The fighting between Poland and the Red Army would begin in a tiny town in modern day Belarus.

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Sources:

The Entente and the Polish Question 1914-1916 by Alfred Erich Senn

Soviet-Polish Relations, 1919-1921 by Kirsteen Davina Croll

The Polish-Soviet Campaign of 1920 by Marjan Kukiel

Polish-Czechoslovak Relations, 1918-1922 by Zygmunt J. Gasiorowski

Poland's Policy towards Soviet Russia, 1921-1922 by Zygmunt J. Gąsiorowski

The Military Thought of Władysław Sikorsk by Robert M. Ponichtera

The Politics of Anti-Bolshevism: The French Government and the Russo-Polish War, December 1919 to May 1920 by Michael Jabara Carley

Hands off Russia: British Labour and the Russo-Polish War, 1920 by L.J. Macfarlane

Britain and the Russo-Polish Frontier, 1919-1921 by H.J. Elcock

Lord D'Abernon, the Anglo-French Mission, and the Battle of Warsaw, 1920 by F. Russell Bryant

Warsaw 1920: Lenin's Failed Conquest of Europe by Adam Zamoyski

White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War 1919-20 by Norman Davies

Anti-Bolshevism in French Foreign Policy: The Crisis in Poland in 1920 by Michael Jabara Carley

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