UK, Ireland / Boris Johnson - is the new British PM a popular figure in Poland? [150]


You are fire today! You're absolutely right! russia is a malign and corrupting influence on Europe and a new Iron Curtain needs to be drawn by Europe to prevent the contagion of russian corruption and violence away from a benign Europe!

I dunno what made you see the light but welcome to the russia-haters club!

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


the problem of economic migrants on the Polish border is entirely the work of the soviet scum Lukashenka....

get your facts right, tovarisch

Language / Can you use lubisz and lubicie interchangeably? [9]


I've only heard of using wy with one person in Polish in two circumstances...

some areas in the far east where usage is similar to russian/ukrainian/belarusian

it was used in communist times among party members and civil servants used it with members of the public as attested in police novels of the period (of which I've read... a lot)

I haven't heard of it catching on apart from those contexts....

News / Chances that Visegrad countries move out of NATO and EU if security situation in Europe further aggravate ? [26]


that's why crow likes him, he has a fantasy about serbs and russians together as super slavs (think of caste system)

of course, as I posted on another thread, serbia's crush on russia is like a teenage girl writing fan letters to some girly K-pop star, she lives for him and he doesn't even know or care that she exists....

News / Chances that Visegrad countries move out of NATO and EU if security situation in Europe further aggravate ? [26]

Let's see.... russia is in invading mode (and has publicly listed Poland as a target)

Poland decides to leave NATO which is a major hedge against russian aggression?

That would be like somebody jumping out of a tenth floor window because they don't like elevators....

Hungary is on russia's side because it's hoping to get a chunk of a dismembered Ukraine...

No other Visegrad country sees russia as anything but an enemy....

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


you dream of that, don't you comrade?

News / Should Poland pay for gas in rubles? [194]


you're in touch with putain are you? tell him to go fkkk himself with a baseball bat (wrapped in barbed wire and dipped in bleach)....

russo-nazis are killing slav civilians and you're cheering them because you're... (fill in the blank)

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


Serbs are fine and happy with the "wrong" slavs dying in droves.... they only care about themselves and their russian masters... a slave state!

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


No wonder she sold him like a bag of old potatoes!


And clueless russians won't even understand why the rest of the world despises their inferior culture!


And it's normal for normal countries to want to stop doing business with a violent and primitive mafia state!

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


parental "love" for children is a relatively new concept in the world that has not reached all corners... primitive places like russia tend to follow more traditional norms where children are an economic asset to be cashed in by the parents...


galeev links to russian media sources... are you claiming the russian media lies and can't be believed about anything?


the "mass dehumanization campaign" is the work of one little weasly coward (who you are obliged to worship) named Putin.... he's done more damage to the international image of russia and russians than the rest of the world combined

don't like the light being shone on the sewer that is your inferior culture?

nasy hideous place...

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]

More hideous dysfunction from the open sewer known as rvussia....

short version: mothers turning in their 'draft doding' sons, hoping for a payout from the government if they get killed....

twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1548387005666471936

nasty beyond belief.... worse culture in "europe" (to the extent that russia is 'european'?)

News / Should Poland pay for gas in rubles? [194]


Maybe in the beginning but she was in office a good 6 years too long....

I recently learned the term Betriebsblindheit which I think describes her final years, she was alienated from the electorate and made all her decisions for the benefit of those who had access (esp private industry)

IINM it was Schroeder who made the devil's deal with russia but Merkel did nothing to change that (despite chillier relations with poutain himself)

Now Scholz (a non-entity who might be an acceptable placeholder in good times) is out of his depth trying to deal with the systemic and catstrophic failure of the German political class....

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


not really, as explained by many (esp by Galeev) a mafia style economy (which is what russia has) can't actually produce anything complicated because that means the mafia-type guys have to give up some power to the nerds who know how to make complicated things and they don't want to do that so they take control of simple things where the most complicated thing is distribution

russian production (and russian resource extraction) is entirely dependent on non-russian technology (like the turbines in canada) and imports.... autarky is a non-starter there (unless they change the mafia-style economy for something with more potential).

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


what? russia can't even make french fries!!!!!

twitter.com/maxfras/status/1547695369466761216

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]

@RussianAntiPutin

be careful, velund the stukach is here....

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


Good thing you agree with him 100% because if you didn't...... (not good for you).

You're a great example of the "happy slave" mentality.


russia can't even make french fries on its own!

twitter.com/maxfras/status/1547695369466761216

Learn how to frie sliced potatoes on your own and maybe the world will take you seriously

useless country.....

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


Oh come offf it! that is sooooooooo boring.

