History / Cursed soldiers controvercy - not all Poles respect them [320]

It's rather hard to ditinguish between hero and criminal during a civil war, like it was in Poland 1945 - 1953. Killing civilians makes some border line but what in the case they were working for secret police?

History / Polish pirates [58]

"We can hardly exclude Polish pirates in the famous Klaus Störtebeker's Victual Brothers (German: Vitalienbrüder) but no historical proofs as far I know."

BB, no historical proofs for Poles present in Störtebeker's crew, that's what I mean.
Störtebeker was a well known and historically proven Robin Hood (captain Hook ?) of Alemannia :)
No doubt about his existence !

History / Polish pirates [58]

I see nobody having at least a ppm content of elementary knowledge bothers to leave a comment on "Polish pirates" so I have to do it.

First pirates in the Baltic area were Vikings, West-Slavonic to a high degree.
Polish ... hmm...can be disputed.

We can hardly exclude Polish pirates in the famous Klaus Störtebeker's Victual Brothers (German: Vitalienbrüder) but with no historical proofs as far I know.

Jagiellonian and Vasa kings used privateers fighting Teutonic Knights and later Swedes. Same goes for Danzig/Gdansk (the best known one - captain Beneke - the name sounds rather German) as a part of Rzeczpospolita (Polish Commonwealth).

Po polsku / Wielkimi krokami zbliża się... Dzień Przyjaźni Polsko-Węgierskiej [50]

Podejdzmy do sprawy metodycznie i kompleksowo.

Najlepszy polski krol - Wegier

Wspolny bohater narodowy - Bem.

Proby wspolpracy Wegrow z Powstaniem Warszawskim i w konsekwencji, wycofanie ich oddzialow.
Jakaz roznica w porownaniu do Rosjan !

Wegrzy - obok Polski, pierwszy buntownik w baraku socjalistycznym.

Moze pamietacie wiecej ?

History / Was Daniel Fahrenheit a Pole? [138]


Does it refers to millions of Poles, Kashubians, other Western Slavonic people living in what is Germany these days ?
Roughly about 35% o the total Alemania's population got some well proven Slavic roots.
Many scientists, politicians, artists or simple well skilled professionals among them but according to German school books ... they are all Germans (except Adolf Hitler and Teresa Orlovski) LOL.

Does it refer to French Huguenots, Jews and Russian "Whites" living in Germany ?

It's a well known German craze - using all possible definitions of ethnicity in order to prove Europeans are Germans !
At least the most famous of us but all of a sudden it goes even for an average man in the street - I know the "scientific" pamphlet proving Poles are Slavisated Germans...

So let us agree on that:
Adam und Eva , Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake (Sitzender Bulle) and all Eskimos as well (das Deutsche Mädchen friert nicht) were Germans !

History / Poland in a Slavic Union/Alliance/Federation? [335]

Better ?
Same way nonsensical like two British, from Bristol and Glasgow using pidgin English for better understanding.

The idea of some Slavic lingua Franca is not bad but we are still not ready to take any decision.

And generally, there is no need for Slavic Union.
East-European cooperation is what we need.
Despite of being genetically 127.3476 % Slavic I don't feel Slavic at all.
I'm Polish and frankly, Polish Jew from Warsaw is closer to me than Superslav from Great Slavonia !
And our common mentality is what counts.

History / Poland in a Slavic Union/Alliance/Federation? [335]


C'mon Sasha !
It was my joke.
Even if stupid, just a joke only !

History / Poland in a Slavic Union/Alliance/Federation? [335]


The most important factor are Russian chicks with Slavonic R1a1a haplogroup .
Blueyed and blond with Slavic high cheeks bones.
Smart and warm.
For me reason enough to accept Ivans, pardon our Slavic brothers from Mongolian steps in all unions of universe...

History / Poland in a Slavic Union/Alliance/Federation? [335]


Have to agree but I prefer Klaus Störtebeker and Vitalienbrüder !

History / Poland in a Slavic Union/Alliance/Federation? [335]


Rather quite similar level - you'll find some differences but not very serious, black versus white type.


