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.

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


Their country too. And surprised to suddenly find themselves in a newly formed state that wasn't too keen on them even being in their own homes.

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

As I understand it, the Khazar myth was thoroughly and irrefutably debunked by DNA testing. So yes, it looks like the poster is a fake, with an agenda to push.

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]


Have a look at moikrewni.pl/mapa to see where they are living now. You'll see that there are only 45. A Jewish connection is possible - so is a Belarussian or Ukrainian There a far more people called Grzesiuk.

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


No shock at all, given the number of Jewish people who found themselves on the territory of the Second Republic, when it appeared. No shock either the number of letters of denunciation to the Nazi occupiers, some of which were published a few years back.

USA, Canada / Polish-American criminals [70]


Indeed he isn't - he's a PolAm, however Polish paedophiles do exist.

Amazing how some here are trying to distract from his Polish roots by suggesting he's from a particular ethnic group. Which he isn't.

USA, Canada / Polish-American criminals [70]

So his name was Sendecki. I wonder why he changed it.

Out of interest: moikrewni.pl/mapa/kompletny/sendecki.html

By the way, Sandusky is a PolAm. Trying to analyse if his great-great-granny was or wasn't secretly Jewish/Ukrainian/Poleszian/Belorussian/Martian doesn't alter that.

Travel / Unusual architecture - bulidings and structures in Poland [28]

You're mixing two buildings. That's the University library, the one with the huge roof garden. The National Library is a rather distinguished and urbane Modernist building on Al. Niepodległości. With a stone circle in the grounds.

History / Where is Helena Wolińska-Brus buried? [52]

And of course if anyone actually does vandalise public property, your IP address is a matter of record. And now internet trolling is illegal, regardless of the jurisdiction the offender lives in.

History / Where is Helena Wolińska-Brus buried? [52]


If she was in the Avenue of the Notables at Powazki there would be a case for moving her to the ordinary section of Powazki provided she had been convicted in a court of law, however as far as I know she isn't buried anywhere special, just in a council cemetery, probably in Oxford, where she lived. interments in the ground are rare in British cities and whether or not they should still be allowed is another matter.

Travel / Best place to exchange money in Poland? [98]


Do you know of any ATMs in Warsaw that give other currencies than pln?

History / Where is Helena Wolińska-Brus buried? [52]


Please expand by providing examples of cemeteries, graves or any other monuments I have suggested desecrating.

History / Where is Helena Wolińska-Brus buried? [52]

Don't forget to write in Polish, just so everyone knows who goes round desecrating cemeteries.

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

Don't be so bloody silly. Read the thread before posting nonsense. And for the record, I don't find Polish particularly complicated.

Life / Popular Polish blog and chat sites [65]

Tomek Reich has won something for several years on the trot and has a lot of readers.

tomaszreichblog.onet.pl
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomasz_Reich

Work / Polish nurses, gender and salary [32]

That's alll from this forum. The reality is that it is as hard a profession as in the UK however due to the oversupply of doctors, many of whom do stuff that doctors elsewhere wouldn't need to do there is less scope for nurses to do the interesting stuff and a lot more of the donkey work for nurses. The better ones try to get specialised jobs,though that is hardly unique to Poland.

Work / Polish nurses, gender and salary [32]

A bachelors isn't necessary, and as a rule nurses have a lower professional status than nurses in the UK. Partly this is due to the enormous oversupply of doctors who got on the medical course too easily and can get away with lower professional standards. There are some excellent nurses in Poland however they are hampered by other people working as nurses who don't have the same standards or level of ability.

They are all sadly very underpaid, which doesn't encourage applicants for the work and those few - and I mean few - who are truly professional nurses have to reconcile themselves to having the same professional status as people who fall very far short of the professional standards that the best of them have. Most earn less than £400 per month.

Life / Racism in Poland - the future [558]

What are the roots? Basic prejudice. Any attempt to justify it falls flat on its face. We've heard it all before, but maybe you've got one that nobody for the past 2 centuries has pretended to believe.