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Posts by Mr Grunwald  

Joined: 16 Dec 2008 / Male ♂
Last Post: 38 mins ago
Threads: Total: 34 / Live: 20 / Archived: 14
Posts: Total: 2199 / Live: 1059 / Archived: 1140
From: Norway
Speaks Polish?: Yes (Tak)
Interests: history - politics - food - heraldry - pro publico bono

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Mr Grunwald   
14 Jun 2024
History / Karol Wojtyla, the man who become a pope (video) [58]

@pawian
A shepherd is responsible for his sheep! I have a hard time imagining him advocating to not strike at wolves to protect his flock!

Unless one thinks of one's own soldiers as wolves! Admit it! You think badly of Polish soldiers and policemen cause of the 80's in Poland and their support of PiS! It's all just politics for you!
Mr Grunwald   
14 Jun 2024
News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [559]

@pawian
You wrote it here yourself criticising for shooting! You crazy!

[url=dorzeczy.pl/kraj/598452/migranci-szkoleni-na-bialorusi-jak-atakowac-jest-nagranie.html][/url]

Belarussian oppositionist informs of migrants being trained by Belarusians on how to attack with lethal weapons and how safe it is. Since the migrants won't be shot at!
Mr Grunwald   
14 Jun 2024
News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [559]

@pawian
They are just disarming soldiers and hoping for them to get stabbed to death? It clearly shows who's side they are on... How many soldiers need to Get MURDERED before you get it? High horse «pacifist»
Mr Grunwald   
11 Jun 2024
News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]

@pawian
And anyone in knowledge of the EU know that the EU parlament has very little power of influence at all, so if it's full of rightists, leftists, greenies or what it is irrelevant regarding anything important. Cause the decisionmakers are sent by national governments (preferably those one wants to Get rid out of the political landscape) and chosen among themselves, not by voters.

EU has some democratic elements but, is not democratic at all.
Mr Grunwald   
10 Jun 2024
History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [314]

There is nothing to buy in Belarus

There used to be digital entertainment (World of Tanks) that I boycotted until they threw them out of their own country. Now I feel no guilt over paying for any tank driving entertainment if I wished for it.

If you search hard enough there is something to buy, but on individual level. State actors don't have much to buy from Belarus, and that's where the big money is after all. Must be driving Lukashenka nuts, especially as he is throwing away his very few small golden eggs he had at the Polish border...
Mr Grunwald   
9 Jun 2024
History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]

@Novichok
You

And you call them victories to avoid consciously understand that you lose, cause you cannot handle it like an adult. More like a toddler
Mr Grunwald   
9 Jun 2024
History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]

Please, don't act like a typical Polak

I have no need to make a "point" out of anything. I am here to practice my english. Preferably not American version and learn in general, you on the other hand seem to ONLY want to rile up people, leading to verbal fights instead of debate and learning. If you have such a "need" to win fights, only proves you are a loser

I rather discuss in a civil manner how D-Day was significant for Poland. Yet we can't cause you are here with your troll brigade
Mr Grunwald   
8 Jun 2024
History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]

@Novichok
So if I "Liberate your house, and do whatever I please to your family and lil island" You will also call it liberation as I take all your materials as well? "Liberated" of all the weight that you would otherwise carry? Please grow a brain cell or two, you are just being nasuating
Mr Grunwald   
8 Jun 2024
News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]

The one who got killed was a soldier - private Mateusz Sitek from 1st Warsaw Armoured Brigade. He was only 21:

Well that makes it personal for me. A lot of people got reshuffled from category of: "Stupid, but doesn't know they actually need help and are being fooled" to "Blacklisted and enemies"
Mr Grunwald   
8 Jun 2024
History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]

No, moron, NKVD never reopened Auschwitz

Just proving yourself ignorant and a Biden copy! Auschwitz was indeed reopened and used by NKVD+SB to torture and interrogate.

Not my fault you got a problem with FACTS and unable to think logically
Mr Grunwald   
8 Jun 2024
History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]

The Red Army closed Auschwitz

Then NKVD reopened it. No thank you. American GI's and British Fusiliers would be certainly a better choice since it would then remain closed

But yeah ignore reality
Mr Grunwald   
7 Jun 2024
History / Did Poles living in Germany support Hitler's rise to power before World War II? [135]

@Ironside

Generally Poles in Germany and Germans in Poland are not foreign implants...

Indeed, one can easily argue that both state count more as foreign implants more so then either culture due to states moving in. (Silesia, Prussia, Pommerania are best examples of it. Where people chose or sided with German or Polish nation out of a plethora of reasons. Mainly safety, prospects and economy. Not only tho)
Mr Grunwald   
3 Jun 2024
Off-Topic / Poland's aid to Serbia if Vatican invades - part 2 [8]

If Vatican ever (God forbid! *crosses himself*) invades Serbia,

I like to think about it as too abstract, fantasy and ridiculous. BUT, considering what kind of pope it is in Rome now and history of Teutonic order and invasion of Byzantium by Catholic forces while severely threatened by Muslim invaders.

