I apparently fell a few installments behind, but that gave me the chance to see the chaos unfolding all at once. Scary times for Poland, I'm sure, but I can't help but root for the revolutionaries.
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1940 – Alle Waffen Gegen Makarov!
1940 – Alle Waffen Gegen Makarov!
When the Russian army began its attack on the VSVR in late June 1940 they set in motion the largest battle in human history. The Russian offensive proved to be inept to a shocking degree. Working with inferior equipment, under inexperienced and incapable officers and with a conscript army featuring millions of non-Russians, the Republic’s armies not only failed to capitalise on the element of surprise to make any serious breakthroughs, within days they had already started to fall back from the pre-war border. The socialists had been assiduously preparing for this war for years, and had the men, resources and plans in place to instantly put themselves on the front foot. For the Russians, the area of greatest concern was in the Baltic, where they were sent in headlong retreat from Pomerania, Makarov’s homeland and the birthplace of the Radical Party, after less than a week, with red troops attacking the outskirts of Gdansk just two weeks after the outbreak of war. Right across the line there were a string of defeats, with the Germans pushing the Russians from the heavily fortified region of Silesia over the course of a gruelling two month battle between June and August. To the south, they captured Bratislava and probed the Pannonian frontier. Their most spectacular progress was reserved for the Balkan portion of the front. Having denied Makarov’s offers of sending a Russian expeditionary force before the outbreak of the war, the Serbs were completely out of their depth when faced with the full fight of the International – seeing all their western provinces fall by early August, as the socialists reached the vicinity of Belgrade after six weeks.
After their early losses, the late summer saw a concerted fightback by the forces on the Eurasian League. In Old Poland, the Russians focussed their energies in two major battles – defending the cities of Gdansk and Krakow from huge German assaults by land, sea and air. In both cities the Russians held firm, dealing the International its first major battlefield defeats of the war. However, victories in these two great cities of Old Poland had come at a cost – diverting troops away from other fronts and leaving gaps that the socialists were happy to exploit. In Slovakia, the VSVR developed a sizeable salient as mountaineer troops pushed into the Slovak highlands – creating a large salient cutting into Russian territory. This advance ultimately forced a reorganisation of the front as Russian troops scrambled eastward from Old Poland and Pannonians moved north. South of Gdansk, the Germans made modest but strategically significant progress that brought them within sight of Warsaw – the first of the great ethnically Russian cities to come under direct threat. As German dive bombers strafed the great centre of Old Polish Judaism, Makarov demanded that the city could not be surrendered even if it took 100,000s of lives to defend it.
As war broke out, Kiev had expected to face minority trouble – and retained large garrisons throughout its many non-Russian provinces. However, contrary to expectations that had looked for trouble primarily among the ever tempestuous Tatar lands, the regime’s greatest issues were in the Christian provinces in the west. For the final two centuries of the Polish Tsardom’s history, the Christians had enjoyed a relatively secure and happy role within the empire. They suffered little discrimination, were left free to practise their religion and enjoyed a sizeable degree of influence – enfranchised under the Brusilov Line, possessing a close historic connection the Zvenislava dynasty, having a large amount of economic influence and even producing two Prime Ministers in the last days of Polish democracy. The shock of their sudden loss of status after the advent of the Radical Republic was therefore much greater than for the Tatars who had always suffered an unhappy relationship with the Polish state. Since 1914, the Christians had been demoted to effective second class citizens, had seen their national integrity threatened by a wave of Russian migration to the Baltic in the 1920s and 1930s and were now at the frontline of a war against an alliance that promised them freedom. Across the western lands Christians of all ethnicities greeted the International’s armies as liberators, at times offered them support – with Greek Christians in Slovakia guiding the VSVR’s troops through the highland passes – and in the industrial cities of the Baltic led pro-socialist uprisings that had to be bloodily put down.
