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Joined: 13 Mar 2012 / Female ♀ 		Last Post: 29 Mar 2014
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Posts: 187 		From: Warsaw
Speaks Polish?: native
Interests: history

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sofijufka   
29 Mar 2013
History / A Polish Town in Turkey. Who Knew? [9]

My great.... great[?] grand father had a shop in Adampol. Before II World War my grandfather received a letter from polish ambasador of Turkey, that he inherited this shop, but he passed it to the Adampol people... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonezk%C3%B6y

About Adampol, read a book of Jerzy £ątka: Oskarżam arcyksięcia Rudolfa [I accused a Kronprtinz Rudolf] and "Carogrodzki pojedynek"
sofijufka   
13 Mar 2013
Life / Polish pretense - what's the deal? [72]

......Malls here (and yes there are three that I know of in Rszesow)

Are you living in Rzeszów? Which mall are you talking about? Krakowiak? Frac, Real, Tesco, Leclerk, Biedronka, Lidl? Alma?
sofijufka   
4 Jan 2013
Life / Heroes/heroines of Poland's pop culture [27]

what about Radamenes from "Siedem źyczeń/Seven wished"?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Wishes_%28TV_series%29

ups! wishes!
sofijufka   
3 Jan 2013
Language / Polish/Ukrainian words similarities [209]

U mnie jest" doesn't strictly indicate possession as in Russian but is sometimes used where you would normally use "have" in a Western European language. "Czy tylko u mnie jest problem?" could be understood as in "Is it only me that there is a problem with?"

nooo.... you are wrong. In polish you ought to say: Czy tylko ze mną jest/masz problem?
sofijufka   
2 Jan 2013
History / Ukrainian-occupied Eastern Poland [135]

like Bandera, perhaps?

kyivpost/content/ukraine/ukraine-nationalists-celebrate -banderas-birth-anniversary-318350.html
sofijufka   
31 Dec 2012
News / The quality of Polish media coverage [48]

1jola: ts Uważam Rze weekly had become the best selling weekly in the country.Impossible.

you are right - it's impossible, because there is only pseudo "Uważam Rze" left
sofijufka   
4 Dec 2012
Life / traditional polish knitting? [4]

koronki koniakowskie? - lace of Koniaków

Koniakow's history begins in the second half of XVI century. Around this time, settlers from Cieszynski's Silesia located in this area, created the following villages: Istebna and Jaworzynka, together with Koniakow, known as the Beskid's Tri-Village. However, it was not only settlers of Polish origin that inhabited this area. Also Vlachs (Wallachians) were passing through with their flocks of sheep. Some of them decided to stay, and mixed in with the original habitants. Such mixtures fructified between men and women, and their ethnic differences were exposed in their types of clothing and also their cultural beliefs..

Poland Tatra mountain knitting
sofijufka   
4 Dec 2012
News / Poland's PiS = suspicion & fear? [70]

Lenka: When PiS ruled the government was suspicious and ppl were scared.Yes by the scaremongering media!

I could say something about these times and media. For example, my editor-in-chief forbade to publish any nice or normal picture of Lech or Jarek, the same was in Agora.

As to the IPN - is Gauck also a liar and hate-monger?
I don't like Giertych, but he was right, that something must be done about young people education. Too much "róbta co chceta", poor curriculum in middle school and secondary school.
sofijufka   
4 Dec 2012
News / Poland's PiS = suspicion & fear? [70]

some people have even gone as far as to say

o yes, it's a proof indeed
Harry, I don't like Jarek at all, but I dislike gossips and innuendos more.
sofijufka   
3 Dec 2012
News / Grzegorz Braun's firing squad? [39]

and what about Andrzej Wajda?"- Jak przejmiemy TVP, to wystrzelamy prawicowych dziennikarzy jak psy". {When we'll take over TVP, we'll shoot the wright-wing journalists like a dogs]
sofijufka   
3 Dec 2012
News / UN threatens ''Poland's windows of life" [24]

Now here lies the rub.

