History / Polish relation about Russians, Ukrainians? [281]

back to the topic - I like russian songs!
for example
youtube.com/watch?v=uwaYj3l6FdQ&feature=related
youtube.com/watch?v=lJaV654NFoU&feature=related
youtube.com/watch?v=uuwxQSu2I7Q&feature=related

Food / How to make a Polish Pepper Vodka? [5]

my niece's godfather is making St John’s wort tincture and taking it to Spitzbergen as antidepressant. He simply take herbal bags, douse it with vodka and left this for 3 weeks....

Po polsku / Czy ktoś pamięta ORMO? [22]


oczywiście, że tak.....

Po polsku / Czy ktoś pamięta ORMO? [22]

owszem, znam, słyszałam - mieszkam w Warszawie. A dlaczego pytasz?

History / Polish relation about Russians, Ukrainians? [281]

Dominika, I advise you to read memories of Waclaw Lednicki.

History / Polish relation about Russians, Ukrainians? [281]


You are wrong - totally. Sorry - today I'm in no state to discuss anything, I have terrible cold and a headache. A raincheck, OK?

History / Polish relation about Russians, Ukrainians? [281]


I don't think it's possible.... As long as Ukrainians would extol UPA and OUN only as a sainted heroes, fighting only with Red Army, and keep mute about ethnic cleansing of Poles in Volhynia and Galicia... I do understand, that they see these organizations as patriotic partisan army, but...

History / Polish relation about Russians, Ukrainians? [281]


Taras Bulba [2009]? Zalizna sotnia? [2004]

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]


to All cultures unless they are polish - of course

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]


no, purpura [not purple] is from latin łac. purpŭra
violet/fiolet - from latin viola

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]


no, its not. It's derived from old-slavic volxъ - a man of roman origin, borrowed from old-german "walxa" - romanus/roman
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C5%82osi

News / Kaczorowski should be reburied at Wawel [15]

general Sikorski for example?

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

which language is? English? Frogs=French.
French? Le Rosbif = Englishman

Travel / What is the weather like in Poland where you are now? [185]

in Warsaw - sunshine

History / Polish relation about Russians, Ukrainians? [281]


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_transfer_in_the_Soviet_Union

derekcrowe.com/post.aspx?id=31
info-poland.buffalo.edu/classroom/sibir/gehenna.html
bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/83/a7652883.shtml
vimeo.com/36160916
wajszczuk.v.pl/polski/drzewo/czytelnia/michael_hope.htm

History / Polish relation about Russians, Ukrainians? [281]


o really? And what about massacre of Praga[1794], an suburb of Warsaw?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Praga

After the battle ended, the Russian troops, against the orders given by Suvorov before the battle, started to loot and burn the entire borough of Warsaw (allegedly in revenge for the slaughter or capture of over half the Russian Garrison in Warsaw[6] during the Warsaw Uprising in April 1794, when about 2,000 Russian soldiers died[7]). Almost all of the area was pillaged and inhabitants of the Praga district were tortured, raped and murdered[citation needed]. The exact death toll of that day remains unknown, but it is estimated that up to 20,000 people were killed.[4] Suvorov himself wrote: "The whole of Praga was strewn with dead bodies, blood was flowing in streams."[8] It was thought that unruly Cossack troops were partly to blame for the uncontrolled destruction.[9] Suvorov tried to stop the massacre by ordering the destruction of the bridge to Warsaw over the Vistula river [10] with the purpose of preventing the spread of violence to Warsaw. Other historians dispute this

UK, Ireland / Do the poles like British culture [127]



five years ago isn't "recently" - and it wasn't 'referendum' - only a poll .


oh, by they did: for example luddites,

UK, Ireland / Do the poles like British culture [127]


a link, please

UK, Ireland / Do the poles like British culture [127]


so sir Oswald Mosley was killed by some english amateur? Oh my, I didn't know

UK, Ireland / Do the poles like British culture [127]


it's not true - just look at the forums like Halsztuk or Północ Południe [earlier: Salon Prawdziwych Dam] or Ogród Jane Austen

News / Przemysław Gintrowski died.... [8]

in wikipedia you can find polish and english version
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mury_(song)

News / Przemysław Gintrowski died.... [8]

I don't think so... but this version is with english subtitles
youtube.com/watch?v=V-SZCr-hCbM

News / Przemysław Gintrowski died.... [8]

nothing to forgive... Here you have his bio:

Przemysław Gintrowski (21 December 1951 - 20 October 2012) was a Polish composer and musician.

Gintrowski debuted in 1976 on a review of the Warsaw Riviera with the song "Epitaph for Sergei Yesenin"
youtube.com/watch?v=5ADwzz-w68I
Shortly afterwards, in 1979, he formed a trio with Jacek Kaczmarski and Zbigniew £apiński, and initiated a poetic programme "Mury" ("Walls") - youtube.com/watch?v=sijYEf4-vGQ&feature=related

The title song of the programme, "Mury", based on the song written by Catalan bard Lluis Llach L'Estaca - has become an informal anthem of "Solidarity" and the symbol of the fight against the regime. Another program they've created is "Raj" and "Museum".

With the declaration of martial law in December 1981 Trio broke up - Jacek Kaczmarski remained in exile in France, and Gintrowski started his own artistic activity. He made his debut as a composer of film music - during the next ten years he created music for over twenty fictional films and serials.

Ginstrowski's songs based on texts by Jacek Kaczmarski, Zbigniew Herbert, Tomasz Jastrun, Krzysztof Maria Sieniawski, Jerzy Czech, Tadeusz Nowak and Marek Tercz. For several years he did not record their own songs, although he still composes for other artists and prepares music for films. Gintrowski announced he will record another album entitled "Kanapka z człowiekiem" ("Sandwich with a man") that would contain older material in new developments as well as some brand new songs. On August 31, 2006 he was awarded by President Lech Kaczyński with The Order of Polonia Restituta.

another version of "Mury"
youtube.com/watch?v=FVPJ01HsM2U&feature=related
Jean Michel Jarre

Language / Busha and JaJa [140]

I have called my grandmother "busia". I was born in Lublin, my grandmother - somewhere in Podole...

Travel / Need advice for a tour of eastern Poland [22]

There is beautiful old cemetery in Rzeszów - a few years older than warsaw's Powązki

UK, Ireland / University Project - Tłusty czwartek in the UK? [4]

in Wikipedia you can find short history of this traditional feast

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Thursday

Travel / Is Poland worth visiting on family holiday? [3]

Tatra mountains, Kazimierz nad Wisłą, Rymanów - very nice in autumn

History / What do Poles owe to Hungarians? [231]

Węgrzyn - hungarian wine
"Throughout later history, the Polish aristocracy has imported and consumed wine on a large scale. Until the 1930s, some Bordeaux châteaux were bottling wine with labels in Polish (Léoville-Barton is an example). However, the preferred wine here appears to have been Hungarian, or 'wegrzyn' as it was referred to ('Wegry' being the Polish word for Hungary). The influence Polish demand had on wine production in Hungary is reflected by the fact ..."

There was a polish proverb: Nie masz wina nad węgrzyna [There is no wine as hungarian wine]

And:
"Hungariae natum, Poloniae educatum" Zrodzone na Węgrzech, wykształcone w Polsce {Born in Hungary, educated in Poland}.
Kontusz
Kontusz (from Polish language; plural kontusze; also spelled in English language as Kontush or Kuntush from Ukrainian: Кунтуш) (originally Hungarian Köntösis - robe) - a type of outer garment worn by the Hungarian, Polish, Belarusian, Lithuanian and Ukrainian male nobility (szlachta). It became popular in the 16th century and came to the lands that were under Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth rule via Hungary from Turkey. In the 17th century, worn over an inner garment (żupan), the kontusz became a notable element of male Polish national and Ukrainian cossack attire.

History / People the Soviets planted in Poland [75]


o yessss! And he had horns and hooves and a tail. Oh, I forgot - he had also a red pitchfork...