A strong return after a month long hiatus. A good pair of updates Sakura, looking forward to finding out exactly what you have planned for Britain as it seems to be coming soon.
The Shield of Liberty
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Chapter 44: Helter Skelter
“In the silence, I find oft’ not what I seek.
And we have shattered the balance,
Lord, allow me my soul to keep;
Do allow for dawn to come,
And see your war be done.”
-Soldier’s Prayer, 1883
I. DEUTSCHE VOLKSPARTEI
The year 1880 marked the start of perhaps the most loathsome period of human history up to that point. The world was on the edge of a knife’s blade after the Austrians defeated their upstart rebellions, only to plunge once more into the abyss in pursuit of the revolutionaries whom were rattling their cages in Bosnia.
In the years leading up to the Great War, the ideological blocs of the Saviet Union and their moderate approach to the world revolution, and the French, whose ambitions of world revolution were far more like the Jacobins of days’ past, began to clash with each other over the ideological orthodoxy that the people of the left would adhere to.
In 1876, the Deutsche Volkspartei, a broad-tent leftist political organization, took hold, under the leadership of self-professed Radnicite-Teslaist, adhering to the political ideology of the General Secretary of the Saviet Union, and her moderate “three advancements” ideology of expanding the nation’s strength and power. They wanted to balance the advancement of technological innovation, agricultural power, and industrialism—at least in the hopes of quelling class warfare and preventing it from escalating to a point of inexcusable need for violence.
The leader of this half of the movement was Erwin Gerhard Schröder, a moderate labour leader from Hanover—and a man of middle class disposition and a decent education from one of Germany’s Universities.
The opponents of the Teslaist faction, was the Passatist faction, led by a radical, yet, in many cases, well-intentioned extremist, named Meinard Kerwer. Meinard wanted to see the dissolution of the pre-existing German states, and their unification into what he saw as a “Pan-Germanic Revolutionary State” to take a step up over France’s abilities, and to rapidly industrialize and “export the revolution in all directions to assist in the emancipation of mankind”.
Erwin, however, highlighted a more “Germany-first, Socialism-second” solution, in which he believed that socialism should be an extension of the nation, and not vice versa. Many of Erwin’s supporters became known as “National Socialists” (Nationalsozialist), while Meinard’s supporters were labeled as “Elsässer” due to their “Franco-German” ideological heritage; this was largely diminutive, and they were still often called “Deutsche-Passatistschen” in the press.
In 1878, after two years of back-and-forth between the two factions of the party, the DVP fractured into two pieces—with Erwin’s followers forming the National Socialist German Labour Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; NSDAP), and Meinhard’s supporters forming the Revolutionary Socialist Party of Germany (Revolutionäre Sozialistische Partei Deutschlands; RSPD).
The two conflicting parties attacked each other on many issues, lending to the democratic government’s jubilance—if the leftists were divided, then they could never hope to get their heels dug in. However, the Saviet Union’s machinations to seed revolution in a covert manner were beginning to work their way north—throughout the South Slavic realms, 90% of the “leftist” revolutionary movements were subscribers to the USSR’s variant of the Communalist ideological orthodoxy.
The USSR, interested in preventing France from masterminding the creation of a German communalist state in the heart of Europe; and instead wishing to make their own ally in this method, began to draw up connections to labour leaders in the Three Germanies to seed their orthodoxy.
The NSDAP was instrumental in this, as they began to spread their word of revolution into the Kingdom of Swabia and the Kingdom of Bavaria—both of whom were intensely conservative regimes, far more than the German Confederation, which was quite liberal and moderate in its approaches to the citizenry. In an 1878 publication, the NSDAP circulated the “Basic Law for the People’s Republic of Germany” (Grundgesetz für die Volksrepublik Deutschland), in which they gave an early example of their planned reforms.
While they admonished the idea of “total representative democracy” as an “unnecessary distraction of state”, they openly embraced the idea of “all citizens working together in socialist fraternity”—explicitly mentioning that women, men, boys, girls alike, should be given a “fair chance at life”. The Article of Rights explicitly mentioned the “right to employment,” and “the right to free press,” and “the right to a home to call your own,” and outlined their plans for reforming Germany into a bastion of unorthodox liberty, without the trimmings of democracy. The Grundgesetz as well, outlined how democracy was, ultimately, unnecessary, if every cog in the state continued to roll in a line.
