Nope, having lived here for a decade with a polish girlfriend doesn't make you an expert in polish society. Not having had generations and generations of Polis

Nope, having lived here for a decade with a polish girlfriend doesn't make you an expert in polish society. Not having had generations and generations of Polish parents and grandparents and great grandparents to intimately understand their daily lifes over decades and their times removes the entirety of the elements you need to understand the topic. You simply don't have it. The same way you don't have any data (which I posted) to back your first statement. I stated this already, since you might've skipped it: > Stats show that people that were at least 15 by 1989 have warm or mixed memories about PRL. It's actually younger generations that learn it by history rather than experience to hold negative ones. > And this shift is even harsher after 2014 and 2016 as there's less people who lived those times polled, let alone the Russo-Ukrainian war pushed more people into harsher stances. So not sure, how are you disagreeing with me thre. But facts are facts this line of yours is BS: > No one in Latvia, Poland, Czech Republic, etc. looks back on the time with fondness. That no one is false. Older people that lived those times often do. This is a fact shown by all polls you will be able to find online. And also by my anecdotal recollection of virtually every 60+ people I know. So stop spreading falsehood about topics you don't know. And I say it as a child of two Poles that escaped communism, my father hated it and hated the idea he could not be an entrepeneur and buy himself a Mini Morris car. You americans are obsessed by over simplified white vs black, winners vs losers narratives and speaking in absolutes. History is more nuanced.