I also know a few poles who are pro Russia but none who would take a morning to vigourously defend it and all its 20th and 21st century crimes
True - both in Poland and the Polonia abroad... There's quite a few that want better relations with Russia like nowoczesna and quite a few poles (like myself) who can respect what Putin has done for his country and how he at least has enough balls to defend the country and people he represents, but none of those Poles make apologies for Katyn or try to downplay or rationalize the murders and suffering inflicted by the Soviets. Actually, even post USSR, Russia (namely under Yeltsin and somewhat at the beginning of Putin's reign) even went as far as releasing the documents related to Soviet atrocities as they pertained to Poles and offered an apology hoping to reconcile and move forward... Not Mazur though - he's still stuck in the 50's USSR where Katyn never occurred and the Red Army liberated Poland and every man woman and child was handing flowers to the soldiers...
most of them know plenty of Latinos either from work, from the neighbourhood, or from church.
That's true. Due to the sheer amount of Polish immigrants in Chicago and NYC working in the construction trade, almost every Pole has regular contact with Latinos - especially Mexicans and Guatemalans. Most of the neighborhoods that Poles live in when they first come to the US are mixed Mexican/polish neighborhoods like Belmont, irving park, portage park, etc. Also the parishes that Poles and Mexicans attend are often the same - with interchanging Spanish/Polish language masses on Sundays.
And FYI Mazur - there's a lot of Poles who came in as illegals/undocumented and became naturalized (basically the reward for not getting caught), worked their way up, paid their taxes, raised their kids and sent them off to college.... but to you those people are scum because of the way they came in...
Considering the fact that you're complaining about a $150 concealed carry fee in another thread, it appears to me these 'scum' contribute a lot more to the economy than you do...
All the Latinos I know are among the most hospitable, generous and hard working people I've ever met. In all honesty, I'd sooner trust a fellow Mexican to bail me out of a bad situation than a Pole. Even the ones that are gang affiliated almost never mess with non affiliated people unless there's a good reason. If anything, I wish we had more Mexicans, Guatemalans and Hondurans like the ones I work with. Those guys have never been greedy, never refused to go the extra mile even if it means they'll have to stay later at work and won't get paid for it. They're legitimately happy to be in the US and have a construction job. If only more people had an attitude like that where they don't play the victim card and that they should be judged based on merit, not skin color or nationality.
Which means that whatever you are then I don't think that you are really a retired PolAm engineer from Chicago.@ cms neuf
I'm pretty sure he is. A quick google search of his username shows so, and I really don't think it's harry... harry has spun some yarns before but his views tend to be the opposite of mazur's