I mean west was just like that back then too, only difference the flatbrain content was paper and not digital.

Damn it’s not like in the picture anymore, now it’s almost instanteous

Polish nation was traditionally only nobles. Official version of history was that nobles were descendants of Sarmatians* that conquered and enslaved Slavic peasants (and they were proud of that). Non-nobles were actively discouraged by nobles from any participation and kept under boot. The very famed and venerated 3rd May Constitution basically only confirmed that only nobles are Poles, that only nobles are real people.

But then the partitions came and in XIX century, like everywhere, modern nationalism came. Poland and Polishness were reinvented from scratch, on base of noble culture, because the inventors were nobles themselves and they did not knew anything else. Because literally nothing else existed, cities were often germanised and peasant culture didn’t existed in writing because peasants were illiterate slaves. And lo and behold it succeded and suddenly in 1918 one of the first decrees in new Polish state was abolishing of nobility. From on all were officially Poles, all were officially Sarmatians, though none were officially nobles (and of course only part of them inherited the wealth and everything else). Interesting example: the main and most used honorific in Poland is “Pan” or “Pani” for women. It is usually translated to English as Mister/Mistress, but while the current meaning is similar, the origin of the word is not - English term came from Master, which was honorific for someone respectable but not noble, usually a burgher, but the Polish one is literal “Lord/Lady” the very same as for example in bible “Lord thy God”, which is always causing some laughs among school children when it’s understood in modern sense as “Mister God” and “Mister Jesus”.

So yes, modern polish propaganda heavily glorifies the nobility as a whole, and dismiss the misery of peasantry, so the picture painted by this book that in fact 90% of Poles were slaves of the 5% is contradicting the official version.

Work ethic is yet another myth which is super widespread but working for decades in various places among both Poles and foreigners i can safely say it’s nonsense, that Poles are lazy workers that only look to be lazy and steal. In reality i can say it’s mostly like everywhere, “Jaka płaca taka praca” (You get what you pay for). So as usual it is more of a critique of lousy Polish employers standards and practices. The origin of the myth is probably the fact that in socialism there was a lot of educational and propganda campaign about the work conditions and etics (very similar to those in USSR, mainly aimed at people demoralised by war economy and destruction but continued even later) and from widespread of it capitalist propaganda spinned that it was nedded because socialism = lazy work and stealing. Oh and it really was true in some part in XIX/XX century, millions of people does not shake off centuries of slavery just in few years.

*That’s of course complete bullshit, the forming of nobility in Poland is well documented and it was very similar to most post migrational European countries, nobles were descendants of the same early medieval Slavic tribesmen as peasants.

I mean just look at average Ukraine thread on .ml World News. It’s not even reddit, it’s not FBi-run nazi circlejerk, libs there has been exposed to truth regularily for all that time, and they still regurgitate banderite versions uncritically.

Polish “economic miracle” could means several things, we have one constantly reinvented by state propaganda to shut our faces and i lost count long ago what they mean currently. Generally over the last two decades i would say it’s blanket term for sucking up the cash from EU (Poland was and still is all the time most subsidized country) while not entirely integrating into EU financial structures to not be hit as hard by the crisises like in 2008 (fun fact: even the fucker balcerowicz knows euro is not good and lobbying hard for keeping currency was probably the only good thing he ever did) and actually quite skillful engineereing of social dumping both from and to Poland.

Before that it was standard for postsocialist country “let’s lose 30 years of development, become colonised, and call that economical miracle”

never heard of Poland(, or any country for that matter,) funding 100% of a company while leaving the dividends to foreign hands

Huh? That’s happening all the time, it’s called “privatisation”. In Poland (and i suspect in every postsocialist country) there was especially scummy way to do it in first 3 years of transformation: industry was bought by random people substituted by foreign business, for peanuts, and those peanuts were provided by the company being bought as lease, so effectively it was state just giving up the industry for free, nearly always into foreign hands.

It also did happened later like the case of modern steel mill being build, immediately sold for nearly nothing and of course liquidated as competition (in Silesia around 2005 iirc).

