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Chapter Twenty-Seven: Riots and Rebellions during the French Coup and Civil War

One of the ideas of the PRIINT and CNSPR of how to deal with the reactionary powers that were France and Russia in mainland Europe was to use their internal problems and struggles to initiate revolutions inside of them. In France the National Syndicalist Movement was quit strong and popular, even if it was oppressed by the French government. The Reactionary Forces have lost dominance in the Mediterranean Sea with the fall of Spain, so that France suddenly hat three National Syndicalist PRIINT and CNSPR bordering it feeling surrounded on all sides. French Socialist Prime Minister André Léon Blum therefore was exchanged by Radical-Socialist (center-left) Édouard Daladier who expanded the French welfare state, hoping that would please and calm down the working masses. At the same time the French tried to help Spanish Monarchist in exile who had fled to their land to return to Spain and restart the civil war with French aid. Great Britain meanwhile tells the French that they don't want to escalate the conflict as they are not yet ready and wish to preserve a somewhat balance of power between the PRINNT, CNSPR and French-Russia on the continent. Because of this Daladier refused to intervene now as well, especially after many french politicians had declared they would not support such a move if Britain wasn't standing behind it as well. This was the first split that could be seen in the Front of the Reactionary Powers. As a result of this diplomatic chaos, Paul Reynaud becomes the new French Prime Minister of a center-right Democratic Republican Alliance Emergency Coalition. Opposing the growing PRIINT and CNSPR powers in Europe surrounding France now, Prime Minister Reynaud opposed any new appeasement. Some however saw this as still to little to late and the Generals Philippe Pétain, Maxime Weygand and Charles Huntziger alongside some right-wing French parties prepare for a reactionary coup in France itself, while the PRIINT and CNSPR prepare for a National Syndicalist one. While their military coup takes over most of norther France and the main cities, part of the democratic French government manage to flee to Bordeaux and Toulouse, where the French navy under François Darlan remain loyal to them.

Meanwhile the PRIINT and CNSPR coup fires only a week later, rushed to not loose their opportunity, but is only able to secure the southeast around Marseilles and Montpelier near the Italian and Spanish border regions along the southern coastline. Quickly Adolf Hitler urges me, Benito Mussolini to directly intervene to bring down France now that the time is right and orders his National Syndicalist German Army to enter Elsaß-Lothringen (Alsace-Lorraine) in a attempt to secure German interests in this former German province. I however feared that this would lead to a escalating Europe War directly including Britain and France. Meanwhile the British send the British Expeditionary Force to aid the democratic French Republic in Bordeaux, while at the same time not completely breaking their diplomatic support with the new northern regime of Pétain in hopes of reuniting them, or using him against the PRIINT and CNSPR forces now that the time of Appeasement seamed over. Quickly the Italians, Germans and Spanish sended forces for the National Syndicalist government in Marseilles, while the reactionary power of Russian sends the majority of their forces to the government pf Philippe Pétain clearly favoring this more right-wing, militarist government similar to their own over that of the in their eyes do liberal, democratic and socialist one in Bordeaux. This changes also made the Polish nervous who were by now used as a buffer between Germany and Russia, similarly to how the Belgians formed a buffer between Germany and France. But with France in Civil War now the French are unlikely to intervene anymore should the Germans or Russians (meaning the White Russian and Ukraine Protectorates of Russia) attack to take the polish territories they claimed for themselves. While Britain now heavily mistrusted the Russians because of who they supported during the French Coup and Civil War. Now that the French Civil War and the fighting in the Balkans seamed to turn into a European War our only chance was to continue the British-French split with Russia over their decision and support of the Spanish Civil War.

