Yes, I know I disappoint my Polish ancestors with my pronunciations. Dmowski should probably be pronounced Dmoffski and I for whatever reason completely missed this fact lmao. I know for next time I suppose ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Also next video is either Skoropadsky or Arcand depending on how busy I am this month. Have a great day :)
An interesting video idea could be Luke Lea, a Tennessee politician and newspaper owner who was involved in some interesting stuff, including an attempted kidnapping of Kaiser Wilhelm II in the Netherlands
His mentioned brother Bronisław Piłsudski, who took part in the attack together with Lenin's older brother, after being exiled to Siberia, became one of the most important anthropologists of the indigenous inhabitants of Hokaido, the Ainu people.
Well it had a continuation because there was strong military cooperation between POL and JAP in 1920s and early 1930s. It is rumoured that before 1932 it was quite close to a formal alliance, but several factors derailed it - my guess would be the invasion of Manchuria and the non-aggression pact with the Soviets mentioned in the video. One weird fact from that period is that JAP offered Poland 10 light cruisers for its expanding navy in 1930. Now imagine ex-Japanese cruisers fighting under POL banner against GER and ITA warships during WW2. Relations still remained so good that JAP attempted to negotiate with GER not to invade POL and after Hitler signed his pact with Stalin JAP government experienced a major crisis. Japan also declared it will not recognise the fact that POL declared war in 1941 quoting that Poland was forced to do so due to the alliance with UK. Relations remain very good to this day.
Jesus Christ... What the hell was going on in Poland between 1926 and 1935? Its like the whole state is on fire and Piłsudski was the only guy with a fire extinguisher.
During the interwar period almost every Easter European countrie’s government went inept and the only way to save them was from dictatorships. It’s actually a reason for why the baltics didn’t fight back against the soviets when they made there demands during World War 2, the people and the government quite literally did not have the will or desire to continue on.
When I was talking and drinking with some turkish students in Warsaw I came to a conclusion that he is Our Atatürk. What's funny is Piłsudski looks more stereotypically turkish than him.
@@tymonzmijewski3206i don't know about that tbh. The Turkish wars of independence were a miracle for the Turks, and their victory was highly unlikely. But after that it was smooth sailing for Kemal
Well, none of the neighbors realistically wanted this project, even Polish nationalists didn't want it. Lithuanian nationalism has always seemed stupid and ridiculous to me, but not much more so than Polish nationalism
@@tanczacyzesmerfami6832 what do you mean by saying stupid? The way I see it, separate nations who just got out of an almost two century long russian subjugation shouldn't be conditioned to do that once more, if they so wish.
I recommend getting to know Bolesław Piasecki - his biography would be perfect for one of the episodes on this channel. In short, this man started in the most radical Polish party ONR, and as a young man he was an important member of its even more radical wing ONR Falanga, during the war he was the leader of a small nationalist militia (he was caught by the Gestapo and released thanks to his family contacts in Italy). , and after the war he made a U-turn by joining the Polish United Workers' Party and running the only legal Catholic newspaper. And all this is just a summary of his crazy biography, not even mentioning his political "works".
@@blackshirtsocialist1457 Well, I don't know, at some point it's hard to talk about fighting for "the state" or something. His late activities rather indicate that faith was, in some way, the most important thing to him, if not his own ass
@@tanczacyzesmerfami6832 he is pragmatic really and he is very Pragmatic in religious sense he can support the church if it was advancing his goals but in other hand he have high chance of supporting anti-clericalism IF The Church doesn't comply or doesn't advancing his goals (he is really was Pragmatic Idealist, he doesn't really care about the Means as long the Ends is as his pleased)
@@tanczacyzesmerfami6832 my friend has read Piasecki works and this probably best summarization of Piasecki relationship with church: "State was supposed to act as voice of the Church" Basically he has views of Catholicism or Church to be subjugated by state to serve the Will of the State
45:00 correction Poniatowski last king of Poland is not in the Wawel Cathedral. He is only king of Poland who is buried in Warsaw.And Wavel is in Kraków not in Warsaw.
Some other Poles that you certainly should make video about include: Roman Dmowski (for obvious reasons) Ferdynand Ossendowski (this guy was a good friend of the Mad Baron and is a major source of what we know about him (with them Both recieving a prophecy from Bogd Khan about the dates of there deaths that Both came True) and Had just an Amazing life) Bolesław Wienawa-Długoszowski (An playboy, Freemason and one-day president of Poland) Maurycy Beniowski (The Polish King of Madagaskar) Tadeusz Kościuszko (it's Kościuszko) Karol Świerczewski (aka gamer) Anton Denikin (he Had Polish ancestry so he counts) Henryk Dobrzański (the Mad Major) Walery Sławek (Piłsudski's favorite) Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (the Mad artist) And last but oh, so certainly not least Stanisław Szukalski (the esoteric pagan sculptor)
Szukalski was neither pagan nor esoteric sculptor - he was an artist of uncommon artistic genius and craft - compare his art to Auguste Rodin art of generation before and you’ll discover that there is a difference of superior Form and superior intellect, ultimately driving all art .
You should do a video on Joseph Byerle. He was an American who landed in Normandy, got lost in Germany and decided to blow shit up for a while, got captured, tortured, escaped, went to the eastern front and joined the Red Army, liberated his own POW camp, met fucking Zhukov, and was married in the same church he was mistakenly given a funeral in when he was missing.
