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Bratwurst Boy   
2 Sep 2025
Life / Do colored immigrants in Poland function better than in Western countries? [295]

Wasn't it the same in East Germany?

Without the resistance (and some help from Gorbatschow) the wall would still stay (and the Wessi-Lefties be still happy)....

The inner civil opposition in these jailed countries had the biggest part of the Commie's losing the Cold War, the "war of the systems", even more than the western weapons and their democratic capitalism!

Much easier said than done,

But at least a tiny life sign....something...anything.....who else should fight for their freedom???

The poor and oppressed masses can't all leave for the West....the world doesn't work like that!
Bratwurst Boy   
2 Sep 2025
Life / Life in Poland - ECONOMY [59]

Poland...no longer the poor plumber of the rich....soon they will want their own plumber! :)

reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/1n4tsi6/o_poland_where_art_thou/


  • Poland economy
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Sep 2025
Life / Do colored immigrants in Poland function better than in Western countries? [295]

What a dreadful leader..

Sometimes I get very angry but then....remember....she is an Ossi! She had no idea about West-Germany, its long grown political culture...the CDU was for her not so much different as the SPD or FDP back then...no bondings to the values, the history or the former leader at all...West-Germany was a foreign country for Ossis!

Maybe one shouldn't blame her to much, she led as she understood it, more from the gut than from the brain, with not enough schooled knowledge about a capitalist economy or a long standing democratic society...not so much like a common conservative leader should....but how could she? She just hadn't been born and bred into the same circles...

Maybe the real ones to blame here are the Wessis in the CDU, the party-politicians who nodded to everything, supported every crap she did or didn't do just because it got them and later kept them the power, the influence in Berlin...and not at least the money!

They surely knew better....and together they changed the former conservative CDU into a strange party, something the german lefties praised and cheered for.... but left millions of real conservative Germans politically homeless...but hey, whenever have non-voter really disturbed anyone in elections, right?

....but then came the AfD and offered a real alternative for them...and whooopsie!
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Sep 2025
Life / Do colored immigrants in Poland function better than in Western countries? [295]

And she was right

Alien, even the most left-leaning media doubts that very much today.....as their life was so much easier before, without a rising AfD.

Probably the only one (beside you) who still stubbornly insists it was the right thing to do, is Merkel herself! πŸ˜•

PS: The next group of Afghans gets flown in today....and oh wonder, no cheering masses for them....no thrown teddy bears anywhere...one wonders what happened!
Bratwurst Boy   
23 Aug 2025
History / 81st Anniversary of Warsaw Uprising [72]

To make Germany then look bad or Germany today look good.

....I guess this!

But usually many make also the distinction of "Soviet Russia"....and in Germany it is today often also "Putin's Russia....but you are right, it's rarely "Truman's US/America" and never "the Democrats"!

...curious!
Bratwurst Boy   
12 Aug 2025
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

people voted for parties that promised to curb immigration, and that's it

Well....curbing immigration IS in Germany a rightist topic....even called far right....rightist extremist.....Nazi....from the left, that is!
Bratwurst Boy   
12 Aug 2025
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

Didn't you hear? In the CDU the mood is ****, denying Israel the military support is nothing short of a betrayal!

IMHO the conflict about the true conservatives and the Merkelists is coming to the forefront soon....I think that Merz has made one compromise for the SPD to much, that could have been the one step to the left to far!

People have voted for a change to the right, but they get the same leftist politics like before....and hence the AfD is gaining!

100 days Chancellor

The impression is growing that Merz cannot

Following Friday's Israel decision, a number of members of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group are expressing unusually strong criticism. Even more explosive for the Chancellor: the CSU is distancing itself. Foreign policy successes are being pushed into the background....

n-tv.de/politik/Der-Eindruck-verstaerkt-sich-dass-Merz-es-nicht-kann-article25960736.html
Bratwurst Boy   
12 Aug 2025
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

Wow!

Poll shock for the CDU-SPD coalition on its 100-day anniversary!

According to a Forsa survey for RTL and N-TV, the CDU/CSU and SPD have plummeted to a combined 37 percent. The AfD, on the other hand, is gaining ground and would now be the strongest party with 26 percent. This puts it ahead of the CDU/CSU, which has plummeted to 24 percent.

bild.de/politik/inland/umfrage-schock-merz-zustimmungswerte-stuerzen-ab-689b1abaeb14e20ada75a882

The first time the AfD is the strongest party, has overtaken even the CDU!

After the polls she is moving now to the 30%....a somewhat magical number....that would mean a third of the populace, every third one...(at least in polls)....

But Merz becomes such a disappointment for all conservatives...especially his betrayal of Israel, it could cost him his head!
Bratwurst Boy   
3 Aug 2025
Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 3 [574]

Don't stop until the whole Gaza is ready to be the world's largest amusement park and resort.

