What would be the outcome for Poland if the Russians had concentrated the bulk of their forces on Germany in 1914 and won the war?? Grand Duke Nikolai's manifesto statement ("unite in an autonomous state under the sceptre of the Russian tsar…free in faith, language and self-rule") seems very vague but also very much a break with traditional Russian policy to that point. We know Foreign Minister Sazonov was a loud voice for this, desiring a Slavic common front.
Would this have been an independent Polish state as a satellite to Russia, perhaps in a customs union and defence pact, or would this just be a measure of devolution still under the semi-direct rule of the Tsar?? Of course this envisions the incorporation of Galicia, Upper Silesia, Posen, and parts of West Prussia.
Would this have been an independent Polish state as a satellite to Russia, perhaps in a customs union and defence pact, or would this just be a measure of devolution still under the semi-direct rule of the Tsar?? Of course this envisions the incorporation of Galicia, Upper Silesia, Posen, and parts of West Prussia.
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