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Re:Barbary Pirates and English Slaves (2017) by badpun on Sunday April 17, 2022 @10:34AM (#31061109)
Poland wasn’t into colonizing. The country wasn’t overpopulated yet and the elites were very rich from grain exports anyway, so why bother competing with other European powers for the New World?
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Re:Barbary Pirates and English Slaves (2017) by prepend on Sunday April 17, 2022 @04:07PM (#31063969)
Same reason why Germany didn’t colonize much, they didn’t exist.
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Re:Barbary Pirates and English Slaves (2017) by hef19898 on Sunday April 17, 2022 @02:26PM (#31063012)
Poland as a nation didn't exist until the end of WW1. Difficult to colonize when you don't exist as a nation.
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Re:Barbary Pirates and English Slaves (2017) by badpun on Monday April 18, 2022 @03:05PM (#31075023)
I’m speaking about Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which existed during the first stages of colonisation, and in which Poland played the dominant role.
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