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Greetings, comrades, and welcome to “Long Live the World Revolution! a Soviet NWO AAR”

This is my first AAR, and English isn't my native language, so feel free to correct any errors.

In this AAR, I will play the Soviet Union form 1946 and assume its role as the vanguard of the World Revolution. The goal will be to make the whole world socialist, achieving the worker's revolution and ending capitalism by 2100. I'll write this from a pro-communist historybook perspective.


Without further ado, let's start !


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INTRODUCTION :

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“Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and proletarian revolution” - Joseph Stalin.


The era of imperialism and proletarian revolution started in the late 19th century. With the evolution of capitalism into monopolistic capitalism, to ensure its survival, capitalism had to spread to the whole world, colonizing and plundering the entire world.

But its evolution also created the objective conditions for its end. In fact, the centralization and socialization of capital, the alienation of the impovered workers, the global oppression, led to resistance. Although reactionary at its early stage (Luddism, Utopian Socialism), it became a progressive force in the middle of the 19th century, with the development of German Scientific Socialism, better known as Marxism. The first tentative of establishing a worker's state was the Paris Commune, in 1871. Although tactically defeated, it became a great lesson and a source of inspiration for future revolutionaries.

Without important revolutionary praxis, Revisionism, aka deviant Marxism, and Dogmatism, grew in importance in the Socialist movement, with many self-proclaimed Marxism endorsing Reformism. But the ideological struggle of anti-revisionists , and the renewal of revolutionary praxis in 1917, brought back Marxism to its revolutionary origins, while advancing and adapting it to the new conditions of the imperialist world.

The inter-imperialist war of 1914 showed the darkest aspects of imperialism. Million of workers died, only to re-share the world among capitalists. But through these days dark and stormy, the eyes of the workers saw the bright sun of freedom above, with the beginning of a new revolutionary phase, in Russia.

The worker uprising spread to other countries, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Alsace had theirs revolutions, but all these revolutions were tactically crushed like the Paris Commune. The Soviet workers would have to build, alone, a new socialist society.


“Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.” -Vladimir Lenin


“We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us” -Joseph Stalin


Led by Lenin and Stalin, the Soviet workers and peasants built the new socialist utopia. The beginning was hard, because of the backwardness of Russia, but with abnegation and courage, this goal was achieved.

But the revolution was always threatened, from both inside and outside the worker's state. Stalin opposed both Trotskyites and Bukharinists seeking to restore capitalism in the Soviet Union. The struggle in the party, against the new bourgeoisie that appeared in its bureaucratic apparel, was permanent, and not without bloodshed.

Meanwhile, in capitalist countries, the counterrevolution took place. To crush the workers, the bourgeoisie created fascism, a state terrorism directed against communists, socialists and trade-unionists. In Italy, the bankers and industrials supported Mussolini. In Germany, they supported Hitler. In Spain, Franco. Most of Europe became fascist as a result of the bourgeois Synarchic conspiracy, who funded all the fascists movements. The fascist goal was to crush the worker's revolution in the Soviet Union and ensave them back into the chains of capitalism.


Stalin warned his comrades about the imminence of a capitalist invasion, and applied his policy of quick industrialisation with 5 years plans. The Nazi invasion in 1941 proven that he was right. It was an hard war, where 27 millions of Soviet workers and soldiers were killed by the fascists, but the fascists would be crushed at Stalingrad, and pushed back to Berlin. In China, the Japanese fascists were crushed by the Chinese worker's revolution led by Mao Zedong. In Europe, the Red Army wasn't the ony force opposing fascism. Communist partisans fought all over the continent against the occupiers. The revolution would have spread in the entire continent if it wasn't for the Americans, who landed in France and occupied Western Europe, claiming the communist victory as their own, as good capitalists. But the socialist world managed to expand, and would continue to do so until the last capitalist is hung with the guts of the last priest.

The world in 1946 :
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Long live the world revolution! Forward, comrades!
 
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1946-1949 : SECURING THE GAINS OF THE REVOLUTION

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“Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.” -Joseph Stalin

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After the Soviet victory in WW2, the worker's revolution expanded to many countries. However, some of these countries still experienced intense resistance from the capitalist class and its reactionary puppets : China, Vietnam, Greece. As the vanguard of the revolution, and the most advanced socialist country, the duty of the Soviet Union was to help its comrades to achieve socialism in their country.

