i have encountered some polish teens who want to learn about the language, culture, and don’t have any problem with the people, but i have known that some polish adults HATE russia due to all the wars and how in russia, polish had to learn russian.
Because of propaganda. There is a lot of missinformations. Even people in their late twenty’s or before 30, often they compare EU to USSR, they are to young to remember USSR from their own lives and they believes in propaganda about it.
This is evident even from the results of the presidential elections where at least two candidates were openly pro-Russian. But it didn’t matter, because in discussions among ordinary people the main criteria for the election were fear of gays, EU immigrants and immigrants from Ukraine. Folks want easy explanations of difficult problems so there is a group of people which gives them that. It’s easy to blame everything on gays, the evil and leftist European Union, immigrants from Ukraine for driving expensive cars or “living off social benefits” and then show up in Russia and say “look what a nice conservative country, there are no such problems here.” Of course, I’m generalizing a bit, but this is more or less the reasoning of many people, including young people, who take their message from conspiracy theories on tiktok and YouTube. This is a really serious problem in Poland.
Uh, most obvious likely cause to me is that Polish adults grew up under Soviet rule while Polish teens didn’t.
Yeah it’s called online propaganda. Russia is known for spreading propaganda via social media. The same thing is happening in the US, and probably across the “West”. Russia is using propaganda to convince young people that the West/US are bad, and dammit, it’s working wonders. Young people are gobbling it up in droves.
Lol, the US is bad. So are many other western countries. That doesn’t make Russia good, or even less bad.
Ok not bringing the US into it Al all, Western Europe is also considered “the west” and yes Putin is absolutely both undermining the west and promoting Russia via internet propaganda and it is extremely effective on young people especially, some western countries being bad in your opinion doesn’t make what was said untrue
Can you back this up with anything but personal observation? There is nary a country in Europe that is under threat of a Russian invasion as much as Poland, now that they’re already in Ukraine. Right wingers all over Europe are very pro-Russian - except in Poland. History looms large in a country whose neighbors split it 3 times. It’s obviously possible that Polish younglings, unburdened with things like history, like the culture. You are well within you rights to separate the culture from its people’s history or what the current government is like. But I have a hard time imagining this as more as a passing fluke at best, or propaganda at worst.
Internet propaganda is a helluva drug and young people are extremely vulnerable to it
