It was a different Poland. Yes, it was authoritarian, but it has a sense of international brotherhood. It was not a Poland that joined the imeprialists in destroying Iraq. "The festival was the catalyst for a decades-long series of Polish press photographs showing people of African descent (PAD) visiting and living in Poland. Bartosz Nowicki, a Polish photographer and curator who currently lives in Wales, has spent the past few years researching these archive photos from the period 1955-1989. He recently curated an exhibition, Afro PRL , which highlighted the long-standing connections between white Poles and PAD, a memory that is often forgotten in contemporary Poland." "Afro-Poland"
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51