Polish politician, First Marshall, and Prime Minister (1867–1935)
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He commanded the forces that held off the Red Army at the gates of Warsaw in 1920, then ruled Poland as its strongman for nearly a decade. Piłsudski rebuilt a country that had been erased from the map for over a century, and the cult around him never quite faded.
Józef Piłsudski came out of the Polish Socialist Party convinced that independence would be won by force, not negotiation. He formed the Polish Legions and led them alongside Austria-Hungary against Russia when World War I broke out in 1914, betting the war would shatter the empires that had carved up Poland in 1795. By 1917, sensing the Central Powers would lose, he withdrew his support and the Germans locked him up in Magdeburg. He emerged as Poland's Chief of State in November 1918 when the country reappeared on the map after 123 years, then spent the next three years commanding forces in s…
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Poland can have nothing to do with the restoration of the old Russia. Anything rather than that – even Bolshevism.
[About Russians] They are all more or less disguised imperialists, including revolutionists. The trait of these minds, always longing for the absolute, is a vivid centralism.
Only the sword now carries any weight in the balance for the destiny of a nation.
I am not going to dictate to you what you write about my life and work. I only ask that you not make me out to be a 'whiner and sentimentalist.
Comrades, I took the red tram of socialism to the stop called Independence, and that's where I got off.
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