The Great Crusade (Reds! Part 3)
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Aside from submarines, they're basically putting a minimum amount of resources in the Pacific until after this. It is absolutely imperative that they keep the French and Italian navies bottled up in the Med, and merely as fleets-in-being they required significant resources to be tied down. If they got out in the Atlantic in force they'd cause havoc with shipping.
Japan is an Italy/France level great power with a severe deficit of basically every industrially useful resource from metal to fossil fuel; all of which needs to come from a very widespread colonial empire most of which is not even a decade old.
Italy and France's fleets demand higher priority through their greater strength and their greater ability to threaten the war effort against Germany which is an existential threat to both the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom through both the manpower and industry they contribute and their ability to devastate Atlantic shipping if not contained.
Japan is only an existential threat to China and largely only threatens the peripheries of the UK and UASR. While it could threaten the Soviet pacific flank, it has already decided to back out of that particular conflict. Thus America and Britain are content to keep just the minimum in the pacific to prevent Japan from advancing further and put submarines to menace the shipping Japan is incredibly dependent on to maintain its offensives into Southern Asia, New Guinea, and China and draw resources from its Indonesian, Southeast Asian, and Philippine conquests. With the Franco-Italian naval threat destroyed, the hammer can be turned on the pacific.
Italy and France's fleets demand higher priority through their greater strength and their greater ability to threaten the war effort against Germany which is an existential threat to both the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom through both the manpower and industry they contribute and their ability to devastate Atlantic shipping if not contained.
Japan is only an existential threat to China and largely only threatens the peripheries of the UK and UASR. While it could threaten the Soviet pacific flank, it has already decided to back out of that particular conflict. Thus America and Britain are content to keep just the minimum in the pacific to prevent Japan from advancing further and put submarines to menace the shipping Japan is incredibly dependent on to maintain its offensives into Southern Asia, New Guinea, and China and draw resources from its Indonesian, Southeast Asian, and Philippine conquests. With the Franco-Italian naval threat destroyed, the hammer can be turned on the pacific.
I've got something very big coming, just need to clear it through Jello first and then I'm gonna drop a big ol' bombshell. I won't say much besides "get the battle music ready."
Bookmark1995
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Whenever I read something epic, I play "Livin La Vida Loca". What do you recommend?
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Or even
(Jello's almost never available on the weekends so I wouldn't expect it to go up until tomorrow.)
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That has definitely been taken into consideration, but I don't wanna spoil too much
OH BOI OH BOI do we finally see some Faschists get their face kicked in?
Also, playing "Livin La Vida Loca" for a massive WWII battle is just hilariously wrong.
Also, playing "Livin La Vida Loca" for a massive WWII battle is just hilariously wrong.
Bookmark1995
Banned
OH BOI OH BOI do we finally see some Faschists get their face kicked in?
Also, playing "Livin La Vida Loca" for a massive WWII battle is just hilariously wrong.
Too bad. It is the song I play whenever I read something with action. DON'T JUDGE ME!
Redshank Galloglass
Banned
I would think Ernst Buch's "The Secret Deployment" would be a more appropriate song for such an occasion.
By the way, is he still going to be a Stalin worshipping boot licker, or is he going to see the inherent superiority of Marxism in America?
By the way, is he still going to be a Stalin worshipping boot licker, or is he going to see the inherent superiority of Marxism in America?
South American War 1942-44 Timeline
South American War Timeline 1942-1944 (Written by me, Edited by Jello Biafra)
January 1st-February 9th 1942: The Green Guard grows in size. Two additional corps are activated and ready for battle. Two more on their way as the organization's increase in recruitment efforts earlier in the war start to pay off.
February 10th-March 4th 1942: Operation Twin Cannon is launched by Brazilian forces to attempt to make a drive to break the Argentine army before the crunch of the loss of British support can be felt in earnest. The entirety of the Green Guard is committed to the attack, supporting the First and Third Armies. The massive offensive is powerful but slow moving, as roads are choked with troops and supplies. Comintern forces bend and buckle in the face of the attack. Elsewhere, two fresh Brazilian divisions prepare to secure the Guyanas. In the Andes and Colombia, the Axis launches additional offensives in a roll of the dice meant to definitively break the Comintern based on intelligence reports that the Comintern in South America was losing hope and was close to breaking. This false intelligence was intentionally fed to Axis spies to coax the Axis out of their prepared defensive positions into attacking well dug in Chilean troops. However, the sheer magnitude of the Axis offensive catches many off guard and some of the war's most ferocious fighting is concentrated in this period.
March 5th: As Operation Twin Cannon enters its fifth week, Brazilian forces are perilously close to overrunning Buenos Aires. Salgado expects the morale blow to force the Argentinians to sue for peace. The dreaded I Green Guard Corps spearheads the attack. The armoured troops of its shock brigades are photographed callously burning houses with the smallest excuse. With Brazilian naval support it seems almost inevitable that the city will fall. The Soviet expeditionary division, American expeditionary force, and significant assets from the Chilean military and international volunteers move to support the Argentine counterattack as General Giovanni hopes to drive the green tide back. The siege of Buenos Aires thus becomes the battle of the Platine River basin. General MacArthur's Cuba is requested to declare war on the Axis by his counterparts in London and to some degree, in Debs D.C and Moscow. While much of the reconvened American Senate is livid at the idea of joining a war on the same side of the communists, General MacArthur proves to be an unexpected voice of reason and argues that a south America dominated by Salgado would be one that would make a puppet out of America and somewhat hypocritically labels the Brazilian dictator as a menace to liberty and American values. Off the books and "unofficial" talks to other segments of MacArthur's National Salvation coalition also argue that the Integralists are a racial threat to mollify the anger felt by these groups.
March 6th-13th: Tanks and infantry fight in the broken shadows of derelict skyscrapers while aircraft duel above, the thunder of distant cannons continually roaring in the distance. While many of the Axis troops are greenshirts, the veterans in the formation have often been fighting since 1940 and maul Comintern troops attempting to drive them from the city. A commander under the moniker of "O diabo verde"(Green Guard heavily used noms de guerre to confuse and demoralize enemies) oversees a Brazilian attempt to draw Comintern forces into attacking a section of the city that had been secretly turned into a heavily fortified position by baiting them with information about captured civilians in the process of being executed by the Guard. The provocation works and the First Corps batters all attempted rescuers in a vicious killbox nicknamed the Iron Cage by the Soviet, American, and Argentine survivors of the trap. However the battle elsewhere does not go quite as well for the Brazilians, particularly outside of the city. Comintern armoured forces threaten to push Axis forces over the river and are only prevented in doing so by the guns of the navy, forcing the siege to continue following a massive clash of infantry and artillery. The First Corps is moved out of the city by river as the offensive is called off. Across the frontlines some half million soldiers have have been killed, wounded or captured, costing the Axis heavily with little gain.
