The Struggle for Poland

Vladimir Putin is by no means the first Russian leader to threaten his neighbours with force and annexations. Two centuries ago European statesmen faced a similar predicament. Only then it was Poland at stake, not Ukraine.

Allegory of the First Partition of Poland, 1772, after Gustave Moreau.

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