They Feed and Defend

They Feed and Defend is a motto originally used by the scythemen regiments of the insurgent forces during the Kościuszko Uprising in 1794 in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Since then, it became a Polish patriotic motto and the symbol of the Polish peasant movement. The motto refers to the peasants who historically during peace would work on farms making food for the society, and would fight in the defensive wars.

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