- Benito Mussolini, 13 July 1940

 

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Chapter Twenty-Eight: Russian Strategies

The White Russian victory during the Russian Civil War had changed the face of Europe and Asia forever. The already large power in the east controlled from Saint Petersburg grew only stronger and had a much higher birth rate (with around eight children, even if most of them didn't survive) then anyone in the PRIINT and CNSPR. Along their trans-Siberian railroad in Central Asia (Transoxiane) and the far east, the ethnic Russians therefore had displaced and resettled much of the local ethnic populations further south, including Kazakhs, Turkmen, Kyrgyz, Uzbeks, Kirgiz and Tajik, who had been removed from their homeland and that of their ancestors further towards the southern border, while the central Russian territories became known as the Russian belt between 1922 and 1932. These people there were therefore our most natural allies if they could be brought to openly riot as national syndicalist groups against the reactionary power of Russian when the PRIINT and CNSPR attack the eastern nation from central and southeastern Europe. Another group best not overlooked in all of this are the Jews, as many of them had supported the Communists during the Russian Civil War and had therefore been hated, persecuted and expelled by the White Russian Army. While many of them had fled to South America to fulfill Theodor Herzls idea and dream of the Patagonian Jewish State, others had remained in Europe, fleeing to Central or Western parts of the continent, including Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy. Still anti-Jewish propaganda, ideas and even violent pogroms are common till this day in Russian controlled regions of Eastern Europe. This naturally means that the Jews are beside the central Asians among our closest natural allies and friends against the reactionary, imperial government of Russia. With some of their contacts and knowledge of the Russian regions in the Caucasus Mountains and Central Asia the PRIINT and CNSPR could easily exploit the weak cracks in the massive Russian Colossus.

However they were not the only useful and potential powerful ally against the Russian Giant. In the Far East in China Mao Zedong's Chinese Syndicalist Party (CSP) and the syndicalist influenced Kuomintang of Chiang Kai-sheck fought over dominance of their Chinese Republic there. Whoever would win out of these two revolutionary syndicalist forces could be of good purpose for our ambitions against the reactionary imperial power that is Russia. After all the Chinese too had land stolen from them by the Russian Imperialists and the reactionary Japanese Imperialists alike. Land that was still inhabited by majorly Chinese people and felt strongly connected to the rest of China, even if the country was immensely fractured and split for now. If the Chinese factions could be supported by us against the Japanese and further influenced in our National Syndicalist Ideal, we could grow ourselves a powerful future ally, even without any direct war or escalation in the Far East for now, simply by supplying the Chinese National Syndicalist factions with everything they needed for now, no matter if weapons, ammunition, food or medicine. This plans meanwhile, just like our intervention in France soon created not only opportunities, but also problems as well, when the Japanese bombed the Italian freighter Andrea to stop the delivery of any more goods towards their Chinese enemies. The so called Anrea Incident soon became steamy and a international diplomatic crisis, as the united PRIINT and CNSPR National Syndicalist States and Parties (including the Japanese branch) offered a warning to the Japanese Empire, threatening to stop all trade, military aid and instructor training towards them should they not apologize, pay for the damage and ensure future incidents like this would never happen again. While the Japanese Government and Diplomats clearly weren't pleased with this demands, they agreed in fear of loosing to much support or trade from the European PRIINT and CNSPR.

- Benito Mussolini, 13 July 1940

 

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Chapter Twenty-Nine: Friends in the Reactionary Empires

While the Reactionary Powers tried to prevent the rise of the PRIINT and CNSPR, the French formed National Syndicalist government in Marseilles, workers and trade union uprisings all over France showed that the population and masses were with their mind and heart with our cause, even inside the most reactionary power states. Inside the British Empire Oswald Mosley led the British Union of National Syndicalists (BUNS) that outright pretests the British Government decisions against the PRIINT and CNSPR and for the French and Russians that he saw as traditional rivals and opposition to the British Empire and British Interests in the world. They also opposed the British Expeditionary Forces who while securing the Remnant French Republic in Bordeaux laced close naval supply lines and ports, like Pétain Authoritarian Government in the North would have provided them. Because of this the BUNS was soon outlawed by the British Government and it's main leaders inprisoned for criminal agitation against the British War war effort and for enemies of the British Empire. The Germans meanwhile had used the confusion and split French Forces to reoccupy Elsaß-Lothringen (Alsace-Lorraine) claiming to secure the German Border from spillover of this Civil War like the Spanish Civil War had spilled over to France they claimed. In the East meanwhile the Poles were afraid to lose their independence against the Russians that had seized much of the Baltics by forcing the Estonians and Latvians to become Protectorates of the Russian Empire as well. To avoid the same fate the Lithuanians had joined a pact of defense and friendship with the Germans and agreed to join the PRIINT and CNSPR under their own new National Syndicalist Government and the return of Memelland to Germany. Poland soon followed, fearing it might become a Russian Protectorate as well and realizing that with France in Civil War the Poles rather depended on the Germans. Therefore they too accepted protection by the PRIINT and CNSPR and returned former German territory to the German Syndicalist Nation. With a now direct border to the reactionary power of Russia and with Britain and Russia claiming the involvement of the PRIINT and CNSPR in the French Civil War a direct confrontation between the PRIINT/ CNSPR and the Reactionary Powers in Europe seamed inevitable.

