The Poles could not immediately change the course of the war but after an alliance with the Crimean Khanate they repulsed the Swedes.

The North and South Poles can actually change positions.

Later that day the Poles changed their mind; "Bierut, accompanied by Rola-Zymierski, returned to Stalin and argued against any compromise with the Americans.

But Mikhail Gorbachev, for all his posturing, was a dedicated Marxist, and, as we had seen on the road from Warsaw, he had his soldiers discreetly positioned should he decide the Poles were changing things too quickly.