What a wonderful lack of confusion about their national heritage and identity. They didn't learn it in school, obviously. They learned it in blood.

...and then, life continues.

What I can't figure out is this: After all the benefits of socialism, as it was given to them first by the Germans and then the Russians, they still haven't become like Britain: Self-loathing, badly educated and culturally suicidal. Clearly they haven't done socialism right.

I didn't know that. That's something special. Great for them for remembering.

And then there is the statue of Ronald Reagan that the Poles erected last year in his honor.