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Thank you so much for 100 watchers! Love you all :3 Now to the lore of the map;

Simplified Timeline of Events during the "Disaster on the Vistula", and the end of the Polish-Soviet War:

12th of August: The Battle for Warsaw begins, as Tukhachevsky's army is heading straight towards Warsaw.

15th of August: The 1st Cavalry army led by Semyon Budyonny, pressured by Tukhachevsky, arrives to attack Warsaw, and Lublin, which came as a suprise to the Polish forces, as it was thought Budyonny's army will atack Lviv instead.

18th of August: Major breakthrough south of Warsaw forces Piłsudski and the Polish High Command to abandon the Polish Capital. Fearing encriclement, the army retreats to a more favorable position from the River Bzura, to the river Pilica.

19th of August: The news of Warsaw falling, along with ethnic violence, and the mistreatment of Poles in Silesia, reaches its limit. Second Silesian Uprising begins.

26th of August: The battle of Warsaw ends in disaster for the Polish people. Red terror spreads across the former capital as the frontline in the north consolidates.

31th of August: Red Army reaches Lublin, Lviv falls. Fighting silesians are given concessions, such as creation of a multinational police force in the plebiscite area. Second Silesian Uprising ends.

1st of September: Entente foreign ministers meet in the Swiss town of Locarno, along with the German foreign minister to discuss the fate of Central and Eastern Europe.

4th of September: Lublin falls, Red Army advances towards Vistula, and San rivers.

9th of September: Red Army reaches Vistula, the momentum of their attack slows down, although attacks on Galicia Oil fields still commence.

11th of September: The Locarno meeting concludes, and the Locarno Treaties are formulated. Allies fearing the spread of Communism in Germany allow it to remilitarise (to an extent), Germany acknowledge the Western borders, normalises relations with the Entente Powers, and is allowed to revise it's eastern borders.

13th of September: The Locarno treaties become public, causing a scandal in the Polish territories. Polish administration begins to collapse, the final nail in the coffin for the Polish state.

14th of September: Local German self defence forces (Selbstschutz), begin forming in the majority German Polish areas, most notably in Bromberg, and along the Noteć River.

15th of September: Reserves and Units of the Polish army move to the Posen region, to quell the uprisings. In Cracow, outraged by the Polish Government inability to govern, and the lack of Polish troops, the people begin an uprising. The Silesians demand a revision of the LucarnoTreaties, and immidiate incorparation of Silesia into the State of Poland, Thrid Silesian Uprising begins.

16th of September: German Freikorps, and regular army units amass at the polish border, the Soviet offensive begins anew.

20th of September: Russian forces reach the outskirts of Cracow, and are very close to the city of Łódź.

21st of September: Early in the morning, German forces without the declaration of war, move into Poland.

22st of September: Czechoslovak government moves into the disputed Tesin territory, and into Spisz and Orava.

23st of September: Complete collapse of the Polish authority, remaining forces either fortify themselves in Poznań, in Kartuzy near the coast, escape to Danzig, or surrender. Some forces stay behind to become insurgents. Pilsudski flees through Danzig to Paris. In his last speechon Polish territory, Piłsudski apologises, saying "It wasn't supposed to be this way".

October: Soviet and German foreign ministers meet in Posen to discuss the delimitation line between both countries. Felix Dzierżyński officialy proclaims the Polish Soviet Socialist Republic. The working classes of the cities celebrate the victory. Red Terror continues. Soviet exhausted do not attempt to spread the revolution into Germany, knowing the german forcesare much better equipped, and such an endevour would be pointless. Third Silesian uprising is crushed. The Polish government in exile is proclaimed, although it has no real say in any matter.

Finis Poloniae

Remake of my old map, this time with lore. Nothing more than just a quick map, hope you enjoy :3

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