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Post by volkssturm on Apr 17, 2016 20:04:05 GMT -5
In the aftermath of WWI and the reestablishment of Poland as an independent country, Poland and Bolshevik Russia went to war. In 1920 the Red Army invaded and nearly captured Warsaw. This video on Youtube is a shortened version of a longer film, "Battle of Warsaw 1920", condensed into a sort of documentary. The full movie is also on Youtube, but without English subtitles. Pretty well done. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4I61EkSdgg
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Post by insterburger on Apr 17, 2016 21:33:03 GMT -5
There were similar fights throughout the former Imperial Russian sphere of influence. A distant great-uncle of mine was one of the key figures in the battle for an independent Latvia. I've read what I can on it, but good info is hard to find (except in Latvian, which I can't read). Suffice to say there were competing foreign interests, and the Latvians found themselves sometimes allied with, and sometimes at odds with, foreign anti-Soviet powers.
Interestingly, my great uncle was not only handsomely decorated by free Latvia, but was dripping with foreign medals: Swedish ones, Finnish ones, even the French Legion d'Honneur. And, of course, the Polish "Virtuti Militari."
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