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The Year is 1936, You are a 31 year old Barrister in Durban, Natal Province, South Africa, named James Phillip Bone
Born to a prosperous middle class family of florists in the United Kingdom in 1905, you moved to South Africa in the aftermath of the nationalisation of industry during the British Revolution. Settling in Durban, you studied at Rhodes University before you were called to the bar. You married an Afrikaans girl two years your elder, and have a son of the age of 6 and a daughter of the age of 3.
Your quite content in your employment, and take great pride in your stoic "stiff upper lip" British outlook. You are an active member of the Unionists, though you rabidly detest their anti-apartheid outlook. You are suspicious of both Afrikaner Nationalism and the Germans, and especially dislike the Syndicalists, however you would be willing to compromise with either the Germans or the Afrikaners if it meant keeping South Africa out of the hands of Syndicalists or Natives.
The year is 1934. You are a 51-year old
welsh miner in Wales, Union of Britain named Dylan Hughes. You have spent your whole life working in what was once one of the worst mines in wales. By the time of the British Revolution in 1925, you had lost all your family to abysmal working conditions and so had no hesitation in joining the Revolution. Now things have improved in the mine, but you still desire more radical change and total revenge on the hated borgouise who you blame for your lost loved ones. To that end, you have taken up support for Oswald Mosley and his Totalist Maximist Party.
The Union of Britain is a social democratic Parliamentarian government under Chairman Clement Atlee. Initially formed from various moderate leftists horrified by Mosley and even a few centrists, the party has now returned the Union to the pre-revolution unitary parliament system while retaining many of the leftist reforms. The Parliamentarians dislike federalism and the idea of the government bargaining with unions over important sectors of the economy so they have enacted large scale ‘nationalization’ and direct industrial control. The UOB is now a market socialist unitary state ruled directly from London by a strong parliament.
During the years 1934-1936 Hughes due to his seniority and connections to Moseley's friends got promotions which freed him from hard labor. He became a labor overseer at the mine and with his increased free time he spent the evenings working as a radical activists for the Maximists. One of his speeches 'Don't let the Russian mistake happen again' became popular and was to be repeated again and again. The speech emphasized how the Russian Bolshevik revolution had been undermined by moderates and pacifists. It further went on to state how Maximism was the only way for the revolution to function. Society needed a strong guidance.
However despite all this, the Maximists were humiliated at the Congress of London and the parliamentarians won out after which Moseley attempted one last thing.....coup. All the power of radicalism was applied and Dylan Hughes also joined in the struggle. For 3 days Britain burned by by the end, the parliamentarians won out and arrested all radicals including Dylan Hughes. Moseley was in deep trouble but Hughes was thrown into prison for 7 years. In prison he learned about the war. Shortly thereafter he was sent back to where he had crwaled out from, the mine. He and other prisoners were made to do back breaking labor regardless of age.
Finally just as the Germans were on their last legs, Dyland Hughes, now an old man of 60 was released. He read about the French demolition of the Brandenburg gate and Savinkov's proclamations in the newspapers. He also read about the heroics of British red army troops o Central Europe and the American ceasefires. But he could never forgive the parliamentarians for betraying the revolution.
The year is 1930. You are a 33 years old bar owner in Warsaw named Dominik Nowicki.
You admire the revolutions in France and Britains, looking at them as examples of a better future made for the people by the people. Born in the Polish Border Strip before moving to Warsaw, it left you with a distaste of monarchy in general and the German Empire in particular. You have three young daughters and wish to make a better tomorrow for them, one not dominated by archaic conservatism and old monarchies. Syndicalism is the only way to free Poland from German hand, and you want a part in that. Your bar is a frequent meeting place for secret far left meetings at night.
Fate of Russia(Poland's overlord) from the generator:
Russia is led by the National Populist President Boris Savinkov
Fate of King August IV of Poland, the fourth son of Kaiser Wilhelm II from the generator:
Executed by Polish nationalists while trying to flee the nation
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Dominik was often known for being a fat comical man passing nasty funny comments about the King and government of 'German Poland'(As he dubbed it). For many years the authorities tolerated it and ignored regimes supporter's complains. What could a harmless old bartender do to the mighty King after all. All that changed when war broke out in 1938.
