Let The Eagle Scream Version 2: Star-Spangled-Boogaloo
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Jews in both the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe are going to be put in the spotlight very soon.
Basically the Germans wanted the British Isles and Liberia and the Americans told them no. The Tripartite told the Germans 'You already have this much of Africa and we are not risking another fight for this. You are on your own.' The Germans contented themselves with a broken British empire, domination of Europe, the Middle East and much of South Asia. The US has two unsinkable aircraft carriers in the Atlantic and Pacific.
Not going to lie, I really didn't expect the timeline about Andrew Johnson getting successfully impeached to include... whatever that thing is. I can only imagine how quickly Lenin and Marx must be rolling in their graves.
Zhukov had them hooked up to turbines in 1959, they now provide electric power to 30% of the EU.
Is Lev Gumilyov by any chance a major figure in Zhukov's regime considering he was a big Eurasianist IOTL?
I figured that in a TL where imperialism and sphere building runs even more rampant than OTL's 20th century, you could get some weird shit. Honestly, thinking about it, the EU is basically the Soviet Union and PRC with almost some of that Spanish conquistador racial mixing. Which is, obviously, extremely cursed.
You're quite right. There will be wars like what you're describing to be sure.
Reading about him at a glance, he's probably been prominent in both Stalin's latter years and the Zhukov regime.
On that note, when Zhukov dies in the 70s, maybe he could be the successor to Zhukov as the leader of Eurasia?
Soviet Santa Claus on his magic carpet is one of the more cursed things to come out of TTL. Almost feels like something WMIT's Illuminists would come up with.
Maybe something like OTL's Afghan War, but in Turkestan or Kazakhstan.
Was expecting Ivan Serov, Vyacheslav Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich, or Andrei Zhdanov, TBH on my end. Speaking of them, what became of them ITTL?
If they are smart and saw how things are going, they will give their absolute loyalty to Zhukov. If not, then they're dead.
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I wonder how weaponry will advance as time goes on. With the US having a more imperialist mindset, certain rifles and military vehicles could maybe be made earlier. Maybe Eugene Stoner or somebody else goes on to create the AR-15 at an earlier date. Keep up the good work.
For Zion's Sake
For Zion's Sake
The Flag of the State of New Zion
Post-war Europe had a problem. A Jewish problem. For decades, Berlin had been pushing a mixture of nationalist and civilizational propaganda on herself and her allies and puppets. Pride in being German, Polish, Baltic, Scandinavian, etc had also been blended with pride in European values and culture to help justify German dominance. These values and cultures had been constructed by gentiles, for gentiles, and they had mostly done their damnedest to keep Jews in a permanent second-class status. It didn't help that since Jews produced an abnormal number of intellectuals, they were disproportionately caught up in things like Communism, Nietzscheanism, and atheism. Ironically, it wasn't Germany that turned on her Jewish population, but rather her puppet states in Ukraine, Poland, and the Baltics who were turning on the Jews in a fit of anti-Eurasian paranoia and post-war nationalistic fervor. Policymakers in Berlin realized that they needed to resettle the Jews of Eastern Europe somewhere, lest pogroms erupt.
The Flag of the State of New Zion
Initially, the Germans had their sights on Israel. However, Spain controlled Israel, and even as Berlin and Madrid were reconciling, it would have been a cold day in Hell before the Croixist Spanish regime took in millions of Jews. Germany and the Tripartite Empire were relatively ok with their Jewish populations, but bringing in millions of them was politically untenable. Relocating them to Africa would be deeply impractical, and could potentially make the colonial empire unstable. A frustrated German official made a casual overture to the American embassy in December of 1945 for help. No one expected to have anything come of it. But history is made by the unexpected.
Post-war America had a problem. A Canadian problem. There were 8 million Canadians to absorb, covering an area broader than the original mainland US by quite a bit. Although Washington had a long term plan to assimilate the country, in the short term they needed a solid settler population somewhere. Manitoba and Saskatchewan especially, as they had escaped most of the damage of the War. When President Richardson heard about the ongoing plight of the Jews, he felt both empathy and opportunity. He genuinely disliked the fact that the Jewish people were being oppressed and put in danger, believing them both to be innocent and God's Chosen. Simultaneously, he saw in Europe's Jews a golden opportunity. On January 9th, 1946, he announced to Congress his intention to turn Manitoba and Saskatchewan into a special state set aside for the oppressed Jews of Europe. Many Americans were at least somewhat skeptical of the plan. That's not to say there wasn't broad support (even quite a few skeptics were at least somewhat on board) but taking in a distinctive ethnic and religious group from outside the Americas and giving them their own state made some people nervous. To get Congress on board, Richardson enlisted the Protestant Lobby.
