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Joined: 16 Jul 2012 / Male ♂
Last Post: 31 Jul 2012
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From: Poland, Warszawa and Wroclaw
Speaks Polish?: I do
Interests: I'm a freedom of speech fanatic - freedom of speech for the whole world

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Puzzie   
31 Jul 2012
News / Romney visits Poland: Gets support from Lech Walesa? [29]

. I would be very offended if I were him.

I remember great enthusiasm of numerous Poles IN POLAND about Obbama when he was fighting for the presidency. It seems many Polish Americans voted for him. I remember some of their comments about him were simply worshipful. It seems the attitude towards him has changed as a result of his policy of "reset" in America's relations with Moscow, as well as his keeping the Afghan war going. I personally was disgusted by his and other big wigs watching live the assasination of bin Laden. You seem to assert that the Republicans are worse for Poland than Obama, but do they say there was a "Polish death camp"? I actually read their sharp criticism of Obama for using the expression. He hasn't properly apologized for using it yet. And are the Republicans for a "reset" in America's relations with Moscow meaning having good relations with the Muscovites at Poland's expense? Are they for not having an American anti-missile system in Poland? We'll also see if Romney's wife will accompany him during his visit to Poland. Obama's wife didn't accompany him during his (very brief) one. By the way, Obama doesn't seem to be friendly towards Lech Wałęsa. Reportedly, it was him who didn't want Lech Wałęsa to receive from his, Obama's hands, a Medal of Freedom on the late Jan Karski's behalf.

Are Obama and his wife prejudiced against the Polish people?
Puzzie   
27 Jul 2012
News / Polish newspaper websites to start charging for access in September [9]

We'll see what comes out of it. They tried already to charge for access in the past, and then went back to free access. Few readers used the service?

Personally, I don't mind if the Gazeta Wyborcza charges for access. I never read it as I find it useless as a serious source of information on Poland.
Puzzie   
26 Jul 2012
Love / Best way to find a Polish husband...ideas? [120]

Nothing wrong with being fussy,

Hahah, she is a bit arrogant too, but it's all right. What I like about her is that she is herself; she is honest and not falsely humble about her seemingly impossibly high standards. And she's got genuine grounds for being a princess because she's good-looking and smart, oops, intelligent.

Way to go, Polka, I'd say.
:)
Puzzie   
26 Jul 2012
News / Work begins on 'Polish Disneyland' [37]

You'd have to be stupid not to know about the money that Poland gets from the EU which is deposited into the EU by the UK tax payers.

Do you say Poland takes UK tax-payers' money deposited in the EU? Do you mean Poland actually nicks British money deposited in the EU?

Show your wisdom - prove Poland does it.
Puzzie   
26 Jul 2012
History / Did British public protest against the sell out of Poland to the Soviets? [286]

Poles re-writing history to suit themselves...again!

You say we allegedly re-wrote history before? When? Give specific facts proving we allegedly re-wrote history or are rewriting it right now.

Facts show it's not us who re-wrote somebody's history but it's others who re-wrote our history numerous times.
Puzzie   
26 Jul 2012
News / Work begins on 'Polish Disneyland' [37]

when we are giving you free money!

And what free money you're allegedly giving us?

Give facts, please. You've been making claims here already againsty us but never backed them with facts, only tried to quoted some hate-propaganda from Daily Mail and the like.

So what's the facts YOU're giving us free money?
Puzzie   
26 Jul 2012
Love / Best way to find a Polish husband...ideas? [120]

You should seriously consider internet dating

Isn't she on the internet?

You are so fussy

What's wrong about being fussy? She wants to get the real goods instead of trash in a nice wrap. She is dead right and wise about it.

Also, she has the right to have any skin colour preference she pleases, or, in truth, any at all preference she pleases.
Puzzie   
26 Jul 2012
Work / Are there any Americans teachers left in Poland? [38]

I know Poles prefer British teachers

Facts seem to show Poles like both British and American teachers.

People who speak negatively about Poland are [etc]

AT LONG LAST a normal guy here who says straightforward the essential truth about Poland and Polish people.

Hello, brother.

