Word: kosciuzko
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...18th century Poland was partitioned on three occasions, the third partition being successfully resisted for a time under the leadership of the Polish patriot Kosciuzko, only to fall to Russia, Austria and Prussia again. The Congress of Vienna gave Poland nominal independence, but after a period of "watchful waiting" the Russians were back again with a program of wholesale executions and Russification. Napoleon had used Poland ("my second Polish war") as an excuse to attack Russia, but it was Otto von Bismarck, master of Realpolitik, who saw Poland's festering hatred of Russia as a means of keeping...
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