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[konj1]

Germany has citizenry that are willing to pay higher taxes, as a collective body! Also they have a safety net not a welfare state, because the vast majority of the country still pays taxes. 

So do citizens of France or Scandinavia, it's generally accepted in Europe. No big difference in attitudes. Calling German system "safety net not welfare state" is you invention, not reality, you want to compare it to something American and that's not what it is. Germans since Bismarck call it "Sozialstaat", vs. "Wohlfahrtstaat" that they use to describe more Scandinavian social contract system.

 

Most European countries wanted something more similar to German example, France is somewhere in between... But they are both very similar compared to anything in US.

 

But I know, I'm wasting time, I know you'll keep on telling yourself whatever you want and make Germany an American right's paradise on Earth in you mind...

 

 

France literally is almost completely void of national pride, and for good reason. Because they have ABSOLUTLEY NOTHING TO BE PROUD ABOUT. 

Whatever. French nationalism is similar to most other national sentiments in Europe, both in rhetoric and in political organization (one strong traditional center-right party, a few fringe ultra-national organizations that are emerging recently, but still not very relevant).

 

I hope you're not talking about "lost WW2 hahaha" cliché -.- , that's nice poking fun at some nations as a joke, but it's basically childish.

 

 

Poland is the picture of a perfect country. 

 

Poland is not very different from other central East European lower-mid-income ex-commie EU countries from Bulgaria to Estonia... I live in one and have visited most and have friends in most of these countries including Pl, and I can tell you you're an idiot if you think that seriously this area is perfect, and call France, Belgium, Italy and Scandinavia crappy.

 

 

Also Russia only has issues because they found themselves sleeping with the left for a half a century. Imperial Russia = Best Russia.

No, that's not the only problem. Russia had a lot of problems before the revolution, otherwise the revolution wouldn't happen (unless your have some other wacky logic like Zionist conspiracy to explain to us).

After communism imperial heritage is still a heavy issue for almost all of Russia's neighbors including Poland, apart from those who have no other good friends (Armenia and Tajikistan), all others want to run as far as possible and keep distance from Russia.

 

Those that might geographically join EU like Georgia and Ukraine want that more than anything else politically (but that might never happen, since countries like Netherlands are more and more loud about stopping eastern expansion to less and less developed countries).

[TNT88]

Worst thing to do is to Judge a country when you're visiting them as a Tourist. Just saying.