Heavy Metal Magazine #12

In the frostbitten woods of Krolówka, Poland, a gathering of Soviet and Eastern European apparatchiks convenes for a hunting party, their rifles and frost-laced breath masking the weight of past betrayals. As the hunt begins, each man recounts a memory shaped by the shadow of Vassili Alexandrovitch Tchevtchenko—his influence, his cruelty, the quiet tragedies that echo through their lives. The cold air hums with unspoken guilt, and the forest holds its breath.