What Now? - The Question that Defined A Generation
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Very interesting TL I stumbled upon. So what's happening in Asia and Africa and in specific to nations like China, Egypt, South Africa and such? What are some major cultural differences that have popped up and the result on things like TV shows and such.
Polish Mercenaries
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Rutkowski, Żyrinowski i Szpieg z Krainy Deszczowców - Najemnicy i Prywatni Detektywi po upadku Rzeszy
(Eng. Rutkowski, Zhirnovski and the Spy from the Land of Raincoats - Mercenaries and PIs after the fall of the Reich)
(Orginal Release 2001, English Release 2003. Excerpts.)
Of course, even among all of this bandit rabble, one would struggle to find a stranger man than Rutkowski. Krzysztof Rutkowski was born in Early 1960 in the border village of New Teresin, he witnessed the brutality of the Goring regime first hand, and involved himself with various rebel groups from a young age. As we would later see, he had no strong ideological convictions beyond a hatered of all things German, bouncing back and forth between such contradictory groups as the Far Right National Radical Youth Brigades, the Conservative Home Army, the Monarchist Brown Division, and even the infamous ,,Red Regiment of Warsaw" - with some sources claiming the young Rutkowski had a romance with the daughter of the infamous ,,Białas", the leader of the Group, known for his brutality and terror tactics, as well as the way he concealed his identity. It is fully possible Rutkowski learned some things from him. But let's now get ahead of ourselves.
The year is 1992. The Partizans finaly lay down their arms, and the first independent Polish State in over Half a Century is born. The country is also absolutly fucking ruined due to decades of German exploitation and the ensuing resistance by Polish Partizans. There's issues regarding German property, most Poles live in poverty and the various Partizan groups can't really agree on much - in some places this actually escalates into renewed fighting between Far Right and Far Left Militias. People wanted stability - and men like Rutkowski were there to provide it. He managed to create a small group of loyal people around him, blokes who'd been with him through hell and back, fighting the Germans under Hammer, Sickle, Star of David, The Falange and god-knows-what other symbols. And now, they were ready to follow their leader unto death if it meant making Poland safe.
But how can this be allowed? Even with a weak central government, surely the Provisional Authorities would respond to Rutkowski just casualy killing Communists and Fascists who dared disturb the peace in ,,his turf"?
Well, I forgot to mention one guy. Paweł Kukiz.
What a trustworthy fellow.
Yeah, Kukiz was a hardline nationalist. His Grandpa was the head of Interwar Police and was killed by Germans when they occupied Lwów, and his family was forced on the run after the SS realized Paweł's dad Tadeusz was running guns to Nationalist Rebels in Prague. After being exiled from his native Opole he swore that ,,the Pole shall never be the brother of the German" and started trying to tie together various Right Wing Resistance movements. It didn't really work, but it gave him clout and connections - and even earned him the mostly worthless seat as the ,,Commisar of Stability for the Wartańskie Voiewodship". This is where their paths crossed for the first time.
Rutkowski and Kukiz got along well, and they signed a deal - Kukiz gets the reputation for being the leader of a ,,Safe" and ,,very Polish" Voievodship, and in exchange Rutkowski got near total power over the area (even being allowed to integrate the crumbling law enforcement into his ranks). He soon founded the Rutkowski Detective Agency, and went around dishing out disproportionate punishments to anyone who dared break the Law (although many soon realized that he gave out far larger punishments to Germans than Poles). This meant that, by 1994, the region had record low crime rates and even had begun to prosper (as Rutkowski fostered a sort of Robin Hood persona by giving out the property of the thieves to the poorest - with nobody questioning why so much of it went into his ,,personal finances" and then dissapeared at the same time Luxury Cars and Mansions began to appear in Rutkowski's Property List). However, their attempt to start a Anti-German political party was foiled becouse they forgot to file the paperwork in time, and they were left to stand on the sidelines in horror as the German Party got nearly a fourth of all seats in the Sejm.
Rutkowski with 2 of his most loyal advisors, ,,Pięść" (fist) and ,,Mamona" (Dosh / Cash) circa 2001.
Don't worry, they came back sooner rather than later.
The next 4 years were spent fostering new relations with other Far Right Movements and further expanding Rutkowski's agency, especialy into Lubelszczyzna as a few people like Marian Kowalski joined in on the fun. Meanwhile, while Rutkowski was continuing to steer in the shadows, Kukiz began a massive media campaign. He even did a few legitimatly good things - he advocated for Women's rights and a less corrupt Democracy, even managing to establish One Mandate Electoral Districts despite a large outcry from the Germans (who knew this would cost them many seats) and Ojcowizna (Pro German Poles who were still weary of pissing off their far larger and stronger neighbor). By 1998, they started a brand new Party to try and mobilize the Polish Right for the win.
The Dmowski Coalition, named that way after famous Polish Diplomat and Politician Roman Dmowski who really fuckin' hated the Germans.
The Campaign went smoothly, although there were some reports of Rutkowski's thugs harrasing German Settlers in Wartańskie and forcing them to vote for either the Coalition or some other Non-Ojcowizna / Non-German Party.
Did they win? Well, see for yourselves.
Below is a Table of all elected MPs in 1998's election. If you're wondering, Rutkowski's and Kukiz's Electoral District was the one with the number 37.
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(Eng. Rutkowski, Zhirnovski and the Spy from the Land of Raincoats - Mercenaries and PIs after the fall of the Reich)
(Orginal Release 2001, English Release 2003. Excerpts.)
