Quoting: Atilla
For the past several yrs we've been wondering here in Russia: why? Could a whole nation be an amalgamation of all fears for Poland?
We have a long history of mutual claims. So what? Romanovs are gone, so as Jageillos. Russia suffered the communist regime as well. We lost millions.
Actually, i'm asking due to the fact that such in somewhat hysterical foreign policy would never counter to people's opinion in a democratic society.
I'm also Moskal.
I think we are dealing with another Poland than that of 19 century.
In those days Poles and Litwyns were opressed by Russian Empire but despite sufferings people didn't loose their nobility, szlachetnosc. They were brave enemies of opression but always looking for nobility charateristics even among Russians. In Pan Tadeusz Mickiewicz gave an example of Russian captain Rykow.
My mother's ancestors also from catholic Belarus-Litwa, a poor szlachta didn't have evident reasons to love Russians but they didn't hate Russians. To hate was below their personal dignity.
Now peasantry spirit governs in Poland today. People will never understand your idea that "Russia suffered the communist regime as well".