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@RealWarnerus

Жыл бұрын

why does everyone animate the polish countryball's flag upside down?

@tomsengelbergs3026

Жыл бұрын

Latvia or Estonia or Lithuania independence war

@dutchdutchman3633

Жыл бұрын

I knew it

@TheRezro

Жыл бұрын

Cool video. But it use false. Probably Soviet sources. First of all Poland in fact was in military alliance with France and Britain prior to WW2. I also do not see proves of other countries being actually angry on Poland (beside unrelated local tensions) or Poland being imperialistic. Reclaiming borders of Commonwealth was understandable expectation after literally just regaining independence. If so the main issue was others to recognize that Poland even exits after WW1. The main reason why Poland fall so fast was alliance between Communists and Nazis.

@gabrilandproductions7905

Жыл бұрын

@@tomsengelbergs3026 Agree

Victory at Warsaw in 1920 was possible not only thanks to the supply of weapons from France and Hungary or the courage of the soldiers, but also thanks to the titanic work of Polish cryptologists who broke the Soviet ciphers. Thanks to this, the Polish commanders knew where and when to strike and, in addition, prevented the Soviet commanders from reacting because they jammed their frequency by transmitting the Holy Bible.

@goofymode8205

Жыл бұрын

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@JedenastySynMalice

Жыл бұрын

Owszem.

@fernandorivera4719

Жыл бұрын

Jammed comms using WHAT? Unfathomably Based

@joseaca1010

Жыл бұрын

100 years later and russia faced the exact same problems at the start of their invasion of Ukraine

@georgyekimov4577

Жыл бұрын

frankly i doubt it since the comms even to WWII didn t have anough radios I kinda doubt that they would have them there so I would ask for a source

Who else noticed them playing "Hej, Sokoly!" in the background?

@Cattzar

Жыл бұрын

Hej, Sokoły!

@Kristof1

Жыл бұрын

🇵🇱🇺🇦!

@user-gr9fq9gt9w

Жыл бұрын

It's hard to listen to his words because of this song!

@JoeBurgerCinematicUniverse

Жыл бұрын

Yes

@JoeBurgerCinematicUniverse

Жыл бұрын

@@Kristof1 Ukraine bad

My God that cavalry duel is something straight out of a movie

@shcdemolisher

Жыл бұрын

Yeah!!

@idklmaod5014

Жыл бұрын

I think there a film about the conflict that you can find it in KZread, but idk if its a propaganda film or not.

@starhalv2427

4 ай бұрын

​@@idklmaod5014 I remember Poles made a propaganda movie, idk if it's that one tho.

@Har1ByWorld

4 ай бұрын

@@starhalv2427 you mean historical movie?

@starhalv2427

4 ай бұрын

@@Har1ByWorld It was a historical movie, in the same way "Napoleon" is historical.

You might wonder why didn't Poland support the white movement. Basically, when the whites came begging Poland for help while being beaten by the soviets, they offered Poland autonomy within the Russian empire as a reward. In the interwar period, the enemy of your enemy is not your friend.

@TheRezro

Жыл бұрын

Because Poland was already independent country. Whole proposition was a BS!

@JakubSobczyk2137

Жыл бұрын

Only general Piotr Wrangel, I think, supported the idea of an independent Polish state

@andso2152

Жыл бұрын

Of course they didn't support it as other states. Whites fought alongside Estonians in the north and also were like "after we win we'll get you" so they stopped being allies. Also Poles strived for their independence for over 123 years(you have to add years under Russian protectorate). By what logic Poland that was stronger than White Movement should submit to it? Piłsudski himself was a socialist and regarded Whites as worse evil in fact

@TheRezro

Жыл бұрын

@@JakubSobczyk2137 Lol. No. Poland never was part of Russia by own will. Learn the history. Also Poland occasionally did fight alongside whites. But they weren't one block. Term described broad range of anti-Soviet Russian forces. Some were also anti-Polish.

@JakubSobczyk2137

Жыл бұрын

@@TheRezro Yes, I know it, because I did not write anything about one block of whites who fought against the Bolsheviks or Poland as a legitimate claim of Russia. I wrote that out of the large number of white generals, only Piotr Wrangel was not mentally limited and realized that it is worth having Poland as an ally. Also I Am Polish and I know history of my country.

The polish soviet war is really complicated and intresting and i like what you did with it

@gae_wead_dad_6914

2 күн бұрын

It's amazing how the Poles managed to make enemies out of every single one of their neighbor The political grace of a drunk fuckin' bear

oh my god the entirety of eastern europe in 1918-1925 was such a horrible clusterfuck, and it had such a massive effect on both this region's future history and the history of the rest of the world, and literally every single outcome was realistically possible.

@brfjhdcb

Жыл бұрын

Fall of german, russian and austrian empire were really messy times

@DogDogGodFog

Жыл бұрын

Honey, WW2 in Eastern Europe was a continuation of that too. In fact, interwar EE and WW2 EE did not change much apart from the Polish quickly having to resort to partisan activity and the Red Army being stronger. But it was almost simply like a continuation. EE was probably more peaceful during WW1 then during the "interwar period" which actually had much more wars and conflicts in it lmao

@smorcrux426

Жыл бұрын

@@DogDogGodFog ww2? Ww2 was an organized giant scale war, of course it was hectic but nothing like interwar EE

@DogDogGodFog

Жыл бұрын

@@smorcrux426 Very few things were different, I mean dude, the Soviets didn't even really record who they captured or what they did to who...

