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Not very, it would end as it always does, i.e. with the Poles beating the Germans. Already the HRE, more precisely the Habsburgs, tried to do this and each time painfully found out that it was impossible. Simply put, Poland alone is too strong to accomplish this, the effect would rather have...

Simply put, any more advanced dishes that required imported spices, meats other than pig or chicken and other ingredients not naturally found in Poland simply disappeared. Because there was physically no way to make them. Meat was scarce and and when it did occur it was of hopeless quality, and...

Without World War II and 50 years of communism, Polish cuisine would be like French cuisine only with lots of spices ala India. Thanks to communism and its problems which it heroically overcomes although they do not occur in any other regime. All of the old Polish cuisine, was optimized around...

He was but for a short time, it was shortly after the Battle of Grundwald.

Novgorod unites Russia instead of Moscow. Moscow, for example, gets a good thrashing before it conquers Novgorod. Another possibility is to keep Novgorod in the Polish sphere of influence for a longer period of time by which Poland would be forced to knock down and integrate Moscow under...

As @Buba says it requires a fairly early POD to make it happen. I see such two, first Germany is more to the west than to the east so that they have easier access to the Atlantic and at the same time their neighbors are able to stop them from further expansion. Or a less fanciful POD dating...

Both of you are wrong. In fact, the order of best, worst is identical to the order of the following Vasa. The best was Sigismund III (according to current knowledge which has strongly revised the previous view of him), the second is Ladislaus IV (although current knowledge is no longer as...

And Jan Kazimierz is the entire Vasa dynasty? Do his mistakes dwarf the merits of his father or brother? Although, to be fair, if as hopeless as one would like to accuse Poland would be in a much worse position than it was. Simply put, our demands on rulers have always been higher than others...

And why is that? New research, contradicts old findings.

Nope On the contrary, they were quite good, just in our case, just good means average. (Well, except maybe Sigismund III Vasa, one of our best rulers on the Polish throne).

Well, yes, that's what I meant. Siekevich wrote to give Poles hope under the partitions, as well as to make a nice profit from it. Some literary critics argue which of these motivations was the stronger one. ;)

Yes, Sapkowski himself did not write anything Slavic, or at least he did not intend to. He relied on legends and myths from all over Europe with emphasis on Arthurian ones of which he is an expert. At most, he pulled something from Slavic mythology, but that was to have some new unprecedented...

Precisely that it has little to do with The Witcher. Ironically, The Witcher is more of a fractured Arthurian legends plus legends from all over Europe, reworked into a dark fantasy poured with a sauce of Polishness. Slavism was added by the Reds.

That's why I came up with Labians (Łabian, Elbians in English) meaning the Polabians and Sorbs being the basis for a new Slavic nation replacing the Germans. Czechs can always be added, yes, however, but I was more concerned with just the Sorbs and the Polabians.

The Holy Empire of the Labians or the Elbe Slavs conquer the Germans and Slavicization them. Does anyone have an idea how to achieve this? Historically, the Elbe Slavs, placed between Poland and Germany, were the arena of clashes between their neighbors from which the Germans ultimately...

This reminds me of my playing with the English language and writing it down with the Polish alphabet and phonetics. For example, the title Assasins Creed Brotherhood written in Polish phonetics looks like this "Asasyns Crid Broterhód". I've done this out of curiosity, sometimes converting...

Yes, It is enough that one does not give up care of the Prussian Holenzorn line to its Brandenburg line and does not allow the Brandenburg line to inherit in this way as they die out then automatically as in the case of the Duchy of Mazovia, Prussia will be incorporated into the Crown. That or a...

I'm know.

Well, not really, the Polish Enlightenment was actually quite destructive to the PLC and yet mild in its construction. They were mostly introduced by Catholics priests, who cut out every more murderous piece as non-Catholic. But Poniatowski, trying to push through reforms, chose a much more...

Oh that's exactly the word I was looking for. That's what the Polish MP is, an envoy to the Diet. In and of itself, this is probably what members of parliament would be called in such England.