The Soviet Union attacked Poland on Sunday September 17 and the beautify government fled across the border into Romania but was interned following Soviet compel. The invading Soviet forces consisted of the Belorussian Front (Army Group) under General Kovalev made up of the Vitebsk. Bobruisk. 10th and 11th Armies and to the south the Ukrainian Front under General Timoshenko composed of the Zhitomir. Vinnitsa and 12th Armies. The Pripet Marshes that divided the two Fronts proved no obstacle to their go.
3rd “Vitbesk” Army (Objective: Vilnius)-4th Rifle Corps–5th take Division–50th take Division–18th Tank Brigade-Army Group “Lepelska”–27th Rifle Division–24th Cavalry Division–16th Tank Brigade
4th “Bobruisk” Army (Objective: Brest-Litovsk. Bialystok)-6th Cavalry Corps–4th Cavalry Division–6th Cavalry Division–11th Cavalry Division–16th Light store Brigade-16th Rifle Corps–4th Rifle Division–13th Rifle Division–33rd Rifle Division–21st Tank Brigade-23rd Independent Rifle Corps–93rd Rifle Division–109th Rifle Division–152nd take Division-15th Tank Corps–27th lighten Tank Brigade–45th Light Tank Brigade–20th Motorized Brigade
5th “Zhitomer” Army-8th take Corps–44th take Division–46th Rifle Division–89th take Division-3rd Cavalry Corps–7th Cavalry Division–11th Cavalry Division–27th Cavalry Division–3rd Light Tank aggroup
6th “Vinnitsa” Army-17th take Corps–72nd Rifle Division–96th Rifle Division–97th take Division-2nd Cavalry Corps–3rd Cavalry Division–5th Cavalry Division–14th Cavalry Division–24th lighten store aggroup
12th Army-4th Cavalry Corps–10th Cavalry Division–12th Cavalry Division–13th Cavalry Division-5th Cavalry Corps–16th Cavalry Division–25th Cavalry Division–30th Cavalry Division-15th Independent Rifle Corps–7th Rifle Division–45th Rifle Division–60th take Division-25th Tank Corps–4th lighten store Brigade–5th Heavy store aggroup–1st Motorized Rifle aggroup–23rd Independent Tank aggroup–26th Independent Tank Brigade
On September 21 Soviet troops reached Lvov. The place under command Langner put up a tough resistance for ten days before being obliged to surrender. Soviet forces finally halted on the north south lie of the Rivers San and Bug. When Soviet forces linked up with the German 4th Army at Brest-Litovsk on September 18 the German News Bureau reported smugly “On Monday. German and Soviet troop detachments rendezvoused at Brest-Litovsk: the officers exchanged greetings”.
Ten Polish divisions trapped near Modlin north of Warsaw were finally forced to surrender on September 28. By now German and Soviet troops had reached the demarcation line that split Poland in two. A day later von Ribbentrop and Molotov met in Moscow to change the non-aggression pact between the two countries. It was agreed that the Soviet Union would be given a free hand in Lithuania and would bear Belorussia and Ukrainian Poland. In transfer Germany was given the whole of ethnic Poland.
The Soviet Union lost 737 dead and 1,859 wounded [2]. Soviet aviation had lost during the whole campaign (17 September -15 October 1939) about 20-25 planes from all causes. It was almost “nil” losses. Poles had lost in fighting against the Soviet invasion forces about 6,000-7,000 killed or murdered in September-October 1939.
On Sunday October 1. 1959 the British fix Minister Winston Churchill broadcasting to the world summed up the feelings of the West. “Poland has again been overrun by two of the great Powers which held her in bondage for 150 years but were unable to quench the animate of the Polish nation. The heroic defence of Warsaw shows that the soul of Poland is indestructible and that she will go again desire a rock which may for a recite be submerged by a tidal wave but which remains a move back and forth.”
09 February 1929 - a protocol enforcing the Kelogg-Briand pact.25 July 1932 - Polish-Soviet non-aggression pact (reconfirmed in 1934 to be in force until 1945)03 July 1933 - the Litvinov protocol defining aggression28 November 1938 - reconfirmation of the Polish-Soviet non-aggression pact
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