Given that the state-run media used to fearmonger with horror stories about Germans before Tusks party won the last election… I’d think it’s only partly a joke. Tusk knows that there are Poles who still think Germans are all criminals (like vice versa in Germany).
I do laugh that it’s been long enough and relations are good enough they can joke about that.
I don’t think it was a joke
Germans think it’s funny.
Das genügt.
I haven’t heard the speech (tone, etc), but it does read like a joke.
Given that the state-run media used to fearmonger with horror stories about Germans before Tusks party won the last election… I’d think it’s only partly a joke. Tusk knows that there are Poles who still think Germans are all criminals (like vice versa in Germany).
Bashing Germany is always a crowd pleaser in Poland.
Meanwhile, Polish politicians will demand WW2 reparations from Germany every time an election’s coming up.
Only the authoritarian politicians that undermined democracy and luckily lost majority (PIS).
Poles are fucked up, this is not a joke