March 14th: The Andean offensive stalls as the Chileans and Peruvians are by now well adjusted to Bolivian shock tactics and have become hardened veterans of Mountain warfare. Heavy fighting in northern Chile stalls as the chill begins to set in and tempo starts to slow down as the brief mountain summer stops.
March 15th 1942: As part of the multi-lateral talks between Great Britain, the Soviet Union and the UASR; Leon Blum, Attlee and the heads of government of the assorted dominions of the FBU and the heads of state of many allied governments in exile; particularly the Netherlands whose anti-fascist government has fled to Suriname; agree to enter the war against Salgado at the request of Carlos Contreras Laberca of Chile in a joint request with other Latin Comintern delegates.
March 19th: The Carrier Group Enterprise moves to interdict a massed air raid against the Panama Canal by Axis aircraft. American aircraft fall upon the unsuspecting Integralist craft with a vengeance; joined by Central American interceptors which join a rapidly developing furball over Panama. The second wave of enemy aircraft fares little better, and by now ground and sea based anti-air is alerted and starts to open fire. The planned third wave of attacks is called off entirely when the British caribbean task force's aircraft catches its lead elements and tears through it. The debacle costs the Axis a total of three hundred precious aircraft to the loss of less than twenty United Nations aircraft in what comes to be called the Great Panama Turkey Shoot.
March 30th: The FBU and all other members of the Allies issue a joint declaration of war against Salgado and the integralist bloc, cutting off the fascist giant from its lifesblood of foreign supplies and munitions, a move that very well could be argued to be the single most devastating blow ever dealt to the Integralist dream of South America under Brazil's hegemony. Enraged, Salgado has the ambassadors of the FBU to Brazil summarily executed within moments of hearing the news and the British embassy put to the torch. The image of green guard soldiers calmly standing aside and letting the burning embassy personnel run out of the building to burn to death rather than waste ammo becomes a stark reminder of the Integralist regime's brutality and is taken as a sign of Salgado's insanity by many conservative and liberal officials in Brazil. MI6 operatives in Brazil get in touch with small elements who feel that the Republic has lead Brazil to madness and that the Empire must be restored to restore sanity to Brazil; and the first kernels of what would become the Comintern's plan to restore the Brazilian monarchy as a means to remove the Integralists from power without having to face the logistical nightmare of an invasion of Brazil and a repeat of "Solano Lopez' Paraguay" are formed.
March 30th-April 13th: With the seemingly weak Guyana's proving to be unexpectedly stubborn as the colonial guard of the triplet of European colonies decides to fight to the bitter end, the Integralist attempts to conquer the territory are further stymied by the arrival of the first Cuban troops with British logistical support. The Cubans provide much needed manpower to allied operations in Northern South America, and many of their units count veterans of the Second American Civil War among their NCOs as well as quite lavish equipment from British armouries. However most of these forces were expecting to fight in North America, and find the jungles of the Guyanas difficult to adjust to. The disadvantage in Shotguns, SMGs, Flamethrowers, and close quarters combat training, especially against the 33rd Cranio brigade of the Green Guard, costs the Cubans a significant amount of men. The battle lines come to a stop at Paramaribo as both sides prove incapable of pushing further against each other after the inconclusive battle of Paramaribo against Integralist troops and Petainist French and Hitler loyalist Dutch troops. Civil wars in miniature play out small battles in Suriname and the French Guyana with most of the Fascist loyal troops being forced to flee to the arms of the Integralists after finding themselves outnumbered by Allied-loyalists.
April 13th-June 12th: The fighting in South America settles into a prolonged stalemate with little in the way of advances as all sides face exhaustion. With the loss of vital fuel from Europe, the Integralist armies are now largely fed by oil fed from Venezuela southwards by means of railway systems built in the 30s as a prestige project. These railways become the center of a back and forth cloak and dagger drama of constant attempts to cut or sabotage them and ever increasingly imaginative attempts to defend them. Oil fields set up in the Chaco region as part of the Integralists' attempts to mimic Italy's Libyan jewel and smaller ones elsewhere in the continent are still relatively new and the oil is difficult to extract with current technology, but also proves to be a vital lifeline for the Axis war machine in the southern hemisphere. Both Comintern and Allied Commandos and Spies are often paradropped or otherwise inserted far behind enemy lines in an attempt to disrupt the flow of supplies across the far flung continent, and a number of small skirmishes occur within the very heart of Salgado's empire. Another major naval battle ensues with the Brazilian fleet to little substantial gain for either side.
April 20th: Salgado’s Brazil sends Hitler its congratulations for the Birthday of its ally, warmly wishing it success and fortune in its struggle against “international bolshevism and jewry”, with Hitler in return extending his own congratulations for Brazil’s “noble battle against the global cosmopolitan and communist conspiracy against the nation.” A submarine, U-110, sorties in secret from Sao Paolo. Its cargo includes a gift of looted gold intended for Hitler as a birthday present, in repayment for U-110 and its previous cargo, schematics of German weapons technology and a disassembled nashorn tank, sent to Brazil at the start of the year.
May 1st: U-110 arrives successfully in port in fascist friendly ports in France, meeting up with a Japanese submarine crew sent out on a similarly clandestine trade mission with its far flung ally. A photoshoot is held of personnel from each Axis member nation to demonstrate the unity and power of the Axis powers that becomes famous in history texts and news articles afterwards; demonstrating all of the Axis’ personnel in their uniforms.
May 13th: U-110 manages to successfully return to Brazillian port, with an additional cargo of a disassembled Ta 190 and its schematics; with Salgado personally congratulating its skipper Rodriguez Santos for his “service to our fatherland” and awarding him Brazil’s highest honor.
