Timothy Easton Ha, cheers. I feel like I'm slowly getting a little bit better each video.

@@JabzyJoe you sound just like former prime minister Boris Johnson are you him

? What's that

@@noone3272 Maria Teresa initially doesn’t want to partition Poland but still take a large chunk of it. She cried and still take the Polish lands 😁

Initially, none of the partitioning powers granted any autonomy to their parts of Poland-Lithuania (there was only some legal peculiarity in the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania, where Russia kept some local regulations until the 1840s). Napoleonic wars introduced some changes. Napoleon recreated rump-Poland in the form of the Duchy of Warsaw in the personal union with Saxony. After the collapse of Napoleon, the Congress of Vienna created three autonomous entities for Poles: the autonomous Duchy of Poznań in Prussian Poland, the (Congress) Kingdom of Poland (with its own government, military, constitution, parliament) in the Russian Poland, and the city-state of Kraków (the Republic of Kraków). Still no autonomy for the Austrian partition. However, neither Prussia nor Russia was serious about their autonomous parts of Poland: Prussia bit by bit reduced the autonomy of the Duchy of Poznań to nil, and the Russian tsar broke the Polish constitution on many occasions, eventually integrating it into the rest of the empire. Austria annexed Kraków. However, when the Empire of Austria suffered internal and external problems, it reformed itself into the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary, part of this process was granting autonomy to Austrian Poland (Galicja) in 1867. To summarize: Austria was the last power to grant autonomy to its Polish lands but the only one to keep its word.

It is questionable if their lives were trully better in fact it some cases it was worse because of military sercice which many if not most detested. That being said forcing the perasants to go into the ramy taught them loyalty to the Emperor which made any revolt much harder without the masses backing it up. In the case that you mentioned nobles were gonna recruit the peasants by promissing to abolish serfdom once the Commonwealth was restored. Unfortunately the Austrians caught wind of that aand spread lies that the Emperor himself was planning to abolish serfdom while the Polish uprising was fighting against it. Unfortunately the peasants believed it and turned on their own: "countrymen" murdering nobles and priests. It also did not help that back then a "Pole and Poland: was associated with nobles only and many peasants did not see themselves as Polish. This would only change with time as the new Inteligencia class was develiping. Since the Galician uprising the Austraians would continue using "divide and rule tactic" to make sure that no minority (especially the Poles) will gain too much power or influence in the region.

Sarmatan Lehitus is trying to kill the northerners easy tho?

@Türkiyem ! turkish much better lime my turkish girlfriend Seda

You're Spying But thats not part of Pomerania but Pomeralia. Not kidding two different regions.

In Poland Pomerania is treated as one region, stretching from Szczecin to Gdańsk. Of course, you can name them Pomorze Szczecińskie, Pomorze Gdańskie (Pomeralia) etc., but it isn't needed.

Gall Anonim interesting. Does this include the part of pomerania that is in Germany?

Yes, German part is also included and is known as Pomorze Przednie (Vorpommern).

Gall Anonim Are you polish?

Good thing Russia doesn't play politics and participates in the civil wars of its neighbors anymore.

but noooo russians were good napoleon was bad ;)

Not really. It was easier for Russia to just have influance In Comonwealth. They did not wanted Prussians to grow, so they were against partitons. In the end they had to participate in it. Soo they kind of liked democracy in Poland-Lithuania .

tqeqe dawdas like they did in their own country?

Poland had democracy since centuries at that point, they just wanted to modernise it

+Peacemaker1901 Time restraints mainly. So, although it is interesting, their opposition did little to change the outcome.

+Jabzy search polonezkoy..

+zacatetas Polonezkoy is the town in istanbul who build for the Polaks who runs from Russian Suppression and their childrens still lives there. Jabroni yourself.

Because that's fucking irrelevant.

+Peacemaker1901 Yeah in the Turkish court they would always ask is Poland here? and then a man would shout aye!

Would like to add there the Philippine Revolutionary Wars, the Philippine-American War, the Moro Movement in the Philippines, the Malayan Emergency, and the Konfrontasi.

I need someone to do it as picturexD

traitors

Bartosz targowiczńie to byli zdrajcy i Szlachta to była elita .

Exactly

@@janrudnicki6111 szlachta to gówno

@@ewadfe3705 Bez Szlachty nie było by cywilizacji taka prawda .

@@janrudnicki6111 Wtedy cywilizacja to było gówno

sianspana viva poles who did cared enough to settle to ottoman empire and convert to islam?

***** ye and Michał Czajkowski aka Mehmet Sadık Paşa

No one asked them so they didint agree, Kongo also didint recognize partitions.

Did Kongo took Polish refugees too?

No, so as Turkey

I noticed that in English they tend to use the term "nation", while meaning sovereign state.

Artur M. This is true. State and nation can be used interchangeably.

