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3 Aug 2010
Life / POLISH MYTHS - let's debunk or prove them! [140]

drinking a shot of vodka every day when you visit Egypt to avoid getting sick from the food or water? MYTH. yet it's amazing how many poles have told me that they did it, and they miraculously stayed healthy!!!

Maybe there is a placebo effect?

:D
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3 Aug 2010
History / Destruction of Ukrainian churches in Poland in 1938 [289]

1938 had to be one of the craziest years in Europe. Perhaps it and years near it should be written off as an aberation LOL

During this time, hyper nationalism was plaguing just about every nation in Europe.

Thank God this insane nationalism in general isn't present in Europe today.
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18 Jul 2010
Genealogy / Polish-Ukranian roots and genes [72]

Ukrainians are genteic mix between criminal Poles, Russians , poor farmers and Tatars and Turks.

Come on. That's not nice.

Ukrainians are fine people.
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16 Jul 2010
History / The Two Saddest Nations on Earth... Poles and Jews [243]

We embrace as our own the heritage of Polish Jews, many of whom have enhanced the international stature of Poland."

Really?

What is your evidence that Jews have "enhanced the international stature of Poland"?

Which Jews are you talking about? Be specific.

Do you mean those old Leftists Jews (mostly Polish Jews) in the US who proudly went on national TV mocking and ridiculing Polish people as having less then human intelligence back in the day (and once in a while today) like:

-Joan Rivers
-Don Rickles
-Henny Youngman
-Sid Caeser
-Joey Adams
-Jerry Lewis
-Buddy Hackett

(these are just the tip of the iceberg)

Or maybe Bruce Helford the producer of the Drew Carey show, where the Polish Lady was portrayed as a low-life slob and there was another slob who made an arse out of himself while calling himself "The Polish King".

Or maybe you mean Norman Lear who had a show which he claimed was supposed to be "against bigotry" but actually promoted the denegration of Polish people with the constant sound bites of the Polish character being described over and over and over again as a "dumb Polack", "Meathead Polack" and on and on.

Or maybe Neil Simon the producer of "Biloxi Blues" where the Polish character is portrayed as a backward slob.

Or maybe Larry Wilde who wrote many books on Polish people having subhuman intelligence, oh excuse me.....Polish jokes. I must be politically correct here.

Then since the 90's, media slander against Poles changed a little bit and it went to big Lies about Poles such as the abusive use of the term "Polish Death Camps" where there have actually been reports of people hearing this from the media and then concluding that "the Poles must have created them since they keep hearing that phrase"

Sadly many many of the people in the media who have used that term and continue to do so are Jews.

"Polish Death Camp" controversy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Polish_death_camp%22_controversy

When students were asked who the Nazis were and When asked who built concentration camps in Poland, they reply: "They're Polish camps-so, it was the Poles." en.auschwitz.org.pl/m/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=8

Use of the anti-Polish term "Polish Death Camp" a mistake by the media or DELIBERATE?
poloniatoday.com/edit0510.htm
Polish American complains about Wall Street Journal using term "Polish Death Camps"
thenews.pl/national/artykul133723_polish-concentration-camp-headlines-enrage-nypd-cop.html

"Polish Death Camp" phrase used to slander Poland
amazon.com/Exposing-Polonophobia-anti-Polish-Holocaust-Materials/lm/R2DV8OLVMK9VIZ
Polish Concentration Camps Do not exist but ACCORDING TO PARADE MAGAZINE THEY DO
socyberty.com/society/polish-concentration-camps-do-not-exist-but-according-to-parade-magazine-they-do/

Poland RENAMES Death Camps NAZI GERMAN Death Camps in response to International Media calling them POLISH DEATH camps and implying the Poles created them
wapedia.mobi/en/Polish_death_camp

Now of course we all know that there is good and bad in all groups of people. There are many Jews who have spoken out against this anti-Polish slander by other Jews.

But really. To suggest Jews have "helped the international stature of Poland" is quite ridiculous.