I'm joking from the very beginning.
Slavic cooperation would be okey to me, like the nordic, Scandinavian one.
But no more unions except the European one.
Let Germans have at least their chance to do something good for Yurop.
Once in Millenium LOL.

History / Poland in a Slavic Union/Alliance/Federation? [335]


We are discussing facts not feelings.
Aren't we ?

History / Poland in a Slavic Union/Alliance/Federation? [335]


Quite new to me.
Soviets used to rule about 500 000 000 people, directly and per proxies.
And they were Slavic as a hell.

History / Poland in a Slavic Union/Alliance/Federation? [335]


Bundesmanagers of today are all but German LOL

History / Poland in a Slavic Union/Alliance/Federation? [335]


Best joke ever LOL.

History / Poland in a Slavic Union/Alliance/Federation? [335]

At the very beginning it would be good to use German resources as a starter of Slavic economic domination.
PIGS countries and France are useless in sense of economy but Germans are still able to take some smart decisions:
Slavization or Turkization and I'm pretty sure, soon we hear from Angela:
Go Slavic, Alemania !
Go, go, go !
She exactly the smart lady to do it.
Moreover, Ossies are 90% Slavic tribes.
BB is Obodrite.

History / Poland in a Slavic Union/Alliance/Federation? [335]

Don't worry BB.
We gonna respect your culture of the past like we respect the Roman Empire heritage.
Slavic kids will learn at schools about brave, forgotten Germans ....
And their funny helmets LOL.

History / Poland in a Slavic Union/Alliance/Federation? [335]

Our petty rasist BB starting German X-mas fairy tales ?
Look BB, there is no chance for any Germanic union because there are no Germanics in the closest future.
Recently I was to Berlin and Sharholmen/Stockholm - 100% Muslim color in these two wanna be Germanic locations.
You better get ready for paradise and your award of 77 vergins what is not quite bad.
Just ask your mufti.

I like Ruskies and I'm pretty sure under Polish boot they are able to develop some kind of culture and civilization.
The future belongs to us.

History / Tuchola in Poland - roots of Katyn? [220]

I can hardly imagine better documentation than Isaac Babel's novel "Red Cavalry".
Babel, during the Polish-Bolshevik conflict an active war correspondent (and Czeka member) gave a perfect description of mass killings of Polish POWs.
His novel was published in millions - nobody expected defeat of Bolsheviks.

Off-Topic / Random movies (not Polish) proposed by forum users [95]

Mrazik is by no means Polish.
And more - my parents had a Soviet fridge "Morozko" LOL.

News / Sikorski doctrine - Eastern Europe under threat. Poland's foreign policy. [203]


No, it's not.
Today, when every German Pedigree pal distributor who has spent a few days in Moscow drinking vodka with hotel call girls, pretends to be expert on Russia, we have to call a spade a spade.

Even a well founded historical knowledge and some personal experience (like in your case) are not enough to say
"Yep. I do understand Russo-Polish-Ukrainian relations".

Look at us - I mostly disagree with Sasha's postings, same goes for Nathan in many cases but there is a strong platform of understanding between us.

Not always friendly understanding, believe me.
And with all respect to you Seanus ... you are outsider in this discussion.
I tell you more - amazing but even my Polish family members from Upper Silesia wouldn't understand it !
They are outsiders as well !

Sounds like mystique to me and arrogant for you but even Polish born Richard Pipes is always a few steps behind me with his political analysis and I don't pretend to be a professional historian - it's all in our veins Seanus LOL.

Okay, I'm not quite serious about Pipes and me - but he is from "Austrian" Cieszyn and I'm Warsaw born.
Sometimes it makes a difference !

BTW. Great postings Nathan !

News / Sikorski doctrine - Eastern Europe under threat. Poland's foreign policy. [203]


Not at all, Seanus.
It's easy to find the same attitude towards Russia among the Balts which are even not Slavic.
And I even don't mention the "Asiatic" members of the Russian Federation.

Once, on my business trip to Lithuania I met an older Lithuanian guy who spent 10 years in Siberia, first in gulag then as a free settler.

What he told me was a kind of a local saying or anecdote :

A single Russian will help you and is ready to give you his last shirt.
When we are meeting ten of them ... so let's have a party and drink some vodka.
But in case you see thousand Russkies do not wait ... run like hell away!

