Poland

>>2485473
Imagine if Dixie slaveowners actually had a country to govern.

>Austria undergoes massive beaurocratic reforms
Poland does nothing, shits itself, virtually no legislation is being passed through the reigns of Jan III and August II

>Prussia creates the first modern army, strongly relying on conscription and drafting. They also make education compulsory.
Poland has a standing army of like 20 000 people, still relies on medieval form of army structure (nobility = knight). When they finally make an army reform, nobility forces them to have a legislation ensuring that 50% of the army would be cavalry.

>Perfidious Brits create a political system that is based on legalism and democratic processes to ensure the wealth and wellbeing of their country.
Poles do nothing and chimpout at any possibility of reform.

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>>2484638
as a Pole I don't have respect for our warmongers and uprising makers. They are the reason we rightfuly seemed dangerous for occupants who repressed our culture and people much stronger after 1831, 1846, 1864. If we would absorb Positivist and Stańczykist ideas much earlier, we could enjoy more freedom, and develop our country, but no - "muh freedom fight", "muh glorious death"

>>2486203
Also that whole Christ of Nations shit, man. Kocham Polskę, naród wspaniały, tylko ludzie kurwy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_of_Europe

>>2485548
Poland was actually limited to having max. 20.000 soldiers by the sorrounding powers.

>>2487492
ikr, I remember I was so annoyed by this whinning while reading "Dziady". Did Mickiewicz realy thought that fall of Commonwealth somehow "saved" Europe

To add on, this is congress Poland, created by the Congress of 1812. The Russian Tzar was already king of Poland before the revolt.

>>2488716
>>2487492
It's the relligion. Getting crucified for someone elses sins. The retarded idea that lets you feel morally superior when you get buttfucked.