Ix-Nay on the Ar-Way
Poles demand more EU votes to make up for WWII population losses. Sounds fair. I say take theirs from France.
Polish demand breaks the cardinal EU rule: Don’t discuss anything of actual significance. All geopolitical discussions will be conducted as if the world were a somewhat larger Legoland. Nothing unpleasant will be discussed that does not involve the United States. If you must discuss anything of actual significance, don’t do it in a meaningful way. And whatever you do, you must NEVER mention YOU KNOW WHAT.
Big question: Should Poland be allowed to claim all her pre-war Jews? The relationship between Poland’s Catholic and Jewish resistance movements during the war was at arm’s length and sometimes complex.
h/t Theo Spark.
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:25 am on Friday, June 22, 2007
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June 22nd, 2007 at 9:13 am
Every time the EU gets snippy, History comes along and bites ‘em in the ass.
June 22nd, 2007 at 9:22 am
Earlier this week the Eastern Europeans (Poles Finns etc) wanted a law passed stating that Vodka could only be made fron grain or potatos. The Germans and French told them to sod off. Now it’s payback time. Hint for the day: NEVER piss of a Pole.
June 22nd, 2007 at 11:22 am
Poland is a very different country than it was pre-WWII. Stalin expelled all German speakers from the lands between the Dneiper and the Oder. He also pushed the western border of the USSR about a hundred miles east and added cities like Lvov, Brest-Litovsk, and Konigsberg (Kaliningrad) to his realm. As compensation to Poland he gave them Breslau (Wroclaw), Stetin (Szczecin), Danzig (Gdansk) and moved its western border west to the Oder.
Before, the 18th Century partitions of Poland, the Republic of Poland was a multi-ethnic and multi-confessional entity that included much of what is now Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine. Any connection between that land and modern Poland, which is mono-ethic and 95% Roman Catholic is coincidental.
The same sorts of things could be said about Germany.
June 22nd, 2007 at 5:52 pm
Doesn’t really matter. Poland won’t really be a modern country until they start using vowels.
June 23rd, 2007 at 7:14 am
How Basil Fawlty of them: Shhhh, don’t mention the war.
June 23rd, 2007 at 1:56 pm
But Rebecca, w and j are vowels. They’re just spelled wrong.
June 23rd, 2007 at 8:25 pm
I agree, take ‘em from France. It’ wasn’t just WWII that Poland gave more than her fair share.
http://tigerhawk.blogspot.com/2005/10/gates-of-vienna.html