What if a single geopolitical decision after World War I could have completely stopped the rise of the Germany, the Soviet Union and potentially prevented World War II? Enter Intermarium - a forgotten, high-stakes plan proposed by Polish leader Józef Piłsudski to unite Eastern Europe into a massive slavic superpower stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Designed as an unbreachable wall to permanently shatter Russian imperial expansion and block German aggression, this mega-state would have rewritten modern history. Yet, it was completely destroyed before it could even begin. Why?
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 The Forgotten Eastern Superpower
01:45 Partitions of Poland & Plan to Stop Russia
04:32 The Collapse of the Three Empires
05:55 The Polish-Lithuanian Medieval Blueprint
07:10 Piłsudski's Idea & External Opposition
09:07 Internal Opposition
10:58 The Price of Failure
12:33 Planned Union with Czechoslovakia & Soviet Occupation
13:20 Modern Visegrad Group & Three Seas Initiative
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