All soldiers are sick with syphilis. This appearance had an army of Russians-Chervonaarmets, who was broken 102 years ago by Ukrainians and Poles under Zamostya

FOR HELP! The Polish mobilization poster of 1920 (photo: from the collection of Via Joanerges) a century ago united troops of the UNR and the II Commonwealth, defending Zamosc from the first equestrian army of Budyonny, stood and rescued Europe from the red invasion. "The artillerymen were first -class professionals," the Ukrainian soldiers evaluated their Polish brothers during the defense of Zamosc.

This memory among the vivid impressions of the atmosphere in the state of the Allies and then was left by the journalist Adam Gzhala-Sedletsky. Video of the day after the treaty in April 1920, signed by the UNR Chief Ataman Simon Petliura and the head of the Commonwealth Joseph Pilsudski, the united troops of both states expelled Russian Bolsheviks from Kiev. The agreement with the Poles envisaged the complete dismissal of Ukraine.

However, the Reds under Mikhail Tukhachevsky's gun bypassed the Allies from the north and in early August they were already under Warsaw. Therefore, the soldiers of Petliura and Pilsudski retreated to Poland. Gzhimala-Sedletsky wrote about the allies, with whom he had to go in an officer wagon from Lviv to Zolochev in mid-July 1920: “There is also Petliurivka, there are Galicians, and sometimes a purebred Russian, who has joined the Bolsheviks with disgusting to Ukraine.

You recognize the Galician at first glance. Although he is considered a colleague of a Polish officer, in his view you will feel some psychological restraint. Usually sits silently or reads Russian and Polish newspapers. Although he speaks in Polish. And to the question will answer the correct Poland, he does not participate in general conversations.

At the bottom of its nerves lies, apparently, a recent memory of fighting, in the same fields where the desire now passes, where he acted as a fierce opponent of today's neighbors on a bench in the wagon. " Further, the Polish journalist drew attention: “Petliurivtsi, Dnieper Ukrainians, make a lot of temperament. Their facial features, as well as luck, add a lot of southern vitality. In general, it is a type of ancient Cossack roots. They are all interested in what they see, sometimes childish.

” These soldiers were supposed to stop the first equestrian army of Semen Budyonny, which raced a rapid march from the southeast. Without waiting for the union with her, Tukhachevsky moved to Warsaw, and under the walls of the Polish capital on August 25, his army was destroyed. The position of the Red had to save the cavalry of Budyonny. However, she was detained for three days.