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abunchanoise   
12 Oct 2009
History / What would Europe look like with Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian Commonwealth today [209]

As I understand the things it was very much the Poland's idea to give away from federation and go to national state destiny somewhere declared in Riga 1921 when Pilsudski idea of revival of the federation of many nations was defeated by Grabski's and Dmowski's visions of Poland.

Poland as a cultural environment as such never welcomed other cultures to be present there.
It exercise it's power of being more Western culture on it's East territories sometimes to extreme.

Polish culture always was treated like something of the better value that all other Commonwealth cultures were. This was exactly what broke The P-L-U Commonwealth from inside. Crisis of value. Some artificial stance that it was the realm of multicultural and multilingual people helps very little as well as the treating "new born" nations as equal in international arena after 1991.

Too little too late.

I certainly which to see Europe with entity envisioned by Lithuanian gentry somewhere in beginning of 19th or 20th century, where many cultures and religions are treated as equal.

Unfortunately, reality is something different.