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@hofimastah

4 ай бұрын

5% of polish people don't have a bathroom in their home. It's a lot but the thumbnail is misrepresenting this number.

@JmKrokY

4 ай бұрын

Always bro

@user-mh2uj7ns6h

4 ай бұрын

The toilet map is fake. The old houses, some of them made of woods were transformed into barns or warehouses on the countyside, they "technically" are considered homes, but factually they are not. You are making videos before even analyzing and verifying information. And also you are German, knowing absolutely nothing about the country and making the video about it you are showing your utter ignorance, lack of will to research topic and your lack of eductaion. So please stop embarrassing yourself and delete this video immediately.

@czwarty7878

4 ай бұрын

@@hofimastah it's straight up misinformation and clickbait, he should take down this video and put up fixed one

@death-istic9586

4 ай бұрын

Love your videos!💚

I just want to clarify few facts: 1. In Poland in 2023 it is extremely hard to find building without a toilet. 2. Map description states "percentage of flats without a toilet" it does not state that those flats have no access to one. For example you may have a old social housing with very small flats with shared toilet/lavatory for each flor of the building. Most of statistical data comes form years prior of 1989(Polish People Republic ). It is possible that data might not have been properly updated because in Poland (unlike in USA) many changes to a private building are not subject to building permit (you just declare that changes are going to be made ). I find it hard to believe that such big percentage of flats has no individual toilets. It leads me to believe this map might be connected to social housing data. 3. Social hosing in Poland is long and interesting story, but in nutshell a lot of buildings for less cooperative tenants (for example drunks )will have shared toilets because government is obliged to give them shelter and it is much cheaper to make a 20 flats per floor with just few toilets and showers. Plus it is easier to maintain and check for damage ( copper piping, radiators and anything that can be ripped out of the wall is a welcome source of income for above mentioned citizens). 4. Why in eastern Poland toilets were outside ? They used to be. In 1920's after defining Russians Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski (polish prime minster , doctor, freemason, Polish Army General) has made it his mission to improve medical standard of living for common people and forced local authorities to encourage building latrines in rural areas. People at first didn't understand the importance of clean water and made fun of him calling those toilets "slawoiki". Why outside ? Because there were no sewage systems in rural parts of Poland. They would dig a pit and put a wooden outhouse/WC on top of it . Later after WWII those pits would evolve to become septic tanks connected to indor toilet. But in many places outhouses were left as additional toilets. Currently almost everyone has access to toilet in Poland. 5. Yes mentally you can see a big difference between different parts of Poland and how people think. You can se influence of prussian, austrian and russian occupation on their mentality and how they behave.

@avishnevsky7394

3 ай бұрын

Same thing about toilets in Ukraine. During soviet times, people in villages were not able to build a new house or extend existing one, indoor toilet was luxury. The only option for villagers was wooden VC (like shed) on top of hole in the ground. Moreover, toilet paper was not available for many people, even in cities. That's why every household loved to read newspapers 😆😆😆 (first toilet paper factory in the USSR was built in 1969) After soviet union collapse, people in villages were able to renovate houses and, as important part of renovation, add indoor toilet, start to use toilet paper etc.

@tomaszzakrzewski3790

3 ай бұрын

According to GUS (statisticall bureau of Poland) in 2021 800k houses doesn't have toilets. So it not a made up story but hard fact from official goverment body.

@Dazaioak

3 ай бұрын

@@tomaszzakrzewski3790 As he said "common lavatory", They have the access to toilets.

@tomaszzakrzewski3790

2 ай бұрын

@@Dazaioak It can be that 100 years old wooden houses, abandoned or where some elderly people still live, have toilets outside. But honestly, I don't know anyone who doesn't have a toilet inside. And I live in Poland. But in a part that has been ruled by Austro-Hungary during the partition :)

@anantea

2 ай бұрын

Also the difference in thinking is mostly rural thing. In cities and especially big cities the difference is not really noticeable imo.

In Poland we used to say "The only maps of Poland where you don't see partitions are geological maps"

@smerfdzikus2334

4 ай бұрын

haha dobre xd. To smutne, jak nasz kraj jest podzielony, pod każdym względem: politycznym, gospodarczym, historycznym...

@tomislawowczy3750

4 ай бұрын

​@@smerfdzikus2334 nic dziwnego, jesteśmy tworem polsko-niemickim

@Pandzikizlasu80

4 ай бұрын

Yes, luckily Trans-European Suture Zone - residue of ancient mountains, from which only Holly Cross Mountains are still visible on the surface, don't correspond to the "partitions" pattern. However this division is still visible on several maps, like income of counties or the Nowak/Kowalski most frequent surname division.

@smerfdzikus2334

4 ай бұрын

@@tomislawowczy3750 No nie zgodzę się. Jesteśmy Polakami. Jasne, zabory zrobiły swoje. Ale mamy własny język, własną historię i kulturę. Nie jesteśmy żadnym tworem tylko narodem polskim.

@ThePresentPast_

4 ай бұрын

Someone sent me a map of soil acidity between the east and the west and there is also a clear division there, so many interesting stories

Couple comments from a native: First of all, you skipped a MAJOR point in this history which was the Napolleonic wars, when Poland briefly gained "independence". After Napolleon was defeated, this French satellite state was occupied by Tzar Russia and the Tzar called himself the King of Poland and the process of unifying this new Poland into Russia began. That's why the so called divide between "Poland A" and "Poland B" doesn't follow the 1795 partition borders, it follows the 1815 ones. Second, minor correction - Gdańsk was Polish prior to partitions, so it wasn't that long gone. However Szczecin and Wrocław haven't been under direct Polish control since the Piast dynasty, so almost 1000 years. Third, minor correction as well - the area in the north east you've shown around 5:00 isn't a big metropolitan area, but rather it's the area where the Lukashenka-caused migrant crisis is the strongest. Although the remaining two red spots are Warszawa, Łódź and Kraków respectively. And in terms of those pesky bathrooms - the eastern Poland is way less urbanized and it's a common practice in the Polish countryside to build so called "latrynas", moving the toilet part of the bathroom outside of the house, for the simple reason that there is no sewage system connected to those remote farms. In general it's not that practical to build bathrooms when you still get your water from a well of sorts. As far as I know, the urban apartments build by communists usually have bathrooms inside. There are also some rare instances where the less "exclusive" flats could have had a bathroom shared with couple of neighbours, but I don't know whether that counts for the statistics.

@moscuadelendaest

3 ай бұрын

What are you on about with the latrynas. I haven't seen a functioning one in a quite a while. There's a thing called a 'septic tank'...

@ten_tego_teges

3 ай бұрын

The area in the North-East is populated by Orthodox and/or Belarusian speaking Belarusians and Muslim Tatars, who are not keen on a party centring its message around Poland+Catholicism. They've been voting liberal long before the migrant crisis.

@ten_tego_teges

3 ай бұрын

@@moscuadelendaest Same, I have never seen that anywhere...

@jerzyjerzykowski1281

3 ай бұрын

Wrocław was Polish, then Czech and only for the last 200 years German.

@cheonan-si

3 ай бұрын

I have a question. Is Poland a left-wing nationalist country?

In Poland we have a running joke about, when we see a map of Poland no matter of the subject it show we say: "widać zabory" - it mean: we can cleary see partitions of Poland time period. We even use this joke phrase when the weather forecast is show.

@AltIng9154

3 ай бұрын

The weather forcast follows old borders.... 😊

From 2020 data the percentage of homes with indoor toilets in Poland is 94%. Of remaining 6% majority comes from pre-war tenements, which were built with shared toilets per floor - not outhouses. First 13 seconds of your video and it's already nonsense

@user-mh2uj7ns6h

4 ай бұрын

He really needs to delete this video. Sit back and reflect on his life. Lying and spreading false information to make money out of it should never be tolerated

@czwarty7878

4 ай бұрын

@@user-mh2uj7ns6h I think I know what could be up with it. He might not lie, but mistaken "percentage of houses connected to municipal sewerage" with "percentage of indoor plumbing (as in, toilets)". Thing is, many houses in country are not connected to sewerage, but have septic tanks. But this is the same in US or Germany, there many countryside houses have septic tanks too - but nobody would say "US countryside doesn't have toilets", it's insane. If it's honest mistake then okay, but he should delete the video, edit it and put it up again. And get rid of this horrible misinformation clickbait miniature that makes Poland seem like India of Europe, what the hell is even that?

@user-mh2uj7ns6h

4 ай бұрын

@@czwarty7878 When you want to make a money out of video you play and expert about you need to first research the topic properly

@overlord165

4 ай бұрын

Good point

@Vielenberg

4 ай бұрын

The map clearly shows those 6% are in the rural areas were there are no tenement houses. The houses without bathrooms are mostly wooden houses occupied by the older generation.

FYI its not that these houses dont have bathrooms and ppl crap in outhouses. its just that in these areas rarely the buildings (kamienice) to have a shared bathroom for multiple people living on the same floor (kind of like bathrooms in cheap hotels where you have to go out of your room and use a shared bathroom) BUT thats still not the majority, even in the areas that are in white, look at key of this map, its kinda ridiculous, they put 56%-80% in the same colour on the key. even in the white areas, the majority of people still have their own bathrooms in their house. basically for all the map keys, its just kind of ridiculous colouring, same with the housing one, they put 30%-80% in the same colour, thats just stupid.

@EruWan_Ernest

4 ай бұрын

It's a map that classify people connected to city/public sewer system and ones that have own septic tanks.

@sarantis1995

4 ай бұрын

​@@EruWan_Ernest is it? That's not the same as having own toilet, by any means

@adrianxx7363

4 ай бұрын

@@sarantis1995yes , but it can’t be map about toilet access, because nobody asked about it in last census like Mr. Pifczyk claim on X. They asked only about source of running water

@adrianxx7363

4 ай бұрын

PS I checked it because by statistics eastern Poland currently start to overtake western in average income. And I think just legend for this map which Mr. Pifczyk found was mistake of GUS (Polish statistic bureau). I posted that to Mr. Pifczyk but he didnt wanna talk about this. Probably „fame” is more important 😅

@chud-of4yb

4 ай бұрын

Every single map in this video is cherry picked manipulated data, this video was made by an idiot for idiots.

As a polish person who's family lives not far from Przemysl I can confirm that my parents didn't have a toilet indoors when they were growing up simply because it was cheaper to build a small shack with a bench and a hole in it rather than buy pipes, a ceramic toilet, water pump, make a septic tank out of concrete and also connect the well to the house with pipes. To my grandparents this would be quite an investment and considering they were still in process of building their 3 story house by hand, they just didn't have the time or money. However now I can proudly say they installed toilet around 17-20 years ago😁.