@@jesuschrist9513 if the german revolution were to be successful with bolshevik help the nazis couldn’t have slaughtered all of europe and destroyed poland. not much of a save
Memes aside, this is the kind of historical perspective I think we need to see more of. You jab at everyone's faults, including legends, but also couch that with important background information. This was great, keep it up.
I like this more objective format rather than the usual patriotic tone we are taught at schools. As a pole I like to watch foreign videos to get more perspective on stuff
He is a great figure, really. Very much underappreciated even in Poland. While his domestic policy wasn't perfect, and some things could be definetely done better, his foreign policy was perfect. How many things he did right, how many things he predicted is staggering. Big fan of Napoleon also
Woodrow Wilson is America’s worst President who was a Genocidal Bigoted Neo-Confederate De Facto Tyrant whose presidency enabled the rise of Stalin and Hitler.
At the time a lot of people could see the writing on the wall but no one could really figure what would spark it, Before the archduke was shot there were multiple other crises preceding World War 1, A lot of people in Europe particularly leaders revolutionaries and others thought the spark would come from the Balkans, the difference here is he got his guess.
What's even more interesting, he also wanted to make preventive attack on germany in 1933 (to remove nazis from power) but France declined that proposition. If west listened to him maybe WW2 would never happen.
He was generally pretty good at predicting things (apart from his shortsighted and stupid conquest of the east). He also wanted the past entente countries to attack nazi germany in a preventive war while was still weak. Who knows what would happen if they agreed
@@tymonzmijewski3206 As a commander yes, but Piłsudski was given a political nightmare mess and came out on top, which I think deserves a lot of credit
@@waltlawson2709 On the other hand, Ataturk turned a backward, deeply Islamic state into a modern secular republic, milking the basis for a regional player which is Turkey today (despite the obvious change in politics). Not only was Piłsudski the leader of a bloody coup d'état that could have ended in a civil war, but he also failed to protect the country against dictatorship or foreign forces, surrounded himself with very incompetent people and made many mistakes.
"Why the fuck is there a man in big armour is holding back my fucking Calvary. don't you dare hurt my horses I just fucking washed it yesterday." Semyon Budyonny, probably
Small nitpick - back then it was called Vilno. Vilnus is a lithuanian pronounciation, and cuz... they really love putting s on the end everywhere for some curious reason
We put s because it's just how our words work, most singular masculine words (that I can think of at the moment) have s at the end, I think that's the same for the city, though I'm not sure
It's because we have this thing called "Grammatical case" or "Przypadek" as you call it in Polish. The "s" at the end represents the nominativus form of most words.
4:47 I wonder if there he ever fathered an unknown son who later married an Ainu woman and got involved with some shenanigans about an insane amount of gold from hokkaido...
No, but his brother Bronisław was sent all the way to Sakhalin, where he had two kids with an Ainu woman. Their descendants live in Japan to this day. Bronisław Piłsudski alo became an anthropologist, probably the most important researcher of the Ainu culture. There's even a statue of him on Hokkaido. The whole story was clearly one of the sources of inspiration for Golden Kamuy, although in that fictional story, the Polish-Ainu connection was moved at least a generation back.
@@Artur_M. I don't know about this brother but here in Italy if you name the Ainu you get Fosco Maraini (the one who cut his finger to demonstrate italians were not cowards to ditch mussolini)
Hey thanks for a solid video in addition to posting your sources! It’s really cool to find a (relatively) small channel put out some cool stuff. I’ll definitely be around for more! I guess the algorithm is being nice to you today XD. Thanks again!
Admittedly I didn't dedicate a large amount of time to his portrayal since he wasn't the main character and he served mostly as an antagonist for a chunk of this video. I do apologize for the things I got wrong on that end. I'll definitely add him to the pile for post-RCW videos to correct that
I'd recommend looking into Ion Antonescu for a future video. He was the leader of Romania from 1940 to 1944, and was responsible for the most deaths outside of Nazi Germany associated with the holocaust. The interesting thing about him was how he ran every part of the country by himself after taking power (being both prime minister as well as foreign and defense minister), and destroying the Iron Guard shortly after joining the Axis, despite the fact they helped him get into power. I think what makes him especially evil among most fascist idealogues is how mask off he was about ethnic cleansing, going so far as to say "...I don't mind if we appear in history as barbarians," among other things.
I have been watching your videos for the better part of a year. With every video you make you improve in editing, writing, and entertainment factor. Keep up the good work, you make awesome content. You should make a video on Jozef Haller, like Pilsudski he's national hero and has an interesting story with the blue legions.
The funny thing about the 1919 coup to me is how the rebels sent to arrest Jözef bluffed their way into the palace he was staying at, but after announcing their intentions out loud that they intended to arrest Jözef, they got locked inside of a room by a staff member and later arrested
Dakn polish kids go hard, they be twelve and already are like "i will devote the rest of my life to dismantlin this opressive regime holding my coutry back board by board. Also trains cool, choo choo."
Piłsudski was a great, but flawed man. Without him the Poland couldn't regain freedom and accomplish as much as it did in interwar period. And he was one of the crucial figures in developing of Polish nationalism. If only he didn't become a little too much of control freak and didn't leave the country to absolute doofuses after his death. Still, he is very prominent figure in Polish history.
