News / Poles start to feel arrogant and superior to Southern Europeans [182]


I did and nothing like that comes up... Where did you hear that Poles are being compared to the French?


I think you know that's not what I was talking about.


It's not always a bad thing :)))

History / Historical look at various civilisational differences between Russia and the West [159]


So, you will never acknowledge, for example, that NKVD perpetrated the Katyń massacre on the order of Stalin?


Wow, that's an Eastern mentality if I see one:




We're working on that :D

News / Poles start to feel arrogant and superior to Southern Europeans [182]

@Alien, compared by whom?

News / Poles start to feel arrogant and superior to Southern Europeans [182]


You're right, Poland has still some catching up to do in order to reach the UK level of drug abuse and become more "Western" thanks to this :)))


Do you mean of 40 years ago in Poland or in the West?

History / Historical look at various civilisational differences between Russia and the West [159]


You're writing nonsense now. And I can see that you're not interested in historical facts, the truth and other such "non-RuSSian" stuff :) How typical.

News / Poles start to feel arrogant and superior to Southern Europeans [182]

@Alien, I watched once on YouTube a reaction video of an American guy watching "Geography Now: Poland" and while watching it he concluded that if Germany and RuSSia had a child it would be Poland lol It cracked me up, but in a way he was right. I don't think we have an entirely "Western mentality" - we're in between Western and Eastern, imho.


Nope, being Polish saved us from both :)))))

History / Historical look at various civilisational differences between Russia and the West [159]


Not my subjective view, but facts:

News / Poles start to feel arrogant and superior to Southern Europeans [182]

@jon357, there's a difference between one person on the internet and "almost all Poles" as he claimed.


You were in Sweden?? ;D

History / Historical look at various civilisational differences between Russia and the West [159]

@ConstantineK, you must mean RuSSian historical education. I don't know about all people in the world, but I defenitely know about serious, big gaps in historical education in RuSSia. Not only that - you people falsify history. Falsifying history seems to be a sickening RuSSian tradition already.

History / Historical look at various civilisational differences between Russia and the West [159]

@ConstantineK, oh, sweetheart, no, it isn't true... Didn't you know that??

News / Poles start to feel arrogant and superior to Southern Europeans [182]


I think it's pretty obvious that he isn't sorry at all :))) He probably thinks he's being all "polite and not clumsy" by saying how sorry he is ;D


I'm not even sure if he's English/British or if he really met that many Poles... He just wrote too much nonsense. I mean, I realise that British people can be stupid and prejudiced too, but it looks like he's making stuff up.

For example:


It is bizzare indeed, because I live in Poland and I've never met a Pole who would claim that :) I myself was taught at school that Poland is a Central European country.

History / Historical look at various civilisational differences between Russia and the West [159]


You mean like for the claim that the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was a "fascist revolt organised by the West"?? :D What kind of "material" they can possibly present for that? ;D

Where have you been, BB?:

magyarnemzet.hu/english/2023/08/new-russian-textbook-falsifies-history-regarding-hungarian-revolution-of-1956


Indeed... o_O

News / Poles start to feel arrogant and superior to Southern Europeans [182]

@equiti, are you British? 🤔


Where is that "personal attack" by pawian?

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]


Because they want their share in power and access to koryto. Duh!

demotywatory.pl/5207492/Zgadnijcie-kto-stal-z-pisowskimi-oficjelami-na-paradzie


You'd have to give me some sources for that, because Małgorzata Zych is just one person.


That would be understandable considering our difficult history - there isn't going to be 100% monolith. But as for being pro-RuSSian (as in pro-Putin's RuSSia) - that's a tiny minority in Poland, imho.

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]

@amiga500, as much high as you here:

https://polishforums.com/news/parliamentary-elections-87850/9/#msg1926887

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]


You are sick in the head.


I think they will. I remember seeing Bosak in the first row on the honorary tribune during the parade on Polish Army Day. He seemed to be very pleased to be there.


No, it's not only that - they're anti-Ukrainian and pro-RuSSian:

dorzeczy.pl/opinie/422101/dziambor-konfederacja-jest-partia-prorosyjska.html

Language / Ethnic backround of suffixes of Polish surnames [54]


That's because it isn't a "suffixed" surname. It's a Polish surname which means "heir", "successor" or "squire" (one of the meanings of "dziedzic" is 'a man of high social standing who owns and lives on an estate in a rural area, especially the chief landowner in such an area' - squire) :)


Not a geographical region, but a part of a city that used to be a village. There are also a few villages with this name in Poland.

