Life / Satanic and Heretical Manifestations in Poland [123]


Another fairy lover.


Russians chose Christianity, because it allowed drinking alcohol (also they were very impressed with the Hagia Sophia). Islam and Judaism were no good, because we love pork very much, and there are many delicious shellfish in our waters.

From Wikipedia:

The Primary Chronicle reports that in the year 986, missionaries from various peoples representing various religions arrived in Kiev, trying to convert Vladimir to their religion. In 987, after consultation with his boyars, Vladimir reportedly sent envoys to study the religions of the various neighboring peoples whose representatives had been urging him to embrace their respective faiths. Although in both stories Vladimir ultimately rejects all options except Eastern Christianity, he hesitates and does not convert.

So as you see, we have a deep and nuanced understanding of Christianity.

Life / Satanic and Heretical Manifestations in Poland [123]


Mystery. Enigma. Intrigue.

Pray tell, Brother Jon?

Life / Satanic and Heretical Manifestations in Poland [123]


F*cking hell... don't get me started.

Jesus does not know how to cure advanced cancer with metastasis.

Smart people at Merck that develop immunotherapy medications, may have a chance - however...

Life / Satanic and Heretical Manifestations in Poland [123]


I opened the door, now you must fill the room with sound.

Life / Satanic and Heretical Manifestations in Poland [123]


Gnomes are but the first entry in the series. More is to come.

Language / I love the word Kurwa [26]


Who dis? Velund???

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


???

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

Just want to say this is a very stupid thread.

Not surprising given the original poster.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


A szlachcic could not be made to serve hard labor. He essentially lived as a free man, but on Sakhalin.

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


It was. The West used Pakistanis and Arabs (like Bin Laden), to infiltrate Afghanistan and fight the Afghan and Soviet armies. They supplied them with Stinger missiles, ATGMs, communications equipment, intelligence, and money. They also trained and advised them.

In Vietnam, we did the same thing. We armed, advised, and supplied the Viet Cong.

It's a proxy war, when one of the sides does not put boots on the ground. Just because there are no American boots on the ground, does not mean the US is not a participant in this war.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

1) The Russian and Polish delegations during the first plenary session of the Riga Peace Treaty negotiations in 1921.
2) The Polish delegation
3) Polish wax seal
4) Head of Russian delegation, Adolf Joffe, meets head of Polish delegation, Jan Dombwski.

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History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

After graduating from the Wilno Gymnasium, Jozef Pilsudski continued his studies at Kharkov University (medical faculty). Already during his first year there, he was arrested multiple times for participating in revolutionary discussion groups. In 1887, he was finally charged with participating in the planning of the assassination of Emperor Alexander III. However, he was lucky, and he was soon downgraded from a suspect to a witness (still earning 5 years of exile in Siberia). Lenin's older brother Alexander Ulyanov and Pilsudski's older brother, Bronislaw, took part in this conspiracy as well. They were sentenced to death, but the emperor pardoned Bronislaw and replaced his death penalty with 15 years of hard labor on Sakhalin Island. Lenin's brother was, however, executed, and this is when a young Lenin vowed to destroy the Tsar and the Empire.

Below is a Polish produced "brochure", with a translation of his Russian arrest warrant.

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History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


Hahaha, I think she may be right. A powerful, dark, and chaotic thing, PF is.

History / Why Poland achieved nothing at all? [69]

Huh?

It's mostly Mordvins/Moksha that claim him, but also he seems somewhat obsessed with them. He talks about them often, in pretty glowing terms. This makes people think he may be one of them.

To be honest, I don't think there's any way to tell a Mordvin from a Russian. Technically, they are closer to Estonians and Finns.

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History / Why Poland achieved nothing at all? [69]

Many people say he's a Mordvin, lol.

Did you even know of such an ethnicity?

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


Rape is seen as a breach of discipline in Russia as well. In fact, anywhere in the world, military atrocities, including rape, are seen as detrimental to morale.

There are hundreds of documented cases of summary executions of Russian soldiers during the Battle of Berlin, for the crime of rape. A good officer, understands that letting rape go unpunished is deletirious for esprit de corps.

The reason I said Jon is arguing an idiotic position, is because he put the rapes on the other side of the scale, when talking about the liberation of literally millions of square kilometers of Eastern European territory from Nazism.

I'm not using Stalin's argument that a little bit of rape is deserved by the frontline men, but that the rape did not cancel out the overall "GOOD".

Off-Topic / Personal Pan-Slavic Manifesto [37]


Interesting... because after Ukrainian and Belarusian, Slovak is the easiest for me to read and understand.


This is an interesting notion. Mountain people, whether they are from the Scottish Highlands, or from the Caucasus, or Central Asia, or Appalachia - all share certain characteristics. I wonder, if the Slovaks have these qualities.


It's not hard to be more rough than the Czechs.

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


You behave like an idiot.

Off-Topic / Things People Say in Ireland - Even though Novichok thinks they can't. [66]


I don't know.

I think China will be a huge component of it.

Russia alone cannot hope to endure in a confrontation against the richest billion people in the world. Therefore, the only thing that could balance the scales, would be the ability to tap the virtually infinite manpower reserves of China. Then, as the more experienced party, Russia could act as the "elite" firefighting component, while China plugs the holes everywhere else through its sheer mass.

But even having China on-side, is no guarantee that we can outlast the West. Brazil, India, Egypt, Iran, South Africa, and Indonesia will have to decide where they throw in their lot.

The end goal, as I see it, is to redraw the security and trade infrastructure created after WW2, to more objectively reflect the shifting power balance in reality.

