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Ну да в 17в когда вы подло напали на нашу страну в то в как у нас были проблемы с властью и мы вас выгнали да ещё и шведов а дальше ещё и отняли у вас Смоленск и Киев. Точно так же и в 1919 году вы напали на нас когда у нас была революция

Мы вас побеждали и не раз а в 17в выгнали вас и шведов

"...the balance was tipped by breaking the Russian code, just like before World War II with the Germans and Enigma. "" --- agreed. However, I would like to add two comments. First, Jan Kowalewski, who directed the work of the Polish cryptologists, decided to employ three outstanding mathematicians, Mazur, Sierpinski and Lesniewski, in his team. This was perhaps the first time in Europe that mathematics was used so extensively in decryption alongside linguistic analysis. Koralewski's decision had far-reaching consequences - it was a permanent orientation of Polish cryptology towards mathematics. Thanks to this orientation, on December 31, 1932, three Poles, Rejewski, Różycki and Zygalski, cracked the Enigma cipher for the first time. They shared their achievements and methods with French and British intelligence. Turing also had a meeting with Rejewski in Paris in January 1940. During this meeting, Rejewski deciphered a German message encoded in the Enigma system in front of Turing.

I tylko polacy zawitali kilka razy w Moskwie co nie udało się innym ✌️🇵🇱✌️

Ага спасала скорее приносила себя в жертву и постоянно делилась 😂

actually the last relevant battle against the Mongols was in Silesia on 9. April 1241 - which was also part of the Holy Roman Empire. The battle of Liegnitz. Herzog Heinrich II.with a mixed troup (its own Silesian Knights, then some Knights of the German Order, Johannite, Templer and other German Knights, then the rests of a Polish army - Russia, Krakau/Krakow and many cities were already overrun by the Mongols. Herzog Heinrich II. had altogether about 4000 - one weakness was that many were many peasants and 'foot folk'. He was outnumbered .Btw, this battle is one of the examples of a German and Polish coalition (also due to dynastic connections). Baidar Khan and his army had about 10000 warriors (and much more on horses). Some older stories talked about 100000 and also set the number of the German-Polish coalition higher but they are not serious. In theory there was also a 5k strong army from King Wenzel (from Bohemia) on the side of the German-Polish coalition but they were to far away and Herzog Heinrich II. didnt want move away - to resist a further move to the West of the Mongols. Another problem was that the Kaiser/Cesar Friedrich II was in Sicily/Italy and didnt care much about the problems with the Mongols in Eastern and East-Central Europe. If he did they could have been stopped much earlier with a much bigger professional and most modern army. On the other hand the situation of the Holy Roman Empire was also more complex dealing with politics also in many other regions. Btw, the Holy Roman Empire actually got this name in the 14. century - before that it was just called 'Roman Empire' (not just as continuation of the classic Roman Empire but also due to the so called '4 empire theory' most people believed in at that time: A 5th empire could not exist!. This Roman Empire with Germany as base was also called 'the Christian Empire' (because as most important power in Europe it was also up to them to protect Christianity - also one reason why Friedrich II. was engaged in Italy and 'Mittle East'). Anyway, the Mongols attacked (like often) first, got (like often) thrown back and attacked with a different tactics again (like often). One was psychological war tactics. In this case they rode explicitly for the Polish flag part and screamed "„Ratujcie sje! Ratujcie sje!" which made the already from former battles terrified Poles run away (nothing you usually hear from Poles ;) - which meant a further weakened party. The battle then continued (very bloody - to say that is historically really accurate) and both sides had huge losses - the Mongols a bit more. In the end of the day Heinrich II. reached his goal and the move to the West was stopped. Baidar Kahn tried still after that here and then some passing but failed and moved back to Hungary to join the other Mongol armies. But in the end of the day this was the last relevant battle for Europe against the Mongols and an important one. It was (most historians share this) this battle which caused so much loss that it became one of the major reasons why the Mongol problem from now on more and more was broken. But of course the battles before from Poles and others weakened the Mongols drastically - one has to see the whole picture. Apropos: that the Byzantine Empire fell to the Osman was in the first place due to the dominant European powers (HRE, Kingdom of France etc:) which not just weakened it all the time (it was basically already kind of 'open' to the Turks) but also later didnt really support Eastern-Central and East Europe/Balcans (even more, most of the time supported them/used them against each other). It was actually not a real problem to kick them out - but the main focus of the major European powers on each other prevented that most of the time.