Travel / Kielce and the area - amazing Polish Pocket Knives live there [105]


Because this region in general has been always a PiS stronghold.

Travel / Kielce and the area - amazing Polish Pocket Knives live there [105]


Yes, it's obvious to everyone - because he's scared that he would lose against Tusk in Warsaw :))) Kaczyński thinks he will win in Kielce and that's why he's running from here.

Travel / Kielce and the area - amazing Polish Pocket Knives live there [105]

@GefreiterKania, yes, he is the NUMBER ONE on PiS' list in Kielce ;D

That add at some truck or something at the end of the video cracked me up: "Zapraszamy codziennie!!!" ("We invite you to visit everyday!!!") lol ;D

Travel / Kielce and the area - amazing Polish Pocket Knives live there [105]

A "warm" farewell of Kaczyński in Kielce after his yesterday visit :D:

twitter.com/pr4sky/status/1698421986790080852?s=20

"Wypierdalaj! Wypierdalaj! Wypierdalaj!"

;D

❤️❤️❤️

No wonder he needs so much security - people just looove him so much ;D

Language / Polish Swear Words [1242]

@Alien, my impression is that "pierniczyć" is milder than "pieprzyć" and "pierdolić" is, of course, the strongest. Still, "pierniczyć" isn't something to be used in every setting.

Language / Polish Swear Words [1242]


It has more than one meaning - it depends on the context.

For example, it can mean to talk nonsense or to bullsh1t someone: "Pierniczysz!" ("You talk nonsense!" or "You're bullsh1tting!").

An exclamation "Ja pierniczę!" means something like: "Holy moly!"

You could say it's a mild version of "pieprzyć" and "pierdolić", so you can use it as a substitute if you don't want to sound too vulgar.

History / Historical look at various civilisational differences between Russia and the West [159]

"RuSSians/RuSSians"

*RuSSians/Russians

History / Historical look at various civilisational differences between Russia and the West [159]


Yes, because that's crucial. RuSSians/RuSSians' views on history usually depend on their political views.


You "suppose"? So you don't even know that? Sorry, but those were some sh1tty discussions you were having then.


This video is 10 minutes long.
And no matter how "naive" you think that guy is - he checked all the RuSSian history textbooks, both old and new, and there's no mention of the Katyń massacre in any of them. He also showed a fragment of a textbook with instructions for teachers how they "should" teach certain stuff to RuSSian kids.


That's true, people are more honest on the internet.

History / Historical look at various civilisational differences between Russia and the West [159]


It's not just about interpretations - in RuSSian schools even facts aren't being taught.


Hey, I can only see what I see. You didn't answer what kind of RuSSians/RuSSians you've discussed with. Is that a secret?


Thanks, but it would be even better if you watched that video.

History / Historical look at various civilisational differences between Russia and the West [159]


So have you only discussed with liberal, anti-Putinist, pro-democratic, pro-Western Russians? Because you give me a strong impression of someone living in some kind of fantasy La La Land.


People in Nazi Germany were "people" too, so give me a break.


As I wrote - this clearly didn't reach RuSSian minds and schools.

Btw, did you watch that video I posted?

History / Historical look at various civilisational differences between Russia and the West [159]


Historical truth shouldn't depend on your relations with other countries. And teaching facts may actually improve relations between countries. Knowledge is power. Maybe that's why the Kremlin doesn't want RuSSians to know the real history between RuSSia and it's neighbours - it wouldn't be so easy to manipulate the RuSSian society then and set it against RuSSia's neighbours and the West.

History / Historical look at various civilisational differences between Russia and the West [159]


Clearly...
Kania, I meant to ask you - have you ever discussed with RuSSians about anything else besides Tolstoy, Tchaikovsky and solyanka? o_O


I guess this speech didn't reach RuSSia then and was meant for outsiders (Poles in this case).

The same was with Katyń. Putin was saying nice stuff, Medvedev gave some Katyń files to Komorowski, but the Katyń massacre somehow never reached RuSSian schools.

This Russian guy only learned about Katyń massacre when he came to Poland and he talks about how history is taught (or rather not taught) in RuSSia:

News / Does Poland support the idea of Slavic unity? [142]


Weird, because to me it makes more sense to worry about RuSSia.


No, in their minds it was a war against Poland. Only later it turned into World War.


So you want to partition Germany... again?