The Kresy myth is a view of the Kresy borderlands as a multicultural land dominated by Polish culture. According to Bogusław Bakuła it is a highly orientalist postimperial narrative. Historian Daniel Beauvois has called for the abandonment of the myth.
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The Kresy myth is a view of the Kresy borderlands as a multicultural land dominated by Polish culture. The Kresy was part of Poland during the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Second Polish Republic but since 1945 is outside of Poland, in present-day Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, and Latvia.
According to Bogusław Bakuła it is a highly orientalist postimperial narrative. Historian Daniel Beauvois has called for the abandonment of the myth, calling it historically false, based on notions of Polish cultural superiority over Belarusian, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian culture.
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