Pilsudski was a socialist, not a nationalist. In fact he imprisoned nationalists from ONR in 1934, in newly established Bereza Kartuska detention camp. Dmowski and Paderewski were in fact much more influential when it came to the reestablishment of the Polish state after the Great War.
He had to be a control freak precisely because he was surrounded by actual idiots. He also flipflopped on too many issues, most notable of which being Ukraine. His indecision of whether or not to Polonise or federalise with the Ukrainians indirectly resulted in Wołyń. If he focused on countries to the south and tried to come to an agreement with them like Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania, and groomed a proper successor to be the next dictator because democracy just wasn't gonna work with the dumdums in control, Poland may have stood a chance. Ultimately, however, the limited gains from 1920 set Poland's fate in stone mostly. He entirely mismanaged relations with Poland's neighbours.
Hi, as a Polish historian, with particular fascination of late XIXth and early XXth century I love your work, but this video has some glaring problems that I would like to address Firstly when you describe views of the PPS, you mostly describe views of Piłsudski not the party itself. The party was incredibly diverse in views of how the Polish state should actually look like and II Commonwealth wasn't exactly enticing to them since the first one was just a feudal hellscape. Also, Rosa Luxembourg wasn't against Polish independence, this is a myth mostly propagated by people who don't like her. She just didn't put the independence at first place and had an internationalist mindset like many socialists but still advocated independence in her writings, she just didn't center this issue like rest of the PPS. [1] When it comes to Polish Legions, I would just prefer to add that the true mastermind behind them was Tadeusz Rozwadowski, a military genius who will be important to my argument quite shortly. Anyway, when it comes to Vilnius it is the first instance of Piłsudski and his government doing the best they can to isolate any potential allies by completly unessescary landgrabs, cooperation could be achieved if not for his policy of ultranationalist expansionism that dictated policy up until 1939. I will commend you, for the fact that you mentioned that entire plan of Battle for Warsaw was Rozwadowskis idea, and entire counteratack was just his doing. But what is atrocious is that you present the fact that Treaty of Riga was out of Piłsudskis control. It was he who send in, the most obscene ultranationalist from the Dmowski's faction to the conference and gave them free reign to carve up Ukraine and Belarus. After the Battle of Warsaw, Piłsduski could have taken Ukraine and Belarus without much issue because Red Army wasn't in a state to fight. Especially that if he pushed further, Soviet state would have collapsed since it was during that time that biggest antibolshevik leftist uprisings happened, like Kronstad Uprising or Tambov uprising that could have if supported decimated the Soviets. If Piłsudski didn't give up on his allies, not only would there be a free Ukraine and Belarus, but also a Russia that was both socialist and democratic that would pave the wave for other socialist movements at the time, and atrocities of Stalinism could be avoided. Now we come to the May Coup. And here we come to one of the most important screw ups of Piłsudski. He overthrown a goverment that was functioning, a coalition of right wing parties, and then started to create a right wing military goverment. Remember Rozwadowski, this guy who was behind all of Piłsudski's ideas and his close friend? Well Piłsudski had him murdered, all mentions of him erased from records, and barely contained himself from stopping his funeral, but he still dishonorably discharged the guy who made the funeral of Rozwadowski have military honors. Rozwadowski, while having nationalist views understood that cooperation with other nations was necessary, while Sanation goverment abandoned the idea entirely. Sanation's rule was exclusively by force, with them creating one of the first concentration camps in Europe under tenure of Piłsudski in 1934, which was to house anyone he didn't like, especially his former socialist collegues and minorities in Bereza Kartuska. His foreign policy of constant expansion, has led to Polish goverment in 1938 rejecting the idea of alliance against the Germans with Czechoslovakia to claim one of their regions, which completly alienated the West and made Poland look like another Nazi Germany in the making, and so they didn't bother to help in 1939 while Poland was invaded out of fear thar if they do, Poland is going to become another Germany. Overall his government, is now much harshly jugded by historians and slowly by Polish public as well who slowly begun to reject the cult of personality that he built during his tenure. (Btw, his entire beef with Dmowski was entirely of personal nature, they were in love with the same woman and she choose Piłsudski and he couldn't stop coping about up until he died)
PIłsudski's older brother was a massive Weeb, went to Japan, married there, and the Japanese even put up a monument to him, in recognition of his anthropological studies of the Ainu people. Poland = OG weebs.
@@fatherjones1239 actually no one, poland failed to occupy most of Ukraine's west like they intended, and ussr failed to re-establish control over all of former Russian Imperial core
@@ИванМатвеев-й2р ""Akshually"" Polands goal in this war was to survive the bolshevik offensive and retain independence which it did. Goal was achieved therefore they won. Simple as that russian propaganda bot
The Reds also found some letters talking about Pilsudski's plan on their advance towards Warszawa, but thought it was a ruse to try redirect them. Also in the north the radio masts of the Bolsheviks were destroyed, meaning the northern group that was meanth to outflank the Northern most positions marched too far west because they never could have gotten any radio order to turn south(this was most of the grouping that were inturrned in Koingsberg)
I have a recommendation for rather interesting character: Anna Louise Strong, an American journalist activist who apparently visited the USSR, People's Republic of China and North Korea in their most interesting times and befriended people such as Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong and Kim Il-Sung, and through her interacting with local populace and these people all the way from early 1930's to her death in 1970's, brought a fascinating alternative viewpoint on the three most famous communist societies. She wasn't a part of any communist party, being in connection to IWW for few years and being an overall one-woman-organizer in the 1910-1920's Americas labor struggles.
