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How Poland Saved the World from Russia


Michael Peck
History, Poland, Russia

The world expected a rapid Communist victory. The Poles had other ideas.

In the summer of 1920, Russia seemed poised to take over Europe.
Newly victorious in the Russian Civil War, but convinced that the capitalists were bent on strangling the cradle of Communism, the Bolsheviks looked for salvation. Their gaze fell on Germany, exhausted and embittered by defeat in the First World War, and now engulfed in civil strife between Communist revolutionaries and protofascist freikorps paramilitaries. If only the Red Army’s bayonets could install a Bolshevik regime in Berlin, then the two most powerful states in Central …read more

Source: The National Interest

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