News / European News and Poland Thread 3 [1013]


Well, if that's a promise - where do I get this Prussia Fan Club Membership Card? ;)

News / Does Poland support the idea of Slavic unity? [129]


... looks like. :-/

OK guys, I will let you have your little Prussia Fan Club thingy, but on two conditions: no Wagner music and no invading Poland.

News / Does Poland support the idea of Slavic unity? [129]


What kind of Slavophobia is that, Atch? And that coming from an Irish woman. Wait a moment... I have to take out the knife that you just put in my back.

*reaches back*

I won't forget that, Atch, and I will have my revenge one day.

News / Does Poland support the idea of Slavic unity? [129]


Yip. The badassness factor (1) is still there, the resistance to woke nonsense (2) is still there, and the ability to endure hardship if need be (3) is still there.

China and India both have only 2 and 3.
USA has only 1 and 3.
Most of the EU has sadly none (well... maybe a little bit of 1).


Sad isn't it? By the way - how many children do you have, Bobi? Well, get your finger out! (in both metaphorical and literal sense)

News / European News and Poland Thread 3 [1013]


They were very special. Not a country with an army but an army that had their own country.

Russia would still be a great empire without the lands of Polish partition and Austria would still be an empire without their piece of Polish cake. Prussia, however, would remain only a local power without the lands they took from us, so they pushed for partitions like crazy. Forgive me if I don't think about them with my usual tolerant kindness. ;)

Po polsku / Koszałki-opałki, trele-morele i inne duby smalone :) [1114]

Na miejscu Santosa wziąłbym tego Urbańskiego do reprezentacji...

onet.pl/sport/goal/mlodziezowy-reprezentant-polski-zaimponowal-w-meczu-z-cagliari-wloskie-media/v5yv25t,30bc1058

... chłopak ma naprawdę duży potencjał, niech się uczy gry reprezentacyjnej za młodu. No, ale Santos woli odkurzyć Krychowiaka, Grosickiego i innych dziadków. ;)

News / European News and Poland Thread 3 [1013]

@Bobi, @BB, @Iron

Guys, are you insane? Prussia was the main spiritus movens behind the partitions of Poland. Let them remain in history books and nowhere else!


Oh, you mean Königlich-Preußen - a vassal of Poland. Uffff... for a moment I thought you lost your mind there. *huge sigh of relief*

History / Historical look at various civilisational differences between Russia and the West [153]


You are a monolith in the sense that all three of you love Poland. The difference is that you realise and admit it, Veli realises it but doesn't admit it, and Kostya lives in denial about it. :)

News / Does Poland support the idea of Slavic unity? [129]

By the way, there is a party called Slavic Union (Związek Słowiański) in Poland...

zs.org.pl/

... and they are among of 41 parties, 43 electoral comittees and 2 coalitions registered for the coming parliamentary elections.

tvn24.pl/wybory-parlamentarne-2023/wybory-parlamentarne-2023-panstwowa-komisja-wyborcza-podala-ile-zarejestrowala-komitetow-wyborczych-7319357

Their motto is: "aby Naród Polski nie stracił słowiańskiej tożsamości" ("so that Polish Nation doesn't lose their Slavic identity"). :)

News / Does Poland support the idea of Slavic unity? [129]


Well, most Poles didn't have much problem with Warsaw Pact.

But the point is that it wouldn't have to necessarily be under Russian domination. Especially that it wouldn't be a military alliance but more of an international cultural/historical cooperation organisation (maybe to some extent political too, like V4).

News / Does Poland support the idea of Slavic unity? [129]


NATO is an alliance under American domination, the EU is a political entity under German domination etc. etc. In every union of countries there are always stronger and weaker ones, but it doesn't mean the members of such union cannot be treated fairly.

History / Historical look at various civilisational differences between Russia and the West [153]


How many people did Russians kill "in Union with the Nazis" (why the capital letter in Union)? Give me a rough number, and then compare it to the number of Russians slaughtered by the nazis.

It's like saying that Poland lost 6 million citizens in WW2 but first acted "in Union with the Nazis" by invading Czechoslovakia. It may be accurate to some extent but also misleading and distorting the general picture of events.

On 1st September 2009 in Westerplatte there were both Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel present...



