Polish-Soviet War 1919-1920: Part I, Poland's War in Latvia, Lithuania, & Western Ukraine
Polish-Soviet War, 1919-1921 Part II Arguably one of the most important “Inter-War” conflicts of 1919-1938, the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1920 was fought between a newly created and independent Polish Republic (1918-1939) and Bolshevik Russia in Poland, in the Baltic and Galicia and Western Ukraine primarily. Polish volunteer cavalry, a so-called 'Death Squadron', 1920 Born out of centuries of state warfare and great territorial and population shifts between long gone kingdoms, empires, and states of the medieval, renaissance, and enlightened eras (see the Partitions of Poland and the Border of 1772), the Polish-Soviet Wars’ origins lay most directly in the defeat of the Imperial German army in the West, November 1918. They had occupied Poland and Warsaw as a major fortified soldiercity on the Eastern Front against Imperial Russia from 1914-1917 during World War I. Polish independence was proclaimed immediately after the Armistice between the Entente and Central Powers and prov...