:)
Puzzie   
25 Jul 2012
Genealogy / Poland Heraldry and Nobility in names/families [59]

Ok

Gene, sorry, brother, for not writing yet on the subject of nobility- peasants relations. It's not that I'm disregarding you, only when I discuss a subject I try to have my facts right. It's common knloledge the noble tratment of peasantry in Poland wasn't nice, but I'd like to give you some good examples. I had a book with some graphic descriptions and I've been looking for it unsuccessfully.

Yes, I'm aware of this, and thought it was a good idea to attract and hold a wider audience

I don't think it's a good idea; to me it's a fishy, political move. If Anglo-language audience can tolerate, for instance, full, unshortened Russian or indeed East Indian names, it can tolerate Polish ones as well.
Puzzie   
24 Jul 2012
History / Questions about Polish borders, Galicia and Cossacks. [50]

Yes i am proud of my slavic heritage

But you wrote you were an ethnic German. Would you regard the Germans as Slavs?

When your travel in Slavic countries you can see we are all the same people and same culture. I must go now nice talk to everyone bye

Well, the quoted statement of yours doesn't seem Polish at all, but more like Russian. Very few Poles are pan-Slavic; I've never met before a Polish person using the expression "Slavic countries." Therefore I doubt you're Polish. Also, I doubt Slavicaleks is what he or she says he or she is. You seem, people, (Russian?) trolls to me.
Puzzie   
24 Jul 2012
History / Questions about Polish borders, Galicia and Cossacks. [50]

I would highly recommend Adam Zamoyski' s The Polish Way

A very good book. Also, Norman Davies's books dealing with the subject of Eastern Borderlands seem indispensable. If I remember it right, in "Europe" he speaks critically about some Ukrainian historians who attempt to propagante a chauvinist version of Ukraine's history.
Puzzie   
24 Jul 2012
History / Questions about Polish borders, Galicia and Cossacks. [50]

East of the Bug has never been Polish but always Ruthenian

It's not true. The historical evidence shows the Easter Borderlands were Polish for long ages.

I am pure Polish from Poland

You're saying you're "pure Polish from Poland", but in your bio you write you're in Lviv, which is a city in the Ukraine. Besides, your saying that the lands east of the river Bug were never Polish is Polonophobic. So are you really "pure Polish from Poland," or rather a pure Ukrainian nationalist from the Ukraine?
Puzzie   
24 Jul 2012
History / Questions about Polish borders, Galicia and Cossacks. [50]

If you used your brain you would realize that everyone (including myself) has 4 grandparents, so obviously my grandparents all came from different countries.

Are you saying everyone's grandparents come from different countries?

yes Kresy lands had a Polish minority simply because it was not Poland. Ruthenian lands belong to Ruthenians (ukrainians and belarusians) hence the counties of Ukraine and Belarus

Not true; the Eastern Borderlands were Polish. They belonged to the Najjasniejsza Rzeczpospolita until the Partitions, that is the destruction of the Polish state in the late 1700s by the combined might of Muscovy, Prussia and Austria, and the division of the Polish territory between those nations.

Your minority theory is false. In reality, it's not the Poles, but the Cossacks, Ruthenian masses (today called Ukrainians) and the Belorussians, or rather White Rusins, who were a minority. Namely, they were a minority in the Polish state. The fact that in Florida the majority of inhabitants are Latin Americans doesn't make Florida Latin American; it remains part of the United States.

So the historical facts show that the Eastern Borderlands were part of Poland and then were grabbed from her by force. As such, many of us still think of them as part of Poland. And certainly we will never erase from our memory our powerful historical presence and rich culture there. During WWII Ukrainian chauvinists tried to slaughter all the Polish inhabitants in the Eastern Borderlands, and the present Ukrainian authorities have been trying to destroy any traces of our historical presence and culture there. History shows any such attempts are futile. Eventually, Ukrainians will have to accept the fact that we, Poles, also have the right to feel at home in the Eastern Borderlands.
Puzzie   
24 Jul 2012
History / Questions about Polish borders, Galicia and Cossacks. [50]

