Poland is a country with a well founded system of democratic government. Our republic is a multiparty democracy with a two chamber parliament. The Head of State is the President, elected by a majority of the voters for a five year term.

On December 13-th 1981 the Military Council of National Salvation, headed by General Wojciech Jaruzelski, imposed Martial Law in Poland.

The Polish People’s Republic was a one-party state characterized by constant internal struggles for democracy. The Polish United Workers’ Party became the dominant political faction, officially making Poland a socialist country, but with more liberal policies than other states of the Eastern Bloc.

The largest industries in Poland are the agriculture, manufacturing, energy, and tourism industries, of which more below. Agriculture is one of Poland’s biggest industries, accounting for 3.8% of the country’s GDP and responsible for 12.7% of the country’s labour force.

The power of the Sejm did not work our very well because the aim of most of its members was to ensure that central authority would not affect their local interests. The Liberum veto in 1652, stated that the Sejm meetings could be stopped by one member who disagreed. And because of this the government became chaos.

The Polish political system was almost the opposite of the absolute monarchy: Polish kings were elected and their position was very weak, with most of the powers in the hands of the parliament (Sejm).

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However in the late 17th century Poland was severely weakened by the lack of an effective central government. A single member of the Sejm could veto any measure. Furthermore, a single member could dissolve the Sejm.

Answer. Explanation: Partitions of Poland. The Partitions of Poland were three partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that took place toward the end of the 18th century and ended the existence of the state, resulting in the elimination of sovereign Poland and Lithuania for 123 years.

Soviet Russia

In November 1918, Poland became a sovereign state. The Russian state lost territory due to the German World War I offensive and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, signed by the emergent Soviet Russia. Several nations of the region saw a chance for independence and seized their opportunity to gain it.

The “reason” given was that Russia had to come to the aid of its “blood brothers,” the Ukrainians and Byelorussians, who were trapped in territory that had been illegally annexed by Poland. Now Poland was squeezed from West and East—trapped between two behemoths.

The Great War hides Poland (1914) This German satirical map from 1914 shows the conflicting sides of the Great War. While the picture doesn’t even show Poland, Poles did engage in war fighting on many sides. The result: an independent Polish state that eventually emerged from the next four years of carnage.

There is no official religion in Poland. The Roman Catholic Church is the biggest church in Poland. The overwhelming majority (around 87%) of the population are Roman-Catholic if the number of the baptised is taken as the criterion (33 million of baptised people in 2013).

Protestantism in Poland is the third largest faith in Poland, after the Roman Catholic Church (32,910,865) and the Polish Orthodox Church (507,196). As of 2011 there were approximately 80 registered Protestant denominations in Poland, with a total of 145,600 members.

In Poland, the first significant step towards the return of the Slavic faith was an ethnographer, Zorian Dołęga-Chodakowski, and his 1818 book About Slavic Faith Before Christianity. He was the first one in centuries to publicly declare himself a pagan and condemn the whole Christianisation process.