• mkultrawide [any]
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      2 years ago

      Polish nationalism pre-WW2 was like Nazi-lite in some ways, and a lot of those political leaders escaped to the UK instead of being killed or captured. Poland also took a chunk of Czechoslovakia in the aftermath of the Munich Agreement, and threatened to go to war with the Soviets if they tried to defend Czechoslovakia. It's been a reactionary country for a long time and it's been the US's preferred lapdog on the continent for decades because of it.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Its actually sad as one of their best athletes was one of the first targets of this kind of policy.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewa_K%C5%82obukowska