That time Poland saved the world...
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- This is my latest video, this time celebrating the Polish victory in the Battle of Warsaw. We spend so much time remembering the tragic elements of Polish history, that we end up forgetting our successes. This is one of them.
Fun fact: Polish mathematicians hacked the Soviet communication lines, so instead of the information of what’s happening on the ground, the Soviet troops were listening to Holy Bible
First ever shitpost
And a good one at that
@@szczypior2714 Not the first, Martin Luther is a much older example. If we are speaking of the oldest then i am pretty sure Diogenes is the earliest known instance of shitposting.
@Mikołaj Kuziuk
Not true. That's not the way how the SIGINT works.
Zanim zjesz kolejną parówkę, zapoznaj się z terminem SIGINT i historią podpułkownika Kowalewskiego. Że nie jesteś w stanie wyguglać, to akurat jestem tego pewien.
@@swinki33 Y b so maed. Is just a hooman
They decode and blond them
The Hungarians helped the most, they are always polish brothers, God bless Hungary
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Hungarians helped most by not being hostile to poland. Even so called allies of poland were hostile.
Uuu, pozdrawiam z Ustki :D
Lengyel Magyar, két jó barát!
Dziękujemy Bracia Węgrzy !!!!!
A testverem
Lengyel, magyar - két jó barát, együtt harcol, s issza borát.🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱
Polak, Węgier - dwa bratanki, i do szabli, i do szklanki, oba zuchy, oba żwawi, niech im Pan Bóg błogosławi
Thank you for the ammo, Magyar Brothers.
We love Hungarians. Best friends you can pray to have!
Polacy i Węgrzy byli bracmi dla siebie w czasach zagrożenia
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One of the many times poland saved the world*
Respect from Hungary
Ah yes, a national friend
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randomboi9000 maybe he was born in Romania and moved to Hungary...
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M8 Your National help Polak Węgier dwa bratanki
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"Lance do boju, szable w dłoń, bolszewika goń, goń, goń!"
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Sowieci!
@Mark 13 Sowieci !!!
@@JB-zt4bm Niestety, tylko 2 mln od Korwina mysli, reszta ciagnie jak zwykle ... na rzez
@@fafura13 Nie przesadzaj.
@@fafura13 a bo jak ktoś się ze mną zgadza to myśli, używa logiki i tak dalej, a jak nie zgadza to głupi :) wykryłem koper pod nosem
I am Welsh. My wife is English, My daughters were born in England, My grandson born in Canada, his wife is Polish. My great granddaughter, born in Canada. Baby Diana, my great grand daughter has so much history to be proud of as her heritage. From King Sobieski defeating the Ottoman invasion of Europe and the fight for freedom from the Nazis and communists to the British fight for the freedom of Europe from Napoleons Armies and the Nazi and later Soviet aggression. If ever there were two countries who stood for all that was good in this world it is these two. She has a lot to be proud of as she grows up and takes her place in this world.
You made a mistake! The sentences are in this way correct! ...Europe fight for freedom from the Germans...fight for the freedom of Europe from the Germans...The enemy was the entire nation and not just a political party! Besides, the fight for the freedom of half of Europe would not have been necessary if the Polish allies had not betrayed Poland in 1939. Because if the Polish allies had attacked the British and French massively in the west, as agreed with Poland, the Germans would be quickly defeated and would not have the opportunity to occupy any country. So a fight for freedom would not have been necessary. But the term British is probably wrong in this context. Because those responsible were the English in 1939. Because the English have power in the United Kingdom. They were responsible for the betrayal.
They don't teach any European history in American public high schools. Like 0. And ww2 starts in 1941...
Thanks for your efforts
And that's why your president signs documents like "447 just" to give Jews what they like even if they have no right what so ever to get something from Poland and students asked about the Nasist say that there were Polish people becouse Auswitz was in Poland..Yes, it was but accupied by Germans then
This is about the Battle of Warsaw in 1920. After 123 years of occupation by Russia, Prussia (Germany in fact) and Austria-Hungary, it had just regained its independence. It is worth noting that the Polish eastern borders were located more to the east (Lithuania, Belarus and part of Ukraine. So Poland bordered the Soviet Russia. As in the film, the author says the battle was called a miracle on the Vistula. But even the Russians said that it was a miracle to diminish the merits of Polish commanders, soldiers, volunteers, women, etc. But most of all, great war tactics If this battle ended with the defeat of the Poles, the Soviets and their communism would have entered Germany, which was weakened by the loss of World War I. And then all Western Europe.
Ask IZRAEL why is it so.... ;-)
Em, WW II starts in 1 september 1939, when III Reich attack polish penninsula in Gdańsk, Westerplatte
@@maniek-pp4hg Don't forget that the Germans were ok with bolshevism and Lenin was a German spy.
I am writing a comment in English so that youtube recommends this video to the English-speaking audience
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Just got recommended as a English speaker :D
Bob4212 the algorithm works! ;)
@@StefanTompson Just learned something! I respect this dude for letting me see good content!
Poland has saved western civilization more than once ... don't forget Vienna. And I am convinced Poland will again save western civilization. What a blessing Poland is to humanity! God bless Poland!!!!!
Thank you for praising Poland! But Poland cannot protect the Western European countries and Germany from themselves. Because these countries are responsible for this migration policy, which enables the colonization of Western European countries and Germany by Orientals.
By the way, it's not even an exaggeration that Poland saved the world. Indeed, the Polish victory against the Bolsheviks had also an extreme European impact but also even a global impact. According to the British politician and diplomat Lord D'Abernon, who was part of the inter allied Mission to Poland in 1920, during the Polish-Bolshevik war, the 1920 Battle of Warsaw was one of the most important battles in world history because as he said "had the Battle of Warsaw ended with a Bolshevik victory, it would have been a turning point in the history of Europe. As there is no doubt that with the fall of Warsaw, Central Europe would have been left open to Communist propaganda and Bolshevik invasion." So long as the Bolsheviks were preoccupied with the Civil War, they had nothing in mind beyond their survival. But, having conquered the Russian heartland in the course of 1919, they began to heed the dictates of their ideology, which told them that the Communist Revolution should be exported from Russia to the rest of Europe. The Second Congress of the Communist International deliberated in Moscow between 19 July and 7 August 1920. Lenin spoke of the increasingly favorable odds for the accomplishment of the World Proletarian Revolution, which would lead to the World Soviet Republic. The road to Europe opened up when Germany lost the First World War and signed the surrender on November 11th 1918. The German troops then systematically retreated from the occupied lands of Ukraine, Belarus and other Baltic states. They were immediately followed by the Bolshevik Red Army, fulfilling Lenin’s orders to begin its “freeing” march west. This operation had a telling codename - “Vistula”. The most important job of the Bolsheviks was to break through to Germany and Austria which were filled with revolutionary atmosphere. To do that, they needed to get rid of the “barrier”, meaning, as Joseph Stalin wrote, “the national states which wound up between the two huge sources of revolution in the East and West”. One such barrier was, first and foremost, Poland which just regained independence following the defeat of Germany and the fall of the Austrian-Hungarian empire. On November 17th 1918, at the Red Army briefing, its commander Leon Trotsky predicted the sovietisation of Poland and Ukraine as “the links binding Soviet Russia with future Soviet Germany” and the first stage in building “the Union of European Proletariat Republics”. Poles lived also at the territories of modern Belarus and Lithuania, which were invaded by the Bolsheviks. A Polish Self-defense was created there, counting 10 thousand men, which was part of the Polish Army and its commander, Gen. Władysław Wejtko followed the orders of Chief Commander Józef Piłsudski. Between the 3rd and 5th of January 1919, Polish self-defense units tried to defend Wilno on their own. However, in the face of an overwhelming opponent Poles had to retreat from the city. Thus, the Polish-Bolshevik war actually began on January 3rd 1919, although not formally. The march West was accompanied by the creation of puppet Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Ukrainian and Belarusian Soviet republics. On January 8th 1919, the Soviet newspaper “Izvestia” announced the creation of the Revolutionary War Council of Poland, a cornerstone for the planned communist government in Poland. Later by order of the Bolsheviks, the Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee as a Polish puppet government had been formed to organize administration of the Polish territories captured by the Red Army. This puppet government had very little support from the ethnic Polish population and recruited its supporters mostly from the ranks of minorities, primarily Jews.
With these additional resources from conquered Poland and the Baltic countries, the communists planned to advance further into the west. Poland should be the "Red Bridge" for Communist ideology to the West. So conquered Poland should serve as a red bridge to conquer all of Europe. The aim of conquering other European states as well is also confirmed by the order of Mikhail Tukachevsky called “Red Napoleon”, commander of the Western Front of the Red Army. In his Order of the Day he wrote in July 2, 1920: "To the West! The fate of the world revolution will be decided in the West. The way to set the world on fire leads through the corpse of white Poland. On our bayonets we will bring happiness and peace to the toiling masses of mankind. March on Wilno, Minsk and Warsaw and onward to Berlin over the corpse of Poland!" Tukhachevsky also boasted that his men would be "galloping through the streets of Paris before the summer was out." By the way, Tukhachevsky was one of the first military commanders killed in Stalin's purges in 1937. Tukachevsky called Poland white Poland because the communist propaganda called free Poland white Poland. The term whites were used to designate anti-communists. But the Polish victory prevented setting the world on fire by communists. So the main reason for the outbreak of the Polish-Bolshevik war the threat to Poland’s independence by Bolsheviks, as well as the attempt to implement the idea of a permanent revolution, and the export of the communist revolution Europe-wide but actually worldwide. What is also worth noting the fact that if Poland had been conquered by the communists, the Baltic states would have been conquered too. Poland was therefore allied with Latvia in this war. Poland and some few others European countries were not infected by the red virus. In Poland the overwhelming majority of the population was anti-communist. But Poland was the absolute exception in Europe! In various European countries at that time there were strong communist movements that would have supported the communists in their advance.
Moreover, there were also attempts by the communists to take power in other parts of Europe! So these are examples of communist successes outside the Bolshevik state at the time of the Polish-Bolshevik war. The Hungarian Soviet Republic was the communist state of Hungary from 21 March 1919 until 1 August 1919 (133 days). Until the anti-communists prevailed and abolished this Soviet republic. The other communist republics and communes have survived just as short as the Hungarian Soviet Republic but that makes it clear that there were strong communist influences throughout Europe. The Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic more commonly referred to as Red Finland, was a proclaimed Finnish communist state that ruled parts of the country during the Finnish Civil War of 1918. Another example of an attempted communist takeover of power in Europe was then the Alsace-Lorraine Soviet Republic of 1918 in France. The Limerick Soviet was one of a number of declared Irish soviets that were formed around Ireland 1919. The Slovak Soviet Republic was a short-lived Communist state in southeast Slovakia in existence from 16 June 1919 to 7 July 1919. Commune of the Working People of Estonia existed from 29 November 1918 to 5 June 1919. In 1918, announced the formation of the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic. A communist revolutionary Red Guard was founded in Austria and an attempt was made to proclaim a Soviet Republic. Like in Hungary during the German November Revolution, the communist Karl Liebknecht proclaimed the communist republic in Germany on November 9, 1918. But the communists' seizure of power then failed, although later there were repeated attempts by the communists to gain power in Germany or parts of Germany. Like with the Bavarian Soviet Republic which was a short-lived communist state in Bavaria during the riots of 1918-19 in Germany. Then there were another attempts by the communists to come to power in German areas. The Bremen Soviet Republic was proclaimed which was a short-lived state in Germany, existing for 25 days in 1919. The communist Spartacist uprising with the goal of an all-German Soviet Republic were armed battles in Berlin from 5 to 12 January 1919.
I'll continue my explanation in the next comment.
Continuing of the comment above: Bolshevik propaganda was strengthened in many European countries and e.g in Germany, posters appeared with a Red Army soldier freeing the country from chains. The congress of the Communist International issued an appeal to workers in all countries, asking them to forestall their governments' efforts to aid "White" Poland. So the Bolsheviks, as part of a huge propaganda action under the slogan: “Hands off Soviet Russia”, mobilized communist parties and leftist trade unions across all of Europe to work against Poland. Many western journalists were on the payroll of Bolshevik propaganda. Workers and dockers in various European countries were sympathizers of the Bolsheviks also refused to load the support supplies for the fighting Poles against the Bolsheviks. The refusal of the dockers in Gdansk (Danzig) was particularly unfavorable because all deliveries to Poland were to be made via this port. Also the British trade unions followed the Communist propaganda and blocked British military supplies to Poland. So the Trades Union Congress and Labour Party responded by threatening national strike action and established Councils of Action to resist any possible efforts by the British government to supply Poland with arms or other supplies. On August 6, 1920, the British Labour Party published a pamphlet stating that British workers would never take part in the war as Poland's allies, and labour unions blocked supplies to the British expeditionary force assisting Russian Whites in Arkhangelsk. French Socialists, in their newspaper L'Humanité, declared: "Not a man, not a sou, not a shell for reactionary and capitalist Poland. Long live the Russian Revolution! Long live the Workmen's International!"
Since the communists had enough supporters all over Europe after the desired victory against Poland the communists would have in Europe either provoked revolutions through agitators or they would have intervened militarily. If the communists had conquered Europe, which was by far the most economically important continent at the time, they would have had a good chance of "exporting" communism worldwide as well. That this is not an exaggeration can be seen by comparing the strategy of the communists after World War II. Even in these later times, communism was "exported" to countries around the world, and as a result there were countries around the world ruled by communist dictatorships. After 1945, as in 1919, the communists had the goal of a world completely dominated by communism. The goal was that virtually every country would become communist. That is why the Polish victory of 1921 definitely had not just a European impact but also a global impact.
Here I also explain the reasons for the Polish victory! The French and British support was not crucial to the Polish victory how often it is falsely claimed. The Polish victory in the war against the Bolsheviks 1919-21 was the result of the superiority of the Polish army, the Polish army command and the Polish secret service. The Polish soldiers had much higher combat morale than the soldiers of the Bolshevik Army. Because the Poles fought for the freedom of their homeland and were determined to defend their country. Critically, the Polish Army benefited from a vast influx of volunteers. Even Polish women volunteered to fight! Even battalions of women fought at the front for Poland. One of this Polish female soldiers was Maria Wittek which would become the Polish Army's first female general. In fact most Polish soldiers were anti-Communists and despised Bolshevik ideology. The soldiers of the Red Army, on the other hand, fought for the spread of an ideology in other countries. Bolshevik soldiers were supposed to fight for an abstract political idea. It is very likely that the majority of Red Army soldiers were not communists at all. Many were forcibly recruited and did not want to fight at all. The communist propaganda told the Red Army soldiers they would be greeted as liberators however, they quickly realized that they were viewed as enemies by the Polish population. In summary, it can be stated that the Polish soldiers were much more motivated to fight than the Red Army soldiers.
The Polish high command led by First Marshal Piłsudski showed its superiority on various occasions such as at the Battle of Warsaw. The Polish high command understood the course of the front and the situation at the front much better than the Bolshevik high command. Piłsudski and General Rozwadowski knew that the only way to defend Warsaw and prevent its encirclement of the city was with a counter-offensive. Their plan was to exploit a weak opening between two Russian fronts. The plan that he and General Rozwadowski thrashed out was for Polish forces to secretly regroup at lightning speed and then strike at a weak point between major Red Army battle groups. After this advance, the Polish Army would then be in a perfect position to deliver the decisive blow. Piłsudski knew how important the coming battle would be and took direct command of this army. The plan worked and the rapid Polish drive north managed to split the Bolshevik fronts and threw Bolshevik army into confusion and chaos the Red Army started to disintegrate. In the following months, several more Polish follow-up victories saved Poland’s independence. It was a hard-fought battle, which took place in August 1920 near Warsaw and ended in a decisive Polish victory over the Red Army. It was won by the skill, discipline, and determination of the Polish defenders, by the patriotic spirit of a large numbers of volunteers, and by Marshal Piłsudski's brilliant counterattack, which stopped the Bolshevik offensive and with the counterattack, the Bolshevik troops were forced to flee.
I'll continue my explanation in the next comment.
Continuing of the comment above: The Polish high command also made much better use of the newly developed modern weapon systems and made better use of the new technologies than the Bolsheviks. Because of that the Polish army used the new armored vehicle branch much more efficiently than the Bolsheviks. For example, the Poles produced armored cars. The Polish army also used foreign-made armored cars. Armored cars were very useful. In fact, these armored cars were used by the Polish Army for blitzkrieg-style attacks. Actually, Poles invented Blitzkrieg with lightning-fast attacks from armored vehicles. That's no exaggeration, because indeed the Polish Army used this armored car for blitzkrieg attacks against the Bolsheviks. Anyone who thinks that the Germans invented the blitzkrieg with armored vehicles is wrong. The Polish Army had successfully used this tactic against the Bolsheviks with rapidly advancing armored cars clearing the way for the rapidly following infantry. By the way, the advantages of this polish made armored cars were high speed, agility, manoeuvrability and ease of maintenance and repair. At times, they were repaired under fire. The engine could run on low quality fuel and oil. The armor was sufficient against rifle and machine gun bullets and and shrapnels. In spite of the extra weight of the armor, the vehicles managed well in heavy terrain, and were also able to cross relatively weak bridges on account of their low mass in comparison to other armored vehicles. The polish made armored cars were really small in comparison to other armored cars of the era and offered a smaller target. In view of the operations extending over large areas, and in order to take by surprise the enemy, the Polish army command resolved upon to lightning fast armored cars raids and invented with it actually the blitzkrieg. So this warfare tactic should actually have the Polish name "błyskwojna" in English and not the German name blitzkrieg.
An example of the "błyskwojna" of the Polish armored cars was the Battle of Kovel in 1920. The Polish Bataillons received orders to raid Kovel and to overcome the distance of 160 km to the attack target Kovel as quickly as possible for to to surprise the enemy with the fast advance. The aim of the raid was to conquer the undamaged wide-gauge railway rolling-stocks and to enabling rapid action along the liberated railway lines. A column of armored cars should do the job supported by batteries of field artillery drawn by trucks. Columns with 2 infantry battalions were to follow, transported by truck, to secure the conquered area. It is worth mentioning that on the way to Kovel several villages occupied by the Bolsheviks had to be liberated. The coming of the motor group over the Brzesc - Kovel road took the Bolsheviks unawares and was an element of surprise lay one of the conditions of success. The surprise was, moreover, effected by a very sudden change of direction by the motor-group. The distance was covered in 2 days with some villages being liberated along the way and during this time it was necessary to stop the whole marching column in order to repair the bridges. The effect of the sudden appearance in the streets of Kovel of armored cars firing on all sides was such that within the space of a few minutes the Bolshevik troops, about 2 infantry divisions, were leaving the town in considerable disorder. The commander of the 12th Soviet Army escaped in a car. The effect of the raid was a capture of the big railway junction. The Poles also captured 2 armored trains several scores of guns 12 airplanes, several hundreds of railway carriages loaded with large amount of war material, and, besides, all that the staff archives the 12th Soviet Army contained. The Polish motorized group had held the town, until the main force arrived next morning. Three armored cars got damaged during the raid. Thus did the briliantly conducted raid on Kovel result not only in bringing immense spoil at a very inconsiderable loss, but it produced a tremendous operational effect which rendered possible the accomplishment of the strategic plan of the Commander-in-Chief, and at the same time it seriously weakened the strength and shook the morale of the 12th Bolshevik Army. Lord D’Abernon a British politician and diplomat, who was part of the interallied Mission to Poland in 1920, described in his diary the mobility of the Polish troops as amazing and noticed that Polish troops covered distances unattainable by the best European armies.
By the way, the Kościuszko Squadron was the first air squadron to use a railway train as a mobile flying base with specially designed railroad cars that could transport their aircraft as the front moved and developed. The train also included the squadron's operational headquarters, aircraft spares and repair workshops and living quarters. Which also shows how innovatively the Polish high command used new technologies.
Why has Hollywood not put this to film?? Has to be one of the gutsiest good over evil attempts in recent centuries, and the Poles pulled it off! Big respect to the Poles from Australia.
Greetings from Poland and respect for Australia too! But there will definitely be no Hollywood movies about the struggle of the Poles against the Bolsheviks. Hollywood is too anti-Polish for that! There, members of a very specific nation who hate Poles have too much influence. If I had mentioned the name of the nation, the comment would probably be deleted. Because if one criticizes them. That's immediately antisemitism!
By the way, it's not even an exaggeration that Poland saved the world. Indeed, the Polish victory against the Bolsheviks had also an extreme European impact but also even a global impact. According to the British politician and diplomat Lord D'Abernon, who was part of the inter allied Mission to Poland in 1920, during the Polish-Bolshevik war, the 1920 Battle of Warsaw was one of the most important battles in world history because as he said "had the Battle of Warsaw ended with a Bolshevik victory, it would have been a turning point in the history of Europe. As there is no doubt that with the fall of Warsaw, Central Europe would have been left open to Communist propaganda and Bolshevik invasion." So long as the Bolsheviks were preoccupied with the Civil War, they had nothing in mind beyond their survival. But, having conquered the Russian heartland in the course of 1919, they began to heed the dictates of their ideology, which told them that the Communist Revolution should be exported from Russia to the rest of Europe. The Second Congress of the Communist International deliberated in Moscow between 19 July and 7 August 1920. Lenin spoke of the increasingly favorable odds for the accomplishment of the World Proletarian Revolution, which would lead to the World Soviet Republic. The road to Europe opened up when Germany lost the First World War and signed the surrender on November 11th 1918. The German troops then systematically retreated from the occupied lands of Ukraine, Belarus and other Baltic states. They were immediately followed by the Bolshevik Red Army, fulfilling Lenin’s orders to begin its “freeing” march west. This operation had a telling codename - “Vistula”. The most important job of the Bolsheviks was to break through to Germany and Austria which were filled with revolutionary atmosphere. To do that, they needed to get rid of the “barrier”, meaning, as Joseph Stalin wrote, “the national states which wound up between the two huge sources of revolution in the East and West”. One such barrier was, first and foremost, Poland which just regained independence following the defeat of Germany and the fall of the Austrian-Hungarian empire. On November 17th 1918, at the Red Army briefing, its commander Leon Trotsky predicted the sovietisation of Poland and Ukraine as “the links binding Soviet Russia with future Soviet Germany” and the first stage in building “the Union of European Proletariat Republics”. Poles lived also at the territories of modern Belarus and Lithuania, which were invaded by the Bolsheviks. A Polish Self-defense was created there, counting 10 thousand men, which was part of the Polish Army and its commander, Gen. Władysław Wejtko followed the orders of Chief Commander Józef Piłsudski. Between the 3rd and 5th of January 1919, Polish self-defense units tried to defend Wilno on their own. However, in the face of an overwhelming opponent Poles had to retreat from the city. Thus, the Polish-Bolshevik war actually began on January 3rd 1919, although not formally. The march West was accompanied by the creation of puppet Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Ukrainian and Belarusian Soviet republics. On January 8th 1919, the Soviet newspaper “Izvestia” announced the creation of the Revolutionary War Council of Poland, a cornerstone for the planned communist government in Poland. Later by order of the Bolsheviks, the Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee as a Polish puppet government had been formed to organize administration of the Polish territories captured by the Red Army. This puppet government had very little support from the ethnic Polish population and recruited its supporters mostly from the ranks of minorities, primarily Jews.
With these additional resources from conquered Poland and the Baltic countries, the communists planned to advance further into the west. Poland should be the "Red Bridge" for Communist ideology to the West. So conquered Poland should serve as a red bridge to conquer all of Europe. The aim of conquering other European states as well is also confirmed by the order of Mikhail Tukachevsky called “Red Napoleon”, commander of the Western Front of the Red Army. In his Order of the Day he wrote in July 2, 1920: "To the West! The fate of the world revolution will be decided in the West. The way to set the world on fire leads through the corpse of white Poland. On our bayonets we will bring happiness and peace to the toiling masses of mankind. March on Wilno, Minsk and Warsaw and onward to Berlin over the corpse of Poland!" Tukhachevsky also boasted that his men would be "galloping through the streets of Paris before the summer was out." By the way, Tukhachevsky was one of the first military commanders killed in Stalin's purges in 1937. Tukachevsky called Poland white Poland because the communist propaganda called free Poland white Poland. The term whites were used to designate anti-communists. But the Polish victory prevented setting the world on fire by communists. So the main reason for the outbreak of the Polish-Bolshevik war the threat to Poland’s independence by Bolsheviks, as well as the attempt to implement the idea of a permanent revolution, and the export of the communist revolution Europe-wide but actually worldwide. What is also worth noting the fact that if Poland had been conquered by the communists, the Baltic states would have been conquered too. Poland was therefore allied with Latvia in this war. Poland and some few others European countries were not infected by the red virus. In Poland the overwhelming majority of the population was anti-communist. But Poland was the absolute exception in Europe! In various European countries at that time there were strong communist movements that would have supported the communists in their advance.
Moreover, there were also attempts by the communists to take power in other parts of Europe! So these are examples of communist successes outside the Bolshevik state at the time of the Polish-Bolshevik war. The Hungarian Soviet Republic was the communist state of Hungary from 21 March 1919 until 1 August 1919 (133 days). Until the anti-communists prevailed and abolished this Soviet republic. The other communist republics and communes have survived just as short as the Hungarian Soviet Republic but that makes it clear that there were strong communist influences throughout Europe. The Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic more commonly referred to as Red Finland, was a proclaimed Finnish communist state that ruled parts of the country during the Finnish Civil War of 1918. Another example of an attempted communist takeover of power in Europe was then the Alsace-Lorraine Soviet Republic of 1918 in France. The Limerick Soviet was one of a number of declared Irish soviets that were formed around Ireland 1919. The Slovak Soviet Republic was a short-lived Communist state in southeast Slovakia in existence from 16 June 1919 to 7 July 1919. Commune of the Working People of Estonia existed from 29 November 1918 to 5 June 1919. In 1918, announced the formation of the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic. A communist revolutionary Red Guard was founded in Austria and an attempt was made to proclaim a Soviet Republic. Like in Hungary during the German November Revolution, the communist Karl Liebknecht proclaimed the communist republic in Germany on November 9, 1918. But the communists' seizure of power then failed, although later there were repeated attempts by the communists to gain power in Germany or parts of Germany. Like with the Bavarian Soviet Republic which was a short-lived communist state in Bavaria during the riots of 1918-19 in Germany. Then there were another attempts by the communists to come to power in German areas. The Bremen Soviet Republic was proclaimed which was a short-lived state in Germany, existing for 25 days in 1919. The communist Spartacist uprising with the goal of an all-German Soviet Republic were armed battles in Berlin from 5 to 12 January 1919.
