No, there are problems in Poland in relation to Russia, older people are happy to speak Russian (and they will tell you the way… They will help with something else, no problem). And this hysteria of yours (as someone said here - they lived under the boot) is truly propaganda of the West. Where did you get it from? In general, the Russians and Poles are Slavic brothers, here they (we) are historically closer than the Germans, the Dutch or the same French (well, you can expect meanness from them to pour enmity). My daughter studied at the Polish Academy (being Russian and Ок). I live 15 km from Poland.

Polish adults hate Russia because russophobia (and anticommunism, usually inertwined) is absolute core and staple of official ideology of current Polish state and they live in uniform information bubble for 36 years by now. Young ones had only like a dozen years of consuming “Russia bad” coming from all directions so combined with usual for a teenegers curosity and tendency to question authorities they tend to be more open minded before getting their brains formatted to western boot shape.

Because of propaganda. There is a lot of missinformations. Even people in their late twenty’s or before 30, often they compare EU to USSR, they are to young to remember USSR from their own lives and they believes in propaganda about it.

This is evident even from the results of the presidential elections where at least two candidates were openly pro-Russian. But it didn’t matter, because in discussions among ordinary people the main criteria for the election were fear of gays, EU immigrants and immigrants from Ukraine. Folks want easy explanations of difficult problems so there is a group of people which gives them that. It’s easy to blame everything on gays, the evil and leftist European Union, immigrants from Ukraine for driving expensive cars or “living off social benefits” and then show up in Russia and say “look what a nice conservative country, there are no such problems here.” Of course, I’m generalizing a bit, but this is more or less the reasoning of many people, including young people, who take their message from conspiracy theories on tiktok and YouTube. This is a really serious problem in Poland.

Uh, most obvious likely cause to me is that Polish adults grew up under Soviet rule while Polish teens didn’t.

Can you back this up with anything but personal observation? There is nary a country in Europe that is under threat of a Russian invasion as much as Poland, now that they’re already in Ukraine. Right wingers all over Europe are very pro-Russian - except in Poland. History looms large in a country whose neighbors split it 3 times. It’s obviously possible that Polish younglings, unburdened with things like history, like the culture. You are well within you rights to separate the culture from its people’s history or what the current government is like. But I have a hard time imagining this as more as a passing fluke at best, or propaganda at worst.

Yeah it’s called online propaganda. Russia is known for spreading propaganda via social media. The same thing is happening in the US, and probably across the “West”. Russia is using propaganda to convince young people that the West/US are bad, and dammit, it’s working wonders. Young people are gobbling it up in droves.