45:05 A man so legendary everyone who were former enemies and would be future enemies and allies of Poland and each other took the time out to mourn, up to and including the two men who would be responsible for destroying Poland a few years after.
The image at 40:38 I'm pretty sure the guy on the right is super imposed to the image. His sleeve and hand is infront of Pilsudski's, but he is entirely behind him. Am I wrong!?
Thanks for giving me context on my Polish history obsessed friend’s favorite man. Now, I can understand why he admire this man so much. However, my favorite part about him and the Polish-Bolshevik war is when my personal favorite character of this time period showed up. Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart being an adviser and then liking Poland so much he moved his entire family there is probably the third most interesting thing about that man’s life.
Interesting friend you’ve got there. If you don’t mind me asking, from what country you are? You know, considering the obsession of Polish history, it’s rather rare.
28:26 what? An unequal in reciprocal policy that would put it uniquely under control of an international institution? No, it shouldn’t have been “enforced”, separately from potlcial issues. The package was called “little Versailles”
Yes, I know I disappoint my Polish ancestors with my pronunciations. Dmowski should probably be pronounced Dmoffski and I for whatever reason completely missed this fact lmao. I know for next time I suppose ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Also next video is either Skoropadsky or Arcand depending on how busy I am this month. Have a great day :)
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Do you think you could make a video of Governor Alfalfa Bill Murray? He had a really nutty life so he is quite interesting
took you a while to get to The Marshal
WOHO SKOROPADSKY
An interesting video idea could be Luke Lea, a Tennessee politician and newspaper owner who was involved in some interesting stuff, including an attempted kidnapping of Kaiser Wilhelm II in the Netherlands
His mentioned brother Bronisław Piłsudski, who took part in the attack together with Lenin's older brother, after being exiled to Siberia, became one of the most important anthropologists of the indigenous inhabitants of Hokaido, the Ainu people.
It's the ainu, ino means dog in japanese lol
@@Arturo005100Thanks
Literal weeb in 1920
so you're telling me that his brother been a Weeb in 1920s before even Anime was even created?. well shit. history got more stranger than fiction
The ainu are not japanese @@pinetree8592
Pilsudski's eyes have always looked like they were in a losing war of attrition against his moustache and eyebrows.
It looks like his mustache got pregnant and had twins, that took up residence on his forehead
@@emzetkin1100
how witty you are.
So this no-budget documentary style is now the standard for this channel?
Good! I support that decision!
The polish - japanese saga is one of the most unpredictable and funny side stories of history
Well it had a continuation because there was strong military cooperation between POL and JAP in 1920s and early 1930s. It is rumoured that before 1932 it was quite close to a formal alliance, but several factors derailed it - my guess would be the invasion of Manchuria and the non-aggression pact with the Soviets mentioned in the video.
One weird fact from that period is that JAP offered Poland 10 light cruisers for its expanding navy in 1930.
Now imagine ex-Japanese cruisers fighting under POL banner against GER and ITA warships during WW2.
Relations still remained so good that JAP attempted to negotiate with GER not to invade POL and after Hitler signed his pact with Stalin JAP government experienced a major crisis.
Japan also declared it will not recognise the fact that POL declared war in 1941 quoting that Poland was forced to do so due to the alliance with UK.
Relations remain very good to this day.
Jesus Christ... What the hell was going on in Poland between 1926 and 1935? Its like the whole state is on fire and Piłsudski was the only guy with a fire extinguisher.
Pretty much tbh
Welcome to the Interwar Eastern Europe. Absolute shitshow guaranteed, no matter the country
During the interwar period almost every Easter European countrie’s government went inept and the only way to save them was from dictatorships. It’s actually a reason for why the baltics didn’t fight back against the soviets when they made there demands during World War 2, the people and the government quite literally did not have the will or desire to continue on.
@@nachtderuntoten3682 bs
POLAND AND FIRE EXTINGUISHER YOU SAY ?!
When I was talking and drinking with some turkish students in Warsaw I came to a conclusion that he is Our Atatürk.
What's funny is Piłsudski looks more stereotypically turkish than him.
when you think about it Pilsudski is just polish Atatürk who had to go through a bigger shitshow
Well, looking at the whole thing, Mustafa Kamel comes out much better, but he also had a bit of an easier nut to crack
@@tymonzmijewski3206i don't know about that tbh. The Turkish wars of independence were a miracle for the Turks, and their victory was highly unlikely. But after that it was smooth sailing for Kemal
Pilsudski is ten times the man Ataturk was.
I thought of him as more of a Bismarck with a bigger shit show
Intresting figure. As a Lithuanian, the bit about fighting just about every single neighbour was in fact the reason why Intermarium failed.
Well, none of the neighbors realistically wanted this project, even Polish nationalists didn't want it. Lithuanian nationalism has always seemed stupid and ridiculous to me, but not much more so than Polish nationalism
how would you settle borders issues, then? By agreeing to everything and giving up all claims?
