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I added the bit about Adalbert for the non Polish readership. Reasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adalbert_of_Prague Izabela and Elżbieta are the same name too :)

Well, in OTL Jaruzel showed more restraint than Piłsudski and did NOT nominate himself Marshal. Yes, dear non Polish readers, Piłsudski commissioned himself as Marshal. Without ever previously being officially in any army. Anther obscure fact - Wojciech/Wojtek may be used interchangeably with...

You lost (even) me with GPK ...

I am channeling my immature side :) Sucks to the max in normal writing. Syf. Badziew. Szmelc. Bardacha.

Yet another cause for Gierek's failure is the external economic situation - the depression (and turmoil) kicked off by the oil price hikes after October War and the inflation caused by Nixon killing the Breton Woods System. As to ships - building merchants (even if complex) and warships are two...

Yup. They often were "competence impaired". And nasty.

I'm fairly sure that a bottleneck/limiter is lack of capacity of manufacturing artillery in larger calibre than 122mm. Still, that's enough for almost all of the country's needs. 122mm howitzers and 100mm cannon and 120mm mortars (and anything smaller, naturally) - does the LWP need larger...

Poland is into transistors. Poland can into space! :) In 1914 it is enough if the subs dive to 20 metres - to avoid ramming. The ORP Błyskawica is floating scrap metal - forget it. These poorly designed little shits rule the Baltic at night (and in not-too-bad weather)...

We are about two months before Franz Ferdinand's murder. Gierek was perceived as a francophile. Even if not a franco-weeabo, then at the very least he should be favourably inclined towards them. One table I have puts Poland's 1973 GDP at c.180 billion "1990 USD". The major players in 1913: USA...

Not inside the first fifteen minutes from ISOT :) The nearest garrisons are in Tropau (Opava? Ostrava?) - 1st KuK IR and Olomuntz - 55 KuK IR. 2 hours away by train? And then the 3rd and 93rd ... And for all I know - my map shows Common Army Regiments only - there could be KK Landwehr Regiment...

I read up on the 100th KuK InfReg a bit. No idea where the barracks in Cieszyn were, but of its four battalions: - 2 in Kraków - 1 Banja Luka (Bośnia) - 1 in Cieszyn The Regiment can be rebuilt, though, as at least one complete Battalion exists and half of the recruitment district remains. This...

And now for the the Austrian border ... I imagine the first clash to be in Cieszyn. The border runs through the middle of the town. Anybody have an idea where the barracks of the tri-lingual 100th KuK (i.e. common army) infantry regiment were? Helpfully almost the entire border runs along the...

As to ages - Tatuś is from '35. As to the exodus to the Kresy - I agree, lack of mod cons (modern conveniences) is a let down. However, these are the mid '70s we are talking about. At this time there are people living without running water at that time, electrification of the whole country is a...

Maybe some Native Speaker will weight in otherwise, but AFAIK you are stuck with HMG and LMG. No. There is assistance much closer than that - Kovel. Kovel, Lutsk - there is a group of fortresses in Volhynia. Troops from there can be rapidly brought up to Brest by RR. Same thing in the north -...

I believe the correct military jargon terms to be "regular" or "active" formations. Like "czynne" in Polish. CKM = HMG British self-stroking propaganda repeated so many times that taken for fact. So far nobody ever has produced any German document saying so. LOL! For non-Polish readers -...

Excellent! Wouldn't Martial Law (State of War in Polish) be declared? General Mobilisation called? I know that peacetime LWP was +400K men, but is that enough? Technical superiority is one thing, but "boots on the ground" also are needed. Heh - my father - Chorąży Rezerwy - could be called up...

Here you can check which Russian Army units have been lost: https://marksrussianmilitaryhistory.info/RUSS1914.html A quick glance says - five Army Corps - c.10 InfDiv out of 65. 6 CavDiv out of 22. With smaller units and materiel stocks in Modlin - almost one fifth of entire army?

A mix :) But first and foremost - whatever you are happy with. Your monkeys, your circus! :p And thanks for the map!

With most of agriculture being private, NEP is well advanced already :)

The best thing is that NO SOVIET UNION. Because no WWI. And Lenin was overwritten 💋