Putin, you see, did not shake the British ambassador’s hand in the Kremlin, did not speak to him, and generally refused to come closer than 70 feet, citing health reasons. 😂
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Fun fact: queen Elizabeth (first one) refused Ivan the Terrible marriage proposition.
Nicholas I, but he died during it and Alexander II finished.
Honestly i wonder too, official version is "centuries of oppression", 1920 war and Katyn but OUN killed up to 10 times more people than in Katyn (even if you belived the nazi version), nazis killed 6 million, 1920 war was not even very significant on the long list of wars Poland waged, and Germany did way more opression than Russia during the millenium.
The only thing it comes to mind is the uniform propaganda bubble because if you look historically russophobia was never that strong in Poland before, even during the partitions we had strong prorussian factions.
Religion role is also not to be unerestimated. Catholic church in Poland is most consistently reactionary institution here, and while they weren't even that russophobic originally (they supported the partitions and "God protect the Tsar" was sung in every church), after communism won in Russia, they got rabies. Interestingly enough, they are very moderate in the case of Ukraine war, they see there is nothing to gain here.