Lyzko
10 Sep 2023
Lyzko
10 Sep 2023
Life / Polish authors, books & literature. [125]
I only mentioned Brzechwa in this case because he is credited at least with creating the ultimate Polish tongue twister, right?
I only mentioned Brzechwa in this case because he is credited at least with creating the ultimate Polish tongue twister, right?
Lyzko
9 Sep 2023
Life / Why is women-hatred and stereotyping so popular in Poland? [181]
..which is to say that you're a clear-headed individual!
..which is to say that you're a clear-headed individual!
Lyzko
9 Sep 2023
Life / Why are Polish people so strange & unusual? [51]
When you state " Since Poles generally only click with non-Poles...".
I can't agree entirely.
I've found a strong degree of homogeneity in Polish society, particularly with Poles in Polish communities in the US who tend, as all national groups, to stick together through thick and thin, rarely if ever allowing outsiders to eve truly enter the fold!
However, if by "click" you mean that many younger Poles in Poland especially tend to purposely seek out non-Poles, almost exclusively from exotic countries such as North Africa, Latin America or Asia, as partners (either sexual or Platonic) in order to show they are as multi-cultural as anybody else, you definitely do have a point.
When you state " Since Poles generally only click with non-Poles...".
I can't agree entirely.
I've found a strong degree of homogeneity in Polish society, particularly with Poles in Polish communities in the US who tend, as all national groups, to stick together through thick and thin, rarely if ever allowing outsiders to eve truly enter the fold!
However, if by "click" you mean that many younger Poles in Poland especially tend to purposely seek out non-Poles, almost exclusively from exotic countries such as North Africa, Latin America or Asia, as partners (either sexual or Platonic) in order to show they are as multi-cultural as anybody else, you definitely do have a point.
Lyzko
9 Sep 2023
Life / Polish authors, books & literature. [125]
Jan Brzechwa's always been a favorite among Polish children:-)
Jan Brzechwa's always been a favorite among Polish children:-)
Lyzko
5 Sep 2023
History / Historical look at various civilisational differences between Russia and the West [159]
Once again, Putin doesn't see himself as a European, even a Eurasian, but as a Russian, a completely recalcitrant isolationist, even more than his predecessors, which is what makes him so dangerous.
Once again, Putin doesn't see himself as a European, even a Eurasian, but as a Russian, a completely recalcitrant isolationist, even more than his predecessors, which is what makes him so dangerous.
Lyzko
5 Sep 2023
History / Historical look at various civilisational differences between Russia and the West [159]
There will always remain those who deny truth, despite the tomes of evidentiary material along with eye witness proof, G.K.
The crying shame is that there also those out there who actually give credence to such people!
There will always remain those who deny truth, despite the tomes of evidentiary material along with eye witness proof, G.K.
The crying shame is that there also those out there who actually give credence to such people!
Lyzko
2 Sep 2023
History / Historical look at various civilisational differences between Russia and the West [159]
It was a Jew though, maestro Daniel Barenboim, who finally introduced Wagner to Israel!
It was a Jew though, maestro Daniel Barenboim, who finally introduced Wagner to Israel!
Lyzko
1 Sep 2023
History / Historical look at various civilisational differences between Russia and the West [159]
PUTIN is a cancer on Wester Civilization, agreed Marion. However, why allow one or perhaps several rotten apples to destroy the entire bumper crop of pre-Soviet culture which has given us the likes of Lobachewski, Tschaikowsky, Gorki, Dostoyewsky, Tolstoy, Mendelejeff, along with a host of others??
HITLER too was a cancer, maybe the worst malignancy in human history, granted. But does that mean we stop listening to Wagner, Beethoven, Strauss, quit reading Kepler, Planck, Oberth, or close our eyes, minds and hearts to Grunewald, Duerer, Goethe, Rilke or Fontane?
Leave us all kindly not throw out the baby with the bathwater!
PUTIN is a cancer on Wester Civilization, agreed Marion. However, why allow one or perhaps several rotten apples to destroy the entire bumper crop of pre-Soviet culture which has given us the likes of Lobachewski, Tschaikowsky, Gorki, Dostoyewsky, Tolstoy, Mendelejeff, along with a host of others??
HITLER too was a cancer, maybe the worst malignancy in human history, granted. But does that mean we stop listening to Wagner, Beethoven, Strauss, quit reading Kepler, Planck, Oberth, or close our eyes, minds and hearts to Grunewald, Duerer, Goethe, Rilke or Fontane?
Leave us all kindly not throw out the baby with the bathwater!
