The Battle of Warsaw

The Miracle on the Vistula was no miracle.  It was a hard-fought battle, which took place in August 1920 near Warsaw and ended in a decisive Polish victory over the Red Army of Soviet Russia. It was won by the skill, discipline, and determination of the Polish defenders, by the patriotic spirit of a large numbers of volunteers, and by Marshal Piłsudski’s brilliant counterattack, which stopped the Soviet offensive in its tracks….As for the consequences, it is certain that the Battle of Warsaw exerted a huge impact on interwar Europe.  It indefinitely postponed the Bolsheviks’ hopes of spreading their Revolution, and changed their strategic priorities, forcing them to concentrate on Soviet Russia’s internal issues, on the New Economic Policy, and on the formation of the Soviet Union under the slogan of ‘Socialism in One Country’.   It also secured not only Poland’s independence but the freedom of all the other countries of the region, which would have been greatly threatened by a Soviet victory