I mean... You are not wrong. I guess?

😂

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

😂

Accurate! I studied abroad in Poland (I have Polish ancestry) but could not pick up the language the way I could French. Also, my name is Polish and Americans always struggle to say it. Except when I'm in the Chicago area, because of the large number or Polish immigrants and their descendants there!

There was a joke I heard from my Polish relatives, vetted by their Jewish friends: "Jewish History: They attacked us, we won, let's eat! Polish History: They attacked us, we lost, let's drink!"

One could say that Irish people are just polish people that are not polish enough :P

Funnily enough, I have ancestors from both Poland and Ireland.

@@theultimatepotatolord6619 you are the chosen one

@@theultimatepotatolord6619 your name is so beautifully appropriate

Wojtek the bear :)

Wojtek !!!!!

We also have polar bear in our army.

@@Copronomicon polar Bear??

@@Jas111ld Baśka Murmańska.

One can only wish she switched the names for radium & polon though - as the former has many positive uses, while the later mostly came into public awareness due to the infamous "Putin's tea" usage...

Which is ironic because Polonium is a highly unstable element and it was mostly forgotten by people unless used for assassinations, the most recent and well known being Putin's alleged use against his enemies.

@@Haamre You really want the element that is associated with creeping death to represent Poland?

@@BlackuKnighto Excuse me...?

@@Haamre Excuse you?

It reminds me of this humorous breakdown of symbolic meaning of the colors on Polish flag - white for honor, red for sacrifice, blue for loyal allies... ;)

Yeah one king threw a ring into the sea to simbolicly "merry" it after recovering some territory there Edit:it was a general not a king, thanks for correcting me

Bruh I literally can see that sea from the window

I mean... Lithuania... Literally on the border and also literally one of the longest alliance between two nations I've ever heard of... Until y'know they kinda attacked and jacked our ancient capital but whatevs. Poor Poland >_>

best comment

Dont worry It gets worse

Trochę racja. Ale obecnie jest w Polsce nieźle. :D

@@omikron2811 Spokojnie, zaraz będzie gorzej.

@@smiglo112 "And then it got worse."

"The worst day of your life, so far"

Even way before 1596 we were already defending together. It's a shame we two together had to held against such strong and large countries like Russia, Tatars from Asia, also Sweden, Teutonic Order. Lithuania has only had one true ally Poland. It's a shame Lithuania couldn't manage to hold its' territories. We would be same size like Poland or both would be even bigger. Once Lithuania and Poland were one of the largest countries in Europe :/

Lithuania and Poland defended Europe from insane numbers of Tatars and other forces from Asia, east and south-east. If not Lithuania and Poland, Europe would be overrun by Tatars and Mongols. They had massive forces from across all Asia continent. Lithuania lost most of the soldiers to them and that's why we couldn't hold our once large territories anymore. We became weak after defending against massive Asian Tatar and Mongol forces. Noone is talking about that. That's why Lithuania is so small now. Lithuania and Poland today would be like France and Germany if not massive Mongolian and Asian forces attacking us from the east. Also had to defend our back from Sweden, Teotonic Order and Russia at the same time. Love to Poland but please show some love to Lithuania as well. Many Polish and Lithuanian heroes and legends died defending their ground against insane number of forces. Lithuania and Poland were holding like 300 Spartans against Persian army. If not us Europe would be Asia. Sad they are not making movies about our history. It was epic and legendary. Lithuania & Poland forever

Chwała, Panowie bracia!

@@marius7270 We Poles will never forget our common history, our common kings and that we are a family of hundreds of years

@@marius7270 Thank you for mentioning! A lot of people truly don't realise how big of a part Lithuania had in all of this!

As a simple Pole:I like back

❤

Én is szeretem nézni más országok történelmét, orosz, ukrán, belarusz, lengyel, német mind jöhet. De a magyar valamiért a legjobb, pedig sose szerettem a történelmünket.

