Red Spies in the White House: An Alternate Cold War

I'm pretty much expecting a fascist dictatorship to take over after this. The American left will never recover from their President and champion being a literal soviet spy and the people will turn so reactionary that the Republicans won't be enough
 
I think the claims of a fascist dictatorship are a little farfetched. If anything, I can see the USA going down a path similar to Franco's Spain.
 
they cna't trust the American goverment.
Like they should now?

I jest ;)

In all seriousness, if the top echelon of the US government is a choice between Soviet (Stalinist to be precise, and Europe is much more afraid of Stalin than it is Worker's Co-ops) spies and neo-Fascists, just after World War II no less, I wouldn't trust them either
 
The French Fourth Republic
THE BIRTH OF THE FRENCH FOURTH REPUBLIC

The constitutional status of France was in an awkward position following the nation’s liberation from Nazi occupation. The Third Republic was considered to have ended in 1940 when the French surrendered to the Germans. Charles De Gaulle established a provisional government in 1944, of which he was the Chair. De Gaulle refused to unilaterally declare a new republic, as he did not consider the dissolution of the Third Republic to be legitimate. The Provisional Government consisted of the Tripartisme coalition between the Communists, Socialists (the French Section of the Worker’s International, or SFIO), and the centrists of the MRP. This was not intended to be a permanent state of affairs. In the first elections held after the war, in October of 1945, the Tripartisme coalition won the vast majority of seats in the reconstituted National Assembly. The Communists and the SFIO, while maintaining the coalition with the MRP, won a majority of seats on their own, giving the left-wing parties a narrow majority in the National Assembly. Charles De Gaulle, lacking a firm base of support in the new National Assembly, resigned at the start of 1946. Felix Gouin, a socialist, assumed the Chairmanship.

The constitutional order of the Third Republic had been discredited following the French surrender. The National Assembly of the provisional government was elected with a mandate to create a French Fourth Republic. The Constituent Assembly approved a draft for a new constitution in April of 1946; with a majority of deputies approving the draft. The Assembly scheduled a national referendum on the proposed constitution for June of 1946. The constitution required majority approval from the French electorate before it could be implemented.

The draft constitution proposed a parliamentary democracy. Unlike the Third Republic, the new constitution called for the French legislature to be made unicameral, abolishing the French Senate. Public policy was to be entirely under the control of the National Assembly, which was elected by proportional representation. The President was to be elected by the National Assembly, and his powers were largely ceremonial. The draft constitution also provided for the establishment of the French Union, incorporating France’s overseas colonies into the French constitutional structure. The constitution granted full citizenship and equal rights to all nationals of the French Union, which included French Africa, French Guiana, and the French territories in the Caribbean, Atlantic and Indian Oceans. French Indochina was excluded from the French Union. The new constitution did not discriminate on race, meaning that Black and Arab residents of French Africa would be granted full voting rights. The constitution also provided for the French overseas departments and territories to elect territorial assemblies, paving the way for territorial autonomy. The constitution also provided for the election of deputies from the overseas departments and territories to the National Assembly, although the specific number of seats was not specified.

The MRP and the right-wing opposed the proposed Constitution, viewing it as a power grab by the left. Proportional representation is generally more favorable to left-wing parties, and as the left already held a majority over the Constituent Assembly, it was seen as likely they would retain a majority in the National Assembly in the Fourth Republic. A left-wing coalition government in charge of the National Assembly would thus have unchecked power to implement their agenda. French conservatives warned that the proposed constitution would lead to a permanent Communist takeover of France. The conservatives, however, were hobbled by a string of unfortunate events. General De Gaulle, national hero, leader of the Free French, and political conservative had died in a car crash in March of 1946 in Septfontaines while visiting relatives. De Gaulle was expected to oppose the proposed constitution, and his absence robbed the conservatives of the most credible opponent of the new constitution. Mysterious propaganda- both leaflets and posters- flooded France’s major cities. The propaganda was posted in town squares, and leaflets and literature were mailed to people’s homes. The propaganda praised the new constitution as anti-fascist and democratic, and claimed that a unicameral National Assembly would be stronger and more stable than the divided and tumultuous constitutional order of the Third Republic. Rejecting the constitution meant a return to the fractious days of the 1930s. The new constitution meant an escape from the failures of the Third Republic. These election materials were ubiquitous in the final days leading up to the referendum, and then abruptly disappeared. Conservatives claimed that the election materials were created and distributed by Soviet agents, although the Soviet government was never proven to have directly distributed this propaganda.

