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Palivec   
24 Jun 2011
News / Germany provoke Poland using Silesian question. Poland's attitude ? [124]

Oh, and by the way - there's at least third generation of POLES growing up in Silesia.

... and theys still don't name roads, town squares and schools after non-Polish Silesians, and they still don't form local associations to preserve their local non-Polish heritage, and they still don't maintain their non-Polish cemeteries... Silesia is a place without Silesians.
Palivec   
24 Jun 2011
News / Germany provoke Poland using Silesian question. Poland's attitude ? [124]

LOL, you use your own prejudices against Germans, i.e. Germans alleghed thinking of Poles as "Untermenschen", as an excuse to your own lack of culture. Yes, lack of culture, because the willful ignoring of the culture of Silesia is a lack of culture. The guy who gave the money to build the school you attended or to create a park you enjoy deserves that he is mentioned somewhere.

And please, this victim complex gets tiring. Comparing Nazi ideology with todays prejudices against Poles is laughable. I can read all kinds of deprecatory remarks against Ukrainians and Jews here, and all this crap about Slavic superiority. I suppose Ukrainians are Untermenschen for Poles, or not?

You compare a culture that was neither a high culture nor existed in the modern era with a high culture that ended in '45? LOL.
But drive to Berlin, on the left side you see a fully reconstructed Slavic wooden castle. Since this culture existed only until the Middle Ages there isn't much to preserve except for a few archaeological sites.

And that's why the most precious baroque graveyard of Silesia in your hometown Jelenia Gora was destroyed in the 60s or 70s? Yes, on a bureaucratic level this makes sense.

So, the people of Poznan weren't Poles either between 1793 and 1918 but Germans?
Palivec   
26 Jun 2011
Travel / Why do you visit Poland? [222]

For architecture and history, as a tourist. And the country is so much better than this forum suggests... :D
Palivec   
27 Jun 2011
History / So called "inconvenient parts" of Polish history - what do you think? [156]

Ad Polish antisemitism just one example: The official Ausschwitz tour - I twice took a private guide - takes roughly more than one hour and mentiones jewish victims in just one sentence!!! Instead the guide will keep elaborating about the great suffering of the Poles - it is simply disgusting.

I think that's the main reason for todays Polish Anti-Semitism. Poles and Jews are in a victim competition. Both share the same self-image as the biggest victims, and both can't forgive the other side which claims to be the bigger victim.
Palivec   
27 Jun 2011
Polonia / Löcknitz: Polish Lifeline for an Ailing German Town [3]

In a surprising twist of the Polish-German relationship, which for centuries had been dominated by war, conquest and ethnic cleansing, some Poles have now come to settle among their less-well-off German neighbors.

Actually Poles settled for centuries in Germany, and German settled for centuries in Poland.
And this part of Germany is the traditional hinterland of Szczecin. That's also the reason why this German region is so poor.
Palivec   
28 Jun 2011
News / Wal-Mart coming to Poland? [146]

After the desaster in Germany they would probably fail in Poland too. AFAIK they are only successful in GB, everywere else in Europe they are irrelevant.
Palivec   
28 Jun 2011
News / Wal-Mart coming to Poland? [146]

What happened in Germany?

They were already running campaigns of a shopping revolution before they entered the market, but their markets weren't anything special to German consumers, and many Germans found the "American shopping experience" very awkward... employees who wished a good day or packed the bought products just smelled like fake friendliness and cheap labor to them. Wal-Mart moreover had a bad press since their guidelines (personal relations between employees) violated German law.
Palivec   
28 Jun 2011
News / Wal-Mart coming to Poland? [146]

Poland will love Wal Mart, especially if they can get in on those super low prices. Wal Mart is great for a place that doesn't have a lot of extra cash.

Europe already has Aldi, Lidl, Netto, Penny and so on. When Wal-Mart started in Europe they weren't cheaper than the more expensive Europans markets.
Palivec   
2 Jul 2011
History / Pomerania -a Polish land since the creation of Poland and the German invaders. [60]

Keep in mind that Gdańsk was in Polish hands longer then German (Prussian) you can find dates here in PF. And then Germans claims Gdańsk as a German city because of German population there.

