Photos of the Kaiserreich

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Icelandic soldiers pose with a Bohemian made light machine gun, 1938. The small North Atlantic island had been invaded in April 1938 by the Union of Britain following a months long standoff known as the Cod War. Hit hard by Black Monday the Icelandic government had actively encouraged the country’s fishermen to expand their hunt for fish deeper into the North Atlantic, angering British merchants. A series of confrontations between the Republican Navy and Icelandic fishing trawlers ensued, causing Iceland to request support from Canada. Canadian forces helped the Icelandic people to hold out for several months(which notably saw the torpedoing and sinking of heavy cruiser HMCS Cumberland by English submarine RNS Siren in Reykjavik harbor ) before the English dispatched an invasion force. Troops from the 5th “Birmingham“ and 12th “Edinburgh” divisions landed in the capital, advanced on the Althing, and informed the Icelandic people that they now had no choice but to become a syndicalist country.

Knowing the likely outcome of the Cod War as it escalated, a group of men with previous military service in the Danish armed forces at assembled in a house in Reykjavik several months earlier and, with the assistance of Canadian advisors, began preparations for guerrilla warfare against the English. Naming themselves the ”Army Command Council”— “Herstjórnarráð hersins”—- they set to work establishing the first cells of the Free Icelandic Army—“Ókeypis íslenski herinn”— better known as the OIH. By the time the new syndicalist government was sworn in on May 1, 1938 the OIH had already established more than twenty cells scattered across the island. On June 15, 1938 the OIH launched its first major operation, capturing two hundred brand new Lee Enfield rifles and twenty five thousand rounds of ammunition for them from an English outpost.

For the next five years they would wage a guerrilla war against the English occupiers and their local collaborators, finally ending in triumph when Entente forces liberated Iceland in August 1943.
 
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First two Photos: International lunar Base "Artemis," it is administrated by the United Nations Space Command, and it is also protected by the German Empire, the United States, the Russian Federation, the Qing Empire, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Colombia, and the French Republic
Third Photo: American and German astronauts scout the lunar surface.
Fourth Photo: Freiheit V rocket being launched in the Bismarck base in the Mars surface, the German Empire is the only nation in the world that has an outpost beyond the moon.
 

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First two Photos: International lunar Base "Artemis," it is administrated by the United Nations Space Command, and it is also protected by the German Empire, the United States, the Russian Federation, the Qing Empire, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Colombia, and the French Republic
Third Photo: American and German astronauts scout the lunar surface.
Fourth Photo: Freiheit V rocket being launched in the Bismarck base in the Mars surface, the German Empire is the only nation in the world that has an outpost beyond the moon.
Awesome! Anyone else got some Space! Kaiserriech pics?
 
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Generals of the French Republic inspecting troops after the successful reconquest of Marseille in 1944. This battle held a significant symbolic importance, as just a few years earlier the city had been the site of a disastrous invasion where the French Republic lost almost all of its elite marine corps, going down in history as a military blunder as bad as or even worse than Gallipoli.
 

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A platoon of T-34 tanks on a muddy country road in Belarus, March 1942, just before the launch of Operation Bagration, the invasion of the Reichspakt’s eastern territories. The T-34 was a rugged, tough vehicle which could be produced in immense numbers very quickly, and which possessed a 76mm main gun(the successor T-44 possessed a high velocity 85mm gun) which made it a match for the German Donnerschlag-IV. The T-34‘s sloped armor, was an alarming discovery for Reichspakt forces; the 50mm anti-tank guns that most Reichspakt forces possessed could not penetrate it from the front, and only from the sides or rear at fairly close range. The success of the T-34 saw the rushed development of the Tiger heavy tank, armed with an 88mm gun after an enterprising German officer, desperately trying to hold a vital bridge in Western Ukraine, discovered that his battery of four 88mm anti aircraft guns were lethally potent anti tank weapons, capable of knocking out the Russian tanks at long range. T-34s were exported to Russian allies in Serbia, Mongolia, Romania, Greece and Albania ; they would continue being used by various militaries and insurgent groups well into the later half of the 20th century.

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A group of Japanese soldiers take a break aboard a Chi-Ha medium tank, somewhere in Malaya, 1941. Japan’s invasion of German East Asia, with the assistance of Thai, Filipino and a small force of Transamurian “volunteers”—- mostly men who’d been vehemently against unification with the regime in Moscow, and who would have made a lot of loud, embarrassing annoyances for the Provisional Transitionary Government—- went well at first; the fall of Singapore sent shockwaves throughout all of Asia. However, Japan soon became bogged down in the Dutch East Indies. Borneo was a horrific slog of an operation in which as many Japanese soldiers died of disease as to German bullets. The Qing entry into the war on the German side— even though Fengtian supported Japan— made things even worse, sucking Japan into a meat grinder of a war it simply could not afford.

