Polonia / Which country is better SPAIN or POLAND [118]

Would be Spain better off when the regions would go separate if they are so different to each other (Basque)???

I mean....there are different regionalities (like Poland Germany has them galore) which add to the flavour of a still whole country... and then there are people who (sometimes) hate each others guts (English-Scots etc.) but are more or less for historical reasons pressed into the same borders, totally different people secretly (or openly) yearning for independence from each other....

News / EU, Germany, Euros and Poland. [54]

Refugee U-turn by the Chancellor

Millions of Afghans want to go to Germany

Whoa! *phew*

time.news/refugee-u-turn-by-the-chancellor-millions-of-afghans-want-to-go-to-germany-domestic-politics/

bild.de/politik/inland/politik-inland/fluechtlings-kehrtwende-der-kanzlerin-millionen-afghanen-wollen-nach-deutschland-77165424.bild.html


Maybe she really learned from the consequences of 2015....even as she is bowing out come September...

News / EU, Germany, Euros and Poland. [54]


You are abit bigger??? :)

But it still irks me....such an EU-superstate ruled by Brussels is as much a bleak vision for Germans as for most other Europeans....but still it is always told as if the Germans can't wait to build it, and not the French who want it that way...

Germans have other ideas....the HANSE worked well during its high time....the HRE was a nice place to live most of the time....these are all better examples to model the future unified EU on than a central state ala France!


Hmmm....fireworks won't cut it, Crowie!

It's a war of ideas....Serbs must come forward with a better idea of Europe than the EU....an idea for all Europeans (not only for past and current and future Slavs).

A book about it would be a great start! :)

News / EU, Germany, Euros and Poland. [54]


Since Germany has more and more problems to rule Germany I am not very hopeful about this....

Not to mention that for most Germans a strong central state with a capital "who rules them all" is also a nightmare. In our history we have been more often than not a federation, with up to 500 (during the HRE) quite independent states (modern Germany has 16). The most recent memory of a german central state was the GDR, not an experiment most Germans are keen to repeat!

A strong central state ruled by Brussels is more a dream of the Frenchies, who love their Republic also very centralized with Paris and not much more....so would you please stop the Germans for that nightmarish vision of an EU superstate?

Thank you!

A unified EU, when Germans have something to say, would much more be modelled on the United States of America.....

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]


Actually not....where in central/eastern Europe Stetls with yiddish speaking orthodox, quite isolated living Jews were more common, in the Germany before the Nazis there wouldn't fit a leaf between christian and jewish Germans....they were the best adapted and integrated minority...indistinguishable by clothing, looks, manners, language....patriotic to boot....part of the cultural, scientific, artist elite.....an asset to the german society, not parasites....thats why Hitlers hate was so puzzling (maybe because he was Austrian)!

I read that many of the german Jews looked down their noses towards their Stetl brethren in the East...there was definitely a divide!

Polonia / Which country is better SPAIN or POLAND [118]

You preacher - I choir!

But as a German myself and hence direct successor of the Nazis and the german colonialists/imperialists its not that easy....they just won't stop knocking and demanding!

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]

Okay....

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]

You can stop bringing him to the table everytime....the guy is nearly a century dead by now!

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


Well...that's history now....Germans are today even unable to warn the population of upcoming catastrophes, even if every neighbour and his grandmom knows already all about it....Hitler would rotate in his grave (if he had one) if he could see what has become of an once flawlessly functioning Germany!

Soon the Poles will mock us with "deutsche Wirtschaft"! :(

Polonia / Which country is better SPAIN or POLAND [118]

Those comparisons with Nazi-Germany really make not much sense, the spanish policies in Overseas was vastly different to the usual colonial policies.

The main difference was surely racial, mixing was not only allowed but even encouraged to entrench the spanish culture/religion/language there (conquistadores and priests where all men....soon there were alot of little mestizos running around!).

So there was never an enforced segregation or a brutal apartheid policy because of skin color or heritage in the Central and South Americas...you need to keep that in mind before comparing Spain with the Nazi-Germans or the british Empire!

(Of course even today those with lighter skin = more european blood are somewhat higher up the societal ladder than those with darker skin = more indian or african blood, but this is a thing everywhere in the world)

History / Did Poland bring on its own destruction in 1939? [71]



But we are! (Animals that is)

This elevation of mankind to be the "crown of the creation" is.....well.....only human-religious hubris...so.....

The sooner mankind takes back her place as full part of the nature and believes itself no longer to be something special, some "crown" or the other, the sooner we will regain our balance with nature and the whole planet again, just my two cents.

But I'm bowing out here, that is so far off topic I wonder the Admin lets it stand, heh:)

*takes helmet and wanders off*

History / Did Poland bring on its own destruction in 1939? [71]

Animals reproduce! They are not known for being religious.... :)

History / Did Poland bring on its own destruction in 1939? [71]

Some brave/stubborn/idiotic people got their communion till the end of the GDR too, it still was thoroughly de-christianized during the four decades of commie rule....