@kapitanXbomber1989

3 ай бұрын

This is so Polish :D "No indoor toilet? No problem, but I must build a three-story house because it must be larger than the neighbor's house."

@whfn2277

3 ай бұрын

@@kapitanXbomber1989 my neighbour's house is my grandads brothers house which is also massive haha, also don't forget the carpentry "shed" which is two stories but that was built a couple years after the 3 story 😂

@pawemarciniak4929

3 ай бұрын

@@kapitanXbomber1989 It's so Polish: we think about our children and their grandchildren, but not about ourselves, and the house is supposed to serve future generations. Unfortunately, we are westernizing and becoming stupid, egoistic people convinced of their intellectual and moral superiority, just like Westerners.

@bunEmom

2 ай бұрын

In the USA, we use the word "outhouse" for a "small shack with a bench and a hole". Many farms lacked indoor toilets until the 1940s, or even 1950s. For toilet paper, they'd use pages ripped out an old department store catalog (e.g. Sears Roebuck). We still have outhouses today (with modern toilet paper) at nature/hiking areas, lakes, etc. that don't have septic systems;

@yurikoshokugan4395

2 ай бұрын

przemysl- the most beautiful Polish city :)

I'm Polish and I want to say something about the toilets. These were just easier to make outside, because when the houses on the eastern part of Poland were built, in many places there were just no sewers. Have a nice day :)

@PaulRakoczi

3 ай бұрын

According to eurostat, back in 2017 which was 7 years ago, Poland had 2% of households without bathroom indoors. Lets not pretend like Poland is the same as Russia where it was 13% ☠

@sharpasacueball

3 ай бұрын

This is the same thing I saw in south east asia and india

@VashDs

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, thats what i was about to say. Same way someone could be suprised of having dugout, since there are fridges right? Well yah... if theres electricity.

@paulb7207

3 ай бұрын

excuses.

@VashDs

3 ай бұрын

What?@@paulb7207

As we say "widać zabory" The division is well known and a meme of sorts.

@Zestrayswede

4 ай бұрын

In our Discord server we call it the Ghost of Prussia... or at least that's how I was introduced to the meme.

@chud-of4yb

4 ай бұрын

Only western idiots say that to tap themselves on the back about how cool you think you are.

@DarwinskiYT

4 ай бұрын

Yeah I’ve been to that subreddit before

@asamniewiem3040

4 ай бұрын

Ty też z polski!

@Vatras888

4 ай бұрын

We say that? I dont think so. It is not a proverb. It is just a casual sentence.

Because when Russia and Austria owned the Eastern parts, they didn't care for them as they were still ethnically Polish, so their development was slow over those 100+ years of Poland being occupied. Meanwhile the "German" half was treated not as a foreign subject, but as an integral part of Germany as it was ethnically German in many areas and colonised by Germans in others, so it received far more development and industrialisation. It also helped that Germany was an industrial power far more so than Austria or Russia too, so naturally the German areas would be more industrialised, "modern" and western. Them being more transient and therefore less traditional and more progressive also makes a lot of sense.

@defendfreedom1390

4 ай бұрын

Germany wanted to germanize, Russia Wanted to russify, but Germany had something called Rule of Law. Germany was just a better organized country.

@JamesL42

4 ай бұрын

@@defendfreedom1390 True but do also remember Poles were also simply not a majority in most of the regions of what is now Western Poland, as it was a German majority, so again I do think that plays a massive role in why the west turned out more developed. In general, states are more incentivised to help their majority cultures and to care less for the minority groups. This also explains why it's also true that the former Austrian (south) Poland, where cultural assimilation was less of a driving force than in Russian Poland, and where it was also a very ordered country like German Poland, still to this day has more in common with the east than the west.

@JesusMagicPanties

4 ай бұрын

@@JamesL42 "Western Poland" consists of lands that belonged to Poland before the war like Wielkopolska (Poznań) which was always ethnically Polish despite Germanization and was the site of the only successful, Polish national uprising ( "driving out" the Germans after WWI). As well as consists of former East German lands "granted" to Poland by Stalin theoretically in exchange for the eastern lands taken away - but really to create a root of Polish-German conflict for a long time , which Russia would play out geostrategically to its advantage. These lands are populated with people deported from eastern Poland taken away by the Soviets. So the argument about "German civilizational influence" as a reason for a progressive political stance on this population completely collapses, because it never had anything to do with Germany.

@JamesL42

4 ай бұрын

@@JesusMagicPanties I'm aware of this, sorry if I offended by acting like Germany used to always own that land, I'm aware that originally the land that is now Polish that was German was not always German and as I think I even mentioned, was colonised by Germans over many years. Indeed I don't think it has anything to do with Germany as a Civilisation, it simply has to do with the fact more Germans lived in German Poland than Austrians lived in Austrian Poland or Russians lived in Russian Poland. It has nothing to do with German Civilisation and I even pointed that out in another comment where I talk about how Austrian Poland still votes alongside Eastern Poland despite being occupied by Germans as well.

@Laretz

4 ай бұрын

But the Germans in Poland still felt as if they were dealing with an inferior race to be “improved upon”, and it was Prussian poles that wanted to distinguish themselves from Russian poles; German economist Johann Karl Rodbertus-Jagetzow ([1861] 1890: 280-81), wrote “We are a colonizing people. But our colonies are not overseas, they are grafted directly onto the trunk of our race: east of Elba they reach Lake Peipus and the most southeastern corner of the Carpathian mountains […]. Centuries ago in Lusatia, Silesia and Pomerania we freed them from that serfdom within which Russia still flounders today.” Quoting from Petri (2018: 107), “Not so paradoxically, for these Prussian Polish the usurping foreigner became a reason to not only protest, but also to proudly distinguish themselves from the poor conationals forced to live in underdeveloped conditions under the rule of the “anachronistic” Tsarist regime”

We have exactly the same situation in Romania, where borders of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire are clearly visible in all these aspects of society, social development, economics, political choices, not to mention architecture...

@evilmonkeyfromchriscloset1211

3 ай бұрын

Fascinating. And which areas are thought to be more conservative or progressive, more developed or undeveloped?

@arondebreceni9464

3 ай бұрын

Transylvania was never part of Romania, it only became part of Romania after the treaty following WW1.

@belagarzo63

3 ай бұрын

Transylvania, as part of the Kingdom of Hungary for 1000 years, is still a better place. In the 13th century, the Vlachs of Slavic origin came under the control of the Cumans in the area beyond the Carpathians from the Balkan mountain peoples. After 150 years of genocide by the Turks, which destroyed half of the Hungarian population, they began to infiltrate Transylvania. They lived much better there than in their original kingdom founded in 1881 with the German king. Entering the war on the last day of WWI, Transylvania was annexed as a "territory returning to the motherland" along with 3 million Hungarians. The "returnee" area was almost as big as Romania at the time. Not to mention the architecture, for the known reason. Social aspects, social development, economics, political decisions are still strongly rooted in the remnants of the former communist dictatorship and anti-Hungarianism as a permanent trump card.

@bigbarry8343

3 ай бұрын

the guy is obviously lying, he must be funded by powerful german lobby working for decades to smear Poland and Polish people.

@Donkeypapuas

3 ай бұрын

​@@belagarzo63 Really? It was part of a Kingdom who disapeared after Mohacs? And reapered only at 1867. So for you a milrnium is equal to 600.

Silesia was extremely well suited for industrialization: coal, iron ore, and rivers (for transport).

@AltIng9154

3 ай бұрын

And skilled people!

@simonsadler9360

3 ай бұрын

There us a plant with the name similar to Silesia that indicates copper ore nearby .

@AltIng9154

3 ай бұрын

@@simonsadler9360 Interesting! The mountains around there were literally called Ore Mountains by the Germans. Obviously worthless stuff.... ok, the Ore Mountains are at the border of Saxony... but Silesia is not far East. The same kind of old mountains.

@freightntether8656

2 ай бұрын

That right. There were 10% of analphabets in Warsaw and only 1% in Silesia in 1918. Poles are basically uneducated Russians with different language.

Okay but the thumbnail is straight up a clickbait, there are toilets everywhere in Poland

@ethandouro4334

4 ай бұрын

"there are toilets everywhere in Poland." ☝️🤓

@Pidalin

4 ай бұрын

true, as a tourist in Poland, I don't have to pee in bush like here in Czechia where all toilets are locked or there is no toilet at all 😀

@Pawel_Mrozek

4 ай бұрын

This map showed the state immediately after World War II. The author did not know this because the Polish source of this map did not specify it. Well, fuckup, we looked like backwards again XD

@smithcoder6834

4 ай бұрын

there are toilets everywhere but..... not every toilet have toilet paper and fresh newspaper .. only those on west side

@ShankTrix

4 ай бұрын

The map has percentages ranging from 56-80%, so even if there were 75% toilets everywhere in Poland it would be in the same color as 60%, the map is misleading as it does not have an accurate range.

In post-war western Poland, the lands of the expropriated and expelled Germans were only privatized to a small extent and nationalized to a large extent, in contrast to the old Polish regions. This explains the difference in the extent of collectivization between the two parts of the country during the communist period.

@heartsofiron4ever

4 ай бұрын

While a lot of Poles didn't like the idea of losing their old eastern homeland and moving to the new western lands, which felt complety German. The German lands were a lot more developed and industrialized.

@tancreddehauteville764

4 ай бұрын

@@heartsofiron4ever That was the whole point as to why the Polish communist government wanted the border to be pushed as far west as possible.

@Slashplite

4 ай бұрын

Its one of the few elements , but there is no simple answer

@maxxus9119

4 ай бұрын

it was like when the ussr took kaliningrad.

@leoprg5330

4 ай бұрын

So who owns the farming land in western Poland now, if not individuals? Corporations, state, church? Here in Czechia, most of land confiscated during communism was privatized to previous owners, often they resold it or rent it to bigger farmers, that's why we have much bigger average size of farming land per one farm compering to Austria etc

I am a portuguese living in Poland for 20 years, in Malopolska, and I am a Geography teacher - hence, I do pay attention to stats. The information you are trying to pass is wrong, as is the idea behind it. Certainly, most houses have bathrooms inside - what many of these houses have is septic tanks, rather than being connected to the sewage network, which for statistical purposes is often perceived as not having sewage at all, since you do not pay taxes for it. Please, inform yourself better before saying such things... or just visit the places first!

@user-mh2uj7ns6h

2 ай бұрын

He's literally makibg money out of disinfomation and poor research, but KZread enables this because of clicks. It's unfair.

@---.-----

5 күн бұрын

​@@user-mh2uj7ns6hhe is surely gay.

