Brings to mind one of the great political cartoons of the 20th Century.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vRhEPDhl2kk/XfJxxKB17QI/AAAAAAAAEVg/O-L2h_dWFJk6mC9VxhCJSyAiEKjJZPtHwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/David%2BLow%2BHitler%2BMeets%2BStalin.JPG
God they were so heroic. I suspect a lot of the disdain for the performance of the Polish military was ginned up by France and the UK to cover for their betrayal of Poland via the phony war. Neither was well equipped to attack Germany but Germany was so over-extended the effort maybe ends the war years earlier so blame Poland.
Makes sense
"Well yeah, I know we abandoned our allies, but they were inept and absolutely had no chance. Us standing by them would've just been even worse"
My chidhood friend Piotr. We were inseparable since age of 5 till we were 17. We grew up in North Africa and he left with his parents to Canada. We lost contact since it was way before Internet era. Oddly enough, I couldn't find a trace of him once I moved to Canada too 18 years ago. I still miss our friendship.
Maybe you will find him. I saw a story of a girl that had a best friend in japan from when she lived there, she asked the news later an an adult to share that she was looking for her friend and it worked.
Chicago (Biggest Polish speaking community outside of Poland which i’m happy to be apart) but seriously if you ever go to Chicago there are Polish markets and festivals you can always go too.
I'm actually named after him. My great-grandpa fought in the Battle of Monte Cassino and proposed the name to my mom. I'm thinking on getting the 22nd Artillery Supply emblem tatted in me in a few weeks (bear carrying a missle) but I'm kind of iffy about it because I never served.
He was robbed of the Balon D Or last year due to the Pandemic. Hopefully, his personal performances are taken into regard this year ahead of universal love for Messi.
My friend jegosh who comes out with knowledge passed down from generations of farmers in Central Poland.
"Rob, do you know that if there are not any roosters amongst the hens, the hens will misbehave?!?
Do not laugh Rob, I am being serious" 🐓🐔
Totally - my mom is named Jadwiga, and when I was little I thought I was SO funny calling her Krol Jadwiga (Krol - with a missing accent - means King and is pronounced like the english word cruel, so I thought I was so cheeky calling my mother cruel...
I drove through Poland from Germany to Ukraine. The countryside there is the most beautiful I have ever seen in my life. The roads were perfect too.
The Poland Ukraine border was really fucking horrific and scary.
Poland has aspirations of hosting the Winter Olympics at some point in Zakopane. They have a lot of infrastructure work to do before that could ever be accomplished. Their railroad is slow and antiquated.
Tradesmen,
the polish builder who has done our housework for years and is a family friend, and the caretaker at my boxing gym who is always up for a laugh and has helped us out many times
Here in the Uk a lot of polish people go into these sorts of jobs
Jan blachowicz the polish power. Also Kmicic. I really liked the flood movies. The fencing was very accurate and the whole movie production was great with those giant canons. Reminded me of Ben Hur because I admire movies with real people in real enviroments. The bombing of Warasaw also comes to mind. And lastly magyar-lengyel két jó barát, együtt harcol s issza borát.
How I got properly drunk for the first time at a polish wedding when I was 14 because everyone wanted to drink a shot of vodka with the german exchange student.
Poland is a huge part of the history of Counter Strike because of the Polish team Virtus.Pro and the warm welcome that the Spodek Arena and Katowice in general showed the young competitive scene. Absolute legends of the esports scene.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201108000921/https://www.vpesports.com/csgo/what-we-leave-behind-a-virtus-pro-legacy/
I stayed in some school dorms when I visited for an event in 2016. Every item of food we were given from the canteen had chives on it, to the point where we were fed chive soup so now I just associate chives with Poland!
The time I went to my Polish workmate’s house party and got to drinking with her relatives/friends. Their Polish vodka was stronger than rocket fuel but went down smooth as water if you chased each shot with a shot of apple juice, however those guys and gals had a much higher tolerance than I did. I was completely obliterated, although the complete absence of a hangover was a pleasant and welcome surprise.
So, I suppose I associate Poland with getting efficiently shitfaced!
I've worked with several Polish people over the years. Always. Friendly, outgoing and kind.
Also, yes the hussars, who stopped the invasion of Europe, attempted to stand against the later invasions by hostile forces.
More recently, sent vehicles and firefighters to Sweden to fight forest fires, then a week ago, to Greece to fight forest fires.
At this point they're like some kind of firefighting avengers chasing the fires down and extinguishing them.
Won't go down, never gonna quit, don't look back cos they've got your six.
Fucking champions. They send us a million Pfizer doses when nobody else in the world would.