@@MrNonejm it worked for south tyrol
@@tanczacyzesmerfami6832 what do you mean by saying stupid? The way I see it, separate nations who just got out of an almost two century long russian subjugation shouldn't be conditioned to do that once more, if they so wish.
I’m pretty sure that genetically, and culturally, Piłsudski is only Polish.
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@@nicolauslr9937 wrong flag silly bill
Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła! Long live the polish people!
wow, finally a video about Piłsudski! Thank you!
I recommend getting to know Bolesław Piasecki - his biography would be perfect for one of the episodes on this channel. In short, this man started in the most radical Polish party ONR, and as a young man he was an important member of its even more radical wing ONR Falanga, during the war he was the leader of a small nationalist militia (he was caught by the Gestapo and released thanks to his family contacts in Italy). , and after the war he made a U-turn by joining the Polish United Workers' Party and running the only legal Catholic newspaper. And all this is just a summary of his crazy biography, not even mentioning his political "works".
Piasecki is Mussolini but More Radical imo (well maybe not the same but there are overlapping between his National Radicalism and Mussolinian Fascism)
To Summarize Piasecki probably like this:
State comes first Rest is Nothing (I mean literally nothing not even Religion is above the State)
@@blackshirtsocialist1457 Well, I don't know, at some point it's hard to talk about fighting for "the state" or something. His late activities rather indicate that faith was, in some way, the most important thing to him, if not his own ass
@@tanczacyzesmerfami6832 he is pragmatic really and he is very Pragmatic in religious sense he can support the church if it was advancing his goals but in other hand he have high chance of supporting anti-clericalism IF The Church doesn't comply or doesn't advancing his goals (he is really was Pragmatic Idealist, he doesn't really care about the Means as long the Ends is as his pleased)
@@tanczacyzesmerfami6832 my friend has read Piasecki works and this probably best summarization of Piasecki relationship with church:
"State was supposed to act as voice of the Church"
Basically he has views of Catholicism or Church to be subjugated by state to serve the Will of the State
Dude, everything you said and ending with Spock, The Rock, Doc Ock and Hulk Hogan at 34:27, icing on the cake sir.
THIS IS THE ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN
45:00 correction Poniatowski last king of Poland is not in the Wawel Cathedral. He is only king of Poland who is buried in Warsaw.And Wavel is in Kraków not in Warsaw.
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Your majesty, new Spartan video about polish hero just dropped
Fun fact Piłsudski stole Dmowskis girlfriend.
Twice
"rogal dawn is fortifyiing lyviv". Inspired
Some other Poles that you certainly should make video about include:
Roman Dmowski (for obvious reasons)
Ferdynand Ossendowski (this guy was a good friend of the Mad Baron and is a major source of what we know about him (with them Both recieving a prophecy from Bogd Khan about the dates of there deaths that Both came True) and Had just an Amazing life)
Bolesław Wienawa-Długoszowski (An playboy, Freemason and one-day president of Poland)
Maurycy Beniowski (The Polish King of Madagaskar)
Tadeusz Kościuszko (it's Kościuszko)
Karol Świerczewski (aka gamer)
Anton Denikin (he Had Polish ancestry so he counts)
Henryk Dobrzański (the Mad Major)
Walery Sławek (Piłsudski's favorite)
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (the Mad artist)
And last but oh, so certainly not least
Stanisław Szukalski (the esoteric pagan sculptor)
The biggest Polish gamer is Romuald "Bury" Rajs
Witold Pilecki?
Szukalski was neither pagan nor esoteric sculptor - he was an artist of uncommon artistic genius and craft - compare his art to Auguste Rodin art of generation before and you’ll discover that there is a difference of superior Form and superior intellect, ultimately driving all
art .
Kosciuszko is the reason Missouri has a city named Warsaw.
You should do a video on Joseph Byerle. He was an American who landed in Normandy, got lost in Germany and decided to blow shit up for a while, got captured, tortured, escaped, went to the eastern front and joined the Red Army, liberated his own POW camp, met fucking Zhukov, and was married in the same church he was mistakenly given a funeral in when he was missing.
thanks for mentionig him, I just read his wiki page. Guy was 22, got missing in june 44 and got home in april 45.
sounds like some fucking call of duty character lmao
@@kube410 I want a video game where you play as him.
The forgotten saviour of Europe
*Time and Time again*
saving europe from who
@@namesurname1869 yet another eastern menace
@@jesuschrist9513 if the german revolution were to be successful with bolshevik help the nazis couldn’t have slaughtered all of europe and destroyed poland. not much of a save
@@jesuschrist9513lmao yeah, from another european
Memes aside, this is the kind of historical perspective I think we need to see more of. You jab at everyone's faults, including legends, but also couch that with important background information. This was great, keep it up.
I like this more objective format rather than the usual patriotic tone we are taught at schools. As a pole I like to watch foreign videos to get more perspective on stuff
He is a great figure, really. Very much underappreciated even in Poland. While his domestic policy wasn't perfect, and some things could be definetely done better, his foreign policy was perfect. How many things he did right, how many things he predicted is staggering.
Big fan of Napoleon also
"his foreign policy was perfect" well......
"Spock, The Rock, Dock Ock, and Hulk Hogan"
one Ultimate Showdown recognizes another...
A Charles DeGaulle video would be great
Now, a Woodrow Wilson video from you would be a treat
“Infuriated noices” WILSON!!!!!
