BR1986FB;1857287 wrote:I don't know if it is true or not but I saw a map of Europe which said that Poland was the only country who refused to accept migrants. The map had spots marked where terrorist attacks took place such as England, France, etc. Poland was spot free.
and neither have most of the former eastern bloc European countries who rejected the EU's "mandatory quotas"...Hungary, Czech Rep. Slovakia. I was in Prague in the summer of 2015 to attend the wedding of a close friend, who also returned the favor a year later when my son got married. We have had several discussions about immigration as it was a big issue in both countries but for different reasons at the time. There were protests in Wenceslaus Square demanding the Czech government let in thousands of refugees as others in the EU did......Of course, orchestrated by socialists using/duping people either to young to remember, or ignorant of the historical struggle the Czechs have had in attaining their cultural identity. For hundreds of years these people have sought to be free from domination from/by others...the Austrian Hungarian empire and Prussia prior to WWI, being slammed together with the Slovaks by the western powers as part of the Treaty of Versaiilles, then Berlin and the Nazi's, and finally Moscow and the Russian Communists.
Needless to say, the majority of Czechs, especially the ones who remembered the communists, were in no mood to lose control of immigration in their country and take orders from Germany (again). In the words of our own Thomas Paine, "what one obtains too cheaply, one esteems too lightly"....and these Eastern European countries have hungered for and paid dearly for their cultural identities.
It appears to be have paid off for them....at least for now.