Poland hating Russia more than Ukraine feels weird.
Not really considering Polish-Soviet War and the M-R pact. Not to mention being a vassal state to the Tsar before that, as someone else pointed. Lotta bad blood. And before people are like "Those first two things are USSR and not Russia" yes, but that's not how most people see it. People see RSFSR as the head of the USSR and view the USSR as a Russian project rather than an international socialist project. Because a great many people still think in terms of nationality more than they think in terms of class. And while Ukraine might have had nazi collaborators who killed poles in WW2 it's easy for the Polish to view that less as the actions of the ukrainian state than to view it as the actions of pricks who were enabled by the third reich. These days Poland is a NATO member and simply hates Russia because it is outside the NATO bloc. It's part of a rival hegemony and that's reason enough to hate it. Pile on the historical baggage on top of that and it's easy to see.
Not really considering Polish-Soviet War and the M-R pact. Not to mention being a vassal state to the Tsar before that, as someone else pointed. Lotta bad blood. And before people are like "Those first two things are USSR and not Russia" yes, but that's not how most people see it. People see RSFSR as the head of the USSR and view the USSR as a Russian project rather than an international socialist project. Because a great many people still think in terms of nationality more than they think in terms of class. And while Ukraine might have had nazi collaborators who killed poles in WW2 it's easy for the Polish to view that less as the actions of the ukrainian state than to view it as the actions of pricks who were enabled by the third reich. These days Poland is a NATO member and simply hates Russia because it is outside the NATO bloc. It's part of a rival hegemony and that's reason enough to hate it. Pile on the historical baggage on top of that and it's easy to see.