UK, Ireland / WHAT IS IT ABOUT POLISH PEOPLE THAT MAKES THEM THINK THAT UK WANTS THEM? [309]


That's a very silly remark

History / Which countries are Polands friends, which are Polands enemies? [75]


That's why Ireland is full of Foreigners.


You're mad! that is Communist propaganda. Non-Communist countries lifted more people out of absolute poverty than any communist countries did without the fanfare. Many Communist countries made their people's lives a misery, look at Stalin, Mao, North Korea, Albania / Enver Hoxha, Ceausescu , most of the others weren't Paradises, they just suffocated their people and the countries just stagnated, Living-standards improved at only a snail's pace, there was no innovation only a bad imitation of the West. Fiat up-dated his fleet and sold off it old decades obsolete equipment and designs and Bang! We hav the Lada! Russian just bought their whole factories and transported them to their Empire.

After the War Austria and Czechoslovakia had roughly the same income per head, 45 years later Austria had an income per head 4 times that of Czechoslovakia, I think the contrast between West Germany and East Germany was even greater, and of course the contrast between South Korea and North Korea is ridiculous. North Korean one of the poorest countries in the World has regular famines and is considered the most oppressiv country in the World and South Korea is one of Asian's success stories, has one highest living-standards in Asia, full democratic rights and good quality of Life. Look at the contrast between the old Hong Kong and mainland China, Hong Kong had an income per head about the same as Italy whereas mainland China had the world's biggest Famines, which would you prefer?


It is you that Hate Us. it is you that talk $h!t about us and about Historical figures like Churchill, it is you that think that we owe you, think you entitled to everything in Britain, who look down upon and sneer at the people of Britain.

History / Which countries are Polands friends, which are Polands enemies? [75]

All that those quotes do was prove that socialism didn't work and the more open market there was the more successful the country was.

UK, Ireland / UK weather is most unpleasant - for Poles too! [9]


Will Britons be safe in the UK?

UK, Ireland / Benefit cuts for Poles in The UK? [143]


They are not "socialistic" countries they are democratic countries.

History / Which countries are Polands friends, which are Polands enemies? [75]


Was that a Communist or a Russian documentary?


Are you mad? Living-standards in the Iron Curtain countries never kept up the West European countries. Take Austria and Czechoslovakia, after the War that had roughly the same Living-standard after decades of Communist rule, Austria had income per head 4 x times that of Czechoslovakia. Just look at the difference in Living-standards between North nad South korea, socialism doesn't work.

History / WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [901]

No, but it was incredibly sensible, unlike the French.

News / Poland A and Ukraine B. Compare how far Poland has advanced. [282]

What wer the relative Incomes per Head before the Collapse of the The Iron Curtain? I think you find that Poland was already a much richer country than Ukraine before the the collapse of Communism.

Life / The Best Things About Poland [23]


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.

Life / The Best Things About Poland [23]


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.

History / WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [901]


and surely all the conquered people, such the Baltic states, the Ukrainians, the Georgians would hav joined in on the allies'/liberators side as well? Finland could hav got back it's stolen land, the Balts, their freedom, Ukraine could be a free and independent country, so on,


Do you know how close Churchill was to winning this battle? 6 shells, The Turkish forces wer down to their last 6 shells, when the anglo-French forces called a halt and retreat. 6 shells.

If the Anglo-french had carried on fighting another 5-15 minutes Gallipoli would be proclaimed a great victory these days.

History / WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [901]


You kidding aren't you? Britain, for example, was still using as its main battle rifle, a rifle from before WWI, a rifle first adopted by the British Army in 1888! The British wer still using the same Helmet they used in WWI, they weren't prepared for War at all. They desperately kept trying to buy time in order to giv themselves enough time to re-arm when they thought in 1936, War with Hitler was inevitable, just 3 years later they wer at War, barely ready. No, the Germans had the best and latest equipment.

History / WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [901]


Of course it does.

History / WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [901]


It was a treaty to frighten Hitler, and it worked for a bit until he got Stalin's co-operation to invade Poland and divide it up.

History / WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [901]


I think you hav misunderstood something can you explain where the contradiction is?

History / WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [901]


Who's Ally? Who was Stalin allied to before he was "Allied" with us? HITLER.Stalin was Hitler most important ally, without Stalin, Hitler couldn't hav started WWII, Hitler's other allies wer, in some cases, a Burden, Mussolini for example.When the Italians cocked-up in Northern Africa, Hitler had to send his troops, and when the Italians cock-up in invading Greece Germany again had to send troops to sort out their mess, meaning hitler had to delay it's attack on the Soviet Union by a month, imagine if they turned up in Moscow one month earlier befor the Winter had kicked in? Imagine. History would be so different.

History / WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [901]


I didn't learn about this until I was 21, Stalin was never taught in our schools and was never represented on our Television, it was just Hitler. Most of Labour Party wer pro-Soviet and secretly worshiped Stalin, and they ran the education system and the TV after the War and still do so right up to now.

History / WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [901]


The Communist wer never our friends they just wanted to stab us in the back. They wer totally insincere in all of their actions, their joint invasion and stitching up of Little Poland is just one example!!!!

History / WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [901]


Maybe the West did over estimate the power of the Soviet Union, but i remember the shock of reading about Stalin and his absolute ruthlessness, and cruelty and his total disdain for the value of the human Lives he had conquered.

History / WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [901]


Rubbish is what you put into your rivers:

"...Many of the world's leading environmental agencies have long
centered the focus of their attention on the continued pollution
of the Danube River. Yet it was only with the fall of the East's
communist regimes that scientists and government officials began
to realize the seriousness of the environmental havoc which the
destructive industrial policies of the former communist regimes
had wrought on the Danubian watershed. Industrial pollution is
especially high on the Danube because the former communist
masters in Eastern and Central Europe sought lucrative short-term
production gahls, often at the price of environmental
degradation."

Cleaning up After Communism

When the Iron Curtain finally collapsed in November 1989, the world saw for the first time the great environmental cost of decades of communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe

rinr.fsu.edu/fallwinter99/features/sb_cleaningup.html

Why Socialism Causes Pollution

fee.org/the_freeman/detail/why-socialism-causes-pollution#axzz2LM2KB4Ir

YOU KILLED THE ARAL SEA!!!!

"...Formerly one of the four largest lakes in the world with an area of 68,000 square kilometres (26,300 sq mi), the Aral Sea has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet irrigation projects. By 2007, it had declined to 10% of its original size, splitting into four lakes - the North Aral Sea, the eastern and western basins of the once far larger South Aral Sea and one smaller lake between North and South Aral Seas.[4] By 2009, the southeastern lake had disappeared and the southwestern lake retreated to a thin strip at the extreme west of the former southern sea"

IDIOTS!!!

COMMUNISM WAS A DISASTER FOR EVERYTHING!!!!!! EVEN FOR THE ANIMALS!!!!!!


The Americans wer naive, not malicious!


What? and the your Beloved Soviet Union had respect for other countries right to self-determination? and they respected Human Rights?


? so that makes Stalin and your Beloved Soviet Union's behaviour alright?

History / WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [901]


The opposit to your Communism was our Democracy combined with Freedom, Human Rights and respect for other countries. The Soviet Union wer Imperialist Expansionists, they wanted to rule the World.

History / WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [901]


Capitalist? You mean DEMOCRATIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Communist countries had industries as well, so used up natural resources, and they wer the World's worst polluters. The Soviet Union had one factory in it's Polar circle that pumped more sulphur into the atmosphere than did the whole of Italy! COMMUNIST = WORLD'S WORST POLLUTERS!!!!!!!!!


It was the Communists that stab everybody in the Back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Stalin was hoping that by "Giving up" Austria the Allies (The Real Allies) would giv up Germany, as he suggested.

History / WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [901]


What are talking about?

History / WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [901]

What's that sinister sounding maxim about?

History / WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [901]

I agree with that. The Soviet Union (?) Empire has a lot to answer for. A whole wasted Century, they dragged Europe back and stop any real development in the conquered countries of their eastern European Empire, forced the West to spend £billions and £Billions of £'s spending on defense and armies and fighting proxy Wars, propping up 3rd Dictators who they hated, wasted our energy, our talent, our chance. Imagin if the Patton /Churchill plan had been carried through, we would had hav 60-65 years of Peace, no Korean War, No Vietnam war, No Mao, No Kim Il Sung, No Pol Pot, No Enver hoxha, No Ceausescu, No Derg, no famine in Ethiopia, no famine in North Korea, No civil Wars in Mozambique, No civil War in Angola, so much misery, the whole history of the Soviet Union is about suffering, misery, betrayal, failure, stupidity and the meglomania of the Ruling Elite.

History / WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [901]


Rubbish. They didn't want or start the War. All these posts sound very much like what Communist would say, don't you think you hav been indoctrinated? all this talk of betrayal and money, and stealing someone's gold, sounds just like the gibberish Communists used to sprout..


So, you mugs hav just been repeating Nazi propaganda from 73 years ago.

History / WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [901]


Surely, Benny Hill was early 1970's? 40 years ago?

and everybody here thought he was crap.

History / WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [901]


Excellent!

History / WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [901]


What? All 27 of them?!!!!!!!!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Free_Corps