Poland celebrates Armed forces Day, Sunday, commemorating the victorious 1920 Battle of Warsaw, when Polish forces defeated the Bolshevik Red Army.
The main ceremonies are to take place at the Plac Pilskudskiego in Warsaw, in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Similar festivities are to be held in other Polish towns and cities, with the navy having a display in Gdansk and Gdynia on the Baltic coast.
Armed Forces Day was reinstated as a celebration on August 15 by parliament in 1992. During communist rule, the Polish armed forces celebrated their holiday on July 22 during the National Holiday of the Rebirth of Poland, the most important state holiday in those times.
President Bronislaw Komorowski is to attend the ceremonies commemorating the 90 anniversary of the Battle of Warsaw. The head of state is to lay a wreath under the monument of father Ignacy Skorupka, the chaplain of the Praga garrison who was killed in battle on August 14.
The Battle of Warsaw lasted from August 12 to 25 1920 and was the decisive battle of the Polish-Soviet war , which broke out soon after the end of WWI and wound up with the Treaty of Riga in 1921.
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