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 partitions of Poland in the 1790s & India in the 1940s are two of the great crimes of history for which no one will ever be held to account.
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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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