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Palivec   
21 May 2011
History / Poland and Orientalism [115]

The Germans came across a country that in many respects was more politically advanced than themselves, and used the argument post facto.

I doubt Germans ever felt that Poland was more advanced...
Palivec   
21 May 2011
Travel / Driving to Poland from England - any tips? [264]

If you don't want to break a record and see it as a journey instead you can have a very nice road trip. There are lots of interesting sights close to the route which worth a stop, among them several world heritage sights. So, instead of bombing down the Autobahn add two overnight stays and enjoy a medieval town or a nice park.

If you need tips about interesting sights on your route just ask.
Palivec   
21 May 2011
History / 'Defamation': The Anti-Semism Industry & Poland [188]

These arguments are uncannily the same to the ones used by the namiotists. Scary.

Yes. And it's also quite funny that the complexes of Jews are discussed in a forum full of complexes. Just look what the forum offers as similar discussions: "ANTI-POLONISM IN EUROPE", "MORE ANTI-POLISH SENTIMENT IN GERMANY"...

LOL
Palivec   
19 May 2011
Travel / NOT COMING TO KRAKOW- KEEP IT! [30]

Prague is one of the most beautiful cities in Central Europe, Krakow is maybe number 19.

Be nice, it's probably more like 10... ;)
A great castle, a beautiful market and two important churches.... that's quite a lot in Central Europe.
Palivec   
18 May 2011
Life / IS Poland in danger of becoming the next multi cultural sink hole? [201]

just to straighten the record, you're talking about the future (which is never certain), grubas is writing in the present tense, so you are quoting his post but not responding to it :)

But he's right nevertheless. Poland is in the EU, and with economic success the country will become multicultural (again). Assuming that Poland stays in the EU and becomes economically successful it's irreversible. The same happns everywhere in Europe.

And multiculturalism has quite a few advantages too... better restaurants and a improving local cuisine for instance... :D
Palivec   
18 May 2011
News / Visegrad Battle Group under the command of Poland [261]

You better ask yourself, why would Poland strengthen its position within its own domain (Visegrad Group/Balkan-Baltic line) and think of leaving NATO pact.

LOL, you think Poland will leave NATO because of a multinational brigade??? Haha. This Visegrad group will just be another military unit inside NATO, like Eurocorps, the Franco-German Brigade, the Multinational Corps Northeast, the German/Dutch Corps, the European Air Transport Command, the EU Battlegroup and so on.
Palivec   
17 May 2011
Travel / NOT COMING TO KRAKOW- KEEP IT! [30]

Fro some reason Prague and Vienna have a similar "look and feel" in my mind, I’m not sure why...

Maybe because they were part of the same country for many centuries???
Palivec   
17 May 2011
News / Visegrad Battle Group under the command of Poland [261]

Since when are you part of Europe????

You all don't understand. The Visegrad Group is the first step towards a new Panslavia, led by the center of the West, Poland, and supported by the other saviour of Europe, Serbia.

Or something like that... :D
Palivec   
17 May 2011
History / Russians 'tortured to death' in Polish camps? [58]

I spoke to a French guy the other day and asked him what he thought about the Germans and although he rolled his eyes and said well "they're OK" he then later emphasized that there is no way the French people could ever forgive or forget what the Germans did

Oh wow, a single person.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/05_03_11_bbcws_country_poll.pdf
Palivec   
17 May 2011
History / Russians 'tortured to death' in Polish camps? [58]

Hahaha, don't make me laugh, you for sure ment decades!
English vs French that would been centuries...

No, centuries is right. Since the 17th century, when France devastated large parts of western and southern Germany.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ez%C3%A9chiel_du_Mas,_Comte_de_M%C3%A9lac

I firmly believe that every german who willingly served the 3rd Reich deserved death.

What would you do with Poles who willingly served Commie Poland? No death chamber of course, but shouldn't at least all civil rights be revoked? After all is was a oppressive regime too?!
Palivec   
16 May 2011
History / Russians 'tortured to death' in Polish camps? [58]

And you all wonder why Polandball exists...
See, you all didn't even understand the argument. It's not about them, it's about US! It's about how WE respect our OWN values. If we don't respect our core values we don't have a reason to complain about the wrongdoings of others.

The Western Europeans had all right to hate the Germans in 1945. But they did what instead? They didn't threat Germany like the pariah of nations but founded the European Community instead. Germany became a stable democracy, France and Germany are best friends now, there are no borders anymore.

Looks like some people in Poland, 60 years after the Schuman Declaration, still stuck in the 19th century and aren't ready for modern Europe.
Palivec   
16 May 2011
History / Russians 'tortured to death' in Polish camps? [58]

How many of them Russians raised for Germans in Stalingrad?

German soldiers in Russia are mostly burried in graves built after the fall of the Soviet Union.
But this doesn't matter. Respecting the dead is one of the core values of our societies. If we don't respect this value we don't respect ourselves. And no one expects huge monuments, but a humble plague commemorating the death is hardly to much to ask.

Soldiers who raped, tortured, murdered and burned down entire towns?

And you think other soldiers in other countries didn't rape, murder and burned down towns? And they didn't want to destroy other countries?

Sorry to tell you this, but forgiveness is a major virtue of the Christian faith. Without forgiveness the EU wouldn't exist. The founding nations back then replaced nationalistic affects with reason.

Kohl Mitterand

It was a lot more horrible given that Russians burned entire towns with people in them regularly.

