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Repost: Heya ad about communism in Poland


Paulina 16 | 4,407
14 Jan 2013 #31
Erm, Paulina, just because I commented that the (sorry I missed out the bit of it being the cartoon version) looked more like Molotov than Lenin you presume I dont understand why Lenin would cause offence???

Well, it was because of your "anyway" at the end, I guess. As if you went along with the others: "Oh, why you silly Poles have a problem with that ad? I don't! And that's what matters! (And the dude looked more like Molotov than Lenin anyway.....)."

That was my impression, of course :)
And my comment wasn't just directed at you. More at the others.

FYI, Molotov carved up Poland along with Von Ribbentropp, surprised you have never heard of him as he was directly responsible for Polands fate in 1939 where as Lenin happened to be head honcho when Poland and Soviet Russia were entangled in a sideshow part of the Russian civil war....that Poland won BTW :)

Erm, isthatu2, just because I commented that I don't know how Molotov looked like you presume I have never heard of him??? :)))
Gee, I wonder whom Molotov cocktail was named after? ;)
Btw, I'm not sure how one could confuse those two even in a cartoon version - Molotov had more hair, no beard and he was wearing glasses.
isthatu2 4 | 2,694
14 Jan 2013 #32
that I don't know how Molotov looked like you presume I have never heard of him

I even don't know how Molotov looked like.

Well, now you explain yourself,fair enough,but it should be,"what" rather than *how* . " I dont even know what Molotov looked like " :)

You could have said "how molotov looked" If it had been clear you knew basically what he *normally * looked like, ie, "how" could be used thus; " How did Molotov look? He looked tired."

There you go, lesson from a native speaker,no charge ;)
ps, but yes, I can see why it upsets some people in Poland whichever old Communist is depicted in adverts as I know a few old time Solidarity members.

no beard

He had a beard....he just shaved off the bit on his chin all the time ;)
jon357 74 | 22,204
15 Jan 2013 #33
ps, but yes, I can see why it upsets some people in Poland whichever old Communist is depicted in adverts as I know a few old time Solidarity members.

Doubtless.

Worth remembering though that Comrade Lenin is still preserved in his mausoleum in Red Square and loved by many however the German mentioned in the thread is rightly reviled by all except nutters.
Paulina 16 | 4,407
15 Jan 2013 #34
Well, now you explain yourself,fair enough,but it should be,"what" rather than *how* . " I dont even know what Molotov looked like " :)"

Ooooh! OK :D Thank you! :)

There you go, lesson from a native speaker,no charge ;)

That's very kind of you ;)

He had a beard....he just shaved off the bit on his chin all the time ;)

What I meant was that he had only mustache :P

Doubtless.

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Worth remembering though that Comrade Lenin is still preserved in his mausoleum in Red Square and loved by many

I wouldn't be so sure about those "many" and there were already plans to remove Lenin from Red Square not so long ago:

Fewer and fewer Russians believe that the mummy of Vladimir Lenin should be in a mausoleum in the Red Square in the Kremlin. According to a survey of the All Center for Public Opinion Research wishes that only 15 percent . Russians. Three years ago I opted for the 22 percent . respondents. Exactly two-thirds of the opinion that Lenin's body as quickly as possible removed from the mausoleum and bury.

Led by Vladimir Putin's party United Russia urges countrymen to have agreed to the elevation of the mummy of Lenin's Mausoleum on Red Square and bury him in the cemetery. The Internet carries even a plebiscite on the issue. The need to prevent the body of the Bolshevik leader says Moscow city center for many years.

however the German mentioned in the thread is rightly reviled by all except nutters.

Yeah, that's because Nazi Germany lost the war and there was:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denazification

Have you seen "Fatherland" with Rutger Hauer? If the Soviet Union lost the war and there was something like denazification there wouldn't be Lenin's mummy in Red Square.

But what does it have to do with Polish TV commercial?
jon357 74 | 22,204
16 Jan 2013 #35
They voted against that. And there are still Leninist regimes, whereas the philosophy other person we were talking about is unlikely to make a comeback.
Paulina 16 | 4,407
16 Jan 2013 #36
They voted against that.

Who?

And there are still Leninist regimes, whereas the philosophy other person we were talking about is unlikely to make a comeback.

So?
What does it have to do with a Polish TV commercial?


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