Polonophobia

Polonophobia

English

Etymology

Polono- +‎ -phobia

Noun

Polonophobia (uncountable)

1. hatred of the Polish people.
   • 1997, Chronicles, page 5:

     Gottfried is right on the mark when he sees in the current wave of Polonophobia "the fingerprints of the Soviet Empire."

   • 2011, Wulf D. Hund, Racisms Made in Germany, LIT Verlag Münster (→ISBN), page 20:

     German Polonophobia, partially shared with the two other partition powers Austria-Hungary and Russia, was quite typical a variation of degrading subjugated neighbours.

   • 2017, Marietta Stepaniants, Religion and Identity in Modern Russia: The Revival of Orthodoxy and Islam, Routledge (→ISBN)

     By the time that the tensions of Polonophobia slowly began to recede, Russian social consciousness had been “infected” with the dangerous syndrome of mass xenophobia. This Polonophobia and more general xenophobia, undeniably odious phenomena, paradoxically facilitated the consolidation of a Russian ethnic consciousness.