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Posts by Sasha  

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Sasha   
5 Nov 2011
News / Poles start to feel arrogant and superior to Southern Europeans [182]

Its called pure, clean hate.

Hate appertains to a narrow mind which are eventually pawns in the big game. The intellectuals are given more complicated feelings.
Simply saying if one says "I hate Russians/Poles" that's a clear sign of a dull wit.
Sasha   
3 Nov 2011
News / Poles start to feel arrogant and superior to Southern Europeans [182]

God said to a Russian peasant :" I will make one of your wishes come true, but be aware, whatever you wish for yourself, i will double that for your neighbor", the peasant's answer was " God take then one of my eyes" :) (folks wisdom, you have to love it)

Ironically the story well pictures Polish attitude towards the Russians, whether it's vanity, envy or perhaps jaundice. There are loads of alike stories from the other end though.

I am Latvian and I must admit I DO SOMETIMES feel superior to other nationalities but it is not restricted to southern Europeans. I actually think that as a Latvian I am better then any other race and nationality in UK including Poles, Portugese, English etc. Sorry guys I cannot help myself and I DO THINK that lots of other immigrants and locals are nothing more then scumbags.

Too bad very few of the Teutonics would have a gut to tell that to face. The humankind could have avoided lots of wars.

Rama undoubtedly has a point.
Sasha   
6 Oct 2011
Life / Can any young Poles can still speak Russian [25]

what percentage of Russian words can Polish speaker understand?

The biggest obstacle for the Poles in understanding Russian is Cyrrilic alphabet. We the Russians don't have that obstacle for everyone can more or less read Latin letters.

what percentage of Russian words can Polish speaker understand?

Hard to say really. One may trust figures provided by Natasa but my feeling is that I understand Polish better than Serbian, though worse than Ukrainian. It's definitely different the other way round. Poles understand us worse than we understand them. It's just my assumption based on fund of words in Russian.

That's how Natasa's phrase would sound in Russian:

Govorish li ti na serbsom? /Govorite li Vi na serbsom?
Sram tebe (Vam), esli net.
Sasha   
30 Sep 2011
History / Are Poles grateful to the Russians for winning the war? [120]

Because the Red Army consisted in 88% of Russians and NKVD in 94% you troll:))))

1941-45 Wiktor Suworow for one.

Sorry for breaking in, guys...

Hi, Sok! Could you please give me some link to back up your first statement?
Suvorov is not a link, if anything he's science-fiction writer, not a historian. Thanks!

You should understand though, that even if there are such figures (which I highly doubt), they are totally unreliable and there's hardly a way to get real figures. In fact, many Poles particularly at the times of Polish Operation would want to gio as "Russians" and willingly made up a good number of the NKVD itself.

Sorry. Keep going...
Sasha   
28 Sep 2011
History / Are Poles grateful to the Russians for winning the war? [120]

so you would rather your people and culture and the very concept of a polish nation become slowly erased and been nothing more than slaves to the Volkduetch.

It was an American who answered you. I'd rather wait for Poles to show up.
Sasha   
23 Sep 2011
Travel / Mushroom picking in spring in Poland? [35]

Too early.

That's what we've got in Moscow area. I thought however Poland would have a bit warmer climate. So it should be even earlier... well... you know it better.
Sasha   
23 Sep 2011
Travel / Mushroom picking in spring in Poland? [35]

The mushroom harvesting season is in its high peak now (Mid September). Depending on the region it starts sometime at the middle of June and lasts till end of October.

I think the initial question was about picking mushrooms in spring. So I assume she was specifically interested in picking morels or similar mushrooms peeping out in spring.

Late April-Early May is a good time for them, it may be June for highlands. Check the map of wild fires beforehand, that's where you're gonna get tons of morels.
Sasha   
22 Sep 2011
UK, Ireland / Grateful Polish photographer stitches up his Welsh hosts [96]

the majority of Poland's population right now grew up during communist times, and everyone over the age of about 44 has spent more years in communism than in a democratic society. how can you compare a country full of people like that to people in western europe?

The piece of quote actually speaks for itself. It clearly shows the real value of the word "democratic" and the intellectual inferiority of a certain groups of "democratically-raised" people compared to those grew up under Communism. Democracy isn't about adopting lies, is it?

As for moral degradation... I believe it's a worldwide tendency. Perhaps Poland still falls behind in the competition of ******** compared to some other European nations but it breathes down their necks...
Sasha   
18 Sep 2011
History / What do Poles owe to Russians? [193]

What a pity they made only 12 episodes in 1970s!

Anatoliy Papanov provided voice to the wolf. They've managed to totally make 16 episodes while he was alive. The 17th and the 18th were made after his death yet with his voice cut from previous scenes.