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In China, the imperialists accused the communists of being a “chief destabilizing force”. As a member of the UN security council, the Soviet Union vetoed all of their initiatives to send white armies in China to help the Kuomintang. Instead, considerable Soviet material support was given to the CCP.

To help their Chinese comrades, the Soviet government ended the occupation of Manchuria as soon as they could. In March 1946, the Soviet Union sent volunteers to China to fight on the side of communists.

(I'm doing this because PRC AI is too dumb to win the war)

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Meanwhile, the Soviet Union would come to peace with Finland. Any aggression would have been perceived as illegitimate, and the Soviet leadership instead worked on secretly funding Finnish revolutionary communists to overthrown capitalism later.

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It was an unstable era for Imperialists. In all of their colonies, uprisings took place, from peaceful protests and boycotts to armed revolution. This is what happened in Indonesia, with the UN support. Both America and Soviet Union supported the Indonesian National Revolution, but for different reasons : Moscow wanted an entirely independent Indonesia with full control over its economy and ressources, while Washington wanted an Indonesia independent only in name, where they could lead a neocolonial policy and exploit their ressources and labour.
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Soviet occupied Austria was released as a socialist state, the Democratic People's Republic of Austria.

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In October 1946, the Nuremberg trials against Nazis ended.

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(USA didn't helped Greece, I don't undersand why?)

In December 1946, volunteers from the Red Army joined the forces of the Greek Provisional Democratic Government in their fight against the Greek imperialist puppets in the south. Together with Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania, the Soviet Union supported the communist forces.

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One year after the Soviet-Finnish peace, the Finnish communists, funded and armed by the Soviet Union, took power in their country, expelled the capitalists and created the Finnish Democratic Republic.

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In late 1947, most of Kuomintang armies were defeated and the Republic of China capital, Nanjing, was seized by the communists. Many Soviet volunteers returned home, being sure that the CCP would surely win the Civil War. By 1948, most of China was under proletarian and peasant control, and Mao prepared a crossing of the Taiwan strait. But the lack of a fleet stopped the communist advance, and the hostilities stopped after the seizure of the island of Hainan. In late 1948, the People's republic of China was proclaimed by Mao Zedong.

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Meanwhile, in the Balkans, Dimitrov and Tito, the leaders of Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, negotiated on the possible creation of an united South Slavic state incorporating their 2 states. The Soviet government accepted the union between the 2 states.

However, Tito, right after the union, refused to attend the second meeting of the Cominform. The Soviet Union didn't wished to diplomatically attack Yugoslavia and tried to peacefully repair the diplomatic blunder.

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In 1949, Greek civil war finally ended with a communist victory.

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The imperialists set up a German state including Austria. While the Soviet Union undid what Hitler did by setting up an Austrian state separate from Germany, the imperialists accepted the Anschluss! This was denounced as a violation of the rights of Austrian people, and the Soviet union decided to boycott the UN security council, to denounce both this violation and the unrecognization of the People's Republic of China as the legitimate Chinese government.

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Tension quickly grew between communists and imperialists...
 
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1949-1953 : Long live the struggle of Kurdish and Syrian Antiimperialist Fighters and Italian Partisans!
1953 : Our dearest comrade passes away!


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Tensions would arise in 1949 in Turkey and Korea.

In 1946, Iranian Kurds declared the independence of a Republic of Mahabad in north-western Iran. They were backed by the Soviet Union, but were ultimately crushed by the Iranian government in 1947, supported by the UK and USA.

Kurdish nationalists and communists moved to Turkey, and created the Communist Party of Kurdistan (CPK), with the support of the Soviet Union. The Turkish state banned the new party, who yet continued to illegally exist. In 1949, Turkish authorities discovered a local cell of the CPK, and slaughtered thousands of communists. The Soviet Union couldn't stay here and watch its comrades being killed, and send volunteers. The USA helped Turkey. Soon, the tensions evolved into an open war.


“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary” -Karl Marx


In Italy, tensions arose. The communist partigiani (partisans), who played an important role in the defeat of Mussolinian fascism, never disarmed. In 1950, the Italian government asked the partigiani to surrender their guns.

The partigiani refused, and asked the help of their Soviet comrades.


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Arise, Kurdish and Italian comrades!


In 1950, the Red Army entered in Italy and Turkey.