On the Middle Eastern Front, Eurasian forces performed far more strongly that they had in Europe. The disorganised Arab revolutionary bands that had swept through the Papacy were little match for a modern war machine, and were further hampered by the hostility of Greek, Kurdish and Armenian populations in Anatolia to Arab rule. It took only a couple of months for the Russians to push the Arabs out of the highland territories near their border, while Israeli forces to secure all of Transjordan. The battle for Iraq and Syria took much longer – and was still raging deep into 1941. Nonetheless, the Russians were able to largely destroy the revolutionary movement and implant their dominance in the region. In another act of flagrant aggression against the western Allies, following their activity in Central Asia in the 1930s, the Russians made clear they had no intention of returning the lands to the Papacy – establishing client states in Eastern Anatolia and Iraq, the latter based on the territory of the medieval Jewish Kingdom of Iraq that briefly controlled Mesopotamia during the Jewish Wars of Religion, while Syria was divided between Israel and Greece.
The Finnish front was another area of success for the Russians. In the early exchanges of the war the Scandinavians had secured key victories in the far north – capturing three entire Russian divisions at the Arctic port of Alta and briefly occupying Murmansk. However, the Russians won the battle in the more populous south, pushing into southern Finland through the summer months and gradually advancing northwards. By the winter they had arrived at a frozen frontline in the Arctic circle, while thousands of soldiers were being redeployed from the area to the battles in Old Poland and the Balkans.
On the Eastern Front, has the weather turned during the autumnal months the International and Eurasians were locked in a series of staggeringly destructive urban battles from the Baltic to the Danube. Ominously, across the front the socialists won ever single one of them as their vastly superior firepower and aerial supremacy having a telling impact. In the south, Belgrade fell after a three week long battle. So sapped were the Serbians after their failed defence of their capital that much of their frontline broke allowing the VSVR to occupy most of the Kingdom’s ethnically-Serbian heartland while threatening to drive all the way to Constantinople. In the open grasslands of the Carpathian basin, the Germans’ panzer formations were given the freedom to launch striking offensive manoeuvres against the Pannonian army – surrounding and capturing tens of thousands of them as they sent their forces into a route towards the mountains, capturing Budapest in the process.
The heaviest fighting occurred in Old Poland, where the Russians desperately tried to hold their ground along the Gdansk-Warsaw-Krakow line. In this, they failed utterly. After devastating fighting the Russians fell back from both Gdansk and Warsaw in late October. Yet their forces had been so drained in the fighting that the Germans were able to continue their push – crossing into Prussia in the north and moving deep into the south of Old Poland. Only Warsaw, where the Germans held back from a full throated offensive while the made gains to both the north and south, held firm. It is difficult to emphasis the scale of the battle between the International and Eurasians. In the six months after the outbreak of war the two sides had suffered almost two million casualties – between two thirds and three quarters of those coming on the Russian side. This was a level of destruction that had never been seen before in human history. The Russian army and her Serbian and Pannonian allies in particular appeared close to breaking. After months of military defeats and hard fighting, the losses had taken their toll, while the mighty war machine of the International appeared to have been barely scathed.
In the half year since the outbreak of hostilities between the Eurasian League and the International, the position of the Western Allies remained relentlessly bleak. In a rare sign of light resources redirected to Europe, the International’s progress in Africa had been halted. In the Sahel, minor progress had been made while in Egypt’s Western Desert stalemate had ensued. On the high seas, Russia’s entry into the war had similarly pulled socialist naval might from direct confrontation with the Allies, providing vital respite after years of losing ground. In Asia, the situation was less positive. While the Arab revolutionaries were defeated in the Middle East by the Eurasian League, these economically valuable territories merely exchanged a red occupier for a black one as the Russians had installed subservient local governments in the former Papal territories. The other parts of the Papal colonial empire were similarly under threat. Despite the Papacy’s surrender of the Punjab earlier in the 1930s, the Indians were continuing to agitate over the Indus Valley – sponsoring dissident groups, and deploying dozens of divisions to their borders with the Papacy and Russia. Further east, the Japanese, straining under their endless land war in China, had spied an opportunity to gain access to valuable resources and outflank their Chinese enemy in poorly defended Papal South East Asia. They therefore launched a predatory invasion beginning on December 1st 1940.
