In the other parts of partitioned PLC similar fight for culture was happening. Sometimes I even think, that some barricades were purposefully installed in Polish culture so that it will win again. In school you learn about the importance of Polish, how it was suppressed and people who learned it in secret were heroes... In day-to-day life many people will oppose using English words when Polish can be used, I even witnessed situation where foreign quest was invited for a speech and during q&a someone not only asked the question in Polish (there was a translator so no problem) but even stressed that the question will be in Polish, because we are in Poland...
When I visited Poland I found stuff like that very interesting. In particular, the large, old city of Szczecin, which was completely German for many, many years (and at times only had a few thousand Poles in it.) When I visited it seemed 100% Polish, and it was almost as if there was no trace of German anything in the whole city. This all despite the city being completely Germanized for many years and being only 2.9 miles from the German border.