When the Grundgesetz was translated into English and published in the Commonwealth of Rhodesia, initial response was one of interest—the principles outlined in the document were interesting, but the premise of abolishing democracy was an unforgivable one. How could liberty exist, without the institution of democracy?
But nobody forgot the document and the certain outlines within it.
II. THE ALLIANCE SYSTEM
While Rhodesia is, by and large, excluded from the information of the world leading up to the Second Great War for good reason (neutrality, civil war, distance from European territories); the Europeans did not stop in their pursuit of one-upping their continental rivals and allies during the 19th century.
The Saviet Union, despite its communalist leanings, was completely and utterly opposed to anything other than a cordial relationship with France. Instead, in the 1870s, the Saviets and Poles signed a treaty of alliance. The Intermarine Kingdom saw the opportunity of the Saviet Union’s knife in the belly of Austria as a way to keep Austria away from Polish interests.
This odd-ball alliance was further expanded upon, including the United Kingdom and Italy. The UK had agreed to this alliance due to the lack of regard the French showed for the status quo and balance of power—attempting at every corner to usurp and undermine British power. The Italians joined into this alliance on the premise of reducing the Balkan power of the Turks and Austrians—much as the Saviet Union had intended for many years. Portugal was also a member of this alliance, largely motivated due to the high influence Britain had on their affairs.
EAST-WEST ALLIANCE
Union of Socialist Council Republics (Belgrade)
Intermarine Kingdom (Warsaw)
United Kingdom (London) + Dominions
Italian Empire (Rome)
Portugal (Lisbon)
Countering them, was the Zollverein alliance. While the Three Germanies were their own entity, Austria had a long-standing customs union with them. The Zollverein had evolved into a military alliance, largely motivated by the four countries desires to keep the various “radical powers” of Europe away from them. Swabia, Bavaria, Germany and Austria intended to preserve the status quo, and were joined by Romania, the Greek Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Netherlands and Spain—all of whom feared the communalist powers.
ZOLLVEREIN
German Confederation (Oldenburg)
Kingdom of Swabia (Stuttgart)
Kingdom of Bavaria (München)
Austrian Empire (Vienna)
Romania (Bucharest)
Empire of the Hellenes (Athens)
Ottoman Empire (Constantinople)
Spain (Madrid)
The Netherlands (Amsterdam)
Two neutral powers in this alliance system were unexpected ones, and ones that the two alliances would spend most of their time during the war attempting to woo into joining.
III. THE NEUTRAL POWERS
The Union of Scandinavia was a neutral power—largely formed due to the growing geopolitical danse macabre that seemed to be growing more and more dangerous with the passing years. The Scandinavians were not overly fond with each other, but the Danes, Norwegians, Finns and Swedes all saw a use in banding together for the sake of keeping foreign nations from running over them with guns and warfare.
Taking shape in the early 1870s, the Union was intended to be a balanced one, with four capitals, each taking control of a major tenement of state—with whatever agreements and balances were necessary to ascertain peace and freedom between all the states of the Union.
The other neutral power—surprisingly, was Russia. The Russian Empire was prosperous, but not entirely prosperous. They were dealing with a large amount of social decay, and an unstable environment that just begged to be seeded with communalist revolutionaries. The Tsar, in all his wisdom with regards to Europe’s wars, decided to stay out of any alliances that did not directly benefit Russia’s internal position—instead focusing on the matters of settling new people East, the Jewish client state in the Central Asian region, and focusing on weakening the power of the Mongol Khanate which was making life for the Trans-Siberian Railroad difficult.
Despite attempts by both the Zollverein and the East-West Alliance to convince both powers to join, both would remain neutral throughout World War II—preferring to focus on internal measures, or on following Rhodesia’s example of bankrolling one side or the other, over sacrificing precious manpower on a war that they stood to gain little in.
IV. THE ULTIMATUM
Much to the surprise of the nations of Europe—World War II did not begin in the Balkans, where tensions between Austria and the Saviet Union had been at an all-time high—but instead, the war began with the French.
