I. Introduction & Liberation War Overview
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CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
A SECONDARY SCHOOL TEXTBOOK
FINNISH SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC, 2020
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INTRODUCTION
The history of our modern world is the history of the fraternal advance of socialism and the immortal science of Marxism-Leninism. From the time of the workers' Great October Socialist Revolution of 1917, to its celebrated centennial in 2017, the society of our Human Race has witnessed several tumults which have radically overthrown the prevailing Old Order¹ (of Capitalistic-Imperialist conquest) and largely replaced it with a revolutionary New Order¹ (founded on the Socialist-Communist vanguard led by the workers of the world). Whereas no state in the year 1900 followed the modern socialist means of ordering society, the world as it stands 120 years later has seen this number blossom to approximately 60 states developing towards inevitable Communism (out of an approximate 150 recognised states²) . As a result, a plurality of sovereign states has accepted the science of Marxist-Leninist theory as fundamental to the progress of the Human Race, with those states constituting a majority of the world's population. In addition, several academic facilities (Lomonosov University, the Panthéon-Sorbonne, and Pollitt University, among others) provided research in 2018-19 that suggested the vast majority of the world's working class (including those that remain underneath the jackboot of Imperialist-Fascist-Capital) understand and support the fundamentals of socialist revolution as concert to peace under World Communism. As a result of the radical change which the modern industrial world has necessitated, this text has been written to provide context for why societal development has reached its current state (see Dialectical Materialism), and provide a history of the nations of the world and the heroic struggle of the workers therein.CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
A SECONDARY SCHOOL TEXTBOOK
FINNISH SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC, 2020
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INTRODUCTION
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OVERVIEW OF THE GREAT LIBERATION WAR
(1939 - 1945)
EUROPE 1939
THE SOVIET UNION STANDS ALONE AGAINST IMPERIALIST AGGRESSION
OVERVIEW OF THE GREAT LIBERATION WAR
(1939 - 1945)
EUROPE 1939
THE SOVIET UNION STANDS ALONE AGAINST IMPERIALIST AGGRESSION
As discussed in the previous chapter, the state of global capitalist development had reached its inevitable peak in the 1920s and 1930s. The geopolitical reality at this time largely saw the world divided into Capitalistic Blocs established on the twin pillars of false consciousness (national chauvinism, religious mania, etc) and exploitation of the workers of the world, many of which were enslaved by the imperialist powers in the colonies. Following the first Great Rupture of Capitalism, the capitalistic ruling classes of Europe developed and supported fascism in reaction to the growth of the democratic movement³ and unify their efforts against the working peoples of the continent. These states (centralised around Adolf Hitler in Germany, and Benito Mussolini in Italy) sought to unify with the leading imperialist states of the day (England and France) in order to amass their resources for their inevitable war against socialism. Only in the Soviet Union was true democracy flourishing; chaired in those days by Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, the USSR had grown tremendously thanks to the tireless dedication of the farmers and labourers in the First and Second Five Year Plans which saw socialism take root. Noting the inexorable prosperity of the Soviet Union, the workers of the Europe sought to bring about their own socialist revolutions; the communists leading the vanguard of the democratic movement. When the capitalist states saw this growing threat to their ill-gotten wealth, they installed fascist dictators to rally their nations and unify against the protector of the proletariat; the USSR.
In September 1939, Fascist Germany led an imperialist invasion of autocratic Poland in an effort to eradicate the Polish labouring classes and reap its resources dry in preparation for its war against the Soviet Union. In response, the communists in western Ukraine and Byelorussia (under Polish military subjugation since 1920) rallied together and invited the Red Army of the Soviet Union to protect their beings from fascist aggression. Soon thereafter, the workers and farmers of Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, and Finland formed vanguards against the plutocratic despots (many of which held fascist sympathies) and successfully pressured their governments to accept protection under the auspices of the Red Army. In Western Europe, the ruling classes of England and France formed a second Entente which declared war on Germany to defend their industrial spheres-of-influence on the continent. The inconsistencies of capitalist society rendered any further attempt to oppose fascist aggression entirely ineffective as the bourgeoisie undermined the Entente in its effort to unite the European states against its mortal threat; the Soviet Union. Thus when the German hordes swept over Western Europe in the Summer Offensive of May 1940, one-by-one the capitalist-imperialist order in Europe was brought under fascism's heel; Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, France, and finally England being consumed by the ravenous beast let loose by capital. It was here the democratic movement, centred on the communists, formed the first armed anti-fascist vanguard armies. In the wake of the Western Disaster, the revolutionary proletariat in the Baltic states formed transitional governments known as the 'People's Congresses' which all had the goal of supporting the historic development of socialism. In June 1940, the Soviet Union signed in Leningrad the Treaties of Ascension, those four states peacefully acceding to the Worker's State; Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania becoming equal fraternal republics of the Soviet Union.
