Ksysia
5 Apr 2010
History / Actually, there never was any Polish-German hatred [149]
Seanus, thanks, you are kind to be so compassionate about the dead. I apprieciate it.
But I also see only one argument in this thread agains my point - that there was a war.
Yes, there was a terrible war and we have had huge losses. I am saying 'we', but I was not alive at the time. No chance of guessing how I would do in combat.
But it's been two generations ago. The history is distorted, my generation is taught bollocks about what happened. Bleaching the US and UK is just dumb. They have their things to answer for. And they try to put the blame of killing European Jewish Diaspora on Poles. Fraking chancers.
But anyway. Grieving has not been done properly, because the war for us was much longer, largely due to the Communism inflicted by our Slavonic brethren. So we still have strong feelings about the venerable deceased. Kaczynski is doing the good thing to hold all those sad celebrations. It was done long ago in other countries.
About the Germans: we are Poles and we do not use the group responsibility in our culture. We believe that sons are not guilty of what fathers had done. So aren't the grandsons. Also, about what happened before this war. Germans were good citizens, good neighbours, good employees and business partners. I hope that they will be all those things again.
I also want to remind that the Germans who chose the Republic rather than Imperial dreams of mr. H had been fighting on Polish side, like my half-Polish Grandmother Sprinz, or at least sat it out in an oflag, like her Father, German immigrant to Poland (well.... Lida)
So I have absolutely nothing against being friends with Germans again. I would be cautious about the politics, naturally, but not as much as the US/UK tandem. I would be cautious because even though normal people are good neighbours, politicians are not.
Seanus, thanks, you are kind to be so compassionate about the dead. I apprieciate it.
But I also see only one argument in this thread agains my point - that there was a war.
Yes, there was a terrible war and we have had huge losses. I am saying 'we', but I was not alive at the time. No chance of guessing how I would do in combat.
But it's been two generations ago. The history is distorted, my generation is taught bollocks about what happened. Bleaching the US and UK is just dumb. They have their things to answer for. And they try to put the blame of killing European Jewish Diaspora on Poles. Fraking chancers.
But anyway. Grieving has not been done properly, because the war for us was much longer, largely due to the Communism inflicted by our Slavonic brethren. So we still have strong feelings about the venerable deceased. Kaczynski is doing the good thing to hold all those sad celebrations. It was done long ago in other countries.
About the Germans: we are Poles and we do not use the group responsibility in our culture. We believe that sons are not guilty of what fathers had done. So aren't the grandsons. Also, about what happened before this war. Germans were good citizens, good neighbours, good employees and business partners. I hope that they will be all those things again.
I also want to remind that the Germans who chose the Republic rather than Imperial dreams of mr. H had been fighting on Polish side, like my half-Polish Grandmother Sprinz, or at least sat it out in an oflag, like her Father, German immigrant to Poland (well.... Lida)
So I have absolutely nothing against being friends with Germans again. I would be cautious about the politics, naturally, but not as much as the US/UK tandem. I would be cautious because even though normal people are good neighbours, politicians are not.