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Joined: 2 Apr 2007 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 13 hrs ago
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Bratwurst Boy   
2 Jul 2022
News / Poland, Western Europe and the USA - What if Ukraine disappears from the map? [144]

....what happens when Ukrainians keep rebelling against that? Don't stop fighting for an independent country....one way or another....

You know how that goes....unending bad pictures for Russia in the global news.....a never ending resource draining, hurting zit on russian ass.....what then?
Bratwurst Boy   
28 Jun 2022
History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]

I wouldn't call it grievances.

How would you call it?

Obviously, there would be no boots on the ground. But:

And once Ukraine joins EU even such history as with Lwow can be shared....I know....but that wasn't my scenario! ;)
Bratwurst Boy   
27 Jun 2022
Off-Topic / Random Sports News [855]

I doubt he will.

No, sadly he won't! He is now totally unhappy and even angry there...

I wonder how much more damage he will do to Bayern.

Ja genau! ๐Ÿฅบ
Bratwurst Boy   
27 Jun 2022
Off-Topic / Random Sports News [855]

....but I wish Lewy would stay....Bayern won't be the same without him! ๐Ÿ˜ฅ
Bratwurst Boy   
27 Jun 2022
History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]

In theory everything is possible, but that would be a very unlikely and wild scenario.

....but my question wasn't so much about the possibility of that scenario....hence my plea "to imagine"!
Bratwurst Boy   
27 Jun 2022
History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]

It actually only needs ONE MAN.....as was the case with Hitler.....with Stalin.....with Mao....with Putin....and nobody could believe Germany becoming the Third Reich even 10 years before....not democratic, developed, intelligent, civilized Germany....it was unimaginable! And Russia after Gorbatschow? We loved it! Putin was a nobody back then...a pale weak bureaucrat from the third line....

*knocks on wood* ;)
Bratwurst Boy   
27 Jun 2022
History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]

It's difficult to imagine, to be honest...

Agreed! But not impossible....

I have learned from posters like Iron that there still exist polish grievances and resentments as in cases like Lwow....it would need a leader building on that, stoking it for a long time though....someone like Putin. Not an opressive foreigner but a national "patriot" helping Poland to get it's place at the "sun" back....you know the drill!
Bratwurst Boy   
27 Jun 2022
History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]

That is a difficult situation,

Of course it is.....one must be very sure to act differently in the same situation to show such a righteous rage!

Not only be sure of one self but knowing that the whole people will do what is right in such a situation.

Maybe that's why people with a different history, who as a people have failed in such a situation, like Germans, lack this righteous rage and show more "understanding"....it's also psychological.
Bratwurst Boy   
27 Jun 2022
Feedback / "Ignore" option for certain posters [69]

How do you put a user on "ignore". I can't find this option in the profile.

I tried to find this too once.....as Jon and I butted heads so badly.....now it has all calmed down and I don't need it anymore....

Give it time Torqi! :)
Bratwurst Boy   
27 Jun 2022
History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]

In the same way as common Germans were overjoyed upon taking Paris in 1940.

Well....if "your team" is winning it's tough for any opposition....even if you have your own doubts....they are silenced by all the cheer around you....who doesn't like the "home team" winning, no matter if in the right or in the wrong.....

That too is basic human psychology! *shrugs*

Imagine for a moment Poland acting like Russia....invading western Ukraine for some historical reasons/grievances whatever....probably using the "Banderists" too as a kind of justification....getting some old territory/town back....

How many Poles would agree....would even cheer every success of the polish army....would you also so openly here disagree and fight the polish leadership?

Do you think the Poles as a people would try to overturn the polish government from the streets to end this invasion? Or wouldn't here too a majority agree or at least stay silent? What do you think?
Bratwurst Boy   
24 Jun 2022
History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]

Yes, I would.

That is very understanding of human nature....most people still like to blame "the Germans" for not doing more, for not stopping it back then....Germans themselves too btw.

On the other hand that doesn't bode well for the future....a new Hitler or Stalin or Pol Pot or Idi Amin etc. is then only a matter of time, as that new perpetrator can always count on that human nature to do nothing!
Bratwurst Boy   
24 Jun 2022
History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]

But.....then there is this old question.....who gave the perpetrators their power if not the innocents?

Could they have done their evil without the silence of these innocents?
Bratwurst Boy   
24 Jun 2022
History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]

Serious question......can personal positive memories whitewash a whole system?

I know that many Germans, maybe even most, lived quite a good live till the Allies destroyed the country and invaded....for them the loss started with the good guys, not with the Nazis.....as long as they weren't Jews, political adversaries and other "subhumans".

Novi, you mentioned gratefulness to the Russians for the liberation of Poland and Auschwitz....what would you say to these millions of Germans who lived quite the comfy life under Hitler? Would you understand and apologize their support (or at least their lacking resistance)? Which made the destruction of Poland and the perversion of Auschwitz only possible?
Bratwurst Boy   
23 Jun 2022
History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]

....a good starting point for discussions! :)

But even if we could sow the seeds of doubt why should he admit it? What would it bring him in a hostile forum? More mockery and denigration?

The more he is attacked (not for his political views) but for his "Russianness", the more he feels the need to defend his home country for his whole history, how good to you believe would the chances become of him changing his point of view concerning Putin and Ukraine?
Bratwurst Boy   
23 Jun 2022
History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]

As I said, you could have talked to Hitler in this civilised manner.

But we are not talking with Hitler or Stalin here, not even with Putin himself, that's the point.

Where starting to discuss things and yes, learning WHY someone does what he does if not through TALKING?

If you had the chance to talk with some real living Gefreiter back then and maybe make him think twice about what happens because of Hitler and the Nazis and what he is actually part of, would you still keep hitting him with insults and humiliate his pride? What would change that?

Maybe with talking boards like PF and Internet back then the catastrophe even could have avoided....but for that it would need people never giving up the talking with the "other" like Torqi!

Don't forget, such internet forum isn't only between the actual posters....these messages are read by countless others who might not take part actively, but where else do you get the chance to influence their thoughts and impressions through your argumentation like this?

And longterm arguments will always win over insults!
Bratwurst Boy   
17 May 2022
Off-Topic / Eurovision - Today I will be ashamed to be Polish [583]

I detest music that sounds like it's from nowhere (or could be from anywhere)

*nods*

One of the main reasons Germany ends up so often where it does....instead of skilled artists with experience and a fanbase and a style and a recognition factor we send nobodies with totally interchangable, generic songs/lyrics written by people who just don't care....not even a show is thought out.....nothing to capture the people....totally forgettable....

But it seems that is exactly what the old people on top of the NDR want and like....it boggles the mind! *throws hands up in the air*