sofijufka
1 Oct 2012
Life / Polish Werewolves [30]
Nelly Rokita said so, not JK
Once Jarosław Kaczyński said that Donald Tusk had wolverine eyes.
Nelly Rokita said so, not JK
sofijufka
30 Sep 2012
History / People the Soviets planted in Poland [75]
have you any proof for that? And that Rajumnd was a member of PZPR?
The fact that he was trusted enough to install things in the American Embassy tells us all we need to know about what kind of man he was
have you any proof for that? And that Rajumnd was a member of PZPR?
sofijufka
30 Sep 2012
History / People the Soviets planted in Poland [75]
no, it's not true
Kaczynski's belonged to Stalin's Comintern
no, it's not true
sofijufka
30 Sep 2012
History / Poland: Her heroes and her traitors [214]
Why traitor? I think he simply understand Napoleon too well - that he saw Poland only as a source of cannon fodder, food and horses, that he never intended to re-create Poland. Kościuszko was dissapointed and disillusioned man, very ill if not bedridden, but he took the last effort to do somethng for his country and met tzar Alexander in Braunau - only to be disappointed again
Kościuszko is a controvercial figure to me. He fought for Poland hard but after defeat and last partition, he emigrated and didn`t return to Poland when part of it became liberated by Napoleon in early 19 century. Both hero and traitor?
Why traitor? I think he simply understand Napoleon too well - that he saw Poland only as a source of cannon fodder, food and horses, that he never intended to re-create Poland. Kościuszko was dissapointed and disillusioned man, very ill if not bedridden, but he took the last effort to do somethng for his country and met tzar Alexander in Braunau - only to be disappointed again
sofijufka
28 Sep 2012
sofijufka
28 Sep 2012
News / Rest in Peace Anna Walentynowicz or is it...?! [63]
I don't like her too - I don't like liars. She lied also that the whole ground at Smoleńsk was digged up to 1 meter from the surface and all the fragments of bodies and passengers' belongings were find. It was not the truth...
I don't like her too - I don't like liars. She lied also that the whole ground at Smoleńsk was digged up to 1 meter from the surface and all the fragments of bodies and passengers' belongings were find. It was not the truth...
sofijufka
26 Sep 2012
History / Polish Royal Bastards [23]
I know about 8 of these bastards:
- Maurycy Saski mother Maria Aurora Königsmarck
- Fryderyk August Rutowski - mother Fatima Spiegel
- Jan Jerzy, Chevalier de Saxe - mother Urszula Katarzyna princess Teschen-Lubomirska
- Maria Aurura Rutowska - mother Fatima Spiegel
- Anna Orzelska - mother Henrietta Rénard
- Augusta Konstancja Cosel, married Friesen - mother Anna Konstancja Cosel
- Fryderyka Aleksandra Cosel, married Moszyńska - mother Anna Konstancja Cosel
- Fryderyk August Cosel - mother Anna Konstancja Cosel
I know about 8 of these bastards:
- Maurycy Saski mother Maria Aurora Königsmarck
- Fryderyk August Rutowski - mother Fatima Spiegel
- Jan Jerzy, Chevalier de Saxe - mother Urszula Katarzyna princess Teschen-Lubomirska
- Maria Aurura Rutowska - mother Fatima Spiegel
- Anna Orzelska - mother Henrietta Rénard
- Augusta Konstancja Cosel, married Friesen - mother Anna Konstancja Cosel
- Fryderyka Aleksandra Cosel, married Moszyńska - mother Anna Konstancja Cosel
- Fryderyk August Cosel - mother Anna Konstancja Cosel
sofijufka
25 Sep 2012
Life / Polish sentimental ballads [28]
do you like it?
youtube.com/watch?v=wcO-YZyK86M&feature=related
youtube.com/watch?v=YutTzWWLO6w&feature=related
and this one?
youtube.com/watch?v=g9z9kt1dx44&feature=related
or this?
youtube.com/watch?v=AXnUJCFKaKg&feature=related
do you like it?
youtube.com/watch?v=wcO-YZyK86M&feature=related
youtube.com/watch?v=YutTzWWLO6w&feature=related
and this one?
youtube.com/watch?v=g9z9kt1dx44&feature=related
or this?
youtube.com/watch?v=AXnUJCFKaKg&feature=related
sofijufka
23 Sep 2012
History / Polish Royal Bastards [23]
hmmm... could it be "herb uszczerbiony" [abatement of coat of arms]?
hmmm... could it be "herb uszczerbiony" [abatement of coat of arms]?
sofijufka
23 Sep 2012
History / Polish Royal Bastards [23]
bar/bend sinister?
There is a special word for it, which I do not remember right now).
bar/bend sinister?
sofijufka
20 Sep 2012
News / Rest in Peace Anna Walentynowicz or is it...?! [63]
but I understand people, who want to pray at the grave of the member of family/husband/wife/friend - not of the person unknown...
but I understand people, who want to pray at the grave of the member of family/husband/wife/friend - not of the person unknown...
sofijufka
20 Sep 2012
sofijufka
20 Sep 2012
History / Polish military uniforms [49]
hmmm... I could agree, if you said so about Cnut the Great's invasion in 1015....
Vice versa too Pawian, there were *probably* Poles in Wiliam the Bastards invasion force in 1066.
hmmm... I could agree, if you said so about Cnut the Great's invasion in 1015....
sofijufka
20 Sep 2012
News / IPN apologises to Adam Michnik [15]
You know, it's funny, but I think that her books might have quite the opposite effect. I've found in my library her book "History of Poland till 1795" - and I believe, that this book could teach young people 'think historically", that each event has it's own cause and effect . Her conclusions were wrong, of course, but later published textbooks were good only for repetition. My mother teached history, year after year she had to have a new textbook, and each of them was "thinner" and good only for test's exam.
Michnik's mother was a writer of stalinsit textbooks in the posotwar period whose purpose was to brianwash and Sovietise Polish schoolchildren.
You know, it's funny, but I think that her books might have quite the opposite effect. I've found in my library her book "History of Poland till 1795" - and I believe, that this book could teach young people 'think historically", that each event has it's own cause and effect . Her conclusions were wrong, of course, but later published textbooks were good only for repetition. My mother teached history, year after year she had to have a new textbook, and each of them was "thinner" and good only for test's exam.
sofijufka
19 Sep 2012
sofijufka
19 Sep 2012
Genealogy / Coats of arms of Polish cities [51]
In 1317 the townspeople of Lublin visited Prince Władysław the Short (pl: £okietek) to ask him to grant them civic rights. As the prince agreed, a decision on the city's emblem was to be made. The delegation told the prince about hard times of Lublin when its townspeople had fed on goats' milk. The prince considered a goat a good symbol. However, in order not to evoke unhappy memories, he ordered them to put in the emblem something that would be associated with joy, namely a grapevine.
[i]In Antiquity the goat was an attribute of Venus and Bacchus. Found in mountainous regions, the goat became a symbol of human pursuit to lofty ideals and to God. The goat was also associated with fertility of nature blessed by God. In order to exemplify this fertility, the coat of arms pictured a goat leaning against a vine and gnawing at its leaves. Such a picture can also be seen on the left door leaf of the cathedral in Gniezno, the first capital of Poland.
and more
loitik.eu/historia/herb_uk.htm
In 1317 the townspeople of Lublin visited Prince Władysław the Short (pl: £okietek) to ask him to grant them civic rights. As the prince agreed, a decision on the city's emblem was to be made. The delegation told the prince about hard times of Lublin when its townspeople had fed on goats' milk. The prince considered a goat a good symbol. However, in order not to evoke unhappy memories, he ordered them to put in the emblem something that would be associated with joy, namely a grapevine.
[i]In Antiquity the goat was an attribute of Venus and Bacchus. Found in mountainous regions, the goat became a symbol of human pursuit to lofty ideals and to God. The goat was also associated with fertility of nature blessed by God. In order to exemplify this fertility, the coat of arms pictured a goat leaning against a vine and gnawing at its leaves. Such a picture can also be seen on the left door leaf of the cathedral in Gniezno, the first capital of Poland.
and more
loitik.eu/historia/herb_uk.htm
sofijufka
12 Sep 2012
History / Adam Michnik's half-brother Stefan different father [11]
and because of this - he sued so much people?
d Michnik practices what Jesus preached - forgiveness.
and because of this - he sued so much people?
sofijufka
12 Sep 2012
sofijufka
12 Sep 2012
sofijufka
12 Sep 2012
History / Adam Michnik's half-brother Stefan different father [11]
Samuel Rosenbusch ps. "Emil", "Miłek", a Jewish lawyer and communist activist, executed around 1937 in the Soviet Union during the Great Purge.
Samuel Rosenbusch ps. "Emil", "Miłek", a Jewish lawyer and communist activist, executed around 1937 in the Soviet Union during the Great Purge.
sofijufka
12 Sep 2012
History / Polish Officer in NATO, Col. Ryszard Kukliński. [145]
communists are queer people. One of my mother's friend [a communist] was send at Siberia by soviets, her child died from malnutricion, her husband was shot - and she was a commmie till her death...