I'm a grandson of people, who were forced to move to western Poland. I think it's worth to discuss, how differently communist government treated those new lands, compared to eastern Poland These new lands were called in 1940s "Ziemie odzyskane" / "Recovered Territories" (there is a wiki page on that if you want to learn more). The name "recovered" was chosen for purely propaganda and political reasons to promote within society the idea that these are actually Polish territories and to build the sense of unity across whole country. Some of those areas where truly Polish with majority of Polish people etc, but some (like Szczecin) were last time under Polish ruling 800 years ago. They tried to recreate the social bonds on these areas, of course in communist manner. So they built whole national farming system etc.. Also, the whole towns were moved "together", so actually you knew your neighbors after migration as they had been living nearby before the migration. But still, they didn't feel attachment to their land, so they were more willing to move to one of newly built industrial areas. And communists were developing several such centers. That's why my grandparents moved from country to smaller city (Konin), where my grandfather became mine equipment engineer and my grandmother became railway worker. Anyway, I'm a bit surprised that Szymon found those maps so late. The "you can see occupations" ("Widać zabory") has been a meme in Poland for 10+ years. You can look for hashtag #widaczabory or #widaćzabory to see plenty of those maps

@EgonFreeman

4 ай бұрын

Actually, this clear divide has been a "meme" for far longer. Calling western Poland "Poland A" and the eastern range "Poland B" has been a thing _for decades._ The customary areas in reference aren't as nicely aligned with the old borders, but the point gets across.

@recordofragnarokisapurehyp6660

4 ай бұрын

Kolego, zabory widać było już w II RP (był wtedy podział na Polskę A i Polskę B, czasem dodawano Polskę C, czyli dalekie Kresy Wschodnie).

@recordofragnarokisapurehyp6660

4 ай бұрын

​@@EgonFreemanIn my opinion, this division doesn't make that much sense as the western Polish territories (Western Pommerania, Lubuskie and Lower Silesia) were never part of territories which were partiated.

@wolfik2552

4 ай бұрын

were not these lands polish before so the term is half true

@qj0n

4 ай бұрын

@@wolfik2552 they were long time ago, some claims go back to Piast dynasty (X-XII centuries). Culture and language had been German there for a long time

Breslau didn't "become" Wrocław. Silesia-Schlesien-Śląsk-Ślůnsk as a border region between German states, Poland, Czech and Austria has complicated history. The city was probably founded by the Czech duke Vratislav I. In Czech language, Wrocław is literally Vratislav. It was here that great European conflicts took place: the Hussite Wars, the Thirty Years' War, the Silesian Wars, the Napoleonic Wars and finally the fighting during World War II in 1945. Before 1945 Wrocław/Breslau had German and Polish history.

@pawew.6830

4 ай бұрын

Also Wrocław (Breslau) was longer in history ruled by Czech or Poles, than by Germans.

@ellidominusser1138

4 ай бұрын

Ruled yes. ​@@pawew.6830

@nightytime

4 ай бұрын

Constantinople didn't "become" Istanbul either.

@lisamirako1073

4 ай бұрын

In the early and high Middle Ages, there were no nation states in the modern sense. The borders of the territories were determined by the success of the rulers in wars or marriages, not by the nationality of the inhabitants. Today's city of Wrocław (Breslau), in its function as an important commercial, industrial and administrative city with its typical architecture, has been developing since the 13th century. In all the centuries since then until 1945, it was inhabited and developed almost exclusively by Germans. This only changed when the Germans were forcibly expelled after the Second World War. Even though the city now belongs to Poland as a result of the Second World War, I cannot understand why history has to be bent in this way. The "Polish" history of Wroclaw in the early Middle Ages has no direct connection to the modern history of Poland, but since the late Middle Ages Breslau has always been part of German history.

@semitangent

4 ай бұрын

@@pawew.6830 The interesting thing here is that while Wrocław has indeed been longer ruled by non-Germans, it has been German for the longest time in recent history: 1335 - 1945 it has been a German city (in the widest sense).

One small criticism, the statistic maps often look more like the pre-WW1 congress poland borders, but in your analysis you used the WW1-WW2 borders and how that changed. Seems like a tiny oversight but it could jeopardize the entirety of the analysis

@usuario2967

4 ай бұрын

the russian bot down replying to ou really got angry

@AndyFromBeaverton

4 ай бұрын

@@usuario2967 Go find somewhere else to feel important.

@Andreyas-ou7fq

4 ай бұрын

​@@Jk-qx7gmWhat do you expect from a youtube video. Go watch a documentary if you don't want it to be summarized and simplified. This vid is made for everyone and not only history geeks.

@ShankTrix

4 ай бұрын

@@Andreyas-ou7fq This video is made in style of Johnny Harris who is know in the history community to be very inaccurate and following in his shoes, this youtuber has also shown many inaccuracies in his analysis, I expect an accurate video when talking about a serious topic like this and not dumbing it down just to make it more "understandable" and 'relatable". Even if it is not a documentary, many of the points he makes are false and that should not be the case when he claims he is explaining the story of the map he presented.

@ipodman1910

4 ай бұрын

His “analysis” is complete bogus. He doesn’t understand anything about Poland…

I live in a medium-sized city in western Poland. I have my theory why western Poland is less conservative and more open to the world. It must be remembered that a huge part of the ancestors of the inhabitants of western Poland come from the very conservative east. After the war, my city was inhabited by people resettled from Vilnius, Lviv, Brest, Poznan and Lublin. Many soldiers from the Polish army in the west also settled there, as well as many forced Polish laborers returning from Germany. Various traditions, cultures and dialects met in one city. Families from different regions of pre-war Poland lived in one house. All families suffered serious wounds from the German and Russian occupation. They learned to live together and tolerate regional traditions and customs brought from their home regions. A Catholic lived next to a communist atheist, a believing communist, an Orthodox Christian or a Greek Catholic. From birth, we were aware that someone might have a different way of life.

@hishamalaker491

4 ай бұрын

Wasnt Western Poland Ethnically German for centuries?

@samsara4085

4 ай бұрын

​@@hishamalaker491 depending which centuries we are talking about.

@g.peters244

4 ай бұрын

@@hishamalaker491It depends on which period of history and which region you are asking. History is not black and white, especially in the center of Europe. There were regions that retained the vast majority of their Polish (or if you prefer slavic) character until World War II. Some regions were fully Germanized and colonized by Germans already in the Middle Ages, and other regions only until the 19th century. It is also difficult to talk about German nationality or language in relation to the times before 1871... By the way - two "Germans", actually Saxons, were Polish kings :)

@tomaszs-hq1ql

4 ай бұрын

​@@samsara4085he is not interested that slavs had been living for centuries up to Laba River, and Berlin was founded by slavs.

@keineahnung5466

4 ай бұрын

@@hishamalaker491It's always how you look at it. The towns were (in the 19th century) almost always German, but this only means that the determining layer was German. The Poles were the staff. In the countryside it looked similar, German large ground owners owned the land and Poles worked it. My grandmother, who came from Silesia, always told me about her childhood, her father was the doctor in a small town, the mayor, the priest and other influential people were Germans, the rest were Poles. In other words, a very colonialist society.

My Greate Grandfather always said " You don't shit where you eat" in polish " Nie sraj tam gdzie jesz". So toilets were built outside of the house.

The fact that the Congress Poland was completely omitted kinda ruins the whole video.

@PizzaPartify

4 ай бұрын

what is Congress Poland ?

@Artur_M.

4 ай бұрын

@PizzaPartify The unofficial name of the Kingdom of Poland in personal union with the Russian Empire - a state created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815, as part of reorganizing Europe after the Napoleonic Wars. It included great powers deciding what to do with the "Polish question" and the Duchy of Warsaw, which Napoleon established on Polish lands. Congress Poland got absorbed into the Russian Empire proper by 1832. Here's a video explaining it all: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pqWGq6esdsWWhdo.htmlsi=c9FCmvBqANk90rG9 Interestingly, it was also made by a German, but one who has a genuine interest in Polish history and does proper research. The Congress of Vienna also established the Grand Duchy of Poznań/Posen as Polish autonomy within the Kingdom of Prussia and made Kraków an independent city-state Republic. Both survived until the 1840s. There are videos about both on the same channel.

@MatthewTheWanderer

4 ай бұрын

@@Artur_M. Also, Congress Poland's borders were almost identical to the area of Eastern Poland that stands out on all of these maps.

@ipodman1910

4 ай бұрын

The whole video is crap and just a smearing campaign against Poles who love family and traditional values.

@ericcarlson3746

4 ай бұрын

it was Russian occupied and eventually more and more Russified wasn't it?

Wroclaw is pronounced "Vro-tswaf", not "Vro-klau".

@marlenakiepinska1190

4 ай бұрын

it came from Bres-lau

@Zzzooooppp

4 ай бұрын

⁠@@marlenakiepinska1190no it didn’t, it came from Czech, and the Latinized version. German had less than nothing to do with it.

@marlenakiepinska1190

4 ай бұрын

@@Zzzooooppp I only said it was because of that how they've pronounce Breslau, I didn't even thought of Germans, they mean very little to me

@Zzzooooppp

4 ай бұрын

@@marlenakiepinska1190 I didn’t mention Germans, I mentioned their language, like you did

@mad_max21

4 ай бұрын

Well, the Poles need to fix their words, don't they?

This title is misleading. It implies that half the country doesnt have a indoor bathroom... this map just shows that theres more outhouses in the eastern part, the country side..

An often overlooked reason for the partitions of Poland is that Poland has Europes first modern democratic constitution… you think neighbors who are all basically monarchs want that type of ideology to spread??

@cosmokramer3081

4 ай бұрын

Yeah but it's Poland's fault for sitting there in the center of Europe all juicy and ready for integration into other states, don't you find so?

@ericcarlson3746

4 ай бұрын

didnt they implement the constitution when the 2nd partition had already happened?

@Artur_M.

4 ай бұрын

@ericcarlson3746 Nope, the first partition was in 1772. The Constitution was implemented in 1791 (as the culmination of other reforms going one since 1788, or even since 1773, depending on how you look on it). The second partition was in 1793, after the war with Russia in 1792, known as the War in Defense of the Constitution. The way it's usually presented is that the first partition was "Poland's fault" for not reforming itself, and the second was also "Poland's fault" for reforming itself, thus threatening the poor little russia and "provoking" it to invade. The third partition happened because most of the nation, especially the Army, didn't like it when the King prematurely capitulated and a small group of rich conservative nobles collaborating with Muscovites were put in charge of what was left of the Commonwealth (and were gradually disbanding what was left of said Army), so they rose up in 1794 under the lead of Tadeusz Kościuszko - a hero of not only the war of 1792 but also the American Revolution. But the insurrection eventually lost. Anyway, no matter what we do, it's always our fault when we get partitioned.

