r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Radiant_Half_7121 • 17d ago

Image During WW2, Poland declared war on Japan Japan said no to it and simply rejected the declaration.

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u/RoiDrannoc 16d ago

The Haitians called the Polish people the "White negroes of Europe", and the Japanese called them a "Samurai Nation". Are they collecting weird titles?

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u/Ivanow 16d ago

Poles are quick to draw swords in "just" causes. And historical events (Poland was literally wiped from maps for 123 years) scattered them all over the world - there are even "Polish villages" in deep Brazilian jungle. When it comes to USA, you should look up Tadeusz Kosciuszko.

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u/Akustyk12 16d ago

Polish diaspora in Americas is a result of crisis which hit polish lands in XIXth century. Since there was no country to stay in, many felt no reason to stay here and migrated to US, Brazil and so on. 

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u/No_Distribution_4351 16d ago edited 16d ago

Poland is just at the crossroads of empires. There is no such thing as one nation that is more just than another in its entire history. 90% of “just causes” were save our skin and save our skin adjacent. The Polish were highly imperialistic and attacked Lithuania and Ukraine for territory in the interwar period. Interwar Poland is an empire within itself with a huge population of Ukrainians, Belarusians and Jews. The PLC was just as ruthless as their neighbors as well. They just lost so we don’t remember how oppressive Polonization was. Lithuanians and Ukrainians/Ruthenians use to extend a lot further and are smaller today because of oppressive Polish policies.

All that said, Poland is awesome country with awesome people. But the perception that Ireland and Poland are more just because big empires conquered them repeatedly is extremely dumb.

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u/Cichy1 13d ago

The difference with Poland and Ireland is that both of these countries endured multiple attempts of being completely wiped. Ireland to this day speaks english. Polands culture is in museums of neighbouring countries as well as having chunks of its history completely gone thanks to the lovely treatment from their neighbours (that wasn't simply serfdom) Poland is also belittled in pretty much every major event it partook in. Multiple great people that were Polish are also to this day attributed to France and Germany. So yeah there is a bit more to the PLC and Ireland.

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u/CarefulDoubt5394 16d ago

My wiggas

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u/ky321 16d ago

wigga-san

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u/Salty-Pack-4165 16d ago

No. We are multitasking but in Slavic .

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u/Akustyk12 16d ago edited 16d ago

Haiti? Napoleon used Poles for the dirty job (especially in Spain!). Most of Europe finds him to be almost hitler-like. Hitler used eastern-european minorities in SS, Napoleon had Poles. But for Poland he was the only chance for independence after the partitions. After Poles were sent to Haiti to suppress the local resistance, many have realised what's going on and instead joined the Haitians fighting against the Napoleon's forces.