In 1880, the French issued an ultimatum to the Zollverein—surrender control of Wallonia, Luxembourg and Alsace-Lorraine, or face the revolutionary might of the people. The French reasoned that their Francophonic populations simply meant that they were destined to join the Revolution, and that any attempts to refuse this natural demand would be an act of war.
Of course, as could be expected, the Zollverein openly rejected this ultimatum, stating that they would never capitulate to communalists. France, obviously having known this would happen, all things considered, launched an invasion into Dutch Belgium, and into the Three Germanies.
What followed was an interesting one—the Austrians accused the Saviet Union of covertly supporting the French, and demanded they stop inciting revolt in Bosnia or face war. The East-West Alliance warned the Zollverein that doing so would result in a war for them as well.
After the USCR did not respond to the demands, the Bosniak Revolutionary Army destroyed an armory in Sarajevo, forcing the Austrians to put down a temporary insurrection. Outraged, the Austrians bombarded Belgrade from across the Danube, and attempted to invade from two directions, aided by Romania and Greece. Attacked on all sides, the Saviets were initially pushed back, but resolved to fight until the end.
By the fall of 1880, the entirety of Europe, save for Switzerland, Scandinavia and Russia, was at war with each other, the sounds of artillery and the march of men off to war echoing in their ears. Britain’s dominions and colonies, honor-bound to answer their motherland’s call to war, eagerly followed—except for Rhodesia.
Rhodesia, always an oddity in the British echelons of power, did not join World War II, instead issuing a statement of armed neutrality. This did not endear Southmere to London, whom felt that their wayward colony was getting a little… too wayward. Discussions began on how best to deal with this, but before Britain could possibly get around to punishing Rhodesia, other events distracted their mighty Empire from the war in Europe, and from the resistant little bastards in Southmere…
Asami
Banned
Chapter 45: Columbia, Awaken
The start of 1881 brought the British Empire's attentions away from the raging battle in Europe between the two main alliances, and to the fields of America. The continued export of negroids, Indians and non-Protestants west into the Texas and Oklahoma territories had reached to a fever-pitch. After the discovery of petroleum oil in the small hamlet of Navarra, the Columbian central government began to flood Northeastern Texas with white settlers, whom intended to seize the land away from the free blacks whom had been given largely free-reign in the "uninteresting western lands" that the British had gained from the Spanish and Mexicans many years prior. However, these waves of settlement were not popular amongst the Texans of white and black ancestry. Many Texan Catholics feared their religion would be oppressed by the opportunistic Columbian Baptists, Texan Negroids feared that they would once again have their power reduced en masse by the over-reaching government, and Mexico was deeply afraid of the rumblings coming from the seat of the Columbian government, Norfolk.
These rumblings were a pre-destined fate of Columbian expansion-- Manifest Destiny. While Manifest Destiny as a formal term had already been coined by the Rhodesians in their expansion northeast of their original settlements, the Columbians co-opted the term to speak of their "special destiny" to expand from sea to sea; their goal was not just to flood Texas with goodly Columbian men, but also to flood as far as California, which was in the hands of the heretical Revitalizationists and the damned Catholic Mexicans. That wouldn't do at all.
In the interest of fighting against Columbian expansionism, Mexico began to arm militant groups within Texas, aiming on allowing for Columbia's minority-filled territory to break free. The British, at first, hesitantly backed Columbia's central government -- if for no other reason than to keep the peace of their holdings in North America and to maybe find a way to rein in the excesses of the Norfolk regime. However, this was an ill-fated gambit, as, in February 1881, the straw fell that broke the camel's back. Parliament, dominated by the Golden Cross, appointed a firebrand xenophobic and racist governor to lead the Texas Territory, and the governor promised "immediate changes to bring the territory more in line with the national law and order we seek"-- this came in the form of edicts, banning Negroids from holding public office or owning land, seizing Catholic monasteries and churches, and barring Mexicans from holding office or owning land at all. Of course, the Governor would never set foot in Texas, due to the high chance of violence against him, but his edicts would be enforced by special enforcers appointed by him in his cushy place of power in Virginia.
This outraged the very militant population of Texas, and set into action the events of the Battle of Navarra.
