Poland

Overview

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• “The Poles... belong to a community which has acquired its modern sense of nationality in active opposition to the policies of the states in which they lived.”

• “But we cannot be blamed for not taking seriously people who, unable though they are to remember correctly any single fact from our history or to say which barbaric dialect we speak, are perfectly able instead to teach us how liberated we are in the East.”

• “And Poland at last proclaimed: "Whoever he be that comes to me, he shall be free and equal, because I am freedom."”

• “This homage has been rendered not to me – for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me – but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.”

• “Через труп белой Польши лежит путь к мировому пожару.”

• “An independent Polish state should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose political and economic independence and territorial integrity should be guaranteed by international covenant.”

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Poland across IJR

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