This filled in a great many blanks for me. And personalizing it made it the best ever history lesson. The Poles pulled Europe out of the fire in 1683 when the Ottomans were on the verge of capturing Vienna. They beat the Bolsheviks in 1922. For a country with no defensible borders they had to be fierce fighters. Now if we could just get them to fight in Ukraine in large numbers...
This filled in a great many blanks for me. And personalizing it made it the best ever history lesson. The Poles pulled Europe out of the fire in 1683 when the Ottomans were on the verge of capturing Vienna. They beat the Bolsheviks in 1922. For a country with no defensible borders they had to be fierce fighters. Now if we could just get them to fight in Ukraine in large numbers...
This filled in a great many blanks for me. And personalizing it made it the best ever history lesson. The Poles pulled Europe out of the fire in 1683 when the Ottomans were on the verge of capturing Vienna. They beat the Bolsheviks in 1922. For a country with no defensible borders they had to be fierce fighters. Now if we could just get them to fight in Ukraine in large numbers...