Of course, even among all of this bandit rabble, one would struggle to find a stranger man than Rutkowski. Krzysztof Rutkowski was born in Early 1960 in the border village of New Teresin, he witnessed the brutality of the Goring regime first hand, and involved himself with various rebel groups from a young age. As we would later see, he had no strong ideological convictions beyond a hatered of all things German, bouncing back and forth between such contradictory groups as the Far Right National Radical Youth Brigades, the Conservative Home Army, the Monarchist Brown Division, and even the infamous ,,Red Regiment of Warsaw" - with some sources claiming the young Rutkowski had a romance with the daughter of the infamous ,,Białas", the leader of the Group, known for his brutality and terror tactics, as well as the way he concealed his identity. It is fully possible Rutkowski learned some things from him. But let's now get ahead of ourselves.
The year is 1992. The Partizans finaly lay down their arms, and the first independent Polish State in over Half a Century is born. The country is also absolutly fucking ruined due to decades of German exploitation and the ensuing resistance by Polish Partizans. There's issues regarding German property, most Poles live in poverty and the various Partizan groups can't really agree on much - in some places this actually escalates into renewed fighting between Far Right and Far Left Militias. People wanted stability - and men like Rutkowski were there to provide it. He managed to create a small group of loyal people around him, blokes who'd been with him through hell and back, fighting the Germans under Hammer, Sickle, Star of David, The Falange and god-knows-what other symbols. And now, they were ready to follow their leader unto death if it meant making Poland safe.
But how can this be allowed? Even with a weak central government, surely the Provisional Authorities would respond to Rutkowski just casualy killing Communists and Fascists who dared disturb the peace in ,,his turf"?
Well, I forgot to mention one guy. Paweł Kukiz.
What a trustworthy fellow.
Yeah, Kukiz was a hardline nationalist. His Grandpa was the head of Interwar Police and was killed by Germans when they occupied Lwów, and his family was forced on the run after the SS realized Paweł's dad Tadeusz was running guns to Nationalist Rebels in Prague. After being exiled from his native Opole he swore that ,,the Pole shall never be the brother of the German" and started trying to tie together various Right Wing Resistance movements. It didn't really work, but it gave him clout and connections - and even earned him the mostly worthless seat as the ,,Commisar of Stability for the Wartańskie Voiewodship". This is where their paths crossed for the first time.
Rutkowski and Kukiz got along well, and they signed a deal - Kukiz gets the reputation for being the leader of a ,,Safe" and ,,very Polish" Voievodship, and in exchange Rutkowski got near total power over the area (even being allowed to integrate the crumbling law enforcement into his ranks). He soon founded the Rutkowski Detective Agency, and went around dishing out disproportionate punishments to anyone who dared break the Law (although many soon realized that he gave out far larger punishments to Germans than Poles). This meant that, by 1994, the region had record low crime rates and even had begun to prosper (as Rutkowski fostered a sort of Robin Hood persona by giving out the property of the thieves to the poorest - with nobody questioning why so much of it went into his ,,personal finances" and then dissapeared at the same time Luxury Cars and Mansions began to appear in Rutkowski's Property List). However, their attempt to start a Anti-German political party was foiled becouse they forgot to file the paperwork in time, and they were left to stand on the sidelines in horror as the German Party got nearly a fourth of all seats in the Sejm.
Rutkowski with 2 of his most loyal advisors, ,,Pięść" (fist) and ,,Mamona" (Dosh / Cash) circa 2001.
Don't worry, they came back sooner rather than later.
The next 4 years were spent fostering new relations with other Far Right Movements and further expanding Rutkowski's agency, especialy into Lubelszczyzna as a few people like Marian Kowalski joined in on the fun. Meanwhile, while Rutkowski was continuing to steer in the shadows, Kukiz began a massive media campaign. He even did a few legitimatly good things - he advocated for Women's rights and a less corrupt Democracy, even managing to establish One Mandate Electoral Districts despite a large outcry from the Germans (who knew this would cost them many seats) and Ojcowizna (Pro German Poles who were still weary of pissing off their far larger and stronger neighbor). By 1998, they started a brand new Party to try and mobilize the Polish Right for the win.
The Dmowski Coalition, named that way after famous Polish Diplomat and Politician Roman Dmowski who really fuckin' hated the Germans.
The Campaign went smoothly, although there were some reports of Rutkowski's thugs harrasing German Settlers in Wartańskie and forcing them to vote for either the Coalition or some other Non-Ojcowizna / Non-German Party.
Did they win? Well, see for yourselves.
Below is a Table of all elected MPs in 1998's election. If you're wondering, Rutkowski's and Kukiz's Electoral District was the one with the number 37.
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South Africa is pretty much OTL, except they split from Britain after the humiliating peace with Germany. There are communist guerrillas in the South African countryside.
In Egypt, they've been around for a little longer, gaining independence as a satellite state of Italy, there was a revolution sponsored by the U.S.A. in 1954 that toppled the Italian administration, now they're supported by Russia and America as their "eyes in the middle east."
China has stayed Authoritarian up to the 1990s, kept alive by the constant "threat" of Maoist militias.
As for cultural differences, there will be an update on that soon.
The Maoist militas were. probably disheratend by the defeat of the Soviets which help discredit the whole communism thing and probably hung on till the late 50s early 60s at the latest I see and I don't think the Soviets or whatever remants that are holding out in Sibera would find antagonizing the Chinese very beneficial to support such movements so I guess it's just various pretexts with the collapse of the Nazis finally forcing the end of the emergency government I'm assuming.
Yeah, you're pretty much right. Although with a resurgent socialist Russia there could be renewed worries.
