Bill from London

When you have a knife at your throat, because you’ve bet on the wrong horse in the race, every sock you own suddenly weighs its weight in gold…

Poland, unaware that it had become a meal among wolves, naively evacuated its gold for safekeeping into London’s hands.
How great was the Poles’ surprise, after fighting in every one of London’s battles they could join, to discover that after the war they would become the colony of another empire.

The dot over the „i” is the story of Polish gold – or rather, the bill for every tin of food the Poland received from London for defending its empire.

Yet London showed mercy.
It cancelled the debt for the use of military equipment by Poles during the Second World War – for defending its empire…