Now that the countries that are already socialist have made so significant advancements, it will hopefully be easier to spread the revolution! How are the Communist Parties in non-socialist Europe doing?
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Love this TL. Also would love to see a map highlighting the Warsaw Pact and NATO. Or just communist vs capitalist countries.
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I hate to be that guy but when might the next chapter of this awesome AAR come out?
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This AAR is still going, I have a lot of work these times. However, I managed to write the next chapter, slowly but surely. Enjoy!
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THE BEGINING OF THE GREAT SOCIALIST OFFENSIVE : A THIRD WORLD WAR?
“America, you have a choice : it's either Vietnam, or Europe.” -Vyacheslav Molotov [1]
When the Soviet Union intervened in the Kurdish War, which put Socialism as a dominant force in the Middle East, the American imperialists, already too busy in Vietnam, didn't intervened, allowing the Red Army and its allies to seize control of Kurdistan, Iraq and Turkey.
During these times, the Soviet military leadership had ideas. With the creation of the OSPAAAL and the now famous quotation of Che Guevara about creating many Vietnams, it was obvious that attacking imperialism on all fronts was the right strategy to adopt, and it was the strategy the Red Army leadership planned to adopt. Until the mid-70's, these strategies were impossible to apply due to the too important nuclear risk. But, in the mid-70's, the Soviet Union finally reached nuclear parity with the US, and quickly outweigh them on nuclear capacity. If the Soviet Union aggressed imperialist countries 10 years ago, it couldn't win due to its limited arsenal. But now, in case of war, the imperialists would hesitate to throw nukes on socialist countries.
In 1974, the fifth OSPAAAL conference in Accra saw the proposal of Soviet delegates to open a new front against America in Europe. [2] The proposition was voted by 78% of the delegates, and three months later, Vyacheslav Molotov sent an ultimatum to the American government, asking for withdrawal from Vietnam, or an attack of Western Europe.
America refused. The war had started.
Every newspaper in the world, following the American refusal, titled “WW3 is upon us!”, “we're doomed!”, “prepare for nuclear holocaust”, and many other alarmist titles. These were only alarmist titles. No nuke would be thrown during the war, but the terror was present all over the globe.
The Red Army entered in West Germany, meeting almost no resistance : NATO forces in Europe tried to invade Italy instead... only to be repelled in Milan.
In Germany, the Red Army continued its advance. They received substancial help from militants groups such as the RAF (Red Army Fraktion) [3], a radical maoist group upholding armed struggle. In occupied areas, the Soviet Union encouraged the creation of worker's councils. In the mid-70's, radical leftism was increasibely popular among western masses, despite the rightism of their so-called “democratic” governments. The organization of the masses under Socialist principles was easy, as a consequence, and in reorganized areas the Soviet Union applied a policy of “live and let live”. The Red Army easily occupied most of Germany by late 1974, successfully invaded Switzerland who entered the war on the side of the imperialists, making its government collapse, and despite an initial defeat at Digne, managed to enter in France.
In February 1975, the RAF and the German Communist Party launched the German Spring in Bonn, whose name was inspired by the Prague Spring. Mass worker demonstrations and celebrations in the streets occurred, aswell as trials of many older politicians. Germany was purged of the “smell of one thousand years” [4]. The younger generation questioned the legitimacy of their elders, holding them accountable for their role in Nazi Germany and their passivity under the fascist regime. When these events occurred, the Soviet premier Vyacheslav Molotov said these famous words : “Nazi Germany wasn't killed in 1945, it was killed yesterday”.
A widely spread communist flyer showed the flag map of divided Germany, while replacing the flag of West Germany with the flag of the Third Reich, denouncing the presence of former Nazi officials in the West German government.
However, the Honecker government in German Democratic Republic completely disregarded these events. These conservatives already refused the cultural revolution, and despite the calls for socialist reunification in the West, the East remained silent. Protests happened in both sides of Berlin, only to be crushed in blood in Berlin East.
Two socialist Germanies would coexist for almost 2 years. Molotov promised to settle the question, after the war.
