I feel like it’s border event for perception of Poland in west. Before it Poland was still considered post-commie shithole with polar bear eating people, especially if you remember dumb opinion of Sol Campbell about "returning in coffin"
Instead Westerners started to saw Poland as developing country, with normal and charming people, and with mass of tourist, cultural and economical pottential (especially after dodging bullet in great recession of 2008). To this day perception of Poland seems to be better and better, which is sadly used by far right idiots, who pushes Russian narration about fall of Europe and "white" Poland
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Posted by baegarcon
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Totally, that’s when I started seeing wherever you are from as a shithole
It’s joining the EU and NATO. I don’t want Poland to be the second Belarus.
A lot of crucial QoL infrastructure was built for that event, for example highways, so you could say that in some way that’s true
Unfortunately.
Tourists saw Poland and cheap airlines destroyed Kraków i Gdańsk.
Interesting take, as a Pole I’d never say Euro 2012 was a border event. For me it was definitely joining the EU and later the Schengen area. That’s when the changes started to happen and we began “westernizing” in my opinion.