@julianshepherd2038

4 ай бұрын

​@@cosmokramer3081when Poland Lithuania was powerful it was happy to invade Moscow. Russians don't even want to forgive and forget.

@julianshepherd2038

4 ай бұрын

​@@Artur_M.And Iceland Parliament

Just to clarify something. The part when you've showed that the big cities vote not for conservative party was somewhat misleading. The place that you highlighted in the video has a lot of Belarusian minority that is not fond of conservatism and national catholicism

@sirrathersplendid4825

4 ай бұрын

Yes, there was a big blob near Bialystok and the Belarusian border, which looked like a major city, whereas this area is in reality very rural.

@ThePresentPast_

4 ай бұрын

Yes I should have mentioned that

@ipodman1910

4 ай бұрын

@@ThePresentPast_you should stop lying. The divide is alongside culture and politics. People loving tradition and family values versus brainwashed resettlers

@varimatra2088

4 ай бұрын

Hi as a non european i am confused i thought Belarus would bee the most conservative people there

@ipodman1910

4 ай бұрын

@@varimatra2088 not true. Belarusians had been a subject of soviet genocide and cultural destruction. Homo sovieticus mindset is prevalent there… nothing to do with traditionalism…

3:28 Wroclaw is pronounced "Vrots-lav" (sort of, more like "Vrots-wav"). You were wise not to attempt Szczecin.

@scvcebc

4 ай бұрын

I took a couple of online Polish classes last year. I would pronounce it SH CH ETS IN (but as one syllable!) At one point, I complained to the instructor that my mouth was just too old too learn to make all those sounds together! She said to keep listening and practicing.

@sirrathersplendid4825

4 ай бұрын

Szczecin is actually quite similar to the German pronunciation, biggest difference being the “chin” at the end instead of “tin”.

@Pidalin

4 ай бұрын

only correct name is Vratislav 😀

@Ass_of_Amalek

4 ай бұрын

breslau and stettin, easy.

@Zzzooooppp

4 ай бұрын

@@Ass_of_Amalekexcept you didn’t pronounce Stettin with a SH

I,m English, I have lived in Eastern Poland for the last 15 years.........maybe 15 years ago you could find people who had an outdoor toilet IN VILLAGES....hear that ?? I shouted....IN VILLAGES and that is because the traditional farmhouse was built around one big barn, the living part was one half of the barn and the other half was given over to animals downstairs and feed was kep upstairs.....the hot animals kept that inner wall warm.....there was a passageway through the barn from the house part...to go to the toilet you went through to a small room which was the toilet and your faeces etc went into the same pit out side where the cow poop went, it all mixed and was put on the land. I have only last year gained access to 'Town' water.....I have previously (indeed still do) use my well......I have a proper toilet, bath shower and bidet.....My water is simply pumped from a well and my wastes go to a cess pit, which I have to have pumped out every few years. Does that map say that I do not have a proper toilet.

@user-xm6zs6ez6i

Ай бұрын

In England, even now, cold water is not combined with hot water and there is no central heating.

@Pinzpilot101

Ай бұрын

@@user-xm6zs6ez6i Ha ha I lived in UK and I had central heating, powered by Gas....I had hot water combined with cold...but older systems that are still working just fine are kept working in the old way.

Modern Poland borders sure do look different from Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, but aside from addition of East Prussia (the northeastern region) it's actually pretty close to what the first borders of Poland looked like (under the king Bolesław Chrobry). The areas west were under German rule for a long time, but they were originally (well, at least if we take only the last 1000 years into account) within Poland's borders with a mix of slavic and germanic ethnicity (during a large part of the middle ages it used to be that city dwellers were often German speakers and those living in the country spoke Polish. It was really a time when ethnicity didn't matter that much, nations in a modern sense are a rather new concept of the last 200 years or so. You were a subject of your king and you didn't care that much if he's even speaking the same language as you, in feudalism you felt more community and union with people from the same social strata as yours rather than ethnicity)

I'm not sure about other cities mentioned at 3:22 but regarding Wrocław/Breslau it's actually the other way around. We are not sure who founded the city, there is a debate between it being founded by Czech prince Vratislav I (hence the name, Vratislavia= Wrocław) or later Polish princes (940 and 985 are mostly mentioned). The German name, Breslau, came much later as a slightly incorrect translation of Czech/Polish/Latin name to German.

@Ultima-Signa

4 ай бұрын

Doesn’t matter as it still became known as Wrocław ever since 1945 while before that it was known as Breslau due to the city having a German majority for like at least 8 centuries. Also there really is no debate about that. Never heard of it until this video where poles claimed it in the comments… until now it’s been clear that a Czech founded the *SETTLEMENT where later the city had been founded (by Germans and according to German city law).

@ipodman1910

4 ай бұрын

@@Ultima-Signain your imagination only…

@therat1117

4 ай бұрын

It's the same with Szczecin. It was originally Polish (or at least Slavic) land until the 1100s, when Germans started progressively engaging in settler-colonialism and brutal religiously-motivated violence in Eastern Europe. Danzig is similarly a German corruption of Gdansk, which was recorded as the name of the area prior to the 1100s.

@fe-jo

4 ай бұрын

⁠@@therat1117Very strange to think about such things as ‚Polish‘ or ‚German‘ sentiment in 1100.

@therat1117

4 ай бұрын

​@@fe-jo Languages and cultures that called themselves 'Deutsche' and 'Polski' existed in 1100. There was a whole 'Kingdom of Poland' at the time. Maybe read a book?

I'm sorry, but this video is very shallow in some aspects. You jump from 1795 straight to 1922 and then attempt to analyse and explain the lasting legacy of pre-1918 imperial borders. But anyone paying attention can see that these borders look nothing like those in 1795. That's because they were drawn in 1815 at the Congress of Vienna, one of many important things you didn't address at all. At around 5:00 you highlighted five areas outside of Western Poland, where the opposition decisively won, describing them as bigger cities. This applies to three of them: Kraków, Łódź (my city), and Warsaw with the surrounding area, but very much *not* to the two in the very east. That considerable area by the Belarusian border, aside from the middle-sized city of Białystok, is very rural. It even includes the Białowieża primaeval forest. And that part in the very south-eastern corner of the country is an even more sparsely populated relative wilderness of the Bieszczady Mountains. It would suggest that other factors might be at play beyond the simple "rural areas are conservative, urban areas are progressive". But why let complex reality get in the way of simplistic explanations? Before anyone asks, no, I'm not a PiS supporter. I strongly recommend checking out the channel Sir Manatee. It's run by a German history student from Göttingen, who (among other topics) made several very good videos about Polish history in the XIX and early XX centuries, including its intersections with German history. He actually bothered to learn how to pronounce Polish names before attempting to educate the world about Poland. Imagine that. Speaking of pronunciation, I also recommend the video "How to read in Czech and Polish" made by an Australian. It's not that hard: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pKOck5adqqfTZqg.html

Wprowadzanie ludzi w błąd. Przyjedźcie do Polski zobaczycie jak tu jest pokazywanie map że nie ma toalety w domach to jakaś paranoja. Nie znam domu gdzie nie ma toalety nawet na wsi tak samo telefon i wodociągi są prawie wszędzie.

@mskiptr

4 ай бұрын

To pewnie było jakiejś pół procenta vs jeden promil albo coś…

@mattiwet5526

4 ай бұрын

U mnie sra sie z balkonu i glosuje na PIS.

@technouber

4 ай бұрын

Moi dziadkowie w lubelskim nadal nie mają toalety w domu tylko tzw. drewnianą sławojkę na zewnątrz. Podobnie jak wiele innych domów na tej wsi i okolicznych wsiach.

@cyrkielnetwork

4 ай бұрын

Wiele starszych domów nie ma toalety. Mój Dzidek budował nowy dom w latach 70 i nie chciał toalety w domu, bo uważał, że nie należy załatwiać potrzeb fizjologicznych w domu. Dopiero 20 lat później po wielu kłótniach jego syn zrobił toaletę w domu, ale dziadek jeszcze przez wiele lat chodził do sławojki za stodołą.

@technouber

4 ай бұрын

Właśnie sprawdziłem w Banku Danych Lokalnych i mapa wygląda na prawdziwą. W mojej rodzinnej gminie w lubelskim niecałe 18% mieszkań i domów nie ma łazienki, brzmi to dość realistycznie. Zamiast fikać i odpalać husarię to pogadaj z danymi, ich nie przekonasz.

Of course, there are many reasons why toilets were not built in-house, but toilets outside are more useful on a farm. You work on the farm for the whole day, so you don't want to get into the house to pee/poo or wash yourself. In Silesia where I live many people had toilets in-house and outside. In-house - because most people were factory workers, outside - because sometimes they still had some land, goats/rabbits - so toilet outside was more convenient when they were taking care of their little farm (my grandpas are an example).

You are first person that pointed that people on the west of Poland really are from the far east ex-territory. Thank you for video!

@awuma

4 ай бұрын

Yes, they came from the areas annexed by Stalin. However, two million or more were deported to Siberia, Kazachstan etc., of whom between 100,000 to 200,000 got out through the Middle East after Barbarossa. Another 100,000 or so were slaughtered by the Ukrainians. A lot of Ukrainians were deported from Poland to Ukraine after WWII. One thing the video didn't mention is the possibility that the Eastern backwardness is related to Russian passivity in the face of autocracy and theocracy.

@eqramer

4 ай бұрын

not really. that is an old stereotype. in fact only around 25-30 percent of settlerts came from Easterm Borderlines.

@hansjorgkunde3772

4 ай бұрын

I found that out in1991. I made my Diploma in CS together with a Pole from Danzig/Gdansk. He told me that his parents lived in eastern Poland roughly 100km east of Lwow and got forcefully expelled from the region.

@qj0n

4 ай бұрын

@@hansjorgkunde3772 I live in Gdańsk and my grandparents where expelled from those regions. If you studied with Kubica then he's my uncle ;)

@hansjorgkunde3772

4 ай бұрын

@@qj0n sadly no, but there were many who took the chance to study at a German University or Fachhochschule after the fall of the Iron Curtain. The sad thing were also my parents came from Pomerania 80km east of Stettin. So were driven out of their homeland. That Poles suffered the same fate was never mentioned by my parents. Maybe they did not know or did not care, i can not judge it.

I've always been furious of the fact there's no train connection between Eindhoven and Antwerp..... Turns out there has never ever been a direct connection between Eindhoven and Antwerp. Mediaeval trade routes always went via Maastricht or Den Bosch/Tilburg/Breda. Which is reflected in the train network that exists today. You still have to go through Tilburg and Breda before you can get to Antwerp from Eindhoven by train. Mediaeval and maybe even Roman trade routes literally affect the fact that i can't take a direct train from Eindhoven to Antwerp! Flixbus is the big exception though. They are the only ones who do a Eindhoven-Antwerp connection. But the fact no train connection exists between the two. It literally reflects mediaeval trade routes and I love that!

