Pogrom
Meanwhile, the Budionny army, seasoned in the Dnieper. She was counting not a hundred, but about 20 Thousand, But it got so easily to the right bank and to the rear of the propeller, that that, As soon as he got the order, he started 10 June [1920 r.] retreat through an enemy country with great trains, booty and evacuated Poles. He lost nothing but fame: because he was out of the worse of several times the weaker.
It was much worse in the north. There, the Soviet leader Tuchaczewski focused on Berezyna., towards which Szeptycki has survived 6 weeks, He couldn't not go back. According to Piłsudski, command was at fault, that he believed too much in the trenches – But those who forgot to order a tactical change was the commander -in -chief himself. At the new Bolshevik hit, the front of the car 4-5 July struggled and collapsed. Stunned Polish regiments withdrew from all over the East even faster than just the Bolsheviks from Ukraine.
Skulski's government 9 June gave way to the defeat. Władysław Grabski did not make a terrible inheritance and created the Council of State Defense at the side of the Head of State. There were bitter discussions there, During which Piłsudski attacked the Polish nation: "Sick society, So the army of a sick "and Dmowski was so hard for him, that the chief came out of the meeting, providing command at your disposal. This resignation was not accepted, because there was no rescue in it, On the contrary, Dmowski left to Poznań, He left the council, but it didn't help much. Grabski went to SPA with his and his advice, to ask the Allies for advice and mediation, At least at the expense of such concessions, what they dictate. The conditions were terrible: Lloyd George and colleagues promised only war material, and they reserved the decision about Galicia, Vilnius, Gdańsk and Cieszyn. Immediately after Grabski's return, the National Defense Government was created at Witos, with Daszyński Deputy Prime Minister and foreign minister Eustachy Sapieha (Because the Endecs had a bad brand in the West). Piłsudski would be more likely to let Piłsudski into Vilnius Litwin, than the Bolsheviks, But the same they admitted this city of Tarybie, In the meantime they took them. Piłsudski in terrible depression submitted the dignity of the Head of State in the hands of Witos, and Daszyński called him in the fog of the revolutionary spirit, to proclaim himself the red dictator of Poland, it's again (According to the Italian MP Tommasini) He turned scared eyes to the Germans looking for rescue from there, even for the price of Silesia and Pomerania. In mid -July, the government and diplomats went to Poznań. Budionny came to Zbaraż, Tuchaczewskij – to the Narew. The Bolsheviks rejected English mediation. Socialists in some ports, and not only socialists in the Czech Republic, They hindered the transport of ammunition for Poland. In Germany, people rubbed their hands. The destruction went to Poland.