Even the Jews in Poland like that one rabbi Mr. Shuldrich or something like that, gets an adrenaline rush by running to the Leftist Jews at the New York Times or Washington Post and slamming Poland as being "anti-semtic this" and "anti-semitic that" while refusing to explain why Jews CHOSE to LIVE in Poland for hundreds and hundreds of years.

I think Polish Christian Auschwitz survivor Michael Preisler sums of pretty well what the media has been doing to the Polish people.

Michael Preisler - Polish Christian Auschwitz survivor
polishnews.com/index.php?view=article&catid=82:news-from-usa-wiadomosci-z-usa-usa&id=148:a-catholic-auschwitz-survivors-thousand-points-of-light&option=com_content&Itemid=199
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15 Jun 2010
History / The Two Saddest Nations on Earth... Poles and Jews [243]

My problem with that is, you single out the Jews in your list - what about other insane nationalists, spies in general, goy-organised crime and the control of the media by shady groups?

Yes the shady Goyim can be just as bad.
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14 Jun 2010
History / The Two Saddest Nations on Earth... Poles and Jews [243]

Why even bother.

Historically anything Poles did for Jews, Jews took for GRANTED.

Poles ALLOWED Jews into Poland for ONE THOUSAND YEARS when every other nation was kicking them out and what did that get Poland? Hint: No good deed goes unpunished.

As long as you have Jewish Poland-Haters in media like the Anti-Polish New York Times or the anti-Polish Washington Post writing hit pieces on Poland, I say why do Jews and Poles even bother with each other?

The vicious media Anti-Polish Bigot Richard Cohen went crazy quoting the anti-Polish "Goebels" of Anti-Polish Hate propaganda Mr. Poland-Hater himself, Jan Gross, in Cohen's latest Hate piece on Poland recently.

Why should Poles do anything good for Jews when if they do 9 good things for Jews but ONE BAD thing, the anti-Polish Bigots at the New York Times and the Washington Post will only put a MICROSCOPE on the one bad thing the Poles did to Jews. And of course they will portray the Jews as eternal angels. Their simple media formula is "Poles are always BAD" and "Jews are always GOOD".

In Poland all Poles do is walk around on pins and needles when around Jews since they know at ANY minute, if a Jewish guy is having a bad day, and gets into an argument with a Polish guy, the Jewish guy will RUN to call a New York Times reporter or Poland-Hater at the Washington Post like Anti-Polish Bigot Richard Cohen and scream to him about ALL THE ANTI-SEMITISM he is seeing in Poland, like the "historical anti-semitism" the New York Times and Washington Post talk about. And how those "Polish death camps" Richard Cohen talks about had to be real blah blah blah blah

And with all the anti-Polish propaganda pumped into the minds of Jews by the New York Times, Washington Post and other anti-Polish media, WHY would Jews be crazy enough to want to LIVE in Poland today or be by Poles when according to the media anti-Polish Bigots the Poles are "gonna getcha" at any moment.
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14 Jun 2010
Language / Is the term 'Polak' derogatory?? [254]

Nope. In Chicago where I grew up, People of Polish origin either referred to themselves as Polocks, pollacks, however you want to spell it, or Polish. The term Pole was never used. The only derogatory term for Polish people that I know of was "DP" short for displaced person. In other words DP would stand for someone just off the boat.

So if these Poles used the word "Polack" to call each other, I'm sure they didn't mean it in a deragatory way. But the way the Hollywood/TV media used the word "Polack", it definitely wasn't meant to be in a friendly way.

Speaking about Chicago, at Polish American Congress meetings and Polanaise dances, are most of the Poles calling each other "Polacks"? I doubt it. I've been to these functions in Chicago and I didn't hear Poles calling each other that. Granted these were more sophisticated Poles so they didn't feel the need to sound edgy or "cute" by calling others "Polacks"

Polish jokes come from established Polish people making fun of Polish people just "off the boat". Making fun of their ignorance about the "New World". Poles poking fun at other Poles. Polish people do have a sense of humor, though a bit different than the English or American. Other ethnic groups did the same thing.

