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Re:Portugal announces immediate granting of visas for Ukrain... by nikolayasdf123 on Saturday February 26, 2022 @08:17AM (#30477273)
Poland has ties to Ukraine (especially western part) stretching for more than a thousand years. Recent decades the relationship was quite positive. It is almost same people.

Poland has bitter painful recent memory of aggression from Soviet Union just recently. Now there is a real risk obliteration of whole Ukraine, who just recently got independence after hundreds of years of invasion.

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Re:Portugal announces immediate granting of visas for Ukrain... by bbarnett on Saturday February 26, 2022 @08:53AM (#30477562)
To be fair, hundreds of years of invasion kind of describes every country on the planet. Maybe you mean occupation, here?

But also, most countries have had endlessly shifting borders, with endlessly shifting immigration, emigration, and cultures are a result.

All current states, are at best a few hundred years old, really.

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Re:Portugal announces immediate granting of visas for Ukrain... by Reason077 on Saturday February 26, 2022 @09:14AM (#30477693)
Portugal is 900 years old and its borders are virtually unchanged since the 1297 Treaty of Alcañices.

England has had mostly unchanged borders since 927!

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Re:Portugal announces immediate granting of visas for Ukrain... by JetSpiegel on Monday February 28, 2022 @12:47PM (#30502680)
Modulo the old colonies. Brazil for about 200 years, the African colonies in 1974, and Macao and East Timor even later.
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