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


Where does this come from? I see it a lot, no doubt, but still am curious where does it come from? Is this just a modern phenomenon, because of Communism, or were Russians known as liars before as well? In Russia the negative stereotype we have about ourselves is that we are lazy and stupid (Ivanushka on the oven & the two perpetual problems of Russia - idiots and roads). Nothing about lying. Something more Tatar/Chinese to that.

Life / Poland: worst teeth in the world? [98]


I admit, there is probably not a connection between these two things.


Our football players are idiots who play with their dicks even when there is not a war. It's the hockey players I feel bad for...

Life / Poland: worst teeth in the world? [98]

Polish women are very pretty, but they rarely smile. Such is the stereotype.

Life / Vasectomy in Poland is illegal? Why? [123]

Is still illegal for Polish men to cut their balls?

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


Very controversial opinion you have adopted.

Love / My husband is Polish and I was wondering why he drinks all the time. [66]

Let's be honest with ourselves here - Poles have many reasons to drink.

Life / Why there is always around a horrible smell of sweat in Poland [188]


Do you own a bidet?

Love / My husband is Polish and I was wondering why he drinks all the time. [66]


I am very curious indeed, if this man managed to stop drinking and if this couple is still together.

Life / Why there is always around a horrible smell of sweat in Poland [188]


Historically, the cleanest people in Europe have been Scandinavians and Russians. In these two regions, saunas or banyas were widespread, and regular bathing was a common practice. The plentiful forests in these two places, and easy access to fresh water meant that even the lowliest member of society could afford to clean himself with hot water.

It is curious then, how Poles managed to remain so smelly while living next to the two cleanest people around.

Funny Poles - teach the French how to eat with a fork, but will refuse to wash their ass.

History / Future of Kaliningrad Oblast - is it possible to annex by Poland or will it become an independent country? [137]


Look - genius - if it's nothing, then why do you do it? Does the government not have urgent problems needing solution? The Polish budget, welfare reform, pension reform, and so on and so forth?

The Poles did something meaningless and stupid - first. Then Russians reacted with a meaningless and stupid reaction.

Do people not have more important things to do?

Real Estate / Polish landlord - Walks into my apartment without asking or when i am not at home and wants half rent in cash. [36]


Have you considered she may be lonely? Next time she comes uninvited, offer her a cup of tea. Insist you will not let her leave without sampling some of your cooking. Offer to watch your favorite film together.

About halfway through the film, gently sit down next to your landlord, and propose to massage her feet.

Please report back on results.

Off-Topic / Serbia etc. thread 3 [365]

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Life / Child abuse in Poland [64]


I think it's common to all human beings, not just American criminals. Try Googling "Pedophile Killed in Prison", and marvel at the thousands of links provided.

The problem is so acute, that pedophiles are typically placed on watch, and kept separate from the general population.

Statistics show that the prison population has a higher percentage of people that were abused as children. It only makes sense then that they do not take kindly to pedos and sadists.

News / Life and work of Stepan Bandera - controversial figure of Europe [42]


Losers.

News / Life and work of Stepan Bandera - controversial figure of Europe [42]


I think everybody involved would be very happy if there was a new country in West Ukraine. Well, maybe not the Hungarians (they want the Carpathians back) and the Poles (Lvov), but everybody else would be very happy.

News / Life and work of Stepan Bandera - controversial figure of Europe [42]


Yes, I think I understand now what you mean.

To understand how we can hate Ukrainian nationalists, and call Ukrainians brothers at the same time - please read this excerpt from the book above:

Because of the nationalist discourse that took place in eastern Galicia, the province was labeled as the Ukrainian "Piedmont." Because of their loyalty to the Habsburg Empire, Galician Ukrainians were known as the "Tyroleans of the East." In Russian Ukraine, on the other hand, the majority of the political and intellectual stratum assimilated into Russian culture and did not pay attention to Ukrainian nationalism."

We never knew these as$hole Ukrainians who hate us, they are a new element within our ecosystem. They were raised within greenhouse conditions by a Cossack-loving Austrian prince, with the express purpose of irritating Poles and Russians. It is why we want to kill every Banderite - exactly because as you said - "why the hell would he fight Russians?"

