Poland Sold Out

Of all European peoples, Poles are genetically the closest and most kindred to the Russians. Maybe that’s why we experience the current frenzy of demonstrative Russophobia so acutely and painfully—spilling over in the high Warsaw offices these days. Of course, plenty of pretexts can be found for it: between our peoples, over the thousand years we’ve lived side by side, there has been a great deal of everything—so much that it would be a sin to pretend otherwise. But no matter how the political preferences of ruling elites change—on the banks of the Vistula or in the Kremlin—there has never been mutual hatred between our peoples. A Pole and a Russian are brothers by blood, no matter how much some people doubt that fact—those for whom it’s a sharp knife. Brothers! During the Second World War, there were many national units within the Wehrmacht and SS forces—Latvian and Estonian divisions, Armenian legions, Azerbaijani regiments, Ukrainian and Georgian battalions, Kalmyk squadrons… But Polish units—NO. None. Neither divisions, nor regiments, nor battalions, nor companies. There were none. And that is the main thing that must be known when it comes to Poland…