AMERICAN REACTS To Animated History of Poland 🇵🇱 

It was great, i dunno why as a Polish person i love watching videos like this where people explore Polish culture, i watched one of your videos just now and there was topic about safety, i live in small town with great historic value with around 30k population, i never left town in a manner of sleeping/walking a lot outside town, and like 1 year ago i wanted to go to a concert in Warsaw, i was scared thinking how big of a city it is and knowing about like gang "Mokotowski/Pruszkowski" (dunno how to translate it (dunno if there's even a need to) nonetheless i went to warsaw, i loved the architecture, 'Pałac Kultury' was great too, we needed to wait like a 7 hours for concert so we went on a small tour to the park, to the place where President resides, after that we went to sit near the center, there was a lot happening, some dude was playing on fricking plastic baskets (he was playing good that's funny), my friend started arguing with some homeless person that started talking to him (xD). Anyway after the concert it was like 21:00 (9pm) and our train back to our town was in the morning, as we didn't have enough money to stay at some hotel or something we needed to skip some time walking we walked a lot during the night, i still felt a little bit uncomfortable but it wasn't that bad, after some time and some people who we met, i concluded that even if there's someone who would be considered a bad person, he won't give a damn if you don't start . Rest of night i spent sleeping on train station it was cold xD, when the train came i slept even more in train, then i've let my friends sleep too so i stayed awake so someone can observe our stuff. I love Poland for what it is, and for the people! (also the kebabs are great)

You can watch the 2nd part... Or have it text version: Poles tried few times to rebel and brake into independance: 1st attempt was during Napoleonic Era, when Duchy of Warsaw was established, but as soon as Napoleon lost, Duchy od Warsaw was annected by Russia. Although it had some great authonomy (had its of treasury, army, parliament, instututions, language etc.) and even kept the name "Kingodom of Poland" things got worse as new Tzar rise to Russian throne which lead to... 2nd attmpt -> November uprsing in 1830... which failed (Russia was supported by their Prussian and Austrian allies, who feared that independent Poland might try to reclaim previous lands owned by Commonwealth)... Russian decided Poles need to be re-educated and russified. Polish language, culture, tradition, institutions were delegalised. Polish army would be dissolved. Region itself, instead of Kingdom of Poland would be officialy called: Vistula's country... 3rd attemp -> January 1863 Uprising also failed to achive anything... it became clear, that Polish Independance won't be possible as long as 3 Occupying countries are working together to stop any independence movements...but guess what... opportunity happened 50 years later as... WW1 broke and Polish occupants become enemies... Poland regained it's independence in 1918 as part of peace dealt between Allies and Germany... Independence wasn't granted as back in 1920 Poland had to face Red Army Invasion, luckily winning this one and surviving... Than again in 1939, on 1st September, Nazi Germany invaded Poland and on 17th of September Soviet Union attacked it from the other side... Poland was again divided, this time between Nazies and Commies... After WWII, Poland was left in Eastern part of Iron Curtain. It's current borders were shaped in 1945. One aditional note: Communist decided that multicultural countries are bad, so they resettled Poles from nowdays Belarus/Russia/Ukraine and forced them to go to Poland... and to make place for them, they also resettled German population from the Western and Northern parts of Poland to Eastern Germany. This created somewhat mono-nation, mono-culture country which is a contraty to multi-nation, multi-culture Kingdom Poland, Commonwealth and after WW1 Poland were before. But, back to history: Although offiicialy independent since 1945 Poland was under heavy control from Muscoy: with standing Soviet Army in Poland (last Soviest/Russian tank left Poland in 1993) and goverment being puppets of Muscovy... many Poles see it as another occupation period. Finaly in 1989 and with fall of Soviest Union soon after, Poland became independent again. In 1999 joined NATO and in 2004 joined European Union.

You should react to a great short animation about Poland called "unconquered" it tells the story of how Poland survived through WWII

One of best Animated History of Poland series is one made by Trashingmad. But it is purely in Polish. Suibhne video is probably best source in English. First video was not a documentary, but anniversary spectacle.

yea asian people dont have violent history at all. all the martial arts were founded by white pasty geeks behind pc's in ancient times, none of them came from asia

He forgot great 255 years chinnesse war of 7 kingdoms? 🤣 (sometimes is mentioned as a 500 year war, but its only exaggeration) and almost 2000 years of fighting outside or inside [depends on which time].