Co z Francuskim Cesartswem I Napoleonem?

@@Aleksander_Zgraja_Star Napoleon wkroczył do pustego miasta. Polacy mieli tam swój rząd.

​@@Aleksander_Zgraja_Star Armia Napoleona wkroczyła do Moskwy. Nie byli tam jednak długo, ponieważ Rosjanie zastosowali taktykę spalonej ziemi, niszcząc zapasy i infrastrukturę w mieście, co zmusiło Napoleona do odwrotu w obliczu nadchodzącej zimy i braków zaopatrzenia. Ostatecznie, wycofanie się z Rosji okazało się katastrofalne dla Wielkiej Armii Napoleona, która poniosła ogromne straty. Polacy byli w stanie utrzymać się w Moskwie przez 2 lata, a polski książę został wybrany na cara Rosji. Ostatecznie Polaków wygnano z Moskwy (bo książe nie chciał się ochrzcić w obrządku wschodnim) ale cała wojna przyniosła Polsce korzyści terytorialne.

Napoleon occupied Moscow in 1812.

@@user-fj3en5pm4q Taktyka spalonej ziemi była stosowana na drodze zaopatrzenia i pochodu wojsk Napoleona. Błędem Napoleona było myślenie, iż zdobycie Moskwy zakończy wojnę i kapitulacji Rosjan ale Car Aleksander wycofał się dalej i nie zamierzał się poddać. Moskwa nie była spalona w czasie wkroczenia wojsk francuskich i nie jest do końca pewne czy Napoleon spalił Moskwę czy sami Rosjanie ale już później po wkroczeniu i stacjonowaniu wojsk Napoleona.

as a German WITH much more knowledge than most Germans I remember that. This visit of Otto III. gave Boleslaw a 'king like' upgrade. There is some discussion if he recognized him really as king (because he was 25 years later (again) crowned) but there is no dispute that he got king like powers (Iand recognition in Europe as such) which also meant for instance that he could now set up his own Bishops and so on (a right only Kaiser and Kings had). Apart from that (and that nevertheless their relation was ambivalent for a couple of reasons) it was one of the phases when the term '"Sachsen/Saxons' became a 'thing' in Poland - even more much later with August der Starke from the kingdom of Saxony which also became King of Poland and Duke of Lithuania. Especially the latter is interesting to know to answer the question why there is/was a 'Saxon Palace, Saxon Place and Saxon Park' in Warsaw. That Saxon palace was unfortunately destroyed by the Nazis despite the common history (and despite that they did not destroy every city in Poland - because some were more seen as German). That palace was a nice building. Poland wanted already reconstruct it but (as far as I know) due to the finance crises back then 2008 this project was delayed and still is - but it is still in the pipeline? I think also from a pure aesthetical point of view was such a rather classical piece (after a rebuilding from a more Baroque/Rokoko style) of architecture a nice addition for Warsaw ...

😂😂😂

​@@jackblack2214What's so funny? 😁 It's true.

@@mixlllllll It's actually the Russians and their brotherly help 🤣

No, no, no, no, no. You got it completely wrong. Restoring the pre 1772 borders was imossible, for various reasons. The most important one is that lands east to Bug river (present Polish eastern border) were barely populated by Poles, only Vilnius and Lviv regions had a Polish majority. There were plenty of Belarussians and Ukrainians not identyfying with Polish state and wanting to create their own countries and cultures. Also you forgot that before partitions, Poland was in union with Lithuania, and in 1918, the Lithuanians did not want to restore the Commonwealth. Instead, they preferred to have their own, seperate country. You see, 19th century has changed a lot in terms of national identiti and understatding of country. It's not easy to govern such an enormous state as The Commonwealth, especially when half of your population wants independence and half of your country is significantly poorer than the other part (you heard of "Poland A and B division"?).

