#polish–soviet war

[captain-price-unofficially]

A Polish army unit with its FT tanks during the Polish-Soviet War.

[polish-spirit]

Plakat autorstwa Edmunda Johna (1920).

[carbone14]

Servants d'une mitrailleuse Schwarzlose MG M.07/12 à la bataille de Radzymin – Guerre soviéto-polonaise – Pologne – 14 août 1920

[playitagin]

1920 – Kyiv Offensive:

The combined Polish-Ukrainian forces under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły entered the city on 7 May. A bridgehead was established and reached 15 kilometers east of the Dnieper, which was as far as the Polish 3rd Army advanced. About 20,000 Red Army troops had been taken prisoner by 2 May. Only 150 Polish soldiers died during the entire operation.

[theworldofwars]

Officer of the Russian Armoured Car Division playing with a divisional mascot, a bear called Miskab, in Vladikavkas, August 1916. Note a dismantled armoured car's turret in the background.

[mapsontheweb]

The Polish–Soviet war [1918/1919 - 18 March 1921] was fought primarily between the Second Polish Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution, on territories which were previously held by the Russian Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy following the Partitions of Poland

by _slovak.mapper_

[stillunusual]

SPIERDALAJ - the world revolution that never happened....

Russian general Mikhail Tukhachevsky commanded the Soviet invasion of Poland during the Polish-Soviet War. In a pre-invasion speech he issued the following call to arms to his troops: "The fate of the world revolution is being decided in the west! The way leads over the corpse of Poland to a universal conflagration….On to Vilnius, Minsk and Warsaw - forward!" Fortunately, the world revolution had to be cancelled because Poland defeated the Soviets. After the victory, Polish commander Józef Piłsudski told Tukhachevsky to…."get off your arse and fuck off back to your shitty country!" If only today's politicians had the nerve to talk to Russians using the kind of language they understand….

[pol-ski]

Armed Forces Day, known also as the Feast of the Polish Armed Forces (Polish: Święto Wojska Polskiego), is a national holiday celebrated annually on 15 August in Poland, commemorating the anniversary of the 1920 victory over Soviet Russia at the Battle of Warsaw during the Polish–Soviet War. Armed Forces Day is held in conjunction with the Day of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, itself a separate public holiday. The event is marked by military parades, equipment reviews, showcases and remembrances by all branches of the Polish Armed Forces across the country.

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[chicago-geniza]

Imagine you're baby Ernestyna Leserówna. The year is 1905. You are 16. You live in Kraków. Your father is dying. Then there's a school strike and a Revolution. Many miles and one imperial partition-border away in Kongresówka Łódź, your future personal assistant and close confidante Leonia Jabłonkówna is born. When Jelonka turns 16, an independent Poland will enter into the Peace of Riga, establish its fixed borders, and ratify the March Constitution. History happens to my beloved dead so much

[marietheran]

I think the fundamental problem I have with the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy is how they completely undermines the ending of RotJ.

In real life, I allow, it absolutely happens that 20 years after one great war there is another. Historical victories aren't clear cut like that. But let's be clear: if Star Wars worked like history does the rebellion wouldn't have won in the first place.

So let our heroes have their happy ending! Let them stay heroes. Don't do that.

[captain-price-unofficially]

Red Army armored train car during the Soviet-Polish war of 1920. Rail car is armed with Maxim machine gun.

[polish-spirit]

Ochotnicy w biurze werbunkowym w Warszawie (1920).

[the-history-chap]

Polish officers in 1920s writing Żurawiejki really said "These guys over there are drunkards and thieves. Fuck bolsheviks tho" and if you look at history it's kinda obvious why

[surfingkaliyuga]

“Rok 1920 / Year 1920” Henryk Grombecki 1920

[theworldofwars]

Troops of the British Armoured Car Expeditionary Force in railway carriages en route to the front. Photograph probably taken in the Sarikamish area, South Russia, 1916.

[mapsontheweb]

Stages of Polish–Soviet War, 1919-1921.