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Before you pick on Poles and other East Europeans, and before you think that you or your country would pass the test of foreign occupation better, heed the warning of Solzhenitsyn who said in his "controversial" Harvard address (referring to 1977 riots in New York):

"[...]There are meaningful warnings that history gives a threatened or perishing society. Such are, for instance, the decadence of art, or a lack of great statesmen. There are open and evident warnings, too. The center of your democracy and of your culture is left without electric power for a few hours only, and all of a sudden crowds of American citizens start looting and creating havoc. The smooth surface film must be very thin, then, the social system quite unstable and unhealthy.[...]"

I hope my last post alleviates your thinking that I am picking on Poles. I don't want you to think that and I'm sorry that was the impression I gave. I use to have a apartment manager who showed me his prison numbers from his imprisonment in both German and Russian concentration camps. It was really quite sad. I love that Poles were the first to topple their Soviet oppressors, that they gave us Chopin, and gave pilots to the RAF to save Britain from Hitler. I know they have a sad history of being torn apart by Austria, Germany and Russia, many times completely subjugated.

No, your nation passed the test of occupation thrice as well as ours would in this present time. Canadians are not freedom fighters and would probably live with occupation with the least resistance they could. I believe that our entire generation would easily sell its democratic soul for peace and bread.