Thx

as a simple Pole: I always appreciate Hungarians, love you guys

Man, forget the USA, Poland is the real land of the Free.

Its actually funny because something along this lines is in Polish anthem

@@carlosroo5460 I wouldn’t call Poland the land of the free, but it’s definitely the land of the brave.

*laughs in Armenian-Polish*

Just like our anthem says. Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła kiedy my żyjemy.

ehh i think "Country Literally Too Polish to Die" might be better fitting

@@Otto_Von_Beansmarck same difference

@@Otto_Von_Beansmarck is there a difference?

Country TO STUBORN TO DIE, i am from Poland and i know what im writing

@@1nekrus word

What part of PA are you in? I'm in Philly. The Polish festival is coming up soon.

@@jonathan6480 close to Philly. Is that a thing we have?

@@NeinVyacheslav Yes, at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown. This festival takes place the first week in September - it averages 25K people a year. There's a video of President Reagan landing at the festival in 1984.

@@jonathan6480 thanks for telling me. I'll have to check that out

@@jonathan6480 ended up going with a friend. Thanks again for letting me know

This comment wins!

You actually have a point, both are not that good.

In the book version of "The Two Towers", Gandalf had a conversation with Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli about the relations between Isengard and Mordor. And they speculate that although Isengard and Mordor both fight the same enemies, if there weren't any countries between Isengard and Mordor, they would fight each other. Kinda like the III Reich and USSR who, having conquered the lands between them, turned on each other. And there are of course the elves who (like Britain and France) don't want to fight and have left the humans on their own.

I find your comment highly offensive.

Like Poland didnt abuse its own power everytime they had the chance. Its sad, but thats just how human nations are every time they get the chance to. Poland just got forcefully robbed of its chances at some point.

A scratch!? Your arms off!!!

@@nulolove tis but a flesh wound

We are waitin for Robute to show up.

Only a flesh wound!

@@nulolove Poland: Do i look like i give a fuck?

eyyy

Eyyyy

Hungarian+Polish= Friendship forever❤

yes same love

I'm a simple Pole, i see Hungarians i smile

If you don't know, you should look up a band called Sabaton. They have several songs highlighting Polish history, including "40:1," "Warsaw Uprising," "Winged Hussars," "Inmate 4859," "Aces in Exile."

They also have their own history channel here on UKposts with this historian named Indy (no, I don't think he's ever melted any Nazis with any ancient Hebrew artifacts).

After it make a cool story to say

Worked better for the Aztecs at least.

Merritt Animation I think Charles V had something to say about that

What the frick I thought you were ruling the Spanish and Holy Roman Empire why are you here don't you have a country to run?

@@CardiniPanini Wasn't the geography that defeated them.

I know, it made me so happy

Indeed, from a native Pole, those Vs are much appreciated 😁👍

I was very impressed with his pronunciation!

Good stuff, almost no mistakes in pronounciation

I’m not even polish and that made me happy

❤❤❤

Thx

As a fellow American, It might interest you to know that a few polish generals showed up to help us in our fight for freedom against Britain, despite the partitions they were facing back home.

As Poles, we should change the coat of arms. From a white eagle to a phoenix.

@@bratbrata4974 It really IS and was a phoenix ARISEN!

As a proud American Patriot whose descendant emigrated here from Poland in the 20's, I feel the Rebel Yell.

Thanks from Poland. God bless America

We had a nation but we hadn't country

These are the first words of the Polish national anthem, "Poland has not died yet, as long as we are alive. What foreign violence has taken from us, we will take away with a saber."

Aaww, that's nice.

Unfortunatly we almost lost the nation now due to cultural "aggression' from the West. The indestructibleness came from preserving, adapting AND improving OUR culture. Now we start to forget about that.

@@kiroshki The day might come when we become again a satellite state of one of our neighbors.

Our boy Blue does his homework.

I wanted to comment that! He did a really good job!

Why are we commenting in english tho?