The Polish Protectorate allowed us to have a buffer state in Eastern Europe and gave us time to support the pro-PRIINT and pro-CNSPR forced during the French Civil War, were our naval support in the Mediterranean supported them with weapons and volunteers from Italy, Spain and Germany while at the same time giving more direct naval support for their fight along the southern coast, much more then the British in the West gave the Remnant of the French Government. While Pétain in the North and his military, reactionary government posed the largest threat to us in France, he had needed time to consolidate his forces, time the Germans had used to reclaim the eastern provinces and capture most of the Maginot Line, leading to a massive decline in popularity and prestige for the northern military regime because of this losses. While German forces for now stopped at the old province border of the reintegrated territories, German volunteers en mass joined the southern Syndicalist French Nation (SFN) and hoped that their support would help them win over Pétain's northern authoritarian military regime and the western Remnant French Republic alike. This did however not solve the question and problem of the French Reactionary Power Colonies in the world, who for the most part were undecided which side of the civil war to pick, as their forces often lacked modern equipment and the means to reach Mainland Metropolitan France over the Mediterranean or the Atlantic, even if Britain offered some forces of the French Remnant Republic a safe passage with the Royal Navy. For sure the British and the Russians were on the direct move now as well as us and in a meeting with Hitler, I Mussolini suggested that it was time to solve the Yugoslav Question once and for all. This way we could not only secure the Adriatic Sea and the Independent Croatian Movement, but prevent Russia from using the Serbs as a instrument of their Reactionary Pan-Slavic and Yugoslav ambitions and political power gamble across the Balkan Peninsula.

- Benito Mussolini, 21 August 1940

 

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Chapter Thirty: Balkan Wars

To secure the Balkan Peninsula Italian, Albanian, Austrian, Bulgarian, German, Hungarian and Romanian forces attacked the already in civil war disrupted State of Yugoslavia and Greece to ensure that the rest of the Balkan Peninsula would be secured. Attacking Yugoslavia from all sides the whole operation lasted only 18 days until Yugoslavia had fallen and the PRIINT and CNSPR turned south against Greece. Twenty one days later Greece would have fallen too, the only problem was Crete, where the Italian Navy attempted a landing and failed. While Yugoslavia had already to fight a Croatian Uprising that cut off the northern Yugoslavian forces, Greece itself had build strand defenses along it's border to Albania and Bulgaria. But much like Reactionary France that lacked border fortifications again Italy and Spain like it had build massive ones against Germany, Greece had no direct defenses along the Yugoslav border as well. This meant that the PRIINT and CNSPR forces could flank and bypass the Greek defenses there, flank around them and push into central Greece were they would fight their way down to occupy the rest of the country as well. After both nations were occupied by PRIINT and CNSPR forces Croatia was accepted as a member state as well as the rump Serbian state that would otherwise like Greece loose territory to a Greater Albania and Bulgarian claims as well. Most of Macedon would go to Albania or Bulgaria, while Austria, Hungary and Romania would gain a few small border regions with their ethnic groups as a majority in them. With this move the Balkan Peninsula and the Romanian Oil Fields were a combined PRIINT and CNSPR force was stationed seamed secured. This more aggressive expansion however also had lead to the declaration of War by the British Empire and it's vassal states in the so called Commonwealth that opposed our aggressive interference on the continent, as well as from the Russian Empire and it's puppet protectorates. Had all blows before been proxy wars between us and the Reactionary Powers, the European War that now started was a more direct confrontation and I was unsure if we were well prepared enough for it.