So did the French and the Germans. Brûlez le Palatinat! Jeder Stos ein Franzos. 1.000.000 dead in just one battle. Leveled towns in France and Belgium. And this was not more horrible?
Palivec   
16 May 2011
History / Russians 'tortured to death' in Polish camps? [58]

So you expect that in the name of reconciliation we should start raising monuments for our aggressors?

No, I expect monuments for the dead!

Possibly because the majority of crimes was commited in the east of Europe which is why hypocrites like you find it easy to patronize nations who lost the most.

You're talking about the Jewish nation?
And this particular war was hardly more horrible than the trench warfare between the Germans and the French, and yet they have no problem to accept that before god all men are equal.
Palivec   
16 May 2011
History / Russians 'tortured to death' in Polish camps? [58]

Right, It was Poles who attacked the innocent Russians, closed them all in the camp and shot in head then took their country and made it a colony for 180 years...

The (Western?) European spirit of reconciliation, on which the whole EU is actually based(!), isn't that narrow-minded.
Palivec   
16 May 2011
History / Russians 'tortured to death' in Polish camps? [58]

I'm divided on the topic. First of all, the strong language (brutally, tortured, death camp) is out of place and indicates the true intention of the initiators. Not conciliation but confrontation. Such a plague has to go immediately.

On the other hand: the Russian news site states that the current inscriptions don't mention the Russian dead. I don't know if it's true, but I know some places in Czechia and Poland were victims of Czechs and Poles get concealed on such official plagues by writing some vague phrases like "to remember the dead former inhabitants of this village/town" or "to remember the dead who died between 1945 and 1947". That's no conciliation either.

So, if the Polish plagues don't mention the Russian dead both sides are equally guilty.
Palivec   
16 May 2011
History / Pannonia - was it a part of Poland? [3]

Crow, with your vast knowledge you should rewrite these Wikipedia articles, because now they all tell lies:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pannonia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_Hungary
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarmatian

:D
Palivec   
14 May 2011
News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]

But that's really not fault of these people. That's maily fault of ignorant European "elites", they brought in millions of people unadjusted to European standards and now big surprise that It's not working well. I see no good solution to this problem.

Well, there are solutions, but they require western societies to accept that they are immigration countries, and that these immigrants are a integral part of the country. Until a few years ago these western societies were quite happy with the status quo. The immigrants did all the bad work the locals didn't want to do anymore, and apart from that the immigrants were in their own quarters and didn't bother the locals. No one cared.

Integration is possible. Compulsory kindergardens for all, quotas for kindergardens and schools, smaller classes with individual mentoring are a great way to start. But this means that this unwanted, foreign underclass comes out of the ghettos and to the well-off suburbs of the locals, and that's were all these ideas end. Integration is actually not wanted, because it means more competition for the established middle-class.
Palivec   
14 May 2011
News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]

Perhaps it has something to do with how the immigrants feel about the country. A lot of people come to the US and they want to become American, because they buy into the American Dream. Is there a French Dream? A British Dream? That's why the Moroccans stay Moroccan, and the Pakis stay Pakis.

Yes, there is a French dream. The citoyen, based on the enlightenment and French revolution. But the concept is a bit more complex than the American dream.
Palivec   
13 May 2011
History / Are Polish territories natively German? [73]

I know, I know. Poland ruled over a region 1000 years ago? That's historically Polish land! 3 Poles lived in a city? Polish city, for sure! Slavic tribes muttered some words like Poles? They were Poles of course! Someone traded with Polish grain? Must be a Pole then!

:D
Palivec   
13 May 2011
History / Are Polish territories natively German? [73]

Gdańsk fortune was simply built on the Polish grain exported via Vistula river. This simply gave the city the strength and autonomy. I'd say Gdańsk/Danzig was always multinational; check the roles of the Polish and German in the Freistadt before the WWII.

How is Polish grain relevant? Silly argument. All big cities of that time were on the crossroads of important trading routes. In Danzigs case it was the amber road, where more than grain was traded... the name of the road might give you a hint.

And the Polish role in the history of Danzig/Gdańsk is minor. There is almost no legacy of the much sought (and the Commies certainly gave their best), mystical Polish minority in the city. If I look at the history I can find many German names in all civic matters, quite a few Dutch artists and builders, a few Scots... but almost no Poles. The few known Poles are mostly outsiders who came into the town on behalf of the Polish overlord and/or the church.

If Wilno, with 50-65% Poles, is considered a Polish town here, then Danzig, with 95% Germans, can be considered a historically German town. 5% other nationalities don't make a town multicultural.
Palivec   
12 May 2011
History / Why did Russia attack Poland in WW2? [178]

Everyone had them.

No, electric submarines which could operate entirely submerged were a German invention.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Type_XXI_submarine

Everyone had it.

No, submarines with air-independent propulsion were built by other countries only in the 50s.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-independent_propulsion

Everyone had the technology, it just was not economic enough to build them, not even for the Germans, see fuel consumption, basically all inventions you listed either existed as counterparts or had been in design stage and not produced for economic reasons.

All these technologies were first built by Germany, and many post-war designs of the Soviet Union and the USA are based on German designs. You have to wonder why they didn't use their own design, since they, according to you, all already had the technology.

Assault rifles have been designed and even built decades before WW2, Germans just started mass producing one, they did not invent nor were they the first to field one (Russians or French were).

Since you know so much, please add your knoweledge to this article:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmgewehr_44
LOL, the name "assualt rifle" is even based on the German word Sturmgewehr, and the AK-47 is based on this German design... :D