Volume 5: Operation Fallen Eagle

**Operation Fallen Eagle** is the Fifth Volume in the **Toxic Soviets Comic Series**.

## Full Volume

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## Summary

Leon and the KGB arrive to rescue Heydar, Grill, Joseph and the newly recruited Felix following the crew’s sudden helicopter crash and their escape from a mysterious underground dungeon. Simultaneously, Leon insists that the mission in Poland is carried on, with the helicopter heading towards Warsaw, the Polish Capital. Upon their arrival, though they are initially halted by the Polish Guards, they are permitted to stay and get invited to dinner in the Royal Palace by Queen Anne of Poland (much to the disarray of her brother, Franz, who insists that the Bolsheviks have ill intentions in their arrival and swears to uncover their plot). Throughout the meeting, a series of carefully coordinated twists, screw-ups and conflicts take place with the intention of kidnapping the Polish Royal Family, disarming the Palace from within and subjugating Poland to Soviet control. Meanwhile, Faded, now a Polish Aristocrat, is hell-bent on increasing his money, fame and status by all means possible.

## Overview

At long last the rescue team consisting of Leon and KGB operatives arrive in Poland to collect Heydar, Grill, Joseph and the newly recruited Felix. Heydar recaps the events that lead them to the crash whilst Joseph theorises the cause may be an act of sabotage. Leon then informs the now united group that they are heading to Warsaw to complete the mission they first set out to do (despite protests from a bewildered Heydar) before being made acquaintance to the former Polish duke.

Meanwhile, Faded has cemented his position amongst Polish society as an aristocrat after earning favour from the Queen. Faded gleefully reflects on his favourable deal with the Polish monarchy, exchanging soviet state secrets in return for 10,000,000 Polish Leks whilst attempting to quell his growing interest in her. Any excitement Faded had although, quickly evaporates upon spotting a soviet helicopter arrive at the palace.

In the interval, the soviet escort land at the gates of Warsaw for negotiations and are invited in by Queen Anne to dinner at the palace in spite of strong objections to her hot headed brother Franz. In the palace halls, Heydar struggles to make his address and the Queen excuses herself to debate strategy with Franz, undecided whether to hear the soviets out or to dispatch of them. Leon takes advantage of their absence to send off his agents to infiltrate the palace. Leon then further offends the Poles by playing the soviet anthem in the dining chambers which provokes Franz to attack Leon. Upon his suspicions failing to realize, Franz storms out the room, determined to uncover the soviet plot. Franz discovers on his search a communication earpiece used by the KGB which he uses to discover that the soviets have placed a spy in Poland which they have used to place a bomb in the palace. With this new information, Franz races to inform the Polish security services.

Faded meanwhile, makes his escape from the palace, reasoning that no amount of money is worth the soviets discovering his involvement with the Poles before making his journey through the forest. Things began to heat up in the palace as Franz reveals the mole during his prejudiced rant against his people. Accepting the game is up, Leon activates his smoke grenades to mask the soviet escape and to evade gunfire from the royal guards but before they could successfully escape, they are quickly ambushed by Polish guards and their transport is swiftly destroyed. Having the clear advantage, Franz attempts to execute the Generalissimus but before he is successful in eliminating Leon, Svoboda makes his return after being hidden undercover within Polish ranks and proceeds to hold Franz at gunpoint. Thankfully this newfound commotion leaves just enough time for the bomb to explode and whilst the guards are distracted by the destruction they are quickly eliminated by KGB operatives hiding within the bushes. Anne and Franz now prisoners of war are greeted by Felix who informs them of his betrayal and defection to the soviets, revealing it was him all along who had been giving the soviets the information they needed to enact their attack. Heydar, betrayed by Leon and Grills deception about his true purpose in Poland, lashes out before the sound of a gunshot abruptly ends the argument.

Franz is dead. Executed by Svoboda in cold blood. Grills and Heydar are quick to condemn the needless bloodshed but Leon refuses to discipline the unsanctioned execution of an unarmed prisoner of war, regarding is as a necessary evil for the greater good. Leon then orders the prisoners to be transported back to the Soviet Union but before any attempt to take the Queen is made, Faded, after successfully escaping the fallout of the palace's destruction and making it to safety, witnesses the Queen imprisoned. Sensing an opportunity to gain both gain favour from Anne and the riches that will surely follow such a brave action whilst disregarding the consequences that may encompass interfering with the soviet mission, uses his perm to rescue the Queen and escape into the night. Leon, furious that the Queen had managed to so easily slip away from his fingertips orders the capture of Faded and the Queen before advising the nearby Polish civilians to move east to find refuge within the borders of the U.S.S.R, warning them that Poland's annihilation will soon be imminent.

## Trivia

* The events of this comic, vol 4, and the next few volumes that will follow are officially considered the start of the "Polish Arc".
* Vol 5 is shorter than Vol 4 by 10 panels, with a total of 132 panels compared to Vol 4’s 142.
* It is the first and (so far) only comic that doesn’t include or take place in Soviet soil.
* Despite it being only the second longest comic, Vol 5 took the longest time to create, taking 8 months to complete.
* The Polish Royal Family is ethnically Danish, hence their Aryan obsession, nordicism and racism.