The good thing was that Italy, Spain and Germany now could directly mobilize against the French Remnant States and the National French Military State in the west and north of France. With our armies now fully mobilizing the British faced the problem that they had focused on their navy and could not quickly mobilize much more land forces to help the french out, while Russia still needed time to mobile it's massive numbers and reach the borders as it still had no central European industry or infrastructure. If the still divided France was defeated quick enough, the British would be cut off from the continent and the Russians would be all on their own against a then united PRIINT and CNSPR continent that could combine it's successors and manpower to bring the Russians Giant down once more like during the last Great War as well. But unlike the Wars in the Balkan Peninsula the French Campaign was nit as quick and easy as originally planned. Many of the Spanish Forces were unable to advance much further then the feet of the Pyrenees, let alone deeper into Aquitaine and our French Allies and Italian forces in the South had a hard time pushing northwards. Meanwhile meetings with Hitler ended in arguing, as the German Leader insisted that not only a quick German operation into northern France should be made to eliminate the French once and for all, but also a push into Belgium and the Netherlands as well to secure all of the European Coast opposing England to fortify it and use it as a base for further operations against the British should they not accept PRIINT and CNSPR hegemony over Europe by then. Either way the Fall of France should help in the fight of the PRIINT and CNSPR against Britain and Russia I realized and with the continent secured against British Interference we could win PRIINT and CNSPR hegemony over Europe and afterwards the world.

- Benito Mussolini, 7 September 1940

 

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Chapter Thirty-One: National Syndicalist France and the French National Syndicalist Republic (FNSR)

The Syndicalist French Nation (SFN) call for support from the PRIINT and CNSPR did not remain unheard, as the Italians, Germans and Spanish forces marched across the border to “protect French citizens and workers”. In a attempt to push the Reactionary Powers out of all of western Europe, the local Syndicalist Parties of the Dutch Netherlands and Belgium also joined the PRIINT and CNSPR even of they legally were unable to speak for their government and people. Using this as a pretense, German forces marched into Belgium and the Netherlands to bypass the strong French border fortifications, aiming to cut off Pétain's National French Military State in Northern France, split it into two right in the middle. With a supporting Italian push from the south the main French forces at their eastern border along the Maginot Line would be completely cut off and the SFN would win the French Civil War so to speak. While the Nationalist French Army attempted it's own push into the Saar and Alsace-Lorraine, they were quickly pushed back again. Within six weeks the mobile German forces would have defeated Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Pétain's National French Military State. At first the French Remnant State in Bordeaux hoped to continue the fight as German, Italian and Spanish forces pushed in on their territory, but the British only could send a limited British Imperial Expeditionary Force (BIEF) and lacked a proper army. While the National French Military State quickly fell and PRIINT and CNSPR forces stood at the Aisne and Somme, before outflanking the French once again, surrounding and capitulating the main French National Army at the Maginot Line and pushing deeper into France, the French Remnant State Government in Bordeaux got quit nervous. Paris fell and with it the northern National French Military State. The collapse of it's government and armed forces lead to a flood of refugees into the French Remnant State in Bordeaux, slowing down their defenses, mobilization and limiting their overall remaining supplies. While the Germans annexed German speaking border regions, the SFN claimed all of France and the former French Empire.

