Food / Bigos Recipe [183]


A hot stew warming you up? What a conundrum that will forever baffle your household!

Genealogy / Is "Lubrant" a Polish last name? [7]


Yes, perhaps so.

Life / Poles turn their backs on organised religion. [148]


Very true. But how far is Katarzyna Lipka willing to go in her erasure efforts?

How would she and her gleeful supporters on PF rewrite the following statement to ensure that it is free of references to any organized religions, both Christian and non-Christian?

"I stand here today because of a Polish Catholic woman who could barely read and write. She didn't sit down and measure the risks, yet risked her life every single day for four years to protect the life of another human being, a Jewish child. Her name was Bronislawa Kurpi. She baptized me, gave me a false identity, and protected me from her neighbors as well as the Gestapo."

UK, Ireland / Can a foreigner UK student get a Polish work permit from here in UK? [7]


Probably from Leeds where the British media send their own foreign correspondents to cover local news stories.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1302]


Indeed, like watching two clowns bicker for the spotlight.


It's called factual history.

Western countries imposed diplomatic and economic boycotts on the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact nations. Meanwhile, the United States and its allies made substantial investments in West Germany after WWII and continued to do so over the subsequent decades. This significant economic support led to marked disparities in economic development between West and East Germany (and Poland too since you weren't aware).

After reunification, East Germany faced significant job losses and a lengthy process to align its economy with West Germany. Despite having the right to work in the West, East Germans often encountered discrimination. West Germans generally went out of their way to show contempt for East Germans by displaying a more favorable attitude toward immigrants such as Turks, Arabs, Asians, and Africans instead.

You can relate to this yourself in how PRL 'Poles' will warmly welcome foreigners while openly despising Polonia. The key difference is that West Germans looked down socially on East Germans, while PRL 'Poles' resent having to look up at the economic successes of Polonia.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1302]

Even if you don't agree with the source, this article gives a very refreshing perspective of things:

The German establishment is desperately clinging to power in the face of democracy

Like in France, there is an open and crude effort to deny voters their democratic choice.

Eastern Germany has always collectively opposed whatever nonsense was brewing in the West, whether it was Nazis circa WWII or a subsequent expanding American influence that favored their Western compatriots and left them with a lower standard of living. The idea being peddled by critics of their electoral choice that they're throwing themselves into the arms of some kind of right-wing Nazis is laughable, given the historical context.

Apparently any excuse will do in an attempt to justify the inevitable post-electoral coup by the ruling establishment elites, so they can keep lecturing the rest of the world about democracy.

rt.com/news/603381-germany-populist-election-tactics/

Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [574]


So sayeth the Berber camel jockey from Britain.

Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [574]


Yes, still do.

Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [574]


Good point. The posts from these self-appointed experts consistently reveal an understanding of Poland as having nothing but a negative foundational story, which they believe can only be 'corrected' through political and societal upheaval. This shows they have been thoroughly influenced by communist dogma.

Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [574]


Why didn't you mention that you are an Irish housewife?

History / Poles should apologise to Ukrainians first [395]


There is no better example of this than zionism, which has its origins in Central and Eastern Europe rather than being a grassroots movement in Palestine which it occupies today. Thanks for agreeing


He's a zionist like you.

Life / Polish women fight for their rights - manifa and other events [306]

Absolutely. There need to be severe penalties.

Feminists fear such measures and immediately protest that these will discourage women from reporting grievances.

They deliberately omit the fact that severe penalties are crucial for eliminating fraudulent complaints. This is because feminists know that acknowledging this distinction would undermine their ideological goal of elevating women by tearing down men using any means necessary.

Life / Polish women fight for their rights - manifa and other events [306]


Very true. In all these cases of false rape claims, the female 'victim' simply wants to take revenge for any given flimsy reason against the man or men they are accusing.

Women have both social and legal incentives to engage in risky behavior and then lie about what actually happens because they know they will always be believed (at least at first), and when it is proven they are lying, they know there will be little to no consequences for them.

Women have plenty of advocates and dedicated support groups who will overlook and even rationalize their abhorrent and irresponsible behavior. Men are on their own in these very serious situations with female false accusers and their attendant cheerleaders expecting men to simply move on after their reputations and livelihoods have been destroyed.

Life / Polish women fight for their rights - manifa and other events [306]

Very sage advice. I recall the quote originated last century from a male writer.

Anyway, every person and every generation will have very different opinions on this matter.

Sometimes these opinions are rooted in cultural conventions, and other times they come from empirical studies or direct personal experience.

