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World History, 1918-1946
"Should any Member of the League resort to war in disregard of its covenants under Articles 12, 13 or 15, it shall ipso facto be deemed to have committed an act of war against all other Members of the League..."
~Article 16 of the Covenant of the League of Nations (extract)

The Children of Versailles

The end of the Great War in November 1918 propelled the world into a new era, dragging Europe and the West from the Victorian age and replacing nineteenth-century self-assurance with a mixture of hope and apprehension for the new society emerging across the world. The impact of the war had been nothing short of cataclysmic. More than ten million men had died - over 5,500 deaths every day for four years - while millions more were falling victim to the incurable "Spanish Flu" sweeping the planet in the aftermath of the war. Four ancient empires of the defeated Central Powers and one of the Entente - the German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and Turkish - had collapsed into chaos, while the victors emerged from the war teetering on national bankruptcy, their colonies eager to break away from European control, their domestic populations either numbly apathetic or furious at the governments which had dragged them through four years of pointless slaughter. When the wary victors met in Paris in 1919 to draft treaties with the defeated Central Powers, they quickly found themselves faced with the insurmountable task of building a new world, as societies across Earth cried out for an end to colonialism and conflict, an abandonment of secret diplomacy and armaments races, the crippled and apprehensive human race desperate to save future generations from the horrors of another World War.

Despite the chaos engulfing the new German Republic as Germany faced the harsh reality of its defeat, the victors determined to bleed Germany dry in recompense for the war, to "squeeze the German lemon until the pips squeaked", and thus cripple Germany so severely that she would never again be able to drag Europe into a war. The puntive Treaty of Versailles, signed by German diplomats who faced no alternative to Allied demands, stripped Germany of her colonies, annexed swathes of Germany and Germans into newly-created nations such as Poland and Czechoslovakia, reduced the once-mighty German military to little more than an armed police force, and demanded immense reparations payments, forcing the people of Germany to pay for the damage caused by the Kaiser's aggression. Appalled at the terms of the Treaty, Germans erupted into civil war as rival political movements clashed across the country. Numerous parties of right-wing extremists emerged, plunging the country into political chaos as they fought communist movements across the country. Ultimately, with the support of the army and the middle classes, the new Weimar government of Germany succeeded in overpowering threats to Germany posed by both left-wing and right-wing extremists. Police and judiciary across Germany crushed communist movements simply by imprisoning their leaders. An attempted putsch in 1919 by Wolfgang Kapp failed when the police and government simply ignored Kapp, forcing him to surrender as the country ground to a halt. An attempted putsch by the disconcertingly xenophobic National Socialist movement in Munich failed to overthrow the German authorities, and the movement disintegrated following the disappearance of its leader, Adolf Hitler, upon his release from prison in 1924. As the Weimar government suppressed or won over its opponents, criticism of the new government quietened as Germany's economy boomed in the early 1920's. The Western powers, fearful of embittering Germany with their reparations demands, passed a series of amendments to reparations requirments, lowering the total sum to be paid and giving Germany more time to pay. By 1926, Germany had settled down, and with Germany's economy soaring on the back of American development loans and Germans growing comfortable with their new democratic system, Chancellor Gustav Streseman, marked a new stage in Germany's attitudes by integrating the Federal Republic as a full member of the League of Nations.
The League of Nations, a creation of American President Woodrow Wilson and a child of the Paris Peace Conference, sought to avoid a repetition of the catastrophic 1914-1918 war by giving every country the opportunity to address grievances via peaceful, public discussion, and established a variety of international bodies to combat drug trafficking, armaments trading, slavery, and to promote human rights across Earth. While politicians often had a poor view of the League's ability to preserve world peace, its image among ordinary populations - those who had suffered most from the Great War - was very high, with ordinary people across the world viewing the League as the first step towards creating a world in which their children would be spared the horrors of a future war. For the first time in world history, the League gave smaller, less significant countries to voice their opinions, establishing a new diplomatic climate in which the sprawling empires of industrialised Europe no longer decided the fate of peoples across the planet. A succession of disarmament intiitiatives, diplomatic successes, and the first stirrings of colonial independence, boded well for the League, and as the new democratic, liberal institutions created over the old Central Powers basked in political and economic security, the world appeared to be entering a perceived new "Golden Age" of peace and prosperity.

The situation in Russia, though, was neither peaceful nor prosperous. The First World War had shattered the fragile Russian Empire, and when a Bolshevik revolution led by Vladimir Lenin broke out in October 1917, the Empire was plunged into civil war. The war becamse increasingly vicious, as Bolsheviks and the so-called "White Russians" - supporters of the murdered Czar or other political parties - both turned to committing atrocities in an effort to seize control of what was left of Russia. Fearful of Bolshevik ideology, the victorious Allies dispatched armies in 1919 to assist the White Russians in their war, but by 1920 the Whites were in retreat, and the Allies abandoned Russia to its own devices. The nightmarish civil war ended in 1922 with the victory of the Bolsheviks, who established Russia and its captive territories as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the first communist state in the world and a potentially enormous threat to the security of its democratic neighbours in the world community. The new nation, though, was more concerned with rebuilding its devastated economy and catching up with the rest of the world through an artifical Industrial Revolution, and remained isolated from world affairs. Lenin's death in January 1924 precipitated a power struggle between the leaders of the USSR which, by 1927, saw the emergence of Josef Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party, as the prime candidate for Lenin's successor.

As Stalin was emerging as the dominant figure in the Soviet Union, the west was jarred out of its peaceful growth by a financial disaster at the New York Stock Exchange. As shares plummetted and the global economy began to tumble, the Wall Street Crash propelled the world into a dangerous new era.
Credit and Debit: The Wall Street Crash and global politics


Black Thursday: the "Roaring Twenties" give way to the Great Depression
The financial disaster at Wall Street precipitated a global economic slump - the "Great Depression" - and damaged the global economy for decades to come. Across the industrialised world, unemployment soared, trade ground to a halt, and governments rose and fell in rapid succession as politicians vainly attempted to haul their countries out of the economic rut. As countries searched for credit and capital to stimulate trade and create jobs for the millions of unemployed, the west's comfortable economic symbiosis was shattered, with each nation calling for its creditors to pay their debts, regardless of the consequences. The flow of American money into Germany stopped, America demanded the repayment of its old war loans to Britain and France, and the leaders of Europe, in their turn, approached Germany demanding reparations money to pay off the Americans.

As the west squabbled over its finances, the worldwide economic malaise dragged on into the 1930's. Despite significant economic growth under the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, the USA was nevertheless facing difficulties in rejuvenating the American economy. Relief for the victims of dustbowls and environmental degradation in the Midwest, and payment for economic and social development in the impoverished and segregated Deep South, were draining the USA's financial resources and generating increased political tension across the country. Recognising that faster economic growth would encourage social cohesion and help settle the increasingly violent racial tension in the USA, the interim government of Harold Truman demanded in January 1940 that America's War Loans be repaid in full by December 31st 1946. The USA's primary creditors - the United Kingdom, France, and Germany - treated this declaration as an exhorbitant demand that would cripple their economies. Great Britain and France, still owing immense sums of money which they had borrowed from the USA during the First World War, simply could not afford to repay the loans in time. Increasing disgruntlement across the British Empire during the 1920's and 1930's had forced, and was continuing to force, Great Britain to grant political concessions to colonies and dominions. Unable to pay for the empire's administrative and military concerns, London granted increasing autonomy to the "white colonies" - Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, while populist movements across the empire and in Britain itself increased the pressure on London to grant political autonomy to colonies from Belize to Hong Kong. India, Nigeria, and Egypt increased their demands for independence, the British Protection Force in Palestine struggled to quell fighting between Arab populations and Jewish immigrants in the volatile Near East, strikes across the United Kingdom crippled the already desperate economy and fuelled political tension. In France, political tension had been mounting since the end of the First World War. The re-emergence of Germany as an economic power in the 1920's had unnerved successive French governments, who devoted increasing sums of money to the construction of fortifications along the Franco-German border. By 1940, France was still rebuilding the devastation of the Great War, and as in the British Empire, French colonies from Algeria to Vietnam, already dissatisfied at being ruled from Paris, were demanding independence. Political tensions in France mounted as the French Communist Party clashed with reactionaries across the country, while the National Assembly remained in a permanent state of stalemate as opposing political factions vetoed proposals and forced endless elections, each of which returned governments as powerless as their predecessors. By 1940 Germany was facing severe political schisms, as the recall of American loans, extended to the new Federal Germany in the 1920's to promote economic growth, caused outrage. France and Britain, obliged to pay their debts to the USA but fearing the consequences of German resentment, had already cancelled Germany's reparations payments in 1932, but nevertheless public opinion in Britain and France demanded that Germany, still widely perceived as the vicious aggressor of 1914, make restitution for her unpaid war debts. The federal government in Berlin, trapped between extremists on the left and right wings, was already struggling to rebuild Germany's economy, which had collapsed within months of the Wall Street Crash fifteen years previously.

By early 1940, France, Great Britain, and Germany had been placed in a very difficult position. Obliged to repay their loans to the economically crippled United States, the leading nations of Western Europe, already wracked by problems of their own, could not rely on their colonies to support them, and were afraid that bringing back reparations would re-ignite nationalist tensions and shatter the delicate emerging friendship between London, Paris, and Berlin. Simultaneously, concern grew that unless the United States was placated with debt repayments, the USA, with its immense consumer base, would cease trade with Western Europe and thus block access to America's markets, without which European exports would plummet. With few alternatives, the leaders of the major nations of Europe convened an economic summit in Luxembourg City in March 1941 to discuss an economic union. The result - the European Economic Charter - bound Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Czechoslovakia, the Benelux, Portugal, Greece, Denmark, Sweden, Turkey, and Ireland into a mutually-beneficial economic alliance, dubbed "The European Coalition". By pooling resources and streamlining trade, nations owing money to the USA raised sufficient funds to meet American payment deadlines and increased their economic ties with the invaluable markets of the United States, clamouring for increased trade with Europe and the European colonies in order balance America's own budget deficits.
The early 1940's revealed increasing distance between Europe and the USSR, but tensions had already been developing for years. The first clear signs of tension between the Soviet Union and European nations appeared during the 1936-38 Spanish Civil War, fought between Spanish Republicans and the Spanish Fascist Party. The war in Spain alerted many Europeans to the potential threat of Soviet intervention in foreign affairs, specifically the ideological threat posed by the presence of Soviet military forces in Europe. Although the war was won by the Fascists and communism was crushed in Spain, the threat of Soviet indoctrination remained strong. This continued throughout the economic and political crises of the late 1930's and early 1940's, as Stalin, eager to distract the Soviet people from the USSR's dire economic situation, began to turn towards Trotsky's concept of spreading the Soviet Revolution across the world (although, of course, Stalin claimed the idea to be his). By the time of President Roosevelt's request for debt repayments in January 1943, the democratic nations of Europe were already feeling the pressure of Soviet influence.

The Workers' Paradise

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Josef Stalin, totalitarian ruler of the USSR
As Western Europe reeled in the financial chaos of the Great Depression, the isolationist Soviet Union was experiencing economic problems of its own. Following the Bolshevik victory in the 1917-1922 Russian Civil War, diplomatic relations between the nascent USSR and Western Europe had deteriorated significantly. European political leaderships had, since 1917, been reluctant to involve themselves with the potentially subversive Marxist government of the Soviet Union, and the social impact of the Great Depression heightened tension between the two blocs. As European populations faced mass unemployment and spiralling inflation, communist factions across Europe gained increasing support, resulting in increasing numbers of people accusing the USSR of exploiting Europe's chronic economic situation in order to strengthen communist movements across the traditionally hostile continent. The de facto leader of the Soviet Union, General-Secretary Josef Vissarionivich Stalin, had originally been content to remain isolated from Europe, and concentrate on modernising the USSR. During the late 1920's and early 1930's, Stalin's government indeed ignored foreign affairs in order to focus on rapid industrialisation and collectivisation of agriculture. However, a series of catastrophic famines and major economic depressions resulting from the collapse of world trades in the late 1920's encouraged Stalin to pursue more forceful diplomatic measures in an attempt to distract the Soviet people from domestic problems. In 1936, crop failures in the USSR's southern regions resulted in the Communist Party's mass requisitioning of foodstuffs from the Ukraine, providing the cities and densely-populated areas of European Russia with sufficient food, but causing devastating famines across the Ukraine. In the meantime, Stalin's industrial drive, executed via the Five-Year Plans, had thrown the Soviet economy into chaos, as mass urban migration, forced collectivisation, and reckless industrialisation resulted in overcrowded cities, appalling living conditions, plummeting agricultural output, and extremely low-quality industiral production.

As the USSR's economy stumbled forwards, Stalin's government initiated a series of political liquidations dubbed "The Purges". Initially aimed at removing apparent subversives and traitors within the high leadership of the USSR, the Purges rapidly spread to the people of the Soviet Union, as Russia's chaotic economy was explained as the consequence of Trotskyite wreckerism and sabotage by "Enemies of the People". Honing terror as a weapon against his own people, Stalin accelerated the Purges, demanding that municipal authorities execute "subversives" according to preset quotas, and unleashing Lavrenty Beria's NKVD - the Soviet Secret Police - against the leadership of the Communist Party. By 1938, the Soviet Union had degraded into a terror state. Party and military leaders, most of whom had experienced incarceration in NKVD torture chambers and all of whom agreed with any policy initiated by Stalin (disagreeing with Stalin could result in further torture and execution), split into opposing factions vying for Stalin's favour, leading to political deadlock. By the early 1940's, the citizens of the USSR were losing respect for Stalin. As increasing numbers of ordinary people were shipped en masse to the gulags and labour camps of the Arctic Circle, and as Russia's economy continued to struggle out of its artificial malaise, discontent within the USSR grew, becoming increasingly visible to the General Secretary.

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In a move to stem discontent, Stalin adopted a new course to instill confidence in the Soviet people. With much of the old leadership of the Communist Party liquidated in the Purges, Stalin appointed a new cabinet. Marshals Georgei Kukov and Pyotr Gradenko were appointed to high-ranking positions on the Peoples' Revolutionary Council. Nadia Kulashenka, Assistant Director of the NKVD, was appointed to the Ministry of Propaganda and Intelligence, while Professor Major Vladimir Kosygin became Chief Advisor of the Soviet Nuclear Project. Stalin also supported the research of renowned physicist Nikola Tesla, encouraging the development of new static weapons systems based flame-throwing and electrical defences. Stalin also permitted unrestricted research on the "Iron Curtain", a device using the Einstein-Tesla theory on resonating molecules to render objects invulnerable to ballistic attack. At Moscow University, members of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Central Committee's Department of Science and Technology developed - in secret - increasingly sophisticated military technologies.

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In the face of mounting domestic troubles, Stalin turned to military intervention in foreign affairs to distract the Soviet people.
While the USSR's relations with the nations of Europe slowly deteriorated, relations with the turbulent Peoples' Republic of China worsened at an alarming rate. Ever since the collapse of the Qing Empire in 1911, China's political and economic climate had simply lurched from one catastrophe to another. Endless civil wars and economic chaos across the weak and vacillating Chinese republic presented a golden opportunity to the Soviet Union, already eager for a convenient shift in foreign affairs which would provide Stalin with an opportunity to distract the Soviet population from domestic problems via foreign military intervention. At the behest of the NKVD, Russian officials along the Sino-Soviet border dispatched reams of reports on (fabricated) Chinese military incursions across the USSR, and of swarms of Chinese refugees seeking asylum in the Soviet Union. The Chinese government, embroiled in a continuing political crisis with the Japanese Empire over territory in Manchuria, and unable to rely on the ability of unpaid and disloyal border control officials to provide genuine evidence of Chinese activities along the border, faced severe difficulties in responding convincingly to the USSR's claims.

Citing the threat of Chinese incursions across the border and highlighting the weak Chinese government's political and economic decline, the USSR pursued increasingly forceful measures against the PROC. Military intervention, though, was not a possible option - the USSR was a member of the League of Nations and a signatory power of the League Covenant. Article 16 of the Covenant expressly forbade signatories from commencing hostilities and/or military action against another League member prior to a full investigation by a League of Nations Executive Commission and open discussions between the involved powers, the League Council, and all members of the League. On March 4th 1944, eager to avoid legal complications during his imminent invasion of China and scornful of the League's ability and perceived right to preserve world peace, Stalin withdrew the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from the League of Nations.

News of the USSR's withdrawal from the League provoked international outrage and increasing criticism of the Soviet Union's tyrannical dictator. The League, still concerned over the Japanese Empire's withdrawal from international discussions in 1931 and the United States' continued refusal to join the international organisation, launched a campaign of worldwide protest against Stalin's aggressive foreign policy. Supporters of the League vociferously called for the implementation of Article 16, which required that in the event of the Article's violation (perpetrated by the USSR), other members of the League were required to sever diplomatic links and cease trade with the aggressor, and if necessary, assemble an international military force to support the defenders of the attacked nation. However, Article 16 had never before been invoked, as members of the League had neither the money nor the will to intervene militarily in affairs in far-away countries. Although the League was unable to intervene directly against Stalin, though, discussions at the Palace of Geneva throughout 1944 significantly damaged the USSR's image as nations increasingly perceived the Soviet Union as little more than an aggressive terror state bent on exploiting its neighbours as a means of concealing its own spiralling crises.

After six weeks of confused fighting in Mongolia and the Kazakh region, the Red Army overwhelmed Chinese defence forces at the Battle of Xiangjian. In Bejing, an attempted coup by Mao Zedong on June 30th, although unsuccessful, highlighted the political unreliability of Chinese security forces, many of whom had joined Zedong's rebels. On July 17th 1943, with no ready troops remaining and political disturbances breaking out across the Republic, the Chinese government surrendered to Stalin. Mongolia became a dependant of the USSR, whilst parts of Xiangjian province were annexed directly to the USSR, leading to China becoming a Soviet satellite under the puppet government of Mao Zedong and his Communist Party. In late June, Stalin, Mao, Mongolian President Gonchigiyn Bumtsend, Korean Communist Party Leader Kim Il Sung and Indochinese Rebel Leader Ho Chi Minh formed the Asian Defence League, an organization intended to repel any invasion from the Pacific rim. Throughout late 1943, Soviet diplomats worked to create the World Democratic Society and the Freedom Consortium, centralising and co-ordinating world communists and revolutionary movements.
 
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Rusty2005 said:
"The Little League"

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Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of the United Kingdom and Prime Minister Benito Mussolini of Italy pose for the cameras after signing the European Alliance Charter

As the Soviet Union concerned itself with establishing Russian domination in China, the nations of Western Europe convened to discuss Russia's potential future plans regarding Europe. In public at the League of Nations, the leaders of Europe's democratic, industrialised nations condemned the USSR's activities in China and urged Stalin to rejoin the League in the interests of global peace and security. Covertly, though, the same leaders commenced talks aimed at unifying the signatories of the European Economic Charter as an opposing power bloc to the USSR. Fearing the spread of Marxist-Leninist ideology and increasing Soviet intervention in foreign affairs, and unhappily accepting that the League of Nations was too weak to bring the USSR to heel, European leaders gradually drew closer together. On 16th January 1945, the Heads of State of each signatory to the EEC met with non-signatory European leaders in the Scottish city of Edinburgh to discuss an expansion of EEC membership. The Edinburgh Conference proved to be a success, aligning several nations alongside EEC signatories. In March 1945, the EEC called a European Summit in Athens to discuss the transference of EEC powers and members to a wider European coalition. With Stalin's USSR aggressively threatening Eastern European powers with trade embargoes, Western European parliaments were quick to ratify a limited coalition. On May 15th 1945, the signatory powers of the European Economic Charter met with European leaders in Zurich, Switzerland, to found a political union of European nations. The Prime Ministers of Spain, Switzerland, Iceland, Ireland, and Sweden either expressed dissatisfaction at the terms of the treaty, or declined to join due to economic and political concerns within their nations. Despite the dissatisfaction expressed by these nations, the proposed treaty appealed to other participants of the conference. On the afternoon of May 15th, in Zurich, the Heads of State of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Turkey, and Malta put their signatures to one of the most famous Charters in history, uniting most of Europe for the first time as a free democratic union and founding one of the most important political entities of the twentieth century - the European Alliance.


"We have peace in our time... United We Stand"
The Alliance was largely received warmly amongst European populations, but despite its popularity, many Europeans voiced criticisms of the union. The signatories of the Alliance Charter had been unable and unwilling to grant the new organisation too much power, concerned that their national sovereignty was at risk, and as a consequence many critics asked why the Alliance had even been formed, as its limited power, and even its very existence, would simply drain resources and worsen the international situation by antagonising an already-suspicious USSR. Among critics, the European Alliance became known disparagingly as the "Little League", reflecting their view of the Alliance as a smaller, weaker, more pointless version of the League of Nations. However, supporters of the Alliance argued, the Alliance differed fundamentally from the League in several ways. The Charter had outlined the creation of a Federal European Parliament, composed of delegates from each nation who were to convene regularly and, crucially, were granted authority over national governments if the Chairman of the Council invoked the Emergency Contingency Clause and declared a state of emergency (a clause borrowed, with some controversy, from Article 68 of the Constitution of Germany). To offset the immense power this clause handed to the Chairman, the Charter further detailed that the Chairman could not hold office for more than one year, and could be removed at any time if more than 40% of delegates in the European Parliament declared the Chairman unfit for duty. The Charter further guaranteed a united European response if any member nation was attacked by a foreign power - in essence, this clause guaranteed against military threats from the expansionist and increasingly hostile Soviet Union, whose leaders were already viewing the Alliance as a severe potential threat to Soviet security.

