Werewolf wrote:
Ohhh, " А нас за що"
We are very usued to this kind of stupidity from our neighbours. The differenvce is, we won't care what the Polish will have to say.
The time after Putin will be very hard time for Europeans, because there is a lot of wish and harsh measures towards our enemies.
Poland was and has been our enemy due to it's inferiority complex and denial of carrying enough guilt from contribution to death and misery with collaboraiton with westerners against us. They try to pretend they had no, absolutely zero connections to Hitler and Nazi Germany but Duda and history is very much known.
Every country whitewashed its history and heritage while blaming "the others" for every misery around.
The point is to keep that in mind.
There are no saints out there, especially in our centuries-long relations, when there was a time when the power tides waved differently, you know.
I do admit that most of the negative relations toward Russia are a minority syndrome.
Out of all Slav countries, only Russia and Poland raised to their imperial status.
At the peak of its might, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth spread across a million square km, spreading along Dnestr and surpassing Dnepr.
Russia retained it, while Poland lost it severely.
What's more, Poland never achieved leverage from its superpower position, that is undisputed landmass secured, with natural resources etc.
While it was extremely wealthy, all that wealth was spent in endless wars of the XVI/XVII century.
Do you know what is interesting from the perspective?
It was Sweden that broke the neck of Polish imperial sentiments. The Swedish Flood was an apocalypse of biblical size. It destroyed the whole economy, killed and spread the population, and robbed every single piece they could find. Warsaw and the Kings Castle was pillaged EIGHT times, at the end they were ripping out the marble plates.
Sweden was so thirsty and poor, that they robbed stone decorations from buildings.
Monuments, pillars, and columns from the private magnate's palaces. A fukin STAIRS were dismantled and stolen.
Archeologists to this very day are finding sunk Swedish riverboats along the Vistula, only to figure out that there was not a single thing they would not rob
What was left after, was a country where cannibalism was nothing unusual.
With all the wealth robbed, almost 200 cities, another 200 villages and 100 palaces burned to the grounds along with the entire assisting economy, land farms, mills, cattle ... And I do not mean the ones that were raided and pillaged, but physically destroyed, never to recover.
Human loses reached FOUR MILION people, which constituted 40% (FORTY) of the entire population.
To this very date, Sweden holds thousands of robbed artifacts, monuments, art pieces - and they don't even cover that
And - surprise surprise - there is not a single claim raised in Poland toward Sweden,
it is different and you should understand that, barbaric Russkie!