ENIGMA

Poland, 1988

A wave of protests and strikes crash across the country demanding political change and the re-legalization of the Solidarity Union. After months of negotiations the government finally relented to demands and allowed partially open elections to be held in June 1989. After the ballots were counted the Communist United Worker’s Party had failed to even gain the votes for seats in parliament guaranteed to them by the treaties and in August an anti-communist Prime Minister was appointed with no resistance from the Soviet Union.

In response to the leniency of Party leadership a radical faction of hard-line Stalinists splintered from the UWP and formed the United Polish People’s Army to counter the rising tide of democracy. On August 25, they attempted to assassinate the newly appointed Prime Minister and retake control of the country by force. Although the coup d’etat may have failed, their movement had just begun. As sympathizers came pouring out of the woodwork, the UPPA stoked the flames of civil war. To preserve the budding young democracy forming within country the CIA secretly provided the new Polish government with weapons and intel to counter the terrorist threat and hired private military contractors to pose as anti-communist partisan fighters in the Liberty Corps to turn back UPPA ground forces.

As fighting erupted across the country, the UPPA quickly became desperate to gain an early upper hand and turn the tides of war in their favor. Acting on intel leaked by sympathizers deep within the Kremlin outraged with Gorbachev’s unwillingness to take action, the UPPA dispatched a strike force to raid a top secret Soviet research facility located in the Polish countryside in search of WMDs and heavy ordinance. However, they got sloppy in their desperation and the CIA was able to intercept UPPA radio chatter about the operation and sent in the Liberty Corps to repel the strike force and recover whatever secrets are being hidden within the facility.

As the sun rises on an eerie summer morning, the first shots ring out in a battle that will alter the course of human history forever.

COMMAND STAFF