Poland Steps Up

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When Poland saved Europe

From the Blog The Daily Chrenk, by Mr Arthur Chrenkoff, 10 August 2020.

Here is the lede:

A hundred years ago this week, a series of biggest battles that Europe were to witness between the end of the First World War in 1918 and the beginning of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 decided the fate of the continent as much as, if not more than, the Great War itself.  In early August 1920, the newly resurrected, independent Poland saved the Eastern Europe, Germany and possibly the rest of the war-exhausted Europe from the triumphant Russian communism.  As a result of a little known war in the distant corners of the continent, the status quo of the East was preserved for another two decades.  It would take the Second World War for the Soviet Union to expand its empire all the way to the Elbe and (briefly) the Adriatic.  Had Poland not triumphed over the Red Army in 1920, and with Germany defeated and disarmed, no significant military force stood between the Soviets and the English Channel.  History of the 20th century would have taken a different course, and not necessarily a better one.

Little known, but important.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff