Nationstates Name - Kenobot
Nation Name - Polish People's Republic (Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa)
Capital - Warsaw
Type of Government - Unitary Marxist–Leninist de facto one-party socialist republic
Ideological Leanings - While the official party line is a strictly Marxist-Leninist one, the Polish population’s leanings are far more right leaning. This is best exemplified by the Polish People’s Army and the Milicja Obywatelska (Citizens' Militia), whose leadership and membership were primarily right-leaning and anti-Soviet. The Former Solidarity centre-left consensus has been broken since 1992 and the exposure of Lech Walesa as a former informant of the secret services.
Party in Power - Polish United Workers’ Party
Head of State - Bogusław Ziętek
Image of HoS -
LinkExecutive Title - First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party
Head of Government - Wojciech Konieczny
Image of HoG -
Le LinkExecutive Title - Chairman of the Council of Ministers
Flag -
LinkyTotal Population - 45 Million
Demographics - Poland is a primarily Catholic nation with a large Jewish minority. The few other minorities which exist in Poland are Roma, Czechs and Slovaks in border regions and a number of Ukrainians in the eastern regions.
Military Branches - Polish Land Forces, Polish Navy, Polish Air Force and Polish Air Defence Force
Total military size - 300 000 Active 100 000 Reserve
Breakdown of Ground Sector - 250, 000 Active, 92000 Reserve
Tanks -
700 PT-91 Twardy
1200 T-72 M1R
Artillery -
80 AHS Krab
82 M120 RAK
75 WR-40 Langusta
200 2S1 Goździk
29 RM-70
111 Wz. 1977 Dana-T
93 BM-21 Grad
IFVs -
800 BWP-1
Other Vehicles -
90 Skorpion-3
29 WZT-3M
34 WRT Rosomak
8 MID Bizon-S
15 MS-20 Daglezja
12,154 Star 266
1,715 Jelcz
Helicopters -
30 Mil Mi-24
38 PZL W-3
20 Ka-52
27 Mil Mi-8/Mil Mi-17
Breakdown of Naval Sector -
12,000 Active personnel, 2000 Reserve
1 Kilo Class Attack Submarine
3 Orkan Class Attack craft
1 Corvette
Breakdown of Air Force Sector -
38,000 Active Personnel, 6000 Reserve
Combat Aircraft -
24 SU-22
23 MiG-29A/UB
30 SU-27
10 SU-24
30 SU-30
15 SU-25
Major foreign military suppliers - Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia
Extra military information -
GDP - $1.2 Trillion USD
Currency - Polish Zloty
Major import/export partners - Soviet Union, other Comintern nations, nearby neutral states
Public Goals - Maintenance of Peace in Europe, continued prosperity of the Polish people
Private Goals - Overthrow of the Communists by the Hard-right anti-Soviet revanchist Army and Police, restoration of Poland’s ‘Natural Borders’ and to liberate her neighbours from foreign domination.
Major Domestic Issues - Unsettling behaviour of the Army and Police, wage growth low
Major Foreign Issues - Soviet dominion over Poland, Entente forces on the Polish border
History -
1919 - With the Austrian and Russian Empires on the verge of collapse, the Polish exiles from across Europe return to Poland and begin planning for an uprising in coordination with the Entente.
1920 - The Polish War of Independence begins, with the Austrians quickly bowing out and Russians collapsing into revolution.
1921 - As the Soviets under Lenin begin mending the relationship with the Poles, he also began funding the Polish Communist Party
Early 1930s - The Berlin Stock Market Crash hit Poland particularly hard; Poland had taken out large loans from the Germans in order to build the country into an industrial powerhouse. While this achieved its objective, with the Berlin Stock Market Crash Poland could no longer keep up with its repayments and defaulted. This led to mass unemployment, food shortages and riots in the streets that would last another two years until the Polish Revolution of 1932 where the Soviet-funded Communists finally took power.
1935 - Poland officially marks the 14th of May 1935 as the beginning of the Second Polish War of Independence, where the Poles of Posen, East Pommerania, Masuria and Upper Silesia rose up against their German overlords....with heavy assistance from the Polish People's Republic and Soviet Union. Very natural!
1938 - Poland begins prioritising arming its own forces rather than supplying the rebel forces in Germany. The modernisation program is expected to take 2 years
1940 - As the rebels begin to crumble against the Entente forces, Poland and the Soviet Union begin their intervention, marking the beginning of the Second Great War.
1943 - The Polish front had largely ground to a stalemate on the Oder and Neisse, similar the one seen during the First Great War however, both sides were marshalling their forces for large offensives. During 1943 a great Entente offensive crossed the Oder and pushed the Polish-Soviet forces out of Neumark and Eastern Pommerania. The celebrations were however soon cut short as in the Balkans, Bulgaria, cut off from most Entente support fell to combined Romanian and Soviet forces. Another Comintern offensive took Bratislava but failed to break out across the Hungarian Plain while Entente forces concentrated in Karlsbad in order to attempt an offensive against Prague. The front ground to a halt once more with a number of large offensives attempted but failing to gain significant ground and often leading to encirclements as attacking forces were subjected to mechanized counterattacks.
1945 - With the combined death-toll of the Second Great War rising to 13 million by the start of 1945, both sides grew increasingly worried that the war may lead to the great internal instability that destroyed Austria-Hungary and the Mamluk Empire if it were to keep going on. Soon, this led to the May 1945 signing of the Treaty of Copenhagen. The treaty saw Europe's border's redrawn mostly along the line of control. While the war had no decisive victor, it is undeniable that the Comintern had significantly expanded thanks to the conflict, with Poland gaining territory.
1950s- Following the 1955 German detonation of an Atomic bomb, Poland, the Soviet Union and her COMINTERN allies begin a nuclear weapons program which culminates in the 1958 successful detonation of an atomic warhead
1960s-1980 - Generally as IRL
1981 - No martial law is declared in order to suppress solidarity.
1982 - Solidarity's leaders are arrested by the authorities and imprisoned for 5 years
1983 - Solidarity continues its existence underground, slowly gathering pace across Polish Society
1986 - Believing Solidarity had petered out of existence, the Polish authorities release solidarity's leaders; alarming the Soviets in Moscow.
1987 - Solidarity returns in public with Lech Walesa as its public face
Late 1988 - Nationwide protests bring the nation to a standstill. Not wishing to spark a civil war, the authorities do not declare martial law or put down the protests.
Early 1989 - The Soviet Army invades Poland, putting down the protests and establishing martial law until 1993
1992 - Lech Walesa revealed as a former secret police informant, discrediting Solidarity.
1994 -Following the Soviet invasion the country lurches to the right and in an anti-Soviet direction
1998 - The Polish state recovers from the invasion and martial law, resulting in an economic boom.
2002 - The infiltration of the Polish People's Army and Citizen's Militia by right-wing forces begins, unknown to the secret police.
2015 - Anti-Soviet protests begin in Warsaw which the Citizen's Militia refuse to disperse, leading to the small Soviet Garrison being deployed to disperse them, killing 6 in the process.
2020 - As 2020 dawns, the tide against the Soviets and towards the right reaches its height. Soon bullets will not stop the Polish people.