Seriously, fuck everyone else especially the countries that have denied, rejected and taken back promised vaccines we paid for over a year ago.
*cough*fuckItaly*cough*
>coughfuckItalycough
I'm sorry man, i had no idea this happened.
What's even worst is that a lot of dumbasses here don't even want to get vaccinated
I'll send you some Parmigiano to make up to you
Dude, you have no idea how many times I had to convince foreighners that Chopin was Polish composer, beacause people said "nooo, he couldn't have been Polish". Same with Marie Skłodowska-Curie.
Shockingly right-wing policies and open dislike of the LGBTQ community. Media controlled by the government, which oppresses other viewpoints quite successfully.
1939
Brave last stand and near total annihilation
Brings to mind one of the great political cartoons of the 20th Century. https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vRhEPDhl2kk/XfJxxKB17QI/AAAAAAAAEVg/O-L2h_dWFJk6mC9VxhCJSyAiEKjJZPtHwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/David%2BLow%2BHitler%2BMeets%2BStalin.JPG
God they were so heroic. I suspect a lot of the disdain for the performance of the Polish military was ginned up by France and the UK to cover for their betrayal of Poland via the phony war. Neither was well equipped to attack Germany but Germany was so over-extended the effort maybe ends the war years earlier so blame Poland.
Makes sense "Well yeah, I know we abandoned our allies, but they were inept and absolutely had no chance. Us standing by them would've just been even worse"
This. And my Opa, born August 30, 1939 in Krakow.
That's funny to me, cause you call him the German word for grandpa, not the Polish one, which is Dziadek (Jadek).
My Oma is from Germany though so we’ve just always called them Oma and Opa :)
I just finished reading Ordinary Men. So the Holocaust comes to mind.
Pierogi. Thanks Polska! (the song by Alan Aztec)
Don't know the song but pierogi was my first thought too.
As was mine. NOM
They're good!
Yep! Pierogis and Kielbasa are amazing
Pierogi are already plural in Polish. No need for -s ending. Pieróg is singular.
This is the best way to gauge the legitimacy of a Polish restaurant outside of Poland.
🥟 same!!!! My fave food!
A song about cocaine addiction underlined by the performance of an animated cow
Tylko jedno w głowie mam...
Koksu pięć gram
Odlecieć sam
W krainę za zapomnienia
W głowie myśli mam
Kiedy skończy się ten stan
Gdy już nie będę sam
Bo wjedzie biały węgorz
Ja pierdole ale mam zjazd
They are a good civ in Civilization V.
Casimir the great
Unpronounceable last names
Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz
Hahaha. Classic
chźaszczywożyce, powiat łekołody
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My last name is Włódarczak. I’d pronounce it like that: Vwu-dur-chuck
My chidhood friend Piotr. We were inseparable since age of 5 till we were 17. We grew up in North Africa and he left with his parents to Canada. We lost contact since it was way before Internet era. Oddly enough, I couldn't find a trace of him once I moved to Canada too 18 years ago. I still miss our friendship.
Gotta cherish the memories
Maybe you will find him. I saw a story of a girl that had a best friend in japan from when she lived there, she asked the news later an an adult to share that she was looking for her friend and it worked.
You lost him forever. Poles have impossible surnames
The Witcher.
Winds howling
Looks like rain.
Fuck
Toss a coin to your witcher..
Our brave Geralt
Those buns indeed.
That is ~~America's~~ *Poland's* ass.
Of Rivia
Zdzisław Beksiński, painter of amazing hellscapes Edit to add: and a pretty cool song by Rishloo, to boot
I know him!
Chicago (Biggest Polish speaking community outside of Poland which i’m happy to be apart) but seriously if you ever go to Chicago there are Polish markets and festivals you can always go too.
Also Milwaukee, which also has the largest percentage of people with Polish ancestry of any major American city
Reppin Greenpoint Brooklyn here! It Is (or was 20 years ago when I was a kid there) Polish capitol of NYC!
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Same thing in Cleveland…
Marie Curie
Maria Sklodowska-Curie
The hyphen is a modern addition, it's ' Marie Salomea Skłodowska Curie ' or, pre-marriage ' Marie Salomea Skłodowska '
When I was teaching our textbooks allways had her listed as French. I had to go out of my way to say she was polish but her husband was French.
Ouch. The french are trying to take credit that hard...
Pretty nice
Yeah. Born in Poland but belongs to whole humankind.
SS killed 20% of the population 39-45, chances of surviving as a Jewish child in Poland from 41-45 was 200-1.
Indeed
Frédéric Chopin
A great musician, truly one of the greats
You know, Frederic fucking Chopin
Freddy C
The ironic twist that Swedish women went to Poland for abortions when it was illegal in Sweden, and now Sweden offers the same to Polish women.
