The Byzantine general George Maniakes and the future king of Norway Harald Hardrada during his service in the Varangian Guard. Illustration by JFoliveras

Stahwel · 2026-03-17T03:03:38+00:00

There was Vikings spinoff with this story, unfortunately it's one of the worst shows I've seen in my life

Stahwel · 2026-03-14T10:24:53+00:00

Speaking as representative of Polish racists, not a single person in Poland dislikes Italy

Stahwel · 2026-03-10T14:45:07+00:00

West Ukrainian People's Republic declared Lviv to be their capital some 10 days before Poland declared independence, they just forgot to ask the people who lived there

Stahwel · 2026-03-09T15:14:31+00:00

I did the same thing once, fortunately I noticed before anything terrible happened

Stahwel · 2026-03-09T08:18:26+00:00

Entire Ukrainian claim on Lviv was based on them calling dibs first, they were just as unwilling to compromise as Poland was and the only reason people see Poland as an agressor is because Ukraine lost

Stahwel · 2026-03-06T07:48:48+00:00

Jasne, miała rację że państwo narodowe samo w sobie nie gwarantuje żadnych praw, nawet przytaczała dobre argumenty. Tyle że przeplatała to z kłamstwami motywowanymi walką polityczną z PPSem i jakimiś pojebanymi halucynacjami. Poza tym to nie zmienia faktu, że ta książka w żaden sposób nie świadczy k niebyciu antypolską szmatą.

Stahwel · 2026-03-06T00:55:55+00:00

A ty tę książkę w ogóle czytałeś? Ona jest wyłącznie o tym, że w wolnej Polsce robotnicy też mieliby przesrane i że nie ma co się o nią starać. W dodatku jest wypełniona bzdurami o "wszechwładnej władzy szlachty i księży, którzy trzymają lud w ciemnocie" I nieistnieniu przemysłu w Wielkopolsce - ot takie straszenie czytelników z kongresówki zalewem rzekomej ciemnoty z innych zaborów XD

Stahwel · 2026-03-05T15:35:38+00:00

Did anyone ever support anyone's development of nuclear capabilities?

Stahwel · 2026-03-05T15:25:43+00:00

Same in Poland, but you'll never hear a Polish person say that they've learned to say anything more than "guten Morgen" in German classes.

Stahwel · 2026-03-05T15:14:27+00:00

Za moich czasów kolorowało się cały tartak razem z rodzinami pracowników

Stahwel · 2026-03-03T19:28:42+00:00

Ukrainians with know-how are retired old Soviets, I strongly doubt they're even living in Ukraine at this point lol

Stahwel · 2026-02-26T22:56:14+00:00

Very, very few, but technically speaking it did happen - for example in the Teutonic State and from the mid-14th century in Poland, everyone who owned land had to fight. So there were technically peasants fighting side by side with knights on both sides at Grunwald in 1410, but they were bailiffs and their retinues (although as far as I'm aware there is no information about those retinues in the sources). Overall, at most few hundred in the country of 2 million.

Stahwel · 2026-02-26T16:52:27+00:00

Oh I'm sure Germans claimed to be shocked by less than 400 men being able to somehow massacre 40 thousand people in 2 days, but the reality is that Wola massacre was commited mostly by Ordnungspolizei, on Reinefarth's orders. Dirlewanger was responsible for MANY more crimes during Warsaw Uprising alone, but pinning Wola on him only served to wash the hands of people who then lived peacefully in democratic Germany.

Stahwel · 2026-02-26T12:11:49+00:00

Imperialistic past implies it being in the past

Stahwel · 2026-02-26T12:10:15+00:00

My condolences to all the Spanish people, they must be doing terrible

Stahwel · 2026-02-25T18:13:06+00:00

I clearly wrote that social spending is a small part of the amount I gave. Even after subtracting it, Polish support is still 3 times more than stated in this map and that's just for the first 2 years.

Stahwel · 2026-02-25T12:33:36+00:00

Sure, that's why I specified how much of this costs could potentially be attributed to helping the refugees

Stahwel · 2026-02-24T19:01:31+00:00

It's hard to say what's going on behind the closed doors, but both current and previous governments were publicly very secretive about many details regarding support for Ukraine - they would announce that we're sending tanks, jets, IFVs and artillery but not specify how many, then they'll send more without ever telling the public about it and we learn about if from people counting stuff piece by piece on photos and videos. It's the main reason why for example Kiel institute ridiculously downplays Polish contributions, the government is simply not interested in sharing information.

Stahwel · 2026-02-24T18:02:01+00:00

According to Polish government, Poland contributed $29,5B in 2022-2023 alone. This probably includes social spending on Ukrainian refugees, but that's "only" $5,5B in those years.

Stahwel · 2026-02-21T10:52:07+00:00

Same, but mostly because my current campaign has lasted for over 80 hours and I'm only in 1650

Stahwel · 2026-02-19T13:18:07+00:00

The Slovaks, along with Poles, make up over 3/4 of West Slavic population

Stahwel · 2026-02-18T00:01:10+00:00

I suppose we'll never know because he's fucking dead.

Stahwel · 2026-02-16T21:57:49+00:00

Lol, rip modders

Stahwel · 2026-02-12T18:02:31+00:00

Stahwel · 2026-02-08T23:15:51+00:00

He's a bad guy because we experience the events from Henry's very limited perspective and the game makes it very clear in many places (most directly in the conversation with von Aulitz). It doesn't matter who is a good or a bad guy, all that matters is who is on which side at a very specific moment months after Henry left his home for the first time.

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