Poland Promises to Become Independent of Russian Gas by 2022

Piotr Naimski, who is the person made responsible by the Polish government for energy security says that thanks to the Baltic Pipe, which is currently being built, and the LNG terminal at Świnoujście, most of Polish gas will come from the opposite direction, and not from Russia…

From Polskie Radio (in Polish)

This Piotr Naimski also said that Poland wants 6 nuclear reactors by 2040…

POLAND STRONK

“Glory to Hong Kong, Glory to Heroes!”

Yet another example of cross-pollination between Hong Kong and Ukraine has surfaced…

The slogan “Glory to Ukraine, Glory to Heroes!” has become very popular during the Ukrainian Euromaidan. The origin of this slogan is among the Ukrainian nationalists of 1920s and 1930s, who often combined this with the Roman salute. Today’s Ukronazis do throw a little Sieg Heil as well.

A photo of a helmet has surfaced featuring a text in Cyrillic saying: “Glory to Hong Kong, Glory to Heroes!”

Ukrainian Embassy in the US Teaches Americans English

Anatoly Karlin notes that far more confident Western nations are cool with the article “the”…

Read Anatoly’s article on the matter of confidence deficient nations of Eastern Europe trying to control language.

While we see a lot of institutions in the West adopting the spelling Kyiv (out of pure Russophobia in my opinion), the prononciation of Kyiv must be very difficult for the Anglo-saxons.

Bryan MacDonald notes that while the spelling has changed, the pronunciation has not…

Stepan Bandera Suffocated Cats

I was interested in verifying an old claim made by Oles’ Buzyna…

In an essay, “Bandera, the Suffocator of Cats”, the late journalist, Oles’ Buzyna made the claim that the young Stepan Bandera liked suffocating cats. He quoted a biographical book by Halyna Hordasevych, Stepan Bandera, the Person and The Myth, where it said this:

If the incident with cats really took place, it was not out of an inborn tendency toward sadism, but out of a boyish and perhaps not so smart wish to test oneself, would he be able to kill another being? Since on the path of revolution, that Stepan Bandera has chosen, he would have to kill ennemies.

This, it needs to be noted, is a favourable biography from a fangirl. And while I trust Oles’ Buzyna’s integrity, I had to verify this information anyway.

So I requested a friend in Kiev to get me this book. He said the bookseller was very happy because apparently few were after this kind of literature. Neither was I going to read it, I was only looking for that particular quote:

The book cover:

Young Stepan Bandera (on the right) as a plastun: