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Re:A Cyrillic orthography for the Polish language by keiferski on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @04:33AM (#25056918)
It's an immensely complex situation and I can't explain it all in a HN comment, but the importance of the Catholic Church in contemporary Polish culture goes back to at least 1772, when the Partitions began. Czechs didn't have this same experience and were more "integrated" into Germanic and Habsburg Europe, Czechia wasn't completely razed during WW2, and the Soviets were, shall we say, less harsh on them than on the Poles.

In short, communism simultaneously increased Czech tradition religious apatheticism and Polish Catholicism.

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Re:A Cyrillic orthography for the Polish language by acqq on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @05:40AM (#25057254)
> the importance of the Catholic Church in contemporary Polish culture goes back to at least 1772, when the Partitions began.

And the serious distancing from the same church by Czechs goes back even to centuries before that, as I've quoted before. Also note how Joseph II helped there only 9 years after that 1772 you mention.

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