History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [503]


Soooo cooooool! :):):)

News / 11th November Independence Day in Poland [73]


Definitely! *nods*

News / 11th November Independence Day in Poland [73]

Nah...since the end of the GDR we don't even have soviet-style parades anymore...nothing...nada...nilch! :(

We must be the only country on earth without some history-celebrating....

News / 11th November Independence Day in Poland [73]

Oh parades are great....who doesn't love them! :)

I just wish Germany hade some too....at least one...

News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]


Always astounding how a viewpoint influences the opinion.....from inside Germany felt never econoically weaker and politically disunified. I might say that fearful look from the outside (Poland) onto a strong and influential and powerful Germany is not a realistic one....

News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]


Isn't that the only possible way?

News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]

....I don't cry about the money....it's more your petting part actually...

News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]

Lyzko....can't you let this topic and this thread go it's natural way, meaning die!

News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [540]

....interesting info, thanks!

News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [540]


...I'm addicted....I admit....

News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [540]

na ja.....the info I could found about that spoke about "isolate" Germany.....that sounds alot different!

zerohedge.com/geopolitical/former-pentagon-advisor-says-us-likely-attacked-nord-stream-pipelines-isolate-germany

...Referring to Polish MEP Radoslaw Sikorski's infamous deleted tweet in which he wrote, "Thank you, USA," Macgregor noted, "Who else might be involved? Well the Poles apparently seem to be very enthusiastic about it."...

K. has it out for Germany, with the reparation demands and all that....why not destroy that pipeline too?

News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [540]


With what???

Off-Topic / Eurovision - Today I will be ashamed to be Polish [580]

Now it's official:


spiegel.de/kultur/musik/eurovision-song-contest-findet-2023-in-glasgow-oder-liverpool-statt-a-064b1cb7-805b-43d9-845e-1ddf4fb7dab5

Because of the war in Ukraine, the Eurovision Song Contest will be held in Great Britain. In the meantime, only two cities can be considered as venues: "We know how to party here." ...

It's okay, I guess.....still sad for Ukraine.....

History / The British Royal Family and Poland: Any connection? [70]

I guess Scotland, then Wales, then the Commonwealth first....Charles will want to keep them together.....

History / The British Royal Family and Poland: Any connection? [70]

Oh that......Germans with historical royal connections are still known for it (and still brag about it), abolishment or not! :)

dw.com/en/are-there-any-princes-or-princesses-left-in-germany/a-50006889

History / The British Royal Family and Poland: Any connection? [70]


Wow! 😮

...what happened to the Jagiellons? Is that Polands royal family?

History / The British Royal Family and Poland: Any connection? [70]


Do you have a link to that? I've heard his mother was Alice von Battenberg...and her mother was Victoria von Hessen....that maternal line goes (Wiki) back to Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.....

History / Anniversary of Soviet Invasion [86]

Okay.....let's see:

grateful
/ˈɡreɪtfʊl,ˈɡreɪtf(ə)l/

adjective: grateful

feeling or showing an appreciation for something done or received.

Yes, I would.....probably....maybe.....

*runs*

History / Anniversary of Soviet Invasion [86]


I thought I did?

East-Germans can pose the same question....Germany could have faced a much worse fate than we already did, maybe even deserved, so yes....in hindsight I can chose to hold grudges for the loss of live and home, for all the violations and humiliations, or I can chose to be grateful for what we still kept. I doubt there is one absolute answer for everybody....


Agreed....bowing out here!

History / Anniversary of Soviet Invasion [86]


Well.....in this case you would have been long dead without the second bandit coming and rescuing you, ensuring you are still alive 50 years later to discuss this question.

You and your family WOULD BE LONG DEAD! Easy....

That reminds me abit about the discussion about Gorbatschow recently....people arguing Gorbatschow was somehow still a bad man because he didn't liberate everybody and everything immediately but did some doubtful things before he did go on destroying the Soviet Empire, taking down the Iron Curtain, ending the Cold War, setting millions free in the end....

History / Anniversary of Soviet Invasion [86]

You don't know how Poland would had fared without the Soviet Union, that's the thing.

IMHO there is no reasoned decision possible...we all know only the turn history took not what could have been.

Many (most?) say a rule by victorious Nazis would had been MUCH worse than everything the Soviets did or didn't do....so....

News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]


Do you have proof for that?

News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]


Well....he is shaping up to become the most unpopular Chancellor Germany ever had in the shortest amount of time...he needs any bolstering he gets.


What neutral ground? Half of the Wehrmacht and SS had been austrian....not to speak from that failed painter himself!

News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]

Ach ja....about the reparation treaties...

Poland was to be excluded from the proceedings of the IARA by demand from the Soviet Union. The Allies agreed as part of the Potsdam Agreement, that the Soviet Union collects and distributes the Polish share of reparations. Furthermore, the Soviet Union would extract its share of reparations mostly from the territory in its own occupation zone...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_reparations#:~:text=Recipients-,Poland,distributed%20by%20the%20Soviet%20Union.

I really wonder why K. isn't as hot on demanding reparations from Moscow as he is with Berlin.....

And why the heck was Austria exempt from all that? As if Austria hadn't been an important part in all this???

News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]

Na sowas.....

In its $1.3t demand from Germany, Poland seeks reparations for Jews killed by Poles

Leading Polish researcher decries government report as 'political, not historical,' says its authors willfully ignored Polish involvement in atrocities

timesofisrael.com/in-its-1-3t-demand-from-germany-poland-seeks-reparations-for-jews-killed-by-poles/

A report released by the Polish government last week to justify its demands for reparations from Germany for World War II cited the deaths of Jews who were killed by Polish citizens, not Nazis, in an apparent effort to whitewash Polish crimes during the Holocaust.....

But since there is still not anything official....

News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]

...of course....how could I forget! :)

News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]


I didn't know that....

News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]

Poland has a maybe-possible-royal family?

News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]


Here I would disagree....IMHO it was definitely her personality which made the monarchy bearable and even likeable for many people who otherwise wouldn't care less!

King Charles will have big shoes to fill...and I wouldn't call him "Europes leading head"...he doesn't lead Europe! ;)

News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]

....it seems to me the immense popularity of the Queen did hold it all together during all these years....I wonder if it will all fizzle out now slowly with her gone.

That makes her funeral so doubly sad and important....it could be truly the end of an era!

(My....how did it go so quickly so far OT???)