The European Alliance Charter was frowned upon by the League of Nations, as European delegates to the League complained that their authority was being usurped, and as League delegates from across the world complained that their role in world affairs was being marginalised. European leaders retorted that as the United States had refused to join the League and as the USSR had been able to withdraw from the League and then attack a member without any useful reaction from the global community, only the European Alliance was in any position to protect world peace. Alliance leaders further assured that, unless the territory of Alliance members or their overseas possessions was threatened by military action, the Alliance would not act on international affairs as a body - instead, European nations' role in international affairs would be left in the hands of each country's representatives to the League of Nations. Despite its initially weak political structure, the Alliance was viewed by Stalin as a direct threat to the Soviet Union. Eager to boost the USSR's sagging economy and using the USSR's military buildup during the 1943 Sino-Soviet War as a pretext, the Politburo began a massive expansion of the Red Army. The Alliance responded by founding the European Defence Agency, a political and economic entity designed to mobilise the economic and military resources of the continent in the event of war, in addition to co-ordinating the Alliance's foreign intelligence and domestic security networks. By Christmas 1945, the European Council, based in London, and the Berlin-based Federal European Parliament had drafted proposals for an expansion of the EDA. However, European Defence agents came under increasing criticism for investigative activities against European Communist parties, and as political commentators fanned apprehensions of the EDA becoming a pseudo-NKVD organisation in the Alliance, the European Council placed restrictions on EDA activities, making intelligence-gathering on Soviet activities increasingly difficult.

Alongside remonstrations against the political structure of Alliance executive bodies, complaints on the perceived invasiveness of the EDA, and increasingly negative predictions of the Alliance's economic health, critics of the Alliance argued that without an effective military, the Alliance lacked teeth in the face of Soviet aggression. To counter this mounting criticism, the Council began to implement a series of initiatives aimed at increasing co-operation amongst European military forces. Despite widespread opposition from European populations scarred by the horrors of the 1914-1918 war against Germany, the European Alliance had, at the Edinburgh Conference, repealed the crushing military restrictions imposed upon Germany under the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, permitting Germany to join its Alliance neighbours in re-armament drives intented to boost national economies and present a stronger international image of the Alliance. Three leading generals - General Sir Alan Brooke of Great Britain, Marshal Henri Petain of France, and General Erich Modell of Germany - were promoted to the rank of European Marshals and appointed as the Senior Command Staff at the newly-inaugurated European Defence Headquarters being built underground in central London. As a show of good faith to Germany and demonstrate that German Republic was a viewed as a valued member of the Alliance, the European Council promoted the commander of the German General Staff Corps - Lieutenant-General Gunther von Esling - to Grand Marshal (the then highest rank in military history), and appointed him Chief of Staff at European Defence Headquarters, later being promoted further to Supreme Commander of the Military Forces of the European Alliance.

Appeasement and Armament
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The League of Nations struggled to preserve world peace, but was unable to appease Stalin into stepping back from the brink of war

As the Alliance consolidated its new political and military institutions, Stalin increasingly viewed every move made by the Alliance as a threat directed at the USSR. The foundation of the European Defence Agency increased suspicion within the Kremlin, exemplified by NKVD reports from London on the amalgamation of European military staff commands. Stalin's intentions to interven in foreign affairs extended in February 1946 to the Baltic states of Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia, whose ethnic Russian inhabitants had, at the request of Comintern and the NKVD, been sending a stram of public complaints to the international community of mistreatment at the hands of local authorities. A League of Nations Executive Commission had toured the three nations in the summer of 1944 and had found no evidence of mistreatment or discrimination against citizens of Russian descent by Estonian, Latvian, or Lithuanian authorities, but rumours continued to reach the USSR, prompting Stalin to increase political pressure on the three nations. Stalin's pretext for action was the discovery, in February 1946, of three agents of the EDA in Leningrad. Stalin expressed outrage, accusing the Alliance of meddling in Soviet affairs and using the three neutral Baltic states as staging-posts for spying and subversion aimed at the Soviet Union. While the Alliance attempted to broker talks with Moscow, Stalin dispatched the Red Army to annex Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia directly to the USSR, on the pretext of protecting Russian citizens and safeguarding the interests of the Soviet Union.
The discovery of the EDA operatives greatly harmed Euro-Soviet relations in early 1946. Despite the Alliance's request that the USSR return the captured spies in exchange for NKVD agents uncovered in Liverpool and Hamburg in late 1945, the Kremlin refused to co-operate. Efforts to arrange talks between the USSR and the Alliance initially met with refusals from Stalin, who denied the Peoples' Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Vyacheslav Molotov, permission to travel to talks being held at League of Nations headquarters in Geneva. In early March, though, Stalin relented, and dispatched Molotov to attend an Alliance conference being held in Munich. At Munich, Molotov explained to the world that the USSR had annexed the Baltic states in order to extend protection to their large ethnic Russian populations, and to safeguard against future subversion on the part of the untrustworthy European Alliance. The Alliance's response was one of appeasement. Knowing that a war with the USSR was inevitable in the near future, the Alliance appeased Molotov (and by extension, Stalin) by acquiescing to the USSR's annexations, assuring the USSR that the Alliance would not act upon Soviet expansion.

Allied appeasement of Stalin at the Munich Conference damaged the Alliance's international image as an opposing bloc to the USSR, but won the approval of European populations and crucially, bought time for the Alliance to strengthen border defence - RADAR coverage, anti-aircraft units, and ground defences were hurriedly reinforced in the weeks following the conference, with Allied leaders realising that the USSR's next foreign objective could force the Alliance into action.

On 17th March 1946, Soviet forces invaded southern Finland in an effort to persuade the European Alliance to back down. Stalin explained to the world that the invasion was again orchestrated to protect Russians living in the countries, who had been subject to persecution and oppression, and in order to guarantee the security of Leningrad. At League headquarters, Alliance leaders accused Stalin of unwarranted aggression and violation of the League Covenant. Finland had joined the Alliance in October 1945, rendering Finland a member of the Alliance under protection of the Alliance defence clauses. The Alliance, bound by its own Charter to protect member states, reluctantly declared war upon the USSR on 20th November 1946.
 
Yay! I was wondering when someone would post this. I like it, post the rest, even if it's made somewhat outdated by RA3.
 
Well RA3 suppose to the rewrite the timeline and thank you for the comment (hope there is more)


Rusty2005 said:
The Second World War, 1946-1953
"A continental Soviet Union is our destiny!"
~J.V. Stalin, speech to the Nineteenth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, March 1948

Manifest Destiny
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The dreamed-of Soviet Utopia
When news of the Alliance's war declaration reached the Palace of the Nations on the afternoon of 20th November 1946, the League's Irish-born Secretary-General, Sean Lester, issued an international statement of the League's official position on the emerging crisis. Lester's declaration confirmed the League's official condemnation of both the European Alliance and the Soviet Union, one for having withdrawn from the League and one for having compromised the League by forming a rival organisation. Nevertheless, the content of the announcement hinted strongly towards League sympathy and support for the Alliance. In a simultaneous statement issued by the Norwegian-born President of the General Assembly of the League, Carl Joachim Hambro, the League condemned the Soviet Union for "actions contrary to the principles of the League Covenant and the interests of world peace". Despite the League's condemnation of Allied actions, the Alliance quickly moved to defend the borders of the Alliance's most easterly members. Diplomatic suspicions amongst the Alliance's more vulnerable eastern members, who resented western members' repeated demands to garrison European troops in eastern territory at their own expense, had left eastern Europe dangerously exposed to military attack. Poland and Romania in particular had felt uneasy about the presence of German troops on their territory, and this public disagreement had not escaped the notice of the NKVD. As a consequence, Soviet intelligence knew the weakest points of European defence lines.

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The Red Army launches its assault upon the European Alliance
Echelon attacks by Soviet forces began across the borders of Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria, striking at key points to bypass European units. As raw Soviet units launched feint attacks and kept European units occupied, shock divisions streamed across undefended sections of border and and outflanked defenders. While follow-up infantry units spread out behind European lines to encircle defenders, the shock armour units continued their lightning advance towards military installations and cities, many of which were already under attack from Soviet paratroop divisions. Isolated and encircled, Polish and Romanian defence units and rapidly surrendered. In Finland, scene of the first Russian invasions into the Alliance, the Finnish Army put up stout resistance, aided by the Soviets' difficulties in negotiating Finland's topographical conditions. Fighting in southern Finland quickly devolved into a stalemate conflict in the lakes and mountains of the region as Finnish defenders battled Soviet forces striking towards Helsinki, but Finland was unable to prevent a second Soviet army from striking directly northwards towards the Swedish border. Eastern Poland was quickly swamped by Russian forces, and quickly repelled a rapidly-assembled army of French and German infantry which had been rushed in to defend Warsaw. In Bucharest, a coup by Ion Antonescu on December 2nd brought Romania under the rule of the fascist Iron Guard. Antonescu's anti-democratic views resulted in his withdrawing Romania from the European Alliance on December 4th. Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov negotiated a peace settlement and Non-Aggression Pact with Antonescu in exchange for Romania's cessation of Bessarabia to the USSR. The treaty resulted in Romania becoming a neutral buffer state in the northern Balkans, depriving the Alliance of border security and allowing the Soviets to strike west towards Hungary and south towards Greece.

Romania's rapid withdrawal from the conflict left Hungary dangerously exposed. Admiral Miklos Horthy, Regent of Hungary since 1920, appealed to the Alliance for military forces to defend Hungary's dangerously exposed border with Romania. The European Defence Council dispatched a large force of Czechoslovakian and Yugoslavian troops, but the Red Army's assault resulted in large areas of Hungary's eastern provinces falling to Soviet control. The Hungarian Army faced immense difficulties in holding Soviet attackers back, and in February 1947, Soviet units laid siege to Budapest. Thinly defended, Budapest fell quickly, and Horthy's government withdrew to Veszprem. A pro-Soviet coup in Budapest removed declared Horthy's reign at an end, and the new government sought a peace treaty with Stalin. The European Alliance, though, refused to recognise the new communist administration and continued to support Horthy, evacuating his government to London as Stalin annexed Hungary directly to the USSR. Tens of thousands of Hungarian soldiers still loyal to Horthy were attached to a Czecho-German army under General Erich Modell assembling at Bratislava, reinforcing Allied units protecting Czechoslovakia's southern border and dissauding Soviet units from making a lightning strike against Allied forces in the region.

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Europe Rallies: June 1946
February 1947 saw a brief lull in the Balkans as the Soviets consolidated their acquisitions in Romania and Hungary, and as the Allies reinforced defences and units along Allied borders. In Poland though, fighting raged west of Warsaw. On February 9th, Soviet Marshal Pyotr Gradenko, acting on Stalin's personal orders, destroyed the town of Pultusk in Poland, a key resistance area. The town was brutally desolated, resulting in more than 20,000 deaths, an act which received unanimous opposition at the League of Nations. The European Alliance responded by sending three French infantry corps and an Italian armoured division to reinforce the crumbling Polish Army, but even these reinforcements were not enough to give the Alliance an advantage over Soviet forces. While the General Staff at European Defence Headquarters organised new units, Allied forces in western Poland fought a bitter campaign to hold the Red Army back for as long as possible. As the Allies struggled to hold Poland, Finnish defence forces collapsed and the government of President Juho Passiviki relocated to London as Soviet forces entered Finland. A second Soviet army had crossed the border with neutral Sweden on March 3rd, prompting King Bernadotte to request military assistance from both the League of Nations and the European Alliance. The League was largely powerles to respond, and the Alliance faced difficulties in finding forces to dispatch to Sweden. The Norwegian Army was struggling to assign sufficient troops to the defence of Norway's straggling border with Sweden, and while Denmark sent a sizeable force to Stockholm, the Alliance was unwilling to send Danish troops too far north in case they were required to withdraw to the defence of Germany. With the Alliance facing serious military setbacks, the Council increased its requests for American intervention. President Roosevelt, though eager to assist the Europeans, could not gain support from Congress and was restricted to agreeing Lend-Lease treaties with the embattled Alliance.

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"Workers of the world, Unite!"
Soviet industrial production guaranteed an endless supply of military equipment in the early stages of the war
While military action was restricted to Europe during the late 1940's, the world at large felt the repercussions of the ongoing conflict as the USSR sought to involve other countries. Vyacheslav Molotov's Foreign Department sought to sway neutral nations to the Soviet cause, whilst the worldwide communist movement, COMINTERN, simultaneously embarked upon a mass propaganda campaign aimed at Europe's overseas colonies. NKVD and COMINTERN agents in foreign colonies across the world began to spread subversive literature aimed at inciting colonial populations to rise up against their foreign occupiers and embrace Soviet ideology, hoping to force Europe's hand by igniting rebellions across the colonial world while the Europeans were distracted by the ongoing war on their own continent. The scheme, though, did not meet with any significant success. COMINTERN determined upon Africa as the main focus of inciting rebellion, as anti-colonialist attitudes in Africa were stronger than in other European colonies, and the sheer size of Africa prevented the embattled Europeans from maintaining fully effective protection forces. In African colonies, local populations rejected Soviet propaganda; significant numbers of African colonial populations, particularly those at the bottom of the economic pyramid who were the Soviets' primary targets, were illiterate, and many others could not read or write in the colonists' languages. Moscow propagandists lacked the linguistic background to create subversive communist literature in native African languages, forcing COMINTERN in Africa to rely heavily on personal interaction between locals and communist agents. These fall-back methods, though, also failed to spawn African resistance movements. Stalin's long-standing animosity towards non-Russians, and his generally scathing opinions of colonial populations, had left COMINTERN with only a handful of agents to cover the whole African continent, most of whom were identified and apprehended by colonial police with little difficulty. The colonists also developed a more effective countermeasure against Soviet agents, by making a variety of promises to native populations that if the colonies remained loyal to Europe and helped Europe to win the war, then Europeans would grant independence and help colonial populations to create their own free nations after the war ended. By 1948, COMINTERN's agents in Africa had largely been apprehended and despite the presence of a known communist sleeper cell in Khartoum, the threat of African rebellions was minimalised.


Greater sympathy for the Soviet cause was found in South America, but the United States, concerned at the threat of Soviet indoctrination in the western hemisphere, exhorted South American governments to stamp out pro-communist movements. Rebel movements in South America also faced the harsh reality that they could expect no military or financial support from the Soviet Union. Across the Muslim world, COMINTERN's attempts to stir up resistance against Christian colonists backfired catastrophically. In the European-controlled Middle East, India, and North Africa, Muslim leaders recognised that while the European colonists were foreign, infidel occupiers, they respected Islam and made no attempt to stamp out religion. The USSR, on the other hand, preached atheism and the abolition religion, which Marx had termed "the opiate of the masses". Throughout 1947 and 1948, Imams and Caliphs across the Islamic world encouraged their people to assist the European colonists in their war, stating that while the Europeans were admittedly unwelcome foreign occupiers, rule by the Europeans, for the time being, was nevertheless preferable to being absorbed by the atheist Soviet Union. Hindu and Sikh leaders in India similarly exhorted their followers to stand firm alongside their British governors, encouraged by London's repeated promises of establishing a free post-war Republic of India in return for India's support in the conflict. Great Britain faced greater difficulty in convincing the "White Dominions" - Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa - to support Britain, as the Dominions had already been granted a significant degree of independence in recompense for their support in the First World War, and who were unwilling to allow themselves to be dragged into another war which did not concern them. Soviet attacks on member-states of the League of Nations, though, provoked Canada, New Zealand, and Australia to declare war on the USSR in support of Great Britain and the European Alliance. South Africa joined the conflict two months later. With their colonies backing them with supplies, troops, and diplomatic initiatives, the Europeans rallied. Second-line armies formed along the borders of Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Albania while European forces east of the second line began a fighting withdrawal to the new defence lines. By July 1947, the Alliance had evacuated Poland, Hungary, Finland, and Bulgaria, and while fighting continued in Sweden and the Balkans, the Allies prepared to defend central Europe.

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A Soviet Steamroller: October 1946
Military successes in Poland and Finland, coupled with the rapid collapse of Romania and Hungary, had emboldened Stalin and his commanders. Despite the severe strain it produced upon the USSR's labour force, Stalin increased drafts into the Red Army. While the new conscripts were raw and inexperienced, they provided a useful pool of soldiers to use as occupation forces and garrisons in conquered territories, freeing more veteran troops to reinforce front-line Russian units. Encouraged by their victories and pressured by Stalin, Russian generals pressed forward to attack the Allies' new positions.
In late May 1947, General Roskovssky's army, attacking into Scandinavia, had crossed the Norwegian border and captured Narvik on the coast of the Norwegian Sea. While Norwegian and British units held out in the pocket of Norwegian territory between Tromso and the Nordkapp, the Norwegian government withdrew all forces southwards to Trondheim and the southern third of the Norwegian-Swedish border to protect against the anticipated attack by Russian troops sweeping west from recently-captured Stockholm, kept supplied by convoys of Red Navy vessels plying the Baltic Sea between Leningrad and the Swedish capital. As Soviet forces spread across Scandinavia, General Georgy Kukhov launched a lightning attack and assaulted Allied defences along the German-Polish border on June 2nd. The Allies fought back and managed to drive Soviet forces back across the border, but in August the Soviets again pushed across the German border, commencing a campaign in which Allied and Soviet front lines flowed back and forth across the province of Posen throughout the late summer and autumn of 1947. In August, Soviet forces attacked Allied troops in eastern Czechoslovakia while a third Russian attack group invaded Albania. Allied forces succeeded in holding Soviet units back during the autumn of 1947, but by late November the Allies had begun to face increasing numbers of the USSR's latest battlefield innovation.

The USSR had been developing advanced heavy battle tanks since the late 1930's, and early prototypes had seen action in the Sino-Soviet War. By 1947 designs had evolved into the Mammoth tank, and by November, Mammoth units were being deployed against European defences. Allied tanks were powerless to stop the gargantuan Mammoths, whose twin cannon barrels, multiple tracks, and titanium armour gave the tanks enough firepower to disable Allied vehicles with one double shot, while simultaneously rendering them all but invulnerable to Allied anti-tank fire. Unleashed against Allied forces on the plains of northern Germany, Mammoths spearheaded Soviet armoured attacks, crumpling Allied defence lines and throwing the Europeans into chaotic retreat. The Soviet advance into northern Germany, though, failed to overwhelm European forces due to the slow progress of the Mammoths and the Red Army's surprise at the speed of the Allied retreat, with generals suspecting a ploy and commanders unwilling to advance too far from their forward supply bases. This gave the Europeans a breathing-space to organise defence lines along the River Recknitz. As troops prepared defences, Grand Marshal von Esling convened a meeting of Allied leaders in London to discuss the defence of Berlin. As the German capital was too far east of defensible positions to be strategically useful, the European Council agreed to abandon Berlin. General Erwinn Rommel withdrew European forces on December 16th and on December 18th - Stalin's birthday - the Red Army entered Berlin.

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Great stuff, but wasn't it Torun destroyed in the first Sov mission of the game, rather than Pultusk? Other than that, I have nothing to say other than keep on posting!
 
Great stuff, but wasn't it Torun destroyed in the first Sov mission of the game, rather than Pultusk? Other than that, I have nothing to say other than keep on posting!

You are right it is Torun, I guess the writer of the timeline prefered using Pultusk because it's close to the edge of Poland

You got a better memory than me

I for one think the churchill must hate this timeline as Chamberlain get to have all his political capital in that TL :D

Rusty2005 said:
The Reichstag and the Oval Office

The loss of Berlin dealt a severe blow to Allied morale, particularly among the hundreds of thousands of German soldiers fighting in European armies. However, the loss also fired patriotic seal amongst the German population, prompting hundreds of thousands more German men to join the European military. In the USSR, the capture of Berlin, on Stalin's birthday of all days, gave the Kremlin a priceless propaganda victory which was trumpeted across the Soviet Union. Throughout the Soviet sphere of influence, newspapers carried images of Cossacks marching through the Brandenburg Gate and Russian generals at Grand Marshal von Esling's family chateau in Weisbaden. As central Germany became engulfed by fighting between European and Russian armies, Kukhov directed a sequence of rapid armoured assaults against the Danish army around Lubeck, striking into the Holstein Region, approaching the border with Denmark, and threatening to encircle the Allies' northern flank in Germany. Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia seized the city of Brno and threatened the Austrian border, forcing European Defence Headquarters to dispatch hundreds of thousands of Italian and Austrian troops in an attempt to hold the Russians back. In an effort to frighten Germany out of the war and so deprive the Alliance of Germany's vital industrial and human resources, Stalin authorised Soviet troops besieging Magdeburg to shell the city with chlorine gas shells. Beginning on January 28th, chemical attacks on Magdeburg lasted a week and resulted in horrific casualties amongst the civil population and Allied defenders. As the League of Nations rallied neutral nations in support of the European Alliance, the Allies secretly violated the 1922 International Convention on Chemical Weapons by manufacturing their own stock of posion gas weaponry. Von Esling refused to grant permission to delpoy such weapons in Europe, fearing collateral damage and escalating horror if Russia replied with more chemicals, and although the Allies never esorted to chemical devices during the course of the war, large stockpiles of poison gas were maintained behind the front lines for use in extreme emergencies.

