Iron crusade Kresy reorganized.

Kresy reorganized.

Political event

1923
12/9

Military occupation of western Belarus and Ukraine ends.


The Kingdom of Poland's eastern borders were never truly defined, even after Piłsudski was made a regent and the Kingdom joined the Central Powers. Since then, the situation there was complicated, and a de facto joint military occupation of the region was established. It worked, for a while, but it was a compromise that nobody was ready to accept for long.   With the attention of other Central Powers turned elsewhere - to the battles waged in Brandenburgia and the ongoing GGR offensive against Austro-Hungarian Empire - Piłsudski decided to use a method of faits accomplis and annexed regions with significant polish population, while installing puppet governments of the so called Grand Dukedoms of Belarus and Ruthenia.   It was another move done against both kaisers - after de facto annexation of a big part of Prussian Partition - by exploiting their own troubles, further increasing tensions between Central Powers - with little chance of actually breaking the alliance, as all members of it need each other and knew about it well - while improving the chances of Poland surviving a CP victory and allowing it to wage the war in a much more successful way.

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