The Tsarina was of German descent and participated in the partition of the Poles. Read this letter carefully because this is exactly what happened:
"There are different nations, or rather different nations have different spirits. Some can be conquered and resettled in order to seize their lands and the world will not raise an uproar - these are small nations, tribes. With others you can make slaves with a small effort and they will gladly lick the Lord's hand - these are nations with a vile soul, from the cradle unworthy of self-determination, in the great expanses of Asia they will melt without a trace. With the third, finally, neither this nor that can be done, at least not right away - these are the Poles. It is impossible to annex their country, because one would have to share with Prussia, Austria, Turkey and God knows with whom else; this is imposed by the European balance of forces. Second it can't be done offhand because these are excellent soldiersand the whole nation, when openly threatened, resembles a rabid wolf on the prowl. It would cost too much, so they must be demoralized to the marrow of their bones. It is necessary ... to disintegrate this nation from within, to kill its morals ... If it is not possible to make it a corpse, it should at least be made a sickly one, festering and rotting in its bed ... It must be implanted with the plague, cause hereditary leprosy, eternal anarchy and discord... You have to teach a brother to inform on his brother and a son to jump down his father's throat. You have to make them quarrel so that they divide and conquer each other, always looking for an arbiter somewhere. It is necessary to stupefy and deprave them, to destroy their spirit, to make them stop believing in anything except mammon and a loaf of bread. They will fight for a long time, a very long time, our ashes will be lost, but the time will come when they themselves will sell their country, sell it like the worst whore. We will start this process Panin! With the corruption of the "silent dogs" who will rule them. With wealth and hunger, which will tease the poor against the mighty, and fill the latter with such fear and meanness that they will do anything to preserve their wealth. We will spoil them with the cult of privatism, thievery, debauchery, all kinds of demoralization and the alcohol that leads to it.. We will create a new oligarchy there that will steal from its own people not only with dignity and strength, but simply with everything, while proclaiming that everything he does, he does for the good of the fatherland and the citizens. The lower levels of these bloodsuckers will depend on the higher levels in an inseparable formal and informal structure pyramids. It will be necessary to try to fit every capable and intelligent person into the pyramid, to want to be a part of it, and to be a part of it.. The mismatched lunaticsincurable fanatics, compulsive troublemakers and any other valuable unit we will eliminate operationally. The task is great Panin, but the results will also be great. Poland will disappear in the Poles themselves! That is when they will think they have freedom. But I won't live to see that Panin, we'll start the process though."
From a letter of Tsarina Catherine II to Nikita Panin foreign minister of Moscow Tartary in 1764-1780
And now listen to the KSU band:
How history is not taught to children!!!
Generally, there is no Polish History subject in schools, but there is a list of dates and events...
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