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Joined: 30 Mar 2010 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 7 Jul 2014
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hague1cmaeron   
15 May 2010
News / Goldman Sachs says it will no longer profit from undermining Polish zloty [29]

All of these Polish firms (banks and other) could also have purchased short contracts on Polish currency, and they would not be in the mess they are in today, at this point in time of course.

They are not in a mess actually, they are doing a lot better than their counterparts.
hague1cmaeron   
15 May 2010
News / 1945-2010 Poles will march on Red square [66]

You cannot call 10% of the Polish population "Soviet puppets" and pretend that they never existed or were not "real" Poles, as quite a few people on PF want you to believe.

This is a slightly hard concept for you to understand, but if your whole livelihood depended on party membership and how far you were going to get in life, you would be one of the first to join I am sure.

And i can tell that is the case because unlike the Poles, you attachment to your country is only skin deep. If not existent altogether.
hague1cmaeron   
15 May 2010
Life / Polish patriotic music! [25]

Another few.

youtube.com/watch?v=2x30M1mP40U
youtube.com/watch?v=Bii4ppdiumc
youtube.com/watch?v=7tXs7DOopVY
hague1cmaeron   
15 May 2010
News / 1945-2010 Poles will march on Red square [66]

You were the one who agreed to call your fellow countrymen "Soviet Puppets", man. I was just calling them what they were - Poles.

Don't play stupid I know what you are on about, just because you can't get them directly you use insinuation and innuendo.

ROTFL!!! Do you have the slightest idea where I'm from? Hint: you are a guest there...

Not a guest, otherwise i wouldn't be standing for the vice presidency of my local branch.

So you've got no problem with the Germans who joined the Nazi party? Although if it's about livelihood, I assume you've got no problem with the Nazis who earned their living running the death camps. Oh, sorry, of course I mean that you have no problem with the Nazis who ran the death camps which were for Jews and Roma.

Huge distinction between the two, if you can't see that, than you're just too stupid and I can't be bothered explaining it to you, considering that you most probably know the answer and are just playing the fool.
hague1cmaeron   
16 May 2010
History / Slovakian misrepresentation of Polish history [33]

It is bad enough that the Nazi loving Slovaks have been very reticent about their historical part in WWII, but now this. They are claiming a group of people, of which half of me belongs to as ostensibly their own; they talk of some supposed Polish persecution of the Gorals which I have never heard of. After all Goralski is essentially a Polish dialect ACROSS BOTH SIDES OF THE TATRY.

I wonder if the Slovaks have ever asked themselves the question, why do these Gorals sound so Polish? It is hardly surprising that the culturally barren Slovaks should seek to hold on to the Gorals against their will, after all if they should lose them that would be the end of any cultural vestiges they possessed.

What are your opinions on the matter, it makes me furious. This is the article below

spectator.sme.sk/articles/view/38678/9/the_gorals_of_slovakia.html

Here is an example of how these supposedly 'Slovakian Gorals' sound, as you can tell there is virtually no difference between them and their kin across the Tatry.

youtube.com/watch?v=E8OH5mOuUQ4

As further proof of how Polish most gorals felt themselves to be, is the division formed by General Andrzej Galica, himself a goral.

youtube.com/watch?v=P5Znf1gV-sc

examples of goral culture.

youtube.com/watch?v=4Cs3TYfqLHI&feature=related

youtube.com/watch?v=rtnc_VeEJw8&feature=related

Zbójnicki

youtube.com/watch?v=sgnZ7htD8A4

youtube.com/watch?v=fpWY7AeT5m8
hague1cmaeron   
16 May 2010
History / Slovakian misrepresentation of Polish history [33]

One of the first things that "Slovakia" (I prefer to use the proper name - Upper Hungary,
for this "country") did after regaining their independence, was invading Poland alongside
Hitler.

LOL. Upper Hungary sounds correct.

Gorals singing for the late pope.

youtube.com/watch?v=BV1oqiZ7s8Y
hague1cmaeron   
16 May 2010
History / Slovakian misrepresentation of Polish history [33]

Their latest 3rd of May celebrations, notice the followers making their way gingerly around the little surprises the horses left behind:)

youtube.com/watch?v=UrUYyHNUZXw

You can argue with your friends in the US because it looks like you know nothing about this part of Europe.
Russians can consider themselves even a kings of the world - who cares about what they consider or feel like?
This is not the topic now and shut your mouth up, if you know nothing about it, all right?