June 8th: A bomb explodes in the Miami naval base as Brazilian saboteurs attempt to disrupt the shipment of supplies to the Southern Cone. The saboteurs targeted a munitions shipment. The resulting explosion sends a dock crane crashing down on and sinking the Liberty Ship SS George Washington Carver. Fifty three-dockworkers, ten Red Coast Guard sailors, and six Merchant Mariners are killed. The culprits, led by Green Guard Lieutenant Jabin Márcio Rosa is apprehended after a three day manhunt during a shoot out in the Florida Everglades, along with the rest of his spy ring. Following this incident, the counter-intelligence net in America tightens to prevent any further such disasters, with further acts of Brazilian sabotage being far more limited in scale.
June 12th-October 25th: With the southern hemisphere's winter settling in, both sides continue their back and forth grinding stalemate, the logic of the Axis' poorer supply situation favouring those who argued for waiting the Axis to burn through its supplies with minor actions. Airfields in the Caribbean and in the secured parts of the Guyana soon become the sites for the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command to begin launching raids against the enemy in tandem with their American counterparts; particularly concentrating on Venezuelan oil fields. With a great deal of distance needing to be covered and few opportunities to approach stealthily as well as being significantly less flushed with resources than their counterparts in Europe, these bombing raids are dangerous and struggle to do the desired damage. While risk of interception by aircraft is low, attackers face heavy anti-aircraft fire; much of which was installed by Britain in the thirties for the very purpose of thwarting American bomber raids. The irony of weapons and flak bunkers set up by Britain to defend the imports of Venezuelan oil against America being used to carve into British and American planes is not lost on the crews of the bomber wings.
June 19th: Brazilian ships capture the Cargo Ship Seas of Dreams to be utilized in a plan concocted by Brazilian intelligence for mass destruction upon its enemies based on a reading of the Halifax disaster. The plan is relatively simple, pack the ship with explosives and munitions and steer it into a busy port and detonate it to cause as much havoc as possible, disguising the ship as an ordinary civilian ship to allow it to slip past defenses and explode during peak working hours to kill as many as possible and damage or destroy as many ships as possible. The only difficulty is in choosing a target, with Integralist officials choosing Britain as they feel that Britain could perhaps be terrorized into leaving the war against Brazil if placed under the threat of more of these "hellfire ships" as they're called.
June 28th: Sabotage at Havana leads to an important bridge collapsing with more than a hundred people still on it and crushing another one hundred and thirty one people beneath it in one of the deadliest losses of life caused by a foreign enemy to the USA’s civilian population. MacArthur orders an immediate manhunt that takes a week to resolve before eight Brazilian spies are gunned down with two being captured after being knocked out in a shootout in a hotel building leading to the deaths of twelve more civilians. As a result, the NBI attempts to screen any people in Cuba of Brazilian descent or are capable of speaking Portuguese, ironically causing enough resentment by a non-fascist Brazilian resident named Osvaldo Esteves Meireles to lead to another bombing three months later that kills thirty people. Smaller scale acts of sabotage also occur, but none as severe as the Havana bridge bombing.
July 11th: The Seas of Dreams approaches port in Britain but does not seem to respond to hails. The ship has been listed as a munitions ship and unbeknownst to the workers stationed there, is rigged to explode with the crew of this operation having escaped by life boat to Fascist France after steering the ship like a missile. The ship detonates just outside of the docking zones, blasting the area with the force of roughly nine kilotons of TNT resulting in the death of over four and a half thousand people from the blast wave, the shrapnel and a tidal wave that swamps much of the docks at Manchester. Congratulations for the attack are sent from Italy, Japan, and Germany while condemnations quickly fly from across the Allies and the Comintern. However, in response to this, inspection of incoming cargo ships is greatly tightened so as to prevent any further attempts at similar such acts of destruction, and the act is promptly considered a war crime.
July 26th: Hitler, knowing of many of the Integralists' own hatred of Jews and many other minorities to have earned Hitler’s displeasure, sends Brazil's government a secret communique asking if it would wish to participate in a “final solution” for the Jewish question to “purge the scourge of Judaism and its comrades in degeneracy in the Americas just as they must be eliminated in the old world” to which the Integralists were split into debate. Salgado was himself against Anti-Semitism, but many, including the Green Guard and others, were in favour. These targeted populations, which included liberals, leftists, "cosmopolitans" and quite often Jews, would be selected for “death work” whenever practicable, being placed into forced labour and forced to provide labour for the Axis war machine in South America until death with only starvation rations being given. Otherwise, the ancient solution of mass shootings are utilized.
August 14th: Axis forces draw condemnation from the art community with the decision to steal and sell off works of art seen as “unworthy of enshrinement” being given by Brazilian high command after a communique from the front requesting what is to be done with captured art reaches the ears of the fascist inner circle. This leads to many priceless works of art being stolen and many are simply vandalized or destroyed if they offend Integralist sensibilities sufficiently.
August 29th: Why We Fight releases the episode “the battle for South America” to inform Americans of the reasons for battling against the Brazilian state and its cronies as well as to inform them of what’s at stake in South America. The film is condemned by Salgado who orders yet another anti-american propaganda film to be created in order to drum up hatred against America within Brazil, the “realness” of death in the film stems from the fact that many of those being shot are not actors, but are prisoners being forced into playing the part of “extras” with dummy guns to be shot and killed by Brazilian soldiers performing for the movie. The South American episode of the "The Struggle Must Be Won", a British counterpart to Why We Fight, is released within the same month as Why We Fight.
September 11th: The Brazilian military prostitution system begins to expand the criteria for women to be selected to “service” the Brazilian army’s “needs”. These women are often as young as ten and are forced into horrific conditions where confirmation of venereal disease is grounds for execution and abortions (if given at all) are forced with crude methods. This particularly loathsome aspect of the Brazilian war effort becomes notorious for captured female soldiers having “high demand” among Brazilian troops, with more and more female POWs being press ganged into the system.
