Plan East (Polish: Plan Wschód) was a Polish defensive military plan, created in the 1920s and 1930s in case of war with the Soviet Union. Unlike Plan Zachód (Plan West), it was being prepared during the whole Interwar period, as the government of the Second Polish Republic treated the Soviet Union as the greatest potential military threat, capable of initiating a full-scale war. However, a handful of loose historical documents are all that remains of the original Plan East today.
Read more about Plan East: Introduction, The Interbellum Polish-Soviet Border, Inception of Plan East, Structure of The Polish Army in The East, The Red Army and Its Units Along The Polish Border, September 1939, See Also
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