Valentin Pikul. Battle of the iron Chancellor (№ 281217)

Unfortunately, the Polish aristocracy in Paris yearn for the old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: they would like to see Poland in the borders of the thousand seven hundred seventy-second year, including Smolensk and Kiev, in other words, dismembered themselves, they would like to dismember Russia... <...> Claim of the Polish nobility in the Ukrainian and Belarusian lands caused a reaction in themselves as Ukrainians and Belarusians, who did not want to break their historical ties with the Russian people.