Apocalypse: 1936 (PT/OOC/OPEN)

[Monsone]

I'm going to get Manchuria one day...soon...very soon...

Are you the USSR? If so, we have to stick together comrade!Manchuria belongs to China!

I am. If you wouldn't mind messing with the Japanese in a few IC years, I'll supply you with the weapons to do so. But for now, I need to sort out some stuff in Europe.

[Strala]

Are you the USSR? If so, we have to stick together comrade!Manchuria belongs to China!

I am. If you wouldn't mind messing with the Japanese in a few IC years, I'll supply you with the weapons to do so. But for now, I need to sort out some stuff in Europe.

Of course comrade, we will need tanks and aircraft. We would also appreciate any advisors that you would send our way.

[Monsone]

I am. If you wouldn't mind messing with the Japanese in a few IC years, I'll supply you with the weapons to do so. But for now, I need to sort out some stuff in Europe.

Of course comrade, we will need tanks and aircraft. We would also appreciate any advisors that you would send our way.

I'll first need to establish a land conection, but that can be done soon enough.

[Strala]

Country/Political Group/Anarchic State(Full Name):Chinese Soviet Republic(CSR) or The Soviet Republic of China
Head of State/Leader:Mao Zedong
Location:Shaanxi and Sichuan are fully under Communist Control and the CSR has various revolutionary bases and pockets of resistance spread out across the rest of the nation. Shanghai is also under Communist control. In May the CSR entirely assimilated Hubei and Anhui. Jiangsu, Yunnan, and Zhejiang have been pacified as of June 1936
Government Type:Unitary Leninist one-party socialist soviet republic
Capital:Nanjing
National Debuffs (Pick Two or Three):
Civil War: China ever since the death of Yuan Shikai, a power vacuum as left within China. Former friendships and alliances were left broken and destroyed as the various squabbling nations of the former nation of China fought over land and resources. The Beiyang army itself split after the death of Yuan Shikai, and the nationalist government in the south began to contest the Beiyang government in Beijing. The closest the nation has ever achieved to reunification was during the northern expedition led by Nationalists. They were, however, fought to a standstill during the Shanghai Nanjing offensive. The Chinese Soviet Republic wishes to achieve Sun Yat-Sen's goal of reuniting China.

Five-Year Plans: The Chinese Soviet Republic wishes to transform the nation from being agrarian to an industrialized powerhouse. The process has been bumpy, yet the party remains hopeful with recent efforts increasing steel production along with making the CSR one of the more industrialized states between the various warring states of China. The concentration of power in hands of few people, focus on only quantity and not quality, and the bearucrats being inexperienced in such large scale controlled economies were some downsides of the Five-Year Plans.

GDP: The GDP of these two states is around 15.2 billion dollars. Much of the nation's wealth is centered around the major cities that reside within the Chinese Soviet Republic. While the government has been attempting to industrialize especially in Sichuan, outside the cities, the nation has been largely unchanged since their ancestors have settled there. The peasant farmers still farm the land, although this has been slowly improving, with new land distribution policies allowing even the poorest farmers to own some land. The CSR's economy is more stable than most of the areas controlled by Chinese warlords. The nation prints both banknotes and silver coins. The paper bills have "Chinese Soviet Republic National Bank" (中華蘇維埃共和國國家銀行) printed on the bill in traditional Chinese characters and a picture of Vladimir Lenin. The CSR used to circulate and mint copper coins, but copper was needed for ammunition, and these copper coins were recalled and replaced by silver dollars.

Population:186,098,000

History:The History of the CSR goes farther back then just the founding of the nation itself. To understand the Chinese Soviet Republic, one must also learn how and why the communist party began in China. The CCP has its origins in the May Fourth Movement of 1919, during which radical Western ideologies like Marxism and anarchism gained traction among Chinese intellectuals. Other influences stemming from the Bolshevik revolution and Marxist theory inspired the Communist Party of China. Li Dazhao was the first leading Chinese intellectual who publicly supported Leninism and the world revolution. Despite the failure of the Bolsheviks, Li Dazhao none the less saw this as the beginning of a new era for oppressed countries everywhere.

