Innocence - Poland and Lithuania - Historical Hetalia

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I'm a big fan of the Historical Hetalia community, so I thought I'd try it out for myself! I can't draw, so you guys are all my heroes.

On to business!

This lovely song by the lovely Vienna Teng, titled "Antebellum," is about two people who start out very close, but soon find themselves at odds with each other and the only way they can stop fighting is to shut each other out, but eventually they learn to compromise. It draws a lot of analogies and imagery from the American Civil War, which is fitting because the Union/Confederacy and Lithuania/Poland clashed over many of the same underlying issues, especially during the Commonwealth period.

I know some of the subtitles are illegible (black backgroundssssss kolkolkolkolkol) but never fear! They're in the description too (with additional tidbits!)

1253 Lithuanian tribes unified
1264 Statute of Kalisz (Poland declared tolerance for Jews)
1385 Union of Krewko
1410 Battle of Grunwald (against Teutonic Knights, mostly Prussians. They'd been attacking and enslaving Lithuanians for centuries since they were Pagan, and Poland had a territorial dispute with them.)
1411 Peace of Thorn (in which Poland pleads the Holy Roman Empire to allow the Lithuanians to be "baptised with water, not with blood" under Polish influence. HRE approves, and calls off the Teutonic Knitghts.)
1468 Casimir's Code adopted
1569 Union of Lublin (whereupon they combined to become the Poland-Lithuania Commonwealth, but the arrangement left Lithuanians dissatisfied. Sideote: the Grand Duchy of Lithuania controlled modern-day Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, most of Ukraine, and a large chunk of Russia at the time.)
1573 Warsaw Confederation Act (revision of Kalisz)
1588 Third Statute of Lithuania (my absolute favorite thing ever. One of the things it says is, essentially, "all must be treated equally under the law." Poland wasn't happy about the vigilante legislation.)
1648 Khmelnytsky Uprising (Eastern Orthodox Ukrainians felt opressed by the Polish Catholic szlachtas.)
1655 Swedish Empire invaded (modern-day Estonia and Latvia)
1683 Battle of Vienna (Commonwealth united against Ottoman empire)
1791 Constitution of May 3 (which might have finally brought them together, but the following year...)
1792, 1793, 1795 Partitions of the Commonwealth and War in Defense of the Constitution (the rest of Europe was ruled by monarchies, who strongly disapproved of having a powerful democracy on their side of the pond. Incidentally, this era's anti-Commonwealth mentality is the origin of "Polish jokes." In other news, Russia outlawed the Lithuanian alphabet. Lithuania became very good at book-smuggling.)
1918 Poland and Lithuania regained independence in the aftermath of WWI
1919 Polish-Lithuanian war (over the Vilnius region aka Israel of the North. Poland still controlled the region by the time WWII began.)
1939 Nazi Germany invaded Poland
1940 the Soviet Union invaded Lithuania
1941 Germany "liberated" Lithuania (tehnically, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and Lithuanians helped the Nazis drive out the Soviets. Lithuanians also participated in some of the violence against Polish citizens during the Nazi occupation.)
1945 Germany surrenders
1945 Yalta Conference (Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin assign Lithuania to the Soviet Union and Poland to the Eastern Bloc. Lithuanian citizens were treated harshly under the Soviet Union, and many were sent to Gulags.)
1981 Poland imposed martial law (to force out Communist puppet gov't.)
1987 Singing Revolution (The Baltics peacefully protested against the Soviet Union. Also that's what Himaruya's "Estonia makes an independent movie" gag is about.)
1990 Lithuania declared independence (and then Russia shot him while he was unarmed! see 1991 January Events)
1999 Poland joined NATO
2004 Lithuania joined NATO with Poland as its most vocal supporter
2008 a passport-related issue reignited tensions between the two nations
2012 Polish and Lithuanian politicians boycotted each other's diplomatic conferences (SOOOO sad. What they really need is a good mediator, but Western powers are treating this as an insignificant inconvenience. A hasty treaty and a condescending pat on the head are not going to erase the blood shed. Their age of innocence is long gone and they've never really seen eye to eye, but in the light of this new era they may finally have the chance to understand each other.)

And if you're a cool enough person to read this entire insane description I'm assuming you're also cool enough to look this stuff up. I am an American teenage girl, so I'm definitely not the authority on the subject. But hey, if even one person finds this educational and/or inspiring, then I'm super happy :) Let me know what you think!