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    Explanation: France is on its fifth republic at this point, labeling each new republic as a new constitution comes into force.

    Poland is on its third republic/commonwealth… each one counted as starting with independence and ending with partition by foreign powers.

    For obvious reasons, the name of the Third Polish Republic has a bit more emotional pull to Poles than the Fifth French Republic does to France.

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      Russia is fine.

      Its governments, on the other hand, have been rather poor even by the low moral standards of powerful states.