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Poland - a nation without a state

How to Invent a Country

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Polish History - Galicia

In the nineteenth century, the hapsburgs had control across what is now both polish and ucranian land. The austrians even gave it a name, galicia - which is in many ways a piece of nonsense. In lublin that the communists established their first government in poland on the back of the red army in 19 forty four. It abuts on to this funny, fragmentary little territory called the austrian silesia,. filled with places like the duchy of egendorf but more sinisterly places er like theduchy of auspitz.

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