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At the end of the World War I he joined the reborn Polish Army, becoming the commander of an infantry company in the 4th Infantry Regiment. At the end of the First World War he joined the reborn Polish Army, becoming the commander of an infantry company in the 4th Infantry Regiment. The growing tensions between the Polish government-in-exile of Raczkiewicz and Sikorski in London and Joseph Stalin eventually led to many of the Polish soldiers and over 20,000 Polish civilians in Soviet territory under General Władysław Anders (General Anders) leaving the Soviet Union and forming the 2nd Polish Corps in the Middle East, under British command.

Berling himself gave Judaism as his religious affiliation in school surveys. It was a new formation of Polish Armed Forces in the East. He was transferred to the War Academy in Moscow, where he remained until returning to Poland in 1947 where he organized and directed the Academy of General Staff (Akademia Sztabu Generalnego).

Berling refused to leave the Soviet Union with the army led by Władysław Anders, of which Berling was formally a member. On 20 April 1943, Anders degraded all three and expelled them from the army. He joined the Polish Legions of Józef Piłsudski in 1914, serving in the 2nd and 4th Legions Infantry Regiment (Pułk Piechoty Legionów).

to serve the country which has as one of its goals the end of existence of the independent Polish state by means of incorporating its territory." The sentence was vacated by General Kazimierz Sosnkowski, the Polish Army's Commander-in-Chief in London, because of political considerations.

In 1943, the Polish Army in the USSR ("Polish People's Army") was created, a formation of Polish Armed Forces in the East.

On 15–23 September, when the uprising was in its later phase, with his First Polish Army on the east bank of the Vistula River and the Praga district of Warsaw already secured, Berling led a rescue effort that involved crossing the Vistula and establishing a bridgehead on the west bank. He retired in 1953.

Zygmunt Berling held a variety of government positions after 1953.

He led the division in combat alongside Soviet troops. He served in both the 2nd and 4th regiments, rising to the rank of platoon and company commander.

From 1940, Berling had been involved in efforts to create a Polish division in the Soviet Union, at first within the Soviet Red Army.

During the Polish-Soviet War he gained fame as an able commander during the Battle of Lwów, and received the Virtuti Militari medal for his leadership.

After the war, he remained in the military and in 1923 he was promoted to major, first serving on staff of the 15th Infantry Division of V District Corps Command in Kraków.