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Joined: 2 Feb 2013 / Male ♂
Last Post: 16 Sep 2013
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citizen67   
16 Sep 2013
Life / Polish people are the most ignorant people in the world! [331]

I agree with the 400 million but the two billion people that know English as tehir second language? come on! On what planet do you live on??

English is used as a lingua franca in many multi-language countries, so people from one part of a country can speak to people from another part of their country, in India for example, and Africa, it is the widely used International language in the World, for example, so when I was kibbutz in Israel when I was young, my Swedish friend spoke to his Portuguese girl-friend in English, they communicated in English.
citizen67   
11 Sep 2013
Genealogy / I am looking for an African guy in Krakow, I dated [73]

Eh? no, silly man, I am trying to illuminate you, inform you Poles, get you thinking, what do Poles know of Black people? they only know black people through the ridiculous images presented in American films which is usually inverse to the Truth. DON'T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKES WE DID.
citizen67   
11 Sep 2013
Genealogy / I am looking for an African guy in Krakow, I dated [73]

So, if anyone could help me, or give me some advice of what to do to find him, I will be happy. Thank you Kasia :)

You're f ucked!!

Oh, and go to Africa to liv from now on.

it makes me very sad to read some of the comments here and there are people who insult me, and suggest me to abort just because my child will be half African. I think I made a mistake about posting this here, I am sorry :(

Go and liv in Africa if you like Black men and hate White men so much.
citizen67   
11 Apr 2013
History / Why do Polish people hate to be called Eastern European? [120]

"Eastern Europe", no matter what Poles and others would like, is the term and will be the term for former Communist Countries of Europe, so Albania in southern Europe is a Eastern European country, but Greece which has land and borders further east than Albania is considered part of Western Europe. I doubt this will last for ever, slowly countries will break off in people's minds, they will become Balkan nations, south European nations, Baltic republics, maybe Black Sea nations and finally Some will become that old term, "Central European" countries and more accurate terms will be used, but for now: East European countries = ex-communist countries.
citizen67   
5 Apr 2013
Food / Taste of food in Poland vs other countries [186]

Simple fact to sum it up would be that Britain has 140 michelin star restaurants and poland has????

You can't judge by the top restaurants, you hav to judge by what the ordinary people eat.
citizen67   
21 Feb 2013
Life / The Best Things About Poland [24]

Is that right?I always thought it originated from medieval times

I used to believ that romantic story, all to do the visor on a old Knight's Helmet and closing it, meant to be from the Normans, but apparently it started with over-sized Army head dresses about 2-3 hundred years ago. People used to raise their hats when passing a woman or an officer, but that became impractical with these large elaborate head-dresses, so soldiers wer order to merely "clap" the the peak and giv the impression of lifting it. then merely touch it with the hands. The palms down salute came from embarrassed sailors with dirty hands saluting with their palms down to avoid showing their dirty hands.
citizen67   
21 Feb 2013
Life / The Best Things About Poland [24]

I like the things you mentioned but I would prefer it if you used diffeent language at the beggining

No, I hav to be honest. -You are a people with self-esteem problems or something, and you don't even recognize your distinctiv 2 fingered salute and your Rogatywka as stylish.
citizen67   
21 Feb 2013
Life / The Best Things About Poland [24]

I thought I would start a thread about what is good about Poland, /Polish people. To be honest I know very little about Poles/Poland really, but hav been completely shocked and disappointed by what I hav learnt, but....

I'll giv you 3 things that are good about Poland:

1. Th Polish 2 finger Army Salute:

Distinctiv and original. (Did you know that the British invented the modern army salute?)

2. the Rogatywka the distinctiv four-cornered head-dress of the Polish army.

Rogatywka

Rogatywka

Unique, stylist and distinctive.

3. Golabki
citizen67   
12 Feb 2013
History / Churchill and Poland [120]

Do you think he was brainwashed by the communists?

