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When we talk about the Battle of Warsaw in 1920, we usually think about August 15. However, the reality in the summer of 1920 was much more complicated , and the battle itself lasted much longer than one day.
On August 14, a Polish-Soviet military agreement regulating the formation of the Polish Armed Forces in the USSR was officially signed. Now ten of thousands of men, women and children, who wanted to escape Soviet captivity, could head towards Buzuluk, where the formation of Polish units began.
In the spring of 1943 the formation of the 1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division began in Seltsy located on the Oka River in the Soviet Union. Colonel Zygmunt Berling (later a general) was placed at its head.
The Neman in Polish history is not only a poetic motif, a symbol of returning to the “land of childhood years”. It is also an arena of international politics. This specific arena formerly hosted the rulers of two European powers on its waters.
German soldiers on the eastern frontline, June 1941, public domain "Barbarossa" On 22 June 1941, at 3:15 a.m., the first bombs and bullets fell on...
The Battle of Ostrołęka, Juliusz Kossak, public domain The Battle of Ostrołęka is the second biggest clash of the November Uprising, and at the same...
Polish flag over Berlin, 2nd May 1945, public domain When the bullets from Polish cannons and series of bullets from PPSh drove the Nazis from the...
After fierce combats in the northern part of the Italian Peninsula, Polish soldiers triumphantly entered Bologna.
The last weeks of the World War Two in Europe. Last, but critical engagements, and at the same time, more victims. In the morning of 16 April 1945 the operation of crossing the Oder river started, in which soldiers of the First Polish Army took part. Among the Polish units the First Infantry Division was present, a division which one and a half year earlier was sent to fight in the battle of Lenino.
Piotr Ściegienny spent 25 years of his long, almost 90-year life in Siberia. 10 years behind Baikal, and another 15 in the city of Perm in the Urals. He got there thanks to the Tsar’s “grace”…