When entering in France, the Red Army met the same leftist radicalism it did met in Germany. It was even easier to organize the masses in worker's councils, but the French army, unlike the German one, was a real army, and opposed fierce resistance. While the Red Army was combating the French army, several separatist groups in Britanny and Corsica agitated. In Britanny, the PCB-ARB (Breton Communist Party - Breton Revolutionary Army) profiteed from the French army being busy to rise up in arms. Already a very left-winged group, they quickly asked for the Soviet leadership to recognize them. Recognition was granted. The Soviet leadership proposed recognition to the Corsican nationalists if they adopted socialism. The FLNC (Corsican National Liberation Front), being made of nationalists, wanting the independence of the country and not caring about economics at all as long as they got independence, agreed.
In Portugal, the Salazarist government was brought down. Inapte to kell the uprising supported by the Soviet Union, China and the OSPAAAL in its colonies, and meeting more and more discontent, the fascist government collapsed after a popular uprising in Lisbon known as the Carnation Revolution (Revolução dos Cravos), granting independence to its colonies.
In 1976, Sweden and Norway fell to the Red Army, and socialist states were set up in the two Scandinavian countries.
Now Bernie will have to find another example, because I doubt Social-democrats will look at Sweden now it's an actual socialist state
While most of the combats were in Europe, the stuggles also continued on other continents. Not only in Portugese african colonies, but also in French and American colonies in Oceania. Many nationalist and communist groups, supported by the Soviet Union and armed by convoys passing through Indonesia, took arms and rebelled against their imperialist masters.
The reason for the war to start, Vietnam, had fallen in 1975 to communists. America was defeated on all fronts, except at home. After the loss of Scandinavia, with most of Pacific islands under control of pro-Soviet guerillas, America had to ressort to its last joker : the bomb. They didn't throw bombs on the Soviet Union, that would have been too stupid and would've destroyed humanity, depriving the capitalist of their plus-value. But they menaced the Soviet Union of an atomic war. Not wanting mutual destruction, the Soviet Union and America met to the table of negotiation after a long discussion on the Red Phone between Molotov and the American president Gerald Ford.
The German Democratic would be recognized as the sole German government. The United States and its allies would also recognize all governments that resulted from the war. However, the United States made it clear that the French government would take back control of France, despite the locals having already formed Worker Councils, the Communist Party under the leadership of Georges Marchais having declared the People's Republic of France and the new government recognition of the loss of territories.
General Secretary Georges Marchais of the French Communist Party
Ford made it clear that he would never accept the new French government, threatening of nuclear retaliation. However, he accepted all the losses to the separatists groups. These territories weren't under control of the imperialists anyways, as the natives chased them and pledged allegiance to the Soviet Union. The USA preferred to recognize the loss of some territories rather than loose a member of the UN security council.
Independence and Socialism! (Britanny)
When occupying the European capitals, the communist forces seized many archives, especially concerning World War II. Many documents were leaked, including those concerning the bourgeois Synarchic conspiracy to unite Europe under fascism. These informations, providing all evidence that the bourgeoisie deliberately let Hitler win and surrendered him Austria, Czechia and even France, make the link between Nazi projects and the European Union project evident. Even if the proletarian institutions didn't took power in every place were they flourished with the help of the Red Army, one of the projects of the bourgeoisie, the United States of Europe, that Lenin denounced as being either reactionary or impossible, was now unrealizable due to the now ultramajoritary opposition against it from the European workers, supported by their communist parties. [5]
Quickly after having took control of all the places it got, the Soviet Union gave them independence.
During the war, there was a West German government in exile recognized by the United States. But with the end of the war, the United States stopped recognizing the government in exile, recognizing the German Democratic Republic that emerged after the German Spring instead. However, there was still someone recognizing this government in exile as legitimate : Erich Honecker. East Germany was one of the rare socialist countries who didn't profiteed from the GPCR or SWHM, due to the government blocking the movement : the corrupt leaders feared losing their place and privileges. And now, they feared the socialist West Germany who fully adopted these principles. This led for a short time to a weird situation : while everyone in the world recognized the German Democratic Republic annexation of West Germany, only one country refused to recognize it and it was the German Democratic Republic. However this lasted for less than a week : Vyacheslav Molotov choose to settle the question by recognizing the West German government as the legitimate government of the united German Democratic Republic. Honecker's government had no recognition from any country. Quickly, thousands of German Red Guard factions from the West assaulted the Berlin Wall. The military in East Germany refused to shoot. The Berlin Antifascist Wall wasn't needed anymore, as there wasn't fascists in West Germany anymore, and was shut down by western Red Guards and eastern protesters. Honecker's clique was denounced as a bunch of social-fascists, and Germany was reunified as one socialist nation.
