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It was great, i dunno why as a Polish person i love watching videos like this where people explore Polish culture, i watched one of your videos just now and there was topic about safety, i live in small town with great historic value with around 30k population, i never left town in a manner of sleeping/walking a lot outside town, and like 1 year ago i wanted to go to a concert in Warsaw, i was scared thinking how big of a city it is and knowing about like gang "Mokotowski/Pruszkowski" (dunno how to translate it (dunno if there's even a need to) nonetheless i went to warsaw, i loved the architecture, 'Pałac Kultury' was great too, we needed to wait like a 7 hours for concert so we went on a small tour to the park, to the place where President resides, after that we went to sit near the center, there was a lot happening, some dude was playing on fricking plastic baskets (he was playing good that's funny), my friend started arguing with some homeless person that started talking to him (xD). Anyway after the concert it was like 21:00 (9pm) and our train back to our town was in the morning, as we didn't have enough money to stay at some hotel or something we needed to skip some time walking we walked a lot during the night, i still felt a little bit uncomfortable but it wasn't that bad, after some time and some people who we met, i concluded that even if there's someone who would be considered a bad person, he won't give a damn if you don't start . Rest of night i spent sleeping on train station it was cold xD, when the train came i slept even more in train, then i've let my friends sleep too so i stayed awake so someone can observe our stuff. I love Poland for what it is, and for the people! (also the kebabs are great)
You can watch the 2nd part... Or have it text version: Poles tried few times to rebel and brake into independance: 1st attempt was during Napoleonic Era, when Duchy of Warsaw was established, but as soon as Napoleon lost, Duchy od Warsaw was annected by Russia. Although it had some great authonomy (had its of treasury, army, parliament, instututions, language etc.) and even kept the name "Kingodom of Poland" things got worse as new Tzar rise to Russian throne which lead to... 2nd attmpt -> November uprsing in 1830... which failed (Russia was supported by their Prussian and Austrian allies, who feared that independent Poland might try to reclaim previous lands owned by Commonwealth)... Russian decided Poles need to be re-educated and russified. Polish language, culture, tradition, institutions were delegalised. Polish army would be dissolved. Region itself, instead of Kingdom of Poland would be officialy called: Vistula's country... 3rd attemp -> January 1863 Uprising also failed to achive anything... it became clear, that Polish Independance won't be possible as long as 3 Occupying countries are working together to stop any independence movements...but guess what... opportunity happened 50 years later as... WW1 broke and Polish occupants become enemies... Poland regained it's independence in 1918 as part of peace dealt between Allies and Germany... Independence wasn't granted as back in 1920 Poland had to face Red Army Invasion, luckily winning this one and surviving... Than again in 1939, on 1st September, Nazi Germany invaded Poland and on 17th of September Soviet Union attacked it from the other side... Poland was again divided, this time between Nazies and Commies... After WWII, Poland was left in Eastern part of Iron Curtain. It's current borders were shaped in 1945. One aditional note: Communist decided that multicultural countries are bad, so they resettled Poles from nowdays Belarus/Russia/Ukraine and forced them to go to Poland... and to make place for them, they also resettled German population from the Western and Northern parts of Poland to Eastern Germany. This created somewhat mono-nation, mono-culture country which is a contraty to multi-nation, multi-culture Kingdom Poland, Commonwealth and after WW1 Poland were before. But, back to history: Although offiicialy independent since 1945 Poland was under heavy control from Muscoy: with standing Soviet Army in Poland (last Soviest/Russian tank left Poland in 1993) and goverment being puppets of Muscovy... many Poles see it as another occupation period. Finaly in 1989 and with fall of Soviest Union soon after, Poland became independent again. In 1999 joined NATO and in 2004 joined European Union.
One of best Animated History of Poland series is one made by Trashingmad. But it is purely in Polish. Suibhne video is probably best source in English. First video was not a documentary, but anniversary spectacle.
"We chineese people are not really violent, we dont really fight" bro, history of china is one big civil war for territory between dynasties. Thats how you've get art of war by sun tzu and sun pin is compressed experience and knowledge from hundreds scrolls written by generals acros the generations 🤓☝️
yea asian people dont have violent history at all. all the martial arts were founded by white pasty geeks behind pc's in ancient times, none of them came from asia
He forgot great 255 years chinnesse war of 7 kingdoms? 🤣 (sometimes is mentioned as a 500 year war, but its only exaggeration) and almost 2000 years of fighting outside or inside [depends on which time].
This dude is a nice person, but he has no idea about history. Like 'most of the countries have history back a thousands years BC' or Romans invaded Poland 😅. But it is good that he is learning.
British historian Norman Davies claims that Poland did not cease to exist after the partitions, but became an idea. During these hundred years, subsequent independence uprisings broke out. Until World War I came.
On September 8, 1610, Żółkiewski led Polish troops into Moscow, where he ruled for two years. He went down in history as the only person to do so. They left Moscow on November 7, 1612. The holiday on this occasion is celebrated in Russia on November 4. I don't know anything about the world related to the Mongols ;)
Mongols defeated a united forces of Rus pricipalities in Battle at River Kalka (Kałka in Polish) and since then, most of the Rus rulers became Mongol tributaries (had to pay $$ to Mongols every year and every single ruler of Rus lands had to by approved by Golden Horde Khan)... this tributary system lasted up to 1480... (so for more than 200 years) and the one who finaly broke from Mongol tribal system was Ivan the 3rd, Great Muscovite Prince, but during this rule, name "Russia" became popular and its the moment when we can say, Russian empire started... (although it had to pass many years, and people like Peter the Great had to reform it, so that Russia become a real power) So, if anyone successfully conquered Russia -> it were Mongols...
Yo, Wes. Polish here. Been watching your videos for a while. If you could make more of interviews or foreign perspectives on Poland, it would be very interesting to me and many others. It really is getting my attention, when you, your friends, or other foreigners you know share their own viewpoints on Poland and polish people or language. Good luck
The Jadwiga being crowned king is a bit of a misstranslation. What she was crowned as is Rex (latin), which directly translated would be King but in reality it was that she was crowned the ruler and not a royal consort (which many if not all other queens have been at the time elsewhere in Europe)
Don't drop this 3D animated one. Give it a chance after that one right there, now you grasped our history . The 3D animated one is more about about "selling fillings and vibe" rather than to learn Poland history from A to Z. And there will be lector later on.