Ongoing throughout 1942: With the newfound hostility of Cuba and the Allies to the Axis; the threat of Axis submarines operating within the Caribbean is significantly reduced, and the intensified patrols makes the usage of Venezuela as a base risky at best. However, the addition of Petainist French convoy raiders further complicates the battle of the Atlantic, and warships from Axis held Europe from convoy hunting cruisers to submarines continually make their stops in Brazilian ports to load up on provisions and supplies before striking at merchantman shipping within spitting distance of the coastlines of Mexico and America. With open season now being declared on Allied shipping and the reinforcements provided by Petainist France, huge quantities of merchant ships are lost in the Atlantic. While greatly overshadowed by their European counterparts, some south american submarines join in attacks made on enemy convoys, only adding to the grief of ships passing by, and a naval bomber squadron repeatedly menaces convoys passing within air range of South America; forcing the commitment of escort carriers until the Enterprise's carrier group finally catches the infamous Condor squadron in July 17th. A number of European maritime bombers shipped in through means of dubious international legality during earlier parts of the war also prove to be a continual menace.
November 11th 1942: With the summer approaching, the campaign season starts to pick up again as the Axis starts to face ever growing shortages of finished materials. While small arms and ammunition are easy enough to create, the Axis in South America is severely lacking in terms of heavy industry to create vehicles, large artillery weapons, and aircraft; with production falling well short of demand. The demand for nitrates for ammunitions and explosives has caused severe shortages in fertilizer throughout Brazil and its allies. Facing difficulties with keeping his army in the field as well as providing food at home, Salgado authorizes a series of orders that give the military unlimited leave to take whatever supplies and industries they could from their occupied territories; abolishing virtually all restrictions on looting. The Integralist armies swiftly fall upon the hapless civilians of their occupied territories with a terrible fury. Resisting or even protesting their looting was grounds for execution, often by bayonet or by officer sabre to save on ammunition and virtually the entirety of the population of the occupied areas was forced into industrial or farm labor to keep the goods rolling; rescinding virtually all attempts at leniency to the occupied and taking the already extant policies of forced labor to incredible extremes. Famine, already an issue in occupied areas; becomes essentially unavoidable.
December 17th-January 3rd 1943: With temperatures rising, the Axis makes its preparations for its final major offensive of the South American theater: Operation Providence. While offensives would be made in the North and in the Andes, it would be towards the Colorado river that the Axis would drive in its earnest. Once again the Green Guard is to lead the spearhead of the attack, the I Corps under “The Green Devil”, the eternally gas mask wearing and gloved commander of the Green Guard and the "third man of Brazil" Cristiano Boaventura Leite, now joined by five other corps sized formations, in what was supposed to be a sledgehammer. But the months long grinder and the ever growing rate of expansion had diluted the Green Guard significantly. Many of its hardened veterans who had proven to be such a terror during the previous years of fighting and often were used to turn the tide in the assorted smaller scale engagements during the months of stalemate had died. Its recruitment standards had dropped considerably and an ever increasing number of frightened boys beaten and abused by their superiors were now being thrown into their increasingly ill fitting uniforms and armor. Furthermore, constant usage of terror tactics had started to make them hated, with enemy forces unable to flee them now preferring to fight to the death. Similarly, the materiel edge of the Comintern and Allies was steadily growing. The evacuated production facilities of the Latin confederation were now in full swing and fresh troops were coming in continually from recruitment centers and the north. Comintern and Allied intelligence penetration had similarly increased dramatically and the timetable of Operation Divine Intervention is thoroughly studied by its opponents.
January 4th-January 19th: Operation Divine intervention launches at 6:00 AM that morning in the Southern Cone with the hopes of catching their enemies off guard, trying to crush comintern forces in the sight of Buenos Aires at last. As the Comintern’s forces prepared to fight, Fanny Edelman famously declared “¡No pasarán!”, adopting the phrase from the Spanish Republicans. “They shall not pass, they shall never pass. Argentina shall not fall to Tyranny, the Latin American experiment shall not fade from the earth into the dustbin of history, and if they want this land, this earth, they will have to kill everyone here to do it; for never again will the people be slaves, never again will they know chains, never again shall they bow.” By this time the Comintern has definitive air superiority and flights of ground attack planes launch strafing runs against Axis forces before they can even begin to mobilize, followed up by an artillery bombardment to create further confusion as the Argentine and Chilean forces gathered lure the Brazilians into their own Iron cage, letting them crash into pillboxes and dug outs to break the tide against them. The attack on the east wing proceeds with greater success than the attempted attack on the west or the center; as despite enemy numerical superiority, their enemies prove to be doggedly stubborn against attempts to remove them from their positions. Using tactics learned on the Eastern front and in years of war, even the Green Guard's shock tactics prove unable to crack Comintern defenses. A furious tank melee of some two hundred and forty total armoured vehicles engaged each other in a recently built village called "New Hope", the largest such armoured conflict in South America as the mechanized elements of the I and II Green Guard Corps collide with the first Soviet expeditionary division as well as elements of American, Chilean, and Argentine forces present, including one hundred and ten armoured cars (70 Brazilian, 40 Comintern), forty self propelled guns (25 comintern, 15 Brazilian), eighty tanks (Roughly equal on both sides), and twenty tank destroyers (12 Brazillian, 8 Comintern). Moving to stop the Brazilians from making a breakthrough after overrunning the 21st Argentinian Artillery Division, the armoured clash also featured significant combat car and half track combat; though the numbers of these vehicles are not counted. The technical inferiority of the Brazilian vehicles began to tell in time however, and the Brazilian-Paraguayan-Uruguayan force had no choice but to withdraw after losing some three vehicles to each comintern vehicle; losing sixty armoured vehicles to the Comintern's twenty.
January 20th: Out of frustration and desperation following I Corps failed attack on a defensive line manned by Haldeman's Marines and hardened Argentine, Chilean, and Soviet troops; O diabo verde makes a now infamous order. "Ulargi knur yarst" in the constructed language of the Green Guard or "purge them". Mysterious shells soon land near Comintern positions and hissing is heard, followed by mass outbreaks of choking and gagging. With their gas masks, the Guard moves through easily and a rout ensues, as the possibility of chemical warfare had not been adequately prepared for. However the rest of the army is forced to stop as the gas sweeps over much of the battlefield, costing the offensive time and momentum and Fanny Edelman’s forces hold despite the advance of the Brazilians. However it is enough to make other Brazilian units in other fronts begin deploying gas as well as their efforts also start to flag. This allows them to make their greatest advances in over a year, but a breakdown in supply chains prevents them from capitalizing on their breakthroughs. An additional pair of Soviet divisions arrives in Chile and Panama from the Russian Far East as a gesture of Friendship and commitment to the global proletarian struggle along with fresh American and Entente troops towards the end of the fighting in Operation Providence.
