Polish anthem was not made specifically because of Poland's history. It's just a soldiers' song which came into existence with the Duchy of Warsaw. They even say there "march, Dąbrowski, from Italian land to Poland", because Napoleon came to Italy before he turned on Prussia and Austria, but the Polish legion was already there.
Toycat: *makes a video about Poland* Poles: "This comment section now rightfully belongs to us. It's ours now" Very cool that you made an entire video about my country. Love your content!
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Poland as a state is much older than the 17th century. A polish state with established borders is mentioned as early as 991 in dagome iudex - a document sent by the polish duke Mieszko to the pope basicly saying "I'm baptised now, and I'm the ruler of those lands". And fun fact - Medival Poland had almost the exact same borders as modern day Poland has, thought you'd mention that in the video. And you've shown literaly just the period of the decline of the Commonwealth, wich is a fracture of the history of Poland, wich for most of it's history was a player, not a pawn in Europe.
@@domirusz24 Witaj w sekcji komentarzy, wygląda mi na to, że jesteś tu nowy. Jest to miejsce, gdzie ludzie (i, niestety, czasami nie-ludzie) mogą napisać rzeczy związane z filmem (i, niestety, czasami nie związane z filmem) niezależnie od tego, czy ktoś "pytał", czy nie. Mam nadzieję, że to wyjaśnienie ci pomogło.
Warsaw was rebuilt from scratch after WW2 , as well as Kyiv. But Warsaw decided to return its lost look, whilst Soviets have rebuilt everything in Stalinist Empire style architecture.
Yeah. Poland doesn't want to rebuild in old style. They will build it in a new style. Especially for a city that used to be a German town like Danzig (now Gdansk)
@@xwtek3505 if you mean the rebuilding of the island spichrzów specifically, which stayed in ruins post ww2 until a few years ago, then yes, if you mean the rest of the historical centre, you are wrong, the city was completely destroyed by the advancing soviet army, and yet, we have rebuilt it pretty accurately in a big part, even if not everywhere, contrary to some german cities which were not rebuilt. Also, the city was changing hands and it was both, polish and prussian througout the centuries, for the last couple of centuries prior the world wars it was prussian, then a free state for a couple of decades, no one denies its past, we cherish it as well as its architecture, if you have to complain about the current borders you should take it against the germans who started the war, but more importanty, you should take it against stalin who decided every border without any consultation. If you want to come and live in Gdańsk, or Danzig if you prefer to call it this way, and you want to live here, if you are from the EU, you can come, there’re no limits in that, I truly don’t understand those like you, probably not even a german, who still have such problems and feel some idiotical resentments. Greetings from Gdańsk
@fjejdhdnwhjfifjeheyd correct way is Kyiv. In Ukrainian it is Київ, so it is transliterated as Kyiv. Kiev is a Russian way of writing it and the only reason this version is international, because of Russian and Soviet occupation of Ukraine. And inability of Ukrainian people speak out during totalitarian regime.
Fun fact about Poland. In Chicago (IL), there are more Polish people that live there than anywhere else except Warsaw. That means there are more Poles in Chicago than anywhere in actual Poland besides it’s capital. 7.3% of Chicago’s population is Polish. Polish is the third most spoken language in Chicago behind Spanish and English. Behind Warsaw, Chicago has the second largest Polish population in the world.
Yep, and my last name (which is very rare here in Maryland - hey, my great-grandparents tried by having 7 kids), filled up a page and a half or so in the phone book (when phone books were a thing).
My great grandparents came to Chicago in the early 1900s and I grew up near the city. I went to high school with so many Polish people, so many last names that teachers couldn't pronounce lol
@@noidea2568 Yes, kind of. To me polish sounds like something that I should understand, yet often I don't actually know what's being said. It confuses my brain quite a bit, lol
Warsaw is actually anglicized name for our capital so foreigners are able to pronounce it. Actual name of our capital is Warszawa. Legend says that it's named after the mythical founding pair of fisherman War and mermaid Szawa. That's also why Warsaw's coat of arms is a Mermaid.
@@zHaste Either it sounds strange but looks similar (Warszawa Warsaw) or it sounds closer but looks weirder (Warszawa Varshava). There is no easy way around the fact that languages write same sounds with wildly different letters. Still at least its latin alphabet, in Cyrylic you get even crazier swaps (like B V, P R, etc). Its kinda sad that both are based on the common root of greek alphabet, yet they used same symbols for different sounds. Would save so much effort in language learning :)
4:54 That is not the maximum Poland. It's post-deluge Commonwealth that lost a lot of land in the east to Russia and some lands to Sweden. A minor detail but still worth pointing out. Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was at it's peak with territory in 1618, covering about 1 million square kilometers.
As a German, I am very happy that there is a strong Poland. Not only because of Russia, but rather because of cities like Rotherham, Marseille or Malmö. This is what all of Western Europe looks like in three generations. If my children and their children do not want to live in Morocco one day, I hope you will take them in. They will be diligent and won't cause any trouble, I promise.
As a Dutch person I empathize with the Polish. We also used to be bigger at our peak, and have been in kinda similar situations (although less than Poland), being near big powers and all, and having been occupied by the spanish. GO Polish Commonwealth!
I am a belgian and I wish to unite bzck with the Netherlands but this time with equal representation in parliament, no assimilation, mostly equality in military etc... Because last time it was pretty unfair
@@Solaxe I'm not talking about the wealth the republic and the voc had back then through trade, enslavement and colonialism. I'm talking about land area, and not colony land area, but the land area of the country's mainland. Kind of weird of you to instantly assume I'm actually being proud of the mass enslavement commited by the past government of my country and it's trading company.
@@Solaxe Boo fucking hoo. Every single nation and people group on earth got to their current location through exploitation and colonialism. Life is tough buddy.
Ukrainian anthem is "Ukraine is not yet lost". But with different music and lyrics. I guess because both Poles and Ukrainians suffered from neighborhood empires and have lost their independence for several times.
Was going to point that out. It's scary when your anthem is about struggling to not be erased, and even scarier when the behavior of your neighbor reinforces it.
@Stn Bboy It’s unreasonable to look back in history in this way. Can you be responsible for what your great grandparents did one hundred years ago? It is really much more important what is happening right now and who are the Poles and the Ukrainians right now. And I think they are friends. I think that Poland is a great country, a great example of what Ukraine could become one day. We now have to unite against our true eternal enemy which is r@ssia. I have been truly h*t*ng russia for all my life not just because of our long gone history but also because of the russian way of life, attitude, their rude, condescending people. Almost every time when I had an interaction with a r@ssian it was horrible experience. My despise has always been about the present. If r@ssia was a different country I would have treated it just fine. As for Poland and the Poles - I just think that you are great and I really do not want to care about the long gone history.
I am a Polish person myself and I wanted to point something out: Poland has been Christianized in 966 so when you want to talk about the origins of the Polish country you should start there. Also about petrol prices the google earth photos are from 2011 so theyr pretty much outdated by a decade. Also pretty nice to see a video like that generally good job. :DD
About a centruy and a half ago, my family moved into a small polish settlement in Texas now known as bremond. We still celebrate our roots and are proud of our ancestry. May Poland never die!
Fun fact: Poland, after WW2, wasn't truly independent country till 1989. Before that it was under influence and control of USSR. During that time soviet troops were in Polish territory as well.
@@pao5567 by whom? Nato, a alliance a country can at any point can choose not to be a part of. Or perhaps you're talking about E.U which a country can at any point get out of.
@@ant9347 Czekam na komentarz w czasach, gdy paliwo będzie po 10 zł, i będziemy rozmawiać o tym, że 8 zł to w sumie było tanio... Bo gdy filmik Toycata wyszedł, to w sumie chyba jeszcze niecałe 7 zł za 95-kę się płaciło.
After WWII Poland was basically reverted back to its X-XI century borders, therefore in the communist propaganda the western ex-german lands were called "the recovered territories".
Polish spelling is not as hard as it seems if you spend a bit of time. It's a very shallow orthography (which means the correspondence between spelling and pronunciation is near one to one, with little irregularities). Make sure to not change the pronunciation of vowels in different contexts which happens in English a lot. All vowels are pronounced the same wherever they are (except the Ą Ę but don't worry about that). Don't relax your vowels in unstressed syllables. Pronunciations, mostly using Southern British English: A "ah" as in "hah" Ą "oh" + "w" like in "hole" in southern informal British where the "l" is a "w" B C "zz" as in "pizza", or "ts" Ć (or Ci) "zzi" D E "eh" as in "there" Ę "eh" + "w", like in "hell" in southern informal British where the "ll" is a "w" F G H technically "ch" as in "loch" but loads of native people pronounce it like English "h" I "ee" as in "me" J "y" as in yoghurt K L Ł "w" M N Ń (or Ni) "ñ" as in Español O "o" as in "top" Ó another way of spelling "U" for historical reasons P R rolled "r" like in Spanish and Italian, usually just a single tap like in Spanish "pero" S Ś (or Si) "Shi" kind of like in "sheep" T U "oo" as in "move" (actually slightly different but very close) W "v" ("w" is Ł) Y kind of similar to "i" in "him" but more relaxed (central vowel) Z Ż "j" like in French "Je" Ź (or Zi) French "j"+"i" like above Digraphs (this sorts out all the szcz concerns): Sz "sh" Cz "ch" Dz voiced variant of "c" from earlier (you can pronounce like "zz" as in pizza) Dż "j" as in "jam" Dź (or dzi) "g" like in Italian "Parmigiano" or "Giovanni" Rz another way of spelling "Ż" Ch another way of spelling "H" One important irregularity is the devoicing of consonants at the end of words. At the end of words: B -> P D -> T G -> K W -> F Z -> S Ż or Rz -> Sz Ź or Zi-> Ś Dż -> Cz Dź or Dzi -> Ć (hopefully after reading that you can do it intuitively so there's no need to remember the list) And that's basically it. If you can do the above you can pronounce 95% of Polish 95% right.
⚠⚠⚠Ć to nie Ci (Ń to nie Ni ,Ś to nie Si ,Ź to nie Zi ,Dź to nie Dzi) np: Ćpa i ..... no wstaw sobie Ci ,zupełnie inna wymowa i znaczenie (wiem ,że chodzi o to ,aby było jak najprościej ,ale moim zdaniem to trochę za duże uproszczenia) (nie pytaj dlaczego akurat taki przykład)
Naprawdę napisała(e)ś, że polska ortografia jest " a VERY SHALLOW " ???!!!! To albo jesteś geniuszem polskiej ortografii albo totalnym ignorantem w tej dziedzinie . Ja myślę .że raczej to drugie .
@@bogumilak1391 "shallow" nie oznacza tutaj "płytki" w sensie głupi, tylko odnosi się do "orthographic depth", czyli do konceptu lingwistycznego. "Shallow" oznacza tu, że ortografia polska ma dużą zgodność z wymową w przeciwieństwie do angielskiego (np. "tough" i "though"). Zresztą ta osoba napisała w nawiasie o co chodzi, proszę nie nazywać ludzi "ignorantami", kiedy nie czyta się ze zrozumieniem.
@@ciubciubpl Tak, przed spółgłoską faktycznie "ć" i "ci" wymawiane są inaczej, ale przed samogłoską "ci" jest wymawiane tak samo jak "ć". Słowo "ciuchy" wymawia się tak samo jak "ćuchy". "Ciężki" to tak naprawdę "ćężki". Zresztą tak jest też z innymi spółgłoskami miękkimi jak "pi". Np. w wyrazie "pies", nie wymawia się "i" bardzo wyraźnie, a jedynie zmiękcza się "p".
1. Fuel prices were from 2017 - see the date on streetmaps. 2. Warsaw is english name for Warszawa - you'd need to use polish version of Google Maps. 3. Old City in Warsaw you showed was rebuilt from ground zero after II WW - it was demolished by Germans in '44. 4. There are border disputes but not hostile. Germans basically accepted losing land after II WW but Czechia considers Sląsk Cieszyński in part illigally annexed by Poland. Of course Poland could dispute some of Lithuanian, Belarussian and Ukrainian lands but no one influencial is pushing such agenda. Likewise some nationalist Ukrainians are disputing some polish territories but this is not anything serious.
