For the Solemnity of the Assumption of Our Lady, I think it will be appropriate to tell the story of how Our Lady came to Poland's help in 1920 to defeat the Bolsheviks.

In the Spring of 1920, the Red Army crashed through the Polish border under the command of Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky, one of the most accomplished Soviet generals. The Polish army which was just 2 years old at that time was caught unprepared and outnumbered. Poland asked for help from the Western World to deal with the invaders, but none willing to give aid. Prime Minister Lloyd George even told the British Parliament that Poland had to accept “her fate.” Subsequently, the British government sent a telegram to the Polish government urging it to surrender to the Soviets to avoid annihilation. By the 13th of August 1920, the Soviet forces arrived near Warsaw and started to capture the outer suburbs. The shelling of Warsaw began.

Warsaw began to take on a surreal appearance. The city was swollen with terrified refugees, with people camped out in public parks next to hastily prepared and inadequate defences. A special train carrying almost the entire foreign diplomatic corps left the capital bound for Poznan. One of the few foreigners who remained was Poland’s then-papal nuncio, Cardinal Achille Ratti, the future Pope Pius XI. Ratti organized a perpetual prayer for deliverance and, with monstrance held high, he led a Eucharistic procession through Warsaw’s streets as the Soviet shells rained down.

But the Poles had no intention to surrender. Under the command of Marshall Józef Piłsudski, they were preparing to counterattack on the 17th of August. But on the Feast of the Assumption, wave upon wave of Soviet soldiers continued to attack Warsaw. Yet that morning, from within the city, Polish forces managed somehow to stem their advance. And then, against all odds, they began to retake ground that the Red Army had won. The Soviets started to wonder how the Polish army, which they had seen defeated for many weeks, had begun to fight back with fresh heart against a superior foe. The Red Army was unable to vanquish the defending Poles. In fact, as the 15th of August progressed, Polish soldiers seemed to become bolder in counterattack. Strange rumours began to circulate in Warsaw. Some claimed that in the sky above the Polish lines had appeared the Black Madonna of Czestochowa.

From that day forward, the Red Army was retreating (routed more likely). On the banks of the Vistula, the Polish strike effectively eliminated the mass Soviet troops, as well as disrupting their communication lines, thus preventing incoming Soviet reserves from reaching Warsaw. Lenin declared that the army had suffered an “enormous defeat” and promptly put on hold his plans for a bloody world revolution.

To commemorate this, The Feast of the Assumption is a national holiday in Poland. It is also the Polish Armed Forces Day.

Some historians argue that had Poland fallen, most of the Western World would have succumbed to Soviet influence. Thanks to Our Lady and the bravery of the Poles, the world was saved from the plague of Communism.
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