Big Red Alert TL (Not mine)

[Redem]

Well I'm not really much of a timeline writer and I think the Red Alert 3 story is another result of a timeline modification so it can't even be intergrate like Red Alert II in this story

(little note some of the picture aren't exactly the one that were there orignaly because I already put them on the wrong slot before and some are missing because I don't want repetition)

Organisations and Institutions (Red Napoleon)
The League of Nations
At the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, convened to establish a world order in the aftermath of humanity's most devastating war to date, American President Woodrow Wilson proposed the creation of an international forum for the discussion and resolution of global affairs. Supported by populations across the world, the League of Nations met for its first plenary session in London on January 10th, 1920. Its principles established in the Covenant of the League of Nations, the League sought to provide an alternative to the old method of diplomacy by creating a free and open forum in which any member could petition its grievances, allowing the international community to propose and implement peaceful solutions and thus prevent nations from going to war. The body also provided smaller nations, which were largely ignored by the world powers, to play an equal role in world affairs. The League furthermore sought, via its executive bodies, to eliminate the global drugs trade, slavery and human trafficking, the manufacture and trade of armaments, and to establish bodies for international labour forums, world courts, and global human rights organisations.
From its beginning, the League enountered difficulties. Following the death of President Wilson, the United States refused to join the League, setting a dangerous precedent as Great Britain and France were left, in the words of economist John Maynard Keynes, as "unhappy nursemaids to the bastard child of Versailles". Disagreements over racial equality clauses led to the Empire of Japan seceding from the League in 1930. European nations, concerned that their national sovereignties were in danger of being overshadowed by the League, only gave grudging support for the body. World leaders' perceptions of the organisation grew increasingly unfavourable as wars in China and Ethiopia undermined the League's apparent goal of peaceful resolution. Despite such setbacks, the League did achieve significant successes in its early days, resolving a number of territorial disputes, successfully establishing executive limbs to address global human rights issues, and persuading nations to agree to disarmament treaties. The organisation's international image was strengthened in 1926 when the Federal Republic of Germany applied to become a member; the accession of Germany greatly boosted the League's image as a benevolent organisation offering equality and fairness, and established a precedent for future applications.
By the early 1930's, the international economic depression had resulted in increasing hostilities, most notably in eastern China, where Nationalist China was struggling to hold off an invasion by the Empire of Japan. As the economic decline grew ever-more alarming, Josef Stalin's withdrawal of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from the League sparked international uproar. League member-states became increasingly aware that the USSR could pose a serious threat to world peace in the coming years.
The League was greatly strengthened in 1942 when American President Franklin Roosevelt submitted an application requesting that the United States of America be permitted to join the organisation. The United States' accession to the League coincided with increasing diplomatic intiatives in Europe as Britain, France and Germany spearheaded initiatives to draw Europe closer together in the face of Stalinist aggression. The formation of the European Alliance somewhat undermined the League's position but the Alliance, aware that it needed to project an image of benevolent internationalism in order to secure support from the rest of the world, maintained its individual international commitments to the League.
The outbreak of the Second World War in 1946 placed the League in a difficult position. While respect for the organisation had fallen due to the League's inability to prevent another global war, populations across Europe and America were aware that the League had tried its utmost to prevent a conflict, and that the League could not be blamed. Motions to abandon the League were rejected as politicians in Europe sought to strengthen the international organisation in the hope of garnering support from the United States, South America, and Asia. Throughout the early years of the war, the League continued in attempts to mediate between the USSR and the European Alliance. As the war continued, it became apparent to increasing numbers of the League Executive Council that the organisation required major restructuring. The Soviet Union's westward drive into Europe threatened the stability of the entire world, and League delegates began calling for forceful action in order to prevent a worldwide political meltdown. Internal restructuring began in the summer of 1950, and on November 12th of that year, Secretary-General Sean Lester officially announced the renaming of the organisation into the United Nations, a greatly restructured version of the League. The renaming ceremony marked the official end of the League - while the organisation had been modified rather than dissolved and replaced, the name League of Nations ceased to appear in official publications from November 12th onwards, legally signifying the end of the old League. The League's principles and goals continued to be served under the banner of the United Nations.
From 1922 to 1948, the League was headquartered as the Palace of the Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. The Palace held the League Secretariat, Council, and General Assembly, and was the setting for League activities for twenty-six years. The building was evacuated in May 1950 as Soviet troops approached Geneva, and the League's headquarters were temporarily re-located to Casablanca, Morocco. Following a ballistic attack by Soviet Semyorka-Katyusha rockets in April 1951, the Palace of the Nations was largely destroyed. New headquarters for the newly-restructured organisation were offered by the Rockefeller family, who donated a portion of land on the east side of Manhattan Island for the construction of a new complex. United Nations Headquarters opened on October 3rd 1952, effectively replacing the Palace of the Nations which has since become a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The United Nations
The United Nations Organisation came into existence on November 12th 1950 as a restructure of the League of Nations. The "UN", as it came to be known in the anglophonic world, inherited the majority of the League's organisations and structures. The Covenant of the League of Nations was officially replaced on the same day, by a General Assembly vote, with a newly-worded and significantly different set of principles, outlined in the United Nations Charter. Aiming to create a more forceful organisation which could effectively respond to threats to world peace, the UN Charter outlined the creation of an international peacekeeping force composed of military units from selected member-states under a United Nations commander; this structure was a slightly-modified version of the European Alliance's Unified Military Operations, which operated within similar guidelines. Units of Peacekeepers played major roles in Africa, South America, and China as the war against Stalin continued.
Military operations, though, were not the primary goal of the United Nations. From its new headquarters in New York City, the executive bodies of the UN continued the League's efforts to mediate and encourage peace. The restructuring of the late 1940's had changed the role of old League bodies. The General Assembly of the League continued largely unmodified into the new United Nations, as the primary forum for world diplomats. Other bodies, though, had changed. The Secretariat of the League was modified into the Security Council, a new high executive composed of ten member-states. Permanent seats on the Security Council were held by; the United Kingdom (the nations of the European Alliance continued to act individually with the UN, as they had done with the League), the Republic of France, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Empire of Japan, and the United States of America. The six temporary seats were granted to other nations on a rotary basis, although the Republic of China held a temporary seat uninterrupted from 1951 to 1959. The office of Secretary-General continued, albeit with greater executive powers, from the League into the United Nations.
Adhering to the principles of the Charter, the United Nations lent diplomatic support to the European Alliance and its increasing cadre of international allies - the so-called "World Alliance" - in their fight against Stalin. Across the globe, Peacekeeprs fought alongside Allied military units and provided essential support units in occupied territory. When Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold forbade Peacekeepers from fighting in front-line duties, their support role proved invaluable in liberated areas, projecting an image of international liberation as opposed to conquest by the World Alliance, in addition to freeing up Allied troops to continue engaging Soviet units. At the end of the war, Dag Hammarskjold, representing the United Nations, co-signed the document of the USSR's capitaulation in Moscow. His signature passed into history for being placed above the signatures of Dwight Eisenhower and Gunther von Esling, signifying not only the greater importance of the United Nations over the United States and the European Alliance, but also of the victory of peaceful diplomacy over military action.
During the 1950's the United Nations co-ordinated global reconstruction programmes aimed at rebuilding Europe, Russia, and China. The organisation's role increased further during the early 1960's as the European empires began to disband and grant their colonies independence. The rapid emergence of many new nations across the world prompted a further restructuring of the General Assembly in order to accomodate dozens of new member-states. Under Secretary-General U Thant, the United Nations commenced an international space programme which gre into Project Unity, a short-lived but symbolic initiative which resulted in the construction of humanity's first extra-terrestrial settlements.
The outbreak of the Third World War in May 1970 dealt a blow to the United Nations in terms of prestige and international perception, not least as television news broadcast images of United Nations headquarters in New York City under attack by Soviet forces. Several dozen UN personnel, including U Thant, were killed in the headquarters buildings during the Soviet Union's assault on New York. Peacekeepers evacuated the General Assembly, Security Council and all other United Nations bodies to Sanguery, Canada, to form an interim organisation. The threat of a Soviet invasion of Canada prompted the Peacekeepers to relocate the UN to Sydney, Australia, in July 1970. The newly-elected Secretary General, Kurt Waldheim of Austria, publicly declared the United Nations' condemnation of the USSR and its support for the United States, and throughout late 1970 worked to encourage the European Union to support the embattled United States while publicly attempting to mediate and seek a ceasefire between the opposing nations.
Following the end of the war in 1970, the United Nations returned to New York City for a brief period, until the Yurian Incident. Affected by the Incident, United Nations executive bodies were ineffective until 1973, although the United Nations Peacekeepers played major roles in combatting Yurian forces across the globe. At the end of the Incident, the United Nations reconvened in San Francisco. Newly-installed at United Nations headquarters overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge, the organisation worked to track down remaining Yurians and direct Peacekeeping operations across the globe while resuming its work to dismantle the USSR. In February 1975, the United Nations announced the formation of the Russian Federation, finally consigning the USSR to history.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
The European Alliance

The "Big Four" of the European Alliance. From left to right; Neville Chamberlain, Edouard Daladier, Konrad Adenauer, and Benito Mussolini
The birth of the "Continental Community" began with the Wall Street Crash in October 1927. The collapse of global commerce triggered a fiscal crisis across the developed world, and prompted the nations of Europe to pursue new schemes to reboot their economies.
Since the nineteenth century, political theorists had speculated on the formation of a pan-European community, but prior to the onset in 1927 of a global economic meltdown, few European politicians had been interested in such schemes and viewed continental union as a negative prospect. By the late 1930's, though, the economic crisis in Europe, excarbated by the United States' demand for debt repayments, obliged the nations of Europe to draw closer together. In March 1941, the Luxembourg Conference resulted in the creation of the European Coalition, a very loose economic union designed to ease trade between European nations by lowering tarriffs and import duties. In August 1941, the powers which had attended the Luxembourg Conference signed the European Economic Charter, an economic agreement which introduced a broad range of policies aimed at streamlining trade, encouraging prodution and export, and abolishing economic protectionism between the signatory nations.
The economic roots of European hegemony were, alone, not enough to unite the continent on a political footing. Increasing pressure from the East, though, accelerated the nascent movement for political unity. The USSR, largely unaffected by the Great Depression but reeling from self-inflicted economic catastrophes, had begun to involve itself in foreign affairs with increasing aggression. European leaders grew increasingly disconcerted at Soviet intervention in foreign affairs, fearing the spread of revolutionist ideology to the disaffected and fragmented colonies of the British and French empires. In response to the Kremlin's increasingly belligerent attitude in Asia and eastern Europe, the Alliance cemented internal relations and implemented initiatives to draw continental economies and political institutions closer together. The Sino-Soviet War encouraged the Alliance to seek the support of other nations across the world, and obliged the Alliance to begin to act as a single entity in external political matters. The League of Nations had initially supported the Alliance as a means of unifying the economically-unstable nations of Europe in the aftermath of the Great Depression and had been placated by the Alliance's policy of its member-states continuing to act as individuals on League matters. As the Alliance grew closer together during the mid-1940's though, the League expressed increasing dissatisfaction at the emergence of a new power bloc amongst the strongest members of the League. The outbreak of war in 1946 placed the Alliance in an extremely delicate position. Unsupported by the League and with only vague promises of neutrality from the outside world, the European Alliance underwent far-reaching internal changes as Stalin's armies rolled into Europe.
During its formative years prior to the war, the Alliance had been, politically, a loose organisation. Members feared their supercesion of their national sovereignty by the emerging Alliance, and besides economic co-operation, political and military co-operation had been extremely limited. The Sino-Soviet War encouraged changes in the Alliance's political structure as the dominant members - Great Britain, France, Italy, and Germany - sought to remodel Europe along their own lines of peaceful democracy. The dictatorships of Poland, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, and Italy itself weakened as state governments acquiesced to the Alliance by relaxing political systems in their nations in exchange for military support from the Alliance. As the Red Army pushed across eastern Europe in the late 1940's, the Alliance increased its political cohesion.
Since its inception, the political seat of the European Alliance had been in the city of Aachen, Germany, ancient capital of Charlemagne's Europe. At Aachen, the European Parliament, European Senate, and the European Council - three overlapping and intertwined legislative bodies - governed the nascent organisation. The military situation in late 1949 and early 1950, though, resulted in control of the Alliance's executive bodies being placed under the nominal control of the Chairman of the European Council of Ministers, the Grand Marshal and Supreme Commander of Allied Forces. Under the Grand Marshal, the Alliance became an almost military junta, as the Supreme Commander subordinated political and economic bodies to the European military in the face of complete collapse amongst surviving European militaries. Following the Battle of Paris, the Grand Marshal seceded several of his emergency powers back to the Council of Ministers, although for the remainder of the war, the Supreme Commander remained the de facto emergency leader of the Alliance.
By 1952, with the end of the war within measurable distance, the three executive bodies of the European Alliance convened at Strasbourg, new capital of the Alliance, to return the Grand Marshal's powers to the three parliamentary assemblies. In the summer of 1953, the Grand Marshal signed the USSR's surrender document on behalf of the European Alliance, his last official act as Chairman of the Council of Ministers.
In the aftermath of the war, the European Alliance faced immense problems. Europe lay in ruins following the Soviet invasion; most cities had suffered heavy damage, industrial and agricultural systems were incapable of returning to necessary production levels, and non-military transport and communications infrastructures were almost non-existent. In the immediate years following 1953, Strasbourg issued a series of edicts which united Europe in more significant ways than prior to or even during the war, as political unity was supplemented by genuine economic co-operations. Production and consumption became increasingly regulated and pan-European "pools" established, consisting of surplus goods produced by all nations which could be distributed to the most needy areas regardless of hos much they had contributed to the pool. The United States' assistance via Marshall Aid greatly increased the existing pace of rebuilding, and by 1960, civilian prodcution levels across the continent had either returned to, or had surpassed, the levels of 1946.
Europe's increasing economic prosperity in the post-war world - the "Golden Boom" - greatly impacted Europe's role in international affairs. The Alliance had emerged from the war as one of the military superpowers alongside the United States, but Europe's international affairs had shifted significantly by the early 1960's. Starasbourg's commitment to rebuilding the shrunken Soviet Union, in order to stimulate Eurasian commerce and build better relations with its former nemesis, led to increasing tensions with the isolationist United States, now consumed with America's own economic and social difficulties. The Alliance's commitment to the United Nations posed additional problems as European territores across the planet demanded that Europe oblige its wartime promises. Britain and France, which had made wild promises of postwar colonial independance in exchange for desperately-needed African, Indian, and Caribbean soldiers and supplies to fight off the Red Army, faced pressure from their empires and the United Nations to make good on their wartime promises. The dissolution of the empires was further hastened by British and French realisation that they could no longer afford to maintain their sprawling, archaic dominions and complaints from other European nations that the empires drained Europe's resources and gave Britain and France disproportionate power. Great Britain's grant of Ghanaian independence in March 1957 signalled the beginning of the "New World Order" - within days of Ghana's landmark independence, the European Alliance convened in Rome to reform itself. The Treaty of Rome, a document almost equal to the Alliance Charter in terms of its impact upon Europe, transformed Europe again as the European Alliance morphed into a new supra-national entity, the European Union.
The European Union
The evolution of the European Alliance into the European Union traces its roots to the economic chaos of post-war 1950's Europe. Economic growth and military disarmament in the aftermath of the Second World War affected Europe's international position. A richer, but less militarily strong Europe, found itself obliged by its wartime promises and economic shifts to dismember the crumbling nineteenth-century Empires which still controlled much of the world. Great Britain's grant of independence for Ghana was the trigger for European change, setting in motion procedures that brought the European Alliance closer together in anticipation of the economic impact of the new post-colonial global climate.
The Treaty of Rome, signed by the member-states of the European Alliance in Rome on March 22nd 1957 formally established the European Union. Inheriting the functions of the European Alliance, the Union emerged in Rome as a tighter, more co-operative evolution of the wartime organisation, built on the principles of social betterment for Europe and the world. Characterised by a greatly-lessened emphasis on military affairs, the Union encouraged pacific disarmament in order to lessen the chances of a third global war breaking out, a doctrine which resulted in intense tension between Europe and America during the 1960's.
The United States of America
The First World War proved a catalyst for the growth of recent history's most rapidly-expanding nation. The United States, previously and isolated and inward-looking nation focused on developing its own sprawling landmass, was propelled by its participation in the Great War into becoming one of the strongest Allied states, alongside France, Great Britain, and Italy. President Woodrow Wilson's dream of making the USA a more active member of the international community, though, was shattered when Congress declined to ratify the United States' entry into the League of Nations. Revolted by the carnage of the Western Front, American politicians expressed an eagerness to withdraw from global affairs and return to the USA's traditional policy of isolationism. While the 1920's saw American participation in naval disarmament treaties and a flow of American loans to the new Federal Germany, the United States passed the decade largely ignored by the world community and content to remain uninvolved in global politics.
The Wall Street Crash of October 1927 devastated America's economic health. Years of over-production and under-consumption led to falling share prices, and as shareholders rushed to sell their increasingly worthless shares in American companies and withdraw their savings from banks, the American economy collapsed literally overnight. The sale of worthless shares bankrupted companies, forcing high levels of lay-offs and a soar in unemployment. Within weeks, the effects of the financial disaster on Wall Street were being felt in Europe as America closed its doors to European imports in an effort to stabilise the American economy. The beginning of the 1930's saw the Western world, and most severely America, reeling in the Great Depression. In the United States, a third of the population had become unemployed, state finances were depleted, a series of dustbowls crippled the Midwest, and the intense poverty of the Deep South led to bitter racial tensions as the country fought for jobs and wages. Government intervention, although succesful, was limited. President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal aimed at mass public works projects to create employment, thus creating more wage-earners and stimulating economic growth. Trade with the rest of the world increased a little, but despite the efforts of the White House and Wall Street, the national economy remained in tatters.
The 1940's saw a slight increase in America's economic prospects. The foundation of the European Alliance had stimulated trans-Atlantic trade as the nations of Europe dragged themselves out of the Great Depression in preparation for their looming war with the USSR. The outbreak of war in eastern Europe in 1946 did not affect the United States in any significant way, but as the war in Europe appeared to favour the Soviet Union, the United States found itself becoming increasingly involved. The European Alliance, fighting a desperate defensive campaign against the USSR, came to rely increasingly on cheap, mass-produced goods from the United States to supplement European production. Under the Lend-Lease Programme, the United States agreed to provide goods to the Allies in exchange for access to global military bases operated by the Alliance. Lend-Lease started a broader-reaching change as the United States seized the opportunity to cure its financial malaise by selling to the embattled Alliance.
The United States' entry into the war in 1949 was traced to a variety of causes. An act of sabotage at Pearl Harbour, committed by pro-Soviet sympathisers and NKVD agents outraged Congress, but the deeper political and economic reasoning played a much more important role. By 1949, the Soviet Union had conquered much of Europe and was poised to attack into the rich nations of Western Europe. Tne White House recognised that the fall of Europe to the USSR would not only remove America's most valuable trading partners, but would leave the Soviet Union far stronger than the United States. Direct involvement in the war would greatly stimulate American industry and break the vicious cycle of economic malaise which had been crippling the USA since 1927. Appeals from the European Alliance for assistance in the war resulted in the American public pressuring the White House for involvement on the side of the Allies, and in late 1949, the United States entered the Second World War. During the next four years, the United States became increasingly vital in Allied campaigns in Europe and the Soviet Far East, while in America itself, the was transformed the economy. The ceaseless demand for goods of all description to feed and fuel the World Alliance's campaigns revolutionised America's malignant economy. War factories and training facilities were located to the Deep South to stimulate growth in the eternally-impoverished region, while the national demand for war workers absorbed the United States' millions of unemployed. The Federal government increased its authority over state legislative bodies; passing Executive Decrees to combat racial segregation, clamping down on communist movements, and making the government more involved in the economy as Washington set quotas and targets aimed at both supplying the World Alliance with goods and simultaneously rejuvenating American society. The end of the war in 1953 saw the United States transformed, having grown from an impoverished and isolationist nation to a country invigorated by industrial growth and with a similar level of international influence as the European Alliance.
In the years following the Second World War, the United States spearheaded initiatives aimed at rebuilding the shattered nations of the world and strengthening relations with the global community. This brief period of co-operations and growth - "the Golden Boom" - proved to be the high point of America's post-war image. Under the presidency of General Dwight Eisenhower, the nation entered an era of resentment and rivalry as the United States and its erstwhile partner, the European Alliance, saw their relations sour in the late 1950's. Disagreements between Europe and America over the future of Russia, the role of the United Nations, and international disarmament initiatives flared into open hostility during the breakup of Europe's empires. While Europe aimed to only grant colonial independence once each colony was judged capable of governing itself after European withdrawal, the United States presssured for immediate independence, regardless of whether the colony was ready for self-government or not. While the USA claimed to be following global decolonisation drives and that America's encouragement was in the best interests of the colonies, European nations accused the USA of using the colonies as pawns, breaking up the empires in an attempt to weaken Europe without caring what happened to the colonies after they had become independent. As the 1960's progressed, the colonial issue became increasingly abrasive for both sides of the Atlantic, while arguments over disarmament, adherence to United Nations resolutions, and global outrage at the United States' harbouring of nuclear weapons worsened America's international image. Within the USA itself, society felt the effects of the world's disgruntlement with an increasingly right-wing America as nations' trade with the USA slackened. Europe, China, the new USSR, and the old colonies of the European empires established complex commercial webs which boosted their economies while leaving the United States left out. While the international community encouraged the United States to join the new global commercial network, successive presidents were prevented from accession to the global trade web by an increasingly hostile political class in Washington. The economic boom of the 1950's had, by the early 1960's, petered out. As social issues took precedence over the economy, the United States became bitterly divided as African-Americans across the nation pressured the government for social change as the Civil Rights Movement accelerated across the country. The Civil Rights Act of 1965 established a new era of social segregation as America squabbled bitterly over national policies while the country fell behinf the world in economic growth. A short period of international involvement under President John F. Kennedy, who committed the United States to the global space programme and worked to thaw relations with the European Union, dissipated following the assassination of Kennedy and the accession of the right-wing presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixom; the latter of whom crippled US relations with Europe in the late 1960's. In 1968, the accession of Democrat and internationalist Michael Dugan saw the beginning of a gradual thaw in America's relations with the outside world. But by 1970, the United States enjoyed only frosty relations with Europe. In May of that year, the futility of trans-Atlantic squabbling became apparent as the Soviet Union, which had quietly grown while Europe and America argues with one another, launched an invasion of the United States.
The Third World War impacted the United States more than any other nation. Early defeats of the United States military precipitated a shift in American policy in Europe. The threat of a Soviet invasion of Canada and an impending humanitarian disaster in the refugee-clogged United States propelled the European Union into uniting with the USA to combat the new USSR.
The Republic of China
The Qing Dynasty, ruling family of the Celestial Empire since the late 1600's, oversaw the nineteenth-century decline of China as the world's most populous and advanced nation found itself eclipsed by the rise of the European Empires. Invasions, civil wars, ecological disasters and economic chaos wore down Imperial authority, and the Boxer Uprising of 1901 sealed China's fate as the Western powers encroached into the crumbling nation. In 1911, the Western powers removed the last Qing Emperor, transforming a thousands-years-old imperial sprawl into a weak and unstable Republic under President Sun Yat-Sen. The new Republic of China, abandoned to take care of its manifold problems alone as the Western world busied itself with the First World War, rapidly devolved into political chaos as rival factions across China vyed for control of the splintered nation. Throughout the 1930's, President Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalist government in Beijing struggled to combat powerful Chinese warlords in the interior while simultaneously attempting to hold back a series of invasions by the increasingly aggressive Empire of Japan. As the League of Nations worked to assuage the endless wars engulfing Kai-Shek's government, the Soviet Union turned its eyes to China as Stalin's foreign policy drive accelerated.
The unstable political situation in China encouraged the Kremlin to turn to China as an easy target for Stalin's new international involvement. Internicene strife between warlords in north-west China in early 1943 led to increasing numbers of refugees seeking asylum in the neighbouring USSR, and as the Nationalist government had no authority in the region, the Soviet Union was able to greatly exaggerate the situation in order to justify its subsequent involvement in the area. The Kremlin had, for some time, been backing the Chinese Communist Party under Mao Tse-Tung, whose "Long March" had almost brought Beijing under communist control. Supplying Mao's troops with weapons and equipment to recommence their march, the Soviet Union struck directly into Sinkiang province and the weak independent state of Mongolia. Within weeks, the Red Army had crushed local warlords and Nationalist armies, forcing Chiang Kai-Shek and his government to flee to Taiwan as Mao's communists seized Beijing. With the blessing of the USSR, Mao assumed control of China, and immediately signed a peace treaty with Stalin that ceded Mongolia and Xianjiang province directly to the USSR.

