Quote Originally Posted by Pravit
The Polish word for "Russian" is "Moskal"?
Polish people have many expressions referring to Russians."Moskal" -someone from Moscow comes from times of Polish partition.Someone mentioned a part of poem by Mickiewicz-in his times(XIX century) usage of this expression in pejorative sens was very common-it was meaning "betrayer, someone who abuses power and persecutes Polish people".Later appeared expression "Bolszewik"-bolshevic-in times of the Russian Revolution and it signified "barbaric, revolutionary, cruel, ignorant" as bolshevic soldiers during invasion on some parts of Poland had destroyed numerous estates (like Krasiczyn castle) in a very barbaric way-for example they demolished ancient libraries in castles using wood from them to set a fire inside a ball room and so on.
Sometimes it is used even nowadays. For Germans in turn we sometimes use expression "Szwab" or "Prusak" also coming from times of partitions and we mean by this "over-disciplined, following orders without thinking,stupid,blindly stucking to formal rules".