From Polish wiki

Jego matka była Polką - Helena Roskowska...
.....
W swojej karierze stworzył ponad 50 ról teatralnych i ponad 60 filmowych. Największą jego rolą była jednak ta, w której w ogóle nie pokazał swojego oblicza - w kreskówce Wilk i Zając podkładał głos Wilka

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatolij_Papanow
Sasha   
11 Sep 2011
History / What do Poles owe to Russians? [193]

There was a great purge before the war. About 100.000 Poles in the USSR were murdered by NKVD.

I actually got interested in that one since I've never read of it before. Funnily enough, the wiki-article in Russian doesn't exist even though the research was done by Russians Petrov and Roginskiy who gave it a name "polskaja operacija". I found their study on "memorial", Russian webpage, dedicated to victims of Soviet terror.

Polish operation:
memo.ru/history/POLAcy/00485ART.htm

Let me translate some of its content.

However 00485 order should have had an altogether different understanding. Despite the fact that it suggested prosecuting not the Poles themselves, but the "Polish spies", it afterall implied that barely the whole Polish population of the USSR were under suspicion, which could hardly comport with the officially proclaimed internationalistic slogans. Besides there were quite a number of Poles among the member of NKVD itself...

...A. Postel (at the time a head officer of UNKVD at Moscow Area): "we (head officers) were told about the arrest of absolutely all Poles, Polish immigrants, ex-POWs, members of PCP, which hadn't just set us wondering but caused many backstage talks... they were brought to a stop as soon as we got a note that the order was approved by Stalin and the Politburo and we needed "to pound the Poles to the utmost".

On 16th May 1938 NKVD ordered to include the national data of the arrestees...
The only reliable, as we* think, figures that we have at this point (unfortunatelly not the complete) are related not to those who were arrested, but to the sentenced ones, again not all of them but those who were sentenced on the "national" basis in September-November, 1938. The figures, we believe, confirm that it would be wrong to confuse "the Poles" and "the Polish operation".**

"Troyki en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD_troika" have totally sentenced within these two months 105 032 people. Poles 21 258, Germans 17 150, Russians 15 684, Ukrainians - 8773, Belorussians - 5716...

36 768 out of 105 032 were eventually sentenced in the "Polish line". Poles 20 147, Belorussians 5215, Ukrainians 4991, Russians 3235, Jews 1122, Germans 499, Lithuanians 396, Letts 271, Estonians 112, Czechs 87, Gypsies 76, Austrians 59, Bulgarians 53, Hungarians 47, Romanians 29, Greeks 27, Moldavians 26, Tatars 23, "others" 362 ***


*Petrov and Roginsky
** the idea of calling the terror "Polish operation" belongs to N. Petrov
*** apparently these non-Polish citizens were proven to have unwanted contacts with the Poles living in the USSR. Big amount of Ukrainians and Belorussians sentenced in the Polish line may well be explained by that ~85% (more than half a million) of all Soviet Poles lived in either Ukrainian or Belorussian part of the USSR).
Sasha   
11 Sep 2011
History / What do Poles owe to Russians? [193]

now I understand, there were no Russians or Germans involved, only communists and Nazi (probably Polish nazi and communists, he?)
everything sorted out.

Well... as I'm Russian, I would rather try to advocate the Germans. I suggest that you read "the Coming of 3rd Reich" by R. Evans. As you read the book, it sometimes seems as if there was something supernatural that enthroned Hitler for practically nothing spelled troubles.

Ironically the commies were the only tangible counterbalance for the nazies within the Germany.

I just want to say that most of the time there're certain people to blame, not folks.

What about the Palace`s art?

It's not bad, ressembles that of Moscow metro... but... it's Soviet. It's just beyond my grasp how pious Poles could exchange godly art to the atheistic one.

Of course, you do realise, if they had been preserved till today, they would be run as Catholic churches.

It'd been Catholic for about three years when Germans entered the town in 1915. I don't honestly care for I don't make disctinctions between the two branches of Christianity. That's perhaps cause I'm quite cold towards the Church.
Sasha   
10 Sep 2011
History / What do Poles owe to Russians? [193]

Look at that bleak picture

The picture is, indeed. For it's a prerevolutionary postcard sent from Warsaw to Spb.
How this would look nowadays no one could say.

cathedral

For me these things are incomparable, the first is an art of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Benois and the second is...the Soviet tryouts.

Some leftovers are still available at Baranowici.

icon
Sasha   
9 Sep 2011
History / What do Poles owe to Russians? [193]

Somewhat of a black page in Polish history. When one generation of Poles owes to the further ones...

Alexander Newsky Cathedral in Poland

Destroyed by the Poles after 1918.

Polish remnants

And here's what you've got there now...

PKiN Warszawa Poland

Exchanging God to stalin.

As for the topic, I'm sure there're lots of occasions when we owe each other whether it was at Stalin times or earlier but I don't think I want rip up old wounds.
Sasha   
7 Aug 2011
History / Why did communism in Poland fail? [180]

Is this a good question?

