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Russian propaganda in Poland is easily recognised because its authors typically cannot into Polish.

An article posted on an obscure .pl portal about "banderite junta" with basic grammatical mistakes indicating clearly the author wasn't a native Polish speaker.

Of course, it may not really matter for the target audience who is far-right Polish thugs, not too inquisitive about grammar...

@kravietz well, it is not like literacy level is much higher of pages like, e.g., gazeta.pl or Polish YouTube.

@copyme

Correct, but some mistakes are quite unique to foreign agents - for example it's very unlikely for a native Polish speaker to make a *grammatical* mistake like "morderców hołoty" as it twists the meaning completely. An average undereducated Polish hater could write "morderczej chołoty" (ortographic mistake) or something like that.

@kravietz so, what you are saying is, "sophisticated", "educated" left-wingers won't read anything from a Russian author but far-right "xenophobes" will?

@Hyolobrika

Far-right in Poland is truly dumb - they declare themselves anti-communist, and at the same time they happily accept Kremlin narratives about how "communist Poland flourished and its collapse was a CIA conspiracy", only because these claims appear in their favourite far-right portals written by people in St Peterburg. So yes, they do indeed have serious problems with critical thinking.

@kravietz Perhaps you are criticising a chimaera created by your mind? Can you point to any person who declares themselves anti-communist and says that communist Poland flourished?@Hyolobrika@mastodon.org.uk

@kravietz
If you are an "enlightened left-winger" who doesn't fall for that xenophobia nonsense then how come you refuse to read anything written in a foreign (in this case Russian) accent?

@Hyolobrika

Quite the opposite, I read a lot in Russian.

I however don't find it very convincing when someone posing to be a "Polish patriot" writes in broken Polish with grammatical mistakes suggesting it's a Russian paid troll pretending to be a Pole.

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