I'm sure that happened to a certain degree. I've heard some Jews call other Jews "Kikes", I've heard some Irish people call other Irish people "Micks", I've heard Italians refer to Italians as "Wops" and "Guineas" but generally these are not the more sophisticated people saying this.

But if "Polish jokes", as in the subhuman intelligence jokes about Poles, came from some Poles trying to be edgy, then how did they become popular in the 1960's and 70's in many areas of the US that had NO Polish people? Why were the so called subhuman intelligence "Polish-jokes" that were told on national TV the same ones that were told the day after at water coolers and homes all around the US? Why were these media-Polish jokes also told in the parts of the US where there were no Polish people?
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14 Jun 2010
Language / Is the term 'Polak' derogatory?? [254]

Generally, when someone uses it, it used in the context that someone is dumb. For example, a girl says, "What is this paddle used for?" And, her coworker responds, " Oh Ashley, you polack, thats an icepick!"

This sounds like this could have been an anti-Polish skit from an anti-Polish Hollywood/TV show that was pushed hard in the 70's by Anti-Polish media Bigots. Maybe this is life imitating anti-Polish TV hate propaganda?

The Polish American Congress complained to CBS-TV about a skit in the show "Two and a Half Men" where the dialog of one of the female characters was "You don't have to tell me twice, I am NOT A POLACK". CBS-TV claimed they will take this dialog out in repeats of the show.

A couple weeks ago, Long Time Anti-Polish Bigot - Don Rickles - went on the CBS "Late Show" and made some disparaging remarks about Jews, Irish people and Polish people. But he didn't call Jews Kikes or Irish people Micks or Harps BUT HE DID refer to Poles as "POLACKS". The New York Polish American Congress Anti-Bigotry Committee has documented this.

Generally these types of anti-Polish slurs in the TV media are rare nowadays. BUT every so often Anti-Polish Bigots in Hollywood and the TV media want to see if they can bring back some Anti-Polish slurs here and there.
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10 Jun 2010
History / Why Poles love Russia [105]

Some do, some doesn't care, and some others are Russophiles

I think most Poles just don't care about Russians one way or the other. They don't particulary like them or hate them. Its not like Russians play a role in their daily lives.
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9 Jun 2010
History / Why Poles love Russia [105]

I think it's a love-hate relationship (with more of the latter).

That's interesting.

I think you're right. I think there is a Love-Hate relationship between Poles and Russians. Well I can't speak for the Russians or for people of Polish ancestry outside of the US, but here in the US I think Polish Americans genuinely respect Russians since they are Slavic like the Polish. Many Polish Americans are proud of being Slavic. But on the other hand, naturally Polish Americans didn't like past Soviet/Russian domination of Poland. But I generally don't know any Polish Americans that go out of there way to criticize the Russians. I think in general Slavic Americans get along better with each other in the US, then perhaps Slavic diaspora in other countries.
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9 Jun 2010
History / Why Poles love Russia [105]

I think that's a decent analysis. No question Russia being the bigger and dominating country should have more of the burden of evening out its relationship with Poland. But what did Churchil say about Russia being a riddle in a puzzle or something like that? In other words its not easy evaluating Russia's intentions towards others.

The recent Polish crash tragedy and questions about the Russian government handling of it perhaps doesn't put Russia in the best light. On the other hand Russia, as far as its PEOPLE, deserve credit in my opinion, for showing sincere sympathy for the Polish people during the Polish Crash tragedy. Even if one were to believe the worst case scenario that the Russian government (or part of it) was behind the Polish crash, I think its fair to say that the Russian PEOPLE were not happy to see the Polish Plane crash and genuinely sympathized with the Poles during this tragedy. In my opinion, I think that should count for something.
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6 Jun 2010
History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [380]

As polish people are probably the one of the most racist nations in all of Europe. so haha to sum it up im acting really polish right now, by complaining about something. sorry for that.

Yeah you're a Pole alright. LOL And I'm the tooth Fairy.

Yes yes according to you most Poles are racists and negative blah blah blah. You sound like a jerk to generalize about Poles in a negative way. Isn't that what bigot do?? So there is barely anthing good about Polish people according to you? What a Jerk you sound like.