The founding National Congress of the CCP was held on 23–31 July 1921. With only 50 members at the beginning of 1921, the CCP organization and authorities grew tremendously. The resolutions of the Congress called for the establishment of a communist party (as a branch of the Communist International) and elected Li Dazbao as its leader. The communists dominated the left-wing of the KMT, a party organized on Leninist lines, struggling for power with the party's right-wing. Despite their alliance with the right KMT, the Communist party knew the alliance was tenuous and was prone to collapse at any moment, and such, they founded the Workers' Guard. During this time multiple communist party members would attend the Whampoa Military Academy, which makes up the majority of the current officer core. Along with them, communist party members or those supporting the communist cause made up the majority of several regiments within the National Revolutionary Army. In late 1924, Mao returned to Shaoshan, his home town. He found that the peasantry was increasingly restless and some had seized land from wealthy landowners to found communes. This convinced him of the revolutionary potential of the peasantry, which was originally an idea advocated by the KMT left instead of the communists.

In 1926, one year after the death of the Sun Yat-Sen, Chiang Kai-Shek would consolidate his power and prepared for an expedition against the northern warlords. It was also during this that Mao Ze Dong returned to Guangzhou to run the 6th term of the KMT's Peasant Movement Training Institute from May to September 1926. The Peasant Movement Training Institute under Mao trained cadre and prepared them for militant activity, taking them through military training exercises and getting them to study basic left-wing texts. The expedition would eventually be launched in 1927, with communist and nationalist forces under the command of Chiang Kai-Shek. In the wake of this expedition, peasants rose, appropriating the land of the wealthy landowners, who were in many cases killed. The NRA managed to defeat Wu Peifu within three months, and Sun Chuangfang was pushed out of Nanjing by 1927, the fighting had taken a toll upon the nationalist and communist forces, and the expedition was halted. Shanghai would fall to communist hands in August of 1927 and would be guarded by communist NRA forces and local communist militias were also raised to guard the city. The local gangs of Shanghai were persecuted and the majority of their members were executed by firing squads. In late 1927, Mao Zedong would lead several recruitment drives within the province of Hunan, which would bolster the communist forces within the NRA. These recruitment efforts would end in 1928 as the expedition was officially restarted. Mao would lead several hundred men into Sichuan where they conduct raids upon the local warlord forces along with redistributing land to the peasantry. By mid-1928, communist forces within Sichuan numbered in the tens of thousands with NRA forces coming to support from Hunan.

On July sixth, Communist forces under the control of Mao Zedong would take over the city of Chongqing. The rest of the province would fall in the following two weeks. Due to his victory, Mao became the undisputed leader of the Communist Party of China, with several of the more radical members of the party beginning to question Marxist views of workers being the vanguard of the revolution. On September ninth, after recruiting and arming another four divisions, communist forces launched the Shaanxi Pacification campaign. Xi'an fell in a month and Shaanxi followed suit on December fifth. On December twenty-sixth, the Communist forces within the province would announce the foundation of the Chinese Soviet Republic in response to the Guangxi Clique gaining control of the Nanjing Government. However, the Communists and the Left KMT NRA forces that did not agree with Wang Jingwei's decision to disband the Wuhan government, still believed themselves to be part of the Nationalist cause despite them essentially breaking away from the Nanjing Government. The NPA after being backed by the Shanxi Warlord, Yan Xishan, would launch a counterattack on December sixteenth. The NPA would manage to retake the provinces of Henan, and Hubei after defeating the Nationalist forces multiple times.