As opposed to Adam Michnik, whose brother's father was murdered by the communists.
communists are queer people. One of my mother's friend [a communist] was send at Siberia by soviets, her child died from malnutricion, her husband was shot - and she was a commmie till her death...
sofijufka
12 Sep 2012
History / Polish Officer in NATO, Col. Ryszard Kukliński. [145]
yea, you are right, but one can't sell such a flat, and member of family couldn't inherit it [especially if they don't live here]
why? My landlady bought her flat in the same year - the town council was more flexible then...
yea, you are right, but one can't sell such a flat, and member of family couldn't inherit it [especially if they don't live here]
Interesting that they bought the flat in 1981, too.
why? My landlady bought her flat in the same year - the town council was more flexible then...
sofijufka
12 Sep 2012
History / Polish Officer in NATO, Col. Ryszard Kukliński. [145]
not get - it was a kind of lease/tenancy. Kaczyńskis bought this flat in year 1981.
sofijufka: no, it wasn't charity
not get - it was a kind of lease/tenancy. Kaczyńskis bought this flat in year 1981.
sofijufka
12 Sep 2012
History / Polish Officer in NATO, Col. Ryszard Kukliński. [145]
you think, all of them ought to commit suicide?
you think, all of them ought to commit suicide?
sofijufka
12 Sep 2012
History / Polish Officer in NATO, Col. Ryszard Kukliński. [145]
no, it wasn't charity, PRL state often practised carrot and stick approach - it was easier where citiziens were working for free at rebuilding of ruined cities, than to pay for rebuilding.
You mean out of charity from the PRL state?
no, it wasn't charity, PRL state often practised carrot and stick approach - it was easier where citiziens were working for free at rebuilding of ruined cities, than to pay for rebuilding.
sofijufka
12 Sep 2012
History / Polish Officer in NATO, Col. Ryszard Kukliński. [145]
he WASN'T a member of PZPR!
Nothing to do with having betrayed his AK colleagues by joining the PZPR, of course.
he WASN'T a member of PZPR!
sofijufka
12 Sep 2012
History / Polish Officer in NATO, Col. Ryszard Kukliński. [145]
oh. I'm fed up with such accusations! I know a lot of people, who knew family Kaczynski! One of my friends lived from childhood in the town house, where Kaczynskis lived [by the way, Rajmund Kaczynski was one of the people who rebuilt this building after the war and was given flat in award - just like my father in Lublin]. He was liked very much by his neighbours.
I was working 10 years at the Warsaw Technical University and spoke with the people, who remembered Rajmund - and have only good to say.
I knew Jarek's boss from library of Instytut Badań Literackich of PAofSc. He said Jarek was very hard working and intelligent. I'm 61 years old, so I remember, how it was to live in commies' Poland - and it's easy for foreigner and member of Polonia to accuse people of treason, because they didn't really understand how it was then... And I know a lot of people from Agora, and - let me say - they often write one thing, and think another....
My collegue from daily was Maleszka's wife - she told me a lot about Agora morals...
Such as the ducks' father?
oh. I'm fed up with such accusations! I know a lot of people, who knew family Kaczynski! One of my friends lived from childhood in the town house, where Kaczynskis lived [by the way, Rajmund Kaczynski was one of the people who rebuilt this building after the war and was given flat in award - just like my father in Lublin]. He was liked very much by his neighbours.
I was working 10 years at the Warsaw Technical University and spoke with the people, who remembered Rajmund - and have only good to say.
I knew Jarek's boss from library of Instytut Badań Literackich of PAofSc. He said Jarek was very hard working and intelligent. I'm 61 years old, so I remember, how it was to live in commies' Poland - and it's easy for foreigner and member of Polonia to accuse people of treason, because they didn't really understand how it was then... And I know a lot of people from Agora, and - let me say - they often write one thing, and think another....
My collegue from daily was Maleszka's wife - she told me a lot about Agora morals...
sofijufka
12 Sep 2012
Genealogy / Coats of arms of Polish cities [51]
naleczow.com.pl/lang/en/history.html
here is history of Nałęczów - from the beginning to today
naleczow.com.pl/lang/en/history.html
here is history of Nałęczów - from the beginning to today
sofijufka
11 Sep 2012
Genealogy / Coats of arms of Polish cities [51]
the red ones is Nałęcz, coat of arms ofStanisław Małachowski, the blue one - Pilawa [coat of arms of his wife]
Nałęczów, do you guys know what the coat of arms mean?
the red ones is Nałęcz, coat of arms ofStanisław Małachowski, the blue one - Pilawa [coat of arms of his wife]
sofijufka
10 Sep 2012
Language / how to say drum in polish? [7]
gram na bębnie [~~bembnie]: gram na bębenku [bembenku]
gram na bębnom,
gram na bębnie [~~bembnie]: gram na bębenku [bembenku]