Poland’s Prime Minister Kaczynski Dares To Mention The War
POLANDS’s prmie minister Jaraslaw Kaczynski accuses the Germans of “incomprehensible crimes” against his country. Poland is in the EU. So too Germany.
Dizzy writes:
Don’t mention the war. I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it. A classic comedy phrase from Basil Fawlty in a series which I suppose, if it was shown now, would probably draw tonnes of complaints about racism, sexism, political incorrectness whilst remaining hilarious funny of course.
“The Germans” is a classic episode where Basil, having concussion, starts saying the wrong things to his German hotel guests and proceeds to goose-step around his dining room whilst doing Hitler impressions and talking about piano wire whilst equaling reminding his staff that they must not “mention the war”. The entire thing culminates, if I remember correctly, like this,
German: Will you please stop talking about the war?
Basil: Why? You started it?
German: No we didn’t.
Basil: Yes you did you invaded Poland.It seems though that someone forgot to tell the Polish Prime Minister at the EU Summit that he probably shouldn’t mention the war (even though they were invaded of course). According to the Mail during discussion on the whole “Poland voting rights issue which Germany says should be based on country size the following was said,
“It was the Germans who inflicted unimaginable injury, terrible harm, on Poles - incomprehensible crimes - and Poles like Germans, while Germans do not like Poles.”
“We are only demanding one thing, that we get back what was taken from us. If Poland had not had to live through the years of 1939-45, Poland would be today looking at the demographics of a country of 66 million.”
God I love the Poles! What with their irritating ability to be drawn in the same group as England at football, their willingness to speak so plainly is diplomatically refreshing. Plus of course we can have German war complex problem together!
June 22nd, 2007 at 1:08 pm
This is the funniest article I read today therefore the comment. I completely agree that speaking out so bluntly is very refreshing. Whats up with that overwhelming political correctness? We are suffocated by it. If Jews can pull holocaust out in every conversation and argument, then Poles can definitely use WWII. Why not? Its all true, so good on them.
As for Germans, well, sometimes you just have to deal with the consequences of your actions. We all do. I can appreciate how inconvenient it is when you try to create an image of savior of Europe while all you want is to control. Sadly, nothing really changed in that regard.
June 22nd, 2007 at 2:45 pm
Der war must be mentioned every second of every day by everyone. We must never be allowed to move on, it must always be hanging round our shoulders like a ghost of Christmas past/present/future all rolled into one. All films should be about der war, all radio programs and all conversation. Europe must remain stuck in the past forever. All future is der war, all present is der war, the only past that ever existed is der war. History started in 1939 and stopped in 1945.
June 22nd, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Veel keep ein velkom in der hillshide… (Should we attack?)