Mao Tse-Tung's Chinese Communist Party enters Beijing, establishing the short-lived Peoples' Republic of China
The new Peoples' Republic of China, buoyed up by Russian support, faced difficult challenges in its early years. Essentially a puppet of the Kremlin, Mao was forced to concede to the Soviet Union's plundering of China in order to fuel Soviet military buildup for their planned invasion of the European Alliance. Interference from the USSR resulted in Mao's cabinet devolving into a cabal of NKVD spies, and while Stalin was eager to plunder Chinese industry, he paid little attention to China's remaining warlords, who continued to fight Beijing as they sought to establish themselves in power. During the Second World War, the USSR's focus on Europe resulted in Mao being abandoned to fight China's internal battles while the Soviet Union's involvement in Chinese affairs dwindled to little more than a Russian desire to plunder China's resources to feed and fuel the Red Army.
The war came to Chinese soil in June 1952 when the United Nations despatched an army to seize Kowloon and Zhanjiang, while Chiang Kai-Shek led a Nationalist force from Taiwan to Fuzhou. The Empire of Japan, a recent member of the World Alliance, signed an accord with the Nationalist government and invaded China from Manchuko (Manchuria) in a march on Beijing. The United Nations army under General Douglas MacArthur seized Guangzhou, and by extension the richest provinces of China, in August 1952 while the Nationalists captured Shanghai and the Japanese approached Beijing. Invaded on three fronts, stripped of production facilities and military goods by the USSR, and stricken by civil wars in western China, the communist government in Beijing removed Mao from power in an NKVD-orchestrated coup d'etat. Within days, the NKVD coup was overthrown by a Nationalist putsch which transferred power back to Kai-Shek. As the United Nations army spread westwards to quell China's remaining warlords, the Japanese Army turned northwards to support a recent UN invasion of the Soviet Far East, allowing Kai-Shek's government to establish itself unthreatened in Beijing. The Chinese people, eager for peace after half a century of civil strife, showed an overwhelming support for the Nationalist government after United Nations-initiated referendums in December 1952. With Kai-Shek's government enjoying mass popular support, China entered a period of peace unparalleled in the nation since the beginning of the nineteenth century.
In the aftermath of the Second World War, China's position on the world stage grew rapidly. Recognising China as one of the most important nations of the world, albeit somewhat crippled, the United Nations initiated immense reconstruction programmes in the Republic of China. Having endured decades of internal strife, China's infrastructures had decayed significantly while Chinese industry had been stripped bare by a Soviet Union bent on continental conquest. Global investment in China soared as the World Bank lauded the potential of the nation, and by the mid-1960's, China's economy had strengthened substantially. International commerce skyrocketed at China gained lucrative contracts to supply the shrunken new USSR with goods and services to rebuild the shattered nation, fuelling growth and expansion in China as factories sprung up to provide Russia with manufactured goods and Moscow advertised endless employment opportunities in rebuilding Romanov's new Soviet Union.
During the Third World War, the Republic of China succeeded in remaining neutral. The new USSR, embattled in the United States and frantically attempting to keep the European Union out of the war, paid little attention to China during the two years of conflict. The United Nations, unwilling to open a new theatre of conflict in Asia, equally kept a diplomatic distance from the government in Beijing. The 1972-1973 Yurian Incident, though, hit China hard. The sprawling nation, home to 20% of the human species, was, like other nations across the planet, plunged into chaos as the Psychic Dominator Disaster wracked Chinese cities and Chinese Yurianists launched attacks on the authorities. With the assistance of the United Nations Peacekeepers, the Chinese army ultimately succeeded in crushing Yurianism in the nation, but at a high price. Chinese industries and agriculture were left ravaged by Yurian plundering during the movement's harsh economic drives of 1971 - as the United Nations gradually began to eliminate Yurianism, China became Yuri's breadbasket and Chinese production was left heavily scarred by the Incident.
In the aftermath of Yurianism, China experienced a short period of internal strife as retaliation against Yurians erupted across the nation. By the mid-1970's, though, China had entered a new golden age of economic prosperity as the country rebuilt the damage inflicted by Yurianism and the Beijing government sought to increase its power at United Nations headquarters in the face of a war-ravaged United States, a crippled Russian Federation, and a squabbling European Union.
China continues to grow in prosperity and production, and United Nations predictions estimate that China will emerge as a dominant economic power in the coming twenty-first century. The discovery of Tiberium in China, though, has already had an unsettling effect on China as Beijing and the United Nations evacuate Tiberium areas in the Chinese nation. It remains to be seen how China, like the other nations of Earth, will react to the Tiberium crisis.
The Commonwealth of Nations
The dissolution of the British Empire, beginning with grants of semi-autonomous government to South Africa in 1911 and accelearating following two World Wars, caused significant shifts in global politics. As the dominant power on Earth for the greater part of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and as one of the leading entities following the First World War, the British Empire exerted immense authority and influence over its acquistions and possessions, annexed during a series of Victorian-era colonial wars. Following the First World War, London was obliged to grant increasing autonomy to its "White Dominions" - Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand - in recompense for the Empire's crucial role in the Great War, while ignoring Indian, African, and Caribbean demands for the same semi-autonomous grants in recompense for their assistance in the war.
The Yurian Conglomerate
The Brotherhood of Nod
Little is known about the Brotherhood of Nod. This elusive extremist group has emerged recently and has an unclear agenda, but nonetheless, investigations by intelligence agencies worldwide have yielded valuable information. It seems to be led by a man called 'Kane', a charismatic figure whose passionate propaganda speeches have gathered many recruits for the Brotherhood worldwide. Besides his appearance, virtually nothing is known about Kane, including his age and nationality. Disturbing evidence uncovered in old Soviet archives indicate that Kane or a figure similar to Kane was an advisor to Stalin during the Second World War. Besides this, there is no information on his past.
The Brotherhood also seems to have a psuedo-religious standing, although its exact idealogy is unclear. It accepts members from all religions and backgrounds, judging by its campaigns in Africa and Europe. Besides this, it is unclear what the Brotherhood sees itself as fighting for, but all evidence points to Nod soldiers being very fanatical.
More clear is the information on the Brotherhood's military forces. Until recently, it was assumed that Nod was just a small organization, but new intelligence reveals that it has access to air, sea and land forces. Its technology does not seem to particularly advanced, with mainstay ground vehicles being mainly cheap vehicles like buggies and motorbikes, but lately the CIA announced that Nod infiltrators have stolen old technical information from archives in Washington DC, concerning prism and mirage technology from the Third World War. How Nod intends to apply this technology is unknown, but the CIA added that it imagines that Nod might be planning some sort of focusing beam and stealth technology project.
Recent evidence has also pointed to Nod being chiefly responsible for infecting nations worldwide with the extraterrestrial substance known as 'Tiberium', which originally landed in Italy recently. Why Nod desires this is also unclear, but Tiberium for some reason seems to be part of Nod's plans.
Further information on Nod is sketchy at best, but as this movement grows in power, further intelligence is likely to come to light.
Luna
In October 1968, the United Nations passed the treaty International Conventions on the Laws and Rights of Access to Earth's Moon. Drawing largely from the 1953 International Conventions on the Continent of Antarctica, the treaty of 1968 established our planet's only natural satellite as a legally neutral landmass, denying the nations of Earth from claiming territorial rights over the Moon.
The Lunar Conflict of 1971, fought between the Yurian Conglomerate and the United Nations Global Defence Initiative, forced a shift in international laws on the surface of Earth's moon. While the construction of Project Unity's settlement on the moon had adhered to UN law by establishing the base as a United Nations global effort, the brief campaign on the moon's surface obliged international lawmakers to re-evaluate legislation on who on Earth, if anyone, could claim rights to the moon.
Political Entities
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Comintern
The International
The European Council
Military Institutions
[The Red Army

Stalin's generals: Kuznetsov, Kukhov, Rokossovsky, Gradenko
A product of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the Red Army began as a hybrid military force created from mutinous remnants of the old Czarist Imperial Army, and throughout the 1917-1922 Russian Civil War, the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army grew into a sprawling entity. By 1922, the newly-named Red Army headed by Leon Trotsky had established itself as the dominant military force in the new USSR, with significant political leverage.
During the 1920's and 1930's, the Red Army accelerated its operations using advanced technology, in the form of aircraft and armoured ground vehicles. Building upon these advances, Soviet generals developed the theory of "Deep Warfare", a method of fighting based upon using large concentrations of troops and armour to attack on one long front, winning a series of victories along the entire front. Diametrically opposed to European theories of war, which advocated defensive fighting or, in the case of Germna theoreticians, the use of pinpoint "Blitzkreig" attacks, Deep Warfare was utilised in the Sino-Soviet War with a high degree of success. In the European War, Deep Warfare achieved similar results in early campaigns, but was largely abandoned during 1949 as the front broke into seperate regions, obliging Soviet commanders to tailor their tactics to each zone.
The Red Army's command structure suffered greatly from the 1937 Great Purge, with most of the USSR's leading military personnel being indicted and executed on a variety of charges. Replacements, rapidly promoted from the lower echelons of the command structure, faced difficulties in adjusting to their new responsibilities as the threeat of further purges dissuaded commanders from revising strategy and techniques.
NKVD

The NKVD, state slaughterers of the twentieth century
The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 had resulted in the creation of the Cheka, a communist secret police force established by Lenin for the purposes of smoking out counter-revolutionaries and Tsarist factions in the major cities of the crumbling Russian Empire. Dominated by members of the old Tsarist secret police and overshadowed by the MVD (Interior Ministry), the Cheka evolved into the GPU, then OGPU, and was finally restructured as the NKVD (Peoples' Commissariat of Internal Affairs) in 1934. A confusing entity, the NKVD was an umbrella organisation covering various departments, notably SMERSH (counter-espionage) and the NKGB (Secret Security Services). During the 1930's, Stalin's mistrust of the powerful organisation led to a sequence of NKVD commanders being liquidated. By 1942, the NKVD rested entirely in the hands of Lavrenty Beria, the sadistic and viciously cruel secret policeman who had risen through the ranks of the organisation and accumulated immense power. Stalin, suspicious of Beria and increasingly uncomfortable about Beria's growing power during the Sino-Soviet War, gave his patronage to a rising NKVD commander, Nadia Kulashenka. As a suspected mistress of both Beria and Stalin, Nadia enjoyed immense power and was probably responsible for poisoning Beria in order to take over the organisation herself. Under Nadia, the NKVD accelerated its activities in the USSR and during the years of war in Europe, applied its ghastly methods to European populations in an effort to crush all resistance to the rule of the Soviet Union.
During the Soviet Union's wars in China and Europe, the NKVD applied ruthless techniques to eliminate all potential resistance from enemy populations. Utilising methods of mass terror used against the USSR's own population in the 1930's, the organisation effectively crushed resistance in areas newly-conquered b the Red Army. Orchestrated famines, indiscriminate arrests and incarcerations, state-sponsored torture, and random executions of civil populations brought the nightmare of the Soviet Union's 1937 "Great Terror" to peoples from Beijing to Berlin. During the years of conflict in Europe, the NKVD vastly increased in power, evolving from a secret police force to a multi-national intelligence and espionage agency with its ears and eyes in every community across the new Soviet Empire.
The expansion of the NKVD, though, created powerful enemies of Nadia's sprawling agency. The Red Army vociferously criticised the organisation's internal, independent military force. Accusing NKVD military commanders of arrogance incompetence, Red Army leaders succeeded in convincing Stalin to rein in the NKVD's endless meddling in military affairs. Economic concerns also voiced their criticisms of the organisation. Lazar Kaganovich, Head of Railways for the Soviet Union, exploited every opportunity to blame the NKVD for clogging much-needed rail networks by pointlessly re-shipping convoys of political prisoners instead of freeing up railways for military supplies and industrial freight. In the corridors of the Kremlin, Russia's ruling elite conducted a whispering campaign against Nadia and her fierce ambition, uniting political rivals as a single faction determined to remove Nadia and wrench power back from the secret police.
While the USSR's rulers conspired to cripple the police, the NKVD itself faced increasing problems within its own leadership. Rapid expansion into almost every area of Soviet concern, from military affairs and industrial production to technical research and counter-intelligence, had resulted in increasing polarisation amongst the NKVD's key members, who fought with and conspired against one another in order to secure greater power for their own departments. Tasked with controlling so many facets of the empire, the NKVD increasingly found itself overworked and unable to focus adequate attention on its tasks. As the NKVD's influence spread across the swollen Soviet sphere of influence, local NKVD found themselves required to perform more and more work with less and less resources, severely hindering the ability of the once-omnipotent organisation to maintain its tyrannical hold on civil populations. As the war turned against the Soviets and Allied troops pushed the USSR's borders back towards Moscow, the NKVD faced mounting criticism from Stalin himself, furious at the inability of his secret police to severely cripple Russia's enemies. The demands of defending the swollen, weakened, and disunited Soviet Union against the forces of the United Nations resulted in fewer resources being allocated to police activities and increasing support for the anti-Nadia party in the corridors of power. By the time Allied troops invaded Russia itself, Stalin was no longer prepared to listen to Nadia and as he slipped into psychosis, the new ruling elite of the dying USSR sought to remove all power from the Director of the NKVD.
At the end of the war, the NKVD was a shrunken remnant. Declared a criminal organisation by the United Nations at the Kiev Trials, the NKVD was formally disbanded and its captured operatives tried (and often executed) for Crimes Against Humanity. The Allied mandate of Russia place police and internal security back into the hands of the Interior Ministry, replacing the state slaughterers of the NKVD with the bureaucrats of the MVD.
In Romanov's New Russia, the MVD greatly altered the structure of domestic security forces. Allied withdrawal from Russian affairs in the 1960's allowed Yuri Molotov to amalgamate Russia's various security forces under his personal direction. The MVD once again combined Russian police forces into one cohesive, centralised force while the best investigative police officers - and many ex-NKVD officers - secretly formed the nucleus of a new state security force, the KGB.
SMERSH
The Soviet Psychic Corps

Yuri Molotov and Josef Stalin in a doctored photograph c.1949
One of the most secret organs of the Red Army, the Soviet Psychic Corps was a confusing entity which overlapped various departments within the Soviet command structure, allowing the Psychic Corps to remain so secretive and elusive that besides Corps members, Stalin, and Stalin's personal circle of elites, very few people were aware that the Corps even existed. Founded in September 1941 by a persoanl edict of Stalin, the Psychic Corps was headed by the enigmatic Yuri Molotov and based simultaneously in Moscow and Omsk. Official command of the Corps was held by Yuri, and despite constant probing my the ever-suspicious Stalin, Yuri surprisingly succeeded in keeping Psychic Corps activities largely hidden from the NKVD and the Central Committee. Indeed, the Corps was so secretive that the European Alliance and the majority of the USSR's political and military elite remained unaware of its existence throughout the war, and even during the Third World War, few Allied leaders were convinced of the Corps' existence.
The Psychic Corps' command and administrative offices were based in a wing of the NKVD's Lubyanka Prison complex in central Moscow, but as the Corps was centralised in Yuri himself, the actual running of the unit was split between Yuri's apartments in the Kremlin and his research facility in Omsk. During the war, the Corps worked alongside the NKVD and SMERSH in counter-intelligence operations and foreign intelligence-gathering projects, providing surveillance equipment and utilising experimental psychic interrogation techniques on captured Allied spies and Soviet political prisoners. The Psychic Corps survived to the end of the Second World War as one of the few organisations in the USSR which was never penetrated by European spies. After the war, the International Military Tribunal declared the Psychic Corps a criminal organisation based upon evidence of unethical medical experiments conducted on human subjects at the Omsk facility. Most Corps operatives were uncovered by occupation forces, tried, and sentenced to execution or lifetime imprisonment.
In 1969, Yuri Molotov, who had disappeared in 1953, reappeared in the USSR in 1956 (his role as commander of the Psychic Corps during the Second World War remained unknown even in the Soviet Union, allowing Yuri to pass himself off as merely an eccentric scientist). In 1958, Premier Romanov secretly re-established the Psychic Corps, and during thr Third World War, the Corps played an active front-line role. The Corps was dissolved in 1972 and formed the core of the Yurian Conglomerate.
The Allied capture of the Psychic Corps' Omsk facility in 1954 uncovered a large quantity of documented work on research projects carried out at the facility. Researchers at the base are known to have conducted experiments into telepathy, psycho- and tele-kinesis, psionic activities, extra-sensory perception, mental thought control, remote viewing, and various other fringe elements of parapsychological theory. Much of the research conducted was applied in experimental forms on unwilling human subjects, a violation of international human rights. Following the dismemberment of the Psychic Corps, parapsychological research across the world was subjected to a Hippocratic-style set of procedures and boundaries, outlined under the United Nations Convention on Psychological and Parapsychological Research and Application. Following the Yurian Incident, evidence of much more advanced, and illegal, psychic research was uncovered by United Nations forces. The information found, however, is highly classified and inaccessible to non-Global Defence Initiative research personnel.
Sovnarkom
International Military Tribunal
Established in 1954 by the primary nations of the Alliance, the IMT was created in order to try Soviet war criminals under international law. The controversial establishment convened in the Ukrainian city of Kiev in February 1954 to commence a series of trials on a select group of Stalin's henchmen, who had been selected for trial by the Alliance in order to create a defendant group reflecting the entire spectrum of the Soviet government structure.
The IMT was headed by five judges representing the five primary nations of the World Alliance; Geoffrey Lawrence (United Kingdom), Henri de Varbes (France), Kurt Waldeheim (German Federation), Francis Biddle (United States), and Hoshi Sato (Japanese Empire). The defendants of the trial were each indicted on a combination of four crimes, as defined by the United Nations. The crimes included; Crimes against peace, planning and engaging in wars of aggression, War crimes, and Crimes against humanity.
At the Kiev Trials, the USSR's security and intelligence organisations were targeted as a whole. The NKVD, NKGB, MVD (Interior Police) and SMERSH were declared criminal organisations guilty of committing crimes against humanity. All members of these organisations held in Allied custody were sentenced in subsequent trials. Discussions were held over whether or not to apply the same principles to the Psychic Corps, but lack of evidence as to its existence, and the fact that no known Psychic Corps personnel had been captured, prevented the IMT from declaring the organisation illegal.
The primary defendants at the Kiev Trials were selected so as to provide a cross-section of Stalin's government. In the first, and most publicised trial, the following defendants were indicted and sentenced:
- Vyacheslav Molotov; Peoples' Commissar for Foreign Affairs, President of the USSR (1953), Politburo Member. Sentenced to death.
- Georgy Malenkov; Head of the Communist Party, Premier of the USSR (1953), Politburo Member. Sentenced to death.
- Vasily Stalin; Air Force General and son of Josef Stalin. Committed suicide in custody.
- Lazar Kaganovich; Peoples' Commissar for Transport, Politburo Member. Sentenced to death.
- Nikita Khrushchev; Viceroy of the Ukraine, Politburo Member. Sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment.
- Anastas Mikoyan; President of the State Defence Committee, Politburo Member. Sentenced to 20 years' imprisionment.
- Kliment Voroshilov; Marshal of the Soviet Union, Politburo Member. Sentenced to death.
- Andrei Zhdanov; Head of the Leningrad Communist Party, Politburo Member. Died before sentencing
- Nadia Kulashenka (In absentia), Peoples' Commissar for Internal Affairs, Commander of the NKVD, Politburo Member. Sentenced to death.
- Konstantin Rokossovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union. Sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment.
- Nikolai Kuznetsov, Admiral of the Soviet Union, Peoples' Commissar for the Navy. Sentenced to 20 years' imprisionment.
- Nikolai Bulganin, Marshal of the Soviet Union, Peoples' Commissar for Defence, Politburo Member. Sentenced to death.
- Igor Kurchatov, Director of the Soviet Atomic Bomb Project. Sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment.
- Nikolai Voznesensky, Director of Gosplan, Economics Commissar. Sentenced to death.
- Alexander Poskrebyshev, General, Josef Stalin's private secretary. Sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment.
- Lev Mekhlis; Head of the Red Army Political Department. Sentenced to death.
- Semyon Timoshenko, Marshal of the Soviet Union. Sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment.
- Alexander Novikov, Chief Marshal of Aviation for the Red Air Force. Sentenced to death.
Subsequent trials lasted until 1958, as the IMT judged and sentenced more than 15,000 citizens of the old USSR. Those put on trial were largely NKVD officers and some lower-level Red Army commanders, along with Party apparatchicks who had planned the Ukrainian famine and mass population deportations. The appointment of Alexander Romanov in 1958 shifted Russia's political climate, and judging the IMT successful in having tracked down and adequately punished the perpetrators of Stalin's crimes, the United Nations disbanded the IMT in June 1958.
The International Military Tribunal gained lasting worldwide fame for its role in the Kiev Trials. Working alongside the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol), the European Defence Agency, the CIA, and the United Nations, the organisation succeeded in bringing international criminals to justice, laid down precepts of international law and global human rights, defended the principles of the United Nations Charter, and laid the foundations for the establishment in 1962 of the World High Court. The principles established by the IMT in Kiev formed the core of new international legislation; laws which would play significant roles in the aftermaths of the Third World War and the Yurian Incident, and which continue to this day to be the bedrock of the global justice system.
Unified Military Operations

