Blue army
The Blue Army (also called Haller's Army ; in Polish, officially Armia Polska we Francji and Błękitna Armia , literally for sky- colored army ) was the name of the Polish armed forces that were formed in France during the First World War in June 1917 and fought on the side of the Entente .
After the end of the First World War, the Blue Army came to the re-established Polish state and took part in the Polish-Ukrainian War and the Polish-Soviet War . The Blue Army was named after the sky-blue color of its originally French uniforms and after its commander-in-chief, General Józef Haller .
The Blue Army consisted of Poles who served in the French army , Polish prisoners of war from the German and Austro-Hungarian armies (around 35,000 men), Polish -speaking volunteers from the USA and Canada (22,000 men) and descendants of Polish immigrants from Brazil (300,000 men) Man). On September 28, 1918, it was recognized by the Triple Entente states as the only legitimate and allied Polish army .
As it was linked to the Polish-Soviet War , information about the Blue Army was censored under Soviet pressure during the communist regime of the People's Republic of Poland between 1945 and 1989 , as was the case with the “ Home Army ” .
