Fryderyk Jan Winogrodzki

== About ==
Fryderyk (full name Fryderyk Jan Winogrodzki; 1959 - 2008) was a Zedrutian-Bistonian former firefighter captain and survivor of the November 15th 1989 Incident. He was a graduate who received a degree from the Kriadavia-Kostonia University in Bistonia. Fryderyk was born to Polish parents in 1959, he was arrested by the Z.C.S.S (Zedrutian Central Security Service) for being allegedly involved in protests and possession of items that he used to make molotovs. 
His family including him moved to Bistonia after 1975, immigrating there during the midst of the Zedrutian economic crisis in 1976. During his stay in Bistonia, he graduated in Kriadavia, and graduated from the Kostonia University, having received a degree. Fryderyk had to once again flee, as a result of the Crimsonian-Bistonian War and the chaotic situation in Kriadavia at the time. He fled to the St. Ark Federation, where, according to Fryderyk, things were chaotic. He took a job as a firefighter in Tinkeraton, serving at the New Shingleton International Airport Fire Station. 
He rose up to the ranks as a captain, and eventually became one of the witnesses of the aircraft's destruction on November 15th 1989. He survived the incident, having been spared from being killed by the St. Ark Military Police. Sometime after in the early 90s, Fryderyk moved back to Zedrutia to New Gdansk, but attempted to flee the city during another situation, where he was shot in a bus terminal by a shooter allegedly having links to the ZRNLA (Zedrutian Reformed National Liberation Army). He survived, and recovered from his injuries, until his death after suffering from complications from the injuries he sustained.
== Early life ==
Fryderyk was born on the year of 1959 in the city of Byeradzina to Andrzej Winogrodzki and Zofia Winogrodzka, State of Zedrutia. In the year of 1960, Fryderyk's parents together moved to New Gdansk. Andrzej Winogrodzki, Fryderyk described his childhood during the military government as "always paranoid" and "frightening". He attended school at the New Gdansk Public School in 1966. 
Fryderyk would enter his first trouble during the midst of the Zedrutian Revolution in 1969, when he was just 10 years old. Fryderyk participated in protests against the military government, and eventually volunteered in making molotov cocktails for protestors. Because of his alleged participation and his possession of materials to make molotov cocktails, he was detained by the Z.C.S.S (Zedrutian Central Security Service), the secret police during the Zedrutian military government at the time, for breaching authority and participating in riots across areas around New Gdansk. He was one of the victims that were nearly executed due to the extent of his crime, but was spared after his friends took responsibility, and were soon detained by the Z.C.S.S. Fryderyk stated in his biography that he never saw his friends again, as he speculated that most of them had been shot or detained by the secret police. He was kept in a prison for political dissidents, and he was forced to spend 8 years in prison. However, with the subsequent collapse of Drewnowski's government, all charges were dropped and Fryderyk was released from prison, after only serving 5 days in prison. He was given a pardon by the Zedrutian provisional government.
Fryderyk along with his family moved to the Republic of Bistonia in 1976, during the events following the end of the Federation War, as fuel prices soared during the Zedrutian Economic Crisis, subsequently leading to the rest of Zedrutia falling into a chaotic situation. They moved to a new residence in the Bistonian capital city of New Vilnius, before moving to Kriadavia to a suburban area within the outskirts of the city. Fryderyk believed that he moved into Kriadavia as his parents visit to the city earlier reminded them of the lifestyle back at home, and that they would stay here while waiting for the Zedrutian crisis to end. In the early 80s, Fryderyk was accepted into the University of Kostonia somewhere in the Republic of Bistonia, receiving a certificate of graduation in a plaque. After his graduation in 1987, Fryderyk returned to Kriadavia, but in the few days after his return, Crimsonia declared war on Bistonia, beginning the events of the Crimsonian-Bistonian War. 
As the war had progressed and the situation was deteriorating, the Bistonian Armed Forces overthrew the Bistonian government in a coup d'etat which led to Stanislovas Darijus assuming power and establishing a provisional government, resulting in a mutiny led by a rogue faction of the Bistonian Armed Forces which saw the takeover of Kriadavia and the establishment of the Free Bistonian Army. The Free Bistonian Army were a right-wing, conservative faction which declared themselves as a legitimate government, and enacted policies which discriminated the majority Polish population in the region. This prompted Fryderyk to leave Bistonia on a flight full of refugees heading towards a safe zone established by CUFN peacekeepers in the region of Bistonian-Shingleton.