In Italy, with the important help of partigiani, the Red Army quickly secured most of North Italy. In 1951, Rome was took by the communist forces, and the Italian People's Republic was proclaimed.


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A quick and uneventful war


While the Red Army and its allies occupied Turkey, the US army landed in Greece. A first expedition to expel the americans turned into a disaster, but a second one, more successful, defeated the weakened invading army.


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Forgot to screenshot the defeat of the first expedition, sorry...


With their landing army defeated, the USA had no choice but to sign a peace treaty recognizing the independence of the Kurdistani People's Federative Republic. They were also forced to recognize the German Democratic Republic as a sovereign state.


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East Germany is Best Germany!


Right after the Kurdish independence, the Nationalists in the Communist party invaded Syria with the help of the Soviet Union in late 1952. Quickly, Syria was occupied and a government composed of Marxists-Leninists and Ba'athists was established, who transferred Rojava to the Kurdistani People's Federative Republic.


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Socialist countries in the Middle East


Stalin sent a note in ealry 1953 proposing an unified and neutral Germany. The imperialists proposed a NATO Germany, proving again the impossibility to make agreements with such people, and the Stalin's note was quickly forgotten.


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I told you! Deals with the imperialists pigs dogs have no point!


Joseph Stalin, the great hero praised by the workers of the world, passed away the 5 March 1953. His body would be buried next to Lenin, in the mausoleum.


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Good bye, dearest Vozhd! The world proletariat will miss you



Europe and the Mediterranean by 1953 :


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Who will succed Stalin? Will the Soviet Union be taken over by Trostko-Krushchevites revisionnists?
To be continued in the next episode!
 
Now that's a world revolution. But how's it possible that Americans gave up Turkey so easily?
 
Okay, I'll bite. Have a sub.
 
Hi comrades! Time for another update

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DOWN WITH REVISIONISM! STRUGGLE FOR POWER : THE SOVIET GANG FOUR.


DOWN WITH FRENCH IMPERIALISM! THE ALGERIAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR.


After the death of Stalin, power struggle took place in the PCSU.


Quickly ousting Beria, Malenkov, Molotov and Khrushchev worked together. However, tensions arose between Khrushchev and Molotov. While everyone agreed on a liberalisation of society, Khrushchev argued in favor of a liberalisation of the economy, and for “peaceful coexistence” with the imperialists. Molotov strongly opposed these ideas, and accused Khrushchev of being a capitalist roader and a trostko-bukharinist.

Khrushchev and other members of the Party and the Praesidium did an important criticism of Stalin. Most of these critics were attacked by Molotov, Bulganin and Kaganovich, and denounced as opportunistic lies.

The important tensions in the Soviet leadership would spread to the country. Stalin was popular among the working class, and many protests occurred against Khrushchev and his revisionist clique. The most ardent defensers of Stalin even started riots, calling for Khrushchev to resign and Molotov to take over.

Molotov, Malenkov, Bulganin and Kaganovich created an anti-revisionist faction and encouraged the rioters to support them in their struggle against the revisionist clique that plagued the Soviet leadership.


1953 and 1954 would be marked by this struggle. Many party members and state officials would be tried for revisionism and capitalist-roading.

The anti-revisionist faction also worked to weaken the Party, warning that a too influent CPSU could lead to a restoration of capitalism by letting revisionists and capitalist roaders gaining power and influence. More power would be given to local Soviets and workers councils.


These events would lead to a complete denigration of Khrushchev and many revisionist officials among the country, aswell a return to more revolutionary fervor.


By 1954, the “Gang Four”, composed of Molotov, Malenkov, Bulganin and Kaganovich, was in power, and would protect the proletarian democratic dictatorship from inside and outside the country.

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Two years later, in 1956, Molotov would call the XXth Congress of the CPSU. A bilan and criticism of the rule of Joseph Stalin would be hold.


«The great Soviet Union was the first state of the dictatorship of the proletariat. In the beginning, the foremost leader of the Party and the Government in this state was Lenin. After Lenin’s death, it was Stalin.

After Lenin’s death, Stalin became not only the leader of the Party and Government of the Soviet Union but the acknowledged leader of the international communist movement as well.

It is only forty-six years since the first socialist state was inaugurated by the October Revolution. For nearly thirty of these years Stalin was the foremost leader of this state. Whether in the history of the dictatorship of the proletariat or in that of the international communist movement, Stalin’s activities occupy an extremely important place.

