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Yes, resettlement affected all, not just the Germans - my family comes from the current Western Ukrainian territory, yet I have never set foot in there because after the war we’ve been resettled, our lands and property were appropriated, the land was handed over to Ukraine and there was nothing to come back to. Polish people were only “compensated” in the West for what was cleaved from us to the East. Take it up with Churchill, Warsaw didn’t make those decisions.
I have never said that POC would not face similar issues regarding discrimination by potential family in law - I am sure they would. All I am saying is that I faced those as well. As for integration, learning a language takes time - surely that can be understood. As for drunkenness, well I assure you not every immigrant is a drunk.
Comment by Manadrache at 19/07/2021 at 11:04 UTC
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Polish people were only “compensated” in the West for what was cleaved from us to the East. Take it up with Churchill, Warsaw didn’t make those decisions
In a very rural area Churchill was never someone who could have been accused for. Those people never saw him, though they saw the people who took now their homes. It is easier to blame someone you can see in reality than some bizarre guy in TV, radio or the newspaper.
As for integration, learning a language takes time - surely that can be understood.
There are people who actually want to learn it, others who don't want it. And group 3 who were never allowed to learn it. We have customers where the wife doesn't speak German at all. Even after being 20 years (or more) here. Their husbands didn't allow them to do so.
I don't have any problem with someone speaking broken german, but it annoys me when someone lives here for a long time and doesn't try. With a mix of broken German, English and Dutch you can have a lot of fun.
As for drunkenness, well I assure you not every immigrant is a drunk.
Read again, i devided it into groups so I don't get your point here. Also I described what different kind of Eastern European workers we have in our village.