A Future Geopolitical Revolution in Europe?
The reborn federalist conception is once again surfacing and gaining traction in the Intermarium — the Central and Eastern European lands between the Black and Baltic Seas. The notion of resurrecting the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth has not perished, in spite of the region's tumultuous past. For several centuries, the Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian polity united the lands between the Black and Baltic seas, constituting an eastern borderland of the West. The Rzeczpospolita was partitioned by Prussia, Russia, and Austria at the end of the 18th century, and once again dismembered and overrun by the German Nazis and Soviet Communists during the 20th century. All of these foreign conquerors sought to discredit and destroy the legacy of this premodern federation. The Tsarist Muscovites, the Bolshevik propagandists, and the local ethnonationalists (particularly the Lithuanian, Belarusian, and Ukrainian ones) shared one common feature: all three demonized the Commonwealth as nothing more than a vehicle for «Polonization» and «oppression» by «Polish landlords (Pany).» Yet, miraculously, the historical memories of this once unique European polity exert a posthumous influence even during the 21st century — and not only in the most likely places, such as Poland, whose people often view themselves as the chief and rightful heirs of the Commonwealth. ссылка →
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