Lyzko
29 Aug 2023
Lyzko
29 Aug 2023
News / "A merciful heart can share its bread with the hungry and welcome refugees and migrants" Pope Francis [89]
Whenever the topic of human perfection is brought up, we know it's a sure recipe for disaster.
How many a cruel demagogue has deemed his word "infallible", only to discover the latter only will bring about their downfall!
Whenever the topic of human perfection is brought up, we know it's a sure recipe for disaster.
How many a cruel demagogue has deemed his word "infallible", only to discover the latter only will bring about their downfall!
Lyzko
28 Aug 2023
Lyzko
23 Aug 2023
Lyzko
22 Aug 2023
Travel / Poles as tourists in foreign countries [93]
The Russians though merely were following the Poles' lead:-)
I've already read my sources, and there is not hard evidence to support
such claims!
Don't rely on Wiki for everything!
The Russians though merely were following the Poles' lead:-)
I've already read my sources, and there is not hard evidence to support
such claims!
Don't rely on Wiki for everything!
Lyzko
22 Aug 2023
Travel / Poles as tourists in foreign countries [93]
Columbus was NOT half-Polish!
"Spoiling" the atmosphere or roiling the waters is nowhere near as unfair as masking the truth.
Once the Wall fell, Russians, Poles, Bulgarians etc. all streamed into the West, desperately trying to do business with their richer counterparts. They couldn't get enough of capitalism, which is why they became such post-Reaganist Trump supporters!!
Look at the first McDonald's in Russia in Tverskaya, Moscow, opened in the early '90's! Later followed stores devoted to Western brand names, such Dior etc..
Columbus was NOT half-Polish!
"Spoiling" the atmosphere or roiling the waters is nowhere near as unfair as masking the truth.
Once the Wall fell, Russians, Poles, Bulgarians etc. all streamed into the West, desperately trying to do business with their richer counterparts. They couldn't get enough of capitalism, which is why they became such post-Reaganist Trump supporters!!
Look at the first McDonald's in Russia in Tverskaya, Moscow, opened in the early '90's! Later followed stores devoted to Western brand names, such Dior etc..
Lyzko
22 Aug 2023
History / Historical look at various civilisational differences between Russia and the West [159]
Yes, for example.
Yes, for example.
Lyzko
22 Aug 2023
Travel / Poles as tourists in foreign countries [93]
Incorrect.
Columbus was half-Marrano, certainly not ethnic Polish.
I was aware that since the collapse of Communism, Poles as with Russians have been travelling with a vengeance.
Where do you think I grew up, in a cave??
Incorrect.
Columbus was half-Marrano, certainly not ethnic Polish.
I was aware that since the collapse of Communism, Poles as with Russians have been travelling with a vengeance.
Where do you think I grew up, in a cave??
Lyzko
22 Aug 2023
History / Historical look at various civilisational differences between Russia and the West [159]
Russia has seen herself traditionally as apart from Europe proper, again, preferring to be called "Eurasian" instead of either European or Asian!
Unlike Poland, The Czech Republic or Slovenia, she continues to resist various Western European trends, both the Christian religion as practiced in Catholic countries (preferring to follow the Russian Orthodoxy, much like Greece). along with the Latin alphabet.
From Peter The Great up through the current "Czar Vladimir", Russian along with Soviet leaders, regarded themselves in essence as sworn enemies of the West.
Therein in a nutshell lies the difficulty.
Russia has seen herself traditionally as apart from Europe proper, again, preferring to be called "Eurasian" instead of either European or Asian!
Unlike Poland, The Czech Republic or Slovenia, she continues to resist various Western European trends, both the Christian religion as practiced in Catholic countries (preferring to follow the Russian Orthodoxy, much like Greece). along with the Latin alphabet.
From Peter The Great up through the current "Czar Vladimir", Russian along with Soviet leaders, regarded themselves in essence as sworn enemies of the West.
Therein in a nutshell lies the difficulty.
Lyzko
22 Aug 2023
Travel / Poles as tourists in foreign countries [93]
I didn't realize that, pawian! When in Germany over the past ten years, I noticed any number of Polish vacationers in Berlin, particularly fascinated with the SONY-Center on the Potsdamer Platz.
I didn't realize that, pawian! When in Germany over the past ten years, I noticed any number of Polish vacationers in Berlin, particularly fascinated with the SONY-Center on the Potsdamer Platz.
Lyzko
21 Aug 2023
News / "POLISH death camps" term used by "Parade Magazine" Anti-Polish Bigots [249]
Who am I to talk??! I might well ask you the same question, even though assured of not getting the same answer!
