Gunman Airsoft are proud to announce Operation - "Red Mist", inspired from the events of the Soviet Union’s involvement in the civil war in Afghanistan between 1978 and 1989, and is part of the Gunman Airsoft series of Cold War Filmsim Events.
The movement by the Soviet Union into Afghanistan was viewed by both the United States and Great Britain as a move to take control of the Persian Gulf; neither country was prepared to let this happen. But, besides providing huge sums of cash and stock piles of weapons to the Mujahideen who were trying to cause an uprising and the end of the communist reign in Afghanistan there was very little else that the Coalition could do. Or was there....
Background
Red Mist is set in a fictious world where clandestine operations between the Warsaw Pact and Nato are fairly commonplace.
Our setting the border of Communist East Germany and Poland in the 1980's. British and American troops have been sent to help Polish Republican Guards repel a sizable force of East German and Russian troops for helping the Polish Communist movement after a failed coup in 1981.
1945 to 1982 saw Soviet Communist dominance over the People's Republic of Poland following World War II. These years, while featuring many improvements in the standard of living of the Poland people, were marred by social unrest and economic depression.
Near the end of World War II, German forces were driven from Poland by the advancing Red Army, and the Yalta Conference sanctioned the formation of a provisional pro-communist government which ultimately ignored the Polish government-in-exile; this has been described as a betrayal of Poland by the Allied Powers in order to appease Soviet leader Josef Stalin. The new communist government in Warsaw increased its political power and over the next two years the Communist Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) under Boleslaw Bierut gained control of the People's Republic of Poland, which would become part of the postwar Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe.
A liberalizing "thaw" in Eastern Europe following Stalin's death in 1953 caused a more liberal faction of the Polish Communists of Wladyslaw Gomulka to gain power. By the mid-1960s, Poland was experiencing increasing economic, as well as political, difficulties.
In December 1970, a price hike led to a wave of strikes. The government introduced a new economic program based on large-scale borrowing from the West, which resulted in an immediate rise in living standards and expectations, but the program faltered because of the 1973 oil crisis. In the late 1970s the government of Edward Gierek was finally forced to raise prices, and this led to another wave of public protests.
This vicious cycle was finally interrupted by the 1978 election of Karol Wojtyla as Pope John Paul II, strengthening the opposition to Communism in Poland. In early August 1980, the wave of strikes led to the founding of the independent trade union "Solidarity" (Polish Solidarnosc) by electrician Lech Walesa. The growing strength of the opposition led the government of Wojciech Jaruzelski to declare martial law in December 1981. However, with the reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union, increasing pressure from the West, and continuing unrest, the Communists were forced to negotiate with their opponents.