Word: pilsudski
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Maneuvers. These Russia-distrusting Poles gave Sikorski no support in his efforts to heal the break with Russia. They tried to make General Kazimierz Sosnkowski Commander in Chief of the Polish Armed Forces. He was a collaborator of Dictator Pilsudski, is backed by undemocratic officers in the Polish Army; he resigned from the Polish Government when Sikorski signed a pact with Russia...
...were at the gates of Warsaw. Budenny was ordered to strike at Warsaw from the southeast, to be in on a well-timed kill. Recklessly Budenny disobeyed orders, turned aside to attack Lwow. When he finally did wheel toward Warsaw it was too late. Under Maxime Weygand and Josef Pilsudski the Poles smashed Tukhachevsky's force and then, separately, Budenny's. It later turned out that Budenny, with no understanding whatsoever of the whole plan, had "wanted to take Lwów before Tukhachevsky could take Warsaw...
What a comedown!" Paderewski did not think so. But he was a pushover for hard-boiled Marshal Pilsudski. Embittered, Paderewski resigned...
...Russians and foreign intervention troops on many fronts, was wounded five times, in 1919 helped defend Tsaritsyn (now Stalingrad) where he met Comrade Stalin, who was in command. In 1920 Timoshenko took part in the Red offensive on Warsaw which was repulsed by the Poles under famed Marshal Josef Pilsudski...
...events of the last 20 years are taken as a whole, there can be no doubt that Germans and Germany have always been right. Nearest thing to a juicy revelation is the disclosure that shortly before the Führer and the late Polish Dictator Marshal Josef Pilsudski made their ten-year Peace Pact in 1934, the German Legation in Warsaw was advised by the Berlin Foreign Office that the Pact "in no sense includes recognition of the present German east border but on the contrary brings to expression that with this document a basis for the solution...