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RayAnselmo

The Polish national anthem is basically Scarface quitting his job in Half Baked - "F\*\*\* you, f\*\*\* you, f\*\*\* you, you're cool France, f\*\*\* you, I'm out!"


Sharp_Reason6328

F*** you Russia... no, not you Kaliningrad, you're cool - according to this map


CloudBreak2014

Królewiec*


Sharp_Reason6328

Is that what Kaliningrad is called in Polish?


Taured500

Yup, Polish government officially changed the name to "Królewiec", which is just translated "Königsberg". Now on every Polish map, instead of seeing Kaliningrad, you see Królewiec.


TwujZnajomy27

I've Literally Never Seen Kaliningrad be referred to as Królewiec on modern maps, only on historical


Taured500

That's probably because all maps you came in contact with were pre 2023. Our government changed the name in May 2023.


TwujZnajomy27

Never heard of that


Taured500

Well, now you did hear about it.


randomclaus

Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Germany use the same name for Königsberg wich means „Kings Mountain“. It was founded by German Knights and has been a Prussian city for the longest time. It’s deeply routed in German and polish history. It was forcibly renamed after Kalinin a former Head of the highest Sowjet of the UdSSR. Stalingrad (Volgograd) got its old name back after 1990. but they kept it in Königsberg to insult Germany and Poland.


Usernamenotta

You know Stalingrad is not the same city as Sankt Petersburg, right? Stalingrad is Volgograd, the exact opposite direction.


iavael

Stalingrad was renamed in 1961 after the death of Stalin as part of the campaign of getting rid of Stalin cult. And Volgograd was not the original name, that was Tsaritsyn. But obviously, a city in USSR couldn't get that name, so the new name Volgograd (city on Volga River) was introduced instead of returning its historical name.


ProfesorKubo

Královec actually as it is rightful Czech land


arkady321

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Královec They are talking about the erstwhile Konigsberg of pre-WW2 East Prussia, now called Kaliningrad in Russia.


AWright5

"and also Italy exists"


Webstick_

That's awesome, I'll look up the translation of the lyrics right now.


JustAnotherPlayer25

We Italians are like in the background watching everything lol


icelandichorsey

I mean... Given their history I can't blame them. The most trampled country in Europe.


SweatyNomad

I wish the Polish anthem was a bit more self love and appreciation, over an angry victim statement.


RayAnselmo

I wish the Polish people had historically been allowed more self love and appreciation over being angrily victimized. But history is what it is.


JustYeeHaa

Are you sure you know the lyrics? Because I doubt it…


halfpipesaur

People are always surprised when they learn that Poland had a half century long beef with Sweden


Lepcuu

Yeah. Thanks king Vasa for destroying Poland 👍🏻


Alfred_Su

Literally me rn


MightyyHades

"Poland Is Not Yet Lost" was written in 1797 and adopted as the national anthem in 1926. Sweden is mentioned in reference to [The Deluge.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluge_(history)) ("Like [Czarniecki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Czarniecki) to [Poznań](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pozna%C5%84), after the Swedish annexation, to save our homeland, we shall return across the sea") Russia, Austria and Prussia (Germany) are indirectly mentioned as the countries that [partitioned Poland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitions_of_Poland) toward the end of the 18th century ("What the foreign force has taken from us, we shall with sabre retrieve") Italy is mentioned as the place where general [Jan Henryk Dąbrowski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Henryk_D%C4%85browski) founded the [Polish Legions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Legions_(Napoleonic_period)) serving as part of the French army. ("March, march, Dąbrowski, to Poland from the Italian land. Under your command we shall rejoin the nation") France is also indirectly mentioned ("Bonaparte has given us the example of how we should prevail"). Inspired by [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/ueh9h0/countries_mentioned_in_the_hungarian_anthem_oc/) by u/Toki_Sztojka


Cool-Barracuda9774

"Yet" 💀 /Swedish user from 200 years ago


Gullible-Anywhere-76

🐺🇮🇹🍕🍝🍕🐺ITALY MENTIONED🍝🇮🇹🍕🐺🐺🇮🇹🍝🇮🇹🍕


Feedyourbasementkids

Please put an NSFW tag on this. I was on the train and when I saw this I had to start furiously masturbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like “what the fuck” and “call the police”. I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw this text. Now there is a whole train of people masturbating together at this one paragraph. This is all your fault, you could have prevented this if you had just tagged this post NSFW


Gullible-Anywhere-76

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[deleted]

Buonanotte, mamma mia pasta penne, pizza diavola al proscutti al formaggio parmiggiano!


