Food / What is your favorite Polish Vodka? [653]


Vodka is vodka. Can taste good, can taste bad.
Although if you still want to find a difference you may consider one Orthodox and the other one Catholic.

News / The chances for Warsaw to become capital of eventual Slavic confederation? [183]


This was not "pro-Russian" that brought you to that state, even though you call it so. I see here no more than a lame attempt to shift the blame upon someone which is in a way acknowledgment of weakness you later mentioned. In your book "a Russian" and "a bad" are synonyms; not that it touches me as is but it definitely makes me wonder about the very nature of such a phenomenon. Under no circumstances will I ever grasp how one can equal a nation with certain characteristics particularity if it comes to such a multicultural nation as the Russian one.


There's no smoke without fire. Applying to your land there would be no "Russian enslavement" if there was no nods within the Ukrainian folk. People are either good or bad; sticking to the theory "people are either Russians" or not is at the very least not smart.

I do not hate my people I just don't like some certain people regardless of their national background. I can't imagine me saying "did he cheat you? hmmm... he must have been Ukrainec" and loads of Russians wouldn't say that either. Arrogance is a lot of a feeble mind.


Oh please... Now you'll be saying that this was solely the Ukrainian destiny and spout lies of how the Russians stole all the money after the collapse of the USSR. Apropos we didn't get those money either. Everyone has suffered but the Russians are to blame. :)


What prevents you from being that right now? :) "Ham" at the helm? Think Julia would be any better? The Russian (no, I don't say "the Soviet" to pleasure your ears) heritage? Sure... :)

I would just suggest that instead of whining, revising history to make it fit nationalistic views of some of your sons you just go and work hard. And no, no one wants you to like the Russians, this is just your general attitude towards them that sounds ridiculous/unhealthy.

Seriously I have never heard such a stance before even though I know lots of Ukrainians.

News / The chances for Warsaw to become capital of eventual Slavic confederation? [183]


Ufff... it takes only to leave you unattended for a while and you go crazier in your reasoning like a naughty kid who needs constant supervision. Nothing new though.

Who are those "millions" I wonder? :) And how many millions are on? :))


You already are accurately what you described. How can you counsel? :) It looks like any direction would be better for you than your current state. :) Side with Moldova... that's who you to catch up with first.

News / WHY DOES POLAND BUY GAS FROM RUSSIA? [105]


Ufff... Natik, the level of your love towards us is well-known. Keep up a good job. And yes I know you "don't care but... let those **** russkies burn in hell..." *Nat's wiping out the foam at the mouth*


Who elected him? :) Let me guess... "Russians" right? How many Russians in Ukraine you said? 10%? less? How do you allow those halfbreeds to rule over you? How comes they occupied all the East of Ukraine? :) Poor, poor "Westerners"... you're literally surrounded by foes.

News / WHY DOES POLAND BUY GAS FROM RUSSIA? [105]


Please tell them not to buy Russian gas so that we can remove the burden of raw-exports role. That will be win-win position. We would overthrow the government which is incapable of doing any good for people and develop our industry, more Poles would be coming to Königsberg seeing there a better alternative for the expensive Norwegian one.

Food / Russia vs Poland Vodka war [70]


Easily. Those could be some tribe of nomads too... :) I'm sort of serious now. However I can't imagine how one can get to the bottom of the issue and what I actually say is that there's probably no sense in looking for the answer. A way more important is who is doing it better right now.

Food / Russia vs Poland Vodka war [70]

To tell the truth I don't think and I haven't heard communist caring about this issue that much. The image of Russians drinkers/vodka producers had been formed ages before commies had a first breath.

Food / Russia vs Poland Vodka war [70]


I don't see any sense in doing such a research yet whoever likes it... please go for it.

The research given in video has no historical/scientific or even analytic (their conclusions are totally groundless) value.
The real question is who makes better vodka nowadays... and I guess Swedes and Finns are doing better on that way than either of us.

Food / Russia vs Poland Vodka war [70]


;) How I understand you... You might wanna try so-called European shops (in my area these are shops kept by Jews where Ukrainians sell Polish and Russian goods.. he-he...). Although the best one I've tried here was in Ikea. Buy the one by "Abba" not the "ikea-food".

Köttbullar (meatballs) are for some reason a way better in Moscow's Ikeas.

Life / Languages understandable by Poles? [38]

This is not good in Russian either. :) Initially came from Yiddish.

Life / Languages understandable by Poles? [38]


urod - an ungly man
blad - is a slut

divka is just a vulgar form of address to a woman :)

Life / Languages understandable by Poles? [38]


Most of the time they have the same or at least close meaning (in case they sound similar). Just my observation...


The fact that the Polish is not your native tongue plays into your hands in such a situation. You do not expect Russian to sound any closer to your native tongue whereas I as native speaker of Russian do. And as soon as I hear a similar word (and some words sound eerily similar:)) I subconsciously expect that a following word will be clear too and when it's not I lose the train of thought thereby.

Although I'm convinced if two people (a Polish and a Russian) speak slower than usual they will be able to understand a lot more. Unfortunately the only place I hear Polish speech are films and TV-programs... there's no way to slow them down. :)

As for the Lithuanian... even though it's considered proto-Slavic language I can understand very few.

Food / Russia vs Poland Vodka war [70]

The film is full of bias... :) why the hell is he taking on truth that it was mentioned first in Poland disdaining Russian sources? Why don't he mention the very origin or the word? I'll answer you... because as I believe "woda" (water) is the very same word in both Polish and Russian.

Besides the owner of brewery is lying about the corn being added to Russian vodka.

EDIT: But I like the conclusion!

Food / Russia vs Poland Vodka war [70]

Gotcha!
На молоке, Мърная

I've never drunken it. :) To tell the truth I like beer more than vodka and I don't almost drink the latter.

The milk (and eggwhite) filtration is the way how they did it in ancient Rus'. They put milk and eggwhite to vodka, they reacted with fusel-oils, congealed and gravitated to the bottom. Kind of a natural way to filter alcohol. :)

Food / Russia vs Poland Vodka war [70]

The taxi driver barely speak Russian to say nothing about English. :)
*Sasha felt homesick after watching Moscow :(*


I guess it's Parliament. Can't of any other filtered by milk... I don't like it at all, some of my friends do though.

Ona?

News / Unbelievable but, its truth. Poland is finally happy to share border with Russia [57]


The problem here is that your projected your view of small group onto the whole nation(s), which sounded quite arrogant.


However you successfully contrived to preserve your Slavic features. :) It's still not a problem for me to tell a German from a Pole... how comes? :)


A lovely statement... the discussion reminds me of a old Soviet anecdote about Caucasians...
Two Caucasians (Georgians, Azerbaijanis or whoever...) came to Moscow. Someone told them they would turn Russians if they climb up a Kremlin tower and touch the star upon it. They certainly believe...

So here they are climbing higher and higher... One of them however managed to reach the top first and touched the star. The other below yelling: "Hey, Abdula... give me a hand!"

The first one responed: "F@ck off, skibby (an offensive term for Orientals)!" and kicked him off down.
You won't be able to shift the blame upon third party every time. :)


What makes you feel like that? :) The fact that he's an ex-KGB?


Did he kill anybody or what?


You should have cited the latter piece too. I said that one couldn't see at the first glance the whole tragedy. That was my point. Yet you obliquely gave your assessment...


The late USSR was inhumane system? Care to explain which way? Just curious...

News / Unbelievable but, its truth. Poland is finally happy to share border with Russia [57]


What does stalin killing people in 30s have to do with people's quality of life in 80s?
Do you seriously believe in that putin miss ethic cleansing/purges?


Can you clearly see the result of the USSR collapse? I can't even though I live in Russia... I know that many people lost their jobs, money, lives, drank themselves to death... but it's only a visible side of the tragedy. Yet the negative oblique impact of that can't assessed... it may or may not be even more tragical. Nobody knows... well.. we don't for sure.

News / Unbelievable but, its truth. Poland is finally happy to share border with Russia [57]


A good example of an artificially implanted stereotype.
Firstly this was never said by any of Alexanders (oh... I forgot if it was ever written by a Polish journalist for the internal market that automatically means the truth), secondly this was initially said (and it has been mostly said) about Bulgaria, thirdly it doesn't have a negative connotation you want to embed. The sense of it is either "there's no need to go there since there it is as bad as in the USSR" or "one feels like at home over there".


