Translation: God Bless Poland
Enjoy watching a European government with balls and with its own peoples' self interest first.
Enjoy watching a European government with balls and with its own peoples' self interest first.
Let's see...
1347-1348: Rescued thousands of German Jews fleeing waves of massacres and persecution as they were the main scapegoat along the Rhine for spreading the Black Death...
ALSO 1300-1370: Was a buffer region separating western Europe from the wrath of the fearsome and ravaging armies of the Khanate of the Golden Horde. Poland tied down the Mongol forces and made them stretch their resources thin pursuing small bands of mounted fighters who always used hit and run tactics, disrupting the Mongol forces thus saving Berlin, Vienna, and Rome from a possible Mongol siege.
1595: Deployed elite forces of cavalry called Hussars, which were born from the numerous fights against the Mongols, deep into Hungary to help the confederation of German, Wallachian, Romanian, and Bulgarian princedoms beat back the first siege of Vienna by the Muslim army under Sultan Suleiman. Prior to 1595, the Ottoman Empire was believed to be completely invincible. Using both Mongol steppe tactics combined with the heavily armored battering ram style of the Gothic knights of continental Europe, the Hussars smashed the core of the Turkish invasion force, the dreaded Sipahi heavy lancers and bowmen. With the Sipahi out of the way, the Janissary infantry and lightly defended supply columns were bombarded and destroyed pocket after pocket by the combination of Polish and German forces.
1683: Once again facing an extremely powerful and seemingly unstoppable Turkish army at it's doorstep, this time led by Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa, the greatest leader that the Ottomans could muster, Austria's Duke Leupold desperately issued a plea for help. Once again, Poland answered the call. Twenty thousand Hussars led by King Jan III Sobieski himself led an almost suicidal charge straight into the Turkish rear from the Kahlenburg, a heavily wooded hill behind the main Ottoman camp which had been thought by the Turks as 'unassailable'. Caught by surprise, the Ottoman force was practically destroyed in a matter of minutes. This was the second time Poland had saved western Europe, and Christendom, from the Islamic onslaught..... All of this, only to get fucked in the ass in 1939 by Nazi Germany in partnership with their arch enemies the Soviet Union.......
So, it is definitely not a surprise that Poles are extremely wary of bullshit coming from anyone and have little patience in dealing with it...
The interview? Yes, yes it was.That was glorious.