Prior to the war Dominik did go to various Syndicalist meetings and held many more in the bar late at night. This was also tolerated by the authorities who had bigger fish to fry. By the mid 30s he even took his daughters to these meetings. His first daughter Sivaka disapproved of Syndicalism(Because she was secretly dating a German policeman 17 years older than her) but his younger daughter Alicia took to her father and became a dedicated Syndicalist
As war came and the Germans began to lose the meetings became more and more radical as supporters of the revolution were afraid that Savinkov's troops would occupy Poland and install a regime worse than the Germans. They advocated for a preemptive Syndcialist coup and the opening of negotiations with the socialist west. This resulted in the coup of March 19th 1942 which failed. All alleged coup members and supporters including Dominik were arrested.
Barely 1 week had passed when the doors to his cell were opened. Even as he was still wondering who freed him, in walked Sivaka.............with her new husband, the police officer. Dominik was enraged by this betrayal. He refused to come out of his cell and refused to accept this charity from 'traitors'. He was eventually dragged out by the guards and thrown into the streets. That was the last time he would see Sivaka for two years
Two years later in 1944 while standing in his bar Dominik saw the Polish collaborators marching side by side with Savinkov's troops. Almost all of his socialist comrades remained in prison as the Russian overlords hated them even more than the Germans. They had also executed the King of Poland. He was shot like a dog while trying to escape Poland.. But suddenly Dominik saw a familiar sight. His daughter Sivaka, dressed in rags and forced to march along with other 'Traitors of Poland as the soldiers shouted and the people jeered insults at them. Dominik looked at it, sighed and then went back inside the wine cellar. He had a drink to fix after all and the customers could not be kept waiting.
The year is 1934. You are a 48 year old Russian stevedore named Pavel Volkov living under Admiral Kolchak’s rule in Vladivostok.
When you were a young man, you left your family and home in Tsaritsyn for the Far East where the pay was higher than most as the monarchy subsidized the development of their Pacific holdings. You married during the war and had two daughters as the nation collapsed. Your wife died of cholera in 1924 as Kolchak struggled to impose order, and since then, you have been a single father to Marija, 17, and Alina, 15, working long hours with an ever weaker frame unloading increasingly Japanese boxes. You are a devout Orthodox, and you dislike Syndicalists and miss the monarchy somewhat, but you also know the problems they had and honestly would be fine with democrats if they were stable. Above all though, you just want peace and stability in a reunited Russia, to no longer have to suffer, and maybe one day show your daughters Tsaritsyn and let them meet the family members you left behind.
Russia is led by the National Populist President Boris Savinkov
Pavel's life changed radically in 1936, the same year that Boris Savinkov took over power in Moscow. He got addicted to heroin. This was thanks to hanging out at Geisha bars in Vladivostok run by Japanese thugs and smugglers. In his energized heroin states he started attending Savinkovist marches and cheered loudly. Finally he had a man who could bring stability to Russia. He joined the party. In his drug laced stupor he became even more weaker and was fired by his disgusted anti-Savinkovist boss at the port. His daughters also began to fearing him as he was prone to breaking things around in the house when he got angry(though he never hit them)
When war began his party friends asked him to take revenge by shooting the docks manager. In reality they just wanted Anti-Savinkovists killed. Pavel overdosed on heroin that night after finishing the job and the matter never came to the courts as the dock manager was a traitor and thus his death deserved no trial.
Soon the local party apartus began to use him as a pawn for extra-judicial killings that even Savinkov's government could not easily justify. In return they fed his heroin addiction further. Nobody suspected an old weak man like him and Pavel prospered as a government killer. His strings were firmly held by the heroin.
By 1944 Germany was defeated, Russia was strong and his daughters had left him. But Pavel did not care
All he cared about was shoot, snort, sleep...........shoot again
Year is 1935. You are 26 years old Deutsche Bank clerk and political activist, member of Kadet party, named Andrey Vitalievich Stasenko
Born in wealthy farmholding family of cossacks in Kuban, you still love steppe of your homeland and feel cultural heritage although just like your parents, consider it rightful part of russia. With success of the farm, unharmed during revolution, and seeing your academic success in gymnasium your family managed to pay for your economic education in Berlin. There you quickly found yourself fully embracing market liberalism and particular disdain for socialism seeing it as a way for disaster similar to bolsheviks.