@@maciejrejowski4682 nou makker, ik wil best in het Nederlands reageren als je dat graag wil, maar ik heb zo'n vermoeden dat je me beter begrijpt als ik reageert in het Engels. That's why.

@@mirjanbouma wiem, u nas mówią na to sarkazm, taki żarcik :)

Wierzbowski it’s the guy who KIA in „Aliens” movie 😅

as long as *We live

@@konradklukowski1009 thanks for the correction

Poland, the Lich of nations.

@@morganrobinson8042 yes

"Didn't you die?" Poland: "Sadly yes, BUT I LIVED."

The borders! They keep shifting!

@@ahmedamine24 The Poles are the second easiest people to move.

Same

@@Enchie The Poles are the first hardest people to move.

Kazimierz's the Great Poland is my fav Poland, change my mind.

It had to be saved by other countries

We're basically a honeybadger of nations

​@tekinet7958 incorrect it was helped by other countries but still fought alongside them. For example the polish army escaped poland durint ww2 and became pilots for britain

Accurate

Jokes aside, he didn't do that to stop Christian invasions (he was actually doing very well against them) but to forge alliances and expand his influence.

Well yes, but actually no

I think big part was "If i convert i must stop raid them?" And mostly answer was "Not really". Many German attack was try to stop polish raids, and without success.

hahahahaha good point mate ;D

Good luck to you, sir!

I see Hungarians, I scream: "LOVE YOU GUYS, LET'S DRINK AND EAT TOGETHER AND THEN LET'S LAUGH AT THE ABSURDITY OF OUR LANGUAGES"

Polak, Wegier dwa bratanki! Lengyel, magyar - két jó barát, Együtt harcol s issza borát, Vitéz s bátor mindkettője, Áldás szálljon mindkettőre. Zawsze Bracia!

@Certyfikowany Przewracacz Hulajnóg Elektrycznych I am a simple german, im in a relationship for a whole decade with a polish woman and still fear to pronounce her surname.

@@wolfi9933 I'm Pole and I challenge you to reading username of guy you answered

Poland: I didn't hear no bell!

They can do this all day.

oh harder daddy

I always imagined the partition of Poland as some kind of late night phone call (terribly anachronistic, I know). Maria: "What is it, Fritz? Do you know how late.... No, I won't bother with Poland, unless you literally handed it to me on a silver platter..." Fritz: "You'll be delighted"

Poland. If Rocky Balboa was a country.

Isn't that quote from the Romance of the three kingdoms

I like the bill wurtz reference

Ah, here we go again

there and gone (and back) again: a Polish tale

a brief villain arc is mandatory

What about Turkey?

oh so Poland has a vore fetish,INtResTING

@@aestheticswim3397 hold my beer time to draw it

@@aestheticswim3397 no, the rest of Europe has a vore fetish, Poland is just their unwilling chew toy.

Poland is the Orc race from Elder Scrolls as a country and little can change my mind.

These replies are cursed

That is awesome

That cracks me up. "How could we respect ourselves, or be respected, if we followed a woman?" "Nah, it's cool. She decreed herself a man." "Ah! Good thinking."

@@jean-paulaudette9246 Not exactly... it was more as a way to declare her as equal to a man as women didn't have any rights at the time. But honestly - it was one of the least confusing things that happened in that time of polish history, don't go deeper :V

@@jean-paulaudette9246 in Polish Kròlowa doesn't mean the same as Queen, at the time anyway, it was more along lines of consort. So they crowned Jadwiga the Latin Rex, as the constitution required a rex, or King, to rule the nation. It wasn't strictly grammatically correct, but it was felt that it reflected the situation better.

@@lucidnonsense942 Thanks! That's clear.

And her name was Świętosława 😉 it's also said that she changed her name to Sigrid after the marriage and her new people called her Sigrid Storrada

They were also helping the American during the USA war of independence. In fact the American Calvary was built by a polish general. His name is casmir pulaski by the way

@@starmaker75 And that makes sense, because the Poles have quite a reputation for cavalry.

