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pakfoodie-blog · 7 years

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•GERMAN DONER• For tonight's dinner I ordered German Doner through UberEats, I've had it before and I absolutely enjoyed it so had to order this beauty again. I ordered: - Mix doner sandwich - Chicken durum doner wrap - chips Being a Foodie you need to order loads in order to try different stuff, I absolutely enjoyed my doner sandwich it was so tasty, the flat bread they give it in really does compliment the meat and the salad. Now the Durum wrap roll, I didn't think it would be as good as the sandwich one but OMG it was better! It tasted like a shawarma but with loads of chicken doner, I really enjoyed it. I've decided next time I'm going to order the durum wrap roll as it proper reminds of shawarmas and it's so very tasty If you haven't tried German Doner then what you waiting for? Go and check this place out and let me know what you think! #london #foodisbae #foodster #goodforthesoul #goodfood #germandoner #doner #halal #yummy (at Stratford, London)

#london #goodforthesoul #goodfood #halal #foodster #germandoner #doner #yummy #foodisbae

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dry-valleys · 5 years

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“The time of reckoning has come. In the blood of the defeated Polish army we will drown the criminal government of Piłsudski.

Turn your eyes to the West. In the West the fate of World Revolution is being decided. Over the corpse of White Poland lies the road to World Conflagration. On our bayonets we will bring happiness and peace to the toiling masses of mankind”

Soviet order of 3 July 1920.

Second half of my trip to the Hanseatic city of Toruń, Poland, where my granddad, Jan Ruszkowski, originated.

The first half was in the medieval city, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and I’d advise looking there rather than repeating myself here. This is what happened after Nicholas Copernicus, the city’s most famous son, after whom the excellent university and planetarium are named, mixed in with the 14th-century walls (which continued to be used for centuries).

By the time he died in 1543, things were looking up for Poland and Toruń ; the precursor of the university was set up in 1568, and the next year the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was set up.

This was a highly successful state but beset by jealous, hostile neighbours with designs; the city commanded a position on the River Vistula which ensured that it would be prey to many such, and the walls which we see here were put to the test in 1703 (2 is an anon painting of the event) when the Swedes beseiged the city; what exactly Swedes were doing here is unclear, but they won this battle and captured the city, prompting a rethink of the city’s defences.

Sadly the state wasn’t able to strengthen itself in time and in 1773 began the shameful Partitions of Poland whereby the state of Poland was abolished between then and 1795; at the Second Partition, 1793, Toruń was thieved by the Prussian Empire.

The Prussians moved away from the old town and built their own fortifications, which make a fascinating afternoon’s expedition just outside the old town. Building on the city’s links to Germandon- it had been founded in 1233 by the Teutonic Knights, had a large community of ethnic Germans and was a centre of Protestant worship- the Prussians very much acted as colonists, and while a mostly German minority thrived under their rule they were never truly accepted by most Poles.

The Prussians and their heirs, the German Empire, held the city by force until the cataclysm of World War 1, which- unlike in the West- is seen in Poland as a painful but necessary moment of national rebirth. On the 11th November 1918- which of course is known in the west as Armistice Day- the Polish state, the first since 1795, was proclaimed by the great Marshal Józef Piłsudski (9 is his statue in Torun).

The interwar Polish state was far from perfect, but was an inspiration to millions who staunchly defended it against the next act of imperial aggression, the little-known Soviet invasion of 1920, which showed Lenin for what he was, despite the claims of naive western fellow travellers.

Stalin and Trotsky also disgraced themselves in what was dressed up as an attempt to spread the worldwide revolution, but was in fact senseless aggression against a small country. Poland’s defenders included future leader Władysław Sikorski, who later fought bravely against the fascist empire.

Piłsudski gained the victory in this war, which is perhaps why it’s almost forgotten today, but the state was never safe and in 1939 came the betrayal of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, whereby these two supposed enemies decided what they really hated was a small, independent country taking pride in its self-determination. Toruń became part of the Third Reich, Jan Ruszkowski joined the resistance and my great-grandfather, Kazimierz Ruszkowski, was murdered by the Nazis.

Despite the bravery the Poles- now led by Sikorski- showed in the native resistance movement and in the armies of other countries, their reward was to be turned over to Stalin who had showed his attitude to the Poles in his shameful behaviour as a commissar in 1920. Stalin remarked that subjecting Poland was like putting a saddle on a cow (so why did he do it then???) and it thus required great brutality to be done.

Many, such as my grandfather, emigrated to the West at this time and Poland suffered terribly under communism, producing one of the greatest resistance movements, Solidarity, in which the young Donald Tusk was a participant. Centred around the church and Polish identity, Solidarity was one of the standard-bearers of the fall of communism in 1989.

Poland is now a free and independent country, part of the European Union since 2004 but very much a sovereign state and disctinct, welcoming culture, and may the spirit of Pilsudski use the medieval battering ram (10) on anyone who tries to alter that!

#photos #poland #polska #ww2 #communism

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pakfoodie-blog · 7 years

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#germandoner #foodster #halal #london #goodfood #yummy #goodforthesoul #foodisbae #doner

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