ussias representing some separate biological type
No, it's a cultural type that died out in Europe over 100 years ago.
I understand Ukrainians ... sneaky, scheming, thieving, murderous bastards.
That's not Poland's experience over the last 10-15 year at all. They fit into Poland and the Polish way of doing things in ways that russians don't or can't.
I have Ukrainian and Belarusian students that mostly can't be distinguished from Poles (apart from accent and sometimes that's tricky).
I've met and dealt with russians in Poland before.... very alien, especially the 'russian death stare' (where you're talking to them and they're staring at some non-discernible point in space waiting for you to finish). Ukrainians don't do that... and what is it about, anyway? A different Ukrainian I knew was as freaked out about it as I was...
