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If they wanted to get anywhere,
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they tried to pass themselves off as Poles.
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Pilsudski, a name you will come back to who
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destroyed the Polish republic,
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as one after another
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of European states goes authoritarian in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Pilsudski, who was the hero of the miracle of the Vistula River
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when the Polish army turns back the Red Army at the end of World war I
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in just sort of an amazing moment.
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Pilsudski himself was Lithuanian.
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But he considered himself Polish.
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He was absolutely a Lithuanian.