yerrik
15 Mar 2013
History / Poland's Tragic History [12]
Poland has been dragged through much suffering, no historian I know of would dsipute this.
However, I do feel that maybe people who speak for Poland try to make it sound like Poland suffered more than other European nations throughout history. I do think this is a misconception that should be corrected.
Throughout history most of Eastern Europe has suffered. The Baltics, Russia, Hungary, Wallachia, Serbia, Moldovia, Ukraine... Even Central European countries like Germany.
I do not wish to minimize the suffering and misfortunes of Poland. I am not posting this to bait anyone. I am most certainly not against Poland or Poles, for I myself have some Polish heritage.
And it concerns me to a degree that some people would say that Poland was the only European nation that suffered greatly. Because it glosses over Eastern European history as a whole.
What are your thoughts? Again, I am not trying to start any kind of argument.
Poland has been dragged through much suffering, no historian I know of would dsipute this.
However, I do feel that maybe people who speak for Poland try to make it sound like Poland suffered more than other European nations throughout history. I do think this is a misconception that should be corrected.
Throughout history most of Eastern Europe has suffered. The Baltics, Russia, Hungary, Wallachia, Serbia, Moldovia, Ukraine... Even Central European countries like Germany.
I do not wish to minimize the suffering and misfortunes of Poland. I am not posting this to bait anyone. I am most certainly not against Poland or Poles, for I myself have some Polish heritage.
And it concerns me to a degree that some people would say that Poland was the only European nation that suffered greatly. Because it glosses over Eastern European history as a whole.
What are your thoughts? Again, I am not trying to start any kind of argument.