NATO’s frontline state vs. Russia’s historic rival! This explosive RT documentary dives into the centuries-long blood feud between Poland and Russia—from Polish kings ruling Moscow to Poland being erased from the map for 123 years.
💥 WHY THIS HISTORY MATTERS TODAY:
✅ 1610: Polish Troops Occupied MOSCOW – A prince of Poland was elected Russian Tsar
✅ 1795: Russia’s Revenge – The Partition of Poland wiped it off the map for over a century
✅ WW2 & Beyond – Katyn Massacre, Soviet dominance, and now Poland as NATO’s #1 Anti-Russia Base
✅ Modern Flashpoint – Poland hosts 20+ NATO bases, warns of "Russian threat" while Moscow sees a revived historic enemy
⚠️ "This isn’t just geopolitics—it’s a 1,000-year grudge match still unfolding!"
🔥 Will history repeat? Or is Poland now powerful enough to finally defeat Russia?
#Russia #Poland #NATO #History #RTDocumentary #WW3 #Geopolitics #Military #Warsaw #Moscow #EasternEurope #PartitionOfPoland #Katyn #Imperialism #ColdWar2 #USArmy #Putin #Duda #SlavicRivalry #1000YearWar
💥 WHY THIS HISTORY MATTERS TODAY:
✅ 1610: Polish Troops Occupied MOSCOW – A prince of Poland was elected Russian Tsar
✅ 1795: Russia’s Revenge – The Partition of Poland wiped it off the map for over a century
✅ WW2 & Beyond – Katyn Massacre, Soviet dominance, and now Poland as NATO’s #1 Anti-Russia Base
✅ Modern Flashpoint – Poland hosts 20+ NATO bases, warns of "Russian threat" while Moscow sees a revived historic enemy
⚠️ "This isn’t just geopolitics—it’s a 1,000-year grudge match still unfolding!"
🔥 Will history repeat? Or is Poland now powerful enough to finally defeat Russia?
#Russia #Poland #NATO #History #RTDocumentary #WW3 #Geopolitics #Military #Warsaw #Moscow #EasternEurope #PartitionOfPoland #Katyn #Imperialism #ColdWar2 #USArmy #Putin #Duda #SlavicRivalry #1000YearWar
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00:00There were always two Polans. One struggling to proclaim the truth, and the other groveling in villainy.
00:08Winston Churchill, World War II.
00:14Poland has now become one of the most russophobic NATO countries.
00:19It's home to about 20 military sites, hosting NATO and US military personnel.
00:24In addition, and according to Polish Defense Ministry statements, in the next 10 years, there will be more than a hundred new US military bases in Poland.
00:38The Polish people are told that the huge military spend is due to the threat posed by Russia.
00:44Poland has now become one of the most russophobic NATO countries, and it is not at all right, because we have to deal with an official narrative, which is in the media, in the media, in the television, and in the ordinary people.
01:13Journalist Jan Engelgaard is curator at the Museum of Polish History in Warsaw.
01:43You can see these images.
01:46Very many people, children, and older people, around these monasteries protest against this intention of the liquidation of these monasteries.
01:54So, what does this mean?
01:56It means that, according to what you could think, a former Polish person has no attitude or anti-Russian movements.
02:06However, the authorities seem to care little for average Poles, apparently attaching more importance to their overseas partners' interests.
02:15So, Poland now plays a leading role in NATO plans for a confrontation with Russia, and it's a dangerous role.
02:22If we speak about the relations of Poland and Russia, we must say that all the time they are more worse and worse.
02:38Like many Poles, journalist and political analyst Andrzej Michniewski takes a moderate and pragmatic position between outright russophobes and Russia's admirers.
03:03The current situation in Europe is a continuation of the current situation of a long-term and modernist war.
03:10The current situation in Europe is a continuation of what was in the era of the II wojny świat.
03:14So, they will be taking place in the future of the war.
03:16They will take place in the future of the war, which will be taking place in the future of Europe,
03:22to push the NATO in the future of Russia and to reduce the role and role and role of the role of Russia in Europe.
03:32Russians and Poles are Slavic peoples who have lived near each other for thousands of years, and have much in common.
03:40At the same time, both nations are long-time adversaries and rivals.
03:50The 10th century.
03:54One of the biggest reasons was religion.
03:56In Poland, baptism came from the Vatican, and in Russia, from Byzantium.
04:08Russian Prince Vladimir the Great did not recognize the Vatican's authority, an organization that can be seen in a similar light to present-day globalists.
04:17The Christians split between Catholicism and Orthodoxy, divided Poles and the Rus people.
