Not so fun fact: Poles been hating on Ukrainians for decades. In Przemyśl, city with historic Ukrainian population there were numerous acts of vandalism on walls of local school run by Ukrainians. Some vandals used to write slogans like "gas Ukrainians". Stones been thrown toward windows while kids had lessons. On local Ukrainian military cemetery vandals were destroying crosses, replacing memorial boards, burning memorial wreaths.
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That's the result at least in part of ongoing Russian propaganda to sow division.
Each of these incidents is a disaster for the affected individuals, but the number of hate crimes rose from 140 to 180. Using percentage (+30%) for such rare events is disingenuous.
I wonder why Poles are pretty racists despite having experienced the same colonial and imperial struggles. The Poles who sided with former black Haitian slaves would be rolling on their graves.
I've experienced this, in a browser game (bonk.io) if I happen to join a room full of Polacks they would often call me a pig in Polish because I have "UA" in my username then kick me out after a round or two. I don't understand Polish much but apparently just enough to read that (and also to read "LVIV JEST POLSKI"). One time, one of them had a(/the) swastika on their in-game skin, so now we know what demographic is doing the hate crime. Not at all impressed.
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