My dads side... was from Poland... but his father fought in the Austrian army during WW1 before coming over. Go figure. I tend to think they moved around alot in that part of Europe... from one shell-crater to another.
my mom's parents were both from Lithuania but met over here. my Polack granddad met my Ukrainian grandma here too. Eastern Europeans were the "same" kind of people, no matter which country they were from, according to my Lithuanian gram! She did say that the Italians all beat their wives and burned each other's houses down too... ; ) Fortunately, my hub, albeit Italian, is neither wife abuser nor arsonist... LOL!