Shocking scenes exercise Winter-20. "In the evening, the president called for General Andrzejczak"

Ground Army Officer: Samol took specified a hard-headed general who besides hated Andrzejczak due to the fact that Rajmund erstwhile told him that his time was over and would never become a general. Although the chief of staff was right about his evaluation, the PiS guy, alternatively of leaving the army, began his career. Samol and this mentioned general unscrupulously fucked Andrzejczak. They made the enemy have adequate troops that we couldn't keep up with shooting to kill them. They came in so fast. There was a alleged magical movement in practice respective times.

We fire up computers, and the enemy has already defeated us. You don't know when, you don't know how. Samol did specified miracles. They were dirty plays, but they show that they were willing to do anything to make us lose. That's what it looked like. 2 gentlemen who had a bone with Andrzejczak got a dick to punch in. It wasn't fair.

Staff officer: In the first decision, the script of this exercise was developed by the General Staff. In this scenario, Rajmund was the chief commander. His deputy became chief of general staff during the war. Everything was developed in accordance with the regulations in force at the time. We have, of course, presented the minister with a fictional but realistic plan. It contained all the actions that had to be done six months before the war broke out, from a plan to mobilise the economy, through the emergence of threats to the activation of the military. It's all dated. Minister Błaszczak didn't like it. He liquidated our group and gave the drill script to General Samol. Then all these numbers started.

Ground Army Officer: The minister didn't want BBN active in the practice at all. He wanted to do everything himself. People from the president appeared only thanks to the informal transmission of information to the BBN that Winter-20 would take place without the engagement of presidential bodies.

Staff officer: The military knew the script was bad. The plan is to do what you know. If there is no evidence of the enemy's troops, no plans are made in vain, and Samol made certain that the script showed that at the minute erstwhile the million-dollar Russian army was on the Belarusian border, we did not know about it. We only found out a week before the invasion. From just hitting.

Division Commander: The script was so constructed that in this war there were no Natian institutions, and our staff before the Russian invasion had no generated defence plans. The Samol people didn't give us time in this scenario. I'm not talking about six months of war preparation. At least 3 months. They gave us a week. To at least compose in the script that our agent in Belarus detected Russian movements, they would untie our hands. Unfortunately, the script showed that nothing happened with us, and only a week before the start of the exercise, a week before the war, abruptly comes the news that the millionth Russian army is on the border of Belarus. What were we expected to do?

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"The Ministry of Defence of War Time – here attention – Mrs Agnieszka Glapiak"

Ground Army Officer: The army has behaved as it should. Rajmund, judging the threat, made decisions without waiting for the president, the Prime Minister or the Minister. Sam assessed the situation. He felt there was a threat, and he reviewed the plans he had. Then he fought what he could, what he had. If he didn't have his own plans, he'd be in the bathroom at all. He didn't know what was going on.

Andrzejczak wanted to make an elegant maneuver, specified a mini exercise before the main exercise, which was utilized to verify various entries in the script. Rajmund had a good plan that if this Russian storm is coming, he'll be able to improve his military position. He wanted to bring a strike towards Brest over Bug 1 of the divisions to master the crossings. Then imagine that he was forbidden. You're asking who said no?

Samol told him not to. He could have done it due to the fact that he was the manager of the script group. He can do anything. He might even reverse the simulation. He's got the authority to practice. Consequently, our troops, alternatively of occupying the east rung on the Bug and improving their position, had to wait for their opponent on the Vistula line. Samol's decision that we're taking everything back to the starting positions was a nail to the coffin. But it wasn't Rajmund's decision, it was Samola's.

Staff officer: Błaszczak was the manager of the exercise. He didn't have command functions, he had organizational functions. Gen. Andrzejczak was the chief practitioner, or chief commander of the wartime. The minister of defence of the war time was – here attention – Mrs Agnieszka Glapiak, head of the minister's political cabinet. Oh, my God, how she was raving! And as any of our generals next to her were jumping in those halls at the academy where the exercise took place!

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Agnes Glapiak

All the evil active in this exercise came from a complete misunderstanding by Błaszczak and by Mrs Glapiak as the Minister of National Defence in the war. They did not let the thought that by law and constitutionally in war the head of the MON plays a little crucial function than the chief commander. The minister is subject to the Prime Minister, which means he is in the hierarchy below, due to the fact that the chief commander is subject only to the President. Not even the prime minister.

In contrast, Błaszczak and Mrs Glapiak had imagined that the head of the MON would proceed to regulation the chief of staff, as in the time of peace, erstwhile he was actually subject to him. On the another hand, the BBN boys with General Reudowicz led the presidency as much as they could, as the manager of the exercise, that is, Minister Błaszczak, allowed, that is, not besides much.