Maybe so, while it would depend on how you want this story to go or have planned it I feel that China would be slightly stronger than Russia and probably have a nuclear arsenal while the Russians would have to rebuild their shattered country devastated by decades of Nazi genocidal policy and reprisals. That doesn't mean there won't be worries but the Russians will have too much on their plate to push such ideology worldwide especially if the USA is likely unfriendly to such economic ideas and would rapidly push back.
Could you cover a south American nation like Brazil or Argentina?
I find that highly unlikely. With Europe being under the Nazi jackboot there wont be an international sanctions regime against Apartheid. The Nazis wouldn't care and even the Democracies might not dare to lest they drive SA into aligning itself with the Nazi Empire instead of being neutral in the Cold War.
Not saying that the minority gouvernment couldn't fall anyway in some other way, but things wouldn't go like OTL. OTL, but delayed by a decade or two would be the best case IMHO.
Polish Posturing Towards Ostland
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POLAND MAKES A STAND AGAINST TYRRANY -
RATTLES SABRE TOWARDS OSTLAND
Chełm, Polish Republic - Polish President Skalski has recently made a series of comments denouncing the ,,Tyrranical minority-controlled regime in Ostland" and demanded that immidiete action be taken regarding the ,,improvement of the rights of Ethnic Poles in the lands controlled by the Second Republic prior to the Second World War".
President Skalski, a former Flying Ace and symbol of the Resistance against Nazi Rule, has continued to play a decisive role in the young nation's foreign policy - some predict this to be a part of his campaigning for the upcoming (1999) Presidential Election. Despite his advanced age, he seems determined to fight for another term in the Kielce White House.
Internal reactions to this message have been mostly positive. The German Party has stayed silent, their ties to the Fascists in Ostland unclear, while ,,Ojcowizna" has advised the President to ,,continue fighting for the rights of the Slav and German everywhere" while ,,not falling into Hysteria that led to so much bad blood between our races". The BBRR, Poland's ruling Party, has stood uninamously behind the President, with Speaker of the Sejm Wiesław Chrzanowski - himself a Generalplan Ost Survivior and veteran of the fight against the Nazis - proclaiming ,,we musn't let internal issues distract us from the suffering our brothers have to endure just outside our borders". MP Kukiz of the nationalist Dmowski Coalition also endorsed this statement, expressing his willingness to work with the Ruling Coalition should this hard line against fascism be continued. Meanwhile, leader of the People's Party Roman Bartoszcze, himself a former dissident, has expressed silent approval but refused any comments at this time.
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Congress of the United Right of Poland
Date : 11th of November 2000
Goal: Unification of various right wing Polish movements into an United Party, claiming that the Right needs to do this, else ,,Tradition and Poland shall perish off the face of the Earth".
Participants and Results :
Dmowski Coalition - 20 Representatives - 20 Ayes
National Radical Camp - Marian Kowalski's Party - 10 Representatives - 9 Ayes, 1 Nay
National Radical Camp - Neo Nationalists - 10 Representatives - 4 Ayes, 5 Nays, 1 Abstention
Confederation of Independent Poland - 5 Representatives - 4 Nays, 1 Abstention
All-National Armed Forces - 5 Representatives - 5 Ayes
Final Results : 38 Ayes, 10 Nays, 2 Abstentions
Conclusion : Ahead of the 2002 General Election, the various Right Wing Parties will unify into the United Right Party (Partia Zjednoczonej Prawicy)
Notes : The Neo Nationalists, as well as several dissidenters from the Confederation of Independent Poland (led by Deputy Chairman Stanisław Gogacz and Krzysztof Rak, the leader of the Paramilitary wing of the Party) refused to participate in what they called a ,,Fascist Farce" and ,,clear power grab by Rutkowski's Plutocrats", forming a rival Far Right Party - the Sovereign Poland Alliance (Sojusz Suwerennej Polski)
RATTLES SABRE TOWARDS OSTLAND
Chełm, Polish Republic - Polish President Skalski has recently made a series of comments denouncing the ,,Tyrranical minority-controlled regime in Ostland" and demanded that immidiete action be taken regarding the ,,improvement of the rights of Ethnic Poles in the lands controlled by the Second Republic prior to the Second World War".
President Skalski, a former Flying Ace and symbol of the Resistance against Nazi Rule, has continued to play a decisive role in the young nation's foreign policy - some predict this to be a part of his campaigning for the upcoming (1999) Presidential Election. Despite his advanced age, he seems determined to fight for another term in the Kielce White House.
Internal reactions to this message have been mostly positive. The German Party has stayed silent, their ties to the Fascists in Ostland unclear, while ,,Ojcowizna" has advised the President to ,,continue fighting for the rights of the Slav and German everywhere" while ,,not falling into Hysteria that led to so much bad blood between our races". The BBRR, Poland's ruling Party, has stood uninamously behind the President, with Speaker of the Sejm Wiesław Chrzanowski - himself a Generalplan Ost Survivior and veteran of the fight against the Nazis - proclaiming ,,we musn't let internal issues distract us from the suffering our brothers have to endure just outside our borders". MP Kukiz of the nationalist Dmowski Coalition also endorsed this statement, expressing his willingness to work with the Ruling Coalition should this hard line against fascism be continued. Meanwhile, leader of the People's Party Roman Bartoszcze, himself a former dissident, has expressed silent approval but refused any comments at this time.
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Congress of the United Right of Poland
Date : 11th of November 2000
Goal: Unification of various right wing Polish movements into an United Party, claiming that the Right needs to do this, else ,,Tradition and Poland shall perish off the face of the Earth".