@@jacekgrula In the 1940s Germany was in no position to resist anything. Germany could not have reunified in 1990 if it started to reclaim Prussia, etc.
Poland also reminds me of Japan for simple fact shops and gas stations have so much choice in food and snacks like nowhere in any western European country.
I might be of some assistance with your last question. My family came over from what was at the time Austro-Hungary to the US but is now in modern day Poland. Our immigration certificate has been 'amended' to now say we are from Poland. Ethnically, my family are Polish-Jews so honestly they made a pretty good decision to move before WW2. I had some family left in Poland during WW2 and there's plenty of generational trauma that comes from that, but now today, most of my family is in the US.
The interesting thing about Poland is that the current borders are essentially what they originally were over a thousand years ago, other than the issue with Prussia. And by this I don't mean the Commonwealth, but the Kingdom in 992.
that is also a thing I noticed several times. While a lot of the western area of modern day Poland became german over time, the former parts of Eastern polish became polish over time. But if you o 1000 years ago the area was really more or less the same as today which is kind of odd to consider.
There are wild bisons, wolves, bears and many wild animals living freely in Poland. There is last European primal forest in Poland. Beautiful nature, lovely towns and cities, mix of everything best. Definitely worth to visit.
I was born in Rzeszow; my moms family is from Pszemysl area - my dads family is from south of Lwow - when Poland was re-made his family lost all their land and moved west
When my Polish tutor explained to me why Chinese cabbage is called kapusta pekińska I was like “wait you have a whole different name for the city??” and she was like “well you call it Warsaw!” 😆
Yep I've am correct I think these are views from 2018 Prices had drastically changed since then not to mention Its sill expensive for the people actually living there
you've should also mention that Poles are very proud about their country and whenever they see someone saying literally anything about Poland they just overreact
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I remember when I was interning at a local radio station, our lecturer told me a story about an elderly man who was setting up a Facebook account. He had to put his birthplace on there. And he wanted to put Lwów, but Facebook implied 'Lviv, Ukraine'. While he wanted to write 'Lwów, Poland'. Some people may find this sad to imagine. But, on the other hand, the same could happen to some Germans who were born in what is now western Poland.
it actually did happen to my grandfather who was born in a village in modern day Mazuria. He wrote his birthplace into a document and it showed in parenthesis (Poland) behind his place of birth, despite never being a polish citizen and also not being born in Poland.
Poland has not been destroyed in the hearts of Poles, it has only been erased from the maps. It was reborn as a result of the fact that tradition, faith, patriotism, culture, language, beautiful pages of history were passed down from generation to generation through 123 years of captivity. Tsun Zu, while writing "the art of war", meant countries in such a situation as Poland, which fought with the opponent not in numbers but in intelligence, which outstripped them with weapons. WW1 for some was a curse, for Poland (not counting losses in people and destruction) it was one of the contributions to regaining independence
@@craftah I do not know this, but as we said - despite the fact that Poland did not exist on the maps, it existed in the minds of Poles who passed on love for their homeland, Polish culture, language, tradition and faith in God from generation to generation, and such values are the foundation of every nation and then he cannot be killed. Never and nothing.
14:20 How to pronounce Polish cities 101 (using English transliteration): Szczecin -> Shchecheen Bydgoszcz -> Bidgoshch Poznań -> Poznan' (or Poznani with very short i) Warsaw ... is an English name BUT natively it is Warszawa -> Varshava Białystok -> Biawystok (damn.. Toycat got pretty close to the pronunciation here) Wrocław -> Vrotswaf Częstochowa -> Chaeustohova Katowice -> Kahtoveetseh Rzeszów -> Zheshoof (note, because not every native English speaker knows that: zh is like a French J) Łódź -> Wooj' (or Wooji with very short i) Just because you don't know the pronunciation and/or Polish alphabet doesn't make it impossible. Yes, I know this may be a native speaker bias but Polish pronunciation rules are extremely simple, here's why: Every single letter only has one pronunciation (like the letter A has only one, whereas English has like at least 5 of A's pronunciation variations) WITH the exception of: - digraphs (ci, si, zi, sz, rz,cz etc. -> transliterated into English as: chi, shi, zhi, sh, zh, ch), which also help better understand that 4-5 letter consonant clusters like szcz or chrz are not as scary as you may think - pronunciation simplifying rules/privileges (as in jabłko -> yabwko - the consonant cluster 'bwk' has 2 soft consonant followed by a hard one, even Poles cannot pronounce that easily, so we simplify it to japko -> yapko) Polish exclusive consonants are basically shorter pronounced version of diagraphs ending with i, for example ś - si, ć - ci, ź - zi, ń - ni, the only exception being ż, which you pronounce just like rz (zh in English) There are also Polish exclusive vowels but are very few compared to consonants above and also have specific pronunciation: ą - ouh in English (sometimes simplified to 'on'), ę - longer and softer version of Polish E (makes the sound like 'ai' in air in English but also sometimes simplified to 'en') and ó which is basically Polish U ('oo' in English)
Hello! I know you didn't know us existed, i'm a polish brazilllian! There are areas of Brazil where more than 40% are polish brazilllian. The city i live in are mostly polish brazilllians
From 1385 until 1795 it was not technically Poland. It was a union with Lithuania (that was itself a kind of union with current Belarus and Ukraine). Poles were maybe 30-40% of the inhabitants. These areas were united peacefully creating a kind o early version of the European Union.
The percentage of Poles was not more than a half, but they were "the highest" nobles of all nations, thats why ukrainians were fighting, they felt like they are worth less. Lithuanians and Ukrainians were quickly learning polish since polish culture was the most influential of them all, because of it being the most on the west. It is the rule for Europe to take from western countries.
@@mmgs1148 Completly Not true. Polish nobles were not the most hight. And many Poland Lithuania hetmans and most influencial people were accually eather from rutheania region or from Lithuania region. Look on Stefan Żółkiewski familly. Great and one of the biggest Commonwealth heros. Literrary the great Hetman and one of most influencial person in commonwhealth. He was Rutheanian. Look on Radziwł familly. Literrary one of the oldest most influencial Lithuanian Żmudź region familly. Theirs influence literrary changed whole Commonwealth politicial diplomacy. IT is just absolutly wrong to think there was Polish bias there. In Commonwealth there was sth called gold nobility liberty where all nobles no matter from what nationality had the same privlages Like rest of them. And even the smaller Noble coud completly screw whole country and heave a voice in sejm. That was the reason why even Lithuanian nobility wanted union at first sińce they wanted to heave same influence in Lithuania as Polish nobility had in Poland. Making bassicly this smaller more poor Noble as important as this Rich magnat one. And once Kiev becomed the administratate land of Polish part of the union after 1569. Poland refused to mąkę Polish as kiev official language and forced them to speak latin instead. Shure there was huge polonisation among nobles. But it was literrary the trend. Same as later all commonwhealth nobles woud try to learn in XVIII century French. And there was no planed polonisation of peasants or city lowborns sińce there was no nationalism in this times yet. And if IT happend IT was literrary based of comfy trades / investments into new land / mixing population/ simping into more western culture that Poland was sińce nobody gived fuck about them sińce the only Citizens were Noble across whole Commonwealth. Also fun fact about peasant situation ukrainian peasant had accually better life in Commonwealth then Polish ones in commonwhealth. Because there was sth called ,,Wolizna " that was bassicly mean some cheaper time of taxes of ,,pańszczyzna " that woud allow them to build Ukrainę better and colonise its most east part. Also ukrainian peasants were the only one supported with ,, samopaly" gun in case of Tatar raids witch Polish peasants dont had the same. Also another fun fact. If Ukrainian nobles had sooooo much worse. Why the son of Ukrainian/ Rutheanian hight influencial Noble inside Commonwealth King Michał Korybut was elected Commonwealth King rather then a true Polish guy geting the job if they were better? And also another fun thing. During Chmielnicki uprisings most citys Like kiev/ Lviv stayed loyal to Commonwealth. And whole cossack uprisings happend not because of Independence thing but because of them Beeing bassicly somewhat autonomus Mercenary/ raiding band that build theirs camps and places in Zaporoże and they bassicly wanted to got salary and promised a place in ,, rejest " army. That sejm due to corruption lied and refused to them. ( Again IT was not Polish things. In Sejm there place of rulling had all Polish, Lithuanian, Ukrainian , German , and some Latvian nobles. This nobles lied and missused cossack.) But again. IT was not Polish Blame. IT was Blame in nobility In general that dont wanted to pay taxes to keep cossack rejest army salary functional or to let them become official Poland Lithuania nobles sińce nobody there. Neather Rutheanian Ukrainian nobles wanted cossack to be same as them. So cossacks got refused/ lied/ missused. So IT is literrary the situation of fight for money and influence rather then independce or for nobility rights sińce normal typical rutheanian nobility had all what they needed. Anyway. And tell me. How there is Polish bias when literrary in both most important Commonwealth goverment places when all the power comes from. Sejm and Senat there were literrary both Ukrainians and Lithuanians nobility. And a lot of time one of them was accually the strongest one. Its just dont heave sense. Especially that in this time there was not even nationalism as an idea devoleped anyway and the only Citizens were Noble.
That's nonsense because that was a Polish Empire completely dominated by the Poles! ! Also the mistranslation of Commonwealth is also misleading and gives a completely wrong impression because the Empire certainly wasn't designed for common wealth. The purpose of the Polish Empire was to secure the power of the Polish king and Polish nobility. If at all with Commonwealth then it would only work with polish common wealth. Only Polish and nothing else! It's like talking about the English Scottish Commonwealth, which is also absurd, because in the past centuries always only the English wealth was decisive like the Polish wealth was always decisive in the Polish Empire. Unfortunately, he also used in the video the wrong name Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which unfortunately is almost always done that way. Because this term is a modern, nonsensical invention by 20th century historians that does not correspond to reality. This state was never called Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. NEVER! Used in international treaties and diplomacy, the state has been called the most serene ( most high) Rzeczpospolita (Polish: Najjaśniejsza Rzeczpospolita Polska, Latin: Serenissima Res Publica) or also Rzeczpospolita of the Polish Kingdom or Rzeczpospolita of Poland. In everyday language Rzeczpospolita or Poland occasionally also the crown. Incidentally, the Lithuanians adopted the term "Rzeczpospolita", like many other Polish words, into their language as "Žečpospolita"! By the way, the Polish Empire could also be used as an alternative to Rzeczpospolita for this state if one wants to use a modern term. Because that was a Polish Empire and not a Polish Lithuanian Empire. The wrong translation Commonwealth is also only the English name, because in other languages the term is usually translated as Republic, which is better. By the way, today's Polish name for the Polish state "Rzeczpospolita Polsk" is translated into the English Republic of Poland and not Commonwealth Poland! Which also makes it clear why the name Commonwealth is nonsensical! Therefore, it would not be wrong at all to use the Polish term Rzeczpospolita in English as Shechpospolita or use Rzeczpospolita as a Polish proper name in English. The German word Reich as Third Reich is also used in English, so why not too Rzeczpospolita? There is no logical reason against it! The mistranslation of Commonwealth is also misleading and gives a completely wrong impression because the Empire certainly wasn't designed for common wealth. The purpose of the Polish Empire was to secure the power of the Polish king and Polish nobility. If at all with Commonwealth then it would only work with polish common wealth. Only Polish and nothing else! As I mentioned above it's like talking about theEnglish Scottish Commonwealth, which is also absurd, because in the past centuries always only the English wealth was decisive like the Polish wealth was always decisive in the Polish Empire. Lithuania should therefore not be mentioned at all in the name. By the way, if the Polish proper name is to be used in English the term Rzeczpospolita seems difficult to pronounce for non-Poles. But that is not the case at all. With a little practice, anyone can pronounce the term correctly, even you. A little help: Rz is pronounced like the "isi" in vision. So virzon sounds like vision. Cz sounds like the "ch" in church. So Czurcz sounds like church. But if one just use "sh" instead of "rz", that sounds close to Polish. "Ch" can be used instead of "cz". So Shechpospolita would be written in English, which could be pronounced without problems. So there is no reason not to use this correct term. So if anything then Polish Commonwealth or better Rzeczpospolita as a Polish proper name in English or English Shechpospolita.
