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*sighs*

Right. I'm off to read Pollen's Volga. For some reason reading about this "nonexistent" country has a soothing effect on me. Slavic atavism and all that.

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For a country that never existed they managed to give us quite a bit of trouble.


Indeed. While Odysseus was getting lost at sea, Ukrainians were already holding town hall meetings and debating Plato in Proto-Slavic. Also, they probably gave the Trojans building permits and lent Romulus a shovel.

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Not at all.

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Hm... try these two then: imdb.com/title/tt0171992 , imdb.com/title/tt0120947/ .

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Have you missed the recent thread in which I said that Tusk should resign, hide somewhere in Kaszuby, and never come back to Polish public life?

As for the western border, it is indeed slightly annoying, especially that apparently some of the third worlders dropped here by the German police were placed in orphanages where they made official complaints about the length of some of the girls' dresses. The audacity! I wonder if there are still some skinheads left in Poland or will the Old Guard have to put on their bomber jackets and heavy boots again.

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It is definitely a classic but I'm not sure if I'd recommend it to you. You came to Poland in the early '10s and probabaly don't know much about the socialism in PRL (People's Republic of Poland), so most of Alternatywy 4 humour will most likely be lost on you. If you're not Polish and over 40, you will probably not be able to properly appreciate it.

Try Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy... imdb.com/title/tt0080986/ , Polskie Drogi... imdb.com/title/tt0124249/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1 or 07, zgłoś się imdb.com/title/tt0399943/ ... for decent commie era TV entertainment, and more easily enjoyable for foreigners.

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The subject matter is somewhat similar but the style is very much different. Lombard is focused more on Polish cultural context and human stories, with dramatized storylines, romance, suspense, crime. OK, a bit of a mental candy perhaps but, as Maf said, fun and representative of modern Poland.

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Those Ls will remain as long as Poland remains and as long as faithful, decent and honourable Legia fans walk this land; Legia's spirit shall never kneel, nor her colours fade. So there.


Brilliant.

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Buczkowski is a feckin' legend!


Precisely. :)

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*thumbs up*

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@Bobko

Don't listen to this anti-Legia twat. If you want genuine knowledge about modern day Poland, watch Lombard. Życie pod zastaw. 16 seasons, the first one is available on Polish Netflix (episodes 1-39), of pure gold--funny and addictive AF.

Yes, I am a man of simple pleasures.

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Oh, I'm not crying, just vomiting.


Ever since March 1991 and the epic battle against Sampdoria in Cup Winners Cup QF. Szczęsny (the father) in goal, young Kowalczyk with a double... Czachowski, Pisz, Kubicki - what a team it was! And then, still in the 90s, Champions League, the game in Warsaw against Blackburn with Shearer, Sherwood and Sutton - 1:0 Legia. Ahhh... those were the days.

So let's just make one thing clear: you can make derogatory comments about Polish emigrants in the UK (most of them are patologia and peasants anyway), you can insult the president, the prime minister and the Pope, but if you keep sh*tting on Legia, we're going to have a problem.

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I suppose I've finally gotten too old for that kind of sh*thead trolling.

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@Admin

This is nothing short of trolling. The c*nt promised that he would leave but didn't keep his word (as c*nts never do).

158 posts, most of them nothing else but boring and repetitive trolling, and not even a warning? How long will this lowlife be allowed to continue? If it's a new member - just ban him. If it's an old one trolling under a new username - ban both. You have the "ban" button for a reason--use it.

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понятно

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Hmm... so maybe middle-class shopkeepers might be of some use too?

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Knowing nazis I think I have a pretty good idea of what would have happened.


Did my alternative history scenario sound pleasant to you?

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Ah... your words are tempting, Lord Vader, but I think we'll take a rain check.

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Oh, for crying out loud, Iron...


Oh yeah?

OK, just for the sake of argument - let's roll with your scenario of Poland allying herself to the nazi abomination (even if it makes me want to throw up).

Hitler was a couple of divisions (3... maybe 4) away from capturing Moscow in 1941. If he didn't have to fight Poland in 1939 and on top of that had around 70 Polish divisions at his disposal from the first days of Operation Barbarossa (which would have started much earlier in your scenario than June 1941), the Soviet Union would have fallen and Nazis would have been victorious.

What would such scenario mean? It would mean the doom of the Russian nation, our blood brothers (whether you like it or not). This would have been kurewstwo of the first order if we had helped with that. Besides, what on earth would we have earned? Germans would have taken away all of Silesia from us anyway, and the pathetic shards of Pomerania that we had, probably Toruń and Poznań as well. Lebensraum and all that. We might have been offered some compensation in the East, but what would we have done with those lands full of Ukrainian, Russian and Belarussian minorities? Back then they weren't ours anymore and would never have been again.

We would end up as galactic-scale kurwas. And for what? For nothing.

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As long as you exclude those who shot him, and called him a b*tch right after, from this collective "we".

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Reminds me of the captured Ukrainian soldier who said "Slava Ukraini!" a moment before Russian soldiers shot him. I won't post the video but you can find it if you want.

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I don't even know if it's even bravery in the proper sense of the word.

At some point we stop caring and just want to spit our enemies in the face one last time (see Warsaw Uprising). It's something between bravery and the urge to make history choke on us. I don't know how to explain it...


Well, there's a reason why Poland has Italy in our national anthem, and they have Poland in theirs. :)


Then they will also learn something about Poland (e.g. that there are more important things for us than a thread being derailed).

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They were Polish. They sucked meeting death with honour with the milk of their mothers.

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Precisely.

My paternal grandpa always said: "W życiu nie trzeba być świętym, wystarczy nie być kurwą".

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@Bobko

All in all, I think Poland made good choices in WW2 (maybe apart from starting the Warsaw Uprising). We avoided allying ourselves to either of criminal totalitarianisms, we fought the undeniable baddies from the first day of the war to the last, and at the end we were betrayed and sold to the commies - no fault of our own, nobody can blame us.

We achieved the only victory worth achieving - moral victory. Total moral victory.


No kidding.

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But this is what they will learn. The easy way or the hard way. The choice is theirs.


We will buy them. Cold mercenaries make better soldiers than hot-blooded fanatics.


They are not platitudes, they are laws of nature.

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Proper order. Balancing and going the middle way is the most commonsensical thing to do. What were we supposed to do? Ally ourselves to brown madmen or to red maniacs?


We don't need friends. You are all lunatics.


Sometimes it's better to lose when other alternatives are below our dignity.


By then we knew exactly who Germans were. Poland would never be allies with such abomination.

As to coming to anybody on our knees and begging... I thought you knew us better than that. :)


Hey! Let gjene learn something about the country he wants to be the citizen of!