This is Głogów. Over 95% of Głogów was destroyed during WW2.
Poles living there decided to build the place anew.
Upper image is 1990s, lower image is 2020s.
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This is Głogów. Over 95% of Głogów was destroyed during WW2
Whatever it is poles are occupied with, if it keeps them from stealing hard working germans' cars, it's a good thing.
payed by german tax payer via eu gibs
closer up
you can tell it's simplified traditional-looking architecture and not the real thing
Looks like shopping malls/outlet stores we build for russians back then
*paid
Of course it is, it's a tiny town they're never afford rebuilding it all. Some dude posted s close up so seeNo lol
I'm going to your lovely country. Tremble
Similar thing in Elbląg but they don't look that cheap as in Głogów
It's built anew but since it was started around 80ties it's a bit tacky
tbf for some people like americans they probably can't tell the difference lol
potemkin! potemkin!
Tells a lot about Portuguese that you think this town is impressive enough to be built for show
St. Pidorburgers used to spend so much money here, it helped a lot that they are most western russians and "Made in Finland" Foods are automatically luxus
German taxpayers decided to build the place anew.
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this style of housing and planning gives way to much parking problems. you see it in your pics, cars parked everywhere.
why do foreigners think that we get gibs for everything? both these towns started being rebuilt in the 80s
ahhh much better
I think they would, it's pressive for a small town, talks a lot about it's citizens that they work so hard to have a proper place but you can tell the moment you see it that it's "90ties till now" architecture. Still Glogowians are impressive people.
Poland joined EU in 2004. That's before you were born sasha and when Głogów was already getting built anew. Besides I don't think much of that 1,5 bonus GDP went to the citizens of Głogów.
poland thread about poland
Poland is Ireland of Europe
they cheap out on the building process by not making underground parking, and they buildt apartments is a suburb/rural area where people still have to drive everywhere.
The native population of that city got ethnically replaced by the end of WW2.
ethnically replaced
Nigger, they got killed and the city was gone. All that remained were postcards and it's first name, Głogów.
Correct. Poland should make amends.
And the graveyards but you destroyed those
I love it.
Say what you wll about Poles. They have taste.
That aside, out of pure morbid curiosity, how many Poles understand and/or speak German?
Lmao first germies genocided all poles from those lands than you sperg out and start a war, murder millions, than you lose and blame all your hurt on us.
Stupid fucking mental nigger.
Top: SOVL
Bottom: soulless
And the best part: "when we rebuild you get butthurt". Forgot that.
Germans threw Głogów under the train and made it a "festung" just like a lot Prussian and Silesian cities which ended up with them getting wiped off the map for the sake of "Germany proper".
That means there's 0 german speakers because they all ran or died.
Ah you ment in Poland? 14% of Poles speak german. German minitory has a seat in Polish parliament and some places in Silesia are bilingual.
basic words like
ja nein einz zwei drei guten tag auf wiedersehen
everyone
a1-a2
maybe 30% german is most common taught language in schools after english, silesian and greater poland dialects are partly based on german vocabulary
b1-c2
maybe 10%-20%
all ran or died.
Or were ethnically cleansed from their.homeland where their ancestors lived for centuries.
when we rebuild you get butthurt
Poles rebuilding and claiming the architecture as polish is as offensive as a white american larping as a native american.
So just like Poles before them. I say it's justice.
homeland
Germans claiming Silesia one of the core Polish Piast lands, as homeland is offensive just like a 7th generation american italian claiming italy as his homeland.
architecture as theirs
What architecture. It's build anew not rebuild. I don't understand what's the reason for your butthurt.
Silesian culture is dead. Stop defiling its corpse.
Poles SQUATTING there STOLE the place anew.
t. gibsocrat
silesian culture is alive in upper silesia
Silesian culture was one of borderlands, Polish-German-Czech mix, and since the mix is gone than yes it's dead but I don't think people building a place anew defiles it somehow.
I don't know if it's in german but if it is and you're not closed for learning read the Husite trilogy. It's a bit on fantasy side but the historical background took Sapkowski years of research and describes Silesia well.
most Silesians live in Germany now unfortunately
La Silesie is French btw
Here you go, it's in german
That's the first part:
amazon.de
It's sapkowskis opus magnum, much better than witcher
Fascinating info... Even though that's not why I asked.
Surprisingly a lot less than I expected.
I mean, I knew English was known to some degree like 2/3rds of Poland, but I didn't expect their "debatably" most important trading partner to be so low on that scale.
I mean, I speak both English and German as secondaries, but only a third of us know any French in the Netherlands. I'm not in that spectrum.
In Poland "knowledge of language" is when you're mid or expert, beginer level isn't counted as "knowledge" but there's 31% more poles with beginer level german knowledge besides that 14%
German is commonly taught at schools here but few people are invested into studying it properly, since if you don't plan to work in DACH countries it is pretty much useless, Poland doesn't have any modern pop-cultural ties to Germany, unlike NL I guess. We don't watch their movies, don't listen to their music, whatever ever comes to Poland from DE, goes through English popculture, like to the rest of the world.
It works both ways ofc, Polish popculture has zero influence on Germany as well
There were always two separate Silesian cultures, Polish and German. When German says "Silesian", he means Silesian German, when a Pole says Silesian, he means Polish Silesian. These are just not comparable, even though they obviously have some common traits, due to linguistic differences they're essentially different.
And there's upper Silesia as well or Opole Silesia
That's my point. There are parts of Silesia where Polish Silesians lived predominantly, there are parts where German Silesians lived and they were very different in culture, traditions, customs, let alone language. Ofc there were also mixed areas but desu not that much, in rural areas the Polish/German border was rather clear, there was more mixing in cities but many Germans in big Silesian cities weren't even native Silesians but all kinds of immigrants from all over Germany who looked for job opportunities in rapidly developing coal and heavy industry there.
Most importantly, traditionally rural Silesian Germans were predominantly Catholics, while Germans in Silesian cities were mostly protestants (that was also a deliberate Prussian policy to send protestant officials, military officers, engineers, teachers etc. to Silesia because protestants were though to be more loyal to Prussian govt)