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CAUSES OF THE ENMIGRATION When the Polish immigration began in Brazil, the Polish State, only the nation did not exist. Poland, after it being one of the largest European countries in the sixteenth century and seventeen, it was invaded in the eighteenth century by your three powerful neighbors, Russia, Austria and Prussia (been invented by German invaders of the Western lands of millenarian Poland). The busy part for the Prussians understood Pomeranian and Silesia. They were of these areas that broke the first contingents emigrations. The main causes were the hard persecutions imposed the Poles by the Germanic invaders, as:
That campaign for the despolonization of the population was denominated of Kulturkampf. The Russians, for your time, occupied most central and East of the Polish lands and in the same way they imposed drastic measures to turn off any Polish line of the face of the earth. The measures draconians foresaw:
Finally, the Austrians were a little less hard. The Austro-Hungarian Empire was forced to do concessions for the nationalities that lived in Polish lands. Vienna renominated the area for the name of Galicia and it transformed her in some of the poorest areas and of larger delay and stagnation of the Empire. That repression politics commanded together by the invaders it caused enormous revolt feeling. In the years of 1830, 1864 and 1905 happened violent revolutions in Polish soil against the domain invader. Therefore, it is comprehensible that many Polish, living in these circumstances thought about emigrating. The first groups of emigrants left exactly of the busy lands for the Germanic ones and in some moments they were confused as being German, in reason of the names that carried in the documents (one of the impositions of the invaders: the change of Polish names for Germanic). For that reason, it has very Polish descendant in Brazil thinking that your origin is German because of the last name. |
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