@@GreatPolishWingedHussars IT was never an empire. IT was kingdom. And the ruler of this country was called a King not an Emperor. IT was never dominated by the poles. There was gold szlachtą liberty when all nobles were equal. There was no diversity by nationality. Neather a nationalism existed in Commonwealth time as its own thing. IT was never a thing to secure power for ,, Polish King " because the person that created IT was Lithuanian Jagiellonian dynasty King Zygmunt August in 1569. And Poland had absolutle nothing simmlar between them and British Commonwealth. The position in sejm was represented by all nobility. Poor and Rich. From Poland to Lithuania/ Germans Rutheanian/ Latvian nobility living in Rzeczpospolita. One of most influencial figures in Poland Lithuania literrary were both Rutheanians and Lithuanians. Check quicly Radziwiłł familly. Or learn a bit about inside politics. I wont however answer about the most correct namę of this country in english sińce i m Simple not experts about that or about english language. Maybe u are right maybe not. But in Polish IT coud literrary be said Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów and that's work for me. I heave no clue how hardcore Polish nationalist u are or just heave mistake image of this country but for shure Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów was not a country u described. And that's come from me. Polish person. And some things called there in my previous comment .Ofc not all. Are things literrary teached in education as the Basic info. So its not Like i discovered anything shocking.
@@pancernyhusarz2985 Such a stupid claim from someone who doesn't know what an empire is. In English this can be a monarchy ruled by an emperor, but also according to the common definition an empire is a multi-ethnic and multinational state with political and military dominion of populations who are culturally and ethnically distinct from the imperial ruling ethnic group and its culture. That was Poland and in this case the Poles was the imperial ruling ethnic group. The Poles ruled over the other peoples and also assmiled them. The Lithuanians were also controlled and assimilated by the Poles. So it was a Polish empire, because the Poles were the nation in power. By the way, if Sweden can be called an empire, then Poland certainly can too! If the Poles had not ruled and if the Polish nation had not been important, then there would have been no Polonization. But the opposite is true! There was a polonization and not only of the nobility! Poles completely dominated the Lithuanians. Lithuania was voluntarily polonized. All relevant was Polish like also the Polish currency Polski Złoty. Złoty means golden in Polish. The capitals of the entire state were the Polish cities of Krakow and Warsaw. The ruling Poles have also determined what the state should be called Polisch Rzeczpospolita! The Polish name was then adopted by the Lithuanians into the Liatuish languages as "Žečpospolita". By the way, Polish term for nobility ”szlachta” was also adopted into Lithuanian as ”šlėkta” like many other Polish words. The majority of the loanwords in Lithuanian were from Polish. This is also why Polish was able to spread so successfully in the Lithuanian. Polish dominance over Lithuania also illustrates that the Polish king automatically became the grand duke of Lithuania. That was by far not the only additional title of the Polish kings. For example, the Polish King Sigismund III Vasa had in addition to the Polish royal title, Grand Duke of Lithuania and Grand Duke of Finland, Prince of Rus, Prussia, Mazovia, Volhynia, Podolia, Podlaskie, Severia, Czernihów, Samogitia, Livonia, also Hereditary King of Sweden. Rus stands for Russia because the Poles ruled large areas of Russia at the time, and even Moscow was briefly occupied by Polish troops. Samogitia stands for the Baltic States, which the Polish king largely ruled. Hereditary king of Sweden and Grand Duke of Finland because the Polish king was also the king of Sweden for a short time. But he lost the power in Sweden and Finland. This list of titles makes it clear that Grand Duke of Lithuania was just one of the many titles of the Polish king. But the most important title was always King of Poland. In the end, the title Grand Duke of Lithuania was just one of many Polish king's titles. The title was particularly important only at the beginning of the Polish rule over Lithuania, when the Lithuanian nobility was not yet Polonized. At that time the Poles still had to pretend the Lithuanian nobility that this was not a takeover. The treaty of Krewo for personal union of Poland with Lithuania in 1385 was the decisive step in Poland's takeover of Lithuania. This union was declared indissoluble. This personal union meant that the Polish king should also be the ruler of Lithuania. In fact, the union treaty also contained the provision of the attaching of Lithuanian and Ruthenian lands to the Polish Crown. However, the various other treaties wich followed this treaty actually meant the takeover and Polonization of Lithuania too. A significant resolution was the adoption of Polish administrative divisions and offices like voivode and castellan by Lithuania. Even more important was that in total 47 selected Lithuanian nobles were adopted by Polish nobles heraldic families and granted Polish coats of arm. This symbolic gesture signified their desire to adopt Polish customs and integrate into Polish society. Because of this possibility of heraldic adoption, Poland had a much higher proportion of nobles than other European kingdoms. In Poland, the proportion of nobles in the total population was already 10-15% in the 16th century, in the rest of Europe it was 1%. Thus the Union of Krewo in 1385 signified the beginnings of the strengthened Polonization of Lithuania. Strengthened Polonization because the Polonization actually started before the Union of Krewo, because the Lithuania was Christianized from Poland. Priests, especially from Poland, Christianized Lithuania and priests had great influence at that time, so there was already a Polish influx in Lithuania before the Union of Krewo. In the Union of Krewo of 1385, a personal union was agreed between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and from then Lithuania was voluntarily polonized. It is no coincidence that Lithuania today has only 2.7 million inhabitants. Poland, on the other hand, has 15 times as many inhabitants. In 1918 only 4% of Lithuanians lived in the former capital Wilno (Vilnius). The vast majority of residents spoke Polish, not Lithuanian. This was changed in 1945 when the Lithuanians and the Soviets expelled the Polish inhabitants. Many Poles were also murdered. But that's actually a different topic. In any case, the Rzeczpospolita was completely dominated by the Poles. It's no coincidence that it's a Polish name. The official languages were Polish and Latin not Lithuanian. The capitals of Rzeczpospolita were Polish cities Krakow/Warsaw. The currency was the Polish złoty. The state took over the Polish constitution Nihil Novi from 1505 and not a Lithuanian constitution. It was one of the primary elements of the democratic governance of the Noblemen’s democracy of Poland. This constitution was actually also the transformation from the Polish kingdom to the Rzeczpospolita. By the way, In the Polish Empire everywhere the upper class spoke Polish. Before being taken over by Poland in 1385, the East Slavic language Ruthenian, as most common language, was used as the written language, not Lithuanian. Lithuanian was mostly used as a spoken language and not in writing, because the earliest surviving written Lithuanian text is a translation dating from about 1503-1525. The first book printed in the Lithuanian language was in 1547. The majority of the loanwords in Lithuanian were from Polish. This is also why Polish was able to spread so successfully in the Lithuanian.
East Polish border goes through the flat area and forests, there is a theory that soviets made it on purpose, so it would be easy to invade in case of any troubles
4:47 this is not a maximum Poland. The biggest borders in history of Poland were after Treaty of Dywilino in December 1618, Poland had 1,000,000 km2 after that treaty. And the map you are showing here is a map from after Russo-Polish War (1654-1667) Truce of Andrusovo.
The street view pictures in the video are from 2017, where fuel prices were much lower. Nowadays prices are twice as high, so I don't recommend refueling in Poland :) Octane-95 / PLN 7,88 / EUR 1,70 / USD 1,78 Octane-98 / PLN 8,24 / EUR 1,78 / USD 1,82 Diesel / PLN 8,07 / EUR 1,74 / USD 1,82 LPG / PLN 3,54 / EUR 0,76 / USD 0,80 ~ Average fuel prices in Poland (as of June 13, 2022).
I’m 26. My great grandpa was born in Poland in 1896. He was 43 when he had my grandpa, and my grandpa was in his late 30s when he had my dad. My great grandpa was impressed into the Russian military when he turned 18. In 1914, he was fed up with everything, so he moved to Illinois in the US. His Ellis island records spelled his hometown wrong and listed Russia as his country of origin. He became a citizen and was immediately drafted into the US Army. He got sent back to Europe and fought in WW1 in France. He came home, moved to Indiana, got married, and had my grandpa (his only kid). To this day, my family is the only family in the United States with my surname. There are seven of us total. We came from a small farm village near Pińczów that only has a few hundred people. 13 of my 16 great-great grandparents were born in Poland. My living grandmother was born in Poland in the 1940s. They left because of Soviet occupation during WW2. I am actually still eligible for Polish citizenship because of my grandma. I literally exist because of these border changes and invasions. Thanks for this video!
Well, I'm a Pole from Poland, so I cannot speak for Polonia, but we fully embraced nation-state idea. You are a Pole due to your nationality, ie. your culture, not due to land you were born on. You may have been born in Poland right now and no Pole will ever claim you to be Polish. But you may have not stepped into lands of Poland ever and you can be Polish by your own virtue. Tho on every day basis we do it based on blood, cause testing people for their nationality can be easily abused by wrong goverment and your parents should instill Polish culture into you as is their national obligation. So if you have any Polish parent, we assume you are a Pole unless you prove otherwise by betraying our nation. It was that way since the times of 1st Commonwealth (and no, just cause western empires like to justify their imperialism, slavery and conquest by claiming there were no nations then, doesn't mean there weren't any nations. In Poland we still use the same words for nationhood as we did in 15th century. The number of Poles just grew from around 10% of people living in the country to 99% + half of that abroad.) Returning to the topic at hand. my favorite historical proof of the fact that being a Pole is cultural is story of our national hero Admiral Unrug. Who was born German in Germany from German noble family (with ties to Polish nobles, but none direct) that spoke no Polish when he became a Pole. But during his servitude in German military he recognized how abhorent German culture is and decided to join Polish nation. He embraced our culture and therefore we embraced him as Pole. He became a great reformer of Polish navy. Unfortunetly economical situation didn't allow him to build Poland into naval power, but nontheless he will always be remembered as one of the greats. For many things, but if only then his iron will to remain a Pole despite German army ofering him high position in German fleet after conquering Poland in WW2 if he abandoned his nationality, fully shown in his refusal to speak to any German in any other language than Polish (which he learned at this point). So, answering your question: Polish Brazilians are as Polish as Polish Americans, Polish Haitians, Polish Kazacks or me. In fact in Poland we do not use Polish-X. You are either Polish or not. If you are Polish, your current residence does not matter for us. You are welcomed in Poland and Poland shall live as long as you live.
Mexicans can learn a lot from Poland. Mexicans sell their nationality for acceptance so any foreigner can claim to be Mexican and my co-nationals will go nuts. We need to safeguard our culture and national identity more. It has cost a lot of blood and not any idiot that claims it or is born in Mexico should be able to appropriate what only belongs to us.
@@magdaty1815 no, cause only choosing is too little. Saying you are X and trully being X are two different things. Only claiming to be a Pole is way too little.
@@Ussurin My view is like that - If someone only claims to be a Pole but really hate Polish people - his being a Pole means nothing. If someone is a Pole as you say - truly - aka formally and hates Polish - his being a Pole also means nothing. If someone makes a choice of being a Pole and someone who is a Pole formally and both love Polish people - they are equally who I would call truly Polish. Like there are Italians in USA who made the choice to be Americans. If someone made a choice to be American and he loves Americans he is an American. Things like that work for USA why not for Poland? This notion is familiar to Poland no less than to USA. For centuries people of different origin were making choice to be Polish. To people who are fans of genetic, pure breed - that kind of stuff such thinking in unacceptable, we clashed with plenty of those in Poland as you probably know they also go by name of nazis.
I love his bubbly personality! Makes realize that I should be drinking tea for caffeine instead of coffee. 😆 But I also respect how unbiased he presents facts about these places, it's quite refreshing.
