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Posts by vetala  

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vetala   
18 Jun 2010
History / "Poland's Concentration Camp" ?? [570]

ender
Dear God, what is this?... Ok, now I get your point.

ZIMMY
Just changing the wording won't change people's misconceptions, something more is needed.
vetala   
18 Jun 2010
History / "Poland's Concentration Camp" ?? [570]

I also don't see what the fuss is. I've seen much more insulting and misleading things in the press. But if so many people are bothered by it then I guess it would be better to be more careful.
vetala   
14 Jun 2010
UK, Ireland / Brit Polonia fighting anti-Polish stereotypes [46]

Read the recent Jewish thread and see the anti-semetic behaviour.

In ethnic Poles? Born and rased in Poland? Funny, I actually got the opposite impression.
vetala   
14 Jun 2010
History / Poles as Iroquois of Europe [42]

I am curious how polish books in school describe Friedriech der Groesse or Bismarck.

Frederick II is only mentioned as one of the 2 who partitioned Poland. No demonization. As for Bismarck, his service to Germany is described but so is Kulturkampf and his anti-Polish policies which really did happen, unlike what some here would like to believe.
vetala   
14 Jun 2010
History / Poles as Iroquois of Europe [42]

I don't know what he thought about Iroquois but he once compared Poles to wolves that have to be shot whenever possible so what you said must have been an insult on his part.
vetala   
14 Jun 2010
Po polsku / Policzmy się! [80]

Dobry pomysł z tym liczeniem. Też jestem ciekawa ile nas tutaj.

Słonko świeci już na niebie, kogut głośno pieje,
zaraz do cię wrócę miła, tylko się odleje
vetala   
14 Jun 2010
UK, Ireland / Brit Polonia fighting anti-Polish stereotypes [46]

having spent a considerable amount of my time on this forum

How many Poles are on this forum? And how many out of them show antisemitic or homophobic views? Numbers, please.
vetala   
13 Jun 2010
History / Leon Feldhendler: A hero murdered? [37]

That might be very well the reason, but if they weren't the perpetrators, who was/were?

Could be anybody. I guess we'll never know.

I was just wondering why there could be a relatively successful uprising in Sobibor (and relatively early as well, 1943) and not in other camps.

There had to be someone strong-willed and with large following who would organize and lead it. Perhaps there was just nobody like this in other camps.
vetala   
13 Jun 2010
History / Leon Feldhendler: A hero murdered? [37]

Other accounts state that four Polish resistance fighters pleaded guilty and were executed in Lublin Castle, 12th of April 1945. I don't find that very reliable as it would be too swift to happen, especially in the chaotic days right after the war.

They were probably used as scapegoats. The communist government used whatever excuse it could to get rid of the resistance fighters.
vetala   
11 Jun 2010
Off-Topic / What language is this? [5]

Hutsuls are simply Ukrainian highlanders from Carpathian mountains of which part is in Poland so some of them might have been Polish citizens. Galicia was very multi-cultural, it was inhabited by loads of nationalities. But first you should check the dialect of Polish Carpathian highlanders, it differs from regular Polish as well and is pretty similar to the dialect used by other Carpathian highlanders. In fact, all Slavic languages are pretty closely related so what you wrote could be in any Slavic language and dialect. For example in regular, dialect-free Polish it would be "siadła baba na barana jechała na..."

If your grandfather said that he was Polish then he probably was. Especially if he was a Roman Catholic. Knowing songs in foreign languages and dialects doesn't change a person's nationality.
vetala   
11 Jun 2010
News / Next 100 years - Poland as great power? [35]

Poland won't become a major player in world's politics with the way things are right now. There's just nothign that would set us apart from other European countries, we're too average. I see several options that might change it:

1. We find a lot of oil on our lands
2. We start a mass production of rare, high-quality, valuable items (technology, not ham. Nobody gets a world acclaim for pig farms)
3. We change the way we look at politics (as in:we stop electing people based on their level of patriotism instead of actual qualifications and shaping our foreign relations through the prism of likes and dislikes rather than profit)

4. There's a third world war. That would change a lot of things in politics and economy.
vetala   
9 Jun 2010
History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]

All the same huh?

