History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Helping the little ones: 1974

A tired nurse stands at one of her patients bed in Warsaw Children Hospital (the first children hospital in Poland, in unceasing operation since 1869).

By the way, a lot of the photos that I post were taken by the legend of Polish photography, Marian Schmidt... pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Schmidt.

Schmidt called himself "a wanderer, looking for treasures in everyday life"...

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]


Yes, it sounds like something Yerofeev might have written. Will definitely check it out, thanks!


There was (and still is) definitely the same current in Polish thought - I will have to investigate this as well. I suspect that once again the search will result in finding even more similarities between the "heart of Europe" and "Asian barbarians".


Well, we may be sh*tty in football and ice-hockey but in megalomania we are Undisputed World Champions. Perhaps it is for the better that things went the way they did in 1612. Imagine Poles having the largest country in the world and the largest nuclear arsenal at our disposal. Good heavens...

P.S. Talking about Panslavism - this is such a weakness of mine. I mean, my brain registers all the reservations, I can see all the difficulties and impossibilities of it. But still... it is such a lovely idea in itself.

Off-Topic / The Pope has officially approved the blessing of same-sex couples [60]

Go Malawi!


lifesitenews.com/news/malawi-bishops-forbid-blessings-of-homosexual-unions-amid-confusion-over-vatican-document

Go Ukraine!


rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2023/12/ukraine-bishops-conference-chooses.html

Go Kazachstan!


catholicherald.co.uk/archbishop-prohibits-priests-from-performing-any-form-of-blessing-of-same-sex-couples-in-response-to-new-vatican-declaration/

I hope Polish episcopate issues a similar statement.

Bergoglio, you clueless neo-marxist troublemaker - get... a... grip. :-/

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]


Well, it definitely tends to be contagious but I wouldn't call it a disease... a certain condition of heart and soul perhaps.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

It's rather baltic this morning: 2015

It's neither the biggest nor the deepest of seas but still the Baltic Sea possesses certain elusive poetic charm.

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]


I read the poem. Looks like your Tyutchev was a fan of the Bard...

T: Speak not, lie hidden, and conceal
the way you dream, the things you feel.

S: Away, and mock the time with fairest show.
False face must hide what false heart doth know.

T: Let dreams move silently as stars,
in wonder more than you can tell.

S: Stars, hide your fires,
Let not light see my black and deep desires.

etc. etc.

... but then again, isn't all literature after 17th century just a commentary on Shakespeare?

Don't you have anything more substantial to support Russian megalomania? Because I can find a lot of concrete stuff (e.g. Mickiewicz, Słowacki, prophecies by Catholic saints, Polish and foreign) to justify Polish megalomania. Come on, Bobi, try harder - increase my Russophilia (if that's even possible).

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Stay well away, Grzegorz: 2008

Thousands of Chassids from all around the world gather each year in Leżajsk to visit the grave of their Tzadik, Elimelech Weisblum (1717-1787), on the anniversary of his death.

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]


Thank you very much indeed. I will definitely check him out, but now I gotta catch some z's (a lot of work tomorrow).

Good night, my favourite Asian.

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Yes, this is uncanny how two nations that consider themselves so different from each other can sometimes be so similar.


This sentence is worthless without a recommendation (author, title, year).

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]


One of very few things that annoy me (if ever so slightly) about Russians is this unrealistic and exaggerated opinion that they seem to hold about their own significance and importance in the grand scheme of things. One is sometimes tempted to say "get real!".


And it is not just my opinion but the knowledge drawn from numerous prophecies which say that it is Poland whom God will, in the end days, elevate in power and holiness and it is Poland that will prepare the world for the second coming of Christ. So there.

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]


...is an acquired taste.

It is also the peak of what a human being can reach but definitely not something I would recommend to everyone. That's why Jews and Poles went, by and large, their separate ways - there was no place for two Chosen Nations in one country. But that's another story...