There is good and bad in all people. Oh but wait according to you most Poles are bad. So according to you most Poles complain and are negative? That's your own stupid opinion. In my dealings with Poles I don't get that opinion so EXCUUUUUSE ME.

If you want to bash most Poles to pander to Polish-Haters so that you can be more accepted by them that's your problem. But don't try to speak for most Poles or generalize negative things about Polish people because of your own self-Hatred of being Polish. But frankly I don't think you're a Pole. This forum is filled with people who claim to be Polish and trash Polish people.
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5 Jun 2010
History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [380]

What are you talking about?

My link from the Israeli newspaper Ynet on the article "Stalin's Jews",

ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3342999,00.html

showed how Stalin put Jews into power all over Eastern Europe during and after WWII especially in the capacity of killing the enemies of Stalin which was numbered in the millions of Eastern Europeans. The article stated how high powered communist Jews abused their power and used it to hurt non-Jews by helping to facilitate the movement of millions of East Europeans into Soviet Gulag Death camps. In light of this, don't you think there were family members of these East European victims that resented what these communist Jews did? I know you probably never read this in the Left-Wing Communist NY Times or lamestream media, but these Communists Jews did in fact do all these horrible things in Eastern Europe. Eastern Europeans have always known this.

Also Stalin stacked Poland with many Polish Jews in positions of leadership (like in other E. European nations) after WWII since he knew they generally had little loyalty to nationalist Poles/nationlist E. Europeans and had loyalty to he and the Soviet Union first. Do you want me to name these Polish Jews? These Polish Communist Jews were helpful in precipitating stunts in Poland (and other E. European nations) to create frictions between East Europeans and Jews so that the Soviet Union could then broadcast this to the world as some of the "reasons" its OK for the Soviet Union to occupy these E. European countries. Even though hypocritically in later years, the Soviet Union then started to purge out Jews from its leadership positions.
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5 Jun 2010
History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [380]

Compare: "I saved the kid, and I saved the other kid as well." "yeah but, what did the kid to save you as a grown up?". It's exactly the same

Oh really?

You say Jews were never in a position to help other people? Even all those high ranking Communist Jews that had the power of life and death over so many of the citizens of the East European countries they lived in?

Even the powerful communist Jews that Stalin installed throughout Eastern Europe who could have prevented the trains going to the Soviet Gulag concentration camps? Or at least they could have made less trains and less innocent people tracked down to go to the Soviet death camps.

Stalin's Jews: ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3342999,00.html
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4 Jun 2010
Genealogy / Polish and Russian DNA? [52]

Not germans!! we are not close to german.

Well maybe Poles have a little bit of German in them. Afterall the borders of Poland kept shifting all over the place historically and there are some who say Poles can have a little bit of the nationalities of the countries near them as do the nations near them have a little bit of Polish/Slavic in them.

I am Polish and many people have told me I look German.
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4 Jun 2010
History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [380]

Another example of your mischaracterizing of me.

Do understand English? For the third time, I already said to you, I agreed with you that people from other nations had hardships in saving Jews and deserve credit. Also why do you mischaraterize my request of you to show me links where the Nazis decreed that saving a Jew outside of Poland was punishable not only by death of the person saving Jews but of death of his whole family? Why do you consider that to be me "crying" for simply asking you to provide me with information where in other Nazi occupied countries the Nazis decreed that saving a Jew was punishable by death and death of his family?

But why are you so fixated on people who saved Jews?? Why not ask the opposite question and ask how many Jews in the world risked their lives (like people who saved Jews) to save non-Jews???
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4 Jun 2010
History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [380]

LOL

There you go again. Mischaracterizing me.

That's your twisted interpretation of things when you say I think "Poles are a mythical people". I never said that and I dare you to find where I said anything even close to I think "Poles are a mythical people". Actually there have been several times when I have criticized Poles like when I criticized those Poles who are criminals and act like hooligans in England.

No defending Poles from certain Jewish bigots who get an adrenaline rush by constantly accusing the Poles of "anti-semitism anti-semitism anti-semitism blah blah blah" does not make me think "Poles are a mythical people".

