The "GROM. Strength and Honor" Foundation invites you to celebrate the 105th anniversary of the triumph in the conflict of Warsaw. On this occasion, on 16 and 17 August 2025, in Ossów, right next to the Museum of the Warsaw conflict of 1920, an outdoor event "Ossów" will be held. The pride of Polish weapons.” The staging is designed to combine history, emotions and celebration together, encourage organizers.
Ossian is simply a place of peculiar importance for the memory of Warszawski Battle And her heroes. Served on 13–14 August 1920 Battle of Ossow became a turning point in the Polish-bolshevik war. The Red Army then suffered its first defeat. It failed to break through the so-called. The Warsaw pier, i.e. the line of fortifications and fortifications drawn from Ryni on Narvia through Struga, Zielonka, Stary Miłosna, Więzowa and Józefów all the way to the Vistula River. The conflict of Ossow was part of a larger military operation that went back to past as the conflict of Warsaw or the Miracle of the Vistula.
The two-day event will start on Saturday 16 August at 4 p.m. with a spectacular reconstruction of the historical conflict of Ossow-Leśniakowizna from 13–14 August 1920. More than 150 reconstructors and 50 horses will participate. “Ossów will be visited by reconstructors from all over the country, from respective associations, reconstruction groups, historical projects dealing with both the Polish Army from 1918 to 1921, as well as the formations of the Bolshevik army,” says the coordinator of the reconstruction of the conflict in Ossów Piotr Krukowski.
This will be a batalistic staging utilizing pyrotechnics and field appearances. A professional pyrotechnic company will be liable for safety during the show, which has large experience in organizing akin events and working on movie plans. For reconstruction of the battle, it will besides supply first over a century-old rifles identical to those utilized by both the Polish Army and the Red Army in the Polish-bolshevik War.
Organizers plan to bring in dense equipment, including 2 Russian 76 mm caliber cannons, alleged putivs. During the Polish-Bolshevik War, they were successfully utilized by the Polish Army as well as the russian Army. An additional attraction will be the replica of the French Renault FT-17 tank, which in 1920 was equipped with the first Polish Army tank regiment. – In 1 of the episodes of the dynamic show we will want to emphasize the participation of the first specified armored caterpillar vehicle in Polish history. Although this device did not fight straight in Ossów itself, the tanks of this formation were utilized in fights in the close Ossów Radzymin – it encourages to watch the staging of Piotr Krukowski.
Come to the show on the anniversary of the conflict of Ossow. The reconstructors will recreate the clash of the Polish Army and Bolsheviks
The group's organizers and historical reconstruction associations invited have large cognition of uniforming from that period. – The reconstructors will be equipped, uniformed and armed precisely like soldiers from the 8th Infantry Division, which in the Ossowa area has just clashed with Bolshevik units," Krukowski adds. Revealed with large care uniformly uniformly uniformed branches give realism to shown events during staging and historical spectacles. The reconstruction lasting over an hr will be enriched with a professional commentary from the Catholic University of Lublin, Dr. Andrzej Gładysz.
On Sunday 17 August, the educational picnic will be held from 12.00 to 7 p.m. – In the field of staging there will be a immense pool of attractions for children, youth, but besides for adult visitors. We want to revive Polish past through historical dioramas. We will show the camp of soldiers of the Polish Army from the period of the Polish-bolshevik War. We will prepare, among another things, a veruncle point for the Volunteer Army, where all those willing to receive appropriate papers and basic training, so that they can feel like volunteers from 1920 – the Ossów conflict reconstruction coordinator says.
At the static exhibition you will be able to see the field cuisine from those years, as well as find out what soldiers cooked and how they ate. Visitors will see live in front of the cripple and rhyme workshops, how soldiers cared about their weapons and equipment and how they repaired them. “At the exhibitions we will present a full scope of uniforms, equipment and weapons, especially gunmen, soldiers, where everyone will already be able to contact the replica, see how much she weighed, how she looked, or take commemorative pictures,” Krukowski informs.
All curious will be able to take part in active field games and specialist workshops or get acquainted with the offer of thematic stands. It's a perfect chance to learn a local communicative that doesn't always go on past textbooks.
Historical reconstructions are becoming increasingly popular, especially among young people. For them they are not only a spectacle, but above all a surviving lesson of history, which allows us to realize the meaning of events from the past. Thanks to the diligence of the reconstructors who play the uniforms and tactics of the era, viewers will be able to learn what the fighting at Ossow looked like. peculiar emphasis will be placed on the reconstruction of the silhouettes of soldiers of the 8th Infantry Division and heroic volunteer units, consisting of scouts and advanced school students who joined the regular Polish army.
The task is implemented by the GROM Foundation. Strength and Honor” in cooperation with the Polish Military Museum, the Ministry of National Defence, local government units, social organizations and uniformed services.
The event is open and access to all attractions is free of charge. The organizers stress that the aim of the task is to popularize cognition about the Warsaw conflict and to experience past together in a spirit of patriotism and social integration.
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