It is a 100 years ago that the army of the newly restored Republic of Poland was able to hold back the invading Bolshevik hordes at the gates of Warsaw and destroy their army with a bold countermanoeuvre by Marshal Pilsudski from the south on August 16th 1920. Bolshevik commander Tukhaczevesky had predicted he would be feeding his horses in "red" Paris that same year and most of Europe was still in social and political turmoil crippled by World War One destruction and the flu pandemic. The Polish Army saved Europe from the Soviet invasion and prevented for 20 years the Communist takeover of Central Europe. Polish workers and peasants joined in the fight against the Bolsheviks. It was a true test of fire for the newly nascent Polish nation and according to British diplomat and historian Lord D'Abernon it was "the eighteenth decisive battle in world histroy." The Polish-Bolshevik War of 1920 was the only war that Soviet Russia lost until the war in Afghanistan in 1982.
It is now Polish Army Day in Poland.
On Facebook 15th August 2020
