In its history, Poland has twice played the way for the East, going in the name of seemingly higher ideals for the annihilation of the Western World. erstwhile the descendants of Genghis Khan, the creators of the immense Mongol state, reached the first half of the 13th century as far as the walls of Legnica and Wrocław, we presented then the same barrier to the piled wave from the East, which was created in 1920 close Warsaw, in order to halt the invasion of the russian army - writes Maj. Gen. in St. Rest. Leon Komornicki, erstwhile deputy chief of the Polish General Staff.