Battle of Warsaw 1920 Page #4

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to 50 thousand men?

Surrendering surplus arms

and a corridor to East Prussia?

Pulling our troops back

west of the Bug River?

How could you,

you, the Polish Prime Minister,

accept such conditions

of the armistice with the Soviets?

It makes us

completely dependent on Russia.

Our army is not effective.

We shall win...

if we believe in victory.

We will be defeated if we lose that faith.

You have overstepped your authority.

I'll be awaiting your resignation.

I had no choice.

I have nothing else to say to you.

Wieniawa.

Locate Mr. Witos...

and fetch him here.

Mister Chairman.

What is it?

The Head of State is asking you

to come to Warsaw.

I entrust you,

as the widely respected peasant leader,

with the task of creating

the Government of National Unity.

I agree. On one condition.

Yes?

That I shall be able to return home

at harvest time.

Oh well... l have no choice,

but to accept.

How do you intend to start governing?

With an appeal to the Polish people.

Prime Minister Witos' appeal.

Prime Minister Witos' appeal.

Fellow peasants in all parts of Poland.

This is a crucial moment

for us and for our country.

Therefore I do not ask you,

but I demand:

Let each one of you do their duty.

The battlefields, the front...

await all those who are

able to carry a weapon.

Dear peasant sisters,

close your houses and protect

your farmsteads against...

deserters.

You are threatened

with disgrace and destruction,

and they sit at home

avoiding military service.

All borough and village leaders

will make sure...

that not a sole deserter

hides in their settlements.

That every able-bodied villager

joins the army.

THEY FEED AND THEY PROTEC

OUTSKIRTS OF WARSAW

Dismount.

Dismount.

For Sofia Nikolayevna.

You can't pray for your own life.

That would incur the wrath of God.

Why's that?

God has already planned everything out.

Which fly...

sits on which pile of sh*t.

He won't change His scheme...

just because of someone's prayer,

otherwise we'd be in a great mess.

Don't believe such nonsense.

Nothing's planned out.

RADZYMIN NEAR WARSAW

Marynia, stop shaking

or you'll spill everything.

But they're shooting.

See? They are all cowards.

And yet they call peasants

the 'healthy tissue of society'

as opposed to the sickly upper classes.

And it's the peasants that rot.

Infected with Bolshevism.

I'm rotting?

Not you,

peasants in general.

Scratch my back.

Mrs. Wigctawska nee Matachowska.

Ola Krynicka. Pleasure.

Bolsheviks.

The gun, Marynia.

Jesus Christ.

Stop. Don't.

Evacuate. Evacuate.

Comrades, Delegates to the

Today, the invincible Red Army...

captured the town of Radzymin,

In a short time we shall liberate

the capital of Poland...

and then hasten to the rescue

of the revolutionary proletariat...

in Germany.

And we shall also...

hasten to the rescue of the

revolutionary proletariat in France.

Comrades, Delegates

to the Comintern Congress.

We shall start it with the

socialist federation of Europe...

and end it with a worldwide revolution.

We've deciphered

hundreds of Soviet codes.

But the bastards introduced a new one,

impossible to crash.

Have you ever seen anything like it?

Did you do the frequency analysis?

Yes. We've identified some cycles...

but it doesn't add up.

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

Caesar cipher.

With a double or triple shift.

What are you talking about?

You've been referring...

to the Russian alphabet.

Take the Latin one, with 26 letters.

And you two know Latin?

Ad unum omnes.

'All to a man.'

Marshall...

I've asked not to disturb me.

The head of the Cipher Bureau.

They've cracked

the Soviet radiotelegraph code...

and read Tukhachevsky's orders.

Get him in.

Lieut Jan Kowalewski, sir.

Where's that order, son?

You are aware of the significance

of this wire?

That is why I'm here, Marshall.

If this is confirmed,

you'll be awarded the Virtuti Militari.

Yes, sir.

And if this is a hoax,

I will have you shot.

Yes, sir.

Gentlemen, being too weak

for any effective defense,

we have to strike.

Thanks to our radio intelligence

we are almost certain...

of two things.

Budyonny's Cavalry Army...

is waiting near Lviv,

while Tukhachevsky

is redirecting his 4th Army...

to the South-East

to strike on Sikorski's troops.

If Budyonny makes a move,

he'll have to take Zamosc first,

and the town will be fiercely defended...

by the Ukrainians

led by General Bezruchko.

This will create a gap in the Bolshevik front.

Observe. Budyonny here,

the Mazyr Group here.

We shall launch a counteroffensive

between those two armies.

From the Wieprz River.

I will take the command.

General Rozwadowski shall provide

appropriate orders in writing.

A splendid plan.

But we have no reserves.

All units are engaged in combat.

And that is why...

we have to disengage

the best of our units...

and strike from here,

where no one is expecting us.

A great risk.

What if our troops yield to pressure

and Warsaw falls...

before you attack?

You'll just have to stop the enemy

at the outskirts of the city,

until my troops regroup at their rear.

That's the only solution.

If you fear Waterloo,

you'll never have Austerlitz.

Just one last effort...

and Warsaw is ours.

Then Berlin.

And then the rest of Europe.

On to Warsaw.

Death to the Polish landowners.

Death to Polish capitalists.

Forward. Onward to victory.

Hurray, comrades.

Hurray.

To Warsaw.

ON TO WARSAW.

Stop.

Or I'll shoot.

Load.

Fire.

Load.

I surrender.

Dead. Take him away.

Next one.

Nurse.

Here.

Dress the wound.

Throw that away.

They say we're getting a thrashing

everywhere.

There Bolsheviks are swarming,

it's impossible to kill them all.

But they also say there'll be a miracle

on the Assumption Day.

And the tables will turn.

Stop babbling, Marynia.

They'll take you for a thickhead.

But that's what people say.

Soldiers.

Who can carry a weapon,

get back to the trenches.

To the trenches.

How are things in town?

The Diplomatic Corps has left Warsaw.

And the Papal Nuncio?

Monsignore Ratti has stayed.

That's good.

The Church knows what it's doing.

We have to round up all the cavalry units...

and put them under Rummel's command.

On your feet.

Attention.

At ease.

Your losses?

Half the men.

Will you manage two more days?

Yes, sir.

We will, provided we get

support and ammunition.

I'm taking your lancers.

General, but...

I have to.

Ossw near Warsaw.

Bolsheviks in the trenches.

Form the lines.

Fix... bayonets.

I absolve you from your sins...

the name of the Father, and of the Son,

and of the Holy Ghost.

In small leaps... forward.

They'll shoot us all like ducks.

Holy Mary,

Mother of God, pray for us sinners,

now and at the hour of our death.

Lord, you blessed Poland

for hundreds of years.

Shedding your light of power upon her...

Forward.

Forward.

Charge.

Here at Thy altar.

We beg and implore Thee.

Give us back freedom.

Give us back our country.

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