I wasnt excepting Polish song here, and I espencially didnt excepted Kaczmarek's song, Its pitty that his songs arent really translated to English - he was maybe not that great man because of how he treated his wife, but he was a great poet, thank you for translating this song
Ok to be accurate ,,Office,, is refering to Ministry of Public Security kind of Polish NKVD at the time and manicurist is kind of a slang for someone who was a interrogator using tortures to get ,,evidence,, as far as i know i was used in pre-war Poland also during German occupation and Stalinist-era then it died out as far as im aware
You know, I have no sympathy for communism myself, but it's strange. Pilsutsky, the occupation of the Cieszyn Silesia, ties with Hitler, Poland did all this without communism, but despite this, communism is still to blame, and Poland is still a victim of Bolshevism. I have nothing against Poles as a people, but it seems strange to me to expose very controversial points of history as something unambiguous
Piłsudzki was a dictator who made Poland corrupted (One of the reasons we lost September campagin), but you have to remember who occupied Cieszyn first - Czechs invaded it in 1920 when we were busy fighting Bolsheviks, Poles didnt sided with hitler, we just used this occasion to get back what ours, its more logical to say Czechs sided with reds than to say Poles sided with hitler, you have to remember how Czechoslovak legion sold Russian leader to bolsheviks
@user-ig7gf3qt8j You can convince others as much as you want that Poland was a victim, it's useless. You can tell me that the Communists also participated in wars and I agree with this, but this is not because the USSR is a particularly evil state or something similar, the Union in Eastern Europe was a giant, and it, like any powerful state, destroyed its opponents, this is politics, nothing more. However, if we look at the politics in Eastern Europe in the 1920s and 1940s, we can conclude that Czechoslovakia was perhaps the only innocent victim. You can say as much as you like that the Czechs are to blame for everything, However aggression against the Baltic states, territorial claims to eastern Ukraine and Belarus (which were part of the USSR), dreams of returning the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ethnocides of Ukrainians, Belarusians, Lithuanians and the desire to conquer foreign lands suggest that Poland was the aggressor. Poland is indeed the hyena of Europe, and these are the words of Churchill, not Stalin. It is necessary to show exceptional aggression so that Churchill, who hated communism, recognized the anti-communist state as aggressive
@@hdgdvsbsh7185 since you call interwar Poland an aggressor, I find it weird that you justify the USSR as "doing simple politics", despite you comparing them both as equal evil.
@deucedwayne I'm not trying to justify the USSR, I just find it strange that the interwar USSR, having ties with a large number of states, fought much less often than a small interwar Poland. I'm not saying that Poland was aggressive just like that or that she wasn't involved in politics, war is also politics. However, there is a difference when the USSR is one of the largest countries on earth and managed to fight 2-3 times and Poland, which had interests in a much smaller region of the world and fought or showed aggression much more often. I'm talking about the period before the Second World. Germany bordered Austria, France, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland and had ties with a large number of states, but before Hitler in the 20th century it managed to fight with only half of them. Interwar Poland, which bordered Romania, Germany, the Baltic States, Czechoslovakia and the USSR, managed to fight or show aggression against 4 out of 5 neighbors, from the oppression of Germans, Balts and Ukrainians, Belarusians, to the direct occupation of the lands of the Baltic States, Czechoslovakia and Ukraine and Belarus, the last two were parts of the USSR. It is normal for a state to have extensive ties in world politics and often fight, but when a state is small and does not have extensive ties with other states, and most of its foreign policy is war and oppression of other peoples, this is already an aggressive foreign policy. If we compare the number of wars in which Poland and the USSR participated, then they fought in about the same number, but if we consider that the USSR bordered on a much larger number of countries and did not fight with almost every neighbor, then it is Poland that begins to look like an aggressor
Its not very easy. I m german but I appreciate a lot polish people good friends. There was no polish state and 3 times divided between prussia and russia. Jews were tolerated a lot in Poland more than 500 years even mostly they don't liked them. But when they were there it went good with economy. Jewish people in poland were more afraid of pogroms in the divided eastern part. In the between war time 20 ct. many young jews set there hope in sowjet communism. They we're disapointed of the brutal ckeka and it was saver to them to emmigrate. In germany polish labour were perhaps safe but 2. class people working very hard labour jobs. But they are very social people. I could say that for russian and ukrainians too. Before hitler some say Germans as well very social. Now only social system. So I ll understand the national pride a lot of Poland . They don't want to be slaves in Russia. I like the polish songs for freedom. May come long lasting peace between the nations.