Madbrad200 True: 'State and Nation can be used interchangeable'. But only some times. The state is fixed. Or static. The nation is not. But the stae can be moved, increased or decreased. It is like a bee hive. IE the housing of the bees. The bees come and go from the state (hunter gatherer system) but the state stays till those bees return. But the state or the gatherer bees may be gone, half dessimated or on fire. So it is not immovable even though it was fixed. The state is a thing. Not alive. But then there are statesmen (women) who are not the state but political representatives for the state. They may be alive. So I do not agree with GdzieJestNemo that the state vanished. The state remained but was taken over and so parts of the Polish state vanished (1st partition) then later the entire Polish state was taken over.

I think that in the context of Europe at that time, the PL commonwealth, as some stated, is pretty much a 'US of E', with all kinds of people, thus religion, languages, etc. Fun fact the 1st amendment of US constitution (the religious freedom part) was actually mostly modeled after a post-medieval law granting religious tolerance (at the time where Catholics, Orthodoxies, Muslims, and the newly forming Protestants were fighting bloodily against each other). Also Prussia was originated as a Germanic (semi)autonomous state within the P-L commonwealth. (Which means, there's no modern Germany without the Commonwealth). The Polish (or Poles) as you mentioned, just happened to be the majority (or the Plurality, considering the Lithuanians and other Baltics) of the nobility class in the commonwealth.

Well it was Poland-Lithuania so had Jabzy's fingers fallen off had he typed a full name in the title? Or if you are too lazy just call it Commonwealth or Rzecpospolita.

Wrong age :P

by the time he was done rambling about the lesser of two evils, everything was already wrapped up

Looking at the landscape i say Siberia

***** \(._.)/

***** good for u m8, its tuff for me in Lithuania :(, but it will soon be over, see were spending our money on finishing our house :).

***** (-_-) stop mocking me I have feelings you know.

***** sorry, just when u said I live in the UK, it kinda sounded offensive. Just me? ... just me.

Literally the first thing he says

Carlos Lombardero What if I told you I lived in all of them B| (Probably cuz I found the fountain of youth ;P)

***** I wish I could, but if I even mention a word, we can expect the Spanish Inquisition. But "no one expects the Spanish Inquisition!" ;P

***** SABATON!!! (If you think about it, it can be like Dragon Balls where you replace Kamehameha with ^)

Yeah and you also never acknowledged the Armenian genocide

@@user-ik3xt1bx2n Like how US, UK, and Europe genocide other ethnics resistance through colonialism? Yeah, crocodile tears all the way…

@@returniniman1997 so it's ok then to genocide armenians who had nothing to do with western colonialism? Great reasoning really a 200iq point

@@user-ik3xt1bx2n Exactly, as long as they’re white Christians or Europeans, their lives are more valuable. Just like how Ukraine and Iraq war is being compare…. Fukin hypocrites

@@returniniman1997 you're insane

Awesome game.

Austria worst ally.ever

At least Poland didn't face harsh Germanisation or Russification by Austria.

RandoM RandoM Lengyel, Magyar - két jó barát együtt harcol s issza borát :)

And then they joined Axis

ElzariusUnity We didn’t take any action against Poland throughout the war though and during the warsaw uprising hungarian soldiers assisted the rebels in any way they could. We couldn’t be expected to fight along side The uk and France in an open war on germany for the sole reason of friend ship with Poland after France had cut hungary into pieces with the treaty of trianon

pONtosan100 Chwała Węgrom :)

m4ti140 true. Deomocracy always leaads to disiaster

You know that one of the reasons of Polish partitions was the persecution of orthodox christians, who didn't have full rights within the Commonwealth

m4ti140 so what do you suggest instead of having a democracy? An autocracy? The German empire of 1914 was de facto a militaristic monarchy with a homogenous population and we all know how that ended. No thanks, I prefer having democratic institutions over autocratic leadership a billion times.

@@Tk-mj1cl True in part; PLC pre-deluge was the height of tolerance for its time and post-deluge reversed course rather drastically. Pre-deluge "persecution of orthodox Christians" was an empty pretext used by the Russian Empire as a casus belli for a variety of wars with the Polish-Lithuanian union and later Commonwealth. The tsars failed to foment significant local support for any sort of 'liberation from persecution,' thus proving the pretext to be objectively false.

@@zubstep I was rather mentioning how smoothly the post-partition integration of former lithuanian lands went

You totally forgot that Austria and Prussia enabled Russia and vice versa. There are 3 to blame, not 1. Or 4, if you count PLC's stupid leaders.

Austria definitely should not be blamed; Maria Theresa and her subjects were very opposed to the dissolution of the PLC and in the end only agreed to take a piece of land because they saw the country was doomed anyway.

Kejoin95 It's on the way.

Newbturgangur865 I keep trying to put together a script but I'm struggling to make it shorter

Alrighty then, I will be able to wait.

