History / Ukrainian-occupied Eastern Poland [135]

Currently both Ukraine and Poland have territories of sufficient size and no obvious reason for territorial disputes and ultimately have possibility to develop good relations.All those talks about territorial claims is intentional provocation to spark an ethnical conflict.Do you seriously believe that Poland doesn`t have sufficient enough territory now? When whould be the end for those stupid claims: ``We need Ukraine without Ukrainians or with Ukrainians as our slaves``? As population of any Slavic nation is shrinking now,maybe there is time to unite on some new basis?Otherwise both Poland and Ukraine will ultimately loose its Slavic faces and consumed by wisier nations.

History / Ukrainian-occupied Eastern Poland [135]


Pardon for my ignorance,but which exacly cultural acheivements happened in Polish Lwow?Which thinkers or scientists originated there?Is it famous for scientific discoveries?

History / Ukrainian-occupied Eastern Poland [135]


You would claim entire Ukraine if you could?! And were would you want to put Ukrainians?
Exterminate or drive them in Siberia?..

History / Ukrainian-occupied Eastern Poland [135]


Well,in any case, are you seriously want to claim some city
which whould be surrounded by Ukrainian territory?Or would claim
corridor of land to it?And which parts of Ukraine are you going to
claim beside Lviv?

History / Ukrainian-occupied Eastern Poland [135]


Since 1772 Lwow was Polish for 19 years only: 1920-1939.
So what was after Middle Ages?


Not even absolute majority.

History / Traditional /historical punishments in Poland [6]


Which were traditional and common?

Genealogy / Typical Polish Eye Color [77]


Could you not to write some eyewash here?Majority of people in Eastern Ukraine are officially Ukrainians not Russians,it is only their language that is ugly mixing of Ukrainian and Russian or in some regions more pure Russian lang.The only region of Ukraine is Crymea where ethnical Russians constitute absolute or at least relative majority of population.(Soon it will be Tatars).In other regions far from it.

The green eye colour is not predominant among Slavs.Far from it.Blue and even brown are more common.Grey is common too.Natural redheads are not uncommon among ethnical Ukrainians and Russians.I do not think it is necessarly linked to Western Europeans.

History / Ukrainian-occupied Eastern Poland [135]

Really?I think that this is something that should be very relevant...

History / Ukrainian-occupied Eastern Poland [135]

1) Lwow had not been founded by Poles.
2) From the end of 18-th century after partition of Poland and till 1918 Lwow beared
the name of Lemberg and was part Austro-Hungarian Empire.Austrian emperor
France Joseph wore Ukrainian national shirt under his cloth according to some sorces
and mastered Ukrainian to the point he was able to write poetry in Ukrainian.Once he
wanted to become a Bukovina king to joy of Ukrainians.Ukrainian soldier liked Austrian
king and called him ``our king``.Return Lwow to Poland and not to Austria?

I`m not going to argue if Lwow was predominantly Polish-speaking or not, though I`m
not sure that ethnical Poles constituted magority of popualation there in the last centuries.
Well,maybe Israel will claim Lwow too?..

Galicia–Volhynia Wars

During the wars over the succession of Galicia-Volhynia Principality in 1339 King Casimir III of Poland undertook an expedition and conquered Lviv in 1340, burning down the old princely castle.[10] Poland ultimately gained control over Lviv and the adjacent region in 1349. From then on the population was subjected to attempts to both Polonize and Catholicize the population.[17]

When in 1387 Władysław retreated from the post of its governor, Galicia-Volhynia became occupied by the Hungarians, but soon Jadwiga, the youngest daughter of Louis, but also ruler of Poland and wife of King of Poland Władysław II Jagiełło, unified it directly with the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland.[10]

History / Ukrainian-occupied Eastern Poland [135]


Lviv was founded on the existent settlement most probably in 1240-1247 by Daniel, ruler of the medieval Ruthenian kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia, and named after his son, Lev.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv

Actually it were Poles who always draw line between themself and ``inferior Ukrainians``. It`s enough to say that until 1939 majority of Ukrainians in Polish governed part of Ukraine didn`t have


citizenship! Could you imaging to live on territory where your ancestors lived for a thousand of years maybe, and be treated like underhuman without citizenship? Polish citizenship was granted by special permission of Polish government to minority of Ukrainians only. A way to the higher ranks of Polish society was almost closed to Ukrainians.Well,if some nation permits to itself luxury of meaningless racism and gaining on somebody instead uniting with them against common adversaries, consequences were predictable...

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]


Polish fish producing companies are trying to enter World market?That`s for sure.
I`ve heard about it.

Language / Polish/Ukrainian words similarities [209]

Somebody forces you to live in Russia?

Language / Polish/Ukrainian words similarities [209]


Do you have some personal problems with Russians? Well, some Russians had
problems with Poles too.According to wikipedia:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Dzerzhinsky

History / What do nations of the world owe to Poland and Polish people? [58]


Rather from Old Slavic.In Russian there is also verb goret` (to burn) - гореть.


They would not even need to adopt Orthodoxy.If Polish nobles would treat Ukrainians/Ruthenians as a humans,Poland most likely would be never partitioned and probably never seriously invaded from the East (at least up to now).

And would be a regional superpower which could rival to both Russia and Germany.

Language / Polish/Ukrainian words similarities [209]

Principally I think that Ukrainians and Belorussians are probably genetically even closer to
Poles than Russians.Quite possibly researchers mistook Russians for Ukrainians and
Belorussians.Majority of Russians are maybe not that close,especially those who live in
Tatarstan and Karelia.

