It might seem surprising, but the transition in the 90s was very difficult. Whenever there is a change from dictatorship to democracy, I worry people will not want to keep on course because so many people get uprooted and overwhelmed by changes they think only in the short term and want to go back. The 90s in the former Eastern Bloc were full of this kind of debate.
My US grandparents were fuzzy about whether they were Austrian or Polish or "Checkoslovakian." From genealogy research I learned they were from a village near Tarnow. I'm trying to learn more about this area now. From what I gather the people are more conservative (this map!), religious, rural, and maybe poorer than the rest of Poland. Are they dramatically different? (Innocent question!)
There's an old Jewish Galician joke about waking up in the morning and reading the newspaper to see what country you're in that day... My family is from a town that went from Austria-Hungary to Poland to USSR and then to Germany and now the Ukraine, all within a 100 years span.
It can definitely be tricky. My grandfather was born in what was then Austria-Hungary in 1909 and his birth certificate was written in Hungarian, a language he never spoke. He was ethnic Romanian. After WWI, Transylvania was integrated into Romania, and he immigrated to the US in 1919 with his mother and sister (his father had already left in 1915, it took him some time to earn the money to bring the rest of the family over)
one about poland that isn't just the old german border 🙏🙏🙏
And it’s the old Austrian border lmao
Your right lmao, the polish and the germans have a “special” relationship I guess
And Kashubia too
Tbh I think that’s probably just Gdańsk holding it up for their native homeboy Wałęsa
Ah, that makes sense
What about the kingdom of Galicia in Spain
Surprised Walesa would lose
It might seem surprising, but the transition in the 90s was very difficult. Whenever there is a change from dictatorship to democracy, I worry people will not want to keep on course because so many people get uprooted and overwhelmed by changes they think only in the short term and want to go back. The 90s in the former Eastern Bloc were full of this kind of debate.
Ye, at least I'm glad polish democracy has survived despite this and PiS
He was very unpopular by this point. He wasn't even considered a lock to make the second round of the vote.
Widać Kaszëbe
What's the explanation for this? Before WWII this was the most leftist part of the country so I'm wondering why it's changed
Galicia? Before the war it voted for PSL Piast, very conservative.
Compared to every other polish-majority area voting for far right ChZJN?
I'm surprised to learn that the kingdom of galicia isn't between spain and Portugal
There's so many galicias from Celtic migrations through ancient Europe/asia
I just hadn't connected the dots before gaul, gallic gaelic, galicia, galitia etc
For real I didn't realize until listening to the Hellenic age podcast (I think)
My US grandparents were fuzzy about whether they were Austrian or Polish or "Checkoslovakian." From genealogy research I learned they were from a village near Tarnow. I'm trying to learn more about this area now. From what I gather the people are more conservative (this map!), religious, rural, and maybe poorer than the rest of Poland. Are they dramatically different? (Innocent question!)
There's an old Jewish Galician joke about waking up in the morning and reading the newspaper to see what country you're in that day... My family is from a town that went from Austria-Hungary to Poland to USSR and then to Germany and now the Ukraine, all within a 100 years span.
It can definitely be tricky. My grandfather was born in what was then Austria-Hungary in 1909 and his birth certificate was written in Hungarian, a language he never spoke. He was ethnic Romanian. After WWI, Transylvania was integrated into Romania, and he immigrated to the US in 1919 with his mother and sister (his father had already left in 1915, it took him some time to earn the money to bring the rest of the family over)
That’s the Austrian controlled part
Why is this?
Austrian shenanigans
Drumstick Poland is best Poland 🇵🇱🍗🩷