Dear RP,
Niech bedzie pochwalony Jezus Christus!
Yes, do keep your imperialist views to yourself!
It is O.K. to be a Polish ultra-nationalist, as long as it doesn't offend others' ultra-nationalism!
And rather than worry about UPA, worry, rather, about not being a "DUPA" in this respect!
We Ukies and Poles have to learn to get along together and to forgive the past.
(As for the American-only posters here who think we're "ultra-nationalists" and anti-this and that - you have to take them with a grain of salt. After all, they think everyone in the world thinks like they do!
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We need to learn to respect each other as equals and not within the context of colonizer/colonized imperial politics.
If you asked me what background I was, I would have to say that it is Ukrainian/Polish/Russian/Roumanian/French/Italian/Austrian/Scottish. And that's on a day like today when my memory is poor . . .
We could never tell ethnic jokes in my family because we never knew which relative we would be offending!
I personally believe that everything Ukrainians know about ultra-nationalism they learned from the Irish and Eamon de Valera!
And I have the utmost respect for the Polish Kingdom and wish that the Polish Crown was returned to Poland today.
But the age of empires is gone, my friend.
Niech zyje wolna Polska!
Alex
