More sucsessful Prometheisim?

I was using Stumbleupon Wikipedia, and I found an interesting article about a Polish foreign policy, and political ideal called Prometheisim. This idea was an attempt to bring about the Intermarum (another Polish Foreign Policy goal) by supporting non Russian Nationalist groups in the Soviet Union. Now, I'm not trying to be a Pole Troll, but I wondering what could cause such a thing to happen, and the results of such.

Genocide Link to Prometheisim
Genocide Link to Intermarum
 
Difficult. It has to be understood that the non-Polish nationalities were mostly less than enthusiastic about the whole idea. The Poles were a landowning class over much of Belarus, Lithuania, and right-bank Ukraine, and landowning classes weren't exactly popular. Whatever the long-term political objectives of the Polish state (and the objectives of many Poles certainly involved getting their estates back), they were "barons" as far as a lot of people who weren't Polish were concerned. The Ukrainian nationalists (which was a long way from all Ukrainians) only resorted to Polish support when they had no choice; Belarussian national sentiment was confined to a commitee of professors (in 1929, Belarussian peasants still questioned the existence of their SSR, explaining in fluent Belarussian that they only spoke Russian).

Lithuania might be a place to look. The POW planned a coup, which might of meant federation with Poland or a client government. This would probably mean a great deal of Polish domination in Lithuanian urban and political life.
 
My personal opinion it that any kind of Polish-lead federation or alliance would eventually degenerate into a Polish tyranny or fall apart. It was just not going to work in the harsh reality of ultra-nationalist Eastern Europe.
National-Democratic conception that eventually won over Prometheism (that of annexing limited areas that could be hold and Polonized) was the sensible and realistic one, thought personally I abhor the whole movement.
 

Old Airman

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I wondering what could cause such a thing to happen, and the results of such
Only event to bring success of Prometheism is ASB intervention. The idea was a stillborn offspring of Polish inability to count (they could not get the idea that Russians and Eastern Ukrainians were freaking MAJORITY within the empire and, later, USSR) and Polish delusion that there's such a race as "non-Russians", solely occupied with idea of doing as much harm to Russia as possible.

P.S. I loved the last paragraph of the article (prometheism's success). Decision to dissolve the Union, made by leaders of three Slavic republics without consultation with Georgian leadership of the day is interpreted by Poles and Georgian president as a success of Prometheism. Well, I had never had favourable opinion about Mr. Saakashvili's brain capacity, especially after his decision to attack Russian peacekeeping forces, which had been stationed there according to agreement signed by Georgia...
 

Susano

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Well, I had never had favourable opinion about Mr. Saakashvili's brain capacity, especially after his decision to attack Russian peacekeeping forces, which had been stationed there according to agreement signed by Georgia...
Haha, Saakshavili and the remaining Kaczynski. Now thats a pair...
 
PR and OA have covered the important points: it's hard to create a "federation" out of squabbling nationalities in which the Benevolent Elder Brother Nation happen to have a monopoly on land-ownership and almost all political power, and "non-Russians" are a fantasy: in the real world, there are only numerous small nationalities with local interests of their own, very few overlapping with those of Poland, often preferring Russian rule to that of their neighbours.

P.S. I loved the last paragraph of the article (prometheism's success).

The article is rife with unreformed Wikipedianism in general. Apparently, "Piłsudski's death was experienced as a personal loss by the Promethean peoples". Ho-hum...

Haha, Saakshavili and the remaining Kaczynski. Now thats a pair...

And if I may be permitted may completely unofficial, extremely biased, bitterly ideological artistic opinion, that statue is naff. The proportions are... strange, the crazy-paving isn't exactly Classicist, and the two flashes of gold create the illusion that Prometheus also has the gift of fire from heaven in his vital zone.
 
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