"It would be better if we told young Poles today: 'Listen, young man, you are a car mechanic, you will be a mechanic in the army, you will go to the front. Don't effort to escape to Costa Brava, due to the fact that we have signed agreements with this or that country, we will get you back from there anyway'" - said the erstwhile Operational Commander of the Armed Forces, Gen. Tomasz Piotrowski, in a conversation with Agnieszka Lichnerowicz, author of the book "Idzie wojna?".