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Complete PICLE corpus of essays by Polish advanced EFL students (330,000)

/^t/Having been entirely subjected to the Russian power for almost three hundred years Poland has altered military and political trends after 1989 and became orientated towards the pro-Western system. The participation in NATO will consolidate the feeling of national safety, protect the Polish sovereignty retrieved after dozens of years of Russian domination and will guarantee a contribution to a common European democracy and free market. However we can not forget about good political relations with our all neighbours including Russia itself which definitely opposes the Western expansion of NATO to the East. Therefore the members of NATO do not want to affiliate new participants to the organization which bear the burden of anti-Russian spites and indisposable prejudices because such attitudes would distort the positive connections between the West and Moscow.