Poles who have saved Europe...

The Polish-Soviet War (February 1919 -- March 1921) was an armed conflict of Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine against the Second Polish Republic and the short-lived Ukrainian People's Republic, four states in post-World War I Europe. The war was the result of conflicting expansionist attempts. Poland, whose statehood had just been re-established by the Treaty of Versailles following the Partitions of Poland in the late 18th century, sought to secure territories which she had lost at the time of partitions; the Soviets' aim was to control those same territories, which had been part of Imperial Russia until the turbulent events of the Great War. Both States claimed victory[1] in the war: the Poles claimed a successful defense of their state, while the Soviets claimed a repulse of the Polish eastward invasion of Ukraine and Belarus, which they viewed as a part of foreign intervention in the Russian Civil War.

The frontiers between Poland and Soviet Russia had not been defined in the Treaty of Versailles and post-war events created turmoil: the Russian Revolution of 1917; the crumbling of the Russian, German and Austrian empires; the Russian Civil War; the Central Powers' withdrawal from the eastern front; and the attempts of Ukraine and Belarus to establish their independence. Poland's Chief of State, Józef Piłsudski, felt the time expedient to expand Polish borders as far east as feasible, to be followed by the creation of a Polish-led federation (Międzymorze) of several states in the rest of East-Central Europe as a bulwark against the potential re-emergence of both German and Russian imperialism. Lenin, meanwhile, saw Poland as the bridge that the Red Army would have to cross in order to assist other communist movements and help conduct other European revolutions.

By 1919, the Polish forces had taken control of much of Western Ukraine, with victory in the Polish-Ukrainian War; the West Ukrainian People's Republic had tried unsuccessfully to create a Ukrainian state on territories to which both Poles and the Ukrainians laid claim. At the same time, the Bolsheviks began to gain the upper hand in the Russian Civil War and advance westward towards the disputed territories. By the end of 1919 a clear front had formed. Border skirmishes escalated into open warfare following Piłsudski's major incursion further east into Ukraine in April 1920. He was met by a nearly simultaneous and initially very successful Red Army counterattack. The Soviet operation threw the Polish forces back westward all the way to the Polish capital, Warsaw. Meanwhile, western fears of Soviet troops arriving at the German frontiers increased the interest of Western powers in the war. In midsummer, the fall of Warsaw seemed certain but in mid-August the tide had turned again as the Polish forces achieved an unexpected and decisive victory at the Battle of Warsaw. In the wake of the Polish advance eastward, the Soviets sued for peace and the war ended with a ceasefire in October 1920. A formal peace treaty, the Peace of Riga, was signed on 18 March 1921, dividing the disputed territories between Poland and Soviet Russia. The war largely determined the Soviet-Polish border for the period between the World Wars. Much of the territory ceded to Poland in the Treaty of Riga became part of the Soviet Union after World War II, when Poland's eastern borders were redefined by the Allies in close accordance with the British-drawn Curzon Line of 1920.

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[xDasReichx]

BBN wydał kalendarz z okazji 90-lecia bitwy warszawskiej. Wysłali mi razem z płytą z piosenkami patriotycznymi za darmo, więc jak chcecie to piszcie do nich.

[tenebrosus999]

Można jakieś szersze informacje? Bo nie widzę tego na stronach BBN.

[zeratulhun]

God bless you polish! Best whises from Hungary!

[strangerinwhite]

Polish people are awesome because help the United States gain it's freedoom during the the American Revolution War. Americans must forget the names of Tadeusz Kościuszko,Kazimierz Pułaski and Haym Solomon. I say thank you Poland for helping my country gain Independence.

[Jedermann101]

I salute you, brave people!

Miguel

[BrinkmannDr]

@zeratulhun God bless you hungarians.

[Skansener]

relly nicely done! greetings :D

[vikdon1]

Super wideo....

[Arax1966]

@mirobreg75

Mayby...If so, we are not the only who overestimate our role.

Please see: Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon "The eighteenth decisive battle of the world: Warsaw, 1920"

[adhasz16]

Kosciuszko was POLISH !!!! you idiot.... first go to school and learn history... then post .... ohhh My God people can be really stupid....

[19F57]

A jakie było zdziwienie gdy Polacy stawili zmasowany opór i jeszcze wygrywali! Cóż za szok Trockistów, Komuchów. 2:06 - albo 2:52. Jak widać po stronie Polskiej walczyli również murzyni, którzy mieli polskie obywatelstwa, zmieniali nazwiska na Polskie i nie chcieli już służyć w niewoli u Niemca, ginęli za Polskę i za nas. Dlatego nie uważam że każdy "obcy" zły a częścią Nacjonalizmu nie powinien być rasizm jak się niestety niektórym wydaje. Każdy powinien żyć u siebie - tak.

[19F57]

Warto wspomnieć że gdy Ruskie z Polskimi czerwonymi właziły na tereny Polski, i Białymstoku zwołano Polską Armię Czerwoną, oraz organizowano czerwoną rewolucje która zalewała całą Europę, zgłosiło się do nich....100 ludzi :). Polskę Uratował Patriotyzm, Hiszpanie Nacjonalizm (Nie mylić rasizmem, ksenofobią, szowinizmem i nazizmem)

[PlibergFUn74]

@R4D01234

This is TRUE. USA an (most)west European see only to the end of their nose.

[THEBARTMANOPS]

@Nortekzmc 1 to ładnie było by powiedzieć czarno-skurzy. 2 to sa ochotnicy z USA o Polskich korzeniach, słyszałeś o powstaniu na Haiti? Napoleon wysłał Polaków aby stłumić  powstanie, ale po pewnym czasie Polacy zauważyli ze walczą z ludźmi którzy tez jak Polacy walczą o niepodległość wiec wtedy Polacy się pszylaczyli i powstanie wygrało powstało Haiti itd. potem kiedy polska odzyskała niepodległość i ZSRR nas zaatakowalo Czarno-skorzy opuścili USA przez rasizm by pomóc dawnej ojczyźnie.