One of Lenin's most effective propaganda themes in 1917 was the terrible loss of life and economic destruction on Russia's western front against the Germans and the Austrian Empire.
Less than three years later, Lenin was back on the same ground fighting a war of aggression against the Poles.
I had completely forgotten the details and the scale of Lenin's invasion in 1920.
Thanks for refreshing my memory, SJackson.
“completely forgotten the details and the scale of Lenin’s invasion in 1920”
Hitler didn’t forget.
He knew what the Soviet Union had planned for the rest of Europe. Thus his ruthless hatred of the Bolshevik East.
So this invasion had one further consequence: it provided the motivation for German invasion of Poland and then Russia, and thus World War II.
Funny how that point is never made in our catechismic history. The Communists started it. The Nazi party was a reaction.