What is it like for Poles under Prussian empire? I feel like this is a part of history that we rarely heard of.
What is it like for Poles under Prussian empire? I feel like this is a part of history that we rarely heard of
Gabriel Perry
Bentley Ross
Better than in Russia.
Eli Perry
economically by far the least worst of the 3, culturally by far the worst in terms of repression and germanisation
Julian Ramirez
like in Nazi Germany but without so frequent killing.
Luis Bennett
>Frederick wrote that Poland had "the worst government in Europe with the exception of Turkey"
Tyler Turner
one of the few things he was right about.
Isaac Rivera
It wasnt bad just the food was terrible
Isaac Taylor
"Worst" because it actually limited absolutism and authoritarian establishments, they're also the first to have a constitution in Europe.
Quite bad.
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
Lucas Robinson
Better off than in Russian Empire
Worse off than in Austrian Empire
Speaking in the terms of national freedom.
Isaiah Perry
By Frederick's age Poland had been crushed between three mighty (and greedy) empires and its politics were reliant on them. In those times there wasn't much they could do for themselves anymore.
Jose Bailey
That's not positive. The government was too weak to protect the medieval abomination that is was.
Oliver Moore
They were on the verge of changing that, hence the partitions to stop the last king's reforms.
Sebastian Adams
Where are you from friend? I always see you posting
John Rivera
Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Owen Baker
Ahh, I see
Jason Allen
>Implying Friedrich der Große wasn't the best monarch in Europe's history
Shame about his shitty son, though.
Lucas Ross
>with the exception of Turkey
wew lad
Adam Bell
The Germans went as far as banning the use of Polish language in public places.
Luke Brown
I dont know about language bans, but since Most of todays polish Territory in the Pic was prussian from the beginning the Transfer shouldt habe been to hard for them. There was a century Long Migration Tradition und Prussia was originally the modern Immigration state due to theire acceptance of everyone who was willing to work hard.
This changed when in the 19th century the german nationalism movement starten rising and Prussia starten to make concessions to this Movement by defining itselves through ethnicity and state Religion the First time in its History.
Ayden Morgan
Until the later half of the 19th century, not particularly bad. Poles weren't seen as a race or nationality, and discrimination came more in the form of favoring non-Polish parts of the Empire.
>en.wikipedia.org
happened between 1885 and 1890
>en.wikipedia.org
mostly affected gentry; serfs were just serfs like everywhere else
Caleb Nguyen
>In 1916, Germany, with the Act of 5th November, publicly promised to create the Regency Kingdom of Poland, while secretly planning to annex up to 35,000 square kilometres of its territory and ethnically cleanse up to 3 million Poles and Jews to make room for German settlers after the war.[20][21][22][23][24][25]
What did they mean by this?
Tyler Reed
>frederick
>son
Dumbass
Jack Davis
>"These provinces cannot be compared with any European country-the only parallel would be Canada"
Samuel Lewis
But Poland was massively behind Prussia in terms of development. This is a fact.
Michael Martinez
>mfw I will never visit a German East Prussia
Owen Adams
>ywn see a Baltic east Prussia
Caleb Rodriguez
The Eastern part of Poland, absolutely, but not the rest.
Camden Ward
>mfw I won't be there to witness Kaliningrad become Konigsberg, Klaipeda become Memel, or Gdansk become Danzig