@marlarki5280

Жыл бұрын

Eastern Europe is cursed beyond imagination, millions upon millions of man actively helping the Nazis bring about the destruction of their own race. To this very day, there are plenty of them who still larp as Nazis to he edgy.

Poland was literaly "I won but at what cost" no friends basically

@andso2152

Жыл бұрын

Of course Poland wasn't popular but not hated that much Friends of Poland club: -Hungary -Romania -Latvia -Yugoslavia -"Belarus" I added it as Belarusians were contrary to Ukrainians fully pro-Polish with common people mostly lacking needed national identity. People who strived for Belarusian independence like Stanislaŭ Bulak-Balachovič being devoted to Poland and government in exile not being too anti-Polish (...) I think the worst were Czechs who went against Germans, Hungarians, Poles, Ukrainians and even Slovaks with whom they're supposed to share their country

@ironic9718

Жыл бұрын

@@andso2152 hmmmm interesting but still ... Latvia and yugoslavia got fucking killed and hungary and romania joined the axis, but is good to now that poland had friends

@funtecstudiovideos4102

Жыл бұрын

@@ironic9718 Hungarians actually were helping Poles during WW2 :>

@ironic9718

Жыл бұрын

@@funtecstudiovideos4102 How?

@titanicbigship

Жыл бұрын

They refuse to join the invasion of pollen

the Soviet government offered an armistice based on the existing front line and proposed a peace conference. Piłsudski, however, knew that the Soviets were conducting a massive buildup in the area; Red Army strength on the Polish front increased from 7 divisions in January to 20 in March.

@empireofitalypsstimfromano5025

Жыл бұрын

So Even If Poland Was Winning Russia Is Just Too Large To Make Another Commonwealth

@GreatPolishWingedHussars

Жыл бұрын

Yes, the communists could not be trusted, because their goal was a communist world! Indeed, the Polish victory in the Polish-Bolshevik War had also an extreme European impact. According to the British politician and diplomat Lord D'Abernon, who was part of the inter allied Mission to Poland in 1920, during the Polish-Bolshevik war, the 1920 Battle of Warsaw was one of the most important battles in world history because as he said "had the Battle of Warsaw ended with a Bolshevik victory, it would have been a turning point in the history of Europe. As there is no doubt that with the fall of Warsaw, Central Europe would have been left open to Communist propaganda and Bolshevik invasion." So long as the Bolsheviks were preoccupied with the Civil War, they had nothing in mind beyond their survival. But, having conquered the Russian heartland in the course of 1919, they began to heed the dictates of their ideology, which told them that the Communist Revolution should be exported from Russia to the rest of Europe. The Second Congress of the Communist International deliberated in Moscow between 19 July and 7 August 1920. Lenin spoke of the increasingly favorable odds for the accomplishment of the World Proletarian Revolution, which would lead to the World Soviet Republic. The road to Europe opened up when Germany lost the First World War and signed the surrender on November 11th 1918. The German troops then systematically retreated from the occupied lands of Ukraine, Belarus and other Baltic states. They were immediately followed by the Bolshevik Red Army, fulfilling Lenin’s orders to begin its “freeing” march west. This operation had a telling codename - “Vistula”. The most important job of the Bolsheviks was to break through to Germany and Austria which were filled with revolutionary atmosphere. To do that, they needed to get rid of the “barrier”, meaning, as Joseph Stalin wrote, “the national states which wound up between the two huge sources of revolution in the East and West”. One such barrier was, first and foremost, Poland which just regained independence following the defeat of Germany and the fall of the Austrian-Hungarian empire. On November 17th 1918, at the Red Army briefing, its commander Leon Trotsky predicted the sovietisation of Poland and Ukraine as “the links binding Soviet Russia with future Soviet Germany” and the first stage in building “the Union of European Proletariat Republics”. Poles lived also at the territories of modern Belarus and Lithuania, which were invaded by the Bolsheviks. A Polish Self-defense was created there, counting 10 thousand men, which was part of the Polish Army and its commander, Gen. Władysław Wejtko followed the orders of Chief Commander Józef Piłsudski. Between the 3rd and 5th of January 1919, the self-defense units tried to defend Wilno on their own. However, in the face of an overwhelming opponent Poles had to retreat from the city. Thus, the Polish-Bolshevik war actually began on January 3rd 1919, although not formally. The march West was accompanied by the creation of puppet Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Ukrainian and Belarusian Soviet republics. A Western Marksmen Division, consisting of Polish communists, marched among the ranks of the Red Army. On January 8th 1919, the Soviet newspaper “Izvestia” announced the creation of the Revolutionary War Council of Poland, a cornerstone for the future communist government. Later by order of the Bolsheviks, the Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee as a Polish puppet government had been formed to organize administration of the Polish territories captured by the Red Army. This puppet government had very little support from the ethnic Polish population and recruited its supporters mostly from the ranks of minorities, primarily Jews. With these additional resources from conquered Poland and the Baltic countries, the communists planned to advance further into the west. Poland should be the "Red Bridge" for Communist ideology to the West. So conquered Poland should serve as a red bridge to conquer all of Europe. The aim of conquering other European states as well is also confirmed by the order of Mikhail Tukachevsky called “Red Napoleon”, commander of the Western Front of the Red Army. In his Order of the Day he wrote in July 2, 1920: "To the West! The fate of the world revolution will be decided in the West. The way to set the world on fire leads through the corpse of white Poland. On our bayonets we will bring happiness and peace to the toiling masses of mankind. March on Wilno, Minsk and Warsaw and onward to Berlin over the corpse of Poland!" Tukhachevsky also boasted that his men would be "galloping through the streets of Paris before the summer was out." By the way, Tukhachevsky was one of the first military commanders killed in Satlin's purges in 1937. Tukachevsky called Poland white Poland because the communist propaganda called free Poland white Poland. The term whites were used to designate anti-communists. But the Polish victory prevented setting the world on fire by communists. So the main reason for the outbreak of the Polish-Bolshevik war the threat to Poland’s independence by Bolsheviks, as well as the attempt to implement the idea of a permanent revolution, and the export of the communist revolution Europe-wide but actually worldwide. What is also worth noting the fact that if Poland had been conquered by the communists, the Baltic states would have been conquered too. Poland was therefore allied with Latvia in this war. Poland and some few others European countries were not infected by the red virus. In Poland the overwhelming majority of the population was anti-communist. But Poland was the absolute exception in Europe! In various European countries at that time there were strong communist movements that would have supported the communists in their advance. I'll continue my explanation in the next comment.