On February 26, 1881, a group of White settlers, lead by the newly appointed Sheriff of Navarra County, named Kenneth Ruskin, entered into Navarra. Enforcing the Governor's edicts, they lynched the owner of the local pub, a man of Mexican and Fulani descent named Stephen Araujo. The execution of Araujo triggered a retaliatory attack against Sheriff Ruskin and his posse, whom were waylaid with Mexican guns and blunt instruments. While the Sheriff managed to evade the counter-lynch mob, most of his posse did not, and were slaughtered on contact. After Sheriff Ruskin retreated from Navarra, the citizens of the town sent couriers to other towns across Eastern, Central and Western Texas, calling it "time to strike against imperialist rule". Gathering together and fortifying their town, they removed the flag of the Dominion of Columbia, and raised their own flag -- a very simple one, but one that would be the start of something greater.
These rumblings were a pre-destined fate of Columbian expansion-- Manifest Destiny. While Manifest Destiny as a formal term had already been coined by the Rhodesians in their expansion northeast of their original settlements, the Columbians co-opted the term to speak of their "special destiny" to expand from sea to sea; their goal was not just to flood Texas with goodly Columbian men, but also to flood as far as California, which was in the hands of the heretical Revitalizationists and the damned Catholic Mexicans. That wouldn't do at all.
In the interest of fighting against Columbian expansionism, Mexico began to arm militant groups within Texas, aiming on allowing for Columbia's minority-filled territory to break free. The British, at first, hesitantly backed Columbia's central government -- if for no other reason than to keep the peace of their holdings in North America and to maybe find a way to rein in the excesses of the Norfolk regime. However, this was an ill-fated gambit, as, in February 1881, the straw fell that broke the camel's back. Parliament, dominated by the Golden Cross, appointed a firebrand xenophobic and racist governor to lead the Texas Territory, and the governor promised "immediate changes to bring the territory more in line with the national law and order we seek"-- this came in the form of edicts, banning Negroids from holding public office or owning land, seizing Catholic monasteries and churches, and barring Mexicans from holding office or owning land at all. Of course, the Governor would never set foot in Texas, due to the high chance of violence against him, but his edicts would be enforced by special enforcers appointed by him in his cushy place of power in Virginia.
This outraged the very militant population of Texas, and set into action the events of the Battle of Navarra.
On February 26, 1881, a group of White settlers, lead by the newly appointed Sheriff of Navarra County, named Kenneth Ruskin, entered into Navarra. Enforcing the Governor's edicts, they lynched the owner of the local pub, a man of Mexican and Fulani descent named Stephen Araujo. The execution of Araujo triggered a retaliatory attack against Sheriff Ruskin and his posse, whom were waylaid with Mexican guns and blunt instruments. While the Sheriff managed to evade the counter-lynch mob, most of his posse did not, and were slaughtered on contact. After Sheriff Ruskin retreated from Navarra, the citizens of the town sent couriers to other towns across Eastern, Central and Western Texas, calling it "time to strike against imperialist rule". Gathering together and fortifying their town, they removed the flag of the Dominion of Columbia, and raised their own flag -- a very simple one, but one that would be the start of something greater.
Flag of the Republic of Navarra, later, Republic of Texas
From the courthouse in the center of town, Mayor Vicente Rubio, proclaimed the open rebellion of Navarra from the Columbian government, and the establishment of the free and independent Republic of Navarra. The response was met with acclaim, and within days, mobilization of the various nationalist armies up and down Tejas mobilized against the presumed incoming invasion. Navarra's garrison soon swelled to over 18,000 men; and the town sat in a lull. At dawn on March 15, 1881, the Battle of Navarra began, as Sheriff Ruskin, now at the head of an army of 8,000 Columbian regulars, attacked the town. The Columbians were well-drilled troops, but the Texan revolutionaries had more spirit and passion to win. In response to the escalation of the battle, villages and towns across Texas declared themselves in open rebellion, petitioning to join in the war with the Republic of Navarra; all over the course of two to three days, thanks to telegraph connecting the various towns together.
