History / Mother tongue in Poland - acccording to 1931 census. [174]

poland oppressed ukraine and belarus and tried to polonise its people they banned ukrainiana belarusian language and tried to convert them to catholic church for many hundreds of hears. they mostly failed at it

History / Mother tongue in Poland - acccording to 1931 census. [174]

my grandmother was from polesie and was an ''other, local'' which means poleszuk. poleszuk people are eastern slavic people who have thair own unique culture and languaue called polessian language which some considered a dialect of Ukrainian. most poleszuk people have Ukrainian last names and its thought that most poleszuki are closely related to modern day Ukrainians as they both descend from the same ancient Slavic tribes of Kieven rus!

also the poleszuk people where heavily russified before ww1 and then heavily polanized after ww1.
about 70% of poleszuk people live in northern Ukraine and the rest mainly in southern Belarus with small communities in poland and russia.

the polish community in polesie had little to do with the poleszuk '' locals''

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

my great grandmother born before ww1 was from greater poland and her surname is a Ukrainian one ''pawluk''
was it common for Ukrainians to settle in all parts of poland?

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

is Pawluk Polish?

Genealogy / Mackowiak surname, Maćkowiak [17]

thank you for the information :)

would mackowiak be from the polans tribe?

Genealogy / Mackowiak surname, Maćkowiak [17]

my surname is Maćkowiak
what does it mean? where in Poland does it come from?

Life / Poles - the Nation of Liars? [478]

i think poles are alcoholics but thats for another topic

History / What proportion of the Polish population collaborated with the Nazis? [125]

because if they didn't serve nazi germany they too would of been killed :P

History / What proportion of the Polish population collaborated with the Nazis? [125]

many polish people in silesia and west poland helped the nazi's because most were mixed poland and german.... thats why selisians are looked down in poland as german

Genealogy / The typical Polish look, or all Eastern Europeans [656]

Scandinavians are a Germanic people

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

thank you for the information :)
i disagree about not being occupied as my family saw it they were occupied by a government who tried to polanise them for a very long time. but in the end we are all human. thank you again for the information :)

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

Hirshkovitz Hershkovitz is a ashkenazi Jewish last name

my grandmother was born in west belarus when it was under polish occupation

anyone no anything about the last name leonczuk/leonchuk in cyrillic russian Леончук... could it be ruthenian ?

and also last name gryszuk/gryschuk and in cyrillic russian Грищук can anyone help me?

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]

germans !

i like russia
slavic brothers