In 1929, the CSR would launch their first five-year plan, which aimed to lay out the primary foundations for the CSR's socialist industrialization, develop agricultural producers’ cooperatives to help in the socialist transformation of the agriculture and handicraft industries, and put capitalist industry and commerce on the track of state capitalism. The CCP would also begin land redistribution within the nation, which by this point, the vast majority of the CCP have started to believe in Maoist thought. The CSR would also purchase several tanks such as the Renault NCs along with British Vickers 6-Ton tanks and six Carden Loyd tankettes. The CSR would also establish their own armored and airforce. The first indigenous Chinese tank, the Type 001, would be developed in 1932 which would be armed with a single 57 mm main gun and 2 x 6.5 mm machineguns. Its operational range was 170 km and its max speed was 16 km/h. In 1933 the CSR introduced the type 002 light tank. The type 002 tank was a light tank armed with a single 37 mm main gun a 3 x 6.5 mm machineguns, 200 miles of operational range, and a speed of 30 miles per hour. By 1935, the CSR had around 1399 tanks. The airforce, by comparison, was much smaller with only 125 or so planes, the vast majority of which were built for reconnaissance. In 1933, the capital of the CSR would be moved to Xi'an.
Facilitate the socialist transformation of private industry and commerce.
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[Benuty]

Would an opposition government in the colonies of the European powers be too unreasonable? or Perhaps just a straight-up breakaway state?

[Union Princes]

Would an opposition government in the colonies of the European powers be too unreasonable? or Perhaps just a straight-up breakaway state?

No, not really. The Empires are literally shattered because of WW1 ending with global depression and national revolts. There's always gonna be opposition government somewhere

[Wasi State]

Would an opposition government in the colonies of the European powers be too unreasonable? or Perhaps just a straight-up breakaway state?

It would be perfectly within the realm of the RP. What former colony did you have in mind?

[St George Territory]

Tagging this, the Mad Baron shall rise again

[Strala]

Tagging this, the Mad Baron shall rise again

Oh lord. Another enemy to my direct north

[Mathuvan Union]

Tagging this, the Mad Baron shall rise again

Oh lord. Another enemy to my direct north

Also tag spam. You can bookmark threads for a reason.

[Monsone]

Tagging this, the Mad Baron shall rise again

Oh lord. Another enemy to my direct north

I will crush him...once I fix Ukraine and Belarus as well as the Northern Caucasus.

[Mathuvan Union]

Oh lord. Another enemy to my direct north

I will crush him...once I fix Ukraine and Belarus as well as the Northern Caucasus.

Heh. Commie Australia will rise eventually

[Wasi State]

Oh lord. Another enemy to my direct north

Also tag spam. You can bookmark threads for a reason.

That's not really spam. People are allowed to tag for interest in this thread, especially if they got some ideas already.

[Monsone]

I will crush him...once I fix Ukraine and Belarus as well as the Northern Caucasus.

Heh. Commie Australia will rise eventually

I jut need more land to feed my people as well as gain natural resources. In fact, since the USSR in this RP lacks big iron reserves at the moment, but does have oil fields, I could see plastics being important as a substitute for wood and or metal in the eyes of the central government.

[St George Territory]

Also tag spam. You can bookmark threads for a reason.

That's not really spam. People are allowed to tag for interest in this thread, especially if they got come ideas already.

Pretty much, just seeing if the idea would be acceptable too, not sure how its spam.

Tagging this, the Mad Baron shall rise again

Oh lord. Another enemy to my direct north

And a foe to my south, hopefully I last longer than irl lol

[Plzen]

I jut need more land to feed my people as well as gain natural resources. In fact, since the USSR in this RP lacks big iron reserves at the moment, but does have oil fields, I could see plastics being important as a substitute for wood and or metal in the eyes of the central government.

Why not rely on international trade? I imagine the United States would be very happy to sell off metals and food, and, for that matter, so would the NSRS.

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Tagging this, the Mad Baron shall rise again

Very interesting but... alas, too far for me to really interact with. ;(

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A Sino-Soviet agreement of some kind could, especially if the USSR does succeed in its goal of reuniting the Russian lands, represent a fairly drastic shift in the diplomatic arrangement of both Europe and Asia... certainly the conservatives and the reformists within the NSRS would consider it within the national interest to set fire to Manchuria as a potential source of conflict between the USSR and the CCP - the internationalists perhaps less so.

Dangerous. Very dangerous. The NSRS would also be willing to provide some advisors - mostly economic/industrial rather than military, because that's what we're good at - but any sort of direct support from us is probably out of the question for multiple different reasons.