@GreatPolishWingedHussars

Жыл бұрын

Moreover, there were also attempts by the communists to take power in other parts of Europe! So these are examples of communist successes outside the Bolshevik state at the time of the Polish-Bolshevik war. The Hungarian Soviet Republic was the communist state of Hungary from 21 March 1919 until 1 August 1919 (133 days). Until the anti-communists prevailed and abolished this Soviet republic. The other communist republics and communes have survived just as short as the Hungarian Soviet Republic but that makes it clear that there were strong communist influences throughout Europe. The Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic more commonly referred to as Red Finland, was a proclaimed Finnish communist state that ruled parts of the country during the Finnish Civil War of 1918. Another example of an attempted communist takeover of power in Europe was then the Alsace-Lorraine Soviet Republic of 1918 in France. The Limerick Soviet was one of a number of declared Irish soviets that were formed around Ireland 1919. The Slovak Soviet Republic was a short-lived Communist state in southeast Slovakia in existence from 16 June 1919 to 7 July 1919. Commune of the Working People of Estonia existed from 29 November 1918 to 5 June 1919. In 1918, announced the formation of the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic. A communist revolutionary Red Guard was founded in Austria and an attempt was made to proclaim a Soviet Republic. Like in Hungary during the German November Revolution, the communist Karl Liebknecht proclaimed the communist republic in Germany on November 9, 1918. But the communists' seizure of power then failed, although later there were repeated attempts by the communists to gain power in Germany or parts of Germany. Like with the Bavarian Soviet Republic which was a short-lived communist state in Bavaria during the riots of 1918-19 in Germany. Then there were another attempts by the communists to come to power in German areas. The Bremen Soviet Republic was proclaimed which was a short-lived state in Germany, existing for 25 days in 1919. The communist Spartacist uprising with the goal of an all-German Soviet Republic were armed battles in Berlin from 5 to 12 January 1919. Bolshevik propaganda was strengthened in many European countries and e.g in Germany, posters appeared with a Red Army soldier freeing the country from chains. The congress of the Communist International issued an appeal to workers in all countries, asking them to forestall their governments' efforts to aid "White" Poland. So the Bolsheviks, as part of a huge propaganda action under the slogan: “Hands off Soviet Russia”, mobilized communist parties and leftist trade unions across all of Europe to work against Poland. Many western journalists were on the payroll of Bolshevik propaganda. Workers and dockers in various European countries were sympathizers of the Bolsheviks also refused to load the support supplies for the fighting Poles against the Bolsheviks. The refusal of the dockers in Gdansk (Danzig) was particularly unfavorable because all deliveries to Poland were to be made via this port. Also the British trade unions followed the Communist propaganda and blocked British military supplies to Poland. So the Trades Union Congress and Labour Party responded by threatening national strike action and established Councils of Action to resist any possible efforts by the British government to supply Poland with arms or other supplies. On August 6, 1920, the British Labour Party published a pamphlet stating that British workers would never take part in the war as Poland's allies, and labour unions blocked supplies to the British expeditionary force assisting Russian Whites in Arkhangelsk. French Socialists, in their newspaper L'Humanité, declared: "Not a man, not a sou, not a shell for reactionary and capitalist Poland. Long live the Russian Revolution! Long live the Workmen's International!" Since the communists had enough supporters all over Europe after the desired victory against Poland the communists would have in Europe either provoked revolutions through agitators or they would have intervened militarily. If the communists had conquered Europe, which was by far the most economically important continent at the time, they would have had a good chance of "exporting" communism worldwide as well. That this is not an exaggeration can be seen by comparing the strategy of the communists after World War II. Even in these later times, communism was "exported" to countries around the world, and as a result there were countries around the world ruled by communist dictatorships. After 1945, as in 1919, the communists had the goal of a world completely dominated by communism. The goal was that virtually every country would become communist. That is why the Polish victory of 1921 definitely had not just a European impact but also a global impact.