Neat! Class consciousness leading to a coalition of marginalized persons coming together to fight alongside one another for their liberation, awesome!

@@Thomas.Wright and the winged hussars arrived

I didn't even know that. I wish I'd known that. It seems like such an interesting detail to be brought up during history classes on Napoleon Wars.

It's still something to be proud of. None done that again

HELP!!! Everybody at my school cyberbullies me because they say my videos are extremely BAD!!! Please help me, dear lol

@cak01vej sheeeeeeeeeeeeeesh, i think u killed him

Actually it was done by a few private landowners from Poland... Like really. It was PRIVATE buisness.

@@aro480_ nazis done it? They didn't have them on the ropes though. One stupid decision from the monarch and it was all lost😔

"hussars are not as interesting nor important" don't tell that to the producers of patriotic clothing or they will go mental

They're still one of our national icons.

That's fair. Also, Blue, you did great prenouncing Polish names, probably the best of American people doing overview videos on Polish history.

Why is everyone talking about hussars but not lisowczycy (I have no idea how to make it grammarly correct)

They were pretty significant. Hussars were winning battles when the enemy outnumbered them heavilly, were using the finest weaponry a Polish noble could afford and many times they could change the tide of war to the point mercenaries at the time were often adding to their contracts that they won't be fighting against them. They are an iconic cavalry formation although their current depiction with two wings on their backs might be more modern creation during times Poland was developing it's national identity.

Really? Didn't know about the Italian one.. I think I need to some some foreign anthems...

@@witoldtadeusz Check the lyrics on both they are there :D + Weirdly enough Mussolini wanted an Alliance with Poland before WW2 O_o

Well in Poland Austria is seen as the least of 3 evils, because when your other options are Russia and Prussia/Germany the Habsburgs suddenly seem rather saintly in comparison. In southern Poland that era is referred to a benign neglect. Though the Anthem is referring to the Polish soldiers that would defect to Napoleon. Unfortunately he would send the to Haiti in an attempt to crush that rebellion, but they would defect again and join the Haitians.

@@adambielen8996 not completely so. Yes, at the end of partitions, just before ww1, restrictions were really loose in austrian partition, but during the Napoleonic Era things weren't so pleasant, Austria was just as harsh as the others

Yeah of course in Italy nobody hates austrians anymore, it was a joke ahahaha

.... five and half as for now

We’re taking in our own cousins whose home was destroyed. We’re both descendants of Lech.

There were quins, but in polish Version of this world "królowa" means king's wife. Jadwiga was the ruler of the country, so king herself, not king's wife

Jee, too much Machismo?

I've seen this one in so many different comment sections whenever Jadwiga is mentioned. It's getting a bit wearing at this point.

The thing is that word królowa does not have interchangeable meaning with word queen in english, its ortography points that this specific person is not holding office of king as is nonetheless wife of one, you can use ending "owa" to make wife of any posible word refering to profession, like for example burmistrz (mayor) into burmisztrzowa (wife of a mayor) or Nowak (popular polish surname into Nowakowa (wife of a Nowak, in default one specific person).

​@@wojciechficek616 Wasn't she was explicitly crowned as a "king" despite not being a man a statement to her contemporaries that she was their equal? or is that English mythologizing

There's also the -ska -ski distinction between female and male members of a family. For example, Rutkowska would be a female while Rutkowski could be her brother or other male relative.

It is actually really lovely detail. And they maintained the embassy building and gvie back the keys to the first Polish ambassador after the WW I

Kinda Ironic, because Poland beat the crap out of Ottomans

In kind of the same vein the polish-japanese relations were so good pre-WW2 that the Japanese empire refused the declaration of war sent by the polish government in exile

@پیاده نظام خان Yeah as much it seems nice that the Ottomans had a hint of repsect, we shouldn't forget they would have taken a part of Poland as well if it still bordered the nation. Heck Austria took part in the annexation despite the Poles being the ones the saved them from the battle of vienna

As it said, old favours are soon forgotten…

I'm always annoyed by how pro-monarchist fantasy writers tend to be.