History of Poland is probably one of the most dramatic among contemporary European countries. Imagine going from the largest country in Europe to no country at all, and then having to fight for the very biological survival of the nation during IIWW.
I really like your channel because you seem very genuine! You also give insight instead of reacting with stupid shocked faces which is a breath of fresh air. Keep it up!
Word "Polacy" isn't from tribe called "polanie" but rather from "Polachy" which means "after Lech" , our mitical king. Many nations to this day are calling us "Lahy". Our invaders didn't like that fact because it refers to our monarchic legacy so they bent it a little. I'm saying a little because the name Lech comes from the word "lęch" which is archaism for "ląd" which is basically the same as "pole", so somehow it adds up. But the dirrectly the name of our contry does not come from some not very significant tribe. There were many more more significant ones.
As a Pole this video also gave me alot information about my history and it refresched some information for me And yeah i agree we see outlanders as allies or invaders and i didn't even noticed that for my whole life And yeah most Asians are chill, quiet, respectable and they are hard workers so its hard to dislike you guys👍
"everything that happened in history influences the behaviour of people of specific country" you just defined culture. Arts, traditions, language are fruits of the above
Oooooo i feel very good when I hear that a person from another country says this about Poland, I really liked this movie and thank you for your opinion❤️
well technically the polish flag is just white and red. the eagle in the middle is a variant of this flag, flown on ships registered in Poland (at least that what its suposed to be, noone is going to rip you apart for waving a bandera over your house)
Do the History of Poland by Living Ironically in Europe after part 2 of this. His video has much more humor and commentary as he specialises in memes and overwiews of the slavic world.
You are very inteligent and you explain a lot by diving deep into the topic. Yup, Im with you on the origin of culture perspectives and why we respect each other (europeans and asians)
Prawda, choć później słowo to straciło pierwotne znaczenie i zostało zawłaszczone przez Rosję. W Królestwie Polskim było województwo ruskie, ze stolicą we Lwowie. Obejmowało ziemie Rusi Czerwonej. Dziś po stronie polskiej to województwo zakarpackie (włącznie z Rzeszowem) oraz część województwa lubelskiego (Chełm). Na czele sądownictwa stał tam Sąd Wyższy Prawa Niemieckiego (Sanok). Na całej Rusi Czerwonej dominowali Rusini, za wyjątkiem większych miast, w których na początku dominowali osadnicy i kupcy niemieccy (miasta zakładano na prawie magdeburskim), później Polacy, były też liczne skupiska Żydów i Ormian. Na pogórzu występował też pierwiastek wołoski, który mieszał się ze słowiańskim.
5:45: This has to do with language. Jadwiga was crowned as the reigning monarch, ie Król - King. We don't have a tern for a Queen Regnant, a Królowa is a Queen Consort - literaly " of king" . 11:30: There''s a bit more depth to it, but functionally yes - being Polish is more about allegiance and language than ethnicity. This is why certain types among the Polish-American community piss us off by arguing it must be all about ethnicity (because they have no other connection to the country).
Actually Lech - Poland isn’t inconsistent. Poland was formed by multiple Slavic tribes, including, here comes consistency, Lechcici. There are still some countries that as a name for Poland use names starting with “Lech” or similar prefix. It depends on which tribe they had historically first connection with.m (usually Polanie - Poland, Pologne, Polonia, or those Lechici - if I am correct, Iranians call it Lechistan) Also, no “don’t ask” about the female king. She had the full power of a king, and not queen - which usually would be the wife. Generational trauma is very correct term, I think - you should meet Poles, who born after 1989, during the week after Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Everybody was affected, despite never living under Russian control, and it wasn’t about proximity. Tadeusz Kościuszko - this one is cool! He wasn’t only military veteran. He was American revolution veteran, engineering genius, who designed fortifications of West Point, was crucial in Battles of Saratoga, and in his will he wanted all his American possessions to be used to free as many slaves as possible under conditions of providing them with education or training, and tools to be able to then make their own living.
There is more! It's acctually 3 part series on the topic and latelly on that channel dropped supercut that merged all 3 of them! Also you know that material is good when reactor forgets to react and comment because he is too focused 😅
You are so spot on on the ally and invader part, it is best explained in the words of professor Wincenty Lutoslawski's words which summarise the idea of Polish nationalism stating simply that we don't care who you are or what your beliefs are if you want to be Polish then you can be.
If you'd like, I'd recommend to you some movies, I believie will not bore you, and are historically very accurate, weather it's costumes, customs or historical events. It's a trilogy based on a novels of Henryk Sienkiewicz. First to watch is "Ogniem i Mieczem" ("By Fire and Sword"). It's about conflict between Poland and Ukraine. Next will be "Potop" ("The Deluge") - Sweden-Polish war, and the last one: "Pan Wołodyjowski" ("Mister Wołodyjowski") - a story of a small knight fighting in Turkish - Polish war. All the movies was directed by Jerzy Hoffman, and there's huge time gap between them, since "Pan Wołodyjowski" was released in 1969, and "Ogniem i Mieczem", which comes first chronologically, but was recorded as the last part in 1999. There's also "Krzyżacy" ("Knights of the Black Cross") from 1960, about events around the Grunwald battle, but you can really tell, it's dane in more theatre way than action movie. Have fun.
About jadwiga being the King Its quite simple, King was the title of a monarch and queen was merely a title of their wife (with exveption of female kings where queen was their husband) In polish its król and królowa, its basically x-owa, where x is a family head, owa is information that its a wife of familys head. Because of this system in polish there is also król-ewicz for a prince and król-ewna for princess. What is problematic is that prince and princess in polish are also titles of petty kings (książę) and petty queens (księżniczka), which are are more popular than using forms of królewicz and królewna
Jadwiga was 10 years old, when she was crowned as king. And she become king because then in Polish law only king could rule the country. Queen was the title for only wife of king. It's visible in polish words for king and queen - król and królowa. In those times if you wanted to say "wife of someone" you were just adding -owa to the world describing that someone. Królowa is a wife of king (król+owa) Kowalowa is a wife of blacksmith because in Polish blacksmith is kowal, and if you add -owa you have kowalowa. And it was the same with almost every profession: piekarz - piekarzowa (baker and wife of baker), kołodziej - kołodziejowa (wheelwright and wife of wheelwright), młynarz - młynarzowa (miller and wife of miller).
After you watch this one, please watch "the unconquered", a polish short movie talking a little bit (really a little bit) about ww2 and communism after, it does have english dubbing
the reason the founder of Poland is Called Lech is due to the fact we used to be called Lechia. Name Poland comes from the Polania a part of Poland that the 1st Kings family comes Piast. Iregarding the Jews, it wasnt as common as the narrator stated. It was rare and our Kings was very against doing so.
4:28 on, Silesia - Silesian dukes of 13th century almost unified entire divided from 1138 on Poland and ALMOST took Crown of Polish king for their local Silesian house of Piast branch, they were all powerful Henry I the Bearded, Henry II the Pious, and Henry IV Probus. Henry I the Bearded's merits for Poland and especially for Silesia are extremely important. You can watch or you can read about it on Wikipedia
If you want to have a laugh while finding out stuff on Polish history then there's a lot of cool funny vids on History House Productions channel. The battle of Fuengirola is real nice for example 😉
Winged Hussars werent hungarians but serbians which after turkish invasion fleed to poland to fight muslims. First they were very light with lances and shields decorated with feathers, later transylvanian/hungarian duke Stefan Batory would be elected by Poles to be their king and would reform army - adapt serbian cavalry warfare style and mix it with best equipment possible creating winged hussars - 17 century heavy cavalry, with 6 m lance (only known recipe in poland, empty inside, in some form of oil that prevent bending and making it less heavy), estock (1,5 m steel needly, as second lance), melee weapon (sabre, broadsword, metal pick (nadziak)), and additional firearms (bandolets or pistols - 2 inside saddle (olstry) and maybe 2 additional inside their boots. Sometiems they could also use east bows and light tatar/turkish shields (kałkan - light shield made from ratan which was strong plant). They would charge into enemy formations, keeping alive knights traditions unlike western cavalry which first abandoned melee charges for caracole (ride to enemy shot your firearms and go back to reload) and later would just charge into enemy (because they saw that poles do it good). Also wings were rarely placed on back armor, 95% was just one wing attacked to horse sadle. Greatest victories: Kircholm 1605, Kłuszyn 1610, Chocim 1621, Chocim 1673, Vienna 1683.
"Me as a ansian, I'm considered an ally" Yea, the video skiped pretty much the mongol invasion and conflicts with tatars, technicly we also were in war with japan douring ww2 but not many poles fought there, from obvious reasons. But now we are pretty much not racist, some of conservative people in Poland mostly hold anger toward Germany or muslim imigrants. With war and general state of afairs in russia, russians are also don't liked even aside from our not great history. Asians today are seen mostly throught china economic power and japanise modern popculture. So rather in a good way.
Mogol invasions were hundreds of years ago, Tatars have also positive history in Poland and a fame for being Poland's most loyal minority, we weren't in war with Japan during WW2 because Japan refused to accept Poland as its enemy. Moreover, during WW2, Japan and Poland kept close relations esp. in espionage. The HQ of Poland's Intelligence was in the Japanese consulate in Kaunas.
Maybe in that time Poland was wiped from the maps but there where some countries that didn't agreed to that. For example in turkish maps from that time Poland still existed as Turkey refused to agree with partition. Fun fact given that many times Poland was one of the countries that fought against them in the course of history
Piast might be(and sometimes is) translatred as protector/majordomus/ or just caretakter(but not in cleaning floors kind, but rather: taking care of economy kind) and there is a legend about Piasts unseating bad prince Popiel(although its probably just a copy of similar Alscian story, and it was writen by a monk living in Poland, but who came from modern day France). This wouldnt be unheard of in history, since Karoligians - Frankish(early French) kings came to power after similar palace coup against Meorowigians, just couple of centuries before Another etymology trivia, seat of Piasts dynasty was called Gniezno, which could mean the nest, in reference to eagle nest
There were also wars in Asia, for example the Chinese were at war with Japan and Japan was also at war with Korea, there was a concentration camp in South Korea
The other nice yt movies that are worth of watching are "IPNtv: The Unconquered" and its prequel "IPNtv: Unconquered: Trying Times" The first tells little about our perspective of WW2 and what we did and the prequel what we did before the war but after Great War when Poland one again was on the map
It should be mentioned that: 1. The Teutonic Knights were brought in and given land in northern Poland by Konrad Mazowiecki (Konrad of Masovia) to help Poland fight against the Prussians (Prussians were not Germans). 2. The Battle of Grunwald was the largest battle of the medieval Europe. 3. In 1683 we saved Europe from Islam and the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Vienna. 4. Poles are the only nation that really captured Moscow. Napoleon entered Moscow, which was completely burned down, and the capital of Russia was at that time in St. Petersburg. The Mongols captured Moscow, but it was a tiny wooden town at that time. Therefore, we are the only nation that actually captured Moscow, which was then a fortified city, and stayed there for 2 years (The expulsion of Poles from Moscow is still one of the largest state holidays in Russia). A Polish noblewoman Maryna Mniszchówna (Mniszech) even became the tsaritsa of Russia. I recommend you to read about the Dimitriads (Polish-Russian War 1609-1618). It's really interesting and sometimes even funny. Or about the Deluge (Potop) - there is a great movie about it called Potop from 1974 by Jerzy Hoffman based on a novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz (Nobel Prize winner in literature). That's a trailer: ruclips.net/video/vBfhvt1zrfU/видео.html
From things mentioned in that video i highly advice to search for wider explanation of our war with Teutonic Order especialy termos of surrender that mistake cost us a loot. And also our ride on Moscow it's a funny story.
Key issue of marriage of Jadwiga and Jagiello was that the last pagan country in Europe disappeared. Vladislav obligated himself to baptize his Nation - in peaceful manner- not by sword like Teutonic Order. It is great achivment of Poland in history of the Civilization. And Teutonic Knights lost their excuse to rob and murder Lithuania but in fact they didnt't stop, spreadding lies that the conversion wasn't genuine. Next battle after Grunwald was juridical - on the Council in Constance 1415. It was also won by Poland (Paweł of Brudzew).
Marriage as buisness was common also in villages - big chunk of field was very good dowy and greedy villager families were quite as inbred as aristocrats.
5:53 The narrator says that Jagiełło was a grand prince, and then says that he ruled a kingdom, come on. He also omits a large part of Polish history (e.g. the feudal fragmentation).
what you said about china and winning the war without fighting. That's exactly right! China is now arming itself, but this is not evidence of an aggressive attitude in my opinion. What should they do when more and more enemies gather around? I love America for the security it gives us (for now), but from a distance I see that the Americans want a war in the Pacific more than China.
This video is a good start, but it didn't avoid Russian propaganda when Kievan Rus was called Russia. Ukrainians would be offended. Modern Russia is the former Grand Duchy of Moscow, which emerged under Mongol rule many years after the fall of Kievan Rus. Russia is just one of several states that emerged after the Mongol Empire ended its rule in the former Kievan Rus. It's not accurate to say that Mongols conquered Russia. Moscow was a small city at the time and Russia was not a thing. Poland occupied Moscow for 2 years when it was the capital of a regional power. They could have also elected a Polish prince as Tsar.
I know for an american it might sound weird, but here we go. For many Europeans, race is of secondary concern, what matters is nationality. Sure, you might meet some curious looks, since, in Poland for example, asians or blacks are somewhat rare sight, you might hear some racial slurs, but the thing is, those have no emotional weight, you will hear it not due to hatred or sense of superiority, but because american culture propagated it. On the other hand, you can, and will meet genuine negativity if you are from certain nations.
A 15 minute video is way too short and superficial to understand a country. For example it doesn’t explain why it is so easy, almost natural, for the Polish to adopt democracy (whereas democracy is something impossible to adopt in, say, neighboring Russia). I would suggest reading some history books, perhaps taking an abbreviated Poland history course somewhere (a college?), or perhaps befriending a Polish history buff whom you might be asking questions. Without the knowledge of history in Poland you will always be but a tourist.
I was just thinking about what I wrote above. One of the best abbreviated sources of knowledge about the history of Poland is “The God’s Playground” book by Norman Davies. It is probably the best book in English. The author is a Welsh historian who became fascinated with Poland’s history. He eventually moved to Poland, learned the language and now lives in Cracow.. So he is so much like YOU.
I'd say that the fabled Rus has founded Kievan Rus, the modern day Ukraine, rather than Russia. But still, fun video and good that you react to something that actually holds information compared to just cool visual stuff 🙂
The video you have watched is weird, because it ends at year 1795 which is very early and skips over 200 years of history. It's not that there wasn't anything happening because there definitely was. From school I remmember that about 80% of the time we were studying about WWI and WWII and times in between. This link is for a video i think covers entire history of Poland very well and I think its worth watching. I just don't know if you will like the style, because its very "gen Z-ish". m.ruclips.net/video/ms0BIRTSfoI/видео.html
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It was great, i dunno why as a Polish person i love watching videos like this where people explore Polish culture, i watched one of your videos just now and there was topic about safety, i live in small town with great historic value with around 30k population, i never left town in a manner of sleeping/walking a lot outside town, and like 1 year ago i wanted to go to a concert in Warsaw, i was scared thinking how big of a city it is and knowing about like gang "Mokotowski/Pruszkowski" (dunno how to translate it (dunno if there's even a need to)
nonetheless i went to warsaw, i loved the architecture, 'Pałac Kultury' was great too, we needed to wait like a 7 hours for concert so we went on a small tour to the park, to the place where President resides, after that we went to sit near the center, there was a lot happening, some dude was playing on fricking plastic baskets (he was playing good that's funny), my friend started arguing with some homeless person that started talking to him (xD). Anyway after the concert it was like 21:00 (9pm) and our train back to our town was in the morning, as we didn't have enough money to stay at some hotel or something we needed to skip some time walking we walked a lot during the night, i still felt a little bit uncomfortable but it wasn't that bad, after some time and some people who we met, i concluded that even if there's someone who would be considered a bad person, he won't give a damn if you don't start . Rest of night i spent sleeping on train station it was cold xD, when the train came i slept even more in train, then i've let my friends sleep too so i stayed awake so someone can observe our stuff. I love Poland for what it is, and for the people! (also the kebabs are great)
You can watch the 2nd part...
Or have it text version:
Poles tried few times to rebel and brake into independance:
1st attempt was during Napoleonic Era, when Duchy of Warsaw was established, but as soon as Napoleon lost, Duchy od Warsaw was annected by Russia. Although it had some great authonomy (had its of treasury, army, parliament, instututions, language etc.) and even kept the name "Kingodom of Poland" things got worse as new Tzar rise to Russian throne which lead to...
2nd attmpt -> November uprsing in 1830... which failed (Russia was supported by their Prussian and Austrian allies, who feared that independent Poland might try to reclaim previous lands owned by Commonwealth)... Russian decided Poles need to be re-educated and russified. Polish language, culture, tradition, institutions were delegalised. Polish army would be dissolved. Region itself, instead of Kingdom of Poland would be officialy called: Vistula's country...
3rd attemp -> January 1863 Uprising also failed to achive anything... it became clear, that Polish Independance won't be possible as long as 3 Occupying countries are working together to stop any independence movements...but guess what... opportunity happened 50 years later as...
WW1 broke and Polish occupants become enemies... Poland regained it's independence in 1918 as part of peace dealt between Allies and Germany...
Independence wasn't granted as back in 1920 Poland had to face Red Army Invasion, luckily winning this one and surviving...
Than again in 1939, on 1st September, Nazi Germany invaded Poland and on 17th of September Soviet Union attacked it from the other side... Poland was again divided, this time between Nazies and Commies...
After WWII, Poland was left in Eastern part of Iron Curtain. It's current borders were shaped in 1945. One aditional note: Communist decided that multicultural countries are bad, so they resettled Poles from nowdays Belarus/Russia/Ukraine and forced them to go to Poland... and to make place for them, they also resettled German population from the Western and Northern parts of Poland to Eastern Germany. This created somewhat mono-nation, mono-culture country which is a contraty to multi-nation, multi-culture Kingdom Poland, Commonwealth and after WW1 Poland were before.
But, back to history: Although offiicialy independent since 1945 Poland was under heavy control from Muscoy: with standing Soviet Army in Poland (last Soviest/Russian tank left Poland in 1993) and goverment being puppets of Muscovy... many Poles see it as another occupation period.
Finaly in 1989 and with fall of Soviest Union soon after, Poland became independent again. In 1999 joined NATO and in 2004 joined European Union.
You should react to a great short animation about Poland called "unconquered" it tells the story of how Poland survived through WWII
One of best Animated History of Poland series is one made by Trashingmad. But it is purely in Polish.
Suibhne video is probably best source in English. First video was not a documentary, but anniversary spectacle.
you are getting a golden badge for learning our history
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"We chineese people are not really violent, we dont really fight" bro, history of china is one big civil war for territory between dynasties. Thats how you've get art of war by sun tzu and sun pin is compressed experience and knowledge from hundreds scrolls written by generals acros the generations 🤓☝️
yea asian people dont have violent history at all. all the martial arts were founded by white pasty geeks behind pc's in ancient times, none of them came from asia
He forgot great 255 years chinnesse war of 7 kingdoms? 🤣 (sometimes is mentioned as a 500 year war, but its only exaggeration) and almost 2000 years of fighting outside or inside [depends on which time].
This dude is a nice person, but he has no idea about history. Like 'most of the countries have history back a thousands years BC' or Romans invaded Poland 😅. But it is good that he is learning.
Go back to Warp, would you? -_-
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1410 battle was largest medieval battle in history
*in europe
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The Crisis of the Tumu Fortress had ten times more soldiers and it was medieval times. Battle od Dodgori about 3-4 times more soldires.
Of course he meant in Europe, duh...
Where did it take place? @@Alvvaru-lk7qy
I'ts not over part 2 plaese.
yes! it was interesting !
The moment the recording ends, our history actually starts. This moment and all that happened next actually shaped our nation.
no i niestety jest to też najczarniejszy okres naszej historii
@@PolFoodmyślę że nie … ale na 100% będzię turbulencja.
British historian Norman Davies claims that Poland did not cease to exist after the partitions, but became an idea. During these hundred years, subsequent independence uprisings broke out. Until World War I came.
On September 8, 1610, Żółkiewski led Polish troops into Moscow, where he ruled for two years. He went down in history as the only person to do so. They left Moscow on November 7, 1612. The holiday on this occasion is celebrated in Russia on November 4. I don't know anything about the world related to the Mongols ;)
Mongols defeated a united forces of Rus pricipalities in Battle at River Kalka (Kałka in Polish) and since then, most of the Rus rulers became Mongol tributaries (had to pay $$ to Mongols every year and every single ruler of Rus lands had to by approved by Golden Horde Khan)... this tributary system lasted up to 1480... (so for more than 200 years) and the one who finaly broke from Mongol tribal system was Ivan the 3rd, Great Muscovite Prince, but during this rule, name "Russia" became popular and its the moment when we can say, Russian empire started... (although it had to pass many years, and people like Peter the Great had to reform it, so that Russia become a real power)
So, if anyone successfully conquered Russia -> it were Mongols...
Napoleon z Poniatowskim zajęli Moskwę po raz kolejny w 1812
MONGOLS BATTLE OF LEGNİCA DESTORY RUSSİANS AND POLİSH BOTH@@sytrostormlord3275
Yo, Wes. Polish here. Been watching your videos for a while. If you could make more of interviews or foreign perspectives on Poland, it would be very interesting to me and many others. It really is getting my attention, when you, your friends, or other foreigners you know share their own viewpoints on Poland and polish people or language. Good luck
The Jadwiga being crowned king is a bit of a misstranslation. What she was crowned as is Rex (latin), which directly translated would be King but in reality it was that she was crowned the ruler and not a royal consort (which many if not all other queens have been at the time elsewhere in Europe)
Don't drop this 3D animated one. Give it a chance after that one right there, now you grasped our history . The 3D animated one is more about about "selling fillings and vibe" rather than to learn Poland history from A to Z. And there will be lector later on.
i saw few your videos.. but KNOW you EARNed my subscription. Keep up, our history is really rich
History of Poland is probably one of the most dramatic among contemporary European countries. Imagine going from the largest country in Europe to no country at all, and then having to fight for the very biological survival of the nation during IIWW.
Its really shortened but still im grateful your learning our history :)
I really like your channel because you seem very genuine! You also give insight instead of reacting with stupid shocked faces which is a breath of fresh air. Keep it up!
Proud of you!!! Not many Americans are so into a problem. The world might just surivuve with people like you ❤
Word "Polacy" isn't from tribe called "polanie" but rather from "Polachy" which means "after Lech" , our mitical king. Many nations to this day are calling us "Lahy". Our invaders didn't like that fact because it refers to our monarchic legacy so they bent it a little. I'm saying a little because the name Lech comes from the word "lęch" which is archaism for "ląd" which is basically the same as "pole", so somehow it adds up. But the dirrectly the name of our contry does not come from some not very significant tribe. There were many more more significant ones.
you have our support keep going
As a Pole this video also gave me alot information about my history and it refresched some information for me
And yeah i agree we see outlanders as allies or invaders and i didn't even noticed that for my whole life
And yeah most Asians are chill, quiet, respectable and they are hard workers so its hard to dislike you guys👍
"everything that happened in history influences the behaviour of people of specific country" you just defined culture. Arts, traditions, language are fruits of the above
Oooooo i feel very good when I hear that a person from another country says this about Poland, I really liked this movie and thank you for your opinion❤️
dzięki nam Polakom Ruscy muszą świętować niepodległość w Moskwie od setek lat 😂... nie ma za co
Im from Poland and IT is nice to see somthing good about poland
well technically the polish flag is just white and red. the eagle in the middle is a variant of this flag, flown on ships registered in Poland (at least that what its suposed to be, noone is going to rip you apart for waving a bandera over your house)
Do the History of Poland by Living Ironically in Europe after part 2 of this. His video has much more humor and commentary as he specialises in memes and overwiews of the slavic world.
There is also 2nd and 3rd part. If you want you can look it up
Yeah that's coming next
@@WheresWes That's where it's getting interesting. And horrifying. And depressing.
3:11 POLAND MENTIONED
i absolutelly love when people react to our history.
Historia... Wspomnienia, tych których z nami nie ma. Polish Power !
You can watch story about mis wojtek who was a soldier in polish army
You are very inteligent and you explain a lot by diving deep into the topic. Yup, Im with you on the origin of culture perspectives and why we respect each other (europeans and asians)
Rus founded Rus, than known as Kievan Rus. Not Russia.
Yes, esp. that Russia wasn't even around back then. It wouldn't yet show up on the map for a couple of centuries.
Yep. The first seed of Russia, the Principality of Moscow, would come around 400 years after founding of the Kievan Rus.
Prawda, choć później słowo to straciło pierwotne znaczenie i zostało zawłaszczone przez Rosję. W Królestwie Polskim było województwo ruskie, ze stolicą we Lwowie. Obejmowało ziemie Rusi Czerwonej. Dziś po stronie polskiej to województwo zakarpackie (włącznie z Rzeszowem) oraz część województwa lubelskiego (Chełm). Na czele sądownictwa stał tam Sąd Wyższy Prawa Niemieckiego (Sanok). Na całej Rusi Czerwonej dominowali Rusini, za wyjątkiem większych miast, w których na początku dominowali osadnicy i kupcy niemieccy (miasta zakładano na prawie magdeburskim), później Polacy, były też liczne skupiska Żydów i Ormian. Na pogórzu występował też pierwiastek wołoski, który mieszał się ze słowiańskim.
it wasn't som Rus but a viking king from Ruslan dynasty that conquered territories of slavs and thats how western slaws further depart from Lahs.
@@PiotrJaser Ruś Czerwona zamieszkana była wcześniej przez zachodnio-słowianskich Lędzian
W końcu ktoś się zainteresował historią polski
React to IPNtv: The Unconquered :)
5:45: This has to do with language. Jadwiga was crowned as the reigning monarch, ie Król - King. We don't have a tern for a Queen Regnant, a Królowa is a Queen Consort - literaly " of king" .
11:30: There''s a bit more depth to it, but functionally yes - being Polish is more about allegiance and language than ethnicity. This is why certain types among the Polish-American community piss us off by arguing it must be all about ethnicity (because they have no other connection to the country).
you understand our mentality very well, after so many invasions we are cautious towards foreigners
Actually Lech - Poland isn’t inconsistent. Poland was formed by multiple Slavic tribes, including, here comes consistency, Lechcici.
There are still some countries that as a name for Poland use names starting with “Lech” or similar prefix. It depends on which tribe they had historically first connection with.m (usually Polanie - Poland, Pologne, Polonia, or those Lechici - if I am correct, Iranians call it Lechistan)
Also, no “don’t ask” about the female king. She had the full power of a king, and not queen - which usually would be the wife.
Generational trauma is very correct term, I think - you should meet Poles, who born after 1989, during the week after Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Everybody was affected, despite never living under Russian control, and it wasn’t about proximity.
Tadeusz Kościuszko - this one is cool! He wasn’t only military veteran. He was American revolution veteran, engineering genius, who designed fortifications of West Point, was crucial in Battles of Saratoga, and in his will he wanted all his American possessions to be used to free as many slaves as possible under conditions of providing them with education or training, and tools to be able to then make their own living.
After watching this film you should watch the other one! its definitly more emotional and shows our stubborn and proud country!
11 listopada (november) 1918.
Serdecznie DZIĘKUJĘ ❤
9:02 Wait Americans don't learn about history of the world? No wonder, we learn every major events, relevant not only to our own country
There is more! It's acctually 3 part series on the topic and latelly on that channel dropped supercut that merged all 3 of them!
Also you know that material is good when reactor forgets to react and comment because he is too focused 😅
More crying about J ews being killed..?
Greetings from Tricity in Poland :-)
You are so spot on on the ally and invader part, it is best explained in the words of professor Wincenty Lutoslawski's words which summarise the idea of Polish nationalism stating simply that we don't care who you are or what your beliefs are if you want to be Polish then you can be.
Sabaton history channel tytuł uprising. Prawdziwa historia gdy Polacy próbowali odzyskać Warszawę w czasie 2 wojny światowej
If you'd like, I'd recommend to you some movies, I believie will not bore you, and are historically very accurate, weather it's costumes, customs or historical events. It's a trilogy based on a novels of Henryk Sienkiewicz. First to watch is "Ogniem i Mieczem" ("By Fire and Sword"). It's about conflict between Poland and Ukraine. Next will be "Potop" ("The Deluge") - Sweden-Polish war, and the last one: "Pan Wołodyjowski" ("Mister Wołodyjowski") - a story of a small knight fighting in Turkish - Polish war. All the movies was directed by Jerzy Hoffman, and there's huge time gap between them, since "Pan Wołodyjowski" was released in 1969, and "Ogniem i Mieczem", which comes first chronologically, but was recorded as the last part in 1999. There's also "Krzyżacy" ("Knights of the Black Cross") from 1960, about events around the Grunwald battle, but you can really tell, it's dane in more theatre way than action movie. Have fun.
