A Western Kid Living in Communist Poland (2014)

Post by _mgr » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 3:17 AM UTC

nekkoru wrote: post #83

limaoscarjuliet wrote: post #72

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Poland is still very closed society. You will be fine in large cities (Wroclaw, Krakow, Poznan, Warszawa, Gdansk), but unlikely to do well in small and medium cities. Wages are way smaller than in EU countries, prices are pretty much the same. Real estate might be the only exception, but not by much. Polish is a very hard language to pick up. Not only tongue twister, but full of exceptions and mind twisting rules. A…

Actually, 1 - jabłko, 5-21 jabłek, 22-24 jabłka, 25-31 jabłek, 32-34 jabłka and so on and so forth.

I was discussing this with my partner last night trying to understand the pattern/logic behind it. Would you see this similar pattern when counting oranges or coffee cups?

Post by stretchwithme » Mon, Aug 31, 2015, 3:27 AM UTC

mseebach wrote: post #78

coldtea wrote: post #52

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> Which is why even the poor are better off escaping from communism and the foot traffic usually indicates that. The only thing it really indicates is that the soviet states were run badly and have deterioted into dictatorships.

"Cheka (ЧК – чрезвыча́йная коми́ссия chrezvychaynaya komissiya, Emergency Committee, Russian pronunciation: [tɕɪˈka]) was the first of a succession of Soviet state security organizations. It was created on December 20, 1917, after a decree issued by Vladimir Lenin, and was subsequently led by Felix Dzerzhinsky, a Polish aristocrat turned communist. By late 1918, hundreds of Cheka committees had been created in variou…

Their plan all along.

Of course, their apologists in the West were doing what they could to help. And still do.

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