We still love you, Poland 🥺

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PugJesus@piefed.social · 41 pts · 319d (1 reply)

We love Tadeusz Kościuszko and Casimir Pulaski in this house!

DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 319d

Can once again confirm they were badass in the SNES classic Liberty or Death!

mysticpickle@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 319d (4 replies)

Is it wrong to learn more about history through memes than I ever did through history classes in school?

PugJesus@piefed.social · 26 pts · 319d (2 replies)

No wrong way to learn history, as long as you make reasonable efforts to weed out misinformation! 🙏

Sunshine@piefed.social · 3 pts · 319d (1 reply)
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PugJesus@piefed.social · 4 pts · 319d

Piefed hours 💪💪💪💪💪

XiELEd@piefed.social · 6 pts · 319d

The education system is wrong if it didn’t teach you the value of independent learning outside of school. Like PugJesus said, there's no wrong way to learn history, as long as you criticise your sources.

Andonyx@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 319d

Chicago still remembers!

havid_dume@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 319d

Both have a lot of stuff named after them, no? At least in the cities I've been to, there's always something named after at least one of them, if not a park then a street or a monument.

PunnyName@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 319d

Sorry for all the *gestures broadly* Poland.

niktemadur@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 319d (3 replies)

Wasn't it named Prussia or even The Holy Roman Empire at the time?

PugJesus@piefed.social · 14 pts · 319d (2 replies)

Much of Poland had been stolen by imperialist powers, but the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth still existed at this time, albeit in a weakened state. It would receive its final deathblow in the 1790s.

Aqarius@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 318d (1 reply)

Though, oddly enough, there was also this one Prussian general with the continentals...

PugJesus@piefed.social · 2 pts · 318d

Von Steuben ♥

Jhex@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 318d

as you can see, there is no hate like Murican love, so in the end, Poland got lucky

harcesz@szmer.info · 2 pts · 318d

Fun fact; there is a discussion whether or not Kościuszko might have been a woman or an intersex person. Havent looked into it, but wouldent be a first in history...