On March 18, the Republic of Texas was proclaimed, and claimed the entirety of the Texas Territory from their imperialist occupiers. They demanded that all foreign agents leave, and Texas be independent. Of course, Mexico was allowed to skulk around in the background, providing guns, money and volunteers to the Texan effort. The Battle of Navarra was a Texan victory, as Sheriff Ruskin and 3,600 of his troops were killed due to the partisan-style warfare introduced by the Texans.
The news took not long to filter back to Norfolk, and the Golden Cross soon decided to use their defeat to level blame at the Platinum Front-- they blamed them for the "tolerance of racially inferior groups, and those whom are not fit to carry the torch of civilization". The Army, dominated by Golden Cross members and xenophobes, agreed. On March 27, the Army seized power from the civilian leadership, and placed 85% of the Platinum Front's parliamentary representation under arrest. The 15% whom escaped, fled north into Maryland and Ohio, being accepted into Cabotia's arms as refugees.
On March 28, General William Douglass proclaimed that, in refusing to support Columbia in her time of need against rebels, and for refusing to punish wayward dominions whom are housing traitors and rebels, the monarchy, and the British Empire, has violated the spirit of the crown of Columbia. This is largely just a silly excuse, but Douglass uses minutia to get his desires-- he proclaims the monarchy of Columbia dissolved henceforth forever, and announces himself as the Lord Protector of the Republic of America; which "has a destiny to unite all Americans from the Arctic steppe, to the shores of Patagonia, and we will purify and spread the gospel as the Lord intended."--nobody takes the man seriously in his claims over all of the Western Hemisphere, but it is enough to where Britain decides to act.
Britain recognizes the independence of Texas, and tasks Cabotia to giving aid to the Texans, and to prevent Columbia from gaining any sort of ability to conduct war against members of the Commonwealth--Britain cannot invade Columbia due to the war at home, and Rhodesia is too distant to make a difference. Cabotia accepts the burden of responsibility, and after a day, crosses the Potomac into Columbia to "restore order".
Texas is now in full revolution, as is Columbia, and Cabotia and Mexico seek peace--even if their mechinations are different. North America is engulfed in war, and other continents soon follow, as the fires of the Great War are drawing brothers to war, like moths to flame.
On March 18, the Republic of Texas was proclaimed, and claimed the entirety of the Texas Territory from their imperialist occupiers. They demanded that all foreign agents leave, and Texas be independent. Of course, Mexico was allowed to skulk around in the background, providing guns, money and volunteers to the Texan effort. The Battle of Navarra was a Texan victory, as Sheriff Ruskin and 3,600 of his troops were killed due to the partisan-style warfare introduced by the Texans.
The news took not long to filter back to Norfolk, and the Golden Cross soon decided to use their defeat to level blame at the Platinum Front-- they blamed them for the "tolerance of racially inferior groups, and those whom are not fit to carry the torch of civilization". The Army, dominated by Golden Cross members and xenophobes, agreed. On March 27, the Army seized power from the civilian leadership, and placed 85% of the Platinum Front's parliamentary representation under arrest. The 15% whom escaped, fled north into Maryland and Ohio, being accepted into Cabotia's arms as refugees.
On March 28, General William Douglass proclaimed that, in refusing to support Columbia in her time of need against rebels, and for refusing to punish wayward dominions whom are housing traitors and rebels, the monarchy, and the British Empire, has violated the spirit of the crown of Columbia. This is largely just a silly excuse, but Douglass uses minutia to get his desires-- he proclaims the monarchy of Columbia dissolved henceforth forever, and announces himself as the Lord Protector of the Republic of America; which "has a destiny to unite all Americans from the Arctic steppe, to the shores of Patagonia, and we will purify and spread the gospel as the Lord intended."--nobody takes the man seriously in his claims over all of the Western Hemisphere, but it is enough to where Britain decides to act.
Britain recognizes the independence of Texas, and tasks Cabotia to giving aid to the Texans, and to prevent Columbia from gaining any sort of ability to conduct war against members of the Commonwealth--Britain cannot invade Columbia due to the war at home, and Rhodesia is too distant to make a difference. Cabotia accepts the burden of responsibility, and after a day, crosses the Potomac into Columbia to "restore order".