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However, despite the French former government having took back the country, the local organization that formed during Soviet occupation remained in place, and the French Republic would never manage to destroy the institutions of the People's Republic of France, which would remain a state inside the state.
When leaving the country, some regiments of the Red Army didn't headed north, but headed south. During the days of the People's Republic of France, a Spanish Antifascist Intervention Army (TEIA) was formed, in collaboration with all the underground antifascist organizations who resisted Franquism. The ink was not even dry on the peace treaty when the TEIA entered Spain and occupied the east of the country. However, fearing retaliation, the TEIA restricted itself to Catalonia, splitting it from the Spanish state. The Franquist regime quickly collapsed, and the new Spanish government (recognized by the USA as it wasn't a pro Soviet government) recognized the loss of Catalonia.
Anarchist Catalonia? Nope, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Catalonia is better
These tense and stressful exhausted the Soviet Premier Molotov a lot. The old man, almost 90, was one of the first Bolsheviks and participated in the entire history of the Union. At the end of the war against the capitalists, in 1976, he reduced his political participation a lot, while the General Secretary Yuri Andropov rose in power and influence, becoming the new de facto leader of the USSR.
General Secretary Yuri Andropov
[1] Fictious quote
[2] Soviet delegates can't vote, but their opinions are very inflential in the OSPAAAL
[3] Few weeks after the beginninf of the war, the RAF and the German Communist Party merged, with the former becoming the armed hand of the latter.
[4] RAF expression referencing to the Nazi project of “one thousand years lasting Reich”
[5] I'm basing this paragraph on the works of the contested French historian Annie Lacroix-Riz
This AAR is still going, I have a lot of work these times. However, I managed to write the next chapter, slowly but surely. Enjoy!
Music suggestion (Choose one)
THE BEGINING OF THE GREAT SOCIALIST OFFENSIVE : A THIRD WORLD WAR?
“America, you have a choice : it's either Vietnam, or Europe.” -Vyacheslav Molotov [1]
When the Soviet Union intervened in the Kurdish War, which put Socialism as a dominant force in the Middle East, the American imperialists, already too busy in Vietnam, didn't intervened, allowing the Red Army and its allies to seize control of Kurdistan, Iraq and Turkey.
During these times, the Soviet military leadership had ideas. With the creation of the OSPAAAL and the now famous quotation of Che Guevara about creating many Vietnams, it was obvious that attacking imperialism on all fronts was the right strategy to adopt, and it was the strategy the Red Army leadership planned to adopt. Until the mid-70's, these strategies were impossible to apply due to the too important nuclear risk. But, in the mid-70's, the Soviet Union finally reached nuclear parity with the US, and quickly outweigh them on nuclear capacity. If the Soviet Union aggressed imperialist countries 10 years ago, it couldn't win due to its limited arsenal. But now, in case of war, the imperialists would hesitate to throw nukes on socialist countries.
In 1974, the fifth OSPAAAL conference in Accra saw the proposal of Soviet delegates to open a new front against America in Europe. [2] The proposition was voted by 78% of the delegates, and three months later, Vyacheslav Molotov sent an ultimatum to the American government, asking for withdrawal from Vietnam, or an attack of Western Europe.
America refused. The war had started.
Every newspaper in the world, following the American refusal, titled “WW3 is upon us!”, “we're doomed!”, “prepare for nuclear holocaust”, and many other alarmist titles. These were only alarmist titles. No nuke would be thrown during the war, but the terror was present all over the globe.
The Red Army entered in West Germany, meeting almost no resistance : NATO forces in Europe tried to invade Italy instead... only to be repelled in Milan.
In Germany, the Red Army continued its advance. They received substancial help from militants groups such as the RAF (Red Army Fraktion) [3], a radical maoist group upholding armed struggle. In occupied areas, the Soviet Union encouraged the creation of worker's councils. In the mid-70's, radical leftism was increasibely popular among western masses, despite the rightism of their so-called “democratic” governments. The organization of the masses under Socialist principles was easy, as a consequence, and in reorganized areas the Soviet Union applied a policy of “live and let live”. The Red Army easily occupied most of Germany by late 1974, successfully invaded Switzerland who entered the war on the side of the imperialists, making its government collapse, and despite an initial defeat at Digne, managed to enter in France.
