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“Massacre of the nobles in Galicia”, illustration, 19th century

Galician peasants ransack a hunting lodge of the local rural aristocracy and abduct the landowner

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Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur-und Betriebsges.m.b.H./Fotograf: Alexander E. Koller

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    The struggle of the Poles for their nation: Poland is not yet lost!

    The first words of the Polish national anthem call out the hopes of the Poles to regain their freedom. Poland foundered as a nation because of the Polish Partitions in the late eighteenth century, when the neighbouring Great Powers of Prussia, Russia and Austria partitioned the territory of the Polish aristocratic republic between them.