Participants and Results :
Dmowski Coalition - 20 Representatives - 20 Ayes
National Radical Camp - Marian Kowalski's Party - 10 Representatives - 9 Ayes, 1 Nay
National Radical Camp - Neo Nationalists - 10 Representatives - 4 Ayes, 5 Nays, 1 Abstention
Confederation of Independent Poland - 5 Representatives - 4 Nays, 1 Abstention
All-National Armed Forces - 5 Representatives - 5 Ayes
Final Results : 38 Ayes, 10 Nays, 2 Abstentions
Conclusion : Ahead of the 2002 General Election, the various Right Wing Parties will unify into the United Right Party (Partia Zjednoczonej Prawicy)
Notes : The Neo Nationalists, as well as several dissidenters from the Confederation of Independent Poland (led by Deputy Chairman Stanisław Gogacz and Krzysztof Rak, the leader of the Paramilitary wing of the Party) refused to participate in what they called a ,,Fascist Farce" and ,,clear power grab by Rutkowski's Plutocrats", forming a rival Far Right Party - the Sovereign Poland Alliance (Sojusz Suwerennej Polski)
A Guiana é nossa!
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In South American history, few events have shaped the situation of the continent so quickly like the Cayenne Crisis of 1965. The origins of the crisis began in the French collapse of 1940, which led to the official capitulation of all French forces to Germany and Italy. Soon, other nations saw their opportunities. The United States, acting quickly, supported the establishment of an independent French Guiana, but these plans were interrupted when a U-Boat, carrying German officers, soldiers, and plenty of Swastika flags, landed in Cayenne harbor and proclaimed it the newest Western province of the Reich. This outraged the Americans, who lodged a diplomatic protest to the German embassy in Washington. The request, that the Germans vacate Cayenne and allow a Marine detachment to secure the area, was promptly ignored. The Americans, weary of a war with Nazi Germany, cautiously moved on.
The Germans completely reshaped Cayenne in their image. Towns were renamed, natives brutalized, and German settlers slowly trickled into the strategically valuable territory. It quickly became known as a dumping ground for party members seen as "potentially dangerous." One of these, Philipp Bouhler, fell out of favor with Hitler due to the latter's growing paranoia, and was "promoted" to be governor. For his part, Bouhler performed exactly as Germania would have wanted him to, cutting down innocent lives in quick succession, and never failing to graft and embezzle while doing so.
Over the years, Cayenne would serve as an important German military base in the Americas, assisting in the ex-filtration of German agents and other assets. However, tensions slowly rose with the Americans. In the 1964 presidential election, Henry Jackson was elected on a platform in fierce opposition to Nazism. In his inauguration speech, Jackson promised to "Wipe away the black spot of the New World." In the early hours of November 12th, 1965, the crew of the resupply submarine U-749 radioed into Cayenne (Now Bouhlerstadt, after the Governor), reporting that an American task force had been spotted north of their location. The Cayenne Crisis had begun.
Almost immediately, the countries of South America began to pick sides. Paraguay, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba all sided with Germany, hoping to gain economic aid and protection from their larger neighbors, and to further their leader's personal agendas. Meanwhile, Argentina and Brazil, the true heavyweights, sided with the United States, seeing the Nazi system for what it was (a dangerous and corrupting influence). Nations like Peru, Venezeula, and Columbia stayed on the sidelines, waiting to see how the crisis unfolded.
The Germans completely reshaped Cayenne in their image. Towns were renamed, natives brutalized, and German settlers slowly trickled into the strategically valuable territory. It quickly became known as a dumping ground for party members seen as "potentially dangerous." One of these, Philipp Bouhler, fell out of favor with Hitler due to the latter's growing paranoia, and was "promoted" to be governor. For his part, Bouhler performed exactly as Germania would have wanted him to, cutting down innocent lives in quick succession, and never failing to graft and embezzle while doing so.
Over the years, Cayenne would serve as an important German military base in the Americas, assisting in the ex-filtration of German agents and other assets. However, tensions slowly rose with the Americans. In the 1964 presidential election, Henry Jackson was elected on a platform in fierce opposition to Nazism. In his inauguration speech, Jackson promised to "Wipe away the black spot of the New World." In the early hours of November 12th, 1965, the crew of the resupply submarine U-749 radioed into Cayenne (Now Bouhlerstadt, after the Governor), reporting that an American task force had been spotted north of their location. The Cayenne Crisis had begun.
Almost immediately, the countries of South America began to pick sides. Paraguay, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba all sided with Germany, hoping to gain economic aid and protection from their larger neighbors, and to further their leader's personal agendas. Meanwhile, Argentina and Brazil, the true heavyweights, sided with the United States, seeing the Nazi system for what it was (a dangerous and corrupting influence). Nations like Peru, Venezeula, and Columbia stayed on the sidelines, waiting to see how the crisis unfolded.
Due to the growing fear that a crisis would unfold and be uncontrollable, a hotline had been established between Germania and Washington. Now, as a crisis like the strategists had envisioned came to a head, the hotline found a critical usage. Goering had only begrudgingly agreed to the link, and seemed detached and uninterested in his conversations with Jackson. Jackson, ever the master of bipartisan dealings in the Senate, used his communication skills to try to reason with the old man.
While the two most powerful men in the world argued on the phone, another storm was brewing. Hurricane Betsy smashed into the Caribbean, thrashing the American blockade, and allowing several U-Boats to slip through undetected. When they heard the news, the Pentagon was furious, and began ordering depth charges to be deployed onto lighter ships. On the morning of the 15th, the German submarine U-789 was detected by the SONAR on the USS John Paul Jones. The crew of the John Paul Jones radioed to the submarine to surface in order to be inspected. When no response was received, the destroyer began a depth charge barrage at 17:52 hours.
