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This man was endorsed by Donald Trump and Kristi Noem.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/28/g-s1-69278/noem-cpac-poland
That many Poles didn’t see it and elected him saddens me : /
Wait, the new president? Isn’t demanding reparations from Germany an election campaign thing?
Polish right wing leaders do this at least once a year. Just like they love to blame everything on the EU while being it‘s strongest recipient.
Did they already bill Russia? The Soviets were as happy as the Nazis to invade Poland, it was the Red Army that destroyed most of the infrastructure later during the war, and the Soviets stole Galicia. Should be a solid claim.
And from Germany they already got Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia for compensation - including one of the two main industrial areas in Germany back then. Do they account for that?
He is already on Russian payroll so he is satisfied :)
Galicia was majority Ukrainian. It’s the Polish who stole it in the first place during the Soviet-Polish war.
Yes, but no. Galicia was and is settled by Ukrainians, that’s true. Politically, it never has been Moscovian until they conquered it in 1945. In the Middle Ages, it was disputed between the local Princes, the Kyivan Great Princes, the Polish kings, the Hungarian kings and the Mongol khans, changing hands every couple of decades. From 1387 until 1772 it was Polish, from 1772 till 1918 it was Austrian, 1918-1921 it was disputed between Poland, Ukraine and the Soviets, and from 1918\21-1945 again Polish.
Following our modern theory of nation states, Galicia has to be Ukrainian, no doubt.
If you start the stupid game of historical claims as these right wingers love to do, Poland has the strongest claim to Galicia. The point I tried to illustrate is the internal inconsistency of demanding reparations from Germany but not from Moscow.
Poland has every right to demand reparations from both Germany and Moscow, and they already got them - sort of - from Germany.
The thing is both Russia and Germany have already paid up then.
It was the Soviets who gave Poland industrialised eastern German lands.
Likewise Germany has long been funding Poland through the EU. Ignoring the fact that East Germany and Poland signed an agreement and treaty of friendship back then.
Ah, this again.
Aaaaaand here we go again.
Germany already does, but in yearly installments.
That’s reparations for capitalism
No nation suffered under Nazi Germany occupation like Poland. A huge percentage of their civilian population where trapped in Towns/Ghettos (warsaw ghetto for example). It traumatized them hard.