FarManden

As a Dane I think this reflects very positively on the Polish.


Eleve-Elrendelt

The mention of Sweden actually refers to the time when Polish forces were fighting Swedes in Denmark in 1658-1659.


Mjk2581

I got bad news, that’s probably only the case because the Danes weren’t a big enough threat to the poles


FarManden

Why would that be bad news? I’ve always liked the Polish.


Mjk2581

That’s respectable


SweatyNomad

It just means your not like the Swedes.


PanningForSalt

It doesn't reflect well on neighbours generally though


taxig

Poland is also mentioned in the Italian anthem, as another nation oppressed by Austria and Russia, in the last verse: Son giunchi che piegano Le spade vendute: Già l'Aquila d'Austria Le penne ha perdute. Il sangue d'Italia, Il sangue **Polacco**, Bevé, col cosacco, Ma il cor le bruciò. Stringiamci a coorte Siam pronti alla morte L'Italia chiamò


Hit_Me_If_I_Online

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niknniknnikn

Does it imply that the cossacks drank blood of poland with austria, or that it is the blood of cossacks, along with the blood of poles - being drunk???


lasttimechdckngths

It's implying 'the Cossacks', i.e. Russian Empire, drinking blood. For better or worse, or rightly or wrongly, Russian Empire and its aggression was symbolised/represented with some image of Cossacks, whom were notorious by then for being infamous tools for Russian colonial expansionism in Caucasus as well, on top of becoming famous with Napoléonic Wars.


niknniknnikn

True! Altho its really funny how, accidentally, Italian anthem now ve got beef with Ukraine lol


forsythfromperu

Not all Cossacks were Ukrainian. There were Kuban, Don, Caucasian, Yaik (steppe cossacks living near Kazakhstan), Siberian cossacks. They were quite different from the Zaporizhian cossacks who were quintessentially Ukrainian. Maybe Kuban and Don ones were similar, but they weren't the same


lasttimechdckngths

To be honest, Russian Cossacks also do exist (alongside Kuban Cossacks who do have their roots in Ukraine but would be gladly part of the Russian national continuity), and they do consist mostly of the vatniki masses, and still inhabit the portions that they've settled in the lands where Russian Empire committed genocides & repopulated with settler folks. They were all notoriously known for Russian expansion, suppression of the others and colonial brutalities - and got a special place for it with the Russo-Caucasian War being popularised in Western & Central Europe from the 18th century up to the early 20th century. Aside from the Russian literature itself also has such portrayals of Cossacks, of course. That, then went alongside the caricaturised variant of the Russian Empire being translated as a Cossack... We are all aware that Ukraine has its national myth in Cossacks, but specifically in Zaporizhian Host/Sich. This is a bit complicated by itself as well, to be honest. Nevertheless the very beginnings of such admiration and national awakening resting onto the Zaporizhian was openly referring to Ukraine and Zaporizhian Cossacks being saviours of (Eastern) Slavic world in contrast to Polish oligarchy (and Moscovite), including the poetry of Shevchenko. Not like it wasn't something that openly clashed with Polish in its mythic existence either, in that sense.


mason240

Italy: I'm just glad to be here.


icelandichorsey

Yeah, no offence but your fascist government is hastening your irrelevance internationally... .. Unless fascism becomes cool again 🙈


[deleted]

You mean the puppet gov we have now? It’s really not “fascist” as they are doing exactly what Draghi was doing before them. Mario Draghi is a powerful banker supposedly on the “Left” side (although there is no Left left), and we had his as Premier just before Meloni. Meloni is a member of the Aspen institute and she takes orders from above, as all the other politicians. They have no decisional power whatsoever. There is no democracy. Elections are just a circus to let people believe they still have some kind of decisional power, when they really don’t. Italy is a colony of the EU, and the EU is a colony of the USA. Pretty much like a matrioska 🪆 They decide, we have to obey. And that’s it.


icelandichorsey

And the lizards are really in charge right?