15:29 - That photo is old. Petrol in Poland nowadays is definitely not 4,38 zł right now. Its close to 7 zł ( 1.5 Euro ), diesel almost 8 zł ( 1.71 Euro )
Warsaw is a word you're so used to hearing being in Europe, it just sounds natural in itself but now I cant undo the actual meaning of using a Saw in a war.
You mean how the name origin has nothing to do with either war or saw, right? It was two legendary names smooshed together, of a fisherman and a mermaid (rivermaid?)
They are too afraid after Polish troops demolished them in Napoleonic Wars. We still hold one fo the battle throphies from that time in Poland in Cracow. It's a sabre of Lieutenant General Andrew Thomas Blayney, 11th Baron Blayney he lost after the Polish force ten times smaller than his defended a castle from him and captured him in battle.
@@craftah I am polish, I know how it should be pronounced. Polish is difficult and better to say 'rock-love' than what English speakers say usually lol
8:55 The border change by the ussr was because we found some importaint resoursec there and since poland was Behind the iron curtain the ussr could basicaly do what they wanted, so they swapped a bit of i selera train for those mines
Polacy dajcie mi lajka by angole myślały że napisałem coś mądrego. A teraz wstawię tutaj intro z kiepskich by komentarz nie był aż tak krótki: W kiepskim świecie Kiepskie sprawy Marne życie i zabawy Są codzienne awantury Nie ma dnia bez ostrej "rury" Ojciec biega na bosaka Jest zadyma i jest draka Nikt nikomu nie tłumaczy By spróbować żyć inaczej Pa pa pa pa pa pa To jest właśnie Kiepskich świat Pa pa pa pa pa pa Kiepskich życie Kiepskich świat Są nadzieje i miłości Są zwycięstwa i radości Są skandale i hałasy Na tapczanie wygibasy Choć problemy są kosmiczne Jest tu całkiem sympatycznie To jest właśnie Kiepskich życie Zobaczycie uwierzycie
points and germany "france" points at france "germany" this is a high tier tactic to improve participation, because people like me are gonna post a comment about it.
For English speakers here I would like to explain that the names of founders of our capital were VARS and SAVA -so that they can pronounce it more correctly. Polish name of our capital is Warszawa== and it is pronounced [VAR-SHA-VA] nothing to do with wars, although it is true, that there were many wars in that region. In Polish language, W is pronounced like V in English, not like W.
My grandparents (they are no longer alive) living in the same place (Doshitsky district, Vitebsk region) visited many countries :) First in the Russian Empire, then in the Belarusian People's Republic, then in Poland, then in the USSR and now it is Belarus. Grandfather even fought in the Polish Army during World War II, like 70,000 Belarusians. By the way, the bottom line is that many lands "as if Polish" have always been inhabited by an absolute majority of Belarusians. Not everything is so clear here.
Actually buildings of the old town in nowadays Warsaw you've shown were raised from a scratch in the second half of the 20th century. After 1944 uprising 90% of Warsaw's centre was just a huge pile of rubble resembling some alien landscape, really. The only European city destroyed to the similar extent I can think of is Dresden.
I'm glad we can sneak Canada into these videos even when they're about other countries! lol I have a co worker who's from Poland working as a Firestopper and insulator. He's a great guy and talking with him has made me want to go visit.
Don't go for a while, recession hit Poland more than Canada, and they have Ukrainian immigration crisis with a lot of government money diverted to help them. Sure gas prices didn't sky rocket by 1/3 in just 3-4 months like here, but average salary in Poland way below Canadian level. One thing about Poland - everything is smaller and it doesn't have vast wilderness and space Canada offers.
the largest territory was in times of union in which Lithuania was larger than Poland, so in fact there were two countries and many nations within in general terms of changing borders, wanishing, all the politics I don't think history of Poland is much different from history of other countries so what would you say about Roman Empire, Ottoman Empire, Mongol Empire,...
12:10 very relatable. I live in Volyn region, Ukraine. There have been like 7 regime changes throughout 20th century 1914: Russian Empire 1914-1917: Switching hands between Austro-Hungary and Russia 1918: German's puppet Ukrainian People's Republic 1921: Polish 2nd Republic 1939:Soviet occupation 1941:Nazi occupation 1944: Soviet occupation once again 1991: modern day Ukraine And I haven't mentioned various Ukrainian guerrilla groups, which have been fighting Soviet regime until 1960s Almost 90% of my hometown's housing stock was destroyed during WW2
In 20th century I recognize 5 legal regimes, 3 not legal ones (war occupations) and 4 countries (Austria-Hungary, Poland, USSR, Ukraine) 1) up to 1917 Polish Autonomy in Austria-Hungary, 2) 1917-1918 Poland - Polish Kingdom (Regency) 3) 1918-1945 Poland - Polish Republic (1920- this territory- Volyn - was occupied by Soviet Russia for a few months, 1939-1941 occupied by USSR and 1941-1944 occupied by Germany) 4) 1945-1991 USSR - Ukraine SSR 5) 1991- up to now independent Republic of Ukraine
14:37 The pronunciation of the woman was wrong xD Warsaw is not Warsaw in Polish! It’s Warszawa. And it’s not pronounced like English „Warsaw”. 15:32 Wow, so cheap, now petrol costs like around 7 zł per litre. 15:42 It was like a few years ago.
Polish anthem was not made specifically because of Poland's history. It's just a soldiers' song which came into existence with the Duchy of Warsaw. They even say there "march, Dąbrowski, from Italian land to Poland", because Napoleon came to Italy before he turned on Prussia and Austria, but the Polish legion was already there.
Yes, but arguably, the probability of such a song becoming an anthem was higher in Poland than in other countries.
dwóch polaków się kłóci po angielskiemu
@@bartoszhipnarowicz7935 A tymczasem ty nawet nie umiesz za dobrze pisać po polsku.
@@spythere to był oczywisty sarkazm, kretynie 🤡
@@spythere Polska trudny język 🤣
Toycat: *makes a video about Poland*
Poles: "This comment section now rightfully belongs to us. It's ours now"
Very cool that you made an entire video about my country. Love your content!
As a german i can rightfully take that comment section
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@@hristo5689 thats the indonesian flag, not the polish one. Seems like you don't know a lot about your country
@@kensho6263 SHUT UP YOU HELMUT
Robert Lewandowski > Gerd Müller
Jerzy Dudek > Oliver Kahn
Kamil Glik > Franz Beckenbauer
Robert Kubica > Michael Schumacher
Adam Małysz > Sven Hannawald
Kamil Stoch > Markus Eisenbichler
Iga Świątek > Steffi Graf
Marcin Gortat > Dirk Nowitzki
Gang Albanii > Rammstein
Papież Polak > Papież nIEMIEC
Józef Piłsudzki > Angela Merkel
Piotr Adamczyk > Michael Fassbender
The Witcher > Gothic
Janosik > Knecht Ruprecht
You want me to go on? 🥱 Who looks stupid now???? 🤫🤫🤫
👑🇮🇩>🇩🇪🤮
Tak.
Poland as a state is much older than the 17th century. A polish state with established borders is mentioned as early as 991 in dagome iudex - a document sent by the polish duke Mieszko to the pope basicly saying "I'm baptised now, and I'm the ruler of those lands". And fun fact - Medival Poland had almost the exact same borders as modern day Poland has, thought you'd mention that in the video.
And you've shown literaly just the period of the decline of the Commonwealth, wich is a fracture of the history of Poland, wich for most of it's history was a player, not a pawn in Europe.
Kto pytał
@@domirusz24 *Ja* pytałem
@@domirusz24 Witaj w sekcji komentarzy, wygląda mi na to, że jesteś tu nowy.
Jest to miejsce, gdzie ludzie (i, niestety, czasami nie-ludzie) mogą napisać rzeczy związane z filmem (i, niestety, czasami nie związane z filmem) niezależnie od tego, czy ktoś "pytał", czy nie.
Mam nadzieję, że to wyjaśnienie ci pomogło.
well now , Poland is a pawn heh
@@Maximmuss_ ale ratio gosciowi zrobiles xDDDD
Warsaw was rebuilt from scratch after WW2 , as well as Kyiv. But Warsaw decided to return its lost look, whilst Soviets have rebuilt everything in Stalinist Empire style architecture.
True. The amount of commitment put into rebuilding Warsaw is breathtaking.
Yeah. Poland doesn't want to rebuild in old style. They will build it in a new style. Especially for a city that used to be a German town like Danzig (now Gdansk)
@@xwtek3505 if you mean the rebuilding of the island spichrzów specifically, which stayed in ruins post ww2 until a few years ago, then yes, if you mean the rest of the historical centre, you are wrong, the city was completely destroyed by the advancing soviet army, and yet, we have rebuilt it pretty accurately in a big part, even if not everywhere, contrary to some german cities which were not rebuilt. Also, the city was changing hands and it was both, polish and prussian througout the centuries, for the last couple of centuries prior the world wars it was prussian, then a free state for a couple of decades, no one denies its past, we cherish it as well as its architecture, if you have to complain about the current borders you should take it against the germans who started the war, but more importanty, you should take it against stalin who decided every border without any consultation. If you want to come and live in Gdańsk, or Danzig if you prefer to call it this way, and you want to live here, if you are from the EU, you can come, there’re no limits in that, I truly don’t understand those like you, probably not even a german, who still have such problems and feel some idiotical resentments.
Greetings from Gdańsk
@@xwtek3505 I was talking about reconstruction 80 years ago. Not today.
@fjejdhdnwhjfifjeheyd correct way is Kyiv. In Ukrainian it is Київ, so it is transliterated as Kyiv. Kiev is a Russian way of writing it and the only reason this version is international, because of Russian and Soviet occupation of Ukraine. And inability of Ukrainian people speak out during totalitarian regime.
Fun fact about Poland. In Chicago (IL), there are more Polish people that live there than anywhere else except Warsaw. That means there are more Poles in Chicago than anywhere in actual Poland besides it’s capital. 7.3% of Chicago’s population is Polish. Polish is the third most spoken language in Chicago behind Spanish and English. Behind Warsaw, Chicago has the second largest Polish population in the world.
Out of top 20 biggest polish cities most are abroad. With some cities in brazil, usa, germany being largely polish
Yep, and my last name (which is very rare here in Maryland - hey, my great-grandparents tried by having 7 kids), filled up a page and a half or so in the phone book (when phone books were a thing).
Chicago also is one of the largest Lithuanian speaking area of America
Im going to add onto this
Outside of Poland about 20M~ poles live outside of Poland itself
Wich is more than half of Polands population (38M~)
My great grandparents came to Chicago in the early 1900s and I grew up near the city. I went to high school with so many Polish people, so many last names that teachers couldn't pronounce lol
I love Poland! I'm currently learning polish on Duolingo and have 2 polish friends, I visit Poland many times🇨🇿❤️🇵🇱
Very cool! I have a question, do you Czechs find our language "funny", just how we also see your language as "funny"?
EN; Czechia is a cool county.
PL; Czechy jest superowym krajem.
@@noidea2568 yeah, but in a fun way. My favourite polish letter is the weird crossed out L😁
@@noidea2568 Yes, kind of. To me polish sounds like something that I should understand, yet often I don't actually know what's being said. It confuses my brain quite a bit, lol
@@noidea2568 I have polish blood in me but my ancestors had to flee Poland in the 1800s due to anti Semitism.
Warsaw is actually anglicized name for our capital so foreigners are able to pronounce it. Actual name of our capital is Warszawa. Legend says that it's named after the mythical founding pair of fisherman War and mermaid Szawa. That's also why Warsaw's coat of arms is a Mermaid.
Wars and Sawa...
anyways it has nothin to do with war in polish
In Croatia we call it Varšava, basically same pronunciation, the english name always sounded kinda weird to me
@@zHaste Either it sounds strange but looks similar (Warszawa Warsaw) or it sounds closer but looks weirder (Warszawa Varshava). There is no easy way around the fact that languages write same sounds with wildly different letters.
Still at least its latin alphabet, in Cyrylic you get even crazier swaps (like B V, P R, etc). Its kinda sad that both are based on the common root of greek alphabet, yet they used same symbols for different sounds. Would save so much effort in language learning :)
And the strange thing is ... that both are male attributed first names. How they have done it ... today Warszawa has 2 million inhabitants. 😉
4:30 The old town in Warsaw was actually rebuilt basically from scratch after WWII. I think smth like 90% was destroyed.
