History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

The Gulag system had many types of camp and changed several times over the decades due to economic need and the vagaries of the regime The ones they sent the political prisoners to (especially Trotskyists) were sometimes set up especially so the prisoners didn't last long. Incidentally there were a much higher proportion of Jewish prisoners than in the Soviet Union as a whole.

I strongly recommend Anne Applebaum's book on the Gulag.

Travel / Are there any osho related places in Poland? [19]

A guy I used to work with (from Punjab, very spiritual guy) joined it - partly for the sex. He said the meditation was OK, but you had to have the brainwashing before you actually get the sex and they behaved like a cult. That was back in the early 90s in the UK.

Travel / Are there any osho related places in Poland? [19]

No. It's actually English, from the word 'oceanic'. His real name was Chandra Mohan Jain and he posed as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. That was the name he was using when he poisoned all those people in America with Salmonella. He changed it to Osho hoping people wouldn't notice he was the same frauds tear.

Travel / Are there any osho related places in Poland? [19]

Oslo certainly had plenty of followers (and ninety Rolls Royces). Interesting though unoriginal philosophy and the free love thing went down well with the pre-AIDS generation. A friend belonged to them back in the days when they still called themselves the Rajneeshees.

The Osho cult has its pluses and minuses. I would say the following is a pretty big minus:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dalles,_Oregon#Terrorism

Anyway, for those who aren't put off by bioterrorism and wealthy cult leaders, here's the website of the Rajneeshees/Osho in Poland.

foof.most.org.pl

Travel / Can I make payments by credit card in Poland's Biedronka stores etc,? [25]

Make sure your card issuer doesn't add a handling charge for using it abroad. If they do, take relatively large amounts from the ATM to avoid getting stung each time you use it.

Poland by the way is a fairly safe country.

History / Khazar migrations to Eastern Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine [106]


Unfortunately they do. Racists sometimes say that, including on here.

History / Khazar migrations to Eastern Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine [106]

As I remember, Koestler retracted that early theory in the end.

History / Khazar migrations to Eastern Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine [106]

As we've established already (and this is echoed in other threads here) the Ashkenazi Jews are not the lost descendants of the Khazars. DNA research has confirmed this beyond reasonable doubt. And although the OP's story is interesting, family legends are at best unreliable and at worst misleading - especially when they concern a civilisation that collapsed over a thousand years ago.

Love / Are there any swingers club in Poland? [52]


If it's a nude place in Warsaw, you sometimes wear a bracelet with a number on and settle your bar bill at the end. You keep your cigs and poppers and, ahem, anything else you may feel you need in your sock.

So people tell me ;-)

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Genceps, how much time have you spent in Poland?

Love / Are there any swingers club in Poland? [52]

Try either of these.

ustaswingersclub.com
swingswing.pl
odloty.pl

Whether they're any good, I don't know. There are also several all male events each week.

Love / Are there any swingers club in Poland? [52]

Yes, there are. There are swingers' nights in Warsaw.

Love / Are Polish girls open to foreigners? [78]


Indeed. Though it isn't a Polish specific thing.

@MarcinD, most Polish girls aren't naturally light haired - there's a lot of diversity here.

Love / Are Polish girls open to foreigners? [78]


Those three things are all good, however it's a bit of an exaggeration to say 'its all' that. And in Poland, the cultural influences are by no means restricted - every kind of debauchery exists here and girls can and will find it if they want.

Those girls who have a foreign boyfriend however, tend to be the classier ones.

Love / Are Polish girls open to foreigners? [78]


If anything, it's the classier and better educated young women who are likely to come into contact with marriageable men with a different skin colour here in Poland. The trashy ones either just don't meet them or are barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen with a local boy while still young.

History / Khazar migrations to Eastern Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine [106]


Quite the opposite. However if scientific fact doesn't convince you that the Ashkenazi Jews aren't the lost descendants of the Khazars, It's hard to say what would.


That would be the case were it not a simple statement of fact. See below.


Really?