@@tyrant-den884 I don't think it's annoying but rather uncreative, but I understand why. Most of European countries had monarchies to some degree, so they are more relatable and easier to implement. Writing something different might be difficult

@@histhoryk2648 then check how often the evil conquerer who must be replaced with some inexperienced kid is a self-man who earned their position through (admittedly bloody) merit. The main strength of a functioning monarchy is a ruler who has been trained by birth, but no one want that when they can have some kid or Allister.

In DSA (german fantasy RPG) there's a nation that's basically a combination of medieval Russia, the baltics and Poland-Lithuania, with the commonwealth's system of government. It works surprisingly well because the nobles tend to hate outsiders slightly more than each other :P.

@@tyrant-den884 Actual republics, as opposed to autocracies masquerading as republics, tend to be boring and complicated. On rare occasions, we in the United States are not. One of them was the Civil War. The norm is better reflected in that two Presidents (Harding in 1920 and Biden in 2020) were elected largely on the belief that their Administrations would be cures for insomnia.

Lmao

"This law will literally help everyone" "I stubbed my toe today, therefore Veto!"

@@ZarmothBlade The Polish-Lithuanian Sejm is arguably the best argument against nobility having any privileges.. or existing at all. Polish-Lithuanian nobles pretty much used their veto powers to sabotage the PLC, either on behalf of hostile foreign powers like Russia or simply out of selfishness. They also tended to pick foreigners as kings specifically because said candidates wouldn't be familiar at all with Polish-Lithuanian culture, language etc and therefore unable to successfully contest the Szlachta's power.

@@TitanDarwin To be honest, present day politics in Poland show clearly that the masses are no better and will happily vote against their own best interests given half a fake promise.

@@MoraFermi are the masses in power in Poland today? If the promises being made to them are not being honored it doesn't sound like they're in power

And he is holding the only weapon that was designed AND produced in occupied europe (ofc not for the Germans) it is called "Błyskawica" it's a sten but for MP 40 bullets and has a vertical magazine

You might will to veto their idea.

I can tell you about one significant battle in Poland during the Great War: The Battle of Osawiec. It was like something straight out of a horror movie: about 7,000 German soldiers were completely routed by about 100 "dead" Russians. So terrified of these dead Russians the Germans fled across the battlefield and killed themselves on their own fortifications.

mine never got to WW2 in any sort of school

If you want to pick up a good understanding of WWI (and haven't yet) I highly recommend the channel The Great War, which did a chronological analysis of the war week by week. Quite an experience to watch that series.

@@Thomas.Wright, more specifically, these Russian soldiers were garrisoning a fort that Germany really wanted to capture, so they bombed and attacked at at least 3 different times. They all failed. Growing desperate, the Germans just decided to gas the sh*t out of Osawiec fort, and they assumed the defenders were all dead, so they adopted gas masks and went straight on in. Only to find about 100 Russians troops wearing clothes around their mouths, coughing up blood and charging at them like fucking mad lads. The Germans were so terrified of this that they ran away completely, allowing the Russians to hold onto fort Osawiec. This battle would later be known as the "Attack of the Dead Men".

The wrecker Decepticon of Transformers 2 has nothing on Poland's.

Look up the Wikipedia article for the Polish national anthem and look at the English name of the song.

@@elimcclellan8139 you were not kidding. It translates to Poland is not yet lost. If any nation deserves that title it's damn sure Poland.

@@razorflossrazor2937 It's more literally translates into "Poland is not yet /dead/." For the last few centuries our history was, essentially, that.

Haha! That's a good one :D

More like Deadpool. You can cut it to pieces or kill it, but it keeps coming back.