Language / Polish/Ukrainian words similarities [209]

Only me?This is citation of your native Polish guy:


https://polishforums.com/genealogy/russian-dna-37610/
This is usually those who spark ethnical hate between nations wash brains to people.I just trying to reduce unnecessary hostility between Slavic nations and make them stand together for freedom and democracy.

Language / Polish/Ukrainian words similarities [209]

Actually,there is nothing strange in the fact that Polish and Russian languages are so similar.
If you look at this genetic map of Europe it seems that Ameriracan researches believe that
genetics of people in Eastern and Northern Poland is identical to Russians.It is marked RU.

scienceblogs.com/gnxp/2008/08/31/genetic-map-of-europe-genes-va

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Language / Polish/Ukrainian words similarities [209]


What is MKAD? I thought I live in Northern America...


What? I`m ethnical Ukrainian and like Ukrainian language.Did I say I do not like it?
But some people should know languages,and if Polish and Russian have many very similar
words that`s a fact and to deny this is laughable...
Ukrainian has its own specifics,it developed not less independently than Russian or Polish
and this is beauty language...

Language / Polish/Ukrainian words similarities [209]

It is interesting that also Polish and Ukrainian share set of words which are very similar to each other (I do not want to bet if they are borrowed) there is also lot of words which are more similar between Polish and Russian than between Polish and Ukrainian.

There is lot of striking similarities between Russian and Polish.For example:

English - Polish - Russian - Ukrainian

He - On - On - Vin
She - Ona - Ona - Vona
They - Oni - Oni - Vony
It - Ono - Ono - Vono
Where - Gdje - Gdje - De
River - Rzheka - Reka - Richka
Wife - Zhona - Zhena - Druzhyna,Zhinka

And many,many other. The reason why Ukrainians understand you better than Russians is because Ukrainians speak or understand Russian too.Plus borrowed words from Polish.Luckily for Ukrainians their language is language in between Polish and Russian.

Therefore they have less difficulty to practice both those languages.It is interesting that Ukrainian also have some word identical to Czech.For example: zvir (beast) richka (river) djakuju (thank you) and many other...

Life / Poland needs more immigrants and their children - which nationalities are the best? [518]


Poles of course fought bravely,but mostly it were Ukrainian cossacks who did most of work.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Khotyn_%281621%29

Please give a short translation when you write in Polish, or post a link in Polish.

News / How much Poland's economy grew up since 1989? [32]


Those flat screens and appliances receive label ``made in Poland`` on them?Or what kind of label?

News / How much Poland's economy grew up since 1989? [32]

Is there some signs that Poland becomes manufacturing powerhorse?Or will become such in nearest decades?
If yes,what exacly does it produce or will produce?

News / How much Poland's economy grew up since 1989? [32]

I wonder how polish economy could grow so fast (even in crisis time) while they have so many unemployed?
I thought that at unemployment rate 12-20% economy could only stagnate.There seems to be no sense to increase
salaries,unemployment will only depress salaries growth.No growth of salaries = no consumption growth = no economy
growth.Or it is growing just for account of the richest consumption?It seems strange to me...
Well,during 2003-2004 unemployment was constantly at 19-20%.In 2012 it didn`t went lower then 12.3%.And other years
also very high.How economy could grow under such conditions is mystery to me.

Life / Is Poland a poor country? [578]


Dreams,dreams,where is your sweetness?..

Life / Is Poland a poor country? [578]


More accurate indicator of living standards within country is purchasing power parity per capita (if calculated properly).It takes in account not only nominal GDP which is usually estimated in USD, but also cost of living.

Mesured by PPP Slavic and Eastern European countries follow like this:

Slovenia - 27,412
Greece - 26,948
Czech Republic 26,046
Portugal 25,385
Slovak Republic 24,022
Hungary 21,610
Poland 21,310
Russian Federation 21,248
Lithuania 20,374
Croatia 20,031
Latvia 17,692
Romania 15,163
Belarus 15,040
Bulgaria 14,603

News / How much Poland's economy grew up since 1989? [32]

Thanks.Maybe there is something from personal experience and observations too?

UK, Ireland / How long will Poles use communism and ww2 as an excuse to move to the UK? [55]


Actually,average PPP in Russia looks quite prestine.According to World Bank estimates for
year 2011 it is basically the same as in Poland.
data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?order=wbapi_data_value_2011+wbapi_data_value+wbapi_data_value-last&sort=asc
The problem of Russia is huge inequality in incomes between rich and poor and capital flight.So basically we could tell Russia is less
socialist country then Western countries and even Poland.Wild capitalism destroys Russia.Also there is huge inequality in incomes between people of different nationalities.


When I was back in Praga airport somebody stole my Ukrainian passport.After lot of nervous I found my passport in local administration.They throw my passport to me like a piece of dung!Some private Czech organization issued a rolic about treatment of Ukrainian housewifves workers by Czechs.

But personally my relation to Czechs is quite good.I believe that Czechia is interesting country.

Life / Poland needs more immigrants and their children - which nationalities are the best? [518]


Because to have right to work and live permanently in UK, you better need to have EU
citizenship.But this is just assumption.I`m not proposing to crowd UK with Ukrainians.
If you know some Poles,including your husband and some Ukrainians,what do you
think are differences and similarities between them, both in appearence and mentality?
Or maybe you heard something from other people?I`m curious to know about it from
native English.Please be objective,I`m not going to abuse...