So there was this one video on youtube about history of Lithuania. There was a specific guy who wrote many revanchistic and somewhat revisionist comments. Essentially claiming that Lithuania does not deserve to exist as an independent country, that the commonwealth is to be referred to as the 'Polish empire' and etc. etc.

I first felt reluctant bringing it up here but, it had brought some concerns to me that this collumn has presence in our neighboring ally country. I can't help but think that this perhaps is a troll of sorts to provoke conflict and distrust.. He had written over 100 comments under that video many being copy-pasted) although I have seen his comments under other unrelated videos.
And yes, he does respond.

How many people are there in polish history community who have such expansionistic views? Or just in Poland overall? I have been to Poland twice, and didn't feel as though there is any such sentiment, though that may be because I was Warsaw.

by Expensive-Rutabaga40

28 comments

  1. > I can’t help but think that this perhaps is a troll of sorts to provoke conflict and distrust..

    You got that right.

    > > The Russians are our Slavic brothers

    Panslavism. Nobody with even a handful of functional brain cells buys into that shit here – it’s a telltale flag of Russian provocateurs.

  2. Strange question in the title. All different sorts of people exist, everywhere. Trolls also exist.

    As for these particular views, they’re marginal. Just take a look at statistics regarding relations with Lithuania and those with Russia.

    Also this guy’s username, come on…

  3. It might be a Pole those people exists but they are in a minority and do not even contribute to 5% of population. This is most likely a Russian account they are plentifull and they use the most Polish sounding names for their fake channels. Example Polish Hussar Patriot #1 <– this is 150% Russian

    Edit: I swear on my live I wrote the example before i checked the guy nick!

  4. Stupid vatnik rhetoric … that’s all there is to it. I think that very few people in Poland think of any expansion. There was a sentiment for Kresy but I think it dwindled a lot in the last couple of years.

  7. internet rule number 98765432:

    if there is a comment saying “Russia is our brother” or “Russia is our friend” then it is a vatnik, troll, bot or a Russian himself

  8. There’s zero revanshist sentiment in Poland. Literally zero. Not a single politician would ever even consider undermining our borders, it would be political suicide. People who do are relegated to the fringes of political discourse and are not taken seriously.

    Wilno is Lithuanian, Lwów is Ukrainian. We accepted that and modern Poles feel no resentment because of that fact. The “GreatPolishWingedHussars” sounds like either a troll or a paid actor. Mostly likely the former, but I’d not dismiss the latter.

  10. To be fair we should be closer to eastern countries

    Rather than being ally to western countries

  11. Under pseudo historical discussions about viking Mieszko, and lost kingdom of great Lechia you can find those people
    It feeds their delusion of belonging to ancient race of supermen.
    Probably because their actual life is so sad

  13. It’s so unpolish to like russia that when u started reading it I thought he was going to say something along the lines of “The poles will not make this mistake, they have plans on how to defeat russia even without the help of NATO”

  14. I say stop reading the comments under videos, especially ones that could turn into politics, history, and all that stuff. There’s no chance there won’t be bs from bots or brainrotted people. And there’s no sense to waist your time on it.

  15. Always assume that all coments under anything even remotely close to political are bots.

    Because they are.

  16. Russian bot. Poland may be split and divided but if there is one thing that we all share and agree on its the primal hatred of russians and germans.

  17. Look, there were anti semitic Jews who thought Hitler was right, so a rare Polish idiot saying bollocks like that really isn’t surprising at all

    Add to that fact that Russians are very actively spreading misinformation

  19. I have never met a Polish person who would even have a pinch of respect to Russians.
    It’s either a bot,Russian pretending to be polish,or just an idiot.

  20. I wrote a post about this in Lithuania asking what Lithuanians think about Poles and I was shocked that so many Lithuanians reminded me that Vilnius is Lithuanian. It was like obsession.

    Really, I personally don’t know a single Pole who questions this. Poles have absolutely no imperialist thoughts and it’s already a joke in Poland that if a Lithuanian says something, he will of course remind us that Vilnius is Lithuanian. For God’s sake, no one wants to take that away from you. We don’t think about it, we don’t need it. WE ARE FINE with our land. Even on our official TV nobody says that. SERIOUSLY

    Why would we even want your lands if those are not ours?.

    Edit: And stop read stupid russbot comments.

  21. „The Russians are our Slavic brothers” LOL

    No one in Poland talks like that.

  25. Nobody in Poland thinks about common welth other than a part of history. At very very rare occasions you might heare someone with nostalgia over Lvow, however it is as well not present in younger generations.

    Contemplating if some xountries have enough reasons to exist is rather something that Russians do (with a best example in Putin interview with Tucker).

    It might be just a regular troll or some rare case of that one pole sitting in his basement that due have some opionon about it, but it is much more likely that it is just a russian bot targeting videos popular in your country to rage bait people

    Edit – as he prised russia in his second comment there is no doubt that it is just a russian bot. If that in any way wpuld be some nationalistic, history obsesed nutjob, he would not said that about russia.

  27. Poland and Russia, brothers? Cain and Abel were brothers too.

  28. In vanishingly small numbers perhaps. Russian bots OTOH there are plenty of.

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