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<blockquote data-quote="mmu1" data-source="post: 406256" data-attributes="member: 319">Calling them &quot;close&quot; makes about as much sense as calling all romance languages close. Can French and Spanish people communicate with each other? It's possible to be able to understand some simple pharses in another language and still not be able to communicate. When I moved to the US, I had an easier time communicating with Russians in broken English than in Polish/Russian.As far as the statement that people that &quot;believe&quot; that their &quot;countries&quot; were better off under Russian control... That is nonsense.&nbsp; These are either scared old people that can't make ends meet or selfish bastards that were for some reason able to exploit the system under the communists. How the country was doing doesn't even enter into consideration, because most of them made their living taking advantage of others.&nbsp; Still, even those sacks of crap never actually wanted the Russians anywhere near the country, they simply did well living in a dictatorship without free trade.Besides, none of this has anything to do with the sentiments of an overwhelming majority of the population right after the war anyway.&nbsp; These were people who allied with Germans and attacked us in 1939, and then murdered and looted some more in '44 and '45 during the &quot;liberation&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mmu1, post: 406256, member: 319"] Calling them "close" makes about as much sense as calling all romance languages close. Can French and Spanish people communicate with each other? It's possible to be able to understand some simple pharses in another language and still not be able to communicate. When I moved to the US, I had an easier time communicating with Russians in broken English than in Polish/Russian. As far as the statement that people that "believe" that their "countries" were better off under Russian control... That is nonsense. These are either scared old people that can't make ends meet or selfish bastards that were for some reason able to exploit the system under the communists. How the [i]country[/i] was doing doesn't even enter into consideration, because most of them made their living taking advantage of others. Still, even those sacks of crap never actually wanted the [i]Russians[/i] anywhere near the country, they simply did well living in a dictatorship without free trade. Besides, none of this has anything to do with the sentiments of an overwhelming majority of the population right after the war anyway. These were people who allied with Germans and attacked us in 1939, and then murdered and looted some more in '44 and '45 during the "liberation". [/QUOTE]

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