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That was an interesting post from the America First Party... are they plotting to do something similar to our own Kanslergade Agreement?

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People, get IC posts up plox. :p

[Strala]

Is it fine for my history to state that the northern expedition failed?

[Monsone]

I jut need more land to feed my people as well as gain natural resources. In fact, since the USSR in this RP lacks big iron reserves at the moment, but does have oil fields, I could see plastics being important as a substitute for wood and or metal in the eyes of the central government.

Why not rely on international trade? I imagine the United States would be very happy to sell off metals and food, and, for that matter, so would the NSRS.

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Tagging this, the Mad Baron shall rise again

Very interesting but... alas, too far for me to really interact with. ;(

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A Sino-Soviet agreement of some kind could, especially if the USSR does succeed in its goal of reuniting the Russian lands, represent a fairly drastic shift in the diplomatic arrangement of both Europe and Asia... certainly the conservatives and the reformists within the NSRS would consider it within the national interest to set fire to Manchuria as a potential source of conflict between the USSR and the CCP - the internationalists perhaps less so.

Dangerous. Very dangerous. The NSRS would also be willing to provide some advisors - mostly economic/industrial rather than military, because that's what we're good at - but any sort of direct support from us is probably out of the question for multiple different reasons.

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That was an interesting post from the America First Party... are they plotting to do something similar to our own Kanslergade Agreement?

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People, get IC posts up plox.

You're willing to trade? How about Iron in exchange for goods like tractors, trucks, and maybe even ships?

[Wasi State]

Is it fine for my history to state that the northern expedition failed?

Considering China is still well into the Warlord Period, I'll say it's fine.

[Strala]

Why not rely on international trade? I imagine the United States would be very happy to sell off metals and food, and, for that matter, so would the NSRS.

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Very interesting but... alas, too far for me to really interact with. ;(

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A Sino-Soviet agreement of some kind could, especially if the USSR does succeed in its goal of reuniting the Russian lands, represent a fairly drastic shift in the diplomatic arrangement of both Europe and Asia... certainly the conservatives and the reformists within the NSRS would consider it within the national interest to set fire to Manchuria as a potential source of conflict between the USSR and the CCP - the internationalists perhaps less so.

Dangerous. Very dangerous. The NSRS would also be willing to provide some advisors - mostly economic/industrial rather than military, because that's what we're good at - but any sort of direct support from us is probably out of the question for multiple different reasons.

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That was an interesting post from the America First Party... are they plotting to do something similar to our own Kanslergade Agreement?

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People, get IC posts up plox.

You're willing to trade? How about Iron in exchange for goods like tractors, trucks, and maybe even ships?

Ah Comrade, now I am sad that I have lost a potential way of getting new machines. I have the resources that you will need in Sichuan!

Is it fine for my history to state that the northern expedition failed?

Considering China is still well into the Warlord Period, I'll say it's fine.

Great! That also means I can try to maintain a good relationship with the KMT

[Monsone]

You're willing to trade? How about Iron in exchange for goods like tractors, trucks, and maybe even ships?

Ah Comrade, now I am sad that I have lost a potential way of getting new machines. I have the resources that you will need in Sichuan!

Well, I don't really border you, so logistics might be a bit hard. And this temporary until I get Magnitogorsk back.

But once we get a land border, expect plenty of weapons.

[Plzen]

You're willing to trade? How about Iron in exchange for goods like tractors, trucks, and maybe even ships?

...I mean, the NSRS has been building up its civilian industry for the last twenty years while Russia's been tearing itself apart in civil war. I don't think we have anything lacking in that regard.

NSRS steel, aluminium, and fish in exchange for Soviet coal and oil, perhaps. That would be something we'd be interested in.

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Ah Comrade, now I am sad that I have lost a potential way of getting new machines. I have the resources that you will need in Sichuan!

The USSR isn't the only revolutionary state around. :p

Get yourself a coastline and we'll talk. When it comes to developing up your own industry and infrastructure we probably have much more to offer than the USSR does.

[Monsone]

You're willing to trade? How about Iron in exchange for goods like tractors, trucks, and maybe even ships?