@GreatPolishWingedHussars

Жыл бұрын

@@empireofitalypsstimfromano5025 That wasn't Russia. These were Bolsheviks and Communists. They were actually international. They murdered more Russians than Poles! A total Polish victory over the Bolsheviks was also possible. To do this, however, the Poles would have needed massive support from the British and French. A total victory of the Poles over the Bolsheviks would have saved a great many lives and most likely prevented World War II. But these fools were not ready for that. That was just as stupid as dan later regarding the Germans. As early as 1933, Poland proposed to overthrow the Nazi government through military intervention. But the British and French were not ready for this. They preferred to do this idiotic policy of appeasement. Later they also betrayed Poland in 1939. They made one gigantic mistake after another.

@shocktun3s729

Жыл бұрын

​@@GreatPolishWingedHussars you're gay

Ten moment kiedy jaki polak dowiadujesz się więcej o wojnie Polsko bolszewickiej z obcojęzycznego filmu na yt niż z lekcji historii

@Victor_Sullivan12

5 ай бұрын

No niestety większość informacji trzeba brać z obcojęzycznych filmów

@osososd

4 ай бұрын

Było chodzić do normalnej szkoly

@piep1szoraurYT

4 ай бұрын

@@osososd chodziłem do normalnej podstawówki

@Har1ByWorld

4 ай бұрын

@@piep1szoraurYT To trzeba było uważać na lekcjach.

@baileygregory9192

25 күн бұрын

Glad to here polish schools are just as bad as British ones

4:05 Not everyone in Kiev was edger to fight the Bolsheviks. Some of them were even defending the city. My Great-Great-Grandfather, was a soldier at that time. He and his brigade have entered the city. They were not prepared what happend next. Due to a suprise attack, they were pinned down by the soviet's maxims. Almost all batalion was cut down. Only 2 mans survived: My ancestor, and his commander, who was in backline, and did not took part in assault. After he heared what happend, the batalion was disbanded. My Great-Great-Grandfather came back home. Btw. if he deserted, he would been sentenced to death, at this time, everyone who ran out of the battlefield or helped the soldier that ran away, were sentenced to death. Harsh, but times were harsh to. Unluckly my ancestor live long enough to witness the WW II. He passed away during the german occupation in the 1943.

@notme8232

Жыл бұрын

God, that's cool. My great-grandpa (or great-great, can't remember which) was also Polish, but moved to America before he got to see his homeland restored, so I didn't get any cool stories from him.

@ascendedbro1828

7 күн бұрын

Yeah this video is so much full of bias that it ignores so much reality of this war

“the Entente Powers, far from aiding Poland, regarded her activities with irritation. Poland won her independence for twenty years by her own efforts under the leadership of Piłsudski.” ― Norman Davies,

@TheRezro

Жыл бұрын

I mean yes. But there was different reason for that, as British intended to restore status quo. What reemergence of Poland screw forcing new talks about balance of power. Video overreach when Poland was in fact in alliance with both France and Germany during WW2. The only reason it didn't get aid at this point, was because die to backstabbing of Soviets, Poland fall before Allied could even try form counteroffensive. And they pay harsh for negligence later with Dunkirk.

@generalamsel437

Жыл бұрын

@@TheRezro even then foreign volunteers still aided the Polish on their own accord, in particular American pilots are notable during the battle of Warsaw.

@TheRezro

Жыл бұрын

@@secretname4190 Yes. They literally fight for they independence. What is something video forget to mention. Problem was that because Russia was surprising cultures, borders were quite hazy concept. What lead to lot of problems.

@TheRezro

Жыл бұрын

@@secretname4190 Ukraine is also "warlike aggressive state" now. Who refuse to submit to "gentle tough of Tsar Putin". It is actually quite analogical situation. Also everyone would prefer to not be the war. But only ignorant blame Ukraine for resisting.

@TheRezro

Жыл бұрын

@@secretname4190 Those republics were as fresh as Poland was. Whole front was pure chaos and I honestly wouldn't even antagonize Bolsheviks there. Not until Ribbentrop-Molotov, when they start working with Nazis.

As a pole, I sure as hell did not expect this. It is a welcome surprise, friend!

@mattBLACKpunk

Жыл бұрын

Is there a reason your pfp says thr instead of trh?

@therandomhistorian5394

Жыл бұрын

@@mattBLACKpunk I made it a couple years ago when still young, its a simple mistake

@JakubixIsHere

Жыл бұрын

You live in America Right?

@therandomhistorian5394

Жыл бұрын

@@JakubixIsHere No, why would I

Piłsudzki actually recognized how dumb all of it was. New border was complete nightmare for defender and current government rushed for peace so much that they broke they promises to Ukrainians. Man, if only our loved Naczelnik seized power at the beginning that war would be more than "we saved them again, they payed back with invasion"

@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic1139

Жыл бұрын

Actually the border with USSR wasn't difficult to defend. The border with Germany, especially in 1939 was, though.

@polishscribe674

Жыл бұрын

@@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic1139 Wasn't soviet border on just planes? I know about German one, there was entire plan how to defend it but couldn't be applied bc of the Allies.

@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic1139

Жыл бұрын

@@polishscribe674 There was a plan how to defend Soviet border as well. A much more detailed plan with infrastructure in place. As Poles would retreat, the line of defence would get shorter. The industry was on the west, safe from Russians. Poles would retreat to the river line eventually. Belarussian swamps would force Soviets to split the front into 2 independent armies that wouldn't be able to reinforce with each other. Vilnius and Lviv fronts Poles on the other hand would be able to reinforce either front if nessecary and would have much better mobility. In 1939 Red Army was a real mess so invasion of Poland could end like in finland or worse, despite their numerical superiority. Germans in the other hand attacked from 3 sides and used Blitzkrieg. I know that there was an idea to retreat to the river line as well but it would be still more difficult to defend against German. But yeah, Polish defence in 1939 was a result of politics not military planning.

@Forestian4

Жыл бұрын

Ukraine also didnt meet all requirements because they promised to prepare much bigger armyu.

@Har1ByWorld

5 ай бұрын

corection ukrainian broke thier promises first so Polish side wasnt at fault.

Fun fact: During the polish-bolshevik war, the Czechoslovakia took a small terytory called Zaolzie. It was almost fully setteled by Poles, but for ages was a part of Kingdom of Bohemia. In addition to that, the Czech government blocked all supplice lines for Poland from Hungary. So there is no point in calling Poland a Hitler's firendly neighbour, that helped divide Czechoslovakia. No, it was an eye for an eye situation. (Btw, the Czechs took that land when Poland was at war, so you see who was more hopeless now)

@Pigraider268

Жыл бұрын

Oh didn't know about that. Thanks :)

@serfserfen3938

Жыл бұрын

Czechoslovakia attacked because poland broke an agreement that said they cannot have elections to the polish sejm in the disputed territory of zaolzie and they cant conscript men to the polish army.

@itshenry8977

Жыл бұрын

The czechs had a rightfull claim to Těšín, and it was settled by Silesians, Czechs and poles you blocked our supply lines towards Slovakia, whilst we were at war with Hungarian reds, you may not be Hitler friendly but you're oppurtunists (they did that whilst Czechslovakia was at war, so you see who was more hopeless now)

@nicolausg7058

Жыл бұрын

​@@itshenry8977 Czechs are opportunists to ;) As all of us - Slavs. We will always took any opportunity. Czechs are no exception to that. Btw. I couldn't find anything of that polish blocade of Slovakia that you are talking about. So could you at least send some likns, to prove your point of view ? I am not Czech, or Slovak, so I know that only from polish side during war with Communist on Hungary. Could you please send some liks, that are proving your point ? (Btw, you were not fighting Hungarians alone, you had a whole coalition, of Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Romania and even Austria and Hungarian Nationalists, so you were not alone, while Poland was alone) Edit 1: But you can not deny, that the Czechoslovakian army started that war. You can not forbid the citizens to vote, can't you ? By forcing people to not vote, to at least set up some temporary self government that later could solve the matter peacefuly, you decided to attack an innocent people in thier own houses.

@Dread_2137

Жыл бұрын

​@@serfserfen3938 As far as i rembember the whole conflict. In november 1918, administration was taken over by the National Council of Duchy of Cieszyn on behalf of Poland, and by Czechoslovakia by Zemský národní výbor pro Slezsko. Both these organizations, without the participation of the central authorities, divided their spheres of influence in agreement of 5th november 1918. In december 1918, Czechoslovak side began preparations for an armed solution to the border conflict. The attack took place on 23rd january 1919, a few days after start of the Paris Peace Conference and three days before planned Polish parliamentary elections. After the pending battle of Skoczów, under the pressure of Entente, a ceasefire followed. The issue of the conflict was discussed at Supreme Council of the Paris Conference and a new, more favorable to Czechoslovakia, but unsatisfactory, demarcation line was established. The Czechoslovak side opted for a division as much as possible along the Vistula line. On 11 th April 1919 , Polish Sejm unanimously passed a resolution stating that the lands of Cieszyn Silesia, as undoubtedly Polish and inhabited by the purely Polish population, can by no means be considered controversial. In summer of 1920, during Tukhachevsky's offensive against Warsaw, Czech Foreign Minister Edvard Benes took advantage of Poland's situation and forced at a conference in Spa that division of Cieszyn Silesia was decided by the powers without a plebiscite, which Prime Minister Władysław Grabski agreed, counting on the help of the powers in the face of Bolshevik invasion in Poland. And by the decision of the powers to divide Cieszyn Silesia on 28th july 1920 was favorable for Czechoslovakia (czechs obtained polish territories, the entire zone was demilitarized) and gave Czechoslovakia most of the disputed areas of Spisz and Orawa. Polish government recognized decision of Council of Ambassadors due to the deteriorating situation on the front of the Polish-Bolshevik war, provided that transports of arms for the Polish Army were sent through Czechoslovakia. Despite Edvard Benes's declaration in Spa until battle of Warsaw, Czechoslovakia did not allow any transports to Poland. Neither side to the conflict was fully satisfied with the decision to divide Cieszyn Silesia. From Poland's point of view, there are several hundred thousand Poles left on the Czech side, most of them highly nationally aware. After transfer to Czech side in 1920 of the part of Zaolzie inhabited mostly by Poles, new authorities launched an anti-Polish policy towards polish majority in this area. First harbinger of this was the census conducted by Czech authorities (a few months after the division of Zaolzie), which falsely showed that local Polish element had decreased by half in just a few years. Attempt to marginalize poles also manifested itself in the elimination of administrative separateness in this area and its incorporation into the Moravian-Czech country in 1928, as well as in blocking poles access to local government authorities, as well as in the abolition of polish schools and opening of czech schools in return (even where poles were decisive majority). Anti-Polish state policy of czech authorities brought intended effects (despite strong resistance of polish activists against administrative and social oppression) as early as 10 years later - in 1930, number of students in polish schools fell by as much as half, and the percentage of poles in individual counties also decreased. And we all remember the situation from 1938 and Czechs calling Poles "Hitler's friends".

