Why Poland is East/West Divided?

learn a bit about my country - Poland

Quote from invstor099

Are you from the east or west then?

from South

but people here vote for the party which would allow us to be closer to Europe, not to the east.

Quote from 0neechan

Poland was not lucky with the location. Germans and Russians were always expansionists.

true... western Ukraine should now be also part of Poland...

this castle in Kamieniec Podolski is Polish

Quote from 0neechan

I know, my grandfather is from Lviv, most of them are more Polish than Ukrainian.

yes but it's already too late to say "give us this land back" because current generations identify themselves as Ukrainians

Quote from 0neechan

I'm a Roman Catholic (not very pious though ) so I know many Western Ukrainians with Polish background from the Moscow parishioners and I got an impression that they still have a preytty strong connection with their roots. But maybe it's only among practicing Catholics who are not 100 percent assimilated.

so you are from "western" church, then it's obvious that people would kind of identify with their roots more than those who are attending orthodox church masses