Jacek Bartosiak & Albert Świdziński talk about Poland’s journey from peripheral position and its prospects (Video)

This entity was more modern, more advanced, more technologically savvy and society was less feudal. Poland was trapped. Once a great power in this part of the world under the name of the Commonwealth, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, reaching one million kilometers, a great agrarian empire whose model of development was based on the mentioned agrarian production and a very effective military system based on almost 10% of gentry serving in the army and making sure that the political system is balanced.

Let's not go into further details. And it lasted for several centuries until it collapsed under the weight of its own backwardness, but most importantly under the growing power of Russia, under Peter the Great and the following rulers of Russia. And then Russia entered the European game. And the former geopolitical arrangement, where the Commonwealth was an important part of it, collapsed, was destroyed. And in the modern era, the Western thinkers didn't have to take into account the old gravity. Jacek Bartosiak, Jacek Bartosiak, Świdziński, Albert, Poland.

If you want to make money, you're going to California. If you wanted to be a famous author, you also landed in California or so on. And there were many Poles, millions of Poles actually immigrated. So this was a country that was simply producing, in their eyes, producing people that served the western markets, emigrated and it was a backward country without proper roads, proper system. The problem is that this belt of countries that were annihilated with the downfall of the Commonwealth. You know, it happens so that all great power wars start here, especially systemic wars, meaning world wars.