The crew of U-789 were unsure how to respond. The First and Second officers wanted to respond with nuclear force, but the Captain initially overruled them, not out of fear of total nuclear annihilation, but more out of a desire not to be reprimanded for acting against the general order to not engage American vessels. At around 18:00 hours, the two junior officers finally convinced their commander to act, but before they could, a general alert was sent to all German vessels operating in the Caribbean: Stand down and return home. Cayenne had been ceded to Brazil.
Overall, the Cayenne Crisis revealed to both America and Germany where their South American 'allies' really stood. For the Germans, they had found their previous friends in the Argentine junta to be disappointing in the face of adversity. For America, it identified new targets for them to deal with.
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This is How Democracy Dies
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Excerpt from The golden sun shines all around [1]- the rise of Authoritarian Nationalism in Poland
In the aftermath of the 2002 Elections, it was clear that the people were yearning for change. The Centrists in the People's Party and the Liberals of the Party of Brotherhood had taken a large beating while various Right Wing movements continued to pick up steam. Still, the situation was far from unsalvagable - the Far Right was divided, and the economic situation was slowly stabilizing.
And then the Volkswagen scandal broke.
You see, while Poland has been getting richer, it was far from equal - the German middle class mostly kept getting richer and richer while the Polish Lower classes had to toil just to make ends meet. So, when news arrived that Volkswagen had been unfairly passing up competent Poles in favor of dumber, but ,,more Aryan" Germans all hell broke loose. Very few Poles cared that the administrator responsible for the issue was relativly low ranking and long fired - German stores were looted, molotov coctails thrown left and right, and even a German Party MP was lynched. The authorities urged calm, but Rutkowski and Kukiz efficiently stroked the flames, causing more and more radicalism. This scandal single handidly revived the Polish Left, as the Social Democratic ,,Justice, Labor, Motherland" (Pol. Sprawiedliwość, Praca, Ojczyzna) party was formed in mid 2004, with the Communists following up on that by reforming the long defunct Worker's Party.
The 2004 Presidential Election did little to calm matters, as the various parties scrambled to try and stop the United Right steamroller. Adam Słomka was the natural choice - an Independent MP in a heavily polarized world, a moderate right winger, he would be perfect... if not for one teeny tiny issue - many MPs absolutly hated his guts, and others were worried he wasn't loyal to the Party Machine... oh, and he also had ,,the culture of a Donkey" according to leaked recordings. That's not to mention that President Skalski, the glue holding the BBOR together, had been on life support for a few months by that point (he would die shortly after the election) and thus unable to break the gridlock. And so, the largest Party in Poland was on the brink of shitting the bed when the time arrived to choose a nominee for the Presidency. Eventualy, by a razor thin majority, Słomka was chosen, however this made a lot of MPs very angry and they left the party. The BBOR essentialy ceased to exist after this, although they managed to limp their way to 2006 before officialy dissolving. The Prime Minister's cabinet only survived becouse nobody had enough votes to call in a constructive veto (ie. suggesting we throw out the current PM and replace him with a pre-selected other individual) and no-one wanted an un-constructive veto (ie. we throw out the PM and hold an election to vote in his replacement) as everyone was laser focused on the Presidential Campaign and didn't want to double-task.
The United Right did not have too many issues, Kukiz was chosen as their nominee and the convention called to gain the consent of the Delegates was little more than a formality.
The other parties faced a dilemma - would they aid the controversial Słomka, or maybe run their own campaign and threaten to give the victory to Kukiz? This remained an issue as Zbigniew Religa, the elderly surgon (called ,,the unbeliving saint") and former freedom fighter was nominated at the People's Party's convention. He was moderatly popular with the Centre and Left, but his open atheism left him distained by various Right Wingers. Eventualy, Sovereign Poland called their first (and only) congress to discuss the situation. It was a complete shitshow - Kowalski threw a fellow delegate out of a window after accusing him of being a ,,fucking jew spy" and was nearly arrested, Gogacz insulted Rak and his Militias and was nearly shot by one of them, all while vodka and drugs were being passed around like Candy. By the end of it, 3 camps had emerged - Kowalski and Gogacz formed a teeth-clenched alliance to prevent endorsing Religa, Rak didn't really give a shit as he personaly thought that Kukiz was ,,a well intentioned idiot" but didn't want to endorse an Atheist, while several other figures (mostly from the KPN) tried to get the guy the endorsement.
Eventualy, by one vote, it passed.
And all Hell broke loose.
Gogacz threw around some insults before being showered by rotten fruit, glasses, vodka bottles and everything else Rak-aligned militiamen had on their tables. Shortly afterward, both Rak and Gogacz stormed out but not before calling eachother every single insult a 2000s Polish Dictionary had to offer. Kowalski begrudgingly went along with this, but made sure the leadership knew he really, really didn't support this decision, so he wouldn't campaign and would mostly spend his efforts on trying to bring Rak and Gogacz into the fold and prevent his faction of the ONR from exploding in anger at the thought of being bedfellows with a ,,Godless Man".
Eventualy, after a campaign filled with mud slinging and insults, Słomka won in what some called a ,,Landslide" - but in reality he just narrowly avoided a horrifying failure. It was a phyrric victory - the internal struggles of BBOR and the soon dissolved Sovereign Poland would paint the United Right in favorable light in comparison.
