Battle of Warsaw

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Date	August 12, 1920 - August 25, 1920
Location	Poland • Warsaw
Participants	Bolshevik • Poland • Russia
Context	Russo-Polish War

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Józef Piłsudski

Józef Piłsudski

Polish revolutionary and statesman

Dzerzhinsky, Feliks Edmundovich

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Russian revolutionary

Mikhail Tukhachevsky

Soviet military officer

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