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Old 05-11-2019, 11:04 PM
 
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...nah, i'm not gonna touch that one with a ten foot Pole.....
Awesome !
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Old 05-11-2019, 11:17 PM
 
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After being conquered - then controlled (Russia) and then finally getting a taste of freedom, Poland is once again walking toward Russia......and they are likely to be very sorry about it.
Russia has been meddling in Poland and Hungary through their social media program. They were doing that long before they turned their attention to us. Russia has been trying to bust up or weaken the European Union and also NATO so they are encouraging any form of nationalism and stoking any form of outrage.

There is some thought that they were likewise promoting Brexit when that question came up. Anything at all to weaken the European Union.

The weaker Europe is, the more likely Putin can get away with absorbing neighboring territories without a challenge, and improving their situation with regard to sanctions.

This particular issue is tailor made for meddling.
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Old 05-11-2019, 11:36 PM
 
Location: The Heart of Dixie
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Everyone here knows I'm pro-Semitic but Poland doesn't have to pay reparations since they're not responsible for the Holocaust. That would be like asking African countries to pay slavery reparations for the actions of European slavers on their soil.
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Old 05-12-2019, 08:22 AM
 
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Give the Jewish decendents the money. Poles were as bad as the Nazis when it came to the Holocaust. Same with the western Ukrainians.
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Old 05-12-2019, 08:44 AM
 
Location: NY
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Everyone here knows I'm pro-Semitic but Poland doesn't have to pay reparations since they're not responsible for the Holocaust. That would be like asking African countries to pay slavery reparations for the actions of European slavers on their soil.
Africans sold their own people too
as Did the Romans and other Conquering nations.
No one race is victim less...........................
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Old 05-12-2019, 08:48 AM
 
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Holocaust shakedown continues.
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Old 05-12-2019, 09:31 AM
 
Location: Barrington
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Think there are 2 issues here.

The US oversaw reparations from Russia and Germany after WW2. Most nations victimized were compensated by Germany. Reportedly, this supervision mostly excluded Poland. So there is a movement within Poland by descendants to get reparations from Germany and Russia.

Then there’s a separate movement that wants repartitions for descendants of Jewish people for assets seized during WW2.

Fascinating that the Federal Government, with bipartisan support of Congress, injects themselves into these dilemmas, yet opposes reparations for dependents of slaves in the US, and has no issue trading with countries that continue to engage in human trafficking while continuing to acknowledge Columbus Day as a holiday.
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Old 05-12-2019, 09:47 AM
 
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Everyone here knows I'm pro-Semitic but Poland doesn't have to pay reparations since they're not responsible for the Holocaust. That would be like asking African countries to pay slavery reparations for the actions of European slavers on their soil.
They certainly didn't refuse to do the rounding up, killing and robbery of the good stuff from their fellow countrymen....granted, we are not talking about ALL poles, but a hefty amount of them!

One would think honorable folks like you might refuse to build crematoriums or refuse to join the Police Force and round up Jews...but, based on the above, it seems you might do it and think "well, it's not my fault...I had no choice".....

One of these things is not like the other. The Jews had Pole take over their homes and businesses....free. Homes and businesses and other material possessions that took generations to build up.

Surely you know that blame and/or responsibility is assigned by percentages?? You must also know that some Poles (of German extraction) welcomed the Nazis.

"It was significant that the Polish government-in-exile knew about it and Prime Minister general Władysław Sikorski accepted participation (in the German military). A quarter of Silesian and Kashubian men (Polish lands) of that time served in the Wehrmacht."

"Historian John Connelly wrote that the vast majority of ethnic Poles showed indifference to the fate of the Jews; and that "Polish historiography has hesitated to view complicity in the Holocaust of Jews as collaboration... [instead viewing it] as a form of society's 'demoralization'"

We can project that many of us would have been scared and cowards ourselves. And we can point to the Polish Resistance, etc.

But there is no doubt that many Poles, through indifference or inaction or ACTION, contributed to the Holocaust.

Using the same "logic" most Germans, of course, had zero to do with the Holocaust.
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Old 05-12-2019, 11:03 AM
 
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...nah, i'm not gonna touch that one with a ten foot Pole.....
If it was a Polish Grinch, it would be a 29.5 feet longer.
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Old 05-12-2019, 11:11 AM
 
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i am only a six foot Pole....but can we say AIPAC? boys and girls?
Reminds me of a story decades ago about Roman Polanski being referred to by someone “as the original five foot Pole you wouldn’t touch anyone with.”
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