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delphiandomine   
18 Feb 2016
News / The dossier of TW "Bolek" - Poland's IPN assisted by police enters the home of the late general Kiszczak [306]

Let them X-ray all the political leaders of the past 26 years, all the top media types, bishops and all the Polish millionaires.

A very good idea. Let's appoint foreign experts to ensure that there is no agenda - we could use someone seconded from the agency that deals with the Stasi files to lead the commission, and perhaps a Czech expert on the lustration process too.

Latest news :

natemat.pl/171793,walesa-to-tylko-maly-bolek-kolejne-tajemnice-szafy-kiszczaka-odnalazly-sie-akta-rajmunda-kaczynskiego

The discovery of the documents, attracts public attention mainly because of the files relating to "Bolek". But there was a different story. The documents collected by the IPN include information about Rajmund Kaczyński, the father of the Kaczynski brothers.

The story simply will not go away.
delphiandomine   
18 Feb 2016
News / The dossier of TW "Bolek" - Poland's IPN assisted by police enters the home of the late general Kiszczak [306]

You think today's Poland has nothing better to do than deal with obscure trivia that has no bearing on anything?

It seems to me as if you want one rule for some and one rule for another.

The more they push the smears against Lech Wałęsa, calling him 'Agent Bolek' etc, the more likely that scrutiny will fall on JK and those close to him.

Exactly. Serious questions need to be asked - how did Lech Kaczyński get out of the internment camp quickly, despite Komorowski and others being held for months, for instance? If Polonius really wants 'the truth' to be revealed, then he should support a full and honest investigation.

I just saw this mentioned on Facebook with the commentary "brak słów". I quite agree.

As Wałęsa will be inevitably compromised, Lech Kaczyński has become the symbolic patron of the Solidarność movement - Jaroslaw Kaczynski said in an interview for "Gazeta Polska".

wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/1,114873,8349142,Kaczynski__W_obliczu_kompromitacji_Walesy_to_Lech.html

Looks like the masterplan is clear - try to humiliate and discredit Wałęsa, then brainwash the masses into believing that Lech Kaczyński was the real hero of Solidarność. That fits in with the whole attempt to create a martyr out of Kaczyńśki, and we can soon expect choreographed chants of Santo Subito made at PiS rallies.

Just shocking.
delphiandomine   
18 Feb 2016
Work / Expatriating to Poland... good career move for a young male? [50]

However, even like with the cars I just don't understand how someone could afford a $20,000 VW Golf let alone even $70k BMW/Mercedes if most people are living on $1k-$2k a month.

You don't understand it because you aren't living here. Needless to say, Poles often don't tell the truth about their salaries and sources of income. I know one guy who claims to be very poor because he only earns 3k a month netto. It's true. He just doesn't mention the fact that the German owner of the company has no clue that he's actually running a business from his dayjob, and that business provides him with a substantial income. He uses the real job's infrastructure - offices, storage, company car, etc - and as he's the CEO, no-one is questioning him locally.
delphiandomine   
18 Feb 2016
News / Poland to return to Catholic tradition? [177]

With all you said Harry they are still considered Catholics, faithful or not.

Depends who you ask.

I consider all humans to be members of the Church of Delph. Doesn't mean they are.
delphiandomine   
18 Feb 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Indeed. It was quite normal for Party leaders to hold an insignificant title in the government. For instance, if we look at the government of the Soviet Union - their version of the cabinet in the Westminister system was the Council of Ministers of the USSR. Only Stalin and Khrushchev were Chairmen of the Council of Ministers - no other First Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU held the title.

Likewise, in the PRL - the Council of State was the highest office in the land. Only Jaruzelski from 85-89 held the title of Chairman of the Council of State. Among Prime Ministers, only Bierut and Jaruzelski held the title.

It's pretty obvious to anyone with half a clue that Kaczyński knows fine well that while it will be very easy to prosecute Duda, Ziobro and others for their leading role, he can truthfully sit back and say that he knew nothing about it and that the Council of Ministers decided things on their own.

The only surreal thing for me is just how scared that cat Duda must be, knowing that the State Tribunal is waiting for him for his blatant abuse of office.

Basically she and the dud Duda are in the same position as people who held essentially meaningless (in this situation) titles like prime minister or president back in the Soviet Union.

Yep, come to think of it, I think East Germany was the only country where the leader of the Council of State was also the leader of the Party.
delphiandomine   
17 Feb 2016
News / The dossier of TW "Bolek" - Poland's IPN assisted by police enters the home of the late general Kiszczak [306]

The main thing is historical truth for the present and future generations.