There was also even more blatant case i do known, though it probably also happened way more elswhere and wasn’t into foreign hands specifically: Meiji Japan build state industry and then to purposefully kickstart not even capitalism but immediately imperialism, they just given it up to zaibatsus, creating the industrial molochs that would lead Japan straight into fascism. And considering the still-mostly medieval development level of most of coutry it could be said that they literally pushed the imperialism button.

Going by what happening with Intel right now, i stronly suspect it’s only empty talk. Though knowing Polish government and its servilism towards America, i wouldn’t be even very surprised if Poland funded 100% of that factory, after all it’s exactly what they were doing in 90’s

that 2023 was an exception

I wonder if this really were all military expenses.

This graph is not related at all, it’s from 2021 and it’s global investments, look at the y axis. Poland would barely be shown there as pixel. And in the other graphs in your link you can see that US investments in Poland were less than Belgian or Swiss or Swedish, and even by the ultimate flow of capital still half of German ones and less than Netherlands.

Over 1/3rd of it was to be financed by Polish tax money and it was scrapped anyway.

No way US pumps more money in Poland than Germany, unless this is counting all the expenses on their base in Poland as “direct investment”

Oh, it is about the line, but not on the map, it’s the same line that must ever go up, and for that it killed 1000 Americans per day, and the same that killed millions Iraqis, Koreans, Vietnamese, Palestinians etc. etc.

Sure but it would at least be funny if in public.

Will he even recognize Zelensky at this point?

Taking a walk is also a hobby!

Yes i meant thing like that too, as i said “free time enjoyers”. And funnily enough taking a walks is commonly recognized as quite fun and legit hobby in Poland, though less and less as we get crushed with work and general crunch more and more.

or will we find, at times, we allowed our sympathy for the Ukrainian cause to overlook matters we shouldn’t?

When dust settles there will be no sympathy for Ukrainians anymore. They will be again relegated to the “subhuman asiatic horde” exactly like Chechens were. And it could be even worse, millions of Ukrainians are currently working and living in EU and a lot of them will not get back after the war ends. They will inevitably be used by USA and their European compradors as scapegoat in possibly hugest immigrant scare campaign possible in order of destabilise and vassalise EU even more.

This is kinda how hobby is understood in Poland: anything that you like to do in your free time that isn’t your source of income (or at least major income). That “being productive” thing is fairly recent here and obviously to a surprising lot of people came with capitalism and is percieved as part of the hustle culture. Of course USA cultural invasion is beating it into Poles too, but just free time enjoyers are still very common.

Barista or barber or clerk or driver aren’t a fucking landlord but some of those people want to treat them just like that. This isn’t even blue collar reductionism (which is usually also coming from the chudlike unionists lacking theory), it’s pure madness. Though maybe it’s their kind of a roundabout way to arrive at communism (primitive) after everyone would do just a strictly productive jobs causing supply chains to collapse in few days and remnants of humanity getting back at subsistence farming within a year, at least if we ignore the roving cannibal gangs and slaver warlords.

Still better than if they go, they would hear the same demands of unconditional surrender to losing enemy as always and they would actually legitimise that farce. If they don’t go it will become the same laughing stock of human centipede swallowing US boot like the last time.

the former president of Ukraine Vladimir Zelenski

Lmao

he would present a plan to U.S. President Joe Biden and his two potential successors.

Good luck, Biden stopped contacting entirely, even on good day he failed to recognise Modi face to face

full-scale invasion

Like a clockwork, if it was still classic printing press era those fonts would be probably welded to eachother

“victory plan” aims “to create such conditions and such an atmosphere that Russia will no longer be able to ignore the peace formula and the peace summit.”

The same peace summit that Russia “ignored” because it wasn’t even fucking invited to it?

Yes, i specifically didn’t said “WW2” but “WW2 era” because it seen little combat, but it was definitely tank entering production in time of WW2 and based on experience from WW2. Also, while it was relegated, it incorporated many revolutionary solutions and was instrumental for later development of soviet MBT.