I'll continue my explanation in the next comment.
Continuing of the comment above: Bolshevik propaganda was strengthened in many European countries and e.g in Germany, posters appeared with a Red Army soldier freeing the country from chains. The congress of the Communist International issued an appeal to workers in all countries, asking them to forestall their governments' efforts to aid "White" Poland. So the Bolsheviks, as part of a huge propaganda action under the slogan: “Hands off Soviet Russia”, mobilized communist parties and leftist trade unions across all of Europe to work against Poland. Many western journalists were on the payroll of Bolshevik propaganda. Workers and dockers in various European countries were sympathizers of the Bolsheviks also refused to load the support supplies for the fighting Poles against the Bolsheviks. The refusal of the dockers in Gdansk (Danzig) was particularly unfavorable because all deliveries to Poland were to be made via this port. Also the British trade unions followed the Communist propaganda and blocked British military supplies to Poland. So the Trades Union Congress and Labour Party responded by threatening national strike action and established Councils of Action to resist any possible efforts by the British government to supply Poland with arms or other supplies. On August 6, 1920, the British Labour Party published a pamphlet stating that British workers would never take part in the war as Poland's allies, and labour unions blocked supplies to the British expeditionary force assisting Russian Whites in Arkhangelsk. French Socialists, in their newspaper L'Humanité, declared: "Not a man, not a sou, not a shell for reactionary and capitalist Poland. Long live the Russian Revolution! Long live the Workmen's International!"
Since the communists had enough supporters all over Europe after the desired victory against Poland the communists would have in Europe either provoked revolutions through agitators or they would have intervened militarily. If the communists had conquered Europe, which was by far the most economically important continent at the time, they would have had a good chance of "exporting" communism worldwide as well. That this is not an exaggeration can be seen by comparing the strategy of the communists after World War II. Even in these later times, communism was "exported" to countries around the world, and as a result there were countries around the world ruled by communist dictatorships. After 1945, as in 1919, the communists had the goal of a world completely dominated by communism. The goal was that virtually every country would become communist. That is why the Polish victory of 1921 definitely had not just a European impact but also a global impact.
Here I also explain the reasons for the Polish victory! The French and British support was not crucial to the Polish victory how often it is falsely claimed. The Polish victory in the war against the Bolsheviks 1919-21 was the result of the superiority of the Polish army, the Polish army command and the Polish secret service. The Polish soldiers had much higher combat morale than the soldiers of the Bolshevik Army. Because the Poles fought for the freedom of their homeland and were determined to defend their country. Critically, the Polish Army benefited from a vast influx of volunteers. Even Polish women volunteered to fight! Even battalions of women fought at the front for Poland. One of this Polish female soldiers was Maria Wittek which would become the Polish Army's first female general. In fact most Polish soldiers were anti-Communists and despised Bolshevik ideology. The soldiers of the Red Army, on the other hand, fought for the spread of an ideology in other countries. Bolshevik soldiers were supposed to fight for an abstract political idea. It is very likely that the majority of Red Army soldiers were not communists at all. Many were forcibly recruited and did not want to fight at all. The communist propaganda told the Red Army soldiers they would be greeted as liberators however, they quickly realized that they were viewed as enemies by the Polish population. In summary, it can be stated that the Polish soldiers were much more motivated to fight than the Red Army soldiers.
The Polish high command led by First Marshal Piłsudski showed its superiority on various occasions such as at the Battle of Warsaw. The Polish high command understood the course of the front and the situation at the front much better than the Bolshevik high command. Piłsudski and General Rozwadowski knew that the only way to defend Warsaw and prevent its encirclement of the city was with a counter-offensive. Their plan was to exploit a weak opening between two Russian fronts. The plan that he and General Rozwadowski thrashed out was for Polish forces to secretly regroup at lightning speed and then strike at a weak point between major Red Army battle groups. After this advance, the Polish Army would then be in a perfect position to deliver the decisive blow. Piłsudski knew how important the coming battle would be and took direct command of this army. The plan worked and the rapid Polish drive north managed to split the Bolshevik fronts and threw Bolshevik army into confusion and chaos the Red Army started to disintegrate. In the following months, several more Polish follow-up victories saved Poland’s independence. It was a hard-fought battle, which took place in August 1920 near Warsaw and ended in a decisive Polish victory over the Red Army. It was won by the skill, discipline, and determination of the Polish defenders, by the patriotic spirit of a large numbers of volunteers, and by Marshal Piłsudski's brilliant counterattack, which stopped the Bolshevik offensive and with the counterattack, the Bolshevik troops were forced to flee.
I'll continue my explanation in the next comment.
Continuing of the comment above: The Polish high command also made much better use of the newly developed modern weapon systems and made better use of the new technologies than the Bolsheviks. Because of that the Polish army used the new armored vehicle branch much more efficiently than the Bolsheviks. For example, the Poles produced armored cars. The Polish army also used foreign-made armored cars. Armored cars were very useful. In fact, these armored cars were used by the Polish Army for blitzkrieg-style attacks. Actually, Poles invented Blitzkrieg with lightning-fast attacks from armored vehicles. That's no exaggeration, because indeed the Polish Army used this armored car for blitzkrieg attacks against the Bolsheviks. Anyone who thinks that the Germans invented the blitzkrieg with armored vehicles is wrong. The Polish Army had successfully used this tactic against the Bolsheviks with rapidly advancing armored cars clearing the way for the rapidly following infantry. By the way, the advantages of this polish made armored cars were high speed, agility, manoeuvrability and ease of maintenance and repair. At times, they were repaired under fire. The engine could run on low quality fuel and oil. The armor was sufficient against rifle and machine gun bullets and and shrapnels. In spite of the extra weight of the armor, the vehicles managed well in heavy terrain, and were also able to cross relatively weak bridges on account of their low mass in comparison to other armored vehicles. The polish made armored cars were really small in comparison to other armored cars of the era and offered a smaller target. In view of the operations extending over large areas, and in order to take by surprise the enemy, the Polish army command resolved upon to lightning fast armored cars raids and invented with it actually the blitzkrieg. So this warfare tactic should actually have the Polish name "błyskwojna" in English and not the German name blitzkrieg.
An example of the "błyskwojna" of the Polish armored cars was the Battle of Kovel in 1920. The Polish Bataillons received orders to raid Kovel and to overcome the distance of 160 km to the attack target Kovel as quickly as possible for to to surprise the enemy with the fast advance. The aim of the raid was to conquer the undamaged wide-gauge railway rolling-stocks and to enabling rapid action along the liberated railway lines. A column of armored cars should do the job supported by batteries of field artillery drawn by trucks. Columns with 2 infantry battalions were to follow, transported by truck, to secure the conquered area. It is worth mentioning that on the way to Kovel several villages occupied by the Bolsheviks had to be liberated. The coming of the motor group over the Brzesc - Kovel road took the Bolsheviks unawares and was an element of surprise lay one of the conditions of success. The surprise was, moreover, effected by a very sudden change of direction by the motor-group. The distance was covered in 2 days with some villages being liberated along the way and during this time it was necessary to stop the whole marching column in order to repair the bridges. The effect of the sudden appearance in the streets of Kovel of armored cars firing on all sides was such that within the space of a few minutes the Bolshevik troops, about 2 infantry divisions, were leaving the town in considerable disorder. The commander of the 12th Soviet Army escaped in a car. The effect of the raid was a capture of the big railway junction. The Poles also captured 2 armored trains several scores of guns 12 airplanes, several hundreds of railway carriages loaded with large amount of war material, and, besides, all that the staff archives the 12th Soviet Army contained. The Polish motorized group had held the town, until the main force arrived next morning. Three armored cars got damaged during the raid. Thus did the briliantly conducted raid on Kovel result not only in bringing immense spoil at a very inconsiderable loss, but it produced a tremendous operational effect which rendered possible the accomplishment of the strategic plan of the Commander-in-Chief, and at the same time it seriously weakened the strength and shook the morale of the 12th Bolshevik Army. Lord D’Abernon a British politician and diplomat, who was part of the interallied Mission to Poland in 1920, described in his diary the mobility of the Polish troops as amazing and noticed that Polish troops covered distances unattainable by the best European armies.
By the way, the Kościuszko Squadron was the first air squadron to use a railway train as a mobile flying base with specially designed railroad cars that could transport their aircraft as the front moved and developed. The train also included the squadron's operational headquarters, aircraft spares and repair workshops and living quarters. Which also shows how innovatively the Polish high command used new technologies.
Because Juice Mafia won't allow it since they've succesfully managed to monopolize victimhood. And because they are in positions of power all around the world, you won't ever hear about true victims and true heroes.
Pomoc Węgier w tym ciężkim czasie dla Polski była nieoceniona. Polak Węgier 2 bratanki 🇭🇺❤️🇵🇱
Zrobiłem i o tym filmik kilka miesięcy temu!
@@StefanTompson Ooo, sprawdzę 😁
W filmie zabrakło o roli Czechosłowacji....
@@infeltk Rola Czechosłowacja była taka, gdy my biliśmy się z Bolszewikami, to zajęli nam Zaolzie
PRAWDĘ piszesz!
While I cannot say for everyone, I and many other Americans are proud to be friends with such a brave and determined people as the polish! Poland can count on more volunteers should the need arises again.
Thank you kind American! By the way, it's not even an exaggeration that Poland saved the world. Indeed, the Polish victory against the Bolsheviks had also an extreme European impact but also even a global impact. According to the British politician and diplomat Lord D'Abernon, who was part of the inter allied Mission to Poland in 1920, during the Polish-Bolshevik war, the 1920 Battle of Warsaw was one of the most important battles in world history because as he said "had the Battle of Warsaw ended with a Bolshevik victory, it would have been a turning point in the history of Europe. As there is no doubt that with the fall of Warsaw, Central Europe would have been left open to Communist propaganda and Bolshevik invasion." So long as the Bolsheviks were preoccupied with the Civil War, they had nothing in mind beyond their survival. But, having conquered the Russian heartland in the course of 1919, they began to heed the dictates of their ideology, which told them that the Communist Revolution should be exported from Russia to the rest of Europe. The Second Congress of the Communist International deliberated in Moscow between 19 July and 7 August 1920. Lenin spoke of the increasingly favorable odds for the accomplishment of the World Proletarian Revolution, which would lead to the World Soviet Republic. The road to Europe opened up when Germany lost the First World War and signed the surrender on November 11th 1918. The German troops then systematically retreated from the occupied lands of Ukraine, Belarus and other Baltic states. They were immediately followed by the Bolshevik Red Army, fulfilling Lenin’s orders to begin its “freeing” march west. This operation had a telling codename - “Vistula”. The most important job of the Bolsheviks was to break through to Germany and Austria which were filled with revolutionary atmosphere. To do that, they needed to get rid of the “barrier”, meaning, as Joseph Stalin wrote, “the national states which wound up between the two huge sources of revolution in the East and West”. One such barrier was, first and foremost, Poland which just regained independence following the defeat of Germany and the fall of the Austrian-Hungarian empire. On November 17th 1918, at the Red Army briefing, its commander Leon Trotsky predicted the sovietisation of Poland and Ukraine as “the links binding Soviet Russia with future Soviet Germany” and the first stage in building “the Union of European Proletariat Republics”. Poles lived also at the territories of modern Belarus and Lithuania, which were invaded by the Bolsheviks. A Polish Self-defense was created there, counting 10 thousand men, which was part of the Polish Army and its commander, Gen. Władysław Wejtko followed the orders of Chief Commander Józef Piłsudski. Between the 3rd and 5th of January 1919, Polish self-defense units tried to defend Wilno on their own. However, in the face of an overwhelming opponent Poles had to retreat from the city. Thus, the Polish-Bolshevik war actually began on January 3rd 1919, although not formally. The march West was accompanied by the creation of puppet Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Ukrainian and Belarusian Soviet republics. On January 8th 1919, the Soviet newspaper “Izvestia” announced the creation of the Revolutionary War Council of Poland, a cornerstone for the planned communist government in Poland. Later by order of the Bolsheviks, the Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee as a Polish puppet government had been formed to organize administration of the Polish territories captured by the Red Army. This puppet government had very little support from the ethnic Polish population and recruited its supporters mostly from the ranks of minorities, primarily Jews.
With these additional resources from conquered Poland and the Baltic countries, the communists planned to advance further into the west. Poland should be the "Red Bridge" for Communist ideology to the West. So conquered Poland should serve as a red bridge to conquer all of Europe. The aim of conquering other European states as well is also confirmed by the order of Mikhail Tukachevsky called “Red Napoleon”, commander of the Western Front of the Red Army. In his Order of the Day he wrote in July 2, 1920: "To the West! The fate of the world revolution will be decided in the West. The way to set the world on fire leads through the corpse of white Poland. On our bayonets we will bring happiness and peace to the toiling masses of mankind. March on Wilno, Minsk and Warsaw and onward to Berlin over the corpse of Poland!" Tukhachevsky also boasted that his men would be "galloping through the streets of Paris before the summer was out." By the way, Tukhachevsky was one of the first military commanders killed in Stalin's purges in 1937. Tukachevsky called Poland white Poland because the communist propaganda called free Poland white Poland. The term whites were used to designate anti-communists. But the Polish victory prevented setting the world on fire by communists. So the main reason for the outbreak of the Polish-Bolshevik war the threat to Poland’s independence by Bolsheviks, as well as the attempt to implement the idea of a permanent revolution, and the export of the communist revolution Europe-wide but actually worldwide. What is also worth noting the fact that if Poland had been conquered by the communists, the Baltic states would have been conquered too. Poland was therefore allied with Latvia in this war. Poland and some few others European countries were not infected by the red virus. In Poland the overwhelming majority of the population was anti-communist. But Poland was the absolute exception in Europe! In various European countries at that time there were strong communist movements that would have supported the communists in their advance.
Moreover, there were also attempts by the communists to take power in other parts of Europe! So these are examples of communist successes outside the Bolshevik state at the time of the Polish-Bolshevik war. The Hungarian Soviet Republic was the communist state of Hungary from 21 March 1919 until 1 August 1919 (133 days). Until the anti-communists prevailed and abolished this Soviet republic. The other communist republics and communes have survived just as short as the Hungarian Soviet Republic but that makes it clear that there were strong communist influences throughout Europe. The Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic more commonly referred to as Red Finland, was a proclaimed Finnish communist state that ruled parts of the country during the Finnish Civil War of 1918. Another example of an attempted communist takeover of power in Europe was then the Alsace-Lorraine Soviet Republic of 1918 in France. The Limerick Soviet was one of a number of declared Irish soviets that were formed around Ireland 1919. The Slovak Soviet Republic was a short-lived Communist state in southeast Slovakia in existence from 16 June 1919 to 7 July 1919. Commune of the Working People of Estonia existed from 29 November 1918 to 5 June 1919. In 1918, announced the formation of the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic. A communist revolutionary Red Guard was founded in Austria and an attempt was made to proclaim a Soviet Republic. Like in Hungary during the German November Revolution, the communist Karl Liebknecht proclaimed the communist republic in Germany on November 9, 1918. But the communists' seizure of power then failed, although later there were repeated attempts by the communists to gain power in Germany or parts of Germany. Like with the Bavarian Soviet Republic which was a short-lived communist state in Bavaria during the riots of 1918-19 in Germany. Then there were another attempts by the communists to come to power in German areas. The Bremen Soviet Republic was proclaimed which was a short-lived state in Germany, existing for 25 days in 1919. The communist Spartacist uprising with the goal of an all-German Soviet Republic were armed battles in Berlin from 5 to 12 January 1919.
I'll continue my explanation in the next comment.
Continuing of the comment above: Bolshevik propaganda was strengthened in many European countries and e.g in Germany, posters appeared with a Red Army soldier freeing the country from chains. The congress of the Communist International issued an appeal to workers in all countries, asking them to forestall their governments' efforts to aid "White" Poland. So the Bolsheviks, as part of a huge propaganda action under the slogan: “Hands off Soviet Russia”, mobilized communist parties and leftist trade unions across all of Europe to work against Poland. Many western journalists were on the payroll of Bolshevik propaganda. Workers and dockers in various European countries were sympathizers of the Bolsheviks also refused to load the support supplies for the fighting Poles against the Bolsheviks. The refusal of the dockers in Gdansk (Danzig) was particularly unfavorable because all deliveries to Poland were to be made via this port. Also the British trade unions followed the Communist propaganda and blocked British military supplies to Poland. So the Trades Union Congress and Labour Party responded by threatening national strike action and established Councils of Action to resist any possible efforts by the British government to supply Poland with arms or other supplies. On August 6, 1920, the British Labour Party published a pamphlet stating that British workers would never take part in the war as Poland's allies, and labour unions blocked supplies to the British expeditionary force assisting Russian Whites in Arkhangelsk. French Socialists, in their newspaper L'Humanité, declared: "Not a man, not a sou, not a shell for reactionary and capitalist Poland. Long live the Russian Revolution! Long live the Workmen's International!"
Since the communists had enough supporters all over Europe after the desired victory against Poland the communists would have in Europe either provoked revolutions through agitators or they would have intervened militarily. If the communists had conquered Europe, which was by far the most economically important continent at the time, they would have had a good chance of "exporting" communism worldwide as well. That this is not an exaggeration can be seen by comparing the strategy of the communists after World War II. Even in these later times, communism was "exported" to countries around the world, and as a result there were countries around the world ruled by communist dictatorships. After 1945, as in 1919, the communists had the goal of a world completely dominated by communism. The goal was that virtually every country would become communist. That is why the Polish victory of 1921 definitely had not just a European impact but also a global impact.
Here I also explain the reasons for the Polish victory! The French and British support was not crucial to the Polish victory how often it is falsely claimed. The Polish victory in the war against the Bolsheviks 1919-21 was the result of the superiority of the Polish army, the Polish army command and the Polish secret service. The Polish soldiers had much higher combat morale than the soldiers of the Bolshevik Army. Because the Poles fought for the freedom of their homeland and were determined to defend their country. Critically, the Polish Army benefited from a vast influx of volunteers. Even Polish women volunteered to fight! Even battalions of women fought at the front for Poland. One of this Polish female soldiers was Maria Wittek which would become the Polish Army's first female general. In fact most Polish soldiers were anti-Communists and despised Bolshevik ideology. The soldiers of the Red Army, on the other hand, fought for the spread of an ideology in other countries. Bolshevik soldiers were supposed to fight for an abstract political idea. It is very likely that the majority of Red Army soldiers were not communists at all. Many were forcibly recruited and did not want to fight at all. The communist propaganda told the Red Army soldiers they would be greeted as liberators however, they quickly realized that they were viewed as enemies by the Polish population. In summary, it can be stated that the Polish soldiers were much more motivated to fight than the Red Army soldiers.
The Polish high command led by First Marshal Piłsudski showed its superiority on various occasions such as at the Battle of Warsaw. The Polish high command understood the course of the front and the situation at the front much better than the Bolshevik high command. Piłsudski and General Rozwadowski knew that the only way to defend Warsaw and prevent its encirclement of the city was with a counter-offensive. Their plan was to exploit a weak opening between two Russian fronts. The plan that he and General Rozwadowski thrashed out was for Polish forces to secretly regroup at lightning speed and then strike at a weak point between major Red Army battle groups. After this advance, the Polish Army would then be in a perfect position to deliver the decisive blow. Piłsudski knew how important the coming battle would be and took direct command of this army. The plan worked and the rapid Polish drive north managed to split the Bolshevik fronts and threw Bolshevik army into confusion and chaos the Red Army started to disintegrate. In the following months, several more Polish follow-up victories saved Poland’s independence. It was a hard-fought battle, which took place in August 1920 near Warsaw and ended in a decisive Polish victory over the Red Army. It was won by the skill, discipline, and determination of the Polish defenders, by the patriotic spirit of a large numbers of volunteers, and by Marshal Piłsudski's brilliant counterattack, which stopped the Bolshevik offensive and with the counterattack, the Bolshevik troops were forced to flee.
I'll continue my explanation in the next comment.
Continuing of the comment above: The Polish high command also made much better use of the newly developed modern weapon systems and made better use of the new technologies than the Bolsheviks. Because of that the Polish army used the new armored vehicle branch much more efficiently than the Bolsheviks. For example, the Poles produced armored cars. The Polish army also used foreign-made armored cars. Armored cars were very useful. In fact, these armored cars were used by the Polish Army for blitzkrieg-style attacks. Actually, Poles invented Blitzkrieg with lightning-fast attacks from armored vehicles. That's no exaggeration, because indeed the Polish Army used this armored car for blitzkrieg attacks against the Bolsheviks. Anyone who thinks that the Germans invented the blitzkrieg with armored vehicles is wrong. The Polish Army had successfully used this tactic against the Bolsheviks with rapidly advancing armored cars clearing the way for the rapidly following infantry. By the way, the advantages of this polish made armored cars were high speed, agility, manoeuvrability and ease of maintenance and repair. At times, they were repaired under fire. The engine could run on low quality fuel and oil. The armor was sufficient against rifle and machine gun bullets and and shrapnels. In spite of the extra weight of the armor, the vehicles managed well in heavy terrain, and were also able to cross relatively weak bridges on account of their low mass in comparison to other armored vehicles. The polish made armored cars were really small in comparison to other armored cars of the era and offered a smaller target. In view of the operations extending over large areas, and in order to take by surprise the enemy, the Polish army command resolved upon to lightning fast armored cars raids and invented with it actually the blitzkrieg. So this warfare tactic should actually have the Polish name "błyskwojna" in English and not the German name blitzkrieg.
An example of the "błyskwojna" of the Polish armored cars was the Battle of Kovel in 1920. The Polish Bataillons received orders to raid Kovel and to overcome the distance of 160 km to the attack target Kovel as quickly as possible for to to surprise the enemy with the fast advance. The aim of the raid was to conquer the undamaged wide-gauge railway rolling-stocks and to enabling rapid action along the liberated railway lines. A column of armored cars should do the job supported by batteries of field artillery drawn by trucks. Columns with 2 infantry battalions were to follow, transported by truck, to secure the conquered area. It is worth mentioning that on the way to Kovel several villages occupied by the Bolsheviks had to be liberated. The coming of the motor group over the Brzesc - Kovel road took the Bolsheviks unawares and was an element of surprise lay one of the conditions of success. The surprise was, moreover, effected by a very sudden change of direction by the motor-group. The distance was covered in 2 days with some villages being liberated along the way and during this time it was necessary to stop the whole marching column in order to repair the bridges. The effect of the sudden appearance in the streets of Kovel of armored cars firing on all sides was such that within the space of a few minutes the Bolshevik troops, about 2 infantry divisions, were leaving the town in considerable disorder. The commander of the 12th Soviet Army escaped in a car. The effect of the raid was a capture of the big railway junction. The Poles also captured 2 armored trains several scores of guns 12 airplanes, several hundreds of railway carriages loaded with large amount of war material, and, besides, all that the staff archives the 12th Soviet Army contained. The Polish motorized group had held the town, until the main force arrived next morning. Three armored cars got damaged during the raid. Thus did the briliantly conducted raid on Kovel result not only in bringing immense spoil at a very inconsiderable loss, but it produced a tremendous operational effect which rendered possible the accomplishment of the strategic plan of the Commander-in-Chief, and at the same time it seriously weakened the strength and shook the morale of the 12th Bolshevik Army. Lord D’Abernon a British politician and diplomat, who was part of the interallied Mission to Poland in 1920, described in his diary the mobility of the Polish troops as amazing and noticed that Polish troops covered distances unattainable by the best European armies.
By the way, the Kościuszko Squadron was the first air squadron to use a railway train as a mobile flying base with specially designed railroad cars that could transport their aircraft as the front moved and developed. The train also included the squadron's operational headquarters, aircraft spares and repair workshops and living quarters. Which also shows how innovatively the Polish high command used new technologies.
God bless the heroes of Poland.
Too bad god doesnt exist :(
@@naxergss2625 are you atheist?
@@chirukun people that think that god doesn't exist are atheists.
@@filiprazik6860 yes
Yes, that was a heroic fight of the Poles! By the way, it's not even an exaggeration that Poland saved the world. Indeed, the Polish victory against the Bolsheviks had also an extreme European impact but also even a global impact. According to the British politician and diplomat Lord D'Abernon, who was part of the inter allied Mission to Poland in 1920, during the Polish-Bolshevik war, the 1920 Battle of Warsaw was one of the most important battles in world history because as he said "had the Battle of Warsaw ended with a Bolshevik victory, it would have been a turning point in the history of Europe. As there is no doubt that with the fall of Warsaw, Central Europe would have been left open to Communist propaganda and Bolshevik invasion." So long as the Bolsheviks were preoccupied with the Civil War, they had nothing in mind beyond their survival. But, having conquered the Russian heartland in the course of 1919, they began to heed the dictates of their ideology, which told them that the Communist Revolution should be exported from Russia to the rest of Europe. The Second Congress of the Communist International deliberated in Moscow between 19 July and 7 August 1920. Lenin spoke of the increasingly favorable odds for the accomplishment of the World Proletarian Revolution, which would lead to the World Soviet Republic. The road to Europe opened up when Germany lost the First World War and signed the surrender on November 11th 1918. The German troops then systematically retreated from the occupied lands of Ukraine, Belarus and other Baltic states. They were immediately followed by the Bolshevik Red Army, fulfilling Lenin’s orders to begin its “freeing” march west. This operation had a telling codename - “Vistula”. The most important job of the Bolsheviks was to break through to Germany and Austria which were filled with revolutionary atmosphere. To do that, they needed to get rid of the “barrier”, meaning, as Joseph Stalin wrote, “the national states which wound up between the two huge sources of revolution in the East and West”. One such barrier was, first and foremost, Poland which just regained independence following the defeat of Germany and the fall of the Austrian-Hungarian empire. On November 17th 1918, at the Red Army briefing, its commander Leon Trotsky predicted the sovietisation of Poland and Ukraine as “the links binding Soviet Russia with future Soviet Germany” and the first stage in building “the Union of European Proletariat Republics”. Poles lived also at the territories of modern Belarus and Lithuania, which were invaded by the Bolsheviks. A Polish Self-defense was created there, counting 10 thousand men, which was part of the Polish Army and its commander, Gen. Władysław Wejtko followed the orders of Chief Commander Józef Piłsudski. Between the 3rd and 5th of January 1919, Polish self-defense units tried to defend Wilno on their own. However, in the face of an overwhelming opponent Poles had to retreat from the city. Thus, the Polish-Bolshevik war actually began on January 3rd 1919, although not formally. The march West was accompanied by the creation of puppet Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Ukrainian and Belarusian Soviet republics. On January 8th 1919, the Soviet newspaper “Izvestia” announced the creation of the Revolutionary War Council of Poland, a cornerstone for the planned communist government in Poland. Later by order of the Bolsheviks, the Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee as a Polish puppet government had been formed to organize administration of the Polish territories captured by the Red Army. This puppet government had very little support from the ethnic Polish population and recruited its supporters mostly from the ranks of minorities, primarily Jews.
