WHY POLAND IS A SAFE HAVEN FOR UKRAINIAN REFUGEES
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
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In episode #22 of Roots of Humanity, Drew talks to his new friend Kacper about Polish culture, history, and food. Kacper’s Poland is very different than his parents’ Poland, because he was born after communism and speaks English, while his parents fought for food rations and learned Russian. Kacper recalls how his grandmother used to smuggle jewelry from Romania, and how his grandfather remembers when Nazis came to steal their pigs and cows. In turn, Drew opens up about the Holocaust and his Jewish ancestors, which sparks a discussion of World War 2 and the influx of Ukrainian refugees coming into Poland. From the modern capital of Warsaw, vs. the historic, old town feel of Krakow, listen in to find out why Poland is the most underrated country in Europe, a conversation that will surely leave you hungry for pierogis.
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Gdańsk was founded by the Polish king, probably in 998 and for 1000 years of existence, 700 were under Polish control.
I am also from Poland and when talking about kartki and stuff with some family members in those times it was a thing to accumulate a certain amount of stuff and basically exchange it between yourselves for other things you might have needed. So there was sb that had like 5? fridges in their flat bcs they were keeping it for exchange that my family knew. It was also common that people stole from for example construction sites they worked at that were government's. A lot of stealing took place, but so did the exchange. My uncle had a friend that got coffee from some fmaily member from abroad I think and he didn't drink coffee so he would bring it to my uncle. When my uncle worked as a firefighter at the time they once got a call about the roof of a small not well maintained house that fell and they had to find the owner yeah. The roof fell bcs the giy accumulated so much sugar on the upper floor that it suffocated him and they had to look for the body in the sugar pile. Insane but that were the things that did happen. My grandma's technical school principal (she was one of the first women who went there, there were like 4 girls in the entire school) had a cabinet with alcohol in his principal office 😂 and well they definitely got some forbidden help during their maturity exam.
Also about Aushwitz I wanted to add many schools in Poland make it an obligatory trip. I went there in primary school and our polish teacher even made an assignment to write how the trip impacted us etc. so it's definitely still a relevant topic to many. Especially bcs not only jews died there but also other polish people. I know my great grandfather died there and well it's definitely a bitter pill to swallow knowing how people were treated there. Also there's a lot of literature we have to read for our finals that involve that part of history like people's stories of what happened there.
Nature in Poland is very lush and diverse. Poland also has the last primeval forest of Europe- Puszcza Białowieska, it is unique on a global scale. You can see European bison there, a very rare species that almost died out at the beginning of the 20th century.
Just to correct stuff, our parents never learned Russian as a second language, it was always a foreign language. A second language is: "a language other than the mother tongue that a person or community uses for public communication, esp. in trade, higher education, and administration". That was never the case. The only official language everywhere in Poland postwar has always been Polish. There was simply no choice to learn any other European languages in schools, no choice unless you studied privately. We were not a part of the USSR, so Russian was just a foreign language imposed on us to learn since all " rotten capitalistic" languages were not in agreement with the at-the-time current socialistic/communistic worldview.
"There was simply no choice to learn any other European languages in schools, no choice unless you studied privately."
- that's simply not true. English was taught in high schools. Russian, however, was compulsory and taught since the elementary school.
It was inspiring and Poland is great country,I wonder why Lithuania isn't connected with Poland as one country,I wish it was.Well great podcast
You don't need to get english cert at uni, you don't even have to study english. You just have a foreign lang of your chosing + one foreign specialised for your study field
Worth to mention that Hel is located on the most narrow split in Poland, where you can see water from both of your sides from a very short distance. There's a bus line to this town which has 666 number. No Kiding!
PS Avoid this town during the summertime, if you want to get there by car. That's the most congested summer spot in Poland, because there's only one road to get to Hel thanks to the narrow split. I recommend a train:)
"Some of them are easy to pronounce like Warsaw and Krakow" - and proceeds to pronaunce it wrong :P. Maybe not that easy after all.....
Very not informative video. Long. And wrong stats. 11 millions were displaced also internally. 6 millions crossed Polish border. At the end 1-2 millions stated.
25:47 Ukraine
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Hey drew you should get real represenation of poland when you visit next time and also stick with food not politics. This one of least viwed videos for a person like yourself who has so many subs.
I remember Poland when the centre of Warsaw was still a barely swept bombed out shell.
Ye I'm from Poland...