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.