After finishing education and brief time with family you arrived in moscow as young clerk of Russian filial of Deutsche Bank. After awhile you become more and more embroidered in home politics, eventually joining Constitutional Democratic party. During this period you have become completely convinced that republic or at least constitutional monarchy is the only way Russia can be saved.
Russia is led by the National Populist President Boris Savinkov
Andrey's days as a simple clerk swiftly ended when he was 'discovered' by the head of Deutsche bank in 1936. At a party he impressed one of the high ranking managers with his acumen and was offered a higher job on the market research team at DB. However the job would require him to travel to and stay in Berlib. He initially refused but the boss, a Prussian junker gave him 1 month to think of the offer. That month as it turned out was the month of Savinkov's coup. Within mere hours of taking over, Savinkov's thugs started their criminal purges and mass arrests of political opponents which included the constitutional democratic party. Savinkov also gave firebrand speeches denouncing Germany. DB's Russian offices were allowed to continue for now but its employees were continually harrassed by armed policemen who stood outside the gates and charged an entry fee 'for working for the enemy' . Eventually Andrey accepted the offer. Shortly thereafter he rose higher up in the company and married a German woman. As the war progressed he became a radical anti-Savinkovist. In his mind however he continued to believe that he was against Savinkov and not with the Germans. He vowed to establish his own company in post-war Russia when Germans defeated Savinkov.
By mid-war he also used his connections in DB to finance and manage supply line for Cossack soldiers fighting alongside the Germans to free Russia. During one of his financing visits he met Vasily Boldyrev, leader of the 'Free Russia' movement. He immediately realized that this would be the man to rebuild Russia post war
However all this came to naught when the Russians defeated Germany.
Andrey Vitalievich Stasenko was extradited back to his homeland and shot along with the rest of his family on 3rd September 1944.
The Year is 1936, You are a 31 year old Barrister in Durban, Natal Province, South Africa, named James Phillip Bone
Born to a prosperous middle class family of florists in the United Kingdom in 1905, you moved to South Africa in the aftermath of the nationalisation of industry during the British Revolution. Settling in Durban, you studied at Rhodes University before you were called to the bar. You married an Afrikaans girl two years your elder, and have a son of the age of 6 and a daughter of the age of 3.
Your quite content in your employment, and take great pride in your stoic "stiff upper lip" British outlook. You are an active member of the Unionists, though you rabidly detest their anti-apartheid outlook. You are suspicious of both Afrikaner Nationalism and the Germans, and especially dislike the Syndicalists, however you would be willing to compromise with either the Germans or the Afrikaners if it meant keeping South Africa out of the hands of Syndicalists or Natives.
The Republic of South Africa is led by the National Populist Dictator Johannes van Rensburg of the Afrikaner Bund party. He and his clique have established the country as an extreme right wing apartheid state to defend against a so called threat to the 'Afrikan Volk'.
James continued to practice as a barrister even as events around the world continued to heat up. He saw the rise of Savinkov and the fall of the US with bated breathe. But most of all he saw his own nation being engulfed by the flames of Syndicalism. By 1936 the old days of moderate unions were over. The Syndicalists firmly dominated it and James was ultimately kicked out of the union after he said that he opposed Syndicalism.
After that he continued working in the courts. Day by day he saw more and more convicts from among the natives and the white college intellectual community. All of them were Syndicalists. The government was cracking down upon them.
Eventually he did what all well to do anti-red folks did. He donated graciously to Malan's election campaign and was happy when Malan won. But Malan's government slowly went down the rabbit hole of extremism. His policies of authoritarianism alienated him from his core moderate allies but since he constantly gave firebrand speeches against extremism which enraged the extremists who remained in the party. Eventually he made the mistake of revoking van Rensburg's party membership leading to the extremist coup.
Meanwhile James was shocked. On one hand he knew that now the reds had no chance of destroying his beloved foster home but on the other hand the new strict rules imposed upon him and all other citizens were ridiculous. Van Rensburg's extreme nationalist outlook looped back to a different kind of socialism which James hated. However he kept his head down. He watched as the Germans lost, he watched as Canada fell to American Totalists and he watched as his job as a barrister slowly changed to that of a puppet. A puppet whos strings were firmly attached to van Rensburg's hands
He felt betrayed and there was nothing he could do about it
He longed to return back to Britain but that wasn't an option anymore either