The East is the same as us, and so is the Center. The West of Ukraine is however a strange land, with strange people. It was easy to ignore them for a long time because it was primarily agricultural and poor compared to the other regions. Turns out ignoring those hillbillies was a big mistake.

News / Life and work of Stepan Bandera - controversial figure of Europe [42]


Well, first of all they are much more similar to each other, than they are to neighboring Germans. This is proof of a common origin, despite the huge geographical area over which Slavs are spread out. There are exceptions to this of course. Northern Russians, have more in common with Baltic, German, and Finno-Ugric people than with other Russians. The identifying genetic markers are the R1a and I2 haplogroups.

Second factor of difference, is probably that we are relatively new. From a European perspective, and kind of from our own as well. Germans are ancient, and you can read about them all the way down to tribes and individuals in texts like Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico. They appear throughout antiquity, play an important role through the various Gothic kingdoms, and then eventually play a key role in the Holy Roman Empire. Slavs during this period are shrouded in myth and legend. This newness plays out in all sorts of ways, from feelings of inferiority to the other extreme of superiority because we are "wilder".

Finally, the fact that we are descended from the same people, means we inevitably carry some similar traits. These make us closer to each other, than to our German or Romanian neighbors. Germans are organized, we are disorganized. Germans are pedantic, while we paint with a broad stroke. Germans are hard workers, while we need a good incentive to put out. I think these things are common, from Prague to Vladivostok.

News / Life and work of Stepan Bandera - controversial figure of Europe [42]


Don't know how you define ethnicities... I think most people would say these are different people, while some Russians might say that Russians and Ukrainians are the same (DNA mapping also proves this to a large extent). If you believe that Slavs are a separate race from other white people, then yes.

They are definitely cousins/brothers, but still - as is evident - some of them act like the brother that wants to cut himself off from the family.

Not sure if Poles are considered cousins/brothers in the same regard. It's more broad with the Poles. Like second or third cousins, I suppose.

News / Life and work of Stepan Bandera - controversial figure of Europe [42]


Stalin didn't care about Russians, Georgians, Poles, Jews, Martians... Stalin only thought in categories of influence, leverage, control. He never wrapped his murderousness in a guise of martyrdom or heroism. Instead, he preferred to do it quietly, in the night, and not to be shared with a soul until years after his death

Today, even the most autistic Stalinist, does not try to justify the excesses - but instead focuses on industrialization, rearmament, the war, etc.

Bandera is another fruit entirely. His mission was a Ukraine free of Russians, Poles, Jews and Gypsies. He allied himself with the most murderous regime in human history. His supporters perpetrated mass terror against millions of people. His name is glorified in modern Ukraine as some Joan de Arc or George Washington.

A quote @Alien:

Modern Ukrainian nationalism, as manifested in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Galicia, became increasingly hostile to Poles, Jews, and Russians. The hostility to Poles was related to the nationalist interpretation of their socio-economic circumstances, as well as the feeling that the Poles had occupied the Ukrainian territories and had deprived the Ukrainians of a nobility and an intelligentsia.

News / Life and work of Stepan Bandera - controversial figure of Europe [42]

Here's another excerpt, which shows the very enlightened approach towards Jews practiced by OUN-B militias:

Eliyahu Yones was seized on 12 November 1941 by Ukrainian policemen in Lviv. After he was beaten and robbed by them, a German officer asked him some questions concerning his occupation. Together with other Jews, Yones then had to stay with his face to the wall, and hands on the wall, for several hours. During this time, the Jews were further beaten and humiliated. After several hours they were driven by truck to a bathhouse, where they had to hand over the rest of their belongings and then:

In the evening, the light was switched on [in a hall of the bathhouse]. Suddenly, we received a new order: "sing".

In the middle of the hall, many Ukrainian men gathered and later, Ukrainian women also came. They took delight in the singing and it was obvious that they looked forward to the upcoming events.

Thank you Grzegorz Rassoliński! Now every PF member can know exactly what type government they support, next time the Ukrainians host a Bandera March through Kiev or Lvov.

