For the first time in 1683, troops led by Polish King John III. Sobieski crushed the Turks at Vienna. This ended the serious threat of the Islamisation of Europe and began the push of the Ottomans out of Eastern Europe.
For the second time, the Polish army inflicted a heavy defeat on the Red Army in August 1920 at Warsaw. This marked the definitive end of the Bolshevik dream of exporting socialism to European countries and the alliance of the Red Army with the German left-wing revolutionaries. Otherwise, there would probably have been no force that could have stopped the export of the Marxist revolution. It can be said, therefore, that our continent, especially the eastern part of it, would thus remain spared for several decades from communist repression and crimes that involved great terror and the death of many millions of people and would not have differed much from the Nazi horrors. Even the Russian Bolsheviks purposely exterminated whole sections of the population, whom they branded as class enemies.
The war ended with the Peace of Riga
The fighting between the Poles and the Soviets ended with the signing of the so-called Peace of Riga on 18 March 1921 in the Latvian capital Riga.
However, this act was preceded by a clash between two opposing cultures, the traditional European one based on Judeo-Christian traditions, characterised by respect for human life or the right of man to private property, represented by Poland. One could say that it was a culture of life. It was opposed by the culture of destruction represented by the Russian Communist power. This was characterised by the destruction of centuries of tried and tested values, and the extermination of whole groups of people whom the communists considered to be class enemies. Yes, they were the first in 20th century Europe to programmatically kill people because of their origins, or they represented the culture of death. Only after them did the Nazis commit comparable evil.
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