...I mean, the NSRS has been building up its civilian industry for the last twenty years while Russia's been tearing itself apart in civil war. I don't think we have anything lacking in that regard.

NSRS steel, aluminium, and fish in exchange for Soviet coal and oil, perhaps. That would be something we'd be interested in.

Russia and the USSR are different. The USSR in this RP rebuilt the industries in the land it controls and even built new ones. Now this caused famines several times, but the USSR has more industry than all of its neighbors save for the NSRS (though most Soviet industry is for making weapons and vehicles for the government). Of course I could trade oil, though coal may have to wait since most of it is in the Donetsk Basin (which will be Soviet soon enough).

And take note that soon large swathes of the former Russian Empire will become part of the USSR. That means new industrial equipment like generators, turbines, and blast furnaces will be necessary. And I am willing to give in return more oil for said equipment.

[Wasi State]

This is a bit of a rough idea of what I had in mind with the US Election map of the first quarter of 1936. Subject to more changes of course depending on players input.

[Sarderia]

Country: Confederation of Three States | Konfederacja Trzech Stanów | Конфедерація трьох держав | Канфедэрацыя трох дзяржаў
Head of State:

• Polish People's Republic: Prime Minister Józef Klemens Piłsudski
• Ukrainian People's Republic: Prime Minister Volodymyr Vynnchenko
• Belarusian People's Republic: Prime Minister Jan Sierada

Head of Government: Chairman Edward Rydz-Śmigły
Location: The Confederation of Three
Government Type:
Capital: Odessa (Federal Capital); Warsaw (Polish PR), Western Lviv (Ukrainian PR), Brest (Belarusian PR),
National Debuffs:

• Loose Confederation: The Confederation of Three is, as its name suggested, not an unified state. The three nations are only brought together in 1922 due to the fear of the rising Soviet power. Trapped between the Germans and Austria-Hungarians ro the west, and Russians to the east, the Confederation is the result of a series of treaties, peace agreements, and armistices between four ex-Russian Empire nation-states of Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine. Ethnic and religious tensions are still high between states of the Confederation, and occassional border skrimishes remain present between the member states.
• A Land Ravaged: Eastern Europe felt the brunt of the Great War the hardest. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, that secured Russian withdrawal from the Great War, soon turned to be catastrophic as the Imperial German Army units fought the Bolshevik, White Russian, and the Separatists army in the Eastern European plain. Countless villages and cities lay in ruins even to this day. However, despite it all, a loosely-knit alliance between the four Separatist factions and the White Army proved beneficial when the rising Bolshevik power gobbles up Russia - thousands upon thousands of Russians, and soldiers of the White Army - flocked into the Confederation for shelter against the encroaching Bolshevik power.
• Stronghold of Independence: The Confederation's armies enjoyed a massive morale and industrial boost, in part due to the so-called White Emigres - followers of the White Army which consisted of highly-skilled Russian engineers, artists, workers, and others who disagreed with Bolshevik rule in Russia. Hundreds of years of Russian rule brought great resentments towards the peoples of the four newly-independent Republics, and nationalism is very strong. For this reason, the Confederacy cannot declare offensive wars, except to pacify the warring warlord cliques in the ravaged lands once known as Makhnovia.

GDP: $128,000,000,000 (1990 Int'l/Geary-Khamis Dollar)
Population: 63,642,994 people
History:

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and the advance of the Imperial German Army
At first, the Germans were seen as liberators for the Poles, Ukrainians, and all other ethnic groups under the boot of the Russian Empire. However, things turned badly when the Germans started supporting local strongmans to become dictators once the Russian Civil War breaks out. Russian Imperial Army generals from non-Russian backgrounds started consolidating their power, often with German support. Their goal is to estabilish the independence of their respective homelands. However, many saw their units being recruited either to fight in Austria or the Rhineland, or following the Black Baron's adventures into Russia instead, combatting Bolshevik advance.

