Polish colonies

A problem of immigrants is common nowadays. Yesterday I read an article which presented why refugees don't choose Poland as theirs asylum. Of course it's because of the poverty of Poland, but also there are two main reasons of this decision: in this country there is only one religion; and Poland don't have any colonies. It's different for, i.e. France, whose government must grant full French citizenship for every habitant of old French colony.

That reminded me of Polish colonies (some time ago I've been interested in this issue), so I've decided to write something about it in this post.

Manifestation in Poznań, Święty Marcin Street, 1938

Of course, Poland doesn't have any colonies. However, it doen't mean that we didn't want them...

First I'd like to say something about the history. Poles manifested to have them during the interwar period, but then the IIww started, so they had to abandon this idea.

One of the manifestation:

The aspect of Polish colonies was described very well in a book "Aspiracje kolonialne w polityce zagranicznej Polski" by Zbigniew Bujkiewicz.