It has occurred to me that the American Solidarity Party (minus the preachy-yet-internally-consistent abortion plank) should theoretically be the most popular single party platform in America, appealing to the complaints of the petite bourgeoise as much as certain parts of the crusty left. (Although I doubt the vast majority of middle-class American voters have more than a dim idea of what a "cooperative" is, whether that's a local grocery or a place they could conceivably work).
Nothing good lasts forever. Though I still suspect most Poles would be happier with what they have today than under the Soviet puppet regime. But, it's true, as I'll acknowledge in the coming posts: Nothing good lasts forever.
In fairness though, it's also worth mentioning that, while I've been a little disappointed over the current Polish government's (perfectly understandable) position on the whole Ukraine business, they have been pretty solid on defending Polish sovereignty and culture against the efforts of the EU to impose its liberal imperialism upon them. At least, that's my understanding. Though, neither do I closely follow contemporary Polish politics.
The Poles, the Balts, and the Ruthenians all hate Russians. The deep centuries old animosity turned into burning hatred when Stalin raped their countries during WW2.
No blanket animosity to speak of, at least wasn't until very recently. There’s Régime, and there’re folks on streets or country roads 🙂
Peoples lived next to each other for long centuries; with borders rather nominal/porous most of the time, intermingled intensely (not always of their own accord though) in both physical and cultural sense, developed intricate network of personal & family ties.
I’m wary to vouch things are not changing—or how long-lasting the more hostile attitudes will play out—b/c the ominous onslaught of Ukraine-related psy-ops is frankly unprecedented 😟
Be as it may at the end of day, one thing I'm dead sure of is this: radically simplistic takes as yours never work in real world 😏
Of course I am generalizing - there is no such thing as 100%. But I am not overgeneralizing. There is plenty of hate there to exploit by those who are up to it. It's much easier for the Regime to exploit an existing situation, than to invent a totally new one. The fact that it is doing it is evidence that the hate is there.
>Peoples lived next to each other for long centuries
It has occurred to me that the American Solidarity Party (minus the preachy-yet-internally-consistent abortion plank) should theoretically be the most popular single party platform in America, appealing to the complaints of the petite bourgeoise as much as certain parts of the crusty left. (Although I doubt the vast majority of middle-class American voters have more than a dim idea of what a "cooperative" is, whether that's a local grocery or a place they could conceivably work).
Nothing good lasts forever. Though I still suspect most Poles would be happier with what they have today than under the Soviet puppet regime. But, it's true, as I'll acknowledge in the coming posts: Nothing good lasts forever.
I am not following the Polish politics closely, but it is my understanding that since then Polish elites reestablished themselves as the ruling class.
Also, I vaguely remember reading about some Western special agencies having a hand in the whole affair.
In fairness though, it's also worth mentioning that, while I've been a little disappointed over the current Polish government's (perfectly understandable) position on the whole Ukraine business, they have been pretty solid on defending Polish sovereignty and culture against the efforts of the EU to impose its liberal imperialism upon them. At least, that's my understanding. Though, neither do I closely follow contemporary Polish politics.
> perfectly understandable
The Poles, the Balts, and the Ruthenians all hate Russians. The deep centuries old animosity turned into burning hatred when Stalin raped their countries during WW2.
Nope. They know pretty well to acutely differentiate between Russians and Russians 😜
You are clearly intimating something, unfortunately it's rather hard to figure out what exactly.
No blanket animosity to speak of, at least wasn't until very recently. There’s Régime, and there’re folks on streets or country roads 🙂
Peoples lived next to each other for long centuries; with borders rather nominal/porous most of the time, intermingled intensely (not always of their own accord though) in both physical and cultural sense, developed intricate network of personal & family ties.
I’m wary to vouch things are not changing—or how long-lasting the more hostile attitudes will play out—b/c the ominous onslaught of Ukraine-related psy-ops is frankly unprecedented 😟
Be as it may at the end of day, one thing I'm dead sure of is this: radically simplistic takes as yours never work in real world 😏
Of course I am generalizing - there is no such thing as 100%. But I am not overgeneralizing. There is plenty of hate there to exploit by those who are up to it. It's much easier for the Regime to exploit an existing situation, than to invent a totally new one. The fact that it is doing it is evidence that the hate is there.
>Peoples lived next to each other for long centuries
And as often happens in such cases, the fact that you are hostile to an ethnic group does not mean that you don't maintain good relationships with members of that ethnic group who are your neighbors. But when given an opportunity, things like this happen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_Lithuania#Participation_of_local_collaborators