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pawian   
31 Aug 2012
History / Communist memorials in Poland [50]

Was that the one in Nowa Huta? If so, it was a huge statue!

Yes, almost as huge as Feliks Dzierżyński monument in Warsaw which was also hanged in 1989:

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pawian   
31 Aug 2012
History / Communist memorials in Poland [50]

Yaaawn, it`s so stupid what you say. I don`t think you know much about young Polish people today.
pawian   
30 Aug 2012
Life / Polish film and serial riddles [137]

Oh, I see. :):):):)

But that second riddle movie by Kawalerowicz isn`t so new.

Second hint: Lucyna Winnicka played in it.

'Nóż w wodzie' by Roman Polański

You thought so because you saw Leon Niemczyk. Yes, he also played in the film.
pawian   
30 Aug 2012
History / Communist memorials in Poland [50]

some memorials were pulled down immediately after the system collpased,

The most notorious ones: Lenin in Krakow was virtually hanged in 1989: :):):):):)
pawian   
30 Aug 2012
History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

In 1943, The General Uprising of Jews and Poles had no chance of winning for one simple reason: the Eastern front (read: with Soviets who were our "allies" against Nazis) was still 1000 kilometeres away and Germans were fighting hard there.

In 1944 the chances were much bigger because the allied Soviets controlled the right bank of the Wisła river in Warsaw. If Stalin had given an order, the Rising would have been saved.

Today`s reenactments of Warsaw Rising:




pawian   
26 Aug 2012
History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

most of these men and women were never soldiers,

Actually, most of them underwent military training in secret classes, in the city as well as forests around Warsaw.

most didn't even had a weapond

Yes.

However they have all marched into combat like bloody veterans!

Exactly. That was the spirit of 1944.

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it was all based on the false lie of Stalin, that he was a friend of Poland, therefore he would command his armies to help the AK in the Warsaw Uprising.

Polish leaders who gave an order to the Rising didn`t see through Stalin`s trickstery. Don`t you think they are to blame for it? Stalin had been known for years as one of the cruellest and cleverest dictators in history.
pawian   
26 Aug 2012
Food / What is your favorite Polish Vodka? [653]

What is your favorite Polish Vodka?

My own, called True Polish Patriot Vodka!!! I am able to reach 80% in my machinery.
pawian   
25 Aug 2012
History / What do Poles owe to Czechs? [83]

Smaller guns were called píš»ala in Czech, meaning that they were shaped like a pipe or a fife (in Polish piszczałka), from which the English word pistol is possibly derived.

Wow wow!
pawian   
25 Aug 2012
Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

Bóg, Honor, Ojczyzna

Sounds Catholic tradition.

S£AWA BOGOM I PRZODKOM!!

Sounds pagan tradition.

Or am I wrong?
pawian   
25 Aug 2012
History / What do Poles owe to Czechs? [83]

Wow! I didn`t know about it.
????? WHy? We visit Jan Matejko`s house in Krakow on each Long Night of Museums.

Matejko born on June 24, 1838 in the Free City of Kraków.[1] His father, Franciszek Ksawery Matejko (Czech: František Xaver Matějka) (born 1789 or 13 January 1793, died 26 October 1860), a Czech from the village of Roudnice, was a graduate of the Hradec Králové school; who later became a tutor and music teacher

Interesting, he went to the same high school as me but dropped out. I didn`t!! :):):):)
pawian   
25 Aug 2012
News / Fraudsters and common thieves top the crime league in Poland [12]

Worth pointing out that freepl.info is also the Opposition mouthpiece - what they're not saying is exactly what these crimes are.

I smelled a rat! I felt there was sth wrong but was too lazy to find out!

More interesting titles: freepl.info/2809-merkel-germanises-europe

Funny that nearly 30% are about Russia. :)
pawian   
24 Aug 2012
History / What do Poles owe to Czechs? [83]

With all due respect, Pawian

Cholera jasna, it was my phone and its frigging net connection!

In the period of Old Poland (10th-15th) there were many church-religious word borrowings from Latin via Czech:

Thanks for a very informative post, again. :):):):)

Dobrawa (Dąbrówka) (Czech: Doubravka, Polish: Dobrawa) (ca. 940/45 - 977) was a Bohemian princess of the Přemyslid dynasty and by marriage Duchess of the Polans.

She was the daughter of Boleslav I the Cruel, Duke of Bohemia, whose wife may have been the mysterious Biagota.[1][2]
According to earlier sources, Dobrawa urged her husband Mieszko I of Poland to accept baptism in 966, the year after their marriage. Modern historians believe, however, that the change of religion by Mieszko was one of the points discussed in the Polish-Bohemian agreement concluded soon before his marriage with Dobrawa. Her role in his conversion is not considered now to be as important as it is often represented in medieval chronicles.


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pawian   
19 Aug 2012
Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1400]

i am enjoying it and playing with my phone at the same time.

but i see you cant stop reading me.

is your polish family that boring for you? hahaha

see our suppers which are scanty as we eat them late:


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pawian   
18 Aug 2012
History / Communist memorials in Poland [50]

communist system lasted 1945-1989.
some memorials were pulled down immediately after the system collpased, others remained and hold strong.

the memorial in uście gorlickie, to polish communist partisans, red army soldiers and all polish soldiers from lemko area. Written in polish and cyrillic.

i suppose if pis activists tried to pull it down as they planned in 2007, they would be lynched by locals.


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pawian   
18 Aug 2012
History / What do Poles owe to Czechs? [83]

after a great success of similar threads, I decided to start a new one, but this time not to educate you but to teach myself.

to the best of my knowledge, didn`t chiristianity come to poland through chechia in 10 century AD? i haven`t got any pedias right now to corroborate it, but i vaguely remember the polish prince mieszko married some czech king`s daughter called dobrava and thus adopted christianity from czechs who had done it earlier.

it happened in 966.

or am I wrong?

what else?
pawian   
10 Aug 2012
News / Chechen Congress in Poland, Russia frowns [90]

It does explode occassionally.

Yes, there was a suicidal attack a few days ago.

pl.euronews.com/2012/08/06/zamach-w-czeczenii/

The Russians simply don't consider them Russian and that says it all.

But Chechens don`t want to be considered Russians.

he government cared to invest into military annexation but it didn't spend a copeck on bringing their cultural level up.

Well, the destroyed city of Grozny has been rebuilt. It cost Russia a few billions of dollars, half embezzled by Russian generals and local Chechen collaborators. :):):)

This situation has continued in this cyclical way for so many decades. When one reads Tolstoy's tale Hadji Murad, and compares it to the situation today, one is amazed at how little has changed in the last two centuries.

Exactly.
pawian   
9 Aug 2012
Law / Old Polish money banknotes - what's their value today? [415]

link please

Do you want a link to the Polish auction site?

Here you are: allegro.pl/ShowItem2.php/itemNotFound/?item=2328646234&title=banknot-50000-zl-1989-seria-ae

Are you going to take all the pains for 20$ ??? :):):):):)