The Kresy (Eastern Borderlands) region IS also Polish, in spite of the fact that during WWII the Ukrainian UPA mass-murderers slaughtered barbarously circa 500000 Polish inhabitants who had lived there for centuries. It is Polish in spite of the fact that today the Ukrainian authorities are trying to wipe away any traces of Polish culture and ancient presence there. (By contrast, we, Poles, haven't wiped out, but preserved evidence of German culture and life in the teritories ceded to us after WWII.) We got rich archives; we have preserved evidence of our presence and pioneering role in OUR Eastern Borderlands. (As well as evidence of horrific in their crudity Ukrainian ethnic cleansings of our countrymen, including women, babies and old people - may their poor spirits find eternal peace. We remember; we will never forget.) In the times of the first Polish Commonwealth, there was no Belarus nor Ukraine. There were no such nations. The territories were Polish. They belonged to the Najjasniejsza Rzeczpospolita, and the population was part of the Commonwealth population. It was overwhelmingly rural. It was the Poles who brought civilization to those largely savage lands, built cities there. It was the Polish state that protected those lands along with their Polish and other inhabitants from the Tatar raids. Without the Polish army your "Ruthenians" would have been killed off and captured into slavery by the Tatars. Do you know what the word "jasyr" means? It is us, the Poles, the "Ruthenians" should be grateful to for the fact that they exist today. Moreover, a huge part of today Ukrainian population is derived from Polish runaway peasants and other fugitives. Are you saying the Russians allowed Ukrainians to develop their own culture, language? We know how the Ukrainian poet Shevchenko lamented over the Ukrainians' rebellions against the Polish Commonwealth and their foolish placing themselves in the Muscovite paws. The result was incomparably worse oppression than that in the hands of Ruthenian lords under the Polish Commonwealth. And the "Ukrainians" (actually then just the Cossacks) tried to rebel against the Russians as well. But the Russians weren't as gentle as the Poles and they crushed the rebels so hard there were no Cossack rebellions afterwards.These are the historical facts, not the fairy tales from wikipedia. Nor your Polonophobic family stories about the Poles allegedly being bad to the Poleszuks, and the Muscovites being better to them. So now you're saying your family is from the Polesie? Didn't did you say before they are ethnic Germans with Polish surnames? Are you not lying here?

So the statistics released by the Poles are very biased.

Which stats relased by the Poles are allegedly "very biased"? Give them and prove they're biased.
Puzzie   
23 Jul 2012
History / Questions about Polish borders, Galicia and Cossacks. [50]

This may be right, but you can be sure you'll also find many Germans and Poles that respected each other and intermarried.

Hello, Funky.You've put it beautifully, and in lovely English. Szacun ( respect) from me, Puzzie.

By the way, I'm not a Germano-phobe, but more like a Germano-phile. I can see a difference between Germans in Germany and those abroad. On the average, the latter seem to be more nationalistic than the former. The same seems true for the Poles - the Polonia (Poles abroad) seems to be way more nationalistic than the Poles at home.
Puzzie   
23 Jul 2012
Love / Best way to find a Polish husband...ideas? [120]

I am stumped as to how I can find a guy who

It's hard to comprehend, darling, that a young lady as beautiful and smart as you are can have this kind of difficulty. Who the heck are the men where you live? Are they men at all?

Do you believe in comparing horoscopes? I'm asking seriously; it's been practiced for millenia in the East. The Asians say it's a very effective way of matching couples correctly.

All the very best to you, sweetie.

Ah, and I remember I owe you a reply in the thread on Polish individualism.
Puzzie   
23 Jul 2012
History / Questions about Polish borders, Galicia and Cossacks. [50]

that Galicia is a Celtic name. From when the Celts occupied that territory thousands of years ago.

But are sure it was the Celts who occupied our "Galicja", not the Austrians?

:)

I suggest you read

Slavi, wikipedia isn't any trustworthy source on the subject. The texts you've recommended seem to have been edited by Ukrainian nationalists. Because that's the nature of wikipedia: any one at all - well, almost any one - can write whatever they please there. Lots of the time they don't care about historical truth, that is accordance of their statements with historical facts, only carry out political propaganda.

Hahah, you also sound like a German nationalist. A German nationalist from outside of Germany. Pardon my blintness, but such folks tend to be way more nationalistic and xenophobic than those in the old country.

By the way, when I lived in US and Canada I noticed that the local Germans and Ukrainians respected and liked ech other a lot, and often intermarried.

By the way, there was NO Ukraine till, if I am correct, 1991.

