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pawian   
11 Nov 2024
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 12 [735]

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pawian   
11 Nov 2024
News / 11th November Independence Day in Poland [71]

Coming from East
Coming from West
There was Poland on the first.

said Marshall Piłusdski about the unexpected, though long craved, resurrection of Poland.

There was Poland

I suppose a better sounding translation would be

Coming from East
Coming from West
There came Poland on the first.


said by Piłsudski, of course. By the first he meant the beginning of the month which could be 1st December 1918 when the newly reborn Poland started putting on real flesh. By East or West he meant all Polish lands which once were settled by Poles/Polesses.
pawian   
11 Nov 2024
Life / Polish fences - complete anthology [72]

Another big and long fence at the eastern border was erected to keep off migrants sent to Poland by autocratic regimes

The fence is being improved with 2 horizontal bars which are to prevent migrants from splaying out its main poles. They used car jacks to make a wide gap between posts.

A very good article on all protective measures implemented on the border.
rp.pl/spoleczenstwo/art41428011-do-kogo-wojsko-strzela-na-granicy-czyli-strefa-zmilitaryzowana


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pawian   
11 Nov 2024
History / Poland: Her heroes and her traitors [221]

Rightists have a huge propensity for trechery committed on their own country.
E.g., one of the PiS politicians publicly announced he was going to deliver a file containing unfavourable statements by representatives of the current government to Trump's circles. A few years ago Mr Honourable Prime Minister Reverend Donald Holy Tusk suggested that Trump was working for imperial Russians.

Why are rightists such traitors??? They already started in Targowica 250 years ago when they sold Poland to Russians.....
pawian   
11 Nov 2024
History / Historic Photos about Poland with Context [28]

The main chamber of the Polish Parliament - now nearly 100 years old

Because of today`s Independence Day, the public is allowed into the building until 4 pm.
pawian   
11 Nov 2024
History / Regaining Poland's Independence in 1918 - 'Unconquered' video by IPN released [18]

Poland`s wedding to the Baltic Sea took place in 1918. General Haller had 2 platinium rings - he threw one into the water and kept the other, wearing it on his finger all his life.

Kossak rendered the scene in a famous painting below.

However, the historical truth was modified by the artist to look better in his works.

The Bay of Puck was frozen over at the time. The Kashubians, who had kept watch over the Baltic Sea for 123 years of captivity, defending Polishness there, helped this time too. They made a hole in the ice, Haller goes to it, throws the ring in.

Other sources say that the ring stopped on the edge of this hole. There was consternation, what to do so that it would fall into the sea. Colonel Skrzyński rode onto the frozen surface and with his horse's hooves broke the ice so that the ring would fall into the sea.



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pawian   
11 Nov 2024
News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 16 [777]

Russia

When you go there at last, don`t forget to lick Putin`s. Then he will allow you to stay and when you die, they will make a mummy and inter you next to Lenin in the Red Square!!!! hahahaha buhahahaha Ale witz!!!
pawian   
11 Nov 2024
Food / Healthy polish food? [134]

You're out by about 20 years

Yes, I wrote 1860s first and later looked up it was 1840s actually but I didn`t bother to correct it though I still had time for that. Simply speaking, whenever. Who cares about silly 20 years?? This is Polish, not Irish forum, darling and I am not Kania. hahahaha

BTW, I skipped the rest of your lengthy post to save my precious time. Can you summarise it in a few words ??? :):):)
pawian   
11 Nov 2024
History / Regaining Poland's Independence in 1918 - 'Unconquered' video by IPN released [18]

regaining independence of Poland in 1918

It cost the Polish nation a lot.
Military losses
Eastern front -
war with bolsheviks - 60.000 dead
war with Ukrainians - 10.000 dead

Western front
Greater Poland Rising against Germans - 2300 dead
Silesian Risings against Germans - 1200 dead.

In the south - a few dozen lives lost in the war with Czechs.

Add 120.000 wounded to the above.

About 250.000 casualties altogether, not counting civilians.

That was the price paid for independence and integrity of the resurrected state.

onet.pl/informacje/ciekawostkihistorycznepl/ilu-polakow-zginelo-walczac-o-granice-ii-rzeczpospolitej/pkp0e5j,30bc1058
pawian   
10 Nov 2024
Off-Topic / Random Chat Thread [565]

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10 Nov 2024
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 12 [735]

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10 Nov 2024
Off-Topic / Random Chat Thread [565]

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10 Nov 2024
Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [116]

Frédéric Forest, France

Reminds me pics from Wisłocka`s cult book:


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pawian   
10 Nov 2024
Food / Healthy polish food? [134]

the one you don't eat.

You may be quite right. You left Poland at 26 years of age and have made it to 82 on Am cuisine. We all envy you. I am serious now. :):):):)
pawian   
10 Nov 2024
Food / Healthy polish food? [134]

You should never, ever make jokes about the Irish diet in olden times. It's just one of those things you don't do for very obvious reasons.

Don`t be stupid. The Irish Starvation happened in 1860s. Tell us how many years have passed since then.
Following your reasoning, Poles/Polesses should never make jokes about WW2 tragedy which killed 6 million Polish citizens. So how come did they produce the first comedy about WW2 in 1964, merely 19 years after the war???

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pawian   
10 Nov 2024
Food / Healthy polish food? [134]

they add a lot of salads and rawies to their fattening dishes. Ha!!!

For instance - fattening unhealthy fried pork chop with mashed potatoes, salads and rawies.


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10 Nov 2024
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10 Nov 2024
News / Polish military contingent in Lebanon. [169]

though I can see why it was popular in PL)

I read it in 1980s while studying English at uni. It was in the communist red book of banned literature, but our uni library had all those banned publications. That was one of the reasons I had chosen that course.
pawian   
10 Nov 2024
Off-Topic / Random Chat Thread [565]

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10 Nov 2024
Food / Best hypermarket to shop for foods in Poland? [50]

keep buying chinese crap

China Exports to United States was US$501.22 Billion during 2023

European Union Imports from China was US$657.32 Billion during 2022

Counting the size of population, stupid Americans buy twice as much from China than Europeans.

Joker! Do some research before you post your usual stupidities.
pawian   
10 Nov 2024
Off-Topic / Random Chat Thread [565]

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10 Nov 2024
Life / Custom plates in Poland [76]

the purists among you will kill me for writing Bachata as B4 CHA74.

No, I won`t kill you coz I am a humane ape. :):):) I will simply not understand it. Probably I am too old for such inventions. :(:(:(:(

you won't like B4 LL37 (ballet)

I won`t understand it either.

But don`t bother about my opinion. Younger generations will surely find common ground with your ideas. In Polish, we say: find common language.
Good luck for you innovative plates! :):):)
pawian   
10 Nov 2024
Food / Name of this particular Polish sausage [19]

Poles/Polesses are extremely fond of their Polish sausage which is unique in the world.
In communist times, troubled with shortages, sausages were sometimes stolen from public diners.
See below what incredible commotion it always caused. People felt infuriated being deprived of their fave staple.
With Eng subs:

pawian   
10 Nov 2024
Food / Healthy polish food? [134]

All Polish food is fattenening

Yes, coz it must be so!
However, Poles/Polesses realise the burden of old traditions and they add a lot of salads and rawies to their fattening dishes. Ha!!!

look at your wifes

It is enough I looked at yours in the photos shown by johhny. hahaha hahaha buhahahaha Ale witz! :):):)