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AAAARRRRGGGH!
I just wrote an immnesely long and detailed introduction to this story explaining the very different histories of the Czech Lands and Poland over the last 4 centuries and why this issue has been playing to very different audience response here and in Poland and ultimately why the AP story is a piece of propaganda in as much as it attempts to conflate the very differing opinions in the two countries.
I idiotically forgot to save what I had written it before I failed to post it and I can't rewrite it now - it will have to wait for another day and another cue..
For now I can only briefly elaborate that 1] the Czech Republic is the second most pagan country in Europe - after Lithuania - while Poland is the most devoutly Catholic one. In as far as Czechs DO participate in organised religion, Protestants dominate over Catholics 2] The Czech and Polish histories have been extremely different and although, for example they were both ruled by the Nazis during the 2nd World War, Poland suffered massive destruction of many of its cities, whereas the physical damage to the Czech lands was relatively minor. The Poland of today is far larger than the Czech Republic and differs in two other important respects - first that it does have a sea-coast, which we do NOT and never have had, despite Shakespeare's reference to "the seacoasts of Bohemia". Though the Czech lands were dominated by foreign rulers for hundreds of years, despite everything, the culture and the continuity survived.

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