was supposed to share, so as a reward he got elected to the EU parliament and got immunity - convenient, isn't it?

GetBack vindication company and 2.6 billion pln taken from suckers (compared to PO's famous AmberGold where people lost 850 million) with authorities and services being curiously blind long after it was obvious what kind of "enterprise" it was.

Life-support machines trader who allegedly died in Albania but before that PiS government made a huge order, never realised, on which Polish treasury lost about 150 million pln.

"Red is Bad" scandal and over half-a-billion pln pumped by PiS government (Agency of Strategic Reserves) through this money laundry.

... just off the top of my head, and it's only tip of the iceberg. I hope it will all be properly investigated (like hundreds of millions pumped into dodgy foundations) and all the criminals put behind bars. They can drag the investigations for a year or so, so that Mr Duda isn't given a chance to do any convenient acquittals.

News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [363]


You must be one of the fanatics brainwashed by Gazeta Polska Codziennie and TV Republika beyond redemption.

PiS was the most kleptocratic government in Poland's history, putinist-level. They made pre-war Sanacja look like a bunch of ascetic monks. The stuff that came to light in recent months is staggering, but I bet it's only the tip of the iceberg.

By the way, whereabouts in Poland do you live?

News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [363]


Because...


... as long as Duda is the president we can expect him to try and pile obstacles for the new government. That's why Tusk wants the new regulations, so he doesn't have to rely on PiS-president Duda's permission.


Early presidential elections would indeed be a blessing for Poland.

News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]


Indeed. I apologise for the omission...



... as for going bankrupt, don't underestimate Polish peasants - they survived harder times than these, they will survive the import of Ukrainian agricultural products, which is in fact decreasing and grain subsidies for Polish farmers have been announced (over 2 billion pln for the January-May 2024 period).


Lesser of the two evils. And, mark my words, the idiotic green "reforms" will be cancelled. The writing's on the wall.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Sealed with a kiss... or two: 1967

Legendary boxing coach -- he was the coach of Polish NT for over 30 years (1936-1968) -- Feliks "Papa" Stamm, kissed by two of his boxers, Jerzy Kulej and Marian Kasprzyk, after the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo.

News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]


That's because the PiS bolsheviks managed to fool them into believing that they are a Catholic party. This is a weak spot with peasants (and with me too) so they fell for it.

Hopefully, the peasants will soon realise that nobody hurt and corrupted the Church in Poland as much as PiS did in recent years, and will switch their sympathies back to PSL.

Nie rzucim ziemi skąd nasz ród! Nie damy pogrześć mowy.
Polski my naród, polski lud, Królewski szczep Piastowy.
Nie damy, by nas zgnębił wróg! Tak nam dopomóż Bóg!

Polish peasants forever!!!

News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]


Sure. Calling somebody a "moron" or telling them to "f*ck off" is ordinary courtesy on PF. Everyday dialogue. It's like telling "Good morning" to your neighbour in the real life. :)


True. Also, I have certain reservations regarding his moral standards, but I don't want to elaborate on the topic. Not my favourite politician and PSL would be better off without him.

The reason I vote PSL is not because I don't notice their numerous flaws, I do. It's because I still believe in Polish peasants as a social stratum. Most down to earth, commonsensical and resistant to new fashions group in Poland. Go peasants!

News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]


How am I sulking? I'm just not replying to everything (or I can miss something posted somewhere).

As for PSL, they should indeed kick K-K out and move towards more conservative position (preferably with Sawicki as the leader).

News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]

As for the elections, it's kinda worrying that despite low turnout in the countryside PiS managed to improve their score by 1% compared to the parliamentary elections. Imagine if the countryside turned up.

History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [77]


Yes, Mother of All Slavia. God, if we ever forget about Serbia, please forget about us.

*scores 100 brownie points with Crow* :)

History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [77]


I am a decent patriotic Pole. What people blinded by hate consider is the least of my worries.


This unity is, of course, painfully incomplete without one nation. S _ R B _ _. Would you like to buy a vowel? ;)

History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [77]


It's "bored out of his mind". Probably autocorrect - annoying stuff.


Oh, yeah? How do you think my Russophilia is perceived? You can get a hint by reading PF sometimes :D


*Paulina and Pawian freaking out in 3...2...1...* ;)

History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [77]


Oh, no probs. I misread that.

All in all a tragic figure, Rokossovski, perceived as a Pole in Russia and as a Russian in Poland. In different historical circumstances and under different political system he might well have been remembered as a hero of two nations. Alas, history's a b*tch sometimes. :(

History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [77]


I'm sorry to hear that, Bobi. I'm just telling you about the general perception of Rokossowski in Poland.


After Stalin's death, it was only a question of time when his faithful praetorian is sent back home. As I said, the purges in the Polish Army that he initiated and supervised is what shaped his image in Poland.


I don't deny that. Hero of Soviet Union no doubt. But it so happens that heroes of one country are not necessarily perceived as such in another. Life.

History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [77]


Makes sense. Piłsudski had his vehement opponents too but in the Polish-Soviet war they were there in the trenches together with Piłsudski's most dedicated followers.

As for Rokossovski, he is perceived mostly negatively in Poland; yes, he defended characteristic Polish military traditions (two-finger salute, rogatywkas, cross-shaped medals etc.) and considered himself a Pole, but he was very ideologically minded and initiated stalinist purges in Wojsko Polskie, sending many Polish patriots (a lot of them pre-war officers) to their deaths.

History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [77]


I have no idea. Surnames are sometimes strange.


Is it completely unnatural? We do have "rży"/"rżeć" and "drży"/"drżeć" after all. But it's very unusual, true.

But this...


... is also possible.

We have to write to professor Miodek (or Bralczyk). :)

History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [77]


Unusual, but legit.


Exactly.


Not that difficult but it does indeed sound a bit Czech; they have those strč, prst, skrž, krk etc. clusters.

History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [77]


Typical reaction of a foreigner learning Polish phonological system.


The Russian transliteration is accurate but you would probably pronounce the ending closer to "iy" than "i". In general Russians make Polish sound much softer than it really is.


Yes, there is. As I said, it's Krżyżanowski not Krzyżanowski.