For all these worries, the end of 1940 saw a new hope arise for the Western Allies. While they struggled on the field of battle, the Allies sought salvation through diplomatic engagement with the Western Hemisphere’s sleeping giant – the United States. The Americans had been inclined towards the Allies since the beginning of their war with the International seven years before, yet throughout the 1930s isolationism held sway in the corridors of power. With their military situation desperate, and now a very real prospect that the International might assert a genuinely global dominance, Allied lobbying in New Cordoba had achieved an opening. Through November and December Skottish, Papal and Andalucian diplomats met with the President and American officials in tense and lengthy negotiations over a possible American entry into the war. American support had clear conditions – America would not fight for the restoration of European colonialism but demanded a commitment that the Islamic and other oppressed peoples of their empires would achieve self determination after victory, the Skots would have to surrender their last remaining North American colony – Louisiana – to the United States, the Allies would submit to a joint military command structure under American direction. When these conditions were finally agreed to, the United States formally entered into the Western Alliance on December 15th. The geopolitical balance of the Second World War had shifted once more.
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Here we go, here we go, here we go!
Imagine the anti-climax if the Russians steamroller the international and the entire readership are left rueing the day they ever read the name "Boris Makarov". No pressure, Tommy.
We certainly didn't have that. I did actually try for an offensive after the DoW. And it went horrifically!
This is a very chaotic world with so many sided conflicts. The RUssians and West are fighting the International, but aren't so far off coming to blows among one another. The Japanese are fighting the Chinese and the West, but not the Russians. And the Indians look eager to get themselves involved in the ruck in some form or another.
We struck first, but missed with our blow by about 10,000 yards
.And now, finally, the Americans have thrust themselves into the fray for their first ever major foreign war. Who knows what impact they shall have
. The Americans have ended up joining the Allies' cause in the fighting against the Reds - trying to save their ideals, and liberate the old country in Andalucia. But it is undoubtedly the case that Russia remains the great satan. Attitudes towards Makarov and the Russians would be far more hostile from the Americans in this TL than to the OTL Stalin. Not even mentioning the fact that the Russians are occupying a bunch of Papal territory, including much of the Middle East.
This could end up larger than our own OTL second world war.
Considering we have had 7 years of fighting between the International and Western Allies before the eastern front was even opened - there is a very good chance this could be a grander conflict that the OTL war. Add on top of that the Russians and West are if anything more antagonistic to one another in this TL than OTL, and the Indians are rattling their sabres. Who knows how this could go
. An option already under consideration in Kiev
.Oof, okaaaay so, after speed-reading through almost a thousand years of alternate Polish history, here am I, haha.
Damn, it has been such an amazing trip through this world's history, as someone in the V2 part said, the only thing that kinda made me go "Wut?" was USA still appearing, though you are right that for picture simplicity is something vital (I myself know it haha).
Though, that small detail can easily be ignored with the quality in this AAR, gotta say it has been quite impressive, I really enjoyed reading it up to this point.
I really like the way all has evolved aaaand: the absence of Uber-Blobs, well, yeah, there are some, though it's nothing like entire-Eurasia blob or something like that, which really adds some bonus points to it.
I'm so excited to read the next update already. ^^
Well done for zooming through all of that so fast! And I'm glad you enjoyed it (excepting the arrival of the USA - which was actually an in game event in V2 rather than my intervention
). I tried to avoid the mega blobs through the game. Partly by limiting my own expansion, but also occassionaly breaking up the massive AI states during game switchovers (the HRE got cut down in the EU4 and the V2 conversion, and the Arab Caliphate was split between Spain and Arabia in the EU4 convert).
