By that, I think this is more or less the perfect song for the war effort:
Let us raise boldly our banner,
Even though a storm of hostile elements is howling
Even though sinister forces oppress us today,
Even though everybody's tomorrow is uncertain.
Oh, this is the banner of the whole mankind,
The sacred call, the song of resurrection,
It's the triumph of labor and justice,
It's the dawn of the brotherhood of all peoples!
Forward, Warsaw!
To the bloody fight,
Sacred and righteous!
March, march, Warsaw!
Today when the working people are starving,
To indulge in luxury is a crime,
And shame to those among us, who in our young age,
Are afraid to mount the scaffold!
Oh, we will never forget the deaths of those,
Who gave their life for the cause,
Because our victorious chant will make
Their names honoured by millions of people!
Forward, Warsaw!
To the bloody fight,
Sacred and righteous!
March, march, Warsaw!
Hurra! Let's tear down the crown of the tzars,
While peoples are wearing the one of thorns.
Let's drown the rotten thrones in blood,
Thrones already stained purple with the people's blood!
Ha! Frightful vengeance to today's tormentors,
That suck the life out of millions of people.
Ha! Vengeance to the tzars and plutocrats,
And we'll harvest the crops of the future!
Forward, Warsaw!
To the bloody fight,
Sacred and righteous!
March, march, Warsaw!
This is awesome! Thank you so much for showing this song! You’re right, it ties perfectly into the RSR’s war goals and this would make for great MMH trailer music (not that I’m planning on making a trailer
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Churchill, eternal enemy of commies. I wonder what more adventures he will get up to?
I do kinda like the idea of Churchill showing up every now and then ITTL, so who knows, I guess. IIRC, he started out as an official of the Royal Navy, so as of now he’s participating in the Atlantic Front on behalf of the Empire of America.
What are 'privateers' in this context? Is it just what the Worker's Commonwealth calls their raiding units, or is it in the literal sense of private individuals given state authority to blow up Germans? If the latter, the Commonwealth's international image is going to suffer. A lot.
The privateers mentioned are basically just naval militias regulated by the naval branch of the Workers’ Commonwealth armed forces. They’re typically formed by unions/private individuals who got their hands on boats during the Second Glorious Revolution, but the privateers still operate within the very decentralized and general framework of the naval war effort. Imagine the WMA but at sea. It should also be noted that the privateers are extensively more regulated on the Atlantic Front due to the scale and risks of the war against the Empire of America.
Speaking of the North Sea, at which point did Germany get the naval upper hand over the Entente forces? For that matter, sounds like they are continuing a naval build up while the ground war still rages. How quickly has naval technology advanced compared to OTL? On that note, there is abso-fuckin-lutely not going to be any Washington Naval Treaty in TTL, and aircraft carriers remain too immature to pose a decisive threat. Which must mean that all powers are building some REALLY big battleships. I imagine there will be great proliferation of 18-inch guns, perhaps even 20 inchers.
The Heilsreich beat out the Royal Navy around the end of the British Civil War due to the depletion of resources the Loyalists could get their hands on. Germany also has access to a wide array of resources thanks to puppet regimes and has more of an incentive to build up its navy due to the war against the Soviet Republic. You’re right, you’ll definitely be seeing much larger ships, but because the war at sea isn’t as big as the war on land, the strategy by most nations (especially Germany) is to outnumber, not out-advance. That should be happening soon though, especially thanks to the Atlantic Front.
This is quite interesting. The Great War has effectively gone transatlantic at this point. The 'battle of the atlantic' poses its own unique strategic and tactical challenges, and I'm curious how it will develop. I expect wolfpacks.
It’s definitely a big mess. The Atlantic Ocean is a lot smaller than the Pacific, which means that both factions can basically just send their ships straight to the battlefield in the middle. There also aren’t a lot of islands to seize in the northern Atlantic, so there’s no island hopping strategy. The United States is definitely not happy about the war in the middle of a pretty big trading route. A lot of 1920s American economic power ITTL is derived from dealings with the factions of the Great War, which leads to Wall Street ITTL analyzing the war effort the same way Wall Street in OTL analyzed stocks. It should lead to a pretty morbid, but also hopefully interesting, American economic dynamic.
Sounds like Tukhachevsky is going to be a persistent and stand-out figure throughout this war. On the other hand, if Russia is going to be fighting in four consecutive phases of this war, their demographics will be utterly devastated.
Yeah, the RSR is basically completely building its economy around spreading the revolution. War Communism never ended ITTL and Russian society is completely dedicated to this insane meat grinder.
(also, I like how TTL historians consider this war to have discrete phases like OTL's first 30 years war)
Thanks! I thought that doing the “phase” gimmick was a neat little way to give the timeline a bit more of a dystopian feel. It comes off as more mechanical and less colorful, if that makes sense.
Also, speaking of historians ITTL, has anyone noticed that the “narrator” of MMH isn’t really a historian? They’re from TTL, but they know stuff that a historian wouldn’t be able to (the conversation between August and his butler at the end of Chapter Four is the biggest example of this). Furthermore, the narrator doesn’t really talk like a historian. They’re more dramatic, and the dramatic tone of MMH is intended to resemble that of an epic story more than a history textbook. With that being said, I don’t really have an idea of who the “narrator” is. I’m thinking they’re an observer of sorts watching events ITTL unfold from an “exterior” perspective, if that makes sense.
Tukha must be at the utter end of his logistics string though. Against a stable Raj, he probably would not have much of a chance. But In these unique circumstances he can still be effective: Even if the Red Army itself cannot advance past the Indus River, they've still 'liberated' a vast amount of territory from which the native Indian revolutionaries can operate- not to mention terrorize the British.
Do keep in mind that the British Raj is an absolute mess right now. Tukhachevsky will reach the point where he basically has to occupy whatever rebels don’t.
Brazil has domestic potential alright. But there is in general no obvious way for the country to expand it's influence. Sounds like something nasty is about to go down this side of the Atlantic, something that will require Brazil to get their asses in gear.
Research for Brazil should be... fun.
In all honesty, Brazil’s role ITTL and the buildup to it could warrant a chapter of its own, but this train is moving slow enough as it is.