@Dylan P in actuality it was due to Warsaw Uprising of 1944. Hitler was furious about it and ordered to level the city to the ground
4:54 That is not the maximum Poland. It's post-deluge Commonwealth that lost a lot of land in the east to Russia and some lands to Sweden.
A minor detail but still worth pointing out.
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was at it's peak with territory in 1618, covering about 1 million square kilometers.
+ he talks like all that land was polands atleast thats how it looks, but lithuania joined with more land then poland if i remember corectly
For a country that had to basically start from scratch, I think we are doing good. Pround to be Polish 🇵🇱
As a German, I am very happy that there is a strong Poland. Not only because of Russia, but rather because of cities like Rotherham, Marseille or Malmö. This is what all of Western Europe looks like in three generations. If my children and their children do not want to live in Morocco one day, I hope you will take them in. They will be diligent and won't cause any trouble, I promise.
@@neinnein9306 what do you mean about those thee cities?
@@olehkindzer failed cities. Just read some articles.
It's kinda natural you pronounced Warsaw correctly, since you've pronounced the English name of the city and not the Polish Warszawa 😉
The spelling correct to the actual pronunciation of "Warszawa" in English would be "Varshava". Polish spelling ain't too bad, it's just different.
@@Mik3l24 szcz
@@petarmitkov1056 "Shchetseen"
@@Mik3l24 Grzegorz Brzęczeszczykiewicz
@@Mik3l24 Some people (Anglo-Saxons) think that only English language exists
As a Dutch person I empathize with the Polish. We also used to be bigger at our peak, and have been in kinda similar situations (although less than Poland), being near big powers and all, and having been occupied by the spanish.
GO Polish Commonwealth!
Can’t relate. Being an island has its Benefits sometimes
I am a belgian and I wish to unite bzck with the Netherlands but this time with equal representation in parliament, no assimilation, mostly equality in military etc... Because last time it was pretty unfair
You used to be bigger at your peak because you exploited people and resources in your colonies, nothing to brag about
@@Solaxe I'm not talking about the wealth the republic and the voc had back then through trade, enslavement and colonialism. I'm talking about land area, and not colony land area, but the land area of the country's mainland.
Kind of weird of you to instantly assume I'm actually being proud of the mass enslavement commited by the past government of my country and it's trading company.
@@Solaxe Boo fucking hoo. Every single nation and people group on earth got to their current location through exploitation and colonialism. Life is tough buddy.
Ukrainian anthem is "Ukraine is not yet lost". But with different music and lyrics. I guess because both Poles and Ukrainians suffered from neighborhood empires and have lost their independence for several times.
Was going to point that out. It's scary when your anthem is about struggling to not be erased, and even scarier when the behavior of your neighbor reinforces it.
Ukraine was split off the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
they're gonna need a new anthem soon lmao
The recent History of Eastern Europe is Just depressing.
And then people are shocked as to why Poles are afraid of foreigners...
as a Ukrainian living in Poland, I appreciate this video
thank you brother from Gdańsk and Slava Ukraini
@Assismus why you talk about Bandera? If he's in Poland I doubt he likes Bandera.
@@beardedclam1673 that is true, all of the Nazis stayed to fight for all the broken promises they have made to Russia
@Assismus historical figure, hell yeah! By the way, why are you mentioning him? I don't really see the point.
@Stn Bboy It’s unreasonable to look back in history in this way. Can you be responsible for what your great grandparents did one hundred years ago? It is really much more important what is happening right now and who are the Poles and the Ukrainians right now. And I think they are friends. I think that Poland is a great country, a great example of what Ukraine could become one day. We now have to unite against our true eternal enemy which is r@ssia. I have been truly h*t*ng russia for all my life not just because of our long gone history but also because of the russian way of life, attitude, their rude, condescending people. Almost every time when I had an interaction with a r@ssian it was horrible experience. My despise has always been about the present. If r@ssia was a different country I would have treated it just fine. As for Poland and the Poles - I just think that you are great and I really do not want to care about the long gone history.
I am a Polish person myself and I wanted to point something out: Poland has been Christianized in 966 so when you want to talk about the origins of the Polish country you should start there.
Also about petrol prices the google earth photos are from 2011 so theyr pretty much outdated by a decade. Also pretty nice to see a video like that generally good job. :DD
About a centruy and a half ago, my family moved into a small polish settlement in Texas now known as bremond. We still celebrate our roots and are proud of our ancestry. May Poland never die!
Thank you for your kind wishes for Poland! I wish the same for Texas!
im sorry you live in texas, hope you get better
@@r.ndomperson Sorry you think that. I consider Texas to be the best state in the US
@@GreatPolishWingedHussars Thank you!
@@nojatha4637 yall have messed up politics and aint the biggest state
Fun fact: Poland, after WW2, wasn't truly independent country till 1989.
Before that it was under influence and control of USSR. During that time soviet troops were in Polish territory as well.
Western Europe still isn't fully indipendent to this day
@@pao5567 by whom? Nato, a alliance a country can at any point can choose not to be a part of. Or perhaps you're talking about E.U which a country can at any point get out of.
@@ipadair7345 im talking about us influence. The eu is fine
Poland was a puppet of the USSR after WW2
@@pao5567 What?
15:40 fajnie by było gdyby paliwo serio tyle kosztowało hahaha
Co lepsze, to konkretne BP to tak naprawdę jedna z droższych stacji w Łodzi xD Więc w rzeczywistości było jeszcze taniej.
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Kurwa 8 złoty teraz kosztuje, idę kupić konia, będę jak Wernyhora z wesela na mejestatycznym rumaku jeździć
@@ant9347 Czekam na komentarz w czasach, gdy paliwo będzie po 10 zł, i będziemy rozmawiać o tym, że 8 zł to w sumie było tanio...
Bo gdy filmik Toycata wyszedł, to w sumie chyba jeszcze niecałe 7 zł za 95-kę się płaciło.
After WWII Poland was basically reverted back to its X-XI century borders, therefore in the communist propaganda the western ex-german lands were called "the recovered territories".
Polish spelling is not as hard as it seems if you spend a bit of time. It's a very shallow orthography (which means the correspondence between spelling and pronunciation is near one to one, with little irregularities). Make sure to not change the pronunciation of vowels in different contexts which happens in English a lot. All vowels are pronounced the same wherever they are (except the Ą Ę but don't worry about that). Don't relax your vowels in unstressed syllables. Pronunciations, mostly using Southern British English:
A "ah" as in "hah"
Ą "oh" + "w" like in "hole" in southern informal British where the "l" is a "w"
B
C "zz" as in "pizza", or "ts"
Ć (or Ci) "zzi"
D
E "eh" as in "there"
Ę "eh" + "w", like in "hell" in southern informal British where the "ll" is a "w"
F
G
H technically "ch" as in "loch" but loads of native people pronounce it like English "h"
I "ee" as in "me"
J "y" as in yoghurt
K
L
Ł "w"
M
N
Ń (or Ni) "ñ" as in Español
O "o" as in "top"
Ó another way of spelling "U" for historical reasons
P
R rolled "r" like in Spanish and Italian, usually just a single tap like in Spanish "pero"
S
Ś (or Si) "Shi" kind of like in "sheep"
T
U "oo" as in "move" (actually slightly different but very close)
W "v" ("w" is Ł)
Y kind of similar to "i" in "him" but more relaxed (central vowel)
Z
Ż "j" like in French "Je"
Ź (or Zi) French "j"+"i" like above
Digraphs (this sorts out all the szcz concerns):
Sz "sh"
Cz "ch"
Dz voiced variant of "c" from earlier (you can pronounce like "zz" as in pizza)
Dż "j" as in "jam"
Dź (or dzi) "g" like in Italian "Parmigiano" or "Giovanni"
Rz another way of spelling "Ż"
Ch another way of spelling "H"
One important irregularity is the devoicing of consonants at the end of words. At the end of words:
B -> P
D -> T
G -> K
W -> F
Z -> S
Ż or Rz -> Sz
Ź or Zi-> Ś
Dż -> Cz
Dź or Dzi -> Ć
(hopefully after reading that you can do it intuitively so there's no need to remember the list)
And that's basically it. If you can do the above you can pronounce 95% of Polish 95% right.
⚠⚠⚠Ć to nie Ci (Ń to nie Ni ,Ś to nie Si ,Ź to nie Zi ,Dź to nie Dzi) np: Ćpa i ..... no wstaw sobie Ci ,zupełnie inna wymowa i znaczenie (wiem ,że chodzi o to ,aby było jak najprościej ,ale moim zdaniem to trochę za duże uproszczenia) (nie pytaj dlaczego akurat taki przykład)
@@petarvuksanovic8472 ajde ne lupaj, sta je tu toliko jedinstveno?
Naprawdę napisała(e)ś, że polska ortografia jest " a VERY SHALLOW " ???!!!! To albo jesteś geniuszem polskiej ortografii albo totalnym ignorantem w tej dziedzinie . Ja myślę .że raczej to drugie .
@@bogumilak1391 "shallow" nie oznacza tutaj "płytki" w sensie głupi, tylko odnosi się do "orthographic depth", czyli do konceptu lingwistycznego. "Shallow" oznacza tu, że ortografia polska ma dużą zgodność z wymową w przeciwieństwie do angielskiego (np. "tough" i "though"). Zresztą ta osoba napisała w nawiasie o co chodzi, proszę nie nazywać ludzi "ignorantami", kiedy nie czyta się ze zrozumieniem.
@@ciubciubpl Tak, przed spółgłoską faktycznie "ć" i "ci" wymawiane są inaczej, ale przed samogłoską "ci" jest wymawiane tak samo jak "ć". Słowo "ciuchy" wymawia się tak samo jak "ćuchy". "Ciężki" to tak naprawdę "ćężki". Zresztą tak jest też z innymi spółgłoskami miękkimi jak "pi". Np. w wyrazie "pies", nie wymawia się "i" bardzo wyraźnie, a jedynie zmiękcza się "p".
1. Fuel prices were from 2017 - see the date on streetmaps.
2. Warsaw is english name for Warszawa - you'd need to use polish version of Google Maps.
3. Old City in Warsaw you showed was rebuilt from ground zero after II WW - it was demolished by Germans in '44.
4. There are border disputes but not hostile. Germans basically accepted losing land after II WW but Czechia considers Sląsk Cieszyński in part illigally annexed by Poland. Of course Poland could dispute some of Lithuanian, Belarussian and Ukrainian lands but no one influencial is pushing such agenda. Likewise some nationalist Ukrainians are disputing some polish territories but this is not anything serious.
Actually that specific BP station is generally pretty expensive xD I always avoid it.
Germany HAD to accept the loss of formerly German lands as well as accept ethnic Germans who never lived in Germany
@@penguinsfan251In 1991 independent Germany accepted the current border in Bundestag even though they could dispute it.
@@jacekgrula In the 1940s Germany was in no position to resist anything. Germany could not have reunified in 1990 if it started to reclaim Prussia, etc.
I just saw the part with fuel prices and I cried. Those were the good old days. Now fuel in Poland costs twice as much.
Poland also reminds me of Japan for simple fact shops and gas stations have so much choice in food and snacks like nowhere in any western European country.
I might be of some assistance with your last question. My family came over from what was at the time Austro-Hungary to the US but is now in modern day Poland. Our immigration certificate has been 'amended' to now say we are from Poland. Ethnically, my family are Polish-Jews so honestly they made a pretty good decision to move before WW2. I had some family left in Poland during WW2 and there's plenty of generational trauma that comes from that, but now today, most of my family is in the US.
That’s pretty interesting, also sorry about that family stuff
@@TheAckeePlant my family also came from Poland. But it was due to anti Semitism. This was in the 1800s.
did you come from Lesser Poland? Krakow area?
@@han9488 Yeah, the Rzeszow area just east of Krakow, though I did have a few family members from Krakow as well!