Off-Topic / Things People Say in Ireland - Even though Novichok thinks they can't. [66]

@Novichok

We're headed for a big war - I feel. Maybe 5-10 years out. It's gonna make the conflicts of the past seem like small peanuts.

Off-Topic / Personal Pan-Slavic Manifesto [37]

I'm ashamed to admit, I really don't know anything about Slovaks - except that they fought for Hitler during the War.

Are they reasonable people? What should one know about them?

Off-Topic / Things People Say in Ireland - Even though Novichok thinks they can't. [66]

It's funny... when small countries do it, isn't it?

Nobody bats an eyelash when a Buryat calls himself Russian, a Japanese an American, an Indian a Brit, an Algerian a Frenchman.

But if it's a Syrian claiming Irishness, it does cause some cognitive dissonance.

But why should the rules that apply to large states, not apply to smaller ones as well?

Off-Topic / Personal Pan-Slavic Manifesto [37]


We have 4 times more Slavic people, than there are people living in Ukraine.

There are also a substantial number of non-Slavic people in Ukraine. Mostly the usual suspects, like Azeris, Armenians, Jews, Georgians, and Tatars. However, there are also some more "exotic" flavors, like Greeks, for example. Obviously, what's missing in Ukraine in comparison to Russia are East Asians and Central Asians.

Sort of off-topic, but one thing that surprised me about Ukrainians when I started talking to more of them, is that they really are quite a bit more racist than Russians (who are themselves, not exactly enlightened people). I think the whole "Europeanness" with which they have been recently obsessed, went to their heads a bit. Sometimes, I hear a seemingly educated and normal Ukrainian, spout off something about Azeris, that would really never fly in polite society in Russia. This tells me, it must be more normalized there.

No Eastern European nation does very well in terms of attitudes towards blacks, but Ukraine is definitely the champion when it comes to racism against Africans. I find this very peculiar, since even Africans are smart enough not to emigrate to Ukraine, or even transit through it on the way to gaining refugee status somewhere else. Quite literally, there are many countries in Africa with higher per capita income than in Ukraine. Algeria, Egypt, Botswana, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon - all have a higher gdp per capita (PPP). Yet, any article about something to do with Africa will have the comment section full of monkey gifs.

Recently, on a Ukrainian forum which I visit, one guy was pointing fun at how the "apes" in Thailand were "idiots" for bulldozing luxury cars which were confiscated from criminals and tax dodgers. Others were agreeing with him - "what can you do with these natives...". This really got under my skin... for a lot of reasons - not least because they were seemingly getting angry about a country taking corruption seriously.

I ended up arguing that Thailand has an economy 3X larger than Ukraine's, and that an average Thai earns almost 2X more than an average Ukrainian. They became very sour after this, and started nitpicking about nominal vs ppp numbers (neither really helps their case).

I hope the next time one of them goes to Pattaya again, he won't lord it over the locals as if they were untermenschen.

P.S. - I'm sorry Kania for polluting the thread. I still have to write my Pan Slavic Manifesto.

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


With all due respect, not only.

Rokossovsky (before becoming head of the Polish Armed Forces, and a Marshal of Poland himself), was head of the 1st and then 2nd Belarusian Front. It is often said, that the battles fought in Belarus as part of Operation Bagration, were the most decisive battles of all of World War 2.

Here is an enumeration, from Soviet sources, of the resources at Rokossovsky's command:

"В состав группировки войск входило 20 общевойсковых, 2 танковые и 5 воздушных армий. Всего группировка насчитывала 178 стрелковых дивизий, 12 танковых и механизированных корпусов и 21 бригаду. Поддержку и прикрытие войск фронтов с воздуха осуществляли 5 воздушных армий. Общее количество войск составляло 2 500 000 человек, более 6000 танков и самоходно-артиллерийский установок, более 45 000 артиллерийских орудий и миномётов, около 7000 боевых самолёт"

Translation:

"The group of troops included 20 combined arms armies, 2 tank and 5 air armies. In total, the group consisted of 178 rifle divisions, 12 tank and mechanized corps and 21 brigades. 5 air armies supported and covered the front troops from the air. The total number of troops was 2,500 000 people, more than 6,000 tanks and self-propelled artillery units, more than 45,000 artillery pieces and mortars, about 7,000 combat aircraft"

How many divisions did Pilsudski have again? How many tank armies? How many air armies?

Were there even 2.5M soldiers in the Polish army during Pilsudski's time?

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Most epic Pole the Soviet Union ever produced - Marshall Rokossovski. Apologies to Iron Felix.

Your Marshal is small peanuts compared to this Marshal.

Off-Topic / Personal Pan-Slavic Manifesto [37]

@Torq

My own path to growing sickly curious of Slavdom - I could write a 12 tome series.

So to distill it into something that is pleasant for people to read - that is very difficult.

Off-Topic / Personal Pan-Slavic Manifesto [37]

@Torq

It will take some time for a reply, apologies.

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


Does your mother know you are gay? "Yes" or "No" answer, please.


A veritable treasury of good ideas, my anus is.

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


Maf tells me we will incinerate millions of Ukrainians once we take over the country.

Usually, his extreme partisanship, despite being annoying - elicits some degree of respect. Simply - I have never seen a Westerner engage with anything from our region with such passion. He reads a lot of Russian sources, and generally seems more realistic than Neuf and some other clowns.

However, him thinking we are going to put millions of Ukrainians into the oven really made me laugh at my stupidity for taking him seriously.

A more realistic scenario is that some Ukrainian comes to power in Russia again, and grants Crimea back to Ukraine as a "gift".