@ThePresentPast_

4 ай бұрын

😮

@JanHouben

4 ай бұрын

Until they rise of Philips and DAF, Eindhoven was only a smalle village, so there was no reason for a direct rail connection... later there was a freight rail line from Eindhoven to Valkenswaard and across the belgian borders. This line was closed in the 60's. In recent years, local politicians from both countries have been lobbying to reopen the line from Weert to Antwerp for passenger rail. So with a bit of luck, you will soon be able to take a train with 1 change in Weert. But I'm not sure if that will be faster than your current route... Another alternative is to take a bus of car to Neerpelt or Lommel (not sure what is the easiest) and take the Belgian train there... (I just happend to read this comment, not entirely sure how it is related to a movie about Poland ☺️)

@robertskrzynski2768

4 ай бұрын

Draw a line from Lublin to Dublin and see how many old settlements contain the letters "lin" in the name. I was told at school in the 60's that it indicated a line of trading spots at the edge of the melting European ice sheet.

@user-bh9pv5hp6y

3 ай бұрын

@@robertskrzynski2768 Have you drawn such a line and counted how many such settlements there are? tell us.

@AttilaKattila

3 ай бұрын

@@robertskrzynski2768 And according to the Bock Saga supposedly all European countries, at least in some languages, that have the word "land" in them were once under the icesheets, and all European(?) languages normally spoken in countries west of Finland use a 12 number system (e.g. one, two, eleven, twelve, thirTEEN in English; ett, två, elva, tolv, tretTON in Swedish), and all countries to the east, including in Finland use a 10 number system (e.g. yksi, kaksi, yksitoista, kaksitoista, kolmetoista in Finnish.)

Western part of PL was easier to collectivize, cause many land owners that were German were deported. Its easier to take land when the owner isn't there, or is simply repossesed. PS. in Polish the map about bathrooms says about "apartments" not "houses". I assume one source of this might be buildings with communal bathrooms, where apartments do not have their own, but instead one that is shared between a few appartments. Its also possible the situation was rectified and some bathroom-less apartments got their own ones, but those changes may be underreported (for example if some work was done without permits etc).

My wife is from Eastern Poland. She was born and raised in Lesko, Bieszczady. Podkarpackie Voivodeship. She went to school in Sanok. I've had the pleasure of spending much of 2023 in Poland and learned a lot about the culture and customs of the people. South Eastern Poland is super rural. It reminds me of Appalachia. We'd often travel to Rzeszow and I would drive on the DW886 and then the DK19 and marvel at the difference in living conditions compared to America. Poverty in Eastern Poland means supplementing your necessities with self sufficiency. So many people have gardens and their own chickens as a food source. I had the opportunity to visit the Skansen in Sanok and see how living was in the past. There were outhouses! But I can't say i saw any in 2023. I saw that people didn't have dryers. Even in Sanok, dryers weren't a common household appliance. Clothes were dried on a clothing line. Air Conditioners are near non existent as well. People walked. Everywhere! And I noticed that in Polish houses the toilet isn't in the same room as the shower and sink. I visited a vacation town called Solina twice. Once in winter and once in late summer. The region is devoid of any urbanism. The war in Ukraine has filled it with many refugees because of its proximity to the border. I stayed in Krakow for a week and ventured into the surrounding suburbs a bit. Life seemed to move at a faster pace but the region was still largely rural and didn't have much of an "urban sprawl". I stayed a week in my father in laws village. An extremely small hamlet called Ryczywol. The people there don't have much in material possession but they were profoundly welcoming! I believe I was the only person of color to ever visit that town and the amount of attention I garnered was flattering. For those that don't know Poland has a near complete homogenous society. It's maybe 99% white and catholic. I was stared at everywhere in Poland but the people of Ryczywol did it with welcoming smiles. There were enough hugs and handshakes to last a lifetime. Hopefully this year I'll get a chance to explore western Poland. I know the world is huge but if anyone is in the comment section from Sanok who's seen or heard of the "black guy with long dreds" who's always in the Kaufland and Stary Kredens, I'll be back spring 2024!😂😂😂

@user-mh2uj7ns6h

2 ай бұрын

In Poland toilet is often outside of bathroom because of hygenic reasons, most people can't even imagine that you can take poo in the same room where you brush your teeth or wash yourself.

@mrdrico1313

2 ай бұрын

@@user-mh2uj7ns6h yes, the cultural and customary differences are a joy to experience. I think the American and western European view is that there is a need to wash one's hands immediately after bodily relief. No door handles should be touched. My personal view is that we will all touch the sink after using the bathroom. 🤷🏾‍♂️

@user-mh2uj7ns6h

2 ай бұрын

@@mrdrico1313 The same way it's unimaginable for Poles to go to the house with your shoes on. For the same reason - cleanliness. Anyways the point is the author is a liar and this video should be deleted, but he doesn't do it because it makes him money.

@mrdrico1313

2 ай бұрын

@@user-mh2uj7ns6h I don't go into my house with shoes on a well.

@wp9746

2 ай бұрын

I'm from a small town in Western Poland so I can tell you something about it first, it is more urbanized than the southeast the countryside and small towns are a messy mix of old kinda dilapidated brick farmhouses and homes from the 1800s/early 1900s with their gardens and wild stock, communist era flats, and modern-looking homes where the toilet is a part of the bathroom (in flats it's separate, as you have noticed before) but I have never seen an outhouse here, my grandparents told me about them, that's for sure but what I like about the countryside is that it's really filled with remnants of a long-gone era and society I mentioned the old buildings but there are also churches, palaces, and noble mansions- some of them have been long abandoned, taken care of by the local government, or converted into state-owned farms (PGR) by the communists- those are now only used for housing and its inhabitants are usually very impoverished. you can also find a lot of long-forgotten protestant cemeteries of German settlers, usually in the forests or at the side of villages of Polish cemeteries there are also ww2 era bunkers in the forests also built by the Germans when they were being pushed back by the Soviets in 1945- my region saw some really hard fighting in those days, there must be grenades and shells everywhere for sure 😆 When it comes to cities, it's also a mix some of them have been nearly destroyed during the war (like Piła for instance) and are now an architectural mess- communist era flats, modern homes, prewar apartments, and even houses that look like they were taken straight out of the countryside but there are also cities like Poznań, Gdańsk, or Szczecin that have retained their old architecture and look orderly- here you have medieval-era old town squares, modern skyscrapers and again communist era flats- they're everywhere btw I was surprised when I heard that they don't have dryers, air conditioners, and so on- it seemed like a description of totally a different country also man, did you try our vodka? Cheers

Well, firstly the "toilet map" states the statistics for period before 1945. I would personally assume it was like this because in rural farm houses the toilet used to be located outside, in a form of toilet shed sort of thing. I still remember how in early 2000s you could find those abandoned "toilet - sheds" near old farmhouses.

9:13 the reason why in the west more houses survive sinve before 1945 is simple - they were made from bricks. Yes. It's like in the children story about three pigs. The reason was that strict Prussian fire regulations essentially required that houses are build from non-flammable materials. In the Russian and Austrian parts most houses were wooden untill WW2 and only after 1945 brick houses started to be build with old wooden houses being torn down. And this process has accelareated after 1990. This is why most houses in the east were build recently. While there was no need for such a change in the west were old prewar housing is still good enough to live in. And yes. The political divide has all to do with the percentage of people working in agriculture. Small farms in the east = more farmers = more conservative voters.

@Vielenberg

4 ай бұрын

And one more thing. Population displacement after WW2 would also only explain the voting patterns in the pre-WW2 german lands. But the area around Poznan is also voting progresive despite being Polish before WW2. My guess is that it is all in agriculture structure, not in the displacements that happened 3 generations ago.

From o-e-c-d report In terms of basic facilities, 97.7% of dwellings in Poland contain private access to an indoor flushing toilet, slightly above the OECD average of 97%. But yes, there is huge difference in west and east Poland. Why is my comment with o-e-c-d link removed automaticly?

The most important factor, which dominates all, is that the "new", western areas were heavily collectivized whereas in the central and eastern areas, by and large, except right up against the Soviet Union, agriculture remained in the hand of small-farming individual land holders, with the result that the hold of traditional village and town life remained stronger, and with it religious attachment.

well, Gdansk was not in German hands for centuries. It belonged to Poland until 2nd partition of Poland in 1793 and it ceased to be German in 1918. Not to mention that it was also a free city during Napoleonic wars time.

@TheRezro

4 ай бұрын

Actually it was also free city during Interwar.

@tomeckb29

4 ай бұрын

@@thesnownigro7932 German speaking...not german. Thats quite a big difference. You cannot translate tracings from the 19th century into earlier centuries.

@Occident.

4 ай бұрын

Danzig was 96% German in 1939.

@eqramer

4 ай бұрын

@thesnownigro7932 not really. These German speaking population was very loyal to Poland as they understood that only trade links with Poland enable Gdansk's prosperity. Looked what happened with Gdansk in 19th century after annexation by Prussia - it lost its importance and soon was taken over but Szczecin (Stettin) which used to be a much smaller town.

@eqramer

4 ай бұрын

@Westman.-fe5wn statistics show it was more like 85 - 92 per cent German. well, interwar period was a very shameful time for Gdansk. Its German population indeed supported Nazis even stronger than Germans in Germany proper...

toilet/ no toilet map from thumbnail is kinda wrong. It's a map that classify people connected to city/public sewer system and ones that have own septic tanks.

@Vielenberg

4 ай бұрын

No. It's about having a bathroom inside. Out of 14.5M Polish households 800K do not have a bathroom with 500K not having even running water. Google the 2021 census results on this matter if you don't believe me.

@CezaryCezary-vf4hy

4 ай бұрын

@@Vielenbergthey have toilets but outside

@hofimastah

4 ай бұрын

​@@Vielenbergwhich is 5.2% citizens and this map looks like 1/3 of the poles don't have a toilet at home.

@arpa9009

4 ай бұрын

​@@Vielenbergstop this Hitler lies, you want us to be inferior, but sorry we have toilets at the houses...! Western 1d2ots

@charlesowen719

4 ай бұрын

Please Report this video as malicious misinformation. This manipulator must be German.

Danzig was Gdansk from start. It was conquered in the 18th century and switched names under Prussian rule, if I’m not mistaken…?

@nopeoppeln

4 ай бұрын

yes and no, the city was indeed founded by the first Duke of Poland, but almost since the beginning it had a majority German-speaking population + with a lot of Frisian migrants later. however, they were pretty royal to the Crown, after the Second Partition when it got ceded to Prussia, a lot of locals were furious

Nice and thorough - I like how you addressed the inheritance law between the partitions - this was very important to highlight and this is admirable you put in your video.

