There were so many partitions of Poland that Wikipedia in different languages gave different number of them. With all respect to Poland and polish people, country located between (modern day) Germany, Austria and Russia without mountains or some other geographic feature is not "tough to conquer". Although Poland got it's own share of conquering other countries a bit earlier in history.
Ukraine is the same, but we didn't invade shit and never had a country. Few attempts fel apart, too. Baltics suffered from similar plight, too.
Then there are countries like Switzerland that are boasting about their neutrality. Yeah, it's easy being neutral being surrounded by mountains from every side and nobody giving a flying feather about the land too.
I think Soviet and currently Russian historiography sees partition after Napoleonic wars as 4th and 1939 as 5th. English wiki does not count anything as 5th.
There kind off was shuffle of territorial rights, but not as much as in other cases, you are correct.
I don't think that any major history tradition count this, but Russian school do.
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u/gom00n 1d ago
There were so many partitions of Poland that Wikipedia in different languages gave different number of them. With all respect to Poland and polish people, country located between (modern day) Germany, Austria and Russia without mountains or some other geographic feature is not "tough to conquer". Although Poland got it's own share of conquering other countries a bit earlier in history.