@@smerfdzikus2334 ...and what does it matter? State borders do not have to coincide with ethnic/nationality borders. Look at Russia itself, there are a lot of larger and smaller nations living there. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was also a multinational country before 1772 and could easily have been so after 1921. As for the rest, I recommend a book with the slightly sarcastic title "The Piłsudski-Lenin Pact. Or how Poles saved Bolshevism and wasted a chance to build an empire." Very well documented, great bibliography.

Have you ever heard of "nation state" concept? Look at these countries: Austro-Hungary, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, USSR. Guess why they collapsed? It's easier to manage Poland with ehtnic Polish majority than with many other minorities. I guess in Eastern and Central Europe, multinational states were associated with oppressing empires and people didn't want them back.

and it was in a much better shape if it still was German

@@publicminx This city being in Russia is a big mistake. It would be better even if it was in Poland. It wouldn’t be the disaster of a city it is today

You do not hide the fact that you are upset that Hitler lost. The West has always been racist.

not entirely true - Treaty was annulled with end of WW1, even then they couldn't have broken the treaty since entities they signed it with no longer existed

@@GdzieJestNemo Germany still existed. We may say the treaty was no longer honored by Russian SFSR which considered itself a new entity. But what is important here is that till 1919 Russia kept its forces behind that border and in 1919 it started to cross it. And there were Poles already.

@@user-fj3en5pm4q wiki and other authors don't agree with you on that.

@@GdzieJestNemo on what exactly?

@@user-fj3en5pm4q on whether same Germany still existed and whether Russian SSR broke the treaty. Tbh you are the first person i've met claiming that.

you need to revisit that - Poland is around ~37m, while Ukraine impossible to tell

​​@@GdzieJestNemoPoland have 38-39 milions people becuase there is probably less than 1 milion Ukrainians in Poland rigth now. 40 milions was in peak of Ukrainian migration, counting over 1 milion people that were moved to Germany. Before war Poland have 37,8 milion population due to depopulation that took us under 38 milions.

@@GdzieJestNemo brother poland have 40m you have to learn brother today but in poland living: ukrainian people polish people czechia people slovakia people german and other

@@kapix13kapix not according to any statistical office nor estimate

He probably slept like most people, because learning history at school is crap, syphilis and a grave. It's better to learn history on your own at the age of about 20 than to waste time on this nonsense from school and a pile of dates instead of reliable knowledge about the background of a given case, etc. Russians still learn in schools that they liberated Poland and Europe and that their grandparents were heroes. You learn mainly about the Holocaust, but you know very little about the crimes committed strictly against Poles, not Polish Jews. They still teach us that Hitler was a bloodthirsty monster who hated Poland forever, and it's a bit funny when you come back to the topic after many years... Suddenly you find out that he wanted an alliance with us and until we joined the Allies, we were not "Slavic subhumans", but a race "related to the Nordics". To this day we are taught that we were angels and Ukrainians and Belarusians loved us, which has little to do with reality. Ukrainians are still taught to this day that in Volhynia there were fights between the UPA and the Home Army, and civilian casualties were equal on both sides. And I can mention each country one by one. At school you learn about the historical politics of your country. Not history.

How then do you explain the fact that Poland was a province of the Russian Empire?😂😂😂

@@CaligulaAugust bardzo łatwo. Tak jak dzisiaj Polska została sprzedana przez swoje elity. Tam żadnej wojny nie było. Szlachta sama o opiekę do carycy występowała. Cześć z nich była przekupywana przez Niemców i Rosjan jak obecnie się dzieje. Dzisiaj premierem Polski jest Tusk który za niemieckie marki partie zakładał i w reklamówkach je kolegom z partii rozdawał.

But aren’t the Polish elites from the people? Does it turn out that Poland is a plutocracy and not a democracy?