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The Partitions That Erased Poland From The Map
By the late eighteenth century, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was a giant with feet of clay, paralyzed by its own democratic experiments and surrounded by rising empires. This episode explores how Prussia, Russia, and Austria executed three surgical strikes between 1772 and 1795 to carve up Polish territory completely. We follow the tragic arc from the First Partition, where Catherine the Great justified her invasion as a peacekeeping mission, to the desperate final stand of Tadeusz Kościuszko in 1794. Lucas and Luna examine the diplomatic maneuvering of King Stanisław August…
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