This dude is a nice person, but he has no idea about history. Like 'most of the countries have history back a thousands years BC' or Romans invaded Poland 😅. But it is good that he is learning.

zgadzam się

​@@tobiaszn9125Też

Tak (Yeah for english people)

Złoto jak najbardziej

Poprawka bo diament

*in europe

@@Alvvaru-lk7qy idk about that

The Crisis of the Tumu Fortress had ten times more soldiers and it was medieval times. Battle od Dodgori about 3-4 times more soldires.

Of course he meant in Europe, duh...

Where did it take place? ​@@Alvvaru-lk7qy

no i niestety jest to też najczarniejszy okres naszej historii

@@PolFoodmyślę że nie … ale na 100% będzię turbulencja.

yes! it was interesting !

Mongols defeated a united forces of Rus pricipalities in Battle at River Kalka (Kałka in Polish) and since then, most of the Rus rulers became Mongol tributaries (had to pay $$ to Mongols every year and every single ruler of Rus lands had to by approved by Golden Horde Khan)... this tributary system lasted up to 1480... (so for more than 200 years) and the one who finaly broke from Mongol tribal system was Ivan the 3rd, Great Muscovite Prince, but during this rule, name "Russia" became popular and its the moment when we can say, Russian empire started... (although it had to pass many years, and people like Peter the Great had to reform it, so that Russia become a real power) So, if anyone successfully conquered Russia -> it were Mongols...

Napoleon z Poniatowskim zajęli Moskwę po raz kolejny w 1812

MONGOLS ​BATTLE OF LEGNİCA DESTORY RUSSİANS AND POLİSH BOTH​@@sytrostormlord3275

Yeah that's coming next

@@WheresWes That's where it's getting interesting. And horrifying. And depressing.

Yes, esp. that Russia wasn't even around back then. It wouldn't yet show up on the map for a couple of centuries.

Yep. The first seed of Russia, the Principality of Moscow, would come around 400 years after founding of the Kievan Rus.

Prawda, choć później słowo to straciło pierwotne znaczenie i zostało zawłaszczone przez Rosję. W Królestwie Polskim było województwo ruskie, ze stolicą we Lwowie. Obejmowało ziemie Rusi Czerwonej. Dziś po stronie polskiej to województwo zakarpackie (włącznie z Rzeszowem) oraz część województwa lubelskiego (Chełm). Na czele sądownictwa stał tam Sąd Wyższy Prawa Niemieckiego (Sanok). Na całej Rusi Czerwonej dominowali Rusini, za wyjątkiem większych miast, w których na początku dominowali osadnicy i kupcy niemieccy (miasta zakładano na prawie magdeburskim), później Polacy, były też liczne skupiska Żydów i Ormian. Na pogórzu występował też pierwiastek wołoski, który mieszał się ze słowiańskim.

it wasn't som Rus but a viking king from Ruslan dynasty that conquered territories of slavs and thats how western slaws further depart from Lahs.

@@PiotrJaser Ruś Czerwona zamieszkana była wcześniej przez zachodnio-słowianskich Lędzian

More crying about J ews being killed..?

Coming next, too long for one video

@@WheresWes I can not wait :-)

Teutons were never true christians to begin with

Mogol invasions were hundreds of years ago, Tatars have also positive history in Poland and a fame for being Poland's most loyal minority, we weren't in war with Japan during WW2 because Japan refused to accept Poland as its enemy. Moreover, during WW2, Japan and Poland kept close relations esp. in espionage. The HQ of Poland's Intelligence was in the Japanese consulate in Kaunas.

Coming soon ;)

a Wheelwright from profession.

I was just thinking about what I wrote above. One of the best abbreviated sources of knowledge about the history of Poland is “The God’s Playground” book by Norman Davies. It is probably the best book in English. The author is a Welsh historian who became fascinated with Poland’s history. He eventually moved to Poland, learned the language and now lives in Cracow.. So he is so much like YOU.

It was neither Russia nor Ukraine. Both of them are more mongols than Slavs

Are you talking about IndoEuropeans or factual Poles. I can't believe it.

@@melchiorclaromonte4570 the history of the Slavs is a bit hidden, for example we have the golden rune, an old book that tells about the history of the Slavs, the whole culmination of the Slavs was on the territory of Poland and there they evolved, spreading to the rest of the world, that's what I mean, and on today's territory, where is Iren, if you compared the DNA of the Slavs who live there, they would be very similar to the Polish DNA, that's what I'm talking about

@@Ox2Git Sounds like a script to next Indiana Jones but... well... maybe you right. Never heard about golden rune. For me Slavic group is a product of intermingling and amalgamation between different groups dwelling about forest steppe borderline: Germanics - Sarmates - Balts + some local Aboriginal Polessian substrate

Najpierw walczył w rewolucji amerykańskiej, a potem wrócił do Polski. Spójrz na daty.