Negotiations between the French Remnant State and London however failed, as French Nationalism and Imperialism opposed the very idea of forming a personal-union between Britain and France. This was partly true because of the Hundred Year War, were the very regions made up by the French Remnant State now; Guyenne, Gascony, Limousin, Poitou had been governed and controlled from England once before, meaning that French Nationalism strongly opposed the very ides. This split ideals and goals lead to the British-French split and the capitulation of the leftover Bordeaux French Remnant State towards the growing SFN state heavily supported by PRIINT and CNSPR who by now had rather openly joined the French Civil War. The leftover Bordeaux Government in parts joined the SFN government and signed the Treaty of Paris, a armistice between the factions of the French Civil War that also saw the SFN of mainland France join the PRIINT and CNSPR. The new French National Syndicalist Republic (FNSR) was formed controlling all of mainland France and managed to quickly get the recognition of most of French Colonies in Africa, as well South and South East Asia, while other remained loyal to that parts of the French Remnant State Government of Bordeaux that had fled to Great Britain. Italy would occupy Italian speaking regions along the eastern mainland France, even if they were minor ones. With growing PRIINT and CNSPR influence in Northern Africa and Western Africa, as well as in the Indian Ocean, a few towns in India, as well as in South East Asia meant that we could finally put much more pressure on the British Empire that had declared war upon us for our direct involvement in the French Civil War, even if they did the very same. I could feel that the balance of power had changed in our favor and ordered the Italian-Libyan forces in North Africa and the Italian-Ethiopian-Eritrean-Somalian forces in East Africa to attack the British Reactionary Imperial Forces in Egypt and Sudan. The former French African Colonies (Dahomey, Togoland, Morocco, Algeria, Tunesia, Mauretania, Soudan, Guinée, Ivory Coast, Ubengi-Chari, Equatorial Africa, Gabon, Cameroun and Madagascar) and the French South East Asian Colonies (Annam, Cambodia, Couchinchina, Laos and Tonkin) were made autonomous, independent member states with the help of local natives parties and government members.

- Benito Mussolini, 25 April 1941

 

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Chapter Thirty-Two: The Russian Empire and the European War

While the Reactionary Power of the British Empire had declared war on the Syndicalist French Nation (SFN) and it's allies the PRIINT and CNSPR, feeling secure on their island. The Reactionary Power of Russia meanwhile needed time to fully mobilize the forces of it's vast Empire. But much like during the Great War, the Russians mobilized much faster then expected by anyone, including their own allies and enemies. While most German, Italian and Spanish forces focused on France, a few Spanish and Italian forces also attempted to capture Gibraltar and Malta, succeeding in the first battle, but failing the later. More impotently, small parts of the German forces had remained in East Germany out of fear of a Russian attack from the east and Polish, as well as Romanian forces had to hold of the majority of the early Russian Empire attacks. They were soon supported by the German Forces that had remained in the East of Prussia. Italy meanwhile could send no additional forces, as their own ones were tied down against France, in the Balkans alongside local PRIINT and CNSPR members, most in former Yugoslavia as well as in Africa against the British. Because of this most PRIINT and CNSPR in Eastern Europe had to face the powerful Russian Army on their own, at least until the End of the French Civil War and the creation of the new French National Syndicalist Republic (FNSR), when finally German, Italian and even a few French divisions could turn east to protect the Free Syndicalist European Nations from the ambitions and aggressive Russian Empire that had tried to increase it's influence over Central Europe and the Balkans ever since the Napoleonic Wars. The Russian Civil War and revolution had meant that the Polish and the Baltic Nations as well as Finland, Ukraine, the Caucasus and Central Asia had managed to gain their independence. However the victory of the Whites in the Russian Civil War meant that they managed to get back control over the Baltic Nations, Finland, Ukraine, the Caucasus and Central Asia either directly or by making puppets out of them in some way or form as semi-autonomous provinces or nation states.

