[Christian-D]

A good place to start would be to look at where Poland is on the map. It lies on a huge plain between what have traditionally been two of the biggest aggressor states in Europe, Russia and Germany. What does that mean? It means that because of Poland’s geopolitical disadvantage, it has been subject to countless invasions by the two, as well as from Austria-Hungary. So much so that Poland dissapeared from the map as a result of the final partition in the 1800s, and didn’t appear again until after 1918. Combine with this a long line of incompetent kings and a feudal system that lasted well into the 19th century. For example, Polish forces attacked German panzer divisions on ‘horseback’ in World War I. They are not stupid, just unfortunate. After all, Poland occupied Moscow in the 1500s, Polish forces ousted the Ottoman Turks from Europe, Sikorsky invented the helicopter, Polish engineers inveted the enigma machine that cracked German codes (need more?). Poland was also significant in bringing down the USSR with the Solidarnosk movement. So I think that the jokes are just something that was attached to them in America, as happened to many immigrants. If you want to read more about the history of Poland, a good book is Central Europe by Lonnie Johnson.

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