Polish history

achwirot

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

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:

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.

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!

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

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.

Serenity Now!

Pride Fighter wrote: »

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

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

anladmór

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