January 24th-February 3rd: The United Nations counterattacks in a series of offensives collectively labeled "Operation Radio" begin as soon as they are able to; with emergency distributions of gas masks being increased now that it was known that Chemical warfare was a factor in the conflict. Drills to defend against the likes of Chlorine gas are quickly re-emphasized in drills and old safety videos are brought back to the fore. Mechanized and armoured units form the primary face of the offensive to capitalize on lackluster Brazilian anti-tank systems. The Brazilians, having few proper anti-tank guns that could deal with better armored tanks and assault guns at a distance, a weak tank park of their own, are forced to rely heavily on man-portable shaped charge systems such as rifle-grenades and improvised weapons. Now forewarned and facing an overstretched enemy the Comintern drives the Brazilians back to Buenos Aires. In other sectors of the Southern Cone front, the Comintern drives Integralist forces to cities and other areas that make for poor tank country, rolling back the exhausted enemy forces for dozens of kilometers. In the west, the Chilean and Peruvian armies make a stunning series of advances after having perfected mountain artillery and air support and even the usage of tanks in mountain terrain, squeezing in towards Bolivia's pre-pacific war borders. In the north, the commitment of the Mexican led, 27th Army, with an attached Central American IVA Corps, proves to be enough to start pushing Venezuela back towards its own borders, stopping just outside of Bogota and eliminating the threat towards Panama. Eastwards, the Cubans and a fresh division raised from Jamaica and another from South Africa land the Axis a crushing defeat at their attempt to push into the French Guiana and start to push them out of Suriname.
February 28th-March 3rd: With victory now in sight, the first conference of the "big four", MacArthur, Labarca, Baldi, and Zapata is held in Kingston, Jamaica; with delegates from the rest of the UN also attending. In the conference the four come to an agreement for the post-war world in South America. There would be no peace offered to the Integralists that would have their regimes left intact, but there would be promises to be lenient in peace even with unconditional surrender. Given the difficulty of invading Brazil, it was agreed that this should be saved for a last resort in favor of bringing about regime change from within, and a policy of de-fascization was articulated. It was agreed that free elections were to be held to determine the future governments of the Axis, and that their governments would be asked to participate in finishing the wars with Germany, Italy, and Japan. A series of non-negotiable conditions were agreed upon; the end of Integralist regimes in any shape or form, the restoration of democracy, the removal of Integralist officials from power, a return to pre-war borders, the abolition of the Green Guard, and the trying of any and all war criminals with Salgado being declared to be "Hostis Humani Generis". Secretly, it was agreed to put forward all possible effort into "Operation Regisurp" to utilize Brazil's anti-fascist elements to quickly dispose of Salgado with less resistance than attempting a communist coup might bring. Yet another largely inconclusive naval battle occurs at the River Plate; two more would occur on may and october before the climactic battle of the naval phase of the South American war with a number of smaller naval actions scattered throughout.
March 17th-21st: The UN counter-attacks launched in January and February largely start to stall once again as the Axis forces retreat to more defensible stations and previously set up fortification lines. Digging the battle hardened soldiers out of cities similarly proves to be difficult. However advancing UN troops frequently happen across sites of unspeakable atrocities. Whether because they were sloppy in covering up their tracks or because they were driven away, captured, or killed before they could hide evidence of their deeds, the first windows into the scale of devastation inflicted upon occupied south America above and beyond the simple damage dealt to urban areas in times of war became starkly visible. Salgado proves to be an eager participant in Hitler's final solution as Integralism shares Hitler's violent dislike of Semitic peoples, and a significant number of Jewish communities have seemingly entirely vanished; though with other emptied settlements they frequently go unnoticed among the other scenes of horror.
March 23rd: A major breakthrough in intelligence occurs as American spy David Brinkerhoff’s “American Carnival” spy ring, in cooperation with NKVD and MI6 spies; cracks the Green Guard’s internal language and produces a comprehensive guide book to the language that is soon smuggled out to Allied and Comintern forces. Whereas before even intercepted and decrypted Green Guard transmissions were unintelligible due to their usage of a secretive artificial language never taught to outsiders, now United Nations forces can be privy to any communication by the Green Guard and finally remove the paramilitary units’ ability to act as difficult to predict wild card due to its tendency to act independently of the regular army and the inability of intelligence networks to decipher its transmissions. Operational secrecy is put in place to make absolutely sure that the Green Guard remains confident of the secrecy of their language.
April 13th: Renewed offensives are called to continue to press the advantage after a period of rest. Mexican forces manage a break out at Bogota, pushing into the ruined city and driving Axis forces out of the ruined husk of a city at long last. Unfortunately there is nothing left in the city to save; or perhaps more succinctly, there is no city left to liberate. Following the earlier rape of Bogota, the city has essentially been completely destroyed and abandoned with only debris and a handful of Catholic Churches untouched by the occupiers left to indicate that there ever was a city; much of which was transported to the Axis' own countries to be recycled as building materials. Digging through the rubble finds a great number of bones. As a cruel joke, many of what seemed to be buildings from the air turn out to be decoys; set up there to lure Comintern forces into a pointless battle to give Venezuelan and Brazilian troops time to move to prepared defensive positions, playing on their hopes of liberating Bogata when the majority of the city was already destroyed years ago. As a final insult to injury, much of the city's ruins are riddled with mines and explosive booby traps. The Bogata charade is later found to be the work of the architect of the destruction of Bogata, Green Guard Commander Enrico Vargas during the Sao Paulo trials who explicitly intended it to waste the Comintern's time by playing on their morality.
April 16th: Chilean forces liberate Copiapo after a vicious battle with Osados and Green Guard troops, however in the final phases of the battle, much of the town is bombarded with chlorine and even mustard gas to deny it to the Chileans. Fighting ends with some twenty thousand casualties inflicted on both sides and much of the civilian population needing to be given immediate medical attention; having the desired effect of slowing the Comintern advance down as supply convoys need to be diverted to deliver medicine and doctors. The reports of the Comintern's advance grinding down to rescue civilians encourages Axis forces to commit further attacks on them in the hopes of plugging up their advance with masses of refugees, the injured, and the starving.
