Batrix2070
For VI Space Commonwealth of Poland!
- Location
- On ORP Ryzykant, Brenna System
Polish aviation is doing quite well. It is led by a pretty keen General Ludwik Rayski who makes sure that it is at the highest level.
The problem, unfortunately, is that over time he too was afflicted by the bomber and heavy fighter disease, which caused Polish pilots to cut back on PZL.11c to 39. Only the change to General Zajączek made the necessary changes, but too late.
This is a rather bad idea. Poland is too poor to experiment with something that is going away. If there was an airship factory in Poland before WWI, we probably tried to do something with them after independence.
Technically we did OLT, the problem was that it went only to Poles. Others who were there with us did not want to return to Commowealth.
Noble not aristocratic. Poland had no real aristocracy.
And secondly, only in theory only the nobility had golden freedom, in practice all citizens were free only not all felt like more because where they were they were more profitable.
The best example of this is the peasantry, in theory only one peasant could leave his village. And all were obliged to do their serfdom.
In practice, the mobility of peasants was unlimited because only the bad lords were paid off by this prohibition, most ignored it because with good management they could attract more peasants to them, so it was often the case that one peasant could work for many lords.
Even better, the average rich peasant often hired poorer peasants to work his land or to do the serfdom for him.
And the best part is that it was not difficult to get into the nobility, and many "nobles" were in fact peasants and burghers who changed their names to nobility.
A good example of this is the fact that every parliament has implemented laws to curb these practices. Every parliament that was convened until the end of the PLC, efforts were made to combat this phenomenon!
If this is the case, it means that no one followed this law.
But back to the propaganda, Commowealth but for all it has been in it for a long time. More precisely, it started with the November Uprising in 1831 but the idea was taken seriously after the January Uprising of 1863. It was then recognized that if ever Poland was to regain its independence, the peasants must be ennobled! That is, to recognize them as a part of the nation equal to the nobility.
The faction most moving in this direction and which was also the most effective in this were.... nationalists from Dmowski who based his modus operandi precisely on awakening the national consciousness of the lower social strata.
Such a plan had in fact been in the making since the end of the Polish-Bolshevik war although it was finally drafted in 1935 and work on it was completed in 1938.
Unfortunately, here have to start work already, the plan west was formed in pain only in March 1939.
Before that it was not there!
Technically, at the time of partition, the PLC was fighting on one front, against Russia. Due to the treachery of the Lithuanian Hetman, the Lithuanian Army retreated to Warsaw without any battle, while half of the Crown Army retreated fighting defensive battles to Warsaw from Ukraine.
When fate actually weighed in and there was still some chance of an effective defense, a frightened King Poniatowski, convinced by his terrified reformers, betrayed his soldiers by going over to the Targowica, hoping that Katherine would take pity and Poland would at most lose some of its eastern lands.
As it turned out, this was the worst mistake he could have made. Many of these reformers later joined Kosciuszko during his uprising but by then there was no chance of victory, the army had mostly dispersed. The Poles quarreled in command, and some of the patriots had to ensure that they did not lose their estates which were located in various countries overnight.
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