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Of course they don't rule. :) Where have I said that? They USED to. The monument was built by them while they still ruled there, that's obvious. And the monument became the historical one. So there was no point to change it. But it's a historical point of view and nice example of propaganda inside one's country.

But I see, that I've made a little mistake. I'm quite tired and I've read 'is' as 'was', so I've misunderstood your question. Now you got it I think :D My bad ;)


I wrote it because I wasn't sure if I haven't made a mistake of sth, and then we have a misunderstanding. ;)

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'Were', dude :> And the monument was originally built while the country belonged to them.
Moreover I used the word 'owner' as the synonym of 'ruler' if your point is wrong usage of a word.

Life / Famous Polish people (that we have actually heard of) [224]

Austria, dude, The Habsburg Monarchy to be exact

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Who was the 'owner' of Hungary for a long period in the history, huh?:> Guess than who was the ruler of this area.

Life / Famous Polish people (that we have actually heard of) [224]

Yeah, but not exactly Germans - bloody Habsburgs so Austrians in this case ;-). When I saw a monument of the winner of this battle in Budapest - I started laughing ;).

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Unfortunately it's thought that winner o'Battle of Vienna was Leopold I. Bloody hell...

Life / Famous Polish people (that we have actually heard of) [224]

Copernicus' uncle (in Polish: wuj - means uncle from the mother's side) was Lucas Watzenrode.

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Historical point of view has to be known. It's necessary to remember that in that time there was nothing like 'main nationality'. Kopernik belongs to the Royal Prussia - it's the local patriotism. Moreover people belongs more to the Country than to the nationality. Proof? Bourgeoisie from the cities like Gdansk, Torun, Elblag wanted the incorporation of their cities(so the Gdansk Pomerania) to the Crown.

Language / Need help with a Polish word/spelling Basia [20]

Infinitive 'to understand' - rozumieć - rozumiec. In present tense:
I - Ja rozumiem
You(S-Thou) - Ty rozumiesz
He - On rozumie
We - My rozumiemy
You(Pl) - Wy rozumiecie
They - Oni rozumieją

Imperative - Zrozum! Zrozumcie!

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Should be - 'Quo Vadis'.

Furthermore nowadays in Polish schools there will be more novels wrote by Sienkiewicz thanks to our 'dear' Minister for Education (Poles know what I'm talking about ;) ).

Hm, other famous Polish people... Mayby Felix Dzerzhinsky(Feliks Dzierzynski. I've noticed that somebody in other topic mentioned him) who definitely was Polish. And I think Russians love Poles for him :>. It's little Polish Contribution to the 'great' Russian Revolution.