When I was young, surviving in the centre of my hometown of Bielsko-Biala, I listened to music from the close elegant restaurant “Patria” in the evening through the open window of my room.
Most of the standards from the late 1940s and 1950s were played, which was formerly played by the Fats Domino orchestra in the US. It is crucial that in the post-war period in socialist Poland only from the Luxembourg radio, you could hear fashionable music standards played in the USA, GB, etc. There you go! Through the open windows of this restaurant, the same was heard in the professional performance of the best white musicians.
Dress code
From time to time, I would come to the dansings for the “Patrius”. He utilized to wear an evening outfit there. Men should be in tuxedos, and whoever didn't have it must have been wearing a suit, in a white shirt, under a tie. He besides had to wear shoes or shoes in a dark color. And you must wear evening dresses. These principles have been maintained there since the interwar period. For this old elegant restaurant has preserved, in addition to the first interior design, the staff who was raised by the elite of white restaurantists. After the war, the place retained its glory during the period of Stalinism and early Władysław Gomulkabecause the local socialist authorities at the time welcomed visitors from the West.
I saw the delight of German visitors from Germany, who were eager to visit. The head of the hall was introduced to the typical hall of this restaurant. He was a handsome young waiter strikingly resembling the current Prime Minister. He knows respective languages very well. He was a co-worker of safety at the time. I can't imagine a area manager at the same time acting as a selector letting a guy dressed in a dark T-shirt and dark pants like that into the dining room. battle dress uniform.
A comedian with no pants
At the beginning of the 1970s, surviving in Vienna, I experienced akin rules as in the Bielská Patria, which were in most of the elegant premises there.
The costume of a comedian from Ukraine, who came to the presidential palace, for the decoration of the highest Polish state honour, did not inspire my emotions.
Even if he came to the decoration ceremony without pants, it wouldn't make me emotional either. I know his “artistic” appearances from erstwhile he earned a surviving as an actor performing publically as a comedian. I peculiarly remembered his most popular “artistic” performance today, erstwhile he plays in a duet, on a piano with his pants down. The Ukrainian audience was laughing, so funny... all country is simply a custom. delight find this on YouTube, on the Internet.
But the fact distinctions The comedian from Ukraine, the highest contemporary Polish honour, besides does not arouse my emotions, given that this discrimination has a wider, fatal historical context. Although most commentators of this media event comment in specified a dramatic and emotional way as if they abruptly found out that their sister was a inexpensive prostitute. Read carefully the comments under the indicated YouTube video.
Cars order
With respect to the pejorative historical context of this discrimination I explained that during the reign Stanisław August Poniatowski Order of the White Eagle was broadcast at the order of the Empress Catherine II her German and Russian favorites with Grigorij Potomkin At the head.
Among another things, it was given to the hetman Ivan Mazepa. A crucial historical figure in the past of 3 nations. Mazepa after the conflict of Poltava (8 July 1709) ended with the large defeat of the Swedish troops along with Charles XII He took refuge in the Ottoman Empire.
By the way, the Order of the White Eagle from 1831 to 1917 was broadcast by the Tsars of Russia.
From Mazepa to SS-Galizien
Giving this discrimination to the chief commander of Ukrainian troops, in the context of his negative historical genesis, is simply a very bad omen. It is associated with the tragic past of Ivan Mazepa. With his miserable end.
Dear countrymen! Relax! You don't request to burn yourself commenting on this latest media event. These were no longer “numbers” in Polish fresh history, with awards given to Ukrainians. Here's 1 of them.
In 1965, a general Władysław Anders gave the cross to Virtuti Militari Pawło Szanceprint, the last SS-Galizen commander to murdered Over 120 1000 Poles and a immense number of Polish judaic citizens.
Eugeniusz Zinkiewicz
