News / Russian criticism of Poland - Soviet war memorial removal [325]


Barney is generally a smart fella.

News / Russian criticism of Poland - Soviet war memorial removal [325]


I'm curious how do Poles understand why Russia is so strangely powerful? By all indications the place is a dump, its people slaves, and the entirety of its history indicates that this situation will persist. How can it continually become a threat to others, when it is such a shambles?

How does an emaciated USSR "carve up" Europe with Germany (also, massively weakened)?

Do you think it's simply a factor of population size? Geography?

News / THE ARMY OF POLAND - THE REALITY [493]


Enemy is PO and weak man Tusk.

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]

An important graph, if one is to understand PiS' Ukrainian grain ban - and why the pro-animal welfare proposals in 2020 backfired so spectacularly:

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Off-Topic / Hollywood Films [62]


Thank you for opening my eyes to the satanic subtext inherent in the donut - I will avoid eating them from now on.


Fantastic! You are doing a great job explaining the cosmology of faggotry.

Work / Pursuing a career in public service in Poland [7]


This item does not feature in my platform, rest assured.

History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [469]


Yes, of course. We are not savages.

Life / Poles - the Nation of Liars? [478]


Come on. You gotta leave some crumbs out for the kids that want to go into public service.

Was Lincoln happy with his reward of a bullet to the head, for making his way to the "trough" of government?

Was FDR a lottery winner when he was steering America through the Great Depression and the World War?

Hamilton, JFK, Carter - US history is full of idealists that paid a high price.

History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [469]


This was my experience even in the 1990s. Mind you, this is the time of unbridled Wild West capitalism.

Life / Poles - the Nation of Liars? [478]


Be quiet, Lyzko, if you know what's good for you.


I'm realizing you said something very smart, which I wasn't able to fully appreciate/absorb at first reconnaissance. I need to think about what you wrote before I can say anything further.

Life / Poles - the Nation of Liars? [478]


Mmmmm... Can it?

Your caveat seems unfair. How can one expect rule of law in tact and spirit, when everybody engaged in the exercise is an idiot?

I don't need a long lecture, just a set of examples.

Life / Poles - the Nation of Liars? [478]


In America, Democrats accuse Republicans of lying at the same rate that they breathe.

In Russia, the opposition accuses Putin and the security apparatus of lying at the same rate that they breathe.

In Poland, PO-supporters see in PiS the devil incarnate.

Democracy is a stupid system, but perhaps not more stupid than other systems.

Life / Poles - the Nation of Liars? [478]

@GefreiterKania

Maybe, maybe not.

A thread called "Poland - Nation of Liars" has 13 pages of posts. Think about that.

Life / Poor hygiene of people in public places in Poland [46]

How about: "Thank you, Bobko - for offering potential solutions to the problems that plague Poland, rather than nakedly criticizing like a troll"?

Hmmm?

Tell me the truth, did you ever consider diacetyl as the source of your problems?

Life / Poles - the Nation of Liars? [478]

It is possible that Poles acquired the reputation of a nation of liars, due to long-term occupation by galactic lying power - Russia.

Life / Poor hygiene of people in public places in Poland [46]


There are some types of smells, that no deodorant can stop. Diacetic acid, for example.

It can be produced in large quantities by people that consume alcohol a little too frequently. Quote:

Alcohol triggers several chemical reactions in the body that cause sweat to smell distinct and often bad as unmetabolized alcohol is excreted through the pores via sweat. One of these reactions produces a substance called diacetic acid, which smells a little like vinegar and may be very noticeable on hot days and in those who don't wash their clothes often.

In another thread we have already established that Poles are champion drinkers. At the same time, my own research on the forum has shown that despite outside indications, Poles on average DO have access to modern plumbing. Kania - specifically - is an oligarch, with multiple bathrooms with bidets.

Could the reason, then, for Poles' odious body odor - be that it is a nation daily going through the painful symptoms of alcohol withdrawal? In the bus, on the tram, in line at the supermarket - little Polish biolabs rapidly fermenting diacetyl molecules, and then furiously sweating them out?

Diacetyl is known to produce aromas resembling: " baby vomit, sour milk, moldy cheese, or any combination therein." Does this ring a bell for anyone? If yes, and then my broader theory is confirmed - I have solutions.

1) Consume large quantities of yeast after a night of drinking. Within your gut, the yeast will reduce the diacetyl, converting it to acetoin and 2,3-butanediol, both of which have very inoffensive aroma profiles.

2) Increase body temperature temporarily to 41-42 degrees Celsius. At these high temperatures the bacteria in your gut will quickly metabolize the diacetyl.

3) Sanitize your bowels with new doses of alcohol, which will prevent the formation of diacetyl.

News / Russian criticism of Poland - Soviet war memorial removal [325]

@Lenka

So chummy, chummy that our non aggression pact (which we entered because Britain and France told us to fu&k off), which was supposed to expire on August 23rd, 1949 - was abruptly terminated on June 22nd, 1941.

In total, our "chummy chummy" phase with Hitler lasted less than 24 months. What happened after was that he killed almost 30 million of our citizens.

You Poles invested a lot of effort into ensuring that Russia could not reach an understanding with the West, this being forced into Germany's embrace.

News / Russian criticism of Poland - Soviet war memorial removal [325]


Yes, because the Nazis liberated you from the clutches of the cannibalistic cult of Bolshevism?

