In 1937, Poland announced a competition for a monument dedicated to the Silesian Uprising and Marshal Pilsudski, where Augustinčić emerged as the winner. Polish media sarcastically remarked, “We give 11,000 zlotys abroad, and our artists suffer poverty.” After much wrangling and diplomatic maneuvers, the Polish authorities paid the promised prize, and Augustinčić began working on the sculpture. However, the outbreak of World War II intervened, and the equestrian monument to Marshal Pilsudski remained in Croatia until 1990 when the Poles requested that the monument be delivered to them for which they had paid long ago. Today, the monument stands in Katowice.