We insist on an overall, objective and scientific analysis of Stalin’s merits and demerits by the method of historical materialism and the presentation of history as it actually occurred, and has opposed the subjective, crude and complete negation of Stalin by the method of historical idealism and the wilful distortion and alteration of history, such as Khrushchevite criticisms.


Stalin did commit errors, which had their ideological as well as social and historical roots. It is necessary to criticize the errors Stalin actually committed, not those groundlessly attributed to him, and to do so from a correct stand and with correct methods. But we have consistently opposed improper criticism of Stalin, made from a wrong stand and with wrong methods.

Stalin fought tsarism and propagated Marxism during Lenin’s lifetime; after he became a member of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party headed by Lenin; he took part in the struggle to pave the way for the 1917 Revolution; after the October Revolution he fought to defend the fruits of the proletarian revolution.

Stalin led the CPSU and the Soviet people, after Lenin’s death, in resolutely fighting both internal and external foes, and in safeguarding and consolidating the first socialist state in the world.

Stalin led the CPSU and the Soviet people in upholding the line of socialist industrialization and agricultural collectivization and in achieving great successes in socialist transformation and socialist construction.

Stalin led the CPSU, the Soviet people, and the Soviet army in an arduous and bitter struggle to the great victory of the anti-fascist war.

Stalin defended and developed Marxism-Leninism in the fight against various kinds of opportunism, against the enemies of Leninism, the Trotskyites, Zinovievites, Bukharinites, and other bourgeois agents.

Stalin made an indelible contribution to the international communist movement in a number of theoretical writings which are immortal Marxist-Leninist works.

Stalin led the Soviet Party and Government in pursuing a foreign policy which on the whole was in keeping with proletarian internationalism and in greatly assisting the revolutionary struggles of all peoples.

Stalin stood in the forefront of the tide of history guiding the struggle, and was an irreconcilable enemy of the imperialists and all reactionaries.

Stalin’s activities were intimately bound up with the struggles of the great CPSU and the great Soviet people and inseparable from the revolutionary struggles of the people of the whole world.

Stalin’s life was that of a great Marxist-Leninist, a great proletarian revolutionary.

It is true that while he performed meritorious deeds for the Soviet people and the international communist movement, Stalin, a great Marxist-Leninist and proletarian revolutionary, also made certain mistakes. Some were errors of principle and some were errors made in the course of practical work; some could have been avoided and some were scarcely avoidable at a time when the dictatorship of the proletariat had no precedent to go by.

In his way of thinking, Stalin departed from dialectical materialism and fell into metaphysics and subjectivism on certain questions and consequently he was sometimes divorced from reality and from the masses. In struggles inside as well as outside the Party, on certain occasions and on certain questions he confused two types of contradictions which are different in nature, contradictions between ourselves and the enemy and contradictions among the people, and also confused the different methods needed in handling them. In the work led by Stalin of suppressing the counter-revolution, many counter-revolutionaries deserving punishment were duly punished, but at the same time there were innocent people who were wrongly convicted; and in 1937 and 1938 there occurred the error of enlarging the scope of the suppression of counter-revolutionaries. In the matter of Party and government organization, he did not fully apply proletarian democratic centralism and, to some extent, violated it. In handling relations with fraternal Parties and countries, he made some mistakes. He also gave some bad counsel in the international communist movement. These mistakes caused some losses to the Soviet Union and the international communist movement.

Stalin’s merits and mistakes are matters of historical, objective reality. A comparison of the two shows that his merits outweighed his faults. He was primarily correct, and his faults were secondary. In summing up Stalin’s thinking and his work in their totality, surely every honest Communist with a respect for history will first observe what was primary in Stalin. Therefore, when Stalin’s errors are being correctly appraised, criticized and overcome, it is necessary to safeguard what was primary in Stalin’s life, to safeguard Marxism-Leninism, which he defended and developed.

It would be beneficial if the errors of Stalin, which were only secondary, are taken as historical lessons so that the Communists of the Soviet Union and other countries might take warning and avoid repeating those errors or commit fewer errors. Both positive and negative historical lessons are beneficial to all Communists, provided they are drawn correctly and conform with and do not distort historical facts. »

-From the rapport of the XXth Congress of the CPSU [note1]

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Imperialism was menaced from all sides. The victory of Diên Biên Phu threw the French imperialists out of Asia. Indonesia and India aquired independence from their Dutch and British colonizers. Fearing to lose more, the American imperialists gave a flag and an anthem to their Philippine colony, making them an independent nation on paper (although they would never really leave the country, and instead set up a neocolonial puppet).