That horseback duel was badass ngl

Fun fact: Communist from Germany (and other countries) were so ready that soviets will win in Battle of Warsaw, that they started to put soviet flags, and wait for them. Imagine how pissed they were when soviet lose

There are so many things that could be added. Some of them potentially could be even a topic ao their own videos (in no particular order): - The battle of Komarów (30 VIII to 2 IX 1920), the biggest cavalry battle in the war, and arguably the last great one in history. - Battle of Zadwórze "Polish Thermopylae". - American volunteer airmen fighting for Poland in the Kosciuszko Escadrille (Merian C. Cooper being a particularly interesting one). - Voluntary Legion of Women (Ochotnicza Legia Kobiet) taking part in the actual fighting, beside women in auxiliary roles (look up Wanda Gertz in particular). - The practically independent warlord General Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz, who fought on the Polish side but was unhappy with the peace, when it was signed, and tried to kick out the Bolsheviks from Belarus on his own. - The prelude to this war: Polish formations created alongside Russian Army after the February Revolution and the militias of local ethnic Poles in Lithuania and Belarus fought against Bolsheviks long before the regular Polish Army did. - How Polish leadership was actually very divided about many important issues including the war aims and their attitudes towards the Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, etc. And so one...

@Patryk128pl

Жыл бұрын

One of fun facts is that at one point to convince Soviets that American support arrived, Poles painted themselves black to be seen by the Soviets. Though it was on a rather smaller scale.

@Artur_M.

Жыл бұрын

@@Patryk128pl Yeah, I've heard this anecdote too, don't know how true it is though. However, there definitely was a handful of actual black people fighting in Polish forces in that war. We have not only relations but photos! One individual identified and well documented is Sam Sandi, who first fought in the Greater Poland Uprising. He was most likely brought there by the Germans, as a POW from the French colonial troops.

In Poland, we sometimes call this war: "The Great War of the Weak Armies". Thanks God we win this and didn't let communism spread over all in the Europe, just like the Polish Hussars defeated the Ottomans at the Battle of Vienna in 1683

@BifronsCandle

Жыл бұрын

The "spread" of Communism would have prevented the rise of fascism in Germany, which in turn would have prevented the Nazis from destroying Europe and especially Poland. Then again, right wing Polish nationalists aren't known for their intelligence.

@aydan69420

Жыл бұрын

I mean at least the Ottomans were not as cruel as the Bolsheviks which killed 27 Million people

@CABRALFAN27

11 ай бұрын

Looking at it another way, you could argue that the Red Army reaching the Communist Revolutionaries in Germany would prevent the Nazis from rising to power, but then that might spark WW2 early, with the Liberals and Communists beating the shit out of each other, so who knows if Fascism would've even been defeated. It's hard to predict how things might've gone on an international scale.

@gauntlettcf5669

9 ай бұрын

​@@CABRALFAN27Idk, in my experience liberals usually suck when to comes to direct blows with communists during a civil war, because communists are dangerous, extreme radicals while liberals are pansies good at embargoes and trading but nothing more.

@dragon_ball_sucks_video

4 ай бұрын

No we arent calling it that, We call it "how did napoleon loose to this garbage?"

If Hollywood ever runs out of ideas, they can just do movies about history of Poland. Pagan Barbarians, Noble Knights, Romantic Revolutionists, Great Scientists, World Wars. Basically any story you need even Sci-fi.

@zhangzy123

Жыл бұрын

Poland in space 🚀

@budynmistygnie

Жыл бұрын

They'd probably make Zawisza the black literally a pack person, also add Asians and other stuff like this

@plrc4593

Жыл бұрын

Hollywood kind of made it already and it's called the Star Wars ;) If you look carefully there is a striking resemblance between the story of Star Wars and Polish history: - a powerful state - a republic (the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth), - knights with (light-)sabers, - a civil war being a begining of all problems (Chmielnicki's uprising), - separatists demanding independence (Cossacks and Ukraine), - the Republic being replaced by an empire (the Russian Empire) - a rebelion (Polish national uprisings) - finally the Rebelion wining a war and restoring the Republic. ;)

@cetus4449

Жыл бұрын

Hollywood hates Poles.

@baird5682

Жыл бұрын

@@budynmistygnie Well, there were Tatars from the Golden Horde visiting often after all.

I am lebanese and I would love to go to Poland this country has great history like winged Hussars and Warsaw uprising even one of the best cavalry Regiment of Napoleon which is my favourite commander in history was polish long live polska

@user-yg7rg8ob4o

Жыл бұрын

Yooo im polish and lebanon was always iteresting for me like People what where living there and i really like the lebanonese flag

@nehemhajjar8217

Жыл бұрын

@@user-yg7rg8ob4o thank you and me I love the polish national anthem

@cqpp

Жыл бұрын

@@nehemhajjar8217 well you will find most Poles are and always have been racist towards arab. So goodluck. They are extremely nationalistic.