"The Troika"; Marshal Brooke, Maréchal Weygand, and Marschall Model of the General Staff
Founded by a European Council declaration in August 1945, Unified Military Operations acted as the military wing of the European Alliance. UMO's central command, the European General Staff, was based at European Defence Headquarters in London, housed in a vast and extremely secretive complex of bunkers dug underneath St. James' Park in Westminster. Reflecting the Alliance's multi-national nature, the General Staff was administered throughout the war by three Chiefs of Staff; Maxime Weygand, Alan Brooke, and Walther Model, each of whom held the rank of Marshal of Europe, the effective equivalent of a six-star general. At the pinnacle of the UMO command pyramid rested Europe's Chief of Military Operations and Supreme Commander of Allied Forces; Gunther von Esling, Grand Marshal of the European Alliance.
UMO co-ordinated a widespread military network composed of three primary branches, with various secondary-level and ancillary formations beneath them. The primary branches comprised:
- Unified Ground Forces; the land-based wing of UMO, UGF was formed from individual military forces contributed to a joint European army. In the early stages of the war, UGF operated as an international strike-force operating alongside national armies, and acted as a central reserve from which units could be assigned to support individual nations' efforts to defend their borders. Following the Soviet invasion of Poland, UGF was gradually expanded to absorb all ground forces fielded by all members of the Alliance, and by early 1950, all national militaries had been subordinated to UGF.
- Joint Fleet Operations; the naval branch of UMO, Joint Fleet Operations began as a conglomerate of British and French military shipping, founded as an experimental Allied naval force. Early commitment to JFO was limited, as both the Royal Navy and the French Republican Fleet were reluctant to commit many of their ships, and as the need for military vessels to protect international shipping lanes drew warships away from European waters. Following the Alliance's catastrophic naval defeat at the Battle of Copenhagen, in which more than 40% of the Royal Navy's surface ships were sunk, Joint Fleet Operations was expanded. Alliance member-states contributed military shipping to the newly-formed Allied High Seas Fleets, divided into five sectors. From Scapa Flow, Sector I covered the North and Norwegian Seas; Sector II was based at Svalbard to cover the Arctic Ocean; Sector III, based at Brest and Cork, covered the Atlantic Ocean; Sector IV covered the Mediterranean Sea from Cadiz and Malta; while Sector V, the largest fleet designation, covered European shipping across the remainder of the world's oceans. JFO was co-ordinated firstly from European Defence Headquarters, but following the death of Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz during the Soviet attack of June 1950, command was decentralised and reassigned to command posts within the five sectors, with a central command based in Glasgow. Joint Fleet Operations was further sub-divided into Joint Surface Vessel Command and Unified Submersible Command.
- United Air Defences; the airborne division of UMO, United Air Defences controlled the Alliance's air forces, divided into Fighter Command and Bomber Command, both based at European Defence Headquarters in London. Initally comprised of the Royal Air Force and the Armee de l'Air, UAD expanded to include the newly-formed Luftwaffe and the Italian Aeronautica Militare. UAD also co-ordinated Europe's paratrooper forces and shouldered a large portion of European reconaissance initiatives.
Following the end of the Second World War, Unified Military Operations was greatly reduced in size, although the command structure remained intact. In 1961, following the death of Gunther von Esling, the European Parliament abolished the rank of Grand Marshal. During the 1960's, UMO was systematically decentralised and reduced in order to fulfill United Nations global disarmament drives and as the European Union sought to cut military spending in the aftermath of the war. Upon the outbreak of the Third World War in May 1970, UMO was primarily based in Vienna, with regional command centres at Stockholm, Sarajevo, Seville, and Samsun, from which the operations fronts covered the EU-USSR border.
During the Second World War, the staff command of Unified Military Operations was based in a highly secretive complex designated European Defence Headquarters, in London. The bulk of the complex was built under St James' Park, while a smaller section underneath Hyde Park was linked via tunnel to the main compound. Linked to the underground operations centres of the British military at the Admiralty, Horse Guards, and the Air Ministry, European Defence Heaquarters grew into a sprawling network of bomb-proof concrete chambers deep beneath the streets of London. Grand Marshal von Esling, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff of UMO, were usually based at the headquarters complex throughout the war. The facility came under attack in June 1950 from several hundred Soviet paratroopers, who seized much of the complex during underground fighting with the facility's Scottish Black Watch and Senegalese tirailleur guards. Following the war, Defence Headquarters was decommissioned and converted into a museum. Today, UMO is headquartered across European capitals due to the decentralised nature of the European Union.
European Defence Agency

The Golden Eagle, controversial symbol of European hegemony
Following the establishment of the European Alliance, commentators and military advisors called for the creation of a Europe-wide security service charged with protecting European interests and gathering intelligence on the increasingly-hostile Soviet Union. A series of conferences in London and Paris in early 1944 led to the initiation of a unified intelligence service based in Paris. While the participating nations were reluctant to share sensitive information or pool their best spies, the fledgling EDA benefitted from the recruitment of reputable secret agents sourced primarily from Great Britain's Secret Intelligence Services (MI6), France's Service de Documentation Exterieure et de Contre-Espionnage, and Germany's Bundesnachrichtendienst. The EDA made extensive use of Russian exiles and expatriates who had fled Russia following the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
The EDA's primary goals, as outlined in the 1944 Charter on Continental Security, were:
- (1) "To guarantee the security of the European Alliance via the acquisition of pertinent foreign intelligence,"
- (2) "To hinder enemy intelligence operations within Europe via the application of counter-espionage techniques,"
- (3) "To assist Allied military operations through the use of propaganda, sabotage, encouraging insurrection, and other applicable methods and techniques, at enemy civil populations."
While the Charter was never made public for security reasons, several government, military, and security leaders expressed concern about some elements of the document, most notably Clause II, which many feared would grant the EDA free rein to begin an "Inquisition" against suspected pro-communist sympathisers in Europe.
Direct counter-intelligence operations frequently involved the interrogation of captured COMINTERN and NKVD agents. The European Council had passed strict laws governing interrogation techniques, and no violent or abusive coercion techniques whatsoever were permitted. Unlike captured EDA agents who faced the threat and infliction of intensive interrogation techniques by SMERSH, captured Soviet agents were treated with humanity by their European captors. At the EDA's primary Detention Centre on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza, captured Soviet agents from across Europe and Africa were interrogated for information on the USSR's intelligence network, but in many cases captured Soviet agents received little questioning, as the EDA was aware that Soviet overseas agents frequently had little knowledge of the broad scope of their project.
The EDA operated a network of detention centres across Western Europe in which captured Soviet intelligence personnel, and suspected spies in Europe, were interred. The primary centre, on the Balearic Island of Ibiza, was supplemented by additional centres at Mont St. Michel off the coast of Normandy, Foulness Island off the coast of eastern England, and a facility on the Isle of Man.
Besides its main functions as the intelligence and counter-intelligence arm of the Alliance, the EDA worked closely with Unified Military Operations in intelligence procurement, providing valuable data on enemy forces during combat engagements. Official figures declassified in the early 1990's reveal that at the height of the war in 1950, the EDA had approximately 340 secret agents across the world, 297 of whom were based in the USSR and its conquered satellite states.
Headed throughout the war by a secretive committee formed from the leaders of MI6 and the SDECE, the EDA was frequently criticised by other Alliance members for being dominated by the British and French, with little regard for other Alliance members. The need for extreme secrecy prohibited expansion of the EDA's network much beyond trusted British, French, and German agents, resulting in frequent complaints from other Alliance states. Following the war, the EDA was downsized by a European Council decree. The smaller, even more secretive organisation was relocated from Spain to France, and is still headquartered on the Ile-de-la-Cite in central Paris, in a series of underground chambers between the Prefecture de Police and Notre Dame cathedral.
United Nations Peacekeeping Force
The United Nations, born at a time of global strife and planetary conflict, relied heavily in its early years upon the forces of the United Nations Peacekeepers. Building upon the principles of Article 16 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, the Peacekeeping Accords established a global force of military units designed to enforce the UN's peace in the most politically turbulent areas of the world.
Peacekeeping operations commenced in 1951, during the Chinese campaign of the Second World War. As Allied armies progressed into China, the Peacekeepers were deployed as a neutral, multi-national force in liberated areas in order to prevent local political factions from fighting for power. The operations were a success, and a similar pattern of Peacekeeper-garrisoning was swiftly adopted across Europe and the eastern USSR as the Allies liberated territory. As per Security Council agreements, the Peacekeepers never directly participated in armed conflict, particularly in front-line areas. The decision to withhold Peacekeepers from front-line aeas was largely based upon the United Nations' desire to project the Peacekeepers as a neutral, benign force of security enforcers as opposed to belligerent conquerors. As such, the "Blue Helmets" operated in purely supportive roles, acting as internal security forces in newly-liberated areas.
The end of the Second World War saw a rapid reduction in global military forces due to prevailing financial coniderations, propelling the Peacekeepers into a more crucial role. As Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean broke away from European imperialism in the 1960's, the Peacekeepers were called upon to oversee the transition from colonialism to independence in more volatile regions of the planet. The European Union, eager to reduce its military expenditure, co-ordinated a worldwide response with newly-independent nations in Africa and Asia to enhance the scope of peacekeeping operations by committing troops to the international defence force rather than individual, expensive national armies. By the late 1960's, the Peacekeepers had extended their operations across land, sea, air, and even space. By 1969, the United Nations Peacekeeping Force consisted of:
- United Nations Ground Operations. The land-based arm of the peacekeepers, Ground Operations formed the bulk of UN forces across the world, providing on-the-spot security and garnering the most attention from the international community.
- United Nations Global Maritime Security. Established to enforce the United Nations Conventions on the Laws of the Sea, the naval arm of the peacekeepers sought to enforce United Nations law across Earth's oceans and seas.
- United Nations Air Defence. Acting in a primarily reconaissance and intelligence role, the UN Air Force provided support to ground forces and provided intelligence on ongoing operations.
- United Nations Planetary Orbital Security Force. By far the smallest of the Peacekeeping arms, the POSF provided crews and security for United Nations space operations under construction in the 1960's.
The outbreak of the Third World War in 1970 led to further increases in Peacekeeping numbers. The deaths of several dozen peacekeepers during the Soviet attack on United Nations headquarters in New York City prompted the Secretary-General to enact the controversial "Global Security Amendment" to the United Nations Charter, obliging nations to commit further forces to the Peacekeepers. The United States and Soviet Union, at war with one another, declined to provide troops, resulting in the Peacekeepers relying heavily on the support of the European Union, African League, and Federation of Asian Republics supplying large military forces to bolster the Peacekeepers. During the Third World War, the Peacekeepers provided crucial security functions - defending the US-Canadian border against possible Soviet incursions and quelling uprisings in India, China, South America, and Africa.
The Yurian Incident thrust the Peacekeepers into a precarious role as the forefront of Earth's defences against the fanatical Yurian Movement. As the movement affected every nation simultaneously, the resulting two years of insurgency saw the nations of the world pool their military resources under the remit of the Peacekeepers. The United Nations Peacekeeping Conventions of 1971, signed in Kinshasa, Zaire, formally unified the Peacekeepers as a "Global Defence Initiative" aimed at combatting the manifold threats posed by the Yurian Movement. During the global war on Yurianism, the Peacekeepers evolved into a highly adaptable, specialised force that ultimately quelled Yurianism. The defeat of Yuri compelled the Security Council to formally morph the Peacekeepers into a new organisation aimed at enforcing the UN's peace across Earth - the Global Defence Initiative.
United Nations Global Defence Initiative

The "New Eagle", symbol of the United Nations Global Defence Initiative
Scientific Establishments
Soviet Atomic Bomb Project
Maud Committee
Founded in 1946 by a European Council declaration, Maud was the European Alliance's multi-national project to develop an atomic bomb. Throughout the 1930's, research into atomic theory, and the increasing prospect of humanity's ability to develop applied atomic technology led to increasing concerns that the Soviet Union could develop a weapon based on atomic fission. In response to the perceived threat from the USSR, the European Alliance convened the Maud Committee, composed of Europe's leading nuclear physicists, to perform and develop the necessary research and technology to construct a weapon before the Soviet Union. Leading members of the Committee included;
Neils Bohr; Danish professor and the world's leading nuclear theorist
George Paget Thomson; British winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
Enrico Fermi; Italian atomic theorist
Werner Heisenberg; German particle theorist
Albert Einstein; German quantum theorist and researcher on a variety of secretive military projects
Francis Perrin; French theorist on applied atomic power
Otto Frisch; Austrian mechanical theorist
Rudolf Peierls; German solid-state physicist
Mark Oliphant; Australian physicist, developed Maud's particle accelerators
Frédéric Joliot-Curie; French physicist and Nobel laureate
Lew Kowarski; Polish chain-reaction theorist
Leó Szilárd; Hungarian atomic physicist
Based primarily at the Kaiser Wilhem Institute in Berlin and at the University of Birmingham, Maud's specialists achieved critical mass on Uranium-235 in Berlin in April 1947. As the Red Army approached Berlin in late 1947, Maud was evacuated to the University of Manchester to continue development. The accidental explosion of a particle accelerator at the University of Cambridge in February 1948 delayed the project by some months, and prompted increased involvement by EDA operatives fearful of Soviet espionage and saboteurs.
By early 1950, the Committee's research had reached a level sufficient to construct a working atomic bomb. However, the members' motives to build such a weapon were far from eager. Heisenberg and Oliphant led a long-running protest against the EDA and the European Council arguing against the construction of a device which, they feared, would result in appalling casualties. Grand Marshal von Esling, Chairman of the Council of Ministers, lent his support for the anti-bomb scientists by arguing that in addition to the humanitarian questions raised by the construction of an atomic device, building such a weapon could easily provoke the Soviet Union into developing its own bomb, with a resulting aggressive exchange of atomic devices. Technical fears added credence to the anti-bomb group - nuclear theorists at Maud were unable to agree on what environmental problems such a device could create. Many of the Committee's leading members expressed, to the European Council, their concerns that the sudden and immense amount of energy released by an atomic fission reaction could crack the planetary crust, blast a hole through a tectonic plate, or at worst, trigger a chain reaction with isotopic elements in the air and ignite Earth's atmosphere, raising the planet's surface temperature to a level incompatible with any animal or plant life, effectively destroying life on Earth. At the European Council, those opposed to building an atomic bomb prevailed, and under the premise of Better Red than Dead, Maud declined to begin construction of such a weapon.
Work on the device resumed following the Soviet Union's destruction of Ashkhabad and Ulaanbataar using the USSR's own atomic bombs. Information from EDA operatives in the Soviet Union confirmed the USSR's continuing development of atomic weapons; in the aftermath of the atomic attacks in Central Asia, Russia's continued construction of bombs forced Maud to begin construction of its own atomic arsenal. The European Alliance's first bomb, Phoenix, was detonated in southern Algeria on October 13th 1950, closing the "atomic gap" with the Soviet Union.
Manhattan Project
Soviet Academy of Sciences
NASA
European Space Agency (ESA)
European scientists' long-standing interest in extra-terrestrial travel blossomed in the 1920's and 1930's, as the art-nouveau movement swept European middle classes and as science fiction gained in popularity. Across Europe, a host of organisations, corresponding societies, and subscription funds emerged as physicists and entrepreneurs advocated the real possibility of space exploration in the twentieth century. The two leading associations - the Society for Interplanetary Exploration (based in Berlin), and the London Society of Interplanetary Space fuelled public imagination in the possibility of space travel. In applied matters, the SIE advanced practical knowledge of launch vehicles. The German Army, prohibited by the Treaty of Versailles from maintaining long-range artillery, granted increasing funds to the SIE and the German Rocketry Society for the purposes of research into ballistics and rocketry; while the German Army sought to secretly develop rockets for military purposes, the SIE aimed to use the devices as launch vehicles to enter planetary orbit. Utilising developments pioneered by the American rocketeer Robert Goddard and subsequent improvements discovered by European inventors, the knowledge and application of rocket theory increased.
Russian Space Bureau (RSB)
United Earth Space Probe Agency
Rapid expansion of humankind's space technology posed a variety of opportunities and threats. During the 1960's, tension between the United States and European Union had resulted in a frenzied "Space Race", as each power sought to gain prestige by developing and enhancing technologies to the detriment of their opponent. By the late 1970's, human activity beyond Earth's atmosphere had advanced to a level whereby lunar landings had become commonplace and humanity's first extra-terrestrial settlement had been established. Mankind's first extra-terrestrial conflict, fought over the remnants of Phase Two in the lunar Sea of Tranquility, ushered in a new era of global conflict assessment, as the threat of orbital warfare loomed over Earth.
The establishment of the United Earth Space Probe Agency sought to address a variety of concerns, not least of which being public anxiety at the threat of uncontrolled deployment of belligerent technology in orbit of our planet.

So here the organisation that are not complete

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
The Yurian Conglomerate
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Comintern
The International
The European Council
SMERSH
Manhattan Project
Soviet Academy of Sciences
NASA
Russian Space Bureau (RSB)

 

[BlackWave]

Here's something I cooked together for the Yurian Congolermate:

The Yurian Congolermate
No movement has arguably gained more infamy than the Yurian Congolermate, more commonly known simply as the Yuri Movement. Responsible at one point for the subjucation at the majority of the human race, this organization has breached more human rights laws and caused more suffering than any other. Employing bizarre yet advanced technology and harbouring large numbers, the Yuri Movement poised a genuine threat to world stability and freedom in the days following the Third World War.

Descended technologically from the Soviet Pyschic Corps, the Yuri Movement first began, albeit discreetly, during the early days of WW3, as the infamous Yuri used his mind control abilities and persuasive skills to amass a secret cadre of followers, and used his influence in upper Soviet circles to gain materials to set up his network of psychic dominator machines and various other technologies, such as cloning. He also used Soviet and Psychic Corps researchers and scientists to conconct various technologies and designs for his own use.

Following the end of the Third World War, Yuri unvieled his Dominator network and activated it, brainwashing billions and effectively seizing control control of the world. However, a group of Allied commandoes succeeded in travelling back in time two years and using available intelligence to disable most of the Dominator network before it even begun. In response, Yuri was forced to prematurely bring to bear his considerable forces worldwide. A large force of followers and brainwashed drones seized Los Angeles under the guise of a Soviet occupation force, unveiling Yuri's horrific 'grinder' technology which revolved around processing organic and solid material for resources. Here Allied forces were able to guage Yuri's military threat proper, and although Yuri vehicles proved flimsy and generally inferior to Allied craft, his psionically-enhanced infantry and clones proved definite threats.

After Allied forces succeeded in eliminating the Yuri Movement's presence in LA, Yuri resorted to using stolen Soviet nuclear weapons to destroy parts of Seattle to extort money from the Massivesoft Corporation to fund his genetic experiments. Although an Allied taskforce managed to eliminate this operation, with the help of an Einstein-developed weather manipulation device, Yuri followers were emerging worldwide, starting insurrections in Third World countries such as South America, with United Nations forces stretching themselves to quell them. Hypnotic Yuri propaganda, coupled with promises of aid and spiritual comfort to those diposed by the war, gained the Yuri Movement a considerable influx of manpower.

Despite this, the Allies succeeded in largely disabling Yuri's half-constructed Dominators. In response, Yuri agents kidnapped Albert Einstein and forced him to improve the range of a remaining Dominator in Egypt, which was one of the several countries worldwide largely controlled by the Yuri Movement. With the help of special agent Tanya Adams, the Allies rescued Einstein, destroyed the Dominator and purged Egypt of Yuri forces. Meanwhile, Soviet-affiliated Libyan forces rescued Soviet Premier Romanov from Yuri forces in Morocco, and with this Yuri presences was largely expunged in North Africa.

Even despite these setbacks, Yuri forces continued to put up stubborn resistance. A Yuri cell in Sydney was activated and took over the city, establishing an industrial cloning complex to produce duplicates of key allied figures. Nonetheless, Australian and Korean forces managed to eliminate said facility and liberated Sydney.

As UN forces worldwide continued to expunge Yuri forces, armed with future intelligence, Yuri tried a more direct approach. Yurian forces launched an all-out assault on a peace conference between world leaders and the Soviet Union in London, unleashing the Movement's more bizare weaponry, such as the 'Masterminds', biologically augmented vehicles with mind-control technologies, and 'Flying Disks', apparently inspired by science fiction movies of the fifties, which used advanced magnetic technology to hover, steal resources and create EMP effects on power facilities. Despite this, the assault was repelled, and as the Yuri movement collapsed worldwide with the Allies and Soviets joining together, Allied intellignece tracked his main base to Antarctica. There, Soviet and Allied forces succeeded in levelling Yuri's last Dominator and captured him. Following Yuri's imprisonment, the movement largely collapsed, although remnants would linger in impoverished countries for decades. All remaining Yuri technology was disposed of and banned.

Yuri idealogy was vague; initiates were expected to remain upmost loyalty to Yuri in exchange for psionic enhancements that allowed them pyrotechnic abilities, saving the movement money on small arms. Apparently, Yuri promised safety and stability under his unilateral rule, and presented himself as a messainic figure, giving faith to those in a spiritual vacuum as a result of the horrors of the world wars. Technology of the movement was a mixture of basic, cobbled-together devices and highly advanced contraptions that surpass even modern devices, such as the infamous floating discs, regarded as proof of Yuri's instability by some, to the genetic mutator devices, which seemed to project ezyme stimulation waves that caused rapid mutation to beings in a target area. The epitome of this was the pyschic dominator, capable of bending all humans in a target area to Yuri's will. Frontline Yuri vehicles, such as Lasher tanks and YR-86 Gatling tanks, were cheap, shoddy craft manufactured in battle factories in battle, fared poorly against weaponry of other powers. Nonetheless, all Yuri technology considered overly dangerous has been banned and destroyed under post-war UN treaties, and hope rides high that such a movement will never surface again.