Well, you've been brainwashed by someone.
citizen67   
12 Feb 2013
History / Churchill and Poland [120]

No, I don't think so. The Polish government-in-exile (in London) was defamed and ridiculed as cowards

No they weren't. Poles wer, up and until recently, held in high esteem, especially these chaps, I hav NEVER ever heard any negativ thing said, or implied, about the Polish soldiers of WWII. We had the 303 squadron clip in The Battle of Britain film, I think they wer in Italy and took a large part in a major battle I hav never heard of jokes about Poles, especially dating from those days.
citizen67   
12 Feb 2013
History / Churchill and Poland [120]

It's also true that the second front was deliberately delayed

Apart from hide on their island till the Russians won the war for them*

Its clear that Churchill sold Poland out but as I said earlier

citizen67   
12 Feb 2013
History / Churchill and Poland [120]

Who are you addressing?

You, Pauline, that twat got in between our posts.

You wrote yourself:"Every country has a similar their own country-centric version of the events of WWII."Something that was good for Britain, could be at the same time bad for Poland.Poles don't have a duty to praise Churchill for absolutely everything he did.Some of his decisions can be seen as controversial.

Don't you think you hav been had, the Communists hav firmly indoctrinated you Poles. It must take great deal of effort to think Churchill as an enemy of Poland.
citizen67   
12 Feb 2013
History / Churchill and Poland [120]

dude, you gave me a link to a Yalta comment. you believ him to hav "sold-out" Poland. This whole thread is full anti-Churchill rhetoric, accusing him of all sorts of things.

[************************** such a softie, citizen67, if you think what you read on this forum is hatred for the British, there's much more hatred for the Polish on here and we don't cry, do we? And you think people in Poland hate Churchill? Seriously, they don't care about him enough to hate him. Just relax a bit and tame your imperial sense of self-importance[/quote]

don't cry? You come across as the most whining, wimpish people going, like big babies, who blame everything on everybody else and accept responsibilities and won't admit when they hav done something wrong. Denial seems to be the Polish way.

It is Polish people who hav a Imperious, snooty, snobbish, pompous way.
citizen67   
12 Feb 2013
History / Churchill and Poland [120]

Poland was used during ww2 to destroy Germany economy to create Anglo-Saxon dominance of world, did you know that Hitler central bank was independent and issue money without debt.

See what I mean? stupid comments like that all the time.
citizen67   
12 Feb 2013
History / Churchill and Poland [120]

can you explain why Churchill is hated?

What does "reviled" mean?

Hated, loathed, held with contempt.

As far as assessment of historical figures by Poles is concerned - even putting Stalin and Churchill in one sentence is laughable and shows that you either have no idea about Polish history and Polish views or there's something wrong with your head.Let's just say that this song have nothing to do with Churchill:

I hav experienced nothing, but hatred of Churchill, and the British on this forum, since I came here. Churchill seems to used to used to justify every piece of bad behaviour and benefit-claiming by Poles, not only on here, but on other forums as well. I would like to know what Churchill did?
citizen67   
12 Feb 2013
History / Churchill and Poland [120]

Yes, and you quoted my quote, which was about Russia.

Who do consider to be the more reviled person in Poland to be; Stalin or Churchill?

Who do you hate?
citizen67   
12 Feb 2013
History / Churchill and Poland [120]

I said, "former communist countries", Stalin is worshiped in, mostly Russia, and Georgia, I understand.

Are you saying that Churchill ISN'T denigrated in Poland. He's been turned into a Hate-Figure by the old Communists.
citizen67   
12 Feb 2013
History / Churchill and Poland [120]

Poles blame Churchill for their plight after 1945 and lack of Freedom, not STALIN!

reuters.com/article/2010/03/05/us-russia-stalin-idUSTRE6241M820100305

August 11, 2007: The government is issuing new high school history books that downplay the mass murders (over 25 million dead) carried out during the quarter century that Josef Stalin ran the country.

youtube.com/watch?v=hNgFXuaE0Tk

2 second search, and that ain't nothing I saw photos in taxi cars, and was told many times he was a good man, a strong man.
citizen67   
12 Feb 2013
History / Churchill and Poland [120]

And what is your point?

Fait acompli

The only people who seem to like stalin are far left nuts in what was LM and North Koreans.