== Life in the St. Ark Federation ==
However, CUFN peacekeepers declined the aircraft's permission to land in the safe zone, forcing the aircraft to land in the St. Ark Federation. Fryderyk, along with all of the refugees aboard, were immediately apprehended by the St. Ark Military Police for illegally trespassing, in an attempt made by Frederick Goldlock to stop the massive influx of refugees fleeing to the country during Bistonia's war with the Crimsonians. However, Fryderyk fortunately made it out and into the St. Ark Federation, but had nearly gotten in trouble for attempting to bribe one of the police officials to release him. He was given a deal by a military police officer that Fryderyk would be provided with a risky job, in exchange for being provided citizenship in the country. After Fryderyk was let go from custody, Fryderyk used the remaining savings to purchase a dilapidated apartment in Jefferson, and was given the job as a captain in a fire station. He later on moved to Tinkeraton to become the captain for the New Shingleton International Airport Fire Station. Prior to the events of November 15 1989, Fryderyk arrived with a crew of firefighters to extinguish a massive fire which spread throughout a part of the terminal, and arrived to extinguish another fire a month later.
=== New Shingleton Incident ===
During the late hours in November 15th 1989, an Orange Airlines Boeing 747 aircraft, with around 200 passengers who were Bistonian nationals, were bound on a flight to Bistonia, until it was shot down by a Crimsonian missile allegedly launched by a middle aged man named Zhukov. The plane exploded almost instantly, resulting in remnants of the plane, including what was left of the passengers and crew of the aircraft, crashing into the Scattered Islands Archipelago into the bottom of the ocean. Fryderyk was one of the firefighters who were immediately woken up by the sound of the blast, initially thought of as a fuel tank which ruptured, but was soon revealed to be a plane which had exploded mid-air. Fryderyk proceeded to fall asleep, as he avoided going to the area along with his colleagues in fear of being in flames from the blast. Fryderyk heard gunshots coming from the main terminal, attempting to run towards the area before being stopped by a military police officer, who was only visibly seen with a flashlight in the dark. Fryderyk also described 5 unknown people roaming around in the area, which were presumably other military police officers. He attempted to run towards the area before the officer pulled out his revolver, threatening to use violent force if he didn't comply. Fryderyk was forced to go back to the fire station, unable to do anything as the gunfire was progressively getting worse. On November 16th, Fryderyk described the aftermath as a deep silence, as all of the other personnel in the fire station went silent. Fryderyk left his position soon after. Fryderyk and many of his colleagues were driven away on convoys, but also witnessed 5 trucks carrying what presumed to be body bags.
Fryderyk, in a 2001 interview on a Zedrutian show, provided a statement which described his experience on the night of November 15th, during an anniversary. After his statement, he also expressed condolences to many of the families and relatives lost in the massacre.
 I was the captain of the fire station at that time in November. It was a very usual day, and we were all asleep, until that very midnight it happened. We all woke up to hearing an explosion from far away, probably somewhere off of the coast. We initially thought that it was a fuel tank which had exploded, and I thought so too until I peeked at the window in the second floor of my room. It was very shocking. A very, bright explosion in the skies, above the islands. I knew instantly, that a plane had exploded, but something felt very off as it had took off from the runway. The plane was in pieces after that very huge explosion, and I saw it crash into the ocean in small pieces. I saw, in the distance, parts which were floating in the sea, still on fire, and the fire had already spread to some of the homes on the islands below. The worst I could describe is that, the fires looked like an entire opera, as if a magician performed tricks on the ocean to turn it into his own version of Dante's Inferno. We all sounded the alarm, and all of us went to the scene to try our best to help. I stayed for the entire night, since I was afraid that going to the area might've set me up in flames.
 Then, suddenly around an hour later, I heard gunfire coming from the distance. Somewhere around the area where the main terminal was. I immediately stormed outside the fire station, not even wearing any shirt or pants, I was almost naked, and I tried running towards the place where it happened. Then, a man in the middle of the runway shined his flashlight at me. I was blinded for a second. Then, I could see that he was military police. Beige uniform, brown hat and armband, and the man was clearly one of them. The military police in the country at the time was a very horrifying experience anyone in the country could endure with. They could've made your daughter disappear, then a day later you could find your daughters body along the banks of the Pelkan River. Those stories made me realize that if I didn't take it seriously, I would've ended up in a grave nowhere to be found. I saw around five silhouettes walking around the runway, carrying firearms and I could hear the sounds of gunfire getting worse every second. It shocked me to the core when I heard the screams, then the man who shined the flashlight at me then talked. He pulled out his revolver and he forced me to put my hands up in the air. He somehow recognized me as the captain, ordering me to return back to where we were previously 30 minutes ago.  After all that had happened, everyone went back, without having conversations, and most horrifying of them all, empty and shocked to the core. We all left that fire station a few days later, and when I took a look at the airport, there was almost nothing eerie about it with the exception being all the broken windows were boarded up with plywood. But there was something also eerie, as there were probably a convoy of trucks and vans belonging to the Military Police at the time, 3 vehicles each, were driving around the facility with bags of what I assumed to be corpses. I left my position as captain on that time. It was more horrifying than a majority of the gang wars you would often see a mile away in Jefferson, which was already too much of a burden for me to handle.
