as if the peace conference re-created poland and made czechoslovak cuaczechoslovakia and yug yug slavia. their claims overlapped because they based their claims so often on history. and the way the country's borders had come and gone in the past you had a choice what sort of borders you wanted. but often you'd choose borders that incorporated land someone else wanted. in poland there was a debate between poles who said we should settle and there was those who said let's go back to the poland lithuania commonwealth. and you can imagine what a country such as greece did. greece and italy too went right back into the classical age and said we once had empires. the greeks looked at their maps and the venezuela prime minister looked at the maps of the classical age and said we want to control the coast of asia minor, all those islands, istanbul, constantinople. and i think the final thing we have to remember when we think of what those statesmen were trying to deal with was their own power was shrinking. you know, these were representing very powerful countries and the most powerful countrie