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22 Mar 2014
History / Do Polish people in general dislike Russia or Germany more? [369]
To some extent, the Polish had the rightful casus belli of restoring order in her eastern neighbour, and also to help the boyars tired of czarist tyranny and seeking for Golden Freedom, as well as the uprising peasants who sought them for help, though the last one seemed not that legitimate as Polish peasants were not in good shape as well.
Anyway, Poles didn't aimed at any serious conquest of Muscowy, they simply demanded a personal union liked that with Lithuania, and furthermore, compared with Russian's previous constant invasions to the Lithuanian territories and its later attempts to conquer and assimilate the entire Commonwealth, which nearly succeeded, the Polish intervention is not of a same level.
To some extent, the Polish had the rightful casus belli of restoring order in her eastern neighbour, and also to help the boyars tired of czarist tyranny and seeking for Golden Freedom, as well as the uprising peasants who sought them for help, though the last one seemed not that legitimate as Polish peasants were not in good shape as well.
Anyway, Poles didn't aimed at any serious conquest of Muscowy, they simply demanded a personal union liked that with Lithuania, and furthermore, compared with Russian's previous constant invasions to the Lithuanian territories and its later attempts to conquer and assimilate the entire Commonwealth, which nearly succeeded, the Polish intervention is not of a same level.