Since DH gives casualty stats, I will be able to provide some figures for the death toll at war end. Suffice to say its horrifying.
Indeed. Everyone is either at war with or on the brink of fighting everyone else. Who knows who will come out on top once the last shots are fired.
Welcome back up to date! The reds had strong start to the war. But will they be able to keep this momentum up as we move into the Russian winter?
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It’s not often I end up watching a German advance into Russia and hoping that General Winter doesn't turn up at some point. Tense stuff to see how long the International advance can be sustained.
Ditto the American entry into the war. Looks like the capitalist powers are going to pick destruction of the Communists and cohabitation with the fash over the OTL sequence of events. One can hope that they’re already thinking about Operation Unthinkable, at least.
Ditto the American entry into the war. Looks like the capitalist powers are going to pick destruction of the Communists and cohabitation with the fash over the OTL sequence of events. One can hope that they’re already thinking about Operation Unthinkable, at least.
An AI controlled America doesn't do much as it's not well capable of meaningful amphibious operations, but needs to be guided by a human, so except for supporting with its enormous amount of IC, I don't know how much it can do.
The Reds started it quite well though, I wonder for how deep into Siberia they can keep this running, or will they be somehow able to force a peace? India attacking soft underbelly Central Asia might change things a bit. Honestly it's impossible to know what to expect at this point
The Reds started it quite well though, I wonder for how deep into Siberia they can keep this running, or will they be somehow able to force a peace? India attacking soft underbelly Central Asia might change things a bit. Honestly it's impossible to know what to expect at this point
Oh crap, the Reds really swept away the Polish army, seems to be a really tenous position for Russian Poland right now.
Wondering if a Tito-like figure will rise to prominence in the VSVR's occupation of Serbia, I feel that before Poland gets a chance to reorganize to fight the VSVR, certain eastern country will strike against it... Makarov's regime is really looking as the famous house of cards...
Wondering if a Tito-like figure will rise to prominence in the VSVR's occupation of Serbia, I feel that before Poland gets a chance to reorganize to fight the VSVR, certain eastern country will strike against it...
Makarov's regime is really looking as the famous house of cards...
Somehow I doubt that the Americans will be producing a 'This man is your friend, he fights for freedom' poster for the Russians ttl
Also, finally the eyesore that is the Papal ME is gone! Almost makes Makarov worth it.
Also, finally the eyesore that is the Papal ME is gone! Almost makes Makarov worth it.
Makarov is gonna get himself couped. I'm not seeing the same worshipful cult of personality that surrounded someone like Hitler (and even he got targeted for removal many times)--Radical propaganda seems more about a cult of the nation, of war and industry and aggression and the Volk as a whole. Well, Makarov just led the Volk into an embarrassing clusterfuck killing millions. He's broken the fundamental promise of his regime. And fascist government usually have plenty of ambitious, powerful people who could imagine themselves as Vozhd.
Of course, overthrowing a government during the middle of a war is not a great idea for the war effort... but that's never stopped anyone.
Of course, overthrowing a government during the middle of a war is not a great idea for the war effort... but that's never stopped anyone.
Either way, hell of an opening half-year for the Eastern Front. The vastness of the East European Plain means Poland have a lot of room to retreat into as they get themselves in proper fighting shape, as did the Soviet Union IOTL, but there is no Lend Lease forthcoming (I presume), and Kiev is far more vulnerable than Moscow as a capital. I suspect the city will fall but teh war is too existential a fight for such an event to end the it. This is going to the bitter end.
Well this is bad.
Then again, we should be hoping for the fascists to lose. It's just that I also kinda want everyone else to lose too.
Then again, we should be hoping for the fascists to lose. It's just that I also kinda want everyone else to lose too.
