@ArveniChief@RMXnews Hitler also claimed the Polish army was harrassing German farmers, was completely untrue. There is a good documentary called “forbidden films”, every German went to see these films, “homecoming” was one that was very effective at spreading similar propaganda. Please have a look
@spacexfan007@Average_NY_Guy@DianaLynnS44 Poland welcomed Jews for 1000 years, there were reasons so many Jews moved there. Before the kinetic war began both Ussr and Germany waged a propaganda war to sow hatred of Jews in Poland, even ran foreign newspapers. Yad Vasem has so many Polish christians.
@sonabilis@Average_NY_Guy Poland fought for a month, 2 front war and never surrendered. Was only a country again for a dozen years right after the depression. Poland believed France would attack per treaty but instead got a Phoney war. 22% of population died.
@IntelDeskX@ArthurMacwaters In 1804 Polish people were granted Haitian citizenship for turning on Napoleon and fighting with Haitian slaves, to tell the whole story
For all those who asked, here is a clip of @havivrettiggur responding to masked protesters interrupting his lecture at Haverford College on February 1, 2026. Enjoy and learn.
@DailySignal@VDHanson Love and respect to VDH, but he says in this episode 1 1/2 million non Jews died during ww2? Victor, yes 6 M Jews died, but almost as many non Jewish (90% Catholic) Poles died. Just Warsaw was over a million, your numbers have unwittingly erased these victims, lost to history
@BskiMike22802 Its hard to fight historical ignorance with facts, few people know the truth. Your 6M figure is off though. Hitler killed 6M Jews yes, about half came from Poland, he also killed 6M Polish non-Jews. So without double dipping thats 9M civilans, way more when you count military
The Polish Mine Detector: When Truth Silences a Joke:
There is an old joke once repeated by the billionaire media mogul Ted Turner, who asked with a smirk, “Have you ever seen a Polish mine detector?” then pointed to his own foot. It was meant as a punchline. Yet, as history so often reveals, the truth has its own sense of irony. The man who invented the first successful portable mine detector, the very device that saved countless soldiers’ lives in World War II, was himself Polish. His name was Józef Stanisław Kosacki, and he gave his invention to the world freely.
Józef Kosacki was born in 1909 in Poland, a nation that had only recently regained its independence after more than a century of partition and erasure. A gifted engineer and officer in the Polish Army’s Signals Corps, he was already experimenting with electrical and detection technologies before the outbreak of the Second World War.
When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Kosacki escaped through Romania and made his way to Great Britain, where thousands of displaced Polish soldiers regrouped under Allied command.
While in exile in Scotland, Kosacki began refining a device to detect metal buried beneath the earth’s surface, a solution to one of the most horrifying problems of modern warfare: landmines.
Up until that time, soldiers advanced through minefields using nothing but bayonets or sticks to probe the soil. Each step could mean death or mutilation. Kosacki’s invention changed that forever. Using a transmitter coil and a receiver coil linked by an electronic oscillator, his prototype could identify a buried mine without physical contact.
He presented the prototype to British military engineers in 1941. It was accepted immediately, tested in combat, and adopted across Allied forces. The first large-scale use came during the Second Battle of El Alamein in 1942, when British sappers equipped with Kosacki’s detectors doubled their speed in clearing minefields.
This Polish device helped open the way for Montgomery’s armored divisions to advance against Rommel’s Afrika Korps, a turning point in the North African campaign and, in many ways, in the entire war.
Kosacki did not patent the invention. He did not seek money or recognition. He handed over the design freely to the British Army, understanding that every hour counted and every life mattered. In doing so, he exemplified the quiet, sacrificial spirit of so many Poles who fought not for personal glory, but for the survival of civilization itself.
More than a hundred thousand mine detectors based on his design were produced during the war. They were used in Italy, in Normandy, and in every major theater of the Allied advance. Variations of Kosacki’s model remained in use for decades, and the principles behind it endure even in modern demining technology.
Still, outside of Poland, his name remains little known. It is easier, it seems, to remember the jokes than the facts. The same culture that has for generations recycled “Polish jokes” — implying ignorance, incompetence, or folly, rarely pauses to ask who invented the tools that made victory possible or who rebuilt Europe’s conscience after it was broken.
There is a poetic justice in this story. The next time someone repeats the old insult about Polish “mine detectors,” the answer is simple: yes, we have seen one. It was Polish ingenuity that made it. It was Polish generosity that gave it away. And it was Polish courage that used it to clear a path through the minefields of tyranny.
In the end, Ted Turner’s remark says less about the Polish people and more about the ignorance that still shadows the truth. The joke, as history now makes clear, is not on Poland. It is on those who laugh without knowing what they owe.
Photo credit: Kosciuszko Squad Plus
@simonateba Germans are trying to rewrite history to try and share blame of atrocities with Polish people. You failed to mention 6m polish non jews killed- both Germans and soviets dehumanized Polish culture not just Jews for thier religon. 6M dehumanized and murdered and also now forgotten
@simonateba What you are saying is true, BUT when a country, a society that you have invested your life supporting turns on you, insteads supports aliens for political gains while turning its back on you and your children, thats where the anger comes from.
@simonateba Poland could have used more of that military industrial complex back in 39, instead of losing more than 20% of the population and spending the next 50 years in oppression.
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@BluegrassRabbi you are both wrong, allowing anger to cloud your judgement. Ed even if you were sure Israel was guilty other charges, the charge of using candy to poison children functions as an impossible to prove/disprove libel, but heshouldnt falsely libel you as an antisemite or revisionist
@ReidEdwardII There is a train in a park near Chmielno with this commemoration. There is also a replica of the type of drafty shed people were forced to try and live in.
@ricwe123@HousewifePolish Historically there was no agreement or even discussion about NATO expansion from 1991 to 1999. And the argument about missles in Canada is silly, we are always talking about defensive missles not long range or hypersonic like Russia has. Russia has no reason to fear NATO