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Interwar Poland: Rebuilding a Nation from Scratch
After 123 years of partition, Poland re-emerged as an independent state in 1918. But what did it take to stitch three disparate regions—Prussian, Austrian, and Russian—back into a single nation? This episode follows the monumental task of unification: the chaotic first months, the Little Treaty of Versailles, the Silesian Uprisings, and the challenge of integrating economies, legal systems, and railways. We meet the forgotten architects of statehood—people like Wojciech Korfanty and Ignacy Daszyński—and explore the tension between nationalism and federalism under Piłsudski. From the brutal…
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