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The issues started with a reshuffle within the ranks of the United Right Party. Despite his harshly Anti-german demagoguery, Kukiz was still a relativly Liberal Conservative, willing to work with the ,,Leftists" (Liberals) in Parlament and even helping shut down a radical Anti-Abortion bill. Obviously, this made his ,,friends" livid, and there is substantial evidence that he planned to have him purged as early as 2000. Kukiz most likely suspected his business partner was up to something, but paid little mind to it.
He would be killed by ,,mysterious thugs" on New Year's eve 2005, as Law Enforcement was relativly relaxed on that day.
This threw the third-largest party in the Sejm into disorder, and in a cruely ironic way that would foreshadow future events, would allow for Rutkowski to step in as a replacement. Speaking on the Sejm floor about the ,,death of his old friend" and the ,,barbarity of the Germans who dare poison our sacred soil that we bled to liberate from the Hitlerite yoke" he would gain the support of most of the United Right, with the remaining dissidenters being brought back into the fold by peer pressure (and the everpresent stare of Rutkowski's goons).
So, the Second-Largest right wing party in the country just got taken over by a wannabe dictator.
Well, shit.
With all of this, even before the first ballots startes coming in, the results were already clear as day.
Polish Democracy crosses the Rubicon.
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Also by Mr. Morbius.
In the aftermath of the 2002 Elections, it was clear that the people were yearning for change. The Centrists in the People's Party and the Liberals of the Party of Brotherhood had taken a large beating while various Right Wing movements continued to pick up steam. Still, the situation was far from unsalvagable - the Far Right was divided, and the economic situation was slowly stabilizing.
And then the Volkswagen scandal broke.
You see, while Poland has been getting richer, it was far from equal - the German middle class mostly kept getting richer and richer while the Polish Lower classes had to toil just to make ends meet. So, when news arrived that Volkswagen had been unfairly passing up competent Poles in favor of dumber, but ,,more Aryan" Germans all hell broke loose. Very few Poles cared that the administrator responsible for the issue was relativly low ranking and long fired - German stores were looted, molotov coctails thrown left and right, and even a German Party MP was lynched. The authorities urged calm, but Rutkowski and Kukiz efficiently stroked the flames, causing more and more radicalism. This scandal single handidly revived the Polish Left, as the Social Democratic ,,Justice, Labor, Motherland" (Pol. Sprawiedliwość, Praca, Ojczyzna) party was formed in mid 2004, with the Communists following up on that by reforming the long defunct Worker's Party.
The 2004 Presidential Election did little to calm matters, as the various parties scrambled to try and stop the United Right steamroller. Adam Słomka was the natural choice - an Independent MP in a heavily polarized world, a moderate right winger, he would be perfect... if not for one teeny tiny issue - many MPs absolutly hated his guts, and others were worried he wasn't loyal to the Party Machine... oh, and he also had ,,the culture of a Donkey" according to leaked recordings. That's not to mention that President Skalski, the glue holding the BBOR together, had been on life support for a few months by that point (he would die shortly after the election) and thus unable to break the gridlock. And so, the largest Party in Poland was on the brink of shitting the bed when the time arrived to choose a nominee for the Presidency. Eventualy, by a razor thin majority, Słomka was chosen, however this made a lot of MPs very angry and they left the party. The BBOR essentialy ceased to exist after this, although they managed to limp their way to 2006 before officialy dissolving. The Prime Minister's cabinet only survived becouse nobody had enough votes to call in a constructive veto (ie. suggesting we throw out the current PM and replace him with a pre-selected other individual) and no-one wanted an un-constructive veto (ie. we throw out the PM and hold an election to vote in his replacement) as everyone was laser focused on the Presidential Campaign and didn't want to double-task.
The United Right did not have too many issues, Kukiz was chosen as their nominee and the convention called to gain the consent of the Delegates was little more than a formality.
The other parties faced a dilemma - would they aid the controversial Słomka, or maybe run their own campaign and threaten to give the victory to Kukiz? This remained an issue as Zbigniew Religa, the elderly surgon (called ,,the unbeliving saint") and former freedom fighter was nominated at the People's Party's convention. He was moderatly popular with the Centre and Left, but his open atheism left him distained by various Right Wingers. Eventualy, Sovereign Poland called their first (and only) congress to discuss the situation. It was a complete shitshow - Kowalski threw a fellow delegate out of a window after accusing him of being a ,,fucking jew spy" and was nearly arrested, Gogacz insulted Rak and his Militias and was nearly shot by one of them, all while vodka and drugs were being passed around like Candy. By the end of it, 3 camps had emerged - Kowalski and Gogacz formed a teeth-clenched alliance to prevent endorsing Religa, Rak didn't really give a shit as he personaly thought that Kukiz was ,,a well intentioned idiot" but didn't want to endorse an Atheist, while several other figures (mostly from the KPN) tried to get the guy the endorsement.
Eventualy, by one vote, it passed.
And all Hell broke loose.
Gogacz threw around some insults before being showered by rotten fruit, glasses, vodka bottles and everything else Rak-aligned militiamen had on their tables. Shortly afterward, both Rak and Gogacz stormed out but not before calling eachother every single insult a 2000s Polish Dictionary had to offer. Kowalski begrudgingly went along with this, but made sure the leadership knew he really, really didn't support this decision, so he wouldn't campaign and would mostly spend his efforts on trying to bring Rak and Gogacz into the fold and prevent his faction of the ONR from exploding in anger at the thought of being bedfellows with a ,,Godless Man".
Eventualy, after a campaign filled with mud slinging and insults, Słomka won in what some called a ,,Landslide" - but in reality he just narrowly avoided a horrifying failure. It was a phyrric victory - the internal struggles of BBOR and the soon dissolved Sovereign Poland would paint the United Right in favorable light in comparison.