Interestingly, some societies that are not influenced by feminism have a better understanding of gender dynamics and know how to respond more effectively to problems caused by them.

Take Iran, for example. Did you know that a year ago there was a women's rights protest over there? No?

If you didn't, it wasn't due to a media blackout; it was because the protest was very short-lived.

Were all the women rounded up and jailed? No.

Instead, the Iranian authorities arrested the men who were supporting the women and executed them. The women ran away and never came back out.

Men targeted by Iranian regime as women protest for equal rights

"Experts suggest that the aggressive rate at which the regime has been imprisoning or executing men involved in the protests it's a clear sign of its awareness that if men and women unite, it will struggle to contain the movement."

abcnews.go.com/International/men-now-targeted-iranian-regime-women-protest-equal/story?id=103291751

The same applies to the Taliban.

This demonstrates that women only receive the society that men allow them to have.

Feminists can only succeed in implementing and enforcing gynocentric societies when there are enough browbeaten, "oh, yes ma'am!" cucks and manginas to do their bidding.

Again, many differences in how people understand and respond to gender politics will always be generational.

Life / Polish women fight for their rights - manifa and other events [306]

You should be the first to know the problems generated on PF when people share or probe into other people's personal lives. It's why so many threads are off topic.

So, in general, what's your experience working with adult aged women spanning different generations?

Life / Polish women fight for their rights - manifa and other events [306]


No longer having periods certainly eliminates this convenient excuse for women to take regular time off work but this still wouldn't justify giving them a pay raise over it.

Look at it this way.

A "career" woman will spend decades taking about one week off every month just to sit at home on the rag.

By the time they reach menopause, they have been mentally conditioned to expect to get more time off work than men and thus do less work.

So what do they suddenly do? Finally put in equal work to receive equal pay?

Absolutely not.

They still spend about one week off every month attending doctor appointments for menopausal health matters, both real and imagined. These issues range from osteoporosis and weight gain to mental health problems exacerbated by menopause, such as depression and anxiety.


Indeed, the entire gender pay gap scam is based on never comparing like with like.

Life / Polish women fight for their rights - manifa and other events [306]


Feminists and their manginas like you are the ones who declared that women should be treated equally to men.

This claim has always been farcical, as demonstrated by women being accommodated with excessive time off from work without facing termination, unlike men.

But even this isn't sufficient.

What feminists and their manginas like you want is a world where women work part-time (if at all) but receive full-time salaries and benefits.

Feminism is nothing more than a rebranding of communism and for the benefit of women only.

From men according to their abilities, to women according to their demands.


Spoken like a true unrepentant communist who enthusiastically approves of genocide as means to eliminate ideological enemies.

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [669]


He met with Modi and that was earlier in the week. They talked. What was the outcome? Nothing.


On a Saturday? He hasn't worked for Poland since being elected and that goes all the way back to 1990s!

You know it and so does he!

Life / Polish women fight for their rights - manifa and other events [306]


Because they bleed and feminists want to blame men for it.

Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism, and the Earnings Gap

"In most countries, women are absent from work more frequently than men. Using personnel data, we find that the absences of women below the age of 45 follow a 28-day cycle, while the absences of men and of women over the age of 45 do not. We interpret this as evidence that the menstrual cycle increases female absenteeism.

The increased absenteeism induced by the 28-day cycle explains at least 14 percent of the earnings gender differential.

While family-related commitments explain part of this gender gap in absenteeism, even among unmarried workers with no children women still take significantly more sick days than men."

eml.berkeley.edu/~moretti/cycle17.pdf

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [669]


Well, of course!

So what was Tusk doing today? :)

Food / Traditional Polish Foods [141]


They sort of have the color and texture of dried apricots but those are usually too large from what it shown in the photo.

Likely it is his version of kluski in milk soup. Sugar would be an ingredient. Cocoa or cinnamon (or both) could also be added and would give it the color as shown.

Work / I am a Nigerian looking for job opportunities in Poland [30]

It is yet another thread about an economic migrant from the Global South seeking a quick, ready-made solution in the Global North.

As a purported data analyst, the OP clearly isn't looking for temporary, low-wage, or seasonal work.

He expects to enter the middle class as soon as he steps off the plane.

Nigeria already has a thriving tech sector. If the OP can't find a job there, what benefit does Poland gain by offering opportunities to him, especially when young Poles are also seeking similar work?

Additionally, given his stated career field, the OP doesn't need to be physically in Poland to do data analytics. That is literally a work-from-home job.

Not that any of this matters to you.

