Reds fanfic

Other than Reds!, Does anybody know of any other TL featuring Red America?
It pops up every now and again. Usually it follows the template of "reverse Cold War".

As far as I can discern, there is none which also have a Soviet Union, nor a Communist America which holds the heavily syndicalist bent of OTL American socialism, like Reds does.

EDIT: The closest I can think of is the splinter Communist groups in The Falcon Cannot Hear.
 
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UC Gundam franchise would be have modified storylines diverge from our OTL like Gundam F91 would be a complete series or movie mini-series instead of OTL movie with Crossbone Gundam as a 2nd season, Victory Gundam as the final season, Twilight Axis Gundam as a prologue. Unicorn Gundam as the sequel to Starlight. As for G-Savior:biggrin:, a better story than the OTL version. Then come AU series franchises, Gundam Wing, now there's socialist dialogue about war and pretty boys and girls; X Gundam, a retelling of the UC universe with the plot ideas of Starlight mixed in; G-GundamXD how can the USAR timeline of futuristic gladiator battles for Earth fit in?; Turn-A-Gundam:cool: retelling of a post-apocalypltical earth invade by a socialist moon race; Gundam Seed retelling of the UC franchise with different characters; 00 Gundam, a retelling version of Gundam Wing franchise; Age Gundam, a family saga with mobile suits or gundams o_O for the OTL version; Gundam Build Fighters:cool:, in a socialist world setting; Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans, a socialist indictment of children soldiers.

Other anime series

Space Battleship Yamato 2199AD/Star Blazers:cool: a socialist united earth against blue-skinned right-wing authoritarian aliens; Space Pirate Herlock(or Harlock):cool: a socialist version of Che Guevara as pirate starship captain; Sailor Moon :closedtongue: as socialist magic girl; Tetsujin 28-go as socalist role model for kids for a giant robot and later to a socialist indictment of WW2 and the early cold war years:evilsmile:; 8 man, an early version of Robocop as another socialist role model and later, a dark tale of police brutality; Cutey Honey as socialist magic female android and rest of Go Nagai series for sex porn and terrible violence in a socialistic settings; Space Dimensional Fortress Macross (and the misbegotten bastard child, Robotech) :cool: in socialist setting; Dragon Ball:evilsmile:; Armored Trooper VOTOMS:cool:; Neon Gensis Evangelion:evilsmile:; Gunbuster:cool:; Crusher Joe and Dirty Pair:openedeyewink:. More to come.

I'd like to know what Code Geass looks like in this universe. Some things I can see is that Zero would be openly a communist, and Britannia would actually be based on Britain. I don't know if he's still a Prince, maybe he is.

Alternatively, from a conservative Japanese perspective, the Britannian Union is an American-based Communist power which is more like the USSR, where Lelouch is the son of an important Politburo member studying abroad in the Japan ASR , and is secretly a reformist. He must use the Japanese nationalist movement for his own goals of reform.
 
It pops up every now and again. Usually it follows the template of "reverse Cold War"....
And I don't know if you or everyone else considers it redundant to add to that, but also the American Communism is always Stalinist, brutally oppressive and mired in poverty and a backward mess. This is the only one that considers we might do it right.
 
And I don't know if you or everyone else considers it redundant to add to that, but also the American Communism is always Stalinist, brutally oppressive and mired in poverty and a backward mess. This is the only one that considers we might do it right.

I only see a truly reversed Cold War once,with Russia a repressive right wing regime and Red America on similar position with OTL.
 
Excerpt from the article "Kadet secretary general booed off stage by Bolshevik Permas for proposing gun control! - Daily Mail editorial, 2014"

The Secretary General of the Kadet party, Ivan Navalny was recently booed off the stage after making a campaign pitch for "an unarmed populace", arguing for the need to remove the massive amounts of firepower available to the Soviet people in militia armouries and to abolish the citizen regulated militia in favour of a police force not tied to the populace and to abolish the "populist demagoguery" of elections of army officers that he felt "ensured a politicization of the army that would make a true democracy impossible" and called for the reduction of "mob rule induced by a fetish for direct democracy and the establishment of a strong presidential office to unite the people under one banner". However, out of ignorance or bravery he decided to make his pitch in a firmly Soviet Popular Front held neighbourhood of Moscow and was soon pelted with spoiled vegetables and loud booing and jeering, particularly by military veterans with Captain Veronika Belanova going so far as to call him a "Neo-Hitlerite!" as he slipped on a rotten banana peel and fell "arse first on the sidewalk" to escape a barrage of tomatoes thrown by hecklers at his person.