In February 1975, the RAF and the German Communist Party launched the German Spring in Bonn, whose name was inspired by the Prague Spring. Mass worker demonstrations and celebrations in the streets occurred, aswell as trials of many older politicians. Germany was purged of the “smell of one thousand years” [4]. The younger generation questioned the legitimacy of their elders, holding them accountable for their role in Nazi Germany and their passivity under the fascist regime. When these events occurred, the Soviet premier Vyacheslav Molotov said these famous words : “Nazi Germany wasn't killed in 1945, it was killed yesterday”.
A widely spread communist flyer showed the flag map of divided Germany, while replacing the flag of West Germany with the flag of the Third Reich, denouncing the presence of former Nazi officials in the West German government.
However, the Honecker government in German Democratic Republic completely disregarded these events. These conservatives already refused the cultural revolution, and despite the calls for socialist reunification in the West, the East remained silent. Protests happened in both sides of Berlin, only to be crushed in blood in Berlin East.
Two socialist Germanies would coexist for almost 2 years. Molotov promised to settle the question, after the war.
When entering in France, the Red Army met the same leftist radicalism it did met in Germany. It was even easier to organize the masses in worker's councils, but the French army, unlike the German one, was a real army, and opposed fierce resistance. While the Red Army was combating the French army, several separatist groups in Britanny and Corsica agitated. In Britanny, the PCB-ARB (Breton Communist Party - Breton Revolutionary Army) profiteed from the French army being busy to rise up in arms. Already a very left-winged group, they quickly asked for the Soviet leadership to recognize them. Recognition was granted. The Soviet leadership proposed recognition to the Corsican nationalists if they adopted socialism. The FLNC (Corsican National Liberation Front), being made of nationalists, wanting the independence of the country and not caring about economics at all as long as they got independence, agreed.
In Portugal, the Salazarist government was brought down. Inapte to kell the uprising supported by the Soviet Union, China and the OSPAAAL in its colonies, and meeting more and more discontent, the fascist government collapsed after a popular uprising in Lisbon known as the Carnation Revolution (Revolução dos Cravos), granting independence to its colonies.
In 1976, Sweden and Norway fell to the Red Army, and socialist states were set up in the two Scandinavian countries.
Now Bernie will have to find another example, because I doubt Social-democrats will look at Sweden now it's an actual socialist state
While most of the combats were in Europe, the stuggles also continued on other continents. Not only in Portugese african colonies, but also in French and American colonies in Oceania. Many nationalist and communist groups, supported by the Soviet Union and armed by convoys passing through Indonesia, took arms and rebelled against their imperialist masters.
The reason for the war to start, Vietnam, had fallen in 1975 to communists. America was defeated on all fronts, except at home. After the loss of Scandinavia, with most of Pacific islands under control of pro-Soviet guerillas, America had to ressort to its last joker : the bomb. They didn't throw bombs on the Soviet Union, that would have been too stupid and would've destroyed humanity, depriving the capitalist of their plus-value. But they menaced the Soviet Union of an atomic war. Not wanting mutual destruction, the Soviet Union and America met to the table of negotiation after a long discussion on the Red Phone between Molotov and the American president Gerald Ford.
The German Democratic would be recognized as the sole German government. The United States and its allies would also recognize all governments that resulted from the war. However, the United States made it clear that the French government would take back control of France, despite the locals having already formed Worker Councils, the Communist Party under the leadership of Georges Marchais having declared the People's Republic of France and the new government recognition of the loss of territories.
General Secretary Georges Marchais of the French Communist Party
Ford made it clear that he would never accept the new French government, threatening of nuclear retaliation. However, he accepted all the losses to the separatists groups. These territories weren't under control of the imperialists anyways, as the natives chased them and pledged allegiance to the Soviet Union. The USA preferred to recognize the loss of some territories rather than loose a member of the UN security council.
