When Russia, Prussia, & Austria partitioned Poland, they jointly agreed never to use the word "Poland" in any official document ever again. That offers context to this story of Lithuanian resistance to cultural erasure:https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/lithuanian-book-smugglers …
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The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth saved Europe in the 17th Century and a 100 years later, that happened to it.
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King John Sobieski weeps.
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one...is not like the other
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True, but both terrible in their own ways.
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Eh, they allowed themselves to be the attack dog of the western powers in Eastern Europe during the interregnum, gaining them many enemies and losing friends.
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Wrote my undergrad dissertation on the economic impacts of the polish partition, a fascinating and tragic period of history
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