04:25The Catholicism was born in the XI century in the result of a grandiose Catholic explosion.
04:39When the West fell from Christianity and went on its own way, by the power, by the pressure, by the pressure, by the planting of faith by the fire and the sword.
04:50Father Leonid is well-acquainted with the history of the spread of Catholicism.
05:02A rough expansion is a trying to bring light by methods of darkness, not of good, but of evil, of temptation and of evil.
05:15The second cause of animosity between Russia and Poland was disputed border regions.
05:20The so-called Cervian Cities or Galician-Balynian Rus, mainly populated by Rus ethnic groups.
05:27The year 981.
05:32The first known military conflict between the two countries.
05:37Russia's Prince Vladimir the Great reclaimed the Cervian cities from Poland's Prince Mieszko I.
05:44The struggle for Cervian continued.
05:46Alternate periods of peace and war eventually resulted in an alliance.
05:57In 1076, Wladimir Monomach helped a Polish campaign against the Czechs.
06:02At the time, Poland was a very small central European Kingdom.
06:15The 13th century.
06:19The Mongol invasion.
06:21The Russian principalities became a buffer that protected the Poles from wholesale looting.
06:26Poland did not enter the Green Sea.
06:30And this is a very important feature, a very serious component in the history of Poland and in the history of Russia.
06:36Vassily Pichugin, a doctor of history, is well-versed in the history of Russian relations with Poland.
06:43Russia, on the ground, has really protected the European Union from Mongol and Tatar.
06:51The Russian people have achieved this powerful lesson.
06:55You want to be free?
06:57You want to keep your faith?
06:59You need to have a strong state.
07:02Russia's eastern principalities fell to the Mongols.
07:06While those in the west, where the Rus had been weakened by the Mongol invasion and unable to defend,
07:12fell to the Poles and Lithuanians.
07:14That too was a lingering and destructive yoke.
07:20Moscow was still broken between Tatar, Mongols and Litovians,
07:25and Poland was a powerful Western European state.
07:27Dr. Natalia Narachnitskaya has a PhD in history and political science,
07:32and is well-known for her seminal works on the history of Russian foreign policy.
07:36And Poland, constantly, using the difficult situation of Kievan Russia,
07:43it was very hard to take our eternal lands.
07:47For example, the Ghalitsko-Volynskae Knajezstvo,
07:50was entered in Kazimiri Velikom in 1349.
07:54The Khans didn't interfere with internal Rus affairs.
07:59Princes paid tribute and received a Jarlik, an edict authorizing their rule.
08:05Nor did they impose Mongolian religion, language or culture,
08:09whereas the Polish-Lithuanian nobleman meddled with everything.
08:13By fire and sword, they imposed Catholicism on the seized Russian lands.
08:17Russian culture was crushed and the language banned.
08:22They nurtured hatred towards Moscow.
08:25These were the roots of the future Bandera movement and hatred of Muscovites.
08:29And while the Mongol yoke lasted 235 years,
08:33the Polish-Lithuanian one went on for 300.
08:36The most beloved Polish-Lithuan king was Kazimiri Velik.
08:42In fact, he created a Polish state.
08:45In Kazimiri Velikom, the first protest of the Jewish people from the side of the Catholics.
08:51The 14th century.
08:56Polish history takes a new turn.
08:59After the death of King Louis the Great,
09:01his youngest daughter, Jadwiga, ascends to Poland's throne.
09:08For an alliance with powerful Lithuania,
09:11the nobles force her to marry Jogaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania.
09:16The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a potent and formidable ally.
09:20At that time, Lithuania had seized Kiev, Smolensk, Vyazma,
09:26and land in the upper reaches of the Akar River in present-day Kaluga, Tula, and Orel regions.
09:35Lithuania formed an alliance with the Kingdom of Poland,
09:39and the Lithuanian Prince Jogaila, who was baptized Orthodox by his mother,
09:43Princess Ulyana of Tver, ascended to the Polish throne with the name Vladislav II,
09:49and renounced Orthodoxy.
09:52This marriage was necessary for his political career, as he thought.
09:58The value of this was his, in general,
10:02his, in general, Christianity.
10:04He was a Protestant king, and Lithuania was a Protestant.
10:07But in this marriage, he promised that he would leave the Protestant faith,
10:14which he did in Krakow in 1385.
10:18Jogaila vowed to convert all Ruthenians living in the Principality of Galicia-Vilynia,
10:24as the Cervian cities were known in the 14th century, to Catholicism.
10:28The Soviet Romans as a religious group became a Christian.
10:32The Irish people became a Christian.
10:35The Jewish people became the Christian people of man,
10:37to whom used any methods of interaction,
10:40which Yep!
