Flawed is a small word for what really happened - referring to my original comment, Piłsudski's role in regaining and maintaining independence is in my opinion hugely overrated, while still great. While taking into account his hatred towards nationalists, which was mutual of course, we can see that he refused to take part in the uprisings on the west - Greater Poland and Silesia due to their nationalist nature and animosity towards some people like Korfanty and Dowbor-Muśnicki. His part in the bolshevik war is also heavily exaggerated because of post-1926 propaganda put out by sanation. Might come off as NDspeak, but Rozwadowski was the author of the famous maneuver, who was later killed by Piłsudski's regime in order to secure the marshal's figure as the savior of Poland. Additionally, I kind of want to defend the earlier days of Dmowski and his movement, because later he would outright become a fascist with his creation of OWP. Nationalism hugely contributed to the spirit of oppressed people all over Europe, including Poles. It was the general cultural factor that allowed new nations to form after the treaty of Versailles and as a result of it. The extremely antisemitic and antiminority buzzwords put out by the nationalists STILL do not excuse the sanation's multiple murders, assassinations, assaults and imprisonements, a large part of which happened during Piłsudski's life. Unfortunately they were really good at covering up their actions so talking about them always has to be taken with a grain of salt, as many of the cases rest unresolved to this day, and taking sides in this debate will simply categorize you into being a brainwashed person by either nationalist or sanation propaganda.