The fascist bandit states grew threatened by this spread of democratic forces in Eastern Europe, and hastened their war machine to topple the socialist state. In May 1941, after dispatching the derelict remains of reactionary Yugoslavia and Greece, the biggest threat to the liberation of the world's proletariat formed along the USSR's western border; an armada of anti-revolutionary jackals ready to follow the orders of World Capital. They stormed across the fields and cities of the Soviet Union, facing the valiant defence of everyday labourers who constructed barricades and battalions to fight back against the fascist menace. Despite this, the Nazi threat moved with pace eastward, destroying villages and raising communes to the ground in one of the largest slaughters in world history; war financiers on the continent feasting on the profits they stole from Ukraine, the Baltics, and Great Russia. However, thanks to the heroic sacrifice of the Red Army and the labouring partisans behind the front line, the fascist hordes were necessarily stopped at the gates of Moscow in late-1941 and early-1942, their forces being thrust back behind the Dnieper River with support of rising workers. This historic struggle within the Soviet heartland continued through much of 1942 and into 1943; the peoples of the world rallying around the USSR whilst the workers of Europe maintained their partisan campaign against the imperialist-fascist war machine.
As the Red Army reached the border of Germany and its Eastern European puppet states in late-1943, the struggle of labour grew stronger as the irresistible call of socialist revolution saw disruption across the continent and the decay of local support for exploitation and slavery which marked the Old Order. Spontaneous workers uprisings met the international army as it marched westward with force. Every city, town, village, and commune liberated by the Soviet Union (and its growing number of allies) was greeted with rapturous esteem by this revolutionary vanguard of people's democracy; civilians, inspired by the democratic movement of the communists, supporting the formation of local soviets and the formulation of Soviet-inspired socialist constitutions. By the dawn of 1944, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia had been liberated from the yoke of imperialism, and through to May 1944 - three years after the fascists first stood on Soviet soil - this revolutionary wave had ushered the winds of democracy to the heart of Europe and the lair of the infamous German dictator, Adolf Hitler. As the fascist butcher cowered in his Berlin bunker during his waning days, workers (supporting the partisan movement), in concert with the Red Army, launched their final and most glorious uprising against Imperialist-Fascist-Capital on the international day of the labourer; May 1st.
FAMISHED POLISH CIVILIANS HAILING THE RED ARMY
EVERY SOVIET-LED LIBERATION WAS GREETED WITH ACCLAIM
In what is now known as the 'Summertime of Nations', this concert of Red Army and the collective force of Europe's working men and women finally managed to sweep into the viper's den and seize the German and Italian capitals in the May and June of 1944. Whereas the would-be 'Roman Emperor' Benito Mussolini was subjected to a people's court and executed after a craven attempt to escape to neighbouring Switzerland, Hitler would escape the justice which had been demanded by his millions of victims when a cabal of traitorous generals detonated a bomb in the fascist dictator's lair on June 5th. The death of this maniacal tyrant and the collapse of their armies to infighting failed to impress upon this new German leadership the necessity of surrender, however, as the frail corpse of European capitalism attempted to reanimate its armies in its vain attempt to ward-off the inevitable march of socialism. With overtures to the United States - then only timidly allied to the democratic forces of Europe - this military cabal tried desperately to grasp a conditional surrender which would have seen Germany remain unoccupied and still-armed under the terms of a deceitful peace. Despite the sympathies of American capital and its puppet government in Washington D.C., the victorious union of workingman and farmer successfully fought back against this false peace and continued the struggle of democracy to its ordained conclusion. Imperialist-fascism and the bourgeois capital which supported it in Europe had finally decayed to near-nothingness, and on 7th July 1944 the German war machine was forced to surrender to the immortal Red Army and the common people who supported the struggle for democracy on the continent.
EUROPE 1945
EUROPE IS LIBERATED FROM THE THREAT OF FASCISM
For his role as the 'helmsman of the state' during the conflict's darkest days, Premier Stalin was awarded the official title of 'Great Liberator of Nations' by the people's Supreme Soviet, an epithet which he humbly bestowed upon the European proletariat instead. Despite the destruction wrought by capitalism's violent death throes, rejoice was the resounding feeling in much of liberated Europe as worker and farmer had finally arisen in revolutionary concert to throw-off their shackles. The people's faith in the USSR and the Marxist-Leninist democratic movement had been paid in full, and a continent rescued from exploitation could finally unite in the construction of communism.
"The Great European Liberation War was heroically fought; and the workers of the world have won!"
- Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, 1945
- Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, 1945
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Footnotes
1. 'Old Order' and 'New Order' are socialist-bloc terms in this timeline which separates the 'modern socialist means of societal interaction' from the more 'exploitative means of the capitalist-imperialist states'.
2. As in OTL, this world has disagreements over the total number of sovereign states which are recognised, even within both the Capitalist- and Communist-Blocs.
3. A historiographical term used in the socialist-bloc to describe the post-World War I communist movements (because only the communists can be truly democratic).
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