The Reformation in the Baltic - Denmark, Poland, Sweden

"Students from Wittenberg brought the reforming message early to Danzig and Cracow, but here as elsewhere national sentiments directly affected the course of the reform movement. Partly because of Polish political traditions, partly because of long-standing ties with France, and partly because of a growing antipathy toward Germans, the Poles took much more strongly to Calvinism and Calvinistic sects. It's worth pointing out, too, that the Hussites had flourished in western Poland, so the country had a long tradition of dissatisfaction with the clergy. Moreover, the country also had a long tradition of religious toleration: many Jews had fled thither from persecutions in the West, and there was even an Islamic Tatar population in Lithuania. In the event, a number of different reform churches took root in Poland, especially during the 1540s and 1550s. While ideas and enclaves could be found everywhere, different flavors of Protestantism flourished in different regions of Poland, for exactly the same reason they did in Germany: due to the preferences and protection of the local nobility."

The Warsaw Confederation (January 28, 1573), an important development in the history of Poland and Lithuania, is considered the formal beginning of religious freedom in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

This act is remarkable in that it was not imposed by a government or by consequences of war, but rather resulted from the good will of members of Polish-Lithuanian society. It was also influenced by the 1572 French St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, which prompted the Polish-Lithuanian nobility to see that no monarch would ever be able to carry out such an act in Poland.

This country became what Cardinal Stanislaus Hosius called "a place of shelter for heretics". It was a place where the most radical religious sects, trying to escape persecution in other countries of the Christian world, sought refuge. All religious sects in Poland enjoyed tolerance as such was the King's will.

which prompted the Polish-Lithuanian nobility to see that no monarch would ever be able to carry out such an act in Poland.

How ironic that this actually led to Polands downfall in the mid 18th century

our troops have been to moscov

It was exactly inversely downfall of religous freedom was the result of what you are talking about.

Northern Wars, by Robert Frost. A very good history of state and society in North-Eastern Europe in the 16th-18th centuries.

Please clarify this...

Twice : ) The only nation to ever do so.

We had even our "Iraq" Like americans who try to establish democracy there... We tried to make republic from Russia (our troops have been to moscov).

Do you really believe what you write? Neither Americans care about democracy in Iraq or Polish army had good intentions when invaded Russia. They got what deserved.

These sects were kicked out from other countries mostly because they were in opposition to rule of local monarch. Thus this is rather destabilizing factor.

The major impact of the Thirty Years' War, fought mostly by mercenary armies, was the extensive destruction of entire regions, denuded by the foraging armies. Episodes of famine and disease significantly decreased the populace of the German states and the Low Countries and Italy, while bankrupting most of the combatant powers.

They got what deserved.

We avoided this wars. What is more ... most of this "heretics" were right.

What kind of Pole are you?

The doctrine of unconditional election asserts that God's choice from eternity of those whom he will bring to himself is not based on foreseen virtue, merit, or faith in those people. Rather, it is unconditionally grounded in God's mercy alone.