Poland. In mid-August 1920—between the 14th and 16th, but what happened on the 15th, the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was decisive—Marshal Iozef Pilsudski launched a counteroffensive that, led by General Iozef Haller, stopped the Red Army before Warsaw, while on the Lower Vistula, General Wladyslaw Sikorski threatened to isolate the Bolsheviks’ marching wing, who beat a retreat.