That's the kind of thing children think is deep and profound (and adults find tedious and boring).

russians need to stop being whiny infants and become adults

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


infantile immature excuse.... honestly russians are mostly giant babies....

meanwhile in the real world ukrainian civilians are dying by the thousand while russians whine that nobody is changing their diapers...

as a country, russia is worse than useless, it's a burden on humanity

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


I'm not talking about culture in the artistic sense but in the anthropological sense - the values of the majority of the population...

though if we're here... I'm not that crazy about russian arts either

lady macbeth of mtsensk - probably the greatest russian opera ever, an amazing work and ruthlessly suppressed (the theme is revolt against the suffocating oppressiveness of russian society in general - her crimes are understandable as doomed rebellion against primitive social norms).

some songs of rachmaninoff are pretty good (when I posted a link... a russian made a dirty joke, so.... yeah, there's that)

bits and pieces of mussorgskij are fine but they tend to be tiresome in their complete form

could never stomach tolstoy or dostoevsky (tried... couldn't finish) and pushkin (the russian 'everything' doesn't translate well which means he's a second rate talent)

I enjoyed the master and margarita but I think it's generally over-rated....

Andrei Rubleev (another supressed work) is in my top ten favorite movies of all time (but again the picture of russian society is paints is pretty depressing)


the're not "taking" anything... the current system (an absolute dictator who relieves them of the responsibility of making choices) is exactly what they want.

in developmental terms russian (anthropological) culture is very infantile - the ideal state is helplessness where all important decisions are made by a mysterious all-powerful figure).

Life / Is Polish church involved in politics too much? [137]


Not that exteme, but... yeah, in Poland the church does best as an expression _against_ the government rather than as an arm of the government....

The popularity of Radio Maryja (back when it was a force) could also be explained in the same way.....

Life / Is Polish church involved in politics too much? [137]


completely predictable... the more the church is aligned with government the less most people want to have to do with it...

the best thing a Polish government could do for the church would be to slap some restrictions on it and speak out against its power

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]

You're focusing on the least important part so that you can ignore the entire message...

The _function_ of some rando Tsar, Stalin and Putin is _identical_ all are absolute, despotic and immoral rulers who brook no slightest dissent and who are worshipped by the people (whom the Tsar or Stalin or Puint) absolutely despises....

Why hasn't russia been able to evolve to some different system of government? because that's what the russian people want - an absolute ruler who will make all decisions so they can excuse themselves from any kind of responsibility.

That is why I despise the russian people _far_ more than I despise the latest tsar.

Worthless culture.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


Of course there is. The title may be different (apparently now he wants to be "pravitel"....) but russia has always been ruled by tsars - despots with absolute power who hold the population in contempt (but who are worshipped by the people).

Think in terms of structures - russian society isn't much different now (in structure) than in the 19th century....

In other news, they've gone after universities so that a degree from a russian university will be absolutely worthless...

theins.ru/en/opinion/boris-grozovsky/252996

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


then russians will never be free.... they will continue to be sheep, herded by the tsar who regularly fleeces them and occasionally leads them to the slaughter.... it's what they want....

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


'have been' is the operative word....

ultimately if the people of russia can't/won't stand up for their country... then maybe they don't deserve a country....

Poles stood up for Poland (at tremendous cost)

Uktainians are standing up for Ukraine (at even greater cost)

russians are just kind of sitting there.....

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


Prove me wrong.... speak out publicly against him, gather everyone you know who disagrees with him to speak out publicly!

Being afraid to say you don't agree with him in public..... is, objectively speaking, supporting him.


He's a chicken... a coward... a fraud... and the russian people are even bigger cowards for not seeing through him....

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]

Good news!

russians wanted the USSR back!

They're getting it!

A husband denounces his wife to the authorities for being against the government!

twitter.com/InsiderEng/status/1547163916144414721

russians love informing on each other so.... happy days!

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


In other words.... yes, he's afraid. Which is why he's recruiting prisoners and ordering up 'volunteer batallions'....

When is the last time he came within 5 meters of another person?

Everything he does is based on fear and paranoia....

He's a snivelling little coward and russians worship him like a god..... what does that make the country?

It's a very good thing that all russians completely agree with putin and whatever the russian government does... 'cause they have no way of expressing any opposition anymore...

twitter.com/generalsvr_en/status/1547487380445200384

And working with investigative journalists has also been criminalized

twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1547837816230465538

Good thing for the russians that they totally agree with Simonyan here about the need for censorship....

twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1514339222118883334

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


then why doesn't putin call for full mobilization? is it because he's afraid?

despicable dishonest excuse for a country....

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]

russia can't even take over Ukraine, let alone the world

but... russia in its cackfisted attempts to feel important by invading other countries will kill a lot of innocent civilians... are you proud of that?

russian 'culture' is lies, theft and violence - all the russian state is capable of at present and the weak and passive russian citizens just let the mafia bleed them dry and whine about not being able to change anything

before february I didn't think much about russia, but every single thing I've found out about what makes russia tick is loathesome...

nasty thug culture and the worst government in the world.... I can't wait to be able to simply ignore it again