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		hef19898 on April 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Barbary Pirates and English Slaves (2017) Poland as a nation didn't exist until the end of WW1. Difficult to colonize when you don't exist as a nation.

badpun on April 18, 2022 [–]

I’m speaking about Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which existed during the first stages of colonisation, and in which Poland played the dominant role.

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