Op
Imagine if all of Diaspora returned to Poland, that would be insane.
There would be like two times as many people in the country.
Poland Has a population of ~39, while there are about 25 milion poles aboard
@@Bauvolk *abroad
Shit, i'm not coming back!
Connunists replaced by clergy, same ol'
@@krismalecki8278 That is absolutely stupid, and we both know it. Better you stay wherever you are, among like minded pinheads.
@@Bauvolk There are an estimated 10 million people of Polish descent in the US. We all have some other ancestry, too.
The interesting thing about Poland is that the current borders are essentially what they originally were over a thousand years ago, other than the issue with Prussia. And by this I don't mean the Commonwealth, but the Kingdom in 992.
that is also a thing I noticed several times. While a lot of the western area of modern day Poland became german over time, the former parts of Eastern polish became polish over time. But if you o 1000 years ago the area was really more or less the same as today which is kind of odd to consider.
There are wild bisons, wolves, bears and many wild animals living freely in Poland. There is last European primal forest in Poland. Beautiful nature, lovely towns and cities, mix of everything best. Definitely worth to visit.
I was born in Rzeszow; my moms family is from Pszemysl area - my dads family is from south of Lwow - when Poland was re-made his family lost all their land and moved west
Fuel isnt that cheap in poland it was an old street view, and warsaw is english name in polish its warszawa
When my Polish tutor explained to me why Chinese cabbage is called kapusta pekińska I was like “wait you have a whole different name for the city??” and she was like “well you call it Warsaw!” 😆
Its still cheap for foreigners.
Yep I've am correct I think these are views from 2018 Prices had drastically changed since then not to mention Its sill expensive for the people actually living there
No shit. It says 2017
you've should also mention that Poles are very proud about their country and whenever they see someone saying literally anything about Poland they just overreact
That's exaggerated! But Poles have had enough of false accusations and lies!
15:40 - The Streetview is from 2017. Currently the price is about 1.34 euro per litre
1.5€ and still growing ;-)
that's still cheap af
@@Swordman1111 yeah, and minimum wage is 470 euro :v
@@Swordman1111 Not if you compare it to earnings ;-))
@@ximonq Minimun wage brutto is 650 euro.
I'm from Poland. I like Poland. Poland is a good thing. Thank you for making a video about a good thing, that is Poland.
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@@hristo5689 to jest flaga grenlandii
@@tymp0 KOLEJNY FOLKSDOJCZ NA USŁUGACH MERKEL 🤮🤮🤮🤮
Ale ten Hristo ma zryty beret.
@@tymp0 Bo to żart chyba był xD
I remember when I was interning at a local radio station, our lecturer told me a story about an elderly man who was setting up a Facebook account. He had to put his birthplace on there. And he wanted to put Lwów, but Facebook implied 'Lviv, Ukraine'. While he wanted to write 'Lwów, Poland'.
Some people may find this sad to imagine.
But, on the other hand, the same could happen to some Germans who were born in what is now western Poland.
it actually did happen to my grandfather who was born in a village in modern day Mazuria. He wrote his birthplace into a document and it showed in parenthesis (Poland) behind his place of birth, despite never being a polish citizen and also not being born in Poland.
Yay finely my country 🇵🇱🇵🇱♥️♥️ proud to be Polish ♥️♥️ Thank you for this video
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@@finleyxavier7273 wtf
@@Sceptonic they must bey australian
Sun Tzu: "A country that has once been destroyed, can never come again into being"
Poles: "I'm gonna do what's called a pro-gamer move. 2 times."
Sun Tzu never met a Pole. Poles can do what others consider impossible.
Poland has not been destroyed in the hearts of Poles, it has only been erased from the maps. It was reborn as a result of the fact that tradition, faith, patriotism, culture, language, beautiful pages of history were passed down from generation to generation through 123 years of captivity.
Tsun Zu, while writing "the art of war", meant countries in such a situation as Poland, which fought with the opponent not in numbers but in intelligence, which outstripped them with weapons.
WW1 for some was a curse, for Poland (not counting losses in people and destruction) it was one of the contributions to regaining independence
@@mieteksnopowiazaka5359 123 years woa. are there other countries that weren't this long on the map but they still exist now?
@@craftah I do not know this, but as we said - despite the fact that Poland did not exist on the maps, it existed in the minds of Poles who passed on love for their homeland, Polish culture, language, tradition and faith in God from generation to generation, and such values are the foundation of every nation and then he cannot be killed. Never and nothing.
@@mieteksnopowiazaka5359 yea i know that's cool
14:20 How to pronounce Polish cities 101 (using English transliteration):
Szczecin -> Shchecheen
Bydgoszcz -> Bidgoshch
Poznań -> Poznan' (or Poznani with very short i)
Warsaw ... is an English name BUT natively it is Warszawa -> Varshava
Białystok -> Biawystok (damn.. Toycat got pretty close to the pronunciation here)
Wrocław -> Vrotswaf
Częstochowa -> Chaeustohova
Katowice -> Kahtoveetseh
Rzeszów -> Zheshoof (note, because not every native English speaker knows that: zh is like a French J)
Łódź -> Wooj' (or Wooji with very short i)
Just because you don't know the pronunciation and/or Polish alphabet doesn't make it impossible. Yes, I know this may be a native speaker bias but Polish pronunciation rules are extremely simple, here's why:
Every single letter only has one pronunciation (like the letter A has only one, whereas English has like at least 5 of A's pronunciation variations) WITH the exception of:
- digraphs (ci, si, zi, sz, rz,cz etc. -> transliterated into English as: chi, shi, zhi, sh, zh, ch), which also help better understand that 4-5 letter consonant clusters like szcz or chrz are not as scary as you may think
- pronunciation simplifying rules/privileges (as in jabłko -> yabwko - the consonant cluster 'bwk' has 2 soft consonant followed by a hard one, even Poles cannot pronounce that easily, so we simplify it to japko -> yapko)
Polish exclusive consonants are basically shorter pronounced version of diagraphs ending with i, for example ś - si, ć - ci, ź - zi, ń - ni, the only exception being ż, which you pronounce just like rz (zh in English)
There are also Polish exclusive vowels but are very few compared to consonants above and also have specific pronunciation: ą - ouh in English (sometimes simplified to 'on'), ę - longer and softer version of Polish E (makes the sound like 'ai' in air in English but also sometimes simplified to 'en') and ó which is basically Polish U ('oo' in English)
I bet Toycat just gave up on checking what the correct pronounciations are halfway through and is still unaware how good his Białystok was
Hello! I know you didn't know us existed, i'm a polish brazilllian! There are areas of Brazil where more than 40% are polish brazilllian.
The city i live in are mostly polish brazilllians
Lewandinho is that you?
I am from Poland and I am proud of it, long live Poland
As a dude who looks a lot into polish history, this is something I’m glad too see more of about the very intense and interesting history of the polish
Awesome! Finally a video about my country. 🇵🇱 🇵🇱 🇵🇱
13:51 No way! I was at those salt mines a few years back. They were amazing, so cool to see someone else mention it.
I agree
He said Poland 81 times in this video
From 1385 until 1795 it was not technically Poland. It was a union with Lithuania (that was itself a kind of union with current Belarus and Ukraine). Poles were maybe 30-40% of the inhabitants.
These areas were united peacefully creating a kind o early version of the European Union.
The percentage of Poles was not more than a half, but they were "the highest" nobles of all nations, thats why ukrainians were fighting, they felt like they are worth less. Lithuanians and Ukrainians were quickly learning polish since polish culture was the most influential of them all, because of it being the most on the west. It is the rule for Europe to take from western countries.
@@mmgs1148 Completly Not true. Polish nobles were not the most hight. And many Poland Lithuania hetmans and most influencial people were accually eather from rutheania region or from Lithuania region. Look on Stefan Żółkiewski familly. Great and one of the biggest Commonwealth heros. Literrary the great Hetman and one of most influencial person in commonwhealth. He was Rutheanian. Look on Radziwł familly. Literrary one of the oldest most influencial Lithuanian Żmudź region familly. Theirs influence literrary changed whole Commonwealth politicial diplomacy.
IT is just absolutly wrong to think there was Polish bias there. In Commonwealth there was sth called gold nobility liberty where all nobles no matter from what nationality had the same privlages Like rest of them. And even the smaller Noble coud completly screw whole country and heave a voice in sejm. That was the reason why even Lithuanian nobility wanted union at first sińce they wanted to heave same influence in Lithuania as Polish nobility had in Poland. Making bassicly this smaller more poor Noble as important as this Rich magnat one. And once Kiev becomed the administratate land of Polish part of the union after 1569. Poland refused to mąkę Polish as kiev official language and forced them to speak latin instead. Shure there was huge polonisation among nobles. But it was literrary the trend. Same as later all commonwhealth nobles woud try to learn in XVIII century French. And there was no planed polonisation of peasants or city lowborns sińce there was no nationalism in this times yet. And if IT happend IT was literrary based of comfy trades / investments into new land / mixing population/ simping into more western culture that Poland was sińce nobody gived fuck about them sińce the only Citizens were Noble across whole Commonwealth. Also fun fact about peasant situation ukrainian peasant had accually better life in Commonwealth then Polish ones in commonwhealth. Because there was sth called ,,Wolizna " that was bassicly mean some cheaper time of taxes of ,,pańszczyzna " that woud allow them to build Ukrainę better and colonise its most east part. Also ukrainian peasants were the only one supported with ,, samopaly" gun in case of Tatar raids witch Polish peasants dont had the same. Also another fun fact. If Ukrainian nobles had sooooo much worse. Why the son of Ukrainian/ Rutheanian hight influencial Noble inside Commonwealth King Michał Korybut was elected Commonwealth King rather then a true Polish guy geting the job if they were better? And also another fun thing. During Chmielnicki uprisings most citys Like kiev/ Lviv stayed loyal to Commonwealth. And whole cossack uprisings happend not because of Independence thing but because of them Beeing bassicly somewhat autonomus Mercenary/ raiding band that build theirs camps and places in Zaporoże and they bassicly wanted to got salary and promised a place in ,, rejest " army. That sejm due to corruption lied and refused to them. ( Again IT was not Polish things. In Sejm there place of rulling had all Polish, Lithuanian, Ukrainian , German , and some Latvian nobles. This nobles lied and missused cossack.) But again. IT was not Polish Blame. IT was Blame in nobility In general that dont wanted to pay taxes to keep cossack rejest army salary functional or to let them become official Poland Lithuania nobles sińce nobody there. Neather Rutheanian Ukrainian nobles wanted cossack to be same as them. So cossacks got refused/ lied/ missused. So IT is literrary the situation of fight for money and influence rather then independce or for nobility rights sińce normal typical rutheanian nobility had all what they needed. Anyway. And tell me. How there is Polish bias when literrary in both most important Commonwealth goverment places when all the power comes from. Sejm and Senat there were literrary both Ukrainians and Lithuanians nobility. And a lot of time one of them was accually the strongest one. Its just dont heave sense. Especially that in this time there was not even nationalism as an idea devoleped anyway and the only Citizens were Noble.
