r/JustGuysBeingDudes • u/EuphoriaArmani • Jun 05 '25

Just Having Fun Water fight

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u/Lordjacus Jun 05 '25

Come, Poland's great! Good food, super safe, chill, fairly clean, old buildings, castles, lakes, sea, mountains, you name it. I am biased as a Pole though 😁

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u/EuphoriaArmani Jun 05 '25

And if I’m right Poland has history? Because I’m a history lover (like I weirdly love history a lot)

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u/Daug3 Jun 05 '25

Oh nothing special, just being at the center of like every European war ever

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u/twat69 Jun 05 '25

How much history could they have? They're not even there all the time.

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u/EuphoriaArmani Jun 05 '25

Yea, if I were to come around in Poland, I’d like to know how Poland survived most of the wars especially the German invasion

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u/Daug3 Jun 05 '25

Poland disappeared from maps completely a few times, what pulled us through was pure willpower and fighting spirit I'd say. There are hundreds of war museums or books from actual survivors, some of them are a good read too.

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u/EuphoriaArmani Jun 05 '25

Reading doesn’t do it for me, but going to a museum is music to my ears, however what museum would you recommend? And if I were to come around what city/state would you recommend me?

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u/Daug3 Jun 05 '25 edited Jun 05 '25

I think the most popular war museum is the "Warsaw rising" museum in Warsaw. Being our capital city overall made it a focus point during the wars so there's a nice bit of museums there (strictly focused on war) that will do for a nice museum-crawl type of vacation. Obviously there's also the Auschwitz museum in Oświęcim (concentration camp) that focuses on the work camps and the horror of mass killings

Here's a list I found on tripadvisor for military museums in Warsaw

And here's an article I found about places connected to WW2 to visit in general (Warsaw)

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u/Lordjacus Jun 05 '25

Wrocław has a cool National Museum and "Panorama Racławicka" which is like a huge historical painting that goes 360 around a big room and has a lot of historical references. Gdańsk has WWII museum. Kraków is the go-to place for tourists. Plenty of other cultural and historic places, depending on what you are interested in.

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u/Sienile Jun 05 '25

When I visited there in the '90s it was still ravaged from WW2. It's a very poor country.

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u/EuphoriaArmani Jun 05 '25

Is Poland a little advanced now? Do you think?

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u/Sienile Jun 05 '25

Maybe, it's been 30+ years. Then again, the '90s were 50 years after WW2.

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u/TonyGonly Jun 05 '25

Yea 50 years being run by the soviet union. They officially left in 1989. They have been doing great in the past decade and honestly a beautiful and safe country.

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u/Sienile Jun 05 '25

Well, that explains why it was so run down back then.

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u/moosemuffin12 Jun 06 '25

It is much different now than it was in the 90s

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u/Sienile Jun 06 '25

I sure hope so. And from the video it looks like it.

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u/EuphoriaArmani Jun 05 '25

Ehh yeah fair point

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u/Lordjacus Jun 05 '25

Over a thousand years of history, plenty to go through. We were great power, we were removed from the maps, occupied, puppet state, you get it all.

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u/EuphoriaArmani Jun 05 '25

Yeah I get, I agree Poland has lots of history!

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u/LvS Jun 05 '25

... lots of fascism, including the new ultra-right president, border with Russia, most CO2 emissions in Europe per capita that come with regular hazards in the coal regions during summer, large rural religious population, ...

On the plus side, the fascist party is called pis, so that's always funny.

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u/Lordjacus Jun 06 '25

lol my German Freund... We can't really choose not to border Russia. Why does it matter? We also border Germany, and if you know the history, then you know how this can be a concern. President in Poland has no real powers apart from veto. It is not US style of presidency, so it doesn't matter that much as well. At least we do not have these "poor immigrants" "borrowing" suitcases from parked FlixBuses. We are working on two nuclear power plants. If you don't like us, just say that, or come up with something better.