Food / Is brain-damaging vegan fad growing in Poland? [176]


Same here. I suspect he means "anything not conspicuously old-fashioned".

Meat is basically dead animals, reared (especially in Poland) in a cruel way and slaughtered so a particular species can steal the protein and carbohydrate from their corpses. It tastes nice, but we don't really need to eat it much or at all.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


The second worst regime for decades - the worst being when they were briefly in office before

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


This is in every way their plan. The treasonous 'Fourth Republic' project...

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Absolutely agreed - it was the same last time.


Again, spot on. We should be very careful though - PiS have made very clear their contempt for democracy and we can expect them to use all sorts of dirty tricks too stay in power. Last time they were booted out mid-term by the voters; they hate elections and would do anything in their power to stay in office without them.



Don't be silly.


Presumably you mean the passport that you would not be given.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


An appalling individual. Quite scary that he holds public office.


So the hitler salutes are just stretching their arms...


Very true.

Law / Uber in Poland - illegal [28]

Yes, that's true. Basically the tax-office were catching people who didn't, so they had to rework the whole thing and Uber have to see and check all the docs.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


So you haven't been following current affairs here, especially about his interesting initiative with ONR members


Not that far off...

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Law / Uber in Poland - illegal [28]


It was like that here until a while ago - now they have to have the correct insurance.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Yes it is, though in character and behaviour, they're far closer to the NDSAP at the start of their regime. Sooner or later there'll be some parallel to the Enabling Act of 1933 and there's already serious talk by Macierewicz about a jackbooted, flag waving and saluting uniformed group...

Travel / Sites with interesting photos of Poland [24]

Some good photos here, taken by Germans between 1939 and 1943
info-pc.home.pl/whatfor/baza/warsz_niem_2.htm

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Real Estate / Can foreigners buy land, house, or apartment in Poland? [60]


This is true.


Do you have a 'settlement visa'? That permits you to buy land.

Real Estate / Can foreigners buy land, house, or apartment in Poland? [60]


No, there are no rules about buying an apartment or house. Only farmland and forestry. There were some rules about buying a second home, however as far as I know this rule was relaxed some time ago.

Life / Activation of purchased Poland Orange/T-mobile/Play mobile data / SIM card? [19]


Ask them for a micro sim. Be clear you want that and not a sim or nano sim. Every shop in the airport sells them.

News / The Leningrad Amber room finally found in Poland? [11]


Interesting to trace (as historians would want to) the journey of those pieces. If this bunker thing isn't just a museum's attempt to boost their visitor numbers we may soon know more.


That bit's a shame, given the Russians' reluctance to return plundered artifacts.

News / The Leningrad Amber room finally found in Poland? [11]

Possibly - towards the end of the war it might have been within range.

One of the things that the "oo they didn't help us at all in 1939" brigade in Poland conveniently forget is that it was only much later in the war that there were the right sort of planes with sufficient range to reach here. In the 1930s passenger planes from Croydon Aerodrome to Pole Mokotowskie in Warsaw (yes, there was a scheduled service) had to refuel on the way.

News / The Leningrad Amber room finally found in Poland? [11]

Really? That's new to me. Were they soldiers' souvenirs? I know some of the American took souvenirs and one dirt-poor redneck became unaccountably rich after going for a swim in the lake at Garmisch-Partenkirchen; all it took was a few blocks of gold, part of the 3% or whatever that was never traced - there's quite a good book about it.

Until recently the most plausible theory about the Amber room is that it didn't survive the Soviet bombardment of Konigsberg, where it was stored.

And if it did, it would basically just be a curiosity now; most of the pieces were as dry as bone and falling off the wall even before they were removed from the Catherine Palace.

History / Question about Warsaw Ghetto (shared building?) and Monument [29]

Wait until we start seeing Macierewicz's brownshirts on the streets...

News / Balcerowicz - PO trojan horse in Ukrainian government [11]


Nationalised industry is usually a very bad idea and yes, he did very much the right thing.

News / The Leningrad Amber room finally found in Poland? [11]

Anybody's guess, but an interesting idea nonetheless...

History / Digital reconstruction of Warszawa - Miasto Ruin - rebuilding the destroyed Warsaw [31]

Merged: How postwar Warsaw was rebuilt using 18th century paintings

A good article in The Guardian's "Stories of Cities" series:


theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/22/story-cities-warsaw-rebuilt-18th-century-paintings

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Law / Old Polish money banknotes - what's their value today? [415]

Exactly, glad you agree...

Genealogy / Want to find a person [777]

The guy you mention as a trash man (actually the director of a refuse company) was born in 1967, making him 48 - probably someone different.

Harder if h's left Poland, however sadkowski isn't a common nane and if he has nephews, nieces etc there may still be hope...

Law / Old Polish money banknotes - what's their value today? [415]

Almost nothing unfortunately. They changed the currency a few years ago after hyperinflation.

Genealogy / Want to find a person [777]

Same here at the moment - maybe the site's down.

Genealogy / Want to find a person [777]

You know, I've been looking for Sadowski and not Sadkowski! I only just noticed! That does narrow it down a lot. Sadkowski is a far less common name so something might show up...

:-)

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There's nobody with that surname in Brzeg Dolny, however that isn't necessarily an issue. I'll have a look later when I've got some time and maybe something will come up.

Genealogy / Want to find a person [777]

There's a few people listed on kto-kogo.pl called Sławomir and Zbigniew with the right surname. That site lists people who have owned businesses in the past few years. I couldn't find anyone in Australia, however there's a Maja Sadowska who shows up a lot online. Could be worth contacting her.

One issue with general google searches is not only is the name shared by lots of people but there's also a fairly well-known politician called that and that does make someone harder to find online.

Have a look at kto-kogo.pl, the two digits after people's names are the year of birth and there are a few possibles both for age and location (when you click on the name it brings a map up). Remember that Brzeg Dolny is close to a large conurbation and someone living in one part may well work in another.

Genealogy / Want to find a person [777]

You mentioned that your uncles ran businesses - might that be a way of tracing them?

Genealogy / Want to find a person [777]

Looks like it's a different person (but could be a relative). Lots of people called Zbigniew in Poland. This guy is in the same town and is a trained mechanic. Brzeg Dolny is a tiny place so someone should be traceable.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


This is sadly par for the course.


The strength of the democratic opposition that has formed in the wake of their misdeeds is huge.

So the scandal is now attracting international attention. An excellent article in today's Observer:



theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/24/polish-leaders-using-war-museum-to-rewrite-history-says-academic