News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]


Factory jobs were moved there, because the labour was cheaper there. Cheaper labour = bigger profit for the company and cheaper products for consumers. Those consumers include you and your family.


That is a funny one considering that a stricter abortion law in Poland resulted in lower birth rate lol


That's unrealistic. You can't make private companies move production back to the US. You can't force women to stop working. And even if you did and if you you'd get rid of the immigrants then companies wouldn't have enough labour force.

Besides, the on-going AI revolution makes this discussion pretty pointless, because it's hard to predict what jobs and how many of them will be available in the future. In the long run I'd be more worried about this than about immigrants, etc...

And, btw, I don't know about the US, but it's normal for working women in Poland to have two kids.


Ah, another utopia and unrealistic idea...

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


Not really, because you could say that the West was also simply just "more successful at colonising than others" and hating the West for it would be "comic" according to you. But I have an impression that descendents of those colonised don't find it particularly comic... 🤔


Yes, I think that could give them a more balanced view and greater understanding of this conflict.

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

@Bobko, I can apply it to anyone that it applies to, including Poland.




Eh?

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


I think it's due to the fact that the West has colonised those parts of the world in the past and so people there look at war in Ukraine through these "optics". I suspect it's also due to the lack of knowledge about Europe's history - about what RuSSia was doing in Europe for centuries both as tsarist RuSSia and as the Soviet Union.

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

@Bobko, is that 70%+ as "factual" as your 30 million "Russian" WWII casualties? :))) Sorry, but as you can imagine - I don't trust your estimations.

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





You mean "liberating" them from their independence and their lands. 🤮


Sorry, but that's bullsh1t.

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

@Bobko, that's the reality - you keep invading small or poor countries that you think won't fight back... whom you thought noone would defend or stand up for... How "mighty" of you... 🤮

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


Now, now, don't be so modest - that's RuSSia's forte too - after all, Chechnya, Georgia and Ukraine aren't exactly giants, especially if compared to RuSSia.


No, Bobko. Our bloc isn't attacking RuSSia. It's RuSSia attacking much smaller and poorer Ukraine and the fight still looks... close?

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


That's why I stick to facts and known (and correct) numbers. You can't possibly claim that all the population of Ukraine and Belarus viewed themselves as ethnic Russians during WWII and yet you lumped everyone together as RuSSia's losses. That's simply incorrect/dishonest.


I must admit I don't get it either.

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


"Could have been"? Firstly, that's not enough for me. Secondly, I doubt they were that many of them. And thirdly - they still count as the population of then Ukrainian and Belarusian Republics within the Soviet Union and now - as the population of Ukraine and Belarus.


It isn't stupid, because you were talking about the population/labour force of today's RuSSia and you have no proof that if those Russians who lived in Ukraine and Belarus didn't die during WWII they would move to RuSSia thus making today's RuSSia labour force bigger.


And this too, yeah...

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

@Bobko, yes, because what you wrote was either ignorant or dishonest. So there's nothing to "LOL" about.

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

And I've decided to do that because of this comment of yours:


Who is "we"? Because if you mean RuSSians then where did you get those "30 million"?

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

@Bobko, I know it's not a competition, but Miloslaw also mentioned GDP and Poland has a higher GDP per capita than RuSSia, despite having bigger population losses (percentage-wise) during WWII than RuSSia.

Also, I've decided to use this opportunity to inform people what big losses those first three countries (Belarus, Poland, Ukraine) suffered during WWII (in case they didn't realise).

UK, Ireland / Is it good for Poland as Sinn Fein will win today in Northen Ireland [282]

The tradition in Poland is that it's always after Christmas (from December 27 until February 2).

Real Estate / Can foreigner buy apartment in Warsaw, Poland? [39]


Yes, but you'd have to qualify based on your income, so you'd have to check what is that level of income where you live. Also, bear in mind that there's not enough of council/social housing in Poland and so it's often difficult to get it and it's possible that you'll have to wait for it for a long time. The waiting time may depend on where you live though.


