History / Do Polish people in general dislike Russia or Germany more? [369]

To some extent, the Polish had the rightful casus belli of restoring order in her eastern neighbour, and also to help the boyars tired of czarist tyranny and seeking for Golden Freedom, as well as the uprising peasants who sought them for help, though the last one seemed not that legitimate as Polish peasants were not in good shape as well.

Anyway, Poles didn't aimed at any serious conquest of Muscowy, they simply demanded a personal union liked that with Lithuania, and furthermore, compared with Russian's previous constant invasions to the Lithuanian territories and its later attempts to conquer and assimilate the entire Commonwealth, which nearly succeeded, the Polish intervention is not of a same level.

Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [175]


Well that might be my personal experience. I might as well enquire where are you from and what languages do you consider it easy to learn?

Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [175]


Nice point. Japanese learn Chinese in a jiffy and vice versa, unthinkable for a Pole to do the same.

Life / Polish people and racism. [943]

Well thanks for these comments, it seems that it is simply unfamiliarity rather than unfriendliness.

Chinese people are the sort who generally don't talk initiatively towards others, but will react friendly when you greet them warmly.

Life / Polish people and racism. [943]

I mean, regardless of the current Chinese political institutions. Not everyone in China liked it as well.
Simply regarding culture and the people themselves.
I've heard about some rumors? that Polish people are unfriendly towards Chinese people, especially those from the mainland, and consider us, erm sort of, not worth contacting with?

News / Poland's John Paul the Great canonisation this year [177]

Those who don't suggest the Pope might suggest Palikot as a role model.

History / How do Poles feel about what the French did during the first few stages of WWII? [30]


Well they could have given more significant influence on the issue... They are capable for providing more support to the Underground State in my mind, sadly they did the opposite. OK let's stop talking about British.


Well in fact that is what really want to know... And then it turned out to be accusations to Britain, those I've already known.


Well I am ready to listen about all sorts of statements other than those I received from, please go ahead. And perhaps you can speak in a more, say, courteous way? Holding opposite opinions does not necessarily means to talk in a way which makes everyone uncomfortable, I dont mean you I mean everyone.

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History / How do Poles feel about what the French did during the first few stages of WWII? [30]


OK I see, Poles despise Brits over their action after war rather than before the war, is that right? Hmmm it seemed acceptable for Poles to be more angry to Brits as they betrayed you twice while French betrayed less... Those Yalta thugs did so to China as well, trying to please commies as much as possible...


Well all historians do agree that Poland is the fourth largest contributor on the European Theatre, that's how they mean I think, after all a maximum estimation of 1 million Polish armed forces participating in the Ally cause is much smaller than the Chinese figure of 2-5 million troops. But even if all Allies are counted, Poles are with little doubt the 5th biggest contributor to the Ally cause. And this figure is quite enough for the Allied Powers to put more consideration on Poles than they've actually did, and at the same time the French contribution is not enough to gain a seat in UNSC in my opinion, although I think French accession to UNSC cause generally positive effects.


As the Allies had already handed over Poland to the Soviet spheres of influence, they've in fact banned Poles from elections, everyone knew within the bottom of their hearts that nobody under Soviet influence could ever have these elections. You seemed to be unaware of the sacrifices of Cursed Soldiers.


Everyone knew that Ruskies are disguting stuff, so Brits treat Polish by handling them to Stalin for creating another sort of Congress Poland is totally unacceptable by all means. Congress Poland is a product due to the failure of Napoleon and Poles, while when the Poles eventually did win in a war with massive contributions it was still treated like Nazi protectorates like Romania, nobody enjoys looking this going on except the NKVD and Stalin and a thuggish and foolish Churchill who disregard the contributions and strategic importance of Poland. Erm I'm not trying to offend but are you a Polish... cuz I think that myself even as a Chinese seemed more sympathetic to Poles compared with you...

History / How do Poles feel about what the French did during the first few stages of WWII? [30]

I know Britons did stuff that are quite unacceptable and are criticized by Poles, but what about the French, don't Poles feel dissatisfied for their inaction? Or did Poles feel that the Fall of France later had already exacted revenge for the Poles?

History / What do Polish think of Gen. Pilsudski? [12]

Thanks for your reply with photos~ Oh and also he is Lithuvanian, did the Polish ever think of reuniting Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuvania like they did so in the medieval commonwealth?

Polonia / Polish people have no presence in China and most people are confused! [16]

Polish history is quite impressive, that's the major starting point.

Polonia / Polish people have no presence in China and most people are confused! [16]

Well we didn't like them if the bishops didn't make any reactions towards the government's mandate assignments, most of them will show reluctance to it.

Currently, bishops in China are legitimitized in this way: Assigned by the government, sanctified by the local high ranking priests, and then informing the Holy See. The Holy See always gets angry, but unless the bishop showed great disrespect to the church when accepting the governmental assignment, they will be accepted by the Holy See.

Most of us hope that the Holy See can be able to appoint our priests, at least to reach a consensus with the Chinese government so that we can practise doctrines freely, maybe in the way like Vietnamese Catholics.

However, more and more Chinese youths baptized into Catholicism simply for a curiosity towards western culture, they don't pay much attention to doctrines or papal loyalty... Elder Catholics are more concerned about it.

Polonia / Polish people have no presence in China and most people are confused! [16]

Well I'm a senior school student in Guangzhou, I must say that Chinese generally hold favorable impression towards the Polish people, but they are unaware about Poland as in most Chinese' view, Poland is only an Eastern European country partitioned for three times, with little significance for China and the world.

There are many reasons we didn't pay attention to Poland, all Chinese knew that Poland was partitioned for three times and fought heroically against the invaders as our gov't used it as part of our patriotist education, so in our view, Polish are brave people with glorious history of fighting but petty history as a state, and no significant dominance and a humiliated sovereignty, making Chinese people consider Poland a small and poor nation although it was not the case.

Poland was the first democratic country that got rid of the Communist regime, this made the gov't aware of to much discuss about Poland, actually about many Slavic countries. They wanted us to memorize Poland as a country against western powers rather than a country against communism, that's why we seldom mention today's Poland which thrived after the Communists were overthrown. If we knew to much about today's Poland, or Poland's development, Chinese people will, urm you know that. If the Chinese people are still considering Poland a country that always follow USA and didn't have much significance, it will do the government good. Pope John Paul II is Polish, he opposed communism, and he is the leader of Catholicism, and Chinese Catholics are a problem for the government as well as we sought for unification with the Holy See while the government imposed bishops upon our Church in China without Vatican authorization.

And there aren't many Polish here, and your diplomatic missions didn't do much things in promoting your culture and commerce. Poland is insignificant for China in today' lives, also, Poland is a country which didn't play a very important role after all compared with those countries mentioned in our news, like USA, France, etc.. I really hope one day your mother country will become stronger and more dominant, so that our news mention you everyday.

I have to say that currently more and more students who are interested in politics and history are paying attention to Poland. I'm studying at one of the best high schools in Guangdong province which is expert in liberal arts and I have some friends around to discuss about Poland sometimes. I know about Poland and so I often mention about her at school like a civillian propagandist for Poland, mentioning it at speeches and classes and conversations and microblogs. Everyone knows Poland after my efforts and they knew that Poland is indeed a respectable state in many ways. Make more friends with Chinese and especially those who are interested in history and politics, and tell them more about Poland, Poland and China have lots in common after all.