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If you want to be put in touch with genealogists who can help you trace the Dankowskis, please contact polonius3@gazeta.pl

USA, Canada / Poles in America: How do you pronounce your Polish surname? [128]


The spelling is correct. Probably it'd be easier if you just pronocuned it grit-sell.
It appears derived from gryka (buckwhat) and may have been a local dialectal name for a buckwheat loaf, pancakes, porridge, soup or other dish.

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]


BARTYZEL: This nickname-turned-sruname was derived from the first name Baltazar, the name ascribed to one of the New Testament Three Kings/Wisemen who visited Baby Jesus in Bethelehem. It was first recorded in Poland in 1677.

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News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


If that is true, then it only shows the efficacy of the heavily bankrolled anti-PiS hate industry. Hitler's propaganda minister Goebbels said a lie repeated 100 tiems will be believed. How many times has the bald-faced lie about democracy being threatened in Poland been repeated by the OK (Obrońcy Koryta) crowd?

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Defintiely. When PiS were in power Polish history and culture repappeared in school curricula and on the airwaves, only to again get downplayed and sidetracked by the foreign-corporation-supporting Platformers. As Jan Pietrzak sang, Let Poland be Poland!

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So the proud Polish nation should continue to be spoon-fed with cheap and tacky foreign crapola, as if they had no heritage of their own?

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Communist regimes were brought to Eastern Europe and kept afloat for 45 years with Soviet bayonets. By contrast, PiS is the most pro-Polish party around not beholden to any external force, and that is the key difference.

In fact, soon there will be more Polish culture and history on National Television and more Polish music on National Radio. Yet another campaign promise -- re-Polonisation -- will be fulfilled.

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It was Poland's voters who for the first time gave a single party an outright victory not necessitating a coalition to govern. Voters removed everyone else from government.

The 1993 you so glowingly admire marked Poland's neo-Marxist take-over. Rather than carry out proper de-communisation which should have given ex-commies a 10-year ban on standing for public office, thanks to the likes of KPP-rooted Michniks and assorted ex-commies (ia Miller, Kwaśniewski), fellow travellers (Mazowiecki) and leftists (like Modzelewski), members of the PZPR Politburo and Central Committee made a comeback a mere four years after PRL was toppled.

They continued to contaminate the public stage uintil October 2015, when thanks to PiS' victory they were finally elimianted from parliament. Better late than never!

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So you have finally had your political "coming-out" and admitted to being a crypto-commie. 1993 was when the full nomenklatura gang took over Poland's government and two year's later were backed by their own commie president Kwaśniewski. The scam and and theft clique set the stage for the PO crowd that followed in their footsteps and actually outscammed the ex-commies.

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A wrong move for those pushed away from the trough, the post-nomenklatura entitlement crowd who have lined their pockets for 25 years and robbed Poland blind. They've stolen their fill in Poland, now let them find another hapless victim

-- the big, wide world awaits!.

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Weren't you the one who kept claiming polls are none too reliable. Except that was when your favourites were dropping. A typical Michnikite -- twist the truth and bend facts (even fabricate if you can get away with it) to suit your agenda.

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So to you the public are the chanty-ranty backers of the Komitet Obrony Koryta.
The Petrus, Lises, Schetynas, Kosher Gazettes and other rabble-rosuers notwithstanding, most Poles are willing to GIVE PiS A CHANCE!
Dogs will bark but the caravan moves steadily forward!

News / Mateusz Matyszkowicz, executive director of Fronda will lead TVP Kultura [15]


And the SLD and PO government filled postions with people disloyal to them, eh?
Are you living on the Planet of the Apes or what?

News / Mateusz Matyszkowicz, executive director of Fronda will lead TVP Kultura [15]


Every politician is about power, except somem use it for the benefit of a foreign bankster/corporate elite. Tell me, do you really look forward to a Petru-ruled Poland? After the 8-year PO bankster episode maybe Poland deserves a breather.

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Unless you only know only world history by Mother Goose, this has been going on since the dawn of time and will continue until Judgement Day. It's called politics.

