The New Order: First Days of New

Free but Lost - Warsaw, Poland. '87

Warsaw was free, but it wasn't Polish.

After an attempted uprising within the city, the capital had turned into complete dust. Mikhail wasn't a strong supporter of Warsaw's appearance prior, but he hated what the Germans had done to the capital. Centuries upon centuries of history, only for it to be destroyed alongside Polish identity.

"Mama, I want to go there!", Mikhail turned to see a young German boy begging for his mother to take him to the candy store. Obviously, the store was a German-owned business. Mikhail was a young Lithuanian architect and he was invited to visit Poland for a short tour, so that he could gain inspiration off Poland's architecture. Thing is, What architecture? Where is the 'Polish' architecture? 

Ever since the collapse of Reichskommisariat Ostland, Lithuania alongside the Baltics were free and separate, however, Mikhail hated it. The government was run by Pro-Germans and several officials who were Nazi collaborators. He believed that one day, Lithuania would finally wake up and realise its true position as a democracy.

Mikhail walked towards the center of Warsaw, but really he didn't know where the center even was. Again, Warsaw was destroyed by Germany, and now they freed Poland and make them rebuild their country on their own? Mikhail continued to walk throughout Warsaw, and came across a small pathway where several Polish demonstrators were on the knees, praying. Mikhail thought who they were praying to, what they were praying for, as they weren't in front of anything. He shrugged it off as a religious ceremony, but Mikhail thought again. They wouldn't be doing this in public, outside in the middle of the street.

Upon realising what they were doing, Mikhail pulled out his camera, and snapped a picture of the demonstration.