RED DAWN: War Always Finds a Way
War is like love, it always finds a way.
BERTOLT BRECHT, Mother Courage and Her Children
Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks....
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul
BOB DYLAN, "Masters of War"
"War. War never changes."
FALLOUT INTRO
From the years 1914-1918, the world had been embroiled in its first true global conflict, one that spanned across multiple continents and involved millions of people from locations around the world. Europe was torn apart in the conflict, and countless tens of millions were killed or wounded. In the aftermath of what would become known as the Great War, people were left disillusioned, unsure what the future had in store for them. Radical ideas such as communism flourished, and in the starved cities of Central and Eastern Europe, many took up arms, and fought for what they believed would ensure them a better existence. Socialist and leftist parties had grown rapidly in power, and it had come time to strike. In the former Russian empire, the Petrograd Soviet declared the end of the Ancien Régime and Tzar, calling up its citizens in the what might've be the world's first communist uprising.
However, looking back 20 years, a different story can be seen playing out just in what was once the German Empire. Near the end of the Great War, Germany was in ruin: its citizens starved and coffers empty. Years of Entente blockades and constant fighting on the Western Front had drained the nation of manpower and resources, while citizens became increasingly upset with their rapidly deteriorating living standards. As peace dawned, it became apparent that the victorious powers had no intent of giving any sort of fair treatment to Germany, all in the meantime while violence within the newly founded German Republic threatened to tear the nation apart. Various leftist groups under the leadership of the Spartacus League and soon to be Communist Party of Germany prepared to rise against what they considered an ineffectual and dictatorial government. On the 4th of January, 1919, they struck against the heart of the German Republic itself: Berlin.
A mass demonstration that turned into a full on riot erupted, as hundreds of thousands of workers took up arms and stormed many key buildings within Berlin. As revolutionary leaders Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht attempted to resolve the issue at hand (overthrowing the government or negotiating with it), rioters discovered a poster detailing the imminent Freikorp suppression of the uprising. Almost immediately, they began preparing for the coming attack. In the meantime, negotiations had begun with associated movements such as the Bavarian Soviet Republic and numerous Workers' and Soldiers' Councils around the country. Weapons had been appropriated from friendlier naval units within the city, while barricades were erected.
A battle erupted in the coming days as Freikorp paramilitaries battled against the Spartacus League and its associated worker's councils and allied military units. Defeat seemed inevitable due to the Freikorp's superior firepower, that is until a friendly force sent by the Bavarian Soviet intervened near the last minute, and drove Freikorp troops from the city. In light of victory, the German People's Republic was declared, and a interim government put into place. The socialist revolutionaries quickly made plans to spread the revolution across the nation.
The former Entente would not have any of this.
As German revolutionary forces streamed across the country relatively undeterred, French soldiers stationed in the occupied Saarland intervened and threatened war against the new German People's Republic. Still war weary and militarily / economically exhausted, the GPR complied and agreed to peace. Germany was then split between the eastern GPR and remnant western Republic of Germany, which eventually annexed Austria following a referendum as the years progressed. Yet despite this clear prevention of a unified, socialist Germany, ripples would be sent throughout the world.
Germany's revolution was only one of the many that would occur in the coming decade. As Germany stabilized, passive aide and encouragement of many Eastern European socialist movements helped spur increasing waves of revolt across the continent. Combined with Russian interventions and military force, within 10 years most if not all of Eastern Europe and parts of the old Russian Empire had fallen under communist rule. Combined with the growing movements within parts of the old Ottoman and Persian Empires, communism had come to dominate a large part of Eurasia. As the red world expanded, the capitalist west looked on in fear. The red scare, unlike our timeline, was many times worse. Deterring and stopping communism became core principles in many European nations, which rallied in face of the red tide.
In 1927, the Pan-Eurasian Conference of Socialist States was held by the various Eurasian communist states, and soon a momentous point of history had been reached. Over two dozen socialist states (including the republics of the former USSR), merged into the multi-continental Union of Eurasian Socialist Republics (UESR, known to many as simply the "Eurasian Soviet"), which came to dominate much of Central + Eastern Europe and Asia. With over 300 million people, and larger than Mongol Empire of the old, the UESR became a proverbial elephant when it came to global influence. As practicality would have it, the UESR did not become one unified nation; rather, it became a close economic and political union similar to OTL's EU. Politically, the Union fell under the influences of the semi-authoritarian Russian SFSR (controlled by more socially liberal and internationalist members of the CCCP), and the rather libertarian / syndicalist German PR. An elected congress of over 900 members from the various republics was set into place, while economic cooperation quickly took root.
