{"id":7165,"date":"2019-08-15T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loginlublin.pl\/?p=7165"},"modified":"2019-08-08T16:40:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T14:40:46","slug":"feast-of-the-polish-armed-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loginlublin.pl\/en\/feast-of-the-polish-armed-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Feast of the Polish Armed Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Every year the Poles celebrate the Armed Forces Day on the 15<sup>th<\/sup> August. This national holiday commemorates the anniversary of victory over\u00a0Soviet Russia\u00a0at the\u00a0Battle of Warsaw\u00a0during the\u00a0Polish\u2013Soviet War in 1920. The holiday is officially celebrated from 1992. The victorious Battle of Warsaw secured Poland&#8217;s independence and destroyed plans of Soviet Russia to spread the Bolshevik revolution on the territory of Western Europe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bolsheviks\u2019 large-scale offensive on Poland began in July 1920. It was on August 13<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0 when the Bolsheviks attacked the Warsaw suburb. However, thanks to the tactical maneuver of J\u00f3zef Pilsudski, the Polish army stopped the enemy and began to push them to the east.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Warsaw large-scale battle lasted from August 12<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0 till August 25<sup>th<\/sup> in 1920. This battle is known in history under the title \u201cMiracle at the Vistula\u201d. The main burden of Warsaw&#8217;s defense lay on the Northern Front, the army of General Joseph Haller&#8217;s. The Poles defeated enemy troops in bloody defensive battles for such Polish cities as Radzymin, Zielonka and Oss\u00f3w. J\u00f3zef Pilsudski assembled a group of fresh troops from five Infantry Divisions\u00a0 and Cavalry Divisions and headed southeast of Warsaw. Polish forces commanded by\u00a0J\u00f3zef Pi\u0142sudski\u00a0counterattacked from the south, disrupting the enemy&#8217;s offensive, forcing the Russian forces into a disorganized withdrawal eastward and behind the Neman River.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0A British politician and diplomat Edgar Vincent D&#8217;Abernon included the Battle of Warsaw in the list of the 18 most outstanding battles that had turned points in world\u2019s history. That battle not only secured Poland&#8217;s independence, but also stopped the Bolshevik invasion to the Western Europe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to tradition, this year the anniversary of the Battle of Warsaw will be celebrated with solemn events in the capital and throughout Poland. Ceremonial changing of the guard and the laying of wreaths by representatives of the authorities will take place during the holiday. The Guard of Honour is carried out by soldiers from the Representative Battalion of the Polish Army. Every year a parade of Polish Army Day is held. There are also liturgies in the churches for those who died for freedom and independence of Poland.<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-7165\" data-postid=\"7165\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-7165 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->\n<div class=\"ptb-search-container\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year the Poles celebrate the Armed Forces Day on the 15th August. This national holiday commemorates the anniversary of victory over\u00a0Soviet Russia\u00a0at the\u00a0Battle of Warsaw\u00a0during the\u00a0Polish\u2013Soviet War in 1920. The holiday is officially celebrated from 1992. The victorious Battle of Warsaw secured Poland&#8217;s independence and destroyed plans of Soviet Russia to spread the Bolshevik [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loginlublin.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loginlublin.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loginlublin.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loginlublin.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loginlublin.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/loginlublin.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7166,"href":"https:\/\/loginlublin.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165\/revisions\/7166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loginlublin.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loginlublin.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loginlublin.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loginlublin.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}