With these additional resources from conquered Poland and the Baltic countries, the communists planned to advance further into the west. Poland should be the "Red Bridge" for Communist ideology to the West. So conquered Poland should serve as a red bridge to conquer all of Europe. The aim of conquering other European states as well is also confirmed by the order of Mikhail Tukachevsky called “Red Napoleon”, commander of the Western Front of the Red Army. In his Order of the Day he wrote in July 2, 1920: "To the West! The fate of the world revolution will be decided in the West. The way to set the world on fire leads through the corpse of white Poland. On our bayonets we will bring happiness and peace to the toiling masses of mankind. March on Wilno, Minsk and Warsaw and onward to Berlin over the corpse of Poland!" Tukhachevsky also boasted that his men would be "galloping through the streets of Paris before the summer was out." By the way, Tukhachevsky was one of the first military commanders killed in Stalin's purges in 1937. Tukachevsky called Poland white Poland because the communist propaganda called free Poland white Poland. The term whites were used to designate anti-communists. But the Polish victory prevented setting the world on fire by communists. So the main reason for the outbreak of the Polish-Bolshevik war the threat to Poland’s independence by Bolsheviks, as well as the attempt to implement the idea of a permanent revolution, and the export of the communist revolution Europe-wide but actually worldwide. What is also worth noting the fact that if Poland had been conquered by the communists, the Baltic states would have been conquered too. Poland was therefore allied with Latvia in this war. Poland and some few others European countries were not infected by the red virus. In Poland the overwhelming majority of the population was anti-communist. But Poland was the absolute exception in Europe! In various European countries at that time there were strong communist movements that would have supported the communists in their advance.
Moreover, there were also attempts by the communists to take power in other parts of Europe! So these are examples of communist successes outside the Bolshevik state at the time of the Polish-Bolshevik war. The Hungarian Soviet Republic was the communist state of Hungary from 21 March 1919 until 1 August 1919 (133 days). Until the anti-communists prevailed and abolished this Soviet republic. The other communist republics and communes have survived just as short as the Hungarian Soviet Republic but that makes it clear that there were strong communist influences throughout Europe. The Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic more commonly referred to as Red Finland, was a proclaimed Finnish communist state that ruled parts of the country during the Finnish Civil War of 1918. Another example of an attempted communist takeover of power in Europe was then the Alsace-Lorraine Soviet Republic of 1918 in France. The Limerick Soviet was one of a number of declared Irish soviets that were formed around Ireland 1919. The Slovak Soviet Republic was a short-lived Communist state in southeast Slovakia in existence from 16 June 1919 to 7 July 1919. Commune of the Working People of Estonia existed from 29 November 1918 to 5 June 1919. In 1918, announced the formation of the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic. A communist revolutionary Red Guard was founded in Austria and an attempt was made to proclaim a Soviet Republic. Like in Hungary during the German November Revolution, the communist Karl Liebknecht proclaimed the communist republic in Germany on November 9, 1918. But the communists' seizure of power then failed, although later there were repeated attempts by the communists to gain power in Germany or parts of Germany. Like with the Bavarian Soviet Republic which was a short-lived communist state in Bavaria during the riots of 1918-19 in Germany. Then there were another attempts by the communists to come to power in German areas. The Bremen Soviet Republic was proclaimed which was a short-lived state in Germany, existing for 25 days in 1919. The communist Spartacist uprising with the goal of an all-German Soviet Republic were armed battles in Berlin from 5 to 12 January 1919.
I'll continue my explanation in the next comment.
Nice, Poland is a real badass. We should never forget how many times this country changed the future of Europe for the better. It's really sad how other countries treat this nation now.
its okay, just the fate of a martyr, we dont expect any respect, we just do what we are born to do
Yes, Poland gets little gratitude! By the way, it's not even an exaggeration that Poland saved the world. Indeed, the Polish victory against the Bolsheviks had also an extreme European impact but also even a global impact. According to the British politician and diplomat Lord D'Abernon, who was part of the inter allied Mission to Poland in 1920, during the Polish-Bolshevik war, the 1920 Battle of Warsaw was one of the most important battles in world history because as he said "had the Battle of Warsaw ended with a Bolshevik victory, it would have been a turning point in the history of Europe. As there is no doubt that with the fall of Warsaw, Central Europe would have been left open to Communist propaganda and Bolshevik invasion." So long as the Bolsheviks were preoccupied with the Civil War, they had nothing in mind beyond their survival. But, having conquered the Russian heartland in the course of 1919, they began to heed the dictates of their ideology, which told them that the Communist Revolution should be exported from Russia to the rest of Europe. The Second Congress of the Communist International deliberated in Moscow between 19 July and 7 August 1920. Lenin spoke of the increasingly favorable odds for the accomplishment of the World Proletarian Revolution, which would lead to the World Soviet Republic. The road to Europe opened up when Germany lost the First World War and signed the surrender on November 11th 1918. The German troops then systematically retreated from the occupied lands of Ukraine, Belarus and other Baltic states. They were immediately followed by the Bolshevik Red Army, fulfilling Lenin’s orders to begin its “freeing” march west. This operation had a telling codename - “Vistula”. The most important job of the Bolsheviks was to break through to Germany and Austria which were filled with revolutionary atmosphere. To do that, they needed to get rid of the “barrier”, meaning, as Joseph Stalin wrote, “the national states which wound up between the two huge sources of revolution in the East and West”. One such barrier was, first and foremost, Poland which just regained independence following the defeat of Germany and the fall of the Austrian-Hungarian empire. On November 17th 1918, at the Red Army briefing, its commander Leon Trotsky predicted the sovietisation of Poland and Ukraine as “the links binding Soviet Russia with future Soviet Germany” and the first stage in building “the Union of European Proletariat Republics”. Poles lived also at the territories of modern Belarus and Lithuania, which were invaded by the Bolsheviks. A Polish Self-defense was created there, counting 10 thousand men, which was part of the Polish Army and its commander, Gen. Władysław Wejtko followed the orders of Chief Commander Józef Piłsudski. Between the 3rd and 5th of January 1919, Polish self-defense units tried to defend Wilno on their own. However, in the face of an overwhelming opponent Poles had to retreat from the city. Thus, the Polish-Bolshevik war actually began on January 3rd 1919, although not formally. The march West was accompanied by the creation of puppet Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Ukrainian and Belarusian Soviet republics. On January 8th 1919, the Soviet newspaper “Izvestia” announced the creation of the Revolutionary War Council of Poland, a cornerstone for the planned communist government in Poland. Later by order of the Bolsheviks, the Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee as a Polish puppet government had been formed to organize administration of the Polish territories captured by the Red Army. This puppet government had very little support from the ethnic Polish population and recruited its supporters mostly from the ranks of minorities, primarily Jews.
With these additional resources from conquered Poland and the Baltic countries, the communists planned to advance further into the west. Poland should be the "Red Bridge" for Communist ideology to the West. So conquered Poland should serve as a red bridge to conquer all of Europe. The aim of conquering other European states as well is also confirmed by the order of Mikhail Tukachevsky called “Red Napoleon”, commander of the Western Front of the Red Army. In his Order of the Day he wrote in July 2, 1920: "To the West! The fate of the world revolution will be decided in the West. The way to set the world on fire leads through the corpse of white Poland. On our bayonets we will bring happiness and peace to the toiling masses of mankind. March on Wilno, Minsk and Warsaw and onward to Berlin over the corpse of Poland!" Tukhachevsky also boasted that his men would be "galloping through the streets of Paris before the summer was out." By the way, Tukhachevsky was one of the first military commanders killed in Stalin's purges in 1937. Tukachevsky called Poland white Poland because the communist propaganda called free Poland white Poland. The term whites were used to designate anti-communists. But the Polish victory prevented setting the world on fire by communists. So the main reason for the outbreak of the Polish-Bolshevik war the threat to Poland’s independence by Bolsheviks, as well as the attempt to implement the idea of a permanent revolution, and the export of the communist revolution Europe-wide but actually worldwide. What is also worth noting the fact that if Poland had been conquered by the communists, the Baltic states would have been conquered too. Poland was therefore allied with Latvia in this war. Poland and some few others European countries were not infected by the red virus. In Poland the overwhelming majority of the population was anti-communist. But Poland was the absolute exception in Europe! In various European countries at that time there were strong communist movements that would have supported the communists in their advance.
Moreover, there were also attempts by the communists to take power in other parts of Europe! So these are examples of communist successes outside the Bolshevik state at the time of the Polish-Bolshevik war. The Hungarian Soviet Republic was the communist state of Hungary from 21 March 1919 until 1 August 1919 (133 days). Until the anti-communists prevailed and abolished this Soviet republic. The other communist republics and communes have survived just as short as the Hungarian Soviet Republic but that makes it clear that there were strong communist influences throughout Europe. The Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic more commonly referred to as Red Finland, was a proclaimed Finnish communist state that ruled parts of the country during the Finnish Civil War of 1918. Another example of an attempted communist takeover of power in Europe was then the Alsace-Lorraine Soviet Republic of 1918 in France. The Limerick Soviet was one of a number of declared Irish soviets that were formed around Ireland 1919. The Slovak Soviet Republic was a short-lived Communist state in southeast Slovakia in existence from 16 June 1919 to 7 July 1919. Commune of the Working People of Estonia existed from 29 November 1918 to 5 June 1919. In 1918, announced the formation of the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic. A communist revolutionary Red Guard was founded in Austria and an attempt was made to proclaim a Soviet Republic. Like in Hungary during the German November Revolution, the communist Karl Liebknecht proclaimed the communist republic in Germany on November 9, 1918. But the communists' seizure of power then failed, although later there were repeated attempts by the communists to gain power in Germany or parts of Germany. Like with the Bavarian Soviet Republic which was a short-lived communist state in Bavaria during the riots of 1918-19 in Germany. Then there were another attempts by the communists to come to power in German areas. The Bremen Soviet Republic was proclaimed which was a short-lived state in Germany, existing for 25 days in 1919. The communist Spartacist uprising with the goal of an all-German Soviet Republic were armed battles in Berlin from 5 to 12 January 1919.
I'll continue my explanation in the next comment.
Continuing of the comment above: Bolshevik propaganda was strengthened in many European countries and e.g in Germany, posters appeared with a Red Army soldier freeing the country from chains. The congress of the Communist International issued an appeal to workers in all countries, asking them to forestall their governments' efforts to aid "White" Poland. So the Bolsheviks, as part of a huge propaganda action under the slogan: “Hands off Soviet Russia”, mobilized communist parties and leftist trade unions across all of Europe to work against Poland. Many western journalists were on the payroll of Bolshevik propaganda. Workers and dockers in various European countries were sympathizers of the Bolsheviks also refused to load the support supplies for the fighting Poles against the Bolsheviks. The refusal of the dockers in Gdansk (Danzig) was particularly unfavorable because all deliveries to Poland were to be made via this port. Also the British trade unions followed the Communist propaganda and blocked British military supplies to Poland. So the Trades Union Congress and Labour Party responded by threatening national strike action and established Councils of Action to resist any possible efforts by the British government to supply Poland with arms or other supplies. On August 6, 1920, the British Labour Party published a pamphlet stating that British workers would never take part in the war as Poland's allies, and labour unions blocked supplies to the British expeditionary force assisting Russian Whites in Arkhangelsk. French Socialists, in their newspaper L'Humanité, declared: "Not a man, not a sou, not a shell for reactionary and capitalist Poland. Long live the Russian Revolution! Long live the Workmen's International!"
Since the communists had enough supporters all over Europe after the desired victory against Poland the communists would have in Europe either provoked revolutions through agitators or they would have intervened militarily. If the communists had conquered Europe, which was by far the most economically important continent at the time, they would have had a good chance of "exporting" communism worldwide as well. That this is not an exaggeration can be seen by comparing the strategy of the communists after World War II. Even in these later times, communism was "exported" to countries around the world, and as a result there were countries around the world ruled by communist dictatorships. After 1945, as in 1919, the communists had the goal of a world completely dominated by communism. The goal was that virtually every country would become communist. That is why the Polish victory of 1921 definitely had not just a European impact but also a global impact.
Here I also explain the reasons for the Polish victory! The French and British support was not crucial to the Polish victory how often it is falsely claimed. The Polish victory in the war against the Bolsheviks 1919-21 was the result of the superiority of the Polish army, the Polish army command and the Polish secret service. The Polish soldiers had much higher combat morale than the soldiers of the Bolshevik Army. Because the Poles fought for the freedom of their homeland and were determined to defend their country. Critically, the Polish Army benefited from a vast influx of volunteers. Even Polish women volunteered to fight! Even battalions of women fought at the front for Poland. One of this Polish female soldiers was Maria Wittek which would become the Polish Army's first female general. In fact most Polish soldiers were anti-Communists and despised Bolshevik ideology. The soldiers of the Red Army, on the other hand, fought for the spread of an ideology in other countries. Bolshevik soldiers were supposed to fight for an abstract political idea. It is very likely that the majority of Red Army soldiers were not communists at all. Many were forcibly recruited and did not want to fight at all. The communist propaganda told the Red Army soldiers they would be greeted as liberators however, they quickly realized that they were viewed as enemies by the Polish population. In summary, it can be stated that the Polish soldiers were much more motivated to fight than the Red Army soldiers.
The Polish high command led by First Marshal Piłsudski showed its superiority on various occasions such as at the Battle of Warsaw. The Polish high command understood the course of the front and the situation at the front much better than the Bolshevik high command. Piłsudski and General Rozwadowski knew that the only way to defend Warsaw and prevent its encirclement of the city was with a counter-offensive. Their plan was to exploit a weak opening between two Russian fronts. The plan that he and General Rozwadowski thrashed out was for Polish forces to secretly regroup at lightning speed and then strike at a weak point between major Red Army battle groups. After this advance, the Polish Army would then be in a perfect position to deliver the decisive blow. Piłsudski knew how important the coming battle would be and took direct command of this army. The plan worked and the rapid Polish drive north managed to split the Bolshevik fronts and threw Bolshevik army into confusion and chaos the Red Army started to disintegrate. In the following months, several more Polish follow-up victories saved Poland’s independence. It was a hard-fought battle, which took place in August 1920 near Warsaw and ended in a decisive Polish victory over the Red Army. It was won by the skill, discipline, and determination of the Polish defenders, by the patriotic spirit of a large numbers of volunteers, and by Marshal Piłsudski's brilliant counterattack, which stopped the Bolshevik offensive and with the counterattack, the Bolshevik troops were forced to flee.
I'll continue my explanation in the next comment.
Continuing of the comment above: The Polish high command also made much better use of the newly developed modern weapon systems and made better use of the new technologies than the Bolsheviks. Because of that the Polish army used the new armored vehicle branch much more efficiently than the Bolsheviks. For example, the Poles produced armored cars. The Polish army also used foreign-made armored cars. Armored cars were very useful. In fact, these armored cars were used by the Polish Army for blitzkrieg-style attacks. Actually, Poles invented Blitzkrieg with lightning-fast attacks from armored vehicles. That's no exaggeration, because indeed the Polish Army used this armored car for blitzkrieg attacks against the Bolsheviks. Anyone who thinks that the Germans invented the blitzkrieg with armored vehicles is wrong. The Polish Army had successfully used this tactic against the Bolsheviks with rapidly advancing armored cars clearing the way for the rapidly following infantry. By the way, the advantages of this polish made armored cars were high speed, agility, manoeuvrability and ease of maintenance and repair. At times, they were repaired under fire. The engine could run on low quality fuel and oil. The armor was sufficient against rifle and machine gun bullets and and shrapnels. In spite of the extra weight of the armor, the vehicles managed well in heavy terrain, and were also able to cross relatively weak bridges on account of their low mass in comparison to other armored vehicles. The polish made armored cars were really small in comparison to other armored cars of the era and offered a smaller target. In view of the operations extending over large areas, and in order to take by surprise the enemy, the Polish army command resolved upon to lightning fast armored cars raids and invented with it actually the blitzkrieg. So this warfare tactic should actually have the Polish name "błyskwojna" in English and not the German name blitzkrieg.
An example of the "błyskwojna" of the Polish armored cars was the Battle of Kovel in 1920. The Polish Bataillons received orders to raid Kovel and to overcome the distance of 160 km to the attack target Kovel as quickly as possible for to to surprise the enemy with the fast advance. The aim of the raid was to conquer the undamaged wide-gauge railway rolling-stocks and to enabling rapid action along the liberated railway lines. A column of armored cars should do the job supported by batteries of field artillery drawn by trucks. Columns with 2 infantry battalions were to follow, transported by truck, to secure the conquered area. It is worth mentioning that on the way to Kovel several villages occupied by the Bolsheviks had to be liberated. The coming of the motor group over the Brzesc - Kovel road took the Bolsheviks unawares and was an element of surprise lay one of the conditions of success. The surprise was, moreover, effected by a very sudden change of direction by the motor-group. The distance was covered in 2 days with some villages being liberated along the way and during this time it was necessary to stop the whole marching column in order to repair the bridges. The effect of the sudden appearance in the streets of Kovel of armored cars firing on all sides was such that within the space of a few minutes the Bolshevik troops, about 2 infantry divisions, were leaving the town in considerable disorder. The commander of the 12th Soviet Army escaped in a car. The effect of the raid was a capture of the big railway junction. The Poles also captured 2 armored trains several scores of guns 12 airplanes, several hundreds of railway carriages loaded with large amount of war material, and, besides, all that the staff archives the 12th Soviet Army contained. The Polish motorized group had held the town, until the main force arrived next morning. Three armored cars got damaged during the raid. Thus did the briliantly conducted raid on Kovel result not only in bringing immense spoil at a very inconsiderable loss, but it produced a tremendous operational effect which rendered possible the accomplishment of the strategic plan of the Commander-in-Chief, and at the same time it seriously weakened the strength and shook the morale of the 12th Bolshevik Army. Lord D’Abernon a British politician and diplomat, who was part of the interallied Mission to Poland in 1920, described in his diary the mobility of the Polish troops as amazing and noticed that Polish troops covered distances unattainable by the best European armies.
By the way, the Kościuszko Squadron was the first air squadron to use a railway train as a mobile flying base with specially designed railroad cars that could transport their aircraft as the front moved and developed. The train also included the squadron's operational headquarters, aircraft spares and repair workshops and living quarters. Which also shows how innovatively the Polish high command used new technologies.
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That not first time when Poland save the Europe. Great video
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In these hard times, Hungary supported Poland with ammunition delivered through Romania. Hungarians, Romanians - Thank You! We will never forget!
Thank you for talking about this. People should know history, remember and respect.💪🇵🇱🇭🇺♥️
Thanks, greetings to Hungary from Poland! By the way, it's not even an exaggeration that Poland saved the world. Indeed, the Polish victory against the Bolsheviks had also an extreme European impact but also even a global impact. According to the British politician and diplomat Lord D'Abernon, who was part of the inter allied Mission to Poland in 1920, during the Polish-Bolshevik war, the 1920 Battle of Warsaw was one of the most important battles in world history because as he said "had the Battle of Warsaw ended with a Bolshevik victory, it would have been a turning point in the history of Europe. As there is no doubt that with the fall of Warsaw, Central Europe would have been left open to Communist propaganda and Bolshevik invasion." So long as the Bolsheviks were preoccupied with the Civil War, they had nothing in mind beyond their survival. But, having conquered the Russian heartland in the course of 1919, they began to heed the dictates of their ideology, which told them that the Communist Revolution should be exported from Russia to the rest of Europe. The Second Congress of the Communist International deliberated in Moscow between 19 July and 7 August 1920. Lenin spoke of the increasingly favorable odds for the accomplishment of the World Proletarian Revolution, which would lead to the World Soviet Republic. The road to Europe opened up when Germany lost the First World War and signed the surrender on November 11th 1918. The German troops then systematically retreated from the occupied lands of Ukraine, Belarus and other Baltic states. They were immediately followed by the Bolshevik Red Army, fulfilling Lenin’s orders to begin its “freeing” march west. This operation had a telling codename - “Vistula”. The most important job of the Bolsheviks was to break through to Germany and Austria which were filled with revolutionary atmosphere. To do that, they needed to get rid of the “barrier”, meaning, as Joseph Stalin wrote, “the national states which wound up between the two huge sources of revolution in the East and West”. One such barrier was, first and foremost, Poland which just regained independence following the defeat of Germany and the fall of the Austrian-Hungarian empire. On November 17th 1918, at the Red Army briefing, its commander Leon Trotsky predicted the sovietisation of Poland and Ukraine as “the links binding Soviet Russia with future Soviet Germany” and the first stage in building “the Union of European Proletariat Republics”. Poles lived also at the territories of modern Belarus and Lithuania, which were invaded by the Bolsheviks. A Polish Self-defense was created there, counting 10 thousand men, which was part of the Polish Army and its commander, Gen. Władysław Wejtko followed the orders of Chief Commander Józef Piłsudski. Between the 3rd and 5th of January 1919, Polish self-defense units tried to defend Wilno on their own. However, in the face of an overwhelming opponent Poles had to retreat from the city. Thus, the Polish-Bolshevik war actually began on January 3rd 1919, although not formally. The march West was accompanied by the creation of puppet Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Ukrainian and Belarusian Soviet republics. On January 8th 1919, the Soviet newspaper “Izvestia” announced the creation of the Revolutionary War Council of Poland, a cornerstone for the planned communist government in Poland. Later by order of the Bolsheviks, the Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee as a Polish puppet government had been formed to organize administration of the Polish territories captured by the Red Army. This puppet government had very little support from the ethnic Polish population and recruited its supporters mostly from the ranks of minorities, primarily Jews.
With these additional resources from conquered Poland and the Baltic countries, the communists planned to advance further into the west. Poland should be the "Red Bridge" for Communist ideology to the West. So conquered Poland should serve as a red bridge to conquer all of Europe. The aim of conquering other European states as well is also confirmed by the order of Mikhail Tukachevsky called “Red Napoleon”, commander of the Western Front of the Red Army. In his Order of the Day he wrote in July 2, 1920: "To the West! The fate of the world revolution will be decided in the West. The way to set the world on fire leads through the corpse of white Poland. On our bayonets we will bring happiness and peace to the toiling masses of mankind. March on Wilno, Minsk and Warsaw and onward to Berlin over the corpse of Poland!" Tukhachevsky also boasted that his men would be "galloping through the streets of Paris before the summer was out." By the way, Tukhachevsky was one of the first military commanders killed in Stalin's purges in 1937. Tukachevsky called Poland white Poland because the communist propaganda called free Poland white Poland. The term whites were used to designate anti-communists. But the Polish victory prevented setting the world on fire by communists. So the main reason for the outbreak of the Polish-Bolshevik war the threat to Poland’s independence by Bolsheviks, as well as the attempt to implement the idea of a permanent revolution, and the export of the communist revolution Europe-wide but actually worldwide. What is also worth noting the fact that if Poland had been conquered by the communists, the Baltic states would have been conquered too. Poland was therefore allied with Latvia in this war. Poland and some few others European countries were not infected by the red virus. In Poland the overwhelming majority of the population was anti-communist. But Poland was the absolute exception in Europe! In various European countries at that time there were strong communist movements that would have supported the communists in their advance.
Moreover, there were also attempts by the communists to take power in other parts of Europe! So these are examples of communist successes outside the Bolshevik state at the time of the Polish-Bolshevik war. The Hungarian Soviet Republic was the communist state of Hungary from 21 March 1919 until 1 August 1919 (133 days). Until the anti-communists prevailed and abolished this Soviet republic. The other communist republics and communes have survived just as short as the Hungarian Soviet Republic but that makes it clear that there were strong communist influences throughout Europe. The Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic more commonly referred to as Red Finland, was a proclaimed Finnish communist state that ruled parts of the country during the Finnish Civil War of 1918. Another example of an attempted communist takeover of power in Europe was then the Alsace-Lorraine Soviet Republic of 1918 in France. The Limerick Soviet was one of a number of declared Irish soviets that were formed around Ireland 1919. The Slovak Soviet Republic was a short-lived Communist state in southeast Slovakia in existence from 16 June 1919 to 7 July 1919. Commune of the Working People of Estonia existed from 29 November 1918 to 5 June 1919. In 1918, announced the formation of the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic. A communist revolutionary Red Guard was founded in Austria and an attempt was made to proclaim a Soviet Republic. Like in Hungary during the German November Revolution, the communist Karl Liebknecht proclaimed the communist republic in Germany on November 9, 1918. But the communists' seizure of power then failed, although later there were repeated attempts by the communists to gain power in Germany or parts of Germany. Like with the Bavarian Soviet Republic which was a short-lived communist state in Bavaria during the riots of 1918-19 in Germany. Then there were another attempts by the communists to come to power in German areas. The Bremen Soviet Republic was proclaimed which was a short-lived state in Germany, existing for 25 days in 1919. The communist Spartacist uprising with the goal of an all-German Soviet Republic were armed battles in Berlin from 5 to 12 January 1919.