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Allied troops shelter from a Soviet bombardment


As the Red Air Force stepped up its strategic bombing campaign, cities from Oslo to Istanbul crumbled into dust
As the Red Army continued its assault against the thinly-stretched Allied defence forces, the Kremlin began to look to other theatres of conflict. The Republic of Turkey, a full member of the Alliance with armies fighting Soviet forces in Albania, Greece, and the Caucasus, posed a threat to the USSR's recent conquests in the Balkans. Turkey's geographical position presented the Allies with a springboard to launch attacks into Soviet-held southern Europe while defences at Istanbul prevented the Red Navy access to the Mediterranean. Knocking Turkey out of the war would secure the Balkans, and more importantly, allow the Black Sea Fleet to break out into the Mediterranean, where the Soviet warships could wreak havoc among merchant ships ferrying supplies to Allied depots at Venice and Salonika. In early April 1948, the Red Air Force, based in Bulgaria, began round-the-clock carpet-bombing raids against Istanbul and Gallipoli, while the Red Navy assembled a flotilla or ships to transport a small army across the Black Sea. General Gradenko's army landed west of Samsun on April 16th and began a rapid advance towards Ankara. President Mustafa Inonu relocated the Turkish government to Istanbul while the French and Portugese navies evacuated Turkish ground forces from Greece to defend against an anticipated attack on Turkey from the Balkans. The Soviets had intended to attack Turkey from the Balkans, but the withdrawal of forces in Greece presented a better opoortunity, and instead of attacking Turkey, the Soviets moved south into Greece, overwhelming Greek defence forces and seizing Athens, accidentally destroying the ancient Parthenon during a bombing raid against the government district. The army attacking towards Ankara captured the Turkish capital, but hesitated to venture too far from the city and their lines of communication with the coast. As the government of Greek Prime Minister Themistoklis Sophoulis evacuated to London, Soviet units in Czechoslovakia launched an attack against Allied defenders along the border of Austria.
By late May 1948, fighting between Allied and Soviet units in central Europe had ground to a near-stalemate. In Austria, Allied forces defending the Alps possessed a great advantage over the Soviets, who were unable to make their signature lightning tank attacks in such mountainous terrain. Further north in Germany, the Allies were continuing to put up stout resistance to Russian attacks, and while the Europeans' positions closer to the industrial Rhineland ensured a faster and more reliable flow of military supplies, the Russians stretched their supply lines as they pushed further west into Germany. In Scandinavia though, the Allies' position worsened. The Red Navy's Baltic Sea Fleet launched a naval bombardment against Copenhagen on June 6th, opening a campaign which pulled in naval forces from across the European Alliance in an effort to protect the exposed Danish capital. As Soviet forces pressed closer to Denmark's border with Germany, the Allies committed large forces to keep the narrow Danish peninsula open to Allied supply convoys supporting Copenhagen's defences. Stalin, eager to see the Baltic fleet break out into the Atlantic (the Allies were still in control of Istanbul, bottling Soviet ships up in the Black Sea), ordered Kukhov to direct as many units as were necessary to cross the Danish peninsula, cut supplies to Copenhagen, and allow the Baltic fleet to shell the Danish capital into capitulation. Consequently, Schleswig-Holstein became a charnel house, a graveyard for thousands of Allied troops desperate to prevent the Red Navy from breaking out into the Atlantic, and thousands more Soviet soldiers struggling to smash a route open for their ships to sneak out onto the high seas.
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French troops fire at Soviet Mammoth tanks approaching Vienna
The Copenhagen campaign became supremely important as the European Alliance saw their talks with the United States achieve results. Ships from the neutral United States provided valuable supplies to the Alliance, and the threat of a Soviet naval breakout into the Atlantic threatened not only exisitng supplies, but the future shipping convoys which the Alliance expected to result from its diplomacy in Washington. President Harry S. Truman had long-since desired to take America to war, but Congress had repeatedly expressed reluctance to drag the country into a repeat of the First World War. The crucial factor in Congress' and Truman's decision to take the United States to war, though, was America's economy. Supplying the European Alliance with goods, while remaining politically neutral, had provided America's economy with a lifeline. Despite slight economic growth during the early 1940's, the United States was still reeling in the economic chaos that had resulted from the Wall Street Crash. Rising anti-Soviet sentiment amongst the United States population, and the economic boom sure to result from entry into the war, gradually persuaded Congress to consider action. A pretext appeared on September 3rd 1948, when a bomb planted aboard the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbour exploded in the ship's engine room, resulting in 34 deaths and the sinking of the vessel. A Congressional enquiry pointed the finger at sabotage by communist sympathisers within the US Navy, providing Truman with the pretext he needed. On September 26th, Truman delivered a four-hour speech to Congress in which he outlined the threats facing the United States, America's global duty to world peace and to her allies in Europe, and the need to act immediately in order to safeguard the future security of the United States. A vote by Congress demonstrated the government's support, and on September 27th, the United States declared war upon the USSR.

America's entry into the war had little immediate impact. In Europe, the onset of an unusually cold winter had brought a brief lull in fighting in Germany and the Alps, and even prompted Russian forces in central Turkey to withdraw towards Ankara. By January 1949, Allied lines in Germany and the Alps had stabilised, and European forces dug in in anticipation of the expected attacks the thaws would bring. Early 1949 saw major developments in the fighting forces of both the European Alliance and the Soviet Union. The European Council succeeded in enacting significant reforms in industry. Legislation encouraged the rapid introduction of policies such as the standardisation of parts, uniform working hours, and set prices and tarriffs; while in finances, the European Parliament agreed to the introduction of the Euro alongside national currencies. These innovations greatly facilitated the production of war materials and allowed the continental economy to run much more smoothly. Increasing shipments of war materials were arriving from colonial possessions and sympathetic nations, boosting Europe's domestic production of war materials and guaranteeing sufficient supplies for Allied units on the front lines. In the Soviet Union, by contrast, the economic situation began to decline as the USSR's perennial food problem surfaced again. In the Ukraine, an outbreak of parasitic blight, coupled with the impact of the winter, had ruined crops in the breadbasket province feeding the USSR. Stalin' response, as always, was to allocate food to cities and Russian provinces, while depriving the ethnic edges of the Soviet Union of sufficient food. Sizeable chunks of the local populations already resented being ruled from Moscow - Georgians, Kazakhs, Uzbekis and citizens of all the USSR's peripheries grumbled that Russians took their food, Russians filled the best jobs, while Stalin educational Russification caused deeper resentment. The 1949 food crisis encouraged increasing disgruntlement, and with so many Russian security troops away fighting in Europe, local dissatisfaction began to flare into armed rebellion against the Stalinist terror state. Despite objections from some member-states fearful of establishing a precedent, the League of Nations confirmed its support for the rebels. Many members argues that the League should not support insurgency and instead should deal with the established government of a state, but in the General Assembly, those opposed to rebel support became outnumbered by those in agreement with action against the USSR, via the manipulation of internal dissent, following Russia's withdrawal from the League and attacks upon member-states. Ukraine, and Mongolia - who deeply resented being ruled from Moscow - appealed to the League for assistance. Shipments of weapons and funds, supplied through the United States, began trickling into rebel areas, forcing the Russians to redeploy tens of thousands of soldiers to rebellious areas.
Crimson Tide

Despite growing problems within the USSR, the Russians continued to push deeper into Europe. The increasing availability of Mammoth Tanks, coupled with the first field deployment of the Iron Curtain Project, gave Soviet forces in Denmark a major advantage. Continued research at Moscow University by the Soviet Academy of Sciences had resulted, by the summer of 1949, in a functional prototype Iron Curtain. The device relied on combining tanks' reactive armour plating with a surge of electromagnetic energy, causing the molecules in the tanks' armour to resonate and deflect incoming ballistic projectiles, for a short duration of time. Russia's leading academicians could not get the device to create a stable energy flow and as a result, the resonance effect only lasted for a few minutes at a time, but even this limited effect was devastating when used to reinforce units of Mammoths. Equipped with Iron Curtain defences and bolstered by fresh armoured units, Soviet forces in southern Denmark broke through Allied lines and reached the North Sea in September 1949. In a simultaneous manoeuver, Tupolev bombers of the Red Air Force maintained incendiary attacks on the city while battle cruisers of the Red Navy broke into Copenhagen harbour and shelled the city centre at point-blank range, precipitating chaos as Allied troops and millions of Danish civilians sought to flee the refugee-crowded city. Most Allied units reached the coast at Kronstadt and were evacuated by the Royal Navy, while dozens of British and French warships were sunk in close-quarters fighting with Soviet vessels trying to break out into the North Sea. As the Denmark campaign dissolved into chaos, European Defence Headquarters withdrew all remaining Allied units from Denmark and Norway, and deployed a screen of German U-Boats and French submarines to guard the Straits of Denmark while Allied surface ships withdrew towards the east coast of Britain. By November 1949, Scandinavia had fallen to the USSR, and as Allied ships limped back to Scapa Flow and Wilhelmshaven, slave labourers shipped in from Siberian gulags began constructing a series of submarine pens along the Norwegian coastline, and a network of air fields in western Denmark for long-range Soviet bombers.

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Chairman of the European Council and Supreme Commander of Allied Forces, Grand Marshal von Esling, with the military junta appointed in 1950
While the loss of Scandinavia dealt a severe blow to the Allies, its impact upon the campaign in Germany was nothing short of catastrophic. Having seized Denmark, the Soviets were able to circumvent Allied defence lines in the Harz Mountains of central Germany by deploying armoured units to sweep south-west across the North German Plains, bypassing Allied defences and striking towards Germany's industrial heartland. Hamburg had fallen to the Soviets during their race across Denmark, and the loss of Germany's second city allowed Soviet units to fan out across western Germany, racing across the flat plains of northern Germany towards Holland and the industries of the Rhine. Fearful of being encircled in central Germany, Allied armies abandoned their positions and began retreating westwards towards the Rhineland. In an effort to cut Soviet supply lines and buy time for the Allied withdrawal, a strike force of French, British, Dutch, and German light armoured units under General Maurice LeClerc engaged in a series of skirmishes with Soviet units around Hannover and Osnabruck, taking high casualties but stalling the Soviets' advance long enough for the infantry and heavier equipment of the Allied armies to escape central Germany and reach the Rhineland.

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The fall of the Vatican City provided both the Allies and the Soviets with a significant propaganda weapon

By November 1949, the majority of European units in Germany had been successfully evacuated to the Rhineland, but the disorderly and hurried retreat had resulted in units becoming entangled in the urban sprawls of western Germany. Disorganised and under-supplied, European units continued to face attacks from pursuing Soviet units, and fearful of becoming bogged down in bitter fighting in the heavily populated Rhineland, European Defence Headquarters ordered a full withdrawal across the River Rhine, abandoning Germany to the Russians. The controversial strategy abandoned Germany's industries and population, but aimed to give the European armies a breathing-space to regroup and resupply behind the cover of the Maginot Line, and launch a series of lightning counter-attacks against Soviet forces attempting to cross the Franco-German border. While units were indeed able to resupply and rest behind the lines, military demands on other fronts greatly weakened the potential of the strategy. As the Soviets advanced into the Netherlands and Italy, exhausted European units had to be dispatched from the Rhine in an effort to bolster Allied defences. Holland, now facing attacks from fresh Soviet units in Germany, could not be adequately defended. In an effort to quickly knock Holland out of the war, the Red Air Force launched a series of devastating air raids on Dutch cities. Rotterdam, The Hague, Antwerp, and Amsterdam faced twenty-four-hour bombing runs from Tupolev bombers, while Soviet ground forces pushed Dutch defenders back towards the capital. Queen Julianna and Prime Minister Willem Drees evacuated the Dutch government to London on December 17th, two days before The Hague fell to Soviet forces. The Royal Netherlands Army evacuated Amsterdam on December 26th, and in a show of solidarity with the European Alliance, General Henri Winkelman, commanding Dutch units in the southern half of the Netherlands, withdrew his forces towards Belgium where they were integrated with the Belgian and Luxumbourgundian armies as the newly-formed Benelux Defence Force. Reinforced by large units from the Irish Army and increasing numbers of Canadian troops, the BDF under Winkelman's command succeeded in blunting Soviet attacks aimed at breaching the Belgian border. On the southern front, Soviet units crossed the border into Italy and at the Battle of Vittorio Veneto, routed the badly-equipped and disorganised Italian Army. When news of the defeat reached Rome, the Fascist Grand Council declared a vote of no confidence against Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, who was summarily dismissed by King Victor Emmanuel III and replaced by Italy's leading military commander, Marshal Pietro Badoglio. Badoglio's new government attempted to stem the Italian army's retreat, but by Christmas 1949, the Italian retreat had exposed Milan to Soviet attacks, while two separate Russian armies struck west towards Genoa and south towards Florence. As the Grand Council struggled with the chaotic military situation in northern Italy, civil disturbances and revolts broke out across the country. The Italian people, tired of Fascism after nearly three decades of Mussolini's rule, began open conflict with the Fascist authorities. On January 2nd 1950, a force of Russian troops shipped over from Albania disembarked near Brindisi in southern Italy, opening a new front against the embattled Italians. Viewing Italy now as a lost cause, the Alliance began to withdraw units from Italy. As Rome suffered increasing numbers of air raids from late December onwards, the Vatican feared for the safety of Pope Pius XII, and in January requested assistance from the Alliance. With the Italian front rapidly collapsing, the Alliance dispatched the Irish warship Cliona to evacuate the Pope to Carrickfergus, a symbol of the Alliance's abandonment of the Italian campaign.
 
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Yay, more. I like the explanation for the presence of the Arizona memorial in RA2. Does it explain the Iwo Jima memorial, though? If not, I suppose we can just assume that when Einstein changed history, the memorial remained and everyone remained perplexed as to why it was there, and what it was for. :)
 
Well with china being a soviet puppet it extended some of the fighting to the pacific, feel free to make your version of Iwo Jima event

Rusty2005 said:
Die Wacht Am Rhein
The events of late 1949 and early 1950 created pandemonium throughout the surviving members of the European Alliance. Germany, Scandinavia and Holland had fallen. Central Europe had had to be abandoned and Turkish forces had been unable to liberate Ankara, let alone launch an attack into Eastern Europe. The Soviets controlled the entire continental coastline from the tip of northern Norway to Amsterdam, and Soviet bombers were launching increasing attacks on European cities. The first air raid on Paris occured on December 19th, followed two weeks later by one on London. Italy was in chaos, troops defending the Rhine were under-equipped, and while the colonies and the United States continued to dispatch convoys of supplies, European commanders feared that the Red Army would launch fresh assaults before enough supplies and troops could arrive to bolster the Alliance. On January 3rd 1950, the European Council convened an intercontinental meeting at Sandringham House, London, to discuss the Alliance's position. Although the European Defence Agency was aware of the exhausted state of Russian forces, no amount of optimistic reports could conceal the fact that veteran Soviet armies were sweeping through Italy and the Low Countries, and were poised to assault France. After two days of debate, Grand Marshal Gunther von Esling, Chairman of the Council of Ministers, declared a State of General Emergency and enacted the Emergency Contingency Clause of the European Charter. With the support of political and military leaders from across the continent, Esling succeeded in carrying the clause through an emergency session of the European Parliament, which, with great controversy, granted Esling emergency executive powers to appoint a military junta for the duration of the emergency. The London Protocols, as they came to be known, grouped the economic, political, and military governances of the Alliance under the direct control of the European Council and the Chairman.
While the European Alliance rallied together in anticipation of the expected Soviet attack across the Rhine, the Russians faced increasing problems of their own. Intoxicated by the Red Army's spell of victories in Europe, Stalin demanded that his commanders continue their assault across the Rhine, denying the Europeans a chance to regroup. The state of the Red Army in late 1949, though, was far from ideal. The Soviets' rapid advance into Europe had created immense logistical difficulties, and fighting on several fronts had weakened front-line units across Europe. In addition to these difficulties, front-line units faced additional difficulties as troops were stripped from combat forces to provide garrisons and occupation forces across conquered regions. In contrast to Stalin's belief that the Europeans on the Rhine could easily be defeated as they had been in Eastern and Central Europe, leading Soviet generals, concerned at the exhausted and depleted state of their forces, feared that an assault across the Rhine could shatter the exhausted Russian armies resting in western Germany. Fearing that an attack into France would turn the tide of the war against the USSR, conspiratorial commanders accelerated their plots to remove Stalin. The NKVD, though, uncovered the plot for the "Generals' Coup", and on Christmas Day 1949, Stalin and Field Marshal Pyotr Gradenko authorised the execution of the plotters, depriving the Red Army of its best commanders. As the Europeans consolidated their military potential under the London Protocols and fortified the Maginot Line, the Soviets' potential began to rapidly dissipate as they prepared to cross the Rhine.

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German artillery opens fire on Russian forces at Leipzig
The Maginot Line, an immense belt of fortifications built by France in the 1930's as insurance against a repetition of the First World War, formed the backbone of the Alliance's new defence lines in eastern France. As France and Germany had grown closer together during the 1930s and 1940s, the fortresses and defences of the Line had suffered from budget cuts and lack of maintenance, but the Line still constituted a formidable obstacle to invaders. Even before the Allied armies in Germany had begun their fighting retreat westwards in 1949, the Alliance had began to reinforce the Line, and as European troops rested and resupplied behind the cover of the Line's fortresses, European defences strengthened. Belgium, a potential "back door" for enemies to simply bypass the Line, was heavily defended by Belgian, Dutch, British, and Luxembourgundian armies. While Italy had been abandoned, the threat of a Soviet invasion of southern France was negated by the deployment of tens of thousands of soldiers from European territories in North and West Africa and the Caribbean. Along the Maginot Line itself, troops from across the free and the conquered members of the Alliance, from colonies and dominions across the world, along with the first units of General Dwight Eisenhower's American Expeditionary Force, garrisoned the fortresses of the Line. In Germany, the Red Army's new commanders faced a significant difficulty. Assaulting the Maginot Line itself would undoubtedly result in extremely high casualty rates and the attackers could not be guaranteed to break through. Trying to bypass the Line by attacking into Belgium, Switzerland (which had recently joined the Alliance) or southern France would strip the German front of troops and allow the Europeans to counter-attack into the Rhineland. The Red Air Force's strategic bombing campaign against London, Paris, and Brussels, while devastating, was failing in its attempt to frighten the Alliance's strongest members into sueing for peace. Stalin's repeated demands for a final push to eliminate Allied resistance in Europe, particularly before sufficient American and colonial soldiers arrived in Europe to pose a severe threat, placed immense pressure on Soviet commanders to attack. With few realistic options available, Marshal Georgy Khukov ordered, in February 1950, a full frontal assault directly at the Maginot Line.

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Soviet control of the North Sea permitted the USSR to conduct a lightning invasion of the United Kingdom
In other theatres of combat, the Allies faced severe threats. The Alliance's only victory to date was occuring in Turkey, where a joint European Army composed of Turkish, Greek, Albanian, Cypriot, and Egyptian units, reinforced by a Canadian-American Expeditionary Force, had succeeded in pushing Soviet forces out of Ankara and northwards through the Pontic Mountains, towards the Black Sea. Allied shipping had remained in control of the Dardanelles, and although a few Soviet submarines were able to slip through the Straits of Marmara and into the Mediterranean Sea, Allied naval forces were able to prevent Russian surface battleships from breaking out through Istanbul. The primary city of Turkey had suffered severe damage from Russian bombing runs, but as the situation in Western Europe escalated, Istanbul suffered fewer and fewer air raids as the Red Air Force redeployed bombers to target Western European cities, freeing Turkey from air raids by late 1949. Frequent attacks by Turkish guerillas on Russian supply lines forced the Soviet army in Turkey to retreat in disorder back to the coastal city of Samsun, and although a large number of Russian troops were evacuated from the city back across the Black Sea, the majority of the force became trapped in the city and were captured by Allied forces. While the liberation of Turkey gave the Alliance a significant propaganda victory and a great boost to morale, the worsening situation on other fronts marred the Turkish victory. On the Scandinavian front, the Allies' loss of Copenhagen had led to serious repercussions. The naval battle around the Danish capital had been disastrous for the Allied navy, with forty-three Alliance warships sunk or disabled by Soviet bombers, artillery, and submarines, a catastrophe which forced remaining Allied vessels to withdraw into the North Sea and allowed the Soviet Baltic Fleet to break out of the Baltic Sea, despite the Allies' placement of a submarine screen to guard the entrance to the Baltic. With surviving Allied vessels sheltering in harbour, the Red Navy gained a temporary dominance over the North Sea. As the Allied submarine screen engaged with a fleet of Soviet submersibles designed purely to distract Allied naval commanders, the Red Navy took advantage of the situation to shuttle an amphibious landing force across the North Sea as a prelude to an invasion of the United Kingdom. Transport vessels of the Red Navy, carrying nearly 23,000 men, 98 artillery pieces, and 424 tanks, departed from Oslo, Norway, and travelled across the North Sea on January 14th-16th. Under the cover of a bombardment by Soviet surface vessels, the expeditionary force landed at Sunderland, on the north-east coast of Great Britain, on January 17th. British defences in the region were rapidly overrun, and Soviet ground forces, resupplied by shipping convoys and supported by Russian strategic bombers based in Norway and Germany, quickly seized Newcastle and while a third of the invasion force struck across England towards the city of Carlisle, aiming to cut the country in two, the bulk of the army turned south towards a joint British, Irish, Canadian, and Nigerian force being hurriedly assembled outside Leeds.

Eager to scare European colonies out of the war, the USSR's Strategic Ballistic Missile Command, a recently-formed experimental unit within the Red Army, conceived a strategy to launch long-range missiles at foreign cities, in the hope of frightening British and French dominions into withdrawing their support for the European Alliance. Prior to the war, Soviet rocket technology had lagged behind ballistics research being conducted in Europe, where rocket theories and even prototypes were studied and constructed by the Berlin-based Society for Interplanetary Exploration, a creation of the 1920's. The Soviet capture of Berlin gave developers at Moscow University much-needed research and information on long-range ballistics, and by November 1949, the Soviet Academy of Sciences and the newly-formed Strategic Ballistic Missile Command were conducting successful tests from the Tyura-Tam facility in Kazakhstan. By February 1950, long-range testing had resulted in the construction of several dozen intercontinental-grade Semyorka missiles. Based along the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk at the eastern tip of the USSR, these missiles were launched on February 16th at Vancouver, Canada, and Seattle, USA. Some 46 rockets were launched, but only 32 reached North America, and of these, only 11 managed to land in urban areas, armed only with conventional high-explosive warheads. Despite this, though, the "February Scare" did have a significant impact upon Canada and the United States, but rather than frightening colonies and the United States into withdrawing from the war, the attack galvanised support for the European Alliance. Following the missile attack, Canada, the British Empire, and the United States co-ordinated a worldwide response from the temporary League of Nations headquarters in New York City, aligning several countries against the USSR. In addition, the United States manipulated the Monroe Doctrine to bring several South American countries onto the side of the Alliance, including Brazil, Chile, and Argentina.