For people who watched this video and were manipulated by the narrative: Former German regions today aren't richer than Polish regions. Many of them are actually poorer by GDP per capita. Former Russian regions really overtook them. East Prussia is even poorer than Podlasie now in 2023.

@ellidominusser1138

4 ай бұрын

Silesia's industry got abandoned and left for years, then replaced with commie blocks

@M43782

4 ай бұрын

If I am not wrong it is the poorest voiwodeship in Poland.

@user-mh2uj7ns6h

4 ай бұрын

@@M43782 Warmińsko-Mazurskie (former east prussia) is 2nd poores voivodeshop, after Lubelskie.

@sirrathersplendid4825

4 ай бұрын

@@user-mh2uj7ns6h- So, what position is Podlaskie?

@user-mh2uj7ns6h

4 ай бұрын

@@sirrathersplendid4825 4th or 5th poorest depending on a year

if you don't know how to pronounce something just check google translate, it's not that hard. Although considering you didn't do any research when it comes to the city names part of the video, it doesn't suprise me

@adretter

17 күн бұрын

You don't need to feel so offended by that... But indeed, English native speakers are I'd say the most lazy ones in terms of putting effort into pronouncing foreign words.

Gdańsk, Wrocław and Szczecin did not change their names from German to Polish, but regained their Polish/Slavic names.These cities were founded by Poles.Gdańsk in particular in 80 percent of its existence was under the rule of Polish. Wrocław was under the rule of Polish for about 400 years. The Germans investigated less than 200.

The name of the city Gdańsk didn't came from german name Danzig. This city was built by poles and Gdańsk is its original name.

Just want to say how appreciative I am that you subtitle your videos!

For what it's worth, Solzhenitsyn was a captain of artillery during the early months of 1945 as the Red Army was pushing towards Berlin. He mentioned how his surroundings became dramatically more prosperous as they crossed the German border and all of his fellow soldiers noticed it. This must have raised questions in their minds over how horrible repressive capitalism gave people more prosperous lives than the workers' paradise of the Soviet Union. (He was arrested before getting to Berlin so didn't get to see it until *much* later.)

@leme5639

4 ай бұрын

EVERY European country had better living standards than Russia, including Poland Romania or Yugoslavia.

@pacivalmuller9333

4 ай бұрын

@@leme5639 At what time? If we are talking about Soviet Union I will disagree. Prosperous Europe is slowly dying out.

@KrotowX

3 ай бұрын

@@pacivalmuller9333 So former Soviet Union except former republics with muslim majority (and they have different means to procreate).

@pacivalmuller9333

3 ай бұрын

@@KrotowX I do not get what you mean 100%, but here in Germany we have those Knife-throwers from Somalia or bombers from Afghanistan. For example in Russia there is and was a bigger cultural exchange between muslims and christians. I would say they live 100% more peacefully then in Germany, where we have shadow comminities (communities inside communities), that do not have any exchange.

@KrotowX

3 ай бұрын

@@pacivalmuller9333 It's complicated :) And highly depends from your ethnicity and in which part of former Soviet Union you live. Russia _modus operandi_ always was constant expansion. With killing elites and more educated individuals and then turning the rest into nameless cheap labor force who are equally ruled by heavy fist of current ruler in a way he see fit. In such social structure there is no place of racism inside society in a way it is considered at today. There are more or less equal ethnicities (by Orwell) with nameless hodgepodge of russified people called Russians as ruling nation, but that doesn't matter. That is why Africans and Asians was considered kinda the same as locals. Also during building Soviet sphere of interest into Asia and Africa heavy propaganda about friendship with countries inside this sphere of interest took place and that left a mark too. Russified Asian and Muslim ethnicities from Caucasus area in Russia are considered "theirs" as well. After dissolution of USSR things somewhat changed. In Muslim areas communism was replaced with Islam easy because both de facto both are just another form of religion. Otherwise not much changed. Due to huge influx of Muslim people as workforce in Moscow we can expect Moscow turning into next Muslim capital in near future. If China as new sole owner of Russia will allow that. In western Russia neighbor countries things are completely different. We have no hate towards Asian and African ethnicities. But we know we know the dangers of uncontrolled mass immigration of people who have completely different social structure and religion from Soviet annexation era. Particular in Estonia and Latvia we have around 30% of Russian speaking former colonists who mostly arrived from inner Russia. In comparing with populations of Estonians and Latvians they still are simply too much and that still cause various social and political issues. There simply are no place for immigration from Asia and Africa anymore. Luckily those mostly want to go to Germany and Sweden... still. Until now, we and also Lithuania and Poland catch illegal migrants and send them back over Eastern border from where they came. Again - that is not because racism or hate against Asians and Africans. But because we have no wish to turn into ghetto shithole.

Poland is a battlefield some people call home.

The partitions did impact Poland until WW2, but not any more, and the major problem is rather Warsaw, which dominates over the impoverished region, and is the major reason why the other towns in this region are suffering from stagnation, unlike towns in the other regions, which are not directly affected by Warsaw.

@henningbartels6245

3 ай бұрын

sounds logical ... and a bit like Berlin and the surrounding rural Brandenburg.

@user-mh2uj7ns6h

2 ай бұрын

Major bullsh*t. Even the rural Mazovia is wealthier than majority of former Germany

Would love to see a similar video about Ukraine, because it had pretty the same difference between its western territories which have been a part of Poland (rzecz pospolita and so on) and central and eastern territories which have been a part of russia (soviet union)

@ExplloreTV

4 ай бұрын

Pretty same in Czech republic and former Sudetland :D On diference, from former Sudetland were at first deported Czechs and then Germans, and then communist goverment sent there mostly the scum of society.

@cozy_ross

4 ай бұрын

@@ExplloreTV Eastern European countries have a lot in common, huh :)

@jeanssold2131

4 ай бұрын

@@cozy_ross yeah, only the southeast was overall more wealthy before 2014

@ExplloreTV

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, slavery of Nords, Mongols and Osmans and Cars. Rule of tyrany and fear. Extremly large undeveloped poor forest and steppe lands. And they all speak basicly same language. Pretty diferent from for example Central Europe. @@cozy_ross

@AgusSimoncelli

4 ай бұрын

That's a very different case. Those parts of Ukraine were under polish control for less than 20 years. There were under russian control for more than a 100 years before, and another 50 years under soviet control. There are definitely differences between west and east, but it can hardly be attributed to Polish rule

"Who Poland is divided"?

@user-ge2es2bp2x

4 ай бұрын

did they mean 'why poland is divided' or 'how''?

@bekov6632

4 ай бұрын

@@user-ge2es2bp2x can Poland be divided?

@yashashsgowda6662

4 ай бұрын

I'll do one better, what Poland is divided?

@bekov6632

4 ай бұрын

@@yashashsgowda6662 who's Poland is divided?

@ThePresentPast_

4 ай бұрын

which poland is divided?

"After all why not, why shouldn't I make a video about a country I know nothing about."

When saying poland was moved west into german land is silly because it was nearly all polish found land during teg Piast dynasty

@henningbartels6245

3 ай бұрын

But they forgot to re-install the Piast dynasty after 1945 then.

The small fields in the east are interesting! The seize of a field has an enormous influence on the biodiversity in general and especially on diversity and numbers of insects. 10 times more then organic vs. conventional agriculture

@Pidalin

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, this is something we speak about very often in these days in Czechia where most of fields are still massive fileds like during communism. Only difference is that it was owned by state before and now it's owned by few billionares. But governments and local mayors are making new laws which prevents making of these massive fields because it's bad for ecosystem, now you have to have some green lines and little lakes, or maybe it's not like you literally have to, but you have some grants and tax benefits when you do that. These massive fields really cause ecological disasters like floods, sand flying in the air for longer distances, bees are dying....we know about that and a lot of people want to talk about that and something is finally changing here. Communists really damaged our nature by their 40 years of rule that it will take another decades to fix that damage.

@ipodman1910

4 ай бұрын

@@Pidalinbingo!

@ipodman1910

4 ай бұрын

@@rayaan1233ahh! Denazification missed you and your family, clearly…

@keineahnung5466

4 ай бұрын

The difference between real division and everything for the eldest son also exists in Germany. For this reason, a major redistribution was carried out in the 1970s in the areas (in the south) so that the agricultural land could be profitably farmed again. You should also do it in Poland., Ok, ecologically this was a disarster, because every hedge and tree was removed.

@9:53 a toilet outside of the house was the norm in the past especially if you have a large land/home. this simply doesn't happen in appartments/flats, so everything became self-contained obviously, and after sometime its convenience made everyone to just adopt the inhouse toilets even if you have a large house. we for example have both! my grandparents as well had both (they initially had one outside of the house, but as the got much older, they built one inside as well for easier access.)

@KrotowX

3 ай бұрын

It indeed worked like that and I believe almost everywhere. Through times people had different living standarts. And even a century ago shared bathrooms, toilets without water and outhouses outside house was normal thing. And those are pretty hard and expensive to change. Think even about all necessary piping installing in 100+ years old house.

You can still see the partition between Prussia, Austria and Russia. Very strange.

i live in the eastern part of poland for 16 years now and i have never seen that some houses without a toilet

In Ukrainian election result maps you can see almost the exact same thing, but it goes even deeper to the Rus' times

@davidmaisel8062

4 ай бұрын

Regardless if Poland itself considers itself A or B currently rural life is generally more "traditional" where urban culture tends to be more "cosmopolitan". Ukraine is deeply divided, that's an old story. Poland for better or worse, historically did a better job of getting over regional differences.

3:22 footnote but the name Gdańsk preceeds Danzig. Although the city itself wasnt always fully under Polish control and had a lot of influence from the Netherlands (through the Hanza)

@lisamirako1073

4 ай бұрын

The present-day city of Gdańsk (Danzig) in its function as an important trading and port city with its typical architecture has developed since the 13th century, in particular through its membership of the Hanseatic League. In all the centuries since then until 1945, it was almost exclusively inhabited and developed by Germans. This only changed when the Germans were forcibly expelled after the Second World War.

@wojtekkkk

4 ай бұрын

@@lisamirako1073 I guess your source is "trust me bro"? Since non of what you've said is true...

@chud-of4yb

4 ай бұрын

​​@@lisamirako1073kraut propaganda

@alternativewalls4988

4 ай бұрын

@@lisamirako1073 that's an gross misrepresentation. Indeed before IIWW it wasnt a part of Poland. Although during the interwar years it was (at least on paper) a free city-state. Before the IWW it was under a german juristiction but so was about a ⅓ of the country, because of the partitions. In years leading to that, since 997 it was mostly under Polish control, except 1300's to 1450's when it was a stronghold of the Teutonic Knight Order. Yes, there were a lot of western influence on Gdańsk, but due to its strategic importance on the delta of Vistula river it was in national interest of Poland to keep it within its borders.

