CHAPTER 3 - DARK FUTURE - why do we fight ?
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NOISE of metallic clatter *
tracks ?*, sirens screaming like wraiths from hell *... ???*, something is coming, moving quickly...
The AT crew waiting -
'they won't pass !' Here they come covered with a cloud of dust. The vehicles are closing quickly...
Two groups of people meeting on a bridge - 'why are going there, haven't you heard the stories ?'. 'Fools do you think
they *
who ?* will leave us alone ?'.
Refugees moving along a road... *
when was it ?* terrible noise, machine fire cuts them down, the airplane turns for another pass...
The AT cannon destroyed, its crew dead. Two tanks burning before them. The smell of scorched flesh *
how can I feel it ?*. The infantry moves ahead 'take cover !' EXPLOSIONS ! Screams 'Mutti !', 'Mamo !' almost at the same time *
the Great War ?*.
The Royal Castle burning, centuries old sculptures broken to pieces...
Soldiers eating breakfast. Tanks refuelling. An iron-skinned monster appears on the railroad. '... I will never see Munich again...' *
... Germans... ?*
City burning. 'There is no place left here ! go away !' - said a voice from below.
Bulletproof Mercedes G4a drives through Warsaw... 'Why the F*** didn't you blow this up ?' 'The order was cancelled - they are keeping 400 hostages - we can't condemn them to death the war will not last long...' *
assassination ?*
Officer reporting 'cannon ammunition left - zero ... we must capitulate'... *
Kleeberg ?*
An orderly man listening... ' so you see that we are doing all what we can the line will be breached soon' *
...how can I understand French ?*
People reading 'for the recent criminal acts against the authorities the following people will be hanged Miroslawski Stanislaw, Zajac Zbigniew, Kowalczuk Stefan...' *
...I don't remember anything like this...*
'Can't you see they are acting like animals,
we need to stop that ! '. 'Tell that to the Austrian'.
Young officer describes his idea - 'When I infiltrate the camp and establish the resistence cell we can coordinate it with the British bomber command and our combat units on the ground'. 'Do
you really think it is possible ?' *
...camp ?...'
A middle aged man writes slowly '...By my death, I wish to...'
HE stops there thinking about family....
THE SONG ... An eerie voice of a
woman 'through burning meadows of blood' *..
.APOCALYPSE ???......*
Two young men listen to a
girl: ' Red
Poppies on..' *.....*
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Walery Slawek wakes up, cold sweat dripping from his chin...
* A dream ?* goes to the bathroom in his Warsaw office. * So real...*.
Comes back and pours crystal clear liquid to the glass. *Side effect of guilty conscience...*.
*No wonder these dreams happen lately so often*.
*This time it was exceptionally realistic...*, *Prophetic ??*
*Yeah right, God found a worthy subject to hear his warnings - this Polish megalomania, damn '
Dziady ', truly I would be a great prophet to my people* - he smiled.
*Let's not forget about our dear 'bomb them to pieces'
Rayski, never enough airplanes don't you ? That explains all those bombing in the dream. But tanks ??? ...perhaps distant memories of
Sikorski's theories I am sure. how is this book titled ? 'Future war-something..' we cannot afford it anyway... maybe later. Add to that old conspirator's memories and you have everything for another nightmare...*
*Too many warmongers...* ....he laughed 'Spoken like a true pacifist !' *too much alcohol - I am starting talking to myself...*.
Yes... 'so the only choice is war ?' he asked over 3 months ago. 'Yes this is the only choice and we will be ready ! *Damn Rydz-Smigly always so eager to please the '
old man '*. *Still it was quite funny to see the 'grandpa' shattering Rydz without a single word. Yes he can do that so well..*
'Yes, there is no other choice' said Pilsudski. Daladier
refused as you know, they will hide behind this huge fortification line they like so much...'. Having the non-aggression pacts with Hitler and another with the Soviets only buys us some time.'
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Having these pacts, we are straddling two stools. This cannot last long. We have to know from which stool we will tumble first and when that will be." - he quoted. *Yes, indeed we ned to secure our future on our own... guilty concience is a small price to pay..*.
*Soon
Office 2 will move ahead with their actions to provoke useful incidents to explore. The events are already in the motion.*
'Through the conquest do we earn our salvation ?'... 'Let it be no damnation...' - he muttered...
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I have chosen Walery Slawek because of his almost proverbial honesty - almost naive one, though the man was experienced conspirator and political leader he was also an idealist - as many in that generation.
In real life he was supposed to replace Pilsudski, but after his death was beaten by Rydz-Smigly and president Moscicki and removed from power.
He surely watched the growing power of Germany and Soviet Union with fear and was aware how fragile were the alliances with France and the UK.
On the second April 1939 at 20.45 (same hour Pilsudski died) he commited suicide in his Warsaw flat...
There really was an assassination attempt on Hitler's life in Warsaw on 5th October 1939. 500 kg TNT hidded during the time of capitulation of the capital was to be used by the undeground. The plan was ready and the action was started, but either the expectation of severe repressions (those 400 hostages for example) or hand of fate saved Hitler. noone expected such terrible times - German occupation in 1915-18 was quite light, so no wonder.
Regards Cegorach