Woodrow Wilson is America’s worst President who was a Genocidal Bigoted Neo-Confederate De Facto Tyrant whose presidency enabled the rise of Stalin and Hitler.
"the worst person you know just made 14 good points"
@@InquisitorXarius I love how the Cynical Historian has made hating Wilson a meme
@@redjirachi1 Me too
15:55 dude just perfectly predicted ww1 wtf???
Well, he had a strong head on his shoulders.
At the time a lot of people could see the writing on the wall but no one could really figure what would spark it, Before the archduke was shot there were multiple other crises preceding World War 1, A lot of people in Europe particularly leaders revolutionaries and others thought the spark would come from the Balkans, the difference here is he got his guess.
@@reapereye2122 Because of Balkan Wars. Balkan Cauldron.
What's even more interesting, he also wanted to make preventive attack on germany in 1933 (to remove nazis from power) but France declined that proposition. If west listened to him maybe WW2 would never happen.
He was generally pretty good at predicting things (apart from his shortsighted and stupid conquest of the east). He also wanted the past entente countries to attack nazi germany in a preventive war while was still weak. Who knows what would happen if they agreed
I love coming back from a walk and seeing a Spartan Video in my notifications😎
You should do the Piłsudski of the 1400s:
Jan Žižka
He never lost a battle and had proto-tanks fighting the Hussite wars.
Žižka was incomparably better than Piłsudski and I say this as a Pole
@@tymonzmijewski3206 As a commander yes, but Piłsudski was given a political nightmare mess and came out on top, which I think deserves a lot of credit
@@waltlawson2709 On the other hand, Ataturk turned a backward, deeply Islamic state into a modern secular republic, milking the basis for a regional player which is Turkey today (despite the obvious change in politics). Not only was Piłsudski the leader of a bloody coup d'état that could have ended in a civil war, but he also failed to protect the country against dictatorship or foreign forces, surrounded himself with very incompetent people and made many mistakes.
this, he invented mobile armored warfare 500 years before the tank, his armored wagons were basically APCs.
@@tymonzmijewski3206 No he was good but he wasnt better than Piłsudski
A video on Mannerheim would be awesome!
35:00 the space marines holding Budyonny back lmao
"Why the fuck is there a man in big armour is holding back my fucking Calvary. don't you dare hurt my horses I just fucking washed it yesterday."
Semyon Budyonny, probably
Great video as always, all of the key elements of this man's history summarized in a video without it feeling too general
I would unironically give my life in a second if it wound mean that Piłsudski could rule over Poland once more.
He was basically a hero who messed up at the end of his life and lost a chance to be one of the greatest sons of Poland
This video is absolutely epic. Holy crap. Why does this not have more likes? I'm subscribing. Informative, Hilarious, and overall Good!
Small nitpick - back then it was called Vilno. Vilnus is a lithuanian pronounciation, and cuz... they really love putting s on the end everywhere for some curious reason
Isn't it 'Wilno' in polish?
@@Oropher420 yep, i misspelled.
The reason we put S at the end of everything is because its ⭐⭐fancy⭐⭐.
We put s because it's just how our words work, most singular masculine words (that I can think of at the moment) have s at the end, I think that's the same for the city, though I'm not sure
It's because we have this thing called "Grammatical case" or "Przypadek" as you call it in Polish. The "s" at the end represents the nominativus form of most words.
That moustache is absolutely glorious
The second mustache above his eyes also
Pilsudski (mostly) did what was best for the country which is why he is probably the best Polish leader ever. Niech zyje Polska
4:47 I wonder if there he ever fathered an unknown son who later married an Ainu woman and got involved with some shenanigans about an insane amount of gold from hokkaido...
No, but his brother Bronisław was sent all the way to Sakhalin, where he had two kids with an Ainu woman. Their descendants live in Japan to this day. Bronisław Piłsudski alo became an anthropologist, probably the most important researcher of the Ainu culture. There's even a statue of him on Hokkaido.
The whole story was clearly one of the sources of inspiration for Golden Kamuy, although in that fictional story, the Polish-Ainu connection was moved at least a generation back.
@@Artur_M.Damn, it's even mentioned that Asirpa would later also do similar anthropologist work to save ainu culture
Great reference
@@Artur_M.
I don't know about this brother but here in Italy if you name the Ainu you get Fosco Maraini
(the one who cut his finger to demonstrate italians were not cowards to ditch mussolini)
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from "osoma" to "k*rwa" it's a small step...
You have to do a video on the Hetman himself Pavlo Skoropadsky next!
Unironically the Yockey videos are great
Hey thanks for a solid video in addition to posting your sources! It’s really cool to find a (relatively) small channel put out some cool stuff. I’ll definitely be around for more! I guess the algorithm is being nice to you today XD. Thanks again!
Long form, complex polish history vid AND metal gear rising reference in one? You just got a sub
Damn, you sure did Dmowski dirty... A whole lot of the things you got wrong, Dmowski do deserves his own episode.
Admittedly I didn't dedicate a large amount of time to his portrayal since he wasn't the main character and he served mostly as an antagonist for a chunk of this video. I do apologize for the things I got wrong on that end.
I'll definitely add him to the pile for post-RCW videos to correct that
I wouldn't say it "made him dirty", rather it didn't highlight his positive actions (and indeed the negative ones).
i think it makes sense to dmowski a little dirty since he’s somewhat of an antagonist in this narrative
Dmowski and his national democrats should be considered traitors to Poland.
