Warsaw concert to celebrate 1920's 'Miracle at the Vistula'
PR dla Zagranicy
Victoria Bieniek
17.08.2018 09:20
A concert dedicated to the Battle of Warsaw, a Polish military victory in the 1920 Polish-Soviet war known also as the Miracle at the Vistula, will be performed near Warsaw's Old Town on Friday.
Polish-Soviet war; Polish defences with a machine gun position on the outskirts of Warsaw, August 1920. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
The concert will feature songs about the historic event as well as other patriotic melodies, presented by the Polish Army's Representative Choir, the Świt ensemble from Wrocław, in Poland's southwest, and a number of other famed Polish artists.
Organised by the Warsaw Patriotic Association, the Victory 1920 concert commemorates the anniversary of the Battle of Warsaw, which took place on August 13-25, 1920.
On August 15, 1920, Polish forces turned the battle around, forcing Lenin's Red Army to start to retreat.
The battle, just two years after Poland regained independence after more than 120 years of partitions and foreign rule, is said to have stopped the Bolshevik's from spreading across Western Europe. (vb)
Source: IAR