10:41the Christian prophets вошлись into the earth,
10:44which they visited such a Christian.
10:47The Catholic Church was a Christian Christian.
10:51The Catholic Church, there are no longer will exist.
10:54The Catholic Church is a Christian Christian who were living in the same way,
10:55all the rest of the Roman Romans did not exist.
10:56The late 14th century.
11:00Rus undergoes global changes.
11:04The year 1380.
11:07Prince Dmitry Donskoy won the Battle of Kulikovo,
11:11bringing the Mongol yoke to an end.
11:15In the 16th century, the Russian rulers, Grand Prince Vasily III and his son, Ivan the Terrible,
11:22began gathering Russian lands.
11:27Ivan the Terrible conquered the Khanates of Kazan, Azturhan and Sibir.
11:32The Don, Terek, Volga, Yaik and the Dnieper Cossacks began to serve Ivan the Terrible.
11:41The state's credibility is growing.
11:45It's clear that Rus is rebuilding its might and is taking strides forward under a wise and solid ruler.
11:52Ivan the Terrible became the architect of a unified Russian state.
11:59At the time, the world's only independent orthodox country.
12:03Western nations immediately sounded the alarm and launched a propaganda campaign against Russia and her Tsar.
12:21Poland was the first country to wage that information war.
12:24We turned part of Europe against Muscovy.
12:29Hiranim Grahler, Polish historian and diplomat.
12:351558.
12:35The 25-year Livonian War.
12:45The official pretext was that Lithuania did not pay the promised tribute for controlling the city of Yuriev
12:51and consistently interfered with Russia's trade affairs.
12:55But there were also more important reasons.
13:06Doctor of history and author Dmitry Volodykin is widely known for his scientific works on the history of medieval Russia.
13:15Returning these lands was Ivan the Terrible's main objective.
13:36Free access to the Baltic Sea was also vital for Russia, as the Russian Tsar knew very well.
13:55At first, the Livonian War passed without Poland taking part.
13:59However, 14 years after it began, King Sigismund II of Poland died, leaving the nation without heirs.
14:10As was customary in those times, Poles sent petitions to other European kingdoms,
14:16inviting them to claim the Polish throne.
14:19They also wrote to Ivan the Terrible.
14:21That the Russian Tsar, knowing that Poland's economy was in disarray and that the knights didn't obey the king,
14:47set conditions that the Polish nobleman could not accept.
14:52Our great ruler's free royal sovereignty is not like your wretched kingdom.
14:57From Ivan the Terrible's letter to the Polish nobility.
15:03Ultimately, the Polish crown went to Stefan Bathory of Transylvania, who hated Russia.
15:09Russian troops take Dorpat, Noyshlas, Narva, Newhausen, and part of Estonia.
15:22The Lithuanian army is defeated, but its lands are absorbed by Poland and Sweden.
15:27And in the result of these war movements, Lithuania is reached to the point.
15:32It's all, she understands, it's still a little bit, and she will be destroyed.
15:36And then, Lithuania is called to the Polish people.
15:42And then, the Polish people say, we will help you.
15:45But!
15:47And then, they set the conditions.
15:51And this is a terrible conditions.
15:53The Poles demanded a huge reward from Lithuania for their help.
15:57They claimed vast tracts of ancestral Russian land, including Kiev, Chernikov, Bratislav, and Lutsk.
16:05As a result, Poland doubled its territory.
16:08Lithuania was shocked by these conditions.
16:11Many thought that it was impossible to go to such a shame.
16:17And others said, excuse me, we have an unnecessary situation.
16:20You understand? We have an unnecessary situation.
16:22The Union of Lublin was concluded, merging Lithuania and Poland into a powerful Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth.
16:31Stefan Bathory went to war against Russia.
16:43Backed by real documents, Ivan the Terrible wrote to the Poles.
16:47Livonia is an ancient Russian fiefdom dating back from the times of Grand Duke Yaroslav, named Yuri upon Baptism,
16:54who conquered the Chudlans and erected there a city named in his honor, Yuriev.
17:00The Livonian country pledged to pay tribute to Russia.
17:04And the Livonians sent men to bow down to our grandfather, the great sovereign Ivan,
17:09and our father, the Tsar of all Russia, Vassili, and beseech about their needs and peace.
17:15Russia has charters and documents to prove it claimed Ivan the Terrible in his letter,
17:20so he felt he acted justly.
17:22He does not take what belongs to others, but only returns what belonged to Rus from ancient times.
17:28And Poland had no claims to these lands, because Livonia was never under Polish rule.
17:32But the fortunes of war change fast.
