One hundred years ago, on June 12, 1920, the Red Army liberated Kiev from the Polish-Petliura troops

Kiev 1920

Red Army Parade on Sophia Square in Kiev

On June 12, 1920, the 58th Rifle Division of the 12th Army, crossing the Dnieper on the ships of the Dnieper flotilla, entered Kiev with the landing crew of the sailors. The working people of Kiev met their liberators - the Red Army.

On the eve of this day, Polish troops and their Petliura henchmen fled from the ancient capital of Russia under the threat of encirclement - the Red Army pinched invaders from ticks from the north and from the south.

The decisive role in the liberation of Kiev was played by the actions of the 1st Cavalry Army under the command of S.M. Budyonny: Konarmeyts hit the Polish troops in the direction of Zhytomyr, creating a threat to the "boiler" for the Polish interventionists.

“Only under the Soviet workers and peasants, only under the protection of the revolutionary dictatorship of the working people, only under the leadership of the Communist Bolshevik Party can a genuine revival of Ukraine be possible,” said the greeting to the rally of Kiev workers sent to the head of the Soviet state V.I. To Lenin.

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