Thoughts, opinion?

 

[Tolkiene]

Having now read through all these chapters - I still have to read them a second theme in order to appreciate all the detail - I must say that the author of this timeline really accomplished something.

It's absolutely marvellous how all the details from the two Red Alert games - and also the foreshadowing for the Tiberium conflict - were integrated into a timeline that manages to make even the most implausible aspects of the franchise make sense (especially liked the various references to real-life leaders and to events).

 

[Redem]

Well I think it's a very good start, the style is very good (very close to what we see in the text) however I think it lack something bringing new information that are not in the game (I think one of the positive point about your text is that it explain in convicing way how Yuri pull some of its stunt) how people under mind control acted and the overall stucture of the organisation its overall strenght and weakness, maybe some other military action that are not in the game. However I understand how this is a tall order I mean put a realistic edge to a mind controlling mad genius)

Considering it pretty much started by pretty being copy of Red alert and it later develop in this opus i'd say we are on the right track (and that's pretty much encouraging and make me want to do my own entry)

anyway these are the last files

Dramatis Personae (Red Napoleon)
Doenitz, Karl
Born into a family of maritime engineers and naval officers on September 16th 1891 in Grunau, Germany, Karl Doenitz enlisted in the Imperial German Navy of Kaiser Wilhelm II at the age of nineteen and rose to the rank of midshipman in 1911. During the First World War, Doenitz served on a surface vessel on the Black Sea as part of Imperial Germany's naval exchange with the Ottoman Empire. In 1916, Doenitz transferred to the submarine section of the German Navy and was taken prisoner by the British Royal Navy. Doenitz returned to Germany in 1920 and secured a commission with the Weimar Republic's new Naval Protection Force, despite the severe cuts in naval personnel demanded by the Treaty of Versailles.
During the 1920's and 1930's, Doenitz collaborated with Germany's leading naval commanders, including Grand Admiral Eric Raeder, on strategies combining Germany's submarine fleet with existing surface vessels. When the European Alliance repealed the Treaty of Versailles' military restrictions in 1944, Doenitz gained influence as one of Germany's - and by extent one of the Alliance's - leading proponents of submarine warfare. Doenitz recognised that the USSR's aggression would not permit Germany to build large warships before the imminent outbreak of hostilities, and that the combined British and French navies could provide sufficient surface vessels anyway; instead, Doenitz called for German shipyards to manufacture U-Boats and other submarine vessels, which could be built rapidly, and would reinforce the Alliance's undersea fleet. The outbreak of war with the USSR in 1946 resulted in Doenitz being posted to Allied Submarine Headquarters in Wilemshaven, Germany, as Assistant Chief of Operations for submarine arm of the Alliance's "Unified Maritime Operations". The deaths of Grand Admiral Eric Raeder and Fleet Admiral Edward Jellicoe at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1949 led to Doenitz's promotion to the interim High Chief Admiral of the European Alliance, the de facto commandant of the European Alliance's naval forces, a post which transferred Doenitz to European Defence Headquarters in Westminster, London. In the aftermath of Copenhagen, Doenitz assembled a new "Oceanic Fleet" composed of Europe's surviving surface battleships, based at Scapa Flow, and directed naval operations aimed at destroying Soviet merchant convoys supplying ground and air forces in Iceland and Greenland. Doenitz also supervised the creation of Europe's first joint submarine force - "Unified Submersible Operations" - formed from German, British, French, and Spanish undersea vessels, aimed at combatting Soviet submarines preying on American and African supply convoys shuttling supplies across the Atlantic Ocean.
Doenitz was present at European Defence Headquarters during the Soviet paratrooper raid in June 1950, and was killed by machine-gun fire while attempting to evacuate the complex with General Nikos Stavros. After the attack, Doenitz's remains were cremated in accordance with his wishes, and his ashes were scattered over the North Sea from the German battlecruiser Emden on his fifty-ninth birthday, September 16th 1950.
Eisenhower, Dwight
Dwight D. Eisenhower also known to the American public as ‘Ike’ was born on October 14, 1890. At first a young Eisenhower tried to attend the Navy Academy but was pass the age requirement. Instead a Kansas senator sponsored Eisenhower for entrance into West Point in 1911. When he graduated in 1915, Ike was in the upper half of his class. During World War I Eisenhower was part of the US Tank corps. Never seeing combat, Ike trained tank crews in Pennsylvania till the end of the war. He attained a rank of Lieutenant Colonel but after the war returned to being a Capitan and was quickly promoted to Major.
While at Camp Meade in Maryland, Eisenhower was intrigued about the possibilities of tank warfare. This was due in part to conversations Ike had with George Patton and other tank advocates. However Eisenhower’s superiors discouraged his interest in the new field. Through the 1920s and early 30s, Eisenhower served in a variety of posts. He was stationed in the Panama Canal Zone, Fort Benning, and attended the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth.
From 1933 till 1935 Eisenhower served as General Douglas MacArthur’s aide. He accompanied MacArthur to the Philippines. There Eisenhower was an advisor to the Philippino government. Many believe this assignment to MacArthur helped Eisenhower prepare for dealing with egos of his senior officers in the AEF like Patton, or allied officers such as Montgomery.
Prior to the outbreak of World War II, Eisenhower was chief of staff to the 3rd Army commander and held several other staff positions. As more of Europe fell to the Soviet onslaught, Eisenhower was moved to the General Staff in Washington. There he helped develop plans for fighting the Soviet Union and moving US forces overseas. He was appointed Deputy Chief in charge of Atlantic Defenses under the Chief of War Plans Division and then was made Chief of the War Plans Division. Soon Eisenhower was appointed Assistant Chief of Staff in charge of Operations Division under Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall. It was his close association with Marshall that finally brought Eisenhower to senior command positions. Marshall recognized his great organizational and administrative abilities.
The United States Congress declared war on the Soviet Union on September 27, 1948. American forces would now be committed against the Russian Bear which had nearly conquered Europe. The man who would lead the American Expeditionary Force would be Eisenhower. By late November of 1948, Eisenhower had arrived at European Defense Headquarters in London. Together with Marshal von Esling, Eisenhower worked out how the US forces would be deployed in Europe.

Eisenhower and his commanders
Eisenhower also helped select which commanders he wanted in the AEF. General Omar Bradley and General George Patton were two of Eisenhower’s first choices. Bradley was cool and collected officer and easy to work with. He would command the US 1st Army in 1950. Patton provided the more aggressive component of the AEF. At first Patton commanded the US II Corps in France but would later command the US 3rd Army on its drive to Russia. Courtney Hodges, William Simpson, and Ralph Francis were also part of the AEF command.
During the war Eisenhower did an excellent job as a administrator and directing the AEF’s operations. He impressed a number of allied officers including British Prime Minster Winston Churchill. However Eisenhower had issues with his two first choices for command. Patton constantly clashed with Bradley over the conduct of the war. There arguments often took over meetings between the two and gave Eisenhower plenty of administrative headaches. The disagreements between the commanders led to a most embarrassing incident near Milan in 1951.
The First Army had advanced into the city while Patton had gone around and drove deeper into enemy lines to the south. Strong Soviet forces were still believed to be lurking near the north, so Bradley requested Ike to have Patton slow his advance and deploy armor to watch the sector. Patton upon receiving the order swore and complained that Eisenhower was slowing the advance. He ignored the order, citing transmission difficulties. As the 3rd Army continued the advance, First Army was attacked by several Soviet units and two tank divisions. Patton was forced to swing the advance of the army and attack the Russian’s from the flank and rear. This coupled with the 1st Army’s defense stopped the Russian assault and destroyed four Soviet divisions.
Bradley was furious Patton had disobeyed orders and just as angry with Eisenhower for not keeping Patton in check. Things became even more strained between the three generals when Patton took credit for saving the First Army with some reporters. Ike attempted to control the situation with a conference of the three in Milan but failed. Both Patton and Bradley began to issue conflicting orders when 1st and 3rd Army units worked together, and both denied support for the other.
It slowed operations in southern Europe and Marshal von Esling was disappointed in Eisenhower’s inability to control the two men. In the end Esling decided to intervene. Using his right as leader of the Alliance he dismissed both Patton and Bradley. While this put the German in hot water with the American public and Congress, Eisenhower supported his decision.
Eisenhower would continue to serve as AEF commander till the end of the war. General-Marshal Eisenhower was present at the Soviet Union’s on August 25, 1953. In a telegram to President Truman Eisenhower wrote, American Forces and Allied objectives achieved in Europe. This simple message signified the end of the Second World War for the U.S.
* Esling, Gunther von
The Grand Marshal and Supreme Commander of the European Alliance
Gunther von Esling, the third of five children, was born in Weisbaden, Germany, on November 18th 1887, into a distinguished family of Prussian junkers. He attended the German General Staff Academy from 1903-1908 and was commissioned as a Lieutenant upon his graduation in 1908. Attached to the Staff Corps, Esling demonstrated remarkable strategic skill and by 1914 had been promoted to Brevet-Major. Upon the outbreak of war in August 1914, Esling was given command of the 16th Bavarian Light Infantry during the invasion of Belgium, following the death of the unit's colonel on August 17th. During the ensuing four years of trench warfare, Esling displayed strategic prescience as well as great concern for the lives and welfare of his men, making him a popular officer amongst the rank-and-file of the German army. In May 1917, Esling was awarded the Iron Cross First Class after successfully evacuating his unit during a French gas attack. Esling was transferred to the German Army Works in Berlin in November 1917 to oversee the development of the army's new A7V-P tanks and remained in Berlin until the end of the war. During the political chaos which resulted in Germany in late 1918 and early 1919, Esling declared his allegiance to the Weimar Republic and generated controversy by suggesting that the Treaty of Versailles was a more reasonable offer than Germany should have received. During the 1920's and 1930's, Esling's popularity with both the army and the government led to further promotions, and by 1942 he had attained the rank of General. As the nations of Europe drew closer together during the USSR's military buildup, Esling frequently voiced his views that Germany should side fully with the fledgling Alliance and put aside Germany's grievances over the Treaty of Versailles. The Alliance, impressed with Esling's diplomatic fervour and eager to promote a German commander to a position of authority within the new political framework of the Alliance, offered General von Esling the position of Marshal in November 1944, elevating him in December to the position of Grand Marshal (Fr. Grand Marèchal/Général Suprème, Ge. Großmarshall/Großführer), the effective equivalent of a seven-star general and the highest existing rank in military history. As a Grand Marshal of the Alliance, Esling worked hard to unite European military forces ,and when Soviet forces invaded Finland in March 1946, the Alliance appointed Esling Supreme Commander of the Military Forces of the European Alliance.

The Grand Marshal and his lieutenants
During the resulting seven years of war, Esling proved an able and effective strategist, blunting Soviet attacks and co-ordinating guerilla movements in occupied territory. Following a series of Allied reversals in late 1949, Esling enacted the controversial Emergency Contingency Clause of the European Charter, and with the approval of the European Council and the European Parliament, Esling formed a military junta with virtually totalitarian control of the Alliance's economic, diplomatic, and military bodies. During the Soviet invasion of France in January 1950, Esling personally commanded Allied forces in France from the basement of the Hotel de Ville in Paris. Esling was not present in London when Soviet paratroopers captured European Defence Headquarters in June. By 1951, Esling was able to launch counter-offensives against weak Soviet forces on every front, pushing the Allies into the Soviet Union itself. Esling personally commanded the European army which captured Moscow in January 1953.
On February 26th 1953, Esling personally signed the armistice with the Soviet Union on behalf of the World Alliance. Following the end of the war, Esling returned his Executive Powers to the High Council and embarked on a Victory Tour of every member-state of the World Alliance, culminating in a Victory Parade in Paris on Bastille Day 1953. He was awarded the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Freedom, along with a total of 76 other medals and honourary peerages and knighthoods from grateful Allied nations. Eager for a return to private life, Esling resigned his commission in April 1954 and returned to his family estate in Weisbaden, with a generous life pension from the United Nations. Esling died on June 16th 1961, and his funeral in Berlin was attended by the Heads of State of every member-state of the United Nations.
Today, Esling lies in the family tomb in Hallenkirche, Weisbaden, one of the most visited sites in Germany. Eslingplatz in Berlin, Place Esling in Paris, Esling Square in London, Plaza de Esling in Madrid, Piazza Esling in Rome, and Esling Avenue in New York City, along with countless other streets, squares, academies, schools, and bridges around the world, are named in his honour. He is commemorated with statues in cities across Europe and North America, as well as appearing on the European Union's 10-Euro banknote.
Rommel, Erwin
Rommel was born in Heidenheim, Germany. Young Erwin considered becoming an engineer and would throughout his life display extraordinary technical aptitude; however, much to his family's dismay young Rommel joined the local 124th Württemberg Infantry Regiment as an officer cadet in 1910 and, shortly after, was sent to the Officer Cadet School in Danzig. He graduated in November 1911 and was commissioned as a lieutenant in January 1912.
During World War I, Rommel fought in France, as well as in Romania and Italy, initially as a member of the 6th Württemberg Infantry Regiment, and through most of the war in the Württemberg Mountain Battalion of the élite Alpenkorps. While serving with that unit, he gained a reputation for making quick tactical decisions and taking advantage of enemy confusion. He was wounded three times and awarded the Iron Cross; First and Second Class. Rommel also received Prussia's highest medal, the Pour le Mérite after fighting in the mountains of west Slovenia.
After the war, Rommel held battalion commands and was an instructor at the Dresden Infantry School from 1929 to 1933 and the Potsdam War Academy from 1935 to 1937. Rommel's war diaries, Infanterie greift an (Infantry Attacks), published in 1937, became a highly regarded military textbook, and attracted the attention of then General Gunther von Esling, who placed him in charge of the War Academy at Wiener Neustadt (Theresian Military Academy) in 1938. Here he started his follow-up to Infantry Attacks, Panzer greift(Tank Attacks, sometimes translated as The Tank In Attack). Rommel along with General Guderian advocated the development of tanks and armored warfare. Similar concepts were also put forth by other European officers, JFC Fuller, Little Hart, and Colonel Charles De Gaulle.
In 1942 Rommel was given command of one of the new Panzer regiments. He distinguished himself once more putting blitzkrieg theories into practice. Together with members of the Luftwaffe and Bundeswehr, Rommel and other German commanders perfected combined arms tactics. The success of these new programs propelled Rommel into command of the 7th Panzer Division.
Rommel 'The German Fox' outside I Corps headquaters in 1950. His tactical abilities earned the respect of Allied commanders and put fear into Soviet troops during WWII.
Shortly after the Soviet invasion of Eastern Europe, the Bundeswehr moved into action. Red Army units with heavy air support attacked across the Polish border on June 2nd right into the German I Corps. The 7th Panzer was at the heart of this fighting. Unlike the pervious fighting experienced by the Soviets in Poland, the Germans held their ground and were far better equipped than the Poles. Counterattacking rather than retreating, Rommel’s troops drove the 3rd Shock Army back across the border. However the sheer numbers of Russian tanks, guns, and men drove the allied armies and Rommel back.
Further the introduction of the Soviet ‘Mammoth’ tank allowed the Red Army to blast through German defenses. Rather than trying to stop the Soviet giants head on, Rommel had his commanders allow the Mammoths to advance, then once the Soviet tanks had gone forwards he would attack the following infantry or supply trains. The 7th Panzer would withdrawal before the Soviets could counterattack. These lighting assaults seemingly out of nowhere earned the 7th Panzer the nickname The Ghost Division in both the Soviet and Allied Armies. Rommel was given the title the German Fox.
After the battles in Eastern Germany Grand Marshal von Esling promoted Rommel to commander of the I Corps now expanded to include British and French units. Yet even with the German Fox in command the Allies could not keep the Russians from taking Berlin. Conducting a fighting withdrawal, Rommel under orders from Esling left the city to the Soviets on December 18, 1947. The Soviets would continue to advance towards Denmark and central Germany but get no further in their advance then the Maginot Line. Rommel used the terrain of central Germany to his advantage delaying Soviet advances. Support from Allied fighter bombers also proved critical in slowing the Russian advance.
Rommel would remain in command of the I Corps during the defensive battles through the end of the 1940s and the counteroffensives beginning in 1950. The battles for Kassel, Leipzig, Dresden, all were won by Rommel and his troops. For the invasion of the Soviet Union, Rommel was promoted to Field Marshal and given command of the 12th Panzer Army.
12th Panzer was central to the allied victories at Minsk, Smolensk, and Yaroslavets which opened the way for an attack on Moscow. Rommel was also responsible for the defeat of a Soviet counterattack which threatened to cut off Marshal von Esling’s capture of Soviet capital. Rommel personally coordinated the defense of the 17th Panzergrenadier Brigade, which blunted the 56th Guards Tank Division. It is rumored although not confirmed that Rommel took command of a Leopard medium tank and destroyed several Soviet tanks.
After the war Rommel was part of occupation forces in western Russia. He retried in 1953 and returned home. He remained in Germany with his wife till his death in 1960. Officers from every Allied nation, the United States, and even former officers of the Soviet Union attended his funeral.
Soviet General Georgei Khukhov told his senior commanders this in mid 1948,
"There exists a real danger that our friend Rommel is becoming a kind of magical or bogey-man to our troops, who are talking far too much about him. He is by no means a superman, although he is undoubtedly very energetic and able. Even if he were a superman, it would still be highly undesireable that our men should credit him with supernatural powers."
Roosevelt, Franklin
* Stavros, Nikos
Born in Thessaloniki on March 2nd 1905, Nikolas Stavros attended the National Military Academy of Greece from 1926-1931 and was commissioned in the Greek Army's Staff Corps in June 1932. In 1936 Stavros was appointed military attache at the Greek Embassy in Berlin, where he frequently met with the popular General von Esling. Stavros was appointed to Esling's new European Command in 1944 and in August 1945, Esling appointed Stavros as his personal aide-de-camp. Upon the outbreak of war in 1946, Stavros was appointed Commander in the Southern Theatre, where he fought back against the tide of Soviet forces but was unable to prevent Russian forces from seizing Athens. After the fall of Greece, Stavros returned to London to act as Esling's aide-de-camp, although his personal despair at Soviet victories, in particular the fall of Greece, frequently caused tensions between himself and other Allied commanders. Stavros was present in London during the June 1950 paratrooper attack and was wounded when trying to escape European Defence Headquarters with Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, only narrowly escaping Soviet troops by escaping along a ventilation shaft in the underground complex.
Following the attack on London, Stavros' vigour returned, and remained with Esling during the battles of 1951-1953. He personally held joint command of the Allied army which captured Moscow in 1953, and commanded the British army which seized Stalin's Noginsk headquarters on February 23rd. Following the war, Stavros remained highly secretive about the discovery of Stalin's body, as rumours spread that three Canadian soldiers had seen Stavros suffocate Stalin himself while the Soviet leader was trapped underneath rubble.
After the war, Stavros returned to his native Greece and began a short-lived political career, being elected Prime Minister in 1954. However, Stavros' domestic policies were not popular and his failure to improve Greece's dire economic situation resulted in him losing office in 1958. On June 13th 1965, despondent at his political failures and worn down by increasingly scathing reviews of his military capabilities during the war, Stavros committed suicide with a pistol.
Stavros is buried in the National Cemetery of Athens and his birthday on March 2nd is commemorated in Greece as a National Holiday
Josef Stalin
"When you kill one, it is a tragedy. When you kill ten million, it is a statistic"
~ Josef Stalin

