Temat: Poland and the Czech Republic:
warren whitmore:
I don't agree with the old British public school maxim that 'it doesn't matter whether you win or lose but rather how you play the game'.
Interesting, it does explain a lot. I don't mean in a historical way. It's just one of those tiny cultural windows that gives me a small insight into the British culture.
Another opinion that is rather on an extreme side is that Poles should have sided with Hitler. I have heard that quite a lot even when in Poland. Reasoning that usually followed was, that we could have kicked the crap out of our eastern neighbor along side the nazi war machine and saved millions of Polish lives doing so.
It's hard to imagine this sort of line of thinking, yet it is not uncommon. I don't share that sentiment, my family was living in Powsin, right outside of Warsaw through out the occupation and like many other families, they too were hiding Jewish families in their basement. Siding with nazis, would mean giving them up, along with gypsys, homosexuals and other so called "pod ludzmi".
What I find really disturbing is the fact that, I could probably catch more heat for admitting that my family protected Jews, than stating that we should have sided with Hitler. Strange world.
I do agree, that it all comes down to historical differences between the Czek and the Poles. We do have a colorful past... they did invade our country at one point haha... yet another one, haha.. take a number... who's next? Sweden? Oh wait... it's been done already.
Rafal Wolk edytował(a) ten post dnia 26.03.08 o godzinie 03:57