Quotes About Poland

Just about every single person who visits me in Poland tells me that everything here is better than they thought it would be - especially the food.

I would like to say to my friends in Poland: Let's make good choices, vote for democracy.

Those who voted for me voted for change. Together we can change Poland.

When Germany and Russia signed the first Nord Stream pipeline deal in 2005, enormously increasing the flow of Gazprom's gas to the West, it was denounced by Poland's foreign minister as a second coming of the Hitler-Stalin Pact that had sealed Poland's fate in 1939. When Moscow tweaked Ukraine's gas prices over the winter of 2005-2006, it only confirmed the Poles' worst fears.

Aresztowanie Gomu?ki w latach stalinizmu zmazywa?o przynajmniej cz??ciowo jego wcze?niejsze zbrodnie. To prawda, komunista, odpowiedzialny za powojenne bezece?stwa, ale przecie? sam te? przez komunistów szykanowany. Przez te lata w odosobnieniu znalaz? si? po stronie cierpi?cych Polaków. Na nikogo lepszego wówczas nie mogli liczy?.

The Soviets are here." The news spread like panic through the small village of Albertyn, Poland, on October 17, 1939. I had just finished Mass and breakfast on that memorable morning, when bewildered parishioners came to the mission to tell me the news. It was news we had feared ever since it had become clear that Germany and Russia were dividing up Poland. But now our fears were a reality. The Red Army was in Albertyn.

That photo was taken in Bialystok, Poland, sometime around 1725.

The total disappearance in 1946 of "East Prussia" into East Poland and the Soviet exclave of Kaliningrad was also an act of revenge and ethnic cleansing.

For sure, all over Poland, kids had my picture of a lemur on their bedroom wall - but the chances are they may never get to see a real lemur in Madagascar. I thought this was great and it really meant a lot to me.

I went to Poland for the Warsaw Film Festival, and it was quite an intense experience. I didn't think it would be, but it did feel quite emotional to go back to this place I'd heard so much about.

I'm deeply satisfied with the decisions that were taken by Warsaw NATO Summit in 2016, where the presence of the military forces of NATO in Poland was guaranteed.

After 1945, shamefully, we Brits seemed dedicated to punishing the heroic Poles at every turn for their wartime loyalty.

My parents emigrated from Poland in 1924 with my brother, who was a few months old. They were from a simple family of Polish Jews. They were looking, I suppose, for a better economic life and were escaping from an anti-Semitic environment.

There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence.

Poland in the 1990s saw a surge of unrestrained, American-style capitalism. With millions of Poles living in the U.S.A., the defeat of communism led many to aim for a lifestyle derivative of Chicago or Detroit.

Poland and my roots are very important for me. That's why I decided to make a feature film in Poland, and with only Polish money.

I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery.

In the wake of winning the war, Poland wants to help win peace with Iraq. I believe that the international community cannot leave Iraq without support.

Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now.

pope would have Poland in his prayers.

the pope had blessed Poland. Although Cardinal Maglione and Monsignor Tardini found this unobjectionable, Pius XII demurred

Poland's attitude was hardly more sympathetic. Hitler had confided to ambassador Josef Lipski on September 20 that he was toying with the idea of solving the Jewish problem in unison with Poland, Hungary and perhaps Romania too by emigration 'to the colonies.

He authorized Goebbels to deliver a powerful and provocative speech in Danzig on June 17, denouncing Polish 'ill treatment' and demanding the city's return to the Reich. Nazi editors were confidentially briefed: 'This is to be a first trial balloon to test the international atmosphere on the settlement of the Danzig question.

Baron von Weizsäcker assessed in his private diary, 'The Führer has no desire to pick a fight with the western powers but – so I'm assured – he cannot yet be sure if a war can be confined to Poland. So my own bet is unchanged, that we'll settle for a peaceful general approach.