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The Polish Language Under Partition: A Nation's Soul
When Poland was erased from the map in 1795, its language became a battleground. In Prussian-occupied Poznań, Germanization policies targeted Polish in schools and administration, while in Russia, the Congress Kingdom saw the suppression of Polish after the January Uprising of 1863. But Poles fought back—not with armies, but with books. This episode explores the quiet resistance of language preservation: secret flying universities (Uniwersytet Latający) in Warsaw, the smuggling of Polish textbooks across borders, and the work of linguist Samuel Linde, whose dictionary became a cultural…
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