I'll continue my explanation in the next comment.
Continuing of the comment above: Bolshevik propaganda was strengthened in many European countries and e.g in Germany, posters appeared with a Red Army soldier freeing the country from chains. The congress of the Communist International issued an appeal to workers in all countries, asking them to forestall their governments' efforts to aid "White" Poland. So the Bolsheviks, as part of a huge propaganda action under the slogan: “Hands off Soviet Russia”, mobilized communist parties and leftist trade unions across all of Europe to work against Poland. Many western journalists were on the payroll of Bolshevik propaganda. Workers and dockers in various European countries were sympathizers of the Bolsheviks also refused to load the support supplies for the fighting Poles against the Bolsheviks. The refusal of the dockers in Gdansk (Danzig) was particularly unfavorable because all deliveries to Poland were to be made via this port. Also the British trade unions followed the Communist propaganda and blocked British military supplies to Poland. So the Trades Union Congress and Labour Party responded by threatening national strike action and established Councils of Action to resist any possible efforts by the British government to supply Poland with arms or other supplies. On August 6, 1920, the British Labour Party published a pamphlet stating that British workers would never take part in the war as Poland's allies, and labour unions blocked supplies to the British expeditionary force assisting Russian Whites in Arkhangelsk. French Socialists, in their newspaper L'Humanité, declared: "Not a man, not a sou, not a shell for reactionary and capitalist Poland. Long live the Russian Revolution! Long live the Workmen's International!"
Since the communists had enough supporters all over Europe after the desired victory against Poland the communists would have in Europe either provoked revolutions through agitators or they would have intervened militarily. If the communists had conquered Europe, which was by far the most economically important continent at the time, they would have had a good chance of "exporting" communism worldwide as well. That this is not an exaggeration can be seen by comparing the strategy of the communists after World War II. Even in these later times, communism was "exported" to countries around the world, and as a result there were countries around the world ruled by communist dictatorships. After 1945, as in 1919, the communists had the goal of a world completely dominated by communism. The goal was that virtually every country would become communist. That is why the Polish victory of 1921 definitely had not just a European impact but also a global impact.
Here I also explain the reasons for the Polish victory! The French and British support was not crucial to the Polish victory how often it is falsely claimed. The Polish victory in the war against the Bolsheviks 1919-21 was the result of the superiority of the Polish army, the Polish army command and the Polish secret service. The Polish soldiers had much higher combat morale than the soldiers of the Bolshevik Army. Because the Poles fought for the freedom of their homeland and were determined to defend their country. Critically, the Polish Army benefited from a vast influx of volunteers. Even Polish women volunteered to fight! Even battalions of women fought at the front for Poland. One of this Polish female soldiers was Maria Wittek which would become the Polish Army's first female general. In fact most Polish soldiers were anti-Communists and despised Bolshevik ideology. The soldiers of the Red Army, on the other hand, fought for the spread of an ideology in other countries. Bolshevik soldiers were supposed to fight for an abstract political idea. It is very likely that the majority of Red Army soldiers were not communists at all. Many were forcibly recruited and did not want to fight at all. The communist propaganda told the Red Army soldiers they would be greeted as liberators however, they quickly realized that they were viewed as enemies by the Polish population. In summary, it can be stated that the Polish soldiers were much more motivated to fight than the Red Army soldiers.
The Polish high command led by First Marshal Piłsudski showed its superiority on various occasions such as at the Battle of Warsaw. The Polish high command understood the course of the front and the situation at the front much better than the Bolshevik high command. Piłsudski and General Rozwadowski knew that the only way to defend Warsaw and prevent its encirclement of the city was with a counter-offensive. Their plan was to exploit a weak opening between two Russian fronts. The plan that he and General Rozwadowski thrashed out was for Polish forces to secretly regroup at lightning speed and then strike at a weak point between major Red Army battle groups. After this advance, the Polish Army would then be in a perfect position to deliver the decisive blow. Piłsudski knew how important the coming battle would be and took direct command of this army. The plan worked and the rapid Polish drive north managed to split the Bolshevik fronts and threw Bolshevik army into confusion and chaos the Red Army started to disintegrate. In the following months, several more Polish follow-up victories saved Poland’s independence. It was a hard-fought battle, which took place in August 1920 near Warsaw and ended in a decisive Polish victory over the Red Army. It was won by the skill, discipline, and determination of the Polish defenders, by the patriotic spirit of a large numbers of volunteers, and by Marshal Piłsudski's brilliant counterattack, which stopped the Bolshevik offensive and with the counterattack, the Bolshevik troops were forced to flee.
I'll continue my explanation in the next comment.
Continuing of the comment above: The Polish high command also made much better use of the newly developed modern weapon systems and made better use of the new technologies than the Bolsheviks. Because of that the Polish army used the new armored vehicle branch much more efficiently than the Bolsheviks. For example, the Poles produced armored cars. The Polish army also used foreign-made armored cars. Armored cars were very useful. In fact, these armored cars were used by the Polish Army for blitzkrieg-style attacks. Actually, Poles invented Blitzkrieg with lightning-fast attacks from armored vehicles. That's no exaggeration, because indeed the Polish Army used this armored car for blitzkrieg attacks against the Bolsheviks. Anyone who thinks that the Germans invented the blitzkrieg with armored vehicles is wrong. The Polish Army had successfully used this tactic against the Bolsheviks with rapidly advancing armored cars clearing the way for the rapidly following infantry. By the way, the advantages of this polish made armored cars were high speed, agility, manoeuvrability and ease of maintenance and repair. At times, they were repaired under fire. The engine could run on low quality fuel and oil. The armor was sufficient against rifle and machine gun bullets and and shrapnels. In spite of the extra weight of the armor, the vehicles managed well in heavy terrain, and were also able to cross relatively weak bridges on account of their low mass in comparison to other armored vehicles. The polish made armored cars were really small in comparison to other armored cars of the era and offered a smaller target. In view of the operations extending over large areas, and in order to take by surprise the enemy, the Polish army command resolved upon to lightning fast armored cars raids and invented with it actually the blitzkrieg. So this warfare tactic should actually have the Polish name "błyskwojna" in English and not the German name blitzkrieg.
An example of the "błyskwojna" of the Polish armored cars was the Battle of Kovel in 1920. The Polish Bataillons received orders to raid Kovel and to overcome the distance of 160 km to the attack target Kovel as quickly as possible for to to surprise the enemy with the fast advance. The aim of the raid was to conquer the undamaged wide-gauge railway rolling-stocks and to enabling rapid action along the liberated railway lines. A column of armored cars should do the job supported by batteries of field artillery drawn by trucks. Columns with 2 infantry battalions were to follow, transported by truck, to secure the conquered area. It is worth mentioning that on the way to Kovel several villages occupied by the Bolsheviks had to be liberated. The coming of the motor group over the Brzesc - Kovel road took the Bolsheviks unawares and was an element of surprise lay one of the conditions of success. The surprise was, moreover, effected by a very sudden change of direction by the motor-group. The distance was covered in 2 days with some villages being liberated along the way and during this time it was necessary to stop the whole marching column in order to repair the bridges. The effect of the sudden appearance in the streets of Kovel of armored cars firing on all sides was such that within the space of a few minutes the Bolshevik troops, about 2 infantry divisions, were leaving the town in considerable disorder. The commander of the 12th Soviet Army escaped in a car. The effect of the raid was a capture of the big railway junction. The Poles also captured 2 armored trains several scores of guns 12 airplanes, several hundreds of railway carriages loaded with large amount of war material, and, besides, all that the staff archives the 12th Soviet Army contained. The Polish motorized group had held the town, until the main force arrived next morning. Three armored cars got damaged during the raid. Thus did the briliantly conducted raid on Kovel result not only in bringing immense spoil at a very inconsiderable loss, but it produced a tremendous operational effect which rendered possible the accomplishment of the strategic plan of the Commander-in-Chief, and at the same time it seriously weakened the strength and shook the morale of the 12th Bolshevik Army. Lord D’Abernon a British politician and diplomat, who was part of the interallied Mission to Poland in 1920, described in his diary the mobility of the Polish troops as amazing and noticed that Polish troops covered distances unattainable by the best European armies.
By the way, the Kościuszko Squadron was the first air squadron to use a railway train as a mobile flying base with specially designed railroad cars that could transport their aircraft as the front moved and developed. The train also included the squadron's operational headquarters, aircraft spares and repair workshops and living quarters. Which also shows how innovatively the Polish high command used new technologies.
That's right Stefan ""Because we do not beg for freedom, we fight for it." - Gen. Witold Urbanowicz / 303 Squadron Commander.
Ever since I learned of this I have had a great respect for the polish people.
Long live the polish dream
Polish*
siema ty polak nie
Thank you for your great wish for the Poles! By the way, it's not even an exaggeration that Poland saved the world. Indeed, the Polish victory against the Bolsheviks had also an extreme European impact but also even a global impact. According to the British politician and diplomat Lord D'Abernon, who was part of the inter allied Mission to Poland in 1920, during the Polish-Bolshevik war, the 1920 Battle of Warsaw was one of the most important battles in world history because as he said "had the Battle of Warsaw ended with a Bolshevik victory, it would have been a turning point in the history of Europe. As there is no doubt that with the fall of Warsaw, Central Europe would have been left open to Communist propaganda and Bolshevik invasion." So long as the Bolsheviks were preoccupied with the Civil War, they had nothing in mind beyond their survival. But, having conquered the Russian heartland in the course of 1919, they began to heed the dictates of their ideology, which told them that the Communist Revolution should be exported from Russia to the rest of Europe. The Second Congress of the Communist International deliberated in Moscow between 19 July and 7 August 1920. Lenin spoke of the increasingly favorable odds for the accomplishment of the World Proletarian Revolution, which would lead to the World Soviet Republic. The road to Europe opened up when Germany lost the First World War and signed the surrender on November 11th 1918. The German troops then systematically retreated from the occupied lands of Ukraine, Belarus and other Baltic states. They were immediately followed by the Bolshevik Red Army, fulfilling Lenin’s orders to begin its “freeing” march west. This operation had a telling codename - “Vistula”. The most important job of the Bolsheviks was to break through to Germany and Austria which were filled with revolutionary atmosphere. To do that, they needed to get rid of the “barrier”, meaning, as Joseph Stalin wrote, “the national states which wound up between the two huge sources of revolution in the East and West”. One such barrier was, first and foremost, Poland which just regained independence following the defeat of Germany and the fall of the Austrian-Hungarian empire. On November 17th 1918, at the Red Army briefing, its commander Leon Trotsky predicted the sovietisation of Poland and Ukraine as “the links binding Soviet Russia with future Soviet Germany” and the first stage in building “the Union of European Proletariat Republics”. Poles lived also at the territories of modern Belarus and Lithuania, which were invaded by the Bolsheviks. A Polish Self-defense was created there, counting 10 thousand men, which was part of the Polish Army and its commander, Gen. Władysław Wejtko followed the orders of Chief Commander Józef Piłsudski. Between the 3rd and 5th of January 1919, Polish self-defense units tried to defend Wilno on their own. However, in the face of an overwhelming opponent Poles had to retreat from the city. Thus, the Polish-Bolshevik war actually began on January 3rd 1919, although not formally. The march West was accompanied by the creation of puppet Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Ukrainian and Belarusian Soviet republics. On January 8th 1919, the Soviet newspaper “Izvestia” announced the creation of the Revolutionary War Council of Poland, a cornerstone for the planned communist government in Poland. Later by order of the Bolsheviks, the Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee as a Polish puppet government had been formed to organize administration of the Polish territories captured by the Red Army. This puppet government had very little support from the ethnic Polish population and recruited its supporters mostly from the ranks of minorities, primarily Jews.
With these additional resources from conquered Poland and the Baltic countries, the communists planned to advance further into the west. Poland should be the "Red Bridge" for Communist ideology to the West. So conquered Poland should serve as a red bridge to conquer all of Europe. The aim of conquering other European states as well is also confirmed by the order of Mikhail Tukachevsky called “Red Napoleon”, commander of the Western Front of the Red Army. In his Order of the Day he wrote in July 2, 1920: "To the West! The fate of the world revolution will be decided in the West. The way to set the world on fire leads through the corpse of white Poland. On our bayonets we will bring happiness and peace to the toiling masses of mankind. March on Wilno, Minsk and Warsaw and onward to Berlin over the corpse of Poland!" Tukhachevsky also boasted that his men would be "galloping through the streets of Paris before the summer was out." By the way, Tukhachevsky was one of the first military commanders killed in Stalin's purges in 1937. Tukachevsky called Poland white Poland because the communist propaganda called free Poland white Poland. The term whites were used to designate anti-communists. But the Polish victory prevented setting the world on fire by communists. So the main reason for the outbreak of the Polish-Bolshevik war the threat to Poland’s independence by Bolsheviks, as well as the attempt to implement the idea of a permanent revolution, and the export of the communist revolution Europe-wide but actually worldwide. What is also worth noting the fact that if Poland had been conquered by the communists, the Baltic states would have been conquered too. Poland was therefore allied with Latvia in this war. Poland and some few others European countries were not infected by the red virus. In Poland the overwhelming majority of the population was anti-communist. But Poland was the absolute exception in Europe! In various European countries at that time there were strong communist movements that would have supported the communists in their advance.
Moreover, there were also attempts by the communists to take power in other parts of Europe! So these are examples of communist successes outside the Bolshevik state at the time of the Polish-Bolshevik war. The Hungarian Soviet Republic was the communist state of Hungary from 21 March 1919 until 1 August 1919 (133 days). Until the anti-communists prevailed and abolished this Soviet republic. The other communist republics and communes have survived just as short as the Hungarian Soviet Republic but that makes it clear that there were strong communist influences throughout Europe. The Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic more commonly referred to as Red Finland, was a proclaimed Finnish communist state that ruled parts of the country during the Finnish Civil War of 1918. Another example of an attempted communist takeover of power in Europe was then the Alsace-Lorraine Soviet Republic of 1918 in France. The Limerick Soviet was one of a number of declared Irish soviets that were formed around Ireland 1919. The Slovak Soviet Republic was a short-lived Communist state in southeast Slovakia in existence from 16 June 1919 to 7 July 1919. Commune of the Working People of Estonia existed from 29 November 1918 to 5 June 1919. In 1918, announced the formation of the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic. A communist revolutionary Red Guard was founded in Austria and an attempt was made to proclaim a Soviet Republic. Like in Hungary during the German November Revolution, the communist Karl Liebknecht proclaimed the communist republic in Germany on November 9, 1918. But the communists' seizure of power then failed, although later there were repeated attempts by the communists to gain power in Germany or parts of Germany. Like with the Bavarian Soviet Republic which was a short-lived communist state in Bavaria during the riots of 1918-19 in Germany. Then there were another attempts by the communists to come to power in German areas. The Bremen Soviet Republic was proclaimed which was a short-lived state in Germany, existing for 25 days in 1919. The communist Spartacist uprising with the goal of an all-German Soviet Republic were armed battles in Berlin from 5 to 12 January 1919.
I'll continue my explanation in the next comment.
Continuing of the comment above: Bolshevik propaganda was strengthened in many European countries and e.g in Germany, posters appeared with a Red Army soldier freeing the country from chains. The congress of the Communist International issued an appeal to workers in all countries, asking them to forestall their governments' efforts to aid "White" Poland. So the Bolsheviks, as part of a huge propaganda action under the slogan: “Hands off Soviet Russia”, mobilized communist parties and leftist trade unions across all of Europe to work against Poland. Many western journalists were on the payroll of Bolshevik propaganda. Workers and dockers in various European countries were sympathizers of the Bolsheviks also refused to load the support supplies for the fighting Poles against the Bolsheviks. The refusal of the dockers in Gdansk (Danzig) was particularly unfavorable because all deliveries to Poland were to be made via this port. Also the British trade unions followed the Communist propaganda and blocked British military supplies to Poland. So the Trades Union Congress and Labour Party responded by threatening national strike action and established Councils of Action to resist any possible efforts by the British government to supply Poland with arms or other supplies. On August 6, 1920, the British Labour Party published a pamphlet stating that British workers would never take part in the war as Poland's allies, and labour unions blocked supplies to the British expeditionary force assisting Russian Whites in Arkhangelsk. French Socialists, in their newspaper L'Humanité, declared: "Not a man, not a sou, not a shell for reactionary and capitalist Poland. Long live the Russian Revolution! Long live the Workmen's International!"
Since the communists had enough supporters all over Europe after the desired victory against Poland the communists would have in Europe either provoked revolutions through agitators or they would have intervened militarily. If the communists had conquered Europe, which was by far the most economically important continent at the time, they would have had a good chance of "exporting" communism worldwide as well. That this is not an exaggeration can be seen by comparing the strategy of the communists after World War II. Even in these later times, communism was "exported" to countries around the world, and as a result there were countries around the world ruled by communist dictatorships. After 1945, as in 1919, the communists had the goal of a world completely dominated by communism. The goal was that virtually every country would become communist. That is why the Polish victory of 1921 definitely had not just a European impact but also a global impact.
Here I also explain the reasons for the Polish victory! The French and British support was not crucial to the Polish victory how often it is falsely claimed. The Polish victory in the war against the Bolsheviks 1919-21 was the result of the superiority of the Polish army, the Polish army command and the Polish secret service. The Polish soldiers had much higher combat morale than the soldiers of the Bolshevik Army. Because the Poles fought for the freedom of their homeland and were determined to defend their country. Critically, the Polish Army benefited from a vast influx of volunteers. Even Polish women volunteered to fight! Even battalions of women fought at the front for Poland. One of this Polish female soldiers was Maria Wittek which would become the Polish Army's first female general. In fact most Polish soldiers were anti-Communists and despised Bolshevik ideology. The soldiers of the Red Army, on the other hand, fought for the spread of an ideology in other countries. Bolshevik soldiers were supposed to fight for an abstract political idea. It is very likely that the majority of Red Army soldiers were not communists at all. Many were forcibly recruited and did not want to fight at all. The communist propaganda told the Red Army soldiers they would be greeted as liberators however, they quickly realized that they were viewed as enemies by the Polish population. In summary, it can be stated that the Polish soldiers were much more motivated to fight than the Red Army soldiers.
The Polish high command led by First Marshal Piłsudski showed its superiority on various occasions such as at the Battle of Warsaw. The Polish high command understood the course of the front and the situation at the front much better than the Bolshevik high command. Piłsudski and General Rozwadowski knew that the only way to defend Warsaw and prevent its encirclement of the city was with a counter-offensive. Their plan was to exploit a weak opening between two Russian fronts. The plan that he and General Rozwadowski thrashed out was for Polish forces to secretly regroup at lightning speed and then strike at a weak point between major Red Army battle groups. After this advance, the Polish Army would then be in a perfect position to deliver the decisive blow. Piłsudski knew how important the coming battle would be and took direct command of this army. The plan worked and the rapid Polish drive north managed to split the Bolshevik fronts and threw Bolshevik army into confusion and chaos the Red Army started to disintegrate. In the following months, several more Polish follow-up victories saved Poland’s independence. It was a hard-fought battle, which took place in August 1920 near Warsaw and ended in a decisive Polish victory over the Red Army. It was won by the skill, discipline, and determination of the Polish defenders, by the patriotic spirit of a large numbers of volunteers, and by Marshal Piłsudski's brilliant counterattack, which stopped the Bolshevik offensive and with the counterattack, the Bolshevik troops were forced to flee.
I'll continue my explanation in the next comment.
Continuing of the comment above: The Polish high command also made much better use of the newly developed modern weapon systems and made better use of the new technologies than the Bolsheviks. Because of that the Polish army used the new armored vehicle branch much more efficiently than the Bolsheviks. For example, the Poles produced armored cars. The Polish army also used foreign-made armored cars. Armored cars were very useful. In fact, these armored cars were used by the Polish Army for blitzkrieg-style attacks. Actually, Poles invented Blitzkrieg with lightning-fast attacks from armored vehicles. That's no exaggeration, because indeed the Polish Army used this armored car for blitzkrieg attacks against the Bolsheviks. Anyone who thinks that the Germans invented the blitzkrieg with armored vehicles is wrong. The Polish Army had successfully used this tactic against the Bolsheviks with rapidly advancing armored cars clearing the way for the rapidly following infantry. By the way, the advantages of this polish made armored cars were high speed, agility, manoeuvrability and ease of maintenance and repair. At times, they were repaired under fire. The engine could run on low quality fuel and oil. The armor was sufficient against rifle and machine gun bullets and and shrapnels. In spite of the extra weight of the armor, the vehicles managed well in heavy terrain, and were also able to cross relatively weak bridges on account of their low mass in comparison to other armored vehicles. The polish made armored cars were really small in comparison to other armored cars of the era and offered a smaller target. In view of the operations extending over large areas, and in order to take by surprise the enemy, the Polish army command resolved upon to lightning fast armored cars raids and invented with it actually the blitzkrieg. So this warfare tactic should actually have the Polish name "błyskwojna" in English and not the German name blitzkrieg.
An example of the "błyskwojna" of the Polish armored cars was the Battle of Kovel in 1920. The Polish Bataillons received orders to raid Kovel and to overcome the distance of 160 km to the attack target Kovel as quickly as possible for to to surprise the enemy with the fast advance. The aim of the raid was to conquer the undamaged wide-gauge railway rolling-stocks and to enabling rapid action along the liberated railway lines. A column of armored cars should do the job supported by batteries of field artillery drawn by trucks. Columns with 2 infantry battalions were to follow, transported by truck, to secure the conquered area. It is worth mentioning that on the way to Kovel several villages occupied by the Bolsheviks had to be liberated. The coming of the motor group over the Brzesc - Kovel road took the Bolsheviks unawares and was an element of surprise lay one of the conditions of success. The surprise was, moreover, effected by a very sudden change of direction by the motor-group. The distance was covered in 2 days with some villages being liberated along the way and during this time it was necessary to stop the whole marching column in order to repair the bridges. The effect of the sudden appearance in the streets of Kovel of armored cars firing on all sides was such that within the space of a few minutes the Bolshevik troops, about 2 infantry divisions, were leaving the town in considerable disorder. The commander of the 12th Soviet Army escaped in a car. The effect of the raid was a capture of the big railway junction. The Poles also captured 2 armored trains several scores of guns 12 airplanes, several hundreds of railway carriages loaded with large amount of war material, and, besides, all that the staff archives the 12th Soviet Army contained. The Polish motorized group had held the town, until the main force arrived next morning. Three armored cars got damaged during the raid. Thus did the briliantly conducted raid on Kovel result not only in bringing immense spoil at a very inconsiderable loss, but it produced a tremendous operational effect which rendered possible the accomplishment of the strategic plan of the Commander-in-Chief, and at the same time it seriously weakened the strength and shook the morale of the 12th Bolshevik Army. Lord D’Abernon a British politician and diplomat, who was part of the interallied Mission to Poland in 1920, described in his diary the mobility of the Polish troops as amazing and noticed that Polish troops covered distances unattainable by the best European armies.
By the way, the Kościuszko Squadron was the first air squadron to use a railway train as a mobile flying base with specially designed railroad cars that could transport their aircraft as the front moved and developed. The train also included the squadron's operational headquarters, aircraft spares and repair workshops and living quarters. Which also shows how innovatively the Polish high command used new technologies.
100,000 soldiers! We really owe a lot to the brave poles during that time. God be with you 💙
100,000 soldiers only of the Volunteer Army. In August 1920, the Polish army was 900,000 soldiers and 6 armies
Long live Poland. I support Poland fully and believe they are the only awake country in Europe and I hope a lot more will follow their lead. Love from the UK
4:20 Fun fact: Poles also started jamming frequencies used by anthesis soviet by.. recitation of Bible.
Because why not ?
Fact*
Crusader Animation wondeful fact!
Oh, That was cool, when they just joined their frequencies and started recitate Bible
As the great granddaughter of General Jordan Rozwadowski - I thank you for this wonderful tribute and reminder that our freedom is not free and should never be wasted. Thank you for honoring the men and women who gave their lives for freedom. Thank you for telling stories that need to be told...we honor your work and your accomplishments. All the best, Calia
Please reach out to me via email - Stefantompson77@gmail.com
General Rozwadowski fought for Poland not only in the Polish-Bolshevik War but also in the Polish-Ukrainian War. The 'Jordan' name is a memento of a distant ancestor who during the Third Crusade fought at the Jordan River. Here's a little addition to the video! It's not even an exaggeration that Poland saved the world. Indeed, the Polish victory against the Bolsheviks had also an extreme European impact but also even a global impact. According to the British politician and diplomat Lord D'Abernon, who was part of the inter allied Mission to Poland in 1920, during the Polish-Bolshevik war, the 1920 Battle of Warsaw was one of the most important battles in world history because as he said "had the Battle of Warsaw ended with a Bolshevik victory, it would have been a turning point in the history of Europe. As there is no doubt that with the fall of Warsaw, Central Europe would have been left open to Communist propaganda and Bolshevik invasion." So long as the Bolsheviks were preoccupied with the Civil War, they had nothing in mind beyond their survival. But, having conquered the Russian heartland in the course of 1919, they began to heed the dictates of their ideology, which told them that the Communist Revolution should be exported from Russia to the rest of Europe. The Second Congress of the Communist International deliberated in Moscow between 19 July and 7 August 1920. Lenin spoke of the increasingly favorable odds for the accomplishment of the World Proletarian Revolution, which would lead to the World Soviet Republic. The road to Europe opened up when Germany lost the First World War and signed the surrender on November 11th 1918. The German troops then systematically retreated from the occupied lands of Ukraine, Belarus and other Baltic states. They were immediately followed by the Bolshevik Red Army, fulfilling Lenin’s orders to begin its “freeing” march west. This operation had a telling codename according to the Polish river - “Vistula”. Because the aim of the coming Bolshevik attack should be Poland. The most important job of the Bolsheviks was to break through to Germany and Austria which were filled with revolutionary atmosphere. To do that, they needed to get rid of the “barrier”, meaning, as Joseph Stalin wrote, “the national states which wound up between the two huge sources of revolution in the East and West”. One such barrier was, first and foremost, Poland which just regained independence following the defeat of Germany and Austria. On November 17th 1918, at the Red Army briefing, its commander Leon Trotsky predicted the sovietisation of Poland and Ukraine as “the links binding Soviet Russia with future Soviet Germany” and the first stage in building “the Union of European Proletariat Republics”. Poles lived also at the territories of modern Belarus and Lithuania, which were invaded by the Bolsheviks. A Polish Self-defense was created there, counting 10 thousand men, which was part of the Polish Army and its commander, Gen. Władysław Wejtko followed the orders of Chief Commander Józef Piłsudski. Between the 3rd and 5th of January 1919, Polish self-defense units tried to defend Wilno on their own. However, in the face of an overwhelming opponent Poles had to retreat from the city. Thus, the Polish-Bolshevik war actually began on January 3rd 1919, although not formally. The march West was accompanied by the creation of puppet Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Ukrainian and Belarusian Soviet republics. On January 8th 1919, the Soviet newspaper “Izvestia” announced the creation of the Revolutionary War Council of Poland, a cornerstone for the planned communist government in Poland. Later by order of the Bolsheviks, the Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee as a Polish puppet government had been formed to organize administration of the Polish territories captured by the Red Army. This puppet government had very little support from the ethnic Polish population and recruited its supporters mostly from the ranks of minorities, primarily Jews.
