Nation at the time of liberation

Nearly one and a half century of destructive work, Four generations raised without your own statehood, At most in longing and insurgent conspiracies, at the same time raised in various legal regulations, various economic organisms and various governance systems – Here is the starting point for Poland's further development from the moment the shackles fell off its arms and legs. Probably only the Yugoslavs had an equally difficult way to them at the time. The country has lost one and a half million young male forces for someone else's case: The Germans took what they could, up to the brass door handles, Foreign occupiers exhausted the grain, coal, timber; after an iron-cell cylinder 1915 a few years old left. Such a war in almost untouched Germany, in Italy, in Hungary, Even in France, it aroused revolutionary boiling. Poland in. 1918 she did not want the revolution: she cracked, reconstruction, work, work. She didn't even crave revenge – She was a miracle of revival on the rubble of three crushed imperial thrones. This mood is explained by a strange phenomenon, that at least in social development very backward, Although exposed to the nearest plague from the east, She pushed the temptations supported by a bayonet – and began to rebuild the fatherland in God's name.

Skills in this direction, Namely organizational, she had little. The kingdoms have long been removed from administration and judiciary have brought a lot of spontaneous initiative and romantic enthusiasm to social work. Galicians – clerical and party routine; Wielkopolanie, diligence, in the absence of imagination and a wider horizon. The national democracy had strong staff from the times of captivity, penetrating all classes and in this respect similar to Western-European inter-class inter-class parties; People under the sign of Witos in Galicia pushed into the shadow of the Stapińszczyków, But they were just looking for their own path between nationalism and social radicalism. Socialists in large cities and industrial districts of Kongressówka, Galicia and Silesia had various schools behind them: Galician-Vienna (PPSD), Fractional and leftist prince (PPS), German, Next to them, under the influence of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, the social democracy of KPIL was reborn in Marxist theory, in the feeling and action, disgusted negatively towards the reviving : white and red Poland. There were Galician "preserve" and Poland or bourgeois or progressive democracy in – Both of things bred in the old order, when the "states" organized themselves, leaving the state idea of ​​monarchs. The next weeks after the departure of the Germans will show, that only national democracy can really apply for governments in Poland, crystallized in the league – and the Social Left, composed of socialists and the so -called. Release, Under the guidance of a secret "organization A", with the "convent" at the forefront.