12: Episode 12 - The Witness and The Warmonger

This week's story is the second part of the story about two friends, Ben and Andrei, who grew up in a small town in Poland in the 1930's. Despite a definite divide in their wealth and status, the two boys were good friends. And then in 1939, the Russian army marched into their town and started a chain of events that would pit neighbour against neighbour, religion against religion...and friend against friend. During the war, Ben and Andrei fled their hometown under very different circumstances and reasons. But over half a century, these two old friends would be brought together once again...one a witness and one a warmonger.

Voices: Narrator: SuZe Andrei Sawoniuk: Shane Huby
Ivan Bagley: Stewart Gibson
Fedora Zan: SuZe Sound Effects: Zapsplat.com YouTube Sound Effects
Myinstants.com Music by: Possession by Purple Planet
All music used under an Attribution License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ All media outtakes have been sourced via open media and are readily available via an internet search.
Sources:

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