>>212817903Why are Poles such German bootlickers? The reality was that German Royalty banned college education for everyone except for aristocratic males (who represented like 0.5% of the total population), aggressively resisted modernization, preferred to build churches instead of schools to keep the population in check because "education in dangerous" (guess what, Hitler did exactly the same in the occupied Soviet areas, he started to build churches and banned schools), were the last in Europe to abolish serfdom, and aggressively resisted any kind of modernization, be it electricity, industry, urbanization, social mobility, or smallpox vaccines.
Commies fixed all those issues (illiteracy, lack of social mobility, lack of industry and electricity, smallpox, etc.) in like 15 years. Thanks to them a peasant boy like Cherenkov grew to become a Nobel prize winner in physics and Gagarin would become a first man in space. Did they have a chance in the Russian Empire? Not really. It was turbo-backwards BY DESIGN.