There is grudging admiration and secret veneration of Stalin in many ex-Communist countries where he was seen as a "Tough Man", Poland must be a fĂșcked up country, where Churchill is denigrated, and Stalin is admired and considered a "Good Guy".

Yeah I said tha

So? Most Poles don't know that.

Nonsense...Empire day, Empire Games,...

Victorian inventions for little children. People in Britain had already accepted that the countries of the Empire wanted to go their own way.

Ghandi in England 1931
citizen67   
12 Feb 2013
History / Churchill and Poland [120]

I don't know if we are allowed to post images but ...

The military situation at the end of the conference.

map

The War was nearly over.

Nothing sentimental about Churchill, the man always adopted the most extreme populist position possible. The Empire had been running at a loss for about 25 years by the mid 40s The British needed to realign their economy but blamed Ghandi for the unrest in India and subsequent economic woes.There is nothing sentimental about denying freedom to a people.

I was comparing him to Stalin, who these people seem to worship.

The Empire was costing more money to run, than it was making in money, it wasn't even paying for it self, mentally, most people had already given up Empire, and the authorities wer had already been relinquishing control.
citizen67   
12 Feb 2013
History / Churchill and Poland [120]

I think one was a sentimental attitude
the other was Genghis Khan with a Telephone.
citizen67   
12 Feb 2013
History / Churchill and Poland [120]

I have no opinion on WWII other than Hitler was a cĂșnt and Russia won the war in Europe,

Russia started the War in Europe, along with their ally, Hitler.

have, have, have, why do you always leave out the 'e'& you don't say 'the' in front of WWII, it's either The Second World War or World War II.

irrelevant, but you obviously don't know that many people in England would like to reform the spelling of English words to make them mor lojical and faithful to alfabetical rules, leav-ing out the last unnecessary "e" off my words is deliberate.

I can't be bothered to write , "The Second World War", the WWII will do.

It's ally, no Allie, Allie is some chap from Edinburgh.

This is an example of the anomalies of Inglish spelling. The last 3 letters are pronounced Lie.

Hmmm.....seems Stalin and Churchill had more in common than I initially thought, thanks Cit

He had nothing in common with Stalin.
citizen67   
12 Feb 2013
History / Churchill and Poland [120]

It is true that the war was fought in the Soviet Union and neighbouring countries the figures for Leningrad alone dwarf all the allied numbers.

The high figures for the Soviet Empire was down to the incompetence of Stalin, who was an idiot. He decimated his Military Leadership just before the War, put only his weakest defences against their new joint border with Nazi Germany, refused to believ, when warned by a dozen different sources, that Hitler was about to attack the Soviet Empire, he admired and looked up to Hitler, worshiped him, based his own purges on Hitler's, and he froze like a rabbit when Hitler attack the him, and went into hiding. He was reckless with his population and numbers, it didn't matter how many of his people died, as long as he won. He was a brutal, ruthless leader, who murdered a lot more of his own people than Hitler did. He saw the War as an opportunity to expand his Empire, and was casually watching as Hitler and the Democracies fought it out, hoping to move in when the War had ended and beat the weakened victor. He wanted back the old borders of the old Imperial Empire, including Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, (most of which he got), he wanted to punish those Poles for defeating him in an earlier expedition to Poland, He had already got back Ukraine and Georgia and was making their life a misery deliberately creating famine to starve the population into submission, known as Holodomor. He bullied Finland into giving up territory, in Karelia. He had incorporated Mongolian into his Empire. He was one of the greatest imperialists of all time, one of the most brutal vile Dictators in History.

Estonia, Latvia, Lithuanian and the eastern part of Poland wer invaded and incorporated in the Soviet Empire as part of a deal with Hitler, his friend. Nothing to do with Churchill.

...It’s also true that the second front was deliberately delayed but the Soviets won inspite of this. The appeasement of Stalin was the only thing that Churchill could do to preserve what was left of the Empire that appeasement involved selling Poland out.

