{"id":7363,"date":"2015-08-14T20:57:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T01:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=7363"},"modified":"2015-08-14T20:57:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T01:57:45","slug":"bad-ass-of-the-week-josef-pilsudski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/14\/bad-ass-of-the-week-josef-pilsudski\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Ass of the Week: Josef Pilsudski"},"content":{"rendered":"

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August 15th<\/sup>, 2015 marks the 95th<\/sup> anniversary of the greatest military victory in modern Polish history.\u00a0 And before you assholes out there start talking about how they finally built a mosquito-proof submarine because they installed screen door hatches or some other such bullshit, you should know that on August 15, 1920, the battered, war-torn country of Poland defended their capital against the onslaught of Leninist Soviet Russia, halting the progress of Communism across post-World War I Europe despite being outnumbered, outgunned, and almost completely surrounded by hardcore enemy soldiers wanting nothing more than to stomp Polish faces into proletariat borscht with the bootheels of militant Bolshevism.\u00a0 \u00a0With their own capital city at their backs, the Poles utterly demolished the entire might of the Soviet army during the \u201cMiracle on the Vistula\u201d, and they did it in the most badass way imaginable \u2013 by straight-on bayonet charging a superior force in the hopes of breaking their morale with one ultra-brave display of the Polish military\u2019s giant kielbasa dongs.<\/p>\n

In their desperate attack, sweeping through the demoralized conscript forces of the Red Army and rolling up their flank, the Poles were led by the greatest military commander in modern Polish History \u2013 Marshal Jozel Pilsudski.\u00a0 Take a look at that dude for a second. \u00a0Honestly, his amazing moustache and badass manly 1900s crew cut alone should convince you of his crippling badassitude, but this guy was a revolutionary, bank robber, guerilla, underground writer, General, and political activist who shanked faces with a razor-sharp saber and survived hardcore imprisonments in everything from Siberian gulags and St. Petersburg Mental Institutions to Polish castles and inescapable German mountain fortresses.<\/p>\n

Despite all the lame dad jokes about their military might, Poland has a long<\/a> and amazing<\/a> history of hardcore<\/a> military awesomeness<\/a> that has been massively underappreciated throughout time.\u00a0 These guys aren\u2019t pussies.\u00a0 They\u2019re hardasses, and anyone who tells you otherwise is woefully underinformed about military history.\u00a0 Unfortunately for the Polish fighting man, they\u2019re completely fucked by having terrible geography:\u00a0 They\u2019re completely squished in between Germany and Russia, two of the most epic military powers to ever exist, and a complete lack of decent warm-water ports means these guys have to basically fight both of these powers on their own without any hope of resupply or reinforcements from outside powers.\u00a0 As a result, Poland ended up spending pretty much all of the 18th<\/sup> century getting conquered alternately by the Prussians, the Austrians, and the Russians, and all those \u2013ussians just kept on carving the country up between them however the fuck they wanted.\u00a0 This shit is known as the \u201cPartitions of Poland\u201d, because various powerful European dictators and monarchs just spent like 150 years carving the place up like a friggin\u2019 ham.<\/p>\n

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Here is one inspirational read for you…   August 15th, 2015 marks the 95th anniversary of the greatest military victory in modern Polish history.\u00a0 And before you assholes out there start talking about how they finally built a mosquito-proof submarine because they installed screen door hatches or some other such bullshit, you should know that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1247,1286],"tags":[1654,1917],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}