 In a face-to-face confrontation with them, I heatedly defended Herwegh, and our mutual dislike began then.Bakunin went on to Berlin but was stopped by police from traveling to Posen, part of Polish territories gained by Prussia in the Partitions of Poland, where a nationalist insurrection was taking place.Instead Bakunin went to Leipzig and Breslau and then on to Prague where he participated in the First Pan Slav Congress.