Something I came across lately may be worth thinking about. According the to UK sourcebook (v. 1), it's states that the British 1st Armored Division did move through the Baltic Coast area early in the war. This could be part of the reason Elblarg lays in ruins.
Secondly as I've been reading over some of the city descriptions from the modules, there seems to be a trend for the cities and towns to be more pro-western than pro-soviet. I would imagine that the tendency of the Polish attitudes to lean more pro-western even in the Baltic regions as well.
My assumption, due to lack of anything canonical regarding this, is that the Marines will absorb some local Polish militia and army regulars, they will also pick up a fair amount of allied regulars from other units that are apart of the offensive and not terribly distant from the Marine front lines. And it also wouldn't surprise me if they didn't absorb some Soviet defectors as well. (And how appropriate would it be that they may be GRU or KGB moles?) Either way I think we would not be too far from wrong in saying that in general terms the Poles lean more pro-west in the summer of 2k.
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