History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [317]


Not really.

Average wage in Belarus is 830 euro, and in Bulgaria 1020 euro. Again, far from twice the level.


Really? From the same link...

Of course, I would still prefer to live in Bulgaria (economic freedom, climate, opportunities) because, as you said, they develop faster than Belarus, but still - considering their EU membership - Bulgaria fails to impress in general. So, it takes much more than just the EU membership for a country to succeed.

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [317]

Anyways - here's a proof that the EU membership alone is not enough to lift a country out of poverty and corruption...

versus.com/pl/bia%C5%82oru%C5%9B-vs-bu%C5%82garia

... after almost 20 years of EU membership Bulgaria is on a comparable level to Belarus in most areas. :-/

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Child's play: 1958

Internet and video games hadn't yet captivated the souls and minds of Polish children in 1950s, so they had to invent their own ways of spending free time. Here we can see a group of kids engaging in a rather dangerous game of racing cars passing through a small Lesser-Poland town of Annopol.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Protect and serve... and keep fit: 1929

Presenting of awards in the annual sports competition for Wilno Vojvodship police officers. The awards were presented by the Chief of XVI Wilno District Police, inspector Bronisław Praszałowicz (1884-1971).

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [317]


Because I still believe in the project. I still think the EU can get back on the right track, and abandon the attempts at implementing idiotic "climate" and immigration policies.

However, if I see that Polish economy suffers, our development is thwarted and EU-core tries to subdue us and turn us into a semi-colony, then I will join the Polexit camp. I just hope it won't happen.

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [317]


Nope. Hungary and Slovakia are not helping, and the V4 has effectively become a V2. :-/ As for Austria and Greece, they are not considered core Three Seas countries. In general, I suppose we will have to wait for the end of Ukrainian-Russian conflict to see what (if anything) can be salvaged from V4, and what perspectives are there for the Three Seas. Working with Germany is of course an obvious thing to do if we are to remain in the Union, and I guess that with Tusk at helm it should be easier now than during Kaczynski's reign.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Cracking down on moonshine: 1972

Milicja Obywatelska (Citizens' Militia) officers posing with confiscated equipment after a raid on an illegal moonshine distillery in Łomża.

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [317]


Of course it matters. Not a single Three Seas country even cursorily mentions leaving the EU in their daily political discourse. Not even Hungary. Międzymorze has a chance as an internal EU block (sort of like this Mediterranean Union thing that the French are so excited about); in the foreseeable future no Three Seas EU member will leave the union and you can quote me on that.


The only EU country apart from Poland with something that resembles an army and the only nuclear power in the EU. Also, the second largest economy of the Union. I guess they can get away with more. So, we need to get stronger and wealthier and we will get away with more stuff too. Life's unfair like that. Oh, well...

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [317]


Most of the Three Seas countries are in the EU and they have no intention whatsoever of leaving the union, so there goes your plan, genius.


You mean you masturbate furiously to German p0rn three times on this day, instead of your usual two times?

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [317]


So? They can try. Doesn't mean they will succeed.

If you consider the import/export exchange between Poland and Germany, or Poland-EU in general, then you must surely realise that we cannot very well just exit the EU because not everything is the way that we would like it to be. That's what EU is about: arguing, b*tching, fighting for one's own interest but eventually coming to some sort of compromise. I'd rather have this than the old Europe of barbed wire borders, trade embargoes and wars.

Having said that, if the leftist agenda in the EU strengthens and even more idiotisms, like ban on combustion engine cars or refugee quotas, are pushed down our throats, then Polexit is always an option. I just hope it won't happen.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Going to the movies: 1937

Movie fans gathered in front of Palladium cinema at Złota 7 street in Warsaw.

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [317]


Or maybe simply an idiot. Such people exist.

The EU is the best Europe that we ever had. Without wars, with free movement of people, goods and services, cooperation between countries on a much larger scale than any other time in history, and last - but certainly not the least - the unprecedented level of wealth and opportunities for ordinary people (plus a net of social security for those less fortunate). There's a reason why half-the-world and their grandmas want to move to Europe.

I am not a huge fan of His Excellency Mr Donald Tusk, Prime Minister of Poland, but sometimes, when I take a short look his opponents, I can't help but feel an instinctive liking for him.


Look, dude, a man can swear and curse, sometimes in a very vulgar manner (sometimes it is even called for) but what you write borders on mental illness. Any normal person reading the stream of vulgar nonsense that you spout here will develop a lot of sympathy for Donald Tusk, precisely because of what and how you write. :)

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [317]

OMG :-/ This wslipach dude is a hybrid of Crow and Iron... on steroids.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Home sweet home: 1929

You can travel the world but there's no place like home. In the photo we see Jerzy Jeliński standing next to his Buick after coming back from a trip around the world, which he started on 30th May 1926. Jeliński started the adventure in Ford T and finished in the brand new Buick (the Ford was in a very bad condition after the African stage of his journey) bought for him by the American Polonia.

