History / Crazy 1990s in Poland - transition from communism to capitalism - stories [111]


Go hang around on a French board for a year or so (any history or politics forum, whatever). That will teach you to ask stupid questions. :D


Nobody has anything against the landscapes, wines or cars.

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Dark gold on dark red on a low quality black and white photo. There's a crown, don't worry.

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Class photo: 1936

Students of the only school in Silesian village of Makoszowy (population 3300) posing for a class photo. If you take a look at the wall, you will notice three most important persons in Poland back then: President Ignacy Mościcki, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and Marshal Józef Piłsudski (not necessarily in that order). 90% of the village inhabitants were Poles, the remaining 10% Germans, and a lot of people from Makoszowy worked on the German side of the border in "Delbrück" coal mine.

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In the lap of luxury: 1969

Local dignitaries at the opening of the legendary Sezam department store in Warsaw. I have to say the choice of gherkins was impressive!

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It would be if it wasn't for nuclear weapons.

That's why I don't like nukes - they stop the natural selection process on countries' level.

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Every country should want to be more than it is.

The methods to achieve the goal will of course inevitably vary.

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@Bobko

Ouch!

That hurt, Bobi. But perhaps not all things are set in stone in Samogitia and elsewhere, who knows? :)

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Polish Fiat: 1938

Staff officers of 10th Motorized Cavalry Brigade, posing with Fiat 508 Łazik.

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No.

Refusing the victims proper burial so many decades after the genocide - that's a little too "on the nose".
Putting up monuments of all the Banderas and other Shukhevyches all over Ukraine - that's a little too "on the nose".
The monument in Domostaw is just fine.


Oh, no...

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Poland will never forget: 2024

The long-awaited monument of Ukrainian genocide on Polish civilians will be unveiled on 14th July in Domostaw (Jarocin County, Subcarpathia) close to Via Carpathia international road. The monument depicts a murdered Polish child pierced with Ukrainian тризуб.

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Indeed. I am guilty of it too. It's unbelievable what this board can do to my nerves (and vocabulary!) sometimes! :D

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105 Not Out: 2024

Bolesław Ostrowski, the last living veteran of 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade in the battle of Arnhem, celebrated his 105th birthday last week (on 4th July). And not a single birthday too far!

For he's a jolly good fellow,
For he's a jolly good fellow,
For he's a jolly good fellow,
And so say all of us!

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@AntV

'Powstanie' - I mentioned it in #420. Anyways, I surrender. If Pawian wants to play Hubal and keep fighting, very well but I'm out. ;)

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OK, Pawian, it looks like it's just you and me against a horde of native speakers - time to surrender with honour methinks. ;)

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Looking forward to it!

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Exactly! Baranki Boże even had a song 'Narkomańskie ścierwo' in which they advocated closing drug addicts in concentration camps :D

As for alcohol: beer was allowed, getting drunk wasn't.

Geez... it all seems like a hundred years ago in a totally different world.

*feels old*

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Hahaha - in the photos you showed me your hair style was more of a skinhead-type ;)

So you were a metalhead and I was a skinhead, and somehow we both ended up decent Roman-Catholic dads who wouldn't hurt a fly (well, unless the fly tried to hurt our families that is). :)

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Baranki Boże were my favourites as they were from my home town (Słupsk), but I also listened to all kinds of skinhead bands (Konkwista, Skrewdriver, Bohse Onkelz etc.).

Nazi skinheads and nationalist skinheads usually didn't get in each other's way (with certain exceptions) and "transfers" between the branches were not uncommon. We were crazy as f*ck then and, looking back, I sometimes wonder how we all survived into adulthood. However, paradoxically, all my former skindhead friends did rather well for themselves in life, whilst the neighborhood punks/metals got lost somewhere on the way. I suppose things like discipline, honour and testosterone are not such a bad combination for young men. And we got wiser with age as far as contempt for all things unPolish is concerned. ;)

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Kinda like Italian paninaro movement in 1980s?

I'm not sure. As a kid/teenager I was a skinhead (not a nazi skinhead obviously - they wore black flyer jackets, but a nationalist skinhead - we wore green flyers), and everyone else who belonged to a subculture was either an anarchist, a punk or sometimes a depeche or a metal (depending on the kind of music they listened to).

You would have to ask Pawian about earlier times. I am not that old. ;)

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Not in my current photo directory. If I come across any, I'll post them.

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Knew. Back in Napoleonic times.


When I was younger, and didn't yet have allergy to all things French, I enjoyed the marching songs of French Foreign Legion (and even for a brief moment contemplated joining them). Luckily, it passed with time.

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@Bobko

Nothing like a proper male adventure to restore testosterone levels every now and then! :)


0_0

You once told me that I wouldn't speak to you if I knew the kind of music that you listen to. You were right.

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Polish Amazon River: 2024

"I travelled hundreds of kilometres through the Amazon River and RioNegro, I inhaled the air and admired the breathtaking views. However, I discovered 2 years ago that we have similarly untouched by man kingdom of nature in Poland", said Jacek Pałkiewicz, famous journalist and discoverer, member of the Royal Geographical Society, best known for his discovery of the sources of the Amazon River.

Krutynia trail is one of the most (if not the most) beautiful kayak trails in Poland. It offers 90 kilometres of adventure that you will remember for a long time. This is the trail that Melchior Wańkowicz took with his daughter before the outbreak of WW2, and he wrote a book about it (Na tropach Smętka) that was hated with passion by the Nazis and burned in thousands of copies by them. Luckily, the book survived, just like the polishness of Mazury and the primeval beauty of Krutynia.

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Emphasis mainly. 'Powstać' is definitely more emphatic than just 'wstać'.

Also, the noun 'wstanie' refers only to physical action, and in this form is rather rarely used, whilst 'powstanie' has other meanings too and can be used in a more abstract sense.

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Hmm... but doesn't this 'up' in 'uprising' sound horribly redundant? If something rises it obviously rises up, not down or to the side ('downrising'?, 'siderising'?). So what's the point of adding this prefix?

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We do have some leftards here, that's true. But, as you noticed, the majority of users would seem to be decent right-wing gentlemen.


Politically he seems more or less OK (apart from his hatred of our German friends and allies) but he has to work on his human interaction skills hahaha xD

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Hey, don't call me leftist. I vote PSL (centrist) but I'm a more conservative right-wing PSL (think Sawicki rather than Kosiniak-Kamysz).

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^^ reported for crying and moaning like a b*tch

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Five beers, please: 1937

International equestrian competition in Warsaw's Łazienki Królewskie, June 1937. Notice the clueless guy on the first horse, who thinks that he's in the pub, ordering five beers.

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Like Titanic's Captain: 1941

"Many people hold it against me that I organise parties for children, that I open parks, that the orchestra is playing etc. I remember a movie in which the sinking ship's captain ordered the orchestra to play to keep the passengers' spirits high. I decided to be such captain" - said Adam Czerniaków, the president ot Jewish Council in the Warsaw Ghetto. He commited suicide on 23rd July 1942 upon hearing the news of German plans to liquidate the Ghetto.