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The issues started with a reshuffle within the ranks of the United Right Party. Despite his harshly Anti-german demagoguery, Kukiz was still a relativly Liberal Conservative, willing to work with the ,,Leftists" (Liberals) in Parlament and even helping shut down a radical Anti-Abortion bill. Obviously, this made his ,,friends" livid, and there is substantial evidence that he planned to have him purged as early as 2000. Kukiz most likely suspected his business partner was up to something, but paid little mind to it.
He would be killed by ,,mysterious thugs" on New Year's eve 2005, as Law Enforcement was relativly relaxed on that day.
This threw the third-largest party in the Sejm into disorder, and in a cruely ironic way that would foreshadow future events, would allow for Rutkowski to step in as a replacement. Speaking on the Sejm floor about the ,,death of his old friend" and the ,,barbarity of the Germans who dare poison our sacred soil that we bled to liberate from the Hitlerite yoke" he would gain the support of most of the United Right, with the remaining dissidenters being brought back into the fold by peer pressure (and the everpresent stare of Rutkowski's goons).
So, the Second-Largest right wing party in the country just got taken over by a wannabe dictator.
Well, shit.
With all of this, even before the first ballots startes coming in, the results were already clear as day.
Polish Democracy crosses the Rubicon.
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Also by Mr. Morbius.
Second as a Farce - How Germany and Poland plunged into war once more.
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Excerpts from ,,Second as a Farce - how Germany and Poland plunged into War once more"
The first term of the United Right party (2006 - 2009) was mostly uneventful, as they still lacked the complete power that would soon characterize their reign, However, even back then, the cracks were begining to show - Rutkowski's Patrol was turned into a Paramilitary Unit in all but name, in a twist of fate much like the SA of old. The oppossition, already fragmented and disorganized, was even further clamped down upon. If not for the efforts of Kowalski and Ziętek, working to salvage the Right and Left respectivly, it's fully possible Dictatorship would have arrived a few years earlier in Poland. But alas, even if it was some time later, it was just delaying the inevitable. And in 2009, with the Presidency and the Sejm in their pocket, it was time for them to unleash their ultimate plan.
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From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
2010 Polish Constitutional Referendum
With total power now in their hands, Rutkowski and his goons were able to do whatever they wanted to do. Rutkowski Patrol was made into an official part of the Administration, Big Business (Oligarchs) were brought into the fold with promises and threats, and Minorities saw their rights melt away in real time. Thanks to his old ties to leftists from the Partizan Days, Rutkowski just pushed out the Alliance '94 and replaced them with the Socialists in PPO (Justice, Labor, Motherland) and even a few commies.
However, the true ,,meat and potatoes" of this horrific situation is the treatment of Minorities.
First off, Ukrainians. There weren't a lot of them left at this point, so Rutkowski just proposed the Ukrainian president a deal - they get their People back and in exchange Rutkowski will invest a lot into Wołyń (Ukraine's poorest province by far). It was a win-win situation, Poland remains ,,Pure" while Ukraine gets shiny new Factories as well as workers to staff them with.
Of course, Germans met a far worse fate.
By this point, they were ,,only" 20% of Poland's total population, but staffed a dispraportionate amount of seats in the Country's Public Services and Administration - while not quite as ridicolous as the 80's and 90's, it was still absurdly high. And so, Rutkowski worked to change that. Near immidetly, German businesses were confiscated, Germans expelled from the Administration and any sort of German monuments torn down. The ,,Brotherhood in Arms" statue in Warsaw, commemorating cooperation between Democratic Groups in Germany and Polish Partizans durring the Civil War was torn down and replaced with a Museum dedicated to various Anti-German Polish heroes, from the Knights of Grunwald to Rutkowski himself. Any sort of German schools were shut down, their staff locked up and the equipment sent to poorer Polish Education facilities in Stanisławów and Lwów.
But that was just the begining.
It all started in Zamojszczyzna, the site of a failed colonization project back in the early 40's. Despite this, it still had a fair share of Germans who moved in durring subsequent decades - mostly small time Farmers who wanted to use Lubelszczyzna's famous soil. In mid 2012, ONR Militiamen reported to Kowalski (who was a Lublin native and so was relativly close to the area) that there was a significant increase in Police presence and the numbers of Rutkowski's goons. He realized what was up relativly quickly. Knowing what fate befell Ziętek and realizing he's next, Kowalski overcame his personal distaste towards Germans and integrated local self defense miltiias into his ranks. It must have truly been a sight to behold, PPO's ,,Anti Fascist Militias" fighting side by side with Rutkowski's Goons against ONR's Nationalists, who in turn were helping defend Germans.
However, the truth is, the game was rigged from the start. Rutkowski anticipated resistance, and thus brought in the best of the best - the men who had been with him through hell, led by the mysterious ,,Mamona" - his most trusted advisor after ,,Pięść" 's death of lung cancer in 2008. Though the ONR's Battalions and their newfound German Friends fought valiantly, they were eventualy annahilated by wave after wave of armored cars. The streets of Zamość were bloody once more, and it was but a sign of things to come. Kowalski was swiftly arrested and executed in a damp cell, with Lublin's Castle now once again turned into a Prision for Political Enemies of the regime. Rak went into hiding while Gogacz went into exile (ie. ran like there was no tomorrow) to Romania.
With both the Left and the Right pacified, the Election was essentialy uncontested. Only 4 Parties won seats, all 4 aligned with Rutkowski - the United Right Party (obviously), his allies in the PPO, his Satelite Communists and the Self Defense, formed as a sort of safety valve for Liberals and former People's Party voters.