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After Asia broke its chains, Africa started to rise up. The Egyptians threw out the king Faruk, a British puppet, and created an independent socialist Egyptian republic led by Gamal Abdel Nasser.

In Algeria, the National Liberation Front started an armed insurgency against French imperialism in 1954. The new Soviet leadership saw this anticolonial movement as a progressive force, and fully supported them in their struggle.

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Rabah Bitat, Mostefa Ben Boulaïd, Didouche Mourad, Mohamed Boudiaf, Krim Belkacem and Larbi Ben M'hidi, the founders of the National Liberation Front.


After discovering a Soviet weapon convoy sent to the Algerian revolutionaries, France denounced the Soviet ingerence. Molotov responded by denouncing French imperialism. Soon, an international diplomatic crisis arose. The People's Republic of China supported the Soviet Union and Algeria in their antiimperialist stuggle, while the USA and West Germany supported France to avoid an African socialist revolution starting in Algiers.


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Britain stayed neutral.


Meanwhile, Socialist states in Eastern Europe consolidated their bonds with the creation of the Warsaw Pact.

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In Kazakhstan, the Soviets started an important project, a space launch facility (Cosmodrome), in the small town of Tyuratam. The place was named Baikonur, from the name of a small industrial city 100km north, to confuse possible imperialist spies. It would be the beginning of the Soviet space program.

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Back on the Algerian crisis, no compromise would be found between the imperialists and the antiimperialists supported by communists. In March 1955, the crisis evolved into a full war.

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Quickly after the war declaration, Soviet troops in GDR and Italy entered in Provence, West Germany and Italy. Most of the battles would happen near the frontier between the 2 Germanies.

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The arrival of French troops in GDR.


While the imperialists sent their armies in Germany, Soviet Red Army and Italian Partigiani occupied Provence, meeting few resistance

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During the war, the Democratic Party of Guinea, led by the Marxist-Leninist Ahmed Sékou Touré, approached the Soviet Union, asking a similar support to the one given to Algeria. The Soviet leadership accepted to recognize Guinea as an independent state

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Comrade Ahmed Sékou Touré


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By late 1955, most of France and Germany were occupied.


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After the last defeats of its armies, France agreed to recognize the full independence of Algeria and Guinea as Soviet allies. The treaty uncluded a clause specifying the right to self-determination of all the remaining French colonies. A referendum for each colony would be established in the next 4 years.


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Indigenous of all colonised countries, unite!


[1] I borrowed this text from Mao's criticism of the XXth Congress of the CPSU, “On The Question Of Stalin”. If Molotov came into power instead of Khrushchev and applied a more orthodox marxist line (as opposed to Khrushchev reformist “revisionist” line), this kind of analysis would have resulted of the Congress.
You can find the original text here
 
Hi comrades! Today there is a particular thematic update!



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THE SPACE RACE, ROUND ONE.


Right after WW2, the Soviet Union and the USA invested in research on rocketry technology. The goal of the socialist and capitalist superpowers was to build intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM).

This missile race would create another race : the space race. The technological innovations of the missile race allowed for spaceflight.

The competition began in 1955, when the USA and the Soviet Union announced their intent to launch artificial satellites for the International Geophysical Year.


In 1945, the USA had a clear technological advantage : they were the only ones with the atomic bomb. They also benefited from most of the German rocket technology, recruiting Werner von Braun and most of German rocket engineers with the Operation Paperclip, and seized many V2 rockets. Soviet engineers, led by the Chief Designer Sergei Korolev, tried to salvage everything they could from German technology.

But 4 years later, the Soviet scientists created an atomic bomb. While the imperialists started with a more important technology, the socialist camp progressed much faster. In 1957, Soviet engineers tested the very first fully operational ICBM, the Semiorka R7.

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Soviet R7 ICBM and its derivative launch vehicles.


The same year, a modified version of the R7 put the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, a metallic sphere sending a simple radio “beep”, in low orbit. This Soviet success would worry the American leadership, and the president Eisenhower ordered to launch the project Vanguard much sooner than planned. The launching was a monumental failure, with the explosion of the launcher rocket few seconds after the launch, and became an international joke.