The French electorate narrowly approved the new Constitution by a 54-46 margin. The Constituent Assembly quickly scheduled the first elections for a National Assembly under the Fourth Republic. The number of deputies to be elected from the French colonies was a matter of some dispute. The new constitution did not specify how many deputies would be assigned to the colonies. In theory, if deputies were assigned purely based on population, the number of deputies from the territories would outnumber those from Metropolitan France by two to one. Although this possibility was suggested by a few Communist deputies, the idea was rejected as too radical. The people of Metropolitan France would be outraged for their overseas subjects to control the majority of the National Assembly. The Communists and the SFIO, however, agreed that overseas representation should be more than nominal- the French territories deserved a substantial percentage of the seats in the National Assembly. The Constituent Assembly tentatively assigned 150 out of 700 seats to the overseas territories, under the expectation that the Fourth Republic would decide on a permanent settlement for the government of the French Union. The colonial deputies would prove vital to the first coalition government of the Fourth Republic.

Buoyed by their success in the constitutional referendum, the left-wing parties were returned to the National Assembly with a majority. The French Communists were the largest party, and thus Maurice Thorez, General Secretary of the Communist Party and leader of the Communist parliamentary faction, was given the assignment by outgoing chairman of the provisional government Gouin to form a coalition government. Thorez approached Guy Mollet, leader of the SFIO, and asked that the Socialists elect him Prime Minister. The centrist MRP was the second largest party, while the SFIO was the third. Explicitly right-wing parties were consigned to a small percentage of seats. Thorez told Mollet that he wished to form a government which excluded the right-wing parties entirely, and that he was the only plausible leader of a left-wing government. Thorez promised the Socialists numerous ministries within the coalition. Thorez also promised to respect democratic principles and the Constitution of the Fourth Republic. He distanced himself from Soviet communism, promising that his government would not be overly radical. Finally, Thorez promised that the Communists would support a socialist President. Although the President was far less powerful than the Prime Minister, a socialist President would indicate the symbolic importance of the SFIO to the left-wing coalition government. Thorez stated that since the MRP had refused to support his premiership, if the Socialists rejected his offer the left would shut out entirely. Mollet, not inclined to form a coalition government with MRP leader George Bidaux, agreed to support Thorez for Prime Minister, despite the misgivings of some SFIO deputies. Mollet was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of War. Leon Blum, the socialist former Prime Minister and architect of the Popular Front- the first coalition between the SFIO and the Communists, was selected by Thorez as the new President of France. Blum, a respected elder statesman with preexisting relations with the Communists, was an ideal compromise candidate for President. Blum, now on the right-wing of the Socialists, had recently lost control of the Socialists because of his rejection of Marxism. This allowed Blum to win support from the MRP deputies as a unifying, non-ideological choice. Mollet supported Blum for President in order to smooth over divisions within the SFIO while simultaneously moving Blum into a position where his influence over party affairs would be limited. Blum won support from parties inside and outside the government coalition. The first act of the new National Assembly was to elect Blum to a seven-year term as President.

The deputies from the overseas territories were essential to the formation of the Communist government. French West Africa and French Equatorial Africa elected deputies who nearly all sided with the Communists, granting them the numbers to dominate the legislature. Prime Minister Thorez quickly realized that the African territories would provide a bedrock of support for the left, and that increased parliamentary representation for Africa would give the left a permanent advantage in elections. Thorez thus immediately moved to invite the African deputies, all of whom were new to the National Assembly, into the coalition government. Gabriel d’Arboussier, the son of a French aristocrat and a Senegalese mother, was appointed Overseas Minister and given the portfolio in charge of France’s territories. Arboussier was the first black man to hold this position. The African deputies, under the leadership of Félix Houphouët-Boigny, would form the African Democratic Rally (RDA) later that year to better represent the interests of the territories. The RDA would join the Communist coalition and Houphouët-Boigny was appointed Minister of Health to solidify African support for the Communists. Thorez would pass legislation adding fifty seats to the representation of the overseas territories and departments in the National Assembly. This further increased the numerical strength of his coalition. While Thorez did not make any commitments regarding the independence of the African territories, he did agree to grant them what was effectively full regional autonomy. The overseas territories would be governed by local assemblies, and Arboussier promised to appoint territorial governors who were native to the region they were governing. Black indigenous governors were put in charge in Africa- Alioune Diop was appointed governor of West Africa, and Jean Félix-Tchicaya was appointed Governor of Equatorial Africa. Communist Raymond Verges was appointed governor of Reunion. Joseph Raseta, leader of the MDRM and longtime ally of the Communists, was appointed Madagascar with the promise that Madagascar would be granted independence within the French Union. Thorez allowed Africa virtually unchecked control over their own affairs, provided their deputies retained support for the Communist coalition. Thorez did make clear, however, that the development of African political parties should exclusively be socialist or left-wing.

