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page 1Polish words and phrases

Żydokomuna
'''''''' (, Polish for "Judeo-Communism") is an anti-communist and antisemitic canard, or pejorative stereotype, suggesting that most Jews collaborated with the Soviet Union in importing communism into Poland, or that there was an exclusively Jewish conspiracy to do so. A Polish language term for "Jewish Bolshevism", or more literally "Jewish communism", Żydokomuna'' is related to the "Jewish world conspiracy" myth.
Szmalcownik
thumb|200px|Polish underground Biuletyn Informacyjny (Information Bulletin), 2 September 1943, announcing death sentences carried out on collaborators, including a szmalcownik named Jan Grabiec
thumb|Announcement by the governor of the Warsaw District, [[Ludwig Fischer, of 13 May 1943, encouraging the inhabitants of Warsaw to hand over communist agents and Jews to the German authorities]]
thumb|200px|Directorate of Underground Resistance poster, September 1943, announcing death sentences carried out on collaborators, including Bogusław Jan Pilnik, sentenced for 'blackmailing, and delivering to
osiedle
'''''' (; plural: ) is a term used in Poland to denote a designated subdivision or neighbourhood of a city or its , or of a town, with its own council and executive. Like the and , an is an auxiliary unit () of a gmina. These units are created by decision of the gmina council, and do not have legal personality in their own right. In the case of an urban-rural gmina, it is also possible for a whole town to be designated an auxiliary unit.
wójt
A wójt is the highest administrative officer of a Polish rural gmina, i.e., of a commune (gmina) comprising only villages. (The head of a town or city is called, respectively, the burmistrz or "president".)
Zaścianek
thumb|A sketch of land by the Volok Reform: the hatched area is "beyond the wall", i.e., a zaścianek
thumb|Zaścianek Punki. Jazep Drazdovič, 1922
Murzyn
'''''''''' () is a common Polish word for a Black person of Sub-Saharan African descent, cognate with the English word "Moor". Since the 21st century, some Black people residing in Poland consider it offensive.
Spieprzaj dziadu!
Polish phrase
kamienica
Polish tenement building type