News / Does Poland support the idea of Slavic unity? [129]


Oh yeah. I was wrong. The Czech (or according to some sources a Slovak) Jan Herkel later proposed a term "panslavism". That's what I took as "invention".

News / Does Poland support the idea of Slavic unity? [129]


Where did you get them from?

Genealogy / "Choroszucha" - Jewish family name? [19]

This last name doesn't sound Jewish to me at all. From what I googled in RUnet it seems like the last name occurs in Belorussia, Poland, Ukraine and in Southern parts of Russia. Origins are "beautiful", "handsome". In modern Russian "chorosziy" is "good".

Btw ask your mother if she had any relatives in Grodno and its area or if she knows some relatives with a name Wikenty spelling may be different).

Memory book of NKVD atrocities contains Wikenty Choroszhucha as one of the victims...

News / Polish immigrants are losing Polish heritage -- a goal? [10]


Here's the right sequence.

Life / 200zl mandat and 3 points for not wearing seatbelts? [75]


I think that the policeman did a perfect job with no that Slavic tenderheartedness and all... The breach was indeed a silly one.

News / Polish immigrants are losing Polish heritage -- a goal? [10]


I'm Sasha. :) Sascha nemec.


Very few. I can think of only Lev Shestov who had some levers to impact Russian society but he did that in very Russian manner.

Of course it depends on what we count as bourgeoise. After 1905 things have drastically changed. Every single member of some Russian parties were Jewish. For the Russians it was payback time.

If you have any link to provide me more info about tsarist Jewish bourgeoise please share. As far as I know the Jews in Russia was doing good at least until they came to power.


Well at first they were really unite and made good number of NKVD members (as well as in the government). But as Stalin came the number of Jewish people on executive positions in the NKVD began to sink slowly. It namely dropped from 38% in 1934 to 5% in 1941.

The number of Jews perished in camps compared to that of the Russians and other nationalities inhabited the USSR is insignificant.

Life / 200zl mandat and 3 points for not wearing seatbelts? [75]


I heard that a man ran into a lamp pole driving 50 kmph. He hit the helm which tore his spleen. By the time the ambulance came he was dead.

Life / 200zl mandat and 3 points for not wearing seatbelts? [75]


Simple. Cause the government doesn't want to take a risk of losing yet another taxpayer, potential father/mother of another taxpayer, worker who can contribute to the wellbeing of the state and if you're a man a potential soldier. That is why.

Yes, we all want freedom of... everything. But freedom is in fact a very loose concept. We are eventually not free of some duties imposed by the government particularly via the notion of patriotism.

Life / 200zl mandat and 3 points for not wearing seatbelts? [75]

To say that seatbelts are uncomfortable thus I won't wear them was a typically Russian thing to say. :)

Life / 200zl mandat and 3 points for not wearing seatbelts? [75]


Why have you posted this, hero? Are you a teen to post a video where you break the law (start passing through the double solid line + use your cellphone)?


No, the fine for not having seatbelt fastened used to be lower - so low that corrupted Russian cops didn't bother to stop those who didn't use it. Also on some cars seatbelts are really uncomfortable.

Here's my first car: No AC + uncomfortable seatbelts made any summerday look like hell.

History / Polish Officer in NATO, Col. Ryszard Kukliński. [145]


Is it like some Russians trying to insist that Putin is not Russian? :)

History / Polish Officer in NATO, Col. Ryszard Kukliński. [145]


Possibly because you're not a soldier.

Love / My Polish wife got married to me but she's still not in love? [34]


Like what? What does she do that makes you think she loves you? And if so... why do you need her word? Would that make you feel better?

Travel / Driving in Poland, are there any rules at all? [149]


Welcome to the Slavic World! :) I wonder if that some sort of a gene that makes many many Slavs behave that way or this is just lack of culture (of driving in this particular case). Whatever the Poles try to position themselves (we're schlyachta you're the peasantry) in most of situations I recognize the Russians/the Ukrainians.

Life / Is Poland a poor country? [578]

What is average net salary in Poland? In Russia it's $700. I think it's about the same in Poland.

Life / Is Poland a poor country? [578]

That may well be the government that boosts it. ;) According to their figures the average in Moscow is roughly $1450. I can hardly believe that.

History / What do Poles owe to Russians? [193]

Thanks for the nice watch, Pawian!
I have a question. How do you assess Krylov's Polish (third video from the bottom) where he's singing on a 1-10 scale? :)

News / Anti-Polish propaganda (proposed change to Polish property restitution laws) [21]


Pogrom is a noun related to another noun "grom"=thunder and a verb "gromit"=to crush, to bludgeon. The word rather implies devastating, demolishing than killing.

Grom is very common nick for dogs and animals in general. Never heard of pogrom but that's a good idea... sounds awesome in my mind.

News / Anti-Polish propaganda (proposed change to Polish property restitution laws) [21]


In Russian that would be "razgrom".

News / Anti-Polish propaganda (proposed change to Polish property restitution laws) [21]

Any example of a pogrom organized by Russian authorities?

News / Anti-Polish propaganda (proposed change to Polish property restitution laws) [21]


Depends on what I'd read. If you can provide a reliable source, that would be nice.

News / RUSSIA TO MAKE PUBLIC THE KATYN FILES... [274]

Sadly it's not time yet for the Russians to fully acknowledge and revaluate what happened to them during the Soviet reign in general and at stalin's reign in particular. This is still not an altogether rare occurrence when I see people denying the Katyn as well as stalin's crimes against humanity on the whole. Katyn is probably the most ignominious page in Russian history.

Life / Is Poland a poor country? [578]


Moving to another country is not always about the money.

Life / Is Poland a poor country? [578]


That was just my view from Russia... I would move for cultural, political reasons rather than financial. Poland doesn't seem to be that bad at either of the mentioned things, so you may well be generally right.

However one should keep in mind that higher wage doesn't always higher living standards. For $1 you can buy more food in Poland than in England.

Life / Is Poland a poor country? [578]


No, but it apparently makes some difference for people who live in these countries. One who's paid $1000 in Nigeria is better off than one who's paid $1500 in Poland (if we set aside political/cultural things).

I'm just trying to show you that money is far not the only reason to leave a country.

News / Chechen Congress in Poland, Russia frowns [90]


It does explode occassionally. The Russians simply don't consider them Russian and that says it all.
The government cared to invest into military annexation but it didn't spend a copeck on bringing their cultural level up.

News / Chechen Congress in Poland, Russia frowns [90]


True, unless money talks like they do in say the US.
Anyway, I rather meant their cultural conditions.


One may as well read Lermontov on the issue. Indeed it will never change. The Russians are badly lacking entrepreneural spirit to turn them into what the Hispanics are in the US.

P.S. It's nice to see people who still read classical literature.

History / People the Soviets planted in Poland [75]


You give too much credit to Russian politicians of 80th. The USSR and communism have just collapsed for there no one who was able to foresee the drop in oil prices caused by the Afghan Campaign.


No, I think that's the Polish people you don't like planted their followers. Do you believe that if the Soviets didn't bring communism to Poland, the Polish people wouldn't invent it themselves?

History / People the Soviets planted in Poland [75]

I think the role of the Soviets in imposing communism in Poland is overestimated. It would have failed, had there not been a social demand within Poland.

Every era has its own feature. Now the time of communism is gone and it's not just Poland that left it behind. So did Russia but it seems like for many Polish people the fact is still inexplicit.

Life / Russian Language - is it offensive if I speak it to Polish people? [69]

The most convincing motive not to speak Russian anywhere in Europe is that if you speak Russian you'll be treated as a Russian. At least not at this miliestone of the Russian history.