Dmowski was dirty
Love from Poland to Lithuania
I'd recommend looking into Ion Antonescu for a future video. He was the leader of Romania from 1940 to 1944, and was responsible for the most deaths outside of Nazi Germany associated with the holocaust. The interesting thing about him was how he ran every part of the country by himself after taking power (being both prime minister as well as foreign and defense minister), and destroying the Iron Guard shortly after joining the Axis, despite the fact they helped him get into power. I think what makes him especially evil among most fascist idealogues is how mask off he was about ethnic cleansing, going so far as to say "...I don't mind if we appear in history as barbarians," among other things.
I have been watching your videos for the better part of a year. With every video you make you improve in editing, writing, and entertainment factor. Keep up the good work, you make awesome content. You should make a video on Jozef Haller, like Pilsudski he's national hero and has an interesting story with the blue legions.
Great video , thank you!!!
The funny thing about the 1919 coup to me is how the rebels sent to arrest Jözef bluffed their way into the palace he was staying at, but after announcing their intentions out loud that they intended to arrest Jözef, they got locked inside of a room by a staff member and later arrested
Best History TH-camr Ever!
Dakn polish kids go hard, they be twelve and already are like "i will devote the rest of my life to dismantlin this opressive regime holding my coutry back board by board. Also trains cool, choo choo."
Babe, wake up! Spartan761 uploaded.
It is a miracle 🇵🇱 still exists, as God is with us.
POLSKA GÓRĄ!
First video I’ve seen from you. Damn good first impression, I’ve to say 🔥🔥
this guy is my inspiration
Polska moment.
Piłsudski was a great, but flawed man. Without him the Poland couldn't regain freedom and accomplish as much as it did in interwar period. And he was one of the crucial figures in developing of Polish nationalism. If only he didn't become a little too much of control freak and didn't leave the country to absolute doofuses after his death. Still, he is very prominent figure in Polish history.
Pilsudski was a socialist, not a nationalist. In fact he imprisoned nationalists from ONR in 1934, in newly established Bereza Kartuska detention camp. Dmowski and Paderewski were in fact much more influential when it came to the reestablishment of the Polish state after the Great War.
He had to be a control freak precisely because he was surrounded by actual idiots. He also flipflopped on too many issues, most notable of which being Ukraine. His indecision of whether or not to Polonise or federalise with the Ukrainians indirectly resulted in Wołyń. If he focused on countries to the south and tried to come to an agreement with them like Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania, and groomed a proper successor to be the next dictator because democracy just wasn't gonna work with the dumdums in control, Poland may have stood a chance. Ultimately, however, the limited gains from 1920 set Poland's fate in stone mostly. He entirely mismanaged relations with Poland's neighbours.
👍🇵🇱POLSKA🇵🇱👍
34:27 wow an ultimate showdown reference is not something I was expecting
god i love piłsudski
Spartan please!!! I beg you! Do Roman Dmowski next! It would ideal to see both of their views on Poland from your videos!
Great video as always, thanks.
Can you please do a video about Carl gustaf mannerheim? I feel like a video about him would be quite interesting
Hi, as a Polish historian, with particular fascination of late XIXth and early XXth century I love your work, but this video has some glaring problems that I would like to address
Firstly when you describe views of the PPS, you mostly describe views of Piłsudski not the party itself. The party was incredibly diverse in views of how the Polish state should actually look like and II Commonwealth wasn't exactly enticing to them since the first one was just a feudal hellscape.
Also, Rosa Luxembourg wasn't against Polish independence, this is a myth mostly propagated by people who don't like her. She just didn't put the independence at first place and had an internationalist mindset like many socialists but still advocated independence in her writings, she just didn't center this issue like rest of the PPS. [1]
When it comes to Polish Legions, I would just prefer to add that the true mastermind behind them was Tadeusz Rozwadowski, a military genius who will be important to my argument quite shortly.
Anyway, when it comes to Vilnius it is the first instance of Piłsudski and his government doing the best they can to isolate any potential allies by completly unessescary landgrabs, cooperation could be achieved if not for his policy of ultranationalist expansionism that dictated policy up until 1939.
I will commend you, for the fact that you mentioned that entire plan of Battle for Warsaw was Rozwadowskis idea, and entire counteratack was just his doing.
But what is atrocious is that you present the fact that Treaty of Riga was out of Piłsudskis control. It was he who send in, the most obscene ultranationalist from the Dmowski's faction to the conference and gave them free reign to carve up Ukraine and Belarus. After the Battle of Warsaw, Piłsduski could have taken Ukraine and Belarus without much issue because Red Army wasn't in a state to fight. Especially that if he pushed further, Soviet state would have collapsed since it was during that time that biggest antibolshevik leftist uprisings happened, like Kronstad Uprising or Tambov uprising that could have if supported decimated the Soviets. If Piłsudski didn't give up on his allies, not only would there be a free Ukraine and Belarus, but also a Russia that was both socialist and democratic that would pave the wave for other socialist movements at the time, and atrocities of Stalinism could be avoided.