What sort of mentality are you trying to picture? The collapse of the USSR was indeed a tragedy for most of people in the former SU, since they badly suffered financially. Many drowned grief in wine and never got back.

So what are you eventually trying to say?


Sorry... but I only noticed that you can't stand them for your superiority complex. :)
Ironically you're gonna be looked down on by those who you "feel closer to". :) That's your choice though...

News / Unbelievable but, its truth. Poland is finally happy to share border with Russia [57]

And I'll give it a try if you don't mind:

I don't believe in gambler's sincerity
Nor Polish love towards a Russian
I do not trust the French amitié
Nor selfless service of a Prussian*.

* - orig. "a German"


Are saying this


on behalf of majority?

Genealogy / Garus last name - from Poland or Russia? [28]

Eva, that might be of some help.
lastnames.myheritage.com/last-name/%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81

There's one member registered from Ukraine. Marina Garus. The Russian/Ukrainian spelling is Гарус. Good luck!

News / Decoded talks inside Poland's president's plane are released in Internet [337]


the epic fail. :)

News / Unbelievable but, its truth. Poland is finally happy to share border with Russia [57]

Crow, the problem is more complicated as it firstly seems. It has in fact little to do with trust and tragedies like Katyn. Mind you Ukrainian nationalists who are praised in modern Ukraine and raised to the rank of heroes, managed to kill a lot more in Wolyn are perfectly accepted whereas Russia with her timid, as yet, attempts to condemn stalinism is not. How comes? Just bordering Russia is like sharing a room with Valuev. He might be a good fellow but what if he goes crazy one day... what would you do then? Hit him with a candelabrum? That won't work... Call the elder brother from the other room? He will come when it's might be too late.

As long as Russia is big friendly relationship are only possible between certain Poles and Russia who are able to stay free of government's propaganda.

Genealogy / Garus last name - from Poland or Russia? [28]

Eva I don't know what russia is but there're some Garus (Harus) in Russia. Briefly garus in Russian is a type of cotton fabric, - "worsted" in English. The word was borrowed from Polish but earlier it had migrated into it from German. The word originates from "Haar" which is "hair" in German.

People with this last names live both in Russia and in the former USSR. It's however hard to tell which nationality had your forefathers, since nationality is a question of one's upbringing which has nothing to do with last names.

History / Slavic vs Germanic thinking.... and the philosophical differences [251]


Many things is a shame in this world. :) Pointing out others problems is a shame too.

History / Slavic vs Germanic thinking.... and the philosophical differences [251]


What are you on? :) You truly believe I'm not aware of the problem or what?

History / Slavic vs Germanic thinking.... and the philosophical differences [251]


goes for some females who think it's the easiest way to improve their welfare...

History / Slavic vs Germanic thinking.... and the philosophical differences [251]


What a piece of crap. :) Should we Russians go to England/Germany/Zimbabwe to look for a soulmate?
It may be trustworthy for a small village where everybody is a brother/sister for each other but for a country or like you said for three different countries with just similar in patches genepool... Slavs would already extinct following your logic.

News / Poland to penalise commie symbols [27]

Don't forget to ban Solingen knives too. Before renaming they had produced cutthroats for Ustashi (Croatian heroes). Did you already sell your VWs?

Genealogy / Polish and Russian DNA? [52]


The fact that we Russians don't have alike anecdote about Poles is very telling. :) Feel free to further open your most intimate feelings towards us...

Polonia / Trip to Sweden - questions [39]

Shush, I stayed in Mornington hotel på Norrbyvägen. That doesn't exactly meet your wants, since you were looking for a hotel close to Arlanda but I generally liked their offer and the hotel itself wasn't really bad.

If you're planning to see sights of Stockholm and visit its museums I would recommend that you purchase stockholmskortet. Are you renting a car btw? If you're staying mostly in Stockholm I don't think it's a good idea.

You can pay with euroes almost everywhere. In the hotel I realized I didn't enough kronor and they allowed me to pay in euroes (at not very profitable rate of exchange though).

Lycka till! Good luck!