April 19th: Peruvian forces make their way to Ilo, aided by a number of Republican Spanish volunteers who fled to South America with the advance of Nationalist Spain; enough to form a "red division". Bad terrain forces heavy usage of smaller assault guns such as the highly popular SU-76M used across the comintern as well as light tanks able to handle and navigate the landscape; however these vehicles often prove to be highly vulnerable to anti-tank grenades and minefields. When Peruvian forces push into the city, they are met with fierce resistance and frequently have to fight shock troopers in the claustrophobic confines of port facilities and office buildings. However the Peruvian navy sails a number of warships to close range of the city once the coastal guns are dealt with and begins shelling, forcing the Bolivians and Brazilians to retreat lest they be crushed by the weight of destroyer and cruiser shells.
April 31st: The City of Mendoza is liberated by joint Chilean and Argentine forces after a protracted Urban siege and engagement. Enemy forces are hounded by aircraft and "jeep fleets" as they break, light tanks and half-tracks nipping at the enemy's heels as they flee into the fields.
May 11th: Allied forces in the Guianas drive Venezuela out of Suriname entirely and begin to advance upon the British Guiana, the flow of Cuban soldiers having become a tide. Troops recruited from Allied held parts of the Guiana and the Caribbean as well as Africa continue to arrive in the Guianas as they battle both Brazilian and Venezuelan troops in the steaming jungles of South America. Now thoroughly experienced in jungle warfare, the Allied soldiers are able to go for more than blow for blow with their enemy counterparts as they introduce such weapons of war as the "Crocodile" Flamethrower tank, which proves to be all but invulnerable to its opposition and can quickly smoke its enemies out of the Jungle brush.
May 17th: Comintern and Allied naval assets begin regular bombardment of the Venezuelan coast to batter the resolve of the fascists; committing an aging battleship, Spartacus (BB-45), and cruiser assets not suited for fighting against the French, Italian, German, or Japanese fleets and conducting regular penetrating raids with carrier borne aircraft. This is often considered something of a dress rehearsal for the cooperation seen later in Operation Typhoon in the Mediterranean or the Allied and Comintern fleets' later destruction of the Japanese navy in detail. The Green Guard under the command of the Diabo deploys "desolator defoliant" a flesh melting cocktail of chemicals for the first time in battle after testing it on Argentine civilians, using it on American marines to horrific effect.
May 25th-June 11th: Mexican forces move to close the "Medellin pocket" formed by a bulge in the front lines by the drive to Bogota and thus close up a potential weak point in the lines of the Comintern. With the aid of Colombian partisans the Mexican military manages to crush the flanks of the enemy army before filtering into the city to recapture and liberate it. Unlike Bogota, Medellin is still at least somewhat intact, and much of the city can be salvaged. Urban assault units prove vitally important as the city proves difficult for air or artillery support to be leveraged in, forcing significant and brutal hand to hand fighting. Mexican assault tactics have had ample time to study up however, and soldiers enter buildings armed with shotguns, submachine guns, ample grenades, and close combat tools to help the Colombians take their city back. While many Venezuelan and Brazilian forces manage to withdraw, some forty thousand losses have been inflicted on the enemy and the noose is clearly tightening for fascism in South America.
June 13-26th: After a significant lull in the tempo of offensive operations in Argentina, the Comintern moves to close the Santa Rosa pocket and in doing so deal the Brazilian army a harsh blow. Throughout the month of may, the Comintern moves resources to catch the Brazilians off guard while they struggle to recover from the loss of Mendoza. Operational secrecy is maintained until the day of the attack where the first news that the Brazilian Fourth Army gets of being attacked is the crash of rockets and shells all around it followed by sudden and vicious air attack. Hamstrung from both sides, the Brazilian forces only manage to withdraw any significant numbers of troops by driving panicked refugees from the city into the masses of Comintern troops as they start to flee en masse. For some thirty thousand casualties of their own, the Comintern inflicts close to seventy thousand on the Brazilians as they rout, taking massive spans of territory and opening up the terrain to the Comintern by removing a threat to Buenos Aires' flank.
June 27th-September 24th: Another general lull in the fighting ensues as the UN slows down its rate of advance to consolidate its gains. However it continues to gradually creep forward as the end of the war lays in sight, with the heaviest fighting being around Buenos Aires once again as the much benighted city becomes an infamous meatgrinder. The city is finally secured in a final push that routs or destroys the remaining Brazilian forces in the city who have not already been evacuated. By the battle's end fighting in and around Buenos Aires has claimed a staggering total of some six hundred thousand Comintern personnel's lives and roughly eight hundred thousand axis personnel. The city itself has suffered a death toll of some one point one million people, one of the worst out of any city in the war. The Argentine government finds the city unusable for governance until it is adequately repaired. It will be known as the grave of two and a half million people and a powerful reminder of the sort of foe that the Comintern faces.
October 15th: Bolivia is forced out of Calama after a bitter siege and struggle as Bolivia desperately tries to cling onto its coastal toehold. In a vicious struggle, Calama is essentially totally destroyed after a week of fighting and over seventy thousand bolivian soldiers are rendered as casualties for sake of a port and avenging a seventy year old defeat, with Comintern casualties being some one hundred and thirty thousand thanks to the unexpected ferocity of the defenders. The Bolivian army is dealt a devastating blow and the way into Bolivia itself is finally opened.
October 17th: Cuban and British forces push into Venezuela itself; starting their offensive against Venezuela's border defenses and making steady progress as to the west the Venezuelans start to lose faith in the war and the crumbling of the Venezuelan war effort begins.
October 31st: Argentine forces push the frontlines as far north as Vila Maria, with the Brazilians and the Guayans in full retreat to their borders and the confidence of the Comintern at an all time high; the Comintern marches from victory to victory as the desperate moves of the Green Guard and the Army only seem to delay what many are seeing as the inevitable defeat of the Integralist regime. In secret, Monarchist elements in Brazil hold talks with intelligence agents in the United Nations, letting it slip that much of the Brazilian officer corps would be more than willing to support a coup, however the Brazilian Navy and Air Force are the most thoroughly fascist elements in the Brazilian military with the largest number of newly indoctrinated personnel, and the navy will need to be dealt with if a coup is to go forward lest it be crushed under the guns of Brazil's battleships.
