Describe the results and significance of the Soviet-Polish war of 1920.

As a result of the Soviet-Polish war of 1920, part of Ukraine and Belarus came under the control of Poland. In these territories, forcible polonization of the population was carried out, as well as the resettlement of Poles from indigenous Poland. Such settlers were called “precipitators”. To a large extent, these were veterans of the wars waged by Poland since 1918. The besiegers were allocated land plots and financial assistance. If the troops of the Red Army managed to defeat Poland, then a direct road to Berlin was opened for them, with the possibility of Sovietization of Germany. In the 1920s, socialist ideas were very strong in Germany, and then it would have been possible to form a powerful bloc of socialist states that Western Europe could not cope with.