• 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.