Poland
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| Rzeczpospolita Polska (Republic of Poland) | |
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| Continent: | Europe |
| Affiliation: | GDI |
Poland (Polish: Polska), officially the Republic of Poland (Polish: Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine and Belarus to the east; and the Baltic Sea, Lithuania and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north. The total area of Poland is 312,679 km² (120,728 sq mi), making it the 69th largest country in the world.
The first Polish state was baptized in 966, within territory very similar to the present boundaries of Poland. Poland became a kingdom in 1025, and in 1569 it cemented a long association with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by uniting to form the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Commonwealth collapsed in 1795. Poland regained its independence in 1918 after World War I but lost it afterwards, as the Soviet Union invaded it for the second time, after losing the first war in 1920 after the Battle of Wistula river.
The Soviets have reshaped the territorial borders of Poland, altering the original size of the country decided upon after the first World War, annexing Germany's eastern territories in exchange for relative peace. Poland was treated little better than a slave country. An example was when a group of resistance fighters and civilians escaped a Soviet chemical weapons test and saved their lives, marshall Gradenko ordered their extermination, along with every other civilian structure on the outskirts of Toruń. Poland also acted as the staging grounds of the USSR attack on Germany.
When the war ended with Allied victory, Poland remained neutral, but the victors did not return them the lands belonging to Poland before the war. The country developed a thriving and succesful economy and accomplished, well working political system. When the First Tiberium War begun, Poland became a battlefield once more, this time in the war between Nod and GDI. Białystok, a city in the eastern parts of the country, suffered the worst, as it's civilian populace was killed and the attack blamed on GDI. Eventually, with the defeat of Nod, everything returned to normal.
With the proliferation of Tiberium, the southern lands of Poland gradually turned into a Yellow Zone and the Bieszczady mountains slowly turn into a Red Zone. As of 2047, half of Poland is designated as a Yellow Zone, part of the Y-1 Zone, and the other as Blue Zone B-1/B-3.