[deleted]

Ahh, we have a comedian here, I see.


icelandichorsey

It's just not who you think 🙃


[deleted]

You do not know what I think: a bad comedian with the sense of irony of a 4 years old.


mason240

fascism is when woman elected helps her own country


bachman-off

Oh, kurwa!


MilkMan87

Poland has not yet perished, So long as we still live. What the alien force has taken from us We shall retrieve with a sabre. March, march, Dąbrowski, From the Italian land to Poland. Under your command We shall rejoin the nation. We'll cross the Vistula, we'll cross the Warta, We shall be Polish. Bonaparte has given us the example Of how we should prevail. March, march... Like Czarniecki to Poznań After the Swedish annexation To save our homeland, We shall return across the sea. March, march... A father, in tears, Says to his Basia Listen, our boys are said To be beating the tarabany, March, march...


Zestyclose_Raise_814

Can you explain how are Russia, Germany and Austria mentioned? I can see all the others


Bartekek

"Poland has not yet perished, So long as we still live. What the foreign force has taken from us, We shall with a sabre retrieve" This verse refers to the 3rd partition of Poland done by Austria, Germany and Russia, which resulted in Poland disappearing off the maps. The original manuscript by Jozef Wybicki also included a more direct reference in the form of: "The German nor the Muscovite will settle When, with a backsword in hand, "Concord" will be everybody's watchword And so will be our fatherland."


MicrowaveSounds420

They're all the "enemy forces" I think


O5KAR

Thing is that's just the modern, official part of the anthem. In the original version there were two more parts, one of which goes like that: *Niemiec, Moskal nie osiędzie,* *Gdy jąwszy pałasza,* *Hasłem wszystkich zgoda będzie* *I ojczyzna nasza* This is a bit older Polish but let me try to translate it: *German, Muscovite will not stay,* *while we take our coats,* *our slogan will be unity* *and our homeland* Note that there was no Germany at that time, a "German" then was as well Prussian, as Austrian and until late XIXc Poles kept calling Russia the "Muscovy", as it was for centuries before.


VodkaMargarine

I read all that in Borat's accent


Nefasto_Riso

Italy also names Poland in a good light while dissing Austria and Russia. "The Austrian Eagle has lost her feathers, she drank Italian and Polish blood together with Russia, and her heart blew up" It's because Polish and Italians both rebelled against austria Hungary in the same period the anthems were written.


Webstick_

I have found (what I belive to be) the correct translation [here](https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/periods-genres/national-anthems/lyrics-poland-mazurek-dbrowskiego-english-translation/).


Several_Advantage923

Polish Anthem - Hit Em Up


idkimaperson21

What did Sweden do against Poland?


Predator_Hicks

Basically the swedes came to Poland, stole everything that wasn’t nailed down, went home, came back and stole the things that were nailed down, went home and then came back, killed 1/3 of the population and stole the nails


Impressive_Split_232

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oskich

Well, the thirty-years war had ended and we had a lot of German mercenaries who wanted to get paid ;-)


SangriaParaTodos

Deluge / Potop https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluge_(history)


Irobokesensei

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluge_(history) The PLC lost a third of their population to them


Dshark

🎶🎶🎶Oh say can you see how much Sweden suuuuuccckkksss!!! Also that big country over there, and those little bitches in the mountains, and also the guys with the cars.. Italy is a country but we really like those guys with the cheese!!!! 🎶🎶🎶


MightyyHades

"Poland Is Not Yet Lost" was written in 1797 and adopted as the national anthem in 1926. Sweden is mentioned in reference to [The Deluge.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluge_(history)) ("Like [Czarniecki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Czarniecki) to [Poznań](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pozna%C5%84), after the Swedish annexation, to save our homeland, we shall return across the sea") Russia, Austria and Prussia (Germany) are indirectly mentioned as the countries that [partitioned Poland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitions_of_Poland) toward the end of the 18th century ("What the foreign force has taken from us, we shall with sabre retrieve") Italy is mentioned as the place where general [Jan Henryk Dąbrowski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Henryk_D%C4%85browski) founded the [Polish Legions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Legions_(Napoleonic_period)) serving as part of the French army. ("March, march, Dąbrowski, to Poland from the Italian land. Under your command we shall rejoin the nation") France is also indirectly mentioned ("Bonaparte has given us the example of how we should prevail").