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Because I know of no party anywhere in the world that has done so, and PO was a worst offender than many.
After a decade of having Platformer scorn, contempt, disdain and derision copiously poured upon them, do you really expect PiS to treat the opposition with the kindness, warmth and cordiality normally accorded to a friend and ally?

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Led of course by erstwhile PZPR stalwarth Rzepliński, I presume.
"Objective and transparent decision making and processes"? You mean such as those carried out by PO at cemetery rendez-vous or gourmet banquets at Sowa & Przyjaciele. Yes, you have an excellent role model to learn form.

News / Mateusz Matyszkowicz, executive director of Fronda will lead TVP Kultura [15]


But Kaczyński is not a exploitative foreign interest group and PiS are the most pro-Polish party that exists.

News / Mateusz Matyszkowicz, executive director of Fronda will lead TVP Kultura [15]


With people who are not on the leash of foreign corporations. I know that's painful to those who were getting hefty kickbacks and now stand to lose them. Also the post-nomenklatura kids who found safe haven in the PO camp may no longer dominate things. Isn't that sad? Boo-hoo, sob. sob....

Thanks to PiS normal Poles have received a new lease of life.

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Becuase public competions as well as tenders are all fixed anyway. The highest briber wins.

News / Mateusz Matyszkowicz, executive director of Fronda will lead TVP Kultura [15]


Delph has a great tactic designed to delude those with little knowledge of Polsih history or who believe it started 8 years ago. To understand what's happening today one needs to analyse the round-table process that allowed commies to rebadge themselves as social democrats and democrats and not only survive but thrive, advance and imrprove on the perks and privileges they enjoyed in PRL. At the same time many Solidarity activists were unemplyoed, reduced to poverty and never got to enjoy the benefits of transformation. .

News / Mateusz Matyszkowicz, executive director of Fronda will lead TVP Kultura [15]


Strange conclusion? It was UD, UW and finally PO that became a safe haven for those from PZPR nomenklatura families and constitute the bulk of today's trough-defending "opposition".

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A shameful legacy was left by the oldboy scam & graft party PO that reserved advancement for their loyal elite. Now at last younger Poels will have wider access to the fruits of Poland's national harvest. As PM Szydło put it,"I want the average Pole to become the nation's elite."

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In PRL that implied the "imperialist" forces of the US, Germany, NATO. As regards Tuskoland and beyond it referred to preferential. trteatment of foreign capital. In exchange for hefty kickbacks to Polish mercenary tratiors foreign corproate interests were allowed to exploit Polish workers (slave wages and the Pampers equation!) with impunity and monopolise the economy. Poland became a cheap manpower and real estate country. Adding insult to injury, they thought up a nice-sounding euphemism "market-friendly" to describe such exploitation.

USA, Canada / Poles in America: How do you pronounce your Polish surname? [128]


Pronounced: grih-TZEL-ski (the capitalised syllable gets the stress). Grycel would be: GRIH-tzel

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Diplomats in general and ambassadors in particular are the best informed about the workings of the countries in which they are posted. Ambassador Crawford correclty felt, perceived and identified Poland's Zeitgeist during his stint in Warsaw.

It's difficult to argue against his realisation that


Only one remark is in order: AMEN!

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Neither do I but what's wrong with giving young people a chance? In broader terms: ALL WE ARE SAYING IS "GIVE PiS A CHANCE"

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You've got things a*se backwards. It was PO that invented and continues to pump prime the hate industry. Poles even coined the term "platformerski przemysł nienawiści". They got away with being a do-nothign crony party for 8 years largely throuhg PiS-bashing and intimidating voters with the PiS bugbear. And Michnik's pre- and post-election warnings of "fascism" exemplify his leftist-liberal "love industry"?

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If he was appointed under PO he deserves to be sakced. Anyone associated with the PO bankster syndicate is a threat to the Polish nation.

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Unless one wants to pull an Obama and print extra paper money, priorities have to be established. Some taxes may have to be raised, others decreased to carry out the vairous social aid programmes. Some may say motoring cross country to visit family is an essential need. Someone else may feel it's more important to provide kids with free school lunches which are often their only warm meal of the day. important. We should leave it to the wisdom and compassion of the far-sighted PiS government to sort hings out rather than constatnly bellyaching nad crybabying -- a highly unproductive pastime!