Poland can't be a very nice place to live ......

[Deleted member 63160]

Not according to the WHO.

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Ta mate. I'll refer my Spanish family and numerous ex pats to that info. They'll be glad all is well. So will the British consulate.

 

[Seafarer1966]

After discussing my previous post on the Poles with a work mate whose dad was a Polish soldier in WW2 I now know that a lot of the young Polish men who fought under the Union Jack had never stepped foot on English soil before they were fighting the Germans and Italians. Many people fled Poland and ended up in Red Cross refugee camps in Romania.
British army officers who spoke fluent Polish arrived at the refugee camps, rounding up young men to join the British army. The options put to them were: 1. join the British army; 2. go back to Poland.
Those that took the Kings shilling were then transported to army training camps in North Africa and saw action there and in Italy (a large contingent of Montgomerys 8th Army were Poles) before ever visiting Blighty. Those that survived that is.

Interesting articles on the murder of General Sikorski (for many years the finger of suspicion was pointed at Winston Churchill for ordering his assassination):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Władysław_Sikorski's_death_controversy

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...-murder-Polish-war-hero-General-Sikorski.html

The Soviets murdered 10,000 Polish officers (all unarmed POWs - the cream of the Polish army), 6000 Polish police officers and thousands of Polish intelligentisia - Katyn Wood:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre

Overall I'd say the Poles have been rather shabbily treated whilst other nations have stood by and watched.

 

[JohnD]

were still beaten up in the street in Britain for being Polish.

And still are.

Sadly we have more than enough people like Gasbag with an innate hatred of people who are in any way different, not just in GD, but in the country generally.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-37227313

Not just Poles, of course.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...urdered-vigil-arek-j-wik-brexit-a7225166.html

They most often publish their hatred of Moslems, but any foreigner will do.

 

[ajstoneservices]

Why some chose to forget this is beyond me.

Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's broadcast to the nation.
BBC ARCHIVE
WRITTEN DOCUMENT
1939


At 11.15 a.m. Mr.Chamberlain had broadcast to the nation the following statement
announcing that a state of war existed between Britain and Germany: 3rd September,
1939.

"This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a
final Note stating that, unless we heard from them by 11 o'clock that they were
prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would
exist between us.

I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and that
consequently this country is at war with Germany.

You can imagine what a bitter blow it is to me that all my long struggle to win
peace has failed. Yet I cannot believe that there is anything more or anything
different that I could have done and that would have been more successful.

Up to the very last it would have been quite possible to have arranged a peaceful
and honourable settlement between Germany and Poland, but Hitler would not have it.
He had evidently made up his mind to attack Poland whatever happened, and
although He now says he put forward reasonable proposals which were rejected by
the Poles, that is not a true statement. The proposals were never shown to the
Poles, nor to us, and, although they were announced in a German broadcast on
Thursday night, Hitler did not wait to hear comments on them, but ordered his
troops to cross the Polish frontier. His action shows convincingly that there is
no chance of expecting that this man will ever give up his practice of using force
to gain his will. He can only be stopped by force.

We and France are today, in fulfilment of our obligations, going to the aid of
Poland, who is so bravely resisting this wicked and unprovoked attack on her
people. We have a clear conscience. We have done all that any country could do to
establish peace. The situation in which no word given by Germany's ruler could be
trusted and no people or country could feel themselves safe has become intolerable.
And now that we have resolved to finish it, I know that you will all play your part
with calmness and courage.

 

[ajstoneservices]

Salt of the earth http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/paul-kohler-sentencing-gang-polish-5064638
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...ed-for-12-years-after-attacking-a-man-just-t/



That bloke I wrote about last week beating his girlfriend up..........Polish. He was a big **** and shes about a size six.

 

[JohnD]

must be some relevance hidden there somewhere.

Do you mean it excuses the Harlow murder?

 

[ajstoneservices]

Stop playing the fooking idiot.

 

[transam]

sorry to but in here but

how is that little girl A.J ??

 

[ajstoneservices]

I'm pleased to say she went home today with a cannula in her arm as she has to return to hospital for the next few days for antibiotics. She doesn't appear to have suffered any long term damage

 

[noseall]

Stop playing the fooking idiot.

You don't have the monopoly boyo.

 

[ajstoneservices]

Not with you two around.

 

[transam]

Not with you two around.

That's for sure couple of half wits IMHO

 

[woodbine]

Not with you two around.

 

[ajstoneservices]

That's for sure couple of half wits IMHO

You give one of them too much credit.

 

[Deleted member 63160]

You don't have the monopoly boyo.

Clearly.