The Miracle on the Vistula 1920: How Poland Saved Europe from the Soviet Union

Levi Borba
4 min readAug 14, 2020

August of 1920 — Trotsky’s Army Looked Invincible. Except For The Poles.

Polish defences near Milosna, Battle of Warsaw, 1920. (Unknown author / Public domain)

With the defeat of the German and Austro-Hungarian Empire in the First World War and the collapse of the Russian Empire in the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, the 3 forces occupied Poland since 1795 were…

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