The Eastern Limes, or Eastern Defense Wall was sadly not what propaganda made it out to be, as most of this defensive bunkers and positions were not directly connected, especially not between member states and overall they lacked the depths and heavy weapons of the Maginot Line or similar fortifications. At the time the German, Italian and French forces had arrived in the East the Russians already had conquered the White Russian and Ukrainian parts of eastern Poland, as well as the majority of Lithuania and Bessarabia in Romania had been partly or completely be conquered and occupied by the Imperial Russian forces and their populations subjected to their Reactionary rule. The Russians had taken many causalities during their conquests of these regions as their tanks and artillery were not the most modern ones. Still the Russian Army was much more motorized and modern then the PRIINT and CNSPR had assumed and hoped. They were even more modern and motorized as many parts of the Italian, French, Spanish and partly even the German ones as well. But once the Germans showed up they implemented the flanking and surrounding tactics they had already used extensively in France, cutting of the Russian spearheads deep into Poland and Lithuania and capitulating a 1,620,000 Russian soldiers together with huge amounts of their equipment. Some of these forces on my suggestion would soon form the core of the National Syndicalist Liberation Army of Russia (NSLA or NSLAR) with a initial force of 106,000 White Russians, Ukrainian, Russians and a few other non-Russian majorities that held sympathies for out National Syndicalist Movement, Ideas and Ideals, the PRIINT, CNSPR as well as the liberation of their own people from reactionary, imperial Russian rule. Not much compared to the massive Russian Amry forces for now, I envisioned that they could become the instrument of our liberation of East Europe, succeeding where the Bolshevist, Communists and Socialists of the Red Forces and Army had failed during the Russian Civil War.

- Benito Mussolini, 3 June 1941

 

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Russian Invasion into East Europe

 

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Chapter Thirty-Three: The Huang He Truce and Peace

The so called Huang He Truce or Yellow River Truce was the result of Mussolini's CNSPR and PRIINT negotiation a peace deal between the Republic of China, the Chinese Warlords and Rebellious groups among one another, as well as with the Imperialist Power that was the Japanese Empire on the other side. The negotiations weren't easy as Japan wished to keep it's face and not lose any territory at all, while the Chinese wished to regain their lost lands. In the End the Japanese would agree to a land exchange that saw Eastern Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Zhili, and Shandong become part of the Provisional Government of the Republic of China, turning it into the Reformed Government of the Republic of China and then the so called Han Empire. Instead of a Manchu (Quing) or Mongilian (Yuan) Emperor the Ming dynasty was reborn with a Han Emperor Zeng Zong ruling from the Forbidden City once again. Coming from the Southern Ming and then the Taiwan exiled Kingdom of Tugning the Restoration League for the Ming Dynasty and the Movement to overthrow the Manchu Qing both with Japanese help and support agreed upon a Emperor who was raised and educated basically all his life inside the Japanese Empire and didn't even truly speak any major Chinese dialect. A perfect choice for the Japanese, as he and the resurrected Ming had a grudge against the Quing and Manchu, preventing both depending Japanese puppet states from working against the Japanese Empire for their independence. Meanwhile Shanghai and Hainan were given to the Japanese Empire directly while Japan withdraw from all other regions in China according to the Huang He Truce and Peace Deals. The Chinese Republic in return accepted the Independence of the Empire of Manchuria and the Han Empire as allied nations of the Japanese Empire. Dairen, Qinhuangdao, Tianjin, Quiangdao, Weiheiwei, Shanghai, Fuzhou and Xiamen became leased Treaty Ports for the Japanese by the Republic of China or the Manchurian and Han Empires that depended on Japanese support and protection of their independence.

Many later generations asked what all of this had to do with the War in Europe against the Reactionary Russian Empire, but they failed to see the bigger picture. With China and Japan at peace and the Chinese Kuomintang able to increase it's hold over the remaining autonomous provinces with this truth, Russia had to fear Japanese ambitions in the Far East in Outer Mongolia and Chinese Republic ambitions in Mongolia and East Turkestan (Xinjiang). This in return forced the Russian Imperialists to leave forces in their Central Asian and Far East territories that they otherwise could have used against us in Europe. The Japanese were also convinced by our proposal because we gave up some insignificant islands in the Southern Chinese Sea to them and allowed them free trade along the whole Chinese Coast as well as in our parts of Indochina and the Dutch East Indies. This allowed the Japanese Empire to buy all the resources their economy needed and eliminated any tensions that had arisen between them and the CNSPR or PRIINT. As further Japanese Expansion against the Philippines or the United States was therefore unlikely, the only logical direction for remaining imperial ambitions was north against Russia once more. Russia knew this as well and how badly the Japanese had defeated them before, that only American diplomacy and intervention had prevented the Japanese from taking all of Karafuto/ Sachalin and the Russian Far East. Now that we had redirected the Japanese ambitions with the peace in China against Russia once more, fear about the remembering of said losses had to crawl up in Saint Petersburg, fear that would weaken their front in Europe against us. At the same time it was only a matter of months or a few years until the National Syndicalist Kuomintang in China had secured it's hold about the remaining warlords and provinces and showed ambitions to retake Tibet or lands lost to the Russians before as well.