Independence and Socialism! (Britanny)
When occupying the European capitals, the communist forces seized many archives, especially concerning World War II. Many documents were leaked, including those concerning the bourgeois Synarchic conspiracy to unite Europe under fascism. These informations, providing all evidence that the bourgeoisie deliberately let Hitler win and surrendered him Austria, Czechia and even France, make the link between Nazi projects and the European Union project evident. Even if the proletarian institutions didn't took power in every place were they flourished with the help of the Red Army, one of the projects of the bourgeoisie, the United States of Europe, that Lenin denounced as being either reactionary or impossible, was now unrealizable due to the now ultramajoritary opposition against it from the European workers, supported by their communist parties. [5]
Quickly after having took control of all the places it got, the Soviet Union gave them independence.
During the war, there was a West German government in exile recognized by the United States. But with the end of the war, the United States stopped recognizing the government in exile, recognizing the German Democratic Republic that emerged after the German Spring instead. However, there was still someone recognizing this government in exile as legitimate : Erich Honecker. East Germany was one of the rare socialist countries who didn't profiteed from the GPCR or SWHM, due to the government blocking the movement : the corrupt leaders feared losing their place and privileges. And now, they feared the socialist West Germany who fully adopted these principles. This led for a short time to a weird situation : while everyone in the world recognized the German Democratic Republic annexation of West Germany, only one country refused to recognize it and it was the German Democratic Republic. However this lasted for less than a week : Vyacheslav Molotov choose to settle the question by recognizing the West German government as the legitimate government of the united German Democratic Republic. Honecker's government had no recognition from any country. Quickly, thousands of German Red Guard factions from the West assaulted the Berlin Wall. The military in East Germany refused to shoot. The Berlin Antifascist Wall wasn't needed anymore, as there wasn't fascists in West Germany anymore, and was shut down by western Red Guards and eastern protesters. Honecker's clique was denounced as a bunch of social-fascists, and Germany was reunified as one socialist nation.
"how to reduce your infamy in NWO" starter pack
However, despite the French former government having took back the country, the local organization that formed during Soviet occupation remained in place, and the French Republic would never manage to destroy the institutions of the People's Republic of France, which would remain a state inside the state.
When leaving the country, some regiments of the Red Army didn't headed north, but headed south. During the days of the People's Republic of France, a Spanish Antifascist Intervention Army (TEIA) was formed, in collaboration with all the underground antifascist organizations who resisted Franquism. The ink was not even dry on the peace treaty when the TEIA entered Spain and occupied the east of the country. However, fearing retaliation, the TEIA restricted itself to Catalonia, splitting it from the Spanish state. The Franquist regime quickly collapsed, and the new Spanish government (recognized by the USA as it wasn't a pro Soviet government) recognized the loss of Catalonia.
Anarchist Catalonia? Nope, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Catalonia is better
These tense and stressful exhausted the Soviet Premier Molotov a lot. The old man, almost 90, was one of the first Bolsheviks and participated in the entire history of the Union. At the end of the war against the capitalists, in 1976, he reduced his political participation a lot, while the General Secretary Yuri Andropov rose in power and influence, becoming the new de facto leader of the USSR.
General Secretary Yuri Andropov
[1] Fictious quote
[2] Soviet delegates can't vote, but their opinions are very inflential in the OSPAAAL
[3] Few weeks after the beginninf of the war, the RAF and the German Communist Party merged, with the former becoming the armed hand of the latter.
[4] RAF expression referencing to the Nazi project of “one thousand years lasting Reich”
[5] I'm basing this paragraph on the works of the contested French historian Annie Lacroix-Riz
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Gameplay wise, not well, but they never do well in general in NWO (which should be changed, the more the Soviet Union is doing well, the more Communist Parties should do well IMO). Populists are one the rise 40 years too early, the UKIP rule Great Britain, and France is led by Traditionalists (because there is no Front National yet), however most of the pops are socialist. Let's say the elections are rigged
Alternate history wise, they would do better than in our timeline. There would be more unity, and less Troskyism (the Krushchev Secret Speech in 1955 helped Trotskyism a lot). I can see bigger parties but with more political lines (allowing them to organise strikes, elections and revolutions with great efficiency). I think more Maoists would join the "traditional" Communist Parties due to the Soviet Union adopting something similar to Maoism.
Good idea, I'll create an animated map for the next update
That's probably because I'm a Maoist sympathiser myself
...vile Republican! The Monarchies of muh beautiful Sweden and Norway will rise again!
That's probably because I'm a Maoist sympathiser myself
Let a thousand AARs bloom and all that
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