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What if scenario´s for WW2 and Poland [112]
It wasn't as barbaric as Poland's disgraceful and heart-wrenching invasion of Ruthenian territories and burning my beloved city L'viv
First of all Nathan your elites welcomed us with open arms, second we burned only a part of the town because Lwów became a city and a Polish heartland under Polish management, we built the vast majority of what is today Lwów, when you had it it was just a keep and a small town around it.
You may call Kazimierz lll a bandit as he definately was.
Given that he defended your people from Tartar raids that your local rulers were completely unable to repell i'm sure he was a horrible man.
He built schools, introducted laws that prevented your nobles from monopolising food trade and thus stopped shortages among lower class citizens, he introduced literacy, engineering and medical sciences to an otherwise backwards region and unlike you your nobles loved it.
A hundred years later more then 2/3rds of Ruthenian nobles spoke Polish and Latin, most of them were Catholic and ardent supporters of the Polish Commonwealth, if we were such evil bandits why did you elites support us so?
Probably because they were...
Which ones? While i agree that Wrocław and most of Lower Silesia is much more Germanic (its a mix of Austria and Germany) then Polish through history many of the lands were either directly Polish or under Polish rule before the partitions and fully deserve the term "recovered".
Policy of religious, cultural and lingual destruction of another nation can be hardly called "civiliation and culture".
Your people have been raped by Tartars, Muscovites and everyone and their brother, when Poles came we built cities, fortresses, we brought armies that put a stop to Ruthenians being everyone's *****, we brought you all the advancements of the Western cultures, protection and peace, all of which you were apparently unable to attain on your own.
Besides Nathan while immoral and unethical going "Spanish" on your sorry asses could have saved us a lot of trouble so be grateful we are not like Spanish and the Aztecs:)