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The Battle of Warsaw ( Polish: Bitwa Warszawska; Russian: Варшавская битва, Varshavskaya bitva ), also known as the Miracle on the Vistula ( Polish: Cud nad Wisłą ), was a series of battles that resulted in a decisive Polish victory in 1920 during the Polish–Soviet War. Poland, on the verge of total defeat, repulsed and ...
- August 12-25, 1920
- Polish victory
Aug 5, 2024 · Battle of Warsaw, (12–25 August 1920), Polish victory in the Russo-Polish War (1919–20) over control of Ukraine, which resulted in the establishment of the Russo-Polish border that existed until 1939. In a war that pitted Bolshevik revolutionary fervor against Polish nationalism, the Russian Bolsheviks suffered a humiliating defeat.
Historical Map of Russia & the former Soviet Union (12 August 1920 - Battle of Warsaw: In the west, the Soviets had beaten back a Polish invasion of the Ukraine and reached the gates of Warsaw. However, at the 'Miracle at the Vistula', the Poles unexpectedly defeated their overconfident opponents. Still troubled by civil war, the Soviets were ...
Aug 10, 2020 · The Battle of Warsaw took place from August 12 to 15, 1920. The fiercest combats were fought for Radzymin, Ossów and Zielonka. Radzymin was reclaimed from the Poles by the Bolsheviks on August 13, yet a day later it was under Polish control again, after the rally of General Józef Haller and his chief of staff, Colonel Włodzimierz Zagórski ...
Aug 14, 2020 · The first soil was from Płowce, commemorating the Battle of Płowce in 1331 and the last from Radzymin, marking Battle of Radzymin in 1920. In 1999, Pope John Paul II visited the cemetery in Radzymin of the Defenders of the Fatherland, who died on the fields around Warsaw and said: “I was born in May of 1920, at a time when the Bolsheviks were advancing on Warsaw.
Aug 29, 2020 · 1920 The Great War. It’s August 1920, and the armies of Bolshevik Russia have reached the gates of the Polish capital. Desperate Polish forces prepare to defend the city – and maybe even prevent the spread of the revolution to Central Europe: it’s the Battle of Warsaw. By August 1920, the Polish-Soviet War had been raging for over a year.
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