While the UESR set out to rebuild itself, western nations began forging ties with one another. Fascist and right wing groups took to power in reaction to communism's rapid spread, while numerous defensive pacts were signed. When the New York Stock market plummeted in 1928, communist groups in the west began to stir once again. Almost all these groups were quickly put down, as the red scare had taken full hold of the westernized world. In the traditionally isolationist USA, violence incited by the CPUSA and associated leftist groups led to a full clamp down by the government, which took an increasingly anti-communist and internationalist stance as the 30s progressed. Leftist agitation within Latin America proved incompatible with American interests, and the rapid and near uncontrolled growth of Communist Eurasia had worried many within the states. It was decided that America would have to become the arsenal of the free world, and take a new role in international politics. Emerging from isolation, the United States of America entered the global stage as a giant, one dedicated to the ideals of capitalism, democracy, and freedom.
While most of the world suffered from global depression during the 30s, various republics within the UESR began industrializing rapidly. Following the Pan-Eurasian Congress of 1927, many individual republics introduced economic plans with two phases: the first focussing heavily on heavy industry and raw material production, with light industry as a priority of the second. Implementation of German policies such as worker's self management and decentralization helped ease the inefficiencies of central planning, while appeasing workers and labor unions. The economy grew rapidly and living standards drastically rose in many underdeveloped parts of the UESR. In just under a decade, the UESR transformed itself from a collection of agricultural backwaters into a formidable industrial superpower, one strong enough to rival much of the west by itself. The success of Eurasian industrialization caused even more alarm in western nations, which began preparing for the worst.
(Outbreak of war to be writtem by Ghandi)
After the end of the war the destruction wrought on the most of Western Europe had led some leaders to reconsider UESR policy of permanent world revolution and to seek the third way into communism. On the other side, USSR an Communist China sought further radicalization in order to strike final killing blow to the capitalism.Doctrinal differences flared between previous allies as both socialist blocks now sought too bring newly liberated colonial countries into their folds. The culmination was UESR Convention in Kronstadt in october 1948 where Chinese and USSR delegates issued sharp condemnations of European delegates. That led to socialist governments of France, Germany, Yugoslavia and Spain to leave the UESR and form The Internationale of Free Socialist States (IFSS) also known as Fourth Internationale.
On the capitalist front things weren't as bright as before. Forced to sing a truce with new socialist governments, USA and UK began a long way to rebuild their economies and confirm the place of capitalist elites in the world. Their mutual defence pact known as Treaty of Freedom moved to include more countries around the world like Canada and Australia that were threatened by Red Menace.
Now is the 1st of January in the year 1950. The world is split between two communist blocks and a capitalist one, with many new countries trying to find their place.
However, looking back 20 years, a different story can be seen playing out just in what was once the German Empire. Near the end of the Great War, Germany was in ruin: its citizens starved and coffers empty. Years of Entente blockades and constant fighting on the Western Front had drained the nation of manpower and resources, while citizens became increasingly upset with their rapidly deteriorating living standards. As peace dawned, it became apparent that the victorious powers had no intent of giving any sort of fair treatment to Germany, all in the meantime while violence within the newly founded German Republic threatened to tear the nation apart. Various leftist groups under the leadership of the Spartacus League and soon to be Communist Party of Germany prepared to rise against what they considered an ineffectual and dictatorial government. On the 4th of January, 1919, they struck against the heart of the German Republic itself: Berlin.
A mass demonstration that turned into a full on riot erupted, as hundreds of thousands of workers took up arms and stormed many key buildings within Berlin. As revolutionary leaders Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht attempted to resolve the issue at hand (overthrowing the government or negotiating with it), rioters discovered a poster detailing the imminent Freikorp suppression of the uprising. Almost immediately, they began preparing for the coming attack. In the meantime, negotiations had begun with associated movements such as the Bavarian Soviet Republic and numerous Workers' and Soldiers' Councils around the country. Weapons had been appropriated from friendlier naval units within the city, while barricades were erected.
A battle erupted in the coming days as Freikorp paramilitaries battled against the Spartacus League and its associated worker's councils and allied military units. Defeat seemed inevitable due to the Freikorp's superior firepower, that is until a friendly force sent by the Bavarian Soviet intervened near the last minute, and drove Freikorp troops from the city. In light of victory, the German People's Republic was declared, and a interim government put into place. The socialist revolutionaries quickly made plans to spread the revolution across the nation.
The former Entente would not have any of this.