Genau, Obersturmbannfuhrer Pawian!

News / Russian criticism of Poland - Soviet war memorial removal [325]


Yes, except for the lives of its citizens.

I'm not surprised you're willing to trade a Big Mac and a pat on the head from Biden, for the lives of millions of Poles.

Hey guys - Maf would have preferred to live under Hitler over Putin.

History / Why American military aid to Europe and Poland is important to America itself? [150]


It is one thing to dissect Russian operations in a classroom in West Point, and another thing entirely to command a Russian battalion through a year of the highest intensity combat Europe has seen since 1945.

After this war, Russian officers can easily go and teach in the United States. At the same time, there's nothing about counter-insurgency that America can teach Russia, that Russia doesn't already know better itself.

Experience is experience.

News / Russian criticism of Poland - Soviet war memorial removal [325]


What's so interesting and enlightening?

Idiots in America tear down Civil War era monuments. Idiots in Poland tear down Soviet-era monuments. Idiots have no nationality.

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [382]


This is 2021 still

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [382]

Lol. Ok - so what's your problem with these stats published by Deutsche Welle (notice logo at bottom left)?

You think United Russia is below 30% or above it? I'm not even sure based on your post. Even in Russia, we need accurate polls for our Kremlin overlords to know which way the wind is blowing.

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [382]


Attaching a graphic below, which shows support levels for parties. United Russia in first position with 30%+ (historically terrible for them, they used to be in the 60-70s a decade ago), and communists in traditional second with about 15%.

Putin himself is probably somewhere in the 60-70s now. He's been very careful to disassociate himself from United Russia. He hung that albatross on Medvedev's neck, who is head of the party now. Putin is officially non-party since his last stint in office.

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Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [382]


That's foolish. Those babushkas are drones - I know, my babushka was the same.

I cannot explain my babushka's psychology in one post on PF, but the most important thing you have to understand about her is that she was a child of the war generation. She grew up in poverty, sexual abuse, hunger, and constant PTSD. She told me she cried when Stalin died, even though he killed 90%+ of her family. Up until she died, she would tell me that one day they will come back. When I asked her who the "they" are, she could never quite accurately articulate.

Fear is the operative word, when you talk about these babushkas. I wouldn't believe even 1% of what they say, because they are not equipped to even understand the question. They think in categories of: Yeltsin - bad, Putin - good. Pension was low, now it's high. Hospital was under-equipped, now it has a Siemens MRI machine. And so on, and so forth. It's not worth explaining to people like my babushka that another talented Russian man might do as good a job at taking care of her, and that she does not have to sell her soul to United Russia for these benefits.

Now tell me, this is different in any other country in Eastern Europe?

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [382]

@Novichok

The "people" are never at fault. It's why Reagan would address the "Russian people", or Obama the "good people of Iran". Stalin famously said, "Hitlers come and go, but the German people remain".

However, PF is proof that the "people" are certainly at fault. Alternatively, it is proof that people are fearful animals, easily directed by familiar tools of manipulation.

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [382]


Not a fair charge.

The Russian relationship with government has always been a different one to that shown by Westerners. If not the enemy, then the government is certainly not a friend. Popular aphorisms about the "Good Tsar" notwithstanding, Russians have always seen themselves in opposition to the "government", but stalwartly behind the "motherland".

Therefore it's not about swallowing their lies, but rather disdainfully ignoring them. If it shows something, then not our own propensity for lies but our passivity. They say what they want, and we pretend to be fooled - and everyone goes about their business.

An American libertarian preparing for the apocalypse in his bunker by stashing ammunition and canned food, cannot compete with an average Russian in his hate towards his government. In Russia the government and the people live on separate planets.

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [382]

@GefreiterKania

I wouldn't categorize that story under "lying". It's what you do when you are planning to kill many people. Are Germans liars because they told the Jews they were going to be deloused? Does Mossad tells ex-Nazis in Argentina that they are employees of the Jewish state's intelligence service tasked with killing Nazis? That's different.

To me lying is saying "we did not kill thousands of Poles in the forest one night - the Germans did". Lying is saying - Turks did not kill hundred of thousands of Armenians as state policy - it was all a sad misunderstanding. Lying is saying that you invaded Cuba and the Philippines after Spain staged an unprovoked attack on an American ship moored in Havana harbor, or that you invaded Iraq because Saddam was trying to procure uranium in Africa.

Lying by states is second nature to what they are in their essence. I don't think Russians as a people are liars, however. We actually have a very specific feeling towards truth.

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [382]


In their defense, they had seen it work before. In Crimea earlier, in Georgia - sort of. When America has a trillion satellites in the sky, and listens to your every conversation - saying one thing, and doing another is probably the only way to maintain some element of surprise.

It's also just a remnant of Soviet practice, where lying to the West was kosher because they were kafirs. The assumption was that we were being lied to on a constant basis, so we should simply reply in kind.

Also, Russia has had very bad recent experience with an "open kimono" policy towards information. The Yeltsin era was probably a high point for "transparency", and it was a non stop sh!t show. Generals on TV calling Chechnya a disastrous mistake, and saying we should surrender immediately. Competing factions daily pouring out tons of excrement on each other in the form of "kompromat", which often came in the form of videos of politicians having sex. People in the Kremlin must have understood at some point that there is in fact low demand from the population for such daily seppuku by the government, and started sending out a message people wanted to hear. The problem may be that at some point they started believing their own stories.