Epilogue
The war following the Soviet intervention was swift and brutal. The red bear awoke, sending it’s massive armies over the German border, easily crushing the weakened Eastern garrissons.
By November, Russian soldiers marched victoriously through Warsaw. By December, the Scarlet Banner was flown over the ravaged reichstag, just two days after the famous Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his Wolfsschanze.
On christmas eve, December 1940, the broken and defeated German Empire signed an unconditional surrender with the governments of the Allied States. Throughout Europe, Allied soldiers celebrated the defeat of their mortal enemy, as militaries paraded through European capitols flying the banners of the three most important beligerents of the Allied Cause: The Tricolore, Scarlet banner and, of course, the red-gold-black of the Belgian federation.
Historians later wrote that Belgium’s brave stand during the 1940 Blitzkrieg probably shortened the length of the war with at least five years, saving the lives of millions. The halting of the German offensive at the Oostlinie became a powerfull symbol of the strength of hope, unity and determination, even when facing impossible odds. For months, Dutch, Flemish, Wallonian, French and British soldiers stood shoulder to shoulder in the trenches around Antwerpen, Mons, Ghent, Namur, Amsterdam and Rotterdam, holding the line against a technologically and numerically superior foe.
It was in this war that the Belgian national motto of “L’union fait la force”, or “Unity creates strength”, rediscovered it’s true meaning. In Brussels, the bonfires of democracy had been lit, signaling to the entire world that values of equality and freedom were here to stay, and would never fall to the malign devices of fascism and authoritarianism.
It was in this light that the Allied States reinforced their binding military alliance, and together, turned their attention Eastwards, where the last bastion of opression ruled over Asian lands with iron fist: The Japanese Empire.
In Tokyo, the Imperial palace trembled, as thousands of soldiers began their march East, determined to liberate the Chinese Republic from it’s opressive overlord Japan. The coming war would be long and arduous, but there was no doubt that, just as in Europe, democracy would prevail in the end
August 1941: Russian, French and Belgian soldiers cross the border with Manchuria, beginning operation August Storm
The end
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