The Vozhd
Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili, born in Gori, Georgia, on December 18th 1878, remains one of the most recognised and controversial personalities in history. As General-Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922-1953, Stalin's rule over the Soviet Union saw the country's economic and social standing leap forward, transforming the old Russian Empire from a pseudo-medieval state to the most powerful, industrialised nation on Earth, within only two decades. However, this immense leap forward came at an appalling cost in human lives, living standards, and environmental degradation, while Stalin's foreign policy led to the most devastating war in world history.
Born into relative poverty, Stalin experienced an unhappy childhood, being regularly beaten by his alcoholic father and forced to work in a shoe factory to supplement the family's pitiful income. At eight years old, he enrolled in a local religious school and began training to become a priest, and began a lifelong association with socialist and revolutionary movements at the monastery. His fervour for Marxism led to Stalin being expelled from the monastery in 1899. From 1902-1917, Josef was frequently exiled to Siberia for his involvement in revolutionary groups, and in 1913 he adopted the name "Stalin", or "man of steel". In 1912 Stalin gained a seat on the Central Committee of the Bolshevik party.
Upon the outbreak of revolution across the Russian Empire in 1917, Stalin held the position of Editor of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, and used this position to gain a seat on the newly-formed Politburo in May 1917. During the ensuing Russian Civil War and the Russo-Polish War, Stalin was assigned as a political commissar in various armies. In 1922, Lenin awarded Stalin with the relatively insignificant post of General Secretary of the Communist Party, a position which Stalin greatly enhanced during the 1920's. Upon Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin consolidated power by playing the two official leaders of the USSR, Zinoniev and Kamenev, off against one another, allowing him to enhance his career without interference from the government. Stalin immediately adopted a fervent public adoration for Lenin, greatly enhancing his public perception as the most loyal successor to Lenin, at a time when other Communist leaders were more concerned with squabbling over various political posts. The mid-1920s saw Stalin rise to power as Leon Trotsky and various other rivals were disposed of, ensuring that by 1928, having bullied other leaders into following him and having eliminated his rivals, Stalin held a position of complete authority in the Soviet Union.
Stalin's rule during the 1930s saw the introduction of the Five-Year Plans, economic programmes which dragged Russia from its medieval past and propelled the USSR into the industrial age. These industrialisation schemes transformed Russia's economy, while the establishment of collective farms transformed agriculture. However, these gains came at a very high price, leading to famines, tumbling living standards, and millions of deaths.
The early 1940s saw severe cracks appear in Stalin's domestic and foreign policies. In March 1943 the USSR resigned from the League of Nations and declared war on China, embroiled in civil wars and economic chaos. The Red Army's victories won the war for the USSR in July 1943, leading to China becoming a Soviet satellite. The USSR's increasing strength began to worry the nations of Europe, whose relations with the troublesome Soviet Union had been greatly strained during the Spanish Civil War. Stalin's support for the World Democratic Society and the Freedom Consortium, spearheaded by COMINTERN, prompted the major powers of Europe to form the European Alliance in May 1944, encouraging other nations to join, ensuring that by early 1946, nearly all the nations of Europe had joined the mutually protective Alliance. A serious famine in the Ukraine in early 1946, coupled with Stalin's ambition to extend the Soviet Union, led to the two powers clashing in March 1946. Russia's invasion of Finland, ostensibly to protect Soviet citizens and investments, invoked the Alliance Charter, obliging the Alliance to declare war on the USSR on 17th March 1946.
During the resulting seven years of war, Stalin's behaviour became increasingly erratic. Early Soviet victories in Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, the Balkans, and the Middle East convinced Stalin of the invincibility of his armies. Stalin refused to listen to advisors who suggested that the war was increasingly weakening the Red Army, and constantly pushed his generals into attacking further into Alliance territory. Although the USSR's industrial and military output greatly increased from 1946-1953, this came at the cost of plummetting living standards for Soviet citizens, particularly in the ethnically diverse, non-Russian peripheries of the Soviet Union. Furious at the Alliance's funding of rebel movements in Kazakhstan and Mongolia, Stalin authorised the use of primitive atomic bombs on the rebel cities of Ashkhabad and Ulaanbataar in September 1950. Although these attacks discouraged rebel movements for a period, Stalin's use of atomic weapons against his own citizens prompted many neutral countries to join the Alliance, fearing that if Stalin was prepared to slaughter his own people, he would not hesitate to do the same in Allied and neutral nations.
By late 1950, the tide had turned against the Soviet Union. The United States' entry into the war in December 1949, and the European Alliance's crushing victory over Soviet forces in eastern France in the summer of 1950, forced Russian armies to withdraw back towards the Soviet Union. This setback coincided with a general decline in Stalin's health, which his doctors, and later his biographers, attributed to the stress he had endured during four years of world war. The Man of Steel became increasingly paranoid, executing his best generals in the aftermath of the December 1949 plot, and initiating a wave of Purges against civilian and military officials across the Soviet Union, and became increasingly reliant on a mysterious advisor known only as 'Kane'. Increasing military setbacks in Europe, the Middle East, and China drove Stalin further into despair, prompting backlashes against the Red Army's High Command and crippling the army's already desperate command structure. During the latter years of the war, Stalin withdrew into increasing personal isolation, which Soviet psychiatrists feared was the beginning of mental decline. The fall of Leningrad in 1952 prompted Stalin to personally execute Marshal Khukhov, depriving the Red Army of its last effecive commander. As Allied forces advanced into the USSR, Stalin increasingly withdrew from reality, allowing the Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav Molotov, and the Secretary of the Ukraine, Alexander Romanov, to increase their own political standing.
On December 28th 1952, Stalin suffered a stroke in Moscow. Although the stroke grealty weakened the leader and permanently damaged many of his mental faculties, the Politburo remained too afraid to pronounce Stalin unfit to govern, and the weakened Stalin remained in office, a shadow of his former self. As the Allies crept towards Moscow in January 1953, Stalin withdrew to his fortified bunker complex in Noginsk, with British and American forces surrounding the fortifications only four days later.
Stalin's cause of death remains unclear to this day. Officially, Stalin died during a British artillery bombardment of the Noginsk complex, and the findings of Allied survey teams confirm that the leader was partially crushed under a slab of broken concrete on the morning of February 23rd. However, post-mortem examination of Stalin's body revealed that the leader had died from suffocation caused by blockage of the airways, as opposed to crushing of the lungs. This report led to wild speculation that the leader had been murdered when found alive by Allied troops. In 1962, three Canadian soldiers claimed that they had found Stalin alive, but had been ordered to leave the scene and forget what they had found, by Allied General Nikos Stavros himself. A popular conspiracy theory which remains to this day claims that General Stavros personally suffocated the trapped Stalin and left his body to be found by Allied troops. This wild theory has never been proven, but sadly, its persistence so depressed General Stavros that he committed suicide in 1965. Officially, Stalin died while trapped beneath debris, and the presence of the handkerchief is best explained as a mercy-killing on the part of one of the bunker's personnel, to prevent the leader from being captured alive by Allied forces.
Following the autopsy and examination of his body, Stalin's remains were transferred to the headquarters of the United Nations Global Defence Initiative in Geneva, Switzerland, for further study. The remains are still held at the headquarters today, and will be interred in 2012, according to United Nations Reolution 1664/c, which demands that the bones of Stalin be disposed of in that year. What will happen to the remains is currently a matter of debate.
* Pyotr Gradenko
Born in Elektrograd on June 30th 1918, Pyotr Ilyivich Gradenko was the son of Tsarist general Nicholas Gradenko. He attended the Moscow Academy of Military Sciences and enlisted in the Red Army Staff and Command Corps in 1936. Attached to the Eastern Army, Gradenko proved to be a capable staff commander in the Sino-Soviet War of 1943 but displayed weaknesses in battlefield command. A fervent Communist, Gradenko succeeded in rising swiftly in the Red Army's command structure as his superiors were liquidated by Stalin during the Great Purges of the late 1940s. Upon the outbreak of war in 1944, Gradenko held a position of surprising authority at the Peoples' Revolutionary Headquarters, regularly attending meetings with Stalin and his top commanders. A close personal friend of Stalin, Gradenko was able to retain his position despite his clumsy command abilities, at the same time making powerful enemies in the NKVD. Gradenko remained loyal to Stalin during the 1949 plot, and personally signed the death warrants of Stalin's best generals. After a convoy of parts for the Iron Curtain project was captured by Italian forces in the South Tyrol in 1951, Gradenko was deemed a non-person by the NKVD, and assassinated by the Head of the Secret Police with a poisoned cup of tea. His body was burned and the ashes dumped in a dustbin at the Moscow Crematorium.
* Nadia Kulashenka
Nadia Kulashenka's early life is largely unknown to historians, as most documents referring to her were destroyed by Kremlin archivists in 1953 and those close to her died during the final stages of the war. Few facts are known, but it is known that she was born in Volgograd in March 1924 and attended the Peoples' Police and Internal Security Directorate in Moscow from 1940-1942. She is strongly suspected of having had an affair with the sadistic Chief of the NKVD, Nikola Beria, in the early 1940s, which elevated her to a position of power within the Soviet secret police. Beria himself died in 1947, poisoned by an unknown assassin whom historians assume to be Nadia herself. Around this time she began a secretive affair with Stalin himself, allowing her to gain power and eliminate her own rivals by denouncing them to Stalin as traitors. Throughout the war, Nadia remained a mysterious but powerful figure, and although the European Alliance declared her death in 1955, her death sentence and certificate were issued in absentia, and it is suspected that she may have escaped to Kazakhstan after the war. In June 1952, the World Alliance issued a death warrant against Nadia and a reward of $1 million to whomsoever turned her over to the Alliance, but to this date no such sum has been paid and the death warrant is still valid.
As Chief of the NKVD, Nadia was responsible for the Soviet Union's network of gulags and internment camps, as well as co-ordinating the detection, incarceration, torture, and execution of "political prisoners", and the use of slave labour from gulags and prisoner-of-war camps. Just as Soviet generals in the 1930's had euphemistically referred to "having coffee with Beria" to describe their (officially non-existent) periods of internment and torture, the phrase "taking tea with Nadia" became synonymous with the frequent poisonings of Soviet officials on uneasy terms with Nadia.
Lavrenty Beria
* Georgei Khukhov
The son of a prominent Tsarist admiral, Georgei Khukhov was born in Sevastopol on December 14th 1911. His family were executed by Bolshevik forces in the Crimea in 1919, but Georgei was spared after he revealed the hiding-place of his mother and sisters to the Bolshevik troops. Khukhov enrolled with local Bolshevik forces and at the age of seventeen was given regimental command of the 62nd Siberian Rifles. His reputation as a vicious and uncomprimising officer resulted in him rising rapidly in the ranks, accelerated during the Purges of the 1930s and 1940s. Upon the outbreak of war in 1946, Khukhov was given brigade command in Poland and quickly proved himself to be one of the Red Army's best tacticians, overwhelming Polish forces and their French and German reinforcements. Promoted to Lieutenant-General in May 1947, Khukhov led the Soviet invasion of Germany and captured Berlin on December 18th 1947. His actions in Germany earned Khukhov the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union, and was transferred to Central Command in Moscow.
Khukhov continued to direct front-line operations in Europe, but his constant returns to Moscow to report to Stalin prevented him from making his signature lightning offensives against Allied forces in Holland and Belgium. However, his presence at the front lines convinced Stalin of Khukhov's loyalty, and he escaped the fate of many of his colleagues in the aftermath of the Generals' Coup of December 1949. As the badly weakened Red Army began to withdraw eastwards in the summer of 1950, Khukhov's reputation faltered, and his enmity with Nadia, Head of the NKVD, began to manifest. Following his failure to prevent Allied forces from invading the USSR in August 1952, Khukhov's reputation fell in the eyes of Stalin and he spent two weeks of "Re-Education" in a Karelian gulag under Nadia. The Allies' seizure of St Petersburg in 1952 enraged Stalin, who personally blamed Khukhov. On May 16th 1952, Stalin, furious and psychotic, killed Khukhov at his desk by snapping his neck. His body was taken to the Ekaterinburg forest and dumped, where NKVD operatives filmed the Marshal's body being eaten by wolves, an ineffective threat to other Soviet generals not to fail Stalin.
* Michael Dugan
Michael Stephen Dugan, born in Sacramento, California on March 31st 1920, was the 37th President of the United States. He attended Harvard University and graduated in International Sciences in 1941. Dugan joined the Democrat Party in 1939 and in 1942 began electoral campaigning in his native Sacramento.
In June 1969, the Democrat Party achieved electoral success and Dugan was inaugarated as President, narrowly defeating his Republican rival, Richard M. Nixon.
The Soviet invasion of the United States on May 18th 1970 caught Dugan unawares and he was captured in the White House itself while under the influence of a Psychic Beacon.
* Thorn Carville
Born in Lovett, Texas on December 16th 1922, Thorn Carville grew up in a military family, his father having commanded a brigade in the First World War and his grandfather having been promoted to General during the Spanish-American War. Carville attended West Point Military Academy from 1940 to 1943, where he displayed such remarkable strategic flair that within only two years of his graduation in 1943, he had been promoted to Major. On the outbreak of war in 1946, Carville was appointed military attache to the United States embassy in Copenhagen, where he worked with Danish and British commanders to bolster Denmark's defences against Soviet forces in 1948 and 1949. Carville was withdrawn from the embassy in November 1949 before the city fell to the Soviets and posted to as a liason officer to European Defence Headquarters in Westminster, where he was present during the Soviet paratrooper attack of June 1950.
By 1953, Carville's exceptional strategic talents had earned him the respect of both the American Expeditionary Force's commander, Dwight Eisenhower, and the Supreme Commander of the Allied Armies, Gunther von Esling, and Carville commanded a corps during the Allied invasion of Belarus in 1952. At the war's end, Carville, having earned several decorations and honours from grateful Allied nations, was promoted to four-star general and appointed to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington D.C., where he proved an effective military administrator throughout America's demilitarisation of the 1960's. Carville's popularity within the army grew during the Civil Rights era of 1962 as he frequently declared his support for racial equality within the armed forces.
On May 18th 1970, Carville was present at the Pentagon in Washington D.C. when the first reports of Soviet military movements against the United States began to filter through. Carville personally informed President Dugan and authorised a nuclear attack against the USSR, which failed to materialise. As Soviet forces rushed through Washington, Carville remained in the Pentagon to direct American counter-attacks in the city, only leaving when the Pentagon grounds were breached by Russian tanks. As he fled Washington, Carville briefly fell under the influence of a Psychic Beacon, before being rescued and taken to safety in Canada. From his command post in Montreal, Carville expressed dissatisfaction at having to beg for help from the European Union, but nevertheless accepted joint military command along with European commanders.
After Washington was liberated by Allied forces in August 1971, Carville returned to the Pentagon and continued to direct military operations for the East Coast of the United States. In May 1972, with most of the United States liberated from Russian rule, Carville was appointed commander of Allied forces in Germany. As he prepared to leave, he was assassinated in his office at the Pentagon by a Soviet suicide bomber. Carville's funeral on May 16th was attended by the President himself, and the general was buried with full military honours. Today, Carville rests at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia.
* Tanya Adams
Tanya Adams was born to an American-German family on September 25, 1920 in New York City. Her mother’s family had immigrated to the United States after the end of the First World War. Her mother then married Jason Adams a dock worker. For several years they lived in NYC. However in the mid 1930s, Germany in an effort to stem the depression called for its citizens living aboard to return home. It was hoped that the return of German families with their experience and in some cases capital could help the economy. So Tanya at age 10 moved with her family to Germany.
After completing schooling an eighteen year old Tanya was encouraged by her parents to go to college or and a good husband. However the young woman’s interests did not lie with more school, but government service. The Bundesnachrichtendienst (Germany foreign intelligence service) had been formed after restrictions in the Treaty of Versailles were lifted. Starting nearly from scratch the leaders of the Bundesnachrichtendienst sought some of the best and eager men and women of Germany, including Tanya Adams.
Initially Tanya worked on intelligence gathering. She was posted in North Africa, Russia, and United States. As time went on however Tanya attempted to break into the paramilitary field. During the 1940s Tanya tried to transfer to the newly formed European Commando Corps (ECC). Each time she was rejected. Although using women for covert intelligence work was common, no one in the ECC would consider a woman commando.
As war loomed in Europe, Tanya was sent on a mission with several other European spies in Leningrad. Shortly before the mission was to begin NKVD agents tracked down the Europeans. In a bitter gun battle two EDA agents were wounded and a third captured. Tanya rallied the remaining agents and held off a number of well armed NKVD officers with only a Colt .45. This allowed her fellow agents to capture a truck and the team to escape.
Although the Russians used the capture of the EDA agents as a pretext to annex the Baltic States, the escape operation caused some to rethink the ECC recruitment policies. Admiral Wilhelm Canaris head of the Bundesnachrichtendienst sponsored Tanya’s final and successful attempt to join the ECC. In a memo to Sir Campbell Stuart one of the founders of the corps Canaris wrote,
“Tanya Adams shows remarkable courage and calm in combat situations. She has numerous contacts in the intelligence agencies and experience in other countries. Finally, let me be frank, war is coming with the Soviets, and we need every man and woman we can get.”
Campbell, over the complaints of his special operation commanders, allowed Adams to join. Despite harassment from the other members and several senior officers, Tanya proved herself in every training mission. Her first taste of battle would come soon after the Soviet invasion of Finland.
ECC placed numerous operatives in Eastern Europe and Poland prior to the Soviet attack. When the Red Army invaded in November these groups went into action. Destroying bridges, raiding airfields, knocking out V-2 SCUD launchers, and eliminating Soviet commanders were all undertaken by ECC at the start of the war. In many cases the ECC completed their missions, but at a high cost. Over 60% of the commandos and operatives were killed in the first few weeks of the war, except for Adams. Tanya had been given the mission of eliminating the commander of the Soviet 47th Army. Not only did she accomplish the mission, Adams also recovered critical intelligence on upcoming operations in southern Europe and Germany. To say the ECC was stunned by the young woman’s success was an understatement. Marshal Esling upon hearing about her selected Tanya for a new and dangerous mission rescuing the Alliance’s top scientist, Albert Einstein.
Einstein had been captured on December 12, 1946. Spetsnazs, elite Soviet Special Forces parachuted into Germany and took Einstein while en route to his laboratory. The Soviets were then picked up by a helicopter assault force which returned to Poland. Allied intelligence located Eisenstein in early 1947. He had been moved to a Baltic Research facility in Lithuania. Tanya was dropped into Lithuania and made contact with local resistance forces. Together they disabled the base’s power gird rendering the formidable Tesla Coil defenses off line. They then entered the base and recovered Einstein escaping viva a helicopter to the German battle-cruiser Scharnhorst which then leveled the base.

Tanya Adams, shortly before deploying to Europe.
Tanya was given more missions behind enemy lines including securing the escape of General Nikos Stavros from Greece. She became so valuable to the Allies that when Adams was captured by Soviet troops on an intelligence gathering mission they mounted a rescue. Normally the NKVD executed ECC members upon their capture. However Tanya’s connections to Esling and other Allied commanders led to her being interrogated. Under Esling’s direct orders, an EDA agent infiltrated the base where she was being held and freed her at the cost of his own life. Adams proceeded to escape destroying the base and several experimental Soviet SAM systems.
ECC and Esling would continue to utilize Tanya for the rest of the war. She also has the distinction of being the one of the first humans to be chronoshifted. As part of the Allied assault on Moscow, Marshal Esling made use of the Chronosphere. A teleportation device, it allowed matter to be instantly transmitted over a distance. Using the device on a limited basis, the Allies were able to place units near key objectives in Moscow. Tanya Adams was one a handful of human volunteers to be teleported. Along with the other commandos Tanya knocked out Soviet command and control centers and defenses. Her actions and intelligence gathered helped the Allies take Moscow and end the war.
After the Second World War, Adams decided to return to the United States. The U.S. had not deployed Special Forces on a large scale during the war. Interested in developing their own elite commandos, the US Army and other branches did their best to convince ECC veterans like Tanya to come over. Upon her return Adams first worked with the Green Berets. Soon she advised the Navy SEALs, and Army Rangers. During the interwar years Adams conducted several covert operations for the U.S. in other countries. It was also during this time that it was discovered that Tanya did not age normally. Albert Einstein theorized that his earlier less refined chronosphere technology slowed the aging process in the woman’s body. This theory seemed to be confirmed when other members of Adam’s Moscow assault team showed similar signs. A few would later call this a miracle since it allowed Tanya to participate in the Third World War.
When the Soviet Navy sailed into New York harbor and began bombarding the city, Tanya was at a near by Army base training a group of SEALs. Adams helped coordinate the first counterstrike of the war. Working with the veteran SEAL officers, Tanya and the team swam into the harbor with scuba gear and using contact mines sank several Soviet Dreadnought cruisers. As in the Second World War, Adams played a key role in the conflict. She was part of the team that retook the Air Force Academy in Colorado, destroying a Psychic Dominator in St. Louis, and secured European support by taking out Russian nuclear tipped IRBMs in Poland.
Tanya also again took part in the chrono-invasion of Moscow. As U.S. and Allied forces secured the city, Tanya led a team into the Kremlin. There she captured Premier Romanov who was attempting to escape using a body double. Tanya also played a key role in fighting the Yuri movement, leading U.S. and Allied forces in efforts to destroy the psychic devices around the world.
The European Union
* Reynard Lyon
Born in Arles on January 16th 1929, Reynard Lyon attended the Ecole Militaire in Paris from 1945 to 1949. Like many other cadets in France, Lyon graduated one year early in order to provide officers for the beleaguered French army, and was rushed into the front lines in western Germany in June 1949, in command of an army signals unit. Lyon proved an effective military administrator and demonstrated remarkable flair for intelligence and logistics work. During the Soviet attack on the Maginot Line, Lyon was promoted to Colonel and given command of communications for three major fortresses in the network. Lyon and his troops fought bravely and held onto their position long after Soviet forces had broken through, only abandoning their position when it came under artillery bombardments to which their guns could not respond. After abandoning the fort, Lyon and his unit conducted guerilla activities in Soviet-occupied Alsace and Lorraine, frequently sabotaging Russian supply and communications lines.
As Russian forces withdrew from eastern France in late 1950, Lyon regrouped with the French army and was awarded the Legion d'Honneur for his actions. Promoted to Major-General, Lyon commanded a French armoured division during the reconquest of Germany, until reassigned to Operational Headquarters in Warsaw, where he remained until the Alliance's assault on Moscow. During the attack, Lyon commanded three divisions of French troops and displayed remarkable personal bravery, being one of the first Allied officers into the Kremlin and personally raising the European flag over the Spasskorya Tower.
After the war, Lyon returned to France as a hero of the French people and ran for candidacy in his native Arles, winning the town's seat in the National Assembly in 1955. A fervent supporter of the Fourth Republic and the Socialist Party of France, Lyon gained many powerful friends in politics and ran for President in 1962. Although he lost the candidacy to General Charles de Gaulle, Lyon continued his political career and in 1967, again ran for President. Under Lyon's leadership, the Socialist Party won nearly 36% of votes, giving the Socialist Party majority control in the National Assembly and the Senate, as well as elevating Lyon to the post of President of France.
Lyon's domestic policies generated controversy in politically-divided France, but his foreign policy initiatives were highly approved of across the country, strengthening ties within the European Union. Lyon was still in office when Romanov launched his invasion of the United States in 1970. Initially reluctant to intervene, and unable to conceal his grim satisfaction at seeing the meddling United States faced with such a problem, Lyon nevertheless publically called for a massive Allied commitment to the American war effort. He was denied, by American and European political leaders, command of the remnants of the American army in Canada, and subsequently declined command of the joint European army massing in Germany.
Lyon's popularity after the war ended remained high, until France entered a period of economic slump in November 1972. Unhappy with his domestic policies, the French electorate disposed of Lyon at the 1974 Presidential elections, instead producing a landslide victory for the liberal French Democratic Party. Lyon retained his seat in the National Assembly and in 1974 was awarded a life seat in the Senate, where he remained a popular figurehead for the Left. Lyon died in Paris on May 13th 1998 and is buried in Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris.
Charles de Gaulle
[Harold Macmillan
Clement Attlee
Konrad Adenaeur
The World Socialist Alliance
* Alexander Romanov
Born in St Petersburg on April 2nd 1917, Alexander Romanov was the eldest of three children of Letitza and Karl Romanov, cousins of Tsar Nicholas II. During the October Revolution, the Romanovs fled to Kiev to escape the fate of the Royal Family. Alexander's father Karl was captured and executed by Bolsheviks in Kiev in February 1918, leaving Letitza to bring up the three children. As the eldest, Alexander became the family's breadwinner and at the age of fifteen joined the local Communist Party. Alexander displayed extreme fervour for communism and during his twenties, rose rapidly in the Ukrainian branch of the Communist Party, while carefully concealing his royalist background. In 1942, Romanov was "outed" by a rival and exposed as a royalist descendant, pushing him into obscurity. However, his talents were recognised by the Secretary of the Ukraine, Nikita Khrushchev, and during the Great Patriotic War of 1946-1953, Alexander Romanov proved a very capable administrator, greatly increasing industrial and agricultural output in the Ukraine. Romanov was suspected of participating in the "Generals' Coup" of December 1949 against Stalin, but was never proven a participant.
Following the end of the war, the European Defence Agency recommended that lexander Romanov, a reliable and peaceful administrator, be appointed to a position of authority within the defeated Soviet Union until an appropriate leader for the USSR could be found. The Alliance, however, was unable to find a better alternative, and with the full backing of the USSR's Politburo and the blessing of the United Nations, the Alliance granted Romanov the position of General Secretary of the Communist party of the Soviet Union in 1955.
Romanov proved a competent and reliable administrator and with financial aid from the European Union, quickly rebuilt the shattered USSR, achieving after only ten years a level of economic output higher than that of Stalin's USSR before the war. Romanov's diplomatic astuteness allowed him to co-ordinate the foundation of the World Socialist Alliance and the Freedom Consortium, and with Allied nations reluctant to intervene in the old peripheries of the Soviet Empire, Romanov succeeded in securing an indefinite United Nations mandate to secure the old provinces under Russian administration.
Although the terms of the 1955 Peace Treaty specifically forbade Soviet military buildup, Romanov and his Chief Advisor Yuri (see below) succeeded in secretly increasing the size of the Red Army, developing new weaponry and conducting research into nuclear technologies, unbeknownst to the Allies. By 1969, the Red Army was far larger than the Allies imagined and had access to 14 nuclear-tipped ICBMs, again a complete surprise to the rest of the world. Eager to exploit Euro-American tension in order to res-establish Russia as a world power, Romanov unleased his armies against the continental United States in 1970. During the war, Romanov's actions grew increasingly erratic while his advisor Yuri appeared to consolidate more and more power. The Allies' teleportation into Moscow in July 1972 caught Romanov unaware, and he was captured in the Kremlin before he was able to escape.
Following the end of the war, Romanov was incarcerated in the Tower of London on an indefinite imprisonment sentence. His trial began in London in 1974, after the notorious "Yuri Incident", and was condemned to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity. Alexander Romanov died in London on December 27th 1982, and is buried in the Romanov family estate outside Kiev.
* Dmitri Vladimir
* Yuri Molotov
Yuri Andreavich Molotov was one of the most enigmatic figureheads of the Soviet Union, perhaps of the entire world. Many documents concerning Yuri were destroyed during the Third World War or are simply lost, and as a result historians are unclear on many details of Yuri's bizarre life.
Born into the ancient and noble Lupescu family of central Romania, Yuri was born on October 23rd 1917 (Julian calendar), the very day that the October Revolution began in St Petersburg. What makes his birthdate so unusual, though, is not simply that Yuri was born on the same day as the Bolshevik revolution started, but that according to the testimony of the midwife who delivered him, Yuri was born at 9.45pm, at the same exact time as sailors from the mutinous vessel Aurora stormed the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, the symbolic act of the creation of the Soviet Union.
During the resulting Russian Civil War, Yuri Molotov (not to be confused with Stalin's later Foreign Minister of the same name, Vyacheslav Molotov), was sent to live with relatives in Scotland rather than remain in war-torn Russia. As a child, Yuri displayed great intelligence and at the age of sixteen, already able to speak eleven languages, unusually received an offer of a scholarship at the University of Cambridge. During his eight years of university (during which he adopted the name "Molotov"), Yuri demonstrated extreme intelligence, participating in every available experiment at the Department of Experimental Psychology. In 1934 Yuri was asked to sit an IQ exam by the faculty, scoring an unprecedented 211 points on the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale.
Yuri left Britain in 1941, having earned double doctorates in Chemical Engineering and Psychology, and returned to Stalin's Soviet Union. Upon his arrival, Yuri secured an audience with Stalin himself and according to eyewitness testimonies, Stalin emerged from the meeting chamber convinced of Yuri's powers and fanatical devotion to the Soviet Union. In September 1941 Stalin established the Psychic Corps, a specialist branch of the Red Army under Yuri's personal command, devoted to the research and application of psychic abilities. It was at this time that Yuri himself underwent extensive cranial surgery, being fitted with a metallic mechanism of his own design, the purpose of which he never fully revealed.
During the 1940's and Stalin's war with the Alliance, Yuri remained an obscure character, remaining at his isolated residence in the Ural mountains with his Psychic Corps Initiates, researching accounts of telekinesis, telepathy, clairvoyancy, and various other disciplines on the verge of the already-ridiculed field of parapsychology. Yuri is also reputed to have conducted illegal experiments on human subjects for the purposes of advancing his psychic research. As the Allies swept across Siberia in 1953, Yuri's base fell to a joint American and Japanese Army, who, however, found nothing.
Yuri did not reappear in the Soviet Union until 1956, when he emerged as an advisor to the Allies' chosen puppet ruler of Russia, Alexander Romanov. The 1960's saw Yuri's influence over the Premier greatly increase, providing him with unlimited resources and funds for his research. As his power grew, Yuri found himself more and more in the public view, using this new audience to increase his already considerable power. Yuri's rivals spread rumours that he was descended from Grigor Rasputin, the infamous "mad monk" whose apparent hypnotic powers had given him considerable power in the Russian Imperial Court during the First World War. Yuri, though, absorbed these rumours and began to claim himself that he was personally descended from the famous spirit medium, even claiming at the 1968 Party Congress that he was Rasputin's grandson. By 1969, Yuri had established his position as Romanov's most trusted and closest advisor, and had accumulated immense power as Chief Officer of the Psychic Corps and Director of the (illegal) KGB. His experience with the KGB led to Yuri adopting new traits, copied from the last Head of the NKVD, Nadia Kulashenka. Mimicking Nadia's style, Yuri began to drink tea in public and occasionally made veiled references to quietly disposing of his enemies, in much the same way as Kulashenka had done. The outbreak of a civil war in Mexico in early 1970 provided the Soviet Union the pretext needed to move ground forces close to the United States, and on February 18th, Yuri personally addressed the United Nations in New York City, convincing the delegates not to dispatch peacekeepers or observers, and allow Russia to handle the situation.
The beginning of the Third World War in 1970 allowed Yuri to unleash his telepathic abilities to the fullest. On the first day of the war, Yuri himself contacted the United States Ballistic Missile Command Centre in North Dakota, using his persuasive powers, hypnotic voice, and telepathic abilities to influence the station's commander into letting the missiles explode underground. Having achieved this, Yuri directed his Psychic Corps during a psychic invasion of New York City, and began constructing Psychic Beacons across occupied America.