With this, Polish Democracy had officialy died. There was no denying it anymore. And for the few remaining idealists, who hoped the country would turn away from Destruction, the 2014 Presidential election dashed all of their hopes.
The Election was a joke. Rutkowski was the only real candidate - Ikonowicz was a card carrying Socialist in a still right-wing country, Bakun was a nobody running his Party more like a personal fiefdom than anything resembling an electoral machine, while Stonoga lacked any sort of funding for his campaign and thus had no chance of winning. As expected, Rutkowski won in a landslide.
After the results came in, the Germans decided they've had enough. They decleared the secession of 2 ,,Volksrepubliks" and begged for aid from Germania.
And that aid sure arrived.
The first term of the United Right party (2006 - 2009) was mostly uneventful, as they still lacked the complete power that would soon characterize their reign, However, even back then, the cracks were begining to show - Rutkowski's Patrol was turned into a Paramilitary Unit in all but name, in a twist of fate much like the SA of old. The oppossition, already fragmented and disorganized, was even further clamped down upon. If not for the efforts of Kowalski and Ziętek, working to salvage the Right and Left respectivly, it's fully possible Dictatorship would have arrived a few years earlier in Poland. But alas, even if it was some time later, it was just delaying the inevitable. And in 2009, with the Presidency and the Sejm in their pocket, it was time for them to unleash their ultimate plan.
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From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
2010 Polish Constitutional Referendum
With total power now in their hands, Rutkowski and his goons were able to do whatever they wanted to do. Rutkowski Patrol was made into an official part of the Administration, Big Business (Oligarchs) were brought into the fold with promises and threats, and Minorities saw their rights melt away in real time. Thanks to his old ties to leftists from the Partizan Days, Rutkowski just pushed out the Alliance '94 and replaced them with the Socialists in PPO (Justice, Labor, Motherland) and even a few commies.
However, the true ,,meat and potatoes" of this horrific situation is the treatment of Minorities.
First off, Ukrainians. There weren't a lot of them left at this point, so Rutkowski just proposed the Ukrainian president a deal - they get their People back and in exchange Rutkowski will invest a lot into Wołyń (Ukraine's poorest province by far). It was a win-win situation, Poland remains ,,Pure" while Ukraine gets shiny new Factories as well as workers to staff them with.
Of course, Germans met a far worse fate.
By this point, they were ,,only" 20% of Poland's total population, but staffed a dispraportionate amount of seats in the Country's Public Services and Administration - while not quite as ridicolous as the 80's and 90's, it was still absurdly high. And so, Rutkowski worked to change that. Near immidetly, German businesses were confiscated, Germans expelled from the Administration and any sort of German monuments torn down. The ,,Brotherhood in Arms" statue in Warsaw, commemorating cooperation between Democratic Groups in Germany and Polish Partizans durring the Civil War was torn down and replaced with a Museum dedicated to various Anti-German Polish heroes, from the Knights of Grunwald to Rutkowski himself. Any sort of German schools were shut down, their staff locked up and the equipment sent to poorer Polish Education facilities in Stanisławów and Lwów.
But that was just the begining.
It all started in Zamojszczyzna, the site of a failed colonization project back in the early 40's. Despite this, it still had a fair share of Germans who moved in durring subsequent decades - mostly small time Farmers who wanted to use Lubelszczyzna's famous soil. In mid 2012, ONR Militiamen reported to Kowalski (who was a Lublin native and so was relativly close to the area) that there was a significant increase in Police presence and the numbers of Rutkowski's goons. He realized what was up relativly quickly. Knowing what fate befell Ziętek and realizing he's next, Kowalski overcame his personal distaste towards Germans and integrated local self defense miltiias into his ranks. It must have truly been a sight to behold, PPO's ,,Anti Fascist Militias" fighting side by side with Rutkowski's Goons against ONR's Nationalists, who in turn were helping defend Germans.
However, the truth is, the game was rigged from the start. Rutkowski anticipated resistance, and thus brought in the best of the best - the men who had been with him through hell, led by the mysterious ,,Mamona" - his most trusted advisor after ,,Pięść" 's death of lung cancer in 2008. Though the ONR's Battalions and their newfound German Friends fought valiantly, they were eventualy annahilated by wave after wave of armored cars. The streets of Zamość were bloody once more, and it was but a sign of things to come. Kowalski was swiftly arrested and executed in a damp cell, with Lublin's Castle now once again turned into a Prision for Political Enemies of the regime. Rak went into hiding while Gogacz went into exile (ie. ran like there was no tomorrow) to Romania.
With both the Left and the Right pacified, the Election was essentialy uncontested. Only 4 Parties won seats, all 4 aligned with Rutkowski - the United Right Party (obviously), his allies in the PPO, his Satelite Communists and the Self Defense, formed as a sort of safety valve for Liberals and former People's Party voters.
With this, Polish Democracy had officialy died. There was no denying it anymore. And for the few remaining idealists, who hoped the country would turn away from Destruction, the 2014 Presidential election dashed all of their hopes.
The Election was a joke. Rutkowski was the only real candidate - Ikonowicz was a card carrying Socialist in a still right-wing country, Bakun was a nobody running his Party more like a personal fiefdom than anything resembling an electoral machine, while Stonoga lacked any sort of funding for his campaign and thus had no chance of winning. As expected, Rutkowski won in a landslide.
After the results came in, the Germans decided they've had enough. They decleared the secession of 2 ,,Volksrepubliks" and begged for aid from Germania.
And that aid sure arrived.