„Bringen Sie Ihrer Tochter Polnisch bei“: Die Ukrainer in Polen stoßen auf wachsenden Unmut

That’s Putin’s goal. The longer the war goes on the more people will get tired of supporting Ukraine, which means they’ll have no choice but to turn to Russia.

Poland itself, back in the 1990s and 2000s, had serious problems, even if not a war. They weren’t invaded for breaking free from being Soviet vassals, but they were a poor country whose migrants flooded Western Europe, and a country that desperately wanted to join it.
And when the core EU countries made Poland a full partner and allowed it to become prosperous, it’s disgusting to watch a sizeable part of the population become ungrateful and arrogant toward countries that want to follow the same path, like Ukrainians.

And on top of that, this group has a condescending attitude not only toward Ukrainians, but toward the EU itself. They think that without this organization, and without the huge number of Ukrainian migrants doing the hardest jobs in Poland, they would still somehow prosper.

Guardian click bait IMO.

Physical confrontation is always bad, but they should be learning language of their host country regardless.

Wouldn’t kids learn Polish rather quickly in any case since they go to school there?

Is the USA, a leaked memo states that the USA is trying to pull Poland out of EU. Posts like this seem to be in furtherance of that goal.

Western Ukraine’s and the Ukraine language is quite similar to Polish it’s the eastern ukraines that speak more Russian who might or would struggle more – however, if all Ukrainians can speak Ukrainian but maybe choose to speak Russian or a more Russian dialect – there should be little to no issue

Edit: addendum

I mean, it is strange that even youth doesnt learn local languages much anymore. For example, I had a young Ukrainian boy (15) talk to me in russian. And when I asked how long he has lived in Latvia, he said 2 years. Yet in those 2 years he hasnt learnt a Latvian or even English. There should be some knowledge of local language by this time.

Author of this article:

Shaun Walker

>Previously, he spent more than a decade in Moscow and is the author of The Long Hangover: Putin’s New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past.

[Shaun Walker „journalist“](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Walker_(journalist)#Political_views)

>Walker has been criticised for some of his pro-Russian writings prior to 2022, including a 2014 article for *The Guardian* entitled „I can’t stop dreaming about Vladimir Putin“, and his positive comments on Russia at the time of the 2018 World Cup. He has also been criticized for not adequately considering the perspective of Russia and Putin in his reporting.

From what I’ve read on this matter, the situation in Poland seems to be how the Brits felt about Poles and other Eastern Europeans who arrived in large numbers after 2004 EU expansion. A lot of anger about perceived ‚cheap workers‘ who work for the low wages because they live in large numbers in a house to save on rent. Also crime rates, public drunkeness etc. Which is ironic.

Although there is a supposed ‚Slavic brotherhood‘ that exists between Poland and Ukraine while the bonds between the UK and Poland were really about WW2. I mean when I was a kid in the 90s the only foreigners most Brits would see were French, Germans, Italians, Spaniards and perhaps a few Dutch or Scandinavians. Post communist/Eastern European countries just didn’t exist to us.

Doesn’t it just make sense to learn the language of the country you live in? It certainly helps you with career opportunities.

I don’t understand why Poles are apparently racist against Ukrainians.. would have thought that they would be more sympathetic due to the common Russian threat.

An attitude learned by the Polish hard way, among others in UK over recent years, I’d say.

Same happens in Romania where the refugees needs to deal with a 40% illiterate population who hates them.