Nice

Nazi Germany: You've got no army left! Surrender! Poland: Tis a flesh wound

Tis only flesh wound! 😆 Greetings from Poland! 😉

Epoka lodowcowa 3 złoty to cytat

People have this weird idea that if you colour the map differently and put figurehead administrators in, then suddenly the nation evaporates. Doesn't happen until you kill all the people and raise their children as another peoples. 200 years of trying hasn't done it to Poles tho!

Yes but we resurrect !

​@@BartekPll XD prawda

Yay

In Yadwiga’s time, a queen couldn’t be a queen regnant (i.e. “queens” had to be the consort, not the ruler). The trick is, they never said the king had to be male.

The thing though was she wasn't really able to due to the civil war occuring in Lithuania. Vytautas fought his cousin for this exact reason knowing the Poles would try to take advantage of Lithuania. He remained Grand Duke of Lithuania and guaranteed Lithuanian sovereignty for the next hundreds of years.

Go read some books

Yup, Jadwiga and Jagiełło was the first openly gay royal marriage in history :D

But it wasn't like they plotted aganist each other in order to gain personal power - they were actually qiute happy mariage (especially for their age difference... They married when Yadviga was 10 and Yogailo was 36) and co-rulers. After Yadviga's death Yogailo named his daughter with his next wife after her, the wife was actually adviced to him by Yadviga who wanted to provide him stable future as a king of Poland after her death and from what I remember one of them had a ring which was present from the other and considered it their most important belonging (I don't remember who was the owner and who was the giver). To make things more interesting, Yadviga at first really didn't want to marry Yogailo and even, as legend said, tried to escape the castle by destroying wooden doors with an axe, and after that she supposedly went to bed with her true love Habsburg prince... And then she, at her young age, made a significant political decision, cause mariage with Habsburg would be political disaster. Another legend claims that before the decision she asked some male servant to go to bath with Yogailo and then tell her what he had seen and what she heard was supposedly another reason for marriage. She also funded a renovation of the oldest Polish University (now 600 years old) and liked color blue, and slept with Yogailo only on Tuesdays for what I've read. Her death vas really grieved. It's interesting topic.

Except Kazimierz. I've heard a lot of pronunciations (I'm named after him), his is foreign to me. Given how complicated the language is though, I'm willing to overlook that lol

@@cashkromsupernerd1193 The only mistake he made is not realising that 'zi' in Polish is pronounced like a ż, the 'rz' at the end wasn't perfect but it's fine.

@@IronBranchEnjoyer Zi isn't pronounced the same as ż - it's the same as ź

@@JamieDNGN I'd say zi is pronounced the same as źi

@@shion3948 źi is not valid in polish orthography though, Zi is used when a vowel follows (including i which is not written twice in that case - zima for example (winter) or więzi (bonds, compare więź - bond)), and ź is used when either a consonant or nothing else follows. It's mostly an orthographic variant because when you pronounce ziemia (earth, soil, ground) and więź the Zi and ź are pronounced the same [ˈʑɛmʲä (not [ʑʲɛmʲä]) vʲɛ̃ʑ] if we're being pedantic the ź in więź becomes devoiced but eh If you pronounce Zi alone, yes it would be źi, but otherwise they're the same sound unless it's a syllable

Oh! I'm 2nd generation polish and German!

@@emiehoney5041 I’m third generation.

"I don't like Poland. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere" Frederick the Great

So if I say the words, "BAPTIZED IN FIRE, FORTY TO ONE!"

I would make a Winged Hussars reference, but UKposts keeps deleting them for some weird reason.

It’s a common mistake indeed to call her Queen. Jadwiga was the King of Poland when she ascended to the throne.

That is correct in English. After all Queen Elizabeth is also a monarch, not a wife of a monarch.

@Arkadiusz Kapa And yet... she didnt really rule all that much. Jogaila did!