Now we come to the May Coup. And here we come to one of the most important screw ups of Piłsudski. He overthrown a goverment that was functioning, a coalition of right wing parties, and then started to create a right wing military goverment. Remember Rozwadowski, this guy who was behind all of Piłsudski's ideas and his close friend? Well Piłsudski had him murdered, all mentions of him erased from records, and barely contained himself from stopping his funeral, but he still dishonorably discharged the guy who made the funeral of Rozwadowski have military honors. Rozwadowski, while having nationalist views understood that cooperation with other nations was necessary, while Sanation goverment abandoned the idea entirely. Sanation's rule was exclusively by force, with them creating one of the first concentration camps in Europe under tenure of Piłsudski in 1934, which was to house anyone he didn't like, especially his former socialist collegues and minorities in Bereza Kartuska. His foreign policy of constant expansion, has led to Polish goverment in 1938 rejecting the idea of alliance against the Germans with Czechoslovakia to claim one of their regions, which completly alienated the West and made Poland look like another Nazi Germany in the making, and so they didn't bother to help in 1939 while Poland was invaded out of fear thar if they do, Poland is going to become another Germany. Overall his government, is now much harshly jugded by historians and slowly by Polish public as well who slowly begun to reject the cult of personality that he built during his tenure.
(Btw, his entire beef with Dmowski was entirely of personal nature, they were in love with the same woman and she choose Piłsudski and he couldn't stop coping about up until he died)
Ayyyy nice to see actual input on the PPS
Please let me be your editor, you’re perfect
Pilsudski Unvanquished!
PIłsudski's older brother was a massive Weeb, went to Japan, married there, and the Japanese even put up a monument to him, in recognition of his anthropological studies of the Ainu people. Poland = OG weebs.
ALL CAME OUT OF NOWHERE LIGHTING FAST AND THEY KICKED TUKACHEVSKI’S COMMIE ASS
Correction, tukhachevsky kicked their asses all the way to Warsaw
@@ИванМатвеев-й2р who won tho
@@fatherjones1239 actually no one, poland failed to occupy most of Ukraine's west like they intended, and ussr failed to re-establish control over all of former Russian Imperial core
@@ИванМатвеев-й2р still sounds like an astounding Polish victory to me
@@ИванМатвеев-й2р ""Akshually"" Polands goal in this war was to survive the bolshevik offensive and retain independence which it did. Goal was achieved therefore they won. Simple as that russian propaganda bot
If Pilsudski lived just a few more years, Poland could be spared from the horrors of WW2.
The Reds also found some letters talking about Pilsudski's plan on their advance towards Warszawa, but thought it was a ruse to try redirect them.
Also in the north the radio masts of the Bolsheviks were destroyed, meaning the northern group that was meanth to outflank the Northern most positions marched too far west because they never could have gotten any radio order to turn south(this was most of the grouping that were inturrned in Koingsberg)
Crazy blunt rotation 💀
Been waiting for this one with bated breath
I have a recommendation for rather interesting character: Anna Louise Strong, an American journalist activist who apparently visited the USSR, People's Republic of China and North Korea in their most interesting times and befriended people such as Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong and Kim Il-Sung, and through her interacting with local populace and these people all the way from early 1930's to her death in 1970's, brought a fascinating alternative viewpoint on the three most famous communist societies. She wasn't a part of any communist party, being in connection to IWW for few years and being an overall one-woman-organizer in the 1910-1920's Americas labor struggles.
this is the single greatest day of my life as proven by my profile pic
Man this guy really hates Woodrow Wilson. Utterly based
Thank You
Another great video spartan! Cannot wait for Makhno. the rabbit hole of Ukrainian Anarchism is gonna be wilddddd
Never ceases to amaze me
Thanks! 👍👍👍
Nice Ultimate Showdown ref there.
45:05 A man so legendary everyone who were former enemies and would be future enemies and allies of Poland and each other took the time out to mourn, up to and including the two men who would be responsible for destroying Poland a few years after.
MFer was the Polish Lelouch Lamperouge.
Please, send me Magna Lechia, my cossacks are dying
34:27 I see the reference you conveyed there buddy…
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WE ARE SO BACK
Based alert
You should cover Rosa Luxemburg
THANK YOU
The image at 40:38 I'm pretty sure the guy on the right is super imposed to the image.
His sleeve and hand is infront of Pilsudski's, but he is entirely behind him. Am I wrong!?
THE GOAT IS BACK LETS GOOOOO
Finally, a new video is here
You should do one of these on Nestor Makhno
I honeslty had no idea Piłsudski was a PPS lol
Thanks for giving me context on my Polish history obsessed friend’s favorite man. Now, I can understand why he admire this man so much. However, my favorite part about him and the Polish-Bolshevik war is when my personal favorite character of this time period showed up. Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart being an adviser and then liking Poland so much he moved his entire family there is probably the third most interesting thing about that man’s life.
Interesting friend you’ve got there. If you don’t mind me asking, from what country you are? You know, considering the obsession of Polish history, it’s rather rare.
@@BB-hx4mj The good old US of A! He's Polish, though.
45:43 - Cracow, not Warsaw
28:26 what? An unequal in reciprocal policy that would put it uniquely under control of an international institution?
No, it shouldn’t have been “enforced”, separately from potlcial issues.
The package was called “little Versailles”
34 minutes old.
Just out of the oven, perfect
Nice vid!
34:30 you forgot Mussolini with a army of 100.000 L3 tankettes, to liberate the sige Gondor