Have you ever criticized the Jews?

I don't think "Poles are a mythical people" when I point out what Poles did for Jews including ALLOWING most of the world's Jewish population into Poland when virtually all other countries kicked Jews out. Or pointing out that there was a good reason why Jews CHOSE to live in Poland for ONE THOUSAND years. Or that the famous rabbi Moses Isserles said "If it were not for Poland the existence of the tribe of Israel would have been unbearable".

Frankly I point all this out not because I think according to you "Poles are a mythical people" but in REACTION to those who joyously like to slander Poland and accuse Poles of "anti-semitism this" and "anti-semitism that" so that Poles should feel indebted to Jews.
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4 Jun 2010
History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [380]

You must have a problem reading English. I already told you that people in other countries did their part in saving Jews and had their hardships. I just never knew of an official Nazi decree to kill not only a person saving a Jew but his family also in countries outside of Poland. And forget about what I believe, I am not talking about Polish historians saying this but non-Polish and Jewish historians. If you can provide me with links backing up your claims as to what happened in these other countries, feel free to provide them to me. I already asked you this before.

First of all you are the fool using terms like " it seems Poles are not high on a PEDESTAL all alone in that respect" of saving Jews in your opinion. That's your ridiculous interpretation. You seem to just love putting the Poles on the defensive all the time and GOD FORBID anyone puts your Jews on the defensive.

To even bring up the notion that the Poles or anyone want to be on a "pedestal" in reference to saving Jews or ANY context concerning Jews shows that YOU are the one putting people on a pedestal. In your case the JEWS.

You come on this forum and everything in your mind is about putting JEWS on a PEDESTAL.

The focus of your conversations is primarily "WHO did good things for JEWS" or "WHO did bad things for JEWS". All you do is JUDGE people here BASED on how much or how little they put JEWS on a pedestal. You may think the world revolves around Jews but it does not. And Jews don't have a monopoly on suffering. The Holocaust just happens to be one of the favorite topics of media elites. Did you ever hear of the Holodomor? Over 8 million Ukrainians sufferred and died under Soviet thugs.

As for your preoccupation with "who saved how many Jews" from various countries, tell me, how many people have Jews saved from suffering and death? How many high powered Soviet Jewish communists saved innocent people from going to Gulag death camps including religious Jews?
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2 Jun 2010
History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [380]

What are you talking about when you talk about this "bragging stuff"?

As for threats against Poles for saving Jews, even Jews like Eli Rosenbaum of the OSI said that in Poland there were more threats against Poles for saving Jews then any other country. That doesn't mean that people in other countries didn't have hardships in saving Jews, but Poland was the only country where there was a mandate to not only kill the Pole helping a Jew but ALSO his family in front of them. I have never heard that being done in other Nazi occupied countries. But if you have a link on it, feel free to provide it.

And it's like AJ says: it's not a dick measuring contest, but I think ppl here should acknowledge the efforts of all those brave ppl who risked their life against tremendous odds, not only in PL, but in all of occupied Europe; the risk was equally big for everybody, whether you were from Poland or from the Netherlands or somewhere else.

You lose much credibility when you just casually say that the risk for saving Jews was equally big for everybody of all Nazi occupied countries. That's patently false. People who saved Jews in countries outside of Poland didn't have their families killed in front of them as additional punishment to the death sentence they got after just seeing their families killed by the Nazis.

And you're right it should not be a "dick measuring contest" as to who saved more Jews then someone else, but you're the one focusing on the subject and providing your data COMPARING countries as to the degree people saved Jews. So in essence, with all due respect, you're the one measuring people's d.....s in reference to people saving Jews.
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31 May 2010
History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [380]

AJ

You are 100% right in what you say.

Its always a lot easier said then done in risking your life (and your family's) in saving other people's lives. All people who saved people from the Nazis deserve tremendous credit. Including those we haven't heard of.
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31 May 2010
History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [380]

I never heard any Poles "bragg" about Poland having more people that risked life and death to save Jews. Poles usually bring up what Poles did for Jews after being accused of being "anti-semtic" etc.

