Just curious. I'm not specifically looking for facts, intimate history or insightful political analysis, just what (if anything) you think of when you think of Poland.

Even if you know almost nothing about it, surely you still have SOME impression?

One of my best friends is Polish and he's one of the finest most educated people I ever met.
Polish politics IMHO have been strange however since the Iron Curtain came down. All I've heard is that many of the former Communist magistrates have retained their places in the new government as in some other countries of the former Warsaw Pact ;) *points to ExKGB-chief Vlad Putin*

P.S.: Been to Krakow. Beautiful city!
P.P.S: Don't forget to tell everybody that lots fo great people commonly believed to be French are in fact Polish - e.g. Frederic Chopin or Marie Curie

[ 06-08-2003, 11:33 PM: Message edited by: Faceman ]

Impressions of a (very brief) visit there in 1978. Cold. Lotsa wheat. Lotsa vodka. Many, many pretty girls. So, all in all, favorable. ;)

I have a friend from uni days who's Australian born of Polish parents. She has talked about the food and culture somewhat, and has a very strong family unit. So from my limited experience of Australian Polish culture, I can only say that it seems warm and tasty. ;) [img]smile.gif[/img]

<font color='white'> I think Poland is a pretty cool country.

My uncle had an exchange student from Poland a while ago (Around 95 I think) all I remember about him was that his name was Damien and he was very pro-captalist.

It has a pretty cool language, and I hear there are losts of castles in Poland. And you have to admire the Warsaw Ghetto story. </font>

[ 06-09-2003, 12:00 AM: Message edited by: Iron_Ranger ]

I WANT TO LIVE IN POLAND
(by Gnome)

the audio is on www.hughwilson.org in the news page

Oh I want to live in Poland
Oh I want to live in Prague
and be an Eastern European
who can make love in the dark
to a seamstress from Vienna
or a writer from Crakow
I want to live in Poland
I want to live
I want to live there now....

now...

I want live there now....

oh.....

Oh I want to live in Poland
Oh I want to trample through the snow
to a ship in downtown Danzig
and get carried off in the flow
I'd party up to Sweden
keep going till I hit the pole
I want to live in Poland
I never said
I never said it was a hole....

oh...

I never said it was a hole....

Wheres Poland?

Eastern European country where many people live in poverty and where the wodka flows freely. I wouldn't wanna live there, not even for a lifetime supply of booze.

I haven't been there (yet) but I know where it is and what the main cities are of course. Will probably visit there some day, I still need to visit most Eastern European countries [img]smile.gif[/img]

Hugh, I like that song! Have been playing it recently [img]smile.gif[/img] :D [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]

A friend at work had a polish dad, though he was raised in England. One of his dad's memories is being in the Polish Air force based in England during WW2 and his flight log reading

date1... Dresdan
date2... Dresdan
date3... Dresden
date4... Dresdan
date5... Dresdan
date6... Hamburg
date7... Dresden
date8... Dresden

ECT. for a long time.
With lots of nasty anti German sentiments written in the border. Seemingly he and his friends hated the Germans with a passion and had no regret about what he helped do to dresden and Hamburg even to the day he died. so when I think of Poland I still think of a memory based in WW2 and not of the modern years.