globalization, truly a thing to behold

BBC is on the scene, providing context for our troubled world:

More than 1,000 ultra-nationalists have marched through central Moscow to mark a new national holiday that has left many Russians bewildered ... The new 4 November holiday marks the end of Polish occupation in 1612 ... The Moscow demonstrators used the occasion to chant "Russia against occupiers!" and "Russia for Russians!"

Join me in reassurance. The xenophobia of the dispossessed has found a common language! But who knew the Poles had a glorious history of colonialism themselves? My identity is so conflicted now.