There was a world of difference between the Netherlands and Poland in WWII. Its was a lot more dangerous for Poles to save Jews in Poland then for Dutch people in the Netherlands to save Jews. The Dutch were at least Germanic so the Nazi Germans were more reluctant to find fault with them even if the Dutch resisted them somewhat. The Poles being Slavic and already hated for just that by the Nazis, were really hated when the Nazis found out that they were saving Jews.

According to Eli Rosenbaum of the Office of Special Investigations, the Nazis were shocked when they saw how many Poles were saving Jews (the Nazis thought the Poles were stupid for doing this) so THEN the Nazis mandated the policy of killing not only the Pole who tried to save a Jewish person, but ALSO his WHOLE FAMILY IN FRONT OF HIM before killing him.

Rosenbaum said, "honestly I don't know if I could have done the same if I was in the shoes of these Poles now that I have kids and a family". Rosenbaum said this about 14 years ago.
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30 May 2010
Life / In need of good Polish jokes about Polish culture, people, etc [226]

Its true there are many type of Polish jokes. Real Polish jokes told by Poles generally don't insult Polish people like the 1960's-70's Hollywood/TV media pushed subhuman intelligence jokes did against Polish people. You have the Pierogi and Kielbasa Polish jokes which exaggerate how Poles like these foods and you also have jokes told by Poles in Poland (1945-1990) showing the hypocracies of the Soviet system they were forced to live under, that the Soviets thought was so great.
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24 May 2010
News / "POLISH death camps" term used by "Parade Magazine" Anti-Polish Bigots [249]

Bratwurst boy,

How do the strormtroopers in StarWars make Germans look bad?

Also Darth Vader with his Nazi German shaped helmet was a cool dude who ended up being a hero in the movie. Many Star Wars fans liked him. They thought Darth Vader was cool. So that indirectly makes Germans look cool. No?

I don't think Star Wars makes Germans look bad at all.
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18 May 2010
News / "POLISH death camps" term used by "Parade Magazine" Anti-Polish Bigots [249]

In 1946?

But there were other things involved with the Kielce pogrom that you conveniently ignore like the Polish Jews collaborating with the Soviet Union to spark it. YOU DO KNOW that these types of things did not happen without Moscow knowing about it before hand? Did you know that? You think the Kielce pogrom happened in a vaccuum? Did you know the Soviets and their agents helped to spark this, including Polish Jewish operatives that Stalin installed all throughout Poland and Eastern Europe?

Did you know that Poland was controlled with an IRON FIST from Moscow??? DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?????? You keep assuming nationalist Poles ran all of Poland. In that case you may have a point. If the pogrom happened today with nationalist Poles running Poland, you would have a point. But we're talking about SOVIET CONTROLLED POLAND. What do you think the Soviets were ALWAYS trying to do in Poland??? Any guesses??? Oh they just tried to make everyone as happy as can be!

But lets for arguments sake, let's say that this Kielce pogrom was 100% the Polish people's fault and therefore a tiny tiny element of bad Poles makes ALL Poles bad in your book or in the mind of Jews especially those leftists at the Anti-Polish Hate rags like the New York Times (Slimes) or the Parade Magazine. Using that logic, Jews should rightfully have the image of being horrible anti-East European and Anti-Christian bigots for all the horrible things bad Communist Jews did to East European Christians. Right? If a few bad apples make all the apples bad as you say, shouldn't the sick inhuman things Communist Jews did to East European Christians make all Jews look bad? Or is their a double standard when it comes to judging the Jewish people? Because some ethnic groups are more equal then others??
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18 May 2010
News / "POLISH death camps" term used by "Parade Magazine" Anti-Polish Bigots [249]

But this is what I'm trying to say: right after WW2, in exactly the time when all the horrors of the Holocaust come to light, around 40 Jews get killed in an outrage based on some false rumor.

Its amazing how much you GENERALIZE!!! I can't believe it!

So some Poles who allegedly killed 40 Jews DEFINE ALL OF POLAND??? And the only reaons why the world "cared" so much about the suffering of Jews is because it is basically the mass media's favorite topic. Many people in the media are liberal Jews lets not kid ourselves, like at the New York Times and Parade magazine.