"Ils ne passeront pas!"
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London, de facto capital of the European Alliance and host city for conquered member states' governments-in-exile, at the height of the war
As events unfolded in Turkey, northern England, and the Pacific Northwest, the main theatre of conflict, at the Maginot Line, erupted in February 1950 as the Red Army launched a full frontal assault against European defence lines in eastern France. Initially, the Alliance was able to repel Soviet attacks, as the French fortresses had been heavily reinforced, but Russian commanders quickly adapted new tactics to overcome the fortifications. Using fast, lightly-armoured tank units followed closely by mechanized infantry, commanders were able to strike quickly at front-line defences and disable fortifications, while heavier tank units nearby prevented Allied troops from making meaningful counterattacks. Constant bombardments from heavy artillery and mobile rocket units - which the builders of the Maginot Line had never anticipated - reduced many fortresses to rubble and gradually began to push the Allies back. European counterattacks resulted in areas of the line being reduced to close-quarters fighting, with battles reminiscent of the First World War. With both sides desperate to control the Maginot Line, casualty rates soared and both armies attempted to break the deadlock by any means. The Soviet Iron Curtain project, used to great effect in the Copenhagen campaign, was again utilised on shock units of Mammoth tanks, which were able to smash through European defences and open funnels for Soviet troops to break through into the rear of Allied defences. European Bomber Command, an amalgamation of the British Royal Air Force, the French Armee de l'Air, and the surviving planes of Germany's recently-formed Luftwaffe, turned to battlefield carpet-bombing, including the use of aerial incendiaries, high explosives, and even non-lethal nerve gas, in an effort to hold Russian forces back while American and African reinforcements raced from French ports to the front lines. As fighting in the Vosges Mountains, eastern Belgium, and Luxembourg bogged down into conditions similar to 1916, and the Allied death toll mounted, commanders at European Defence Headquarters developed a strategy to engage in a false retreat, luring the Russians into making a rush for Paris, and exposing their weakened forces to Allied counterattacks on the plains of eastern France. General Nikos Stavros, Von Esling's Greek Second-in-Command, began evacuating units slowly westwards into the Champagne and Picardy regions, as the first stage of tempting the Russians into making a rapid and badly-planned assault.

Soviet commanders on the front lines were aware of the Allies' intentions, and had no intention of pursuing the Allies and stumbling into another line of fresh European defences until Russian units, already nearing breaking-point, had had a chance to rest and resupply in the Vosges Mountains. As was often the case with the Red Army, though, political considerations placed immense pressure on front-line commanders to continue the attack. Stalin would not accept a period of respite when Soviet soldiers were on the brink of seizing Paris, and many generals both on and behind the front lines urged for a final effort to sweep the equally exhausted Allies aside, seize Paris, and force the surviving members of the European Alliance to sue for peace before too many American troops arrived to bolster European ranks. By June 1950, weary Russian forces had captured Belgium and most of north-east France, but instead of being granted a much-needed respite, were directed to pursue the retreating Europeans. With fewer Allied units protecting the now-depleted Maginot Line, the pressure of a fresh Russian assault drove the remaining European defenders reeling westwards in panicked retreat, abandoning equipment and scattering as Russian tanks began to sweep the flat plains of Picardy. As European, American, Canadian, Australian, African, and Caribbean troops rallied to create improvised defence lines along the River Meuse, the Soviets turned to an airborne strategy to force a European surrender by obliterating British and French cities.
Using captured airfields in Holland, Germany, and Belgium, the Red Air Force began an immense strategic bombing campaign against British cities from Dover to Birmingham, focusing primarily on central London. Britain had been experiencing air raids from late 1949, but the intensity of airborne attacks in the summer of 1950 surpassed previous raids. General Rykov, Commander-in-Chief of the Red Air Force, redirected bombers from the siege of Istanbul (by now a lost cause for the Soviets) and assembled an air fleet of over two thousand bombers, with the ability to maintain twenty-four hour raids on British cities, and Paris, for weeks at a time. The bombing campaign included the use of chlorine gas and sarin, captured from German laboratories. At the height of the bombing campaign, Marshal Gradenko suggested the deployment of a force of the USSR's elite paratroopers - the VDV - over London to seize European Defence Headquarters and eliminate as many of the Alliance's commanders as possible. In late July 1950, the 106th VDV Guards was airdropped over London amidst high-explosive bombs and gas canisters. The paratroopers captured European Defence Headquarters in Westminster and succeeded in killing several key European military leaders, including the Commander-in-Chief of the European Navy, High Chief Admiral Karl Doenitz. Grand Marshal Von Esling, though, was in Paris co-ordinating Allied operations on France, and so escaped the assault. While British security forces combatted the paratroopers, the Red Air Force launched a sequence of heavy bombing raids on Manchester, which had become swollen with refugees escaping the fighting in Northumberland and Yorkshire and in an air raid on August 1st, a firestorm swept the crowded city, killing several thousand civilians. Fighting between the Soviet invasion force and the Allies in Yorkshire gradually turned against the Russians as the new Oceanic Fleet of the Alliance, based at Scapa Flow, sallied into the North Sea to strike against Russian supply convoys. In early August, the Allied army massed outside Leeds secured a decisive victory over the invasion force at the Battle of Harrogate, and within a week, the invasion force had retreated to Newcastle, where the Red Navy mounted an evacuation, freeing the United Kingdom of invaders by August 22nd.
As the Russians evacuated Northumberland, Soviet units in France continued their advance on Paris, breaking through the Meuse defence lines and reaching the outskirts of the city. By this point, though, Russian units had indeed over-stretched themselves, and the thinly-stretched ground forces came under immediate attack by Allied units. After prolonged negotiations, General Francisco Franco had brought Spain into the European Alliance as a full member, and dispatched two forces of Spanish troops; one to reinforce Allied troops pushing the Soviets back into Italy; and one consisting of a mechanized brigade which struck into Soviet supply lines near Rheims. Assailed by fresh units, the Russians retreated eastwards, first to Compiegne, then to Sedan. At the same time, the Europeans opened a new front as the Alliance Army in Turkey invaded Soviet-held Romania.

Armaggedon
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Downtown Manhattan in flames following an air raid by Tupolev intercontinental bombers
As Moscow concentrated on events in Western and Southern Europe, the USSR itself became a theatre of conflict, as provincial disgruntlement and ethnic nationalism flared into armed rebellion against the Soviet government. In Kazakhstan, local resistance movements had recently begun to receive shipments of armaments from British India, and as the Kremlin scoured Kazakhstan for supplies and conscripts, resistance movements began a guerilla campaign against the small military garrison in the region. In Mongolia, local rebels enjoyed widespread support from a population unhappy at being ruled from Moscow, in addition to receiving international sympathy and support from the League of Nations, following Mongolia's annexation to the USSR years previously. The Red Army's never-ceasing demand for troops to fight the European Alliance, and to garrison conquered territories in the west, had left domestic security forces guarding discontented areas of the USSR at an all-time low. Conventional military forces were too thinly-spread and not properly equipped to fight a counter-guerrilla campaign, and while the rebellions in Kazakhstan and Mongolia were not in themselves serious threats to the USSR, the Kremlin feared that unless they were seen to be crushed swiftly and harshly, and an example made of them, their influence would spread to other areas of the overstretched Soviet empire - to the starving Ukrainians, the endlessly turbulent Chechnyan regions, and conquered European territories, where anti-occupation demonstrations in Helsinki, Nuremberg, and Warsaw had already had to be crushed with military force. Concerned that the Kazakhs and Mongolians had to be crushed swiftly, Stalin turned to the ongoing Soviet Atomic Bomb Project.
Research into atomic technology had been progressing in Europe and the USSR since the early 1930's, but due to the constraints of available technology, funding, and concerns over whether atomic physics could ever be more than a purely theoretical science, practical applications had not been pursued. Increasing research into nuclear fission in the late 1930's, though, had paved the way for physicists to pursue atomic technology as a possibly viable area of applied science. Pioneered by Yakov Frenkel and Georgii Flerov, the Soviet Academy of Sciences began serious research into the possibilities of harnessing atomic power for military purposes. In Europe, at the same time, public research by the leading minds of the day - German Nobel laureate Werner Heisenberg, the Italian particle theorist Enrico Fermi, Nobel Prize-winning British researcher George Paget Thomson, the celebrated quantum specialist Albert Einstein, and the world's leading nuclear theorist, Danish professor Niels Bohr - worked to advance the science of atomic theory. Correspondence, publications in scienctific journals, and increasing numbers of academic papers published across Europe in the early 1940's, greatly increased the scientific community's understanding of fusion and fission nuclear theory, and the possibility of constructing atomic devices for peaceful or military purposes gradually became recognised as an inevitable reality. As Europe and the USSR drew into increasingly hostile blocs in the mid 1940's, though, public correspondence and publication on nuclear theory came under increasing suppression as the European Defence Agency censored such publications, fearful that the Soviet Union could be working to develop nuclear technology and could utilise European publications to advance their work. When war broke out in 1946, both the European Alliance and the Soviet Union grew increasingly suspicious of each others' nuclear intentions. The Soviet advance through Europe pressured the Alliance to develop atomic weaponry, and under the auspices of the EDA, the Alliance established the MAUD Committee, an ultra-secret project based in the United Kingdom and drawing on the work of Europe's leading physicists to develop an atomic bomb. Simultaneously in the USSR, the NKVD had established a project involving the country's top theoretical physicists to develop a Russian bomb. Following NKVD reports that from 1949, no papers on atomic theory had been published in European journals, and that many of Europe's leading scientists were mysteriously not publishing any work at all, it became apparent that the European Alliance was working on a bomb, and so research on a Russian counterpart accelerated. Co-ordinated by Igor Kurchatov, the USSR's leading physicist and Professor of Physics at the Leningrad Polytechnical Institute, who had built the Soviet Union's first particle accelerator and was already co-ordinating work on the ultra-secret Iron Curtain and Mammoth tank armour projects, the Soviet atomic bomb project advanced rapidly and was aided by the efforts of NKVD spies and informants who had managed to infiltrate the European Alliance's MAUD project and passed top-secret research work back to the USSR. At the same time, the United States, also suspicious at the lack of published work in Europe, established its own bomb project under Robert Oppenheimer, which lagged considerably behind development work in Europe and Russia but gradually brought the United States closer to developing a nuclear weapon. By 1950, both the Soviet Union and the European Alliance were close to developing a working atomic bomb. The MAUD Committee, though, hesitated to begin construction on such a device, as some members raised concerns that a weapon of such power could potentially have the power to crack the planet's crust or even ignite the atmosphere, and even as the Red Army rolled across Europe, MAUD adopted a stance of not developing an atomic bomb based on a principle which would dominate European nuclear strategy for decades to come - "Better Red than Dead".

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Stalin's destruction of Ashkhabad and Ulaanbaatar propelled the world into the atomic age and signalled the beginning of the downfall of the Soviet Union

Kurchatov's team, though, faced immense political and personal pressure to develop a weapon. While Stalin was surprisingly generous to the scientists, encouraging Kurchatov to ask for whatever he wanted and repeatedly ordering the NKVD to leave the scientists in peace to continue their work, Nadia's operatives were always on hand to threaten scientists and their families with imprisonment and torture as incentives to continue research and development on the bomb. By March 1950, the project had managed to construct a small working device, and on March 16th 1950, the world entered a new era as the USSR detonated mankind's first atomic bomb, "First Lightning", at Semipalatinsk. With the rebellions in Kazakhstan and Mongolia gradually growing, and as the League of Nations increased global support for the Mongolian people, Stalin determined to deploy atomic weaponry to crush the rebels. On September 19th 1950, the Red Air Force dropped the 22-kiloton atomic bomb RDS-2 on the Kazakh city Ashkhabad. Two days later, a bomber dropped a similar device, RDS-3 on the Mongolian capital city Ulaanbaatar.
Stalin publicly announced the atomic bombings of Ashkhabad and Ulaanbaatar a few hours after the bomb was dropped on Ulaanbaatar. His announcement, accompanied with photographs intended to frighten rebels and the Europeans into surrender, was confirmed by EDA and CIA operatives within a few days. The bombings, far from succeeding in cowing opposition in the USSR, immensely damaged the Soviet Union's position. Rebel guerilla attacks in fact grew more widespread as local freedom fighters sought vengeance. The European Alliance accelerated the work of the MAUD Committee and shared research with the United States' Manhattan Project as both Europe and America raced to close the "atomic gap" with Russia. At a summit meeting of the League of Nations in its new headquarters in New York City, international outrage at Stalin's methods prompted many neutral nations to formally side with the European-American alliance. The Empire of Japan, which had previously remained neutral and concentrated on developing its Manchurian conquests, declared war upon the Soviet Union and opened a second front by invading Soviet Mongolia from Manchuria.

In the days following Ulaanbataar, the European Alliance stepped up its own atomic project, which had previously stalled due to humanitarian concerns. Fears that Stalin would deploy atomic weapons against Allied forces in Europe and Japan encouraged the Maud Committee in Europe to accelerate development on their own bomb. Despite the NKVD's best efforts, the sheer scale of the Soviet Atomic Project prevented Nadia's security services from implementing the necessary security in all areas, and a trickle of information flowed from test sites to European intelligence operatives working in the USSR. Access to this information convinced the members of Maud that the Soviet Union was in possession of no more than one or two atomic bombs following Ulaanbataar, and encouraged European scientists to hurry their efforts and close the "atomic gap" before the Soviets could build more bombs. Simultaneously, Soviet spies at Maud's development sites in Birmingham and Cambridge relayed information back to the USSR, encouraging the NKVD to pressure Kurchatov's team into building more bombs to maintain the Soviet Union's lead in atomic weaponry. The "Atomic Race" soon spread to the United States, where theoretical physicist Robert Oppenheimer was heading an elite team working on the "Manhattan Project", the United States' own atomic project. The Soviet Union had already deployed atomic weapons and the European Union was fast catching up, and although the United States began lagging far behing in atomic research, the superior resources and technology available to the USA - and suspected CIA espionage on the work of the Maud Committee - allowed Oppenheimer's team to rapidly catch up. On December 2nd 1950, the European Alliance detonated its first atomic bomb, "Phoenix", in southern Algeria. Three months later, the Manhattan Project test-fired the "Trinity" device in New Mexico. Within only seven months of the attacks on Ashkhabad and Ulaanbaatar, three world powers had succeeded in splitting the atom.

Stalin's atomic attacks bombings ultimately failed to achieve their desired effect of frightening the European Alliance into surrender. While the atomic attacks had greatly unsettled the Alliance, the Red Army in Europe continued to face strong resistance as increasing numbers of fresh American troops, with their inexhaustible supplies of weapons, vehicles, and war materials, arrived to reinforce and resupply the European armies. Exhausted from years of campaigning across Europe, far from supply depots and with overstretched supply lines under constant attack by partisans, Soviet forces began an eastwards withdrawal into Germany in October 1950. Reinforced with fresh American troops, American equipment, and funded by American loans, the armies of the European Alliance pursued Soviet forces across the Vosges mountains and the River Rhine, freeing Western Europe of Russian forces.
Although the three major combatants in the war had all developed atomic weapons, both the Allies and the Soviets were afraid to use them. Neither side had sufficient reliable information on the state of their enemy's atomic arsenal, and feared that the enemy could reply with far more A-bombs than them. The European Alliance refused absolutely to consider using atomic bombs on European territory, while Oppenheimer and his team vehemently opposed the use of such devices by the United States. Humanitarian principles and the fear of enemy atomic superiority discouraged the three nations from deploying their atomic devices, forcing their armies to continue the struggle on the ground.

I for one I'm amuse that the author put more attention to the small dot of red on england during the allied campaign than Westwood (I mean England got invaded and you are sent to some other mission and there not even a mention of it in the briefing)
 
I loved Rusty's TL. Its stupid for Alt His Wiki to make him remove it :mad:

Especially after I added to the Dramitics Persona page in it :D
 
I loved Rusty's TL. Its stupid for Alt His Wiki to make him remove it :mad:

Especially after I added to the Dramitics Persona page in it :D

Well I'll put the Persona on when I'm over with the TL maybe you can complete them when this is over

Rusty2005 said:
United We Stand
By the early months of 1951, the war in Europe was stagnating into a bitter and costly struggle. Soviet forces had withdrawn from France and the Allies were pushing to liberate northern Italy, the Rhineland, and the Low Countries, but neither side was capable of gaining the upper hand. In an effort to force the Kremlin's hand, the Allies turned to strategies in other theatres of combat, hoping to cripple the USSR by opening fronts across the world.

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African troops provided a much-needed boost to European forces in exchange for promises of African independence after the war

Africa had been a theatre of limited conflict since the beginning of the war, but by 1949 Soviet agents in Africa had mostly been apprehended by colonial authorities, seemingly extinguishing the threat of red rebellion on the Dark Continent. The Soviet Union, though, turned to Africa in late 1950 once more. The European Alliance was coming to rely more and more on drafts of African volunteers from the colonies to reinforce Allied troops in Europe. At the Battle of Paris, volunteer battalions from Senegal to Nigeria had played a vital role in bolstering European numbers, and as European colonialist promised post-war independence and investment in exchange for African help, increasing numbers of African men signed up with colonial units. Sensing that revolutions in Africa would cripple the Alliance's armies and force the Europeans to redirect troops from Europe, Comintern and the NKVD again turned to inciting rebellion. The Soviet sleeper cell in Khartoum, long-known by the EDA but not seen as a threat, encouraged rebellions across Sudan and southern Egypt, among populations facing the prospect of famine. By December 1950, the Sudanese issue had flared into open warfare against British colonists, and as revolutionary leaders in Khartoum appealed to Africans across the continent, the Alliance and the League of Nations sought assistance from the Ethiopian Empire, a full member of the League. On January 3rd 1951, Emperor Haile Selassie dispatched troops towards Khartoum, reinforced by Eritrean and Egyptian forces moving in on more northerly fronts. As East African units marched on Khartoum, rebellions broke out in South Africa. At the Witwatersrand goldfields and the Kimberley diamond mines, mass dissent among the tens of thousands of black workers, who were treated little better than slaves, flared into rioting and rebellion as industrial workers sought to overthrow the racist government. Seizing this example of proletarian class warfare for propaganda purposes, Moscow launched a second campaign to incite world revolution, but as in 1947, the propaganda again fell on deaf ears. At Capetown on February 16th Jan Smeets, President of the South African League, resigned under pressure from the British Empire, the League of Nations, and the threat of race war breaking out across the dominion. The League of Nations, undergoing internal restructuring which would soon transform the organisation into the "United Nations", appointed an executive committee to work alongside the British Empire's newly-dictated government of South Africa. By including black Africans in the new parliament and passing a series of legislative measures which transformed working conditions and legal rights for black South Africans (coupled with EDA action against revolutionary movements), the situation in South African calmed. When news of the Ethiopians' capture of Khartoum was announced in early March, the threat of African rebellion appeared to have once again evaporated.
With Africa and South America (which had remained largely unaffected by Soviet propaganda) secure as allies or neutrals, the Alliance turned to opening fronts against Stalin's allies in Asia. India had not been a target for communist propaganda, as Stalin was well aware that the Indian caste system was an effective barrier against class-based revolution and that the British position in the subcontinent was more than secure. Iran, under the young Shah Mohammed Pahlavi, succeeded in remaining neutral, acquiescing neither to Stalin's tempts of military support against Afghanistan nor British schemes to encourage an Iranian invasion of the Caucasus. Soviet agents had failed to encourage any kind of rebellion in the Muslim Middle East, and so had turned instead to south-east Asia and Stalin' old nemesis, China.
French Indochina, a vacillating colonial conglomerate encompassing Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, had been experiencing a gradual weakening of French influence throughout the 1920's and 1930's, as Paris came to accept that the days of colonialism were coming to an end. As French colonial authorities gradually shared their power with local movements, the opportunites appeard for Soviet infiltration. In 1950, with France under siege and the European Alliance focused on defending their homelands, French Indochina had broken away from the French Empire and declared independence. Saturated with Soviet agents and influence, the region had had little involvement in the war besides squabbling with Australia and British India, and the Alliance had paid little attention. The situation changed, though, when Soviet and Asian influence resulted in simultaneous coups d'etats in Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, and Singapore, in early 1950. Although the Singapore uprising as quelled by British forces, Malaysia and Indonesia descended into localised civil wars. Australia, fearing the spread of Soviet influence through Indonesia, opened a military front in June 1950 by despatching units of the Australian Defence Corps to capture Bandung, Malang, Surabaja, and Jakarta itself. The Dutch Colonial Army, fighting revolutionaries in Sumatra, appealed to Holland to dispatch European reinforcements, but with the war in Europe requiring total commitment, the Alliance explored an alternative. Working through intermediaries at the United Nations, the European Alliance persuaded the Kingdom of Thailand to join the war. King Ananda Mahidol formally united Thailand with the Alliance, and under the incumbent dictator of the country, Prime Minister and Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram, the Royal Thai Army opened a front in western Cambodia.

