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4 unusual facts about Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic


Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic

However the conflict with Poland did not break out and the Soviet High Command's 12 January directive was to cease advance on the Neman-Bug rivers.

During the autumn 1917/winter of 1918, the Western Oblast was headed by Aleksandr Myasnikyan as head of the Western Oblast's Military Revolutionary Committee, who passed this duty on to Karl Lander.

The Polish offensive quickly gained momentum, and Vilna offensive in April 1919, forced Litbel to evacuate the capital first to Dvinsk (28 April), then to Minsk (28 April), then to Bobruysk (19 May).

The Poles were able to successfully break the Russian lines at the Battle of the Niemen River in September 1920.



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