Though at first his speech was met with little more than teasing by the largely Perma infested neighbourhood as some came to watch purely to insult the dignity of a crusader for safe, sensible government in Russia; when he started threatening the power of these proles to bully whomever they wished into following conformity like school children at the playground yard by having the nerve to suggest that perhaps the Soviet people shouldn't have anti-tank munitions in lockers nor should military officers be subject to electoral politics that insidiously ensure the indoctrination of the military to the people and the chaos of the Soviet needs to be regulated by a strong, guiding hand; the unruly mass decided to respond like the children they were as he championed order instead of anarchy. Like a school teacher breaking up a messy game at the playground he was met with insults, hurled abuse, and little attempt at all at a reasonable debate while his followers tried their best to dodge a volley of snowballs and produce provided by neighbourhood men and women raiding their kitchens for produce past its expiry date or people taking fistfulls of snow from the ground.

What seemed to set the crowd off was his reasoned suggestion that women should not be allowed to serve in the military due to them being needed as "mothers and nurses, not on the battlefield to be met with carnage and death." As he said. It is recorded that this prompted the women in the crowd to start throwing insults and grabbing snowballs to throw at his face, while later some emerged from their houses with baskets full of tomatoes, bananas, cabbages, and eggs to hurl at him and his followers at his planned speech. What at first started as a handful of snowballs became an unceasing bombardment of splattering food items and snow and the jeering crowd cheered as the Kadets ran out of the neighbourhood. The Militsiya, as if to prove his point about the dangers of tying the enforcement of the law too much to the community, simply acted to escort the Kadets out of the neighbourhood and told the people gathered that it would be best to return to their apartments.

Ivan Navalny has since commented that he plans on retiring from politics due to the "disheartening" display while the Kadet party has condemned the Soviet Popular Front for a "sick cult of mob rule and gun worship." The Soviet Popular Front's own general secretary Ivan Loch responded with a "callous shrug" according to our reporters at the scene when they attempted to interview the leader of the party most bent on the spread of chaos. The Soviet Popular Front to this date has made no apologies for its invidious attacks on Anglo-French civilisation that have been a constancy of its politics since its founding by Arch-Bolshevik Mikhail Frunze in 1953 in a disagreement with Premier Molotov over his wise desire to avoid conflict during the horn of Africa war. And this incident proves that they have little but populist rabblerousing to argue against a safe, orderly society.

Eye opening statistics reveal that there are more than three hundred million fire arms within the Soviet Union, not counting military stocks to supply the red army that looms over the wieser river to this day. Furthermore, more than two million women have been killed in action within the red army and the Soviet military is utterly rife with hyper-political permas who have rarely uncategorically denied the possibility of a military resolution to the cold war; with indoctrinated soldiers choosing the most radical of officers from the pools of candidates selected by examination. By comparison, the number of fire-arms within France and Britain is less than than thirty million, due in large part to overly lax regulation in the French half of our union. Surely this helps explain the popularity of Communism in the land of the bear as any who would dare speak against its consensuses are heckled by one of the most over-armed people on the planet.

OOC Note: The Daily mail is of course exaggerating, a later examination of the scene showed no more than sixty pieces of produce (including peanuts) were thrown at the Kadets, not the "bombardment" of hundreds as the article later implies. Due to the structure of snowballs, only video evidence can provide a good picture of how many were thrown with most estimates not going higher than seventy. Not too many from a crowd of a thousand or so people. The editor also declined to mention that Navalny advocated putting transgender people in mental asylums and restricting immigration from Africa.
 
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Despite the clear and obvious bias of this Daily Mail tripe, he does have a point: the idea of law enforcement being directly controlled by a community isn't always a good thing.

Russian people talked the talk OTL about "universal brotherhood", but they sure as hell did some discriminating. They particularly disliked people from the Caucasus. What is to stop a Militsiya in a Russian village from lynching, say, a Chechen person? In the OTL American South, the rule of law did not exist when a mob wanted to do some extrajudicial killing, at least when it came to Jews, Blacks, and Italians.

My other bone of contention is the OTL epidemic of school shootings: I don't know what has motivated horrors like Sandy Hook or Columbine, but wouldn't giving military training create more potential Dylan Klebolds, who could decide they would want to shoot people up? How does TTL Communist society avoid the risk of mass shootings?
 
the idea of law enforcement being directly controlled by a community isn't always a good thing.
Yeah. IIRC it was mentioned that every UASR citizen has to do a mandatory tour of duty on the police force. I've always been skeptical of how good an idea that is, I worry that is a recepie for people to abuse their power to root out "outcasts" and such.
 
If I somehow was transported to the UASR, and I was able to pass myself off as an Americacuban defector (which I can do as fluent Spanish speaker), I think I would relocate to rural Colorado ITTL, so as have some resemblance of OTL American society, while taking minor visits to Denver so as to gradually immerse myself in the society and culture of the UASR.
 
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