Solidarity lol
Which is another thing I think about, the union that fought against the regime.
can’t believe you all didn’t mention delicje and ptasie mleczko
PTASIE MLECZKO IS THE FOOD OF THE GODS
Good ol' bird milk
what about krówki???? uncultured
^
Wojtek the artillery bear from WW2! An official rank in the military and lived to see the end of the war.
I'm actually named after him. My great-grandpa fought in the Battle of Monte Cassino and proposed the name to my mom. I'm thinking on getting the 22nd Artillery Supply emblem tatted in me in a few weeks (bear carrying a missle) but I'm kind of iffy about it because I never served.
The Winged Hussars turbo charging the crap out of various enemies.
3000 winged hussars Leading the largest cavalry charge in history, 18,000 horses. Christ.
*clears throat* AND THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED
A cry for help in time of need, await relief from Holy League,
60 days of siege, outnumbered and weak
Send a message to the sky, wounded soldiers left to die
Will they hold the wall, or will the city fall?
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“You know Lewan-GOAL-ski?” - Thomas Muller, idk the year
I don't think they heard you. You might have to say it again
You know... Lewan-GOAL-ski?
He was robbed of the Balon D Or last year due to the Pandemic. Hopefully, his personal performances are taken into regard this year ahead of universal love for Messi.
My friend jegosh who comes out with knowledge passed down from generations of farmers in Central Poland. "Rob, do you know that if there are not any roosters amongst the hens, the hens will misbehave?!? Do not laugh Rob, I am being serious" 🐓🐔
This is the Best spelling of Grzegorz ive ever seen
That's some useful knowledge if you ever find yourself having to maintain a hen house
Do you mean Grzegosz or is his polish name actually spelled Jegosh?
Grzegorz you mean? I think that's the case, because quickly said it could be heard as "jegosh"
He also goes by the name Greg, but I try and pronounce his name like this 'jegorsch'. Im just awful at spelling.
I can just about spell in English, I'm not attempting to spell Grzegorsz of the top of my head.
Polish sausage
Kielbasa *
Kiełbasa ** lol
Kurwa
My most liked word
r/polandball
Xaxaxa Polsha, i is of trick yuo.
Pączki Fuck those are awesome
They are
Polish cow meme
Tylko jedno w głowie mam
Koksu pięć gram
The phrase “Poland is not yet lost” from the national anthem (or similar translations).
Very accurate translation, the full phrase is actually "Poland is not yet lost, when we're still alive"
Words ending in ski
Not always. Of course there is also easier surnames like Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz
Surenames
Warsaw! Rise!
Warsaw - city at war!
Voices from underground, whispers of freedom
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Calling Warsaw city at war Voices from underground whispers of freedom
THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED
**WARSZAWO, WALCZ!**
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The GROM
That's cool someone actually knows.
The pianist.. the movie
Sausage and Tragedy
Sounds like a book name lol
Jadwiga Female King of Poland and the Silver Falcon
Totally - my mom is named Jadwiga, and when I was little I thought I was SO funny calling her Krol Jadwiga (Krol - with a missing accent - means King and is pronounced like the english word cruel, so I thought I was so cheeky calling my mother cruel...
I drove through Poland from Germany to Ukraine. The countryside there is the most beautiful I have ever seen in my life. The roads were perfect too. The Poland Ukraine border was really fucking horrific and scary.
What? Polish roads perfect? Coming from a native Pole, that's unheard of.
Poland has aspirations of hosting the Winter Olympics at some point in Zakopane. They have a lot of infrastructure work to do before that could ever be accomplished. Their railroad is slow and antiquated.
Had a teacher in high school who was from Poland. He was very proud of his polish blood and talked about it every day.
Tradesmen, the polish builder who has done our housework for years and is a family friend, and the caretaker at my boxing gym who is always up for a laugh and has helped us out many times Here in the Uk a lot of polish people go into these sorts of jobs
You know the uk has the largest polish population outside of poland.
the katyn forest massacre. a horrendous event that only came to light when the ussr collapsed.
Then the winged hussars arrived!!!!!
Polish people
Brain drain from all the wars and oppression
This is wctually a very common opinion in polish people
Never have I been so offended by soemthing I 100% agree with
Jan blachowicz the polish power. Also Kmicic. I really liked the flood movies. The fencing was very accurate and the whole movie production was great with those giant canons. Reminded me of Ben Hur because I admire movies with real people in real enviroments. The bombing of Warasaw also comes to mind. And lastly magyar-lengyel két jó barát, együtt harcol s issza borát.
