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    BOLSHEVIKS, GENERALS AND CHAPLAINS

    May 13, 2021 4 minutes

    WLADYSLAW SIKORSKI

    THE SUCCESSFUL SOLDIER WHO BECAME POLAND’S TENTH PRIME MINISTER 1881-1943 POLAND

    The son of a school teacher and born in an area of southeast Poland that was then part of Austria-Hungary, Sikorski was involved in the underground Polish independence movement before WWI. He received an Austro-Hungarian military education, and upon the outbreak of war in 1914 he was mobilised into the Polish Legions. These units were created to liberate Poland from Russia through service in the Austro-Hungarian Army, but by 1917 Sikorski refused to swear allegiance to the Habsburgs.

    When Poland became independent in 1918, Sikorski organised the new Polish Army as a high-ranking officer. When the Polish-Soviet War broke out he commanded the 9th Infantry Division

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