It was an unspoken truth on Capitol Hill that the most bellicose imperial lobby wasn't the military, it wasn't big business, it wasn't even defense contractors; it was Protestant ministers. Protestant ministers, Black and White alike, had ardently pushed expansionism. "The American," famous AME Pastor William Brownings once said, "conquers the world for Christ with a Bible in his hand and a pistol on his hip." Their authority over their flocks meant that when the churches united, the most powerful people in the country listened. Within much of American Protestant theology, there were undercurrents of both philo-Semitism and American Exceptionalism. God said the Jews were the Chosen, so they were the Chosen consarnit. Furthermore, by protecting the Chosen, they were doing God's will and receiving his blessing as a result. Existing alongside this was an idea that, if the American people weren't the outright Chosen, they were a very close second. Some prominent Black and White churches alike held that the Jews and Christians had separate covenants with God, allowing each to be Chosen in a different way. They were the perfect allies for Richardson's efforts. In response to the President's call, prominent ministers joined with prominent Jewish leaders to hold the March to Save the Jews on February 4th, 1945. Over 70,000 Christians and Jews stood in the snow to hear pastor and President thunder that if America left the Jews behind in their hour of need, he would remove his protection from the country. Over 1,000 participants would later gather outside Congress to loudly blow shofars, disrupting legislative business. Congress got the message, and the rally made headlines across the country, swaying millions in support of the Jews. On April 17th, 1945, Congress unanimously passed the Exodus Act, creating the Territory of New Zion out of old Manitoba and Saskatchewan. There were riots in both territories, which were put down by the Army. Meanwhile in Europe, local authorities were ordering millions of Jews to begin packing their belongings. The Second Exodus had begun.
Ship after ship of Jews arrived in American ports throughout 1945, '46, '47, and '48. They were greeted the same way: by cheering crowds. People came from as far as the Midwest to voice their support. Millions of Jews used to oppression were greeted with hugs, clothes, billowing flags, and sign after sign reading "For Zion's Sake, America Will Stand Up!" which was the official slogan of the March to Save the Jews. From the ports, they would register with the newly created Office of Resettlement and Assimilation and hop on a train to New Zion or elsewhere (about 20% of Jews went to either American Mexico or the Philippines due to the constraints of Canada). In something eerily reminiscent of what happened to Native Americans (ironically as America began trying to make amends with them) many Canadians in now New Zion were forced off their land into other parts of Canada. Some 190,000 would voluntarily leave for Australia, New Zealand, Britain, or South Africa. The entire region was "De-Canucked." Winnipeg, Saskatoon, and Regina became Jerusalem (the capital of New Zion) Tel Aviv, and Bethlehem. Jews took over abandoned farms, mining facilities, and logging camps. Others founded agricultural communities known as kibbutz, planned communities based on Jewish and socialist principles, and which mainly focused on industrial scale rye and winter wheat production. Propaganda extolled the Jews as "making the tundra bloom."
There was, in fact, a large propaganda effort around the early years of New Zion. Much of it was from genuine enthusiasm, but it was also partly to drown out complaints from displaced Canadians. The two most famous products of this effort were the movie Exodus and the genre of the "Kosher Western." Exodus, an epic film released in 1951, detailed the fictional story of a young Polish Jewish woman named Esther Loeb as she survived the loss of her parents and the abuses of life in post-war Poland, then came on a boat to America to settle down in New Zion. There, she fought off a pack of wolves and founded a farm in the (real) new settlement of New Eliat. At the midpoint of the film, secret Sons of the Maple Leaf loyalists (portrayed as Brits) besieged her farm. She was rescued by Captain Rick Snyder, a wholesome German-American boy from Iowa. They fall in love, and Esther helps him round up the last loyalists in the area around New Eliat. The film concludes with their wedding, and the epilogue states that they have 6 children, who Rick and Esther agreed to raise Jewish. The movie was a smash hit, and also the first action/epic film to feature a true female lead. Exodus would shape much of the public's perception of the colonization project in New Zion. The "Kosher Westerns" played a role in that as well. These were essentially classic Western stories, but told through the eyes of Jews settling in New Zion in the modern day. All in all, Americans viewed the project in New Zion as wholly heroic on the part of the Jews, and altruistic on their part.
This sense of righteousness was not unwarranted. Not only had the Americans legitimately saved millions of people from oppression, they were helping the Jewish people revive their culture. Jewish Folk songs not played outside the privacy of homes and weddings for fear of persecution were now being played in the White House to clapping crowds. Jews were given the full franchise of any Territorial citizen in good standing. American officials and Bible scholars teamed up with rabbis to properly revive Hebrew, and New Zion became the first part of the Union to be allowed full bilingualism in 1956. Protestant missionaries were actively discouraged from evangelizing in the territory. Charities and government organizations donated necessities for people and communities. America did right by the Jews.
The Jews wouldn't forget it either. In the coming decades New Zion would consistently rank among the most patriotic states in the Union. The sons and daughters of New Zion served in the armed forces at the same rates as the famously bellicose Southerners. And the good people of New Zion wore their love of country on their sleeve. As Esther Loeb put it in Exodus:
"America might not be the Promised Land, but she's in strong contention for the title."
Members of the New Zion National Guard (1953)
A scene from a kibbutz outside of Jerusalem (formerly known as Winnipeg) (1949)
Settler women on a kibbutz outside Tel Aviv (old Saskatoon) drill in Minutemen style maneuvers. Men and women on the frontier learned how to fight in the event of a Canadian terror attack. Even after the threat to New Zion was neutralized in 1949, the culture of readiness remained.
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