... and it was generally acknowledged, even by Russians, that Ribbentrop-Molotov pact was a mistake and that Poland was a victim. These days it is no longer widely accepted narrative in Russia, and Poland is depicted as a country that contributed to the outbreak of WW2 and our cooperation with Nazi Germany in the partition of Czechoslovakia is stressed.

If you look at foreign and historical policies back then, and compare it to the hate-fest towards both Germany and Russia that PiS is having today, then you can only marvel at the idiocy and deplore how much was destroyed in such a short time.

Not to mention that leading both anti-German and anti-Russian politics at the same time never ended well for Poland.

News / Does Poland support the idea of Slavic unity? [129]

23% is a lot. Still, majority are Slavic.

News / Does Poland support the idea of Slavic unity? [129]


77% of Russian Federation citizens are ethnic Russians...

study.com/academy/lesson/russian-ethnic-groups.html

... so they are definitely mainly Slavs.

News / European News and Poland Thread 3 [1013]


Geez, that's "a bit" extreme solution! :)

However, I suppose it mirrors the general mood in Germany to some extent. Hopefully, in 6 weeks PiS will be gone and things will start going back to normal. *fingers crossed*

News / European News and Poland Thread 3 [1013]


You can say anything about the war in Ukraine but definitely not that it was a German choice. Germany is one of the countries that will be hit most severely by the economic consequences of it.

That's why PiS putting forward war reparations claims now is so stupid (not per se but at this particular moment). It only creates division within the EU and strengthens anti-democratic forces in Germany. Maybe PiS thinks that they will be able to be more successful in their foreign policies with AfD in power but I wouldn't be so sure.

Of course, I wouldn't demonize AfD. I simply think that PiS is making a mistake by playing on strengthening them and weakening the current German government; because that's what it is: Germany supports Tusk and wants to facilitate government change in Poland, so PiS indirectly supports AfD.

History / Historical look at various civilisational differences between Russia and the West [153]


If it is true that every forum has more readers than users, then the existence of this board is actually good news for Russia.

Think about it: any chance person who comes across this board and is even remotely sane is bound to be repulsed by the sheer amount of nonsense spouted here, ranging from hateful racist outbursts to amateur psychological/sociological analyses. In such case two things can happen: such person can close their browser tab in disgust and never return or develop some sort of Russophilia as a healthy psychological reaction.

It's one thing to oppose the actions of Putin's government and think that this war is a horrible mistake that will bring misery to both Ukrainians and Russians, and another to change a previously regular, thematic forum into a hate-fest including the spelling "game" of regularly putting capitalised SS in the name of country that lost millions of its citizens in their struggle against the nazis.

Some of it could partially be justified at the very beginning of the war with shock and fear, natural in such situations, but today it is just a vicious hate campaign, visible also in some media and wide political circles. Madness.


Funnily enough, if you asked me about Russophobia two years ago, I would have also shaken my head in disbelief and asked for proof.


That's OK in English I suppose, but in Polish "pełnoskalowa inwazja" sounds very clumsy. It is, however, constantly used in the media and by politicians (e.g. Duda keeps banging on about this "pełnoskalowa inwazja" all the time). It's almost as if they received instructions on what to say and what expressions to use - instructions written in English and hastily translated into Polish. This idiotic newspeak word doesn't even exist in the Great Dictionary of the Polish Language...

wsjp.pl/

It also doesn't exist in the PWN dictionary...

sjp.pwn.pl/szukaj/pe%C5%82noskalowy.html

A native Polish speaker would say "inwazja na pełną skalę" instead of using this newspeak adjective "pełnoskalowy". If all of a sudden mainstream media...

polsatnews.pl/wiadomosc/2023-02-24/wojna-w-ukrainie-rok-pelnoskalowej-inwazji-rosji-na-ukraine-niepowodzenie-planu-putina/

pap.pl/aktualnosci/news%2C1089468%2Cnewsweek-pelnoskalowa-inwazja-na-ukraine-w-ciagu-najblizszych-48-godzin

... and ruling politicians start using it, then maybe (just maybe) they have their instructions written for them in English? If so, they should at least hire more careful translators.

News / Does Poland support the idea of Slavic unity? [129]


Hear, hear!

