Let me paraphrase your question OP ... why would anyone hate Poland?

Do you really know the country you hate? ... have you lived there or visited long enough to form an opinion?

Here is the truly objective take from someone who was born, raised and spent half of his life there. Then moved to the USA and lived “happily ever after” in the land of promise.

At this point both places feel like my own homeland.

The first question, why have I left Poland?

Imagine this ... 1989 .... Warsaw, Poland ... 2 years after I had have finally admitted to myself of being gay, and shared that “discovery” with part of my family and a small group of closest friends. I took many years to realize who I really was and when I finally did, I knew neither Poland, nor Europe at that time (tried Hamburg and Vienna) was the place for me to live my life as a I wanted it to be. When I arrived in NYC in the autumn of 1990, the very first sign registered in my mind was seeing 2 men holding hands and walking through the Greenwich Village. A sight I have never seen before, but have longed for (even if unconsciously) my whole life. That moment ... that sight ...there I knew, that was the place I belonged. And that is why NYC has had become my home for the next 24 years.

And I just couldn’t imagine living anywhere else, since every visited part of US seemed no different than every place I have known in Poland. New York was the only place I could feel free as a gay man, and nothing could match that, neither Warsaw, nor Paris, not even London (yes, I did my share of traveling and comparing).

So let me tell you about Poland. It is not really different from the US. A mixed bag really ... there is prejudice fueled by ignorance in both places. I have seen as much racism in the US as antisemitism in Poland. I have seen as many stupid, uneducated people in my home town 40 miles away from Warsaw as in any place within the same distance away from Manhattan. So you think you are better ... why?

The problem with the world we are living in is not the location but the ignorance. That’s how I see both the Poles and the Americans. They are not bad people ... they sometimes don’t know any better. I do consider the Poles to be as anti-Semitic as much as I see the Americans being racist. However, I remember the time, many years ago, when the Polish TV announced showing of the “Fiddler On The Roof”. Very few people had any clue what was it about. For me, being fascinated by American musical theater it was an event of a lifetime. Unfortunately, very few of us watched the first showing, fortunately everyone who did raved to everyone about it. Withing the next 2 weeks the Polish TV received thousands and thousands of letters practically begging to show this movie again ... about the lives of poor Russian Jews from a little town of Anatevka. Tthe second showing was no different than the first Beatles appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. The whole country just stopped and was glued to (mostly black and white) TV screens. Not far from when the “Roots” premiered on American TV (except the color).