The missiong ones
Roosevelt, Franklin
Lavrenty Beria
Charles de Gaulle
Harold Macmillan
Clement Attlee
Konrad Adenaeur

Ok I've got several recommendation for the character
an albert Einstein and Mao might be interesting, a Japanese character might an interesting addition (might help explain what happen to Iwo Jima, my guess is that the Soviet Launched an all-out assault on the island the japanese defended it with all they got, the U.S decided to bring reinforcement to their ally and together made a critical lost for the Soviet Union and his consider both a memorable victory for Japan and the U.S) Anyway I think that some additional historical figure like Nixon were in the list but yet to be add and I forgot to save them, feel free to add them
extending on some character like Dugan and Tanya might be fun (basicly having their whole life from to death, its a bit weird for Yuri just to be lock away)

Yurian Technology
Cybernetics
The study of cybernetics, beginning as a pseudoscience amongst early twentieth-century mathematicians, had by the 1940's evolved into a serious branch of research embracing genetics, bionic engineering, psychology, cellular biology, and a variety of other established scientific disciplines. Cybernetics emerged as a mathematical and sociological theory in the West at around the same time, while in the Soviet Union, the Psychic Corps and the Soviet Academy of Sciences began research into the highly experimental field of "Applied Cybernesis".
Research on Soviet cybernetics was initially pioneered by leading members of the USSR's intelligentsia, including population geneticist Sergei Chetverikov, biochemist Alexsandr Oparin, Nobel Prize-winning psychologist and biological theorist Ivan Pavlov, and academician Nikolai Kochetkov. Eager to harness the potential of cybernesis, the commander of the Soviet Psychic Corps, Yuri Molotov, initiated a variety of schemes to establish a permanent scientific base for the study and development of cybernetics. Influenced by Yuri, the commander of the NKVD, Nadia Kulashenka, established in 1947 the Academy of Cybernetic Studies, based at Kiev University. Research at the facility, and applied development at Psychic Corps headquarters in Omsk, was conducted under extreme secrecy, with a level of security comparable to that of the ongoing Soviet Atomic Bomb Project.
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Victims of cybernetic experiments at the Psychic Corps' Omsk facility
Documents pertaining to the activities of the Academy of Cybernetic Studies were mostly destroyed towards the end of the war, or disappeared as Allied armies approached Kiev and Omsk. The handful of surviving papers, and testimonies from facility staff, are considered dubious at best. Describing bizarre technology and experimentation, Allied interrogators and analysts following the war were highly sceptical of whether the purported activities ever took place. According to surviving documents, the Academy's primary project throughout the war focused on the development of what witnesses termed a "cybernetic organism", or "cyborg", using a blend of surgery, bionic implants, and biochemical-hormonal treatment. The one known substantiated testimony available to the public was given by Professor Vladimir Nikitich Vinogradov, Stalin's personal physician, in a 1964 television interview:
"... he [Yuri] was apparently engaged in work on a project known to his associates as "Volkov", seemingly named for a Spetznatz commando who had volunteered himself as a test subject. We ... were never able to discover the means and utility of this study, but some associates of mine, who disappeared at the time of [the battle of] Kiev, referenced surgical and hormonal treatment being used to engineer artifical enhancements to this ... soldier. I recall one night ... at the [1952 New Year] party at the Bolshoi, one of Zhdanov's men who was substantially inebriated, mentioned the ongoing progress on "Volkov" and took me into the hallway. There, he produced a facsimile sheet which seemed to outline an artificial attachment to the eye, termed on the paper as an "ocular enhancement". It appeared to be a fairly crude surgical attachment to the ocular orbit [of the face] constructed of a resin alloy and fitted with manually-operated magnification and a green electromagnetic apparatus which allowed the user to see in the dark, the whole apparatus being fitted 1-2 centimetres above the existing human eye, and apparently detachable from its metal mounting which appeared to be screwed into the facial bones. I enquired about the source of the document but the man was so drunk he could not respond coherently. I never encountered the man again, but some days later I learned that Zhdanov had been arrested. He was not seen again ... In my opinion an artificial enhancement of that fashion would not ... be feasible according to our understanding of human physiology. I did see the papers captured by the Australians in Omsk, but their veracity must be called into question. Cellular regeneration at that level is ... simply beyond the capabilities of our current understanding of physical and biological science. As regards the "hormonal replacement therapy" referred to in the text, that too is highly dubious. Administering testosterone in such quantities would accelerate the growth of muscle tissue at an exponentially-cascading rate, leading to cellular decay in addition to causing severe movement constrictions from operating with such a large and cellulitically-unstable musculature. The renal system would be severely damaged and transplanted kidneys would be required every few years, to say nothing of the effects on the digestive system and metabolism ... unless of course these "developers" had devised a functioning artifical kidney and metabolic retardation drugs without the knowledge of the Academy [of Sciences]. It is feasible that a bionic audio device could be implanted into the ear but the ocular enhancement is highly circumspect... but the greatest obstacle to the concept of enhancing the human senses by attaching such objects is the high risk of rejection. The immuno-cycitic system automatically detects such devices as foreign objects and will attempt to displace them. To my knowledge, and the knowledge of my distinguished colleagues, functioning pharmaceutical agents to prevent immuno-cycitic rejection are still very much theoretical ... Implanting devices into the body would result in severe swelling and tissue damage in the location of the implants as the immune system, which will identify implants as a threat, attempts to overcome the object. The risk of infection from recurring broken sores in the vicinty of the device would be extremely dangerous to the subject ... The very notion of cerebral implants is ludicrous; medical knowledge of the human brain is in far too early a stage to even remotely consider ... any kind of augmentation to the brain and central nervous system. Even Yuri could not have overcome ... the lack of basic knowledge on the functioning of cerebral pathways ... They did experiment with similar procedures on animals, but to my knowledge no such "Chitzkoi" creature was created, attempting to perfom such enhancements on a non-sapient species is a plot for fiction... "
Despite his scepticism on the creation of cybernetic organisms, Professor Vinogradov expressed a curious concern during the Third World War:
"I have sometimes asked myself ... if [the man] at the Bolshoi that night was truly intoxicated, or whether it was a pretence. Was it a test of my loyalty, or a forgery to determine whether my curiosity posed a threat to the project? Was it simply carelessness on the part of the unfortunate individual? Or was it a genuine attempt to reveal to outsiders what ungodly abominations he [Yuri] was developing?"
Allied units which captured Omsk did report finding three grotesquely mutilated bodies, some of them apparently surgically altered to include what appeared to be mounting sockets for other devices, but further exploration was prevented by the arrival of the European Defence Agency, who sealed the Psychic Corps facility.
During the EDA's subsequent investigation, rumours surfaced of an unidentified Russian soldier having been seen in the Dneiper region, notable for his heavy musculature, elusive nature, and sporting what appeared to be metallic objects on his face. Accompanied by an Alsatian wolfhound, the figure is rumoured to have attacked Allied units during the last weeks of the war, and is credited with having single-handedly ambushed and destroyed a motorised American supply convoy west of Kharkhov in June 1953 (the US Army report on the ambush, in which there were no survivors, is still classified). The myth of "Volkov and Chitzkoi" continues to this day, and is a well-known urban legend in the southern Ukraine.
Psychic Research
Miscellaneous
Project Unity
Chartered by the United Nations and administered by the space agencies of the European Union, the United States, and the Soviet Union, Unity was a joint initiative symbolising co-operation and peace, in addition to being mankind's first genuine attempt to spread human society beyond the confines of Earth.

Phase One, the orbital space station, under construction 15,000km above Kenya
Phase One of the project, commenced in early 1964, involved the construction of a habitable orbital platform, named Unity Station, in a geosynchronous orbit of our planet, located some 15,000km above East Africa. The resulting space station provided accomodation for up to twelve research personnel. On August 21st 1967, three cosmonauts - Pavel Chekhov of the Soviet Union, Jean-Luc Picard of the European Union, and Jonathan Archer of the United States - took up residence in the station. While the station itself was a major step in human technology, its role as a research station was further supplemented when, in late 1967, Phase Two of Project Unity began. The most expensive and controversial stage of the project, Phase Two involved the construction of a lunar base located in the Sea of Tranquility. Co-ordinated by the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and regulated by the International Outer Space Treaty and the Lunar Treaty, Phase Two began construction in December 1967, less than three years after mankind's first landing on the moon.
The immense cost and wastefulness of Phase Two was initially marginalised as the three contributory nations exploited Unity's use as a means of distracting their populations from economic instability in 1968. Throughout 1968, NASA, the ESA, and the RSB funneled resources and technology into the construction of the base. Rockets departing their launch sites in Cape Canaveral, Malta, and Tyura-Tam brought supplies to Unity Station, where their cargoes were transferred to the United Nations ship Sunrise, a vessel powered by Orion Drive nuclear propulsion, designed to shuttle supplies between Unity Station and Unity Base, the Project's lunar facility. By December 1968, one year after construction had commenced, a small base had been built but remained uninhabitable for research personnel, due to extreme environmental conditions and micro-meteorite impact. Disallusionment with the project, coupled with skyrocketing costs and severe wastage, resulte in Phase Two being postponed indefinitely on December 13th 1968. Three weeks later, the nuclear core of Sunrise was cracked by a micro-meteorite while undergoing repairs over the South Pole. The vessel, irreperably damaged, risked crashing onto Antarctica; as such a crash would result in the detonation of the nuclear propulsion bombs in the Sunrise's Orion Drive and cause devastating environmental damage to Antarctica, the United Nations Space Initiative removed the nuclear core and succeeded in bringing both it and the nosecone of Sunrise back to Earth; the nuclear core was disposed of safely, and the nosecone installed in the lobby of United Nations headquarters in New York City. The rest of the vessel remained in a decaying orbit, and finally fell to Earth on April 3rd 1976, spreading over the Indian Ocean and burning up in the stratosphere.

Phase Two, the lunar base, photographed on the day of the European Space Agency's departure from the financially disastrous project
While Phase Two was an unqualified failure, Phase One proved a success as Unity Station continued to fulfill its role as a global research facility. During the Third World War, Unity remained in operation. With the embattled United States unable to retrieve its personnel from the station and the USSR redirecting its rockets to missile delivery systems, the European Union mounted an extraction mission. On June 30th 1970, the European Space Agency dispatched the shuttlecraft Persephone to retrieve the three European, three Russian, and three American personnel from the station. Despite the ongoing war, the EDA and EU upheld its commitment to the 1965 International Treaty on the Rescue of Astronautical Personnel, and repatriated the American and Russian researchers under United Nations law.
The station was re-occupied in September 1970, at the earliest available time following the European-American alliance of the Treaty of Reykjavik (unfavourable meterological conditions prior to September had prevented the launch of a rocket). Personnel from the EDA and NASA occupied the station until the end of the war. During the Yurian Incident, agents of the United Nations Global Defence Initiative occupied Unity for surveillance purposes.
Unity Base on the moon also saw action during the Yurian Incident, when, using a modified rocket captured from the Russian Space Bureau, Yurian followers briefly re-occupied the base on August 16th 1972. The base and its Yurian garrison were ultimately destroyed by a gravimetric bombardment by the United Nations vessel Prometheus.
Unity Station remains in orbit to this day, although it was abandoned in 1982 following the construction of the International Space Station, and ceased to be inhabitable in 1985. The European Space Agency and NASA occasionally visit the station to perform maintenance required to keep the station in a safe orbit. Today, Unity is a World Heritage Site and falls under the jurisdiction of UNESCO - the only international monument beyond the boundaries of our planet.

 

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Absolutely amazing - well done! As a fan of both AH and the Red Alert series of games, I can only say to you - thank you for bringing this to us.

As for whoever actually wrote it, Bravo to them, they've made a fine TL out of a fine game's setting.

 

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Ok here my shot at it

Lavrenty Beria

Head of the Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) from 1938 until his death by poisoning in 1946, Beria sadistic reputation apparently went on toward his organisation as it viciousness grew with his power within Soviet Union. While considerably fear in both Soviet Union and in other part of the world, his reputation was supersede by his successor, possible mistress and likely murderer: Nadia Kulashenka who intensified the violence of the NKVD toward European both Soviet and European.

Born in Georgia, he joined the Bolshevik during the Russian revolution, much of his past is hazy due to secretive nature of his work however, he has been know to have worked in security force in Azerbaija in 1919 and to have joined the Cheka in the early 1920s. During the August uprising in Georgia against the Soviet Union, he led the repression against the revolt and ordered over 10 000 execution.

Beria rise power was mostly concentrate in the transcaucasian region however, in 1926, he quickly associates himself with Stalin and largely helped him (though it might have just had been to protect his own ambition) in taking over the Soviet Union. After becoming secretary to the region in 1931 he quickly purged member of the party.

Beria finally became the leader of the NKVD in 1938 expanding starting the great purge, leading to so much death within the Soviet Union it crippled it. He even purged half of the organisation to replace theses lost with people thoroughly loyal with Bernia.

The Chinese conflict with U.S.S.R. proved to be the apex of Beria power as he forged report about Chinesse incursions through the Soviet Union. Some Soviet archive led to believe that Bernia moved large amount of Chinese to the frontier into camp controlled by the NKVD executing any that dare trying to escape using terror tactic to make believe of gathering armies.

With the successful instalment of Mao Zedong in China, he personally monitored the operation of the NKVD in China, officially to help the People republic police itself after decades of troubles, but mostly to control the action of Chinese communists as NKVD officers routinely executed Chinese agents. Beria himself came (or was sent by Stalin) to China on several occasions. His affair with Nadia Kulashenka is guessed to have started around that period.

In the years following the conquest of China, Beria re-directed the NKVD focus toward the European Alliance. Some said that he personally oversaw the torture of the three EDA agents that led to political crisis that led to World War II. However, like most who gathered power in Soviet Union during the era his relationship with Stalin quickly disintegrate. Some historians belive that Beria was maybe organizing a coup against Stalin as the war started, hoping that the European Alliance would bring him support in exchange for peace, but no hard evidence were ever provide. It is even harder to dertermine the truth of those allegation as he was found dead holding a poisoned cup of tea in a Moscow hotel October 12 1946.

Beria was never fully disgrace by the Soviet Union even during the war, with Kulashenka only intensifying the viciousness of the NKVD. His reputation somehow got milder through the post-war years. Alexander Romanov alleged said to KGB officials at the start of World War III "to be like Beria not Nadia". Still,his reputation as sadistic individual leading to the death of millions remained through the years.


Comment are very welcome, I'm sure my text is filled with a tons of errors or so.

Ok here are the rest of the pic (if you feel like making some it is very welcome)

 

[BlackWave]

Here's one I did for Einstein:

Albert Einstein, arguably the most famous and prolific scientist of the 20th century, has also arguably influenced history like no other. No scientist's work has had such a great effect on the human race as his, and no man of science has more mystery and conspiracy surroudning him. As a result, it has been difficult to guage what is fact and what is faction, but there some facets of the man that are definite.

Einstein was born into a Jewish family in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany on March 14, 1879. In his early teens, Einstein attended the progressive Luitpold Gymnasium. His father intended for him to pursue electrical engineering, but Einstein clashed with authorities and resented the school regimen. He later wrote that the spirit of learning and creative thought were lost in strict rote learning.

Following graduation, Einstein could not find a teaching post. After almost two years of searching, a former classmate's father helped him get a job in Berne, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property. In 1905, while he was working in the patent office, Einstein had four papers published in the ''Annalen der Physik'', the leading German physics journal. These are the papers that history has come to call the 'Annus Mirabilis Papers':

His paper on the particulate nature of light put forward the idea that certain experimental results, notably the photoelectric effect, could be simply understood from the postulate that light interacts with matter as discrete "packets" quanta of energy, an idea that had been introduced by Max Planck in 1900 as a purely mathematical manipulation, and which seemed to contradict contemporary wave theories of light. This was the only work of Einstein's that he himself called "revolutionary."

In 1917, Einstein published an article in ''Physikalische Zeitschrift'' that proposed the possibility of stimulated emission, the physical process that makes possible the maser and the laser, and later the famous Prism Tech. He also published a paper introducing a new notion, the cosmological constant, into the general theory of relativity in an attempt to model the behavior of the entire universe.

Einstein traveled to New York City in the United States for the first time on April 21, 1921. When asked where he got his scientific ideas, Einstein explained that he believed scientific work best proceeds from an examination of physical reality and a search for underlying axioms, with consistent explanations that apply in all instances and avoid contradicting each other. He also recommended theories with visualizable results.

Einsten returned and continued to work in Germany in the 1930s, where rumour has it that along with many educated scientists, mostly Jews, he conducted experiments into matter transferal that would eventually produce the famous Chronosphere device. As the looming threat of Stalin's Soviet Union grew, Einstein's fame grew as some European leaders began to toy with the idea of finding military applications for the groundbeaking research Einstein was producing in Germany. Einstein, being a pacifist, objected to these ideas steadfastly.

