About 100 reconstructors showed on Sunday in Białystok the staging of episodes of the winning conflict for the city of 22 August 1920. The 1st Legion Infantry Regiment clashed with Bolsheviks who withdrew from Warsaw. Historians consider this conflict to be the top conflict in the past of Białystok.
The manager of the Military Museum in Białystok Robert Sadowski reminded of the reconstruction that the skirmish had been underestimated for a long time. He explained that it was about closing the retreat retreat to the Soviets after the failure of the Warsaw conflict (15 August 1020), and the Białystok-Grodno line was 1 of the retreat routes. He added that if there had not been this battle, there would have been more Soviets. Białystok was an crucial railway junction from which 1 could retreat to the east. Polish troops effectively stopped the retreat of russian troops who wanted to retreat through Białystok.
Sadowski had earlier told us that the fights in Białystok lasted all day, they ran at all point of the city. The enemy's troops were more numerous.
34 people died on the Polish side, 200 were injured, over 800 were killed and wounded after the russian side, and 8.2 1000 Bolsheviks were taken prisoner. Polish troops captured 3 trains, a plane, 22 guns and 147 device guns – they had previously reported in the announcement announcing the reconstruction of the city of Białystok.
The reconstruction in the Independent Student Association Square was observed by crowds of Bialystok. 1 component was the death of Major Józef Marjański (he was promoted to this phase posthumously), 1 of the fallen heroes of the fighting, who died in the area of present-day Warsaw and Palace streets. He was a battalion commander who took on the main burden of fighting.
Combats involving military equipment, horses were reconstructed, but the work of paramedics, the engagement of scouts was besides shown.
– 105 years ago on 20 August 1920, the destiny of Poland, Europe and the planet weighed. Bolshevika nawała, which then passed through our country, was to service to make communism, 1 of the worst systems of the modern planet of the 20th century, dominate not only Europe but besides the world – said Rafał Rudnicki, deputy president of Białystok, to begin the reconstruction. He added that specified past lessons should remind everyone that independency is not given forever.
The reconstruction was organized by the Military Museum in Białystok in cooperation with the Hernik household Foundation, the past department of the University of Białystok and the city authorities.
Source: PAP
