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[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

My mom's side of the family is polish, back in the 80s they visited some relatives there so my mom could be the godmother to one of their daughters.

Shit was rough there then, the family they stayed with had an actual outhouse. No one could ever say that my family is rich, but American money went a long way there back then, basically anything they wanted could be had for what was practically pocket change but the local polish people could barely afford any of it. One of them managed to visit the US back then, and literally cried when he went into an American supermarket and saw the variety and amount of food that just anyone could buy without needing to save up their ration cards (and not a big or fancy one, I'm pretty sure the one they went to is now a normal sized CVS)

So some really rough times are still in living memory for a lot of poles.

And they've really come a long way since then, my mom's goddaughter is now traveling the world doing something in the hospitality industry, last I heard I think she was in Thailand (the relative who visited back in the 80s was amazed to see black people.)

So I don't think most poles are in any hurry to end up under Russians thumb again.