East Germany became a religious black hole....and it still is!


theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2012/sep/22/atheism-east-germany-godless-place

History / Did Poland bring on its own destruction in 1939? [71]

Why?

You demanded a number....(I didn't even wrote an essay....this time)...

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Absolutely!*nods*

History / Did Poland bring on its own destruction in 1939? [71]

Not to forget the forced mass emigration of polish soldiers who had to stay in the UK after the war....why they didn't come back into their new liberated home country you ask? Maybe to avoid the fate of the polish officers and intelligentsia in Katyn?

fmreview.org/resettlement/blaszczyk

History / Did Poland bring on its own destruction in 1939? [71]

"....From 1945 to 1948, the Soviets deported to forced labor or concentration camps in the Soviet Union from 3,000,000 to 6,000,000 Poles, of which 585,000 may have died. Hundreds of thousands and possibly near 1,000,000 Poles were killed in Soviet terror and repression.33...."

hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP7.ADDENDA.HTM#33

hawaii.edu/powerkills/USSR.TAB8A.GIF

History / Did Poland bring on its own destruction in 1939? [71]

Why? After the French surrendered the Parisians for example lived quite well under the german occupation....if not for the Resistance the common citizens had their normal lives back.

It truly makes a difference if its war time or peace time, when the war is officially over....

The Soviets showed their true faces whenever there had been uprisings. No communist rule could have had hold for long in the Soviet Empire without the backing of the soviet troops in these countries.

The fate of the GDR was sealed as Gorbachev said "njet" to the pleading East Berlin dictators to send the tanks in '89.....that's the cornerpoints of an occupation, Iron is right!

News / Poland to get the newest version of M1A2 Abrams tank [90]


Well...he still didn't get his 2 percent and as I have read his successor is busy renouncing Trumps orders....


No, he is not. This infatuation was not comparable to the outright love for Obama and it was over quite quickly. Being "not Trump" is not enough for our "weasels".....

History / Did Poland bring on its own destruction in 1939? [71]


In East Germany people guessed that Moscow didn't want to let their young Rotarmists see the comparably good life in the "West" (Poland and East Germany had been the "West" for them?)

They tried to block all unofficial contacts between their soldiers and the civilians with all means....surely not out of concern for the occupied people....

News / Poland to get the newest version of M1A2 Abrams tank [90]


Nah....we still pay 1%something (about 313 million).....for that we want some service....

News / Poland to get the newest version of M1A2 Abrams tank [90]

I don't think Germany will just look on should Russia or China or anybody else try something in Poland....our history would not allow it.....we would send what we have, even if it would not be much that at least would make it a NATO case, we are after all still an US military hub...so the US would also need to do something. Poland would not stand alone...

News / Poland to get the newest version of M1A2 Abrams tank [90]

I really believe that most countries are quite happy with Germany not meeting any military standards anymore!

If we would take money in the hand again....rebuild the Bundeswehr....spending more....getting more involved....they would start to fret again too....

History / Did Poland bring on its own destruction in 1939? [71]

I just know that at one point Hitler tried to woo Warsaw into an alliance against Russia....seen short sighted it would had made Poland a Nazi ally....with all consequences....not a good outcome in the end either.

And I don't think their fate as Moscow's pawn would had looked differently if they had become an official ally of Stalin before (if that had been possible)....

It was a ****** situation for Poland, I doubt whatever it did that something, anything would had kept them free and whole....it's the fate of their geography!

I obviously didn't watch the video but Putin is generally not trustworthy regarding russian and european history though.....

News / Poland to get the newest version of M1A2 Abrams tank [90]


Definitely! :)

I really think it was more that trumpish demands that people made more annoyed at the tone than the content....so the talks started in earnest.

News / Poland to get the newest version of M1A2 Abrams tank [90]

Ever thought to work actively with those starting projects? It could be your career....you bring the passion for it....

It starts here:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Security_and_Defence_Policy

gov.pl/web/national-defence/poland---european-union

Look for an office near you....ask what you would need to bring to the table and look for work there...that's where the future EU army will grow out of, just my two cents!

News / Poland to get the newest version of M1A2 Abrams tank [90]


...no more spit at Germans! :)

GRUNNI!!! :)

News / Poland to get the newest version of M1A2 Abrams tank [90]


Hmm....depends! An army is a sure huge symbol of the success of inner unification and a message to outer would-be rivals...it is also a job machine for countless people from all over Europe (and with that an integrating and unifying force on its on) and a motor for scientific and technological progress and advancement all of Europe will profit from.

How efficient it really is would only a hot war show....something which I don't really want to see in my life time....

News / Poland to get the newest version of M1A2 Abrams tank [90]

Well...I'm not hurting my head over that....there will be expensively paid people who can do that, heh:)

News / Poland to get the newest version of M1A2 Abrams tank [90]

I had a few years spanish and quite an interest in south american affairs....I wouldn't be averse! :)

Maybe an EU army would be multilingual...why the hell not!