When I was in UK working temporarily for 1 year to save up some money I met some people from Poland. Some older people and some students of my age. Never had a problem and there was no hatred or something like that.We would even sometimes discuss politics and economy haha. Actually had a good friend there, his name was Grzegorz and we used to joke about one Romanian girl all the time because she had huge boobs and all other workers would "eyefuck" her lmao. He even brought me some souvenirs from Poland (he was on vacation and went home to Poland, then got back to work) . So yeah, I never really understood the reason behind this Polish-Lithuanian conflict, because I live in the western part of Lithuania. But I do know that some Russians and Poles don't let their children speak (or learn to speak) lithuanian language. And that can create some problems in the future because of miscommunication. Or some Poles want street names to be in their language. But that's about it. Sure football hooligans will be more aggressive and militant from both sides but a simple citizen won't care about those things. There's some hate for Portuguese though, I don't really know why. Supposedly students from Portugal act in a rude way, especially when drunk and disrespect the country. Oh by the way you have the best fireworks in europe in my opinion lol. I'm a bit into pyrotechnics so I order stuff from Poland since it's cheaper and more powerful. As far as Russia threat goes, I think that civil war in western europe will breakout before Russia attacks us (because of social and ethnic conflicts and possible isis attacks).We're at a point where even if someone dares to criticize european union they're called a "russian spy" lol. Russia has its problems too. There are lots of conflicts between people from north caucausus and russian slavs. Central asia is involved too. Especially in the army. You can find some info here,
http://pn14.info/?cat=81 found this website a while back, they post about the real situation in Russia and crimes that are silently pushed under the rug. I don't know russian that well so translating the page to english kinda works. There's lots of racial and ethnic conflicts there
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