The only possible problem with the canonization process is that Crow is most likely still alive. However, I am sure the clergy responsible for canonization can be persuaded, with expensive watches and some of Санитарные Войска loot, to overlook this little obstacle.

You're like a treasure chest of brilliant ideas today!

News / Does Poland support the idea of Slavic unity? [129]


Crow was certainly the most vocal PF member in promoting Slavic unity but certainly not the last one. I am all for Slavic unity too. At the moment it's impossible to realise but one day Great Slavia will unite and when that happens, it will be a good time for the rest of the globe to change their soiled diapers he he :)

History / This anti-Ukrainian propaganda for no valid reasons must stop [70]


OK, that does it. It's a bot.

History / This anti-Ukrainian propaganda for no valid reasons must stop [70]


Perhaps not. But you do have a talent for producing long-winded, artificially sounding, ChatGPT-like sentences.

Do something else: tell a joke, insult people, embarrass yourself - anything. Prove that you are a human being. :)

Life / Polish (in comparison to English and Indian) have amazing culture [71]


Yip, it definitely sounds like a regular Polish note to lokatorzy/mieszkańcy.

I find Polish formal language to be very charming and once, when I helped organise an international conference at my university, I was asked to take care of some correspondence with our honourable guests. So, in those emails I tried to emulate Polish formal old-fashioned style in English. The reaction I got was overwhelmingly positive, but one professor told me that he felt like he received a letter from 19th century. :)


Otóż to, Szanowny Panie. Bardzo trafna uwaga.

Life / Polish (in comparison to English and Indian) have amazing culture [71]


If you really want to annoy Novi, you should do this in Polish.


Szanowny Panie Inżynierze,

azaliż doprawdy używanie właściwych form grzecznościowych wydaje się Panu tak wysoce niestosowne? Proszę wybaczyć moją śmiałość, ale byłbym niezmiernie wdzięczny, gdyby okazał się Pan tak uprzejmy i zechciał ponownie przemyśleć swoje zdanie w tym względzie. Z góry dziękuję i pozwalam sobie przesłać najniższe ukłony dla Szanownej Małżonki Pana Inżyniera.

Racz, Czcigodny Panie, przyjąć wyrazy najwyższego uszanowania, z jakimi pozostaję Pańskim oddanym sługą

Gefreiter Kania

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [560]

*yaaaaawn*

You're in your retard mode today, Pawian, and you bore me.

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [560]


Might very well happen:

1. The West decides, for a number of reasons, to end the war. For this they will need some sort of compensation to Ukraine who - I am certain of it - will lose some of their lands to Russia.

2. They will push the idea of glorious Polish-Ukrainian union. They can try to sell it as a new Rzeczpospolita or something and our silly politicians will fall for it.

3. Within the Union certain administrative border shifts will occur.

4. The union will eventually break up and the administrative borders will become state borders, at Poland's expense.

*shivers*

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [560]


Yes, the West f*cking Poland over - how could this possibly ever happen? Impossible. :)

Maybe that's why they need this damn union? Poland should stay well away from this idea.

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [560]


Perhaps our dear allies, who will want to talk Ukraine into giving up their eastern lands, to achieve peace with Russia, and will need some compensation for them, and who have a history of f*cking us over. Of course they would need to persuade our politicians too but can you honestly say that it's impossible?


It was but it isn't anymore, as Jon rightly noticed. Which makes those "Zakerzonia" banners-flying banderists even more retarded than their glorious predecessors were.

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [560]


And yet we keep trying. Not for us, but for the benefit of our readers.

@jon357

Exactly! Down with this silly "union" idea!

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [560]


I am not worried about Ukrainians per se but rather about this fishy idea of Polish-Ukrainian union, and about the possible compensation that Ukraine might be offered in such union at Poland's expense, for the lands they are bound to lose in the east.

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [560]


THAT was your point??? Disappointing.

But OK, so let's sum up: some Ukrainians think that a large chunk of eastern Poland should belong to Ukraine because it once belonged to "Rus people" and some evil Polish king conquered it.

Very well. So does that make my "paranoid" theory, of possible passing of those lands under Ukrainian administration in a hypothetical Polish-Ukrainian union, more or less probable? :)