November 12th: In an attempt to provoke the Brazilian navy into sorties, the American and British fleets begin bombardment of the Brazilian coastline with both gun carrying ships as well as aircraft carrier groups. The Jeanne D'arc spends a significant amount of time here, and her aircraft repeatedly score key hits against important targets. The fleets also serve to provoke the Brazilian air force into interception missions, working to whittle down the air fleet to the nub.
November 17th: Sensing that the Cubans might get them a better deal, a huge number of Venezuelan troops choose to surrender to Cuban soldiers rather than face the wrath of the Comintern. Not being particularly committed to Fascism as an ideology, Venezuela’s leadership decides to sue for peace as Cuban forces swiftly advance through much of the country. Venezuela's surrender documents would be filed on that day as the Entente now decides to reorient its offensive into Brazil proper.
December 25th: On Christmas day, the first Comintern troops start to cross into the Uruguayan border and begin to move into Paraguay following a series of Brazilian defeats at Cordoba and at the Mesopotamian river valley; beginning Operation “Act on Instinct” intended to end the war once and for all. Most Argentine territory is now fully liberated after years of occupation and the dusk of the Integralist bloc settles in as Cuban/British forces break into the North of Brazil, seizing Boa Vista. In Bolivia Comintern forces move into Oruro and an attempted offensive by Brazil into Colombia only manages to distract the Comintern's forces rather than break the back of the Mexican Army as Salgado hopes. Within Salgado's court at Rio di Janerio, Salgado has clearly broken with reality, ranting and raving about conspiracies and suspecting traitors in every direction. Even among his loyalists, infighting and rivalries weaken the Brazilian war effort, often with lethal results. When Salgado's favoured general, the Diabo; is forced to retreat into Brazil proper after a failed offensive, Salgado launches into the process of ordering his death before his aide informs him that the reason for his failure was because Marshal Orlando deliberately with-held intelligence about the presence of Argentine armoured forces; presumably in an attempt to make him look bad in front of Salgado. In the blink of an eye, Salgado had seized Orlando in a death grip around his neck, choking the life out of him in front of his general staff and simply snarling out his disappointment before letting Orlando's corpse flop to the floor once he felt him stop struggling.
January 15th 1944: Offensives into Paraguay and Uruguay are met with fanatical resistance, even in their current state, exhausted of manpower, desperate elements wage a hopeless struggle against the enemy as the end closes all around the fascists while Allied forces approach Manaus in the lightly defended North to pinch off supply lines to forces in Colombia. The fighting through them is gruelling and slow work, and pressing into Brazil proper is met with even stiffer resistance. Salgado secretly announces his "Ghoul Plan", where the Brazilian military and people would become a guerilla force that could melt away into the high lands, swamps, and rainforests of their territory and continue to wage insurgent warfare without end until the Comintern crumbled on itself under the weight of draining and never ending war.
January 29th 1944: At the Sixth Battle of the River Plate, the Argentine, Chilean, Franco-British, and American navies lure the Brazilian Navy into a confrontation after feeding the Brazilians false information about an upcoming attempted amphibious invasion of Rio di Janerio. The presence of American and Franco-British capital ships is concealed until they are nearly in gun range. The battle is a one sided massacre, with the disparity between ships so evident that the larger ships simply steamed closer to ensure hits; contemptuous of enemy fire. Minas Geares, Sao Paolo and Rio De Jeneiro are sunk. The last Brazilian battleship left is the Caxias, which was in port at the time for repairs.
February 9th: The offensives to the south continue to make little progress due to the deplorable terrain for mechanized warfare faced by the attackers. Manaus is put to siege by Allied forces who make significant progress into the city as significant stretches of Brazil’s northern flank is now in Allied hands.
February 16th: The battle of San Pedro de Ycuamandiyu meets its most climactic and famous episode as the entirety of the IV Green Guard Corps throws itself at the 333rd Chilean Mechanized Battalion. One thousand men and women fight against a horde of fifty thousand starved, beaten, and simply psychotic fanatics and holds out for an impossible three days against utterly impossible odds, made doable by their defensive position and the erosion of skill of the Green Guard. The battalion runs out of ammunition for all of its own weapons part way through the third day and is forced to pick up the weapons of killed Green Guardsmen. By the end, only two hundred men and women of the battalion were left, huddled for a last stand in town hall before the 27th Argentine Armoured division arrived to drive back the Green Guard whose hordes of scared teenagers, psychotic grizzled veterans, and even beaten children run in panic.
February 28th: The V Green Guard Corps and the Brazilian VIII Army is wiped out in the battle of Iguaco falls by American and Soviet expeditionary forces with the aid of Argentine paratroopers. The V Corps are made out of indoctrinated fanatics of whom very few surrender, something that fails to bother the Marines who have little patience for "Salgado's Sillies" as they're often called after experiencing years of combat with the brutal cult turned paramilitary. Following this the "war criminal order" is disseminated by spies to the ranks of the Green Guard, stating that any soldiers caught with the uniform of the Green guard would be met with an automatic death sentence if they did not renounce the Green Guard and desert, upon which they would be given amnesty. This leads to mass desertions and the collapse of the Green Guard's already broken morale as countless thousands of its boys flee their taskmasters. In reality, no such order was ever given to Comintern forces. O Diabo Verde’s I Green Guard Corps reinforced by the II Corps successfully repels an attempted crossing of the Santa Lucia river in one of Brazil’s last major victories of the war after a week of intense fighting, pushing back the American 6th Marine Division and the Argentine IV and VII Shock divisions which spearheaded the crossing and mauling the other attached forces. Manaus falls to Allied forces after weeks of fighting, destroying the VI Green Guard Corps.
March 10th: Communist forces reach Florianopolis after a week of fighting and to the North Allied forces enter Belem; operation Act on Instinct is essentially unstoppable and most in Brazil are desperate for a way to exit the war without Brazil being left in ruins, the time for a coup is nigh as the country struggles to contain anti-integralist demonstrations and uprisings, with a great many proclaiming that they would welcome the Emperor back rather than go through another day of this. Massacres keep the strikes and protests down, but the end has come and many already seek ways to flee from Brazil to some place they can hide from justice. The last details of the coup plan are settled, and a means of assassinating Salgado is put into motion, reaching out to his long abused aide.
