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Benito Mussolini has been a Socialist, a soldier, a Fascist. Josef Pilsudski performed several flip-flops more. He was born a Polish aristocrat, at Zulow, Province of Vilna, but his family had already lost most of its wealth through participation in a brief revolt against Imperial Russia in 1864. When Josef was seven the family fortunes were wiped out in a disastrous fire. Through high school he was in constant hot water with his teachers by insisting on speaking Polish...
...Josef Pilsudski, Socialist, was an exile in Siberia, charged with complicity in a plot to assassinate Alexander III. One of the leaders of the plot was the elder brother of Nikolai Lenin, who was hanged. Exile Pilsudski was well treated by his Russian guards, even allowed to go hunting with a double-barreled shotgun...
...Party on Russian soil. A few years later found Conspirator Pilsudski doing in Poland exactly what Conspirator Stalin was doing in Russia proper: leading a gang of highway robbers and bank raiders whose object was to seize money for political propaganda. Even in those days Nikolai Lenin knew that Josef Pilsudski was no Socialist at heart. Said...
...life walrus-mustached Josef Pilsudski was faithful to but one ideal, the strength and independence of Poland. With the collapse of Germany, Austria and Russia in 1917-18, he turned promptly to France for assistance against the Bolsheviks. In this he was helped mightily by lion-maned Pianist Paderewski who won the sympathy of Woodrow Wilson and other Allied leaders. In 1920 when Marshal Pilsudski was at war with Russia in an attempt to drive Soviet troops from East Galicia, and found his troops beaten at every turn, it was the French military mission, and in particular Marshal Foch...
...life Josef Pilsudski thought like a soldier. The constant bickering of Poland's Sejm (Parliament), which at one time contained at least 22 different parties, first amazed, then disgusted him. In May 1926 he headed a coup d'etat that raked the streets of Warsaw with gunfire for two days, kicked out the Government, and set up as President of Poland a kindly unworldly scientist who had been a good friend of the old Marshal's since their meeting in London in 1902: Ignatz Moscicki. Josef Pilsudski was content to become Premier, Minister of War and Inspector...