News / Life and work of Stepan Bandera - controversial figure of Europe [42]

Found a good book, written by a Pole.

Stephan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist - Fascism, Genocide and Cult by Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe.

I am very grateful to this Pole, for the book he wrote.

For example, one of the main arguments of Banderists is that he was an innocent martyr for Ukrainian freedom while sitting in a German concentration camp. Essentially, that he had been fooled by the Germans into believing that they would grant independence to Ukraine. Well, here is an excerpt from the book:

After being taken to Berlin in early July 1941, Bandera and Stets'ko offered much less resistance to the Nazis than nationalist historiography and Ukrainian nationalist propaganda portrayed. They tried to repair the relationship with the Germans, encouraged Ukrainians to collaborate with Germany, and tried to persuade the Germans that they needed and should keep the government established by Stets'ko. In an open letter dated 4 August 1941, Stets' ko encouraged Ukrainians to help the German army in its struggle against the Soviet Union and hoped that the Nazis would accept the Ukrainian state, when they eventually controlled all Ukrainian territories.

Ahahahaha!

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


I think you lack appreciation for what type of enormous quantity of weapons Ukraine had.

The reason we struggle, is obvious. We did not expect them to resist. We expected them be in a state of shock and confusion. Instead what happened is Grandpa Biden gave them information about everything we were planning to do, 24-48 hrs before the attack. They hid all their planes, air defense systems, and prepared for our arrival.

If we defeat Ukraine comprehensively, a very big "IF" - then the rest of Europe will not contain a single country of comparable potential.

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


No one said it doesn't, but Ukraine still possesses more brute power than Poland will then.

I don't know how you can argue this.

Poland is planning to spend something on the order of $110B over a decade to rearm. Ukraine received nearly twice that in a year, from the entire West emptying their warehouses (including from the warehouses of the planet's sole superpower).

I'll go further, and say that Ukraine was stronger at the beginning of the war than Poland will be in 2035. Ukraine has de facto the third strongest land army in the EU right now, after the United States and Turkey.

Law / Poland economy is slowing down - how does it affect you? [117]


Ever since the CCP raised the travel bans which they implemented at the beginning of the pandemic, we've been seeing the return of the regular hordes of Chinese here in NYC too. The shops at 5th Ave are very happy. Chinese love their Prada, Gucci, and Louis Vuitton.

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


In terms of number of tanks, number of air defense systems, number of artillery tubes, number of men under arms - Ukraine is already much bigger than what Poland is supposed to be in 2035 at the end of the programme.

Law / Poland economy is slowing down - how does it affect you? [117]


They're the Kuwaitis and Emiratis of the North. They are second after Russia in Europe when it comes to oil and gas, except we have 150M people and they have 5M. Their State Pension Fund has $1.2 trillion in it, or about $200K per Norwegian.

Norway could pay down Poland's entire national debt, and have enough left to do it again.

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


Anytime somebody amassed a mountain of weapons, it eventually got used. Look at Russia and Ukraine. People thought wars of this type were forever a thing of the past in Europe. Yet, here it is, raging like a wildfire. Would it happen, or take this form, if Russia and Ukraine weren't sitting on mammoth reserves of weapons which our fathers prepared for another war entirely?

Ukraine right now is many times stronger than Poland will be even after the completion of its program in the 2030s. Those weapons have not helped them prevent the total devastation of their land.

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


Oh this is not good... When there are many weapons, eventually they get used.

Law / Poland economy is slowing down - how does it affect you? [117]

@PolAmKrakow

Norway!!! How does a country with such a small population send out so many tourists? They're just too damn rich those Norwegians.

Law / Poland economy is slowing down - how does it affect you? [117]


Ah, nice! So it didn't last too long, that situation where stupid tourists were afraid to go to Poland?

I found this article just now, that says that tourism numbers across the EU have pretty much returned to 2019 levels.

schengenvisainfo.com/news/eurostat-tourism-in-eu-showing-strong-recovery-rates-some-countries-even-surpassed-pre-pandemic-levels/

What sort of tourists do you see in Krakow? How would you break down the structure by origin, between these three categories: (1) Internal tourism (2) Intra-Schengen (3) Outside of EU?