Take it easy he was merely describing the way Russians see things:)
hague1cmaeron   
16 May 2010
News / Poland gets a little bigger:) [82]

Officials must give Poland 369 hectares of disputed Czech territory under a treaty signed in 1958, Aktualne.cz reported Friday.

For now, Interior Ministry officials do not wish to reveal the locations where the border between Poland and the Czech Republic will change. But they have confirmed that there are dozens of spots.

praguepost.com/archivescontent/6115-disputed-369-hectares-expected-to-go-to-poland.html

More accurately simply taking what was theirs, proving the justice in their acquisition of Zalozie at an earlier period.
hague1cmaeron   
16 May 2010
News / Poland gets a little bigger:) [82]

What's justice to some might be a great injustice to others.

Yes you are quite right of course. What was great injustice to the Poles living in that part of the Czech Republic, is know justice to the Poles that know find themselves in Poland again:)

Being in the EU has nothing to do with it though.
hague1cmaeron   
16 May 2010
News / Poland gets a little bigger:) [82]

Just as well that they did not have a government like New Labour, otherwise they would have wanted to give away even more instead of trying to get a little extra, like Labour over Gibraltar.
hague1cmaeron   
17 May 2010
News / Poland gets a little bigger:) [82]

But my dear Harry, the evidence is right before you, but before we continue you should be a little bit more honest and say that it was a TINY PART OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA, as i was saying, with the Czechs themselves agreeing I am afraid that your interpretation of these events as with most others, is neither here nor there.

By agreeing to this deal The Czechs have effectively confirmed that the Poles where right all along, and had they been a little bit more mature, this foolishness could have been avoided, and they wouldn't have had to face Hitler alone.

Besides Harry your logic as per usual fails you again, If you were to ask the people of the area, would you want to be under the administration of Poland, or a Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia, I am quite sure they would have chosen Poland seeing as it was that the vast majority of them were Polish in any case.
hague1cmaeron   
17 May 2010
News / Poland gets a little bigger:) [82]

I don't where to begin, such hysterical nonsensical tosh, you should really give up on the whole equating the Nazis with Poland, nobody believes it, at least nobody who is sensible and doesn't have an axe to grind.

If they were Polish, Poland shouldn't have abandoned them by agreeing that the territory was not part of Poland.

The above sentence proves your weak powers of logic, you can't even follow your own logic let alone someone else's. You say that they should have not, when you clearly believe that they should since you point out the occupation of the land mentioned. And then you proceed to say that they should have held on to that land after all!

So what is it Harry, yes, No or a maybe?
hague1cmaeron   
17 May 2010
News / Poland gets a little bigger:) [82]

Clearly you can not handle the fact that Poland took part in the Nazis' invasion of Czechoslovakia

I can handle the Polish occupation of Polish land, i think we already established that, or are your powers of logic still at low low ebb?

And no, Poland did not take part in the Nazi occupation, they took part in their own occupation of land with a majority Polish population. So in other words they were occupying what was theirs by right, I think every country has the right to occupy its own land.

quote=jonni]You think it's a great injustice to be on the Czech side of the border?[/quote]
Not now, but back than yes, because of the discriminatory behavior of the Czech government.

As you can see Harry the people seemed to be pleased with the event, and be fair to the Czechs they seem to be remarkably cooperative as well.

youtube.com/watch?v=q11Bo7X-F_4&feature=related
hague1cmaeron   
17 May 2010
News / Poland gets a little bigger:) [82]

This new line became a state border, but then the Polish government forced Czechoslovakia to cede Zaolzie to Poland in 1938

Hardly, it was merely the returning of a favor. The Czechs new that the land they occupied was predominately occupied by Poles, and as you say when Poland was busy keeping the red peril at bay, the Czechs seized their opportunity of stabbing Poland in the back, whilst using some pathetic excuse about Poland granting its citizens the vote. They knew perfectly well that if they waited for the plebiscite the result would go Poland's way, so they used force (pathetically dressing their troops in allied uniform) to get what they wanted on that pretext.
hague1cmaeron   
17 May 2010
News / Poland gets a little bigger:) [82]

the Poland-Soviet war started after the Poland-Czechoslovakia war

There was already a mobilization of Bolshevik troops on the eastern front before the Czech invasion, so Poland was not in a position to offer resistance because its troops were concentrated in the east. If they had been they would have given them one hell of a hiding:)

It is only common sense for your own citizens to participate in your own election whilst things are decided, it did not alter the existing situation in any way. The process would have been the same, there would still have been a plebiscite regardless. But the Czechs knew they were going to lose a plebiscite so they used that as a pretext for invasion, its the coal mines that they were after!
hague1cmaeron   
18 May 2010
News / Poland gets a little bigger:) [82]

Good point, I should have remembered that Albania left the Warsaw pact in the first half of 1968. Mea culpa. But the point still remains: if Romania didn't have to take part, why did Poland?

