News / Poland's Truth Commission "IPN" to be de facto closed [80]


why do you think so? They are only catholics and jews [not Polish and Jews, mind] in this world?

News / 70% of Poles like Komorowski. Do you? [120]


hmmm... somebody used to say:
If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.
?

News / 70% of Poles like Komorowski. Do you? [120]


yes, he was Wermacht soldier it's true, but earlier he was arrested by gestapo als polish fanatic, who was a great threat to III Reich. He was in Stuthoff camp, and later in KZ Neuengamme (his number was 5939). He was released in 1943. In 1944 Hitler had a great need for 'cannon fodder' , so in August Józef Tusk [like other Kaszebe] was by force conscripted into the army. In October 1944 he escaped and enlisted in Polish Armed Forces in the West

Language / Polish baby talk [16]

dzidzi - little child
amciu - eat
piciu-piciu - drink
tup tup [toop toop] - walk

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [395]


No, because in '43 AK have almost no weapons then!
From '43 to 44' they were producing machine gun Sten, hand granades {filipinka, sidolówka}, Molotov cocktails, flamethrowers, granade launchers, mortars, explosives, even buying weapons from german soldiers, whose morale was much lower then....


no, it wasn't

History / What do Poles owe to Czechs? [72]

and what about these rapes by Red Army soldiers? My mother's friend was concentration camp prisoner of Majdanek - she told me, that "molodcy' raped even these starved and filthy, half-dead women....

History / What do Poles owe to Czechs? [72]


jon357
argumentum ad personam is no argumentum at all

History / What do Poles owe to Czechs? [72]

more insults? It's no use to write more...

Genealogy / Coats of arms of Polish cities [51]

Lublin, Poland

Language / how to say drum in polish? [7]


gram na bębnie [~~bembnie]: gram na bębenku [bembenku]

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]

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

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...

History / Polish Officer in NATO, Col. Ryszard Kukliński. [145]


he WASN'T a member of PZPR!

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.

History / Polish Officer in NATO, Col. Ryszard Kukliński. [145]

you think, all of them ought to commit suicide?

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.

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...

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...

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.

History / Adam Michnik's half-brother Stefan different father [11]

Polonius3
Samuel Rosenbusch

Travel / So where are Warsaw's slums? [30]

no - perhaps you mena WOLA?

History / Adam Michnik's half-brother Stefan different father [11]


and because of this - he sued so much people?

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

Food / The great British teabag hunt thread [66]

I like Dilmah in leaves more...

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.

History / Polish military uniforms [49]


hmmm... I could agree, if you said so about Cnut the Great's invasion in 1015....

News / IPN apologises to Adam Michnik [15]

in polish?

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...

History / Polish Royal Bastards [23]


bar/bend sinister?