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by Simonov
This Day in History: August 9, 1944
This Day in History: August 23, 1939
On August 16, 1920, Polish forces defeat the Soviets at the Battle of Radzymin. Polish forces had set up a defensive position around the town of Radzymin as part of an effort to halt the advance of the Soviet Red Army before it could reach the Polish capital of Warsaw. A Soviet probing attack was repelled early in the morning of August 13, but a later assault caught the Polish troops by surprise and forced them from the city. However, the Poles remained outside of the city and planned to launch a counterattack to retake the city in the morning rather than retreat to another defensive line closer to Warsaw. Attacks and counterattacks through August 14 saw Radzymin remain in Soviet hands. On August 15, a Polish counter-offensive saw the town nearly encircled. As the Lithuanian-Belarusian Division of the Polish army moved to complete the encirclement, the Soviet occupiers retreated to avoid such a predicament and Radzymin once again fell into Polish hands. On August 16, a Soviet infantry assault reinforced by armored cars attempted to retake Radzymin but was ultimately repelled by the Polish defenders.

The Battle of Radzymin helped stall the Soviet advance and spared the city of Warsaw from capture. It (along with other battles in the defense of Warsaw) also bought the Polish military time to regroup and launch a counter-offensive which would push the Red Army back out of Poland and thus result in a Polish victory in the Soviet-Polish War.

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Tomtodd774
5 years, 4 months ago
The Polish are NEVER to be underestimated.
RabbitGTI
5 years, 4 months ago
" Tomtodd774 wrote:
The Polish are NEVER to be underestimated.

No they're not, some of the best soldiers and resistance fighters ever to exist.
caldaq
5 years, 4 months ago
Was it soviet or Russia?
 I'm not sure when the ussr was formed.
RabbitGTI
5 years, 4 months ago
" caldaq wrote:
Was it soviet or Russia?
 I'm not sure when the ussr was formed.

Interesting question, I never thought about the USSR and Russia being two separate entities.
Simonov
5 years, 4 months ago
At the time it was Russian SFSR and Ukrainian SFSR fighting against the Polish Second Republic and the Ukrainian People's Republic.  In 1922, the Russian and Ukrainian SFSRs and others joined together to form the Soviet Union.
caldaq
5 years, 4 months ago
Thank you.
RabbitGTI
5 years, 4 months ago
Very interesting, I never knew about this. Very impressive, thanks as always for the information.
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