With these additional resources from conquered Poland and the Baltic countries, the communists planned to advance further into the west. Poland should be the "Red Bridge" for Communist ideology to the West. So conquered Poland should serve as a red bridge to conquer all of Europe. The aim of conquering other European states as well is also confirmed by the order of Mikhail Tukachevsky called “Red Napoleon”, commander of the Western Front of the Red Army. In his Order of the Day he wrote in July 2, 1920: "To the West! The fate of the world revolution will be decided in the West. The way to set the world on fire leads through the corpse of white Poland. On our bayonets we will bring happiness and peace to the toiling masses of mankind. March on Wilno, Minsk and Warsaw and onward to Berlin over the corpse of Poland!" Tukhachevsky also boasted that his men would be "galloping through the streets of Paris before the summer was out." By the way, Tukhachevsky was one of the first military commanders killed in Stalin's purges in 1937. Tukachevsky called Poland white Poland because the communist propaganda called free Poland white Poland. The term whites were used to designate anti-communists. But the Polish victory prevented setting the world on fire by communists. So the main reason for the outbreak of the Polish-Bolshevik war the threat to Poland’s independence by Bolsheviks, as well as the attempt to implement the idea of a permanent revolution, and the export of the communist revolution Europe-wide but actually worldwide. What is also worth noting the fact that if Poland had been conquered by the communists, the Baltic states would have been conquered too. Poland was therefore allied with Latvia in this war. Poland and some few others European countries were not infected by the red virus. In Poland the overwhelming majority of the population was anti-communist. But Poland was the absolute exception in Europe! In various European countries at that time there were strong communist movements that would have supported the communists in their advance.
Moreover, there were also attempts by the communists to take power in other parts of Europe! So these are examples of communist successes outside the Bolshevik state at the time of the Polish-Bolshevik war. The Hungarian Soviet Republic was the communist state of Hungary from 21 March 1919 until 1 August 1919 (133 days). Until the anti-communists prevailed and abolished this Soviet republic. The other communist republics and communes have survived just as short as the Hungarian Soviet Republic but that makes it clear that there were strong communist influences throughout Europe. The Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic more commonly referred to as Red Finland, was a proclaimed Finnish communist state that ruled parts of the country during the Finnish Civil War of 1918. Another example of an attempted communist takeover of power in Europe was then the Alsace-Lorraine Soviet Republic of 1918 in France. The Limerick Soviet was one of a number of declared Irish soviets that were formed around Ireland 1919. The Slovak Soviet Republic was a short-lived Communist state in southeast Slovakia in existence from 16 June 1919 to 7 July 1919. Commune of the Working People of Estonia existed from 29 November 1918 to 5 June 1919. In 1918, announced the formation of the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic. A communist revolutionary Red Guard was founded in Austria and an attempt was made to proclaim a Soviet Republic. Like in Hungary during the German November Revolution, the communist Karl Liebknecht proclaimed the communist republic in Germany on November 9, 1918. But the communists' seizure of power then failed, although later there were repeated attempts by the communists to gain power in Germany or parts of Germany. Like with the Bavarian Soviet Republic which was a short-lived communist state in Bavaria during the riots of 1918-19 in Germany. Then there were another attempts by the communists to come to power in German areas. The Bremen Soviet Republic was proclaimed which was a short-lived state in Germany, existing for 25 days in 1919. The communist Spartacist uprising with the goal of an all-German Soviet Republic were armed battles in Berlin from 5 to 12 January 1919.
I'll continue my explanation in the next comment.
Continuing of the comment above: Bolshevik propaganda was strengthened in many European countries and e.g in Germany, posters appeared with a Red Army soldier freeing the country from chains. The congress of the Communist International issued an appeal to workers in all countries, asking them to forestall their governments' efforts to aid "White" Poland. So the Bolsheviks, as part of a huge propaganda action under the slogan: “Hands off Soviet Russia”, mobilized communist parties and leftist trade unions across all of Europe to work against Poland. Many western journalists were on the payroll of Bolshevik propaganda. Workers and dockers in various European countries were sympathizers of the Bolsheviks also refused to load the support supplies for the fighting Poles against the Bolsheviks. The refusal of the dockers in Gdansk (Danzig) was particularly unfavorable because all deliveries to Poland were to be made via this port. Also the British trade unions followed the Communist propaganda and blocked British military supplies to Poland. So the Trades Union Congress and Labour Party responded by threatening national strike action and established Councils of Action to resist any possible efforts by the British government to supply Poland with arms or other supplies. On August 6, 1920, the British Labour Party published a pamphlet stating that British workers would never take part in the war as Poland's allies, and labour unions blocked supplies to the British expeditionary force assisting Russian Whites in Arkhangelsk. French Socialists, in their newspaper L'Humanité, declared: "Not a man, not a sou, not a shell for reactionary and capitalist Poland. Long live the Russian Revolution! Long live the Workmen's International!"
Since the communists had enough supporters all over Europe after the desired victory against Poland the communists would have in Europe either provoked revolutions through agitators or they would have intervened militarily. If the communists had conquered Europe, which was by far the most economically important continent at the time, they would have had a good chance of "exporting" communism worldwide as well. That this is not an exaggeration can be seen by comparing the strategy of the communists after World War II. Even in these later times, communism was "exported" to countries around the world, and as a result there were countries around the world ruled by communist dictatorships. After 1945, as in 1919, the communists had the goal of a world completely dominated by communism. The goal was that virtually every country would become communist. That is why the Polish victory of 1921 definitely had not just a European impact but also a global impact.
Here I also explain the reasons for the Polish victory! The French and British support was not crucial to the Polish victory how often it is falsely claimed. The Polish victory in the war against the Bolsheviks 1919-21 was the result of the superiority of the Polish army, the Polish army command and the Polish secret service. The Polish soldiers had much higher combat morale than the soldiers of the Bolshevik Army. Because the Poles fought for the freedom of their homeland and were determined to defend their country. Critically, the Polish Army benefited from a vast influx of volunteers. Even Polish women volunteered to fight! Even battalions of women fought at the front for Poland. One of this Polish female soldiers was Maria Wittek which would become the Polish Army's first female general. In fact most Polish soldiers were anti-Communists and despised Bolshevik ideology. The soldiers of the Red Army, on the other hand, fought for the spread of an ideology in other countries. Bolshevik soldiers were supposed to fight for an abstract political idea. It is very likely that the majority of Red Army soldiers were not communists at all. Many were forcibly recruited and did not want to fight at all. The communist propaganda told the Red Army soldiers they would be greeted as liberators however, they quickly realized that they were viewed as enemies by the Polish population. In summary, it can be stated that the Polish soldiers were much more motivated to fight than the Red Army soldiers.
The Polish high command led by First Marshal Piłsudski showed its superiority on various occasions such as at the Battle of Warsaw. The Polish high command understood the course of the front and the situation at the front much better than the Bolshevik high command. Piłsudski and General Rozwadowski knew that the only way to defend Warsaw and prevent its encirclement of the city was with a counter-offensive. Their plan was to exploit a weak opening between two Russian fronts. The plan that he and General Rozwadowski thrashed out was for Polish forces to secretly regroup at lightning speed and then strike at a weak point between major Red Army battle groups. After this advance, the Polish Army would then be in a perfect position to deliver the decisive blow. Piłsudski knew how important the coming battle would be and took direct command of this army. The plan worked and the rapid Polish drive north managed to split the Bolshevik fronts and threw Bolshevik army into confusion and chaos the Red Army started to disintegrate. In the following months, several more Polish follow-up victories saved Poland’s independence. It was a hard-fought battle, which took place in August 1920 near Warsaw and ended in a decisive Polish victory over the Red Army. It was won by the skill, discipline, and determination of the Polish defenders, by the patriotic spirit of a large numbers of volunteers, and by Marshal Piłsudski's brilliant counterattack, which stopped the Bolshevik offensive and with the counterattack, the Bolshevik troops were forced to flee.
Continuing of the comment above: The Polish high command also made much better use of the newly developed modern weapon systems and made better use of the new technologies than the Bolsheviks. Because of that the Polish army used the new armored vehicle branch much more efficiently than the Bolsheviks. For example, the Poles produced armored cars. The Polish army also used foreign-made armored cars. Armored cars were very useful. In fact, these armored cars were used by the Polish Army for blitzkrieg-style attacks. Actually, Poles invented Blitzkrieg with lightning-fast attacks from armored vehicles. That's no exaggeration, because indeed the Polish Army used this armored car for blitzkrieg attacks against the Bolsheviks. Anyone who thinks that the Germans invented the blitzkrieg with armored vehicles is wrong. The Polish Army had successfully used this tactic against the Bolsheviks with rapidly advancing armored cars clearing the way for the rapidly following infantry. By the way, the advantages of this polish made armored cars were high speed, agility, manoeuvrability and ease of maintenance and repair. At times, they were repaired under fire. The engine could run on low quality fuel and oil. The armor was sufficient against rifle and machine gun bullets and and shrapnels. In spite of the extra weight of the armor, the vehicles managed well in heavy terrain, and were also able to cross relatively weak bridges on account of their low mass in comparison to other armored vehicles. The polish made armored cars were really small in comparison to other armored cars of the era and offered a smaller target. In view of the operations extending over large areas, and in order to take by surprise the enemy, the Polish army command resolved upon to lightning fast armored cars raids and invented with it actually the blitzkrieg. So this warfare tactic should actually have the Polish name "błyskwojna" in English and not the German name blitzkrieg.
An example of the "błyskwojna" of the Polish armored cars was the Battle of Kovel in 1920. The Polish Bataillons received orders to raid Kovel and to overcome the distance of 160 km to the attack target Kovel as quickly as possible for to to surprise the enemy with the fast advance. The aim of the raid was to conquer the undamaged wide-gauge railway rolling-stocks and to enabling rapid action along the liberated railway lines. A column of armored cars should do the job supported by batteries of field artillery drawn by trucks. Columns with 2 infantry battalions were to follow, transported by truck, to secure the conquered area. It is worth mentioning that on the way to Kovel several villages occupied by the Bolsheviks had to be liberated. The coming of the motor group over the Brzesc - Kovel road took the Bolsheviks unawares and was an element of surprise lay one of the conditions of success. The surprise was, moreover, effected by a very sudden change of direction by the motor-group. The distance was covered in 2 days with some villages being liberated along the way and during this time it was necessary to stop the whole marching column in order to repair the bridges. The effect of the sudden appearance in the streets of Kovel of armored cars firing on all sides was such that within the space of a few minutes the Bolshevik troops, about 2 infantry divisions, were leaving the town in considerable disorder. The commander of the 12th Soviet Army escaped in a car. The effect of the raid was a capture of the big railway junction. The Poles also captured 2 armored trains several scores of guns 12 airplanes, several hundreds of railway carriages loaded with large amount of war material, and, besides, all that the staff archives the 12th Soviet Army contained. The Polish motorized group had held the town, until the main force arrived next morning. Three armored cars got damaged during the raid. Thus did the briliantly conducted raid on Kovel result not only in bringing immense spoil at a very inconsiderable loss, but it produced a tremendous operational effect which rendered possible the accomplishment of the strategic plan of the Commander-in-Chief, and at the same time it seriously weakened the strength and shook the morale of the 12th Bolshevik Army. Lord D’Abernon a British politician and diplomat, who was part of the interallied Mission to Poland in 1920, described in his diary the mobility of the Polish troops as amazing and noticed that Polish troops covered distances unattainable by the best European armies.
By the way, the Kościuszko Squadron was the first air squadron to use a railway train as a mobile flying base with specially designed railroad cars that could transport their aircraft as the front moved and developed. The train also included the squadron's operational headquarters, aircraft spares and repair workshops and living quarters. Which also shows how innovatively the Polish high command used new technologies.
By the way, General Rozwadowski was then dispatched to Paris, where he took part in the Polish delegation to the Peace Conference and was one of the people to sign the Versailles Peace Treaty. He also headed numerous Polish military missions to Paris, London and Rome. In June he became the official representative of Polish armed forces in Paris and was influential in obtaining international support for Poland for example, the volunteers for the Polish-American Kościuszko Squadron.
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Anno Domini 1920 POLAND WON! Over 2 millons Soviets army. Communism was stopped. Nobody in America knows. The battle was a turning point in the Polish-Bolshevik war and was decisive in stopping the march of communism towards Western Europe for decades. ( the West did not help POLAND WE ALL HAVE TO REMEMBER ) The victory saved Polish independence and halted the westwards expansion of Bolshevism. Polish victory in the Battle of Warsaw. We spend so much time remembering the tragic elements of Polish history, that we end up forgetting our successes. This is one of them. ruclips.net/video/aGHf0tUeckA/видео.html
@mateusz w true. We are still treated like shit.
They are not talking about people who spit on our dignity, history, culture, religion and the way we live. . . about the political inequality carried by LGBT or political correctness but about fascists, neo-Nazis, Polish aggressors fighting against gender equality. The LGBT movement has long since passed away from the goal of civil marriages. Today they fight for political correctness, sex education at school, they fight against and profane the Christian faith, they fight against the law that they must have more privileges than an ordinary person, they fight for bonuses, they spread the fashion for "sex without limits" and today crimes, assaulting "politically inconvenient" lorries are pardoned by our politicians because it was done by people from a politically correct political camp.
And anyway. . . a few idiots will come out from the other side, who will want to shout at Rainbowism as an ideology and because of them all write about "Poles aggressors" in the international media.
2 milions? Are you nuts? Yea, red army had about 2 milions soldiers at this time but only small part of them were on polish front.
@@G0TIMAN mmm.. "we have only one war.. with Poland... we should give attack comande only for 1/2 of our army."
" Armia Czerwona
950 tys. wojska
5 mln rezerwy
w tym: 1 Brygada
ZUNR coa.svg Czerwonej Ukraińskiej Armii Halickiej
(ok. 1000 żołnierzy)
Litewsko-Białoruska Armia Radziecka"
VS
Wojsko Polskie II RP[a]
360 tys. wojska
738 tys. rezerwy
Armia Czynna Ukraińskiej Republiki Ludowej
ok. 15,5 tys. wojska
3 Armia Rosyjska w Polsce
ok. 8,5 tys. wojska
Białoruska Armia Narodowa".
What mean 950 thousand of russian soldiers and 5 milions reserves + Ukraine army (1000 soldiers)
VS 360 000 soldiers and 738 thousand reserves with support (another Ukraine + Belarusian army) 15,5 T soldiers and 8,5 T reserves
=
ZSRR - 5 951 000 vs 1 100 240 - Poland.
Sooo.... thats only history of Warsaw Battle. Because of power difference it's that much important
Mój pradziadek walczył tam w formacji tego nicku. Szabla nadal jest w rodzinie...
Moi pradzadkowie też walczyli pod tym dywizjonem ale zgineli w 1943 w wołynie
To prawdziwy honor mieć takiego pradziadka i taki artefakt po nim, którym niszczył bolszewików. Bezcenny artefakt.
@@marekzawal1744 To było pokolenie, które różni się od obecnego w stopniu. którego ani ja, ani żaden obecny Polak nie potrafiłby zrozumieć. Pradziadek był ów czas studentem w Lublinie, choć pochodził z Mazowsza, w którym od niepamiętnych czasów mieszka moja rodzina. To była bardzo mała jednostka, mniejsza niż batalion ,w którym służyłem w Legionowie składał się zaledwie z trzech szwadronów (coś jak kompania w piechocie). Niestety byłem zbyt mały żeby zadawać odpowiednie pytania, nawet dziadek, który był "niewolnikiem" w wermachcie nie chciał zbyt dużo mówić... To ogólnie smutna historia, moja rodzina cierpiała dekady, wywłaszczano naszą ziemię, dzieci i ich dzieci miały zamknięty dostęp do edukacji ponad podstawowej. Socjalizm zabrał nam własność i duszę...
@@shittyalien6257 Wielki szacunek dla Ciebie i Twojej rodziny.
Jest szansa na jakieś fotki szabli?
Pozdrowienia z Węgier, bracia polscy.
Köszönöm testvér! Üdvözlet Lengyelországból!
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pozdrawiam bratni honorowy naród Węgierski
Polscy,prosze bardzo.
Thank you for watching! and please share with your friends abroad!
Because the truth is always interesting. Thanks and regards from Poland.
Thank you Stefan for producing this video!
Change lies about Piłsudski and I will send out proudly this link. Nice work but sorry its not all facts.
@@plomien1234 What lies? Pilsudski is mentioned literally once.
@@StefanTompson he was not any military genius, he was not present on The Battle, he run out to his lover. Rozwadowski was main leader of defence. After win the battle Piłsudski get back to Warsaw and take all glory. Piłsudski was nothing more than bandit and terrorist. He murdered many people. Funy fact: "kariera Nikodema Dyzmy" is about Piłsudski.
Nice job mr Stefan. Thank you.👍
Wspanialy material. Dziekuje. Dzieki takim jak Ty pamiec i honor Tych ludzi, nigdy nie zaginie. Bog Honor i Ojczyzna.
mitologicznych postaci bym w nasze zwycięstwa nie mieszał
Najbardziej brakuje mi w obecnych czasach tej wspólnoty, która nas wtedy łączyła. Na przestrzeni tych 100 lat bardzo dużo jej straciliśmy.
@@nonesnonee7012 Cieszy mnie, że w Internecie można spotkać taki komentarz😁😊
@@arekparchyta6835 Ja też się uśmiałem niestety ignorantów nie brakuje zacytowałbym bym Lema , ale pewnie kolega nie zrozumie :/ Pozdrawiam
@@nonesnonee7012 Autor filmiku również bardzo zaznaczał istotę kultu tej postaci xD
Dla Polaków z przyszłości: Mowa o Jahwe, Bogu Stwórcy z mitologii judeochrześcijańskiej :)
Stefan...great job...Your work is greatly appreciated. Thank You so much.
Missed you Stefan, Glad to see you creating again.
Thank You Stefan.
One of the best intros i have ever heard. Makes you be thankful for what your ancestors did so you can live in better place
Łapa w górę w ciemno i oglądamy :-) Dzięki Stefan!
Chapeau bas Stefan !!! Wielkie dzięki.
A nie można tak bardziej patriotycznie po polsku czapki z głów?
Dobrze, ze ktoś mowi o histori i rozpowszechnia wielką historię Polski
Poland stood alone for there was no aid from the West. The UK Germany were incredibly hostile to Poland and its existence. Massively important battle never forgotten by futureBolshevik leaders who .loathedPoland for inflicting such a humiliation upon them.
i love the polish people and spirit love from wales, there spitfire pilots were the bravest of the brave in ww2 true warriors
Thank you Rob! 🇵🇱🇬🇧
Yes, brave Polish soldiers fought in this Battle of Britain as well as in the fight against the Bolsheviks 20 years earlier. By the way, it's not even an exaggeration that Poland saved the world. Indeed, the Polish victory against the Bolsheviks had also an extreme European impact but also even a global impact. According to the British politician and diplomat Lord D'Abernon, who was part of the inter allied Mission to Poland in 1920, during the Polish-Bolshevik war, the 1920 Battle of Warsaw was one of the most important battles in world history because as he said "had the Battle of Warsaw ended with a Bolshevik victory, it would have been a turning point in the history of Europe. As there is no doubt that with the fall of Warsaw, Central Europe would have been left open to Communist propaganda and Bolshevik invasion." So long as the Bolsheviks were preoccupied with the Civil War, they had nothing in mind beyond their survival. But, having conquered the Russian heartland in the course of 1919, they began to heed the dictates of their ideology, which told them that the Communist Revolution should be exported from Russia to the rest of Europe. The Second Congress of the Communist International deliberated in Moscow between 19 July and 7 August 1920. Lenin spoke of the increasingly favorable odds for the accomplishment of the World Proletarian Revolution, which would lead to the World Soviet Republic. The road to Europe opened up when Germany lost the First World War and signed the surrender on November 11th 1918. The German troops then systematically retreated from the occupied lands of Ukraine, Belarus and other Baltic states. They were immediately followed by the Bolshevik Red Army, fulfilling Lenin’s orders to begin its “freeing” march west. This operation had a telling codename - “Vistula”. The most important job of the Bolsheviks was to break through to Germany and Austria which were filled with revolutionary atmosphere. To do that, they needed to get rid of the “barrier”, meaning, as Joseph Stalin wrote, “the national states which wound up between the two huge sources of revolution in the East and West”. One such barrier was, first and foremost, Poland which just regained independence following the defeat of Germany and the fall of the Austrian-Hungarian empire. On November 17th 1918, at the Red Army briefing, its commander Leon Trotsky predicted the sovietisation of Poland and Ukraine as “the links binding Soviet Russia with future Soviet Germany” and the first stage in building “the Union of European Proletariat Republics”. Poles lived also at the territories of modern Belarus and Lithuania, which were invaded by the Bolsheviks. A Polish Self-defense was created there, counting 10 thousand men, which was part of the Polish Army and its commander, Gen. Władysław Wejtko followed the orders of Chief Commander Józef Piłsudski. Between the 3rd and 5th of January 1919, Polish self-defense units tried to defend Wilno on their own. However, in the face of an overwhelming opponent Poles had to retreat from the city. Thus, the Polish-Bolshevik war actually began on January 3rd 1919, although not formally. The march West was accompanied by the creation of puppet Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Ukrainian and Belarusian Soviet republics. On January 8th 1919, the Soviet newspaper “Izvestia” announced the creation of the Revolutionary War Council of Poland, a cornerstone for the planned communist government in Poland. Later by order of the Bolsheviks, the Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee as a Polish puppet government had been formed to organize administration of the Polish territories captured by the Red Army. This puppet government had very little support from the ethnic Polish population and recruited its supporters mostly from the ranks of minorities, primarily Jews.
With these additional resources from conquered Poland and the Baltic countries, the communists planned to advance further into the west. Poland should be the "Red Bridge" for Communist ideology to the West. So conquered Poland should serve as a red bridge to conquer all of Europe. The aim of conquering other European states as well is also confirmed by the order of Mikhail Tukachevsky called “Red Napoleon”, commander of the Western Front of the Red Army. In his Order of the Day he wrote in July 2, 1920: "To the West! The fate of the world revolution will be decided in the West. The way to set the world on fire leads through the corpse of white Poland. On our bayonets we will bring happiness and peace to the toiling masses of mankind. March on Wilno, Minsk and Warsaw and onward to Berlin over the corpse of Poland!" Tukhachevsky also boasted that his men would be "galloping through the streets of Paris before the summer was out." By the way, Tukhachevsky was one of the first military commanders killed in Stalin's purges in 1937. Tukachevsky called Poland white Poland because the communist propaganda called free Poland white Poland. The term whites were used to designate anti-communists. But the Polish victory prevented setting the world on fire by communists. So the main reason for the outbreak of the Polish-Bolshevik war the threat to Poland’s independence by Bolsheviks, as well as the attempt to implement the idea of a permanent revolution, and the export of the communist revolution Europe-wide but actually worldwide. What is also worth noting the fact that if Poland had been conquered by the communists, the Baltic states would have been conquered too. Poland was therefore allied with Latvia in this war. Poland and some few others European countries were not infected by the red virus. In Poland the overwhelming majority of the population was anti-communist. But Poland was the absolute exception in Europe! In various European countries at that time there were strong communist movements that would have supported the communists in their advance.
Moreover, there were also attempts by the communists to take power in other parts of Europe! So these are examples of communist successes outside the Bolshevik state at the time of the Polish-Bolshevik war. The Hungarian Soviet Republic was the communist state of Hungary from 21 March 1919 until 1 August 1919 (133 days). Until the anti-communists prevailed and abolished this Soviet republic. The other communist republics and communes have survived just as short as the Hungarian Soviet Republic but that makes it clear that there were strong communist influences throughout Europe. The Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic more commonly referred to as Red Finland, was a proclaimed Finnish communist state that ruled parts of the country during the Finnish Civil War of 1918. Another example of an attempted communist takeover of power in Europe was then the Alsace-Lorraine Soviet Republic of 1918 in France. The Limerick Soviet was one of a number of declared Irish soviets that were formed around Ireland 1919. The Slovak Soviet Republic was a short-lived Communist state in southeast Slovakia in existence from 16 June 1919 to 7 July 1919. Commune of the Working People of Estonia existed from 29 November 1918 to 5 June 1919. In 1918, announced the formation of the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic. A communist revolutionary Red Guard was founded in Austria and an attempt was made to proclaim a Soviet Republic. Like in Hungary during the German November Revolution, the communist Karl Liebknecht proclaimed the communist republic in Germany on November 9, 1918. But the communists' seizure of power then failed, although later there were repeated attempts by the communists to gain power in Germany or parts of Germany. Like with the Bavarian Soviet Republic which was a short-lived communist state in Bavaria during the riots of 1918-19 in Germany. Then there were another attempts by the communists to come to power in German areas. The Bremen Soviet Republic was proclaimed which was a short-lived state in Germany, existing for 25 days in 1919. The communist Spartacist uprising with the goal of an all-German Soviet Republic were armed battles in Berlin from 5 to 12 January 1919.
I'll continue my explanation in the next comment.
Continuing of the comment above: Bolshevik propaganda was strengthened in many European countries and e.g in Germany, posters appeared with a Red Army soldier freeing the country from chains. The congress of the Communist International issued an appeal to workers in all countries, asking them to forestall their governments' efforts to aid "White" Poland. So the Bolsheviks, as part of a huge propaganda action under the slogan: “Hands off Soviet Russia”, mobilized communist parties and leftist trade unions across all of Europe to work against Poland. Many western journalists were on the payroll of Bolshevik propaganda. Workers and dockers in various European countries were sympathizers of the Bolsheviks also refused to load the support supplies for the fighting Poles against the Bolsheviks. The refusal of the dockers in Gdansk (Danzig) was particularly unfavorable because all deliveries to Poland were to be made via this port. Also the British trade unions followed the Communist propaganda and blocked British military supplies to Poland. So the Trades Union Congress and Labour Party responded by threatening national strike action and established Councils of Action to resist any possible efforts by the British government to supply Poland with arms or other supplies. On August 6, 1920, the British Labour Party published a pamphlet stating that British workers would never take part in the war as Poland's allies, and labour unions blocked supplies to the British expeditionary force assisting Russian Whites in Arkhangelsk. French Socialists, in their newspaper L'Humanité, declared: "Not a man, not a sou, not a shell for reactionary and capitalist Poland. Long live the Russian Revolution! Long live the Workmen's International!"
Since the communists had enough supporters all over Europe after the desired victory against Poland the communists would have in Europe either provoked revolutions through agitators or they would have intervened militarily. If the communists had conquered Europe, which was by far the most economically important continent at the time, they would have had a good chance of "exporting" communism worldwide as well. That this is not an exaggeration can be seen by comparing the strategy of the communists after World War II. Even in these later times, communism was "exported" to countries around the world, and as a result there were countries around the world ruled by communist dictatorships. After 1945, as in 1919, the communists had the goal of a world completely dominated by communism. The goal was that virtually every country would become communist. That is why the Polish victory of 1921 definitely had not just a European impact but also a global impact.
Here I also explain the reasons for the Polish victory! The French and British support was not crucial to the Polish victory how often it is falsely claimed. The Polish victory in the war against the Bolsheviks 1919-21 was the result of the superiority of the Polish army, the Polish army command and the Polish secret service. The Polish soldiers had much higher combat morale than the soldiers of the Bolshevik Army. Because the Poles fought for the freedom of their homeland and were determined to defend their country. Critically, the Polish Army benefited from a vast influx of volunteers. Even Polish women volunteered to fight! Even battalions of women fought at the front for Poland. One of this Polish female soldiers was Maria Wittek which would become the Polish Army's first female general. In fact most Polish soldiers were anti-Communists and despised Bolshevik ideology. The soldiers of the Red Army, on the other hand, fought for the spread of an ideology in other countries. Bolshevik soldiers were supposed to fight for an abstract political idea. It is very likely that the majority of Red Army soldiers were not communists at all. Many were forcibly recruited and did not want to fight at all. The communist propaganda told the Red Army soldiers they would be greeted as liberators however, they quickly realized that they were viewed as enemies by the Polish population. In summary, it can be stated that the Polish soldiers were much more motivated to fight than the Red Army soldiers.
The Polish high command led by First Marshal Piłsudski showed its superiority on various occasions such as at the Battle of Warsaw. The Polish high command understood the course of the front and the situation at the front much better than the Bolshevik high command. Piłsudski and General Rozwadowski knew that the only way to defend Warsaw and prevent its encirclement of the city was with a counter-offensive. Their plan was to exploit a weak opening between two Russian fronts. The plan that he and General Rozwadowski thrashed out was for Polish forces to secretly regroup at lightning speed and then strike at a weak point between major Red Army battle groups. After this advance, the Polish Army would then be in a perfect position to deliver the decisive blow. Piłsudski knew how important the coming battle would be and took direct command of this army. The plan worked and the rapid Polish drive north managed to split the Bolshevik fronts and threw Bolshevik army into confusion and chaos the Red Army started to disintegrate. In the following months, several more Polish follow-up victories saved Poland’s independence. It was a hard-fought battle, which took place in August 1920 near Warsaw and ended in a decisive Polish victory over the Red Army. It was won by the skill, discipline, and determination of the Polish defenders, by the patriotic spirit of a large numbers of volunteers, and by Marshal Piłsudski's brilliant counterattack, which stopped the Bolshevik offensive and with the counterattack, the Bolshevik troops were forced to flee.
I'll continue my explanation in the next comment.
Continuing of the comment above: The Polish high command also made much better use of the newly developed modern weapon systems and made better use of the new technologies than the Bolsheviks. Because of that the Polish army used the new armored vehicle branch much more efficiently than the Bolsheviks. For example, the Poles produced armored cars. The Polish army also used foreign-made armored cars. Armored cars were very useful. In fact, these armored cars were used by the Polish Army for blitzkrieg-style attacks. Actually, Poles invented Blitzkrieg with lightning-fast attacks from armored vehicles. That's no exaggeration, because indeed the Polish Army used this armored car for blitzkrieg attacks against the Bolsheviks. Anyone who thinks that the Germans invented the blitzkrieg with armored vehicles is wrong. The Polish Army had successfully used this tactic against the Bolsheviks with rapidly advancing armored cars clearing the way for the rapidly following infantry. By the way, the advantages of this polish made armored cars were high speed, agility, manoeuvrability and ease of maintenance and repair. At times, they were repaired under fire. The engine could run on low quality fuel and oil. The armor was sufficient against rifle and machine gun bullets and and shrapnels. In spite of the extra weight of the armor, the vehicles managed well in heavy terrain, and were also able to cross relatively weak bridges on account of their low mass in comparison to other armored vehicles. The polish made armored cars were really small in comparison to other armored cars of the era and offered a smaller target. In view of the operations extending over large areas, and in order to take by surprise the enemy, the Polish army command resolved upon to lightning fast armored cars raids and invented with it actually the blitzkrieg. So this warfare tactic should actually have the Polish name "błyskwojna" in English and not the German name blitzkrieg.
An example of the "błyskwojna" of the Polish armored cars was the Battle of Kovel in 1920. The Polish Bataillons received orders to raid Kovel and to overcome the distance of 160 km to the attack target Kovel as quickly as possible for to to surprise the enemy with the fast advance. The aim of the raid was to conquer the undamaged wide-gauge railway rolling-stocks and to enabling rapid action along the liberated railway lines. A column of armored cars should do the job supported by batteries of field artillery drawn by trucks. Columns with 2 infantry battalions were to follow, transported by truck, to secure the conquered area. It is worth mentioning that on the way to Kovel several villages occupied by the Bolsheviks had to be liberated. The coming of the motor group over the Brzesc - Kovel road took the Bolsheviks unawares and was an element of surprise lay one of the conditions of success. The surprise was, moreover, effected by a very sudden change of direction by the motor-group. The distance was covered in 2 days with some villages being liberated along the way and during this time it was necessary to stop the whole marching column in order to repair the bridges. The effect of the sudden appearance in the streets of Kovel of armored cars firing on all sides was such that within the space of a few minutes the Bolshevik troops, about 2 infantry divisions, were leaving the town in considerable disorder. The commander of the 12th Soviet Army escaped in a car. The effect of the raid was a capture of the big railway junction. The Poles also captured 2 armored trains several scores of guns 12 airplanes, several hundreds of railway carriages loaded with large amount of war material, and, besides, all that the staff archives the 12th Soviet Army contained. The Polish motorized group had held the town, until the main force arrived next morning. Three armored cars got damaged during the raid. Thus did the briliantly conducted raid on Kovel result not only in bringing immense spoil at a very inconsiderable loss, but it produced a tremendous operational effect which rendered possible the accomplishment of the strategic plan of the Commander-in-Chief, and at the same time it seriously weakened the strength and shook the morale of the 12th Bolshevik Army. Lord D’Abernon a British politician and diplomat, who was part of the interallied Mission to Poland in 1920, described in his diary the mobility of the Polish troops as amazing and noticed that Polish troops covered distances unattainable by the best European armies.
By the way, the Kościuszko Squadron was the first air squadron to use a railway train as a mobile flying base with specially designed railroad cars that could transport their aircraft as the front moved and developed. The train also included the squadron's operational headquarters, aircraft spares and repair workshops and living quarters. Which also shows how innovatively the Polish high command used new technologies.
Greetings from Poland to Wales!
Dziękuję Stefan!
W ciemno plus.
Stefan dziękuję, że to dla Polski Robisz.
Twoje materiały sa wspaniałe!
Thanks. This is very well done. Packs an emotional punch yet still very informative at the same time.
Fantastic educational channel keep doing good work Stephan much appreciated and thank you again. You had fantastic role models it seems and I'm also grateful for them.
A small addition! It's not even an exaggeration that Poland saved the world. Indeed, the Polish victory against the Bolsheviks had also an extreme European impact but also even a global impact. According to the British politician and diplomat Lord D'Abernon, who was part of the inter allied Mission to Poland in 1920, during the Polish-Bolshevik war, the 1920 Battle of Warsaw was one of the most important battles in world history because as he said "had the Battle of Warsaw ended with a Bolshevik victory, it would have been a turning point in the history of Europe. As there is no doubt that with the fall of Warsaw, Central Europe would have been left open to Communist propaganda and Bolshevik invasion." So long as the Bolsheviks were preoccupied with the Civil War, they had nothing in mind beyond their survival. But, having conquered the Russian heartland in the course of 1919, they began to heed the dictates of their ideology, which told them that the Communist Revolution should be exported from Russia to the rest of Europe. The Second Congress of the Communist International deliberated in Moscow between 19 July and 7 August 1920. Lenin spoke of the increasingly favorable odds for the accomplishment of the World Proletarian Revolution, which would lead to the World Soviet Republic. The road to Europe opened up when Germany lost the First World War and signed the surrender on November 11th 1918. The German troops then systematically retreated from the occupied lands of Ukraine, Belarus and other Baltic states. They were immediately followed by the Bolshevik Red Army, fulfilling Lenin’s orders to begin its “freeing” march west. This operation had a telling codename - “Vistula”. The most important job of the Bolsheviks was to break through to Germany and Austria which were filled with revolutionary atmosphere. To do that, they needed to get rid of the “barrier”, meaning, as Joseph Stalin wrote, “the national states which wound up between the two huge sources of revolution in the East and West”. One such barrier was, first and foremost, Poland which just regained independence following the defeat of Germany and the fall of the Austrian-Hungarian empire. On November 17th 1918, at the Red Army briefing, its commander Leon Trotsky predicted the sovietisation of Poland and Ukraine as “the links binding Soviet Russia with future Soviet Germany” and the first stage in building “the Union of European Proletariat Republics”. Poles lived also at the territories of modern Belarus and Lithuania, which were invaded by the Bolsheviks. A Polish Self-defense was created there, counting 10 thousand men, which was part of the Polish Army and its commander, Gen. Władysław Wejtko followed the orders of Chief Commander Józef Piłsudski. Between the 3rd and 5th of January 1919, Polish self-defense units tried to defend Wilno on their own. However, in the face of an overwhelming opponent Poles had to retreat from the city. Thus, the Polish-Bolshevik war actually began on January 3rd 1919, although not formally. The march West was accompanied by the creation of puppet Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Ukrainian and Belarusian Soviet republics. On January 8th 1919, the Soviet newspaper “Izvestia” announced the creation of the Revolutionary War Council of Poland, a cornerstone for the planned communist government in Poland. Later by order of the Bolsheviks, the Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee as a Polish puppet government had been formed to organize administration of the Polish territories captured by the Red Army. This puppet government had very little support from the ethnic Polish population and recruited its supporters mostly from the ranks of minorities, primarily Jews.
With these additional resources from conquered Poland and the Baltic countries, the communists planned to advance further into the west. Poland should be the "Red Bridge" for Communist ideology to the West. So conquered Poland should serve as a red bridge to conquer all of Europe. The aim of conquering other European states as well is also confirmed by the order of Mikhail Tukachevsky called “Red Napoleon”, commander of the Western Front of the Red Army. In his Order of the Day he wrote in July 2, 1920: "To the West! The fate of the world revolution will be decided in the West. The way to set the world on fire leads through the corpse of white Poland. On our bayonets we will bring happiness and peace to the toiling masses of mankind. March on Wilno, Minsk and Warsaw and onward to Berlin over the corpse of Poland!" Tukhachevsky also boasted that his men would be "galloping through the streets of Paris before the summer was out." By the way, Tukhachevsky was one of the first military commanders killed in Stalin's purges in 1937. Tukachevsky called Poland white Poland because the communist propaganda called free Poland white Poland. The term whites were used to designate anti-communists. But the Polish victory prevented setting the world on fire by communists. So the main reason for the outbreak of the Polish-Bolshevik war the threat to Poland’s independence by Bolsheviks, as well as the attempt to implement the idea of a permanent revolution, and the export of the communist revolution Europe-wide but actually worldwide. What is also worth noting the fact that if Poland had been conquered by the communists, the Baltic states would have been conquered too. Poland was therefore allied with Latvia in this war. Poland and some few others European countries were not infected by the red virus. In Poland the overwhelming majority of the population was anti-communist. But Poland was the absolute exception in Europe! In various European countries at that time there were strong communist movements that would have supported the communists in their advance.
Moreover, there were also attempts by the communists to take power in other parts of Europe! So these are examples of communist successes outside the Bolshevik state at the time of the Polish-Bolshevik war. The Hungarian Soviet Republic was the communist state of Hungary from 21 March 1919 until 1 August 1919 (133 days). Until the anti-communists prevailed and abolished this Soviet republic. The other communist republics and communes have survived just as short as the Hungarian Soviet Republic but that makes it clear that there were strong communist influences throughout Europe. The Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic more commonly referred to as Red Finland, was a proclaimed Finnish communist state that ruled parts of the country during the Finnish Civil War of 1918. Another example of an attempted communist takeover of power in Europe was then the Alsace-Lorraine Soviet Republic of 1918 in France. The Limerick Soviet was one of a number of declared Irish soviets that were formed around Ireland 1919. The Slovak Soviet Republic was a short-lived Communist state in southeast Slovakia in existence from 16 June 1919 to 7 July 1919. Commune of the Working People of Estonia existed from 29 November 1918 to 5 June 1919. In 1918, announced the formation of the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic. A communist revolutionary Red Guard was founded in Austria and an attempt was made to proclaim a Soviet Republic. Like in Hungary during the German November Revolution, the communist Karl Liebknecht proclaimed the communist republic in Germany on November 9, 1918. But the communists' seizure of power then failed, although later there were repeated attempts by the communists to gain power in Germany or parts of Germany. Like with the Bavarian Soviet Republic which was a short-lived communist state in Bavaria during the riots of 1918-19 in Germany. Then there were another attempts by the communists to come to power in German areas. The Bremen Soviet Republic was proclaimed which was a short-lived state in Germany, existing for 25 days in 1919. The communist Spartacist uprising with the goal of an all-German Soviet Republic were armed battles in Berlin from 5 to 12 January 1919.
I'll continue my explanation in the next comment.
Continuing of the comment above: Bolshevik propaganda was strengthened in many European countries and e.g in Germany, posters appeared with a Red Army soldier freeing the country from chains. The congress of the Communist International issued an appeal to workers in all countries, asking them to forestall their governments' efforts to aid "White" Poland. So the Bolsheviks, as part of a huge propaganda action under the slogan: “Hands off Soviet Russia”, mobilized communist parties and leftist trade unions across all of Europe to work against Poland. Many western journalists were on the payroll of Bolshevik propaganda. Workers and dockers in various European countries were sympathizers of the Bolsheviks also refused to load the support supplies for the fighting Poles against the Bolsheviks. The refusal of the dockers in Gdansk (Danzig) was particularly unfavorable because all deliveries to Poland were to be made via this port. Also the British trade unions followed the Communist propaganda and blocked British military supplies to Poland. So the Trades Union Congress and Labour Party responded by threatening national strike action and established Councils of Action to resist any possible efforts by the British government to supply Poland with arms or other supplies. On August 6, 1920, the British Labour Party published a pamphlet stating that British workers would never take part in the war as Poland's allies, and labour unions blocked supplies to the British expeditionary force assisting Russian Whites in Arkhangelsk. French Socialists, in their newspaper L'Humanité, declared: "Not a man, not a sou, not a shell for reactionary and capitalist Poland. Long live the Russian Revolution! Long live the Workmen's International!"
Since the communists had enough supporters all over Europe after the desired victory against Poland the communists would have in Europe either provoked revolutions through agitators or they would have intervened militarily. If the communists had conquered Europe, which was by far the most economically important continent at the time, they would have had a good chance of "exporting" communism worldwide as well. That this is not an exaggeration can be seen by comparing the strategy of the communists after World War II. Even in these later times, communism was "exported" to countries around the world, and as a result there were countries around the world ruled by communist dictatorships. After 1945, as in 1919, the communists had the goal of a world completely dominated by communism. The goal was that virtually every country would become communist. That is why the Polish victory of 1921 definitely had not just a European impact but also a global impact.
Here I also explain the reasons for the Polish victory! The French and British support was not crucial to the Polish victory how often it is falsely claimed. The Polish victory in the war against the Bolsheviks 1919-21 was the result of the superiority of the Polish army, the Polish army command and the Polish secret service. The Polish soldiers had much higher combat morale than the soldiers of the Bolshevik Army. Because the Poles fought for the freedom of their homeland and were determined to defend their country. Critically, the Polish Army benefited from a vast influx of volunteers. Even Polish women volunteered to fight! Even battalions of women fought at the front for Poland. One of this Polish female soldiers was Maria Wittek which would become the Polish Army's first female general. In fact most Polish soldiers were anti-Communists and despised Bolshevik ideology. The soldiers of the Red Army, on the other hand, fought for the spread of an ideology in other countries. Bolshevik soldiers were supposed to fight for an abstract political idea. It is very likely that the majority of Red Army soldiers were not communists at all. Many were forcibly recruited and did not want to fight at all. The communist propaganda told the Red Army soldiers they would be greeted as liberators however, they quickly realized that they were viewed as enemies by the Polish population. In summary, it can be stated that the Polish soldiers were much more motivated to fight than the Red Army soldiers.
The Polish high command led by First Marshal Piłsudski showed its superiority on various occasions such as at the Battle of Warsaw. The Polish high command understood the course of the front and the situation at the front much better than the Bolshevik high command. Piłsudski and General Rozwadowski knew that the only way to defend Warsaw and prevent its encirclement of the city was with a counter-offensive. Their plan was to exploit a weak opening between two Russian fronts. The plan that he and General Rozwadowski thrashed out was for Polish forces to secretly regroup at lightning speed and then strike at a weak point between major Red Army battle groups. After this advance, the Polish Army would then be in a perfect position to deliver the decisive blow. Piłsudski knew how important the coming battle would be and took direct command of this army. The plan worked and the rapid Polish drive north managed to split the Bolshevik fronts and threw Bolshevik army into confusion and chaos the Red Army started to disintegrate. In the following months, several more Polish follow-up victories saved Poland’s independence. It was a hard-fought battle, which took place in August 1920 near Warsaw and ended in a decisive Polish victory over the Red Army. It was won by the skill, discipline, and determination of the Polish defenders, by the patriotic spirit of a large numbers of volunteers, and by Marshal Piłsudski's brilliant counterattack, which stopped the Bolshevik offensive and with the counterattack, the Bolshevik troops were forced to flee.
I'll continue my explanation in the next comment.
Continuing of the comment above: The Polish high command also made much better use of the newly developed modern weapon systems and made better use of the new technologies than the Bolsheviks. Because of that the Polish army used the new armored vehicle branch much more efficiently than the Bolsheviks. For example, the Poles produced armored cars. The Polish army also used foreign-made armored cars. Armored cars were very useful. In fact, these armored cars were used by the Polish Army for blitzkrieg-style attacks. Actually, Poles invented Blitzkrieg with lightning-fast attacks from armored vehicles. That's no exaggeration, because indeed the Polish Army used this armored car for blitzkrieg attacks against the Bolsheviks. Anyone who thinks that the Germans invented the blitzkrieg with armored vehicles is wrong. The Polish Army had successfully used this tactic against the Bolsheviks with rapidly advancing armored cars clearing the way for the rapidly following infantry. By the way, the advantages of this polish made armored cars were high speed, agility, manoeuvrability and ease of maintenance and repair. At times, they were repaired under fire. The engine could run on low quality fuel and oil. The armor was sufficient against rifle and machine gun bullets and and shrapnels. In spite of the extra weight of the armor, the vehicles managed well in heavy terrain, and were also able to cross relatively weak bridges on account of their low mass in comparison to other armored vehicles. The polish made armored cars were really small in comparison to other armored cars of the era and offered a smaller target. In view of the operations extending over large areas, and in order to take by surprise the enemy, the Polish army command resolved upon to lightning fast armored cars raids and invented with it actually the blitzkrieg. So this warfare tactic should actually have the Polish name "błyskwojna" in English and not the German name blitzkrieg.
An example of the "błyskwojna" of the Polish armored cars was the Battle of Kovel in 1920. The Polish Bataillons received orders to raid Kovel and to overcome the distance of 160 km to the attack target Kovel as quickly as possible for to to surprise the enemy with the fast advance. The aim of the raid was to conquer the undamaged wide-gauge railway rolling-stocks and to enabling rapid action along the liberated railway lines. A column of armored cars should do the job supported by batteries of field artillery drawn by trucks. Columns with 2 infantry battalions were to follow, transported by truck, to secure the conquered area. It is worth mentioning that on the way to Kovel several villages occupied by the Bolsheviks had to be liberated. The coming of the motor group over the Brzesc - Kovel road took the Bolsheviks unawares and was an element of surprise lay one of the conditions of success. The surprise was, moreover, effected by a very sudden change of direction by the motor-group. The distance was covered in 2 days with some villages being liberated along the way and during this time it was necessary to stop the whole marching column in order to repair the bridges. The effect of the sudden appearance in the streets of Kovel of armored cars firing on all sides was such that within the space of a few minutes the Bolshevik troops, about 2 infantry divisions, were leaving the town in considerable disorder. The commander of the 12th Soviet Army escaped in a car. The effect of the raid was a capture of the big railway junction. The Poles also captured 2 armored trains several scores of guns 12 airplanes, several hundreds of railway carriages loaded with large amount of war material, and, besides, all that the staff archives the 12th Soviet Army contained. The Polish motorized group had held the town, until the main force arrived next morning. Three armored cars got damaged during the raid. Thus did the briliantly conducted raid on Kovel result not only in bringing immense spoil at a very inconsiderable loss, but it produced a tremendous operational effect which rendered possible the accomplishment of the strategic plan of the Commander-in-Chief, and at the same time it seriously weakened the strength and shook the morale of the 12th Bolshevik Army. Lord D’Abernon a British politician and diplomat, who was part of the interallied Mission to Poland in 1920, described in his diary the mobility of the Polish troops as amazing and noticed that Polish troops covered distances unattainable by the best European armies.
By the way, the Kościuszko Squadron was the first air squadron to use a railway train as a mobile flying base with specially designed railroad cars that could transport their aircraft as the front moved and developed. The train also included the squadron's operational headquarters, aircraft spares and repair workshops and living quarters. Which also shows how innovatively the Polish high command used new technologies.
Dziękuje .
Hi I am Polish and I am also writing this comment in english for the same purpose as a person below.I am glad you making this videos You make our history acessable to much larger group of people the biggest there is I am truly greatfull for your work. I am also reminded of my history which should be important to me If I consider myself a Polish person.😁😘
Thank you!
Stefan keep up this good job that you do, explaining Polish history! Thank you and God speed
Beautiful, thank you!
Great video!!! Thank you sir ❤️
Nobody remembers that Poland saved Europe many times
Dziękuję za twoją twórczość😊 pięknie video
Jak zawsze wielkie podziękowania Stefanie za tak ważne materiały filmowe które robisz! We wspólnocie siła! Trzymajmy się razem jako Naród a nie zginiemy !
Szkoda, że nie mogę dać milionów ,,kciuków w górę". Świetnie przygotowany materiał!
Great job Stefan !!!! Wspaniała robota !!! Told with so much emotion. It couldn't be done better in such short time ,a few minutes 😉 bravo ,and thank you. Glory to Heroes of Poland !!!!
Stefan, mistrzowska robota. Masz świetny głos, który potrafi przekazać choć cząstkę emocji, które towarzyszyły tym wydarzeniom.
Dziękuję Ci za Twoją pracę i zaangażowanie w szerzenie tej wiedzy poza granice Polski. 🇵🇱
Pozdrawiam Cię. 🥃🥃
#StefanTompson
#Victoria1920
Wielkie dzięki za dobry materiał i przekazanie tak cennej historii. Ważne, aby młode pokolenie wiedziało co wydarzyło się 100 lat temu! Dodajmy jednak, że nie byłoby tej wygranej batalii z bolszewikami, bez cudownej pomocy Matki Bożej, która objawiła się naszym wrogom ku ich przerażeniu. Ich strach spowodował ucieczkę, a wielu z nich potem świadczyło o niezwykłym objawieniu . Zawierzmy Matce Bożej naszą Ojczyznę, bo wtedy będziemy bezpieczni. Pozdrawiam Ciebie Stefan serdecznie 🤗 Dużo dobrego dla Ciebie 😙
Highest respect from Ireland.