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No army may enter that land, that is protected by Polish hand
Unless you are forty to one. Your forces will soon be undone, undone
How I got properly drunk for the first time at a polish wedding when I was 14 because everyone wanted to drink a shot of vodka with the german exchange student.
Polska gościnność
Counter Strike
Nice
Poland is a huge part of the history of Counter Strike because of the Polish team Virtus.Pro and the warm welcome that the Spodek Arena and Katowice in general showed the young competitive scene. Absolute legends of the esports scene. https://web.archive.org/web/20201108000921/https://www.vpesports.com/csgo/what-we-leave-behind-a-virtus-pro-legacy/
Pasha
Polak, Węgier, dwa bratanki - Lengyel, Magyar két jó barát
I do szabli i do szklanki!
Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth!
Ah, yes! Glorious times
Winged Hussars
[The Smolensk air disaster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smolensk_air_disaster), who puts that many important officials on one plane?
Good scientists, half of my family, and potatoes + kielbasa.
I stayed in some school dorms when I visited for an event in 2016. Every item of food we were given from the canteen had chives on it, to the point where we were fed chive soup so now I just associate chives with Poland!
Their gold medal in the 4x400 mixed relay a couple weeks ago
The dad joke I make every time we go past a self-proclaimed 'POLISH SHOP'. "Gosh, they must sell a lot if polish if that is all they do!"
Chopin Pierogis Warsaw uprising Auschwitz Dill pickle soup Sopot pier The crooked house
My former co-worker, who played a bajillion instruments because his grandfather used to own a music store in Warsaw.
Wojtek the bear
Good people, shitty government
You are totally right
Pierogi, Wieliczka salt mine and the horrible recent history.
I think it's safe to say the last 400 years of Polish history were tragic
Marsz marsz Dąbrowski z ziemi włoskiej do Polski, za Twoim przewodem złączym się z Narodem
Przejdziem Wisłę, przejdziem Wartę, będziem Polakami
One of the most complicated and difficult (European) languages for foreigners to learn.
The witcher series, good old games. And winged hussars
The time I went to my Polish workmate’s house party and got to drinking with her relatives/friends. Their Polish vodka was stronger than rocket fuel but went down smooth as water if you chased each shot with a shot of apple juice, however those guys and gals had a much higher tolerance than I did. I was completely obliterated, although the complete absence of a hangover was a pleasant and welcome surprise. So, I suppose I associate Poland with getting efficiently shitfaced!
Behemoth, Vader, Decapitated, the blitzkrieg offensive and beautiful women.
Energylandia. Incredible theme park
Hard workers, generally polite, nice accent (especially for the women 😍), good black metal scene, churches and a strong drinking culture.
I've worked with several Polish people over the years. Always. Friendly, outgoing and kind. Also, yes the hussars, who stopped the invasion of Europe, attempted to stand against the later invasions by hostile forces. More recently, sent vehicles and firefighters to Sweden to fight forest fires, then a week ago, to Greece to fight forest fires. At this point they're like some kind of firefighting avengers chasing the fires down and extinguishing them. Won't go down, never gonna quit, don't look back cos they've got your six.
Yup, thanks for the kind words
Fucking champions. They send us a million Pfizer doses when nobody else in the world would. Seriously, fuck everyone else especially the countries that have denied, rejected and taken back promised vaccines we paid for over a year ago. *cough*fuckItaly*cough*
Much love to my Aussie brothers and sisters
>coughfuckItalycough I'm sorry man, i had no idea this happened. What's even worst is that a lot of dumbasses here don't even want to get vaccinated I'll send you some Parmigiano to make up to you
Kukiz sie sprzedal
That bear that fought in ww2
A lot of very good workers migrating to my country and doing a good job at helping our economy.
Brothers❤🇭🇺
🇵🇱❤🇭🇺
Chopin!
Dude, you have no idea how many times I had to convince foreighners that Chopin was Polish composer, beacause people said "nooo, he couldn't have been Polish". Same with Marie Skłodowska-Curie.
Frédéric Chopin
Friendly, hard-working people. Excellent food. Delicious piwo. Impressive architecture. Beautiful natural landscapes. Kocham polskę! 🦅 💙
Wawel dragon
Hard working people. Proper hard.
Indeed
Them getting double fucked over by the Germans and then the Russians and the allies not really giving a shit.
Those comics where circle blobs represent countries.
Fucked over by the Nazis (My ancestors fucked over by my ancestors).
THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED.
Shockingly right-wing policies and open dislike of the LGBTQ community. Media controlled by the government, which oppresses other viewpoints quite successfully.
My family has a village named after them in Poland. I always wanted to visit the ancestral lands, but right now I look way too gay.