“Gen. Rajmund Andrzejczak yet got angry”

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Nowa Dęba, 8.06.2021. Minister of National Defence Mariusz Błaszczak and Head of the General Staff of the Polish Army General Rajmund Andrzejczak

Ground Army Officer: The minister besides tried to influence the chief commander through unconstitutional, illegal treatments. Andrewczak yet got mad. He said: “Wait a minute, gentlemen, I have a plan of operation approved by the President. I'm continuing the operation. If anyone doesn't like it, compose to the president through the Prime Minister. Simple?’

One of Błaszczak's biggest wines is that due to his aspirations he refused to realize the mechanics of the state's operation during the war. due to his ambition and imagination, the full exercise was derailed. We've wasted time. As a result, the normative papers did not follow, we did not drive global agreements for equipment, we did not play the function of the chief commander during the war. Nothing.

We military people don't compose nonsense in scripts of specified exercises. It's about state responsibility. It's besides serious to service politicians to screw up. Politicians don't know each other, but the worst part is that their military advisors, our people, have not gone to intellectual problem to explain to the superiors that this is not the way to play with security. They went along with it and did what politicians wanted.

Division Commander: This is about the state safety system, the usage of armed forces, the activation of the military. I can't talk about the details of these simulations. In general, I will just say that this exercise requires a decision, and Andrzejczak waited for a political factor. During the exercise, the president was played by General Reudowicz of BBN. He said he helped Andrzejczak, but there was besides much reasoning in their movements, not adequate action. As a result, our full aviation has been destroyed at the right time.

Staff officer: Everything went incorrect there. From top to bottom. This was the consequence of a bad script, but also, in my opinion, of Andrzejczak's deficiency of experience. However, it must be pointed out honestly that the chief of staff had no aid from anywhere. Samol led this exercise so that Andrzejczak would immediately plant very large strategical problems.

Edyta Gory: But that's what practice is all about, isn't it, to practice the most hard variants?

Staff officer: Yeah, but you know, these variants can be introduced sequentially day after day, but they can besides be framed in 1 afternoon, so that the peasant can't make a decision or make the incorrect one. This exercise, as it was done, should never have been done. It's not a game, it's a computer game. erstwhile the war comes, we won't have a fewer lives. We should be prepared for it. individual animosities in specified situations should be put aside, and in this exercise they have played a most crucial role.

Ground Army Officer: We finished this exercise and we had not yet reached our homes, and there was already news in the media that Poland lost the war with Russia in 5 days and that it was Andrzejczak's fault.

"In the evening the president called Andrzejczak. They locked themselves in a whisky and cigar cabinet”

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Warsaw, 6.02.2023 Polish president Andrzej Duda, Head of the General Staff of the Polish Army General Rajmund Andrzejczak and Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of National Defence Mariusz Błaszczak

Official from the Presidential Palace: Błaszczak arrived immediately after finishing the exercise. He had previously requested an urgent gathering with the President. erstwhile he arrived, he already had a motion to resign Andrzejczak. He tried to convince Duda that Rajmund was not fit to be chief of staff, and showed the effects of Winter. In the evening, the president called Andrewczak. They locked themselves in a whisky and cigar cabinet. They sat there for hours and made a deal. The president no longer wanted to hear about Andrzejczak's resignation. He sent Bliss away.

Homeland safety Officer: By the time the minister showed up at the palace, the president already knew what truly happened in practice. He knew that Błaszczak had ordered Andrzejczak to fight something he had not had, that he was given an opponent with whom the game was doomed to defeat. Therefore, erstwhile the minister came to the palace and told the president that Andrzejczak was not fit to be removed immediately, he refused.

Fortunately, Paul Soloch acted here rapidly and wisely. He's a truly talented man erstwhile it comes to a fast diagnosis of the relation around the president. In a flash, he picked up that the resignation of the chief of staff would be a full blast from the president and his center. In the world, the message will go that the president has appointed a tactical, operational and strategical idiot who knows nothing and loses the war in a fewer days.

Soloch rightly noted that questions would begin about what recruitment for the most crucial position in the army looked like, how this trial was going and so on. Terrible slop would spill on us. On BBN, for president and for Andrzejczak too. No 1 would remember that the chief of staff was elected after consulting the minister. The planet would be told that the president himself pulled an officer from a hat with whom he sits, drinks whisky and smokes cigars.

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Paul Soloch

Edyta Gory: In addition to the personnel game, did something for the military come out of this exercise?

Ground Army Officer: No conclusions were drawn. This exercise was not needed by anyone, it had 1 goal: to prove that Andrzejczak was not suitable for chief of staff. In the military, we call specified projects "a 4th generation missile", that is, launch and forget. The goal was just to exchange punches between the chief of staff and the minister. The gentlemen had a fight, they didn't talk to each other. After winter, the minister cut off the chief of staff from any decision-making. Many cases began to redirect to General Jarosław Mika, the commander-in-chief. That's why Mika got the 4th general star shortly after that exercise.

Staff Officer: What happened after Winter-20? quite a few bad stuff. Błaszczak set up a terrible muzzle for the chief of staff. Andrzejczak was trampled, pushed into the ground and this translated into the functioning of the full army.

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