To: Grzegorz 246
This is strange - on the second photo from the top Polish flag is upside down. Someone did not know how the Polish flag looks.
This is Polish flag:
![](http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/waf/poland/poland.gif)
or sometimes you can see this:
![](http://www.worldstatesmen.org/pl-st.gif)
More at World Statesmen / Poland
And this might be the Polish flag when Poland, Ukraine, Turkey, former Holland, France etc ... will be integrated in the future EUrabia:
![](http://atlasgeo.span.ch/fotw/images/p/pl_tatar.gif)
12 posted on
11/28/2004 6:34:49 AM PST by
A. Pole
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To: A. Pole
Actually on the second photo you see a real Belorussian flag - white-red-white, but you weren't enough clever to notice it.
To: A. Pole
Polish Tatars flag - nothing new in Poland, you know about it.
This is a flag used by the Union of Polish Tatars (Zwiazek Tatarow Polskich or Polonya Tatar Birlik), the foremost organization of the remnants of a once prosperous and influential ethno-religious group of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. From feared invaders in the XIII Century, the Tatars evolved into one of the most patriotic elements of the Polish nation. Treated with respect and equality, allowed complete religious freedom, they served with enthusiasm and numerous sacrifices their new fatherland. Over the years most of them lost their language and even the religion of their fathers by blending into Polish nobility and general population. Wars, partitions and border changes affected them severely, and today only about 5 thousand remain faithful to their tradition and Islam. But their involvement in epic struggles in defense of Poland, from the wars with the Teutonic Knights to fierce resistance against German-Soviet invasion of 1939 entitle them a special place in the society. They are not treated as a minority but as equal compatriots, just of different religion. In the Polish III Republic they have a chance to flourish again. Besides two archaic mosques in Kryszyniany and Bohoniki (near Bialystok), a new and modern mosque was built in Gdansk and cultural centers opened in Bialystok and Warsaw. Most recently, the Union of Polish Tatars and Polish Islamic Association issued statements condemning the attack on the WTC.
To: A. Pole
Polish Tatars regiment. Unfortunatelly most of them were slaughtered by both Nazis and Soviet.
![](http://www.tatarzy.tkb.pl/fotki/uroczystosci/inne/wojsko/a.jpg)
To: A. Pole
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