Thank you my friend from Ireland! Respect for the great Irish too! By the way, it's not even an exaggeration that Poland saved the world. Indeed, the Polish victory against the Bolsheviks had also an extreme European impact but also even a global impact. According to the British politician and diplomat Lord D'Abernon, who was part of the inter allied Mission to Poland in 1920, during the Polish-Bolshevik war, the 1920 Battle of Warsaw was one of the most important battles in world history because as he said "had the Battle of Warsaw ended with a Bolshevik victory, it would have been a turning point in the history of Europe. As there is no doubt that with the fall of Warsaw, Central Europe would have been left open to Communist propaganda and Bolshevik invasion." So long as the Bolsheviks were preoccupied with the Civil War, they had nothing in mind beyond their survival. But, having conquered the Russian heartland in the course of 1919, they began to heed the dictates of their ideology, which told them that the Communist Revolution should be exported from Russia to the rest of Europe. The Second Congress of the Communist International deliberated in Moscow between 19 July and 7 August 1920. Lenin spoke of the increasingly favorable odds for the accomplishment of the World Proletarian Revolution, which would lead to the World Soviet Republic. The road to Europe opened up when Germany lost the First World War and signed the surrender on November 11th 1918. The German troops then systematically retreated from the occupied lands of Ukraine, Belarus and other Baltic states. They were immediately followed by the Bolshevik Red Army, fulfilling Lenin’s orders to begin its “freeing” march west. This operation had a telling codename - “Vistula”. The most important job of the Bolsheviks was to break through to Germany and Austria which were filled with revolutionary atmosphere. To do that, they needed to get rid of the “barrier”, meaning, as Joseph Stalin wrote, “the national states which wound up between the two huge sources of revolution in the East and West”. One such barrier was, first and foremost, Poland which just regained independence following the defeat of Germany and the fall of the Austrian-Hungarian empire. On November 17th 1918, at the Red Army briefing, its commander Leon Trotsky predicted the sovietisation of Poland and Ukraine as “the links binding Soviet Russia with future Soviet Germany” and the first stage in building “the Union of European Proletariat Republics”. Poles lived also at the territories of modern Belarus and Lithuania, which were invaded by the Bolsheviks. A Polish Self-defense was created there, counting 10 thousand men, which was part of the Polish Army and its commander, Gen. Władysław Wejtko followed the orders of Chief Commander Józef Piłsudski. Between the 3rd and 5th of January 1919, Polish self-defense units tried to defend Wilno on their own. However, in the face of an overwhelming opponent Poles had to retreat from the city. Thus, the Polish-Bolshevik war actually began on January 3rd 1919, although not formally. The march West was accompanied by the creation of puppet Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Ukrainian and Belarusian Soviet republics. On January 8th 1919, the Soviet newspaper “Izvestia” announced the creation of the Revolutionary War Council of Poland, a cornerstone for the planned communist government in Poland. Later by order of the Bolsheviks, the Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee as a Polish puppet government had been formed to organize administration of the Polish territories captured by the Red Army. This puppet government had very little support from the ethnic Polish population and recruited its supporters mostly from the ranks of minorities, primarily Jews.
With these additional resources from conquered Poland and the Baltic countries, the communists planned to advance further into the west. Poland should be the "Red Bridge" for Communist ideology to the West. So conquered Poland should serve as a red bridge to conquer all of Europe. The aim of conquering other European states as well is also confirmed by the order of Mikhail Tukachevsky called “Red Napoleon”, commander of the Western Front of the Red Army. In his Order of the Day he wrote in July 2, 1920: "To the West! The fate of the world revolution will be decided in the West. The way to set the world on fire leads through the corpse of white Poland. On our bayonets we will bring happiness and peace to the toiling masses of mankind. March on Wilno, Minsk and Warsaw and onward to Berlin over the corpse of Poland!" Tukhachevsky also boasted that his men would be "galloping through the streets of Paris before the summer was out." By the way, Tukhachevsky was one of the first military commanders killed in Stalin's purges in 1937. Tukachevsky called Poland white Poland because the communist propaganda called free Poland white Poland. The term whites were used to designate anti-communists. But the Polish victory prevented setting the world on fire by communists. So the main reason for the outbreak of the Polish-Bolshevik war the threat to Poland’s independence by Bolsheviks, as well as the attempt to implement the idea of a permanent revolution, and the export of the communist revolution Europe-wide but actually worldwide. What is also worth noting the fact that if Poland had been conquered by the communists, the Baltic states would have been conquered too. Poland was therefore allied with Latvia in this war. Poland and some few others European countries were not infected by the red virus. In Poland the overwhelming majority of the population was anti-communist. But Poland was the absolute exception in Europe! In various European countries at that time there were strong communist movements that would have supported the communists in their advance.
Moreover, there were also attempts by the communists to take power in other parts of Europe! So these are examples of communist successes outside the Bolshevik state at the time of the Polish-Bolshevik war. The Hungarian Soviet Republic was the communist state of Hungary from 21 March 1919 until 1 August 1919 (133 days). Until the anti-communists prevailed and abolished this Soviet republic. The other communist republics and communes have survived just as short as the Hungarian Soviet Republic but that makes it clear that there were strong communist influences throughout Europe. The Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic more commonly referred to as Red Finland, was a proclaimed Finnish communist state that ruled parts of the country during the Finnish Civil War of 1918. Another example of an attempted communist takeover of power in Europe was then the Alsace-Lorraine Soviet Republic of 1918 in France. The Limerick Soviet was one of a number of declared Irish soviets that were formed around Ireland 1919. The Slovak Soviet Republic was a short-lived Communist state in southeast Slovakia in existence from 16 June 1919 to 7 July 1919. Commune of the Working People of Estonia existed from 29 November 1918 to 5 June 1919. In 1918, announced the formation of the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic. A communist revolutionary Red Guard was founded in Austria and an attempt was made to proclaim a Soviet Republic. Like in Hungary during the German November Revolution, the communist Karl Liebknecht proclaimed the communist republic in Germany on November 9, 1918. But the communists' seizure of power then failed, although later there were repeated attempts by the communists to gain power in Germany or parts of Germany. Like with the Bavarian Soviet Republic which was a short-lived communist state in Bavaria during the riots of 1918-19 in Germany. Then there were another attempts by the communists to come to power in German areas. The Bremen Soviet Republic was proclaimed which was a short-lived state in Germany, existing for 25 days in 1919. The communist Spartacist uprising with the goal of an all-German Soviet Republic were armed battles in Berlin from 5 to 12 January 1919.
I'll continue my explanation in the next comment.
Continuing of the comment above: Bolshevik propaganda was strengthened in many European countries and e.g in Germany, posters appeared with a Red Army soldier freeing the country from chains. The congress of the Communist International issued an appeal to workers in all countries, asking them to forestall their governments' efforts to aid "White" Poland. So the Bolsheviks, as part of a huge propaganda action under the slogan: “Hands off Soviet Russia”, mobilized communist parties and leftist trade unions across all of Europe to work against Poland. Many western journalists were on the payroll of Bolshevik propaganda. Workers and dockers in various European countries were sympathizers of the Bolsheviks also refused to load the support supplies for the fighting Poles against the Bolsheviks. The refusal of the dockers in Gdansk (Danzig) was particularly unfavorable because all deliveries to Poland were to be made via this port. Also the British trade unions followed the Communist propaganda and blocked British military supplies to Poland. So the Trades Union Congress and Labour Party responded by threatening national strike action and established Councils of Action to resist any possible efforts by the British government to supply Poland with arms or other supplies. On August 6, 1920, the British Labour Party published a pamphlet stating that British workers would never take part in the war as Poland's allies, and labour unions blocked supplies to the British expeditionary force assisting Russian Whites in Arkhangelsk. French Socialists, in their newspaper L'Humanité, declared: "Not a man, not a sou, not a shell for reactionary and capitalist Poland. Long live the Russian Revolution! Long live the Workmen's International!"
Since the communists had enough supporters all over Europe after the desired victory against Poland the communists would have in Europe either provoked revolutions through agitators or they would have intervened militarily. If the communists had conquered Europe, which was by far the most economically important continent at the time, they would have had a good chance of "exporting" communism worldwide as well. That this is not an exaggeration can be seen by comparing the strategy of the communists after World War II. Even in these later times, communism was "exported" to countries around the world, and as a result there were countries around the world ruled by communist dictatorships. After 1945, as in 1919, the communists had the goal of a world completely dominated by communism. The goal was that virtually every country would become communist. That is why the Polish victory of 1921 definitely had not just a European impact but also a global impact.
Here I also explain the reasons for the Polish victory! The French and British support was not crucial to the Polish victory how often it is falsely claimed. The Polish victory in the war against the Bolsheviks 1919-21 was the result of the superiority of the Polish army, the Polish army command and the Polish secret service. The Polish soldiers had much higher combat morale than the soldiers of the Bolshevik Army. Because the Poles fought for the freedom of their homeland and were determined to defend their country. Critically, the Polish Army benefited from a vast influx of volunteers. Even Polish women volunteered to fight! Even battalions of women fought at the front for Poland. One of this Polish female soldiers was Maria Wittek which would become the Polish Army's first female general. In fact most Polish soldiers were anti-Communists and despised Bolshevik ideology. The soldiers of the Red Army, on the other hand, fought for the spread of an ideology in other countries. Bolshevik soldiers were supposed to fight for an abstract political idea. It is very likely that the majority of Red Army soldiers were not communists at all. Many were forcibly recruited and did not want to fight at all. The communist propaganda told the Red Army soldiers they would be greeted as liberators however, they quickly realized that they were viewed as enemies by the Polish population. In summary, it can be stated that the Polish soldiers were much more motivated to fight than the Red Army soldiers.
The Polish high command led by First Marshal Piłsudski showed its superiority on various occasions such as at the Battle of Warsaw. The Polish high command understood the course of the front and the situation at the front much better than the Bolshevik high command. Piłsudski and General Rozwadowski knew that the only way to defend Warsaw and prevent its encirclement of the city was with a counter-offensive. Their plan was to exploit a weak opening between two Russian fronts. The plan that he and General Rozwadowski thrashed out was for Polish forces to secretly regroup at lightning speed and then strike at a weak point between major Red Army battle groups. After this advance, the Polish Army would then be in a perfect position to deliver the decisive blow. Piłsudski knew how important the coming battle would be and took direct command of this army. The plan worked and the rapid Polish drive north managed to split the Bolshevik fronts and threw Bolshevik army into confusion and chaos the Red Army started to disintegrate. In the following months, several more Polish follow-up victories saved Poland’s independence. It was a hard-fought battle, which took place in August 1920 near Warsaw and ended in a decisive Polish victory over the Red Army. It was won by the skill, discipline, and determination of the Polish defenders, by the patriotic spirit of a large numbers of volunteers, and by Marshal Piłsudski's brilliant counterattack, which stopped the Bolshevik offensive and with the counterattack, the Bolshevik troops were forced to flee.
I'll continue my explanation in the next comment.
Continuing of the comment above: The Polish high command also made much better use of the newly developed modern weapon systems and made better use of the new technologies than the Bolsheviks. Because of that the Polish army used the new armored vehicle branch much more efficiently than the Bolsheviks. For example, the Poles produced armored cars. The Polish army also used foreign-made armored cars. Armored cars were very useful. In fact, these armored cars were used by the Polish Army for blitzkrieg-style attacks. Actually, Poles invented Blitzkrieg with lightning-fast attacks from armored vehicles. That's no exaggeration, because indeed the Polish Army used this armored car for blitzkrieg attacks against the Bolsheviks. Anyone who thinks that the Germans invented the blitzkrieg with armored vehicles is wrong. The Polish Army had successfully used this tactic against the Bolsheviks with rapidly advancing armored cars clearing the way for the rapidly following infantry. By the way, the advantages of this polish made armored cars were high speed, agility, manoeuvrability and ease of maintenance and repair. At times, they were repaired under fire. The engine could run on low quality fuel and oil. The armor was sufficient against rifle and machine gun bullets and and shrapnels. In spite of the extra weight of the armor, the vehicles managed well in heavy terrain, and were also able to cross relatively weak bridges on account of their low mass in comparison to other armored vehicles. The polish made armored cars were really small in comparison to other armored cars of the era and offered a smaller target. In view of the operations extending over large areas, and in order to take by surprise the enemy, the Polish army command resolved upon to lightning fast armored cars raids and invented with it actually the blitzkrieg. So this warfare tactic should actually have the Polish name "błyskwojna" in English and not the German name blitzkrieg.
An example of the "błyskwojna" of the Polish armored cars was the Battle of Kovel in 1920. The Polish Bataillons received orders to raid Kovel and to overcome the distance of 160 km to the attack target Kovel as quickly as possible for to to surprise the enemy with the fast advance. The aim of the raid was to conquer the undamaged wide-gauge railway rolling-stocks and to enabling rapid action along the liberated railway lines. A column of armored cars should do the job supported by batteries of field artillery drawn by trucks. Columns with 2 infantry battalions were to follow, transported by truck, to secure the conquered area. It is worth mentioning that on the way to Kovel several villages occupied by the Bolsheviks had to be liberated. The coming of the motor group over the Brzesc - Kovel road took the Bolsheviks unawares and was an element of surprise lay one of the conditions of success. The surprise was, moreover, effected by a very sudden change of direction by the motor-group. The distance was covered in 2 days with some villages being liberated along the way and during this time it was necessary to stop the whole marching column in order to repair the bridges. The effect of the sudden appearance in the streets of Kovel of armored cars firing on all sides was such that within the space of a few minutes the Bolshevik troops, about 2 infantry divisions, were leaving the town in considerable disorder. The commander of the 12th Soviet Army escaped in a car. The effect of the raid was a capture of the big railway junction. The Poles also captured 2 armored trains several scores of guns 12 airplanes, several hundreds of railway carriages loaded with large amount of war material, and, besides, all that the staff archives the 12th Soviet Army contained. The Polish motorized group had held the town, until the main force arrived next morning. Three armored cars got damaged during the raid. Thus did the briliantly conducted raid on Kovel result not only in bringing immense spoil at a very inconsiderable loss, but it produced a tremendous operational effect which rendered possible the accomplishment of the strategic plan of the Commander-in-Chief, and at the same time it seriously weakened the strength and shook the morale of the 12th Bolshevik Army. Lord D’Abernon a British politician and diplomat, who was part of the interallied Mission to Poland in 1920, described in his diary the mobility of the Polish troops as amazing and noticed that Polish troops covered distances unattainable by the best European armies.
By the way, the Kościuszko Squadron was the first air squadron to use a railway train as a mobile flying base with specially designed railroad cars that could transport their aircraft as the front moved and developed. The train also included the squadron's operational headquarters, aircraft spares and repair workshops and living quarters. Which also shows how innovatively the Polish high command used new technologies.
I am Polish. Thank You for a bit of thruth that was hidden. There is much more....
Very informative production. Especially for those, who are not familiar with history of Poland.
Lord Edgar Vincent d’Abernon, a direct witness of the events, wrote in his book of 1931 “The Eighteenth Decisive Battle of the World: Warsaw, 1920”: “in the contemporary history of civilisation there are, in fact, few events of greater importance than the Battle of Warsaw of 1920. There is also no other which has been more overlooked.
Yes, I also quote Lord Edgar Vincent d'Abernon! It's not even an exaggeration that Poland saved the world. Indeed, the Polish victory against the Bolsheviks had also an extreme European impact but also even a global impact. According to the British politician and diplomat Lord D'Abernon, who was part of the inter allied Mission to Poland in 1920, during the Polish-Bolshevik war, the 1920 Battle of Warsaw was one of the most important battles in world history because as he said "had the Battle of Warsaw ended with a Bolshevik victory, it would have been a turning point in the history of Europe. As there is no doubt that with the fall of Warsaw, Central Europe would have been left open to Communist propaganda and Bolshevik invasion." So long as the Bolsheviks were preoccupied with the Civil War, they had nothing in mind beyond their survival. But, having conquered the Russian heartland in the course of 1919, they began to heed the dictates of their ideology, which told them that the Communist Revolution should be exported from Russia to the rest of Europe. The Second Congress of the Communist International deliberated in Moscow between 19 July and 7 August 1920. Lenin spoke of the increasingly favorable odds for the accomplishment of the World Proletarian Revolution, which would lead to the World Soviet Republic. The road to Europe opened up when Germany lost the First World War and signed the surrender on November 11th 1918. The German troops then systematically retreated from the occupied lands of Ukraine, Belarus and other Baltic states. They were immediately followed by the Bolshevik Red Army, fulfilling Lenin’s orders to begin its “freeing” march west. This operation had a telling codename - “Vistula”. The most important job of the Bolsheviks was to break through to Germany and Austria which were filled with revolutionary atmosphere. To do that, they needed to get rid of the “barrier”, meaning, as Joseph Stalin wrote, “the national states which wound up between the two huge sources of revolution in the East and West”. One such barrier was, first and foremost, Poland which just regained independence following the defeat of Germany and the fall of the Austrian-Hungarian empire. On November 17th 1918, at the Red Army briefing, its commander Leon Trotsky predicted the sovietisation of Poland and Ukraine as “the links binding Soviet Russia with future Soviet Germany” and the first stage in building “the Union of European Proletariat Republics”. Poles lived also at the territories of modern Belarus and Lithuania, which were invaded by the Bolsheviks. A Polish Self-defense was created there, counting 10 thousand men, which was part of the Polish Army and its commander, Gen. Władysław Wejtko followed the orders of Chief Commander Józef Piłsudski. Between the 3rd and 5th of January 1919, Polish self-defense units tried to defend Wilno on their own. However, in the face of an overwhelming opponent Poles had to retreat from the city. Thus, the Polish-Bolshevik war actually began on January 3rd 1919, although not formally. The march West was accompanied by the creation of puppet Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Ukrainian and Belarusian Soviet republics. On January 8th 1919, the Soviet newspaper “Izvestia” announced the creation of the Revolutionary War Council of Poland, a cornerstone for the planned communist government in Poland. Later by order of the Bolsheviks, the Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee as a Polish puppet government had been formed to organize administration of the Polish territories captured by the Red Army. This puppet government had very little support from the ethnic Polish population and recruited its supporters mostly from the ranks of minorities, primarily Jews.
With these additional resources from conquered Poland and the Baltic countries, the communists planned to advance further into the west. Poland should be the "Red Bridge" for Communist ideology to the West. So conquered Poland should serve as a red bridge to conquer all of Europe. The aim of conquering other European states as well is also confirmed by the order of Mikhail Tukachevsky called “Red Napoleon”, commander of the Western Front of the Red Army. In his Order of the Day he wrote in July 2, 1920: "To the West! The fate of the world revolution will be decided in the West. The way to set the world on fire leads through the corpse of white Poland. On our bayonets we will bring happiness and peace to the toiling masses of mankind. March on Wilno, Minsk and Warsaw and onward to Berlin over the corpse of Poland!" Tukhachevsky also boasted that his men would be "galloping through the streets of Paris before the summer was out." By the way, Tukhachevsky was one of the first military commanders killed in Stalin's purges in 1937. Tukachevsky called Poland white Poland because the communist propaganda called free Poland white Poland. The term whites were used to designate anti-communists. But the Polish victory prevented setting the world on fire by communists. So the main reason for the outbreak of the Polish-Bolshevik war the threat to Poland’s independence by Bolsheviks, as well as the attempt to implement the idea of a permanent revolution, and the export of the communist revolution Europe-wide but actually worldwide. What is also worth noting the fact that if Poland had been conquered by the communists, the Baltic states would have been conquered too. Poland was therefore allied with Latvia in this war. Poland and some few others European countries were not infected by the red virus. In Poland the overwhelming majority of the population was anti-communist. But Poland was the absolute exception in Europe! In various European countries at that time there were strong communist movements that would have supported the communists in their advance.
Moreover, there were also attempts by the communists to take power in other parts of Europe! So these are examples of communist successes outside the Bolshevik state at the time of the Polish-Bolshevik war. The Hungarian Soviet Republic was the communist state of Hungary from 21 March 1919 until 1 August 1919 (133 days). Until the anti-communists prevailed and abolished this Soviet republic. The other communist republics and communes have survived just as short as the Hungarian Soviet Republic but that makes it clear that there were strong communist influences throughout Europe. The Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic more commonly referred to as Red Finland, was a proclaimed Finnish communist state that ruled parts of the country during the Finnish Civil War of 1918. Another example of an attempted communist takeover of power in Europe was then the Alsace-Lorraine Soviet Republic of 1918 in France. The Limerick Soviet was one of a number of declared Irish soviets that were formed around Ireland 1919. The Slovak Soviet Republic was a short-lived Communist state in southeast Slovakia in existence from 16 June 1919 to 7 July 1919. Commune of the Working People of Estonia existed from 29 November 1918 to 5 June 1919. In 1918, announced the formation of the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic. A communist revolutionary Red Guard was founded in Austria and an attempt was made to proclaim a Soviet Republic. Like in Hungary during the German November Revolution, the communist Karl Liebknecht proclaimed the communist republic in Germany on November 9, 1918. But the communists' seizure of power then failed, although later there were repeated attempts by the communists to gain power in Germany or parts of Germany. Like with the Bavarian Soviet Republic which was a short-lived communist state in Bavaria during the riots of 1918-19 in Germany. Then there were another attempts by the communists to come to power in German areas. The Bremen Soviet Republic was proclaimed which was a short-lived state in Germany, existing for 25 days in 1919. The communist Spartacist uprising with the goal of an all-German Soviet Republic were armed battles in Berlin from 5 to 12 January 1919.
I'll continue my explanation in the next comment.
Continuing of the comment above: Bolshevik propaganda was strengthened in many European countries and e.g in Germany, posters appeared with a Red Army soldier freeing the country from chains. The congress of the Communist International issued an appeal to workers in all countries, asking them to forestall their governments' efforts to aid "White" Poland. So the Bolsheviks, as part of a huge propaganda action under the slogan: “Hands off Soviet Russia”, mobilized communist parties and leftist trade unions across all of Europe to work against Poland. Many western journalists were on the payroll of Bolshevik propaganda. Workers and dockers in various European countries were sympathizers of the Bolsheviks also refused to load the support supplies for the fighting Poles against the Bolsheviks. The refusal of the dockers in Gdansk (Danzig) was particularly unfavorable because all deliveries to Poland were to be made via this port. Also the British trade unions followed the Communist propaganda and blocked British military supplies to Poland. So the Trades Union Congress and Labour Party responded by threatening national strike action and established Councils of Action to resist any possible efforts by the British government to supply Poland with arms or other supplies. On August 6, 1920, the British Labour Party published a pamphlet stating that British workers would never take part in the war as Poland's allies, and labour unions blocked supplies to the British expeditionary force assisting Russian Whites in Arkhangelsk. French Socialists, in their newspaper L'Humanité, declared: "Not a man, not a sou, not a shell for reactionary and capitalist Poland. Long live the Russian Revolution! Long live the Workmen's International!"
Since the communists had enough supporters all over Europe after the desired victory against Poland the communists would have in Europe either provoked revolutions through agitators or they would have intervened militarily. If the communists had conquered Europe, which was by far the most economically important continent at the time, they would have had a good chance of "exporting" communism worldwide as well. That this is not an exaggeration can be seen by comparing the strategy of the communists after World War II. Even in these later times, communism was "exported" to countries around the world, and as a result there were countries around the world ruled by communist dictatorships. After 1945, as in 1919, the communists had the goal of a world completely dominated by communism. The goal was that virtually every country would become communist. That is why the Polish victory of 1921 definitely had not just a European impact but also a global impact.
Here I also explain the reasons for the Polish victory! The French and British support was not crucial to the Polish victory how often it is falsely claimed. The Polish victory in the war against the Bolsheviks 1919-21 was the result of the superiority of the Polish army, the Polish army command and the Polish secret service. The Polish soldiers had much higher combat morale than the soldiers of the Bolshevik Army. Because the Poles fought for the freedom of their homeland and were determined to defend their country. Critically, the Polish Army benefited from a vast influx of volunteers. Even Polish women volunteered to fight! Even battalions of women fought at the front for Poland. One of this Polish female soldiers was Maria Wittek which would become the Polish Army's first female general. In fact most Polish soldiers were anti-Communists and despised Bolshevik ideology. The soldiers of the Red Army, on the other hand, fought for the spread of an ideology in other countries. Bolshevik soldiers were supposed to fight for an abstract political idea. It is very likely that the majority of Red Army soldiers were not communists at all. Many were forcibly recruited and did not want to fight at all. The communist propaganda told the Red Army soldiers they would be greeted as liberators however, they quickly realized that they were viewed as enemies by the Polish population. In summary, it can be stated that the Polish soldiers were much more motivated to fight than the Red Army soldiers.
The Polish high command led by First Marshal Piłsudski showed its superiority on various occasions such as at the Battle of Warsaw. The Polish high command understood the course of the front and the situation at the front much better than the Bolshevik high command. Piłsudski and General Rozwadowski knew that the only way to defend Warsaw and prevent its encirclement of the city was with a counter-offensive. Their plan was to exploit a weak opening between two Russian fronts. The plan that he and General Rozwadowski thrashed out was for Polish forces to secretly regroup at lightning speed and then strike at a weak point between major Red Army battle groups. After this advance, the Polish Army would then be in a perfect position to deliver the decisive blow. Piłsudski knew how important the coming battle would be and took direct command of this army. The plan worked and the rapid Polish drive north managed to split the Bolshevik fronts and threw Bolshevik army into confusion and chaos the Red Army started to disintegrate. In the following months, several more Polish follow-up victories saved Poland’s independence. It was a hard-fought battle, which took place in August 1920 near Warsaw and ended in a decisive Polish victory over the Red Army. It was won by the skill, discipline, and determination of the Polish defenders, by the patriotic spirit of a large numbers of volunteers, and by Marshal Piłsudski's brilliant counterattack, which stopped the Bolshevik offensive and with the counterattack, the Bolshevik troops were forced to flee.
I'll continue my explanation in the next comment.
Continuing of the comment above: The Polish high command also made much better use of the newly developed modern weapon systems and made better use of the new technologies than the Bolsheviks. Because of that the Polish army used the new armored vehicle branch much more efficiently than the Bolsheviks. For example, the Poles produced armored cars. The Polish army also used foreign-made armored cars. Armored cars were very useful. In fact, these armored cars were used by the Polish Army for blitzkrieg-style attacks. Actually, Poles invented Blitzkrieg with lightning-fast attacks from armored vehicles. That's no exaggeration, because indeed the Polish Army used this armored car for blitzkrieg attacks against the Bolsheviks. Anyone who thinks that the Germans invented the blitzkrieg with armored vehicles is wrong. The Polish Army had successfully used this tactic against the Bolsheviks with rapidly advancing armored cars clearing the way for the rapidly following infantry. By the way, the advantages of this polish made armored cars were high speed, agility, manoeuvrability and ease of maintenance and repair. At times, they were repaired under fire. The engine could run on low quality fuel and oil. The armor was sufficient against rifle and machine gun bullets and and shrapnels. In spite of the extra weight of the armor, the vehicles managed well in heavy terrain, and were also able to cross relatively weak bridges on account of their low mass in comparison to other armored vehicles. The polish made armored cars were really small in comparison to other armored cars of the era and offered a smaller target. In view of the operations extending over large areas, and in order to take by surprise the enemy, the Polish army command resolved upon to lightning fast armored cars raids and invented with it actually the blitzkrieg. So this warfare tactic should actually have the Polish name "błyskwojna" in English and not the German name blitzkrieg.
