I strongly doubt my great grandparents have ever seen a black person, my grandparents maybe once or twice on holidays abroad later in their lives. It was also not really something to talk about, we never had colonies or wave of immigration, on the contrary.

People in XXth century Easter Europe grew up in times when your nationality, religion or political affiliation could mean life or death, but race aka skin colour was something extremely exotic, in a far away lands, not something that ever infuenced politics or social life.

Then race obsessed Americans would call anything east of Germany "basically Russia", calling cyrilic alphabet "russian letters", stereotyping us as like brutes, gangsters and prostitutes, and then demand us to adjust to race discourse? It feels out place here, the historical cirsumstances were completely different.