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Posts by alxmac  

Joined: 29 Nov 2011 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 7 Jan 2012
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Posts: 27 		From: Melbourne
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alxmac   
5 Jan 2012
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
alxmac   
4 Jan 2012
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''
alxmac   
4 Jan 2012
History / Polesie Voivodeship before WWI? [11]

i am polish and most poles are anti jewish. end of story

thank you for the little information of polesia :)
alxmac   
2 Jan 2012
History / Polesie Voivodeship before WWI? [11]

can anyone tell me about Polesie Voivodeship before ww1?
ethnic makeup? religious make up?
alxmac   
2 Jan 2012
Genealogy / Ukrainians in Poland before WW2. Ukrainian last names? [7]

ukrainians/ruthenians in poland before ww2?

common or not?

i see many poles have ukrainian/ruthanian last names

where they allowed to move freely within poland?

did they settle in greater poland?
alxmac   
2 Jan 2012
Life / Are there many crypto-Jews in Poland? [67]

maybe jews in poland hide there jewishness because 70years ago 6 million jews were murdered and 3 million of them polish jews....
alxmac   
27 Dec 2011
History / Question about land of former Poland/modern Belarus [11]

my grandmother was from belarus when she was born it was under polish occupation and before that apart of russia. they were forced to learn polish at school and not speak there native language which was called polesian (dialect of ukrainian and belarusian) there nationality is poleszuk with is transitional between ukrainian and belarusian.

her family were very rich and because of that were very polanized.

my point is poland is for polish people and belarus is for belarusians

would love to hear from any belarusian or polish people who call belarus there mother land :)
alxmac   
22 Dec 2011
Genealogy / Mackowiak surname, Maćkowiak [17]

my surname is Maćkowiak
what does it mean? where in Poland does it come from?
alxmac   
30 Nov 2011
History / Was the Polish/ Lithuanian commonwealth a European power? [111]

Ukraine and Belarus were settle by eastern slavic groups

first it was Kieven Rus (first Belarusian, Ukrainian and russian state)
then became known as Ruthenia

lithuania then occupied it... then when poland joined lithuania they got all Lithuanian land. and the poles started to polanise the people... in ukraine belarus and lithuania....

after that it all ruthenia was apart of the Russian empire (russians and also east slavic tribes)
then after that poland occupied it from 1921 - 1939 within that time poland sent many polish settlers and tried to convert the local ruthenians to catholic but most stayed orthodox.

then after that became part of Russua again..
now both free and not occupied
alxmac   
30 Nov 2011
Life / Can many young Poles speak German? [72]

poles should learn russian. it will become very useful soon as russia rises!

in slavic europe it is the most spoken language and in turkic central asia

btw im not russian
alxmac   
30 Nov 2011
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4501]

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 :)
alxmac   
30 Nov 2011
Life / How many ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN POLISH in Poland? [40]

my family are polish and we are orthodox NOT all polish people are catholic!
there are up to 1 million polish orthodox in Poland today ! many polish orthodox were forced to become catholic by the polish government before ww2
alxmac   
30 Nov 2011
News / How Polish diaspora see future of Poland? as ethnic Polish state or just Polish in origin? [120]

i am ashamed to be polish... poland has turned its back in the rest of slavic europe and have chosen to suck the penis of germany and western europe... nato is what will kill poland as we know it... poland needs to join slavic europe and stop trying to be something we are not we will never be like germany we are estern Europeans not western our future is in the east ! and america is the devil
alxmac   
30 Nov 2011
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4501]

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?