News / Sikorski doctrine - Eastern Europe under threat. Poland's foreign policy. [203]

I wish Nathan were wrong, Seanus.
I like Russian culture, I've got many Russian friends but ... there is still something dangerous about their collective mentality and their "imperial drive".

Only close neighbors like Ukraine or Poland are able to understand it and on the contrary, the most false picture of the Russian political objectives is being promoted by German wannabe experts on Russia.

Believe me, Russia is still an old fashion empire which must have its vassals and occupied lands.
It's not like US modern net-type structure of interdependencies.

Language / Spelling "aunt" in Polish [142]

Boring !!!
Just google for "busia": easteuropeanfood.about.com/od/ah/g/busia.htm

US-Polish.
Never heard it in Poland, even in Lithuanian Polish from Wilno.
The word busia does not exist in Poland.

Po polsku / Nasza Bufetowa wymiata ! [16]

Jak powiedzialem, moglbym prace doktorska na ten temat napisac, ale mi sie nie chce.
Dosc jest informacji w mas mediach i w internecie.
Populistyczny belkot Kaczynskiego w trakcie kampanii prezydenckiej, kazdy kto chcial, slyszal.
Ostatni wyczyn, to dalsze uzaleznienie rzekomo "prowadacej ku nowoczesnej Polsce " partii od torunskich mullow i "misja" Maciarewicza/Fotygi.
Co tu jeszcze pisac ?

Po polsku / Nasza Bufetowa wymiata ! [16]

Moglbym sie rozpisac na temat rozbieznosci celow deklarowanych i realizowanych.
Ale odpowiem inaczej.

Jestem z Zoliborza.
To bardzo mala dzielnica i pokolenie moich Rodzicow doskonale pamieta Kaczynskich.
Dzieci sie swietnie znaly z podworka, szkol, domu kultury itd.

Pomijam niezyjacego Lecha.
Jarek byl malym, tchorzliwym intrygantem, ktory nie chodzil na WF i nie bawil sie z innymi dziecmi.
W zyciu nie widziano ich z dziewczynami, zajeci byli wylacznie soba.
Programowo nie mam zaufania do socjopatow i dziwolagow.

Po polsku / Nasza Bufetowa wymiata ! [16]

PiS utracil wladze we wszystkich regionach, mimo niezlego wyniku w wyborach.
Ciesze sie, bo to Kaczynski and Co symbolizuje wszystko, czego w Polsce nie cierpie.
Nie oznacza to wcale slepego zachwytu Platforma.

History / Roman Dmowski-Patriot, Nationalist, Anti-Semite? [252]


They are at least similar, agreed.
But I'm not talking the average antisemitic propaganda but Dmowski's attitude towards Jews:
smart, hardworking, well educated and for that reason deadly dangerous for Poland.

History / Roman Dmowski-Patriot, Nationalist, Anti-Semite? [252]


Not at all.
I'll use your favorite Wiki to prove you wrong:

The word antisemitic (antisemitisch in German) was probably[vague] first used in 1860 by the Austrian Jewish scholar Moritz Steinschneider in the phrase "antisemitic prejudices" (German: "antisemitische Vorurteile").[31] Steinschneider used this phrase to characterize Ernest Renan's ideas about how "Semitic races" were inferior to "Aryan races." These pseudo-scientific theories concerning race, civilization, and "progress" had become quite widespread in Europe in the second half of the 19th century, especially as Prussian nationalistic historian Heinrich von Treitschke did much to promote this form of racism. In Treitschke's writings Semitic was synonymous with Jewish, in contrast to its usage by Renan and others.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism

History / Roman Dmowski-Patriot, Nationalist, Anti-Semite? [252]

Studying case "Dmowski" can be occupation for historian's life.
He wasn't antisemite in the sense we are today used to.
He considered Jewery to be a clever and politically talented enemy, by far smarter than uneducated Polish masses.
On the contrary to Jozef Pilsudski Dmowski thought that Jewish long run objectives are absolutely not in line with national Polish agenda so Jews were his #1 enemies.

Not in the Nazi sense of subhumans but as a very dangerous factor of Polish political arena.