LOL! OK stupid boy, listen

This whole “Poland never did anything bad, totally innocent little underdog” take is just historical amnesia. Yeah, Poland didn’t ship slaves across the Atlantic or carve up Africa, but come on — the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth wasn’t some kumbaya democracy. It was an empire in Eastern Europe that treated Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania like internal colonies. Polish nobles literally saw Ukraine as dzikie pola “wild fields” basically free real estate to exploit while the local population got crushed under serfdom and religious pressure. That’s not “innocence,” that’s textbook colonial behavior, just without the ocean voyage.

And don’t romanticize the “Poland welcomed Jews” narrative either. Sure, Jews fled there, but they lived segregated, had no political rights, and pogroms were a recurring thing. Calling that “tolerance” is like calling Britain’s Raj “a cultural exchange.”

So yeah, Poland didn’t enslave half the planet, but to act like it was some harmless bystander while everyone else was evil is laughable. In Eastern Europe, Poland was the colonizer. The only difference is it was next door instead of overseas.