If it hadn't been for the retarded painter from Austria and the brief 12-year period of complete insanity by the usually quite sane Germans, you wouldn't find as many pro-Russian Poles as there are now
You lived with us, under one roof, for more than a century. No need to "educate" us about who Poles are.
We understand Poles, as no one else can understand them. Certainly not Germans or faceless bureaucrats in Brussels.
If it seems as though we do not understand Poles... then give it time. People in Ukraine now, are waking up to the fact that we understand them very well, and that we are not as alien to each other as they would like to argue.
A quiet whisper from the East, carried by the wind, that lands on your brain - and then creeps into your heart.
It's Russia that's morphed into another Mongol khanate
Not the worst thing that can happen.
But sprinkle in some Greek Byzantine tradition (Third Rome), Germanic obedience (300 years of Germans in power), and a Viking genesis (Rurik) - and you have the potent recipe for a globe-encompassing mentality.