Has France surrendered yet?
Don’t start again, these “autonomy” calls bring only trouble. They are al in EU, no???
Classic example of what happens when one group fails to assimilate into the main country, much like the illegals want to do to the USA. You can’t have two different cultures living in the same country and have harmony, it doesn’t work.
The Conrad Stargard novels by Leo Frankowski taught me a great deal about the proud Silesian people. There are some prurient moments in the novels, but overall excellent. Think a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s court, except in Lower Silesia. The 13th century Silesians think 20th century Conrad has a funny accent, but otherwise can understand him just fine.
The sad thing is that most of these “autonomy” movements would not even exist if their countries’ governments would stop being so centralized. A highly centralized government only works in countries where everyone thinks alike, acts alike, and wants the same things (ie: a homogeneous culture).
In countries where this isn’t the case, they really need a federal system with very independent states/provinces/cantons/whatever.
For that gets the different cultures their autonomy without haveing the stink.
To their credit the Poles are not like the communists before or the current French government who tried to stamp out all regional differences
The problem is that Poland since 1945 is completely unlike Poland has ever been in it's 1054 year history
During the heights of the Polish Rzeczpospolitej, the country was a mixture of Poles, Lithuanians, Ruthenians (present day Ukrainians and Belarussians), Jews, Germans, Hungarians and Romanians and Gypsies. It had 4 major religions living in peace
But the nationalistic sentiments after WWI expressed by Dmowski and exacerbated by the German leibensraum killed all of Piłsudski's good work
Will have to check with some family members to find out how to translate “Tea Party” into Polish (and then into Silesian).