by Oleg Airapetov
Of course, the peasantry had to build a bright non-Soviet future for the country, which would unite not to restore the old order, but to build a new system based "on the principles of equality and freedom."
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Successes in the fight against the Soviet troops gave Warsaw the opportunity to focus on other issues. One of the most desired trophies for Piłsudski was the Vilna region. On October 9, 1920, General Lucian Zheligovsky captured the capital of Lithuania, Vilna. Formally, he acted on his own initiative, and was even declared a rebel by the "head of state". Zheligovsky's corps did not meet much resistance, despite the calls of the Lithuanian authorities to stop the Polish invasion of the capital with weapons in their hands.