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GefreiterKania   
17 Feb 2021
History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

unit cohesion?

I don't know about Muslims or Buddhists, but Polish army units were a mix of Catholic, Jewish and Orthodox soldiers, and it didn't seem to damage their morale/cohesion at all.

There were probably Polish Tatars (Muslim) in some of them too - again, no problems with cohesion.
GefreiterKania   
17 Feb 2021
History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

The British Army did

Interesting. I wonder for what purpose.

@dolnoslask

The article you linked says...

100,000 Jews fought in the Polish army against the German invasion (...) 10% of the Polish army, commensurate with the percentage of Jews

...but I am still not quite sure where they would get such information from.
GefreiterKania   
17 Feb 2021
History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

They did in a remote country like Italy to mark their graves

Of course, friends knew one another's religion, so they knew what sort of tombstone to use, but nobody seriously counted the soldiers of different religions.

Jewish organizations knew

I doubt it.
GefreiterKania   
17 Feb 2021
History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

Still no number.

You might as well ask "how many Lutherans served in the Polish Army?" or Pentecostals, Orthodox or Buddhists. I don't think any country in WW2 kept detailed statistics about the religion of their soldiers.
GefreiterKania   
17 Feb 2021
History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

The service of the Jewish Poles is without question

Correct.

Virtually every Polish fighting unit in WW2 had numerous Jews in its ranks (be it on the eastern or western front). Below, some of the graves of Polish soldiers of Mosaic confession in Polish military cemetery in Monte Cassino:
GefreiterKania   
17 Feb 2021
History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

@A cheering crowd greets Adolf Hitler as he enters Vienna.

Look at all the hysteric girls storming the police cordon - one might think it was The Beatles coming to the city. *rolls eyes*
GefreiterKania   
17 Feb 2021
News / Poland - Germany's 5th largest trade partner [27]

...in addition to the information in the first post: according to the Federation of European Stock Exchanges (FESE), the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) recorded the largest percentage increase in stock turnover in 2020 - by 56.1% compared to 2019.

polskieradio24.pl/42/273/Artykul/2680085,Sukces-GPW-Stoleczna-gielda-zanotowala-najwiekszy-procentowy-wzrost-obrotow-akcjami
GefreiterKania   
16 Feb 2021
News / Poland - Germany's 5th largest trade partner [27]

According to German Federal Statistical Office, Poland has now become Germany's 5th trading partner (overtaking Italy).
The value of trade between Poland and Germany in 2020 was 122.9 billion euro.

ahk.pl/pl/media/aktualnosci/news-details-pl/polska-piatym-najwazniejszym-partnerem-handlowym-niemiec

It is also worth noting that Polish industrial output in December 2020 was 11.2% higher that in December 2019 (before the corona-crisis), and that Polish general surplus in foreign trade is currently 7% GDP (!); after being a netto exporter of services Poland has now become a netto exporter of goods as well.

I noticed this a while ago, that with all their silly anti-German propaganda, PiS is actually trying to implement a version of German ordoliberalism form 1960s-1970s, and they are not doing horribly bad at that. :)
GefreiterKania   
31 Jan 2021
History / What makes you feel Polish? [167]

No, it was just a joke about Poland having no allies. *rolls eyes*
GefreiterKania   
31 Jan 2021
History / What makes you feel Polish? [167]

Our flag makes me feel Polish every time I look at it. The colours of the flag are highly symbolic:

- the white symbolizes purity, nobility and freedom
- the red symbolizes bravery, fighting spirit and the blood shed for our country
- the blue symbolizes all our reliable allies throughout history.
GefreiterKania   
14 Jan 2021
News / New "Polish memorial" in Berlin [316]

Mark my words: PiS will never officially demand war reparations from Germany. They know better than that. It's simply a tool for drumming up some extra domestic support from the most primitive-minded "patriots".

Undermining Polish-German relations, which after 1989 have been surprisingly good - mostly because of the constant and unwavering good will of consecutive German governments towards our country (political support for our NATO and EU membership, countless economic support/advice programs etc.) - is one of the main aims of Russian politics. Putin wants nothing more than Poland and Germany at each other's throats. No wonder then that the party mentioning the reparations most often is not PiS but конфедерация.

Also, one would have to be blind not to notice PiS's fascination with German ordoliberalism and their attempt to introduce their own version of soziale Marktwirtschaft. They admire and imitate Germany but are reluctant to admit that for domestic political reasons. Central Europe (which means DACH-Länder and V4), with possible addition of Benelux, are the future core of the EU (not the whimsical and unreliable French or the corrupt South), and Kaczyński knows this very well.

Pigs will fly before PiS officially demands any reparations from Germany.
GefreiterKania   
11 Jan 2021
News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [957]

F EU !

No, this is a Russian slogan. Breaking up the European Union has always been one of the main aim of Russian politics. I am surprised how many posters on this Polish forum support Putin's foreign policy.

I know that in Poland the only group of people who seem to be anti-EU, just as Putin likes, are the voters of конфедерация. Are you one of them?
GefreiterKania   
10 Jan 2021
News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [957]

impossible to leave and still maintain the same privileges

Well, the British got a pretty good deal. It was probably a mistake, because if they thrive economically outside the EU (and with the deal they got, they probably will) it might make other countries seriously consider their options. I read an analysis which predicted a decade of great economic success for the UK. We'll see...