Quite certain you understood my post? Shall I translate it for you?
Who am I to talk??! I might well ask you the same question, even though assured of not getting the same answer!
Quite certain you understood my post? Shall I translate it for you?
Lyzko
20 Aug 2023
News / "POLISH death camps" term used by "Parade Magazine" Anti-Polish Bigots [249]
That's true.
Furthermore, it's crucial that a sharp distinction is maintained between death camp, concentration camp, and internment camp!
That's true.
Furthermore, it's crucial that a sharp distinction is maintained between death camp, concentration camp, and internment camp!
Lyzko
20 Aug 2023
News / "POLISH death camps" term used by "Parade Magazine" Anti-Polish Bigots [249]
Hear, hear Paulina! Good show, girl.
Especially Treblinka and Sobibor were explicitly "extermination camps", whereupon ALL Jews exclusively who entered were expected to die.
Such was not the case necessarily with Auschwitz and Majdanek. Although surely a bulk of those tortured undoubtedly wished they would die, the latter were principally "concentration" camps, where prisoners were indeed forced to endure unspeakably harsh conditions, yet were allowed to survive, in so far as their bodies could hold out!
Hear, hear Paulina! Good show, girl.
Especially Treblinka and Sobibor were explicitly "extermination camps", whereupon ALL Jews exclusively who entered were expected to die.
Such was not the case necessarily with Auschwitz and Majdanek. Although surely a bulk of those tortured undoubtedly wished they would die, the latter were principally "concentration" camps, where prisoners were indeed forced to endure unspeakably harsh conditions, yet were allowed to survive, in so far as their bodies could hold out!
Lyzko
19 Aug 2023
News / "POLISH death camps" term used by "Parade Magazine" Anti-Polish Bigots [249]
Indeed. And that's part of the problem right there!
The worst kind of difference is INdifference and you damn well never forget it either.
Indeed. And that's part of the problem right there!
The worst kind of difference is INdifference and you damn well never forget it either.
Lyzko
18 Aug 2023
News / "POLISH death camps" term used by "Parade Magazine" Anti-Polish Bigots [249]
Only this, that there are still a large number of survivors who are very much alive (if not exactly well) and living in Eretz Yisroel.
Only this, that there are still a large number of survivors who are very much alive (if not exactly well) and living in Eretz Yisroel.
Lyzko
18 Aug 2023
News / "POLISH death camps" term used by "Parade Magazine" Anti-Polish Bigots [249]
Many also live in Israel.
Many also live in Israel.
Lyzko
18 Aug 2023
News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]
@pawian, however I hadn't seriously glanced at and studied your graphic until yesterday!
Unlikely that Poland is going to get any action on their claim from the current German government:-)
@pawian, however I hadn't seriously glanced at and studied your graphic until yesterday!
Unlikely that Poland is going to get any action on their claim from the current German government:-)
Lyzko
17 Aug 2023
News / "POLISH death camps" term used by "Parade Magazine" Anti-Polish Bigots [249]
Yes, what about them?
Those to whom you're referring are NOT native English speakers then.
Nearly one billion Chinese learn English, yet it's not their first language.
Yes, what about them?
Those to whom you're referring are NOT native English speakers then.
Nearly one billion Chinese learn English, yet it's not their first language.
Lyzko
17 Aug 2023
Lyzko
17 Aug 2023
News / "POLISH death camps" term used by "Parade Magazine" Anti-Polish Bigots [249]
True enough, yet if you as a history person read "POLISH Death Camps", don't you automatically see a difference between that and "GERMAN Death Camps in Nazi-Occupied Poland"?? 'Course you do.
A cursory first glance scarcely allows time to extrapolate, does it?
True enough, yet if you as a history person read "POLISH Death Camps", don't you automatically see a difference between that and "GERMAN Death Camps in Nazi-Occupied Poland"?? 'Course you do.
A cursory first glance scarcely allows time to extrapolate, does it?
Lyzko
17 Aug 2023
History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [503]
Ck. out that old movie "One, Two, Three" (1960??) w/James Cagney and Horst Buchholz, about an American exec.in East Germany trying desperately to sell the US Coca Cola concession to the Commies and what he has to go through in order for it to become a fait accompli! Hysterical.
Ck. out that old movie "One, Two, Three" (1960??) w/James Cagney and Horst Buchholz, about an American exec.in East Germany trying desperately to sell the US Coca Cola concession to the Commies and what he has to go through in order for it to become a fait accompli! Hysterical.