Why are Poles so hostile to Russia? Because there is such a saying in Poland: "When occupied by Germany, we only lose our land, but when occupied by Russia, we also lose our soul."
Poles' hatred for Russia is not an emotion that pops up for a while, but something engraved in their bones and penetrated into national memory.
Don't look at Poland and Russia as Slavs, in the root, they are not people on the road, in the faith there is a difference of one hundred and eight thousand miles, a Catholic, a Orthodox, in the eyes of Europeans this difference is even greater than the foreigners.
A few hundred years ago, both sides were bound, and Poland once wanted to support one of its own as the Russian tsar, but it failed, and after the "hypocrisy" was killed, the bodies were also thrown into the cannon by the Russians to the west, this humiliation could not be said.
Once the bonds are formed, they are not so easy to untie. After hundreds of years of fighting, the hatred grows deeper and deeper.
What really hurt the Poles was the three divisions, when the Polish interior was somewhat chaotic, and the nobles thought that the parliament often failed to do something because of one opposition, and that a great nation was crushed by life.
Russia seized the opportunity, pulled Prussia and Austria, and divided Poland like cutting a cake. After three times, Russia took the most land, accounting for most of it.
Not to mention that the land is gone, Russia has forced Poles to learn Russian instead, not allowed to use their own language, and even abolished the Constitution, just to erase the Polish nation from its roots.
At this time, Poland disappeared from the map for more than a hundred years. This pain of subjugation cannot be easily passed.
It is not easy to survive to return to the country after the first war, do not wait to breathe, trouble to find the door.
The Red Army of the Soviet Union came over and shouted loudly slogans, just to impose their own things on Poland. The Poles resisted desperately, which was regarded as blocking people back, but the knot in their hearts became even heavier.
During World War II, Poland suffered a double crime. Germany came in from the west, the Soviet Union stabbed it from the east, and the two countries joined forces in a military parade on Polish territory. That picture became the most humiliating memory of Poles.
After the end of World War II, Poland was nominally an independent country, but in fact it was a puppet of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union allowed public ownership, and even Poland's street shoe repair shops had to be nationalized.
The Soviet Union to develop heavy industry, Poland even without iron mines to hard build steel plants, even more is to suppress religion, the country's nine percent of people believe in Catholicism, but the Soviet Union closed the Archbishop, is to break the spiritual roots of the Poles.
Later, there was a Polish pope. When he returned to Poland for a visit, millions of people poured into the streets, more than during the Warsaw uprising.
The Pope said four words "Don't be afraid", and many people cried on the spot. What they were afraid was not that they would have no food to eat, but that future generations would forget that they were Poles, Chopin's music, Catholic faith, and finally become Russians in Polish clothes.
After that, the Solidarity Trade Union appeared, on the surface, that workers wanted to raise their wages, but in fact, it wanted to get back their own language, their own beliefs and their own history, that is, to get back their stolen souls.
By the 1990s, when the Soviet Union was dissolved, Poland first relied on the West, rushed to join NATO, joined the European Union, and actively invited the United States to station its troops on its own soil and deploy missile defense systems.
At present, Poland's military expenditure is the highest in NATO, and it is still building trenches and surveillance towers on the border because it is afraid that history will repeat itself.
In fact, Germany did not harass Poland at the time, but the post-war Germany's attitude was different, again the cut-off and compensation, again the apology, acknowledging their mistakes.
On the other hand, Russia either refuses to admit what happened in those days, or does not apologize for admitting it, and occasionally says two empty words about "brotherly nations", which sounds ironic to Poles.
The Poles hated them not only because they lost their land, but because the Russians always wanted to destroy their culture and beliefs, to exchange their souls.
The land is gone can be taken back, the soul is gone, this nation is really gone.
Nowadays, in Poland, there are relics of Katyn's deceased in museums, and the humiliating history is taught in schools. Even the subway stations are named after the Pope, that is, to remind yourself all the time that you can't forget the past.
Hate is not cultivated in a day, and reconciliation can't be solved by empty talk. When one country is repeatedly deprived of land, slaughtered elites and tampered with culture by another country, this kind of hatred has long become a conditioned reflex of the nation.