That's nonsense because that was a Polish Empire completely dominated by the Poles! ! Also the mistranslation of Commonwealth is also misleading and gives a completely wrong impression because the Empire certainly wasn't designed for common wealth. The purpose of the Polish Empire was to secure the power of the Polish king and Polish nobility. If at all with Commonwealth then it would only work with polish common wealth. Only Polish and nothing else! It's like talking about the English Scottish Commonwealth, which is also absurd, because in the past centuries always only the English wealth was decisive like the Polish wealth was always decisive in the Polish Empire. Unfortunately, he also used in the video the wrong name Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which unfortunately is almost always done that way. Because this term is a modern, nonsensical invention by 20th century historians that does not correspond to reality. This state was never called Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. NEVER! Used in international treaties and diplomacy, the state has been called the most serene ( most high) Rzeczpospolita (Polish: Najjaśniejsza Rzeczpospolita Polska, Latin: Serenissima Res Publica) or also Rzeczpospolita of the Polish Kingdom or Rzeczpospolita of Poland. In everyday language Rzeczpospolita or Poland occasionally also the crown. Incidentally, the Lithuanians adopted the term "Rzeczpospolita", like many other Polish words, into their language as "Žečpospolita"! By the way, the Polish Empire could also be used as an alternative to Rzeczpospolita for this state if one wants to use a modern term. Because that was a Polish Empire and not a Polish Lithuanian Empire. The wrong translation Commonwealth is also only the English name, because in other languages the term is usually translated as Republic, which is better. By the way, today's Polish name for the Polish state "Rzeczpospolita Polsk" is translated into the English Republic of Poland and not Commonwealth Poland! Which also makes it clear why the name Commonwealth is nonsensical! Therefore, it would not be wrong at all to use the Polish term Rzeczpospolita in English as Shechpospolita or use Rzeczpospolita as a Polish proper name in English. The German word Reich as Third Reich is also used in English, so why not too Rzeczpospolita? There is no logical reason against it! The mistranslation of Commonwealth is also misleading and gives a completely wrong impression because the Empire certainly wasn't designed for common wealth. The purpose of the Polish Empire was to secure the power of the Polish king and Polish nobility. If at all with Commonwealth then it would only work with polish common wealth. Only Polish and nothing else! As I mentioned above it's like talking about theEnglish Scottish Commonwealth, which is also absurd, because in the past centuries always only the English wealth was decisive like the Polish wealth was always decisive in the Polish Empire. Lithuania should therefore not be mentioned at all in the name. By the way, if the Polish proper name is to be used in English the term Rzeczpospolita seems difficult to pronounce for non-Poles. But that is not the case at all. With a little practice, anyone can pronounce the term correctly, even you. A little help: Rz is pronounced like the "isi" in vision. So virzon sounds like vision. Cz sounds like the "ch" in church. So Czurcz sounds like church. But if one just use "sh" instead of "rz", that sounds close to Polish. "Ch" can be used instead of "cz". So Shechpospolita would be written in English, which could be pronounced without problems. So there is no reason not to use this correct term. So if anything then Polish Commonwealth or better Rzeczpospolita as a Polish proper name in English or English Shechpospolita.
@@GreatPolishWingedHussars IT was never an empire. IT was kingdom. And the ruler of this country was called a King not an Emperor. IT was never dominated by the poles. There was gold szlachtą liberty when all nobles were equal. There was no diversity by nationality. Neather a nationalism existed in Commonwealth time as its own thing. IT was never a thing to secure power for ,, Polish King " because the person that created IT was Lithuanian Jagiellonian dynasty King Zygmunt August in 1569. And Poland had absolutle nothing simmlar between them and British Commonwealth. The position in sejm was represented by all nobility. Poor and Rich. From Poland to Lithuania/ Germans Rutheanian/ Latvian nobility living in Rzeczpospolita. One of most influencial figures in Poland Lithuania literrary were both Rutheanians and Lithuanians. Check quicly Radziwiłł familly. Or learn a bit about inside politics. I wont however answer about the most correct namę of this country in english sińce i m Simple not experts about that or about english language. Maybe u are right maybe not. But in Polish IT coud literrary be said Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów and that's work for me.
I heave no clue how hardcore Polish nationalist u are or just heave mistake image of this country but for shure Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów was not a country u described. And that's come from me. Polish person. And some things called there in my previous comment .Ofc not all. Are things literrary teached in education as the Basic info. So its not Like i discovered anything shocking.
@@pancernyhusarz2985 Such a stupid claim from someone who doesn't know what an empire is. In English this can be a monarchy ruled by an emperor, but also according to the common definition an empire is a multi-ethnic and multinational state with political and military dominion of populations who are culturally and ethnically distinct from the imperial ruling ethnic group and its culture. That was Poland and in this case the Poles was the imperial ruling ethnic group. The Poles ruled over the other peoples and also assmiled them. The Lithuanians were also controlled and assimilated by the Poles. So it was a Polish empire, because the Poles were the nation in power. By the way, if Sweden can be called an empire, then Poland certainly can too! If the Poles had not ruled and if the Polish nation had not been important, then there would have been no Polonization. But the opposite is true! There was a polonization and not only of the nobility!
Poles completely dominated the Lithuanians. Lithuania was voluntarily polonized. All relevant was Polish like also the Polish currency Polski Złoty. Złoty means golden in Polish. The capitals of the entire state were the Polish cities of Krakow and Warsaw. The ruling Poles have also determined what the state should be called Polisch Rzeczpospolita! The Polish name was then adopted by the Lithuanians into the Liatuish languages as "Žečpospolita". By the way, Polish term for nobility ”szlachta” was also adopted into Lithuanian as ”šlėkta” like many other Polish words. The majority of the loanwords in Lithuanian were from Polish. This is also why Polish was able to spread so successfully in the Lithuanian.
Polish dominance over Lithuania also illustrates that the Polish king automatically became the grand duke of Lithuania. That was by far not the only additional title of the Polish kings. For example, the Polish King Sigismund III Vasa had in addition to the Polish royal title, Grand Duke of Lithuania and Grand Duke of Finland, Prince of Rus, Prussia, Mazovia, Volhynia, Podolia, Podlaskie, Severia, Czernihów, Samogitia, Livonia, also Hereditary King of Sweden. Rus stands for Russia because the Poles ruled large areas of Russia at the time, and even Moscow was briefly occupied by Polish troops. Samogitia stands for the Baltic States, which the Polish king largely ruled. Hereditary king of Sweden and Grand Duke of Finland because the Polish king was also the king of Sweden for a short time. But he lost the power in Sweden and Finland. This list of titles makes it clear that Grand Duke of Lithuania was just one of the many titles of the Polish king. But the most important title was always King of Poland.
In the end, the title Grand Duke of Lithuania was just one of many Polish king's titles. The title was particularly important only at the beginning of the Polish rule over Lithuania, when the Lithuanian nobility was not yet Polonized. At that time the Poles still had to pretend the Lithuanian nobility that this was not a takeover. The treaty of Krewo for personal union of Poland with Lithuania in 1385 was the decisive step in Poland's takeover of Lithuania. This union was declared indissoluble. This personal union meant that the Polish king should also be the ruler of Lithuania. In fact, the union treaty also contained the provision of the attaching of Lithuanian and Ruthenian lands to the Polish Crown. However, the various other treaties wich followed this treaty actually meant the takeover and Polonization of Lithuania too. A significant resolution was the adoption of Polish administrative divisions and offices like voivode and castellan by Lithuania. Even more important was that in total 47 selected Lithuanian nobles were adopted by Polish nobles heraldic families and granted Polish coats of arm. This symbolic gesture signified their desire to adopt Polish customs and integrate into Polish society. Because of this possibility of heraldic adoption, Poland had a much higher proportion of nobles than other European kingdoms. In Poland, the proportion of nobles in the total population was already 10-15% in the 16th century, in the rest of Europe it was 1%. Thus the Union of Krewo in 1385 signified the beginnings of the strengthened Polonization of Lithuania. Strengthened Polonization because the Polonization actually started before the Union of Krewo, because the Lithuania was Christianized from Poland. Priests, especially from Poland, Christianized Lithuania and priests had great influence at that time, so there was already a Polish influx in Lithuania before the Union of Krewo. In the Union of Krewo of 1385, a personal union was agreed between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and from then Lithuania was voluntarily polonized. It is no coincidence that Lithuania today has only 2.7 million inhabitants. Poland, on the other hand, has 15 times as many inhabitants. In 1918 only 4% of Lithuanians lived in the former capital Wilno (Vilnius). The vast majority of residents spoke Polish, not Lithuanian. This was changed in 1945 when the Lithuanians and the Soviets expelled the Polish inhabitants. Many Poles were also murdered. But that's actually a different topic. In any case, the Rzeczpospolita was completely dominated by the Poles. It's no coincidence that it's a Polish name. The official languages were Polish and Latin not Lithuanian. The capitals of Rzeczpospolita were Polish cities Krakow/Warsaw. The currency was the Polish złoty. The state took over the Polish constitution Nihil Novi from 1505 and not a Lithuanian constitution. It was one of the primary elements of the democratic governance of the Noblemen’s democracy of Poland. This constitution was actually also the transformation from the Polish kingdom to the Rzeczpospolita.
By the way, In the Polish Empire everywhere the upper class spoke Polish. Before being taken over by Poland in 1385, the East Slavic language Ruthenian, as most common language, was used as the written language, not Lithuanian. Lithuanian was mostly used as a spoken language and not in writing, because the earliest surviving written Lithuanian text is a translation dating from about 1503-1525. The first book printed in the Lithuanian language was in 1547. The majority of the loanwords in Lithuanian were from Polish. This is also why Polish was able to spread so successfully in the Lithuanian.
Toycat: Poland at one point has been one of the largest countries in the world!
Lithuania: Am I a joke to you?
Fine, WE were one of the largest country in the world
@@Spacey_key Communism. OUR empire
@@dblum no, no, not you, we call it Commonwealth, not communism
@@Spacey_key No. communism commonwealth
@@dblum *loads shot gun* so you want it the hard way huh?
East Polish border goes through the flat area and forests, there is a theory that soviets made it on purpose, so it would be easy to invade in case of any troubles
Oh ;-;
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I hate the USA 🇺🇲💔🇵🇱
And vice versa, love you Yanks 🇵🇱♥️🇺🇲
Me to
4:47 this is not a maximum Poland. The biggest borders in history of Poland were after Treaty of Dywilino in December 1618, Poland had 1,000,000 km2 after that treaty. And the map you are showing here is a map from after Russo-Polish War (1654-1667) Truce of Andrusovo.
The street view pictures in the video are from 2017, where fuel prices were much lower. Nowadays prices are twice as high, so I don't recommend refueling in Poland :)
Octane-95 / PLN 7,88 / EUR 1,70 / USD 1,78
Octane-98 / PLN 8,24 / EUR 1,78 / USD 1,82
Diesel / PLN 8,07 / EUR 1,74 / USD 1,82
LPG / PLN 3,54 / EUR 0,76 / USD 0,80
~ Average fuel prices in Poland (as of June 13, 2022).
I’m 26. My great grandpa was born in Poland in 1896. He was 43 when he had my grandpa, and my grandpa was in his late 30s when he had my dad. My great grandpa was impressed into the Russian military when he turned 18.
In 1914, he was fed up with everything, so he moved to Illinois in the US. His Ellis island records spelled his hometown wrong and listed Russia as his country of origin. He became a citizen and was immediately drafted into the US Army. He got sent back to Europe and fought in WW1 in France.
He came home, moved to Indiana, got married, and had my grandpa (his only kid). To this day, my family is the only family in the United States with my surname. There are seven of us total.
We came from a small farm village near Pińczów that only has a few hundred people.
13 of my 16 great-great grandparents were born in Poland. My living grandmother was born in Poland in the 1940s. They left because of Soviet occupation during WW2.
I am actually still eligible for Polish citizenship because of my grandma.
I literally exist because of these border changes and invasions. Thanks for this video!
Didnt you asked on reddit about that certificate? I remember something with "Pińczów"
An interesting story. I would ask for Polish citizenship :) greetings from Germany
@@k0ziolRD Awhile ago I think I did! I met with an agency after some advice from others, and it’s 100% doable. Pretty cool.
Some Pole: "Finally it's my country's comment section."