@nehemhajjar8217

Жыл бұрын

@@cqpp Well we are not arab we are Phoenicians and cartagenese so no problem with this

@porostsleepy

Жыл бұрын

@@cqpp Have you ever been in poland

It made me so happy to see that Brain4breakfest reference at 9:43. Absolute legend of a creator, taken way too soon. Amazing Video as always though! Would you ever do a video about the Polish and German boarder wars around this time?

@puganimations2418

Жыл бұрын

I don't get the reference, could you explain? Also, rip b4b

@alden1024

Жыл бұрын

@@puganimations2418 kzread.info/dash/bejne/f3mT1rhtaJeffrQ.html and kzread.info/dash/bejne/f3mT1rhtaJeffrQ.html These were the first time I've ever seen the steam roller Poland ball image but maybe I'm wrong

@puganimations2418

Жыл бұрын

@@alden1024 okay, I don't think that was a reference though.

I love the polish-soviet war for the simple fact that the battle of warsaw is called "miracle on the vistula"

Hungary approves (Especially Regent Horthy) of Poland's most noble and galant actions to halt and exterminate the red plague. May God be with them!

That part about the two guys dueling was fantastic. I love those little personal stories

I get the countryball meme that Poland has to have the wrong flag. But in an educational video, especially one of great quality such as this, I really think that using the correct Polish flag would be by far the better option.

@budynmistygnie

Жыл бұрын

Yea it annoys me a lot

@kevinboros7427

Жыл бұрын

@@budynmistygnie I'm glad I'm not the only one.

@kevinboros7427

Жыл бұрын

@TheMexiko Maybe it was funny years ago, now it's just annoying. It's a meme that is waaaaay past its prime.

@madtechnocrat9234

Жыл бұрын

@@kevinboros7427 It won't change. Deal with it. :P

6:50 I wasn't expecting a Jojo reference out of nowhere like this Ezekiel you bastard, I just spilled my bierkrug

@tower_defense_enjoyer

Жыл бұрын

Oh. You are challenging me. Yes

Lots of info and explained by countryballs? Noice job Ezekiel

Great content as always

Bij bolszewika w każdej go postaci bo to jest twój największy dzisiaj wróg!

@bartomiejzakrzewski7220

Жыл бұрын

teraz pozmienial nazwiska i sprawuje rzady w tym umeczonym kraju, trzeba si epytac go o zgode w kazdym detalu

The background music feels like I'm playing Poland in Kaiserreich... Btw, your channel is really underrated, keep up the good work

He be makin good videos as always😎

best vid so far

Another banger! keep up the great work!

Nice vid man, keep up the good work 👍

I really hecking enjoyed this one Edit: on a second thought i enjoyed it so much, im putting a link to this in my yt community page

I love how the backround music is an instrumental version of hej sokoły

this made me learn a lot thank you!

Nice video!

It's worth noting that Poland didn't get more land because it couldn't conquer it in time, but because Polish leadership was split between federalist state of Poland, Belarus and Ukraine, and between a unitary state of just Poland. The former would have more manpower and land, but the latter would be more unified. Considering many of the non-Polish parties were quite radical, it's hard to say if it was a mistake to not get more land.

I love your content hope you keep doing it

Great video

This is a really good video

The color red on the Polish flag is at the bottom and not at the top. Greetings from Poland, great material :)

Wow, I am not used to Poland in Polandball being awesome.

@plrc4593

Жыл бұрын

Haven't you heard about the Winnged Hussars? :O

Hope you make more videos like this. I love it :)

Nice video

Did anyone notice them playing *"Ciezkie czasy legionera"* during Polish army liberated Kiev?

Has anyone noticed a striking resemblance between the story of Star Wars and Polish history? - a powerful state - a republic (the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth), - knights with (light-)sabers, - a civil war being a begining of all problems (Chmielnicki's uprising), - separatists demanding independence (Cossacks and Ukraine), - the Republic being replaced by an empire (the Russian Empire) - a rebelion (Polish national uprisings) - finally the Rebelion winning a war and restoring the Republic. ;)

Cool video

Finally you covered this

You should do the french mexican war I think it would be very interesting. Also keep up the goof work amigo.

So kinda like how France lost ww2 (initially) by winning ww1 (the lack of available manpower and fear of getting into another ww1) Poland lost by winning the Polish-Soviet war.

Good video

Amazing vid bro!!!!

Most unbiased Poland-USSR war video yet. Sometimes we omit technicalities that led to a war result and we attribute it to ''God, Poland Stronk etc'' but not in this vid.

really liked the sound track

This is one of my favorite topic in Polish history

I love your choice of background music

Nice!

