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bolek_tusk   
9 Jan 2019
News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

as creating ghettos and living in one should be a reason to be ashamed.

The UK is becoming a nation of ghettoes. I'd much rather live in a Polish ghetto than a Pakistani ghetto.

Where I come from, if you see a white person in the street they are likely to be speaking Polish. The English have all left.
bolek_tusk   
8 Jan 2019
History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]

Allies or not, by D-Day, the war was over and it was so thanks to the Soviets who had no choice but to fight it.

Those nice Soviets who during Warsaw uprising of 1944 just camped on the east bank of the Vistula and laughed as the Polish forces fought the Germans and would not even allow US planes to drop supplies to help the Poles. If the Soviets had helped, the Germans would have been defeated much more quickly. In any case the AK did play a significant part in defeating Germany, it wasn't just the Soviets alone, a fact that is almost unrecognised in the teaching of the history of WWII.
bolek_tusk   
8 Jan 2019
History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]

Soviet Union won WW2

According to the Russians, when did WW2 start? Only after they fell out with Nazi Germany, did they become 'allies'. Like Nazi Germany they invaded Poland in September 1939 and soon afterwards murdered 40,000 Polish officers in Katyn. With 'allies' like that who needs enemies. And yet who provided the fourth largest armed forces in Europe against Germany.

From a modern day perspective it's fairly accurate to say that Germany won WW2, after all the EU should be considered as Greater Germany.
bolek_tusk   
6 Jan 2019
News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

I believe that there is only one cultural power left in the world anyway, and that is the USA.

The only cultural power in the world is Islam. No one can stand up to it.

Islam splits the world into two divisions:-

Dar al-Islam and Dar al-Harb

thoughtco.com/dar-al-harb-vs-dar-al-islam-250224

and you can see Dar al-Islam gaining ground everywhere (apart from Poland - at least for the time being...)
bolek_tusk   
5 Jan 2019
News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

it was completely reckless and unforgiveable that they had so many top military figures on one single plane.

It was also an irresistable opportunity to bump off so much of the Polish elite in one fell swoop.....

Please explain how a single birch tree can a cause a large aeroplane to disintegrate into a million pieces over an area of a square mile....

and why the Russians are still hanging on to the black boxes, and why the Polish authorities handed over the complete investigation of the crash to Russia.
bolek_tusk   
5 Jan 2019
News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

What would the Russians gain?

Putin did not take kindly to Lech Kaczynski's 'intervention' in Georgia

foreignpolicy.com/2016/04/08/the-ghosts-of-smolensk-poland-kaczynski-russia

and sought his revenge. His ally Tusk was very pleased to collude once it was pointed out that Komorowski of PO would replace Kaczynski of PiS as president.
bolek_tusk   
5 Jan 2019
News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

Here is a picture of a plane crashing in a forest:-

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Katekavia_Flight_9357_crash_site_%28from_MAK_report%29.jpg

Notice that the plane did not split up into 1000's of pieces scattered over a large area.

Apparently (according to the Russians) the TU-154 strikes a birch tree yet breaks up into a million pieces scattered over a square mile

ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/0DE8/production/_88106530_0304fa12-890d-445d-95e9-d8047c089af8.jpg

Maybe someone here can engage their brain and think for themselves about the likelihood of the Russian version being correct.
bolek_tusk   
5 Jan 2019
News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

The PO-PSL government created the Miller enquiry which was a joke.

A later enquiry found otherwise...

Ask yourself why won't the Russians hand over the black boxes nine years after the crash.

Do you remember what Ewa Kopacz said about the victims bodies and the subsequent discoveries when the coffins were examined?

It is a huge coverup.
bolek_tusk   
5 Jan 2019
News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

do not say anything of the kind in Poland unless you want people to think you're mentally imbalanced.

Any rational person would reach the same conclusion as me.

Here's a picture which says 1000 words.

i.wpimg.pl/O/550x541/i.wp.pl/a/f/jpeg/22898/099101040.jpeg

Vlad - 'Deal done, see you in Smolensk on 11 April 2010, Donald.'
bolek_tusk   
4 Jan 2019
News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

It's the other way around....Germany and Poland under Tusk had been very close.

What a surprise.... Tusk was hand-picked by Merkel to manage her eastern province.

He knew which side his bread was buttered and always managed to stand up for the EU (Germany) against Poland whenever there was a dispute.
bolek_tusk   
4 Jan 2019
News / Mass-media in Poland: which are left wing, right wing or centrist? [44]

Yes that is also important- though increases in disposable income have been fairly strong each year since 2001.

According to oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/poland/

It would be nice to see figures for disposable income changes for the bottom 20% between 2008 and 2018.
bolek_tusk   
4 Jan 2019
News / Mass-media in Poland: which are left wing, right wing or centrist? [44]

I think what counts most is how much money you have in your pocket and what you can buy with it.

So far, over the last three years, the average Pole has done a lot better than in the previous eight.

The opinion polls reflect this.

I just can't fathom how a political party can campaign without any program and ask for votes on the basis 'Together we can get rid of PiS'.
bolek_tusk   
4 Jan 2019
News / Mass-media in Poland: which are left wing, right wing or centrist? [44]

@Lyzko

It looks as though a new Polish-Italian political block will be forming ahead of the EU elections this year ...
Hopefully this will be the beginning of the end of the France-Germany domination we have had to suffer up until now.
bolek_tusk   
3 Jan 2019
Genealogy / WWII Polish Military information / WWII artillery units [24]

Much of Ander's Army ( Polish II Corps ) was under command of the Eighth Army, and it is the British MOD which hold records.

Thanks for the info, however I'm more interested in his position in the Polish Army in 1939.

Should I contact IPN - ipn.gov.pl/en?
bolek_tusk   
3 Jan 2019
Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1033]

Merged:

Skargi nadzwyczajne



Can anyone explain what are 'skargi nadzwyczajne'?

There was something in the news today which I didn't understand at all.

Here's something from a few months back involving the same case:-

wyborcza.pl/7,75398,23919953,zbigniew-ziobro-zlozyl-pierwsza-skarge-nadzwyczajna-do-sadu.html
bolek_tusk   
3 Jan 2019
Genealogy / WWII Polish Military information / WWII artillery units [24]

Who do I contact to try and get details of my fathers army record?

He was taken as a POW by the Red Army in September 1939 and was sent to Siberia where he later joined Anders' Army.
bolek_tusk   
3 Jan 2019
News / Poland's News sources [59]

Populism literally means supporting popular, or majority opinions.

Can someone explain the difference between populism and democracy?

It seems that one is deemed bad and the other good, but don't both imply rule by the will of the majority?