@lisamirako1073

4 ай бұрын

​@@alternativewalls4988 In the early and high Middle Ages, there were no nation states in the modern sense. The borders of the territories were determined by the success of the rulers in wars or marriages, not by the nationality of the inhabitants. But since the 13th century Gdansk was almost exclusively inhabited and developed by Germans. Even though Gdansk now belongs to Poland as a result of the Second World War, I cannot understand why history has to be bent in this way. The "Polish" history of Gdansk in the early and high Middle Ages has no direct connection to the modern history of Poland, but since the late Middle Ages Gdansk has always been part of German history, even if Gdansk was at times under Polish suzerainty. This did not change the culturally German character of this city, just as Poznan was always a culturally Polish city, even while it belonged to Prussia and later to the German Reich.

This phenomenon can also be observed in Croatia. All regions that were under Turkish control at some point experienced the displacement of the original Croatian population. When these regions were reclaimed under Croatian, more precisely Austro-Hungarian control, they were mainly resettled with refugees from Turkish areas. As a result, today we have areas in Croatia that have been under some form of Austro-Hungarian influence for nearly a thousand years, and which are now more advanced in every aspect, with a better standard of living, and surprisingly, do not vote for conservative parties. A similar situation exists in Serbia, where Vojvodina and Belgrade seem like a different country compared to the rest of Serbia. The difference is that Vojvodina was also part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It seems that the breakup of Yugoslavia was caused by this difference, as the former Austro-Hungarian regions, which were visibly more advanced and wealthier, found it difficult to accept rulers who, from their perspective, were incompetent. In Croatia, this division is still very evident today, in different cultures and work ethics. Although it is a generalization, just an hour's drive is enough to feel like you have entered another country. Given that Croatia is small, the inability to do business due to distance is not a valid excuse. Simply put, the culture of craftsmanship, work ethic, order, and discipline, which was formed in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, still influences how people raise their children, contributing to these richer and more orderly regions

@japupkind8493

3 ай бұрын

I was there in 1990th - absolutely agreed with You, that's feeling of different countries.

@AltIng9154

3 ай бұрын

But you are right!

@AltIng9154

3 ай бұрын

@@japupkind8493 Yes, culture creates people. It is the Austrian/ German culture . One of the biggest mistakes the Austrian Empire did was to swallow the rotten Bosnia. All the countries under Turkish rule do not fit. Very easy. Has almost nothing todo with genetics . Isn't there a saying. "In the next war the sons will kill their fathers"?

I am currently in the Netherlands and I see that some apartments in the countryside are in one building with a barn.😮

@user-gd9vc3wq2h

2 ай бұрын

And I'm sittig in Germany and noticing that 96% of all buildings are not equipped with a barn.

WTF!? Every single house has a bathroom!

The idea, that in the half of my country houses don't have toilets is just dumb.

you have whole subreddit called r/ridaczabory which translates to "visible occupation" which is solely dedicated to showing this divide on maps

That is pretty interesting, my grandparents were used to live in a pre war borders with the Soviet Union, in which my Grandfather's home used to be in Western Ukraine near Lviv while my Grandma's home used to be to in Western Belarus. During the invasion in 1939, my grandfather went to fight as a Polish Scout, but in 1941 both my Grandma and Grandad fled with General Anders Army to fight in North Africa and Western Europe. But after the war, they became exiles living in London, United Kingdom while staying loyalty with the Polish Government in Exile throughout the Cold War.

@qj0n

4 ай бұрын

My great grandfather had similar story, but he actually decided to come back to Poland from London after WW2. Communists allowed to bring whatever you wanted tax-free with you, if you decided to come back to Poland at that point. Exchanging letters with family he figured out that the best price difference was in black pepper. With all his savings he bought hundreds of kilograms and after selling it to restaurants in Poland, he bought each of his 6 kids an apartment...

@kawinfinity

4 ай бұрын

@@qj0n Many Polish soldiers who returned and locked up were executed by the Polish Stalinists until Stalin's Death

@qj0n

4 ай бұрын

@@kawinfinity true, they had to wait until like 50s Same happened to soldiers in Poland. My step-great-grandmother was pharmacist and worked as paramedic for Home Army (AK). They forged her pastry chef diploma to fake past and avoid getting caught. And she remained certified pastry chef until she passed several years ago, even though she never completed the education

A few years ago my brother (we're Polish) had a Polish neighbor in a suburb near Chicago. I don't recall the specifics but I think he owned his own company or something, he was very well off. The guy built a huge, modern McMansion. It dwarfed all the other houses in the neighborhood. But for some bizarre reason, even though the house had like six bathrooms, he built a brick outhouse in the backyard. It had a brick path leading to it, a sink and running water, as well as heating and AC, and a cute little curtained window to the side of the door. He was the only one in the family to use it, but he used it, regularly. Very strange custom, not even the Poles in the neighborhood understood it. But I guess it made him happy...

@herrk3898

4 ай бұрын

I'm Belarusian so for us it's more common ehh tradition. When we were trying to persuade grandma to built house-in bathroom in her house (her block doesn't have heating and AC or even running water), she told us "No, i won't shit at a place I live"

@cejannuzi

4 ай бұрын

It's a great idea actually. Go off to a quiet place and enjoy the solitude while going to the toilet. Actually the American custom of putting the toilet in with the bath and sink may save space but reduces convenience.

@ipodman1910

4 ай бұрын

It was his preference but has nothing to do with Poles or Polish culture.

@FrikInCasualMode

4 ай бұрын

@@cejannuzi As someone who had to get up in the middle in the night, trudge through the dark backyard while rain drizzled on my head to use the outhouse while visiting my grandmother on her farm I will tell you this: Bullshit. And it was in summer. Winter? Hell, no! Nothing beats indoors plumbing. Even grandma changed her mind when she got older and allowed my dad and uncles to modernize her house.

@MarcanMC

4 ай бұрын

As a Pole, I have never met another Pole who has an outhouse instead of a indoor bathroom (I live in the part that was occupied by Russia)

Indoor plumbing is in general a more recent development. It makes sense that in area where everyone has the toilets outside they would see moving it in as weird. Even if it's actually more hygienic in practice

The presence of an outhouse doesn't eliminate the possibility of upgraded houses with indoor facilities.

it's only a little bit true. Before the outbreak of World War II, there was a brilliant plan for the development of the eastern (then still central) areas of Poland. The Central Industrial District was to be established. This was intended to eliminate the problems created by the Great Depression. It was partially successful, because this region is still active today and is still the main arms producer in Poland. Although in recent years, due to the transfer of many productions to China, this region has declined even further. However, if it were not for the outbreak of the WWII and the subsequent annexation of Poland by Russia, this gap would not exist. Unfortunately, after more than 40 years of communism, development in these areas has stopped. Now we are trying to keep up, but these regions no longer have the same support from the state as in the interwar period. The fact that the population votes differently here is most likely due to generational trauma and fear of the influence of foreign countries, because this part of Poland was the greatest victim of the ongoing disputes. Western Poland did not feel it so strongly, which is why they have more trust in, for example, investors from Germany. The eastern part of Poland believes that it is a wolf in sheep's clothing that has not actually stopped the process of Germanization. This part of Poland is also very critical of social progress that goes beyond known realities, so it is considered a threat. The dynamics of work are also different, people work longer and harder than in the West, and earn less, and therefore have less time to engage in news and understand certain issues. They usually spend time with family, e.g., taking care of dependent people such as children or the elderly because they cannot afford caregivers), while in the West, people more often meet for social events, for which you also need money. It's a closed circle and the only way to break it is some kind of mental revolution. This is happening slowly, so unless there is another global crisis, we have a chance.

This movie is kind of strange. Agriculture in Poland is only responsible for approximately 3% of GDP. The only difference in voting in the elections was that rural residents and those with primary education voted more often for the previous ruling party, and those from larger cities and with secondary and higher education voted for the current winners. I agree that some of the differences in the country's development after World War I were that the Russian partition offered social and economic backwardness (just like Russia today). But now, after so many years of Poland's development, there are no major differences in infrastructure, etc.

@adrianxx7363

4 ай бұрын

Few things- 1) Austria-Hungary part was even poorer than Russian 2) Despite being poorer than German part, Russian part was most developed part of Russian Empire in 1914, but was heavily damaged during WW1 3) take about toilets is BULLSHIT, everybody in Eastern Poland have a bathroom (GUS mistake probably) and currently average household from many parts of Eastern Poland have bigger income than some part of Western

@yes12337

4 ай бұрын

To put it in other words immigrants and their offspring voted for KO. Obviously you'd say the impressive level of education of Polish graduates is a stronger predictor. Fair enough

@adrianxx7363

4 ай бұрын

@@yes12337 i try to avoid politics here. People voted for KO and PiS both in west and east, for example for Senate large part of Podlasie and some in Lubelskie voted for KO and 3D, while some areas near border with Czech voted PiS. The FACT it that statistic mentioned in film not show bathrooms, cause nobody asked about it in census, but, most probably, households without access to municipal pipeline (they have own well conected by pipelines with house)

@rupert2019

4 ай бұрын

@@yes12337 Immigrants do not have the right to vote in Poland if they do not have Polish citizenship.

@Vielenberg

4 ай бұрын

You don't vote with GDP. In eastern and southern Poland you have hundreds of thousands of tiny farms each occupied by a family of voters who tend to vote conservative. In the west, due to historical reasons, you have tens of thousands of bigger farms. And even if those farmers vote also conservative they are simply a much smaller percentage of the voter base in those regions.

"And suddenly I am alone with the existential dread of my existence" You englished that quite well.

I'm from central Poland and I'm pretty sure that we have toilets inside most of our houses since at least the 90's. But yeah, I still remember my grandmothers outhouse where pieces of newspapers were used as a toilet paper and for water we had a well outside with a metal bucket.

The projector is SUCH a good idea. I can’t explain how giddy that made me to see the projector being used. GENIUS.

Somehow as an Indonesian i can relate with the Polish being occupied and even after long time of independence, the occupiers/colonist still left it's mark on it's country. You as Dutchman would've also understood too LOL. It's history afterall, but it's awkward to see how relatable this is for me as an Indonesian😂😂.

@trondurkd4201

4 ай бұрын

Well you do have the same flag

@wanneerde8854

4 ай бұрын

As a Moluccan I still see my country colonized by Indonesia. That leaves a huge mark on the Molucca’s

@conveyor2

4 ай бұрын

Germans lived there for centuries. Hardly 'colonizers", your far left label.