Poland was that one boss the Bolsheviks couldn't beat so they had to do some other quests and level up

01:53 Federation goals aside (with nationalists on both sides screwing the idea into oblivion) Poles had much simpler reason to refuse - number of Lithuanians in the city and surrounding areas was pitiful, population had clear wishes and no one had any delusions about capacity of Lithuania to defend that region from bolsheviks, as evidenced by it being... uh... lost to bolsheviks earlier, with only local guerillas trying to put up a fight. 02:05 Not "to take" but "to relieve", as inhabitants were still defending from being incorporated by that very Ukrainian government - you hardly have to "take" a city that both declares allegiance to you and fights for it until you arrive. 02:24 ...at least until relationship soured over, you guess it, minority policies. Welcome to EE. 04:30 Kinda harsh. Why would population be uninterested in MORE war after WW1, revolution, Whites invading, internal squabbles, Red Army invading - because "Petlura incompetent" or because "ffs I just want to plant potatoes" and general disillusionment characteristic for people being overrun by 24352 factions over and over, learning that all of them plunder, kill and exploit just the same. 05:19 ...including such gems like imperial generals and former Whites volunteering to join commies to own Poles:) 09:08 ...while bolshevik forces lacked any support, because certain Man of Steel hogged his units around Lviv and refused to send help despite orders. Also, a minor screwup regarding Lithuania - bolsheviks did promise to give them Vilnius, but failed to do so at the time of those events. Big surprise;) They only gave the area AFTER being beaten at Warsaw, with Polish units closing in. 10:12 ...and Weimar Germany simply allowed them to pass to Lithuania and beyond, rather than, like they should, keep them all in internment camps. 11:51 ...which is among reasons that later on Poland supported the idea of getting Hungary as another neighbor, consequences be damned.

@UlyseesSGrantGaming

Жыл бұрын

Fuck Poland, All my homies HATE Poland, except for my Poliwh friend, but breh, Wilno, or Vilnius as its rightful name, not only was founded by Lithuanians, but been given to them, so Fuck You Poland, Also watch out for your west border germany kinda sus

Great music choice, I could barely focus on what you said because I tried not to vibe to the background music XD

9:44 a familiar frame. A nice shout out to a legend.

good vid, love from romania

Nice

During WWII: USSR: “ehem want a taste of your own medicine?” Poland: *screams of agony*

But still Really Educational. And great 😊👍 video.

An underated war. Great video. (Also why is the polish flag in country balls always upside-down?)

@nicolausg7058

Жыл бұрын

Strange cannon rules of fandom. But still some polish members are using a normal flag.

@bleflar9183

Жыл бұрын

It is the law.

@cluemantherandom6020

Жыл бұрын

@@bleflar9183 i agree, it is the law

@nicolausg7058

Жыл бұрын

@@cluemantherandom6020 I disagree. It depends on artist.

We dont call this battle "Miracle on Vistula" ("Cud nad Wisłą" in polish) for no reason.

@The_Real_Doom_Slayer

Жыл бұрын

Its not mirracle on Vistula. Its tactical Warsaw win

Nice video M'lad. Altough i still wanted to see the Marshall Piłsudzki drawn in your style, I think it would been a nice thing.

Hej Sokoły was a fitting song to overlay here

I would like to see the Baltic Wars of independence. More post WW1 content

background music was awesome

I absolutely devour these videos up holy moly

Im from poland and im think its one of the best historical video

The Miracle on the Vistula

to anyone writing "bro that's indonesia": in countryball universe people ALWAYS make polish flag upside down, it's sort of a tradition

Y’all should do stuff on philosophy soon! I think that Man’s Shearch for Meaning would be a good suggestion, although written from an psychologist’s point of view I think I works much better when read as a philosophical text

My great grand father , Zygmunt Rust, fought in this war , he became an infantry colonel and received the highest polish medal , the Virtuti Militari, for his actions against the russians, the medals are still owned by my family

It is very satisfying to watch how my homeland once howled great! It's so nice :-)

As a polish person, I am really glad that this video was made. I did my school report on this.

Cool

Swagger video

For the Polish flag, Red on the bottom, white on top, because BLOOD runs down. (that's an easy way to remember.)

@kryro1574

Жыл бұрын

That's joke

@JustFloppa1410

Жыл бұрын

it's tradition in countryball universe that polish flag is upside down

nice

Russians Using Cossacks, Poles Going Full On Winged Hussars. This Battle Happend A Few Centuries Late. Usually Cavalry Is Used Vastly Only By One Side In Modern Warfare. Here We Got A Full Medieval Style Engagement. It Wasn't Sabers Vs Rifles Or Spears Vs Rifles. No, Slavs Fight Like Real Men. The Only Ones That Still Kept On Doing Shenanigans With Cavalry Were The Italians After This. Everyone Started Using Cavalry Only To Deploy And Then Dismounted To Fight. The Italians Made Cavalry Charges Against Tanks In The Desert And Won. And Managed To Win With Cavalry Charges Even In Some Minor Battles In The Eastern Front. But This Moment When Poles And Russians Had A Full On Medieval Style Encounter Was By Far The Most Bizzare And Epic Moment With Cavalry In The 20th Century

Neat

he is literally oversimplified but with countryballs

This is why this is called a Polandball animation

Can u make similar videos about Turkish war of independence. Its also pretty underrated topic

I ask again can you do a video about the greens in the civil war?)))

You should do a video about Roman von urgent Stonberg.(The mad baron)

Comments create engagement!

I really like this history animation

The Hoi4 reference at 8:35, lol

"We won, but at what cost..."

Will you make a video about the Bavarian ssr and the Saxon ssr I think it is a interesting topic

8:38 love the Hoi4 reference

i love when Poland wins . Gues why

@BifronsCandle

Жыл бұрын

They wouldn't have needed to "win" if they minded their own fucking territory.

@RussianNationalist

Жыл бұрын

@@BifronsCandle yeah, wouldve been a soviet victory