President Donald Trump is meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Aug. 15 to discuss territorial compromises to achieve a ceasefire deal in the war in Ukraine.
This is a fortuitous date, as 105 years earlier on the same exact date, Poland defeated Bolshevik Russia in the battle of Warsaw, chased its armies east toward Moscow and started negotiations for the ceasefire in Riga.
At the same time, neighboring Ukraine was the chessboard where great battles took place between Bolshevik forces and armies of Poland and its Ukrainian ally General Petlura, Soviet Ukrainian Republic in Kiev, anarchist Ukrainian peasants under leadership of Makhno, and White Russians under leadership of Gen. Piotr Wrangel.
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