Narodist Russia Part 3
It has been just a few years since our last update, and already a drastic change has taken place. The United States has become increasingly unstable as economic recession has hit it hard due to previous wars reaking devastating impacts on their economy. Without the reforms of people like Roosevelt and the like, the government went the other way and became more oppressive in nature in response to the cruel realities surrounding them. This led to the creation and radicalisation of opposition from all across the political spectrum, and it was only a matter of time before things would begin to boil over. fears truly began to arise as rumours spread in Europe about both of the far-lefts most radical factions starting to find common ground for the first time in years. This could only mean bad things in the eyes of the old Entente and MittelEuropa. The two conservative alliances were still resentful towards one another for various reasons, but issues that were arising out of their borders were beginning to trigger a secret alliance to counteract the Far Left. The Far Right was mostly left on its own, as many of them weren’t powerful enough to really have that much of an impact, though the Tangs of China were creating a practical civil war for all intents and purposes. Though even that in China was normal compared to what happened next.
On the 1st of September 1939, as the US president Arthur Vandenberg was making preparations for a speech announcing a new economic plan which would prevent America from facing further woes, in front of a protesting crowd, he was assassinated by an anarchist gunman. The vice president was also injured in this disaster, and the crowds soon started to move and storm the white house, where they quickly started fighting one another. Soon, multiple groups started declaring for the US presidency, while the army seized the capital and declared martial law, which was the last straw in an increasingly authoritarian and corrupt government. The people rose against this military regime, but were ultimately divided. A new American Civil War had begun. Unlike the previous one, this had several sides, including secessionists of competing varieties. Texas, California, Hawaii and even Utah made a shot at independence, as they felt the government’s failure to provide for its people, as well as the extremism of many of the rebel factions would be too much to bare. The deep south was a particular battleground, as right-wing extremists, consisting of a mixture of religious fundamentalists such as the Ku-Klux Klan, white supremacists, ultra-nationalists (this world’s equivalent of fascists, though without the socialistic origins) and neo-confederates united under the ‘American Patriot Federation’ due to the nature of the alliances.
Opposing these were two forms of populist, the Moscow backed ‘Popular Syndicates of America’ which was primarily radical, and the more moderate and nationalistic Popular Union. Yet another rebellious group is ‘New Africa’, a radicalised African-American resistance group who fights for black rights across the entire USA, and perhaps the establishment of a homeland for Black Americans. Up in the north, the military government had to deal with a primarily liberal protest government as well as the ‘Collectivised Revolutionary Republic of America’, who is more syndicalist-influenced than Madrid would like, but better than nothing. Finally, a black army of anarchists has risen up as well to establish free territories instead of a state, and of course there are a few warlords who are only after themselves. The civil war set the world ablaze as governments started backing different factions and seizing areas. The British Empire occupied Alaska and various islands for safekeeping reasons, while backing the libertarian Free States. Soon, the populists and the communists both began to make ground and in February, 1940, officially made an alliance to remove all the other factions from American soil before ‘resolving the matters of the post-revolutionary world’. This scared the other factions, except for the International and the Front, who upped their financial aid. The Kaiser in Berlin demanded to end this immediately, but the Muscovites refused plainly, as their forces were rapidly integrating the Ukraine and Baltics, and backed revolutionaries were making progress in Poland and Transcaucasia too. Similarly, France and Britain became concerned about the Spanish backing in both America and Venezuala, as well as hostile gestures towards the National state. Again, requests to withdraw were refused. Germany and Britain declared war on the Popular Union and Workers Republic respectively, and so the Great Socialist war began, an alliance between two powerful conservative blocks and two powerful socialist ones as well. The Conservative block soon underestimated the power of the revolutionaries, who spread like wildfire across the Balkans, southern America and even Colonial Africa.
A side theatre soon emerged in Brazil as the Syndicate’s brutality grew to unbearable levels, as eventually millions were massacred in the forests or starved off living off those lands, which ironically were ravaged by the overcrowded people stripping it of food. Like our world’s Khmer Rouge, the regime was tearing itself apart, but on a much bigger scale and without a foreign power to invade for it-the population had dropped by more than a third by 1939 from its 1933 number, and the and it was getting even lower. A large rebellion along the coasts was crushed, but another and another rose up in its place, while the government in exile from the islands chipped in, leading to the Second Brazilian Civil War, as the increasingly deranged and fanatical Syndicate fought on in the forests, enslaving its local peoples and performing outright genocide on the natives. This was fought separately from the rst of the conflict, but has been added into it anyway due to the nature of the basic ideology, even if the Front had long disowned Brazil’s extremism. How long this war, or the alliances, would last is anyone’s guess at this point. But an amassing of Turanic troops among the Arabian border is getting people’s concern, especially as the Arabians have themselves wanted to take advantage of Turanic weakness in regards to the oppressed Arabs of the Levant and Palestine. Even more startlingly, the Front-International alliance is becoming shakier by the day…
A similar war raged in Asia, as the powerful Tang dynasty began to seriously challenge the Nationalists for control of the country, and started launching raids against the neutral Tibetans as well. Japan although not on the best terms with either, send limited aid to the nationalists, as although they were revanchists, the Tang would doubtlessly be even more so, thus leading to a ‘lesser of two evils’ philosophy developing with regards to the region. With Britain preoccupied with the wars in America and Europe, the Japanese started to enter on the side of the Nationalists, wanting to help them transition into democracy once the war is over. The Japanese are also interested in creating a situation unfavourable for Ulanbataar, who are trying to create a lobby in the nationalists that favours Populism, which admittedly is very popular in the locals. Japan plans to prepare its move against the Russians whenever the chance crops up to them.
The map shows the situation at the beginning of January 1941, while the war is in full swing, and before the big twists.
BTW, an annotated model will appear sooner or later.