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Sputnik 1


One month after the launch of Sputnik 1, the Soviets sent the first animal in space, Laika, aboard the Sputnik 2.

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A 1959 Romanian stamp showing Sputnik 2 and comrade Laika


This, of course, shocked their imperialist rivals, who didn't expected the socialist camp to make such a quick technological advance.
The Americans quickly reacted, and von Braun launched the Juno I rocket which put their first satellite, Explorer 1, in orbit. It was a more complex satellite than Sputnik 1, who discovered the Van Allen radiation belt.

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5 months after, Korolev put the first heavy satellite, Sputnik 3, an automatic scientific observatory , in orbit. While Sputnik 1 weighed 83 kg and Explorer 1 weighed 14 kg, Sputnik 3 weighed 1327 kg.

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Sputnik 3


The American president, Eisenhower, reacted by increasing space funds and creating the NASA. The NASA started the Mercury project, with the goal of putting a man in orbit. Problem, the Mercury first launch needed too much time.
In 1961, Alan Shepard was launched by the Mercury project, but didn't reached orbit.

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The Soviet Vostok program beat the American Mercury project to this race, and sent the first man in orbit, Yuri Gagarin, the first cosmonaut, aboard the Vostok 1.
Vostok 1 orbited the Earth for 108 minutes, followed by its reentry over the Soviet Union, and the ejection and safe parachute landing of Gagarin.
Gagarin became an hero of the Soviet Union and the Socialist world, and mass demostration were held, only second in scale to the WW2 Victory Parade. April 12 was declared Cosmonautics day.
The first American in orbit was John Glenn, in February 1962... but after Gagarin.

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Poyekhali!


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Comrade Yuri Gagarin


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Vostok 1 spaceship


The first reaction in America was the famous speech of the president John Fitzgerald Kennedy “We choose to go to the moon!”
In 1961, the NASA started the Apollo program, with the goal of sending a man to the moon. The Soviets already had an advance, as they started their own program, Luna, with the goal of exploring the moon with robots. Korolev and the Soviet scientists already made advances in this domain : Luna 1 was the first object to free itself from Earth gravitational influence, Luna 2 the first object to reach the Moon surface and Luna 3 took the first photo of the dark face of the Moon, all of this in the year 1959.

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Luna 1


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Luna 2


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Luna 3


The Luna and Vostok programs continued after the start of the Apollo program. In 1966, Luna 9 was the first probe to land smoothly on the Moon surface.

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Luna 9



In 1963, Vostok 6 carried the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova. The Vostok program would be followed by the Voshkod program, who would result in the first spacewalk (man in open space) by Alexey Leonov in 1966.
In 1967, Korolev and Molotov opened the cosmonaut corps to women.


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Vostok 6


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Comrade Valentina Tereshkova


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Voshkod 1


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Comrade Alexey Leonov


In 1966, Sergei Korolev entered a Moscow hospital for a colon cancer operation, and it's a complete success [1]

The Voshkod program was followed by the Soyuz program, to improve more the Soviet spacecrafting. While the Soyuz spacecraft was designed and developed, there was a 2 years pause in the Soviet spaceflights.
This development wasn't in vain, as it allowed the success of the Soviet lunar landing program, the N1/L3, for its N1 superbooster and more advanced Soyuz 7K-L3 spacecraft, also known as the LOK (lunar orbital module)

In 1969, the LOK, carrying a single cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova, landed on the Moon surface.

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Soyuz 7K-LOK

Valentina Tershkova would be the first person to walk on the Moon surface and to host the Soviet flag.

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Long live the Soviet Union, motherland of all free planets, stars and moons of the galaxy!” -Valentina Tereshkova, first words on the Moon.


The L3 Moon expedition was followed by 10 others Soviet manned landings, aswell as unmanned ones. The missions Luna 17, in 1970 and Luna 21, in 1973, carried the first automated lunar Lunokhods (rovers).


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Lunokhod 1


Starting far behind the USA, the Soviet Union quickly surpassed its imperialist rivals in the cosmonautic field, and largely won the “first round” of the Space Race.

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[1] In our world, he dies from the operation.

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This was my first thematic update. The next update will be a regular one, if you enjoyed this update, let me know and there will be some thematic updates in the future.
 
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