17:43The Polish army takes Polotsk.
17:47And Valykia Lyuki.
17:49And besieges Pskov.
17:52No one was spared in the frenzied battle.
17:56The king took the smoldering ruins covered with blood and torn bodies.
18:00Kazimir Waliszewski, Polish historian and writer.
18:06Bathory is excited.
18:08Fate is gifting us all of Moscovy.
18:11Apart from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth,
18:14Sweden and Denmark also join the war against Russia.
18:19The Vatican provides huge amounts of money,
18:22with which Bathory hires soldiers from all over Europe.
18:26Italian engineers give him the latest weapons,
18:29mortars capable of firing incendiary bombs and setting Russia's wooden fortresses on fire.
18:37Just like today's American Democrats,
18:40Bathory uses the freedom of Russia from the evil Tsar's tyranny
18:43as justification for war.
18:45Mobile printing shops prepare leaflets appealing to Russians.
18:48The so-called planted letters are surprisingly similar to today's Western propaganda.
18:55They too state that Europe brings good and freedom to Russians.
19:00At the same time, Russians are portrayed as evil enemies in Europe.
19:05Leaflets and brochures detail the dangers from their incursion.
19:09What atrocities Muscovites commit against Christian prisoners,
19:14men and women, virgins and children.
19:17Written and printed in Livonia.
19:20Nuremberg, 1561.
19:21Russia's Tsar is vilified too.
19:27But the
19:57In the final stages of the war against superior enemy numbers, Russia was forced to switch from offensive to defensive tactics.
20:27The Russian troops are defeated, Narva has fallen, Ewan-Gorod and Kaporia are captured.
20:40The Russian Tsar sues for peace, offering Bathory, Poletsk, Korland and 24 cities in Livonia.
20:48But Bathory demands all of Livonia, Pskov, Novgorod, Smolensk and Velikianuki.
20:55Year 25 of the Livonian War
20:58Jesuits willing to bring Moscow under the Vatican's control also come into play on the Polish side.
21:06A Jesuit diplomat, Antonio Pasevino, goes to Ivan the Terrible.
21:10His goals are to sign a peaceful treaty between the Russians and Poles, bring Ivan the Terrible into an alliance against the Turks and, most importantly, the Catholicization of Moscow.
21:25Later, Pasevino would note that Ivan the Terrible was a great diplomat.
21:43Though Russia was losing some of the lands it had conquered, Bathory, who dreamed of Novgorod and Peskov, never required them.
21:50The Russian Tsar declines Pasevino's offer to go to war with the Ottoman Empire.
22:19It's clear to Ivan the Terrible that Europe wants to destroy the Ottomans with the blood of Russian soldiers.
22:27And depleted by the Livonian campaign, war with the powerful Ottoman army is beyond Russia's capability.
22:34Most of all, the Jesuit is disappointed by the Tsar's response to the proposal to convert to Catholicism.
22:39When the peace with Poland that Russia needed was signed, the Tsar did not behave at all, as Pasevino had expected.
22:47Indeed, Muscovites considered the Pope's tradition to wear Christ's image on the shoes to be the greatest disrespect to the Saviour's suffering.
23:11The Pope is a wolf, not a pastor, says Ivan the Terrible.
23:16In retaliation, the offended Pasevino spreads rumors in Europe that the Russian Tsar killed his own Tsar Ivan in anger.
23:42For its refusal to obey the Vatican, the Pope dubs Russia the axis of evil.
24:12The golden age of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth begins, and it would last almost two centuries.
24:28In his works, journalist and member of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society,
24:53Viktor Saúlkin analyzes the history of relations between Russia and the West.
25:01Then, Poland was a powerful country that was spread from the father to the father, from the Baltic to the Black Sea.
25:09The Polish heavy horse, the best in Europe.
25:12They were bravely fought.
25:14They were bravely fought.
25:15After the death of Ivan the Terrible, boyar Paris Godunov seizes the Russian throne.
25:33After his death, the accession of false Dmitry.
25:36Following his assassination, the accession of Vasily Shuisky.
25:39Then, false Dmitry II appears, a time of troubles.
25:43Russia descends into chaos.
25:52Crowds dissatisfied with Shuisky rally around false Dmitry II from Moscow.
25:58Then Shuisky calls on the Swedish king for help.
26:01The Swedes, who had received free men, occupy Novgorod and Tychwin and approach Moscow.
26:07Polish king Sigismund III also wants a piece of Russian land and goes to war with the Swedes.
26:17The Poles are preparing 14-year-old Prince Vladislav for the Russian throne, while the Swedes prepare a boy, Prince Carl Philip.