As the Allies pressured south-east Asia, China once again became a scene of international conflict. China's defeat at the hands of the Red Army in the Sino-Soviet War in July 1943 had thrown Chinese politics into chaos. President Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalist government had fled to Taiwan in the aftermath of the war, while mainland China was nominally placed under the control of Mao Tse-Tung's Communist Party. However, the Chinese communists were unable to create a stable government. Two hundred years of economic and ecological disasters, political chaos, civil wars and foreign invasions, had left the world's most populous nation bitterly divided and desperately weakened. Mao's government, installed prematurely as a puppet of the Kremlin, had been unable to unite the nation as it regressed into warlordship and civil strife.

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The world's most populous nation, China was a fragile and divided puppet regime relentlessly pillaged by Stalin

Despite its weak political and military existence, Mao's China played a vital role in providing raw materials for Soviet factories and food supplies for the Red Army; as a consequence, the Alliance believed the elimination of Mao's regime as a priority. With Chinese communist armies embroiled in struggles with Chinese warlords in the interior and Japanese armies in Manchuria, the United Nations dispatched an international army under General Douglas MacArthur to commence an Allied invasion of mainland China. Composed primaril of Australians, Brazilians, New Zealanders and an American contingent, the International Army landed in two divisions at Kowloon and Zhanjiang to begin a march on Guangzhou, capital of one of China's richest provinces. In a simultaneous maneuver, Generalissimo Kai-shek led a Nationalist force from Taiwan and landed at Fuzhou, while the Empire of Japan, recently-joined to the Alliance, struck south-west from Manchuria towards Beijing. As Allied armies penetrated into Mao's fragile confederacy, conspirators in Beijing staged a pro-Nationalist coup, forcing Mao and his supporters to seek asylum in the USSR. While the International Army and the Imperial Army of Manchuria combatted China's warlords, and the Soviet Eastern Army became increasingly depleted to support the West, two further Allied armies - the ANZAC Corps and the Japanese Imperial Home Army - seized Vladivostok and launched an invasion of the USSR.
The Pacific Allies' invasion of the south-eastern tip of the USSR opened a route for tens of thousands of Allied troops, but prevailing conditions prevented the Allies from sweeping across eastern Russia. The distances involved, the threat of rearward incursions by Chinese and Mongolian warlords, and determined resistance by the Soviet Eastern Army, obliged the Pacific Allies to advance slowly. As the "Second Front" crawled westwards through Siberia, the Allies launched attacks in a third theatre of operations. Rebellions in the Tatar peripheries of the Soviet Empire, among the Uzbeks, Turkmenis, Tadzhiks, and Kazakhs, had been ongoing for years and had resulted in the atomic attack on Askhabad. Eager to open up a third front against the USSR, the British Empire dispatched three Indian army corps to invade the region in March 1951, forcing Moscow to redirect thousands of troops to protect against rebel and Allied attacks. Upon Afghanistan's declaration of neutrality in April, the Indian Army pushed north to seize Samarkand, enflaming rebellions across the region.

Counterstrike
By 1951, the USSR's naval operations were confined almost exclusively to European waters. The Japanese Home Islands Fleet had decimated the Soviet Pacific Fleet at the Battle of Tsushima in January 1951, and the fall of Vladivostok in July denied the USSR access to a year-round warm-water port in the east. Further west, four Soviet fleets continued to battle with Joint Fleet Operations in European waters, and the American and Canadian navies in the Atlantic. The Red Navy's transport division had, in July 1950 at the height of the war in Europe, invaded Greenland at Cape Farewell. While surface vessels bombarded Iceland into surrender, Admiral Kuznetsov arranged fleets of ships which shuttled supplies between Trondheim and Cape Farewell for the construction of a long-range air base. From the base, Tuploev ANT-20 supercontinental bombers commenced a series of air raids on North American cities, striking their first attack on New York City on September 24th 1950, gradually encompassing Boston, Philadelphia, Montreal, Washington, and reaching as far as Pittsburgh. The United States Air Force and Royal Canadian Air Force, tasked for the first time with defending the American continent from aerial attack, established joint air-fleet bases the north-eastern United States and southern Canada in an effort to protect the continent's biggest cities from suffering severe damage. Rapid expansion of air forces across Europe, America, and Russia led to increasingly large airborne conflicts at Allied and Soviet bombers sought to obliterate enemy industrial centres while attempting to protect their own cities from aerial bombardment.
At sea, the strategic situation by 1951 was beginning to change in favour of the Alliance. While the Red Navy continued mass submarine construction programmes, increasing demands for raw materials and manufactured parts from other military concerns led to worsening shortages at the shipyards of Archangel and Murmansk. The Kremlin, concerned at Russia's perceived inferiority in surface warships, squandered resources and technical expertise on the construction of a new fleet of behemoth battleships whose commanders were wary to venture far beyond the air cover of northern Russian airfields. With the USSR's best naval architects assigned to the construction of cumbersome battleships unsuited to 1950's naval warfare, the Red Navy was unable to construct aircraft carriers, vital to the demands of modern strategy. Decreasing quality of submarine construction, a lack of carriers, and an obsolete strategy focused on the use of highly vulnerable battleships left the Red Navy in an increasingly inferior position in the face of Joint Fleet Operations.

Soviet naval operations were further hampered by the The Red Navy's need to protect convoys shuttling supplies between Occupied Europe and the bomber bases in Greenland. The Soviet submarine fleet, operating in the Atlantic, protected against Allied surface vessels attempting to land troops in Greenland while simultaneously preying upon Allied convoys. As the war in Europe ground on, the USSR approved a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, aiming to weaken Alliance armies in Europe by depriving them of American, Brazilian, Canadian, and African supplies. Submarine "wolves" wrought a heavy toll on Allied merchant shipping, obliging Joint Fleet Operations and the United States Navy to dispatch increasing numbers of vessels to support the Allied fleet in the Battle of the Atlantic.

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As the war raged on land, the Alliance and the Soviet Union waged a bitter struggle across the oceans of the northern hemisphere

Beginning in February 1951, the European Alliance established a series of naval blockades aimed at sealing the Atlantic off from Soviet warships. The first line, "Mercury", stretched from Scotland to Iceland, cutting through the Faroe Islands. Within months, "Venus" had been established; an Alliance submarine screen stretching from Edinburgh to Bergen, Norway. The two lines effectively closed the Atlantic to Soviet shipping, allowing squadrons of European destroyers to track down Soviet submersibles and liberate the Atlantic from the "wolfpacks". In the Mediterranean and North Sea, Allied aircraft plagued Soviet surface shipping, and due to the USSR's grave lack of aircraft carriers, the Red Navy was largely powerless to defend itself against Allied air attacks. In the autumn of 1951, the European Alliance initiated an amphibious landing into Occupied Norway.

"D-Day", the landing of Allied troops into Occupied Norway, marked the beginning of a change in the progress of the war. As Allied armies liberated the southern Norwegian coastline and struck towards the entrance to the Baltic Sea, the USSR found itself deprived of crucial naval bases covering the North Sea while simulataneously finding itself vulnerable to an attack towards Leningrad. The threat of Allied ships breaking into the Baltic Sea and wreaking havoc with captive merchant shipping carrying highest-quality Swedish iron ore to the foundries of Leningrad, propelled Stalin into redirecting tens of thousands of troops from the front lines in Central Europe in an attempt to repel the Allies from Scandinavia.

As Soviet forces faced stronger European resistance, Stalin began to consider deploying atom bombs in Europe. Soviet atomic strategy had, until now, dictated that no atomic weapons were to be used against the Allies for fear of the Allies responding with a similar atomic strike on the USSR, but with the Red Army falling back on all fronts and the territory of the Soviet Union itself invaded in the Far East, atomic weapons appeared to Stalin as a potential tool to frighten the European Alliance into suing for peace. The USSR's Strategic Rocket Forces had greatly advanced the technology of long-range ballistic missiles, and encouraged by the prospect of a swift missile attack, Stalin declined the use of bomber aircraft and ordered that four Semyorka R-7 missiles, based in conquered Riga, be equipped for an atomic attack on the European Alliance.

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The USSR's failed atomic missile attack on the European Alliance prompted a wave of Allied attacks which the exhausted Red Army could not hold back

A number of Soviet officials, though, dreaded the prospect of an atomic attack on Europe. The bombings of Ashkhabad and Ulaanbataar had horrified many in the Soviet Atomic Bomb Project, and many members' secret humanitarian concerns about slaughtering European civilians with A-bombs were intensified by the threat of a counter-attack on Soviet cities. In November 1951, the European Defence Agency assisted in the defection of Major Vladimir Kosygin, a key atomic strategist, who briefed European commanders on the current state of Soviet atomic potential. Unbeknownst to Kosygin and Allied saboteur agents in Riga, though, Professor Kurchatov had already been making discrete preparations to sabotage the missiles. Kurchatov, horrified after the destruction of the rebel cities in September 1950, was not alone in his concerns, and as the NKVD knew so little about atomic theory, he and his colleagues were able, at great risk to themselves, to significantly hamper the atomic triggers on the warheads. Reports from EDA operatives in Riga in early November stressed the preparation of the missiles for launch, and prompted von Esling to order a European Commando unit to destroy the accommodating silos. The NKVD, though, uncovered the scheme and launched the missiles.

On November 16th, the Soviet Rocket Division launched four Semyorka R-7 missiles, equipped with two-kiloton atomic warheads, at London, Paris, Madrid, and newly-liberated Athens, the key military and political command posts of the European Alliance. Allied saboteurs at Riga were able to break into the navigational control facility and scramble the missiles' navigation wavelengths, committing suicide to prevent falling into the hands of the NKVD. The scrambled wavelengths ensured that the longest-range missiles, aimed at Madrid and Athens, fell far from their intended targets, but the rockets aimed at London and Paris did reach their destinations. Fortunately for the European Alliance, Kurchatov's sabotage of the atomic triggers succeeded in preventing the warheads from exploding. The Paris missile crashed in a residential district of Montmartre while the London rocket plunged into Parliament Square, only metres from the House of Commons. None of the four missiles exploded, but their landing in Europe deeply unnerved the European Council. Fearful of a second Soviet attack and now desperate to end the war, the European Alliance, with the full backing of the recently-restructured United Nations, embarked on a series of offensives aimed at crushing Stalin's USSR as quickly as possible.

I just love how D-Day is in Norway
 
Is there an english word that means "beyond awesome"? Because that's what this is. :eek:

I think the term is Übermawesome

I just love how the TL pretty much integrate everything in Red Alert but also had some element of its own like China

Ok here the end of the Red Alert, but don't worry there still the interwar period and Red Alert II

Rusty2005 said:
"The Motherland is Calling"
In early 1952, the USSR was much-changed from the invincible empire of 1946. The demands of the war had crippled Russia's demographics, and as more and more men were coralled into the military, the national workforce struggled to maintain levels of production, despite the best efforts of the entire Soviet population. In western Russia, cities and industrial facilities were becoming the target of ever-increasing air raids by European Bomber Command and the United States Air Force. Famine, the Sovit Union's perennial plague, flared up again following a poor harvest in late 1951. A new wave of vicious Purges swept the nation, crippling the Red Army, the Soviet scientific community, and administrative bodies as officials fell prey to the NKVD. Impossible demands for military goods resulted in plummeting standards of quality in order to meet quotas. Increasing dissent across the country was encouraged by nationalist rebellions across the fringes of the crumbling Soviet state as the United Nations promised freedom and peace from the brutal reign of Bolshevik Moscow. On the military fronts, the situation was growing desperate. The Red Navy had been expelled from the world's oceans; submarines had either been sunk or captured, or could no escape the net of European ships and aircraft ringing western Russia, while surface fleets bottled up in the Black and Baltic Seas provided easy targets for a new generation of Allied jet-bombers. The Soviet Union's allies had fallen to the United Nations. South-east Asia was being overrun by Allied forces while China had surrendered and once more collapsed into political chaos. In Europe, the main theatre of operations, the Red Army was retreating on all fronts, chased eastwards by armies from Europea, North America, South America, Africa, and Australasia. The USSR's borders had been breached in the Ukraine and the Caucasus while the Pacific Allies gradually crept westwards towards Novosibirsk. The "World Alliance", with its endless supplies and manpower, appeared impossible to stop as exhausted and under-supplied Soviet units crumpled and fled eastwards. Mass desertions to Allied forces crippled the Red Army. The remnants of the Red Navy refused to put to sea against Allied warships, while the Red Air Force found itself deprived of crucial fuel and spare parts, guaranteeing crushing Allied air superiority during land battles. Industrial facilities, shoddily built during Stalin's forced industrialisation of the 1930's and targeted by Allied bombers, failed to keep up with demands as raw materials dwindled and urban populations spread across the countryside to escape the bombers. Early 1952 saw the Allies make rapid gains, sweeping through Germany, Poland, Scandinavia, central Europe, and the Balkans; Soviet armies in Italy surrendered, the Red Navy abandoned the Greenland airbases, and United Nations armies thrust deeper into Kazakhstan and Siberia. In June of 1952, the Soviet retreat gradually slowed as units rallied in Eastern Europe. Now closer to the USSR's production facilities and reinforced by final drafts of men from across the USSR, the Soviets launched counter-attacks at Allied troops approaching the Motherland. A fierce propaganda campaign emboldened Soviet defenders. From June 1952, the Allied advance slowed as Soviet resistance increased.

The Allied advance in Scandinavia proved to be the decisive arm of their continental march. Leningrad, second city of the Soviet Union and symbolic heart of the Bolshevik Revolution, endured a gruelling siege from Allied troops, bombers, and warships aiming to break open another front. While the Allies deliberately held back their landward advance to allow the Soviets to keep the city supplied with food, the city was unable to resist the Allies' advance. Andrei Zhdanov, one of Stalin's closest colleagues and governor of the city, was executed by the NKVD and following Marshal Kukhov's failure to break through to the city, Stalin determined to abandon Leningrad. With the city in Allied hands, Soviet units were released to defend deeper inside Russia while the Allies gained a vital seaport to bring on fresh troops and supplies. In the south, the USSR's breadbasket province of Ukraine became a battleground between Allied invaders, Soviet units, and Ukrainian nationalists siezing their opportunity to break free from Moscow's tyranny. As food shortages grew worse, civil unrest across the country heightened and the Red Army's fighting ability ebbed as hungry soldiers deserted en masse to the Allies.
By late 1952, the USSR stood in a difficult position. While the Red Army continued to mount strong resistance in the defence of western Russia, the country as a whole was severely weakened. The Pacific ALlies seized Novosibirsk in October while the Indian Army captured Alma Ata and the western shores of the Caspian Sea. Amphibious landings by Allied troops in Karelia led to the loss of Archangel and Murmansk, the country's primary submarine ports. With the elimination of so many scientists, the Soviet Atomic Bomb Project, along with research into the Iron Curtain device, had been irreperably damaged, and in the Kremlin itself, Stalin's subordinates fought viciously for control of the crumbling Politburo as the ailing Red Tsar faded into senility and psychosis.

"Peace at any price"
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The garrison of Moscow battles with United Nations forces converging on the Soviet capital

1953 saw the Soviet Union enter its death throes even as it resisted in one of the most hard-fought campaigns of the war. The Allies' propaganda campaign prompted droves of young conscripts to surrender and desert, preferring food and medical care in European prison camps than death in defence of Stalin. As the Red Army's ranks thinned, cruel discipline honed the remaining units around cadres of fanatical Bolsheviks determined to stop the Allied advance at any cost. The bitter winter of 1952-1953 forced the Allied advance to halt, but in June, the march on Moscow resumed.

Caught between Allied armies advancing from Europe, Siberia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan, the depleted Red Army, a shadow of its former self, struggled to defend Moscow. As industries and agriculture fell to the Allied advance, supplies to the military dwindled, forcing the Red Army to withdraw further eastwards. By July, the Allies were poised to attack Stalin's capital. In a fierce battle at Yaroslavets on July 18th, the European Alliance inflicted a crushing defeat on the Red Army's main field assemblage, prompting Soviet command to withdraw remaining forces on the Western Front to the defence of the capital. On July 29th, the Allies commenced the Battle of Moscow, and by August 3rd, had captured the primary city of the Soviet Union. American troops seized the People's Revolutionary Headquarters on August 17th, whilst British SAS forces captured Stalin's personal headquarters at Noginsk four days later. Stalin himself, already crippled by cerebral haemmoraging, was killed during an Allied artillery bombardment on the morning of August 23rd, ending twenty-five years of Stalinist rule in the USSR.

With Stalin dead, the Politburo, based in the new capital Kuibyshev, elected Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and Prime Minister Georgy Malenkov as the new leaders of the Soviet Union. While the Allies were overstretched and weakened, and the Politburo still commanding the bulk of the USSR's territory, the Soviet Unions's new leaders determined that approaching the Allies with an offer of peace would grant the USSR some sway at the negotiating table, as opposed to continuing the bloodshed until the Soviet Union was forced to sign an unconditional surrender. The Alliance, uneasy about leaving the USSR uncrushed, acquiesced, agreeing to an temporary armistice with the Soviet Union. On August 25th, 1953, Molotov as Head of the Government and Malenkov as Head of the Party met with United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, Grand Marshal Gunther von Esling, and General-Marshal Dwight Eisenhower in Voronezh to sign the articles of surrender. Formally ratified by the European Council, the United States Congress, and the United Nations General Assembly, the peace treaty came into effect on August 31st 1953, ending the Second World War.

So here now the Post war world

Rusty2005 said:
The Uneasy Peace, 1953-1970
"WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small..."
~Preamble to the United Nations Charter (extract)

The Aftermath
The peace treaty of August 1953 ended the world's most destructive war, simultaneously ushering in an era of peace while leaving much of the world devastated. Europe, western Russia, swathes of Central Asia, and vast tracts of the Far East lay in ruins. The damage created by seven years of global warfare far outpassed the destruction wrought by the 1914-1918 Great War. By December 1953, more than 74 million people had died; 36 million military deaths, 32 million civilians, and over six million killed by the NKVD, either in the gulags or shot outright in the last months of the war. Added to the approximated 33 million who had died under Stalin's ruthless tyranny of the pre-war Soviet Union, the deaths incurred in China's civil wars and persons presumed dead following the USSR's atomic detonations, the global death toll from 1930-1953 is estimated to surpass 120 million, roughly 5% of the entire human species. Environmental damage surpassed all previous catastrophes. Industrial output during the war, nuclear testing, battles, and intensive oil production by the major powers inflicted severe damage on the planet's ecosystems, most notably in the Soviet Union, where forced industrialisation had resulted in spiralling ecological decay.

The balance of power at the end of the war had upset global politics. The Soviet Union, once the world's biggest and most economically intensive state, had shrunk to a charred, depopulated shadow of its former self. Europe, devastated by war, had been forced to band together for the first time in history. China had regressed into civil wars and the Empire of Japan had strengthened its international position. Colonies across the world were crying out for independence while the United States had propelled itself from the poverty and social hiatus of the Great Depression into a role as the world's leading industrial producer, its society rapidly reshaping itself as America struggled to establish itself as a superpower. Tension between the two superpowers of the European Alliance and the United States had become evident during the war, a possible ill omen for the future of the world's new dominant powers.

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The legacy of Stalin's dream; destruction and death, suffering and sorrow
The physical damage caused by the war was unprecedented. From Lisbon to Beijing, Reykjavik to Saigon, most of Eurasia's cities had suffered severe damage. In Europe, hardly a single human settlement had been left unscarred. Cities such as Bremerhaven, Warsaw, and Kharkhov had suffered so much damage they were left practically uninhabitable. New York, Manchester, and Istanbul stood charred by firestorms, while the ancient cities of Ashkhabad and Ulaanbataar had been erased from the map. Across Eurasia, rural areas suffered equally. Untended during the long wars, farmlands in Europe and China were left barren, and in the Soviet Union, Stalin's collectivised farms, unable to produce enough food in peacetime, were left in such poor states that famine appeared imminent. Transport and communication infrastructures were either left in chaos or so badly damaged as to be inoperable - bridges, railways, roads, ports; all were left ruined. Sanitation had been destroyed in most urban areas, threatening pandemics of disease. With tens of millions of people homeless in Europe and Asia, the growing threat of disease, factories and farms unable to feed and supply war-ravaged populations crippled by mass depletions of the labour force, and governments left bankrupt, the summer of 1953 threatened social collapse across Eurasia.
To combat the grave social threats facing the desperate peoples of the world, the United Nations launched an immense campaign to rebuild the shattered nations of Earth. Under the 1952 Treaty of Singapore, the United Nations Peacekeepers dispatched a force of millions of troops to forcibly quell the civil war in China. With China's warlords weakened by the political chaos of recent years, the Peacekeepers quickly established security along the Chinese coastline, and under a series of mutual agreements, were permitted to establish humanitarian aid missions throughout the Chinese interior. While the Security Council sought a viable system of government for China, the United States attended to the needs of the stricken European Alliance. Acknowledging Europe's need for finance capital to rebuild its shattered nations and re-establish trade with the world, the United States government launched the Marshall Aid Plan, a mass financial recovery programme aimed at providing the European Council with credit to jump-start the continental economy. In the defeated Soviet Union, occupied by the armies of the World Alliance, the European Alliance, United States, and United Nations launched much-needed aid initiatives. As the World Health Organisation, World Food Programme and World Bank worked to assuage the humanitarian disaster in the sprawling nation, and United Nations intiatives in Europe and China spread, the threat of global social meltdown waned. By 1960, the United Nations had achieved unimaginable success in rebuilding the societies of Eurasia, but while the planet's diplomats at United Nations headquarters worked to rebuild their nations, the world grappled with the immense task of building a new political climate in the post-war world.

