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The Great Emigration: Poland's Exiled Soul After 1831
After the failed November Uprising of 1830-31, tens of thousands of Polish soldiers, intellectuals, and artists fled the Russian partition, scattering across Europe in what became known as the Wielka Emigracja — the Great Emigration. This episode follows the paths of these exiles: from the internment camps in Prussia where insurgents were disarmed, to the Great Polish Hotel in Paris where Adam Mickiewicz wrote 'Pan Tadeusz', to the dusty plains of Texas where a handful of veterans tried to build a New Poland. Lucas and Luna explore how a nation without a state kept its identity…
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