I have always loved the fact that the most celebrated names in Polish history are Frédéric Chopin, John Paul II, Marie Curie, Joseph Conrad and Nikolaus Copernicus. The opening words to our national poem are "Lithuania, my homeland!" The country is rich in nationalist self-owns
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Oh and our national anthem says "We're in Italy now, but we're headed back home across the following rivers and boy are you going to get it. Also, Napoleon is our BFF" before going on to mention how the country once got its ass kicked by Sweden.
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The point is not that Poland is a silly country, but that our modern monoethnic hyperreligious nationalism is a tragedy imposed on the country by the second world war that we have yet to recover from. The place was always a glorious grab bag of multiple identities before then.
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