Warsaw Pact Invasion of Poland | 1981 - 1982 | Every Hour

In this alternative history scenario it's December of 1981, the Solidarity strikes around the country force General Jaruzelski to enact Martial Law or else he'd be faced with opposition from all around. However, the soldiers and the workers find common ground and force the Socialist government into exile, leading to an intervention by the Warsaw Pact that many believe will be as quick and easy as the one in 1968 Czechoslovakia.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:46 Martial Law & Takeover
02:39 Interwar Period
06:44 Soviet Invasion
10:17 East German Intervention
12:21 Czechoslovak Intervention
12:49 Siege of Warsaw
14:17 Post-War Period
16:00 Democratisation
18:21 The 2000s
20:22 The 2010s
22:21 The 2020s

Music Used:
- TNO OST: Echoes
- TNO OST: Welfare
- TNO OST: Tyranny
- TNO OST: Eyes on the Enemy
- TNO OST: The Antarctic Extinction
- TNO OST: The End
- TNO OST: Lamentation
- TNO OST: A Narrow Path
- TNO OST: Day By Day
- TNO OST: Hurry Up And Wait

Software Used:
- DaVinci Resolve 18
- Paint.Net

Production:
- June 14th, 2024 - August 25th, 2024
- 100+ Hours of editing

[downumysowy]

the most unrealistic part is ''Soviet Command orders cautious and small advances to prevent the damage and destruction to the historic cities''

[KedAR_]

I love how the main problem of the video according to the comment section is that the Soviets would never respect Polish cities and lives by creating humanitarian corridors. Really shows how good the quality of this video is.

[saucy]

12:13 I like the little "30 days at Hel" reference. Nice one, and overall, Great work.

[luzny]

Besides the parts about preventing the damage and destruction to the historic cities and humanitarian corridors, this is the best alteriative history video I watched in a very long time. Creating this material had to be a lot of hard work. Great job!

[Quartzyyy]

This video is very nice. The most surprising part is that Soviet intervention in 1982 has so little impact in history of 3rd Polish Republic (post 1989)

[kotlet]

This is one of the best and most realistic Alternative History scenarios
I'm serious one of the best made videos of this topic I've ever seen!

[jakubchloe]

>warsaw pact member existing

>does something the USSR opposes

>is invaded by warsaw pact

repeat

[patrykkaminski]

Soviet invasion was unrealistic at that time. There are preserved documents of the Soviet Politburo, that they didn't want invasion of Poland even in the event of the fall of the PZPR. The Soviets were terrified by the vision of a second Afghanistan in the middle of Europe. The Soviet economy was also dependent on food imports from the USA and was also dependent on the export of oil and gas to Western Europe, which required supplies of American technology for the transmission of oil and gas. Carther and then Reagan warned Soviet if they invade they will block all food import and block gas and oil pipline technology export to USSR. There are preserved documents, that in the event of the fall of the PZPR, Brezhnev planned to come to an agreement with the new authorities on the principle of "extended Finlandization".

[powersettingsm]

Holy hell, good work! This is the kind of videos that I wake up for in the morning.

[Eggardy]

HOLY SHIT MAN THIS IS AMAZING, i honestly would not expect for you to make a video on Poland, especially at this degree of quality. And while some things i find personally slightly unrealistic it is honestly a good peice of work. The only major things i would call unrealistic would be elections after the invasion and certaint battles/fights for cities (mainly in the south) as large part of it is i should word it as "not best" for infantry fighting vehicles and tanks and a fast push to the city of Krakow from the Soviet border as this would be very hard to achive within the span of a month. The elections are kinda janked with certaint candidates getting to power before becoming well known to get into such position. Additionaly some minor errors that aren't really noticable but when found are kinda annoying tbh. Overall the rest of the scenario is great, however i see room for improvement after the intervention like attempted intervention into the soviet territories by the Polish authorities during their fall (mainly to the Wilno region as certaint politicians wanted it to become either autonomus within Lithuania/Belarus or to stand independent). I would like to see some more content related to my home country in the future, possibly with maybe the Border crisis or a scenario where the missle found in Poland was actually Russian.

In short, gud vid

[aggrillmane]

Poland being invaded from 2 sides again 💀😭

[TheCobra-oe]

“The last polish mi-24 was shot down in northern counterattack” Man… Imagine the sadness that the crew felt when they figured out every single other MI-24 has been shot down and they are the ONLY one left of that aircraft type, no fellow squadrons, no wingmen, nothing. Just their chopper, the air, and the enemy…

Edit: Same thing with the last polish MiG-23. I’d say it is arguably worse because it is you against the whatever the enemy decides fit to send after a lone aircraft. Imagine the terror the pilot felt when he probably realized that he was merged and outnumbered

[BBSERVICESBB]

Amazing video!
However personally I doubt if Poland would be that "strong" in terms of GDP at the 01.01.2026 in case of war/military operation held by USSR in 1982.

Anyway good job! I would love to see even more videos about alternate timelines of Poland

[James-cqbj]

I just saw the post on r/AlternateHistory, didn't know a video came along with it 😅 amazing work man

[ChrisTucker]

It's cool that these tools can just be used for IRL mapping aswell

[Kajzer]

"The Soviets establish a humanitarian corridor leading out of Warsaw in order to allow civilians to escape" - won't happen in any timeline ever

BTW very interesting piece of work, great job!

[jedlin]

I think the events of invasion of 1982-1983 would influence the country much more after 1989 than you showed it. It would definietly shape the way of foregin policy or economy. The full scale, few months long invasion with major battles, stronger than 1968 or even 1956 events. How many casualties was in that "scenario"?

[Mynemkem]

100+ hours to make this video!? Good work 👏👏

[ivanhardy-Birt]

11:09 is Veselov Ilya a real person, I couldn't find anything on the internet

[JulianWilhelmIII]

I don't know how i got there, but I admire your attention to the details. I would love to watch similar video showing scenario, in which Ukraine has collapsed in early 2022 and Russia put pressure on baltic states and Poland. Keep up the good work bro!