Comments by "" (@TheArklyte) on "History Summarized: Poland" video.

Poland: exists. Lithuania, Ruthenia and Samotija: also exist. History books on period after union: it's all just Poland.
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@CardiniPanini doesn't change the fact the the city is sinking nowadays...
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More important lesson is NOT to backstab your allies over inner cultural differences.
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@Steadyaim101 "Ukraine"(not exactly Ukraine in modern sense, but ok) wanted recognition and independence because Poland's policy of cultural genocide in Commonwealth. Grand Duchy was made from several distinctive cultures after all. There were suggestions to reform Commonwealth to fix this, but they were strangled in the crib by polish shlyahta. Just like british(and french, russians, austro-hungarians, ottomans and chinese. Last one ended fell apart before WWI, France fell after WWII, three in the middle lost WWI despite Russian Empire being on winning side;)) ignored all suggestions to federalize British Commonwealth until they lost their superpower status:D
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@ObywatelMurawjow P.S.: basically all those examples helped forge the old saying about empires never dying to outsider threat
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@SEBASTIEN WYSZNIEWSKI you would be surprised, but aztecs ALSO fell to inner political and social struggles and to their neighbours they've alienated even before spaniards arrived. It is VERY hard to overwhelm an empire on the peak of its cohesion by an outsider force and such examples are very rare. It's kind of hard to control conquered lands if no one is willing to collaborate with you and everyone hates you for taking down their (arguably) superior (in their opinion) state. Empire that isn't ready to keel over due to being a shitty place to live in also inspires more people to fight and work harder to preserve it.
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@SEBASTIEN WYSZNIEWSKI that is the majority of the problem, BUT in other location it wouldn't have been sinking due to mismanagement. And who chose initial location?;)
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@SEBASTIEN WYSZNIEWSKI and to elaborate the point further, opinion I heard and continue to hear quite a lot in Belarus is that PLC could have survived if 1) constitution came in before first dissolution; 2)serfdom was abolished at the same time; 3)all nationalities, languages and religions have gotten equal opportunity for representation in politics. Not much more is needed. Let a single generation mature in such conditions and neither Russia, nor Germany, nor AH will be able to do anything. Because their own soldiers were serfs and it would be hard to justify such a war now!:D
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@ObywatelMurawjow I compared it because literary in all of said cases it weakened the states in question and led them to their fall. Yes, in quite a natural way called natural selection:D
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@SEBASTIEN WYSZNIEWSKI the same way romans should have known about fate of Pompeii - magic :D Ok, I see your point, I was wrong.
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