Żeligowski's Mutiny
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Żeligowski's Mutiny was a Polish false flag operation led by General Lucjan Żeligowski in October 1920, which resulted in the creation of the Republic of Central Lithuania. Józef Piłsudski, the Chief
General Lucjan Żeligowski
Polish caricature from 1920: a Lithuanian trying to stop General Żeligowski from taking Wilno (Vilnius)
Gen. Żeligowski leading his soldiers, Vilnius, 1920
c. 1925 Lithuanian poster, which urges to recapture the Vilnius Region
The Republic of Central Lithuania, commonly known as the Central Lithuania, and the Middle Lithuania, was an unrecognized short-lived puppet state of Poland, that existed from 1920 to 1922. It was fou
Żeligowski's Mutiny
…Lithuanian: Želigovskio maištas) was a Polish false flag operation led by General Lucjan Żeligowski in October 1920, which resulted in the creation of the Republic of Central Lithuania. Józef Piłsudski, the Chief of State of Poland, surreptitiously ordered Żeligowski to carry out the operation, and revealed the truth only several years…
Piłsudski's bi-lingual Proclamation to the inhabitants of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania (April 1919).
Lithuanian postage stamps with overprints of Central Lithuania (Środkowa Litwa), made in 1920