It is too hard for you to comprehend my dear Henrietta, Keeping Poland down was always as strategic goal of the Russians.

And yes, I would care to remember who they were fighting. They fighting for the cause of civilization against Ukrainian Bolshevism. Something you clearly would rather forget, Am I right Henrieta?
hague1cmaeron   
18 May 2010
History / Slovakian misrepresentation of Polish history [33]

Come on moderator, we were just discussing the similarities of the Afrikaans and Dutch languages, which is pertinent to the thread concerning the dialect of the Gorale on the Polish and Slovakian side of the Tatra mountains:) It demonstrates how language differences develop or not as the case might be in the goral case over time:)
hague1cmaeron   
18 May 2010
News / Poland gets a little bigger:) [82]

North of Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

North yes, as for south I am sure you were joking:) Mind you given the protracted civil war after independence they could have done with the Brits staying for a little longer.
hague1cmaeron   
18 May 2010
News / Poland gets a little bigger:) [82]

Into the personal insults now I see.

What, it is you and the whole thing with wildlover, so cut me some slack. Of course Harry as per usual you are putting the carriage before the horse, and conveniently forgetting the Brestlitovsk Treaty and the duplicitous role the Ukrainians played in it.

And quite conveniently you are forgetting Petlura fought along with the Poles against Bolshevism. So the division of the Ukraine was a price he needed to pay for Polish assistance, he still ended up with quite a good deal. Face it Harry your version of history comes straight from your ass.
hague1cmaeron   
18 May 2010
News / Poland gets a little bigger:) [82]

So your statement that Poland was fighting against Ukrainian Bolshevism is much the same as most of your comments: a lie

Again a demonstration that Harry's tiny brain cell is in funk struggling to pick its direction

Because than he says:

I have specifically stated above that Petliura's men were allied to Poland.

The fact that the Ukrainians proved incapable resisting the Bolsheviks is no fault of Poland.
hague1cmaeron   
18 May 2010
News / Poland gets a little bigger:) [82]

Look at those brave chaps giving those Russkies a run for their money, and taking old Petlura under their wing as well:)

youtube.com/watch?v=uJX0MJotVyE

At that time Poland was fighting the non-Bolshevik Ukrainians who became Poland's allies

well obviously they must have acknowledged the validity of Poland's claim since they became Poland's allies.

I am sure that Poland was gracious enough to forgive them their previous misdemeanor:)

Especially that silly business over Brestlitovsk.
hague1cmaeron   
18 May 2010
News / Poland gets a little bigger:) [82]

Interesting how when you are on a hiding to nothing, you draw the conversation to some obscure point of contention:) Yes they were keeping the Red peril at bay, minor clashes or large clashes are pure semantics. The fact is that they anticipated a larger conflict and had to act accordingly, by placing their troops in the right area. Surely you are bright enough to realize that mobilizing an army takes months not a few days, though I fear I assume to much:)

Good on those Lads from the Cavalry putting up such spirited resistance:)

youtube.com/watch?v=nzR4mzOvSgs

And how considerate are they to their prisoners of war, they even let them pick and peel their own potatoes from the field.

youtube.com/watch?v=b6pXkpsdyuo&feature=related
hague1cmaeron   
18 May 2010
News / Poland gets a little bigger:) [82]

That was the one i was actually looking for about the prisoners.

youtube.com/watch?v=55tquCLbQZA&feature=related

And a deserved last goodbye for the Hero who was partly responsible for making it all happen.

youtube.com/watch?v=aSHAf53Qsec

As described by presumably a BBC journalist.

youtube.com/watch?v=aSHAf53Qsec

he first clashes took place in the second half of February. The Polish-Czechoslovak war had already finished by then.

I fear that you are trying to be to clever by half Harry, the point is that no troops could have been spared because they were mobilized in the east, and the Czech attack was unexpected.

I am but most Poles aren't: that is why they criticise Britain for not attacking Germany in the six before Poland was over-run in 1939.

You see Harry the difference is that they had months of planning in advance, for exactly such an eventuality. That is not to say that I blame the Brits, because frankly speaking they were simply not ready.