Brexit should have been considered a hostile action towards the EU, and treated accordingly. As it is, the UK is treated as a friend and economic partner. In my opinion, it's a mistake that will cost the Union dearly. :-/
GefreiterKania   
8 Jan 2021
News / Der Spiegel: "Poles are now the masters of Europe" [49]

It's definitely not genetics - Poles and Ukrainians are both Slavic nations. The explanation lays in different kinds of civilisation in Poland and Ukraine.

Poland is a Latin civilisation country (like Italy or France, for example) whilst Ukraine (apart, and only to some extent, from its western part that used to be Polish) has been under the influence of Turanic Russian civilisation for so long that the corruption and disregard for citizens' rights took very deep roots in Ukrainian society. This is a very basic civilisational knowledge, quite obvious for people familiar with major types of civilisation in Europe (Latin, Byzantine, Turanian).
GefreiterKania   
3 Jan 2021
News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [957]

It would have been a mistake if Germany's motivation for accepting refugees in 2015 had been economic in nature

But that's exactly what Germans have been trying to tell us from the very beginning of the crisis - that their industry is hungry for workforce, and that they need all those proverbial "doctors and engineers". They tried to advertise the madness as bringing in a huge reservoir of workforce. Now you are trying to present this as some sort of humanitarian rescue mission (which is, frankly, ridiculous - considering the fact that most of the "refugees" were young men who often didn't even try to conceal the fact that they are migrating for economic reasons, not fleeing from war). So, it looks like German politicians have been dishonest from the very beginning, lying through their teeth.

Thilo Sarrazin, a German economist, wrote a brilliant book Deutschland Schaff sich ab (and that was 5 years before the refugee madness in question) followed by Der neue Tugendterror and Feindliche Uberbnahme (sorry for no umlauts). And he is not the only one who wrote about importing millions of muslims into European countries; other authors, most notably Udo Ulfkotte (Der Krieg in unsere Stadte), discussed the same problem. These are not some frustrated onanists, writing from their mums' basements, but educated, sensible people - Sarrazin has a doctorate in economy from the University of Bonn and Ulfkotte was an award winning journalist.

Why is it so difficult to admit that you made a mistake (which, after five years, is blatantly obvious)?
GefreiterKania   
30 Dec 2020
History / What Poland expected from western Europe? [78]

Where are you man? You disappeared just when we come to Pachamama.

I answered your post in detail, brate, but it was moved to Random Chat thread. You should be able to find it there, I suppose.
GefreiterKania   
30 Dec 2020
History / What Poland expected from western Europe? [78]

But let me elaborate, how deeply you are wrong. Tragically wrong. /it happens when you talk and don`t understand politics in entirety/

Your inability to understand the larger picture probably stems from the fact that you come from a small multinational/multikulti country (Hungarians in Vojvodina, Albanians north of Kosovo, a lot of Muslims, there are also Serbs etc. etc.) i.e. a lot of religions, a lot of nationalities, a lot of peoples - that's the mix that Serbia is today. Poland thinks and sees things from the point of view of a homogeneous empire - religion in our case must be a single, unifying factor, and there is only one religion like that - Catholicism.

Konopischt project

Clero-fascism won't work in Poland, never did and never will. It might work for some time in tiny countries like Tiso's Slovakia in the past or like Serbia in the present...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_Action

... very silly, so of course you should always be aware of the danger of clero-fascism. It is a great threat for small countries.

Vatican is behind genocide on Serbs from Baltic to Balkan

That was only possible when papacy was in Rome, untamed and running wild. With Pope's seat safely in Częstochowa, we will control them to act within their assigned role (state religion of the empire - the Pope will have no more power to commit genocide or conduct independent international politics than a bishop of Canterbury does today).

The greatness and glory of Poland, already evident for our V4 partners and the entire future Intermarium, will once again shine. Gloria Excelsior Sacrum Imperium!

Serbia can join/ally itself to it or lose further lands (Vojvodina to Hungary, more areas to Kosovo) and become even more muslimised (I watched muslim prayers on Serbian state TV and was, frankly, shocked). Poland is your only hope - it is the sea to which all Slavic rivers (apart from those that were too mongolized) must run.
GefreiterKania   
29 Dec 2020
History / What Poland expected from western Europe? [78]

What Poland expected from western Europe?

This question is about the past, so it's aptly formulated in 20th century terms. However...

Do you expect anything more from the western Europe?

... this question would seem to be about the present, so it needs to be rephrased. Why? Simply because in the 21st century Poland is western Europe. Not in term of geography, of course, but in terms of civilisational values and culture. The West shifted east, so to speak.

We have become, surprisingly also to ourselves because we are and always have been far from any sort of excessive nationalistic pride, the new Holy Roman Empire. Holy Roman Empire of the Polish Nation, you could call it. We resisted the harmful influence of both eastern half-Mongolian, Turanic civilisation, as well as that of islamic Eurabia (what you probably mean by "western Europe"), and thus have been raised to our current status of the very centre of Western, Latin civilisation. We accept this with modesty, satisfaction and gratitude to Our Lord Jesus Christ.

What do we expect from Eurabia? Well, HREPN together with its allies from the Intermarium region expect close cooperation from those parts of Eurabia who can still be saved and remain European (mostly Germany and Austria), lighter cooperation from former West (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Ireland, United Kingdom), and some form of non-aggression from future islamic states (Belgium, Netherlands, France, Scandinavia).

Special relations will have to be formed between the Empire and frontier states of Greece and Serbia, with whom we shall be friends and allies and count on them to protect our southern flank. That's more or less the expectations you were asking about.

P.S. The seat of the Pope will, obviously, have to be moved to Poland (probably to Kraków or Częstochowa).