26:261610.
26:37With the help of seven Russian noblemen, having wrapped their horses' hooves in cloth, Polish troops enter Moscow by night.
26:44In the glorious city of Moscow, we got ourselves numerous regiments of the Soviet Union.
26:48In the glorious city of Moscow, we got ourselves numerous regiments of the Soviet Union.
26:52Poles and other aliens.
27:01Our boyars, some due to fear, others due to greed, decided to collaborate with them.
27:07In the glorious city of Moscow, we got ourselves numerous regiments of the Poles and other aliens.
27:15Our boyars, some due to fear, others due to greed, decided to collaborate with them.
27:23Prince Ivan Horstinin, 1615.
27:26Очень часто задают вопрос, а какой был самый тяжелый период в истории России.
27:31И с моей точки зрения, ответить очень просто.
27:33Это 1611 год.
27:35Польский гарнизон находится в Москве.
27:37Князь Пожарский, который был вождем восстания в Москве, тяжело ранен.
27:44Поляки наконец-то взяли Смоленск.
27:47Шведы захватили практически все западные земли и захватили Новгород.
27:53Вот эта точка максимального падения российского государства.
27:59Это наивысшая точка польской экспансии.
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28:40Samuel Moskiewicz, a Polish citizen, 1611.
28:45The rebellious Muscovites could have easily crushed the foreigners,
28:49but were again stabbed in the back by the seven boyars.
28:56On Thursday, we set the city on fire.
28:59We acted on the advice of the boyars, who were friendly to us,
29:03who recognized the need to burn Moscow to the ground.
29:07The flame, fanned by the wind, drove the Russians away.
29:11Samuel Moskiewicz, a Polish citizen, 1611.
29:22When the city burned down, the Poles took velvet, silk, brocade,
29:28gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls.
29:31In churches, they removed silver vestments, necklaces, and collars.
29:36The children of noble boyars were lost at cards
29:39and were then taken away from their fathers by force.
29:43Konrad Bussov, German traveler, 1611.
29:48Russian cities and villages turned into smoldering ruins.
29:52Up to a third of the population of Rus was exterminated.
29:55Meanwhile, in Catholic Rome, Polish victories over Orthodoxy
30:00are celebrated magnificently with fireworks.
30:04The Warsaw Sejm proclaims,
30:06Russia is to become Poland's new world.
30:09That is, the conquest of Russia is compared to the discovery of America,
30:13with its people sharing the fate of indigenous tribes.
30:15The Polish king no longer needs the treacherous boyars,
30:20and he sets new conditions far from the original agreed terms.
30:24The whole of Russia should convert to Catholicism.
30:27Polish nobles will occupy state posts,
30:30and he, Sigismund III, becomes the sovereign regent.
30:33It was merchant Minin and prince Pajarski who had to solve the issue
30:57with the interventionists settled in the Kremlin.
30:59The entire Russian land rose up against the Poles.
31:04Russians, Kalmyks, Tartars, Mari and Bashkirs,
31:08Mordvins and Udmorts.
31:11Poles are expelled.
31:12The country awaits the Zemskisobor of 1613
31:15and the election to the throne of Mikhail Romanov,
31:18founder of the new Russian dynasty.
31:21We have restored the destroyed state,
31:26and we have restored the people from the bottom of the world.
31:30On November the 4th, Russia celebrates National Unity Day.
31:35Like most Russian holidays, it commemorates a victory.
31:39On November the 4th, 1612,
31:42the Russian militia finally liberated Moscow from the Poles,
31:46bringing the time of troubles to an end.
31:4817th century.
31:57The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth loses all power.
32:01The reason is a serious slowdown of Polish government.
32:06It is a very effective model of control,
32:10when Polish-Lithuanian-Lithuanian,
32:12in fact, the Russian military,
32:13has to be torpedoed
32:14any normal state-level beginning
32:17on the territory of Poland.
32:20And the second moment,
32:22it is a technological change of Poland.
32:25And the desire of it
32:27to be a technological change of Poland.
32:29The Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth conducts a risky policy and gains enemies both north and south.
32:49The Polish elite is trying to deprive the population of the outskirts, the so-called креси who preserved Russianness and orthodoxy of their faith, traditions, history and language.
33:00Orthodox churches are destroyed and priests persecuted.
33:04And despite the fact that out of eleven and a half million people, only four and a half million are Polish, and almost five million are natives of Ukraine and Belarus.
33:17They didn't have the right to appear in the city, they didn't have the right to learn, to get a higher education.
33:26They literally tried as much more, what is called, into the earth, so they disappeared.