I'm all for it as long as it's equal. That means that if Wałęsa is to be investigated, then everyone else needs to be investigated, starting with the government. If you genuinely believe in the truth, then you need to know exactly how everyone benefited from connections to the PZPR and PRL. What do you say?

One thing is certain, since 1992 the Kaczyński camp have consistetnly opposed all the fellow travellers

So why has Kaczyński been remarkably unwilling to investigate his own father's activities? Polonius, you know, I wouldn't mind knowing the truth as well, I just don't believe that PiS want the real truth - they just want to destroy their political enemies.
delphiandomine   
17 Feb 2016
News / The dossier of TW "Bolek" - Poland's IPN assisted by police enters the home of the late general Kiszczak [306]

The news of the day are Kiszczak's files on Wałęsa aka Bolek and presumably other people and events.

So in other words, they'll be selectively used against political enemies. Surprise, surprise.

Anyway, if there is anything genuinely explosive in those files, then you can expect the political opposition to start digging up some serious dirt on the government as well. That's why the whole thing is a scam - some people will be harassed, but any real information would never be used because there's just too much on the government as well.

By the way, mods : Wałęsa has never been proven to be Bolek. Might be wise to remember that, Polonius.
delphiandomine   
17 Feb 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

This is not the case of Beata Szydło.

I think one other difference is that Szydło knows not to try and become too popular domestically. If you notice, she isn't the 'face' of PiS - that remains Kaczyński, and all the important meetings are conducted with him meeting foreign leaders, not her. Marcinkiewicz on the other hand was genuinely popular, and would almost certainly have become leader of PiS had Kaczyński not dealt with him in time.

There we may see some serious difference of opinion and I sincerely doubt if Jaro will be in a position to simply fire anyone who disagrees with him.

The big question is how long those in the Morawiecki camp will last. He's already made it clear that the 500+ programme is irresponsible and wreckless, and the government passing the law regardless of what the Ministry of Finance said shows that PiS are simply taking on extra debt to try and pay for the electoral sausage.
delphiandomine   
17 Feb 2016
Genealogy / Are Sorbs Polish? Does anyone know about Sorbish enthnicity? [62]

Doesn't bother me in the slightest. I speak Scots (like many others) and I can codeswitch without thinking, but I've never thought that speaking English somehow made us 'less' of a nation. We have a comparable situation to Austria and no-one thinks of them of being anything other than Austrians, so it's the same with us.

Learning Gaelic - no real need. The Irish example shows that 12 years of compulsory education results in people not being able to speak the language anyway, so unless you deliver everything in Irish in school, there's no point in doing it.

Speaking of Lower Sorbian - I watched something online about it, and it was remarkably easy to understand.
delphiandomine   
17 Feb 2016
Work / Expatriating to Poland... good career move for a young male? [50]

So I was wandering - could someone in Poland potentially have been recruited for this job from Poland?

Not that unrealistic. It's only the average wage in Denmark, and companies will pay well to show their Danish clients that they employ real Danes. It's still cheap for them compared to the cost of hiring someone in a Danish city.
delphiandomine   
16 Feb 2016
Genealogy / Are Sorbs Polish? Does anyone know about Sorbish enthnicity? [62]

Sure. Sorbs are not Poles or Czechs, although they're close to them genetically. If Poland had succeeded in keeping control of Lusatia for a longer time, probably the Sorbs would have been integrated into the Poles - but because they spent most of the time under German rule, their separate identity was assured.

Either way, don't worry, you're not Polish ;) Budyšin is a very nice place, though, I've been :)
delphiandomine   
16 Feb 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

If you believe them that is. I would think that involvement of the CBS in this case would warranty that this is about some heavy stuff. (they are kinda Polish FBI)

It's normal for PiS to use the security agencies against perceived enemies. They're much easier to control and manipulate.

We all know that you don't like PiS on principle, you don't need to be so obvious about it.

It's not me that they should worry about, it's how it will be reported abroad that they should worry about. It certainly won't convince any decision makers that Poland can be trusted with a NATO base.
delphiandomine   
16 Feb 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Which means that it's a purely political move.