 I fled to Zedrutia, and here I am now. If I just continued to run, or possibly ignore who that man in the runway was, I would've been shot. That experience shocked me to the core, and I fled the country because of that. Sometimes usually during the cold nights, I would have nightmares of the Military Police arriving to my house, or, have nightmares of my former colleagues who would be shot or kidnapped along with me. Decades after the incident, I still remember what had happened on that day. In the end, there is no way of attempting to change the past. God always tells everyone to forget and forgive, but there is no way I could move on. I also want to share my condolences, to the victims involved in the incident, and their relatives and families who had lost their loved ones to a group of people so terrifying people did not want to go outside in the night. I think this is all I can say, as this is all going to take me back. I do not want to go back there and revisit, neither does Jefferson, nor do I want to see another convoy.
On November 21st, Fryderyk returned to the city of Jefferson, just around the time during the violent events known as the "Hadshellad Revolution", which brought down Frederick Goldlock's military junta, after he was in power for only just 10 years. His overthrow, and the establishment of the country's first democratic government since decades, resulted in the St. Ark Federation further plunging into a deep crisis in the 90s. Rise of organized crime, including Frederick's oligarchs attempting to take over what little had remained of Frederick's assets during his power. Fryderyk attempted to survive in the crisis and endure it, but fortunately managed to board a flight bound to Bistonia. He travelled from the region of South Bistonia, and eventually to the city of Kriadavia, where his parents for years had been living in a refugee camp, after the Free Bistonian Army had forced most of the Polish immigrants in the city out and into the outskirts. Fryderyk and his parents then packed their belongings and moved out to the Republic of Bistonia, and returned to their hometown in New Gdansk in Zedrutia, where they would continue to live.
== In Zedrutia ==
In 2003, he adopted an orphan named Wiktor. Fryderyk said that the deaths of Wiktor's parents had deeply saddened him, and with many other parents refusing to adopt him, Fryderyk adopted him and took him into the family, where he was also welcomed by Fryderyk's parents. Fryderyk continued to live a normal life in 2007, when he was caught up in the New Gdansk Incident, when a newly formed faction belonging to the Zedrutian National Liberation Army captured parts of the city, resulting in violent confrontations with the Zedrutian Armed Forces. Fryderyk, along with his adopted son Wiktor, were escorted to a bus terminal by the Zedrutian National Guard, which had been converted into a temporarily evacuation zone, where a bus was waiting to drive out of the city to a temporary refugee camp. Unfortunately, for Fryderyk and those who planned to evacuate the city, a gunman who was from the ZNLA started shooting up the bus terminal, killing 4 Zedrutian soldiers, and killing around 18 civilians at the area, injuring 30 others including Fryderyk. Fryderyk, along with a group of around 28 people, ran until the gunman started shooting at them, striking Fryderyk in the collar bone and in the chest, and injured in the process along with 8 other people, with 2 of them dead in the process. Wiktor managed to survive, but Fryderyk's condition was critical as he was hospitalized. After he was escorted to a nearby hospital for an emergency surgery, Fryderyk survived from his injuries, but his right lung sustained heavy damage.
Despite his survival and full recovery, Fryderyk continued to have complications well into 2008, and a year after the shooting, Fryderyk died in his sleep aged 48, only a week before his birthday in his own home. Fryderyk was buried in a cemetery in Byeradzina, along with his parents which had passed away in 2004. Survivors of the New Shingleton Incident expressed their condolences after Fryderyk's death, including most of his colleagues. A memorial was constructed for Fryderyk in 2010 in the fire station where he once worked at.
== Trivia ==
* Fryderyk is one of the few characters in New Shingleton 1989 to not appear in the game. Instead, Fryderyk is only mentioned in the game through a graduation plaque which was in the firestation at New Shingleton International Airport.
* Fryderyk's full name, Fryderyk Jan Winogrodzki, is actually taken from another character in New Shingleton, Zdzisław Felicjan Winogrodzki, who was the leader of The Void in a post-apocalyptic Zedrutia. Fryderyk and Zdzisław are completely unrelated and both characters are different from eachother.
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