>once upon a time a russian man followed a rolling vodka bottle into a cath church, that day a polish was born

Their whole identity revolve about being the plumbers of germans and a bunch of russians denying their russianess by claiming the catholic card. They think they are better than Germans and Russians but irl they never went beyond being a local small russo-catholic vassal kingdom of both.

Even Nazis had strong opinions about them as thirdies on yt skin.