(Why didn't the killing of 9 million Ukrainians get as much media coverage as the killing of Jews? Are Ukrainians/East Europeans LESS IMPORTANT then Jews?)

You're also not bringing up the Soviet role and Communist Jews who helped spark these anti-semitic events to brand Poland as "anti-semitic" and therefore worthy of being occupied by the Soviet Union.

The Polish-Hating media LOVES to put a MICROSCOPE on the Anti-Polish propaganda of recent Polish-Bashers like Jan Gross who I'm sure you take much of your Anti-Polish viewpoint from, but did you know he said this about Jews in his book "REVOLUTION FROM ABROAD"? I wonder why the New York Times doesn't talk about this?

Page 32 from "REVOLUTION FROM ABROAD"

"What Poles and Ukrainians report, often with biting irony, the Jews do not deny: "Jews greeted the Soviet army with JOY. The youth was spending days and evenings with the soldiers" Jews received incoming Russians enthusiastically , they [the Russians] also trusted them [the Jews]. "The first days of the Bolsheviks' presence were very nice. People went out into the streets, kept looking over the tanks, children walked after the soldiers" Jews WELCOMED the Red Army in 1939, and is not very difficult to explain their initial reaction. For one thing, there were PROPORTIONATELY more communist sympathizers among Jews than among any other nationality in the local population.......

Also why didn't the same media that is so zealous to put a MICROSCOPE on the suffering of Jews NOT put a MICROSCOPE on the suffering of people BY Communist Jews like Stalin's Jews?

Stalin's Jews

ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3342999,00.html

Why didn't the media promote this image of the Jews?
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18 May 2010
News / "POLISH death camps" term used by "Parade Magazine" Anti-Polish Bigots [249]

MareGaea,

You seem like you mean well, but I'm afraid you are getting caught up with generalizing about Poles the way some generalize about Jews.

You talk about pogroms by Poles against Jews in Poland AFTER WWII and saying how that can be seen as "giving Poles a bad image". (It was actually the anti-Polish media/New York Times giving the "bad image" of Poland by putting a MICROSCOPE on anything anti-semitic while FAILING to talk about all the good Poland has done for Jews) Since pogroms are a criminal act against Jews, WHY are the criminals (minority of Poland) being used to DEFINE Poland? What percentage of Poles did these pogroms?? 0.01% of Poles?? Yet THEY DEFINE POLES???? Would it be fair to define Jews as Communist thugs and say that is their image because of the disproportionate amount of Jews in Communist governments throughout Eastern Europe including Poland?

Also you DO KNOW that Poland AFTER WWII was NOT controlled by nationalist Poles. It was controlled by Moscow and the Soviets. Do you know Moscow knew about virtually all these pogroms against Jews before they started? Do you know it was in the Soviet Union's interest to have Jews and Poles against each other? Its amazing to me how some Jews look at these "pogroms" so simplistically and in generalizations. They look at these events within a generalization context that they wish others don't view them in.
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17 May 2010
News / "POLISH death camps" term used by "Parade Magazine" Anti-Polish Bigots [249]

Surely, like you said both sides might have valid claims but there's a deep ingrained anti-Jewish bias amongs many, not all, but many Poles (and other nationalities too).

Well there is good and bad in all groups so surely there are bad Poles who are anti-Jewish. But I just wonder if some of the Poles you claim to have "ingrained anti-Jewish bias" are REACTING to the anti-Polish bias of certain Jews?? Perhaps its a little like what came first, the chicken or the egg thing?

Just remember Jews would not be so stupid to CHOOSE to live in a country like Poland with its "ingrained anti-Jewish bias" for ONE THOUSAND YEARS. That would be either stupid, masochistic, crazy or a comnbination of the above.

I respect your effort Skysoulmate for trying to be fair to the Jewish people and defending them against perceived anti-Jewish bias from Poles and others. But I just hope there are Jewish "Skysoulmates" in Jewish forums defending Poles when the Polish-Haters in the Jewish forums are making likewise anti-Polish comments.