my friend was "partly" adpoted - i.e. he was illegitimate, his biological father was married and had one night stand with a young drinker. When wife of this man found out about this, she insisted, that the boy ought to be adopted by them. He was teenager, when someone "well-wishing" person told him about all of this and it was a real trauma for him. He wanted to meet his biological mother, he met her - and it was a disaster. Sometimes it's better not know to much...
sofijufka   
1 Dec 2012
News / UN threatens ''Poland's windows of life" [24]

about ten-twelve years ago I wrote a feature about "windows of life" in hungarian hospitals. Babies could be adopted inmediately. Statistics were, that after introducing "windows" infanticide decreased about 30%
sofijufka   
1 Dec 2012
History / People the Soviets planted in Poland [75]

oh my... How do you know about "duck-boy's" sexuality? Did you speak with his "lover"? Have you seen them in bed or in the toiltes of Dworzec Centralny? And it's true, that commie-govenment liked to know as much as possible about citizens' personal life, but it was impossible to know all about all of them...
sofijufka   
1 Dec 2012
History / People the Soviets planted in Poland [75]

So many that they had to take them in crates and have a bonfire. Allegedly Oleksy did it.

no, it's not true. They destroyed a lot of UB and WSI documents, most of the records of informers.But information of PZPR membership one could find in the employee's personal files - in case of Rajmund Kaczyński - at the Politechnika Warszawska. As yet - nobody found such information. And I have mention - the Kaczyński family neighbours i know are sure, he WASN'T in PZPR.

And, Delphi, it's not true, that "People like him didn't get what he had without membership". You didn't live in Poland then...
sofijufka   
22 Nov 2012
News / Pokłosie - should the film have received funding from Polish state coffers? [37]

Tut tut tut, using German words now, you must be forgetting yourself.

my great uncle was Bawarian, he was a prisoner of Dachau, his older son - a polish scout - was shot by German [not NAZIS}. his younger - was kidnapped by Germans as an Arian specimen [Janissary]...
sofijufka   
22 Nov 2012
News / Poland's Guy Fawkes [88]

Now we have his "home", "basement", "garage", "several sites across Poland" and "tried to buy them".

as my Agora's friend said - "tried to buy"...
sofijufka   
22 Nov 2012
News / Pokłosie - should the film have received funding from Polish state coffers? [37]

Harry, I was born in 1951, but my parent, parents' and grandparents' friends knew what was occuppation like... Some of them where living in cities, some - in villages [my father's family]. My aunt and her husband were Warsaw's insurgent's- don't you think, that I know a little more than You about this times?

Most of my mother's friends were Jews - most of them were killed by Germans [not Nazis], others were stalinists... Her childhood friend - Hela- a gifted singer - died in ghetto, because her family demand, that she stay with them in ghetto, even if her boy-friend [Polish] offered her a shelter...

My mothers' other best friend - Zofia [a pre-war comminist] - was send at Siberia, where her child died of malnutrition. But she was a communist till her death.

One of my mother's friend was go insane- of guilt, ecause he saved a jewish guy, who after the war was a stalinst's henchman, a real monster...

Harry - You don't know polish history enough..
sofijufka   
22 Nov 2012
News / Pokłosie - should the film have received funding from Polish state coffers? [37]

The simple fact is that Poles carried out the Jedwabne massacre and the more light is shone on that fact, the fewer Poles who will continue to repeat the old lie that the massacre was not the work of Poles.

the lie is, that ONLY Poles did it.... Polish peaseants during the Geman [not NAZI] occupation have a lot of guns... ? "Scuse me, who could believe such a drivel?
sofijufka   
22 Nov 2012
Life / Age chauvinism in Poland regarding young people [17]

hmmm... a lot of my friends [real and virtual] are teachers - and their impressions of youngsters is... how to say .... awful. You know, I am quite old [61 years old], you could think I'm prejudiced, but my colleagues [most of them I did like nonetheless] from my daily are nice but... undereducated. And they didn't even realize it. But they think they deserve the big money - even if they didn't know any languages, couldn't find informations in internet, and their polish is... hmmm... incorrect? non-grammatical?
sofijufka   
22 Nov 2012
News / Poland's Guy Fawkes [88]

That they'd provide photos of the sacks full of the stuff

He didn't have these sacks - he - as is said - tried to buy them....