@islamicschoolofmemestudies

4 ай бұрын

@conveyor2 Far-Left? Try again. Dude our country literally purged and erased the communist party in 1965. Hardly any far left available in our country, certainly not as much as in Europe today where literal Socialist were elected. We did more to remove the radical far left communist than Europe in 50+ years especially Germany where eastern part was essentially a Communist state. We are more right wing than any Western country will ever be. You know shit about our country's history.

@islamicschoolofmemestudies

4 ай бұрын

@@trondurkd4201 Just the opposite

I highly doubt you will find this comment, but there is one small correction concerning the “Prussian Empire”. While Prussia was powerful in its day, it was never itself an empire, and a more appropriate title would be the “Kingdom of Prussia” (or “Kingdom in Prussia” when the kingdom was earlier split in two by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth).

It's very simple - German part was more urban and industrial while Russian part was mostly agricultural. So people on east live more like village lifestyle while western part is more urban.

5:42 Yes, there's a difference, but the rest is wrong. Every year, students from Małopolska and Podkarpacie (the former poor Austrian partition, yet where Polish culture was not persecuted) write the matura exam with the best results. They also tend to have the best academic results. This is Poland B, the supposedly "underdeveloped" and not progressive region.

@abcdmefgh2843

4 ай бұрын

It also seems strange to me to only focus on the vices of the east, when in the west there is more crime, more alcoholism, more single mothers etc, which is also the result of less 'social control'. This video looks pretty biased, or at least poor researched.

@ch36799

4 ай бұрын

Poland B is patriotic.

@michachodkowski8499

4 ай бұрын

@@ch36799in same style as Z-patriots in russia…

@ch36799

4 ай бұрын

@@michachodkowski8499 no! Eastern Poland is pro western. Western Poland is pro Putin. Without patriotism Poland has no chance. Unfortunetly now the new Gouverment are German and Russian puppets. Poland was a dictatorship until 2015. Now the dictatorship comes back. Germans now rule Poland. Under the PIS Poland boomed and was democratic. I am young and sad how Poland is dying. Media in Poland now is in hand of one party.

@ch36799

4 ай бұрын

@@michachodkowski8499 now communists are in Power. Russia and Germany support Donald Tusk. He is a traitor. He destroyed Poland between 2007-2014. Over a million people left Poland under his rule.

There is yet another, perhaps even more important aspect than religion and the role of the church in shaping the worldview of people from the East, which you did not mention in the film. When the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact outlined the new border between the USSR and Germany, Stalin had a different approach to subjugating the territories under him than the Germans (presumably taking into account the mistakes of the 123-year colonization, which allowed Poland to easily re-emerge in 1918, the origins of social memory, etc.). So, when he occupied eastern Poland, he began gathering data on the Poles, their education, much like the Germans did with the Jews. The goal was to eliminate the more intelligent and educated part of society needed for national-liberation uprisings (such as in 1830). Thus, the idea was born to exterminate hundreds of thousands of Poles, including in Smolensk. Western Poland could prosper better because the resources of educated, well-read people were preserved. As you can see, the socio-historical topic is very complex and deserves more than just a comment on the film. Jochem, bedankt voor dit filmpje!

@awuma

4 ай бұрын

The Germans also ruthlessly executed the intelligentsia.

@Madej16x

4 ай бұрын

Germans also murdered the "intelligents" and under Russians you had a better education than under Germans lol

@KrotowX

3 ай бұрын

German Nazi, who considered Poles the next subhumans after Jews, also worked hard to exterminate Polish elite, military, more intelligent and educated part of society and of couse - catholic clergy. Many of them ended their lives in concentration camps. Stalin/Soviet occupation differ only by tendency to exterminate occupied nation elites, but keep lower class as cheap workforce.

When you flex on the neighbor shitting at home instead in the garden you know you're in Poland.

In the first few seconds you suggested that there are regions in Poland which have lower percentages of homes with bathrooms, which is pure nonsense in modern date.

Man the stuff you said goes against of what you had showed on the map. One of the maps you presented is showing that the richest parts of the Poland are in the center of country, the parts which border Czechia. But the region that borders Germany is as poor as the one that has border with Ukraine.

@qj0n

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, the wealth is actually too complex to show on map with so low granularity. If you don't count capital, the only blue areas are the industrial centers like Silesia. The structure of wealth differs as structure of family differs in both parts of Poland, but once you average it across whole voivodships it just smooths out

Having most bathrooms located in the western part of Poland is clearly a strategic choice. If Russia were to invade Poland, they would not be able to steal the toilets before the Polish military could expell them from the country.

@ukaszs5057

4 ай бұрын

This is a nonsense, currently there is toilet in all houses, believe me. Moreover infrastructure in Poland is way much better in Germany, because is new, and Poland is developing so rapidly. If you don't believe come here and check on your own.

@Madej16x

4 ай бұрын

@@ukaszs5057 Nah, let him stay in his shithole. He sounds like an NPC anyway

@user-lj1xm6fq3w

4 ай бұрын

@@ukaszs5057yeah right u stole thise toilets from the germans JUST AS UR RUSSIAN OVERLORDS TAUGHT YOU😂😂😂😂😂

@TheRezro

4 ай бұрын

This map was of septic tanks. Not toilets. He misread the data.

@maxshirokov6820

4 ай бұрын

@@ukaszs5057ok, I am calling Putin, we have to invade then.

My grandparents could not get back to Poland from West Germany after WWII and ended up going to Australia. It was not until 1952 that they left Europe

I live in southern Poland and I don't know anyone who doesn't have a toilet or bathroom in his house.

Alright, so the thing about being closer to Germany is right, just that PPR(aka Polish People's Republic) basically traded a lot of goods with East Germany(or simply GDR), while eastern side usually exported more goods than imported to rest of the countries related to Warsaw Pact or Soviets. So the idea was basically there beforehand(not just in post- 1989). And even for the bathroom map case, it is another key point to notice architectural standards. That division prodably could have been there all that time since the creation of Polish-Lithuanian Commonweath. Why, you may ask? Eastern Poland side was heavily mixed with other cultures. Which means different styles of building, traditions, clothing, et cetera. But ultimate fact why this lingers is that not much was done by the all sides to reduce the division(just like the known divisions between West and East Germany and many other cases including even Vietnam, United States, Canada and Italy). Can answer more questions if these gonna pop in replies.

@rogink

4 ай бұрын

I know he mentioned industry in the west and south, but isn't that also because that's where the coalfields are? I don't know a lot about Polish geography, but I do know that Silesia has the coal! Possibly iron ore as well? And of course Danzig/Gdansk is the major port for shipbuilding. As for agriculture, I'm wondering if the west is more fertile, hence the bigger farms? I can see what he says about how farmland is split between families in the east. That's what happened with Ireland and why so many smaller plots meant not enough land to feed the family during the Great famine.

@covfefe1787

4 ай бұрын

@@rogink the east is more fertile hence why eastern Ukraine was once reffered to as the Dzikie Pole or wild lands.

@keineahnung5466

4 ай бұрын

@@rogink The south (Silesia) is a coalfield, the west mainly an industrial and trading centre with the Baltic Sea ports of Danzig and Szczecin. Wroclaw was an important industrial city in Germany, but also one where the Nazis were able to win a majority in elections, which didn't happen often and which says something about the German population there.

Directly after the war my grandpa had to help to hand over a factory in Silesia and train the Polish workers. So there was some kind of industrial continuity in that area.

@ericcarlson3746

4 ай бұрын

famously, Stalin pointed to the area to his marshal (Rokossovsky, I think) and said one word - "gold" Rossokovsky got the message, this area was to be captured more or less intact

you must visit Poland (especially eastern Poland) and see what it looks like

The reason there could be more toilets outside, is the German were richer and invested more in sewers, meanwhile the eastern bit's couldn't afford plumbing so had simpler toilets outside

Until recently, Dutch election results were mainly based on religious divides. And that divide goes back to the Dutch Revolt of 1568-1581, were the protestant areas got independent but Brabant and Limburg remained catholic under Spanish rule. It is also visible in many other cultural differences.

If you look at the map of Serbia's railroad network you can clearly see which parts were within the Austria-Hungary before WWI.

At 7:00 you say eastern Poland is older, but the map seems to show that the youth population in eastern Poland is much more numerous. Which one is right?

im from post Russian Empire side of Poland, I live in a village. Nowadays we have a modern house with everything but behind the house there is a field with an old wooden toilet still

Takeaway: People who poop in toilets are more prone to identify themselves as bowel movement enjoyers compared to those who poop in outhouses just to relieve themselves.

@madtechnocrat9234

4 ай бұрын

This is fake, pretty much all houses in Poland have toilets, unless it's some data from 70s... Poland is 21 economy of the world right now. Between Argentina and Switzerland. Ahead of countries like Norway or Sweden. Per capita is of course worse in Poland, but not by that much...

@czwarty7878

4 ай бұрын

@@madtechnocrat9234 2020 data says percentage of homes with toilets in Poland is 94%. First 13 seconds of video and it's already fake data...

@cheetocatto01

4 ай бұрын

@@madtechnocrat9234 It was a joke. I'm from Brazil 9th largest economy and 15% of the population don't have access to clean water let alone sewage. We're in no position to really mock Poland for that. 😅🤣🤣

@lashlarue7924

4 ай бұрын

THIS.

@scvcebc

4 ай бұрын

@@cheetocatto01 I visited Brazil in 1995 and our tour guide pointed out how the poorest homes all had satellite dishes even though they didn't have plumbing. It was all about watching World Cup Soccer!

I wonder where you took the "houses with no toilets map". Really ridiculous, I live in Eastern Poland and I don't know anyone who hasn't got a toilet in their house.

@user-gs1jr2hy1y

4 ай бұрын

It's joke lol

@pacivalmuller9333

4 ай бұрын

I feel you man, Ukrainian state TV says the same about us Russians, that we have no fridge, microwave or toilets.

@hishamalaker491

4 ай бұрын

You lack humor

I am from Canada, my mother's people are from Lesivtsi in western Ukraine, my brother took a DNA test a few years ago and it said he was mostly English and German, some middle Eastern, and tiny bit Denisovian. So most of the people in the western part of Ukraine were farmers and such, while in the cities, like Lviv, they were Polish. city people looked down on farmers. It's kind of a thing (not just Ukrainian/russian/Polish) everywhere as people urbanized more and more over the course of the 1900s. The farmers lived very basic lives. Even in Canada, my paternal grandparents lived in a house built of sticks and packed with river mud, no indoor plumbing, it was some Metis or French settlement. They farmed. They eventually built a house in 1940 or so, but still no indoor plumbing. They did not get indoor plumbing till I was 10 years old...around 1970.

The claim is made that the population of eastern Poland is generally older, yet in that moment a map is shown stating the opposite?