Seems like it was too good for you to get a decent respond.

Riches were those generated by tsardom, were people who were close to tsar, were royal families, as it always happen in monarchies, still so if you look at the House of Lords, 800 lords in today United Kingdom

Russia had not 800 such "lords" not even 800.000.

You see them elites today? I don't.

I thought we were talking about the past events that had their reflection in present. Russia isn't a monarchy nowadays it's therefore completely irrelevant to draw any parallel with the UK.

So, they are not elites.

They were elites. There's no point whatsoever in talking about the gone people using present tense. :)

In 1917 revolution, these riches/lords of tsardom monarchy were arrested, killed, eliminated, etc. They too were Russians and they were nationalists who were also collobrating with the religious institutions, churchs. Design of revolution might be done by someones else, to win against the tsardom, but, appliers were poor workers anyway who were mostly Russians of whom there were many nationalists who were seeing Tsar and his lords were not enough nationalists..

Do you hear yourself? :)) it could be said that everyone is nationalistic but not enough and that's why they were exterminated by more nationalistic people. Great theory but stop wandering please and say something that's really worth discussion.

I.e. you might have named those who designed revolution that would have sorted everything out.

You shouldn't have skipped that indispensable moment.

were mostly folks from other nations such as Turkics

It's either lie or ignorance. I somehow think you tend to have them both. A quick look at any lists of those who were sentenced to death at Soviet era could explode that given that you're able to tell a Russian last name from Turkic one.

Let me stop with your drivel here...
Sasha   
3 Aug 2011
History / Why did communism in Poland fail? [180]

as I said before, Russian nationalist/righties were power in socialist Soviet

That's a total crap no matter how many times you've said that. Besides you failed to provide a single argument to support your conspiracy theory...

If anything that was the other way around - the Russians were oppressed on many occasions by the government which was all the way up to Brezhnev's stagnation non-Russian.

Another good question for you... if the Russians were nationalistic (as you claimed) then why did they eliminated their intellectual elites in millions during the Soviet era and by means of that made the Polish word "bydlo" so applicable to the nowadays Russian society?
Sasha   
2 Aug 2011
News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [853]

Madatnet, after watching the video I can tell you that:

- I haven't heard a single word in Polish;
- I haven't heard anything but a siren at 0.54
- the audio track seems to be laid upon the video
- the video doesn't contain any evidence of shooting or the like
- you must get a grip on reality
Sasha   
1 Aug 2011
News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [853]

I'm impressed by your ability to chew the cud for ages. If there's a fatal flaw on either part we will hardly ever know on which one caused it's gonna be obscured by the politicians.

Sympathy is the best what we people can do about it.
Sasha   
29 Jul 2011
USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

Restaurants with Slavic cuisine are generally not very successful in the US. The Americans are not used to Slavic food, Slavic food is not "fast" and it's not as cheap as "fast". These are three main reasons from my perspective.
Sasha   
29 Jul 2011
History / Why did communism in Poland fail? [180]

How did they become a superpower? Russia was a monarchy which was about to collapse prior to revolution there.

I'm sorry but I think you either need to read more or to read right things.

Russians started to take control of Soviets

How do you expect I should unravel this tangle of a bullcrap?

You are the first man I see who is able post a page of the text that doesn't make any sense at all.
Names and deeds! No othert way around, old commy! ;)
Sasha   
29 Jul 2011
History / Why did communism in Poland fail? [180]

No need to give any names.

Then no need to discuss this bollocks either.

Their system in Soviets is not an international system actually, but, a nationalist system that was in control of Russians in Moscow mainly

I haven't heard a single proof of that it was actually nationalistic as you claim. Who are those miracle Russians I'm still eager to hear.

There's nothing wrong with centralized control from the capital of the state.

But, when you say oftentimes not in favor, nothing to say more. I don't even need to prove this big inequalities between nations in Soviets, it has become clear after Soviet system was gone

I meant that let's say that Baltic States had always been better off than the Russian part of the Union.
Well... the Soviet people were more equal (save for the Politburo members) than people of Europe or the US nowadays. After the SU had gone the former USSR set a course for capitalism which by definition makes people unequal.

Again racist.. Racism against folks inside Soviet domain. Why do you think ordinary folks of former Soviet countries don't like Russians? Cause they lived Russian racism in their daily lifes.

So eventually the Russians were the source of racism?.. a couple messages back you said something about the racist center. :) Make up your mind!
That's wrong to presume that ordinary folk of the former USSR don't like the Russians. And even if it's the case like with Nathan notorious for his generally Russo-phobic notion, it's the matter of the Russian invasive policy which is largely linked to its biggest folk group - to the Russians.

So I still want to hear... names, examples... :)
Considering that the vast majority of the Soviet leaders were ethnically non-Russians, that would be particularly to hear you saying who they were eventually racist to. Towards the Russians perhaps?