Royal Malgravean Times
New war memorial celebrates the co-ordination of Soviet and Malgravean soldiers during the second world war
Approximately 2,500 Malgravean citizens attended the opening of a new war memorial celebrating the efforts and co-ordination of soldiers from the Soviet Union and United Kingdom of Malgravean soldiers, relations that were unstable at the start of the war for several important reasons grew to the end of the war and grew to a level of solidarity by 1945.
The story of relations technically began in 1922 when the newly established United Kingdom of Malgrave and Soviet Union were still extremely cautious of the international community, however relations between the two states quickly fell away into the darkness for reasons still unknown to this day, the crisis point however came during the early stages of the second world war.
The United Kingdom was a fierce supporter of Polish independence and the Malgravean Prime Minister Nikola Tesla personally flew to the Polish capital were he gave a speech on Polish independence, part of which is now famous across Malgrave
"I hear people asking questions about the sovereignty of Poland nearly every day. People ask why is it so important that Poland has independence, they often state that Germany or the Soviet Union should have control over the lands of Poland. I strike them down with a resounding no! The reasons apart from the obvious historical reasons are clear, by allowing the Nazi and Soviet regime to do as they wish you will start another war in Europe and no-one is ready for such devastation another reason is so simple I thought all would lnow it. Putting the armed forces of Fascism and Communism together is just asking for an armed conflict to break out, one that will spell the death of millions of young men and women. That is why with conviction I can state that the Malgravean Government will not allow Poland to fall to plunderers!
Prime Minister Nikola Tesla authorized the sending of 10,000 soldiers to advise the Polish Military on matters of national defence, soon increasing that number to 50,000 combat ready soldiers upon the news that German and Soviet military forces were showing greater then normal activity. Sadly these troops were not enough to hold back the invading German and Soviet soldiers and the lack of assistance from the West spelt doom for the Malgravean soldiers who were eventually forced to flee with Polish soldiers into Europe, fight to the death or take their chances in German custody.
Nazi Germany soon put together the pieces of information and realized that the defence of some parts of Poland had been coordinated by the Malgravean Military and went to organize an invasion of the Malgravean state, however luckily Mussolini who respected the Malgravean state for fighting with Italy during the First World War managed to save the Malgravean state from invasion, in return however the Malgravean military was forced to volunteer units to serve in the German Army.
From that point on in the Second World War Malgravean Units fought in France, Northern Africa, Greece, Yugoslavia and Norway earning a high degree of respect from certain German commanders including Erwin Rommel who praised several Malgravean tank commanders present in his now famous "Ghost Division" that stormed through France. Victories however cannot last and soon several Malgravean units found themselves attacking the city of Stalingrad, forced by Hitler himself to guard the flank with poorly equipped Romanian and Italian soldiers they soon managed to create a spirit of discontent within the Romanian and Italian units, when Soviet Units assaulted their positions they put up initial heavy resistance soon folding when encountered with Soviet armour in the form of the impressive T-34 they managed to negotiate with high ranking soldiers in the Red Army. Stalin himself personally negotiating with then Prime Minister Josef Wajda to allow Malgravean and defecting Romanian and Italian soldiers (who after the war became Malgravean citizens) to join the efforts of the Red Army and liberate Stalingrad.
Following the victory at Stalingrad, the Malgravean Units were successfully moved around the front line, soon convincing Malgravean units at Leningrad to join the Soviet attempt at liberating the city. Malgravean units then stormed forward with the Red Army, again receiving glowing recognition from commanders like Vasily Chuikov after fighting in many historical battles including Kursk, Operation Bagration and finally the Battle of Berlin.
This memorial among many other similar in the United Kingdom of Malgrave symbolizes the struggle shared by Soviet and Malgravean soldier to crush the evils of Fascism. On top of these efforts well known singer and socialist MP Ernst Busch has re-released a famous single of his titled "Thank you Soviet soldiers" of which the proceedings will be donated to various charitable organizations created to look after veterans of the First and Second World War.