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and which now has been proclaimed independent,
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it was absolutely impoverished.
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So, the ethnic complexity is, in itself,
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going to be a factor for destabilization.
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What about Poland?
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Poland had not been independent since 1795, since the Third partition.
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You had, as I've already discussed in other contexts,
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you've got Polish intellectuals.
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You've got political militants in the 1830s and again in the 1860s
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who don't want to be part of congress Russia.
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They don't want to be congress Poland.
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They don't want to be part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire.