Poland

The **Second Polish Republic** or officially the **Polish Republic.**

## Glorious 3rd of June

The long hostile relationship between the royal power in Poland in the form of August IV and his major supporters including the new German economic class in new Poland and a minority of urban liberals and by extension of German colonists and minority living in the frontier strip as well as the Jewish population who shown association and more sympathy with the German Monarchy in its traditional hostile opposition to the Eastern states, especially as large amounts of Jews fleeing Russia eventually ended up settled in Poland, guaranteed by the German monarchy. But more contentious was the conflict of the Polish peasantry in which a large part of the National Democrats and the People's Party is based on was the subject of conflict with the aforementioned elements in Polish society that itself represents in August IV. The global economic recession in 1937 brought down the entire Germany-reliant export economy that fuel the countryside. Mass unemployment swept Polish cities, pushing the Polish Socialist Party into an unprecedent close association with the political right in opposition to the royal power. On 1938, August IV finally succumbed to political pressure, a "national" cabinet was finally appointed with an expanded list of National Democrats politicians. The next few years would mark intense conflict between the King and the cabinet on the matters of social relief for the Polish peasantry as well as a variety of issues like Catholic ethos and secularist doctrine used to attack the King as a protestant dictatorship on Poland.

### War Participation Debate

The King however still able to maintain a somewhat self-balancing act in using the inherent political conflicts between those of the Piłsudskites, Socialists against the apparently Polonist supremacist and anti-Semitic nature of the opposition, and the existence of multicultural and multifaith Poland that the monarchy represents. This came an extreme conflict during the period of the two years 1942 and 1943. Originally, the Polish Kingdom have stayed out of the war out of consideration and the unpopularity of the measures but by 1942, the Russian appear to have penetrated the Eastern buffer states and by February 1943, they have seized Eastern Ukraine and Estonia, meanwhile on the Western Front, German gains during the first years of the war is now being reverted, by April 1943, the FRA have pushed the German Army entirely out of Northern France. The critical situation of the war, prompted the Reich to calls upon the Polish Army to reinforce its front. The war situations seems to the Polish by this point to be untenable for Poland in any case, there is objectively no gain in terrorities nor economic benefits from a war with Russia, but a defeat in a war they have no need to, Polish Jews and German minorities actively campaigned to join the war in fear of the return of the pogrom as the new Russian national state is a clear right-wing government, yet this is to the more sympathetic outlook of many on the right, while on the left, a war as colonial troops for the German bode ill at ease.

### Constitutional Crisis

By June , the situation is still in deadlock as neither the right nor left support a war effort and the debate continuously got rejected, a common program miraculous survived the political infighting in declaring Poland neutrality during the European conflict. Under his own peer pressure from Berlin, on June 3, the King disbanded the government and the Sjem as well as putting many national democracy leaders into jail. A direct attack on polish institution soon backfired and prompted a rallying cry for many polish leaders against German imperialism and brought up the old debate on the nature of the Kingdom, which nothing more than a German client state. On June 14, Colonel Adam Koc led his troops and occupied Warsaw to protest the decision, leading to the fleeing of the Royal court out of the city and calling for the Polish Army to seize back the city.

### German Army Intervention

German Supreme Command could no longer tolerate this situation, a political-military crisis on the back of its front is extremely deadly, the German 8th Army from West Prussia and elements from the 12th Army on the Belorussian front began the intervention into Poland. Alerted by the invasion of Poland, Polish military leaders finally took a decisive position.

### 27th of June Coup d'Etat

On 27th of June, General Wladysaw Sikorsi ordered the entire Polish Army mobilised, himself reinforced Koc holding in Warsaw and ordered the arrest of August IV currently in a military barrack outside of Warsaw. In a brief kangaroo military court, the King is indicted with high treason and put into custody, while plans were made to defend Polish heartland against the German while contacts with Russia were established via the National Democracy pre-war connections.

### Government of the National Defense and the Second Great War

A Government of National Defense replaced the King, Poland enters a state of war with Germany a few days later, the Polish Army, trained and equipped by Germany over the decades with equal capacity showed to be able to resist the German advance effective despite being overwhelmed, however the situation would spell doom for the Polish Army as half of the country already fell within the first month of fighting, not until the Russian pushed back the German 12th during the Belarussian Strategic Offensive and opened the corridor to Poland to reinforce it, Polish eastern terriroties were regained as German troops evacuate the area to avoid being encircled by the 4th Belorussian Front and the 2nd Ukrainian. With more Russian troops at the Front the Polish reestablish a secondary defensive line on the Vistula, by this point the German have occupied 3/5 of Poland including Warsaw. Polish-Russian joint counter-offensive began to regain land, with the Russian reinforcement allowing the Polish to reoorganise the army and raised a full total mobilisation.

## After the War

The position of Poland after the war was peculiar and fragile, while its eastern border and southern border have expanded considerable, Poland have yet achieved any of its major goal, such as the capture of Wilno or Western Prussia and Silesia. The official position of General Sikorsi became clearly defined as the Republic of Poland was proclaimed in 1945, after the liberation of Warsaw, with him as its first president. Contrary to his own personal belief in democratic and constitutional government, the very same struggle that begun in 1943 that turned into the salvation of the Polish people forced his hand to become more and more authoritarian as the National Democracy groups flock to his rank, enabled and embolden by their allies in Russia that the General now have to content with, the National Democracy and many of its more radical offsprings openly clamour for state power while espousing hostile polonist rhetoric that jeopardy the General and many of the Plisdistkites of a multi-ethnic Polish-led federation of slavs to counter both German and Russian encroachment. However, the dice rolled and he has to play with the devil, even after the death of the father of National Democracy. On January 1946, President Sikorsi appointed for the first time a National Democracy-led cabinet, but under requirements that it must include other parties in a national unity cabinet for a period of restoration of political stability after the war.

## Third Force

The policy which Sikorsi and his faction believe strongly in, during the war and after it as a state principle of the new Poland. Third Force refers to the rejection of neither with Russia or Paris, Poland in its own and fellow minded states in the middle could maintain their political independence. The policy was a personal combat between the national democracy cabinets including men like Colonel Adam Koc and Bolesław Piasecki who the first is representing a capitulation to the National Democracy and the latter is an intensive ideological and otherwise cooperation with Russia. This was much to Sikorsi disaste, althought he accompanied them in his sinking power, as the policy of the Third Force is showing its drain on Polish society, as Poland is surrounded by not at all friendly states and their influence over Slovakia while absolute, fail short of any middle european unity plan.