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The crews of a platoon of Finnish Stug III tank destroyers salute as they pass a group of high ranking officers and German observers during the “Polar Fox” Reichspakt maneuvers, 1941. Designed to help the alliance guard against a Russian strike into Karelia or a syndicalist invasion into the northern regions(deemed a much less likely scenario, but the Internationale had numerous well trained mountain troops) the exercises helped the Finnish military get ready for war. The Stug III was a cheap but effective tank destroyer, which the Finns adopted to utilize in large number due to the fact that they lacked the industrial base to produce large numbers of regular tanks. The low profile and hard hitting gun of the Stug III made it a favorite with all of its operators.
 
So, there was a recent polite and constructive discussion about the russian empire on Kaiserreich, and so I wondered about how would things look like if the restore empire went full Alexander III, and I'm choosing Alexander III as a example of a era for the empire as he was not a conservative like Nicholas II, he was the reactionary as he is the figure of the pogroms (Nicky II ended the pogroms). I had this campaign being as autocratic and reactionary as possible, and here are some images of it.

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Vladimir Purishkevich (1870-1938) was the first prime minister of the newly restored Russian empire, known for being the figure that would execute the orders of Tsar Kyril and as the leader of the autocratic party on the government, he expanded the worker's rights on russia, led a program of industrialization, continued Stolypin's era land reform, but on another hand reinstated the anti semite legislation from the old empire era, allowed the okhrana to instate political officers in the army and supressed liberal moviments in general, while putting conservative moviments into line. Some compared his black hundreds to Codreanu greenshirts, and all his actions happened under the eyes of the Tsar and under approval by the majority of the russian public and political scene.

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Okhrana (the guard) political comissars. While the russian empire faced few retreats during the reclamation war, some remarked that "it took more courage to retreat than to advance" due their watchfull eyes.

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Russian imperial tanks advancing on the operation Brusilov, 1941, from the baltic sea to Ukraine, 2200 000 soldiers and 800 light and 200 heavy tanks advanced on all fronts at once, being the largest offensive in history. The Russian army was received as liberators by the locals in eastern Ukraine and Belarus, western ukraine was divided, but after the reinstation of the russification policies the anti unification ukrainians became a slightly majority. The baltics rejected the russian annexation, and remained a hotspot until the russification policies were mitigated on the 1990s.

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Postcard of Tsar Vladimir III Romanov. Crowned in 1938, he replaced the late Vladimir Purishkevich with the popular general Anton Denikin who kept most of the anti semite policies of his sucessor, but scaled down the political repression slightly to concentrate the russian efforts on the military. By the 1960s, with most of the tsarist old guard dead he allowed minor democratisation but kept the autocracy until his death in 1994. By 2000 when our scenario ends, Russia is still a paternal autocracy, a right wing version of China if you will, but CCP China allows a level of ethnic autonomy that is not present outside the baltics and Moldova in Russia (However, in moldova it's kept since Romania is a allied monarchy).

"His Imperial Majesty, if you seek peace, if you seek the best for the Russian Empire and Eastern Europe, if you seek to allow your people to be really free, come here to this border. Mr. Vladimir, allow political reform. Mr. Vladimir, allow the 19th century to end! "
US President Ronald Reagan on a speech in Hannover, on the German Kingdom, 1987. There was a initial belief that with the collapse of the internationale, the russian bloc would also collapse, but their conservative structure survived on.
 
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Native American rebels watch for Union raiders

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Native rebels celebrate a successful ambush against Pacific patrols

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An American APC watches over Native Navajo and white settlers as they leave the reservation after the Indian Integration Act passed

 
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Victor Atiyeh, president of the United States of America (81-89, died in office), though by then it was known almost exclusively as the Pacific States of America, with a border on the Rockies. Known for protectionism that safeguarded the PSA's lumber industry from the Kingdom of Canada and other rivals in the pacific. Atiyeh had a rough foreign policy, nearly coming to conflict with the Commonwealth of America numerous times due to Consul Spencer's bellicose aggression. This led to the PSA joining the Reichspakt, hoping to deture Commonwealth agression. The president had hoped to join the Entente, but the attempt to do so failed in the House of Representatives, citing the fact that the Entente required many trade agreements that would undermine Pacifician industry.
 

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Native American rebels watch for Union raiders

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Native rebels celebrate a successful ambush against Pacific patrols

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An American APC watches over Native Navajo and white settlers as they leave the reservation after the Indian Integration Act passed

Who won the 2ACW in this setting?
 
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