Other Poles: "It's OUR country's comment section" (internationale anthem played in background)
Well, I'm a Pole from Poland, so I cannot speak for Polonia, but we fully embraced nation-state idea. You are a Pole due to your nationality, ie. your culture, not due to land you were born on. You may have been born in Poland right now and no Pole will ever claim you to be Polish. But you may have not stepped into lands of Poland ever and you can be Polish by your own virtue. Tho on every day basis we do it based on blood, cause testing people for their nationality can be easily abused by wrong goverment and your parents should instill Polish culture into you as is their national obligation. So if you have any Polish parent, we assume you are a Pole unless you prove otherwise by betraying our nation. It was that way since the times of 1st Commonwealth (and no, just cause western empires like to justify their imperialism, slavery and conquest by claiming there were no nations then, doesn't mean there weren't any nations. In Poland we still use the same words for nationhood as we did in 15th century. The number of Poles just grew from around 10% of people living in the country to 99% + half of that abroad.) Returning to the topic at hand. my favorite historical proof of the fact that being a Pole is cultural is story of our national hero Admiral Unrug. Who was born German in Germany from German noble family (with ties to Polish nobles, but none direct) that spoke no Polish when he became a Pole. But during his servitude in German military he recognized how abhorent German culture is and decided to join Polish nation. He embraced our culture and therefore we embraced him as Pole. He became a great reformer of Polish navy. Unfortunetly economical situation didn't allow him to build Poland into naval power, but nontheless he will always be remembered as one of the greats. For many things, but if only then his iron will to remain a Pole despite German army ofering him high position in German fleet after conquering Poland in WW2 if he abandoned his nationality, fully shown in his refusal to speak to any German in any other language than Polish (which he learned at this point).
So, answering your question: Polish Brazilians are as Polish as Polish Americans, Polish Haitians, Polish Kazacks or me. In fact in Poland we do not use Polish-X. You are either Polish or not. If you are Polish, your current residence does not matter for us. You are welcomed in Poland and Poland shall live as long as you live.
Mexicans can learn a lot from Poland. Mexicans sell their nationality for acceptance so any foreigner can claim to be Mexican and my co-nationals will go nuts. We need to safeguard our culture and national identity more. It has cost a lot of blood and not any idiot that claims it or is born in Mexico should be able to appropriate what only belongs to us.
Polish americans are barely polish though for the most part, they just claim something they know nothing about lol
Isn't that obvious that a person is someone who this person chose to be? Damn, to me that was always obvious without lectures.
@@magdaty1815 no, cause only choosing is too little. Saying you are X and trully being X are two different things. Only claiming to be a Pole is way too little.
@@Ussurin My view is like that -
If someone only claims to be a Pole but really hate Polish people - his being a Pole means nothing.
If someone is a Pole as you say - truly - aka formally and hates Polish - his being a Pole also means nothing.
If someone makes a choice of being a Pole and someone who is a Pole formally and both love Polish people - they are equally who I would call truly Polish.
Like there are Italians in USA who made the choice to be Americans. If someone made a choice to be American and he loves Americans he is an American. Things like that work for USA why not for Poland?
This notion is familiar to Poland no less than to USA. For centuries people of different origin were making choice to be Polish. To people who are fans of genetic, pure breed - that kind of stuff such thinking in unacceptable, we clashed with plenty of those in Poland as you probably know they also go by name of nazis.
Polish pronounciation guide:
Ł = W
C = TS
W = V
CZ = TSH
Ś,Ź,Ż,SZ = variants of SH/ZH (closest English equivalent)
Also others but I got bored.
Thanks
"RZ" is like the french "J" as in 'Je m'appelle"
Z = Ь
I love his bubbly personality! Makes realize that I should be drinking tea for caffeine instead of coffee. 😆 But I also respect how unbiased he presents facts about these places, it's quite refreshing.
Fun fact:The Venice flag changes once at war from the Bible to a sword
Nope. It changes from opened to closed book. And words in book say "Pax Tibi Marcii Mei Evangeliste" - "Peace to you Mark, my evangelist".
4:46 So actually Poland was in its teritorial peak in 1634, when its land area was ~990.000 square kilometers.
Niech żyje Polska 🇵🇱✊🏻
Chwała Polsce! Cześć ze Lwowa!
Glad to see this kind of interest of Poland History.
Thanks lot for your attention about our place in Europe and World.
Greetings from Poland.
15:29 - That photo is old. Petrol in Poland nowadays is definitely not 4,38 zł right now. Its close to 7 zł ( 1.5 Euro ), diesel almost 8 zł ( 1.71 Euro )
4:48 This big Poland, we have four sized Poland, small, medium, big and large, I guarante you, this is not the biggest Poland
Dang, I never thought that I'd see Toycat make a video on Poland of all things XD /pos (Good job, btw!)
Warsaw is a word you're so used to hearing being in Europe, it just sounds natural in itself but now I cant undo the actual meaning of using a Saw in a war.
warszawa
Imagine using a warsaw to saw a saw during a war
You mean how the name origin has nothing to do with either war or saw, right? It was two legendary names smooshed together, of a fisherman and a mermaid (rivermaid?)
Well, they did see a lot of war.
The way I explained it to a friend so he'd remember easier is "This city saw war, ergo Warsaw"
2:25 - missed opportunity to point out that contrary to its military reputation, Britain has never attacked Poland
Or that britian had no reason to invade poland
They did attack Polish troops though
They are too afraid after Polish troops demolished them in Napoleonic Wars. We still hold one fo the battle throphies from that time in Poland in Cracow. It's a sabre of Lieutenant General Andrew Thomas Blayney, 11th Baron Blayney he lost after the Polish force ten times smaller than his defended a castle from him and captured him in battle.
Well... What about Henry the IV visiting Malbork castle to hunt pagans in what is now northeast of Poland? 😉
Thanks for doing something about my country 🇵🇱 cheers from Wrocław ✌🏻(for english speakers, read it like „rock-love”)
rock-love 😂 that was fun
its definetely not pronounced rock love but ok :d
@@craftah I am polish, I know how it should be pronounced. Polish is difficult and better to say 'rock-love' than what English speakers say usually lol
This video literally made my day. Love you!♥️
thank you for the amazing videos as always ♥
8:55 The border change by the ussr was because we found some importaint resoursec there and since poland was Behind the iron curtain the ussr could basicaly do what they wanted, so they swapped a bit of i selera train for those mines
I was literally thinking about Poland’s shift west today what a coincidence 😃
I can't believe that this guy made a 21 minute video devoted to one country. What an absolute madlad.
As an American I consider Poland to be our greatest and most important ally next to the UK
Polacy dajcie mi lajka by angole myślały że napisałem coś mądrego.
A teraz wstawię tutaj intro z kiepskich by komentarz nie był aż tak krótki:
W kiepskim świecie Kiepskie sprawy
Marne życie i zabawy
Są codzienne awantury
Nie ma dnia bez ostrej "rury"
Ojciec biega na bosaka
Jest zadyma i jest draka
Nikt nikomu nie tłumaczy
By spróbować żyć inaczej
Pa pa pa pa pa pa
To jest właśnie Kiepskich świat
Pa pa pa pa pa pa
Kiepskich życie Kiepskich świat
Są nadzieje i miłości
Są zwycięstwa i radości
Są skandale i hałasy
Na tapczanie wygibasy
Choć problemy są kosmiczne
Jest tu całkiem sympatycznie
To jest właśnie Kiepskich życie
Zobaczycie uwierzycie
points and germany "france" points at france "germany" this is a high tier tactic to improve participation, because people like me are gonna post a comment about it.
"Lots of people who want a little bit of Poland"
good to see that my favourite childhood youtube is still making good videos
For English speakers here I would like to explain that the names of founders of our capital were VARS and SAVA -so that they can pronounce it more correctly. Polish name of our capital is Warszawa== and it is pronounced [VAR-SHA-VA] nothing to do with wars, although it is true, that there were many wars in that region. In Polish language, W is pronounced like V in English, not like W.
Poland use "Ius Sanguinis" - meaning that people get Polish citizenship if they parents have it, and it's not based on place they were born.
Cool video
Greetings from Poland!
Really interesting video :D Nice to see
My grandparents (they are no longer alive) living in the same place (Doshitsky district, Vitebsk region) visited many countries :)
First in the Russian Empire, then in the Belarusian People's Republic, then in Poland, then in the USSR and now it is Belarus.
Grandfather even fought in the Polish Army during World War II, like 70,000 Belarusians.
By the way, the bottom line is that many lands "as if Polish" have always been inhabited by an absolute majority of Belarusians. Not everything is so clear here.
Actually buildings of the old town in nowadays Warsaw you've shown were raised from a scratch in the second half of the 20th century. After 1944 uprising 90% of Warsaw's centre was just a huge pile of rubble resembling some alien landscape, really. The only European city destroyed to the similar extent I can think of is Dresden.
i love how ibx2cat explained and showed the border expansions made me laugh heh nice episode once again
I love your energy. You just summoned all Poles
Wait this video is actually sponsored? I genuinely thought it was just another bit
I'm glad we can sneak Canada into these videos even when they're about other countries! lol
I have a co worker who's from Poland working as a Firestopper and insulator. He's a great guy and talking with him has made me want to go visit.
Don't go for a while, recession hit Poland more than Canada, and they have Ukrainian immigration crisis with a lot of government money diverted to help them. Sure gas prices didn't sky rocket by 1/3 in just 3-4 months like here, but average salary in Poland way below Canadian level. One thing about Poland - everything is smaller and it doesn't have vast wilderness and space Canada offers.
Pliedtka, yes, we have vast wilderness, you're russian or what?
What website or application is that you are using for this video? I ask so many people and they never respond
That was a fun video. Thank you!
the largest territory was in times of union in which Lithuania was larger than Poland, so in fact there were two countries and many nations within
in general terms of changing borders, wanishing, all the politics I don't think history of Poland is much different from history of other countries so what would you say about Roman Empire, Ottoman Empire, Mongol Empire,...
When my sister told me that Wroclaw was pronounced "vrot swahv" I cried
😆😆😆 Pozdrowienia z Polski 🙂
Lmao 🤣🤣🤣
2:25 - I'm from Poland, I never once heard about any invasion from France on our country, nor can I find any info on it
Gaz in Polish doesn't derive from Gasoline. It's literally gas - LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas).
Poles are resilient
You could’ve included an election map where you can basically still see the German Empire
You are so energetic it looks like you could take off at any moment!
Very cool vid. Love ya
12:10 very relatable.
I live in Volyn region, Ukraine.
There have been like 7 regime changes throughout 20th century
1914: Russian Empire
1914-1917: Switching hands between Austro-Hungary and Russia
1918: German's puppet Ukrainian People's Republic
1921: Polish 2nd Republic
1939:Soviet occupation
1941:Nazi occupation
1944: Soviet occupation once again
1991: modern day Ukraine
And I haven't mentioned various Ukrainian guerrilla groups, which have been fighting Soviet regime until 1960s
Almost 90% of my hometown's housing stock was destroyed during WW2
Are you safe right now
In 20th century I recognize 5 legal regimes, 3 not legal ones (war occupations) and 4 countries (Austria-Hungary, Poland, USSR, Ukraine)
1) up to 1917 Polish Autonomy in Austria-Hungary,
2) 1917-1918 Poland - Polish Kingdom (Regency)
3) 1918-1945 Poland - Polish Republic (1920- this territory- Volyn - was occupied by Soviet Russia for a few months, 1939-1941 occupied by USSR and 1941-1944 occupied by Germany)
4) 1945-1991 USSR - Ukraine SSR
5) 1991- up to now independent Republic of Ukraine
@@cactusjacksentme3211 volyn region is in north west ukraine near polish border, he's more than safe
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@@Zapadoslavist Cum
The biggest change is all the Polish jokes are now Blonde jokes
Great video, greeting from Poland ;) !
15:40 that are probably very old photos on streetview, i dont remember when fuel prices were so low, now they are 2 times bigger
English speakers: War saw
Polish speakers var shava
14:37 The pronunciation of the woman was wrong xD
Warsaw is not Warsaw in Polish! It’s Warszawa. And it’s not pronounced like English „Warsaw”.
15:32 Wow, so cheap, now petrol costs like around 7 zł per litre.
15:42 It was like a few years ago.
Fun fact: Łódz translates in to "Boat". Don`t ask why is it in middle of the country, kilometers away from any big body of water.
Because of small river named "Łodzia". Now it flow through underground canals.
@@werthor7083 I think it is because of the coat of arms "Łodzia" of the original owner of the land where city of Łódź is located.
very happy after watching this, thank you! :)
Hahahaha I'm Polish and I can get life essence from this video!
Edit: hahaha (14:20) I'm from Szczecin and my name is Krzysztof