back in Poland where events had become more exciting. The country now found itself fighting a full-scale war with Russia. Conflict between the two countries had been simmering for eighteen months while the government of the newly independent Poland, taking advantage of the revolutionary turmoil in Russia, tried to push its frontiers eastwards. In April 1920, the Polish General Józef Piłsudski launched a successful offensive into Ukraine, taking Kiev. But once the Soviet Red Army had finally crushed the internal opponents of the Revolution, it launched a counter-offensive against Poland in
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