Rebuilding Russia
The USSR's surrender in August 1953 had left the Allies in the unenviable position of having to find a replacement interim government for the USSR. The Allies had, since 1950, been deliberating on different options for post-war Russia. At the Lisbon Conference in April 1953, Allied leaders had agreed collectively that after thirty years of Soviet rule in Russia, communism was the only viable system of government for the defeated Soviet Union. Democracy and a liberal, Western-style parliamentary or presidential government were viewed as attractive ideals for the USSR, but there had never been a tradition of democracy in Russia. Hopes of bringing back the pre-revolutionary Duma (Russian parliament) were not viable, as decades of Leninist and Stalinist propaganda had demonised bourgeois democracy in the eyes of the Soviet people. The Russian people wanted a leader, and for reasons of their own, so did the Allies. By 1st January 1954, the World Alliance was in occupation of only around 25% of the old USSR, but this immense land area required equally immense occupation forces. This placed a severe strain on military resources, and the Allies were well aware that unless a strong puppet leader could be quickly installed - a man the Allies could manipulate while he dealt with internal security himself - then occupying forces in the USSR would place an unmanageable drain upon the already financially-crippled West. Citizens of the USSR wanted a strong leader, the Allies wanted a puppet, and be it a Tsar or a General Secretary, Russia needed a political figurehead.

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"The New Czar" addresses Muscovites from the Lenin Mausoleum on the day of the USSR's fiftieth anniversary in 1967
By early 1955 most of the USSR's political and military leaders had been rounded up by the Allies. While the people still admired their system of government, many of the actual members of the government were less than popular, leading to the USSR's elite denouncing each other and fleeing to the Allies for protection. International sentiment at the role of the USSR's leaders in planning and executing the war had resulted in the United Nations appointing an International Military Tribunal composed of judges from the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of France, the German Federation, and the Japanese Empire; this tribunal indicted most of the USSR's old elite on a variety of charges ranging from crimes against humanity to crimes against peace, and starting in June 1954, commenced the Kiev Trials. However, a few members of the Soviet inner circles were missing for a variety of reasons, including the enigmatic advisor to Stalin known in official documents only as 'Kane', whose disappearance was never fully investigated.
Even before the trials began, the Allies had been searching for a new Russian leader. Molotov and Malenkov had been deposed as interim Premier by the Politburo, whose newly-appointed members presented the Allies with a possible alternative in the form of the previous Secretary of the Ukraine, Alexander Romanov. Romanov, a humane Menshevik communist with Tsarist heritage and Trotskyite sentiments, was a known supporter of peaceful social betterment and during his years as leader of the Ukraine, had proved himself to be an excellent administrator. Groomed by the Politburo and presented as an educated, peaceful, and benevolent figurehead, Romanov charmed Allied leaders, who faced few alternatives in their quest for a puppet ruler. Reports from the CIA and the European Defence Agency hinted at Romanov's secret anti-Stalinist attitudes during the war, a point very much in his favour in the aftermath of Stalin's defeat. In need of a strong and reliable leader in the Kremlin, the new Politburo, its members hand-picked by Allied diplomats, elevated Alexander Romanov to the position of Premier of the Soviet Union.
Having appointed a promising leader, the Allies faced an additional challenge in re-arranging the administrative regions of the USSR. During the war, revolutionaries and rebels across the Soviet Union had rebelled against Moscow, usually winning support from the Allies. Obliged to honour their wartime promises to breakaway movements, the Allies were faced with the task of dismembering the Soviet Union. Throughout 1954 and 1955, the old USSR was broken up into its constituent states. While Russia itself remained intact and retained the title of "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics", the peripheries of the old Soviet empire were granted independence and incorporated into the United Nations as independent member-states. However, as Allied troops were withdrawn from these new states following the end of the war, it became clear that the patchwork of new states was highly unstable. The Allies were eager to withdraw their occupation forces from the string of new states surrounding Russia's western and southern borders, but as the new states were still in their infancy and wracked by security problems, a serious threat emerged as Allied leaders became aware that the withdrawal of foreign security forces would inevitable result in chaos from the Ukraine to Uzbekistan. With the Allies increasingly unable to pay for protection forces, the United Nations granted Romanov a mandate to secure the new nations under Russian protection for an indefinite period.
Defeated in war and tasked with securing the peripheries of Stalin's empire for the foreseeable future, the new Soviet Union commenced a rapid economic transformation in the late 1950's. The United Nations, governing the USSR until Romanov's eventual appointment in 1958, dismantled the USSR's network of gulags, releasing millions of slave labourers and returning them to their homes, thus returning skilled workers into the community and boosting Russia's economic potential. Romanov'a appointment to Premier in 1958 catapulted the Soviet Union into an economic drive comparable to Stalin's Five-Year Plans, but instead of liquidating peasants to provide finance capital for a forced industrial revolution, Romanov's plans took a very different approach. In agriculture, the new Politburo adopted a system similar to Lenin's New Economic Policy of the mid-1920's; instead of forcing peasants to sell their crops direct to the state at a fixed price, New NEP allowed peasants to sell their produce on an open market within the USSR, providing the peasants with greater financial opportunities and staving off threats of future food shortages. Industry experienced significant changes under Romanov's government. Stalin's forced industrial drive had focused on the construction of heavy industries, providing basic materials such as steel and coal, and relying heavily on the labour of millions of gulag slaves to complete immense state construction projects. Romanov's industrial policy took a different approach. The Soviet Union by 1958 was already sufficiently supplied with heavy industries, and with the United Nations forbidding military buildup, such emphasis on the production of steel, explosives, and other heavy goods was no longer as urgent. Instead, Romanov focused on the development of Soviet light industries. Unlike heavy industries, which required large amounts of investment capital and had prompted Stalin's barbaric policies of the 1930's to pay for industrialisation, light industries required fairly small amounts of capital, provided more jobs than heavy industry, and produced all manner of consumer goods for ordinary Russians. The European Union, eager to rebuild Russia as a peaceful and benevolent neighbour in the aftermath of Stalin's campaigns, provided the necessary investment capital to develop the USSR's new industrial sector and helped stimulate trade between Europe, Russia, and the new nations of Eurasia which had succeeded in breaking off from the Soviet empire during the late stages of the war. As trade spread, farm production increased, and industries churned out increasing numbers of consumer goods for sale in Russia and overseas, the Soviet Union basked in an economic golden age unprecedented in communist history. During the early 1960's, the USSR's output of consumer manufactures began to outstrip heavy industry, boosting the USSR's economy until by 1965, the citizens of Romanov's shrunken, defeated USSR were producing more, generating more income, and enjoying much higher living standards than the population of Stalin's Soviet Union in 1946.
 
However, a few members of the Soviet inner circles were missing for a variety of reasons, including the enigmatic advisor to Stalin known in official documents only as 'Kane', whose disappearance was never fully investigated.

Tiberium references FTW! :D I remember from when this was on Althist wiki, didn't the end bit connect RA to Tiberium?
 
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Well I'll put the Persona on when I'm over with the TL maybe you can complete them when this is over.

I did the bios for Eisenhower,Rommel, Model, and one more I think. Added one or two pics to the main TL, Red did most of the hard work. It was fun putting them into Red Alert. Great job transfering the TL over Redem!
 
Here some more (the picture might not be right one) but anyway

The New World Order

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The European Alliance unites formally as the European Union, a free federal association of the nations which had repulsed Stalin's war machine.

As issues of leadership and provincial security dragged on, the Allies' solidarity began to weaken as the United States and European Union turned to re-asserting their power in the post-war world. The European Alliance, its member states devastated by seven years of war, faced immense difficulties in adjusting to the peace. By 1954, Europe lay in ruins. Most cities across the continent had suffered severe damage, rural areas had been left untended and wracked by continental war, and crucially, communications and transport infrastructures across the continent were left shattered. Industrial production and agricultural output were at their lowest since the Great Depression. An early economic boom in 1954 and 1955, precipitated by the need to rebuild and convert factories to civilian output, had faded as trade remained low and European governments faced serious shortages of credit and investment capital. The horrific death toll greatly weakened the European Union's economic power; by the end of the war, 19 million Europeans had died. European nations, corralled together as a military junta under Grand Marshal Von Esling during the desperate days of 1950, ended the war teetering on bankruptcy, crippled by a complete lack of funds, crushingly high debts to the United States, and the prospect of adjusting to a peacetime economy in the face of non-existent markets and a devastated consumer base. As Europe struggled to adjust to a peacetime economy and disarm in the face of such a depletion of the labour force, the economy began to sag significantly, threatening a continental economic crash. In addition to United Nations aid programmes, the United States authorised the Marshall Aid Plan, a mass economic recovery initiative aimed at transfusing much-needed funds into Europe's struggling economies, and crucially, providing European nations with the credit and investment capital required to rebuild industries and infrastructures. Credit from Marshall Aid allowed European civilian governments to purchase goods from the United States and from each other without having to dip into their valuable reserves of foreign currency, nurturing trade and investment. In March 1957, the leaders of the European Alliance convened in Rome to discuss the future of the organisation, now that the apparent threat of foreign war had been overcome. Despite the end of the war, leaders recognised that if Europe was to survive and prosper into the next century, further union would be required. The Treaty of Rome formally united the European Alliance as the new European Union, with greater involvement and emphasis on economic and social development.
The Treaty of Rome established the European Union as one of the most powerful geopolitical entities in the world. Stretching from Lisbon to Warsaw, Greenland to Cyprus, the Union boasted a higher population that either the United States or the Soviet Union, with almost limitless economic potential. However, the nations of the Union had been devastated by the Second World War, and as Europe's empires began to disintegrate in the late 1950's, the previously symbiotic European Union and United States began to drift apart.

The old gives way to the new; the European Union disbands its crumbling empires to assist in the emergence of dozens of new nations across the globe

During the war, the most powerful imperial nations of Europe - Great Britain and France - had appealed to their colonial possessions to assist the empires in their fight against the Soviet Union. In many cases, Foreign Ministers in London and Paris had promised post-war independence for the colonies in exchange for colonial subjects' support in the war against Stalin. Encouraged by the promise of a peaceful transition from foreign rule to autonomous self-government, colonies across the planet provided materials and soldiers to bolster the European Alliance. When peace came, though, London and Paris were reluctant to grant freedom to their foreign possessions, fearing that granting independence would cause Europe's trade with the colonies to grind to a halt. Colonial populations, though, demanded that European statesmen honour their promises. Independence movements in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and the South Pacific appealed to the United Nations to intervene, arguing that they had helped to liberate Europe from Russian rule, so they should now be liberated from foreign rule. On March 6th 1957, Great Britain granted independence to Gold Coast Colony in West Africa, triggering the disintegration of nineteenth-century European empires as the nations of Europe acquiesced to the global cry for decolonisation.
The breakup of the empires, while peaceful, worsened the already-tense diplomatic relationship between the European Union and the United States. As the Europeans dissolved their empires, European politicians grew increasingly angry as successive American presidents manipulated young governments in Africa and Asia into providing cheap goods for the United States, accusing Washington D.C. of cheating inexperienced governments.

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Tensions between the United States and the European Alliance became evident early in the war

Unlike the war-ravaged European Union, the United States had spent the immediate post-war years basking in political and financial security. Europe had been forced to reduce its military forces to a minimum in order to maintain the high standard of living demanded by Europe's citizens following the war, and to keep in line with the new ethos of global decolonisation and disarmament, but the United States continued to maintain a large military force. European populations frequently questioned the Americans' maintenance of a large standing army, and as the 1960's continued, questioning turned into accusation of America's lack of commitment to global peace. Despite occasional criticisms of each other, the United States and European Union enjoyed a mutually beneficial relationship, but a major slump in America's economic health prompted a period of rapidly worsening Euro-American relations. By the mid-1960's, America was languishing in an economic slump from which even the excitement of nascent space exploration could not distract people. The end of racial segregation in the United States in 1963 had triggered a short-lived economic boom in America, but by 1965 the boom had petered out, and economic remedies were in short supply. The United States could not recover her economic security without international trade, but the world was losing interest in trade with America. Russia and Europe had developed a lucrative trade relationship with each other, and both Europe and Russia enjoyed booming trade with their old colonial possessions from Nigeria to Kazakhstan, who themselves sought increased trade with their old overseers in order to guarantee secure trade and underpin their own emerging economies. The Peoples' Republic of China, which had been slowly rebuilding itself under United Nations supervision since China's surrender towards the end of the war, was still struggling to establish itself as an economic power, but enjoyed increasing trade with the Empire of Japan and newly-independent India, viewing the United states as a market for Chinese goods rather than as a provider of foreign produce. As the United States struggled to find countries willing to buy American exports and the White House faced worsening budget deficits, American governments turned to military build-up to provide jobs and absorb unemployed Americans into the military. This policy did help America's economic situation, but the move was greeted with hostility and suspicion by European governments. Tension increased as Europe and America argued bitterly over the issue of nuclear disarmament - while Europe had forcibly disarmed Russia's atomic arsenal and decommissioned all but a handful of the European Union's nuclear bombs, the United States had no qualms in advertising to the world that they were in possession of over two dozen long-range nuclear ICBMs, and although the United States signed the Global Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in September 1961 and promised not to surpass the stipulated treaty limit of 20 nuclear ICBMs, the European Union grew suspicious that America was violating the treaty by continuing to secretly manufacture nuclear defences. In December 1967, President Richard Nixon publicly angered the European Union by stating that while the Europeans constantly criticised America's nuclear arsenal, the European Defence Agency had been unable to account for a number of Soviet atomic bombs developed by Stalin's nuclear project during the war, which had never been found. Throughout the 1960's, the nuclear issue remained a serious point of contention between the two superpowers on either side of the Atlantic.

Ad Astra Per Aspera
While Europeans grumbled about America meddling in global affairs, Americans complained bitterly about the European Union's immense economic aid programme in the former Soviet Union. When details began to emerge of the suffering of the Soviet people under Stalin - victims of environmental devastation, forced industrialisation and collectivisation, and Stalin's inhuman industrial-scale holocaust against his own people - Europeans demanded that their governments finance massive reconstruction and humanitarian aid programmes in Romanov's new USSR. By 1965, European aid had repaired the Russian economy to a level whereby the GNP of Romanov's USSR had surpassed that of Stalin's pre-war USSR in 1946. European investment and reconstruction in the nations of the former USSR rapidly rebuilt infrastructures and allowed Romanov's Russia to re-assert itself as a major economic force in the region. Instead of directly performing reconstruction in the belt of new nations stretching from Lithuania to Kirgyzstan, the European Union, fearing anti-Russian sentiment in the new nations and eager to avoid further ethnic tensions in Europe and Asia, settled deals whereby Europe channeled money and technicians to Moscow to rebuild Russia, while Russia itself provided additional money, resources, and specialists for reconstruction work in the old provinces of the USSR. This system provided work in Russia and stimulated trade and economic growth, while simultaneously greatly reducing the strain on Europe, whose nations could not financially or politically afford to involve themselves directly in the affairs of the old USSR. Despite the immense success of the programme, the United States resented the system, complained that Europeans were more interested in trading with Russia than in boosting America's sagging economy through trans-Atlantic trade, and feared the rise of Russia as a major competitor in the lucrative Asian market.

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The 1960's saw the development of pioneering technologies that would play major roles in the next war
The increasing rivalry between Europe and America manifested itself most visibly in the Space Race, as the United States, the European Union, and the Soviet Union raced to develop sophisticated space technology. Both the Allies and the Soviets had developed limited space technology during the war - the Soviets had launched mankind's first satellite, Sputnik I, in 1953, followed by similar satellites launched by the Europeans and Americans, who continued to develop sophisticated technology after the war. On June 19th 1963, the European Space Agency launched Colonels Henri Picard and Luis Montez into space, the first human beings to travel beyond Earth. The Russian Space Agency launched Colonel Yuri Gagarin and Major Vasily Sarkhov in November, and in 1966, both the ESA and NASA landed astronauts on the moon. From 1967-1968, a short-lived project involving the ESA, NASA, and their Russian counterpart the RSB, constructed a scientific facility on the moon's surface as a demonstration of continuing global co-operation, but the project ended in August 1968 when NASA decided the scheme was overly expensive. The Space Race ultimately worsened perceptions on both sides of the Atlantic, and had one severe outcome; Romanov began to maniuplate the tension, playing Europe and America off against each other, reaping economic benefits as both the EU and the USA sought to maintain their links with Moscow and keep Russia from getting too close to the rival superpower. The World Socialist Alliance, a multi-national association of socialist countries established to ease trade and commerce between defeated powers in the aftermath of the Second World War, grew closer together as the nations of the WSA consolidated their commercial and diplomatic relations with one another, threatening the slow rise of a third superpower.

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As Mexico slipped into civil unrest, the two-man government of the USSR began to set invasion procedures in motion
By 1969, the European Union and the United States were already on uneasy terms, and events in that year worsened the situation. In June 1969, the government of President Luis Echeverria of Mexico appealed to the United Nations and the World Socialist Alliance to intervene in the increasing tension between political factions in Mexico. Internal tensions in Mexico had been evident for several years, and the Tlatelolco Massacre of October 1968, during riots over the Olympic Games in Mexico City, had sent the country spiralling into political chaos. By the summer of 1969, Mexico, a key member of the World Socialist Alliance, could no longer rely on internal security forces to quell the riots, and officially requested assistance from the United Nations as Mexico slipped towards civil war. At a summit meeting of the United Nations Security Council in New York City on February 16th, Romanov's Chief Advisor, Yuri Molotov, gave a speech which oddly persuaded the Security Council not to send UN peacekeepers to Mexico, and instead leave the USSR, primary benefactor of the World Socialist Alliance, to resolve the situation herself. Romanov dispatched large military forces to quell apparent civil unrest in mexico, and under the pretext of protecting Russian investments in the country, continued to send increasingly large forces. As rumours spread that the Soviet Psychic Corps had been dispatched to Mexico, foreign media representatives and intelligence operatives confused the world by reporting on the situation in a confusing and often eerie manner, speaking from increasingly bizarre and disturbingly pro-Soviet stances. The Europeans and Americans, though, paid little attention as a new sudden outbreak of hostilities between Arab and Jewish populations in the ever-turbulent United Nations Palestinian Mandate Area resulted in a new round of diplomatic negotiations at United Nations Headquarters. While the West busied itself trying to settle the perenially violent situation in Jerusalem, the Soviet Union began to act more and more suspiciously. By early 1970, the Europeans and Americans were unable to present a united front, allowing Alexander Romanov to astound the world in May 1970.

The Third World War, 1970-1972
"Together we shall destroy the United States - their cities, their homes, their dreams, and perhaps more!"
~Alexander Romanov, speech to the Congress of the World Socialist Alliance, April 1970
Red Alert
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The World At War
Romanov's reasons for invading the United States were manifold. While the Premier justified the invasion as a protection of the Romanov legacy, the economic and political reasoning for declaring war on the United States was more complex. The new world order of the 1960's had reduced the USSR to a shrunken state deprived of a significant quantity of industries, resources, and people, not to mention the blow to Russia's prestige. Although Moscow had been granted carte blanche to secure the new nations which had arisen around Russia after 1953, with the United Nations embroiled in security missions in China and the financially unstable post-war Allies fighting amongst themselves, the breakup of the old Soviet Union was a severe affront to national pride. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union remained deeply resentful of the United States for not having aided the devastated USSR in the aftermath of the Second World War, while Romanov himself bore a deep personal grudge against the United States for having destroyed his family's estate in the Ukraine during the Allied invasion of 1952. The Allies' interfering in Russian affairs greatly exacerbated Romanov's malcontentment as the Premier and his Politburo seethed at European and American political and economic meddling, and at espionage conducted across the nation by the European Defence Agency and the CIA. Global politics also played a major role in Romanov's decision. The 1960's had revealed Russia's waning power on the world stage, with the puppet USSR slowly weakening as the United States and European Union fought to establish their hegemony over the world. This had resulted in increasing fears in Kremlin circles that before the end of the century, the new USSR would cease to exist. Romanov intended to exploit the tension between Europe and America in order to enhance Russia's global position and re-establish the USSR as the pre-eminent world power, thus turning to a war to break the relentless vicious cycle of Russia's decline in the face of European and American growth. For these reasons, on May 18th, 1970, Alexander Romanov and the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics declared war on the United States of America.

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San Franciscans awaken to a massed invasion of their city

The Soviet Union strikes at the "Capital of Capitalism"
Throughout late 1969, American and European intelligence agencies in the USSR had previously been experiencing severe problems with equipment and personnel, many of whom could no longer be contacted and were even suspected of selling military secrets to the KGB, Russia's newly-formed, and illegal, intelligence agency. Alarming reports from the few remaining loyal intelligence agents in Russia reported massive military build-ups and hinted at widespread surveillance conducted by what agents feared was a reformation of the defunct Soviet Psychic Corps, but such sketchy and bizzare reports were not well-received by American analysts, concentrating on the civil war in Mexico rather than day-to-day spying in Russia, or by overstretched European intelligence agencies concerned with activities in China and day-to-day spying in the United States. By the time confirmed reports of Russian military operations in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans reached the Pentagon, it was too late for the American military to defend the coasts of the United States. The Soviet Union's declaration of war was received at the White House in the midst of a full-scale military invasion of the continental United States, and with the United States military in a state of pandemonium, Washington determined to defend the nation with extreme countermeasures.
During the late 1950's and 1960's, the United States had continued research and development on more advanced thermo-nuclear weapons systems, a policy which had contributed greatly to the post-war split between the pacifist European Union and seemingly belligerent United States. The United States had in 1970, by agreement under the United Nations Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Treaties, a total of fifteen intercontinental missiles equipped with thermo-nuclear warheads. When news of the invasion reached President Michael Dugan, the United States prepared to launch a nuclear attack on the USSR's cities. Via a hotline telephone link between the White House and the Kremlin, Dugan warned Romanov of his intentions to initiate a nuclear bombardment of the Soviet Union, but the Soviet Psychic Corps, responsible for shutting down America's intelligence operations in Russia, retaliated by employing unheard-of mind-control technology to brainwash the ballistic missile operators in the United States. As the United States' missiles quietly self-destructed inside their underground silos, the American military found itself facing the brunt of the Soviet Union's invasion force.
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Shock and Awe: The world watches stunned as the Red Army sweeps through Washington, D.C.
May 18th, 1970, saw the United States invaded on three fronts. While Soviet tanks and soldiers swarmed across the Mexican border, the Atlantic and Pacific coasts came under attack by the Red Navy and the Red Air Force, which unleashed devastating missile attacks and bombing raids. By 6.00pm Eastern Standard Time, New York City, Washington D.C., San Francisco, and Los Angeles were facing attacks by dreadnought warships and zeppelin airship bombers, while the American army was powerless to respond. During the opening invasion the Red Navy destroyed the Statue of Liberty, prompting Romanov himself to issue a declaration to the entire world (using radio and telelvision stations under the influence of the Psychic Corps), speaking of Russia's power and urging the United States to surrender to the USSR. In the space of only one day, the once weak and overlooked Soviet Union had brought one of the planet's two superpowers to its knees, and as the hammer and sickle flew from the Empire State Building and the White House, the world watched in fear as a never-ending stream of Russian invaders poured into the United States.
 
