News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [516]


Poland lost billions of US$ in annual tax revenues for transit of Russian gas through it's territory.


Because of Polish-Russian disputes over the US missile shield, Germany naturally took full advantage of the situation for it's own national interests.

Try to think about it from the Russian perspective... if you are the CEO of Gazprom would you really want to pay 3 times more than the original price for the construction of the pipline through the Baltic just to bypass Poland? This is a political not an economically logical decision.

Genealogy / Polish Gypsy Roots & Roma ancestors in their families [205]


They are scum. Theft is a way of life for them, and they steal everything they can, from food to manhole covers and copper cables (to sell to companies that recycle metals). They have numerous offspring, they are illiterate, they don't bathe and subsequently smell like crap. None of them go to school, they don't have jobs and don't want to work. They literally live in garbage, usually around landfills. Their young are their primary source of income, in two ways: firstly, they are all on welfare and they get a certain amount of money every month for every "child", and secondly, they don't send their young to school but instead force them to beg and steal. Minors can break the law without any consequences, and the gypsies use this loophole to support their parasitic lifestyle. Some gypsies learn how to play a musical instrument (usually trumpets or accordions) and then play those instruments during celebrations of various kinds, hoping to get some money out of the drunken people at the celebrations. Most petty thefts (in excess of 99%) are committed by young gypsies, as are many other crimes. Their average IQ is about 70.

History / Sarmatism in Poland [119]

When did Slav come to mean "slave"? In the tenth century, during the eastward expansion of the Franks under Otto I (AD 913-973), many speakers of Old Slavonic were in fact conquered and enslaved. The change in meaning from Slav to slave occurred a little later in Italy , after the raids made by Venetians upon Slavonia(a province in present day Croatia) during the time of the Crusades.

Basically, MG tried to insinuate that Slavic was derived from the word "slave" which has no relation with reality, and is against common sence, but on this forum it is not surprising because it is possible to find even more problematic posts.

So MG educate yourself before you make such tendencious comments. You only discredit yourself with so called (easily refuted) "facts".

History / Sarmatism in Poland [119]


This is just an example of completely false propaganda.

They are from a medieval Latin word Sclavus and its slightly later form Slavus, both of which referred first to any person who belonged to the large group of peoples of central and eastern Europe who spoke Slavonic languages. Medieval Latin borrowed the word from the Slavs' own name for themselves. In Old Slavonic, Slovene was the word for a Slavic person. It means literally "speaker" from Old Slavonic slovo, "word." They were the people of the word; that is, they spoke a Slavonic language.

Slavs have named Germans for example Nemci or in translation = "people who do not speak the tongue" so what?

MareGea why dont you concentrate and worry about what people from your own country are called? Why do you disturb yourself when clearly you have limited knowledge and try to discredit others - from your perspective foreign countries?

History / Sarmatism in Poland [119]


Interesting you mention this city...

HISTORY
Leipzig was the crossing place of two of the Roman Empire's most important trading routes and gets its name from the Old Sorbian word for lime tree, which is still today one of the most common trees found in the city. The religious reformer Martin Luther (1483-1546) was active in Leipzig. Music thrived through the genius of Johann Sebastian Bach, who lived and worked in Leipzig for 27 years until his death in 1750. The movement to tear down the Berlin Wall started in Leipzig.

Even BB cannot possibly deny this? ;)