The Great Crusade (Reds! Part 3)
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I just pictured Clyde driving a beat up 1929 Dodge pickup while Bonnie is hammering away White troops with a machine gun turret in the truck bed and she's shouting "IT'S ON BASTARDS" and Clyde's thinking "I'm the luckiest guy on Earth"
I've been thinking about Cuba lately. How will they ever rid of their stupid government?
Eh, old age or cancer should remove Mac, then it's a matter of the locals wanting to remove Gringo.
There's no doubt that the UASR would definitely help liberate Cuba. Could they do it before the end of the war though?
According to previous updates, Bobby Kennedy helps liberalize the Cuban government.
Nah, no sense risking tensions with the FBU.
Post war, well, they have all these weapons no longer needed, and there's some fellow Socialists down in Cuba...
I'm not sure if it's not tentative. Probably would still be up for debate.
I'd definitely see the first Cold War conflict there.
Nah, not conflict, just unloading spare munitions. If the crates don't end up in the hands of the proper buyers, well, it's not our fault the servidores screwed up.
It'd be really interesting to see the island blow up Fidel Castro style.
Another possibility could be that the Barrow gang sees the Civil War as an opportunity to lay low/disappear and takes advantage of that.
I wonder if Bonnie and Clyde would be as well known ITTL. It seems like the outbreak of the Civil War would butterfly a good deal of their activities in 1933-34. For instance, it seems possible there wouldn't be the raid of the Joplin apartment the gang briefly rented, which led to the discovery of undeveloped pictures of the couple that would play a significant role in their fame in OTL.
I remember a quote, I believe Michael Albert referenced it in his memoir Remembering Tomorrow, something a leader in the historical Black Panther Party told him during their hey day, that "Many of us went from pushing dope to pushing The Little Red Book, and we do it in much the same way." (I could be misremembering the source though).
I think this is instructive, and it's something often overlooked. Many people from the marginal sections of the working class are often the first people radicalized. They also live in precarious situations that often mean a life of crime. Though obviously not every criminal from OTL is going to turn out to be a revolutionary ITTL. Clyde Barrow might have been the sort of person to go into the Texas prison system for petty crime ITTL and leave preaching State and Revolution in 1932. It's also highly unlikely he'd end up meeting Bonnie in similar circumstances to OTL.
But on the other hand, "Bonnie and Clyde: Heroes of the Revolution" sounds fucking badass.
Leading guerrilla warfare operations during the Revolution, no less.
Again,what would be the short form of UASR?"American Union"?
Also is it possible to be an antique firearm collector in the UASR?(Yeah,i watched Forgotten Weapons)
Also is it possible to be an antique firearm collector in the UASR?(Yeah,i watched Forgotten Weapons)