1940-1941 – Over Here, Over There
1940-1941 – Over Here, Over There
From December, the Eastern Front was largely static for several months. In the Balkans, the Greeks, Serbs, Pannonians and Russians had stabilised after a series of reverses in 1940 – using the rough terrain of the Carpathians and southern Balkans to halt the reds from driving any deeper. Through most of Old Poland the same sense of quiet held. There was one exception – Warsaw. Starting in December the VSVR embarked on a huge effort to capture the great city, focussing all their energies at a single point. Having vowed to defend it to the last man when the red had first approached it earlier in 1940, Boris Makarov demanded that his generals hold on to Warsaw at whatever the cost. The Russians therefore poured troops into the city, weakening the rest of the frontline in a desperate effort to hold of the VSVR’s attack. Naturally, the socialists took advantage of this short sightedness - breaking through the Russian lines to the south of the city and swing north to encircle it in late January, cutting around 300,000 men off. Having invested so heavily in defending Warsaw, the exhausted Russians lacked the energy to relieve the men trapped in the city. Isolated and under constant bombardment and attack, the Russian army in Warsaw surrendered on March 23rd 1941. It was the worst military defeat in Polish history.
Victory in the Battle of Warsaw was the prelude to a much International spring offensive. With their enemies in disarray, the Germans struck north and east from Warsaw in April, forcing the Russians into a chaotic withdrawal from Prussia in order to avoid another encirclement and driving more slowly into Western Ruthenia, coming within striking distance of the key city of Minsk before their advance was halted by renewed Russian resistance in June. Further south, German infantry was spearheading methodical progress through Galicia, where the Russians fought hard but were ultimately kept on the back foot.
The socialists’ largest gains came in the Balkans. Unleashing a powerful armoured offensive along the lower Danube in May, the Germans swept the Serbs aside to reach the Black Sea coastline before swinging southwards into Thrace and Rumelia – securing a toehold on the Aegean in late June. The Eurasian League’s territory was now split into three parts – Greece, Anatolia and Constantinople and Russia. In the Carpathians, the Pannonian army had been holding on under intense pressure through the end of 1940. However in a long string of battles in the mountains through the first half of 1941 their will to carry on was broken down. In May 1941 the Pannonian government and military leadership announced their surrender to the International. Much of the Pannonian army stood down, turning itself over to the Germans with the promise of amnesty and a return to their homes. However, a sizeable number of anti-socialists defected to the Russians to continue the fight at the head of a Pannonian Legion.
In Scandinavia, the reds were on the run. After a period of stagnation during the winter months in the Arctic, the Russians began an offensive in the spring of 1941 – sending the Scandinavian army into a long retreat to the south. With little support offered from the VSVR, even in terms of aircraft, the northern republic was largely left to fend for itself and found itself over powered by the Russians, who pushed forward with a slow but continuous advance. By August, the Scandinavian had been pushed all the way back to the far south west of their home peninsula and were barely hanging on.
In Kiev, the Russian regime was under pressure as never before. Makarov had been personally humiliated by the loss of Warsaw in February, having placed such excessive emphasis on its defence. Indeed, his refusal to allow for a withdrawal had led to the capture of an entire army group and the collapse of the front. With much of the west already occupied, the Republic’s industrial heartlands in Ruthenia were now on the frontline – the great hub of the arms industry at Minsk already in range of International artillery in June. In an admission of defeat, the government had begun a mass evacuation of people and industrial materials eastward to escape immediate danger. In this climate, many within the Radical Republican Party pushed for a more collegiate leadership with a more prominent position allowed for the military – so that the war effort might be more effectively coordinated. The Vozhd’s response to these palace intrigues was to go beyond the party elites to appeal to the grass roots and wider populace – calling upon the Russian people to rise up in a war of national salvation to save Russia and the Jewish faith, a notable straying from traditionally secular Radical nationalism, from destruction at the hands of the socialists.