As German revolutionary forces streamed across the country relatively undeterred, French soldiers stationed in the occupied Saarland intervened and threatened war against the new German People's Republic. Still war weary and militarily / economically exhausted, the GPR complied and agreed to peace. Germany was then split between the eastern GPR and remnant western Republic of Germany, which eventually annexed Austria following a referendum as the years progressed. Yet despite this clear prevention of a unified, socialist Germany, ripples would be sent throughout the world.
Germany's revolution was only one of the many that would occur in the coming decade. As Germany stabilized, passive aide and encouragement of many Eastern European socialist movements helped spur increasing waves of revolt across the continent. Combined with Russian interventions and military force, within 10 years most if not all of Eastern Europe and parts of the old Russian Empire had fallen under communist rule. Combined with the growing movements within parts of the old Ottoman and Persian Empires, communism had come to dominate a large part of Eurasia. As the red world expanded, the capitalist west looked on in fear. The red scare, unlike our timeline, was many times worse. Deterring and stopping communism became core principles in many European nations, which rallied in face of the red tide.
In 1927, the Pan-Eurasian Conference of Socialist States was held by the various Eurasian communist states, and soon a momentous point of history had been reached. Over two dozen socialist states (including the republics of the former USSR), merged into the multi-continental Union of Eurasian Socialist Republics (UESR, known to many as simply the "Eurasian Soviet"), which came to dominate much of Central + Eastern Europe and Asia. With over 300 million people, and larger than Mongol Empire of the old, the UESR became a proverbial elephant when it came to global influence. As practicality would have it, the UESR did not become one unified nation; rather, it became a close economic and political union similar to OTL's EU. Politically, the Union fell under the influences of the semi-authoritarian Russian SFSR (controlled by more socially liberal and internationalist members of the CCCP), and the rather libertarian / syndicalist German PR. An elected congress of over 900 members from the various republics was set into place, while economic cooperation quickly took root.
While the UESR set out to rebuild itself, western nations began forging ties with one another. Fascist and right wing groups took to power in reaction to communism's rapid spread, while numerous defensive pacts were signed. When the New York Stock market plummeted in 1928, communist groups in the west began to stir once again. Almost all these groups were quickly put down, as the red scare had taken full hold of the westernized world. In the traditionally isolationist USA, violence incited by the CPUSA and associated leftist groups led to a full clamp down by the government, which took an increasingly anti-communist and internationalist stance as the 30s progressed. Leftist agitation within Latin America proved incompatible with American interests, and the rapid and near uncontrolled growth of Communist Eurasia had worried many within the states. It was decided that America would have to become the arsenal of the free world, and take a new role in international politics. Emerging from isolation, the United States of America entered the global stage as a giant, one dedicated to the ideals of capitalism, democracy, and freedom.
While most of the world suffered from global depression during the 30s, various republics within the UESR began industrializing rapidly. Following the Pan-Eurasian Congress of 1927, many individual republics introduced economic plans with two phases: the first focussing heavily on heavy industry and raw material production, with light industry as a priority of the second. Implementation of German policies such as worker's self management and decentralization helped ease the inefficiencies of central planning, while appeasing workers and labor unions. The economy grew rapidly and living standards drastically rose in many underdeveloped parts of the UESR. In just under a decade, the UESR transformed itself from a collection of agricultural backwaters into a formidable industrial superpower, one strong enough to rival much of the west by itself. The success of Eurasian industrialization caused even more alarm in western nations, which began preparing for the worst.
(Outbreak of war to be writtem by Ghandi)
After the end of the war the destruction wrought on the most of Western Europe had led some leaders to reconsider UESR policy of permanent world revolution and to seek the third way into communism. On the other side, USSR an Communist China sought further radicalization in order to strike final killing blow to the capitalism.Doctrinal differences flared between previous allies as both socialist blocks now sought too bring newly liberated colonial countries into their folds. The culmination was UESR Convention in Kronstadt in october 1948 where Chinese and USSR delegates issued sharp condemnations of European delegates. That led to socialist governments of France, Germany, Yugoslavia and Spain to leave the UESR and form The Internationale of Free Socialist States (IFSS) also known as Fourth Internationale.
On the capitalist front things weren't as bright as before. Forced to sing a truce with new socialist governments, USA and UK began a long way to rebuild their economies and confirm the place of capitalist elites in the world. Their mutual defence pact known as Treaty of Freedom moved to include more countries around the world like Canada and Australia that were threatened by Red Menace.
Now is the 1st of January in the year 1950. The world is split between two communist blocks and a capitalist one, with many new countries trying to find their place.
The game starts at 1st of January 1950
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