i have encountered some polish teens who want to learn about the language, culture, and don’t have any problem with the people, but i have known that some polish adults HATE russia due to all the wars and how in russia, polish had to learn russian.

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    15 hours ago

    Ticky tacky over definition. USSR invaded without “technically declaring war” and the “technically sovereign” Polish government was heavily under Soviet influence. If I ask a Pole who was in charge before 1989, they’ll say the Kremlin.

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      If I ask a Pole who was in charge before 1989, they’ll say the Kremlin.

      If you ask a lib who’s in charge of the economy, they’ll say the invisible hand of the market. Doesn’t mean it’s true.

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        7 hours ago

        It is a fact that Polish adults lived under a very different system pre-1989 and have a perspective that Polish teens don’t. That’s the question being asked by OP, that’s the answer I offered what I saw as a likely contributor.

        I have stated no opinion on whether I think Russia’s involvement up until 1989 is good or bad and I am 0% interested in that particular fight with Russian bots and defenders. Have a good one.

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          And it’s a fact that Poland was not part of the USSR and polish adults didn’t grow up under “soviet rule”

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            7 hours ago

            Never let someone coming back to correct and clarify their statement get in the way of being crowned Technically Correct on an Internet Forum. Jeebus, read the question.

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              7 hours ago

              Oh sorry, I must have missed the bit where you corrected yourself, I just saw the bit where you tried to deflect it as “ticky tacky over definition”

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                And I must have missed where you where anything but pedantic in a way that didn’t add to OPs question.

                I guess I should correct myself on another topic. Putin isn’t really invading Ukraine, he was invited there. There was no war for the first two years of the invasion because he hadn’t officially declared it.

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        8 hours ago

        You’ll have to explain the relevance of that question, please, I’m not seeing the connection.