f stop: During communism Poles were educated about the evils of racism. It was a perfect opportunity to show how capitalist America was treating their oppressed descendants of slaves. I don't think you can generalize when it comes to Poles and racism. We have both extremes. Many are incredibly open, constantly trying to prove it (to the fault sometimes), and many are so hateful, as if seeing somebody of a different color is a sure sign of imminent Tatar invasion.
Are you an idiot? During communism Poles were forced to learn broken Russian along with delusional and propaganda of false failing communism and Stalinism. Also, out of all the Warsaw Pact nations, Poland was affected the least, I would say all the Russians did were build military bases, take advantage of Polish resources, and leave their economy shattered for the decade to come.
Also they were teaching about the short periods of American slavery? Really? All Western nations (including Russia) bear the burden of using slaves, but at least we didn't make it widespread by building labor camps and forcing millions to death in the Gulags which was obviously a death sentence with impossible workloads and conditions. The slaves here weren't executed daily, forced to work in below 30 degree Siberian colds and had their families purged and/or executed. Also I don't know whats so non racist about the Soviet Union, in both their great purges and all along the Stalinist years millions were exiled, sentenced to labor camps, or executed based on their ethnicity. Stalin believes a great nation was one with no foreigners whom according to him were wither traitors to the Russian way, spies, inferior with genes and/or productivity, or poisoning the culture. Poles, Ukrainians, Jews, Germans, Scandinavians, and all other Europeans living there were purged of this. As for the "respected" Poles, the 150,000 living in Stalinist Russia at the time were exiled in the 37'-39' purge and more or less 20,000 executed or sent to the Gulags by the NKVD for refusing to leave.
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