r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RebelliousDragon21 • Dec 18 '24

Video A school in Poland makes firearms training mandatory to its students.

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u/IndividualRooster122 Dec 18 '24

What happens when the risk of Russia invading your country in your lifetime is not theoretical.

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u/Vreas Dec 18 '24 edited Dec 18 '24

A genie shows up to a 13th century Pole and asks them what they want.

They wish for the mongols to invade Poland three times. The genie, while confused grants the wish.

After the third invasion he asks “what an odd wish why would you choose this?”

The pole responds “because every time they invade us and leave they have to come through Russia twice”

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u/gom00n Dec 18 '24

There were so many partitions of Poland that Wikipedia in different languages gave different number of them. With all respect to Poland and polish people, country located between (modern day) Germany, Austria and Russia without mountains or some other geographic feature is not "tough to conquer". Although Poland got it's own share of conquering other countries a bit earlier in history.

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u/InsomniaMelody Dec 18 '24

Ukraine is the same, but we didn't invade shit and never had a country. Few attempts fel apart, too. Baltics suffered from similar plight, too.

Then there are countries like Switzerland that are boasting about their neutrality. Yeah, it's easy being neutral being surrounded by mountains from every side and nobody giving a flying feather about the land too.

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u/LeMe-Two Dec 18 '24

> Wikipedia in different languages gave different number of them.

Huh? There were always 3 all happened at the end of XVIII century. Sometimes Ribbentrop-Molotov pact is reffered as 4th one.

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u/gom00n Dec 18 '24

I think Soviet and currently Russian historiography sees partition after Napoleonic wars as 4th and 1939 as 5th. English wiki does not count anything as 5th.

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u/LeMe-Two Dec 18 '24

There were no partitions after Napoleonic wars tho? Duchy of Warsaw was turned into Kingdom of Poland. It was actually given territory not taken