Texas is now in full revolution, as is Columbia, and Cabotia and Mexico seek peace--even if their mechinations are different. North America is engulfed in war, and other continents soon follow, as the fires of the Great War are drawing brothers to war, like moths to flame.
Columbia had potential, the key word though is had. Hopefully what ever comes next is better for the region and its people, because what it has become needs to die. Anywho, good updates.
Asami
Banned
Chapter 46: A Matter of Ideology
Flags of the Workers Republic of France, and the Union of Socialist Council Republics
Flags of the Workers Republic of France, and the Union of Socialist Council Republics
As a matter of course, historians often note the Ideological Schism as one of the most important aspects of the late 19th century's evolution of communalism. Where as before the start of the Great War, the two sides of the communalist ideology agreed that those things that binded them together as kin outweighted those which didn't, after the war's start, Belgrade and Paris found increasingly less to agree with each other on.
In 1881, the Serbian-lead USSR was leading a war on all-fronts, against nearly every one of her neighbors, all of whom were dedicated to the prospect of destroying the USSR. To prove that the People's Leaders would not allow the peasants to suffer, Duka Tesla and her family took up the gun in the name of the People's Union. While her husband had died 12 years prior, and his office having been passed on to another sympathetic priest of the People, her son, Nikola, was a man of great influence and charm.
The engineer and military commander had been raised his entire life in the Saviet Union, and had little knowledge of life elsewhere--especially under Austria, where his family had once resided when he was an infant. He had spent his life dedicated to the passions of engineering, and to the art of warfare. As a soldier of the Red Army, he was on the front-lines, fighting tooth-and-nail against the Austrians. It was an open secret that Duka wanted her son to succeed her as General Secretary, and many believed that the young man, 25 years of age, could do the job given the right support from amongst the factions of the Supreme Saviet.
He got his chance in 1881, when his mother died of a rapid series of strokes, which debilitated and took her life in rapid succession. Duka Tesla passed away in 1881, and the Supreme Saviet was convened in an emergency session to determine who would succeed the Mother of the People. It wasn't much to convince the delegates to elect her son in her stead-- Nikola Tesla was pulled from front-line positions in Bosnia and recalled to Belgrade, where he was acclaimed as he entered the city. Accepting the position of General Secretary, he was asked to give a speech of his choice -- and begin determining how to pull the ship of state.
His mother had tolerated the Passatist thorn in their side; those who advocated bloody and violent means of revolution. But to Nikola, that didn't make sense. He saw Comrade Schröder's ideological aims as more in line with his own than that of the Passatists in Germany and France. Serbia had her own small Passatist faction. The All-Slavic People's Revolutionary Congress often protested the "counter-revolutionary nature" of Belgrade's leadership, and called for the purge of all those with counterrevolutionary sympathies from the public life. In a scathing speech given two days after being elected General Secretary, Tesla attacked those with PASSATIST sympathies, calling for a Second Revolution; not one of ideology, but one of technology.
"Those who seek to hold back progress," he spoke with a raucious, charismatic voice, "will they themselves, hold back humanity. We cannot permit them to continue to muck up our Union of freeborn technocratic socialist republics, and we must strike hard and strike fast to eliminate traitors where they stand."
Thus began the Second Revolution, and the tipping point for Franco-Soviet[1] relations. In the first half of 1881, hundreds of people suspected of Passatist sympathies were arrested and charged with sedition against the people. These people were not limited to one group or another; those arrested were numerous in all walks of life--his fellow engineers, academics, industrial workers, officers, soldiers. While most of those arrested were later released without incident, many high-profile Passatists were executed for treason. This did little to endear the newly inaugurated Tesla to the Parisian government, whom believed the boy was an arrogant child, more so than a functional revolutionary.
Gérald Samuel Rodolphe Delacroix was the leader of Passatist France in 1881. He was a man whom held great animosity towards those outside of France, as he had seen his beloved motherland defiled by monarchists, republicans, and foreigners. From the Daniau War, which his father had served in, to the French Civil War, Gerald was a man who saw France as the natural leader of Europe, and the natural beating hart of the communalist movement. He was always critical of the Saviets, and of the nascent Rhodesian leftists, whom he viewed as "degenerate" and "unwilling to work towards proper revolution", but often praised the Social-Nationalists in Germany as "forward-thinking revolutionaries".