🏵🏵🏵 THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST IN POLISH HISTORY .
"That's why Asian people and Chinese people aren't really violent"
Japan:
Lil Kimmy:
Taliban:
About jadwiga being the King
Its quite simple, King was the title of a monarch and queen was merely a title of their wife (with exveption of female kings where queen was their husband)
In polish its król and królowa, its basically x-owa, where x is a family head, owa is information that its a wife of familys head.
Because of this system in polish there is also król-ewicz for a prince and król-ewna for princess.
What is problematic is that prince and princess in polish are also titles of petty kings (książę) and petty queens (księżniczka), which are are more popular than using forms of królewicz and królewna
3 brothers were -
Polak, Czech & Lech.
Russ tried join,
but was kicked out.
You should visit Gniezno and see how it is
Jadwiga was 10 years old, when she was crowned as king. And she become king because then in Polish law only king could rule the country. Queen was the title for only wife of king. It's visible in polish words for king and queen - król and królowa. In those times if you wanted to say "wife of someone" you were just adding -owa to the world describing that someone. Królowa is a wife of king (król+owa) Kowalowa is a wife of blacksmith because in Polish blacksmith is kowal, and if you add -owa you have kowalowa. And it was the same with almost every profession: piekarz - piekarzowa (baker and wife of baker), kołodziej - kołodziejowa (wheelwright and wife of wheelwright), młynarz - młynarzowa (miller and wife of miller).
After you watch this one, please watch "the unconquered", a polish short movie talking a little bit (really a little bit) about ww2 and communism after, it does have english dubbing
the reason the founder of Poland is Called Lech is due to the fact we used to be called Lechia. Name Poland comes from the Polania a part of Poland that the 1st Kings family comes Piast. Iregarding the Jews, it wasnt as common as the narrator stated. It was rare and our Kings was very against doing so.
4:28 on, Silesia - Silesian dukes of 13th century almost unified entire divided from 1138 on Poland and ALMOST took Crown of Polish king for their local Silesian house of Piast branch, they were all powerful Henry I the Bearded, Henry II the Pious, and Henry IV Probus.
Henry I the Bearded's merits for Poland and especially for Silesia are extremely important. You can watch or you can read about it on Wikipedia
If you want to have a laugh while finding out stuff on Polish history then there's a lot of cool funny vids on History House Productions channel.
The battle of Fuengirola is real nice for example 😉
Watch the short video by IPN entitled "unconquered". There is an English version of this video.
You should react to an awesome polish animation called "unconquered"
There is another
Even better animated history
Of Poland. It takes 8 43min
Winged Hussars werent hungarians but serbians which after turkish invasion fleed to poland to fight muslims. First they were very light with lances and shields decorated with feathers, later transylvanian/hungarian duke Stefan Batory would be elected by Poles to be their king and would reform army - adapt serbian cavalry warfare style and mix it with best equipment possible creating winged hussars - 17 century heavy cavalry, with 6 m lance (only known recipe in poland, empty inside, in some form of oil that prevent bending and making it less heavy), estock (1,5 m steel needly, as second lance), melee weapon (sabre, broadsword, metal pick (nadziak)), and additional firearms (bandolets or pistols - 2 inside saddle (olstry) and maybe 2 additional inside their boots. Sometiems they could also use east bows and light tatar/turkish shields (kałkan - light shield made from ratan which was strong plant). They would charge into enemy formations, keeping alive knights traditions unlike western cavalry which first abandoned melee charges for caracole (ride to enemy shot your firearms and go back to reload) and later would just charge into enemy (because they saw that poles do it good). Also wings were rarely placed on back armor, 95% was just one wing attacked to horse sadle. Greatest victories: Kircholm 1605, Kłuszyn 1610, Chocim 1621, Chocim 1673, Vienna 1683.
"Me as a ansian, I'm considered an ally"
Yea, the video skiped pretty much the mongol invasion and conflicts with tatars, technicly we also were in war with japan douring ww2 but not many poles fought there, from obvious reasons.
But now we are pretty much not racist, some of conservative people in Poland mostly hold anger toward Germany or muslim imigrants. With war and general state of afairs in russia, russians are also don't liked even aside from our not great history. Asians today are seen mostly throught china economic power and japanise modern popculture. So rather in a good way.
Mogol invasions were hundreds of years ago, Tatars have also positive history in Poland and a fame for being Poland's most loyal minority, we weren't in war with Japan during WW2 because Japan refused to accept Poland as its enemy. Moreover, during WW2, Japan and Poland kept close relations esp. in espionage. The HQ of Poland's Intelligence was in the Japanese consulate in Kaunas.
IPNTv the uncounquered
Maybe in that time Poland was wiped from the maps but there where some countries that didn't agreed to that. For example in turkish maps from that time Poland still existed as Turkey refused to agree with partition. Fun fact given that many times Poland was one of the countries that fought against them in the course of history
Piast might be(and sometimes is) translatred as protector/majordomus/ or just caretakter(but not in cleaning floors kind, but rather: taking care of economy kind) and there is a legend about Piasts unseating bad prince Popiel(although its probably just a copy of similar Alscian story, and it was writen by a monk living in Poland, but who came from modern day France). This wouldnt be unheard of in history, since Karoligians - Frankish(early French) kings came to power after similar palace coup against Meorowigians, just couple of centuries before
Another etymology trivia, seat of Piasts dynasty was called Gniezno, which could mean the nest, in reference to eagle nest
Fun fuct: Gniezno (first capital of PL) derives from word gniazdo (nest). Eagle's nest is good starting point.
There were also wars in Asia, for example the Chinese were at war with Japan and Japan was also at war with Korea, there was a concentration camp in South Korea
we're getting to the best part where POLAND IS NOT YET LOST
Animated History of Poland by Bagiński is epic and the only one worth to watch
The other nice yt movies that are worth of watching are "IPNtv: The Unconquered" and its prequel "IPNtv: Unconquered: Trying Times"
The first tells little about our perspective of WW2 and what we did and the prequel what we did before the war but after Great War when Poland one again was on the map
I was just watching your videos
Hi Wes, I'd really love to see your reaction to "unconquered", it really tells you a lot about Polish people3
Coming soon ;)
It should be mentioned that:
1. The Teutonic Knights were brought in and given land in northern Poland by Konrad Mazowiecki (Konrad of Masovia) to help Poland fight against the Prussians (Prussians were not Germans).
