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Polish history

  • 30-11-2008 2:18am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7


    Nice documentary polish history in 10 mins. It's a little propaganda movie , but showing true events.I know many Irish who wants to know something about polish history , so I decided to open this subject.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LumuQ4Ypis


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭McArmalite


    achwirot wrote: »
    Nice documentary polish history in 10 mins. It's a little propaganda movie , but showing true events.I know many Irish who wants to know something about polish history , so I decided to open this subject.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LumuQ4Ypis

    Very interesting, ( though their was a problem with the sound, at least from this PC ). Yes, I had known that many Poles joined Napoleon, understandable as the French revoulotion was populiar across Europe with many of the ordinary people. It seesm Poland caught some of the revoulotionary ideals of France and America but ofcourse the imperial states of Europe, in this case Prussia, Austria and Russia attacked Poland. Also that Maria Curie is the only person to win Nobel Peace Prizes in 2 sciences. ( BTW, Ireland's Sean McBride who was a founder of Amenesty International among other achievements, is the only person to have won the Nobel and Lenin peace prizes. )

    Still doubtless, we'll have to have some idiot come on and say something completely stupid and insulting about Polish history no doubt. A bit off topic but I wish the History channel would run maybe some programmes regarding the history of various nations such as Poland, Czechs etc instead of endless programmes on World War 2 :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭Snickers Man


    McArmalite wrote: »
    I wish the History channel would run maybe some programmes regarding the history of various nations such as Poland, Czechs etc instead of endless programmes on World War 2 :rolleyes:

    Amen to that. It's got to the stage where we're not even getting any "history" about WWII. It's all just reinforcing a convenient "good vs evil" message which is being wrongly and cynically misinterpreted by some of the "winning powers" for their own ongoing agendas.

    The history of the Czechs and Bohemia in particular is fascinating and we could certainly learn an awful lot from it. But no, there has to be this endless "foundation myth" from World War II to plough through.

    Enough already, say I.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 424 ✭✭meganj


    I'm actually studying Polish history in College as one of my modules. It's interesting in some ways because it held such an interest to the Empirial Powers in Europe for most of it's time. But there's not a lot about Poland, mainly because for so long it wasn't a country but rather a duchy, divided into parts, each of them belonging to (at some point) Germany, Prussia, Russia, Anstria-Hungary.

    Also if you do manage to get into Polish history it's very interesting to see the Polish struggle as a comparison to our own struggle for Independence!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 821 ✭✭✭FiSe


    meganj wrote: »
    I'm actually studying Polish history in College as one of my modules. It's interesting in some ways because it held such an interest to the Empirial Powers in Europe for most of it's time. But there's not a lot about Poland, mainly because for so long it wasn't a country but rather a duchy, divided into parts, each of them belonging to (at some point) Germany, Prussia, Russia, Anstria-Hungary.

    Also if you do manage to get into Polish history it's very interesting to see the Polish struggle as a comparison to our own struggle for Independence!

    You might have an answer on all those 'why?' questions above there :rolleyes:
    Polish, Czech, Slovak, Finnish, Svedish and in general history of almost every continental nation is much too complicated and complex and so overlapping and there's not the usual good vs bad or unity of the nation as a such.
    God bless black and white Irish struggle :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Pride Fighter


    Poland has a rich history. They were the first Europeans to have a modern constitution. They also pasted the Russians in their war of independence in 1919 or there abouts, winning one of the last cavalry battles ever. I should read more into it, it really is a fascinating topic.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭Serenity Now!


    Poland has a rich history. They were the first Europeans to have a modern constitution. They also pasted the Russians in their war of independence in 1919 or there abouts, winning one of the last cavalry battles ever. I should read more into it, it really is a fascinating topic.
    Norman Davies is one historian who specialises in Polish history. Very interesting stuff. Visiting the country is an eye opener. Such...erm....history :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ArturPL


    achwirot wrote: »
    Nice documentary polish history in 10 mins. It's a little propaganda movie , but showing true events.I know many Irish who wants to know something about polish history , so I decided to open this subject.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LumuQ4Ypis
    In my opinion it's very good for the people who did not nothing or just little bit
    about polish history. There are most important events.

    Something more for the people who are interested military history(like my), there is a fragment of the polish film (first polish film in colour) about Teutonic Knights(Battle of the Grunwald).
    a little informations about battle : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grunwald

    and film "Teutonic Knights", in polish "Krzyżacy"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdxCzKVDY_0

    translation:
    0:15 polish King Witold Jagiełło said :stopped the heavy cavalry! stop!
    0:22 knights on the horses : stop! stop! go back! go back!
    0:48 polish King Witold Jagiełło: lithuanian light cavalry first
    0:53 lithuanian prince Witold :Lithuania
    1:59 teutonic commander: go to the hell with Lucifer. This is lithuanian light cavalry.
    2:10 teutonic commander: go forward
    2:13 soldier : we tread down our archers
    2:16 commander :go!
    2.20 in german: God with us
    2:54 archers screaming :they tread us down
    3:34 lithuanian horseman: My King we need your help
    5:14 orders for the polish and lithuanian soldiers
    5:48 orders
    6:25 orders
    7:02 orders for the teutonic soldiers
    7:23 orders
    7:24 let's go!

    chronological history of poland
    http://www.staypoland.com/poland-history.htm

    Ps. If I made some languages mistakes, sorry about that


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭anladmór


    snickersman you do realise that ireland was divided into tuaths for hundreds of years. it really isnt that black and white at all


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