Still, we all know how America will react to an assault on an independent source of news. PiS are digging their own grave, just as we all predicted.
delphiandomine   
16 Feb 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Aha. All is clear. Jarosław was conveniently taken to hospital on the same day as this -

wyborcza.pl/1,75478,19633193,agencji-cbs-weszli-do-siedziby-faktow-i-mitow-redaktor-naczelny.html?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=SM&utm_campaign=FB_Gazeta_Wyborcza

On Monday, February 15 in the morning came a dozen police agents to our offices. CBŚP arrested of Roman Kotliński - editor in chief and publisher of the 'Fakty i Mity'

So the harassment of non-PiS media has already started.

"We regard this as an attack on our editorial staff, in recent editions sharply criticized the current government and PiS" - In the last issue actually described "nepotism PiS" and "repayment with taxpayers' money the debts PiS with Father Rydzyk."

Utterly shocking.

Obviously PiS wanted to cover up the harassment of journalists, hence in their crude world, releasing a story about Jarosław being hospitalised would divert attention away from the real crimes being carried out.
delphiandomine   
16 Feb 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

se.pl/wiadomosci/polityka/jaroslaw-kaczynski-w-szpitalu_779189.html - Jarosław Kaczyński in hospital - what's up with the Chairman of PiS?

Looks like he had an "allergic reaction", but the more cynical might suggest that he wanted to pull off another trick to maintain the cult.
delphiandomine   
16 Feb 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

What a strange coincidence.

I'd much like to see how he paints the chaotic events since the election with the fantasy that PIS want the world to believe about Poland.

There was one article by that chap where he claimed that the KOD demonstrations were tiny and insignificant, but that was about it. Probably he didn't get the job with the government that he was expecting.
delphiandomine   
16 Feb 2016
News / Poland to return to Catholic tradition? [177]

I don't frequent the church (because there is none here) but i am a practicing catholic.

You are not a practicing Catholic if you don't even meet the minimum expectations of being one.

As i said, even with all your efforts to convert people, Poland is the second most religious country in EU just after Malta.

Poland is not really religious at all. Most people pay lip service - I know one chap who provides a healthy yearly donation to the local church so that the priest can enjoy some nice things. In return, the priest turns a blind eye to him using immigrant slave labour. Is he religious, despite his nice large donations? Of course not.
delphiandomine   
16 Feb 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

For a start there's been the information about that former shill of Moscow in the US press who now shills for PIS.

I read something about that guy somewhere, about how he was effectively Moscow and Warsaw's man in the US press and was paid to present a favourable view of both countries, back in the day when the printed media was the only real source of information for the Polonia.

He's not the only one though. Notice a common trend online is for the biographies of PiS members to omit information about what their parents did?
delphiandomine   
16 Feb 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Furthermore, the nomeklatura links between PiS and the PZPR weren't mentioned.

I wonder how long it will be before some research is done into those links.
delphiandomine   
16 Feb 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Tremble in fear, PiS, the end is nigh!

You're not very politically astute, are you? PiS lost in a town that they should have easily won - no amount of stupid mocking will change that.

Essentially yes, since the socialist economic model that you admire so much tends to impoverish people in every sense.

The entire point is to impoverish everyone except people that benefit from Jarosław's political patronage. The PZPR operated on identical lines, really.
delphiandomine   
16 Feb 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

As has been said here before, don't rely too much on that particular poll.

The only polls that matter are the real ones, and PiS have just been handed their first loss.
delphiandomine   
15 Feb 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Well, well, well. Polonius has been very quiet about the latest news.

There was a by-election held in Poland on Sunday, in the town of Drobin, for a place on the town council. It's a small town in rural Mazowieckie of around 3000 people, and not much happens there in general. Anyway, two candidates were in the race - one from the PSL, one from PiS. PiS went all out to win the council seat - they sent the new vice director of ARiMR (the agricultural modernisation/reconstruction agency), a member of the Sejm from PiS and a member of the provincial parliament to campaign. They also sent plenty of Party activists to campaign in Drobin - certainly far more than would be expected.

Anyway, the result : PSL 66%, PiS 34%.

Rural voters are clearly not happy with PiS.
delphiandomine   
15 Feb 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Strange how you forgot to mention the money for the shipyards that was just resting in his account, Father Ted style.
delphiandomine   
15 Feb 2016
News / Poland to return to Catholic tradition? [177]

The thing that's very interesting is that a lot of these Catholics only discovered their 'faith' after 1989. Before that, they were paying lip-service to the faith - secret baptisms, not attending church on Sunday because it would look bad in front of their comrades, etc etc.