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Old 22nd November 2017, 07:24 PM   #40
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Originally Posted by Civet View Post
From the videos they looked an unimpressive lot. I suspect some of them may have been merely White Locally. Perhaps even just White Around the House. In all seriousness, though, some of the BBC coverage indicated that not all of the participants were there to promote racism or xenophobia. A large but impossible to quantify number seem to have been just normal Polish patriots celebrating the holiday.
That's the impression I get too.

Just like in Ukraine, there are real racist elements, but there are also others who want to exaggerate to unrealistic proportions.
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