https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baśka_Murmańska

She was a tame, gentle bear, with whom even the children of the unit’s soldiers played. By daily order, she was assigned as a regimental daughter to the battalion’s machine gun company and given food rations. The battalion assigned her a guardian, most likely Feliks Mishon [ 1 ] , a non-commissioned officer in the former Tsarist army . The name Corporal Smorgoliński, which appears in numerous publications, was invented by Eugeniusz Małaczewski. In fact, none of the battalion’s personnel lists contain a soldier with that surname [ 1 ] . The corporal taught her elements of drill, including saluting and imitating the marching step. By daily order L. 33, section 8, Baśka was assigned to the Polish Army Battalion in Murman [ 1 ] . The bear followed her unit along the entire combat trail to free Poland. She was transferred to the front line near Obozierskaya with a cadre company, but did not participate in the Battle of Bolshie Ozierki. Ultimately, in the summer of 1919, she and her battalion set off for Poland, where they were stationed at the Modlin Fortress .

Together with the rest of the unit, she took part in the 1919 parade in Warsaw at Saski Square , causing a sensation by starting to walk on two legs at the right moment and saluting the head of state Józef Piłsudski , following the rest of the soldiers, and then giving him a paw during the greeting.

She died that same winter, shortly after arriving in Modlin . While swimming in the Vistula , she broke free from her chain and swam through the ice floes to the other side of the river, then headed towards the village. She was stabbed to death with a pitchfork by local peasants. When the soldiers, having organized a boat, finally reached the village, the bear’s fur was already being stripped. The stuffed Baśka remained for some time after World War II in the Polish Army Museum in Warsaw , from where it was later removed, and all trace of her disappeared [ 2 ] .