However, a few years later, the European Alliance declared war on the Soviet Union in 1946 following Stalin's invasion of Finland. That same year, the Soviet Union, following intelligence discoveries concerning Einstein's new research, kidnapped him from his lab in Germany and took him to a coastal laboratory within Soviet territory. Nonetheless, Einstein was rescued by Tanya Adams, and apparently the experiance finally convinced him to commence military research for the Allies, albeit highly reluctantly. As the war went on, Einstein applied military purposes for his work, starting with the Philadelphia experiment in 1948, where he and his research team successfully phased the USS Elridge out of space and time for a few seconds using a tesla coil array. Einstein managed to perfect the control element in his German laboratory even as it came under Soviet attack. Following that assault, Einstein was relocated to America, where he worked on 'gap generator' radar jamming technology. Rumours abound that in the war, he managed to apply his chronosphere technology to individual vehicles, but as far as can be told this technology was not widespread, perhaps for fear of it falling into Soviet hands.

By the end of the war, Einstein had perfected a chronosphere device, a machine for tactical teleportation, the result of years of intensive research since the 1930s. Using this device, the Allies finally secured victory. Einstein was given appropiate credit in media outlets worldwide, making him an iconic figure. Following the war, Einstein returned to Germany, where he continued his scientific work. In the 1960s, Einstein tried to find ways to apply his teleporation technology for peaceful purposes, and succeeded in construction several prototypes for teleporting mining and ore extraction vehicles, to accelerate resource allocation for construction purposes. During this time, he also made accidental breakthroughs into climate manipulation, after he found that appropiate magnetic field projection could create localised electrical discharges with the same effect and appearance as an intense lightning storm. Fearing that this new discovery might be used for the wrong purposes, Einstein filed the appropiate research away.

Einstein's experiance in WW2 had given him a new care for life and he took care of his health better. As a result, he lived into his nineties into the seventies, by which he had made a number of breakthroughs, not all of which he had publicised. However, a number of countries now made use of his 'chrono miner' technologies for resource gathering. In 1970, at the eruption of the Third World War, Einstein continued research from his laboratory in the Black Forest region. He remained uninvolved in the war until Soviet nuclear weapons facilities in Poland were eliminated, sparing Europe from nuclear threat. Grateful, the German government instructed him to release some of his research with military applications to the Americans, for the sake of peace. Reluctantly, Einstein unveiled his research into light refraction, or 'prism tech', which could be used as a light projection system with anti-armour applications. Einstein's 'prism towers', defensive structures that made first use of this, were used in the American liberation of Washington DC, turning the tide of the war. Einstein continued to focus on prism technology, eventually scaling it down so that it could be used on vehicles, resulting in new 'prism tanks', armoured vehicles equipped with prism weapons, that had formidable firepower.

Einstein's life came at risk when a Soviet battalion launched an assault on his Black Forest lab in 1972. In this battle, Einstein released his 'mirage technology', the result of his research in the 1960s, which involved the projection of the appearance of a nearby object around a certain radius. This was applied to new 'mirage tanks', which proved capable of disguising themselves as nearby objects, usually trees, that served in the defence of his lab.

Grateful for the Allies for saving his life, Einstein finally decided to help them end the war once and for all with his Chronosphere. Having worked out over many years the perfect place in the magnetosphere to place the Chronosphere for a mass-long distance teleportation, which turned out to be the Florida keys, Einstein also designed a mass climate manipulation device for focused, devastating lightning storms, after digging up the appropiate paper from the 60s, and created the epitome of his teleporation technology, a chrono suit that allowed the wearer to teleport to any co-ordinates in a vicinity, and a neutron projection rifle that could erase objects from time. These new technologies were put to use in the capture of Moscow, which ended the war.

This was not the end of Einstein's involvement in conflict, however. Immediately after the end of the war, Einstein travelled to California for a physics lecture, when the infamous Yuri Incident occured, brainwashing most of the world. However, Einstein managed to prepare a vehiclar version of his Chronosphere, allowing an Allied taskforce to travel back in time and avert the disaster. In the new, slightly altered timeline, Einstein was kidnapped from his lab by Yuri followers to improve the range of a Psychic Domintor device, but was rescued. Einstein produced the same technologies in this timeline as he had in the previous, quicker now with future intelligence. By the end of this, however, he was exhausted due to old age and years of intensive research. He retired to a home in New York following the end of the Yuri Conflict, and approved of the UN's decision to destroy and ban his various chrono, mirage, prism and weather control technologies. Einstein disposed of the blueprints, and in 1975, at the age of 94, he died of heart failure. Although few traces of his work remain, he has been remembered as one of, if perhaps the, greatest scientist(s) of all time.

Opinion?

 

[Redem]

I think it's good, here my main suggestion work the in-between there should be thing going on majors event we see in red alert and it might be interesting to see what you can come up with. One of my suggestion is that Einstein himself spearhead the movement to destroy his own technology

Ok I've wanted to do my new entry on Roosevelt but it seem that truman was the one that was president during most of the war so, but I decided to change several thing

Heh I'm sure Patton would love this TL

(I could have made it better, but anyway))

Harry Truman

Harry .S Truman

Harry Truman was the American president from 1944 to 1952 and Vice-President from 1941 to 1944. He permanently brought an end to the last vestige of the great depression the United States of America and led the entry of the United States into the Second World War. He’s considered to be as influential and popular as his predecessor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, while Roosevelt having the larger credential in domestic politic and Truman with Foreign policy.

Ailing from a Missouri farmer family, he fought in World War One and rose to the rank of Colonel and later engage himself in his home state politic to rise to the post of Senator. Facing a disintegrating relationship with his vice-president John Garner. Roosevelt decided to change Vice-President, Henri Wallace was thought as a probable choice but with anti-communist sentiment rising, the liberal Wallace was switch by the closer to centre Truman who became Roosevelt VP in the 1940 election.

Truman was largely uneventful with Roosevelt mostly concentrate on resolving the economical crisis. Truman had an hard time being approve by the general public as they didn’t find him a particularly remarkable Vice-President, however he seemed to keep himself out of conflict with his president and out of trouble, which gave him a certain popularity. However with the FDR health declining in 1944, He decided not to run for a fourth term sending the Democratic Party into a leadership contest. Harry Truman ran his campaign on platform of continuing the New Deal, but also promising to keep American neutrality if a conflict was to break between the Soviet Union and the Alliance. However he claim that he would maintain strong ties to Europe. The propositions of Harry Truman were both successful into granting the nomination and the presidency.

With America largely coming out of the depression by the time of his election Truman had to endure more and more pressure about his foreign policies. Openly against the Soviet Union, he brought the most possible provide to the European Alliance without declaring war, those actions brought him considerable criticism from isolationists and some called him indecisive. One journalist asked Truman during that period if he the pressure from both left and right made him want to quit he answered in what became a famous quote: “I still can take the heat so I'm still the head of the kitchen”

With anti-communism growing in the United States, his Europe friendly politic got in popularity and as the economy was growing from the trade relationship with the allied therefore Truman was in a very good position to win his re-election in 1948. Where the republican selected Thomas Dewey to challenge Truman, the republican were maintaining a stick neutrality policy and claim that Truman did everything in his power to bring America into the war.

September 3 1948, the bombing of the U.S.S Arizona, galvanize the nation against the Soviet Union and after a four hours speech to congress the United States entered war with the Soviet Union. The nation quickly mobilizes in support of Truman giving him a landslide victory in the November election.
Amongst several decisions of Truman during the war was the desecration of army forces, due to the severe need in manpower during the war. The decision was first contested at home, especially in the south, but eventually got accepted.

During the bombing raid over Washington Harry Truman was temporally relocated to West Virginia, but after the bombing raids and his re-installation in the White House. The president was the target of an assassination attempt by the NKVD as two agents had infiltrated the white house reparation team. However the attempt failed and no other attemp on his life were made after.

While he became a extremely popular and well remembered president, his popularity didn’t transcend to the democratic choice of Adlai Stevenson and Robert Taft, the republican candidate became president. The latter asserted that America needed to use the coming end to the war as an opportunity to make America the dominant world power rather than just an allied of Europe.

Truman later became an early supporter of the United Nations and went on a world tour to promote membership to the new formed nation in Africa, becoming a recognise international figure. He died in 1972.

 

[BlackWave]

I think it's good, here my main suggestion work the in-between there should be thing going on majors event we see in red alert and it might be interesting to see what you can come up with. One of my suggestion is that Einstein himself spearhead the movement to destroy his own technology

Could you reword this? I'm not exactly sure what you mean. Anyway, like the Truman one, slightly sparse at the end, but other than that it's not bad. Here's one I did for General Vladimir:

General Dmitri Koravitch Vladimir, leader of the infamous invasion of America in the early 1970s by the Soviet Union, has gained a reputation for being a ruthless maniac in the Western world, and simply a drunken fool in modern Russia. The reasons stem down to his infamous nuking of Chicago and his ruthless, collateral damage promoting attitude, and his rusty tactics.

Born near Kazan in 1941 to a peasent family, Vladimir was brought up on tales of Bolshevik heroics against the 'Tsarist oppressors', but likewise became scornful of his sparse and poverty-striken surroundings. Due to the remote area in which he lived, he never got an opportunity to join the army during the Second World War, frustrating him deeply. As already meagre food supplies dropped and NKVD agents raided his family farm for army food, Vladimir gained a sense of posession and longing that would shape his entire life. Despite his experiances in the Second World War, he never entirely lost faith in communism and 'Mother Russia', and he ended up assisting NKVD agents in incarceting some of his own family members for refusing to yield food.

Following the war's end, Vladimir managed to join up in the greatly diminished Red Army at the age of 17 in 1958. As the former Soviet army was in great need of leaders and division commanders, he quickly rose through the ranks, despite that he had no overly exceptional skill, and soon was in control of the 17th tank division. In Soviet facilities in the Urals during the mid-1960s, Vladimir commenced tests of T-65 Rhino tanks, which would become the mainstay of Soviet armoured forces in the Third World War, and modified WW2 Mammoth tanks that would eventually evolved into the TAV-666 Apocalpyse Tank. His manouevres impressed onlooking Soviet Politburo members, who eventually made him deputy to Andrei Grechko, chief of the Soviet military. However, Grechko was killed in a strange accidnet in 1968 involving a test of a protoype T-BZZT 'tesla tank', and with the lack of alternatives Vladimir was finally promoted to chief of the Soviet Military.

In 1969, Vladimir was made privy to Romanov's plan of an invasion, and was tasked with the spearhead through Mexico into the Southern States. His tactics focused on blitzkrieg tank rushes coupled with mass infantry assaults. Red Army commentators noted that while there was no finesse to his tactics, they certaintly served their purpose. However, he got into a cold relationship from top Politburo advisor Yuri from their first meeting, and the two rarely got along.
In 1970, the invasion went underway. Vladimir's tank battalions surged through Texas and other southern states. He managed to seize a key airforce academy in Colarado, which was nonetheless retaken shortly after by a brilliant American general, superflous to name, who would go on to turn the tide of the war. Despite this setback, Vladimir continued with his plan, assisting a Soviet commander with an attack on an American naval base in Florida. Vladimir attempted to eliminate American naval presence personally from his flagship, famously boasting that a rubber duck could sink it, before he was driven away by Allied destroyers. Nonetheless, the naval base quickly fell thanks to a ground assault ochestrated by the other Soviet commander.

Vladimir continued to command Soviet advances into the US, although the war was starting to reveal his somewhat weak battle strategies. He also became increasingly attacted to American wealth and culture, having been in poverty for his youth, and some suspected him of being seduced by capitalist culture. Nonetheless, Vladimir continued with America's subjection, and soon afterwards he was tasked with defending a Psychic Amplifier device in Chicago from American resistance fighters. However, an Allied strikeforce managed to take out the device, prompting Vladimir in a fit of rage to launch a nuclear missile into the city, decimating it. This somewhat unwarranted act of destruction prompted Romanov to remove Vladimir from American command and transfer him to Pacific Operations, to deal with Korean advances into Soviet territory.

Following the liberation of Washington DC and the collapse of Soviet control in America, Vladimir was tasked with seizing the Hawaii islands, which would give the USSR control of the Pacific. He succeeded in destroying key allied bases in the area and launched a number of sorties into Pearl Harbour itself, but was ultimately repulsed by American, Korean and Canadian naval forces.

By now, Romanov seemed to believe that Vladimir was somewhat overrated as a commander, and had him transferred to the European front. There, Vladimir dealed with several skirmishes in Poland, and helped logistically with the attack on Einstein's facility in the Black Forest. At the same time, he was becoming increasingly aware of Yuri's somewhat disturbing influence over the premier, and had several arguements with the man. Suddenly, Vladimir found himself imprisoned by the KGB under the pretext of attempting to betray the Soviet Union. He was briefly freed after the Allies seized Moscow, but was sentenced along with other Soviet generals at Stockholm to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity. Vladimir tried to blame other Soviet commanders for his actions, and eventually, given his alcohol problems, was sentenced to a relatively meagre 15 years, in an act that was greatly controversial. Vladimir only served ten years of his sentence; he commited suicide in 1983 in prison.

Anyone got any thoughts on that?

 

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Well basicly you pinpoint the exact problem that we should try to solve in our issues, spareness. Basicly a person life goes from birth to death therefore not just limiting ourself to what basicly is shown to the mission not really interesting. We can expand much more on what does did before and after the game (like we can finally know if the commander ended up dating Tanya or Eva or both ) For some reason I imagine Carville being put in secrecy after the time travel thing and being put in charge like Area 51 or GDI black ops 9

I think you did a terrific job on your Vladimir issue, because basicly you learned how to make him live a complete life and you managed to show what happen to him through the allied campaing (something much harder than the Soviet one) and the evolution of his relationship with Romanov rather interesting. Also liked the fact that you mention that there are two nameless commander who seem to do everything right

I have expendanded on Dugan

* Michael Dugan
Michael Stephen Dugan, born in Sacramento, California on March 31st 1920, was the 37th President of the United States. His family were wealthy from a boat construction. The Dugan was one fairly engage in political local politic however they were harden conservative unlike Michael who always know to be fairly liberal. He attended Harvard University and graduated in International Sciences in 1941. He engaged himself in the aviation after the Arizona attack and became bomber pilot attacking soviet bases deep into occupy Germany. His B-29 was shot in airplane battle over France. The surviving crew manage under Dugan leadership to get to the maginot line defence line, gaining the Air Force Cross at his return. Interestingly a military journalist picked up the story and Dugan gave the following quote.

“Frankly, I don’t get why I’m getting a medal for courage, I mean I’m dropping bomb from them 10 000 miles up in the air away from the soviet and when they shoot me down my first reflex is to get the hell out of there, next time I got some Soviet up close I do like all the others and shoot right away until there some much corpses around me they let just have to back off!”
He then participated in the Norwegian campaign shortly after D-Day and was station in Oslo were he met his wife Gretta Stoltenberg, he married after his decommission where he returned to California. The marriage was known to be a particularly shaky one mostly because of Dugan famous womanizing way. While the numbers of his love conquest got lower with the years, it was reveal he had a long-term affair with an intern of the White House, however it was revealed in 1982 in a book by the said intern when both his presidency and the affair had ended. He always claimed that his wife was tougher than any man he ever met.
Dugan joined the Democrat Party in 1939 and in 1954 began electoral campaigning in his native Sacramento seeking a post in congress, which he mostly won over the major corruption scandal his opponent had to deal with. Still, Dugan quickly gain notoriety siding with the civil right movement, quickly earning a great reputation with baby boomers, becoming the president symbolic of this generation. He quickly manages to become governor of California in 1959. His two terms were marked by his liberal social agenda, however California deficit soared under his leadership, which crippled his chance at the nomination however by focusing on international politic and social question he eventually won.

In November 1968, the Democrat Party achieved electoral success and Dugan was inaugurated as President, narrowly defeating his Republican rival, Richard M. Nixon (both were from California, Dugan succeeded into taking the presidency mostly because he won California). Dugan quickly proposed a plan to ameliorate relationship between the United States, Europe and Soviet Union after the damage that Nixon did to the United States abroad. naming it tri-lateral diplomacy, seemingly making good progress, but obliviously his effort were laid to ruin by the soviet invasion.

The Soviet invasion of the United States on May 18th 1970 caught Dugan unawares and he was captured in the White House itself while under the influence of a Psychic Beacon, making an extremely embarrassing speech were he proclaim that soon the citizens of United States would swear allegiance to Premier Romanov. U.S forces were able to destroy the Psychic Beacon before any breach of information. He was later evacuated to Calgary for his safety until the retaken of the American capital. Facing lack of support from European allies he quickly focused on stimulating the industrial output of the midland and the South in order to counter the lost of the factory on the coast. However the psychic amplifier quickly put a dent into his plan and the lost of Chicago made him lost a major hub. Dugan kept on spending billions in federal money in order to cope with the unprepareness of the Americans forces and researching in the same exotic technology as the soviet.

During the Reykjavik summit was able to secure an American command to the allied expedition against the nuclear missiles in Poland and the start of a new world alliance against the Soviet Union. He quickly re-installed himself in the White house after taking back the Capital. He quickly made a speech on national television claming that the Soviet would be crush out of the United States and that Romanov would surrender before the end of first term. A rather daring statement but soon after crushing the soviet supply lines and their psychic technology the soviet quickly were in disarray and fleeing back to Moscow. Even thought the allies were winning on all front, the lost of General Thorn Carville profoundly (Dugan gave Carville eulogy).

After the war Dugan quickly faced criticism for his inability to bring back American economy of his feet after most of the country budget had been spent on the war. With the Yurian conflict Dugan was quick to recognise an American task force couldn’t be mount off to crush the conglomerate. So he helped mounted an international taskforce that even included Russia and participated in the summit in London is considered one of the ideological father of GDI.

After his re-election in 1972, he dedicate himself to the rebuilding of America, however he faced domestic disapproval as many conservative felt that the United States had now lost its status as main super power, a lot of the democrat were disappointed by his decision to abandon several social programs in order to focus on the reconstruction. His last major act as president was the innaguration of the construction of the Sears Tower, on the reconstruction site of Chicago (several landmark of the city are name after Dugan even though he wasn’t from Chicago or Illinois). He mostly focused his post-war work on international humanitarian causes. The ferocious party animal had become a very quiet man.

Micheal Dugan died in 1996, in the comfortable estate of his family, some believes the growth of tiberium in the city of Sacremento caused him fatal health problem, but most believed it was simply old age.

 

[BlackWave]

Like the thing on Dugan. Not sure if TD mentioned any tiberium growing in the US at the time, though, and I think it's only fatal it you actually come into physical contact with it. Anyway, here's something I made to finish off Tanya:

Following Yuri's ultimate imprisonment, Tanya managed to set up a relationship with the Allied commander who had helped rout the Soviets from America and had largely co-ordinated anti-Yuri operations, who does need to be named. Despite the efforts of Lieutenant Eva Shelley, the chief Pentagon intelligence and advisory officer, the two set up a relationship. Eventually, both retired in 1976 to get married, and they bore a daughter. Tanya would guide the daughter through to adulthood, and she would often tour the world for documentaries, interviews and military advice. Eventually, in old age, she died at the age of 74 in 1994, and recieved an official military funeral. She has her own small memorial in Washington DC. Her daughter, meanwhile, went on to marry herself and they had a son, Nick 'Havoc' Parker, who followed in the footsteps of his grandmother and has joined GDI as an elite commando. As rumours spread that Parker is enacting key missions against the Brotherhood of Nod, it is clear that even after death Tanya Adams remains an influential and heroic figure.

Yes, I know that this is fanwank to the extreme (type 'command and conquer renegade into Wikipedia if you don't get it), but anyway, what do you think?

 

[Redem]

Oh frankly I've always imagined that Havock had some kind of Parenty link with Tanya so here for *thump up* I for one kinda toy with the idea of a blood line of commander

I'm not throughly sastified with my World Socialist Alliance entry mostly how everyone ended up allied with the soviet. So suggestion more than welcome (also if anyone else would like to make their own entry or have suggestion for the TL they are very welcome).

The World Socialist Alliance

A consortium of nation following the Romanov-version of Communist, it was an economical, military and Political alliance dominated by the Soviet Union. Prior WWIII most of the states enjoyed a certain degree of independence in their interior policy and their ability to develop their economy, however members states were under much scrutiny and the control of Moscow over them quickly grew larger as the war went into preparation and quickly grew larger as the war went on. It was officially dissolve at the end of the war and after most nation broke their link together after it becoming part of the integrate global economy. Apart were from the Soviet Union the most prominent members of the alliance were Iraq, Cuba, Lybia, Poland and Mexico.

The first steps of the alliance was the encompassing of all the old soviet region from prior the war. Allied nations lacking the man power to control all the conquered region of the U.S.S.R. therefore relied of soviets troops under allied command to control area such as Cental, Baltic states and Ukraine. The London Peace Treaty that ended world war II forbid the Soviet Union to annex any new Territory, however as the allied withdrew from Eastern Europe and Soviet command given back to the Russian troops, the democratic election results quicky shifted within the occupied countries quickly became harden supporter of the Soviet Union and its policies. Romanov, who wanted to use his newfound influence abroad as much as possible, made an conference in Kiev between the various European communist nation to make an economical partnership between the country similar to the one of the European Union, know as the European people trade partnership.

The Central Asia countries were re-integrate within de Soviet Union through their degeneration of Kazakhstan into warlordism, which the Soviet Union were the Soviet Union was able to stabilize before any international task force could be mounted. Romanov quickly assured the world community that the Soviet Union would not annex the country, that he actually mounted an international task force of his own using the other nation of Central Asia. In order to re-construct the region, Kazaksthan was then integrated in the partnership and subsequently every other country from the Region joined the partnership. Soviet archive later reveals that the Soviet Union used KGB operative to bullied the nation leader through blackmail and intimidation to coerce the ex-soviet republic back into the fold.

Shortly after Kazak intervention, a new summit was order in 1959 in Warsaw (were a communist had been recently elected) presided by Romanov itself. Not only would announce the Economic unification of the communist countries of the world but would also give a strong military cooperation between ever country. Millitary force would be exchange in order to bring additional formation between every country of the pact. Soon Russia took a bulk of the foreign units from other member-nations and sent a large numbers of officers around the world to form the armies around the world. They also heavily invested in those army, making Soviet Build equipment the stand all over the alliance

Soon the alliance expanded itself out of the old sphere of influence of Statlin Soviet Union and grew exploiting the new order. Quickly growing establishing itself around the world as a popular “third option” for third world nation. However most nations within the alliance were aggressively acquire through coup and civil war fuelled by the Soviet Union.

