Plausible PoD for a Polish Uprising

How do you get a Yuppie American-style Revolution to occur in Poland during it's time occupied?
Foreign Intervention!
How do we get a Foreign power to provide funds for a Polish Uprising in Occupied Poland?

An upstart, fledgling America? A bitter Great Britain setting it's sights on new colonies? (If I dare say it) France?
 
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With a French Revolution going? No way in hell. After the French Revolution broke out, the monarchs of Europe didn't want to go setting examples for their subjects to follow, and overthrowing the "legitimate" authorities would certainly not be something European monarchs would like to endorse.
 
What do you mean a "yuppie American-style revolution"? Do a bunch of Huey Lewis and the News-loving investment brokers get ISOTed by the Ring of Fire to 18th century Poland and have to fight off the Russians with coke, chainsaws, and videotapes?
 
What do you mean a "yuppie American-style revolution"? Do a bunch of Huey Lewis and the News-loving investment brokers get ISOTed by the Ring of Fire to 18th century Poland and have to fight off the Russians with coke, chainsaws, and videotapes?
Requesting permission to sig that:D
 
I think I understand all the individual words in the first post, but I have absolutely no idea what it's about :confused:
 
A bunch of Polish noblemen get their heads together in a Vienna coffeeshop and are more uppity instead of talking or worrying about their horses... the secret police notice, but they can't really stop the momentum, and it builds from there.
 
Nobody's mentioned the Decembrist revolt yet. Certainly that marks a point when Russia's attention is insufficiently focused on Poland due to its own internal problems. Perhaps Britain, seeing an opportunity to get a leg up in the Great Game by keeping its rival off-kilter, finances the revolt and arranges for shipments of weapons and other necessary materials.

Come to think of it, British financial assistance works at any point during the Great Game. It's just that the Decembrist period offers a particularly good opportunity.
 
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