It is known that there were a lot of White Croats in Poland, for example according to documents from USA involving immigrants, most White Croats came from Krakow which Pope John Paul II is...
I am wondering when White Croats started to declare themselves as Poles, was it forceful due to Polish nationalism, discrimination, mixing with Poles or any combination of these.
During the years of the Croatian War of Independence (1991-1995), 45 journalists were killed on the territory of Yugoslavia. The first victims of the armed conflict were employees of the USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Viktor Nogin and Gennady Kurinnoy. 30 years ago, on September 1, 1991, their car was shot down near the village of Hrvatska Kostajnica on the Belgrade-Zagreb highway. Their bodies were never found, but in March 2017, despite their status as missing, President of Russia Vladimir Putin awarded them the Order of Courage posthumously. It was only in 2021 that the case got off the ground, but there are still more questions than answers.
On a formal level, the war on the territory of the former Socialist Republic of Croatia began only in the summer of 1991, after on June 25, following Slovenia, it declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). But the first conflicts between the Croatian authorities and local Serbs, of whom more than 600 thousand lived there, began in the summer of 1990. The language was the source of contention.
The fact is that the Croatian Democratic Union (CDU) party, which won the first multi-party elections in May 1990, led by Franjo Tudjman, immediately renamed the Serbo-Croatian language into Croatian, changed its grammar, and banned the use of Cyrillic on the territory of the republic. Any mention of events from the history of Serbia, as well as Serbian writers and poets, were excluded from the school curriculum.
In addition, public discrimination against Serbs began in Croatia. Thus, one of the leaders of the CDU, later President of Croatia, Stipe Mesic, said that the local Serbs own as much land as they can carry on the soles of their shoes. And Franjo Tudjman called the Independent State of Croatia created by Hitler, where more than a million Serbs were killed by local Ustashe fascists in 1941-1945, the result of "thousand-year aspirations of the Croatian people."
Discrimination was also formal: all Serbs working in the power structures, primarily militsiyamen, were forced to sign a humiliating βletter of loyaltyβ (nothing like this was required from Croats and representatives of other nationalities). As a result, in May 1990, parallel power structures began to form in Serb-populated areas of Croatia. In early July 1990, the militsiya of the city of Knin, led by Milan Martic, refused to obey the Ministry of the Interior of Croatia, after which militsiya units
... keep reading on reddit β‘I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I know it's wedsday, but its holidays man. I have the week off, and I'm quitting drinking next year. I do that from time to time. Besides, Dain Bornhald isn't always a drunk, just in the later books, and he has a good reason for it, just likme! No, I dint kill a farm full of people. I didn't even watch. Brandy is good, that's why!
Anyways, I think I plotted out what I would do in a good adaptation for Episode 3. I really wouldn't cut much, and I'd try to stick to the story. The 8 episode thing is a bullshit contraint, and there is barely any CGI needed in the story so far. Also, I'd go animated, for a numbr of reasons. Arcane is sweet.
I left off at the Stag and Lion (I wonder where GRRM got some of his iconography, hmm?) and everyone has a bath. There is some dialogue in that scene that Raginor & Mesaarah should re-read, and then read again, and then get tattooed in bold lettering to their arms. We also glimpse someone for the first time. She's different becase she wears trousers and has close-cropped hair. Rand doesn't think she's some crazy lesbian chick, which nowadats is always my first reaction (once you scale up that women in trousers with short hair in a Fantasy story is the equivalent of rhinestone and leather pants and electric pink hair in our wolrd).
Rand has his first Ba'alzamon dream and there is an actual conversation. How nice!
Then the next day, not feeling too well (pretty shaken up over that dream) Rand explores the big city! There's that bit about rats. It was pretty cool when I first read it. Infinitely better than bats. Thom is in the common room, doing more cool world-building with his repertoire of tales. And then we meet Min (who isn't a lesbian, crotchety, old, or a bartender!) who makes fun or Rand for being a bumpkin (what a sassy minx!) and then unloads a ton of cool prophecies. Fuck, this would have been so good done properly. I remember old forums in the infant days of the interwebs where people debated Min's viewings. Some are easy (Seven Broken Towers around Lan) and some were (are?) hard, like Perrin's Broken Crown (did that happen?).
Not to be outdone, we also meet Padan Fain again in this chapter. He's not a moustache-twirling villain. He's been run half to death, and Rand trusts this guy more than Moiraine, because of course! He's known Padan Fain since forever. Padan Fain was butchered by the show, and they cast a great actor for him.
Fain leads to Mat, they chat about dreams, and t
... keep reading on reddit β‘I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies π
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
BamBOO!
Theyβre on standbi
Update: we think we found out who she is! The police has been notified but everything fits.
On the afternoon of the 21st, a couple of Czech tourists spoke with the police and told them that they talked to who they believe to be the same woman before her injury and possible fugue and that she told them she was from Slovakia.
The photos of the woman that were dug out on here were taken at an even in LA. The fisherman's wife who was the first person to really talk to the found woman thought that the woman's accent could be Scottish, but wasn't sure.
A woman was discovered who fits all these descriptions. She is from Slovakia but moved to Los Angeles and lived there for many years. She later settled in Ireland and lived there for years as well. The accent could be Irish, not Scottish. A lot of Croats mix them up. It is possible that she picked up an accent in her non-native language, believe me it happens to me too, whenever I speak to somebody who's native language is English, I pick up not only their phrases but parts of their accent and vernacular as well.