Off-Topic / Poland's aid to Serbia if Vatican invades - part 2 [8]


... and scoring goals with their hands. Yes, I know that history between Argentina and England is difficult. Very well, in the second encyclical that the Pope will write in captivity, Maradonum Goalum Illegalum, it will be admitted once and for all that it was Maradona's hand and not God's. :)

Off-Topic / Poland's aid to Serbia if Vatican invades - part 2 [8]

If Vatican ever (God forbid! *crosses himself*) invades Serbia, Poland will go Philip IV on the Pope, Avignon-style. We will send GROM to capture the Pope and force him to move his seat to Poland and support all things Slavia. His first encyclical in captivity, Slavorum Magnificum, will outline the theological basis for future Slavic world domination. We will keep him in Poland for about a century at least before we let him return to Rome. The history shall know this period as "Varsovian captivity of the Papacy".

How history likes to repeat itself!

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

A photo with a monster: 1936

Maria Kwaśniewska, multiple javelin throw champion of Poland, won bronze medal in the Berlin 1936 Olympics. Adolf Hitler invited her to his VIP lounge after the medal award ceremony and jokingly said "Congratulations to a little Pole", to which she replied "You're not too tall either". :)

The photo, however, turned out to be quite useful - SS-men were mesmerised by it - and allowed Kwaśniewska to save many people from the interim camp in Pruszków, and hide them in her house in Podkowa Leśna.

She died in 2007 and remains in the Polish memory as a great sportswoman and a brave, noble person.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Volksw... erm... I mean car for the masses: 1957

SFM Smyk was supposed to be a Polish Citroen 2CV. The prototype was promising but it never entered mass production (only 17 Smyks were made). Instead the powers that be decided that a more conservative construction, Mikrus MR-300, will be produced in WSK Mielec and WSK Rzeszów factories. However, Mikrus wasn't a big success either and only about 2000 of them were made. Poles had to wait until Fiat 126p (about 3.5 million of them were manufactured in Poland, and over 1 million in Italy) to finally have a true people's car.

Off-Topic / Racowie`s school of seduction - practical advices, but let me hear you first [9]


Exactly. If woman B or C is fun, joyful and attracted to you, she automatically becomes woman A.

Half of life's wisdom is, as you said, not wasting time on women who don't like you in the first place.

Off-Topic / Racowie`s school of seduction - practical advices, but let me hear you first [9]

So, essentially we agree. Sarmatian School of Seduction :)


Exactly.

Off-Topic / Racowie`s school of seduction - practical advices, but let me hear you first [9]

Sure, honesty. Lies, pretense and manipulation are for the weak.

Your A, B, C stuff is nonsense. If you want woman A, you approach and get her. If not, her loss. You forget about her and pick another woman A.

Also, if you're looking for something long term, make sure the woman is genuinely attracted to you (it's even more important than you being attracted to her) not manipulated by some silly A, B, C trick.

Off-Topic / Racowie`s school of seduction - practical advices, but let me hear you first [9]


Easy: confidence, humour, honesty.

Plus, a fat wallet helps but don't wave it, be discreet.

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]


Polish hand has not moved yet. Even though Russia has already started a hybrid war against us using Potato Fuhrer to flood our border with "migrants".


I can see that your knowledge of military matters equals only your expertise in fair hunting and healthy male-female relations. :)

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]


I don't know about Uruguay or Taiwan, but Poland leading (as primus inter pares) Intermarium as one of the poles of the multipolar world is definitely an option.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Duel of Seasons: 2022

This duel between winter and spring took place in April 2022 in Tatra Mountains (Polana Chochołowska). After all, as old Polish proverb says: kwiecień plecień, bo przeplata trochę zimy, trochę lata. :)

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]


It doesn't.


It could (just read my previous post above).


Keep it real, Korvinus. Besides, Russia doesn't necessarily have to be our enemy in the future. We need to avoid old mental blueprints... they are not always useful.

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]


1772, 1792, 1794-5, 1830-31, 1863, 1920 - were we fighting Slavic civilization? Russia does not embody Slavic civilization, alas. If she did, we would be the first ones to support her. If Russia was to Slavic countries what the USA is to anglo/western countries - a big brother that protects and supports them, not a bully and oppressor, we would be delighted.


That's why we need Intermarium. An alliance of countries with common roots and history, and with common problems. Countries whose very right to existence was undermined and even outright denied by the c*nts who considered themselves better, and could decide whether we can be free or not. Intermarium is the alliance of the weak, despised, murdered and trampled upon. Poland is willing to lead it, so that no nation of Intermarium is denied its right to freedom ever again. Will Serbia join us in this noble cause, as an important piece of the southern puzzle, or will she help gold toilet sh*tters to enslave Central European nations and put them into their "sphere of influence" again? Think about it: Intermarium as one of the poles of the multipolar world - from Prague to Kharkiv, from Tallin to Belgrade. So what's it gonna be, Bрана? Are you with us or against us?

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]


All true.

It is, however, by and large a matter of western economic advantage. It's not like all those blacks are coming to France because they like Molière and Proust, and all the Pakis swarm into England to have easier access to the works of Shakespeare. :) That's why I think multipolar world is neither "nonsense" nor "sh*it" but a fairer and more interesting option for the planet.

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]


Protest noted and appreciated. *hand shake*


We are Poles. Dying idiotically is our specialty.

Off-Topic / thinking of writting a book about myself [219]


... and he's a poacher too. Shooting tame deer at the place where he feeds them. *facepalm*

Johnny, for f*ck sakes, get a grip of yourself.