Poland votes that WWII massacre by Ukraine was ‘genocide’

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7. The dialects there are clearly Polish or Czech, but then again the languages aren't *that* different

True. And they used to be even less different regionally before WWI, when the Austro-Hungarian Empire controlled a sizable Slavic populated area of Poles, Ukrainians, Czechs, Slovaks and Carpatho-Rusyns.

Before mass communication and wide spread publishing, there was less of a standard form of all these languages spoken, especially in the less developed eastern regions.

Slovaks, Ukrainians and Poles and the Rusyn too all spoke dialects of their respective languages that were more similar to their linguistic neighbors.