And? Pomeranians weren't Poles, they actually fought against them and were later Germanized.
Palivec   
2 Jul 2011
History / Polabia back to Slavs? [113]

LOL, not even the Sorbs want to be part of Greater Slavia... :D
Palivec   
2 Jul 2011
History / Polabia back to Slavs? [113]

The Sorbs wanted to be part of CzechSlovakia after WW2.
But, Germans made propaganda against that & swayed them to stay.

Yes, sure. Germany at the end of WW2 couldn't do anything.
The Czechs created a Sorbian organization with some Sorbs who fled to Prague to propagate the annexation of Lusatia, but the Domowina (Google it if you don't know them) was against it.
Palivec   
2 Jul 2011
History / Pomerania -a Polish land since the creation of Poland and the German invaders. [60]

Nope.Majority of Silesian borders is in Poland.

No, Greater Moravia was the first COUNTRY to own Silesia, followed by Bohemia, and as you said, that's all what counts. So, get out of Silesia, it's rightfully Czech.

Almost everything Italian?
Are you drunk lol?

I spoke about Europe as a whole. France, Spain, Portugal, England... all Italian.
Palivec   
3 Jul 2011
History / Poland obliged to make war reparations to Austria and Germany after WWI. Why? [119]

Yes. I read here all the time how evil Prussia suppressed poor Poles... and now, suddenly, Poles owned most factories? It must suck when two conspiracy theories collide... :D

And when it became clear that Germany would lose the eastern territories the German army wasn't in the position anymore to do anything, since the German army was in shambles.
Palivec   
3 Jul 2011
History / Poland obliged to make war reparations to Austria and Germany after WWI. Why? [119]

Thats chiefly because despite supression Poles proven to be superior merchant

And the Poles under Russian rules were less superior merchants and businessmen, and less organized, that's why these eastern Polish territories are less developed. Yes, it all makes so much sense... :D

See? Not only are you an anti-polish bastard you're also an ignorant moron

Hmm. Anti-Polish bastard. Ignorant moron. Nice. Looks like forum rule #2 to me.
And maybe, if you would read a few more modern books and not only Commie propaganda, you would know that not the German army fought against Poles during the uprising but mainly irregular troups, since the German army was de facto non-existent.
Palivec   
6 Jul 2011
Travel / Attractions in Wrocław: a Must-See List [117]

Ugly cities? Krakow has a preserved old town + the Wawel?! That's more than "a few pearls here and there". But it's mostly true for Wroclaw.
Palivec   
6 Jul 2011
History / Polabia back to Slavs? [113]

I think the post-War Germans are a sufficiently de-fanged lot! They're not likely to go berserk any longer; the Furor Teutonicus has been silenced forever, so it seemsLOL

I think the Furor Teutonicus is now the Furor Polonicus... at least if you read this forum. :D
Palivec   
6 Jul 2011
Travel / Attractions in Wrocław: a Must-See List [117]

Compared to the city`s size, it is still a few. :):):)

Well, that's also true for Paris and London... ;)

I don`t agree. Krakow has more pearls than Wrocław. :):):)

I agreed that Wroclaw is a "big, dirty, chaotic, polluted and ugly city, despite a few pearls here and there". People visiting Wroclaw should consider a day trip to Goerlitz on the German-Polish border to see how Silesian towns once looked.
Palivec   
7 Jul 2011
Travel / Attractions in Wrocław: a Must-See List [117]

Well, basically the entire inventory of the pre-war museums. Altars, epitaphs, paintings, armory, goldworks and so on. It was all moved to Warsaw after the war and is still stored there.

I know the History Museum. It is very well done, but it can't hide the fact that the exhibits are mostly second rate. The good stuff is in Warsaw. The National Museum in Warsaw for instance shows the biggest collection of Silesian paintings today, which were all in Breslau before '45.
Palivec   
9 Jul 2011
Travel / Attractions in Wrocław: a Must-See List [117]

It is understandable. Warsaw was razed to the ground and lost nearly everything, while Wrocław had to be punished for being a German city. :):):)

They were actually moved to Warsaw to polonize Wroclaw, and most exhibits aren't shown in Warsaw today but are stored in magazines. There is a movement in Wroclaw to bring back the artworks, but the responsible authorities in Warsaw block every progress.

This was the main reason why Wroclaw was such a strange experience for me.