Jabzy how long is the current script?

you're right, to be fair there are probably some Austrians left who miss ruling over everyone else

The Prussians were much more harsh and oppressive than the Austrians. That's why the Poles living in the territories given to Prussia revolted against Prussian rule, while the Poles living in areas given to Austria actually put down an attempt by some noblemen to revive the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (as Habsburg rule was very benevolent and much preferred to the ways of old) Also the whole reason Prussia became a great power in the first place was through 1. The Habsburgs granting numerous resources and rewards to the Hohenzollerns at the beginning of the eighteenth century and 2. Frederick the Great simply surprise-attacking and occupying neighboring states without being provoked, which was happened to Silesia at the beginning of the War of the Austrian Succession and Saxony at the beginning of the Seven Years' War. Meanwhile, Austria had respectfully and honestly built up its own great power status over hundreds of years by defending not only itself BUT ALL OF EUROPE from the menace of the Ottomans, who were the superpower of the day. So yeah, Prussia really was the bad guy all along :)

This is a joke, right?

you get to know what it feels like to be Canada

Carlos Lombardero what's you!?

Everyone knows what canada is its the 2nd largest country after all and trudo is so pretty so all media outlets love broadcasting reports abt him even in poland like every week there is sth about canada on tv

yarpen26 at least I hear about Canada all the time

+Chez I think its impossible.

+Chez people like to get emotional about these things, and just cannot see them in an objective manner. This wll not change any time soon :p

Can't even say Lithuania once.

You can always use Zhechpospolita.

well... I'd hardly say prussia was an empire at that point, maybe... a regional power but that was most likely thanks to Frederick

Actually we were so weak internally then, that even one of those empire would be enough to defeat us. And Prussia was indeed a rising empire, it was called "an army with state" instead of "state with an army"

Prussians recruited Poles to their army. And quote from a Sweed (Poland had many wars with Sweeden): "Soldiers of Poland second to none".

It should be noted that the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa (and indeed, the rest of the Habsburg state) very strongly opposed the partitions, and in the end they only agreed to obtain a piece of land because the statesman Kaunitz saw that Poland-Lithuania was doomed anyway so the Austrians might as well take a piece. The Polish territory that Austria took, known as Galicia, was granted virtual autonomy within the Habsburg Empire, and at one point a group of Polish peasants even put down an attempt by some noblemen to restore the Commonwealth because the peasants preferred being under Habsburg rule (ironically, the Austrians ended up having to send an army into Galicia to keep the peasants from massacring the noblemen)

+GIGEL Bjjhcj I'm travelling at the moment so it'll take a while. But if you want to help, please send a script.

th33ninja I think it should be coming soon. Next I have either the English Civil War or the Balkan Wars,and then I think the Boer War will be the next in line.

He just did it in case you haven't seen!

Yes I did ;D

I know I've watched many documentaries in this stuff

paul denton Who cares about world war 2 anyway?

Danius Jančiauskas Ive answered this question far too many times and its now boring. So, please listen to the first sentence and check my other responses.

+anulkaaw 1 Pułk Ułanów Królestwa Kongresowego ;) I to proporzec, nie flaga ;)

+anulkaaw That was what the lancers used.

Jabzy alrighty, I admit I was in the wrong here :)

During charge flag has tendension to flip upside down thats why they wore it this way

+David Reed I was actually reading about the concept of the 'Christ of Europe' the other day. Pretty interesting stuff.

loolololol

keith stone Photoshop, although I still manage to make it look like I use Paint.

the Proud Grand duchy was not so proud anymore :(

3rd word

What

Listen to the 3rd word of the video

+Jabzy yeah thats it wow

Because France removed the guarantee on the commonwealth. Also Brits and Swedes were not keen on helping former French protectorate. Also Poles had it coming for them since they helped Austrians backstabbing Ottomans which was their only possible ally who can physically help amongst the predators. Austria was always a threat Prussia wanted to grow east Russia wanted to grow west Guess what common enemy stands on their way. Then they did dirty on 1683 on Ottomans.

+Numberad I'm guessing you're talking about the lancers at the end. That's how they flew their banner, red over white. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Szwolezer.JPG

AHH! okay more yellow than white, okay

+Numberad www.uniformology.com/UID/Polish_Lancers_of_Imp_Gde_1.jpg

REX AGRIUS CONFINIUM Nevada City from the KZfaq Audio Library

+Rytis Liaučys Uzsispyres kazkoks... ATR tai nebuvo Lenkijos valstybe. Kalba apie istorija bet pateikia neteisnga informacija.

+Rytis Liaučys its 3 minute history, want more detail read a book this is just to explain the basics

+Overlord Alfa Basic information? How about starting with providing correct historical information, such as the correct title of the country? It wasn't called Poland. It was a unitary country, mostly refered to as simply Republic or Republic of Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

+Rytis Liaučys the events were called the partitions of Poland not the partitions of Poland-Lithuania

+brayden walker (TRINALGORILLA71) The country is was called Republic of Kingdom of Poland and Grand Dutchy of Lithuania, hence such naming is incorrect.

+Danil Beselea All the early videos were 3 minutes long. I've just got carried away recently.

Jabzy don't worry you doing a good job even if your vedios were 50 min I'll watch them.

+Tryb nevada city

Minister Kokos, BillCipher75 oraz Koza śnieżna you say Piłsudski was stupid?

Dunai zapomniałem, naprawione

Dunai Yes, he was stupid and was a german spy.

Not stupid but foreign politicians some knows who is in there

panslavic only in your dreams...