It is not something that can be written of as impossible due to history.

GROM would most likely have to be used indeed to straighten him out if such a mad decision would been made
Mr Grunwald   
2 Jun 2024
News / Polish Government of runs on 2 engines: Bribery from EU and Polish inferiority complex about being Polish [25]

and you think western or western european anything is so good for the world and so progressive. so exciting makes me giggle

I'll forgive you that statement, since it is based on ignorance

So what?Do you really think

I am sure people buy what's cheaper in the long run and not what's binds them to Russian energy. It boggled my mind that ordinary people did not care or see the risk of buying gas. Even if it was cheapest
Mr Grunwald   
31 May 2024
News / Polish Government of runs on 2 engines: Bribery from EU and Polish inferiority complex about being Polish [25]

You have seen nothing

So I have not seen solar power on Polish rooftops? Nicely new built houses in old neighbourhoods? Cars after cars outside cities?

I am on topic, you claimed PO is controlling Poles brains in Poland. I wrote that yeah, but it's basically of little consequence. A Pole only needs to travel abroad to see the truth.

What transformation? I used to play a game of counting Maluchs in 90's. Now it's basically impossible

My post was not about my ignorance, but that of westerners and Poles themselves.

And it's Mr Grunwald, not Grünewalt, Von Grünewalt or Von Grunwald or Greenwood. Mind you
Mr Grunwald   
31 May 2024
News / Polish Government of runs on 2 engines: Bribery from EU and Polish inferiority complex about being Polish [25]

@wslipach
Hear hear, I have personally seen an awakening of this reality when working in Poland. General image of a country being "modern, not old fashioned and future oriented" only to come downing on them when visiting the country. Seeing the size of the population, technology and architecture.

A lot of westerners still see Poland as fully eastern bloc country and are shocked over the transformation when experiencing it.

It will take many more years but, more and more Poles will see that actually Poland is very much future oriented despite many Poles grievances with village mentality or prejudice of non-city inhabitants.

I walked village to village in Poland, there isn't much to complain about really except a few oddballs that only a strong headed local village mayor they know can handle. Otherwise it's only a matter of economical difference (other countries do have their share of village pumpkins, yet far more hostile to change then in Poland).

Just within energy, transportation and whatnot Poland is climbing forward. Yet others are cosy mosey stuck with what they are used to.

I noticed innovative Poles even in PiS, village landscape. (pawian being more rural then urban sure can attest to that himself)
Mr Grunwald   
28 May 2024
Love / Asian woman dating a Polish guy [19]

Sound like you want to play with the hearts of boys. Let him go, if he spoke the truth and dated nobody else you aren't worthy of him. Let him go
Mr Grunwald   
22 May 2024
History / Monte Cassino 80th Anniversary [18]

@Bobko
Polish victory (Not only Polish victory as it was a team effort)

German Fallschirmjägers disobeyed orders of withdrawal and kept on fighting, one of the most elite troops the Axis powers had to offer. Polish forces offensive advance towards the monastery allowed for other allied troops to push forward and get closer to encircle the monastery. Forcing the German troops to withdraw despite their initial wish to keep on fighting.

The victory at Monte Cassino finally allowed the allied troops to get closer to enter Rome and seal the fate of Italy as a participant in WW2.

Churchill was the mind of Polish troops being insignificant during a quarrel with either Sikorski or General Anders. After the Quarrel a certain General or Marshal Alexander had to point it out for him that without the Polish troops, an advance northwards in Italy would have been highly unlikely.

It was a major victory for the Allied forces, not just propaganda
Mr Grunwald   
18 May 2024
History / Honoring - Otto Schimek [47]

@Bratwurst Boy
It is any man's place! Nonsense BB!
However I am quite surprised that Torq has been absent from this thread. I would thought that his Austrian side would increase his happiness by 1000%
Mr Grunwald   
18 May 2024
History / Honoring - Otto Schimek [47]

@Bratwurst Boy
Not as much as judgement from my side, more of an appreciation of humanity in a single soldier I can only dream of reaching in terms of actions in my own lifetime. Past is the past, but it is a calming thing for me to see men I can try to strive for to be
Mr Grunwald   
18 May 2024
History / Honoring - Otto Schimek [47]

@Bratwurst Boy
There are plenty of other scenario's (safer?) that I can imagine him trying to desert. Many armies employ the accusation of desertation as a reason of harsh punishments for individual soldiers for, petty reasons, political, disobedience or others.

So I'll remain sceptical, he seems like did a good thing despite a horrible situation