2. The Battle of Grunwald was the largest battle of the medieval Europe.
3. In 1683 we saved Europe from Islam and the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Vienna.
4. Poles are the only nation that really captured Moscow. Napoleon entered Moscow, which was completely burned down, and the capital of Russia was at that time in St. Petersburg. The Mongols captured Moscow, but it was a tiny wooden town at that time. Therefore, we are the only nation that actually captured Moscow, which was then a fortified city, and stayed there for 2 years (The expulsion of Poles from Moscow is still one of the largest state holidays in Russia). A Polish noblewoman Maryna Mniszchówna (Mniszech) even became the tsaritsa of Russia.
I recommend you to read about the Dimitriads (Polish-Russian War 1609-1618). It's really interesting and sometimes even funny. Or about the Deluge (Potop) - there is a great movie about it called Potop from 1974 by Jerzy Hoffman based on a novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz (Nobel Prize winner in literature). That's a trailer: ruclips.net/video/vBfhvt1zrfU/видео.html
From things mentioned in that video i highly advice to search for wider explanation of our war with Teutonic Order especialy termos of surrender that mistake cost us a loot. And also our ride on Moscow it's a funny story.
Key issue of marriage of Jadwiga and Jagiello was that the last pagan country in Europe disappeared. Vladislav obligated himself to baptize his Nation - in peaceful manner- not by sword like Teutonic Order. It is great achivment of Poland in history of the Civilization. And Teutonic Knights lost their excuse to rob and murder Lithuania but in fact they didnt't stop, spreadding lies that the conversion wasn't genuine. Next battle after Grunwald was juridical - on the Council in Constance 1415. It was also won by Poland (Paweł of Brudzew).
Teutons were never true christians to begin with
squadron 303 . O Polakach którzy walczyli za Anglię a później zostali zdradzeni przez nich oraz resztę europy
Unconquered IPN tv . Trochę historii o Polsce
There is also a second part. If you want you can look it up.
sun tzu the art of war is a great read. and yes trauma passes through genereations :)
Nice but where is another part?
Coming next, too long for one video
@@WheresWes I can not wait :-)
Marriages was about mixing royal blood. Royal children was kind of waranty of a unions
Marriage as buisness was common also in villages - big chunk of field was very good dowy and greedy villager families were quite as inbred as aristocrats.
Polska ❤
Generaly over 25% of poles are traumatized in novadays because of history
Pozdrawiam z Polski :)
bro you need to watch part 2
I'm from Poland.
True 💯‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
5:53 The narrator says that Jagiełło was a grand prince, and then says that he ruled a kingdom, come on. He also omits a large part of Polish history (e.g. the feudal fragmentation).
what you said about china and winning the war without fighting. That's exactly right! China is now arming itself, but this is not evidence of an aggressive attitude in my opinion. What should they do when more and more enemies gather around? I love America for the security it gives us (for now), but from a distance I see that the Americans want a war in the Pacific more than China.
12:15 And yet again. After the first partition of Poland, Gdańsk was still within its borders.
Have a long thought, about who actually stopped the wars, and what that that took.
Watch Legendy Polskie Smok (Polish Legends Dragon) It takes place in Kraków
This video is a good start, but it didn't avoid Russian propaganda when Kievan Rus was called Russia. Ukrainians would be offended. Modern Russia is the former Grand Duchy of Moscow, which emerged under Mongol rule many years after the fall of Kievan Rus.
Russia is just one of several states that emerged after the Mongol Empire ended its rule in the former Kievan Rus. It's not accurate to say that Mongols conquered Russia. Moscow was a small city at the time and Russia was not a thing.
Poland occupied Moscow for 2 years when it was the capital of a regional power. They could have also elected a Polish prince as Tsar.
It was neither Russia nor Ukraine. Both of them are more mongols than Slavs
I know for an american it might sound weird, but here we go. For many Europeans, race is of secondary concern, what matters is nationality. Sure, you might meet some curious looks, since, in Poland for example, asians or blacks are somewhat rare sight, you might hear some racial slurs, but the thing is, those have no emotional weight, you will hear it not due to hatred or sense of superiority, but because american culture propagated it. On the other hand, you can, and will meet genuine negativity if you are from certain nations.
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A 15 minute video is way too short and superficial to understand a country. For example it doesn’t explain why it is so easy, almost natural, for the Polish to adopt democracy (whereas democracy is something impossible to adopt in, say, neighboring Russia). I would suggest reading some history books, perhaps taking an abbreviated Poland history course somewhere (a college?), or perhaps befriending a Polish history buff whom you might be asking questions. Without the knowledge of history in Poland you will always be but a tourist.
I was just thinking about what I wrote above. One of the best abbreviated sources of knowledge about the history of Poland is “The God’s Playground” book by Norman Davies. It is probably the best book in English. The author is a Welsh historian who became fascinated with Poland’s history. He eventually moved to Poland, learned the language and now lives in Cracow.. So he is so much like YOU.
Next time "Unconquered" by IPN
I'd say that the fabled Rus has founded Kievan Rus, the modern day Ukraine, rather than Russia. But still, fun video and good that you react to something that actually holds information compared to just cool visual stuff 🙂
How about you watch Unconcured :) ?
The video you have watched is weird, because it ends at year 1795 which is very early and skips over 200 years of history. It's not that there wasn't anything happening because there definitely was. From school I remmember that about 80% of the time we were studying about WWI and WWII and times in between.
This link is for a video i think covers entire history of Poland very well and I think its worth watching. I just don't know if you will like the style, because its very "gen Z-ish".
m.ruclips.net/video/ms0BIRTSfoI/видео.html