Comment It splits articles too? (Score 3, Funny) 170
It must be some some african-internet hybrid volcano, it is already splitting the article about itself in two.
Last time I checked, there was no fast way to report a spammer, you have to click 3 or 4 times and be redirected to different pages before having just one message successfully reported.
That must have been long time ago. Now you have "report spam" link right by the thread summary (you don't have to even open the thread) and at each message that doesn't result in opening new window/following the link.
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So when did Poland get a proper government? The government that ruled Poland for decades after WW" was a continuation of that government
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In 1991, when there were first democratic elections. Before that were elections in 1989, but the communists were guaranteed 65% of places in the parliament at that time
"While most of the ethnic German population of pre-war Poland fled or was expelled, some were "rehabilitated" and offered their pre-war Polish citizenship back.[94] "Rehabilitation" was offered to people who had been subject to forced labour before, spoke Polish and were rated as not constituting a threat"
So some Germans were given Polish citizenship
Yes, after Poland regained independence and was no longer a Soviet satellite country. And could decide for itself.
If you say that it doesn't count, because Poland back then was influenced by the Soviets, then you could conveniently brush aside any of the possible bad things that happened during communist era and say "there was no independent Poland, Poland regained their independence when USSR fell".
Poland wasn't "influenced" by Soviets - it was ruled by Soviets. Officials (including "president" - the title was different) were appointed by Soviets. Polish government have to get approval for virtually anything from Soviet communist party and had to perform whatever they requested. There were Soviet military bases in Poland till 90s. So I'm not going to brush away "any" possible bad thing (there were, and still are, strong anti-Jew sentiments for example), but things ordered by the government (so in fact by Soviet communist party) hell yeah.
Because I was quoting the part that supported my point? The fact that many Poles helped Germans after WW2 does not change the fact that many Poles abused Germans after the war.
Good, you can admit we weren't only bad guys
"Polish" army was controlled by Red Army generals.
You make it sound as if Poland was independent country after the war - it wasn't - it was a Soviet puppet country. Likewise, German people couldn't be offered Polish citizenship (even if Polish people would agree, Soviet government wouldn't).
I'm not saying that Polish people didn't take part in that - many did - I'm saying that it wasn't organized and ordered by Poland.
And why didn't you quote whole paragraph but omitted last sentence?
"The attitude of Polish civilians, many of whom had experienced brutalities only surpassed by the treatment of the Jews during the preceding Nazi occupation, was ambiguous.[12] Many engaged in looting, robberies, beatings and even murders and rapes.[12] On the other hand, there were incidents when Poles, even freed slave labourers, protected Germans by e.g. disguising them as Poles.[12]"
It's quite dishonest to claim that the expulsions were done by the Russians, and Poland had nothing to do with it.
But they were done by the Soviets. USSR had decided on the new borders and decided that all the Germans have to move to new Eastern Germany country, just as Polish citizens were displaced from lands to the east which were used to form Latvia, Belarus and Ukraine subrepublics of USSR (not independent countries). Poland was shifted to the west by about 50% of its area (i.e. after the war eastern border moved to roughly middle of the pre-war country and western area was moved the same distance). The people from "old" Poland were moved to new "one" - they were as much mistreated as Germans moving to "new" Germany.
Does that make it OK for them to mistreat others in return? Is it OK to mistreat Germans because some other Germans did some shitty things?
You're asking wrong nation. We didn't have anything to say about new borders and moving the population (both Polish and German). It was decided and done by USSR and their troops.
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