Great, now we're at RA2. Like the way it seriousifys the game intro, and the way it avoided simply saying 'Yuri then proceeded to convienently disable the US's nuclear arsenal using a telephone with a curly straw glued to it'. Like the image of the Rhinos too (IIRC they looked like mutated Tiger tanks in a cutscene picture, though).
 
Well I actually kinda like better how he put the red alert II than what we see in the game, however I wish it lasted longer, cause a world war III that is fought on every continent with conventional war that last a year or two kinda feel weird (look I can do it one entry :D) after that I should put the Yuri revenge and the later part. Then i'll add the rest (should I start with character, technology or organisation?)

Just realize I should have use the web archive to get my picture right

Command & Conquer
Within days of the first landings of Soviet troops, the Red Army raced to secure urban strongpoints and key communications centres. The United States' major coastal cities - New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, and the capital Washington - were quickly overrun wihin, at most, thirty-six hours of the invasion. The capture of these cities provided the Soviet Expeditionary Force with vital ports to bring in reinforcements by sea, whilst simultaneously dealing the United States a major blow as the USSR's propaganda network lauded the Soviets' capture of America's biggest cities.

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Soviet ground forces sweep into the heartland of the United States as American forces retreat in disarray

The capture of America's major urban areas, though, was not as smooth as Soviet propaganda claimed. Los Angeles, which endured severe aerial bombing from Kirov airships on Day One, quickly disintegrated into rioting as the embattled American military and Los Angeles Police Department sought to hold back the tide of Russian troops while simultaneously supervising the evacuation of millions of refugees from the bombarded city. In New York, the Red Navy's destruction of key bridges prevented the Americans from rushing reinforcements into the city centre but also trapped an estimated six million people on Manhattan Island in the midst of Soviet missile strikes and strategic air bombing. Russian forces advancing through cities captured on Day One faced increasing insurgency as American civilians attacked Russian troops. In retaliation, Soviet forces responded with brutal repression, burning large areas of inner cities and imposing on-the-spot executions for civilians who attacked the invasion forces. As law and order broke down along the coast, street-fighting engulfed the cities.

Soviet forces rapidly conquered vast tracts of the United States
Eager to avoid becoming bogged down in the cities, Soviet ground forces recently debarked in the harbours raced into the American interior to capture inland cities and strike at American forces being rallied at air bases. In the densely populated north-eastern states, a tide of refugees from captured cities and those threatened by encirclement - chiefly Cleveland, Buffalo, and Pittsburgh - headed north to the safety of the Canadaian border. Clogged roads and an impending humanitarian disaster among the millions flooding into Vermont and Maine discouraged Soviet units from striking north, and instead commanders pushed west towards the cities of the Great Lakes. In California, social meltdown in Los Angeles drew in tens of thousands of Russian troops as impromptu riot police, blunting the Soviet attack towards San Diego. The Pacific North-West collapsed rapidly as the United States government, now based at the NORAD facility in Colorado, withdrew American units from the upper Rocky Mountains to reinforce American troops fighting in northern California. As American defences on the East and West coasts disintegrated, the Deep South became the focus of the defence of the nation. During the Second World War, the United States had constructed factories and military bases across the South in order to stimulate the regional economy and drag the impoverished, racist South out of its social rut. As a consequence, the South contained the bulk of the country's military infrastructure, a priceless asset to both the Soviet invasion force and the American military. The Soviet army in Mexico, which had started to cross the border into Texas on May 18th, swung eastwards towards Mississippi as a Cuban force landed at Miami and several divisions struck west from Charleston to seize the industrial heart of the South; the city of Atlanta.
As Soviet ground forces swarmed into the country, American defence forces began to rally from their frenzied retreats into the interior. Deprived of nuclear capabilities, the American military found itself forced to rely upon conventional weaponry to stem the tide of Russian invaders, and at military bases across the country, the United States Army prepared for a series of counter-attacks against the invasion. Realising that the seizure of so much densely-populated, urbanised territory had placed a severe logistics strain upon the Russians, the American military under General Thorn Carville commenced a sequence of lightning strikes at overstretched Soviet units. The first target, Colorado, presented the United States with its only victory thus far since May 18th. The American government had fled to neutral Canada as a Soviet tank army raced across the Great Plains, seizing Denver and the Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs. Overstretched from their rapid advance northwards, Soviet forces at Colorado were weakened and exposed, allowing an American counterattack which drove Soviet forces southwards into Oklahoma. An attack north of Sacramento on April 3rd resulted in the American recapture of that city. As the Soviet invasion began to encounter stronger resistance, the Psychic Corps deployed its new technologies.

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From bases in the American interior, the US military launched counterstrikes at overstretched and undersupplied Soviet forces

Psychic Beacons had been under development, in extreme secrecy, since the 1940's. A primitive and highly experimental prototype device had been used in Helsinki in 1951 to quell resistance to Stalin's occupation, and during the decades that followed, Yuri's researchers had continued development. The invasion of the United States soon came to rely on "The Helsinki Syndrome", as beacons dispersed psionic wavefronts in occupied areas to quell anti-Soviet activity. The Beacons, built in every populated area, were capable of brainwashing susceptible populations, effectively turning them into Soviet "drones". A shipboard beacon on the Potomac River in Washington D.C. had even turned President Dugan and America's five-star General Thorn Carville, and much of American military command, into drones, until a daring commander destroyed the beacon and whisked the country's political and military leaders to safety at the NORAD facility. Deployed in Los Angeles and New York, the Beacons quelled street-fighting and rioting and thus freed fresh units to recommence the assault on the United States. On June 6th, the Red Army captured Chicago while a second force seized St Louis, successfully dividing the remaining American territories in two astride the Misssissippi-Missouri River. As fighting raged in the Deep South and Arizona, the Soviet units encroached on the bulk of the "Free United States, located in the Midwest and Rocky Mountains. Unable to stem the advance, the government of President Dugan sought assistance from the global community.
"United We Still Stand"
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The European Union, rival of the United States for twenty years, saved its erstwhile nemesis by opening a second front and dispatching European armies to America

The Soviet Union's assault upon the United States had major effects upon the global community. Romanov was intensely eager to avoid other nations becoming involved in the war, and as a show of good faith had permitted personnel at United Nations headquarters to evacuate and reconvene in Toronto following New York City's fall to the USSR. The global situation by early June 1970, though, demanded responses from the nations of the world.
Throughout the 1960's, the United States had gradually lost popularity amongst other nations. Refusal to follow United Nations resolutions, ignorant flaunting of environmental accords and commercial treaties, militarisation, racial segregation, and lack of interest on the global space programme, combined with the high-handed arrogance of a succession of right-wing presidents uninterested in the world beyond America's borders, had ensured that by 1970 the United States was not a well-liked member of the international community. The European Union, America's rival superpower, complained bitterly about the United States' refusal to assist in rebuilding the USSR after the Second World War and openly criticised United States governments for their development of thermo-nuclear weapons, in flagrant disregard of global nuclear initiatives. China, still undergoing economic rejuvenation under United Nations supervision, resented America's lack of interest in Chinese development and reluctance to purchase China's exports. At the United Nations, Middle Eastern nations harangued the United States for America's constant meddling to establish a puppet state in the Palestinian Mandate Area. Human rights groups across the world vilified the White House for doing little to address the rampant racism and economic prejudice encountered by the United States' non-white population. Unpopular, antagonistic, and arrogant, the United States had seen a gradual improvement in its international image with the election of the liberal Democrat leader Michael Dugan as President in 1968, and upon the outbreak of war in 1970, international perceptions began to change. Dugan, popular worldwide following his defeat of the internationally-hated Richard Nixon in 1968, appealed to the world community to assist his people against a second wave of aggression from Moscow. The world's first "television war" brought the reality of Romanov's brutal invasion to the peoples of the world. Amongst the distress and panic of the Soviet invasion, the situation which did more than any other early event to mobilise global opinion was the impending humanitarian crisis as millions of refugees descended upon Canada.

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Supplying the invasion force in America required opening global sealanes, leading to bitter struggles on the islands of the central Pacific Ocean

Having lost her chief trading partner and fearing an invasion of Canada's sovereign territory, the government of the Commonwealth of Canada provided immense military and financial aid to the remnants of the American Army in Canada, providing equipment, supplies, and troops to bolster the crippled remnants of the American Army and establish strong lines of defence along Canada's vulnerable eastern border with the chaotic United States. On July 24th 1970, Romanov issued a personal assurance to the government of Pierre Trudeau that the USSR had no intention of attacking Canada and that Soviet forces in the United States would remain five miles south of the Canadian border at all times. This in fact proved to be a genuine statement, as Romanov feared the consequences of attacking Canada; an invasion of Canada would badly overstretch Soviet forces in eastern America, while Romanov feared that an invasion would prompt the United Kingdom and its dissolved empire to come to the aid of the former British Dominion, backed up by the forces of the European Union. Fearful of this possibility, Romanov indeed lept his troops away from Canada, but Trudeau's government, fearing an invasion and the economic catastrophe of a future USA ruled by the USSR, provided immense material and financial aid to American forces which had taken refuge across the Canadaian-US border. Bolstered by Canadaian troops and equipment, the remnants of the American military in Canada launched an amphibious assault across Lake Michigan in August 1970, to liberate Chicago. During street-fighting in the city, American forces discovered a prototype for an advanced "Psychic Amplifier", a device so powerful it could potentially mind-control every human being on the North American continent. While American troops distracted Soviet forces in the city centre, agents of the Candadian Security Intelligence Service managed to destroy the machine before it was activated, but in the process, angered the Russians into massive retaliation. In an effort to frighten the remnants of the American army into surrendering and scare Canada into submission, the Red Army's front-line commander in the United States, General Vladimir, detonated a nuclear warhead in Chicago itself. The bomb destoyed not only the city centre, but also the army which had just liberated it, and many Russian troops. The destruction of Chicago plunged the United States into despair, as it became clear that the Soviet Union would rather destroy America than lose it. With the nation split in two, over half of it occupied, Canada unable to commit more forces, and the only successful counter-attack against the Soviets reversed, a Soviet victory appeared to be inevitable.
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The Reykjavik Summit gave birth to an alliance which spanned continents and formed the basis of an early Global Defence Initiative

Apparent salvation came for the United States in November 1970, when President Dugan met with the European Council to discuss a military exchange. Initially, the European Union had been reluctant to enter the war, remembering the bloodshed of the war against Stalin and America's slowness to come to Europe's aid in 1950. Indeed, many European leaders secretly expressed satisfaction at seeing the complacent and meddling United States faced with an invasion on her home soil. However, the realities of the war required a more sympathetic approach. At an emergency meeting of the European Parliament in Strasbourg on October 29th 1970, European Members of Parliament demanded that the Union come to America's aid, fearing that a Soviet victory in the United States would not only cause immense loss of life in America and lead to an invasion of Canada, but more worryingly, would leave Europe alone to face an unstoppable USSR. At a summit meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland, on November 7th, President Dugan met with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, French President Reynard Lyon, and German Chancellor Helmuth Kohle to discuss the possibility of an aid package for the beleaguered United States. The European leaders' main fear was that if the Union entered the war, Romanov would unleash his nuclear missiles, only recently revealed to the world, against European cities. At Reykjavik, the European Union and the United States brokered a deal by which elite American forces would disable the missiles at their bases in Poland, which had split from the European Union in 1968, in exchange for desperately-needed financial and military aid for the USA. Tanya Adams, who had commanded the European Commando Corps in the Second World War (and whose ageing process had been stunted by the chronosphere device) led an expedition into Poland shortly after New Year's Day 1971, disabling the Russian missiles at their silos. Freed from the threat of a nuclear attack, the European Union opened a second front by sending the European Army to attack Russian forces in Poland and Romania. While this front distracted Russian forces in America, the European Council channeled immense material and financial resources to the exiled American government in Montreal, dispatching tens of thousands of troops, billions of Euros, and vas quantities of equipment to defend Canada and bolster the weakening American army. Despite America's desperate military position, Tanya was able to coerce Dugan into rejecting General Lyon's offer of assuming command of the remnants of the American army, instead supporting the same general who had rescued Dugan from psychic control in Washington.
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Soviet attempts to intimidate neutral nations using widespread propaganda backfired as nations sided with the beleaguered United States

Alongside financial aid, the European Union provided scientific assistance to the United States. Professor Albert Einstein, the German genius whose chronosphere device had greatly aided the European Alliance in the last war, provided the United States military with designs, prototypes, and machinery for "Prism Defence", a military technology capable of blunting Soviet tank attacks with relative ease. Making extensive use of Prism Towers, the Americans were able to recapture Washington, DC, marking the beginning of a turning-point in the war.
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With the Red Army's best units stranded in the United States, Romanov's armies were unable to prevent the United Nations from striking at the USSR itself
In late February 1971, the United Republic of Korea, with United Nations support and reinforcements, launched an amphibious invasion across the Sea of Japan, seizing Vladivostok and driving into Kamchatcka, in a mirror campaign of the Pacific Allies' invasion of the USSR in 1952. Soviet ground forces in the region succeeded in driving Korean troops back to the coastline, but were unable to cause significant damage to the Korean fleet, forcing Moscow to retain large forces in the east to protect against future assaults. The Soviet Atlantic fleet, crucial to the supply of Russian forces in the eastern United States, found itself increasingly unable to break out of the Norwegian Sea, denying crucial supplies and reinforcements to Russian troops in America, as fewer and fewer supply ships slipped through the net of European aircraft and warships. With the Atlantic route closed, the Red Navy launched a major attack on Pearl Harbor and the Hawaiian islands in an attempt to open the Pacific sea lanes to Soviet convoys. After initial successes, the Red Navy was beaten back by Allied ships, coinciding with American victories at St. Louis in Missouri. St Louis, the strategic linchpin for the entire southern United States, had become home to a large psychic beacon controlling soldiers and civilians across the southern United States. Following an intense battle and the discovery that the Soviets had been executing all civilians immune to the psychic waves, St. Louis fell to the American army. As the final pockets of Soviet occupation forces were pushed out of the southwest, a Californian research facility was captured by the Russians, providing the Soviet Union with blueprints for Prism technology. A hidden Soviet base built in the Mayan ruins of the Yucatan in Mexico sought to duplicate the technology, but was destroyed by an elite force of American and European marines.
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1971 saw Russian forces faced with increasing attacks on all fronts
By late 1971, the United States had largely been liberated from the invasion and Soviet forces were being rapidly evacuated from the continent. However, the European Union had suffered a series of reverses at Russian hands. Since the end of the Second World War in early 1954, the European Union had been obliged by public pressure, financial constraints, and a global ethos of demilitarisation to maintain much smaller military forces than the USA, whose unnecessarily bloated military budget had been the cause of much Euro-American tension from 1954 to 1970. As a consequence, the European Union's Unified Military Operations (UMO) forces sent to protect the Union's borders in the east were not strong enough to mount a meaningful invasion, whilst their concentration in the east left Europe's southern fronts woefully unprotected. Anticipating land battles with Romanov's ground forces in Poland and Romania, the Union was unprepared for the World Socialist Alliance's assault on their former benefactors.

"Stockholm Syndrome" - Life in the United Soviet States of America
The years 1970-1972 were dominated by the ongoing war across North America, but much was also taking place behind the front lines, as the USSR sought to mould the conquered United States in its own image.
Of primary importance to the Soviet Union was the need to establish a domestic government in America to administer the conquered areas, but due to military considerations, this native administration was never created. Instead, Soviet government ministers transferred to the United States ruled the occupied areas according to Moscow's edicts. Small towns in conquered regions remained under the governance of city councils and municipal authorities, who were kept under close surveillance by occupation forces. In the larger cities, martial law was implemented to prevent further outbreaks of civil unrest. The east and west coasts, cut off from one another, were governed seperately - the east coast was governed directly from Washington in order to utilise pre-existing administrative structures, until the Allies' recapture of the city forced a move to Baltimore; the seat of Soviet government for the west coast was San Francisco, whose early capture at the beginning of the war had allowed the city to survive the invasion virtually unscathed. From the dual capitals of the USSA, Romanov's viceroys worked to remodel America.
"Allons enfants de la Patrie"
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Weakened by Europe's military concentration in the east, UMO forces defending France were unable to stop the World Socialist Alliance's lightning strike towards Paris
Since the end of the Second World War, North Africa had become increasingly unstable as French and Italian colonies demanded independence, allowing Romanov's World Socialist Alliance to heavily influence fledgling sovereign governments. Libya, granted independence from the Italian Empire in 1944, had drawn increasingly close to the USSR throughout the turbulent 1960's, clashing with the European Union over the Suez Crisis. In French Algeria, tensions between French colonists and the French government mounted as hardline French generals objected to French decolonisation in the aftermath of the Second World War. In September 1971, these tensions reached breaking-point. Utilising Russian military equipment passed through an intermediary member of the World Socialist Alliance - the Republic of Iraq - Libyan and Algerian forces launched a direct invasion of France. On September 16th, mutinous paratroopers of France's colonial army in Algeria, the OSA, seized airstrips around Toulon and Marseille prior to an amphibious landing by troops later that day. With the bulk of the French army fighting in Romania, the Libyan and Algerian invasion forces were able to strike northwards towards Paris with devastating speed, while military forces from across the European Union raced to defend the French capital. General Reynard Lyon's government evacuated Paris on September 21st, relocating to Lille as Libyan forces entered the city. Paris, defended by only two infantry battalions and a small unit of Farmann FM-7 tanks, was quickly overrun, and with the city's small garrison clustered in Place Esling to defend the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Marine, Libyan tesla troopers were able to reach the Eiffel Tower with relative ease. As Algerian troops distracted French units on the opposite bank of the Seine, Soviet engineers and tesla troopers rigged the Eiffel Tower itself as a vast Tesla Coil, unleashing devastating electrical attacks against Allied troops and French civilians, forcing thousands of Parisians to flee their homes as the monument showered central Paris with electrical charges, even destroying the Monumental Arch in the Champs de Mars, built to commemorate the 1950 Battle of Paris.

On September 22nd, after a day of electrical attacks had wrought destruction comparable to that of the Battle of Paris in 1950, agents of the French Secret Service succeeded in polarising the Eiffel Tower, earthing all electrical discharges and ending the electrical attacks. As French, Belgian, British, and Dutch units combed the city for Libyan troops, General Lyon's government returned to the city, to be greeted by the news that the UMO forces protecting the German-Polish border had been overwhelmed, and that a large Russian tank army had broken into Germany. Within two weeks, Russian tanks had penetrated the Black Forest in Bavaria, in a suicidal attempt to destroy Professor Einstein and his laboratory, and strike at the vulnerable heart of the Union, before pursuing UMO forces cut their supply lines. In a desperate battle outside Nuremberg, German and Czech forces succeeded in holding the Soviet tanks long enough for the European armoured units pursuing the Russians catch up, trapping the unwieldy Soviet vehicles between two Allied forces. With the surrender of the remaining tank crews, UMO forces succeeded in clearing Bavaria of Russian troops while European forces sealed the border. As more Soviet units evacuated from the United States arrived in the USSR, the European Union requested the services of General Thorn Carville, the United States' most efficient strategist, intending to apply his experience of fighting with small units in order to protect the European border against theis steadily strengthening opponents. While preparing to leave for command in Germany, General Carville was assassinated in the Pentagon by a Soviet suicide bomber known only as "Crazy Ivan". Despite his loss, the European Allies in Germany were able to hold the border, and by Christmas 1971, under the command of British General Maximillian Forrest, had pushed across the Russian border. However, during this stage, the Soviets unvieled their Apocalpyse tank, a descendent of the Mammoth Tank, a behemoth with anti-air capability and devastating firepower, which had been field tested in prototype form at the early stages of the war. Allied forces worldwide were barely able to withstand devastating Apocalpyse attacks, but fortunately for them it was not produced in sufficient quantity to turn the tide.
Keys to the Kremlin
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Allied "Grizzly" tanks strike back at weakened Soviet units in New England
In order to end the war quickly and avoid a repetition of the last Allied invasion of Russia, the Allies decided to launch a sneak attack into the lightly-defended city of Moscow itself. Observing the crushing effects that Libya's small army in racing towards Paris had had on the European Union, Allied commanders developed a strategy to chronoshift a small but elite army into Moscow itself, capturing Premier Romanov and his cabinet, and forcing the recall of Soviet military units towards Moscow; which itself would allow European and American forces in Eastern Europe to sweep into the USSR. Professor Einstein announced that he had found the perfect place within the Earth's magnetosphere to construct the desired Chronosphere, but it was located in the Florida Keys and thus only a few kilometers from Soviet Cuba. In a large-scale offensive, Allied forces poured into the Keys and fortified the small islands against desperate Soviet attacks. A nuclear strike from Cuba was almost launched, and to prevent it a small-scale invasion of Cuban territory was mounted to take out the nuclear missile silos.
At Carville's funeral in June 1972, President Dugan secretly announced to his commanders that the time was right for the world's first large scale Chronosphere invasion. As many Allied forces as possible were to be chronoshifted from the Florida Keys into Moscow. The Allied army directly teleported into Moscow, and pushed forward in their objective to capture the Kremlin, despite the presence of a Russian nuclear missile silo and an Iron Curtain, an improved version of the device seen fielded during the Second World War, in the city. The Battle of Moscow, despite taking the Russians off guard, was one of the bloodiest and most hard-fought of the war. An unnaturally long Russian winter had lasted into the spring months, and braving Arctic conditions, dense urban-combat, and large numbers of the Soviet Union's best forces, the Allied army was able to fight its way to the Kremlin and destroy all units guarding it, enabling a large group of Navy SEALs to chronoshift directly into the Kremlin and storm Romanov's palace. On July 30, 1972, the Allies succeeded in storming the Kremlin in Moscow; Premier Romanov was captured by Special Agent Tanya Adams and an elite force of marines in his office, while Allied troops combed Moscow for the members of Romanov's Politburo. By July 2nd, Romanov's entire cabinet had been captured, with the exception of his mysterious Minister of Internal Affairs and Chief of the Psychic Corps, Yuri. On July 4th 1972, Romanov signed an armistice with the Allies in Stockholm.
 
