Todd Schafer’s Reviews > Poland > Status Update

In summary, Poland would seem to be a buffer between Germany to the west and Russia to the East and always being in trouble from both of them

I had never heard before of a character called Dr Hans Frank nicknamed The butcher of Poland who is made the governor of occupied Poland during world war II

I never knew that Chopin was polish, and I never knew how important listening to those classical pieces of music were in the late 1800s

Prussia, russia, Austria and Hungary were all scheming to like pulling off the map in the 1700s

The poor peasants got meat once a year and subsisted on beets and cabbage.

One doesn’t think of Sweden is an aggressor but they sure kicked the crap out of Poland in the 1600s .

I always knew that Germany was a threat to Poland, but I never realize that Sweden also was. I guess their price and nature, sort of clash with the Catholic nature of Poland. Which is yet another example of a religious war, causing strife between two countries.