Poles' hatred for Russia is not an emotion that pops up for a while, but something engraved in their bones and penetrated into national memory.
Don't look at Poland and Russia as Slavs, in the root, they are not people on the road, in the faith there is a difference of one hundred and eight thousand miles, a Catholic, a Orthodox, in the eyes of Europeans this difference is even greater than the foreigners.
A few hundred years ago, both sides were bound, and Poland once wanted to support one of its own as the Russian tsar, but it failed, and after the "hypocrisy" was killed, the bodies were also thrown into the cannon by the Russians to the west, this humiliation could not be said.
Once the bonds are formed, they are not so easy to untie. After hundreds of years of fighting, the hatred grows deeper and deeper.
What really hurt the Poles was the three divisions, when the Polish interior was somewhat chaotic, and the nobles thought that the parliament often failed to do something because of one opposition, and that a great nation was crushed by life.
Russia seized the opportunity, pulled Prussia and Austria, and divided Poland like cutting a cake. After three times, Russia took the most land, accounting for most of it.
Not to mention that the land is gone, Russia has forced Poles to learn Russian instead, not allowed to use their own language, and even abolished the Constitution, just to erase the Polish nation from its roots.
At this time, Poland disappeared from the map for more than a hundred years. This pain of subjugation cannot be easily passed.
It is not easy to survive to return to the country after the first war, do not wait to breathe, trouble to find the door.
The Red Army of the Soviet Union came over and shouted loudly slogans, just to impose their own things on Poland. The Poles resisted desperately, which was regarded as blocking people back, but the knot in their hearts became even heavier.
During World War II, Poland suffered a double crime. Germany came in from the west, the Soviet Union stabbed it from the east, and the two countries joined forces in a military parade on Polish territory. That picture became the most humiliating memory of Poles.
After the end of World War II, Poland was nominally an independent country, but in fact it was a puppet of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union allowed public ownership, and even Poland's street shoe repair shops had to be nationalized.
The Soviet Union to develop heavy industry, Poland even without iron mines to hard build steel plants, even more is to suppress religion, the country's nine percent of people believe in Catholicism, but the Soviet Union closed the Archbishop, is to break the spiritual roots of the Poles.
Later, there was a Polish pope. When he returned to Poland for a visit, millions of people poured into the streets, more than during the Warsaw uprising.
The Pope said four words "Don't be afraid", and many people cried on the spot. What they were afraid was not that they would have no food to eat, but that future generations would forget that they were Poles, Chopin's music, Catholic faith, and finally become Russians in Polish clothes.
After that, the Solidarity Trade Union appeared, on the surface, that workers wanted to raise their wages, but in fact, it wanted to get back their own language, their own beliefs and their own history, that is, to get back their stolen souls.
By the 1990s, when the Soviet Union was dissolved, Poland first relied on the West, rushed to join NATO, joined the European Union, and actively invited the United States to station its troops on its own soil and deploy missile defense systems.
At present, Poland's military expenditure is the highest in NATO, and it is still building trenches and surveillance towers on the border because it is afraid that history will repeat itself.
In fact, Germany did not harass Poland at the time, but the post-war Germany's attitude was different, again the cut-off and compensation, again the apology, acknowledging their mistakes.
On the other hand, Russia either refuses to admit what happened in those days, or does not apologize for admitting it, and occasionally says two empty words about "brotherly nations", which sounds ironic to Poles.
The Poles hated them not only because they lost their land, but because the Russians always wanted to destroy their culture and beliefs, to exchange their souls.
The land is gone can be taken back, the soul is gone, this nation is really gone.
Nowadays, in Poland, there are relics of Katyn's deceased in museums, and the humiliating history is taught in schools. Even the subway stations are named after the Pope, that is, to remind yourself all the time that you can't forget the past.
Hate is not cultivated in a day, and reconciliation can't be solved by empty talk. When one country is repeatedly deprived of land, slaughtered elites and tampered with culture by another country, this kind of hatred has long become a conditioned reflex of the nation.