DesEsseintes = Profile of: Des Esseintes
DesEssientes = Profile of: Des Essientes

To lie so flagrantly (whilst accusing others of lying!) says everything about the misinformation you post here and try to pretend is true and casts permanent doubt on anything you say here. But I don't think anyone takes it seriously anyway.

History / Khazar migrations to Eastern Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine [106]

Unfortunately they are obscure indeed, vanishing with barely a trace. And as you see, the DNA studies I posted (and there are many, many more if you're interested) entirely refute your theory. Though I notice you're still as rude as ever, especially when you pick an argument and lose it due to a low level of critical thought, education and general intelligence. In any case, the next ban can't be far away.


Which proves my point. Their descendants are found in far higher concentration among the local population. There are studies for that too. ;-)

By the way, which spelling of your username do you prefer? I notice you have two. Why is that?

Travel / What is the ugliest city or town in Poland? [89]


That's the part I mostly see. The view from the ring road.

I agree with tou about Walbrzych - it has potential. And Płock used to be grim but is now looking a lot better.

Travel / What is the ugliest city or town in Poland? [89]


No. Chrzanów it is...

Travel / What is the ugliest city or town in Poland? [89]

+1

Chrzanów wouldn't win any beauty contest either.

Travel / What is the ugliest city or town in Poland? [89]


I've seen one or two worse but they are the exception. And most are either modernised or about to be. The space constrictions help - they're less windblown than the ones in the northern UK and don't have vast swathes of bleak grass with needles and stray dogs on.


Reminds me a bit of Barnsley. It has the same pluses and minuses. At least there's something to do there. Living in Wyszkow would make someone suicidal.

Travel / What is the ugliest city or town in Poland? [89]

I see what you're saying, but disagree with the stuff about builders' skills. The architects, town planners and those who maintain the estates have much more to do with it.

Also I'd say that some of the ugliest towns aren't the planned ones that are actively ugly. Sometimes places like Pabianice or Wyszkow are ugly in their plainness. Not a unique thing to Poland.

History / Khazar migrations to Eastern Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine [106]

An excellent book. A friend from your country lent it to me ages ago. I'd like to read more by Pavic.

Travel / What is the ugliest city or town in Poland? [89]

You're either missing the point or trying to sidetrack. We aren't talking about building materials or individual builders' skills. Or even their work ethic. We are talking about how those places look today.

I haven't been to Tarnobrzeg for years, however Radom, Czestochwa and Sieradz never fail to depress.

Travel / What is the ugliest city or town in Poland? [89]


Who built it is irrelevant. Builders just follow instructions. Who designed it is everything. And the architects were working in classic Socialist Realist style. Later on, in the 60s and 60s they started copying styles from capitalist countries but without the wherewithal to do it well. Hence the ghastly estates that blight so many towns.

Travel / What is the ugliest city or town in Poland? [89]

All new towns in Europe from that period are pretty grim, regardless of who built them. Nowa Huta built in Socialist Realist style has a certain beauty for example. Konin however has no redeeming features whatsoever.

Travel / What is the ugliest city or town in Poland? [89]

Konin is hard to beat in terms of grimness.

History / Khazar migrations to Eastern Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine [106]


They are obscure. Very little is known about them compared to other societies of that Period

These studies (among others) refute the discredited Khazar theory which you're trying to promote for reasons unknown.

History / Khazar migrations to Eastern Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine [106]

Pretty well the same here. They were a rather obscure ethnic group, long long ago, however all the stuff that comes up here is because of a racist theory around a hundred years ago, discredited by science, that made its way onto the Internet and into the fevered imaginations of people who don't get out enough.

History / Khazar migrations to Eastern Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine [106]

According to reputable DNA studies, the bulk of the Khazars after their state fell just mixed in with the locals and disappeared without a trace of their culture or heritage. An Ashkenazi Jewish person is just as likely to have a bit of Polish, Hungarian, Russian, German or Rumanian blood in them as Khazar. More so in fact.