We know how you vote:



And your motives are pretty obvious:

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Work / I am a Nigerian looking for job opportunities in Poland [30]


Big Data and Big Pharma are big business in Israel.

You got the skills and experience they desperately need - a perfect match!

Learn Hebrew and do your part to help build a more diverse, inclusive and equitable Israel and make it the crossroads of the world that it is destined to be.

History / Crazy 1990s in Poland - transition from communism to capitalism - stories [108]


And for us too.

Oh, the irony! You conveniently have an ADHD episode whenever anyone writes something you disagree with, yet here you are delivering a novel of your own! :)


The real surprise is that for once you didn't mention the target of your derangement syndrome! :)

Did you change medications or did you up the dosage? :)

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History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [380]


Intimidating. :)

But of course!

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History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [380]


The inconsistent destruction of the crematoria at the camp-where some were partially dismantled while others remained operational until shortly before liberation-suggests that the efforts might have been influenced more by a scorched earth policy rather than solely aimed at hiding evidence. As Allied forces advanced, a scorched earth strategy could have led to the targeted destruction of infrastructure to deny its use to the enemy, rather than a coordinated attempt to completely erase evidence of the atrocities. The timing and partial nature of the destruction reflect a response to the imminent threat of Allied forces and practical considerations rather than a purely evidence-concealing strategy.


Why destroy only the crematoria but not the storerooms full of other evidence?


That is really inconsistent. If the Nazi leadership realized the end was near and ordered camps to be dismantled or destroyed then it makes no sense to hang on to 56,000 prisoners "to serve as slave laborers for the Reich."


Are you saying that other groups of prisoners were never gassed, shot or cremated in the same camp?

The inscriptions displayed at the camp with the revised numbers are qualified with the phrase "mainly Jews" not "all Jews". Only the Sonderkommandos were exclusively Jewish and recruited to assist the Nazis with the disposal of corpses but they are rarely if ever mentioned when discussing history.


Shame on Communists.



And don't forget that Poland has legislation that criminalizes the denial of communist crimes. This reflects the country's history of suffering under both Nazi and Soviet occupations and aims to ensure that the atrocities committed by communist regimes are not forgotten or downplayed.

History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [380]


The link you provided outlines a two-year timeframe of events concerning various buildings. One account describes imprisoned laborers damaging a building during a revolt (and these laborers would not have had any reason to conceal evidence). Another account mentions the hasty destruction of a different building the day before Allied troops arrived at the camp. Earlier accounts indicate that some buildings were repurposed or demolished, but there is no evidence suggesting that these actions were part of a cover-up, as other buildings continued to be used for the same purposes until the very end.

There are plenty of personal items from prisoners on display as well at the museum. Clearly these could have easily been destroyed too. Why weren't they but the documents were?


No reason given for marching 56,000 prisoners out of a death camp of all places and then either shooting or allowing thousands of them to freeze to death along the way to somewhere else.

Even if the German soldiers were trying to run away from the approaching Allied troops it doesn't make any sense logistically to take 56,000 prisoners with them. What if they had reached somewhere like Germany? What were they going to do with tens of thousands of prisoners? Kill them there? They could have just shot them back at the camp or abandoned them there to die.


If all lives matter and if things like race and gender are merely social constructs then it is correct and consistent to say "people" were murdered.

Why should there be a need to overemphasize what happened to a self-identified majority when the exact same thing happened to many others who were not part of that self-identified majority?

History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [380]


Everything that is now on display.


So they complain that the communists had an agenda but the Jews never did?

History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [380]


Why destroy only the documentation but not what is shown as being all the other evidence?

Anyway, according to a published article the numbers were deliberately concocted by the communists for political reasons and the numbers changed only after the communist regime collapsed.

FIXING THE NUMBERS AT AUSCHWITZ

"...scholars of the Holocaust now agree that the Auschwitz death toll was less than half the four million cited here for four decades. The actual number was probably between 1.1 million and 1.5 million..."The numbers that we dealt with before were numbers that were politically motivated," said the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council in Washington. The communists tried to "de-Judaize" Auschwitz to emphasize that other nationalities, particularly Poles, died at the hands of the Nazis..."

chicagotribune.com/1992/05/07/fixing-the-numbers-at-auschwitz/


No, you're wrong (as usual!).



Don't you go around telling everyone that you teach for a living and live close to the old camps too having visited both during your Soviet youth and after you lot lost power in Poland? :)

History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [380]

Before 1989 the reported total figure of deaths at Auschwitz was 4 million.