Even the Slavs and the Tatars have a lot of bad blood. When you are neighbours, you will always have a history of bad blood, and wars, but also of friendship, trade, and cooperation.
Oh really, why then there is no friendship between India, Pakistan and China, you call other hypocrities while being one.
Now, being in NATO might protect Poland from the Russians, but does that protect it from the Germans? I am interested to know how Poland plans to protect itself if Germany threatens it.
Germany do not threatens us, and won't be in near future, there are several reasons, first Germany trauma after World War II efficently reduce any imperialistic ideas there, second thing is that stronger Poland benefits Germany as a buffer zone. Germany might cooperate with Russia in some fields, it does not mean Germany trusts Russia or perceive it as a friend.
I understand what Damian is trying to say - I just find his justification founded more of paranoia and nationalist envy, and not reality.
I find your opinion about NATO as paranoia and nationalism after colonial experiences of India with UK, and that you treat NATO like if it was only UK dominated alliance.
This is the crux of the problem:
And how we should like them? They tried to destroy our culture and nationality, did you even heard about rusification attempts of Poland during 123 years of occupation? This is completely contrary to the widespread myth of Russians liking other Slavic nations, in politics it was allways about rusification of these smaller tribes.
Did you heard about Katyn masacre? Can you imagine when a country x mass murder high ranking officers, police officers, national elites being prisoners of war? I doubt this, as Indians never really experienced genocide, at least not on this scale.
But the bigger problem is that, when Germans admitted they made horrible crimes against humanity, and apologized, Russian goverment constantly denies any attrocities made by Soviet Union, which modern Russia is direct descendant and takes all responsibilities of what happend in the past.
Also Russian elites still think in cold war categories, and perceive us as their subjects.
Not to mention that Russian goverment in their paranoia, have aimed at us nuclear weapons and create excercises of nuclear war... can you imagine it, a nuclear war against country without any nuclear weapons!
This is not funny, this is just insane.