33:36Riots break out led by Cossacks, who in turn are supported by Russia.
33:41For the honour of Tsars Mikhail and Alexei stand and wage war against the Polish king, as this can no longer be tolerated.
33:50Hetman Bogdan Chmielnitsky and all the Zaporozhian army, with their cities and lands, may the sovereign deign to take them under his high hand.
33:59Moscow-Zemskiy Sobor, October the 1st, 1653.
34:07The People's War led by Bogdan Chmielnitsky and the subsequent 13-year Russo-Polish War ended with Russia's victory.
34:17The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is losing Russian-speaking territories, Smolensk region and lands east of Dnieper, along with Kyiv.
34:33It's Moscow's first territorial victory over Warsaw.
34:36The 18th century.
34:51Peter the Great's Russia is the leader in East Europe.
34:57Meanwhile, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is torn by war with Sweden.
35:02The Polish government was forbidden because the clergy, the Polish shlachta and the magnate,
35:09they had, according to the rule of the Holy Spirit, the right of the Rokos.
35:14Rokos is called mouthing.
35:16According to the rule, if the king who they chose to choose something,
35:20they had the right of the confederacy and fight with their king.
35:24The situation is worsened by the dictates of the Catholic Church that demands more and more restrictions imposed on orthodoxy.
35:35The orthodox faith is insulted, dubbed animalistic and servile.
35:40Its priests are imprisoned, killed, starved, poisoned and mauled by dogs.
35:46Their arms and legs broken.
35:48We know even from the famous paintings of Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol,
35:55which describes life in Belarus,
35:58that, for example, Jews gave the keys to the church.
36:04And they had the right to open the temple or not to open the right-wing.
36:09Poles did not always act with their hands.
36:13Religious uprisings begin.
36:15Hundreds of pleas come from Poland to St. Petersburg for Russia to intercede.
36:20Orthodox subjects of the Commonwealth see it as their protector.
36:24The emperor Ekaterina II asked the Polish government to give the rights to the right-wing people.
36:34On the Russian lands, by the way.
36:36The right-wing people lived in the Western Ukraine and Belarus.
36:41But the war refused.
36:431764.
36:44A renowned Polish aristocrat and favourite of Catherine II, August Poniatowski, ascends to the Polish throne.
36:55In 1768, the Russian ambassador Rep Nin negotiated the adoption of equal rights for Catholic and Orthodox Christians.
37:02In response, the Catholic nobility raises an uprising and asks Turkey for help.
37:08The Crimean Khan and the Turkish Sultan declare war on Russia, but ultimately lose.
37:15The first partition of Poland is underway.
37:20The first partition of Poland belongs to Friedrich VIII.
37:25The Russian king.
37:27He supported Austria.
37:29And during the first Russian-Turk war, when we were not able to do the same political politics on the territory of Poland,
37:37we just simply said,
37:39either we all participate in the division,
37:42or, извините, we will support the Turks.
37:45And Ekaterina II, of course, she agreed.
37:49Russia gains portions of Belarus and Livonia,
38:08but Galicia, inhabited by Rusyns,
38:11Ostfian Chima and parts of Lesser Poland remain in Austria's hands.
38:14Prussia takes the Pomeranian and Hrnovei Abedish ships,
38:20Pomerania, Royal Prussia, as well as parts of Greater Poland.
38:28Russia is again at war with Turkey,
38:30and Prussia provokes Poland into breaking ties with Russia.
38:35But it's a perilous union under which Poland must give up Gdansk and Tarun to Prussia.
38:41Prussia now poses a threat to Russia, so further petition of Poland becomes inevitable.
38:471793.
38:53Russia and Prussia sign a convention that's then approved by the Polish Sejm.
38:59Russia receives historical Orthodox lands,
39:02the eastern parts of Polizia, Padolya, and Volyn.
39:06Prussia takes lands inhabited by Poles,
39:10Gdansk, Greater Poland,
39:12Koyavya, and Mazovya.
39:15Although most of the Greater Poland lands go to Prussia,
39:22the Poles launch a rebellion against the Russians.
39:25The 1794.
39:26In 1794, the Vigilat Chessward,
39:31in Warsaw,
39:33the police and congressmen
39:35were officers and soldiers and just intelligence.
39:39They shot killing Russian soldiers.
39:42Many of them were just without the weapon,
39:45because the Vigilat Chessward was provided by the Vigilat Chessward.
39:48There was an tradition of being able to protest once in a year,
39:52in the Vigilat Chessward.
39:53The uprising is suppressed.
40:06A third petition of the Commonwealth is imminent, again demanded by Prussia and Austria.