- Benito Mussolini, 8 August 1941

 

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Chapter Thirty-Four: Towards Russia

Thank you fortune for Hitler and the Germans, they were the main reason the front in Poland held for as long as it did. The Poles and Germans managed to hold on while Bulgarians, Hungarians, Greeks, Serbians and Croatians rushed in to defend the Romanian and southern Polish border against the Imperialist Russian barbaric hordes as well. While the CNSPR or PRIINT lacked organization at first the same was true for the Imperialist Russians. While the local White Ruthenian or White Russian and Ukrainian minorities in Eastern Poland supported their invasion like traitors, the Polish held their ground strong and loyal. In the meantime the Ruthenians and the Ukrainians realized that Russian officers and commanders charged their fellow countrymen into CNSPR trenches and bunker defenses, not caring a little bit for their non-Russian subjects and soldiers. This as well as the fact that the Imperial Russian forced lived of the so called liberated White Russian and Ukrainian land and territories in Eastern Poland. This sparked resistance, yes even armed uprisings and rebellions in these territories that endangered the already far stretched Russian supply and reinforcement lines. It was then that the bulge of German forces arrived, indoctrinated by Hitler and his government for years now about the dangers of Russian Imperialism and conquest ambitions in Eastern and Central Europe after the last Great War. Before reaching Warsaw, Polish cavalry, German tanks and militia mass armies made up of both populations managed the unthinkable, to stop the Russian Colossus and even encircle large parts of the forward Russian motorized and tank forces, as well as two hole Russian armies in Eastern Poland. The surrounded forces fought fierce and the Russian Imperialists even attempted to break trough to the encircled troops tree times, failing under increasing losses every single time thanks to crumbling supply lines and rebellions behind their front by the local Poles, White Russians and Ukrainians. Encouraged to use this situation I, Mussolini traveled to Warsaw and announced not only the defense of Eastern Europe, but also the liberation of the White Ruthenians and Ukrainians there from Russian Imperialism.

With Russian Imperialist forces encircled and soon annihilated around a million Russian soldiers while capturing around 450,000 in the operation itself. Overall similar actions along the front soon lead to the capturing of roughly 700,000 Russian forces, most of then Baltic, White Russian, Ukrainianm, Caucasian or Central Asian, with only a few Russian officers, commanders and troops mixed in between. Quickly the CNSPR or PRIINT propaganda used this discoveries for anti-Russian propaganda, claiming that the End of Russian tyranny, oppression and rule was over. I myself proclaimed the new Ruthenian Syndicalist Principalist Republics (RSPR) and Ukrainian Syndicalist Principalist Republics (USPR) that were created out of the Eastern polish territories inhabited by Ruthenians and Ukrainians. The deceleration to the Russian Imperialists was clear; it had been a failure to attack the CNSPR and PRIINT, a failure they would pay for as we used the local Baltic, Ruthenian and Ukrainian political movements and governments in exile to plan future National Syndicalist Republics with them once their territories would be liberated from the Russians and put in their rightful place as free members of the CNSPR and PRIINT. Not only would this secure major food in form of grain, meat, wood and coal supplies for us and deny them to the Russians in the future, it would also severely weaken their numbers and allow us to recruit new forces and reinforcements in this newly liberated ares once the Russians would be beaten there as well. This did however mean that beside the need of organizing the various national syndicalist member state forces, but also organizing the post-war governments planned in this areas as well, so they might not fall into complete anarchy and chaos. Large parts of those plannings were left to decide for the local National Syndicalist Unions, once it was ensured that their leaders and members were loyal to me Mussolini, the CNSPR and the PRIINT alike.

- Benito Mussolini, 14 August 1941