An example of the "błyskwojna" of the Polish armored cars was the Battle of Kovel in 1920. The Polish Bataillons received orders to raid Kovel and to overcome the distance of 160 km to the attack target Kovel as quickly as possible for to to surprise the enemy with the fast advance. The aim of the raid was to conquer the undamaged wide-gauge railway rolling-stocks and to enabling rapid action along the liberated railway lines. A column of armored cars should do the job supported by batteries of field artillery drawn by trucks. Columns with 2 infantry battalions were to follow, transported by truck, to secure the conquered area. It is worth mentioning that on the way to Kovel several villages occupied by the Bolsheviks had to be liberated. The coming of the motor group over the Brzesc - Kovel road took the Bolsheviks unawares and was an element of surprise lay one of the conditions of success. The surprise was, moreover, effected by a very sudden change of direction by the motor-group. The distance was covered in 2 days with some villages being liberated along the way and during this time it was necessary to stop the whole marching column in order to repair the bridges. The effect of the sudden appearance in the streets of Kovel of armored cars firing on all sides was such that within the space of a few minutes the Bolshevik troops, about 2 infantry divisions, were leaving the town in considerable disorder. The commander of the 12th Soviet Army escaped in a car. The effect of the raid was a capture of the big railway junction. The Poles also captured 2 armored trains several scores of guns 12 airplanes, several hundreds of railway carriages loaded with large amount of war material, and, besides, all that the staff archives the 12th Soviet Army contained. The Polish motorized group had held the town, until the main force arrived next morning. Three armored cars got damaged during the raid. Thus did the briliantly conducted raid on Kovel result not only in bringing immense spoil at a very inconsiderable loss, but it produced a tremendous operational effect which rendered possible the accomplishment of the strategic plan of the Commander-in-Chief, and at the same time it seriously weakened the strength and shook the morale of the 12th Bolshevik Army. Lord D’Abernon a British politician and diplomat, who was part of the interallied Mission to Poland in 1920, described in his diary the mobility of the Polish troops as amazing and noticed that Polish troops covered distances unattainable by the best European armies.
By the way, the Kościuszko Squadron was the first air squadron to use a railway train as a mobile flying base with specially designed railroad cars that could transport their aircraft as the front moved and developed. The train also included the squadron's operational headquarters, aircraft spares and repair workshops and living quarters. Which also shows how innovatively the Polish high command used new technologies.
This is just beautiful... thank you
Hungarians helped us significantly during WW2 as well. Poland will never forget.
Stefan dobrze że jesteś :)
Świetny film, wysłałem mojej rodzinie w Australii rodzonej już tam, nie mówią po polsku, ale interesują się ojczyzną ich ojca i dziadków.
Chwała Ci Chłopie na wysokości...
Panie Stefanie T. Wielki szacun za film i za naukę histoii , tej prawdziwej.
Excited to be going to Poland in the next week 🇵🇱 god bless Poland, we should’ve done more to help them in WW2
Who is we?
Thank you very much for your memory, not many Westerners know about the heroic victory of Poles
Greetings from Poland
In time of left riots in America this is great lesson (from ours Polish history). You can be victorius just by
mobilize and sucrifice of whole society. There is no other way but win will be big.
@mateusz w Elaborate.
@mateusz w So do we have to attack the People's Republic of China and give it back to the Republic of China? Or Korea? There's no huge problem with communism in the West.
Więc mamy zaatakować Chińską Republikę Ludową i oddać ją Republice Chińskiej? Albo Koreę? Nie ma jakiegoś większego problemu z komunizmem na Zachodzie.
@mateusz w A cóż nazywa Pan "komunizmem" w Stanach, Francji czy Polsce, Panie Mateuszu?
What are you calling "communism" in the USA, France or in Poland, Mateusz?
@mateusz w I don't see any real communism in Poland, how can I fight it?
Nie widzę żadnego prawdziwego komunizmu w Polsce, jak niby mam z nim walczyć?
@mateusz w Yes, I am.
CZEŚĆ I CHWAŁA BOHATEROM
Not the first and not the last time, you can always count on our support.
Panie Stefanie . Bardzo dziękuję za to co Pan robi.
Dziękuję i pozdrawiam
Trochę bardziej filozoficznie niż historycznie, bardziej o tym, czym Polska jest, czyli przedmurzem, obrońcą i strażnikiem cywilizacji łacińskiej.
W spor Piłsudski / Rozwadowski mi się nie chcę wchodzić, bo to nie jest ważne dla zagranicznego odbiorcy. Tutaj najważniejsze jest to że jest to historia Polskiego sukcesu, który miał realne przełożenie na Zachód.
Dziękuję wszystkim ze jesteście i do zobaczenia!
Jaki spór? Nie ma żadnego sporu, bo prawdy na temat postawy Piłsudskiego w kluczowym momencie wojny z bolszewikami nie bronią nawet jego wyznawcy. Użył Pan słowa "geniusz". Piłsudski nigdy nie miał z tym słowem nic wspólnego.
Bardziej niż filozoficznie to propagandowo, bo "przedmurze" jest bardziej konsekwencją naszego położenia geograficznego, niż naszym świadomym i dobrowolnym wyborem. Zresztą, do "przedmurza" różnie pojmowanego - Europy czy chrześcijaństwa - roszczą sobie prawo również Austriacy, narody Bałkanów czy nawet Rosjanie.
Niemniej, poza tą jedną uwagą, bardzo podoba mi się ten film i cała Twoja robota. Dziękuję, Stefanie! Nagrywaj dalej, czekam na Twoje kolejne filmy!
Świetny materiał, przez lata byliśmy w szkołach karmieni jedynie datami i faktami historycznymi, które odnosiły się do porażek naszego kraju. Czas pamiętać i świętować zwycięstwa.
Z naszej historii wymazano prawdziwych bohaterów, którzy nie pasują do mitów sanacji, czy komunistów. Powielamy sobie i innym nasze mity, a ludzi jak Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz zakopaliśmy już za życia. Hołdujemy hetmanowi Łęczyckiemu przed sobą, zachodem i wschodem tylko to już nie jest prawda, a nasze chciejstwo.
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@@SENSEOFLIBERTY A Ty co z Piłsudskim wudke piłeś . Żeby mówisz czy był taki czy owaki . Co my z perspektywy naszego życia możemy powiedzieć o tamtych czasach i ludziach?A szczególności o sporach między nimi , cz ich inteligencji ,czy jej braku.
Thank You for the amazing and so important videos You make.
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Hej, dzięki po raz kolejny. Nie przestawaj wstawiać takich filmów. Osoby takie jak Ty, są nam dziś bardzo potrzebne.
Robisz 10 razy tyle co Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego i pewnie za parę tysięcy razy mniej, oni mają miliony i nie potrafią sklecić takiego filmiku...
Bo ważne tylko żeby jak najwięcej nakraść a reszta nie ważna. Typowy wał na polskim podatniku
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@@KG-ut7kl Akurat "Niezwyciężeni" ("The Unconquered") wyszedł im świetnie: ruclips.net/video/Q88AkN1hNYM/видео.html
@@piotr004 i to tyle z ich osiągnięć
Ale to zawsze lepiej jest widziane, kiedy zrobi to obcokrajowiec i szanse na szerszą widownię są większe. Dlatego nie musisz oceniać tak bezlitośnie, jeśli pomyślisz, że zawsze wiesz mniej niż widać to nie będziesz tego błędu powtarzał nagminnie.
Ich kommentiere auf deutsch und habe den Link zu vielen meiner Kontakte geschickt.
Mein Dank und meine Hochachtung gehen an den ehrenvollen
Herr Tompson.
Bóg, Honor, Ojczyzna
@mateusz w To make a mark that ther is a patriotic polish comunity in germany to.
Thank you for this video. We never forgot our HEROS! Niech żyje wolna Polska!
That's what I have been waiting for. Good on you Stefan!
Stefan świetna robota Twoja jak i całej ekipy. Shared material dla anglojęzycznych znajomych.Dziękuje i Keep up good work
Dzięki! Niewielu z nas ma prawo-tak jak Pan-powtorzyc słowa:"Polakiem jestem i obowiazki mam polskie" !.
So essential, right to the point, important message to the people of the West.
Thank you! 🇵🇱
Message to the people of the West! It's not even an exaggeration that Poland saved the world. Indeed, the Polish victory against the Bolsheviks had also an extreme European impact but also even a global impact. According to the British politician and diplomat Lord D'Abernon, who was part of the inter allied Mission to Poland in 1920, during the Polish-Bolshevik war, the 1920 Battle of Warsaw was one of the most important battles in world history because as he said "had the Battle of Warsaw ended with a Bolshevik victory, it would have been a turning point in the history of Europe. As there is no doubt that with the fall of Warsaw, Central Europe would have been left open to Communist propaganda and Bolshevik invasion." So long as the Bolsheviks were preoccupied with the Civil War, they had nothing in mind beyond their survival. But, having conquered the Russian heartland in the course of 1919, they began to heed the dictates of their ideology, which told them that the Communist Revolution should be exported from Russia to the rest of Europe. The Second Congress of the Communist International deliberated in Moscow between 19 July and 7 August 1920. Lenin spoke of the increasingly favorable odds for the accomplishment of the World Proletarian Revolution, which would lead to the World Soviet Republic. The road to Europe opened up when Germany lost the First World War and signed the surrender on November 11th 1918. The German troops then systematically retreated from the occupied lands of Ukraine, Belarus and other Baltic states. They were immediately followed by the Bolshevik Red Army, fulfilling Lenin’s orders to begin its “freeing” march west. This operation had a telling codename - “Vistula”. The most important job of the Bolsheviks was to break through to Germany and Austria which were filled with revolutionary atmosphere. To do that, they needed to get rid of the “barrier”, meaning, as Joseph Stalin wrote, “the national states which wound up between the two huge sources of revolution in the East and West”. One such barrier was, first and foremost, Poland which just regained independence following the defeat of Germany and the fall of the Austrian-Hungarian empire. On November 17th 1918, at the Red Army briefing, its commander Leon Trotsky predicted the sovietisation of Poland and Ukraine as “the links binding Soviet Russia with future Soviet Germany” and the first stage in building “the Union of European Proletariat Republics”. Poles lived also at the territories of modern Belarus and Lithuania, which were invaded by the Bolsheviks. A Polish Self-defense was created there, counting 10 thousand men, which was part of the Polish Army and its commander, Gen. Władysław Wejtko followed the orders of Chief Commander Józef Piłsudski. Between the 3rd and 5th of January 1919, Polish self-defense units tried to defend Wilno on their own. However, in the face of an overwhelming opponent Poles had to retreat from the city. Thus, the Polish-Bolshevik war actually began on January 3rd 1919, although not formally. The march West was accompanied by the creation of puppet Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Ukrainian and Belarusian Soviet republics. On January 8th 1919, the Soviet newspaper “Izvestia” announced the creation of the Revolutionary War Council of Poland, a cornerstone for the planned communist government in Poland. Later by order of the Bolsheviks, the Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee as a Polish puppet government had been formed to organize administration of the Polish territories captured by the Red Army. This puppet government had very little support from the ethnic Polish population and recruited its supporters mostly from the ranks of minorities, primarily Jews.
With these additional resources from conquered Poland and the Baltic countries, the communists planned to advance further into the west. Poland should be the "Red Bridge" for Communist ideology to the West. So conquered Poland should serve as a red bridge to conquer all of Europe. The aim of conquering other European states as well is also confirmed by the order of Mikhail Tukachevsky called “Red Napoleon”, commander of the Western Front of the Red Army. In his Order of the Day he wrote in July 2, 1920: "To the West! The fate of the world revolution will be decided in the West. The way to set the world on fire leads through the corpse of white Poland. On our bayonets we will bring happiness and peace to the toiling masses of mankind. March on Wilno, Minsk and Warsaw and onward to Berlin over the corpse of Poland!" Tukhachevsky also boasted that his men would be "galloping through the streets of Paris before the summer was out." By the way, Tukhachevsky was one of the first military commanders killed in Stalin's purges in 1937. Tukachevsky called Poland white Poland because the communist propaganda called free Poland white Poland. The term whites were used to designate anti-communists. But the Polish victory prevented setting the world on fire by communists. So the main reason for the outbreak of the Polish-Bolshevik war the threat to Poland’s independence by Bolsheviks, as well as the attempt to implement the idea of a permanent revolution, and the export of the communist revolution Europe-wide but actually worldwide. What is also worth noting the fact that if Poland had been conquered by the communists, the Baltic states would have been conquered too. Poland was therefore allied with Latvia in this war. Poland and some few others European countries were not infected by the red virus. In Poland the overwhelming majority of the population was anti-communist. But Poland was the absolute exception in Europe! In various European countries at that time there were strong communist movements that would have supported the communists in their advance.
Moreover, there were also attempts by the communists to take power in other parts of Europe! So these are examples of communist successes outside the Bolshevik state at the time of the Polish-Bolshevik war. The Hungarian Soviet Republic was the communist state of Hungary from 21 March 1919 until 1 August 1919 (133 days). Until the anti-communists prevailed and abolished this Soviet republic. The other communist republics and communes have survived just as short as the Hungarian Soviet Republic but that makes it clear that there were strong communist influences throughout Europe. The Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic more commonly referred to as Red Finland, was a proclaimed Finnish communist state that ruled parts of the country during the Finnish Civil War of 1918. Another example of an attempted communist takeover of power in Europe was then the Alsace-Lorraine Soviet Republic of 1918 in France. The Limerick Soviet was one of a number of declared Irish soviets that were formed around Ireland 1919. The Slovak Soviet Republic was a short-lived Communist state in southeast Slovakia in existence from 16 June 1919 to 7 July 1919. Commune of the Working People of Estonia existed from 29 November 1918 to 5 June 1919. In 1918, announced the formation of the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic. A communist revolutionary Red Guard was founded in Austria and an attempt was made to proclaim a Soviet Republic. Like in Hungary during the German November Revolution, the communist Karl Liebknecht proclaimed the communist republic in Germany on November 9, 1918. But the communists' seizure of power then failed, although later there were repeated attempts by the communists to gain power in Germany or parts of Germany. Like with the Bavarian Soviet Republic which was a short-lived communist state in Bavaria during the riots of 1918-19 in Germany. Then there were another attempts by the communists to come to power in German areas. The Bremen Soviet Republic was proclaimed which was a short-lived state in Germany, existing for 25 days in 1919. The communist Spartacist uprising with the goal of an all-German Soviet Republic were armed battles in Berlin from 5 to 12 January 1919.
I'll continue my explanation in the next comment.
Continuing of the comment above: Bolshevik propaganda was strengthened in many European countries and e.g in Germany, posters appeared with a Red Army soldier freeing the country from chains. The congress of the Communist International issued an appeal to workers in all countries, asking them to forestall their governments' efforts to aid "White" Poland. So the Bolsheviks, as part of a huge propaganda action under the slogan: “Hands off Soviet Russia”, mobilized communist parties and leftist trade unions across all of Europe to work against Poland. Many western journalists were on the payroll of Bolshevik propaganda. Workers and dockers in various European countries were sympathizers of the Bolsheviks also refused to load the support supplies for the fighting Poles against the Bolsheviks. The refusal of the dockers in Gdansk (Danzig) was particularly unfavorable because all deliveries to Poland were to be made via this port. Also the British trade unions followed the Communist propaganda and blocked British military supplies to Poland. So the Trades Union Congress and Labour Party responded by threatening national strike action and established Councils of Action to resist any possible efforts by the British government to supply Poland with arms or other supplies. On August 6, 1920, the British Labour Party published a pamphlet stating that British workers would never take part in the war as Poland's allies, and labour unions blocked supplies to the British expeditionary force assisting Russian Whites in Arkhangelsk. French Socialists, in their newspaper L'Humanité, declared: "Not a man, not a sou, not a shell for reactionary and capitalist Poland. Long live the Russian Revolution! Long live the Workmen's International!"
Since the communists had enough supporters all over Europe after the desired victory against Poland the communists would have in Europe either provoked revolutions through agitators or they would have intervened militarily. If the communists had conquered Europe, which was by far the most economically important continent at the time, they would have had a good chance of "exporting" communism worldwide as well. That this is not an exaggeration can be seen by comparing the strategy of the communists after World War II. Even in these later times, communism was "exported" to countries around the world, and as a result there were countries around the world ruled by communist dictatorships. After 1945, as in 1919, the communists had the goal of a world completely dominated by communism. The goal was that virtually every country would become communist. That is why the Polish victory of 1921 definitely had not just a European impact but also a global impact.
Here I also explain the reasons for the Polish victory! The French and British support was not crucial to the Polish victory how often it is falsely claimed. The Polish victory in the war against the Bolsheviks 1919-21 was the result of the superiority of the Polish army, the Polish army command and the Polish secret service. The Polish soldiers had much higher combat morale than the soldiers of the Bolshevik Army. Because the Poles fought for the freedom of their homeland and were determined to defend their country. Critically, the Polish Army benefited from a vast influx of volunteers. Even Polish women volunteered to fight! Even battalions of women fought at the front for Poland. One of this Polish female soldiers was Maria Wittek which would become the Polish Army's first female general. In fact most Polish soldiers were anti-Communists and despised Bolshevik ideology. The soldiers of the Red Army, on the other hand, fought for the spread of an ideology in other countries. Bolshevik soldiers were supposed to fight for an abstract political idea. It is very likely that the majority of Red Army soldiers were not communists at all. Many were forcibly recruited and did not want to fight at all. The communist propaganda told the Red Army soldiers they would be greeted as liberators however, they quickly realized that they were viewed as enemies by the Polish population. In summary, it can be stated that the Polish soldiers were much more motivated to fight than the Red Army soldiers.
The Polish high command led by First Marshal Piłsudski showed its superiority on various occasions such as at the Battle of Warsaw. The Polish high command understood the course of the front and the situation at the front much better than the Bolshevik high command. Piłsudski and General Rozwadowski knew that the only way to defend Warsaw and prevent its encirclement of the city was with a counter-offensive. Their plan was to exploit a weak opening between two Russian fronts. The plan that he and General Rozwadowski thrashed out was for Polish forces to secretly regroup at lightning speed and then strike at a weak point between major Red Army battle groups. After this advance, the Polish Army would then be in a perfect position to deliver the decisive blow. Piłsudski knew how important the coming battle would be and took direct command of this army. The plan worked and the rapid Polish drive north managed to split the Bolshevik fronts and threw Bolshevik army into confusion and chaos the Red Army started to disintegrate. In the following months, several more Polish follow-up victories saved Poland’s independence. It was a hard-fought battle, which took place in August 1920 near Warsaw and ended in a decisive Polish victory over the Red Army. It was won by the skill, discipline, and determination of the Polish defenders, by the patriotic spirit of a large numbers of volunteers, and by Marshal Piłsudski's brilliant counterattack, which stopped the Bolshevik offensive and with the counterattack, the Bolshevik troops were forced to flee.
I'll continue my explanation in the next comment.
Continuing of the comment above: The Polish high command also made much better use of the newly developed modern weapon systems and made better use of the new technologies than the Bolsheviks. Because of that the Polish army used the new armored vehicle branch much more efficiently than the Bolsheviks. For example, the Poles produced armored cars. The Polish army also used foreign-made armored cars. Armored cars were very useful. In fact, these armored cars were used by the Polish Army for blitzkrieg-style attacks. Actually, Poles invented Blitzkrieg with lightning-fast attacks from armored vehicles. That's no exaggeration, because indeed the Polish Army used this armored car for blitzkrieg attacks against the Bolsheviks. Anyone who thinks that the Germans invented the blitzkrieg with armored vehicles is wrong. The Polish Army had successfully used this tactic against the Bolsheviks with rapidly advancing armored cars clearing the way for the rapidly following infantry. By the way, the advantages of this polish made armored cars were high speed, agility, manoeuvrability and ease of maintenance and repair. At times, they were repaired under fire. The engine could run on low quality fuel and oil. The armor was sufficient against rifle and machine gun bullets and and shrapnels. In spite of the extra weight of the armor, the vehicles managed well in heavy terrain, and were also able to cross relatively weak bridges on account of their low mass in comparison to other armored vehicles. The polish made armored cars were really small in comparison to other armored cars of the era and offered a smaller target. In view of the operations extending over large areas, and in order to take by surprise the enemy, the Polish army command resolved upon to lightning fast armored cars raids and invented with it actually the blitzkrieg. So this warfare tactic should actually have the Polish name "błyskwojna" in English and not the German name blitzkrieg.
An example of the "błyskwojna" of the Polish armored cars was the Battle of Kovel in 1920. The Polish Bataillons received orders to raid Kovel and to overcome the distance of 160 km to the attack target Kovel as quickly as possible for to to surprise the enemy with the fast advance. The aim of the raid was to conquer the undamaged wide-gauge railway rolling-stocks and to enabling rapid action along the liberated railway lines. A column of armored cars should do the job supported by batteries of field artillery drawn by trucks. Columns with 2 infantry battalions were to follow, transported by truck, to secure the conquered area. It is worth mentioning that on the way to Kovel several villages occupied by the Bolsheviks had to be liberated. The coming of the motor group over the Brzesc - Kovel road took the Bolsheviks unawares and was an element of surprise lay one of the conditions of success. The surprise was, moreover, effected by a very sudden change of direction by the motor-group. The distance was covered in 2 days with some villages being liberated along the way and during this time it was necessary to stop the whole marching column in order to repair the bridges. The effect of the sudden appearance in the streets of Kovel of armored cars firing on all sides was such that within the space of a few minutes the Bolshevik troops, about 2 infantry divisions, were leaving the town in considerable disorder. The commander of the 12th Soviet Army escaped in a car. The effect of the raid was a capture of the big railway junction. The Poles also captured 2 armored trains several scores of guns 12 airplanes, several hundreds of railway carriages loaded with large amount of war material, and, besides, all that the staff archives the 12th Soviet Army contained. The Polish motorized group had held the town, until the main force arrived next morning. Three armored cars got damaged during the raid. Thus did the briliantly conducted raid on Kovel result not only in bringing immense spoil at a very inconsiderable loss, but it produced a tremendous operational effect which rendered possible the accomplishment of the strategic plan of the Commander-in-Chief, and at the same time it seriously weakened the strength and shook the morale of the 12th Bolshevik Army. Lord D’Abernon a British politician and diplomat, who was part of the interallied Mission to Poland in 1920, described in his diary the mobility of the Polish troops as amazing and noticed that Polish troops covered distances unattainable by the best European armies.
By the way, the Kościuszko Squadron was the first air squadron to use a railway train as a mobile flying base with specially designed railroad cars that could transport their aircraft as the front moved and developed. The train also included the squadron's operational headquarters, aircraft spares and repair workshops and living quarters. Which also shows how innovatively the Polish high command used new technologies.
Greetings from Poland 🇵🇱🇭🇺. Great job men, people on all the word must now our history. We are one of the strongest country's and we never give up!
Keep it up, Stefan!
You really did a great job, once again. Please add subtitles (German, French and ... Russian: highly recommended) so that more people can understand the history of Poland/Europe/World. Ps. I do hope that Polish government will notice your movies and help you create more of them.
Thank you Stefan for another beautiful, short film about Poland and Polish history and culture. God bless you and your work. I'm looking forward to watching more of your films. Dziekuje.
Polish army was a cultural and technological mix, French tanks, French advisers(eg. Charles de Gaulle), American pilots, German, Austrian and Russian rifles, Hungarian ammunition.
White Russians, Ukrainians and Muslims also fought on the Polish side.
Many also disturbed, Germans(the only port, free city Gdansk was blocked by them) and Czechs blocked the supply transports from France.
Czesi jak zwykle przeciwko Polsce
FRENCH dockers went on strike preventing the shipment of weapons and ammunition purchased in France. I hope that when you say "Muslims" you don't mean Polish Tatars. They are POLES! They live here for almost 400 years. Not to be confused with Muslims. This card is often used by leftists to bring us "cultural enrichers" here.
@@podunkman2709 Tatars are muslim. They are not christian, not jewish. You can both be a pole and a muslim.
@@podunkman2709 Bycie muzułmaninem nie przekreśla byciem Polakiem
@@puhpuh3037 An IQ slightly higher than body temperature is enough to understand what I am writing about. As for the statement that Polish Tatars "are not Christians", imagine that they are often CHRISTIANS!
wow man. I haven't been that impressed in a while. I've been loving this history so much, but your story telling? just masterpiece :) thank you!
Wielkie, godne setnej rocznicy tej wielkiej bitwy o losy Polski i świata. Dziękuję Panie Stefanie.
As always good job. Thank you
chills. that's what this narration gave me- chills.
Stefan jak zwykle fantastycznie, chciałbym mieć taką umiejętność doboru słów
Kciuki w górę, subskrybować i roznosić niczym świeże gów*o na butach po całym internecie, niech świat się dowie ile dla niego zrobiliśmy!
Stefan, it is the most beautiful movie about Battle of Warsaw I have seen in my life!
Thank you Stefan ! You do so excellent job to bring true history of Poland!West country’s kip 1920 is lake never happened!With regards Zdzidlaw!
Brawo Stefan, jesteś naszą Dumą Narodową. I'm truly grateful for your work.
"That time Poland saved the world..."
Me: Which one?
Serdecznie dziękuję.
Brilliant . Thank You for this Movie, Jeszcze Polska nie zginela i ni zginie. Long Life Poland and every Free Man and Women . Best Wishes to all free Nations.