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Date 1919 - 1920
Participants Poland • Soviet Union

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Russo-Polish War
Józef Piłsudski
Russian Empire
Russo-Polish War
Red Army
World War I; Compiègne, France
Władysław Sikorski
Poland, 1921–39
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Józef Piłsudski
Józef Piłsudski
Polish revolutionary and statesman
Dzerzhinsky, Feliks Edmundovich
Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky
Russian revolutionary
Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Soviet military officer
Władysław Sikorski
Władysław Sikorski
Polish statesman

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