History / Polish history is 100% glorious [297]


Well the Czechs were actually "happy" in 1919...


And much smaller landmass to defend, more and better equipment, richer economy per capita, better developed post-habsburg industry and technology, mountains almost anywhere arround. The only agressors they could have been actually affraid of was the Germany, if they would defend themselves Poland probably wouldn't even intervene, and Hungary was even smaller country than Czechoslovakia and nowhere as developed, Hungary maybe would also stay back from the fight if they would have seen the Germans have problems in Sudetens and Bohemia. The only direction they would have problems with defence would be the south and the west of the country. Compared to Poland's situation which had to defend far larger landmass with almost 0 natural borders and worse equipped army from the even more powerful Germany from the West and North, from Gigantic Soviet Union on the East, and Slovakia on the South... It sounds like a scenario with far more probability of success.

History / Polish history is 100% glorious [297]

[quote=MareGaea]- The Czechs were even more screwed and betrayed by the West than you guys were. Was Czechoslovakia a main playground for Soviet and Nazi's "military games" just like Poland was? No.

Were Czechs executed on similar scale as people were in Poland? No.

Sorry to say but the losses (both material and demographic) of Czechoslovakia weren't even close to Polish losses, mainly because the Czechs haven't even tried to fight when they could, they just surrendered and welcomed the nazi's. If they would really have tried they would have probably bigger chances of success than Poland had, even without any help coming from the allies (Poland also didn't had such help), because of:

- Better developed industry (Polish industry could only dream of something like the Czechs had. (Skoda))
- Better terrain topology (surrounded by mountains and having long country borders)
- Not being between two powerful totalitarian-militaristic neighbors.
- Nazi Germany's war machine wasn't then as developed as in the invasion of Poland when the nazi's already controlled all of the Czech industry.

king polkakamon said it right. Actually that marionet "Czechoslovakia" had almost a luxury situation compared to Poland even though they were also betrayed by the west (or rather preferred being a protectorate of the nazi regime than wanting to stood up and fight when they could, no matter if with allies or without them).

Life / Polish authors, books & literature. [95]

Also I would recommend the books of Konrad Fiałkowski, he actually wrote only 2 sci-fi novels but still a very good ones.

Life / Polish authors, books & literature. [95]

I prefer Janusz A. Zajdel over both of them... a truly visionary books and really good sci-fi concerning both real science (he was a quantum physician) and things like society, politics, economics, the real nature of information, propaganda, psychology and so on. In my opinion by far the best Polish sci-fi writer although not as well known as the authors mentioned by you.

Language / WISŁA or VISTULA?? [46]

Yes. Exactly like that.

Language / WISŁA or VISTULA?? [46]


I think that similar as we with the exception that they read the "H" just as a Ethnic Silesian would spoke our "H". So it's not exactly our "H" but isn't also our "G", I don't think we use such sound in our alphabet.

Anyway... I'm not a linguist and can be wrong on a lot of matters concerning languages. So I corrected myself in my earlier post because I thought that it could be the same sound (as both are close to each other and the Czech use the "H" just as we use "G" in words... Hora - Góra, Praha - Praga, koho/èeho? - kogo/czego? and so on...), but I found out that it's a different sound so I was wrong.

Language / WISŁA or VISTULA?? [46]


Bad example... "H" in the Czech language is the same sound as the "G" in Polish... So the pronunctation of Prague in both languages is similar if not the same...

EDIT:
Ok nevermind me... They're not the same sound :p ,my bad...
though the "H" in Czech is used similarly in words as the "G" in Polish...

History / History of Poland in 10 minutes. Really worth seeing! [134]


Yes sorry my mistake... I meant rather "the way of documenting and presenting history", because history itself (as strictly seeing it as past events and their causes and consequences) in it's nature isn't opinionated.

History / History of Poland in 10 minutes. Really worth seeing! [134]

Hello


It's a history clip about one given country (Poland) not about the history of the whole humankind for god's sake, and it's still only limited to 10 minutes so it lacks of a lot of other important events in the history of poland (for example the fragmentation period). Every historiography in every country (no matter which and no matter where) can be opinionated in some facts to some degree (mainly in the way of interpreting things), but those are still proven facts.


You are showing us how the spaniards fought against Napoleon? Because I didn't get your joke and could find it offensive.