I was talking about general perceptions people have not the exact encyclopedic definition, which by the way changes a lot with time as you may have noticed. And if you care more about encyclopedic definitions, then you have to agree that Poland is in the center of Europe, neither in the West nor in the East.
vetala   
9 Jun 2010
History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]

How so?

I meant it more in the way of the Western/Eastern world than just Europe. When you hear "West" what comes to your mind? America, France, England... not much of a difference. But when you hear "East" it could be Russia, Persia or even China and Japan - so very different. Of course, Poland is culturally hard to distinguish from Western European countries but being listed alongside diverse Eastern cultures is an honor.
vetala   
9 Jun 2010
History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]

Like every Pole, I used to be bothered by the "Eastern" label but now I actually quite like it. Eastern cultures are much more interesting and diverse than Western ones. It doesn't change the fact that we're in the geographical center of Europe, though.
vetala   
5 Jun 2010
Genealogy / Is your line of the Polish family noble? [74]

Not 'everyone' and not 'every'.

But 'many' if not 'most'. My point still stands - a person can be of both Jewish and noble descent.
vetala   
5 Jun 2010
Genealogy / Is your line of the Polish family noble? [74]

2. if so, you'd have nothing to do with Polish 'nobility'

False. Some Jews were ennobled for service to the country. And every Jew who converted was automatically ennobled.
[rp.pl/artykul/139640.html]

Ennoblement neophytes in Poland date back to the reign of John Albert , who was in 1499 . Baptized into the nobility in Lithuania Stanislaus Oszejkę .

The constitutions of the Sejm of the Republic XVI - XVII century . Essentially no more mention of uszlachconych konwertytach jewel among the crowd recipients of nobility , which makes the determination of the number of converts ennobled quite impossible .


Here's an article about it. It explains everything, shows some of the coats of arms of families of converts and a partial list of surnames.

I have a confirmed noble ancestry, by the way.
vetala   
3 Jun 2010
Love / Inside polish women's psychology and mind [109]

Marry me. Immediately.

;)

Don't you think that other women think that way yet still bite the bullet?

I can only feel sorry for them.

How about the thought that you could be more youthful when your child is growing up?

I don't want to waste my youth sitting at home 24/7 waiting for my children to come back from a school trip and tell me about all the exciting places they've been to which I'll never get to see and they didn't like because they're more interested in touring playgrounds than museums. My mother and aunts were younger than me when they had kids so I know what to expect from motherhood. It's not something I'm looking forward to.

Please tell me, do you imagine yourself without having kids for the rest of your life?

Perhaps one day nature will kick in and I'll start wishing for kids. It won't happen anytime soon, though.
vetala   
3 Jun 2010
Love / Inside polish women's psychology and mind [109]

I can't speak for every Polish woman but I don't want to have children for the same reason why I don't want to have a dog - too much trouble, filth, costs and in addition to that I wouldn't be able to leave house whenever I want for as long as I want for some 20 years. No, thanks.
vetala   
2 Jun 2010
History / Poles and Russians -- love-hate relationship? [209]

So tell me Poles, why shall I carry a shame any government on this territory deserved in the past three centuries?

I don't know. I wasn't the one who said it. And it's not like I can change the mind of a person who did.

I was brought up to be friendly despite of the race or nationality.

So was I.
vetala   
1 Jun 2010
History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [301]

What are you people even arguing over? Didn't you read Secret City by Gunnar Paulsson? He says that the rate of survival of Jews going into hiding in Poland and Netherlands was exactly the same. He's a lecturer at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies so he can be trusted in that aspect.
vetala   
23 May 2010
News / Polish Policeman shoots down a foreigner in Warsaw [300]

But then again, the truth is probably rather different.

Lol, what truth? How do you know it? Are you a witness?

Let's hope the killer is brought to justice

Who needs courts? You've clearly already judged him and declared guilty.
vetala   
23 May 2010
News / Polish Policeman shoots down a foreigner in Warsaw [300]

I can't believe what I'm reading here.

What the news say: Police chased a man who was selling something illegal. They caught him and then a bunch of other people started throwing stones at them and assaulting them. The policemen took out guns to scare off the other attackers. The man tried to wrestle the gun from policeman's hands, the man shot - accidentally or not , we can't tell yet.

The conclusion of some of the commenters here - those dirty, racist, nazi Poles murdering "Untermenschen"!