He was an Ally of Hitler until Hitler attacked him, he is the one that delayed a "Second Front". Britain was being bombed nightly and was already fighting in North Africa, Syria and Iraq.
citizen67   
12 Feb 2013
History / Churchill and Poland [120]

Me? What do I want Britain to do?

all off topic and deliberately so, I think. What would like Britain to hav done, re: the WWII?
citizen67   
12 Feb 2013
History / Churchill and Poland [120]

The British narrative of the 2nd war is BEF, dunkirque, BOB, fall of Singapore, the Chindits, el Alaimain, d day, market garden, victory, oh and some stuff with U Boats.

Every country has a similar their own country-centric version of the events of WWII.

and Luckily for everybody, the Axis Powers made some stupid decisions. Britain didn't make Germany attack their erstwhile Allie, Stalin and the "Soviet Union" or make Japan attack America and then for the Germans to then, for no reason, declare that they wer at War with America as well. Britain was all alone for a few years, any Allie would be grateful welcomed.
citizen67   
12 Feb 2013
History / Churchill and Poland [120]

Who was gifted Poland on a plate thanks to Mrrs. Churchill & Roosevelt.

He was gifted it thanks to Herr Hitler.

What did you want the British to do?
citizen67   
12 Feb 2013
History / Churchill and Poland [120]

From that link you posted:

a bit of a bad choice on your part:

"The concept is by no means universally accepted."

"...states that Churchill urged Roosevelt to continue armed conflict in Europe in 1945 - but carried out against the Soviet Union, to prevent the USSR from extending its control west of its own borders.[5] Roosevelt apparently trusted Stalin's assurances, and he was unwilling to support Churchill in ensuring the liberation of all of Central and Eastern Europe west of the USSR. Without American backing, the United Kingdom, with its strength exhausted by six years of war, was unable to take any military actions in that part of Europe."

"...the Major Allies against Nazi Germany had agreed to secure democratic processes for the countries that would be liberated from Nazi rule, such as Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Albania."

"Warsaw Uprising

Despite the fact that Polish and later Royal Air Force (RAF) planes flew missions over Warsaw dropping supplies from 4 August on, the United States Air Force (USAF) planes did not join the operation. The Allies specifically requested the use of Red Army airfields near Warsaw on 20 August but were refused by Stalin on 22 August (he referred to the insurgents as 'a handful of criminals'). After Stalin's objections to support for the uprising, Churchill telegrammed Roosevelt on 25 August and proposed sending planes in defiance of Stalin and to "see what happens". Roosevelt replied on 26 August that "I do not consider it advantageous to the long-range general war prospect for me to join you in the proposed message to Uncle Joe."[28] The commander of the British air drop, Air Marshal Sir John Slessor, later stated, "How, after the fall of Warsaw, any responsible statesman could trust the Russian Communist further than he could kick him, passes the comprehension of ordinary men."

"Western Betrayal" as a myth

"This "preoccupation with their historical sense of 'damaged self' has fueled resentment" towards the west generally and reinforced the western betrayal concept in particular, according to Ilya Prize.."

Who was gifted Poland on a plate thanks to Mrrs. Churchill & Roosevelt.

I'm not 'Merikan, young lady.
citizen67   
12 Feb 2013
History / Churchill and Poland [120]

Wuhhaahahhaahahah. Good one.

America is one of the Best countries in the world, not perfect, but has played a positiv role in the world, and has been a force for good.

Russian and the Communist hav held us all back, wasted a whole century with their non-sense and Imperialist ambitions. Think how beautiful it would be if we didn't hav communism, that a wasted century, how far ahead we would be and the rest of the World would be. Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe would be free and democratic and wealthy since 1945, no Mao, no culture Revolution, No Enver Hoxha, no Ceausescu, no Pol Pot, not Kim Il Song, no Korean War, no millions starving to Death, no Holodor, Russia finance proxy bloody violent Wars all over the Globe, invaded half of Europe added it to the third they ruled already, Russia murdered and exiled huge swathes of the conquered countries particular their intelligentsia, taking all their talent and crippling their countries, Russia contributed nothing to the development of the World.

All that blather entirely disproves your 'point'. Churchill was outnumbered in Yalta - your bitterness should be in the direction of the USA, who refused to support Churchill over Stalin.

No, my bitterness is for Stalin and the people who support him and talk crap. Stalin was one of the most evil men in History, he was Poland's torturer!