07-05-2003, 11:59 PM
...Poland attacked Russia in one last push to gain Belorus, Lithuania, and Ukraine ( areas Poland and Russia fought over for hundreds of years). This was under Polish leader ( maybe the last great one) Pilsudski, who took advantage of the chaos in Russia to make the grab. Long story short, the Poles did pretty well at first making it all the way to Kiev, then overextended, and were pushed all the way back to Warsaw by Tukachevsky if I rmember right (Stalin, Voroshilov, and Budenny all participated too). The Poles rallied (with French help) and pushed the Russians back to what would be the border until 1939.
Some consider it a seperate Polish-Russian war, though many (maybe most) consider it part of the Russian Civil War.
There were no seperate Polish campaign awards, just the regular civil war awards of the time.
DougD
PS-Great chapter on this fight in "Red Victory" by Lincoln.
Some consider it a seperate Polish-Russian war, though many (maybe most) consider it part of the Russian Civil War.
There were no seperate Polish campaign awards, just the regular civil war awards of the time.
DougD
PS-Great chapter on this fight in "Red Victory" by Lincoln.
