News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


By raising hundreds of millions out of poverty?

By giving them an education, which they now trade for a Green Card?

By liberating them from the clutches of greedy predators like France and the UK?

By giving every man and woman, in the developing part of the world, a sense of dignity and pride?

Russia is protector of the weak, and defender of justice. Hope you choke on this sentence.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


We suffered for the world.

Small minded people like you cannot understand.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


If there are people to watch and contextualize the movie.

Otherwise, it's images on a screen.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


If you fight the bulldozer, then don't be surprised when it flattens you with the asphalt.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


We will try to locate and liquidate every single one.

These are the trash/refuse of the first war, that managed to escape.

It's excellent that they are all in one place, and openly identifying themselves. It will make it much easier to kill them all.

Then, finally, the job will be complete.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]

In WW2, Poland provided the Soviet Union with almost 300,000 infantrymen. Most of these serving in the First Polish Army.

They provided up to 10-15% of Zhukov's forces when he was pushing West.

They showed themselves as capable fighters.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


We need to see how much will return, first.

In the beginning of this war, the Chechens did not show themselves very well. More like tourists... waiting behind Slavic forces, and doing more "clean up" work.

This was very strange, for a nation that talks so much about its unparalleled fighting spirit.

We know that Chechens are leaders in ISIS and Al Qaeda, but we would also like to see them lead here :)

Now, thankfully, Chechen units are finally getting a taste of the real hellfire. Not everyone, but a good percentage of the formations.

If they survive, then they deserve more respect, but until then we will wait. This is not some mountain insurgency, this is war. Their chance to show us if they really are made from different material.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


We did it.

You want to have a European Taliban? Supported by Al-Qaeda and ISIS?

If you have especial appreciation for norms of Sharia law, and human rights protection, perhaps we should organize for you a meeting with the state security apparatus of the Chechen Republic?

If those animals raise their head again, and try to disrupt the life of good people just trying to live their lives - then we will do it again.


Are you comparing Chechnya to Poland?

P.S. - Did I also mention that Ramzan mobilized at least 30,000 of his men to send into our war? Much more than any other regional leader, even those that control a much larger population. For this alone, for these 30,000 - he must be forgiven a lot.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


Ramzan is a wild animal, but he has stabilized Chechnya.

In 1999 Grozny was the most destroyed city in Europe since Dresden. Now Grozny is a booming city with skyscrapers and wide, green boulevards.

In the late 1990s, it seemed like Chechnya could be the bomb that would blow Russia to pieces. The first signal, before the Tatars, Bashkirs and others started causing problems.

We scared everybody into submission by showing them the price of disobedience, but it was also important to show them why it is better to work with Moscow than against it.

Many other Chechens have claimed they could do a better job, and we never got a chance to see how it could have been. For the time being, we are stuck with Ramzan.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


It is... potentially more scary than that.

With this, you have touched on an actual nerve :)

The scarier alternative is that Putin is afraid of Ramzan. Many things indicate this.

It's okay if Putin does not want to punish his ferocious Rottweiler, because he is so loyal. There are some things, that may indicate that Putin feels certain fatherly feelings towards Ramzan, because he has observed him since he has been a teenager and may feel responsible for getting his father killed.

But there's also much to indicate that Putin is at a loss re: what to do with him. He sent several very influential people to be "federal plenipotentiary in Chechnya". These guys were either ex heads of special forces, or actually close friends of Putin. None of them managed to reign Ramzan in, and he somehow managed to engineer the firing of each of them.

Anyway, this is not the point, to discuss Russia's problems with Chechnya.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


To be Russian is to suffer.

Suffering purifies the soul, and brings us closer to God.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


1) Collectivization
2) Purges
3) Katyn
4) Prague Spring
5) Deportations
6) Murder of the Royal Family

There's a lot, but it's never what you accuse us of.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


Kind of an open secret in Russia.

Anna Politkovskaya was writing about human rights abuses in Chechnya after the war (kidnappings, summary executions, torture, etc). Ramzan did not appreciate her coverage of his efforts at stabilizing Chechnya. So he had her killed.

Boris Nemtsov openly called him a thug and a murderer who had no place in Russia. So, Ramzan also killed him. When the heat got to be too much, one of Ramzan's friends took the blame.

Chechnya is a medieval, feudal, and absolutely wild country inside Russia. We deal with it as best we can. Believe me, if you do not know what to do with Syria and Afghanistan - then you will have a very bad time dealing with Chechnya.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


Killed by Chechens.


For a dog - a dog's death.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


The GULAG system was shut down by Nikita Khrushchev in 1960. There are no GULAGs in Russia now for 64 years.


A dozen people perhaps, in as many years?

Name me one that did not deserve it? Skripal and Litvinenko were agents of Russian state security, that decided they want to live in London and make money writing books about Russian secrets.

The helicopter pilot in Spain that killed his fellow servicemen, and "donated" his aircraft to the Ukrainians?

A Chechen murderer, that managed to get refugee status in Sweden?

Which of these pieces of sh*t deserved to live?

The only real example is Navalny - and he was a man that challenged the old man himself for the top position. So, unless you are bidding for the throne, or you are a traitor - there is nothing to fear.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


You can criticize Putin all day in Russia. You can do it outside of Russia, as a Russian, as well.

What you cannot do, is:

1) Discredit the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

2) Receive money from abroad, and use it in attempts to influence popular opinion in Russia.

3) Send, or facilitate the sending of, funds to aid the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

4) Disseminate state secrets of Russia

5) Publicly call for the overthrow of the Russian government, or for the break up of Russia into a collection of smaller republics.

Not so hard to follow, no?

News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [363]


It is the same with me :)

News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [363]


A sick agenda?

To make your old Polish ass smile, every now and then?

To bring some meaning into your life?

To teach you some new things?

You will miss me when I'm gone.

News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [363]


Oh... and you deliver wonderfully smelling roses?

At least I take responsibility for acts of defecation.

I do not sh*t on your floor, and tell you it is apple pie.

News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [363]


In my daily life - I long ago lost hope of changing anybody's mind about anything. Now, if a person tells me 1 + 1 = 17, I just agree.

What I write on PF is not meant to change anybody's mind. Instead, it's like going to the toilet, if your gastroenterologist has requested a sample.

I relieve myself, then I examine the results. I am trying to learn more about myself, than others.

News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [363]


I can be in other places too, you know?

My point was simple - xenophobia unites us.

News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [363]


Polska dla Polaków! Wypierdalaj stąd!

Then you say, we are not brothers.

Off-Topic / What's your hobby? [191]


Are these published?

Could you perhaps DM the titles (if you're afraid of losing your wider anonymity)?

In any case - congrats!

News / Will Poland as a NATO member be drawn into the Israel/Iran war ? [250]


You're a funny guy - I gotta give you that.

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]


If only. In 1917, the Russian Social Democratic Worker's Party (Bolsheviks) - numbered 240,000 members. That is, approximately 1/8th of one percent.

They numbered even less than the misnamed "Mensheviks".

It will be forever a mystery how a few thousand as*holes managed to overthrow the largest land empire on the planet.

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]

At this moment - Israel should focus on how to survive. Profit, should be left for another day.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


Станислав Выспяньский - in the Orthodox tongue.

Not a very popular guy in Russian literary circles, suffice it to say.

A big fan of the painting of Ivan the Terrible's ambassadors begging at Stepan Bathory's feet :)

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


When one Shahed drone costs $70K, and one Patriot missile costs $1M... it is a question who needs luck.

Israel is not the only one who needs surface to air missiles, there's also Zelensky who is complaining loudly. The problem... America can only make 550 Patriot missiles a year.

Iran, meanwhile, has shown it is able to saturate Israeli air defenses.

It has learned valuable lessons on how Jordan and Iraq may behave in the scenario of a Perso-Israeli war.

It had a chance to study British and American capabilities and protocols.

I think this was a very profitable exercise, for very little investment.

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


Thank you, Kania - for differentiating between different flavors of Russians.

Life / Neoliberalism and family formation in Poland [100]


You didn't say anything about how that would you feel.

I understand, you think it's foolish to expect.

But how would your heart respond to a guy, that came and solved all your problems?

Would you want to see him again? Would you rank him above your other guys from the past?