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The in-universe timeline raises interesting questions.
It ain't really a spoiler territory cause all of this is covered either in pdf-file or at the very beginning of the game.

So the Huta Grobno (or the place it was built in) was abandoned for many years after the war and then rebuilt by private investors. What kind of conflict was it and how long ago did it happen?

We know it's 1983 as of today in game, we know from the game's description the place was abandoned for many years. Yet in Pan Klimek's bio we can also see that he worked at the local factory for "Most of his life"-logical to assume, for at least a couple dozen years. The first option here is that he worked here before the war and then went back after the rebuilding. Yet it seems unlikely cause the description kinda implies the uninterrupted sequence of events from him working there to his retirement. Meaning most likely the city got destroyed, rebuilt and then he worked there for many many years.

Even before that, as we remember, place stayed vacant and dangerous for a long time. Meaning, if the history of this world is even somewhat similar to ours, the conflict must have happened somewhere late 40's to early 50's. Who fought whom? The description of the vacant wasteland kinda implies the large amount of nations surrounding it-meaning it is probably the border-town of sorts. Might it be that at one point at the time it was bordering the Soviet Union maybe, the Ukrainian or Belarussian SSR for instance?

Maybe it was a proxy war of Cold War blocks then? Maybe the West went ahead with Patton's eagerness to nuke the reds to kingdom come right after the ww2? Maybe the communist Poland fell earlier than IRL and joined the western block? Anyway, the existence of Soviet Union in it's historical borders on par with Poland keeping it's communist course seems unlikely in this timeline-they would not tolerate the existance of a privately owned city-state I reckon.

Then what exactly happened to this land before? No big clue here. Tactical nuke, the environmental hazard (either nuclear or chemical) caused by intense combat? Maybe the weapon used was paranatural all by itself.

Or maybe this world's history has very little to do with our own's and there were no soviets, no west and no ww2 even, who knows!

Fun little game, kudos to you!