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Bratwurst Boy   
18 Sep 2022
History / Anniversary of Soviet Invasion [116]

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....
Bratwurst Boy   
14 Sep 2022
News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]

That Sholz fella is trying to bolster his position in Germany,

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.

Cause it seems Austria was to be neutral ground of some sort,

What neutral ground? Half of the Wehrmacht and SS had been austrian....not to speak from that failed painter himself!
Bratwurst Boy   
14 Sep 2022
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???
Bratwurst Boy   
14 Sep 2022
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....
Bratwurst Boy   
13 Sep 2022
News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]

Not so much popularity of one individual

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! ;)
Bratwurst Boy   
13 Sep 2022
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???)
Bratwurst Boy   
13 Sep 2022
News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]

We have those.

Really? The EU members meet there for new laws? To elect new top positions? To greet new member, to have parties at founding day etc. etc. etc.?

Or New York rather than Washington for finance...

...or in Canada...it is in the same continent after all!
Bratwurst Boy   
12 Sep 2022
News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]

Where should that be?

Since the Brexit London can't be the european capital....a true capital is not only about finances and economy but also for meetings and events and such bonding things.

It would be like the United States having it's capital in...say....Middle America....or even more southern.

London ist definitely a financial global hub, but you have to differentiate between continental, EU Europe and non-members....and when most european countrier already are/will be in the future EU-members that leaves London, the UK out.
Bratwurst Boy   
8 Sep 2022
News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]

I wonder, where exactly do you see us so powerful? We couldn't even save the Oder....

But we make a an easy "bogeyman", don't we? Easy to blame all own failures own, to project all fears on, to shut down all people with different opinions with, calling them "traitor of the people", etc.

Thing is, that proceeding is not new, actually very old....and it led never to anything good!
Bratwurst Boy   
3 Sep 2022
History / Gorbachev and Poland [63]

It does matter as far as the moral assessment of his person is concerned

Is the morality of the one who set you free really the most important thing???

their country was part of the Soviet Union, so my guess is that they probably know more about it than you do.

Shouldn't they then be doubly thankful that he dissolved this empire?

If not then I can truly declare them as shortsighted....without him they would still be part of a Soviet Union!
Bratwurst Boy   
3 Sep 2022
History / Gorbachev and Poland [63]

"He could kill you... but he didn't!" What a great guy! lol ;P

What's "lol" about it? Rarely made ONE MAN alone such a difference in history...because "he didn't"!

I doubt that was his intention.

Probably not, that would had made him a "white" guy....and then nothing of this would had happened at all.

I don't know, BB, that's speculation, I think.

Buth thought worthy....

But that's not enough for Lithuanians to build statues of him and sing songs about him,

Nobody demands that, but seeing the big picture is necessary to make a good judgement!

Without Gorbatschov the Sovietunion would still exist, many Russians hate him for this. Uprisings and independence fights would had beaten down bloodily....we all here wouldn't had met and know each other....PF wouldn't exist....our all lives changed for the better because of him! Yes also the lives of the baltic republics!

How he did that, how it came to that, if he was saintly or devilish doesn't matter at all in hindsight...just try to imagine some hardcore nutter in his place.

Anything else is denial!

Cut down on your quotes please
Bratwurst Boy   
3 Sep 2022
History / Gorbachev and Poland [63]

Perestroika and glasnost ring a bell?

Later....as he rose through the ranks! Imagine the nomenklatura would had known he would dissolve the Sovietunion....no way!

but also from the perspective of Lithuanians, Estonians, Latvians, etc. This is called empathy.

Without him even they would have it much worse today! The Sovietunion would (probably) still exist and they would be still part of it. They shouldn't forget that!

...am NOT infatuated!!!! 😲
Bratwurst Boy   
3 Sep 2022
History / Gorbachev and Poland [63]

Not black, not white either, but gray...

Just imagine for a minute someone else in his position, at this time, someone "black"...Europe would today look much different, much worse!

Alone for that, "grayish" or not, he deserves eternal respect! And maybe it needed to be a grayish character to get into this place at this time....someone "white" would never had made it up so high in the party and in the Kremlin!
Bratwurst Boy   
3 Sep 2022
History / Gorbachev and Poland [63]

Well....and because of that we should forget what he did for Germany?

There is no way one judgement would be right for everything....but calling him a bad guy would be totally wrong!
Bratwurst Boy   
3 Sep 2022
History / Gorbachev and Poland [63]

Gorbachev was not one of the good huys.

He could have supported the East-Berlin regime as they asked for help, but he didn't! He could had send the soviet panzer rolling as in 1953 or Hungary 1956, but he didn't! And he must have known what that would mean for the soviet colony GDR...the End!

That makes him for Germans a good guy forever....
Bratwurst Boy   
2 Sep 2022
News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]

From a day one that PiS came to power in Poland there was issue after issue.

...and from that you conclude it's Germany's fault? Not maybe PiS???

Like forcing LGBT ideology, Green nonsense and so on..

....and that is a reason to start a war again???? What makes K different to Putin? His followers use the same arguments actually....

All those are about to end and that is a problem for Germany.

And K cares so much about it to demand reparations???

See what will happend will German fat cats make their people suffer or they will take a lose and give up on 'green' course.

.....and this is a good reason to....for what actually?

You still have to explain to me what all this has to do with K's insane reparation demands, really!

Cut down on the number of quotes please
Bratwurst Boy   
2 Sep 2022
News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]

they are usually poorly adopted to Russian climate conditions

....then it's for the better they will be used mainly in some central european climate! ;)

No, Germany needs to contribute some of its soldiers too - preferably more from the Northeast, and less from the Southwest :))

I'm sure we can scrape something together...

Do you accept women too? The Bundeswehr has them now....
Bratwurst Boy   
2 Sep 2022
News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]

There is no guarantee that that issue would be used whenever it will suits Germans to put some pressure on Poland or just becasue.

Well....YOU started it....again!

It's YOUR nutters who keep brining that up again and again whenever it fits them...for Germany that case is truly closed!