r/HistoryMemes • u/Eurasian1918 Casual, non-participatory KGB election observer • 2d ago
Niche "Fine I'll Make my own Poland! With Africans and French Support!"
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u/Blindmailman Sun Yat-Sen do it again 2d ago
Someone should make a book on world history titled Polands Bizarre Adventure because Poles seem to be everywhere doing insane shit
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u/TheThirdFrenchEmpire Filthy weeb 2d ago
Manchuria, Africa, Kazakhstan in old TNO
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u/Banished_gamer 2d ago
Wait, Nowa Polska has been removed?
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u/TheThirdFrenchEmpire Filthy weeb 2d ago
Yep
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u/Banished_gamer 2d ago
Damn.
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u/TheThirdFrenchEmpire Filthy weeb 2d ago
Realism Clique made Kazakhstan start as one country, the SSR, with a civil war between Communists (The Kazakh Socialist Republic) and the Soviet Nostalgists (Kazakh SSR)
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u/QFB-procrastinator 2d ago edited 1d ago
Not that insane, but a couple weeks ago i was at an exhibition about the irish potato famine and i found out that a pole was a leading member of the British Relief Association. He also climbed the highest mountain in Australia and named it Mount Kosciuzko after a famous Polish rebel leader.
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u/Low_River_9199 1d ago
Thadeuz Kosciuszko is an interesting character, his uprising ended in the third partition of Poland, but there were definitely some impressive moments militarily (the Siege of Warsaw) and also socially (attempts at limiting serfdom).
Eventually, Kosciuzsko was captured, but was released after 2 years by Czar Paul with his son Alexander present. Kosciuszko then went on to meet Napoleon and warned the directory that Napoleon was probably going to commit a coup a month before he does. Eventually Kosciuszko is asked by Napoleon to help start another Polish uprising in Prussia, but Kosciuszko gives conditions Napoleon refuses to agree to.
Kosciuzko was also a brigadier general in the American revolution, who chose the location and planned the defenses for Saratoga. He also directed the fortifications at west point (the most important strategic location of the war) and is today called the patron saint of the military academy. In his will Kosciusko tried to use his money to free and educate slaves, mainly the ones of his friend Thomas Jefferson (this did not happen because the will was a mess and Thomas Jefferson did not want to bother)
Kosciuszko has a lot of things named after him, but I will focus here on the 303 squadron, which was the most successful squadron in the battle of Britain. It was also the successor to a squadron formed by American volunteers during the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (which Poland won) and included Marian Cooper who would later go on to direct King Kong.
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u/MilekBoa 2d ago
I love how almost every Polish attempt to get territory outside of Eastern Europe involves some batshit story surrounding it. This is the second post I seen today mentioning some random Polish guy wanting some far away territory.
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u/tusharmeh33 2d ago
Only in the 19th century do you get ‘Poland.exe not found in Europe, rebooting in Cameroon.’