40:24Russia opposes the final petition of Poland, but Prussia and Austria threaten another war.
40:30Already at war with Turkey, Russia can't afford a military confrontation with Berlin and Vienna.
40:401795.
40:44Poland loses its statehood and disappears from the world map.
40:48The main portion of the Polish land is occupied by Prussia and Austria.
40:54Warsaw is now part of the Prussian Empire.
40:57Russia claims the Czerwien cities, inhabited by Orthodox Russians.
41:04The forced union conceived in Rome cost Poland its national sovereignty.
41:11Polish chauvinists ruined their own state.
41:181812.
41:22Soldiers, Russia is dragged along by fate.
41:26Let us carry the war into her territory and put an end to Russia's disastrous influence.
41:32Napoleon's order, June 22, 1812.
41:35In the Polish regions, once part of the conquered Prussia and Austria, Napoleon creates the grand duchy of Warsaw.
41:36A puppet state, utterly sublime.
41:37In the Polish regions, once part of the conquered Prussia and Austria, Napoleon creates the grand duchy of Warsaw.
41:38A puppet state, utterly subordinate to France.
41:41In the Polish regions, once part of the conquered Prussia and Austria, Napoleon creates the grand duchy of Warsaw.
41:45A puppet state, utterly subordinate to France.
41:46In the Polish regions, once part of the conquered Prussia and Austria, Napoleon creates the grand duchy of Warsaw.
41:53A puppet state, utterly subordinate to France.
41:55In the Polish regions, once part of the conquered Prussia and Austria, Napoleon creates the grand duchy of Warsaw.
42:00Napoleon creates the grand duchy of Warsaw, a puppet state, utterly subordinate to France.
42:13When addressing his army, Napoleon refers to this campaign as the second Polish war.
42:19The Patriotic War of 1812.
42:43Another confrontation between Russia and a united west.
42:49Hordes of Europeans robbed the defiant city of Moscow that was set ablaze.
42:54According to contemporary memoirs, Poles and Germans distinguished themselves the most in the looting.
43:00What they did with our churches, with our women, with our women, is unimaginable.
43:15It was a sea of violence.
43:17And the Poles, they were here more than all.
43:21Russians behaved differently in Paris.
43:26Make no offense to the inhabitants of Paris.
43:29Do not offend their madames and mademoiselles, except if by mutual agreement.
43:34Remember that we are sworn Cossacks of the Russian Emperor, a noble and civilized army.
43:40Ataman Platov, 80,000 conquerors slept right next to our citizens without causing them the slightest distress.
43:51Ask the townsfolk which soldier constantly showed the greatest humanity or the greatest discipline.
43:56And you can bet a hundred against one that they will name the Russian soldier.
44:01Chateaubriand, French writer and historian.
44:09At the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Russia, having defeated Napoleon's army, receives most of the former Prussian and Austrian territories.
44:19Russia's border now lies in the very center of Europe.
44:23Poland joins the Russian Empire as the Kingdom of Poland.
44:29Poland is the parliament.
44:32Poland is the parliament, the Polish sejm.
44:34Poland is the constitution.
44:35Poland is the constitution.
44:36Poland is the own army.
44:39Poland is the unique freedom.
44:42These conditions were more than favorable.
44:46And Russia did it for a country that had recently waged war against it.
44:52Alexander I tried to not destroy the German blood of Poland.
45:01He tried to create a such Polish state to have maximum respect to the Polish state.
45:11As the victor, I will restore Poland, because it is in accordance with my personal wishes
45:18and will benefit my state. Alexander I, 1815.
45:25Russia would take over all of the war-exhausted kingdom of Poland's expenses.
45:35The newly acquired region represented a semi-wild country,
45:39covered with dilapidated shacks.
45:43Napoleon used to say that he had discovered the fifth element in Poland, dirt.
45:48Dmitry Kropotov, historian, 1874.
45:53The emperor grants amnesty for Polish soldiers and officers who fought for Napoleon against Russia.
46:00In 1816, Warsaw saw the foundation of a new university,
46:05two military academies and a school of agriculture.
46:10Poland has never had so many scientists and writers as under the heel of a cursed Russia.
46:17Poles say Poland has never been happier than in the time of Alexander.
46:24When, in November 1817, the Russian emperor entered Warsaw to the sound of bells,
46:29its inhabitants, its inhabitants cheered him on.
46:34But the Polish nobility demands more.
46:37Russia must give them Great Poland from sea to sea.
46:41Essentially, the Russian emperor must cut Belarus, Lithuania, Valyan and Padolya away from Russia
46:47and incorporate them into Poland.
46:49The first anti-Russian uprising.
