Military History

The 1918–20 Polish-Soviet War

he 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine not only shocked the world but also evoked historical echoes of another conflict waged across some of the same ground a century ago. Fought primarily between the fledgling Republic of Poland and the recently proclaimed Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, the Polish-Soviet War of 1918–20 contested disputed territories of the former empires of

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