In the west, the entry of the United States into the war in December 1940 had an impact that was both immediate and spectacular. On the seas, the Americans’ grand fleet easily tipped the balance in the naval war. Before December, the socialists had firm control over the Western Mediterranean and the coastlines of Europe, while pressuring their enemies on other fronts. By the early months of 1941 their abilities to project power overseas had been effectively eliminated. Unable to effectively support their African campaigns, the International was already beginning to withdraw troops from the continent by March 1941 when the Americans launched a naval invasion of Morocco alongside Skottish troops that coincided with a Papal offensive out of Egypt. The socialist front swiftly collapsed.
The Americans were not satisfied to rest after their victory in Africa, driven by the desire to liberate their Andalucian mother country. In June American forces began a series of lands across several coastal locations around the Iberian peninsula. With a paltry garrison, and significant domestic support from conservative Muslims for the American arrivals, the Allies had largely secured Iberia within a month. From there, they struck over the Pyrenees into France. Here they were able to make rapid initial gains, with the International still scrambling to redeploy troops from the Eastern Front, rushing up the Atlantic coastline in a dash for Paris and eastward towards the Alps and Rhone Valley. In this heady atmosphere, some in the Allied camp dreamed of an imminent battlefield victory and the inauguration of a new European order based on democracy and the rule of law. By the time thirty divisions arrived in France to combat the Allied advance, the better part of the country was occupied. Yet the battle for western Europe was far from over.
For all the American-led Allied successes in Africa and Western Europe, the position of the International’s enemies remained bleak across most of the rest of the world. In the Far East, the Japanese made quick work of the Papal garrison in South East Asia – sending them into retreat into Burma within months of their entry into the war. Notably, American power had little interest in Asia, nor the ability to project their power beyond the North Atlantic, leaving the Papacy largely isolated in the region. With the Russians suffering on the Eastern Front, and the Papal colonial empire continuing to fall apart, India saw its moment to strike and in June 1940 threw its lot in with the International by embarking on invasions of Papal-ruled Burma and the Punjab, and Russian controlled Kashmir.
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Their entry basically saved the Allies from certain defeat. Before they joined the International looked like it was probably going to win the fight in Africa, and certainly had the Russians on the back foot.
The winter temporarily slowed things down for the International, but they still won the key battle in Warsaw and are now pushing very deep into the Polish heartland. Kiev is looking concerningly close to the frontline, and Minsk is already on it!
I think the big issue here on which how the Allies and Russians ended up nominally on the same side (in the sense they are both fighting the Reds) was that the International was the aggressive party overturning the prewar order while the Russians were not a revisionist power, and therefore seemed less outwardly threatening even if they are hated with incredible force in America.
An AI controlled America doesn't do much as it's not well capable of meaningful amphibious operations, but needs to be guided by a human, so except for supporting with its enormous amount of IC, I don't know how much it can do.
The Reds started it quite well though, I wonder for how deep into Siberia they can keep this running, or will they be somehow able to force a peace? India attacking soft underbelly Central Asia might change things a bit. Honestly it's impossible to know what to expect at this point
You underestimated them! In game the landings were actually carried out by the Skots, (maybe the British AI is better at amphibious landings?) - but the Americans quickly rushed in to provide the frontline troops. That said, the Allies big gains mask the fact that they don't really have very many divisions in Europe. For context, there are similar numbers of Eurasian League (Greek, Serb and Russian) divisions in Greece at this point as Allied divisions in Europe.
And you called the Indian attack as well, although they've gone for the full hog and gone to war with both the Russians and Allies all at once. They can field a pretty sizeable army, and of course have basically unlimited manpower. A very real wildcard!
And it grows less fortunate for us! After losing a bunch of divisions in Warsaw, and seeing our position in the Balkans fall apart. God knows what will happen in the months to come
. Oh crap, the Reds really swept away the Polish army, seems to be a really tenous position for Russian Poland right now.
Wondering if a Tito-like figure will rise to prominence in the VSVR's occupation of Serbia, I feel that before Poland gets a chance to reorganize to fight the VSVR, certain eastern country will strike against it...
Its getting worse now as well. Really the Russians have to pray that the Red offensive is blunted by the need to send troops west to deal with the Allies, and that they can wear them down to a halt before they occupy too much of the Republic's key lands. This Russia's centre of gravity is much further west than the OTL USSR. Not only do you have the capital in Kiev rather than Moscow, while the Russian core of the SU extended to the Urals and beyond and it's relationship with many of its relationship with its minorities was much less hostile, the Russian-populated core of the Russian Republic starts on the Vistula and ends at the Don, and I don't need to tell you how most of the non-Russians feel about the regime ...
It is certainly a much more hostile relationship between east and west, even while they fight the same enemy. I would imagine that the millions of Americans in this TL with Tatar roots would riot if the government got too cosy with Makarov.
The Papal colonial empire had to be one of the fugliest I have ever seen. There was a time when they had lands snaking as far as Mongolia on the Steppe and a bunch of exclaves in India. Horrible!
This is the first moment since the purges of the early 1930s that we can see Makarov come under real pressure. Much will depend on what happens on the front in the months to come. If the situation continues to worsen you can imagine that many will be looking towards alternate leadership, even if only quietly.
Another person underestimating the AI !
The real AI failure here was the Andalucian and French who decided that it wasn't worth leaving a few divisions to guard their homelands from naval invasions
. The VSVR AI also didn't have any troops in Western Europe because it saw its allied states has responsible for guarding them. So the Skots and Americans could really make incredibly rapid progress with only limited actual fighting. Kiev is going to be huge to the outcome of this war. If the Russians can hold on to it, they will surely be able to wear the Germans down eventually, but if it is lost then things could get very, very tough for them.
It seems everyone is conspiring to lose all at once! The Allies winning in Africa and Western Europe, yet collapsing in Asia; the Russians losing on the Eastern Front but winning in Scandinavia and the Middle East, the Indians and Japanese attacking everyone. Who knows what will happen next!
America has made worryingly short work of Western Europe. India joining the fray to attack Papal and Russian territories in the Persia and the Middle East is strategically encouraging from an anti-Russian point of view, but politically it does not inspire confidence for an end to fascism and nationalism in Central Asia. It really is turning into a messy fight.
Makarov meanwhile seems to be setting himself up for an autogolpe, rousing the base to go behind the party’s back. Cultural Revolution incoming?
Makarov meanwhile seems to be setting himself up for an autogolpe, rousing the base to go behind the party’s back. Cultural Revolution incoming?
Holy crap, I feel so fool for believing Russo-Poland would have her victory in Stalin-Warsaw haha, crap. I really thought that would be the inflexion point in the war, but it seems Marakov did everything in his reach to destroy the quality of the army. And with the army entirely purged I believe there's not a coup coming any time soon...
Dang, it seems this will be truly Russo-Poland's greatest defeat in her history, similar to the First Polish Crusade...
Dang, it seems this will be truly Russo-Poland's greatest defeat in her history, similar to the First Polish Crusade...
Wow! The Reds must have had everything on the eastern front with little to no garrisons at all. With them fighting a two front war Russia might be able to shift the momentum.
Hopefully, the Polish-Russians will turn the tide in Europe now. While at the same time hold Kashmir. I do not remain secure in my hope, though.
Just dropping by after I finished binge reading the entirety of this megacampaign from CK2 to the latest update. And boy this one is turning into a really destructive melee-a-trois second world war. Makarov is under pressure after that defeat in Warsaw. Speaking of that battle, it's quite a Stalingrad scenario with two ideological forces in reverse positions. And just like OTL; The Reds emerge victorious. Though Kiev is shaping up to be the true Stalingrad scenario that will decide the Eastern front. I'm no fan of the Radicals, but if the Internationale emerge victorious that might spell the end for Judaism. Any chance we can find the abdicated Tsar's grandson? Hope the kid got out of Denmark before the Internationale got to that nation.