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


It looks like the debacle we've seen here and in other local byelections will be repeated in most Polish towns.

Basically, they've admitted now that they lied about every single election promise.

The sooner they're gone the better.

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When this is repeated at the ballot box a hundred times, their silence will be deafening and the 'PIS media' will be even more of a laughing stock than they are now.

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This is what everyone's saying at the moment.

Did you read President Wałęsa's daughter's comments in the newspapers today? Very dignified, and such a contrast from the insinuations we're hearing from the Kaczynski crowd.

News / Bitcoin Embassy Launches In Poland's Capital Warsaw [37]

Cheques do exist, however it tends to be companies that use them - I used to pay staff with them if they didn't have a bank account themselves or if they needed a sub from their next salary and I was too busy to go to the cash machine.

The Polish ones used to grumble since they actual had tho go to the bank rather than have the banknotes drop into their hands.


This it's true. I just don't see many people trusting crypto currency here.

News / Poland to return to Catholic tradition? [177]

Indeed; there have been some great female soldiers throughout history; Emilia Plater comes to mind.

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And this is absolutely transparent. If certain figures within POS didn't have such a shockingly well-documented history of doing it, they might actually have got away with the smear.

But they didn't.

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Firefighter, engineer, doctor, plumber, mechanic, priest, farmer, journalist, truck driver...

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Many would say they're in fact very very anti-Polish.

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What's that (all very subjective anyway) to do with insisting that people 'abstain' from having a sex life? Unless you think that the religious view you espouse should be impose on others.

People are capable of deciding for themselves.

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Why should a couple (or anyone else) 'abstain' if they don't want to?

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There you go again, Po.


It's been discussed already and would be a positive step.

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Tell that to the millions who have opted for that form of family planning. No reason whatsoever for it to be banned here in Poland.


Circumcision is pointless mutilation. A vasectomy is a very practical and valued medical procedure.

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The procedure is almost unknown here. Absolutely no scientific reason for that at all.

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WTF?

Perhaps you should wait until she (if she ever does) explain her motivation. I suspect the good general's widow might be acting out of more than just a pecuniary motive.

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

Quite. There's always the tiny, tiny chance that it could be a much older note, perhaps pre-war (when there was high inflation too) - basically he needs to look on the Wikipedia page that has pictures of Polish banknotes.

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There is no 1000zl note. This means you have a banknote from the old currency which is worthless. Unless it's very old and historic. Who is in the picture on the banknote?

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This seems to be a real theme for JK and those around him. He really does wish that it was he and not Lech Wałęsa who was the hero of the Solidarity movement.


Bingo. It suits them to keep people impoverished and bitter.

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So basically yet another promise they made that they had no intention of ever keeping. Echoes of the last (mercifully short) PIS regime all over again.


It's amazing to think that incompetence on such a scale is even possible.

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Basically yes. Jaroslaw is bitter that it wasn't him who got all the glory and never will be him.

News / The dossier of TW "Bolek" - Poland's IPN assisted by police enters the home of the late general Kiszczak [306]


Now don't be so naive. Or just disingenuous.

More interesting is how Jaro Kaczynski got out of internment whereas the true dissidents, Lech Wałęsa, Adam Michnik, Jacek Kuroń etc had it so much harder. Who was helping him?

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Even if the paper and ink are contemporary, it doesn't prove any wrongdoing on President Wałęsa's part.

As a trade union official during the PRL it would be more newsworthy if he hadn't had to have contact with the authorities.

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A shame there are so few streets etc named after Gierek. Katowice Airport though would be more suitable than Gdansk for Him.

Lech Wałęsa however will be vindicated by history. The Kaczynski twins, especially Jaro, will not.

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Given that you posted at 17.33 do you have a time machine?

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They do. One heavily criticised law firm in the UK. It's actually unenforceable.

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So right in fact.

It's clear you aren't a supporter, however almost anything would be a better alternative than them. The current national mood is really pessimistic.


Basically Nationalist + Socialist = National Socialist...


I'd say it's more complicated than that IS. There's long been a healthy contempt for the behaviour of the church, and the RCC in Poland is currently very problematic. If it weren't for their role in the last years of communism and the JP2 effect they would be in a far worse position - as it happens things have been normalising since JP2's death and the episcopate do not in any sense like that.

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Precisely.

So far, a great chunk of the PIS regime's efforts have been about dragging over that whole period vindictively whereas most people have moved on and are deeply uninterested.

I suppose it helps them distract from the attacks on law, justice and the constitution as well as their gross economic mismanagement.

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Sadly, Po, that post sums up the hysteria that we are seeing at the moment from that largely rural section of society who support PIS and various other right-wing groups.

They genuinely do believe that there's a conspiracy to keep Poland down. As I say, a post-communist mindset that everyone else has moved on from.

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What is decaying (and they absolutely can't stand this) is the inward-looking, rooted in spurious tradition, and largely derided neo-Endek tendency that JK and his gang are very much part of. That and the fact that they are in every sense post-communist, with mindsets stuck 25 years in the past, whereas everyone else has moved on.

News / The dossier of TW "Bolek" - Poland's IPN assisted by police enters the home of the late general Kiszczak [306]

Looks younger than the late general, doesn't she...

Not that there's anything wrong with that at all.

His death and decline wasn't sudden so it isn't as if he just forgot to burn the alleged documents. Perhaps he intended that his wife should sell them, however she seems to have gone about it in rather a ham-fisted way.

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This will cause him huge problems after his term of office ends.


Hardly surprising. A president in name only who isn't actually a president but just a placeman who stood because the party leader is electorally toxic.