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Posts by sofijufka  

Joined: 13 Mar 2012 / Female ♀
Last Post: 29 Mar 2014
Threads: 2
Posts: 187
From: Warsaw
Speaks Polish?: native
Interests: history

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sofijufka   
29 Oct 2012
Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

I teach my children to be respectable to other cultures whether Polish people deem it to be necessary or not.

to All cultures unless they are polish - of course
sofijufka   
30 Oct 2012
History / Polish relation about Russians, Ukrainians? [281]

I wonder why Ukrainians perfectly survive without making movies in which they would downgrade other European nationalitiesand especially Poles? I cannot remember such movie.

Taras Bulba [2009]? Zalizna sotnia? [2004]
sofijufka   
2 Nov 2012
History / Polish relation about Russians, Ukrainians? [281]

But, do not you think that Polish and Ukrainian governments should make mutual agreement about avoiding mentions of each other atrocities? Woudn`t it be a best solution at present stage of relations?

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...
sofijufka   
3 Nov 2012
History / Polish relation about Russians, Ukrainians? [281]

You do not think it`s possible or you do not want it happen?From your post I assume that you do not want

You are wrong - totally. Sorry - today I'm in no state to discuss anything, I have terrible cold and a headache. A raincheck, OK?
sofijufka   
5 Nov 2012
Po polsku / Czy ktoś pamięta ORMO? [22]

owszem, znam, słyszałam - mieszkam w Warszawie. A dlaczego pytasz?
sofijufka   
5 Nov 2012
Po polsku / Czy ktoś pamięta ORMO? [22]

Wierszyk ten zdaje się być wyzłośliwianiem się politycznych przeciwników PO na tę partię

oczywiście, że tak.....
sofijufka   
6 Nov 2012
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....
sofijufka   
9 Nov 2012
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
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....
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 / 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
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 / 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]

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   
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   
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
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   
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   
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   
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   
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
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