Also Berlin wasn't once a German city, only a Slavic one.
Puzzie   
23 Jul 2012
UK, Ireland / And you wonder why there is Anti-Polish feeling in the UK [187]

I'm not sure about that. Why would any Pole want to go around speaking English like Billy Connolly? It can't be good for future business or employment prospects unless you are a comedian.

No offense, but I think you exaggerate, brother.

It's good that Brits and Irish come to Poland and make it their home. The more of them the better.

Our relations may be verbally tempestuous at times but that's okay - that's how it should be.

Szacun to you, brother.
:)
Puzzie   
22 Jul 2012
News / US AMBASSADOR FEINSTEIN CALLED OFF FROM POLAND [14]

A quick read of the newspapers from recent years will show terrible personal relations with Lithuania, even down to his famous quote about refusing to step foot in Lithuania. Not a patient man.

Oh, really? Are the newspaper reports gospel for you? Do they perchance come from the Economist or other intelectually phony and Polonophobic rag? But quote them anyway. Second, prove Sikorski has "terrible personal relations with Lithuania" - give pertinent facts. Third, are you saying Sikorski's statements about Lithuania are irrational and blown out of proportion and the Lithuanians don't deserve them? Actually, hasn't Sikorski and Poland's reaction to the barbaric agression against our minority in Lithuania been way too cautious and patient?

Buddy, Sikorski isn't my idol, but even I must admit that, as a politician, he is prudent and patient as Job, including his dealings with Lithuania.
Puzzie   
22 Jul 2012
Genealogy / Poland Heraldry and Nobility in names/families [59]

Can you elaborate more on this?

Gene, I gladly will, but a little later. I haven't forgotten your thread and your question; I'm just a bit busy now. Just a quickie: in Poland we have a monumental work, by medievalist Kazimierz Tymieniecki (d. 1968), entitled "Historia chlopow polskich" (History of Polish Peasantry; 3 volumes ).
Puzzie   
22 Jul 2012
News / US AMBASSADOR FEINSTEIN CALLED OFF FROM POLAND [14]

Or maybe he just wasn't very good at the job?

You bet he wasn't if he supported frantically the HI wackos and pissed off even such a patient guy as Sikorski.
Puzzie   
22 Jul 2012
News / US AMBASSADOR FEINSTEIN CALLED OFF FROM POLAND [14]

Recently, Stephen Mull has replaced Lee Feinstein as the American ambassador to Poland. Some Polish journalists have wondered whether the change was caused by Mr Feinstein's too strong involvement in the issue of so-called compensation for the WWII Jewish property in Poland. The rumour is Mr Feinstein had a falling out with Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski over the issue.

Does it mean an American high offical whose duty is to further America's interests in Poland furthered instead the interests of a (fishy) group claiming to act on behalf of so-called Holocaust survivors?

Did Sikorski get pissed off because he wanted to deal with the US ambassador not the Holocaust Industry ambassador?

See a related article in Haaretz: haaretz.com/news/world/u-s-ambassador-to-poland-announces-sudden-end-to-service-1.450929
Puzzie   
21 Jul 2012
Genealogy / Poland Heraldry and Nobility in names/families [59]

There were some Jews knighted by the Polish kings after having converted to Christianity. In fact, my own family on my dad's side comes from such converts (in the 1700s Ukraine, which was part of Poland then). They, those Jewish converts on my family's spear side, were called the Frankists, and, as I understand, were strongly disliked by the Talmudic Jews.

How was the general relations between lords and their landed subjects?

Do you mean what were the relations between the szlachta nad the peasantry? If so, they weren't great, I'm afraid.
Puzzie   
21 Jul 2012
Law / Worked for a restaurant in Poland and the owner refused to pay me. [60]

Even a written work contract is no guarantee in Poland (I've seen weird things

You mean that if you have a contract with a Polish employer he may not pay you your wages? - If so, yes, it is possible, but, contrary to what for example NorthMincPole alleges, THIS SELDOM HAPPENS HERE. If you've got a contract they'll pay you. If they try to rip you off, you go the the Sąd Pracy and they'll get hard on the creep's a$$.

By the way, being ripped off by an employer is possible everywhere, re: the massive fraud of this kind in UK and Holland involving Polish employees. I can - and will - write about numerous cases of this kind. I mean REAL cases, not Harry-like ones.

:)