....such a park needs workers....and the Gazans need jobs! :)
Bratwurst Boy   
3 Aug 2025
Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 3 [574]

Since the video about the Hamas-Death Camp-Hostage is in all media the mood even in Pali-loving Germany changes....there is no peace as long the fat boys from Hamas rule the people...and I'm quite sure, as long as the Palis don't do their own part first and kick their fat oppressors out there will be no change for Gaza at all!
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Aug 2025
Genealogy / Meaning of the Surname Scobel [17]

Did you read that already...its about "Scobla":

lastnames.myheritage.de/last-name/scobla
Bratwurst Boy   
31 Jul 2025
Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 3 [574]

And long overdue.

Absolutely!

I even think if Israel wouldn't had reacted as strongly as it did, the Arabs would still not had come to that long overdue conclusion....
Bratwurst Boy   
31 Jul 2025
Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 3 [574]

For first time, Arab League nations condemn Oct 7, demand Hamas leave Gaza while calling for 2-state solution at UN conference

allarab.news/for-first-time-arab-league-nations-condemn-oct-7-demand-hamas-leave-gaza-while-calling-for-2-state-solution-at-un-conference/

....France called the declaration "both historic and unprecedented."

"For the first time, Arab countries and those in the Middle East condemn Hamas, condemn October 7, call for the disarmament of Hamas, call for its exclusion from Palestinian governance, and clearly express their intention to normalize relations with Israel in the future," said French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot.

In an interview with French weekly Le Journal, Barrot said the move was part of an initiative between France and Saudi Arabia.

"For the first time, Arab countries will condemn Hamas and call for its disarmament, which will seal its definitive isolation. European countries will in turn confirm their intention to recognize the State of Palestine. Half of European countries have done so, all others are considering it," Barrot told the JDD (Le Journal du Dimanche).

"The British Prime Minister has stated his intention to do so. Germany is considering it at a later stage. We will launch an appeal in New York for other countries to join us in order to set in motion an even more ambitious and demanding process that will culminate on September 21," Barrot added.....

Maybe the change is for real?
Bratwurst Boy   
31 Jul 2025
Genealogy / Meaning of the Surname Scobel [17]

Nothing beats a Bochwurst after 10 or 20 beers. Cheers.

Yeah...right? πŸ˜€
Bratwurst Boy   
30 Jul 2025
Genealogy / Meaning of the Surname Scobel [17]

I googled the german variant "Skobel"....also....there are 242,504 more people with that name, and the highest concentration of them are in Poland.

forebears.io/de/surnames/skobel

And this site is quite sure: nachnamen.net/nachname-skobel


  • Skobel name
Bratwurst Boy   
29 Jul 2025
Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 3 [574]

Some are amoral and others immoral?

Sure!

Those who kill women and babies to kill women and babies are more immoral than those who kill women and babies to get to and kill the enemie who kills their women and babies!

How could you even ask?
Bratwurst Boy   
29 Jul 2025
Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [187]

Russians and Germans make good friends.

I agree!

Still...'89 put us on different paths! The same man you blame for the end of the Soviets and the beginning of so much difficulties and adversity, Gorbatschow, is still admired and even revered by the Germans for that what he did (or better didn't do).
Gorbatschow let us go peacefully....I guess someone like Putin instead would had send the troops to help Honecker and Co. to stay in power....no matter the costs in blood!

Where do we go from there?
Bratwurst Boy   
29 Jul 2025
Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [187]

This was a most hilarious read.

....oh my....that for sure sounds abit "rosy"! :)

But it fits somehow....there was no hate anymore between Russians and Germans, curious after such a war and it was an occupation of an enemy people after all.

Between the officials of course not, but also I don't remember growing up a hateful resistance or something like it....truly wondrous if one things about it...maybe it all ended with the "war-generation" retiring, the soldiers actively living through the war times going back home...maybe....

If one reads accounts from Poland or other Warsaw Pact countries from that time, the experiences there did sound quite abit differently!
Bratwurst Boy   
29 Jul 2025
Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [187]

any German government will have to make a case to the Americans as to why staying is in the interest of the USA.

I agree with that....as will most Germans, I guess. That's why I don't see the AfD actively pursue that point, she has nothing to win with it!

Maybe we can leave that point during "What If" - discussions about what would happen if the AfD would ever be part of a gov...regional or national. The being part of the West, inclusively membership of NATO and US-troops stationed in Germany etc. surely won't change so fast!

What doesn't mean that they won't try for better relations with Moscow at the same time...which still will probably make Poland very nervous....
Bratwurst Boy   
29 Jul 2025
Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [187]

3) Germans do not wear "valenki" (Russian wool boots)

But we LOVED the Tschapkas! :)

I remember my Opi buying me one very nice and expensive one (I was not even school-age yet)...with dark brown, gleaming outer leather and incredible soft-feeling fur inside...I was so proud showing it off during sledging in Winter ! :)

Hach ja....*gets all DDR-nostalgic*