This reads like barely disguised bait. If it is real somehow though, the Soviets were too kind. If I knew of a family with castles -plural- and servants, the grandmama would only be mourning her pony for about 3 minutes
I dont really care if its bait. The mental picture it created was to amusing not to share.
They're salvageable, it's better to send them off to reeducation.
invaded my country with the Nazis
Why do I get the feeling impression that she’s misrepresenting what was a country the Soviets liberated from the Nazis?
double genocide theory: the nazis came and killed the Jews, then the Soviets came and killed the nazis
Maybe because most anticommunists have a piss‐poor grasp of history? Hard to say.
If she really had that grindset in her, she would have immediately started working to buy 10 more ponies instead of crying about it for decades🙄
Last castle I cried over losing was when the White Castle shut down
"they took most of my family's properties" such restraint, leaving them alive with a place to live instead of, you know, the opposite.
Frfr kinda wish the Soviets were more brutal so I don’t have to listen to people complain about how they took their stuff.
"Don't you understand! We only had 3 Dachas, a townhouse, and our main estate left!"
Poles are the worst of the anti-communist post-Soviet people, then all of the Baltics, then Romanians. Incredulous, nazi loving scum the lot of them.
The departments of Nord and Pas‐de‐Calais were home to 300,000 Polish immigrants who had arrived throughout the 1930s to fill the shortage of labour created by the high French death toll in the First World War, as well as to escape the repressive régime back in Poland. Over 40,000 Poles worked in the coal‐mining industry and like the majority of their workmates, the Polish miners were affected by the lack of food.
These Polish immigrants were politically divided between, on the one hand, members of the CGT and the sympathisers of the Communist party, and on the other, activists in the Polish organisations that were supported by the Polish authorities and members of catholic religious organisations. The left wing was organised around the Polish speaking section of the French Communist Party and the veterans of the Dabrowski Brigade, who had fought in the Spanish civil war.
In 1936, the Polish groupings in the CGT had 80,000 members, of which 35,000 were in the 56 Polish sections in the Pas‐de‐Calais. Moreover, the majority of catholic Poles in the mines supported the union organisation led by the Communists out of workplace solidarity, seeing this as the best way to defend their common interests. This same solidarity led them to solidly support the strikes.
In January 1941, when the mining companies lengthened the miners’ working day by half an hour, miners in some pits left their posts and refused to work during this extra time; in the mine at l’Escarpelle, the strike call was given by Polish miners. When the mining companies alerted the [Axis] authorities, the ensuing arrests of 53 miners included a number of Polish Communists. During the strike of May–June 1941, Jan Rutkowski and Rudolf Larysz were both members of the central strike committee with many Poles also working on the local strike committees.42
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Imagine spending at least 20 years crying and pissing over your small horse. Kinda doubt the red army was confiscating ponies as well, cause what the hell are they gonna do with a pony?
"with the Nazis" seems to imply they're Polish, and the red army hadn't completed its mass motorization yet in 1939, so it could have been taken for logistics or sent to a farm in Ukraine as a draft animal or something
The 44 years thing makes me think it's one of the Baltic countries actually (Lithuania/Latvia/Estonia).
Comrade General Semyon Budyonny needs more horses for the Red Army's Cavalry.
(Google this man and look at his incredible mustache)
2 soldiers could ride on his mustache, grandma could have kept the pony.
I have a feeling "Amelia Wright" is full of shit. Least eastern-european name ever.
We had to legally change it to avoid family refrences to nazi collaborators. /s
Seinfeld never ended, it just fractured and entered the internet.
WHHHAATS the deal with groypers? Are they subway gropers named Roy? Why are all jokes just portmanteaus now?
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