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Great as always. I spotted some minor contradictions to the game in there, but what the heck, it's still brilliant. ;) Anyway, I personally think that you should start with the organizations after you do the last bit, or whatever's the most extensive. Oh, and some pictures aren't appearing, anything you can do about that?
 
Well the picture appear to me so I don't know what your problem...do you see the link? any other people had that problem?

Rusty 2005 said:
The Yuri Movement, 1972-1973
"We fight a life or death struggle against the powers of capitalism. Only complete faith in Yuri can protect you. Only total compliance will save the lives of you and your family. Empty your mind, and submit to my will..."
~Yuri, in 1972 propaganda film broadcast across the Anglophonic world
The World Wide Web: Yuri's Dominators, 1972

"For thine is the kingdom, The Power, and The Glory": Yuri Andreavich Molotov, c.1970
The end of the war in 1972 again shifted the balance of world power. Although the United States, the European Union, and their allies across the world had emerged victorious, the USSR remained a strong entity with large military forces based around the world. Instead of liberating the world from Russian forces before invading the USSR, the Allies' chronoshifting maneuvers had ended the war in a bizarre way, eliminating Russia's central military and political command structure but leaving armies, political institutions, and occupying forces intact.


The Allies immediately faced numerous challenges, most prominent of which were the need to repatriate Soviet military forces across the globe, and select a new leader to co-ordinate Russia's intact bureaucracy and government until the United Nations could dismantle the Communist Party once and for all. In the chaos of late 1972, as the Allies and Russians struggled to locate and intern surrendered Soviet troops and manage Russia's internal affairs, the suspicious disappearance of Romanov's Chief Advisor, Yuri, as well as the disappearance of thousands of workers and vast quantities of industrial material from the USSR's research laboratories in the Ural Mountains, was not investigated thoroughly.

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The Kremlin, seat of the Tsars, in the grip of the Yurian Incident

"In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone... I am great King of Kings, saith the stone...."

In November 1972, Yuri surfaced. CIA operatives uncovered coded frequencies directed at cities across the globe, emanating from an unknown point. Although intelligence analysts could not decode the transmissions, the frequencies were recognised as belonging to the same wavelengths associated with the now defunct Psychic Corps. In Washington D.C., President Michael Dugan was informed of the discovery and rushed to an emergency meeting at the White House, where Yuri himself, via a satellite linkup, established video contact with the President. Wary of the strength of Yuri's new movement, Dugan attempted to placate the renegade leader by offering him the position of Secretary-General of the chaotic Soviet Union, but to no avail. Instead, Yuri revealed the existence of a network of psychic machinery which his followers had constructed across the world during the Third World War and the subsequent chaos of the Allied victory. On November 21st 1972, at 03.17 GMT, Yuri activated the network.
Yuri's command activated a network of 47 seperate devices located around the world. The devices, known as Psychic Dominators, unleashed a tidal wave of psychic energy which brainwashed billions of people into becoming mindless drones of the Yuri Movement. However, several of the Dominators did not function correctly, including the device in San Francisco, which was damaged during an air raid by American warplanes. As Yuri's followers rushed to activate the remaining damaged devices around the world, San Francisco became the site of the most bizarre incident in twentieth-century history: time travel.

Tempus Fugit
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As United Nations peacekeepers desperately attempted to hold back the Yurian catastrophe, the Global Defence Initiative devoted immense resources to crushing the cultists
Professor Albert Einstein, present in San Francisco to co-ordinate projects at the California Technical Institute, donated his latest project to the United States military - the Temporal Displacement Vehicle, a scaled-down version of the Chronosphere device. Using this machine, Tanya Adams and several of her elite commandoes were able to chronoshift two years back in time, to the morning of the Soviet invasion of San Francisco on May 18th 1970.
Armed with knowledge of the future timeline, the time travellers were able to inform the United States military and political command of the locations, movements, and strengths of the Russian forces swarming into the United States. With this superior intelligence, the United States and the European Union together succeeded in repelling Russian attacks in North America and Europe, and with Allied armies massing around the Soviet Union, Romanov agreed to an armistice in June 1972.

Romanov's surrender, however, did not greatly alter the outcome of the war. Despite their superior intelligence, the Allies were not able to shorten the course of the war or reduce its casualty rate. In essence, all that was changed from the initial sequence of events was that Romanov agreed to an armistice before the United States could chronoshift an army into Moscow and capture him. In spite of their efforts, the travellers from the future had been unable to greatly lessen the destruction of the war.

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Overstretched and outnumbered, the United Nations GDI faced serious threats from the Yuri Movement
During the war, Yuri again remained an obscure and vague character, continuing to use his Psychic Corps to harrass the Allies. However, the Corps was unable to construct its Psychic Dominators across the planet, as the Allies were made aware of their future locations by the travellers. The only exception was the construction of a Dominator outside Cairo, one which had not functioned properly at the beginning of the Yuri Incident and so had not been known of by the time travellers, who subsequently remained unaware of its existence. Angered at the existence of only one Dominator, Yuri ordered his Corps to capture Professor Einstein from his facility in Germany, relocating him to Cairo and forcibly coercing him into improving the range of the device. Fortunately for the people of Egypt and the Alliance, Einstein was rescued from the site by Tanya, revealing that he had instead sabotaged the Dominator. As the Allies evacuated Einstein, the Dominator collapsed, ending Yuri's hopes of psychically enslaving the world.
Yuri's Revenge
The Messiah: Unified Terranism and the Yurian Movement
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Yurian military forces posed a severe threat to the Global Defence Initiative
Despite the loss of the Dominator, the Yuri Movement, now a large organisation budding from the Psychic Corps, retained a great deal of weaponry, manufacturing equipment, and tens of thousands of loyal followers along with countless brainwashed drones. As the Movement's power gre, "Yurianism" gained a pseudo-religious status as fanatical followers of the Movement emerged in every nation on Earth, working in secret to cripple their nations and turn them to the Movement's control. Using his fanatical followers across the globe, Yuri contrived a scheme to clone world leaders and replace the planet's political elite with Yuri-loyal drones who would turn over organs of state power to the Yuri Movement. The Allies located the Movement's primary laboratory in Sydney, Australia, and during a hard-fought battle which reduced much of downtown Sydney to rubble, destroyed the cloning facility.
Meanwhile, diplomatic initiatives continued to bring the Allies and the Soviet Union closer together, and on April 1st 1973, the Heads of State of 192 nations, including Premier Romanov and President Dugan, met in London to sign a peace treaty between the USSR and the Alliance. As United Nations headquarters in New York City had been deemed susceptible to a Yurian terrorist attack, the world leaders convened at the Houses of Parliament in London, under strict secrecy and the tightest security precautions. Despite these endeavours, Yuri learned of the meeting's location and in a lightning move, launched an assault directly into London from the North Sea, crushing British defences and coming within only a few miles of Parliament. However, the British Army succeeded in repelling the Yurian attack, uncovering in the process evidence of the Movement's slaughter of brainwashed civilians in order to provide resources.

Following the attack on London, the United Nations formally announced the re-establishment of the World Alliance, formed from every member nation of the UN (including Romanov's new Russian Federation) in order to track down and destroy the Yuri Movement. While Russian ships hunted Yurian submarines in the Pacific Ocean, American forces liberated nuclear-ravaged Seattle from Yuri's army, which had been devastating the city in order to squeeze funds from the MassiveSoft Corporation. At the same time, Allied forces seized control of Hollywood, where mind-controlled workers had been producing disturbingly hypnotic pro-Yuri propaganda. In August 1973, the Russian Federation's intelligence network uncovered a hidden Yurian base on the tiny Micronesian island of Tak'weha, obscure and very carefully concealed from Allied satellites. As the island fell to the Russians, the world watched as the Russian Space Agency pursued a Yurian rocket and achieved mankind's first extra-terrestrial conquest, by destroying a Yurian base on the moon itself, built using Soviet funds and materials shortly after the opening stages of the war in 1970.
Endgame
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The United Nations GDI strove to unify Earth during the Yurian conflict
With the destruction of the Micronesian base and increasing numbers of Yuri drones gaining independance from psychic beacons, the power of the Yurian Movement gradually decreased. By the late summer of 1973, most of Yuri's followers had been gradually uncovered across the world, being imprisoned or killed in battle. In September 1973 the Alliance finally tracked Yuri and his remaining followers to the Antarctic Peninsula. In the largest battle fought against Yurian forces, a combined American, European, and Russian force overwhelmed the base and eliminated Yuri's final followers. Yuri himself was captured by the World Alliance while trying to flee to South Africa, and relocated to the United States.

Stripped of his cybernetic psychic-enhancing array, Yuri was transferred to the World High Court in the Hague, Netherlands, where his trial began on November 16th. With his psychic array taken from him, Yuri was unable to persuade the judges and on December 2nd 1973, the World Court found Yuri guilty of crimes against humanity. Although the United States demanded the death penalty, the European Union and Russian Federation succeeded in persuading the Americans into accepting life imprisonment, and on Christmas Day 1973, Yuri began his sentence in a Psychic Isolation Chamber, high in the Rocky Mountains. In a simultaneous judgement, the World Court had also proclaimed the Yuri Movement a criminal organisation, guilty of committing crimes against humanity and breaching the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights. Late 1973 saw the World Alliance track down and incarcerate all remaining Yurians, eliminating the barbaric movement once and for all.
Tiberian Dawn, 1973-1996
"One vision, one purpose: Peace, through power!"
~A slogan of the Brotherhood of Nod, broadcast in propaganda feeds circa 1995
Brave New World
The twentieth century had thus far proved the bloodiest in human history. By the middle of the 1970's, Earth was reeling from the impact of four apocalyptic events. Three world wars and the global meltdown triggered by Yurianism had claimed tens of millions of lives, drained nations' financial reserves, and shattered entire civilisations. Human society, teetering on the brink of final collapse, faced a very real threat as fears grew that a fifth cataclysm would forever shatter humanity. Political movements advocating planetary unification grew in popularity and at United Nations headquarters, the nations of Earth slowly moved towards closer unity.
In the aftermath of the Third World War and the Yuri Incident, he United Nations faced numerous challenges. Although the physical damage caused by the Third World War was less than that inflicted in the war against Stalin, economic repercussions were far greater. The Yuri Incident had resulted in a worldwide breakdown of trade and commerce, and economic recovery in the post-1973 world was unlikely to occur without intensive state intervention. The World Bank and the newly-formed United Nations Economic Reconstruction Initiative embarked on intensive government intervention to forcibly reboot global trade. In the United States, severe damage caused during the Soviet invasion of America prompted Congress to take virtual control of America's economy in order to assist with necessary reconstruction efforts. As the world struggled to rebuild its financial and commercial networks, the United Nations embarked on a series of disarmament drives aimed at prohibiting the use of high-tech weaponry. The impact of Yurianism had created a unique post-war political environment - rather than peace being declared with one or more nations far more powerful than others, Yurianism had affected all nations, leaving every country on Earth substantially weakened. In this peculiar political climate, United Nations disarmament drives met with very little opposition. Various technologies were ultimately banned - Yurian technology, prism devices, climate-manipulation devices, and various chronometric technologies designed largely by Professor Albert Einstein (who died in 1975 at the age of 94) were unanimously prohibited by the members of the General Assembly under the Damascus Accords. Controversial from the beginning, the decisions made in the Syrian capital on the future of technology placed global bans on many of mankind's most advanced - and most dangerous - technologies.

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In the face of global economic slumps, the United Nations once again turned to orbital construction to stimulate production and trade across Earth
The Damascus Accords prohibited the development and construction of nuclear weapons, and in order to safely dispose of Earth's few atomic weapons, the United Nations reassigned nuclear bombs to the resurrected global space exploration programme under Project Unity. Utilising resources and personnel from across the planet, the new Project far outsized its original predecessor. The reassigned atomic devices facilitated construction of a flotilla of Orion Drive-propelled space vehicles which grew to form the backbone of humanity's plans for manned trips to Mars, Venus, and the asteroid belt. In a gargantuan worldwide effort to stimulate production, trade, education, and political unification, the Earth Space Agency, a conglomerate of NASA, the ESA, RSB, and the Japanese Space Programme, commenced the construction of an orbital facility dubbed Unity Station Beta. The space station's original name was later adapted to Philadelphia, and the construction project quickly accelerated. The construction of a space elevator outside Mombasa, Kenya, permitted rapid building on the space facility, which increasingly stimulated the global economy as construction progressed.
Meanwhile, the United Nations had disbanded the Global Defence Initiative at the end of the war, but with a few remaining fanatics across the world devoted to restoring the Yuri Movement and the USSR, the second summit since the start of the war, in 1976, decided to form a special ops group designated Operations Group Echo: Black Ops 9, formed from the remains of the old GDI. Operations Group Echo was made a secret organisation from the public, and was deployed worldwide to help eliminate suspected terrorist cells. Being secret, it relied more on its agents than on military force.
To Boldly Go

By the late 1970's, Earth had largely stabilised as the United Nations' "Pax Terra", and increasing economic growth, ushered in an era of peace and prosperity. The damage of the Third World War and the Yurian Incident saw rapid reconstruction in the late 1970's. The rebuilding of America, was symbolised when, in 1977, a new Statue of Liberty was manufactured in France and, like its predecessor, installed in New York Harbour to mark the reconstruction of the United States. In the European Union, economic unification was symbolised in the opening of the Grand Trade Centre in Vienna in 1980. The United Nations, relying heavily on the global space programme to rejuvenate the world economy, commenced a series of satellite construction projects and in 1987, began performing experiments in ion beam focusing and satellite-based orbital defences, under joint administration and control by the Security Council and General Assembly, to guarantee an instantaneous global response to any future threats. Under the auspices of the United Earth Space Probe Agency, a prototype satellite-based ion cannon was launched into space in 1992. While the public reason for the cannon's construction was stated to be an orbital deflector against orbiting debris left over from the Yurian lunar conflict (and the decaying nuclear core of the UNV Sunrise), the cannon also fulfilled a covert role as a first-strike device against global terrorist threats. The device's first tests, aimed at redirecting small meteors, were deemed successful, and the GDI assumed covert control of the ion device.
By the late 1980's and early 1990's, United Nations faith on Operations Group Echo was faltering. Due to its desire to remain secret from the public, the organisation's ability to mobilise was severely hampered. The single most significant threat to global stability, the rapidly-growing and elusive Brotherhood of Nod, gained disconcerting support in nations across Earth. The Security Council initially deemed Nod to be another minor faction, but when a scandal broke out concerning illegal manufacture of weapons by an America defence contractor in 1994, it was revealed that Nod had a significant military force, mostly consisting of recruits from old Third World countries, the former USSR, and remnants of the Yuri movement. Security Council intelligence on Nod revealed that it was seemingly led by a very mysterious man known only as 'Kane', who, worringly, matched the description of one of Stalin's more mysterious advisors from the era of the Second World War.
As the United Nations struggled to contain increasing attacks by the Brotherhood, Operations Group Echo precipitated a global scandal following a coup d'etat in Baghdad by the Baa'thist Party and its leader, Saddam Hussein. Hussein, who modelled himself on Stalin, prepared to strike into Kuwait and disrupt the delicate global oil situation. Believing that Hussein had links not onlt to the Brotherhood but also to suspected remnants of the Yurian Movement, the Security Council despatched Operations Group Echo to enforce global defence policies and remove Hussein from power. The attempted assault failed catastrophically, and Hussein invaded Kuwait. The resulting Gulf War revealed extremely dangerous tensions as the newly-reconstitued Global Defence Initiative, which was formally re-established in October 1995, fought with Hussein's armies and Brotherhood forces. With Operations Group Echo disbanded in disgrace, the new GDI, commanded by General Mark Shephard, enjoyed significant land, sea, and air defences as well as access to the new, highly secret ion cannon satellite network, in exchange for much greater public involvement in the organisation's affairs. As Brotherhood terrorist attacks increased, the new GDI initiated research projects into older technologies, including new Mammoth Tanks, descended from the Second World War Mammoth tank and the Third World War Apocalpyse tank. The GDI immediately began to focus its efforts on the Brotherhood of Nod, which was spreading rapidly and initiating widespread recruitment campaigns worldwide. The United Nations' defeat of Hussein's Iraq forced the GDI to weaken its worldwide security forces in order to garrison the nation, stretching GDI abilities as the Brotherhood launched new attacks across Earth.
De Re Metallica
In November, 1995, an event occured that would change the world forever. A meteorite landed near the River Tiber, in Italy, and locals soon reported strange green crystals appearing. Within minutes of the impact, the Italian government issued a general biohazard warning and commenced an evacuation of the metropolitan district of Rome. The European Union initiated an investigation into the meteor, and samples taken for study at the CERN laboratory complex in Switzerland hinted at unforeseen dangers. Crystalline elements in the meteor, previously unknown to terrestrial science, posed inherent radioactive and catalytic dangers as compounds in the substance reacted with atmospheric gases to produce dangerous levels of Theta Radiation. From CERN in late August 1995, Dr Ignatio Morbius, Professor of Molecular Chemistry at the University of Padua and Director of the European Bureau of Scientific Research, appeared on a television interview in which he hinted at the grave dangers of the new element. Named "Tiberium" in reference to the river by which the meteor had fallen, the substance was quickly classified by the European Union as a toxic element. The World Health Organisation and United Nations Global Defence Initiative isolated a large area around the impact site in order to establish quarantine procedures, using massed excavation to clear a trench around the meteor and affected areas, and prevent the chemical reactions from spreading into Italy.
As of the time of writing, the United Nations' efforts to contain the spread of the mineralogical disaster have thus far been unsuccessful. The European Union, United States, Russian Federation, and Republic of China have all reported the appearance of Tiberium contamination in their respective home territories. In May 1996, eighty-six member-states of the United Nations declared that Tiberium contamination had been located in their nations. The Brotherhood of Nod has claimed responsibility for illegally smuggling Tiberium deposits in order to infect nations across Earth, as well as responsibility for a wave of bombings in major cities worldwide. As a result of this, Interpol and the Global Defence Initiative are focusing their efforts on eliminating this elusive terrorist organisation, but as Brotherhood attacks break out across Earth and Tiberium contamination spreads, the United Nations finds itself in an increasingly desperate position.
Procedures are currently being implemented at United Nations headquarters in San Francisco to unify the nations of Earth under a single government that, if achieved, will include every member of the UN and encompass the planet under emergency government by the United Nations General Assembly. The European Union and Russian Federation have jointly commenced construction of a headquarters complex on the Svalbard islands, safe from Tiberium contamination, to act as a headquarters for the proposed Federal World Government. The Global Defence Initiative has relocated many command operations to the Philadelphia, orbiting some 24,000 kilometres above the planet. Substantial tracts of land across the planet face ecological threats as new studies reveal the toxic effects of Tiberium on human beings. The United Nations is preparing evacuations of infected areas in Europe, Africa, and America. As the world approaches the end of the twentieth century, it remains to be seen how the human species will respond, in the coming millennium, to a planet evolving beyond recognition.

Now the end of the TL, next one are organisation, the next parts have missing entry, so I guess you can feel free to put text to fill in or even expand the one already present

I kinda wished that the author would have decide not to clearly mention time travel would have prefer as if people of that Timeline were not aware(at least most people) that they could travel in time, in order not to have people of that timeline try to kill stalin (god know what hellish demon would have been releash in that case)

Mind telling me the contradiction you found? The only one I clearly remember is Carville death being permanent

There timeline seem to head to somewhere pretty sweet until that asshole Kane came around :(
 
Well the picture appear to me so I don't know what your problem...do you see the link? any other people had that problem?



Now the end of the TL, next one are organisation, the next parts have missing entry, so I guess you can feel free to put text to fill in or even expand the one already present

I kinda wished that the author would have decide not to clearly mention time travel would have prefer as if people of that Timeline were not aware(at least most people) that they could travel in time, in order not to have people of that timeline try to kill stalin (god know what hellish demon would have been releash in that case)

Mind telling me the contradiction you found? The only one I clearly remember is Carville death being permanent

There timeline seem to head to somewhere pretty sweet until that asshole Kane came around :(

I only found very minor contradictions--e.g. it saying that that the Canadian secret service destroyed the psychic amplifier, that the psychic beacon in DC was on a boat, little stuff like that. And I love the Tiberium connection. Didn't some other guy write that, though? The timeline's great, wonder what sort of story RA3'll have. Perhaps someone could come up with a timeline for that when it's released.
 
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