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Both events can be equally connected to nationalistic conservatism: the national identity of Poland is as much defined by slavic resistance to anything non-slavic coming from the west (e.g. the Teutonic Knights of old) as it is by catholic resistance to anything non-catholic coming from the east (e.g. eastern churches, anti-church ideologies like forced communism and most famously, Turks sieging Vienna).