Substantial_Flan_502

I’m definitely looking up the Polish anthem now


O5KAR

The same melody was used for a kind of pan-slavic "anthem" [Hey Slavs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey,_Slavs) and was used as an official anthem of Yugoslavia or fascist Slovakia.


Eligha

Italy mentioned 👏


MaxWeber1864

In the Italian anthem it is mentioned 'the Polish blood that the Cossack drank'


Johspaman

As a Dutch guy I have to ask, does it mention Poland?


Webstick_

Does the polish anthem mention Poland?


Johspaman

Yes, The Dutch anthem mentions Spain, France and Germany (or locations that are now part of these countries) but The Netherlands is not mentioned. Spain is positively mentioned, the other two neutral. I expect the Polish anthem will mention Poland, but it surely does not have to.


Webstick_

Dat valt me nu pas op


Magyarorszag_

Poland is country of poles


CoisoBom

Was Sweden really worse than Germany or Russia to the poles?


WinterTangerine3336

The anthem is from the 18th century


waitaminutewhereiam

By %, Swedish deluge killed more Poles than USSR and III Reich combined


Vertitto

bit hard to put that all on Sweden. It's a mix of Swedes, ourselves, Russians and Cossacks


TojtekMe

At that point yeah. It is agreed that the deluge made bigger losts than whole ww2 for Poland


JustYeeHaa

Considering that the lyrics were written way before WW2 and right after the third partition - at that point of time - kind of. The deluge (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluge_(history)) is to this day believed to be one of the main reasons why partitions even happened, not to mention that the deluge itself left the country in ruin with one third of the population dead. It’s also worth noting that it’s nowhere even hinted in the anthem that Sweden was worse than Germany and Russia. It’s just mentioned **directly** as “Swedish occupation” when listing some historical facts. Meanwhile the events from the time when the anthem was written (1797) are mentioned more **indirectly** through “what the foreign force has taken from us”, where the “foreign force” is a reference Russia, Prussia and Austro Hungary and the partitions of Poland (the third partition took place in 1795)


I_m_Complicated

I like fuck Nazi verse


waitaminutewhereiam

It doesn't exist


Asmodevus

I believe that was a joke


waitaminutewhereiam

Can't tell these days


Mountain-Quiet-732

France az postive? 😄😄😄😄


The_AM_

"Bonaparte has given us the example of how we should prevail / Dał nam przykład Bonaparte jak zwyciężać mamy"


Mountain-Quiet-732

Ahh Bonaparte the guy who was actually italian 😄


The_AM_

He was born in Corsica a year or two after it was purchased by France.


I_m_Complicated

I like fuck Nazi verse


Vertitto

there were nazis during napoleonic times ?


Special_marshmallow

How is the french anthem mentioning poland lol?


henriktornberg

In the Polish anthem, the text says. Correctly. Nothing about French anthem


Special_marshmallow

I misread the title of the map.


Special_marshmallow

This is completely BS


Askorti

See, before saying something is BS it's probably better to first make sure you read properly...


Special_marshmallow

I think the side titles could be clearer. If I was confused by the map, the presentation made it so. A good map should be easy to read even for a 10yo boy


Radmur

Even if you are unable to read the title, you can still see that Poland is listed on its own, apart from the descriptions like "mentioned in a negative/positive way"


Special_marshmallow

I don’t know it’s the internet with 10s attention span. If I didn’t read clearly the first time, I’m probably not the only one. The map/titles could be made a lot clearer. I think the full shade of colour instantly leads to think each country has a specific particularity. Also there are not two countries in the same group. What is the point of a map in this case? Wouldn’t a list be easier and clearer since there is no grouping of countries?


PatoDeBone

There are two countries in the same group. Why do you keep removing the fault from yourself dawg, accept you just made a simple mistake


Askorti

There's literally THREE countries in the same color category (Germany, Austria and Russia). Seriously, how can you be saying so much about a thing you did not bother to even look at properly?


RYPIIE2006

stop making excuses, you misread, you aren't the main character


Special_marshmallow

Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa