Quote Originally Posted by Cegorach
That it all about - about lack of empathy, lack of memory, MORE some sort of an expectation that your sins will not be reminded, that 'we can all be friends', 'leave past to the past', 'live in peace' - GUESS NOT - historical memory of pissed off people, especially tends to need some sort of a gesture, not the endless slogans from bloody flower power generation politicians.
As for flower-power generation: Yes, I will have myself a nice Kolner pils at the Rhine with Husar. I'll bring him a bottle of the finest champagne. InsaneApache can join too - if he promises not to bring any of those horrible British bitters. Why don't you join the party too?

You know, we always disagree on this forum, but I actually love Poland, believe it or not. I've been there twice. Great place, Cracow is gorgeous, there are friendly people everywhere. Then I read the newspaper, or posts here by Polish members, and I don't see where Polands insecure nationalism is coming from. That weird brew of extreme nationalism, of mistrust and xenophobia, that hurt tone, historical fixation. Why? It is so counter-productive. Poland is a great country with a very promising future.

Poland reminds me of what plagued the Republic of Ireland for so long - forever suffering not from too much history, but from too much historical awareness. My prediction is that Poland will follow Irelands path: Poland will continue its current annual growth rates of seven percent for fifteen years, and by then nobody will be interested anymore in building Polands national identity on some half-mythological wrongdoings of the past.



Quote Originally Posted by Husar
Hitler was a great German.
Come on, Husar. That's no way of handling your past. For a nice and glorious past and a happily inflated sense of self-esteem why not take lessons from the masters - us: When they win, they are French. When they lose, they are Corsicans.