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Poland hasn’t exactly been known as a country to welcome refugees with open arms. Under its national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party government, the EU member state has often opposed taking in migrants, for example when they were trapped in freezing temperatures at the Belarusian-Polish border. But then Russia invaded Ukraine, sparking the “fastest growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II,” according to the UN. Faced with an incessant stream of arrivals from the neighbouring country, suddenly all of Poland is mobilizing to help. At least, this is the impression you get in t…