Comments on: The Only Thing New in the World: Galician Slaughter 1846 https://forgottengalicia.com/the-only-thing-new-in-the-world-galician-slaughter-1846/ Remnants of the past found in Lviv, Galicia & the former Austrian Empire Wed, 12 May 2021 02:00:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Thomas Reimer https://forgottengalicia.com/the-only-thing-new-in-the-world-galician-slaughter-1846/#comment-2631 Wed, 12 May 2021 02:00:14 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=6662#comment-2631 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/nationalities-papers/article/ethnicity-and-estate-the-galician-jacquerie-and-the-rwandan-genocide-compared/6BE393A65E77C1E2BECC4D17ACF8E3D8

For a differing viewpoint. The oppressed serfs had no reason to support their harsh masters.

]]> By: Jeffrey T. Banas https://forgottengalicia.com/the-only-thing-new-in-the-world-galician-slaughter-1846/#comment-1404 Fri, 13 Sep 2019 01:42:32 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=6662#comment-1404 Wonderful piece of writing. Being an American I have been rarely exposed to Eastern European history.
We sometimes think the idea of “freedom” is strictly our invention or idea. When in reality, many people have fought for, and died for their “freedom”long before America was born. Our fore-fathers simply built on the ideas of others.
A very tragic time in “Galician” history. I can only think of how hopeless and brave they must have been, going against one of the greatest armies in the known world.

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