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]

@Bobko

What I would like to write, you can guess. How I feel about Russia, you suspect. Which side of the looking glass is "the other", only God knows.

But I will say this: if I wasn't born Polish, I'd very much like to be a Russian. For the mere fun, pain and delight of it. My soul wouldn't suffer.

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]


Lithuanians (Belarussians basically) are actually OK. It's those pesky Samogitians that tend to annoy me every now and then. :-/


Touché.

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]

@Bobko

All the above posters are a rather typical propaganda stuff but there is something disturbing in the one depicting Ukraine's crucifixion: the figure of Ukraine has a female body but a male face. It looks disturbing - looks like leftists were sending subliminal LGBTQRVXSTRZ+ messages even back then. *shocked*

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]


A huge historical inaccuracy - it was the pig that trained the French to eat with knife and fork. Scandalous misrepresentation.


To say "Polish Pan quivers in fear" is like saying "Circle has three acute angles" - a nonsensical statement.


This is a rather disturbing fantasy, and I don't even want to speculate on what Mr Freud would think about it.

I hope the author of these ridiculous posters ended up in some distant, cold gulag. :)

Off-Topic / The Pope has officially approved the blessing of same-sex couples [60]

...besides, you cannot bless sin. So, a priest, a bishop or even the Pope himself, performing such "blessing" will incur deadly sin and the act will have no effect at all.

Off-Topic / The Pope has officially approved the blessing of same-sex couples [60]


Did he pronounce it ex cathedra? No. Therefore, I am not bound in my conscience to agree with it. If tomorrow Comrade Bergoglio says that AS Roma is going to win the scudetto, I don't have to agree with his prediction either.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Colour Me Beautiful: 1909

Anna Iwaszkiewicz and Maria Wysocka posing for this, probably the first in Poland, autochrome colour photo.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

It's not gambling if you know you're going to win: 1976

Punters at Służewiec Horseracing Track are absolutely convinced that today is the day they're going to win big.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Thanks! :)

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


In socialism even patients were strong enough to push their ambulance.


Hmm... looks like an interesting film. Will try to find it somewhere online. :)

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Commie (mega)blocks: 1977

Schooldchildren are coming back home to their cosy, huge, concrete cuboids (in the background we can see the famous 'Falowiec' in Gdańsk).

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

With a little help from my friends: 1977

This Fiat 125p ('p' for Polish) ambulance needs just a little push from helpful passers-by to get on time where it's needed.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Yes, the game ended with a 0-0 draw, but it was Poland who went further in the tournament.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Y Viva Polonia!: 1982

Solidarity banner unfolded in the Polish stand, as Poland is about to play the USSR in the 1982 football World Cup in Spain (biało-czerwoni will eventually finish third, beating France 3-2 in the 3rd place playoff).

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]

Former Konfederacja MP, Janusz Korwin Mikke, is starting a new party soon (which he announced at a press conference last week). His partners in the endeavour are Stanisław Michalkiewicz and a former Euro-MP, Robert Iwaszkiewicz...

... there are rumours floating about that the new party is where Grzegorz Braun will find shelter, after he is (most likely) kicked out of Konfederacja.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Martial Law in Pomerania: 1981

Citizens watch in surprise as tanks roll through the streets of Gdańsk.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


Another similarity between our people. Remind me again: why are we enemies? *scratches head*

EDIT: Oh, yes... Putin and his great "Let's Restore the Soviet Union" circus. Almost forgot... :-/

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


One of the greatest Brits ever! I was a Speccy maniac myself. :)


I have to admit that Russian Spectrum demo scene was the best. It's crazy what your guys could do with the machine - they were able to squeeze every last bit of juice out of the old ZX. Aaaah... those were the days.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

A wedding photo: 1940

Times were difficult but people were still falling in love and people were still getting married, like this cavalier of the Fighter's Cross (for the 1939 defensive campaign) and his wife Janina. Alas, their story did not have a happy end.