@@Lina-lq7jm Yes, sadly she died at 25 year old due to complications of giving birth

@@Lina-lq7jm Jogaila known his place, even if he was responsible for day to day operation he could not go against wishes of his wife, because his all power in Poland was due to the fact, he was married to power Jadwiga had. This is a reason why until Jadwiga lived Jogaila tried to avoid any conflict with Christian nations, because it was the wish of Jadwiga. When she died, Jogaila became the sole rule and Teutonic Order provoked he went ballistic - which would not happen when Jadwiga lived.

Stop supporting putin then

@@marek7641 who said I'm supporting Putin

@@obi-wankenobi1676 your government is and you don’t protest. Being silent is supporting

@@marek7641 I ain't living in Hungary , I'm not even a Hungarian citizen yet

@@obi-wankenobi1676 what kind of excuse is that? I see Ukrainian and Iranian protests around the world. But I don’t see free russians protesting in free countries. Same mentality

Cheers Bro.

same here bro, same here

I'm a simple Pole. I see Hungarian comment. I click "Like" ;)

I was waiting for this comment.

Magyar, lengyel - két jó barát! Cheers from Poland, friend!

More like "I can do this all millenium".

It's staggering and wonderful how much that *isn't* a joke.

I was just wondering if Poland-Lithuania inspired Sokovia given the whole "crossroads of major powers, locus of conflict, proud citizens, gets swallowed up" thing.

Just about a millennium of guttural, bloody lipped "I didn't hear no bell..."

Poland be like "I didn't hear no bell!"

And God bless you.

Love to hear that :) greets from Warsaw mate :)

Aaand it still will come back. So you probably need more than that

@Абдульзефир ah, russians hahahahhaha, typical ^^

@Абдульзефир Trust me it would

yea cause by that time... poland (or the P.L.C.)was crazy fcking strong like it was said in the Video :D Poland wasnt refered to as the sleeping Dragon of Europe for nothing:D

+ Targowica (V columne)

Surely Blue knows to never say Poland is eastern Europe. We don't like that - we don't want to be in the same basket as Russia. Ever. Russia is yucky.

@@lukasz1kier Blue definitely knows. Russia is not yucky, but we, the Poles, strongly do not want to be mistaken for other nations.

"If youre going trough hell.keep on walking" winston churchill

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Ahem... CENTRAL EUROPE.

This destroyer's name was "Piorun" (Lightning).

Talking about Polish Free Navy you cannot forget about ORP Błyskawica (another word for lightning in polish - little bit of semantics - Piorun describes the lightning speed and Błyskawica describes its flash) the most honored ship of polish navy in WWII. This ship done so many different things - from mine sweeping, through sub hunting and troop transport to air defence platform and shore shelling - it's unbelievable it was only a destroyer. It is also oldest surviving destroyer in the world. It's docked in Gdynia and is availibile for tourists. Fun fact: There's special memorial in Cowes, England dedicated to Błyskawica and its crew for heroic defense against german air raids. One day the guns on the ship fired so many rounds the barrels got deformed and needed urgent replacement

@@raindog6852 ORP Błyskawica. Technically same as Piorun, but not really.

@@Diveyl myślę, że Thunder będzie lepszym tłumaczeniem Pioruna,zaś Lightning zostawmy Błyskawicy

@@syfsonkupskowicki5326 Może i racja że Błyskawica to bardziej Lightning, jako że bardziej chodzi o sam świetlny efekt wyładowania niż dźwięk. Ale jest też Grom, który bardziej pasuje do Thunder. Piorun może być oboma.

BAPTIZED IN FIRE, FORTY TO ONE! SPIRIT OF SPARTANS, DEATH AND GLORY!

Poland; Sory master, I'm stubborn.

Poland be like: Wellll... Define "Destroyed"

@@nihili4196 Sun: Not on the map, saltier than carthage.. clensed technically.. Every term you use to describe destroying a nation...

@@KamikazeMedias poland: yeaaaah... But ive just asked God and hes cool with me so im just gonna gonna restore the country thank you very much

Generał Kenobi.

@@VaeSapiens Hetman would be the correct term. But I do like the cheeky dark L.

@@adambielen8996 In the Polish dub of the Revange of the Siths he is called Generał not hetman.

@@Alaryk111 Ah, well fair enough then. Carry on good sir.

@@VaeSapiens Generał Pierogi

I agree, especially with the part about parliamentarism, which is really impressive for the 17th century. I also do agree that it is a petty that Jan III Sobieski was missed, however, in terms of understanding the idea about Poland I do think it was a fair oversimplified interpretation of its history (especially as I studied one yeah Eastern European History, which was mainly about Poland and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth). It would have been interested mentioning Adam Mickiewicz and how he is perceived in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus and why, as this represents the complex historical legacy in the region.

​@@to_co_jest_prawdziwe Although it was the last notable military victory I'd say the battle of Vienna and its outcomes meant more for the history Europe than Poland itself.

@@MM-yj7yt Yes. You are right

Yeah, it's good, there are some really minor mistakes like calling Bolesław V king and Jadwiga queen

Yup, but also is "copy/paste" of most history schoolbooks. Not a single word of "Old Set of Rulers" which mentions rulers preceding Mieszko I. How in all books is all the same: Poland thx to Church, Poland thx to Germany. It is seen even now. Politics selling polish independence for german (EU) reason of state, regardless of the political side, or appropriation of moral life by Catholic Church, which leaves any Poles that don't want anything in common with it, out od margin of the social life, and then they're recruited by "progressive" West.

i prefer to call them the "superpowers punching bag" but that works too

You know this scene in cartoons, when something runs over someone form left to right, then back to left again? The eastern fronts during 1900s be like:

@@witoldtadeusz you mean this? /watch?v=-UL8MCgwTlk

As it happens we are the reigning world champions in volleyball. I think there might be some truth to that.

you can say the same thing about the Baltics having Russia and Germany for neighbors is brutal

I didn't expect you to be here.

Me Full Polish: I was born in pain 🤣

Only half what’s the other half? German I know it’s German 100% or not Poles stronk together

iz curious.. other half...?

Me full polish: *got third dose of morphine today* Something needs to bring you pain?

I see you at every history and every reptile video lol

Dschinghis Khan is actually very popular in poland. During communism you had to listen to what they'd allowed you to listen and Dschinghis Khan's songs were allowed. You can still hear them (especially "Moskau") at polish weddings. At least at the ones I've been to.

The UK: "Ah, I see the Hun has finally shed its civilised cloak and gone fangs agape for the Lechian throat. It saddens my heart to the Polish divided again, but, alas, 'tis the way of poles to be apart, is it not?"

@@marcinrybinski4423 they fuckin what. Damn I get controlling political crap but music? Damn. S'takin it too far.

hi avery

@PL what the what

Love you guys. Still remember my traveling to Belarus and your hospitality.

@Lahestan yes indeed! We are brothers!

@Lahestan Russia was always a thorn in our neck even now it became more troublesome for us with their tyrannical political leaders, but what did Germany did to you? For us Germany at the very least trying to help us.

@Lahestan German did all this horrible things to us. But now the world and so is the country has changed, the policy has changed. Right now our country doesn’t suffer because of Germany, but because of tyranny of so called “president” that we didn’t choose, he’s regime already killed many people and right now the people that he imprisoned are now been tortured, raped and they even get yellow marks on their prison uniform so they would get a special ‘treatment’ (just like in WW2) and that’s just the top of the iceberg. Most importantly while all Europe acknowledged this situation and now trying to help our people including Germany. Russia on the other hand helps and supports this regime. So I hope you understand why we no longer mad at Germany.

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Love from Poland :D ♥️

LOVE U

Fuck, I love Polish-Hungarian relations trough history.

@@cieplydran1 same

But with legos

Twinned with Belgium?

A God's playground, as Norman Davies said.