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* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: What the Soviet Russians said about Poles. Conversely, Poles didn't support [[Enemy Mine|remaining Russian tsarist loyalists]] because the latter [[What an Idiot!|were overt]] that they were planning to recreate [[Imperial Russia]], Poland included (funnily enough, Soviet propaganda claimed that White general Wrangel was in league with Poland). However, the Russian General Tuchachevsky actually was a nihilist aristocrat who used poison gas against civilians in the Russian Civil War.
* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: What the Soviet Russians said about Poles. Conversely, Poles didn't support [[Enemy Mine|remaining Russian tsarist loyalists]] because the latter [[What an Idiot!|were overt]] that they were planning to recreate [[Imperial Russia]], Poland included (funnily enough, Soviet propaganda claimed that White general Wrangel was in league with Poland). However, the Russian General Tuchachevsky actually was a nihilist aristocrat who used poison gas against civilians in the Russian Civil War.
* [[Badass Moustache]]: Semyon Budionny, who came to prominence during the war, sported an extremely flamboyant version of those.
* [[Badass Moustache]]: Semyon Budionny, who came to prominence during the war, sported an extremely flamboyant version of those.
* [[Born in The Wrong Century]]: Semyon Budionny, who was described as being closer in spirit to a leader of a Cossack warband than modern military commander. Optionally de Viart, but he fit in well.
* [[Born in the Wrong Century]]: Semyon Budionny, who was described as being closer in spirit to a leader of a Cossack warband than modern military commander. Optionally de Viart, but he fit in well.
* [[The Cavalry]]: The "miracle of the Vistula", which as it happens was done with actual cavalry.
* [[The Cavalry]]: The "miracle of the Vistula", which as it happens was done with actual cavalry.
* [[The Chessmaster]]: Lenin, Trotsky, and Pilsudski.
* [[The Chessmaster]]: Lenin, Trotsky, and Pilsudski.
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* [[Enemy Mine]]: Subverted. Many notable figures among the Russian White emigration rooted for their bitter enemies, the Bolsheviks, viewing the war as a yet another installment of the 500-year long Poland vs. Russia struggle. For them, it was Communist Russia - but Russia nonetheless.
* [[Enemy Mine]]: Subverted. Many notable figures among the Russian White emigration rooted for their bitter enemies, the Bolsheviks, viewing the war as a yet another installment of the 500-year long Poland vs. Russia struggle. For them, it was Communist Russia - but Russia nonetheless.
** Also played with by Piłsudski, who saw Soviet Russia as an enemy of his primary enemy -- that is, Imperial Russia who had claims to Polish territory -- and never got into close cooperation with the Whites despite fighting against the Reds.
** Also played with by Piłsudski, who saw Soviet Russia as an enemy of his primary enemy -- that is, Imperial Russia who had claims to Polish territory -- and never got into close cooperation with the Whites despite fighting against the Reds.
* [[Fighting For A Homeland]]: what Poles were doing (after meddling in other countries' affairs).
* [[Fighting For a Homeland]]: what Poles were doing (after meddling in other countries' affairs).
* [[Gambit Pileup]]: Seriously, the Russian Civil War had almost a dozen sides with various agendas. The Polish-Soviet War wasn't as bad, but still had its share.
* [[Gambit Pileup]]: Seriously, the Russian Civil War had almost a dozen sides with various agendas. The Polish-Soviet War wasn't as bad, but still had its share.
* [[Glorious Leader]]: Piłsudski was a less nasty version of this then some.
* [[Glorious Leader]]: Piłsudski was a less nasty version of this then some.
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* [[Poles With Poleaxes]]: Nearly literally, if you count the [[Improvised Weapon]] entry above.
* [[Poles With Poleaxes]]: Nearly literally, if you count the [[Improvised Weapon]] entry above.
* [[Rape, Pillage and Burn]]
* [[Rape, Pillage and Burn]]
* [[Reds With Rockets]]: One of the first wars of the Communist Russia's army, besides the ongoing Russian Civil War.
* [[Reds with Rockets]]: One of the first wars of the Communist Russia's army, besides the ongoing Russian Civil War.
* [[Rebel Leader]]: many on both sides were, once were, or claimed to be this. Notably, Symon Petliura and Semyon Budyonny, two former rebel leaders in the Ukraine, joined separate sides in the war.
* [[Rebel Leader]]: many on both sides were, once were, or claimed to be this. Notably, Symon Petliura and Semyon Budyonny, two former rebel leaders in the Ukraine, joined separate sides in the war.
* [[Schizo-Tech]]: radio jamming, machine guns mounted on peasant carts, war scythes, tanks, cavalry sabres and lances, airplanes. Military theorists drew literally contradictory conclusions from this war's experiences.
* [[Schizo-Tech]]: radio jamming, machine guns mounted on peasant carts, war scythes, tanks, cavalry sabres and lances, airplanes. Military theorists drew literally contradictory conclusions from this war's experiences.
* [[Spin-Off]]: This can be considered a spinoff of the [[Red October|Russian Civil War]], which itself was a spinoff of [[World War One]]. And the ''spinoff of it'' was Polish conquest of (then Lithuanian-held) city of Vilnius/Wilno.
* [[Spin-Off]]: This can be considered a spinoff of the [[Red October|Russian Civil War]], which itself was a spinoff of [[World War One]]. And the ''spinoff of it'' was Polish conquest of (then Lithuanian-held) city of Vilnius/Wilno.
* [[We ARE Struggling Together!]]
* [[We ARE Struggling Together!]]
* [[Won the War, Lost The Peace]]: The Polish government was dominated by the Nationalists, who wanted only as much territory as it could be [[You Will Be Assimilated|assimilated]] into Poland, as opposed to Piłsudski, who wanted as much ground as he could to make it into allied buffer states. So, the Poles took less than the Reds were willing to offer, screwing their Ukrainian allies in the process.
* [[Won the War, Lost the Peace]]: The Polish government was dominated by the Nationalists, who wanted only as much territory as it could be [[You Will Be Assimilated|assimilated]] into Poland, as opposed to Piłsudski, who wanted as much ground as he could to make it into allied buffer states. So, the Poles took less than the Reds were willing to offer, screwing their Ukrainian allies in the process.


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