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The best Poland ever? [125]
Today's Poland is certainly better than Poland under the Soviet yoke, and the years of German Nazi occupation were surely Poland's nadir. The Second Republic was promising but all too brief, and the long years of partition were sad. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was, mostly, a time of great glory for the szlachta and they represented Poland in style, but the best Poland that ever existed was Poland before the First Millenium. Before the Polanie tribe consolidated power, and introduced government to Poland, then was the Golden Age for the Slavs of Poland. They lived as hunters, gatherers, and gardeners without any authorities around to tell them what to do. In harmony with nature these people had all they needed: room to roam and fine women to bone. Say what you will about the "advantages" of civilization the freedom of primeval existence trumps them all, but alas, cleverness has defeated wisdom.