Whence news of the Second Revolution in Serbia reached Delacroix's desk, he was outraged--how dare the Serb purge men whom were brothers in the revolution? In a passionate fervor, he drafted a defense of his ideological brethren. Before the Parisian Council of Ministers, he gave a scathing speech, castigating the young Tesla for his "brash and reckless disposition towards revolutionary comrades," and criticized him for "counterrevolutionary excesses in his own government". He claimed that the peoples of the Soviet Union yearned for freedom, but were being denied it by a man whom was little more than a child.
Delacroix's critical speech soon made it into the circles of other communalist leaders. Tesla, furious, attacked the French "penchant for blood-lust, no doubt an ideological pathmark coming from the imperialist Daniau, whose armies sought to eviscerate Europe's fair plains with war". Delacroix followed a week and a half later, by announcing his own purge. Several high-profile "Orthodox Teslaites" were arrested for 'seditious acts and counterrevolutionary activity', and many hundreds more citizens were arrested in the wake of this top-level purge. Unlike the Soviets, whom extended clemency to many Passatists of low-level importance, the French gave no quarter, and began to actively purge anybody whom was believed to have Teslaite sympathies--from all echelons of government. The Great Purge instilled a horrendous fear amongst Dutch, German and French communalists that the French government would stop at nothing to purge those whom contradicted their ideological beliefs.
To make matters worse, Delacroix authorized an attempt on Tesla's life. An assassin accosted and attempted to take the life of the Soviet General Secretary in May of 1881, during "Month of Labour" processions in Serbia. The attempt was entirely unsuccessful, and the man confessed under duress that he was an agent of the Parisian government. Tesla publicized this information, and severed all ties, saying that "the French leaders are not communalist--they are not revolutionary. They are neo-Daniauists in revolutionary garment! They are enemies of the revolution!"; thus making the great and growing divide between the two communalist ideologies permanent. There would be no compromise--certainly as long as Tesla and Delacroix, and their loyal followers, were alive and breathing.
Angry, and invigorated, Tesla ramped up partisan operations across the Balkans, ready to tear the Eastern half of Europe asunder in order to show Delacroix that the Teslaite ideology was not one that would go quietly without a fight. To do anything less, would be an injustice.
[1] "soviet" is the anglicized name for "saviet", and stems from Russian leftist literature that was popular in the United States/Rhodesia during the 20th century.
In 1881, the Serbian-lead USSR was leading a war on all-fronts, against nearly every one of her neighbors, all of whom were dedicated to the prospect of destroying the USSR. To prove that the People's Leaders would not allow the peasants to suffer, Duka Tesla and her family took up the gun in the name of the People's Union. While her husband had died 12 years prior, and his office having been passed on to another sympathetic priest of the People, her son, Nikola, was a man of great influence and charm.
The engineer and military commander had been raised his entire life in the Saviet Union, and had little knowledge of life elsewhere--especially under Austria, where his family had once resided when he was an infant. He had spent his life dedicated to the passions of engineering, and to the art of warfare. As a soldier of the Red Army, he was on the front-lines, fighting tooth-and-nail against the Austrians. It was an open secret that Duka wanted her son to succeed her as General Secretary, and many believed that the young man, 25 years of age, could do the job given the right support from amongst the factions of the Supreme Saviet.
He got his chance in 1881, when his mother died of a rapid series of strokes, which debilitated and took her life in rapid succession. Duka Tesla passed away in 1881, and the Supreme Saviet was convened in an emergency session to determine who would succeed the Mother of the People. It wasn't much to convince the delegates to elect her son in her stead-- Nikola Tesla was pulled from front-line positions in Bosnia and recalled to Belgrade, where he was acclaimed as he entered the city. Accepting the position of General Secretary, he was asked to give a speech of his choice -- and begin determining how to pull the ship of state.