Ukrainian War of Independence and the Alliance of Three Republics
Belarusian leader Jan Sierada met with the proclaimed First Marshal of Poland, Józef Piłsudski in Minsk, forming a temporary alliance between the two newly-declared states to fight against the Red Army, led by Mikhail Tukachevsky and Sergey Kamenev. The Polish People's Republic and the Ukrainian People's Republic had also signed a temporary peace in Lviv, dividing control of the city into two separate parts - one Polish and one Ukrainian. Both Piłsudski and the Ukrainian leader Symon Petlyura signed the peace agreement. However, the Polish and Ukrainian sides, instead prepared their own respective armies to combat the Soviet insurrection on Belarus first. On 10 December 1918, the combined Polish and Ukrainian armies, supplied in part by the German troops at the border, met the Red Army in Minsk, where the month-long Battle of Minsk would then halt further Soviet advances to the west. While the Red Army took the city, the Polish-Ukrainian troops practically destroyed all avenues of infrastructure the city has upon retreating - abandoning it to ruin. A flanking force led by Edward Rydz-Śmigły captured Babruysk on New Year 1919, Barysaw a week later, and Vitebsk, on the border with Russia, in February. At the same month, the Belarusian People's Republic was proclaimed in Brest-Litovsk. The remaining years saw the Soviet campaign to the East repelled by the joint Polish-Ukrainian forces, aided in part by the Belarus militia. The War's conclusion in 1922 ended in a treaty being signed, that would firmly estabilish the independence of Belarus, but Minsk would still be an enclave of the Soviet Union.

Great March of the Cossacks
Meanwhile on the south, the situation is dire to the White Army and the host of Cossacks. Germany's unpredecented survival well to 1918 allowed the Hetmanate regime of Pavlo Skoropadsky to remain - supported by German generals and using German weapons - to crush all Bolshevik influence still remaining in Ukraine. Ukrainian leaders Skoropadsky and Petlyura both realized that the growing dissatisfaction with the Revolution, and the Bolshevik cause, that formed a loose confederation of warlords called the White Army, could be a significant ally for them to fight against the encroaching Bolsheviks. In April 1918, the Ukrainian Army had captured Rostov-on-Don, and the Skoropadsky regime sent out letters to General Lavr Kornilov of the White Army, encouraging him to hasten the so-called Ice March to Kuban, thereby joining the two forces. Kornilov agreed that were the White Army to capture the Russian heartland back, he would guarantee the independence of Ukraine from Russia. Earlier, the Ukrainians made an alliance pact with the Cossacks in Novocherkassk, led by the Ataman Aleksei Kaledin. First and foremost Kaledin wanted to secure the Cossack sovereignity and their way of life, as the traditional assembly recognizes the growing power of the Soviets could be severely damaging towards the Cossack institution itself. The Don Cossacks and the White Army marched north, and the Ukrainians held out the Soviet incursion desperately, while waiting for the rest of their allies to come into their aid. With the Ukrainians blocking their way, the Red Army cannot march into Caucasus directly - the timed arrival of Kornilov and Kaledin's forces bolstered the Ukrainians enough to repel the Soviet invasion, sending them all the way back into Moscow. This event, formerlty known as the Ice March, became popularly known instead as the Great March of the Cossacks - thousands of horsemen, dozens of armoured cars, pulling carts and bags of rifles, marching hastily through the winter into their homeland in the Don.