46:58The now bolstered opposition demands Poland's separation from Russia.
47:02The two anti-Russian officers were required,
47:05as sure to PLS-GENERALs, who were elected over the System of Poland,
47:10people were going on to the right side of the army,
47:12produced in the position of Stop Tams with the 머리 of the Roman army.
47:13And six poltics general and one poltics
47:13teach them the력 of the soldiers.
47:15And one poltics is not done.
47:18But this is also a plus of the German army of this troops.
47:24They gave a claim to Alexander I, and they took a claim.
47:29They killed the claim, the Poles killed these Poles.
47:31And what's interesting is that Nikolai I, by his own project,
47:36created a famous monument to these Poles, who took a claim.
47:44Polish patriots, they had a unique tradition,
47:50and they had to go through this monument.
47:54The uprising is quelled, but a second breaks out in 1863.
48:00We are in a unique place,
48:02that is, before the gallery of monuments,
48:05presenting the leaders of the Poles of St. August 1863,
48:10who were placed against the king's reign on the territory of Poland.
48:15The leader of this monument was Romuald Traugut,
48:19an officer of the Russian army, but a Polish,
48:22who was not already in the army,
48:24and he stood at the front of this monument,
48:26knowing that there is no chance to win.
48:29The guiding force behind all rebellion was the nobility,
48:33the gentry and the priests.
48:35Their ideology was militant russophobia.
48:38The Roman Catholic clergy served as one of the main springs for the uprising.
48:48It called for the destruction of orthodoxy,
48:51and that wasn't the first time the Vatican had given its blessing to killing dissidents.
48:55And we remember,
48:57for example,
48:58the three honourable crossroads,
49:00where the Jews of St. August 1778 were murdered.
49:01from all over Europe,
49:03the soldiers went towards the Holy Land,
49:06and went through European countries.
49:10They killed monks in monasteries.
49:13They destroyed churches.
49:16They went to Saloniki,
49:18in Greece,
49:19from the crèsts,
49:21they removed from the rake
49:23the power of Dmitrius Solunsky,
49:26cut the world from this rake
49:29and cut the fish at the temple of the temple.
49:33They brought the barbarism, death and death.
49:37The rebels engage in terror.
49:41Punitive gendarme units armed with daggers and gallows
49:44eliminate undesirables.
49:47They kill Orthodox priests,
49:49Russian and Belarusian peasants,
49:51as well as Poles who refuse to join the uprising.
49:59Gallows for the people became an integral part
50:02of city and village life,
50:05wherever they find themselves under rebel rule.
50:12Their atrocities surpass all imagination.
50:16They hang and cut people mercilessly,
50:19even their wives and children.
50:21Kingdom of Poland Viceroy,
50:23Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich,
50:25in a letter to Emperor Nicholas I.
50:28People go to war against the Polish nobility.
50:31Polish peasants and the Orthodox population
50:34are both revolting.
50:36Belarusian peasants in the Vitebsk province
50:38burn more than 20 estates
50:40and smash Polish detachments.
50:42But even if Traugut himself,
50:45it must be clear to him,
50:46he was not free of this war.
50:49This is a paradox.
50:51The Russian army was under the lieutenant
50:54and took place in the defense of Sevastopol
50:57during the war.
50:58He said,
50:59he was not free of this war,
51:01because I knew that there was no chance.
51:03But patriotic order
51:05forced me to take place
51:07to take place
51:08and I think,
51:09that Poland should be independent
51:10and this will be better for Russia.
51:13But the people support Russia
51:15and hand captured rebels
51:17en masse over to the Russian command.
51:21128 of the rebels
51:23received the death penalty
51:25with 58 of them
51:27convicted of massacres.
51:30The people see the punishment
51:32as fair retribution.
51:34But the death penalty
51:37was a tragic event.
51:39They were people who were
51:40after the end of the war
51:42at the end of the war
51:43at the end of the war
51:44and went to the legend
51:46of Poland
51:47as a force of war
51:49to the freedom of freedom.
51:50And then,
51:51in 1863-1964
51:54we have to do with the first
51:56big wave of anti-Rosy's
51:59and anti-Rosy's
52:00and anti-Rosy's
52:01and anti-Rosy's
52:03and anti-Rosy's
52:04and anti-Rosy's
52:06and anti-Rosy's
52:07and anti-Rosy's
52:10and anti-Rosy's
52:11Frederick
52:12he was so passionate
52:13in the end of the war
52:14he wanted to give it
52:15it was not only
52:16a freedom
52:17but it was also
52:18a captain
52:20the Traveler
52:21this is the
52:23land that was
52:23and with respect to Russian people.
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