His mother had tolerated the Passatist thorn in their side; those who advocated bloody and violent means of revolution. But to Nikola, that didn't make sense. He saw Comrade Schröder's ideological aims as more in line with his own than that of the Passatists in Germany and France. Serbia had her own small Passatist faction. The All-Slavic People's Revolutionary Congress often protested the "counter-revolutionary nature" of Belgrade's leadership, and called for the purge of all those with counterrevolutionary sympathies from the public life. In a scathing speech given two days after being elected General Secretary, Tesla attacked those with PASSATIST sympathies, calling for a Second Revolution; not one of ideology, but one of technology.
"Those who seek to hold back progress," he spoke with a raucious, charismatic voice, "will they themselves, hold back humanity. We cannot permit them to continue to muck up our Union of freeborn technocratic socialist republics, and we must strike hard and strike fast to eliminate traitors where they stand."
Thus began the Second Revolution, and the tipping point for Franco-Soviet[1] relations. In the first half of 1881, hundreds of people suspected of Passatist sympathies were arrested and charged with sedition against the people. These people were not limited to one group or another; those arrested were numerous in all walks of life--his fellow engineers, academics, industrial workers, officers, soldiers. While most of those arrested were later released without incident, many high-profile Passatists were executed for treason. This did little to endear the newly inaugurated Tesla to the Parisian government, whom believed the boy was an arrogant child, more so than a functional revolutionary.
Whence news of the Second Revolution in Serbia reached Delacroix's desk, he was outraged--how dare the Serb purge men whom were brothers in the revolution? In a passionate fervor, he drafted a defense of his ideological brethren. Before the Parisian Council of Ministers, he gave a scathing speech, castigating the young Tesla for his "brash and reckless disposition towards revolutionary comrades," and criticized him for "counterrevolutionary excesses in his own government". He claimed that the peoples of the Soviet Union yearned for freedom, but were being denied it by a man whom was little more than a child.
Delacroix's critical speech soon made it into the circles of other communalist leaders. Tesla, furious, attacked the French "penchant for blood-lust, no doubt an ideological pathmark coming from the imperialist Daniau, whose armies sought to eviscerate Europe's fair plains with war". Delacroix followed a week and a half later, by announcing his own purge. Several high-profile "Orthodox Teslaites" were arrested for 'seditious acts and counterrevolutionary activity', and many hundreds more citizens were arrested in the wake of this top-level purge. Unlike the Soviets, whom extended clemency to many Passatists of low-level importance, the French gave no quarter, and began to actively purge anybody whom was believed to have Teslaite sympathies--from all echelons of government. The Great Purge instilled a horrendous fear amongst Dutch, German and French communalists that the French government would stop at nothing to purge those whom contradicted their ideological beliefs.
To make matters worse, Delacroix authorized an attempt on Tesla's life. An assassin accosted and attempted to take the life of the Soviet General Secretary in May of 1881, during "Month of Labour" processions in Serbia. The attempt was entirely unsuccessful, and the man confessed under duress that he was an agent of the Parisian government. Tesla publicized this information, and severed all ties, saying that "the French leaders are not communalist--they are not revolutionary. They are neo-Daniauists in revolutionary garment! They are enemies of the revolution!"; thus making the great and growing divide between the two communalist ideologies permanent. There would be no compromise--certainly as long as Tesla and Delacroix, and their loyal followers, were alive and breathing.
Angry, and invigorated, Tesla ramped up partisan operations across the Balkans, ready to tear the Eastern half of Europe asunder in order to show Delacroix that the Teslaite ideology was not one that would go quietly without a fight. To do anything less, would be an injustice.
[1] "soviet" is the anglicized name for "saviet", and stems from Russian leftist literature that was popular in the United States/Rhodesia during the 20th century.
If Columbia still exists afterward I think Douglass will be their Wilmer. Except that, even Wilmer got elected before committing his crimes.
If William Douglass is Columbia's version of Nathaniel Wilmer, it would be fitting that should suffer the same fate as Wilmer.
Asami
Banned
I haven't forgotten this. I'm going to be putting all my major timelines and stories (both in and out of here) on hiatus until I feel the energy to work on them again. I really wouldn't expect much in the way of updates to any of my timelines until January, probably.
In the mean time, I'll be posting maps and Wikipedia infoboxes every so often because I can still find the motivation to make those!
In the mean time, I'll be posting maps and Wikipedia infoboxes every so often because I can still find the motivation to make those!
