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Originally Posted by unipus
To me, what makes Poland an interesting setting for a campaign is its long history of mostly failed independence movements. It's been habitually occupied in some form or another by foreign nations for centuries, with only a few brief decades of actual independence -- and then a good chunk of that on a very short Soviet leash.
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The Great War ended really on the ideal note for Poland. All three great powers that had partitioned the country were destroyed, leaving the Poles available to be a buffer state and hopefully a counterbalance to the big powers in the area. Of course Józef Piłsudski's dictatorship was not ideal, nor his behaviour in Ukraine during his
Międzymorze otherwise known as the
Intermarium strategy of conquering a broad swathe of middle Europe from the Baltic, Aegean and Black Seas including all the Baltic and Balkan States as well as Ukraine. The Entente must have thought they'd created a monster.