Greetings Comrades in Japan

Silence before?

They were tense and sullen as they listened to the full report on the December 1 raid, which quickly became known as Fiery Thursday. The person who read it stammered and interrupted, but only the cold stare of the emperor made him finish reading the gruesome report.

"That's all, Your Majesty," said the man in his suit, who was the official appointed to write the preliminary report. You could see him sweating and his eyes choked in a face full of horror. The emperor quickly raised his hand and wordlessly dismissed him. The official quickly left the room as if he was afraid something would happen to him if he stood in the room any longer.

A gloomy silence fell as he left the room. Everyone looked at the others without having the words to say about what had happened. -We have awakened the angry eagle‖ Kyos broke the silence, referring to the emblem of Poland which he had seen on documents when the Poles unsuccessfully tried to establish diplomatic relations with them. Of course he had also seen it on the official note of declaration of war which the Poles delivered when the war broke out.

He thought then a little funny, now it looked to him frightening and the name of People's Republic of Poland stopped being funny and became what in minds of Polish communists it was supposed to be. A symbol of revenge of the common working people.

"Simply put" said Arde, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Parpaldia. The further conversation was interrupted by the raised hand of Emperor Ludius who then started his monologue.

"You have heard what has happened. Some of you had an opportunity like me to see the effects of Polish attack. I can't say that I was impressed by those boys, the parverii" said Ludius not realizing that for example the Polish Minister of National Defence Wojciech Jaruzelski was of noble origin and not only him.

"It doesn't mean that we'll ever surrender to them." He said in a proud but thoughtful tone. There was a rumbling silence in the room

He added in a louder tone "They may have their planes and chasers, but no one has defeated the Parpaldian territory yet! Our greatest strength is our numbers and our terrain! Even when we were just a simple little Republic we were unconquerable. Now we are a superpower!" He paused for a moment allowing the person gathered to digest what he had said. For a moment it seemed to echo around the room with his words.

"That's why I expect you to prepare our country for a total war, which Poland can't afford!" He said the first part of the sentence a little quieter, but emphasized the second so that it struck fear into everyone's hearts.

Unfortunately for the Emperor, he did not know three things. The first one is obvious, namely Poland, in spite of much smaller population, can afford a total war more than Parpaldia, after all since its creation it was built only for this purpose. The second thing is the military tradition of Poland which more than once conquered what others never did such as Moscow in 1612. The third thing is the Poles themselves who, according to an old joke, if someone says that a Pole cannot do something, he will go and do it.

Then the Emperor turned to Arde "How are our armed forces?" Arde quickly nodded his head and said "Your Grace, our army except the one lost in Altaras has avoided major losses, in addition we have enough reserves to be able to fight a total war even with quite large losses" the Emperor squinted his eyes "How large?"

Arde looked for a document in his briefcase and pulled it out "We have over one and a half million soldiers in service and our reserves are estimated at around four million, in case of trouble we can still recruit another million but they will be poorly trained and of doubtful motivation."

The Emperor nodded with satisfaction "And our Fleet?" Arde swallowed his saliva "Our Fleet Your Highness, is not fit to fight." The Emperor looked coldly and asked in the same tone "Explain!"