According to dictionary it's "dom/mieszkanie komunalne".

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


I get it, but percentage-wise Poland lost more population during World War II than the whole of Soviet Union, not only RuSSia. Actually, again - percentage-wise, it was Belarus that lost the most of its population due to WWII (over one quarter of its population), Poland comes "second", then Ukraine on the "third place" and only then the rest of the USSR:

businessinsider.com/percentage-of-countries-who-died-during-wwii-2014-5

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

Do Poles hate Russians? Can you speak Russian while in Poland or are you going to get murdered, beat up, etc? lol Russians living in Poland talk about these issues in this video - I recommend both the video and the comments :) (unfortunately, it's in Russian without translation, but I'm posting it for RuSSians like ConstantineK anyway, so... :)):



Btw, this video was posted only two months ago.

Genealogy / Want to find a person [777]

@Lil321, apparently there is (or was) a village also called Wilnowo in Belarus - it was in Poland until 1945:

pl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilnowo_(obw%C3%B3d_witebski)

Genealogy / Want to find a person [777]

@Lil321, you're welcome :)


I think there are two possibilities - it's either Wilno (in English - Vilnius), which used to be in Poland and now it's the capital of Lithuania or Wilanów - which used to be a village that became part of Warsaw in 1951 (Wilanów Palace is located there). Because, as far as I'm aware, there's no village, town or city in Poland that's called "Wilnow" or "Wilnów".

Btw, there's also a village called Wilnowo in the North of Poland.

Genealogy / Want to find a person [777]

@Lil321, it sounds like a possible Polish surname with Eastern origin, but it doesn't show up in Google search.


Are you sure about this name?


Surname "Kijewicz" comes to my mind. There's also "Klejewicz", for example.

Life / Custom plates in Poland [103]

@Alien, something for you lol :): 👽

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


That's strange coming from a Pole... How would dissolving NATO and American troops leaving Poland make RuSSia and Poland friends or at least not enemies? It would just make Poland vulnerable, nothing more.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


Those polls are not being conducted only among Polish women, but among Poles in general. So this is an opinion of majority of Polish women and men.


Yup.


Yes, he's being a disgusting hypocrite.

Real Estate / Approximate cost for interior finishing. [3]


As Atch already wrote, it depends on the standard of the finishing and on the contractor's fee (unless you'll decide to do everything on your own).


Yup.

History / November 11th, what does it mean to you? [24]

"Now this is living."

;D

@jon357, this comic strip is hilarious and so true lol

History / November 11th, what does it mean to you? [24]


Ahhh, everything's clear now... lol Radio Poland is an English section of Polskie Radio - this is a state radio = PiS propaganda. PiS is butthurt because this time young people voted for the opposition parties :D

History / November 11th, what does it mean to you? [24]


You're getting this feeling based on what?


I really doubt that's the case with majority of young Poles.


What do you mean by "younger Poles" and "becoming less patriotic"? Less patriotic than Poles older than them or than young people in the past?

According to this poll from 2021 majority of Poles in every age group consider themselves to be patriots:

next.gazeta.pl/next/7,151003,27789724,patriotyzm-po-polsku-kim-jest-patriota-ponad-70-proc-polakow.html

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]


They aren't closed - he's looking at his grandchild.

In the meantime - Kaczyński lol:




lol
Nope, he is the Evil :)

Tusk or his eyes don't give me any creeps, your perception must be affected by your bias. Plus, he has a low and protruding brow area that gives him a bit of a "scowling" look maybe.




Exactly.

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]

@Korvinus, sure, "evil" is simply emanating from Tusk lol:



Btw, I can pick photos too :D - here's the really evil Jarosław Kaczyński for you:



lol

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [669]

@Bobko:

Why RuSSian?

What trampling?

Why 1654? We have no intention of invading RuSSia.


You're right about this one at least. RuSSia making the same mistakes over and over again.





It's an independent country, not a "mistress", you f*cked up psycho with the mentality of a rapist.