Opposition to the Communist government was strongest in Northern Africa. The Sultan of Morocco, recognizing that the Communists were inherently hostile to monarchy, distrusted the Thorez government and feared for his position. French settlers in Algeria viewed the Communist alliance with the RDA as a dangerous threat to race relations. The Communists, feared conservatives, would let the Arabs take over Algeria and persecute the French. Thorez did not move to change the nature of the Algerian government or give power to the Arabs, Thorez promised that Algeria was “an indisputable part of France.” His alliance with the RDA had nevertheless set a precedent which worried the French Algerians greatly.

The Communist government passed legislation nationalizing health care, establishing social security, raising wages, and creating strong protections for labor unions. The General Confederation of Labour, the largest union in France, was dominated by the Communists, and the Thorez government moved to ensure the CGT had full government support. Thorez, recognizing the position of Communists was tentative, and that the majority of French opposed outright Stalinism, did not move to immediately nationalize all private enterprise. The French were still dependent on aid from the United States for the purposes of reconstruction. Unlike the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the PCF was still bound by bourgeois constitutionalism and parliamentarianism- Thorez was thus in no position to become a Stalin. Nor did Communist Foreign Affairs Minister Jacques Duclos, although personally close to Moscow, didn’t immediately reverse French foreign policy. His most consequential initiative was to open negotiations with Ho Chi Minh over the independence of Vietnam, with Duclos favoring Ho controlling the government of an independent Indochina. The Viet Minh decided to refrain from attacking French colonizers in order to win a favorable independence settlement under which Indochina would become a Communist state. Duclos visited the Soviet Union and met with other Communist dignitaries, but he did not commit France to the Soviet bloc for fear of political backlash. The Communists maintained support for the Morgenthau Plan, seeking to mobilize popular anti-German sentiment to their political advantage. President Blum was a Holocaust survivor (he was interned in the Buchenwald concentration camp), and numerous leading Communists were veterans of the French Resistance. The Fourth Republic was thus naturally inclined to continue a hostile policy towards the Germans. Duclos additionally visited the United Kingdom to meet with Ernest Bevan and assured him that the Communist takeover of France would not jeopardize relations with the United Kingdom. Bevan did not trust Duclos, but the two avoided an immediate rupture in relations.

There was some hysteria in Britain and the United States over the election of a Communist government. The Chicago Tribune referred to it as the “Second Fall of France” while Time Magazine warned of the impending Communist takeover of the West. Senator Vandenberg tried to mobilize congressional opposition to the PCF, calling on the United States to cut off financial and military support for France. While the American public was generally skeptical of the Thorez government, those warning of the Soviet conquest of Europe were in the minority. The White administration, in response to Vandenberg and other critics, replied that the Communists had been democratically elected, and that France was an ally and a constitutional democracy in whose internal affairs it was not appropriate for the United States to intervene. White kept the same policy towards France he had before the formation of the French Republic. Thorez, anxious to avoid a confrontation with the West that would weaken his government, sent President Blum on an international goodwill tour. Blum visited the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Canada, and the United States. Duclos accompanied Blum on a couple of these visits. Blum, who was not a Communist, was seen as a more credible interlocutor with the Western Allies who would remind them that France had not quite so radically shifted if he was the head of state. Leon Blum met with Harry Dexter White in the White House. Both men were Jewish and Presidents of major powers, and the pair quickly established a rapport. The faction most hostile to the new French government were the British Tories, who feared the emergence of a Communist neighbor country and yearned for the return of a conservative government.

FRANKFURT, GERMANY, AUGUST 1946

Henry Kissinger had finally completed his tour of duty with the U.S Army, and was packing his bags for his return to the United States, where Kissinger had been accepted into Harvard University. Kissinger’s stint in the Army had been a rather strange turn of events. Kissinger and his family had fled Germany to escape Nazi persecution. Kissinger returned to his native country in the army of his adopted country, as an occupier. As a Jew, he helped administer the occupation of a country where people of his religion had very recently been exterminated. Kissinger, however, felt no lingering loyalty to Germany, and looked forward to finally leaving.

Kissinger was thus irritated, when in his final week in the Army, Captain Haines had suddenly burst into his quarters in the barracks, asking for his whereabouts. Kissinger was sitting on his bed when Haines approached him, holding some papers. “Henry, I need you to translate some documents we found. The Army confiscated them from a newsstand in Frankfurt- they’re all over the city.” Haines handed Kissinger the pamphlet. “Someone is trying to mobilize popular discontent against the occupation, I want to know what we’re up against.”

“Hmmm.” Kissinger glanced at the pamphlet. “This is Nazi propaganda.”

“Yes, I realize that. It’s pretty obvious when they printed ‘Der Juden’ in big bold capital letters. Can you give me a full translation?”

“Of course.” Kissinger started to read aloud. “The Jews have conquered the world! Germany is at the mercy of the Judeo-Bolsheviks! The worst fears of the German people have been realized. It is clear now that Hitler’s warnings about the Jewish menace were correct. The Jews revel now in their victory, openly mocking the Aryan race even as they subjugate and exterminate it. The dastardly Jew Morgenthau has implemented his revenge- the Jewish Conspiracy is now raping Germany and killing and starving the German people. With the fall of the Third Reich, the last best hope to stop the Jews from dominating the world has failed. The Jews no longer even bother to disguise their control over the enemy countries. It is in the name of a Jew that you go without work and that your children go without food. In the east, the Jewish Communists have their boots on the throats of our countrymen. Their savage behavior is to be expected from a nation of inferior Slavs. But even in the supposedly civilized nations of the west are now ruled by Jewish devils. The President of the United States, Harry Dexter White, one of the Elders of Zion, dispensed with his puppets Roosevelt and Winant, and now rules openly as a brutal tyrant. The Morgenthau Plan is the Jewish ritual murder writ large- White bathes in the blood of millions of German children and laughs gleefully as he orders our annihilation. Now France too has fallen into the hands of the Judeo-Bolshevik cabal. A Jewish Communist, Leon Blum now rules the French. It is not coincidence that both the President of France and America are Jewish. The war was a struggle to liberate the world from Jewish domination, and now that the Jews have won they are reshaping the world order to destroy all that is good. They are tightening their grip on their subject countries, and soon the Jewish Communists will rule openly as the dark masters of the whole world. The Master Race must rise against the Jewish occupation and liberate the fatherland before it is too late.” Kissinger shook his head. “Juvenile trash.”

“So somebody is trying to revive the Nazi Party,” Captain Haines said. “The Germans have complained bitterly about the occupation, but they haven’t violently resisted, mostly. But now, we are seeing organized sedition. The Nazis are still working in the shadows, and they’re using the Morgenthau Plan to agitate the populace. They want to bring back Hitler! The question is, are they organized or are these chumps just dead-enders?”

“All the better that I am leaving,” Kissinger said. “I am sick of Nazis. Now they’re not my problem anymore. Good riddance, Deutschland!”
 
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well, the popular front strategy is maintained in the post-war world, frankly the strategy of the Third International was to create democratic and anti-fascist coalitions although they did not rule out that the Popular Front was for some countries "the path to socialism" so in the highly industrialized France may not require a proletarian dictatorship, Stalin would be satisfied with this situation because even if they do not become stalwarts of Moscow they will be close allies
 

tonycat77

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With how many countries are becoming socialist, I expect when America become fascist(?) they will be pretty isolated from the rest of the world
Probably there will be a major backlash, coups, etc by the right after they were rightfully proven right about a massive conspiracy.
White being uncovered would be the largest scandal and plot twist, ever.
Japan would probably go apeshit for instance, bringing back the emperor would be a no brainer.
Germans, starved en masse would also go apeshit.
Britain with it's economy and imperial possessions lost, would also go very, very nuts.

Latin america will be funny, Vargas tried to emulate Mussolini, then Hitler, then Stalin before he got kicked out of office in 1945, he did slaughter a ton of communists, so he probably would go.
However the oligarchies supporting him would not allow a outright "outsider" socialist to take over, even to this day socialist candidates in north-northeast are from families directly descendant from the 1500s feudal land grants.
Argentina and Brazil would benefit massively from the gigantic immigration waves of skilled labor from Italy, Japan and Germany like OTL, but even larger.
I can easily see the men and women responsible for those countries economic miracles leading the same miracle in South America instead.
 
I suspect there will be, if only because @Ulysses Orbis put it right in the title of the TL ;)
I think I said this a few pages ago on this thread. Europe is going to be a soft communist/socialist/non-Soviet socialist and America is going to be a reactionary right-wing government (like Reagan and McCarthy had a very manly son), China will be Maoist but Mao won't like whoever leads the USSR after Stalin, and the Soviets will be run by a Stalinist politician like Kaganovich or Molotov, maybe the Army.
 
I think I said this a few pages ago on this thread. Europe is going to be a soft communist/socialist/non-Soviet socialist and America is going to be a reactionary right-wing government (like Reagan and McCarthy had a very manly son), China will be Maoist but Mao won't like whoever leads the USSR after Stalin, and the Soviets will be run by a Stalinist politician like Kaganovich or Molotov, maybe the Army.
Germany/Japan will probably be forever rightest, and America will probably be more favorable to the Arab middle east, assuming if the anti-semitism is as prevalent as the foreshadowing implies. England might go reactionary as well.

god, white has hurt the Jews more than anyone besides Hitler himself. I tell you, Isreal is fucked long-term without the truckloads of American and later german money and equipment.
 
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