Wielkopolanie near Lviv – Piłsudski in Vilnius

If the British prime minister was discouraged by the strong tone of Dmowski, It had to be more irritated by the spontaneously growing Polish strength. Here in [Mark's 1919 r.] Barely trained regiments of Greater Poland joined the army acting against Ukrainians, General Iwaszkiewicz, who arrived from Lithuania. At the same time, Piłsudski prepared a majority of his strength for a Vilnius expedition. From the beginning of the year, the Soviets Napierały on their western neighbors -Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Poland, counting more on the lively momentum of the revolution, than for strategic moves. The Baltic nations barely dropped Germanic yoke and returned to the eternal independence. Estonians sympathized with Poland the most, Latvians succumbed to the Lithuanian propaganda, But they also understood the need for solidarity with Poland. Lithuania the most compromised Germanophilism found supporters in the English, who gladly took her under care, as weak in the future, the object of operation has been. German troops retreating to East Prussia were more likely to let Bolsheviks into the vacuum, than Poles. Gen. Iwaszkiewicz and Listowski, however, resisted the red invasion more and more: The first was picked up by Słonim, other – Lithuanian Brest, and before that Rydz-Śmigły took Kowel. These successes were owed to the dispersion of Soviet forces on too extensive fronts, After a counterrevolutionary movement in the Republic of Rad.

Piłsudski went on an expedition, sent Aleks to Moscow [Other] Więckowski with a proposal to withdraw the troops from the taken country and the device there a plebiscite there, And only when this method did not come to the taste of Leni-now began the offensive. 16 Lida was occupied by April, Nowogródek, And the 19th Rydz-Śmigły entered Vilnius, Behind him Piłsudski. Ci, what they thought, that they will immediately connect to the matrix, as in 1812 r., They were disappointed, Reading the appeal of the Supreme Commander, starting with the words "Your country" – and an act of self -determining only announcing: In this way, Piłsudski thought to avoid the stigma of imperialism in the mouth of the English, bent the hard neckline of the Lithuanians, And in the party with Lenin, win the eastern borderlands within the borders 1772 year.