Contrary to the intellectual tastes of the Germans, the Poles caused Stalin one trouble after another. First, the Polish ambassador to the Soviet Union demanded that the Soviet Union announce to the outside world that Soviet-Polish relations must be based on the Treaty of Riga. This treaty, which humiliated the Soviet Union, was signed when Stalin assumed full responsibility. One can imagine how angry Stalin was when he received the Polish demands.

Back in 1924, when Stalin was in charge of the USSR, he "borrowed" all the materials of the Soviet-Polish war and never returned them. Stalin's purpose was not to let his stain widen.

As a result, Poland revived the old story, tried in vain to show its greatness, and brought up the Treaty of Riga, which Stalin had tried to erase.

Surprisingly, instead of objecting, the supreme leader of the Soviet Union, Stalin, extended the Soviet-Polish Non-Aggression Pact with the Polish government until December 31, 1945.

At the same time, Germany, Poland's other neighbor, was outright rejected by the arrogant Polish government when it proposed a 10-year German-Polish non-aggression pact with Poland. In this regard, the leader of Poland, Joseph. Führer Pilsudski actually privately commented that "there is no need for Poland to talk about non-aggression with a weak country."

The Polish dictator, who had defeated Soviet Russia and was known as the "Red Napoleon", and who staged a military coup d'état in Poland, would not have imagined that his ridicule of Germany would become a joke that was repeatedly propagandized when Germany occupied Poland.

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Vik was a major battalion commander in the Polish Panzer Corps, commanding a full 25 Vickers 6-ton E tanks. This tank was manufactured by the British company Vickers-Armstrong, and Poland imported a total of 50 units. That is, half of them were incorporated into Vik's 1st Armored Battalion.

"Brigade commander, is our brigade really going to be disbanded?" Vic asked his brigade commander Felippowitz in frustration. Just the day before yesterday, Felipovic received a notice stating that the newly formed Polish 10th Motorized Cavalry Brigade would be dismantled and distributed to various cavalry units within a month.

The 10th Motorized Cavalry Brigade was originally the only fully mechanized elite unit in the Polish army, with officers and men wearing World War I-era German steel helmets and black fur coats, nicknamed the "Black Brigade". And in order to establish an armored unit in a country like Poland, which worships cavalry, Brigade Commander Felippowicz even gave this motorized unit the name "cavalry".

However, such the only fully mechanized "cavalry brigade" was ordered to be dismantled by Marshal Pilsusski, a wise Polish military expert who commanded the "military miracle of the Vistula".

Looking at Vic with expectant eyes, Felippowitz, who was the brigade commander, smiled helplessly and wryly: "It's going to be disbanded...... In the eyes of the marshal, only real cavalry was the most valuable. ”

"Just because our cavalry performed well in the war with the Soviet Union, we completely neglected the development of armored forces?" Vik, as the commander of the armored forces, argued somewhat unconvinced: "Your Excellency the Marshal gave up on us without even seeing a single exercise of our brigade. ”

Patting Vick on the shoulder vigorously, Felippowitz, who had already been pessimistic, comforted: "Perhaps this is also due to domestic financial factors, and it is not entirely because of Marshal Pilsudski that our brigade was disbanded." You know, we cost a lot more than cavalry. As far as I know, the funds originally used for the development and improvement of new tanks have been used to form a new cavalry division. ”

After a few seconds, Felippowitz seemed to convince Vic, as if to convince himself: "The results of the Ruhr invasion commanded by the French a few years ago are still vivid. It turns out that the armored forces are not as invincible as they seem....... Rest assured, although our brigade is about to be disbanded, you will all be assigned to the glorious cavalry units. ”

A week later, the 10th motorized cavalry brigade, the most modern in Poland, was disbanded. A full 50 Vickers 6-ton E tanks were dismantled and distributed to various infantry regiments as support weapons at the suggestion of the French advisers.

As the commander of the armored battalion, Vik was assigned to the Polish 2nd Cavalry Brigade, which had a fine tradition, with all the officers and men of the battalion. Since the commander of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade was Suwalki, who graduated from the Warsaw Cavalry Academy with the second highest grade in the school, the 2nd Cavalry Brigade also proudly called itself the Suwalki Cavalry Brigade.

Vic, who had just joined the Suwalki Cavalry Brigade, did not have any respect for the brigade commander, who graduated from the military academy with honors. In Vik's opinion, there are few better brigade commanders in Poland than Felippowic, the former commander of the 10th Motorized Cavalry Brigade.

Vic's adoration of Felippowitz makes sense. This brigade commander, who usually does not like to talk, can in fact be called the tank expert who is best at commanding armored forces in all of Poland.

Felippowitz has made countless deductions about the use of armored forces, and has a deep and unique understanding. In the whole of Poland, only Felippowitz recognized that the defeat of the Ruhr in France that year was not due to the incompetence of the armored forces, but due to the mistake caused by the French commander's scattered use of small forces and the lack of concentration of firepower superiority of the armored forces.

It's a pity that this master of Polish armor could have been the only one who commanded Polish troops, inflicting heavy losses on German armored forces. But because of his taciturnity, he was not taken seriously by the Polish Marshal Pilsudski and was transferred to the reserve.

Vic, who was replaced with an excellent superior, was naturally dissatisfied. This negative sentiment even spread to the new 1st Cavalry Battalion under Vik's command.

However, within a few days, this negativity completely dissipated. What changed the mood of Vic and the others was only a personal training session by the commander of the Second Cavalry Brigade, Suwalki.

When a model cavalry battalion brought by Suwalki executed a round of tactical charges in a tight and neat formation, all the officers and men of the newly formed 1st Cavalry Battalion were fascinated by the model unit that Suwalki had trained. The repeated rotation and interspersing, the clutch and the change of formation, showed the impact of the cavalry to the extreme.

Vic and other officers and men, who were originally transferred from the cavalry unit to the armored battalion, quickly received basic queue and tactical discipline training arranged by Suwalki. Throughout the training process, Suwaki's control of details, the discovery and handling of problems, and even the relaxation of the rhythm of training were well controlled.

In just one day, the new 1st Cavalry Battalion completely regained the feeling of training in the cavalry unit. Moreover, judging from the segmented indicators of training subjects, this battalion has completed the basic indicators of transforming into a cavalry battalion. As a cavalry unit, the remaining task of the new 1st Battalion seems to be to spend more time intensifying today's training.

When the first day of training was over, all the officers and men of the battalion, including Vic, had no doubt that the future cavalry unit would be invincible.