The Retreat of 1919
With the cost of a pyrrhic victory, the Ukrainians, the White Army, and the Cossacks managed to retain control of Rostov-on-Don. However, things significantly changed for the worse, when in November 1918, the coalition saw the rise of yet another Russian Civil War participant - the anarchist Makhnovia. Makhno's forces and the Black Army destroyed the only route that connects Kuban with the rest of Ukraine while they wintered, and now the coalition is at risk being invaded by yet another Red Army offensive next year. Following the Alliance of Three Republics victory in Belarus earlier, the coalition forces in Rostov-on-Don sent another message towards the Alliance troops, asking them to engage the Black Army from the West while coalition forces attacked them from the East, possibly paving a way for a safe and strategic retreat from Kuban to West Ukraine. The Cossacks were so adamantly opposed to this - as it would meant abandoning their homeland to anarchy - but both the White Army and the Ukrainian troops agreed to the retreat. Eventually, Kaledin and Skoropadsky signed an agreement that would allocate Cossacks land to settle in Ukraine, in return for their military service and manpower for the Alliance. With the Soviets preoccupied with infighting to the north, the Cossacks spend November to April gathering their men, their families, and their possessions to make the strategic retreat to Ukraine - while Alliance troops amassed west of the Dnieper. They planned to invade Makhnovia by summer, and cross the Dnieper come September. However by this time the Volunteer Army had split into two parts, one led by Lavr Kornilov that saw further incursion into Bolshevik lands as a folly, and opted to consolidate their power in Ukraine - and another led by Anton Denikin who favoured continued battle against the Soviets. Finally, the Volunteer Army were to be split half, with Denikin's Army holding Roston-on-Don with a sizeable Cossack detachment and a minor Ukrainian brigade, and the rest pushing to Makhnovia.

Summer Westward March
At first, the coalition at Rostov-on-Don tried to contact Makhno first, asking for a safe route for them to travel west and meet the Alliance forces. However, the response was significantly more blunt and offensive - either Makhno saw this as a feint to ravage the anarchist lands, or he is simply unwilling to give another chance for the Cossacks and White Army to survive. With all preparations complete, the 85,000 strong coalition forces, composed of Cossacks, Ukrainians, and Kornilov's Volunteer Army marched north to Luhansk, avoiding the bulk of the Black Army troops, until they reached the city. Alliance troops consisting of Polish, Ukrainian, and Belarusian battalions battled the Black Army in Crimea and Dnipropetrovsk. The coalition launched another attack from Luhansk to Donetsk, in order to divert the Black Army's attention from fighting the Alliance. Dnipropetrovsk was won by the Alliance in August, another pyrrhic victory, thereby securing the Alliance's control over the Dnipropetrovska region. However, the combined forces still could not defeat the Makhnovians by September - and the coalition, headquartered in Luhansk, is faced with a prospect of again wintering without an adequate supply. Desperate to cross before autumn is finished, they again sent a message to the Makhnovians requesting to cross - this time, to avoid further infighting, the Makhnovians agreed. The Coalition Army, and the host of Cossack and White Russian citizens they brought, reached Dnipropetrovsk by December.

Declaration of the Alliance
Pavlo Skoropadsky remained the Hetman of Ukraine well into 1924, when he stepped down peacefully. The office of Hetman was abolished and Ukraine adopted a semi-Presidential republic system of government. The Alliance of Three, between the Polish, Ukrainian, and Belarusian People's Republics, continued to support one another in cracking local warlords after the Summer Westward march ended. Ukraine, which formerly had plans to invade Bessarabia, consented to it being integrated with Romania - and the subsequent Romanian withdrawal from Odessa - in return with a constant supply of natural resources, mainly oil. The last major Alliance offensive engagement was in the 1924 invasion of Kharkiv, to secure the former industrial center of the Russian Empire. However, by this point, the Ukrainian government had made great efforts to relocate their industry into Lviv and Odessa, in addition to funding industrial infrastructures in Belarus. While any remaining effects of the Russian Civil War is slowly going out, and the countries stabilized, the threat of the Soviets still lingered. With a Germany and Austria-Hungaru torn by war in one side, and the isolationist, revanchist Soviets in the other, leaders of state of these three nations decided that a formal integration between them would be more beneficial than each country for their own. In 1928, the Alliance is formally replaced with the Confederation, which binded the three states of Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus into a single political union - with each one maintaining relative sovereignity over their respective territories. The Confederation has enjoyed a period of peace and stability, marked with agrarian and industrial reforms, and the general increase of wealth per capita - compared to other places in Europe, which remained drowned in constant conflict. However, only the imminent threat of the Soviets kept this Confederation bonded together - a simple ethnic conflict could possibly tear the whole union apart.

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I like alternate history concepts, so I think this would be more interesting than Japan (which is kinda the same as IRL)
Also, remove Moldavia from the map and it's done.