Her name has been found and I won't post it publicly at this point because we still don't know for sure (I do believe it's her, I've seen the pictures from Slovakia, LA and Ireland and all seem to be our woman), but if the police confirms it, this is it!!! We all did it, Facebook Investigation group, Reddit, Tumblr and Twitter combined. Everybody put their talents to use. Thank you all so much!
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This is a developing story that is happening right now in my country and I thought it was my duty as somebody who frequents this sub and other subs of similar nature to bring this up to the attention of as many people as possible. If we spread her image around the net, someone will hopefully be able to recognize her. I apologize in advance for any mistakes, as English is not my native language.
What we know so far: on Saturday the 11th, September of 2021, a local fisherman spotted a woman he didn't know on the rocks some distance away from a nearby popular beach. She didn't appear to be in bad spirits or in distress, and the area where she was at was not approachable to him by boat due to it being extremely rocky, but as she didn't call out to him he assumed she was just walking or relaxing there and paid it no mind.
However, the next day when he came back (Sunday the 12th), she yelled out to him asking for help in perfect English. As he could not get to her on his own due to the terrain making it
... keep reading on reddit β‘They were cooked in Greece.
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Kosovo: the untold story
When Slobodan Milosevic's troops began slaughtering ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, the West feared a repeat of Hitler's Holocaust. Nato bombed his forces. Then, on 12 June, the Serb dictator unexpectedly admitted defeat.
Here, for the first time, The Observer can reveal secret details of Operation Bravo Minus - the daring allied plan to drive Milosevic from power - and how a spy leaked details to Belgrade
Additional reporting by Chris Bird in Pristina, John Henley in Paris and John Hooper in Rome
Milosevic on trial: Observer special
Peter Beaumont and Patrick Wintour
Sun 18 Jul 1999 17.28 BST
Deep below the Ministry of Defence building in Whitehall, past two red, steel-reinforced doors, two computerised glass checkpoints and surveillance cameras lies the Crisis Management Centre: 'The Bunker.' Reconstructed on the orders of Lady Thatcher in 1979, it is an air-pressurised network of low-ceilinged corridors leading to a large and dimly lit room. At its centre is a broad ash table capable of seating 18.
The Bunker is serviced by one of the most sophisticated communications centres in the western world, including a video conference screen capable of simultaneously linking the crisis centre to Nato Headquarters, Permanent Joint Headquarters at High Northwood, RAF Strike Command at High Wycombe and Army Command at Wilton. Originally built to control operations in the event of a Russian nuclear attack, the Bunker became from 23 March the headquarters for an entirely new kind of war - a 'humanitarian war' designed to protect refugees. And each morning at 8.30, Britain's most senior Cabinet Ministers, defence staff, intelligence officers and diplomats would gather to discuss its prosecution, the cohesion of the Nato alliance, the fate of the refugees and the bombing schedule.
It was around this table in April that they discussed, with increasing fervour, a plan first drawn up in June 1998 by officers from Nato's planning cell who had been sent to the Yugoslav borders to look at the routes into Serbia's southern province, Kosovo
... keep reading on reddit β‘A play on words.
Pilot on me!!
Christopher Walken
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"Here is your ID Mr. von Graf, you are now registered as a citizen of the Stellar Assembly and resident of Hyrdanya." The clerk, a fleshy rounding looking Torvost who's appearance assaulted Rudolf's eyes like any of the more obese denizens of home, gave him a card detailing his basic information, like IDs on Earth. He wasn't used to being referred to without his rank, years in service made it normal to be called Sergeant, but he likely wasn't active duty anymore, despite still having his tags and unit ID.
"Good, thank you. Where is this Geldun woman that I am supposed to meet?" His first order of business upon landing was to get an ID, which he now had. Captain Stach had apparently called ahead of time and had everything arranged so he could walk in and fill out a form and do some measurements. Skipping lines in bureaucracy was always a very good gift to be given.
"Down the hall behind me and third door on the right."
Now he had the rest of the things to do. He had no place to stay, he had no job, he had no clothes, he owned nothing more than his combat gear. He got his rifle, sidearm, knife, and ammunition back after being a little forceful with words. Sometimes people needed to be reminded not to take a foreign military's property, such things are bad for one's health. He knew it was Stach who ultimately ordered them to give him his things back though, despite some administrator's complaining about owning such powerful weapons being illegal.
"Are you Bilzah? There is work to do." He stated dryly after walking into the tall woman's office.
She jumped slightly before quickly shuffling some thing around on her desk then pretending it didn't happen. "Uh yes, I am. I take it you are this Human? Rudolf?"
"That would be correct," he sat himself down in the chair in front of her desk, setting his helmet down in front of him.
"Oh, you poor thing. I wish we stop pirates easier, I'm glad you were freed though."
"I do not need your sympathy. I freed myself and my fellow captives and I killed the entire crew for their deeds. I did my duty as a Weltraummarine of my nation. Now, I believe living quarters is the most pressing matter. Shall we get that sorted?"
Bilzah turned her monitor towards him where they could both see it, "that is already arranged. Normally, someone would acquire a home on t
... keep reading on reddit β‘Nothing, he was gladiator.
Or would that be too forward thinking?
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
When I got home, they were still there.
I won't be doing that today!
