Wow, i just wanted to say, man, you have good english, then I saw you are actually dutch, so no wonder! I have dutch ancestors from my mothers side and polish ancestors from my fathers side. As it happened they met in the middle so I became german. Thank you for the view on the polish side of things! BTW have you already found kurwa bobr?
As for the monument mentioned, contrary to external modernity, Poland is actually a country of ghosts of dead people, often very young, who died in hopeless battles. They are still remembered. You will see these ghosts if you live here longer.
The memorial site at 7:00 is dedicated to Soviet POWs murdered there by the Nazis in 1941-1942. In Biała Podlaska there is also a cemetery of Italian POWs who died there in 1943-1944 (captured by the Germans after Italy's surrender to the Allies in 1943).
Mentality? Poland is a unique phenomenon. Simple people from villages adopted the behavior of the nobility, not the townspeople, as in other countries. That is why, for example, we use the term "sir".
As to housing, developers are getting more and more gready. They do too crap finishing sometimes. Look into that what covers guarantee and how long does it cover. Developers lobbying politicians. For Polish citizens, they pretend to make cheaper loans, and then the house prices are going up. Prices in Poland went up also after relocation of Ukrainians. Obviously, in towns and cities, fancy flat called apartment (=bloks of flats) are very common. The best bloks of flast were built after IIWW, in 50s and 60s. Thick brick walls. Before kamienice - dont know how to teanslate this type of biuldings. Just old typa of multifamily biulding but much more decorative outside with high ceilings- aroud 3,5 meters. The bad side of that was no hallway. The doors from room to room. Some new owners changing the layouts to modernised them. I can see now a lot of negatives ( not only in Poland). I hope someone more optimistic person will write you a comment with the topics you are interested in. All the best. P.S I love your attitude towards details. Sometimes i clean some rubbish from the streets - usually broken glass. My imagination doesn't allow me to pass without picking it. 🙃
Thank you for fixing those candles on the monument. 😢With this small act, you have stolen my heart.❤
A może chłopak ma spektrum autyzmu i nie może znieść, gdy przedmioty są w nieładzie.
Thank you for showing my hometown in Poland. Greetings from Edinburgh and Happy New Year :)
Wow, i just wanted to say, man, you have good english, then I saw you are actually dutch, so no wonder! I have dutch ancestors from my mothers side and polish ancestors from my fathers side. As it happened they met in the middle so I became german. Thank you for the view on the polish side of things! BTW have you already found kurwa bobr?
As for the monument mentioned, contrary to external modernity, Poland is actually a country of ghosts of dead people, often very young, who died in hopeless battles. They are still remembered. You will see these ghosts if you live here longer.
The memorial site at 7:00 is dedicated to Soviet POWs murdered there by the Nazis in 1941-1942. In Biała Podlaska there is also a cemetery of Italian POWs who died there in 1943-1944 (captured by the Germans after Italy's surrender to the Allies in 1943).
Mentality? Poland is a unique phenomenon. Simple people from villages adopted the behavior of the nobility, not the townspeople, as in other countries. That is why, for example, we use the term "sir".
Do you know the girl who came to live in Poland years ago, has a vlog and travels a lot here? She is Dutch, too.
As to housing, developers are getting more and more gready. They do too crap finishing sometimes. Look into that what covers guarantee and how long does it cover. Developers lobbying politicians. For Polish citizens, they pretend to make cheaper loans, and then the house prices are going up. Prices in Poland went up also after relocation of Ukrainians.
Obviously, in towns and cities, fancy flat called apartment (=bloks of flats) are very common. The best bloks of flast were built after IIWW, in 50s and 60s. Thick brick walls. Before kamienice - dont know how to teanslate this type of biuldings. Just old typa of multifamily biulding but much more decorative outside with high ceilings- aroud 3,5 meters. The bad side of that was no hallway. The doors from room to room. Some new owners changing the layouts to modernised them.
I can see now a lot of negatives ( not only in Poland). I hope someone more optimistic person will write you a comment with the topics you are interested in.
All the best.
P.S
I love your attitude towards details. Sometimes i clean some rubbish from the streets - usually broken glass. My imagination doesn't allow me to pass without picking it. 🙃
Warszawski Hongkong is a good example of developer capitalism gong wrong.