One of the first new communist nations was Cuba, who was controlled by the pro-us dictator Fulgencio Basista. In 1962, the United States started to install nuclear missiles on the island on its guantanamo base despise wide spread protest from the Cuban population. Eventually, large riots started to take place on the island with military groups attacking the guantamo base and the presidential palace, successfully occupying the bases with the nukes and executing Batista. Romanov decided to make an intervention before an American invasion of the island brining forth negotiation to the American and Cuban parties. Fidel Castro (a soviet-friendly leader) would be installed and the nuclear missiles would be given back the American. Cuba ended up joining the Alliance in 1963 and the American left the island the same years due to financial issue and lack of strategically interest in Cuba.

One of the interest aspect of the alliance is how it successfully manage to exploit the instability of some third world nation in order to expand itself, Libya being a prime exemple. After the premature death of Idris I due to prolonged illness the country was plunge into a five years long civil war. Both European Union and United States quickly grew unpopular amongst the as they supported a wide array of small militia that never seem to seize control of the nation. Soviet Union decided to support one militia massively the one led by self proclaim general Muammar al-Gaddafi, that had a network of those militia, also giving a technological edge such armoured transport specialized in demolition. While not overtly communist at first Gaddafi became closer to the Soviet Union in time

Iraq had become quite an influent nation through the years because of its oil, managing to build up a great army without much support from either Europe or America who had neutral if mostly ambivalent relationship as Abdul Salam Arif was playing on the nationalist card toward its population rather than picking a clear side and selling oil to whoever paied for it . He decided to play an aggressive war against soviet allied Iran in order to expand its resource, official archive of government meeting sent the feeling that the dictator hoped that both Europe and United States would support him and the Soviet Union wouldn’t dare try anything against him from fear from a war with the other superpowers. However Romanov decided to invade Iraq using all the other member of the world Alliance to crush the country, managing reassuring that oil production would continue to flow through the world as Iraq became a Soviet puppet.

Mexico was always considered a minor player within the alliance (more socialist than communist and overall unstable), mostly kept in the alliance for economical reason. As the World War III, KGB manipulation of the Nation was essential to the War. Soviet archived showed that the nation opposition group and that the Tlatelolco Massacre that fired the powder keg were mostly the result of infiltrate soviet agents in Mexico. The instability that led to the death of thousands mostly was cause by the need of Moscow for a springboard for its invasion.

As WWIII started Moscow quickly took over most of the alliance, creating the Bureau of international cooperation who basicly controlled the member of the nation for them. Quickly the focus of the alliance became military production leading to a great level instability within the alliance as the nations were very reliant on each speciliaty in some domain, therefore a unilateral focus on military matters quickly brought much instability to the dynamic of the Alliance. The oversea popularity of the Soviet Union quickly dissolves as it was seen as even more over bearing than Europe and America ever have been.

The Alliance was officially dissolve with the treaties ending the war, most of the effort to establish a new alliance between the new country were failure from the start as more globalize started to take place in the world and that the United Nations GDI was doing much of the same job as WSA in term of millitary

 

[B_Munro]

Ok I've got several recommendation for the character
an albert Einstein and Mao might be interesting, a Japanese character might an interesting addition (might help explain what happen to Iwo Jima, my guess is that the Soviet Launched an all-out assault on the island the japanese defended it with all they got, the U.S decided to bring reinforcement to their ally and together made a critical lost for the Soviet Union and his consider both a memorable victory for Japan and the U.S)

Heck, there's essentially no mention of Japan _at all_ in the second part. It's as if they're all locked in their rooms reading Manga porn during the length of war...

Bruce

 

[Redem]

Ok i'm not sure about how accurate my bio of Yamamoto is but anyway if you have complain just tell them to me

Isoroku Yamamoto

Japanese Admiral and Prime Minister he was an influential leader of his country, leading it back toward a more Democratic system after years ruled by a militaristic totalitarian system. He also led the retreat of Japan from the Asian continent after World War II, however maintaining the Japanese gains in the pacific after WWI, but also downsizing the national army.

Born in the Takano family in 1884, but later adopted by the Yamamoto family (both family with samurai background), he quickly set himself to have a career in the military joining the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1904, serving in the Russo-Japanese war on a cruiser were he lost two fingers on his left hand. Shortly after WWI he studied at the U.S Naval College and Harvard. He became a supporter of naval aviation, seeing the importance of aircraft carrier in future conflict.

Although an admiral he was seriously opposed to conflict against China and often made remark that the antagonism that Japan used in its foreign relation (in particular with the United States) were hazardous as no nation was allied with Japan. The appointment of Hideki Tojo as prime minister led to expectation of the Admiral being cut from power (as Tojo and Yamamoto had an history of Political incompatibility). However his popularity and his overall competence as a military officer kept him in the action.

With Soviet Union Rise in power Japan overall military doctrine shifted more toward Manchuria as Stalin was building up his force in the East for his impending conflict with China. The Soviet Union like the United States had a great advantage over Japan if conflict was to erupt: its resource and Stalin had modernized much of the Soviet equipment. Leading to an overall agreement among the military that Stalin could reveal himself more of a threat to Japan due to his location than the United States. If a conflict was to start with either the American or the Soviets, Japan would probably not manage to gain an alliance with a third party at the moment, therefore a more neutral foreign policy was chosen and would mostly focus on preparing Japan home island and conquered territories. While Mao People Republic was often the target of Japanese propaganda being as weak and easily conquerable by Japan, no invasion would be on the agenda as it was likely to bring a war with China.

Yamamoto lobbied for an overall better treatment of Chinese and Koreans in Japanese’s territories, along with some project for a more integrate, equal army in order to bring make their loyalty for Japan grow. However theses efforts only led to mediocre results. The prominence of Yamamoto became weaker as Japan was mostly occupy with land rather than sea.

With the atomic bombing of Ashkhabad and Ulaanbaatar in 1950. Japan quickly declared war on the Soviet Union and the People Republic. The communist’s nations hoped to cut the supply of the Japanese army in Asia and weakening the home island by cutting its supply through an aggressive naval campaign. Yamamoto proved himself to be largely able to counter the strategy by leading sneak attack on Russian and Chinese port to destroy in order to lower the Soviet ability to strike Japanese navy.

The naval and land requirement of Japan proved themselves to be quite a stretch for the nation as casualties started to rise, leading Yamamoto to further cooperation with the United States. One of the sign of the growing cooperation between the allied nations was the Battle of Iwo Jima, were Soviet tried to invade the island in order to use it to attack the home islands. The Japanese were facing a great assault but were able to hold much of the island despite the large lost they were taking. An American battle fleet came in to aid the Japanese striking the occupied part of the island with the Japanese. To do this day the Battle of Iwo Jima is considered a victory of both Japan and the United States.

Following the lost of their Pacific Port, the U.R.S.S.R, initiated a fire bombing using Rocket and Heavy bomber on major capital of Japan with some success. One of their more famous achievements was in 1952 the crippling of Prime Minister Tojo through one of the raid, sending him into a critical state where he was unable to lead Japan. Despite unpopularity among a bulk of the militarist, Yamamoto was able to make the case that he would be the best choice to lead the nation in the closing day of the war as he was no longer require on the pacific front and being a popular figure he could boost Japan morale after it had been smother by the bombing campaign.

Yamamoto didn’t oppose directly to the militarist for most of the remaining year of the war. Although he slowly decreases the power of secret police and made several high ranking officers the target of trial for their brutal actions.

With the end of the war Japan had firmly its hand around Manchuria and no nation were contesting their hold on it, either seeing no interest in the matter or too exhausted from World War II to complain. Soon after the war Yamamoto was able to neutralize his militaristic opponents by releasing several files of the crimes committed by them during the conquest of Manchuria and WWII having them arrest and condemn. While it gave political leverage him at home to reform Japan into a more democratic state it seriously build opposition to Japan in Manchuria and Korea.

In the years following Japanese economy stagnated, Yamamoto tried to use the state to stimulate the economy but made the deficit soar because of the cost of the military occupation around Asia. He quickly started to withdraw from Manchuria and propose a European-Union like political system between the two nations who was submitted through a referendum in 1957. While getting broad support in Japan, he was soundly defeated in Manchuria (who later Re-integrate China in 1959), killing the deal. Korea independence movement flourished shortly after a while and another referendum severe the tied between the Peninsula and the archipels.

Even though his lost made his popularity get lower with time, he recuperates quickly as his economical numbers were higher than those before the start of the various military campaign. The high-technology sector quickly became very important and Japan became the world leader in that domain.
Yamamoto eventually retired from politic in 1962 and died of old age in 1966. Respected in both East and the West, although the more conservative element of Japan tend to portray him as a weak leader that gave away what took Japan years to earn in exchange for a lazy lifestyle. However, most opinion poll shows him as one of the more popular leader of World War II.

 

[BlackWave]

Like the piece on Yamamato, Redem. Does a good job of explaining the whole Iwo Jima, though I always got an impression that Japan was neutral in RA1 for some reason. After all, IIRC, Japanese expansion was inspired partly by Hitler's elbow shoving. But anyway, I've decided to rewrite the Yuri Movement thing, not bothering with a history section this time.

Although it has gained large infamy as one of the most brutal movements in history, not much is known about the exact structure and details of the Yuri Congolermate, more commonly known as the Yuri Movement. This is mainly because the organization demanded great secrecy and loyalty from members, and because many Yurian records were destroyed recklessly as Allied and Russian forces worked to eradicate the movement during the early 1970s. However, recent historical finds, interviews with former members, and newly released documents from the CIA and Russian state archive have shed new light on this body.

Yuri heriachy was simple. The absolute head of the movement was, of course, Yuri himself, who seemingly commanded all major movements and battles himself. Field command and minor duties were regulated to his clones, grown in their hundreds during the late 60s and 70s in Soviet Ural laboratories, who possessed basic telepathic abilities that they often put to good use in the battlefield. They also served a similar role to Soviet Kommissars and politruks, spreading Yuri propaganda and idealistic messages amongst initiates. Beyond this, initiates deemed exceptionally skilled were also given basic command duties, and Yuri 'Virus' snipers also commanded great respect. Instead of radio, Yuri forces often used psychic waves to communicate with each other, frustrating Allied intelligence officers until they found a way to decode said psychic wavess into radio.

Yuri idealogy revolved around order, quasi-communist equality, great respect of Yuri, and the use of pyschic technology to advance humanity's evolution. Coupled with hypnotic Yuri propaganda that was widely distributed in third world countries, this message greatly appealed to masses of people in the middle east, africa, east asia, and certain parts of Russia. Initiates were often recruited in their hundreds by Yuri followers and clones, and were always given pyrokinesis-granting cranial implants that saved the movement money on ammunition, although sometimes the mass-produced implants would sometimes burn out the brain of an unfortunate initiate. Those deemed incapable of properly using these powers were assigned to Yuri's divisions of cheaply produced tanks. Sometimes, those reluctant to join the movement, or more often prisoners and mind-controlled victims, underwent cruel genetiction modifications with serums to transform them into mindless, hulking brutes capable of tearing apart tanks. Yuri also acquired a large number of former Soviet sniperesses, equipped with sniper rifles that launched germ-armed bullets.

Yuri technology was bizarre and varied. Yuri vehicles ranged from the common, flimsy Lasher and gatling tanks to 'masterminds', artificially grown brains built into basic tank chassies, capable of mind-controlling multitudes of enemies, although they had a habit of overloading. Yuri also exploited Soviet robotics advances, creating 'chaos drones', automated quads capable of expelling rage-inducing gases. Yuri also discovered abandoned Soviet research into magnetism and used it to create 'magnetrons', vehicles capable of creating magnetic fields that could pick up vehicles and tear apart vehicles. He also used this magnetic technology in his 'flying disks', the most bizarre example of Yuri tech, which used magnetic beams to fly and syphons to create EMP and tractor beam effects. Yuri also managed to mechanize his mind-control research, creating 'psychic towers' that emitted mind-twisting alpha waves. This cumiliated in his pyshic beacons, amplifiers, and dominators, which used said technology to brainwash entire regions.

Thankfully, the Yuri movement was eventually defeated and dispersed, and its technology disposed of. Hope is high that this dreaded movement will never resurface.

Opinion? Better than last time?

 

[Redem]

oh your modification of it are a major improvement I must say, Keep up the good work.

I'd like to know your opinon on wheter or not make entried on the various commander persona or should he remain a shadowy figure (although he does have his face on at least one stamp in every nations of the world and his own holiday)

Heh sorry no entry today I don't really know what I should make it about

 

[gtrof]

oh your modification of it are a major improvement I must say, Keep up the good work.

I'd like to know your opinon on wheter or not make entried on the various commander persona or should he remain a shadowy figure (although he does have his face on at least one stamp in every nations of the world and his own holiday)

Heh sorry no entry today I don't really know what I should make it about

I'd say leave it in the dark. Tech would be a nice addition.

 

[gtrof]

Soviet Union Dreadnaught Guided Missile Cruiser

The Soviet Dreadnaught was a powerful World War III surface combatant. The most distinct feature of the Dreadnaught was the box launchers for the SS-N-13 Slammer multipurpose missiles. Sixteen of these missiles could fire against land and sea targets. During the invasion of the United States, these cruisers devastated Washington, New York, and San Francisco.

Development

A lack of powerful surface ships in World War II coupled with Premier Romanov’s growing demands on the Soviet Navy lead to the creation for the first Dreadnaughts. Designed to project Soviet power across the globe, these ships were intended to intimidate as well as impress. However debates raged inside the Soviet naval hierarchy on the missions of the new ships. World War II had demonstrated the power of aircraft carriers. American, European, and Japanese carriers had proved highly effective on in battle. Especially the devastating Japanese surprise assault on Vladivostok conducted entirely with carrier planes.

Two factions developed inside the navy. One argued the new ships should be geared to defense and protecting a new line of Soviet aircraft carriers. The Dreadnaught faction argued that carriers were not worth the time or effort. New ports and opportunities were being opened to the Soviet Navy thanks to the World Socialist Alliance. The new cruiser should be armed with long range missiles and designed for attack. In the end the Dreadnaught faction won out, when the Soviet General Staff dismissed the idea of building carriers.

SS-N-13 Slammer missiles formed the core of the Dreadnaught’s firepower. With a range over 300 miles the missiles traveled over Mach One and carried huge explosive warheads. In addition the missiles could be used for land strikes. In addition to its missiles the Dreadnaughts had a turret for AK-130 gun system with twin 130mm cannons. Air defense however was lacking on the cruisers. AK-360 CIWS guns were the only AAA defense available. As a result the Dreadnaughts were heavily reliant on Krivak III air defense frigates for protection.

Combat

The battle record of the Dreadnaughts is impressive. Their most famous and public action was the bombardment of America’s costal cities. Slammer missiles were used to destroy communication, military, and federal government centers. A Dreadnaught was also responsible for the destruction of the Statue of Liberty. Throughout the early days of the war the cruisers provided critical fire support for the Red Army.

Later the Dreadnaughts were used to engage the remaining elements of the US Navy. At the Battles of Long Island, Pearl Harbor, and Florida Keys the Dreadnaughts proved effective. Using long range missile attacks, the Soviets could overwhelm even the vaunted USN Aegis cruisers defenses. The USS Nimtz was one of the victims of the Dreadnaught. Struck by several Slammers the carrier rolled over and sank in under an hour. Quite a few were also used for convoy protection during the long trips from Murmansk to the Eastern Seaboard. However they could not stand up to Allied air power.

US Navy and Allied forces would often first strike at the Krivaks in the Soviet surface groups leaving the powerful Dreadnaughts virtually naked to air attack. Submarines were also a weakness of the Soviet cruisers. The late addition of ASW helicopters helped but could not fully protect the Dreadnaughts from undersea strikes. Typically air power was the key to defeating the Dreadnaught. Over half of the Soviet Dreadnaught fleet was loss to US Naval Aviation and European Air Forces. Six Dreadnaughts survived the war and are currently in service.

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Okay my take on the history of a 'Dreadnaught' from Red Alert III. Used a Slava class cruiser as a stand in since both have big missile launchers on their forward decks.

 

[Redem]

*thump up*

Ok guess i'll follow your recommendation

Tesla Technology

Nikola Tesla probably was one of the most wonderful minds of the 20th century, while being an immigrant in America his financial ruined forced him to move into the Soviet Union were he designed the dreaded Tesla coil technology for the Soviet Union.

In 1937, the elderly Tesla was very indebted man, he proposed several extravagant machines based on what would call “death ray” to the U.S war department without success. His plan were however reposed and put in a safe. However NKVD agent proposes the aging inventor passing to the Soviet Union where he would be given unlimited funding for his invention. Tesla agreed (although some accounts said he was forced) to work in Soviet Union. He was post in some research facility in Astrakhan were he died in 1943. The safe were the schematic of his weapon were store disappeared (probably stole by Soviet agents).

Much of the work of Tesla in Astrakhan is quite obscure, although its quite evident that first prototype of the Tesla Coil as a weapon appeared to have been invented quite quickly after the arrival of the inventor. In 1939, a temporary black-out struck the town, although there were report of a light coming out of the lab of Telsa, soviet archive later describe how the machine basicly sucked all the energy in town to power itself. In 1942, another blackout struck the town, but later several fire declare himself, although they all seemed to emanate themselves from vehicles (apparently target to the Coil). The fire caused the death of 39 peoples. The Official explanation was a rare electric phenomenon akin to a storm.

After this fire and the death of Tesla the lab was relocated near the lake Baikal because the proximity of a city was deemed a security risk and likely to bring unwanted attention on the electrical experiment.

The modernization of the Soviet Union allowed several ameliorations to the Tesla technology. The more efficient power plant allowed more than one Tesla coil installed without the risk of lacking power and also a remote signal technology that allowed the coil to identity friend from foes.

The first Tesla Coil was publicly used during the war against China, were a mass of captured Chinese tank was amassed in Shangai and destroyed in front with electricity of the population to demoralize the Chinese with the wonder of Soviet technology. Several coils were given to Mao but he was given a way to produce them locally, most Chinese power plant not efficient enough to give the power output needed to use a coil.

The E-52 Telsa coil model was a common sight of the Soviet base, mostly use for defensive purpose against tanks. A soldier was likely to find an automatic death at the hand of a coil but if a group of infantry managed to get near it they would often be more efficient at destroying it than most armoured unit.

While the coil in itself was never improved upon during the war the Tesla technology became mobile and a Telsa tank was seen, but it was never a major hit amongst Soviet Generals that preferred more classical tank who they were more familiar with and the tank in itself was a machine that needed hours on end of maintenance and a lot of expertise to repair, unlike the fixed coil, it also had a prohibitive price.

After the war, allied leaders never took much interest in Tesla technology never finding much interest in it preferring trying to ameliorate already present one. The Soviet Union was allowed to preserve its technology thinking that no real amelioration could be done beyond the coil as the original inventor that though such exotique piece of experiment had been thought. They were wrong and somewhere in the late 60’s (and in secret) the Tesla suit was invented.

The suit was a very bulky and those wearing them would often find themselves critize by the infantry for slowing them as there ability to quickly deal with tank often made them the frontline. Like the Telsa coil they face the same problem of a slow attack time that made them vulnerable to infantry. The suit was made particularly famous by the assault on Paris during WWIII were Tesla troopers transformed the Eiffel tower in a giant Coil. Tesla troopers were often given rumour about how they tried to creatively use their electricity with various result. One of the most famous stories is about how one Trooper on a dreadnought tried to send an energy bolt on an allied cruiser by sending his bolt in the water only to bring the energy onto his ship and destroying it.

The suit and the Coil didn’t survive the end of WWIII, the allied leaders forbid research into ameliorating electric technology for the purpose of warfare and there was the overall feeling was that electricity was too hazardous to be controlled fully. Remaing of Tesla coil can be seen in several Russian city although they have been inactive for years.

 

[BlackWave]

Like what you two put up. A couple of things: the picture you used for the dreadnaught, while cool, doesn't look much like the ingame model, but what the hell. The tesla bit is also good, but you could have put a bit more on the RA2 tesla tank, and a recent EA unit profile for RA3 ([http://www.ea.com/redalert/factions-soviets.jsp?id=Stingray]) has some stuff you could have used. Anyway, here's something for robotics and computer technology I made:

The origins of the advanced robotics technology that came to be used mainly in the Third World War--and to a lesser extent, today--came about mainly in breakthroughs made by scientists working in rough conjunction with Albert Einstein in Germany, who produced the first transistors and, in the early 1940s, the first basic wireframe computer maps, which Soviet researchers would eventually duplicate. These basic computer images would be used as tactical tools widely in the Second World War by both sides.

However, true leapfrogs in this technology would occur in post-war Soviet military research in the 1960s, when Romanov decided that enhanced computer technology could give the USSR the edge in a conflict. Soviet scientists succeeded in creating a technique that could translate radio waves into electrical charges within a basic computer, allowing them to relay instructions to a piece of automata. This would be applied practically in the Third World War with the KR-87 'Terrostyncy Trootyen', or 'Terror Drone', a spider-like drone that, when ordered to an enemy tank, would initiate pre-programmed sabotage of said vehicle, destroying it in seconds. Although reliant on instructional signals, and vulnerable to enemy fire, the terror drone became widely feared by Allied tank commanders, and it could use its anti-armour drills to tear apart infantry too. Later-war models of the terror drone would use very basic artificial intelligence as a counter to allied jamming of instruction transmissions, and said models would use primitive photoreceptors to process visual information and react accordingly. Nonetheless, they were very dim and could often attack friendlies, and most Soviet commanders would prefer the RC versions.

In the last days before and following the end of the war, however, the allies would succeed in duplicating Soviet robotics technology, producing the MR-122 robot tank, an automated drone that floated on a cushion of air and was equipped with a self-loading cannon. Cheap and versatile, the Allied robot tank was nonetheless reliant on command signals from a separate control center, unlike Soviet drones which simply relied on signals from a command centre. Although this building relayed better quality signals and had no risk of scrambling or chatter, taking it out would result in all robot tanks in an area deactivating. Used widely during the conflict with Yuri, robot tanks became popular due to being immune to Yuri's mind-control technology.

Yuri himself made use of robot technology. Copying Soviet robotics research, Yuri's scientists created the YR-9813 'chaos drone', which utilized many internal components of the Soviet terror drones and similar programming. Using a nimble quad chassis, chaos drones emitted a gaseous vapour that triggered aggression and friendly fire amongst enemy soldiers, although they were very flimsy.

Computer technology was also used as tactical assistance in the third world war, with both sides making good use of GPS, although ECM was minimised. Following the war, many war robotics technologies were banned, although newer conflicts may see them resurface.

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