Poland works to heal communist era anti-Semitism.

[Heraclitus]

Originally posted by BeBro

Its ok. Its a real improvement, the persistent "go to war with France" and the recently introduced "World War" bugs seem to be fixed.

[BeBMan]

Instead we do Stackenblocken

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Heraclitus


EU = Reich 4.0

Or should that be

rost:

And at least the will be good

[Dinner]

STACK-EN-BLOCK-EN!


Somebody post that video.

[BeBMan]

I already did a while ago

[Heraclitus]

Originally posted by BeBro
Instead we do Stackenblocken

I would so watch that show!

[Dinner]

http://en.sevenload.com/videos/ZSBgGtD/Stackenblocken

"Das ist nine stackenblocken!"

(I don't speak German so I know I misspelled nine.)

[Dr Strangelove]

So who's going to apologize for pre-1968 Polish anti-Semitism?

[Pekka]

Wait a minute, I never heard of this before. Not that I know everything, but I figure I would have heard about this and I know I would remember if I did, but I never heard about this before.

That's weird.

[Dry]

Originally posted by Pekka
Wait a minute, I never heard of this before. Not that I know everything, but I figure I would have heard about this and I know I would remember if I did, but I never heard about this before.

That's weird.

I didn't know either, so I searched.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Polish_political_crisis

It's quite interesting.
In short:
Communist Poland had some problems with protesters/dissident (intellectuals, students, libruls).
Official communist (soviet) position for six-day war was anti-israel (anti-zionist).
So, officials accused those libruls of being pro-israel, thus pro-zionist, thus anti-communists.
From 'anti-zionist', the situation degenerate rapidly to anti-semitic, as simply being a jew meant you were zionist.

for many years the Communist government did not admit the anti-Semitic nature of the anti-Zionist campaign, though some newspapers were allowed to publish critical articles. Finally, in 1988, the Polish Communist government officially acknowledged that the events were anti-Semitic, although they avoided taking full responsibility, calling them "political mistakes". After the fall of the Communist government, the Sejm issued an official condemnation of the anti-Semitism of the March 1968 events in 1998. In 2000, President Aleksander Kwaśniewski gave his own apology for the event in front of a group of Jewish students "as the president of Poland and as a Pole."

[Pekka]

Seriously? 6 day war lead to that in Poland? OK. I'm not saying anything, the weird thing that strikes me as odd is that I never heard of that. I'm not playing the blame game, we're all guilty to some degree in many things, but just that it's like a piece of history I never knew about and without this thread, most likely I would have never heard of it ever.