[Cronos]

Ukrainians despise the Russian -- that's not true. On a person-to-person level, there is no such hate. That's also true for Poles and Russians. About the Russian STATE, that's a different thing. But there is no ethnic hatred between the two East Slavic groups.

[noinfringers2]

You refresh my memory of pre WWII days when I would spend time in the summer with relatives in Grand Rapids Michigan. My grandpa who was an immigrant from Russia enjoyed very much going to Polish weddings across town and to tell us about it the next day’

[kabar]

That's also true for Poles and Russians. About the Russian STATE, that's a different thing. But there is no ethnic hatred between the two East Slavic groups.

It is difficult to distinguish between the two. Based on my two years in Poland (1981-83), I witnessed many manifestations of hatred for the Soviets. The memories of the Katyn Forest massacre were still fresh. And the Poles still believe, true or not, that the Russians were involved nefariously in the President Kaczynski plane crash in Smolensk in 2010.

Poles are not fond of the Russians and view them with suspicion. The reaction of Jaruzelski to Weinberger's statement that he was "a Russian general in a Polish uniform" should give you some idea as to how deep the division is between the Russians and the Poles.