Gahbreeil
Learned
I believe the aforementioned user's forum nickname should be changed as it is deceptive, untruthful and dishonest.
As most people aware of the history of Earth can attest, Polish nobility does not exist in the modern day. As proof, I suggest reading the following Wikipedia articles:
Regardless of the fact that the Polish "szlachta", nobility or noble cast has been slaughtering itself even during the times of Polish independence, the Partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth have made way for the Polish nobility to successively die out in rebellions against the foreign powers that annexed the Commonwealth. This long period of time during which the Polish nobility was slaughtered by either the Polish serfs and peasantry, foreign powers or themselves founds it's culminative point during the final days of the Second Commonwealth of Poland when most of the intelligentsia was murdered by the Soviet Union and the National Socialist Reich. After World War II, the Polish noble caste could not exist any longer as Poland became a communist sattelite of the Soviet Union. Anyone who could trace their descent to the "szlachta" was forced to become communist and renounce all claims to a noble background and origin.
Since any and all surviving nobles of Polish descent can claim no privileges, no owned land, no monarch nor no hereditary title or honorific, they cannot be considered aristocrats.
I have made my case.
As most people aware of the history of Earth can attest, Polish nobility does not exist in the modern day. As proof, I suggest reading the following Wikipedia articles:
Regardless of the fact that the Polish "szlachta", nobility or noble cast has been slaughtering itself even during the times of Polish independence, the Partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth have made way for the Polish nobility to successively die out in rebellions against the foreign powers that annexed the Commonwealth. This long period of time during which the Polish nobility was slaughtered by either the Polish serfs and peasantry, foreign powers or themselves founds it's culminative point during the final days of the Second Commonwealth of Poland when most of the intelligentsia was murdered by the Soviet Union and the National Socialist Reich. After World War II, the Polish noble caste could not exist any longer as Poland became a communist sattelite of the Soviet Union. Anyone who could trace their descent to the "szlachta" was forced to become communist and renounce all claims to a noble background and origin.
Since any and all surviving nobles of Polish descent can claim no privileges, no owned land, no monarch nor no hereditary title or honorific, they cannot be considered aristocrats.
I have made my case.