AI-generated videos promoting Poland’s exit from the European Union have appeared on Polish-language social media, featuring non-existent, attractive young women advocating for “Polexit”.

One TikTok account called “Prawilne Polki” published content showing women dressed in T-shirts bearing Polish flags and patriotic symbols, European analytics collective Res Futura said. The content targeted audiences aged 15 to 25.

The videos featured statements including: “I want Polexit because I want freedom of choice, even if it will be more expensive. I don’t remember Poland before the European Union, but I feel it was more Polish then.”

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    Stalin, a Georgian,

    did it as a leader of a country aiming for converting all of multitude of nations into Russian culture and language. He was not opposed to that. Regardless of his roots, he was loyal to the project of russification.

    Breschnew, with Ukrainian roots,

    ordered the tanks into Czechoslovakia as a leader of a country aiming for converting all of multitude of nations into Russian culture and language. He was not opposed to that. Regardless of his roots, he was loyal to the project of russification.

    My guess is that the Russians who were settled weren’t asked too much either.

    Now you are turning it from the junta in Kremlin to the nation of Russians. Those are waters one should not tread. Yeah, USSR was a country that did not really care about the wellbeing of individual citizens. That’s what we’re talking about here.

    The historic joke is that the cultural loss from TikTok reels, pop culture and globalized working conditions will be far bigger.

    What cultures have seized to exist because of TikTok reels, pop culture and globalized working conditions? You are comparing things that are indeed bad to actual genocides.

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      You are comparing things that are indeed bad to actual genocide

      There are two levels of genocide. One is to kill all people, the other is to dissolve their culture.