March 13th: Inserted by submarine, Dom Pedro Henrique meets up with a section of Monarchists in the military who offer him and his family a triumphant escort to Rio di Janerio. The naval bombardment of Rio di Janerio is paused to allow Pedro to enter the city safely as the battleship Caxias and the remainder of the Brazilian surface fleet makes a final, farcical suicide attack against the United Nations fleet patrolling the waters near Rio di Janerio. However, the admiral of the squadron, a politically unreliable member of the old guard, is given a radio message by the HMS Dreadnought, telling him that if he stands down and renounces Salgado, he and all of his men can live and there will be no need for this insane last ditch effort. Relieved that he had an out to save his ships and men, he accepts the offer while Brazilian society begins to rise in revolt against Salgado. Orders to have the coup plotters arrested are ignored or are only haphazardly carried out as Brazil decides to reject the man who had lead to the death of so many of its sons and constant bombardment. Salgado's final moments were recorded on a newsreel as he planned to make an address, shouting for, and receiving some tea from his favoured aide. Noting its somewhat strange but pleasant flavor, it would be only seconds before he began to double over as he realized he had been poisoned. Collapsing on the table, he angrily called his aide a traitorous bitch before she shot him twice in the chest and once in the eye, killing him as she shouted about how he had abused her for years before she herself was shot by Marshal Ricardo who said that it was long past time for this farce to end. The Brazilian government announces that it will be accepting the surrender documents as the other Integralist nations similarly surrender themselves in hopes of amnesty, losing hope for continuing the war with Brazil having left it.
March 20th: Dom Pedro Henrique attends the signing of the formal surrender documents which stipulate the recognition of the recently voted in following a quick session of the Brazilian legislature; Empire of Brazil as the legitimate government of Brazil, the formal declaration of war against the Axis powers, helping to pay for the damages caused by the war, the turning over and trying of war criminals, the repudiation of Fascism, the formal joining of the united nations, and the return of looted artifacts among other stipulations. March 20th is declared V-SA day.
March 20th-22nd: Much of the I and II Green Guard corps’ and die hards from other nearby Green Guard units launch a final suicidal offensive against Comintern forces in Uruguay, alone and unsupported, attacking forces they were supposed to be surrendering to after broadcasting the simple phrase “Death before Dishonor”. Not for any strategic reason, for the war was already lost but simply so that they could die on the battlefield rather than on the gallows. None have been recorded to have been taken alive both due to sheer fanaticism and their own record of treachery, and while they fight like madmen, the result is inevitable as air, naval, and ground assets obliterate the Guard in some of the war’s most brutal fighting, claiming upwards of one hundred and fifty thousand lives and ending with virtually the entirety of the units essentially wiped out to the last man. In an interesting enigma of the war; the Marshal of the Green Guard and Brazil's most infamous and perhaps skilled general, O Diabo himself’ is not among the dead, nor is half of the first battalion, despite intensive manhunts stretching for years, they are never seen again and disappear into the realm of Urban Legend. With his face almost never seen due to his preference to wear a fully concealing gas mask at nearly all times, his chosen Nom de Guerre being widely used and thus making whether the real Diabo was present difficult to determine, and avoidance of public appearances and most of his records destroyed in the last months of Integralist Brazil, Cristiano becomes fodder for endless theorization on his whereabouts and fates, with sightings continuing to the present day. The new government swiftly condemns the action, but no further such actions are launched outside of small cells of Integralist die hards who melt away into the Amazon. Some believe that the corps threw themselves to their deaths on orders from the Brazilian government to conceal what they knew, others by O Diabo so that whatever information they had on him would be lost, others still believe that the battle was staged so that the Communists could liquidate them all. Most however, simply put it to the Guard’s most die hard fanatics realizing they had no future left and deciding to commit suicide by cop en masse. Whatever the case, this final act of insanity puts the specter of the first Corps and its Bull’s skull banner to bed once and for all.
April 2nd: The first Latin American war veteran divisions begin transferring to the European and Pacific theaters, bringing with them not just manpower but a great deal of experience.
Aftermath: The South American War ranks as one of the world’s deadliest conflicts in and of itself. Over the course of three years, four months and twenty two days from the beginning of the invasions to the destruction of the last of the Green Guard, the entirety of the South American continent was engulfed in devastating conflict of the likes the continent had never seen before. In the course of the conflict, some 12-15 million people died, with most of them being civilians. Millions more have been displaced and horrific institutions such as Brazil's military prostitution rings and policies of "Integralization" have created thousands of children born of a troubling legacy. Many cities lie in ruins and South America's Jewish population is gutted. Some 25 million people would serve in the conflict and even more than the rise of Fascism and Communism in South America; this conflict would completely change the continent. Most of South America's future figures of prominence for the next forty or so years would serve or be affected by the conflict, and its legacy would be inescapable across the continent. Nobody on the continent would not know someone who had died. In total three million Argentinians died, one million Bolivians,a half million Chileans, half of a million Peruvians, three million Colombians, half a million Venezuelans, three and a half million Brazilians, eighty thousand Cubans, five hundred thousand Paraguayans, three hundred thousand Uruguayans, fifty thousand Ecuadorans, three hundred and fifty thousand Mexicans, one hundred and fifty thousand people across the Guyanas, one hundred and ten thousand Americans, fifteen thousand soviets, one hundred thousand Central Americans, five thousand Spaniards, forty thousand Britons, twenty thousand South Africans, ten thousand Frenchmen, fifteen thousand Canadians, ten thousand Nigerians, ten thousand Australians, five thousand New Zealanders, five thousand Dutchmen, twenty five thousand Jamaicans, ten thousand Haitans, and ten thousand Dominicans. For Colombia, Paraguay, Argentina, and Bolivia in particular the death toll is devastating, leaving their countries in shambolic ruins. The continent would need years to recover, but recover it would; with South America experiencing one of the world’s most pronounced population booms later in the 20th century as the continent rises to ever higher standards of living.
A number of memorials now stand in memory of that war, including the War Against Fascism memorial that stands in the center of the rebuilt city of Bogota; the memorial whose best known feature a simple yet powerful display; a statue of a small child crying over the broken bodies of their parents. Inscribed on the statue’s base are the words “No lo olvidemos”. Inside the memorial’s museum are bits and pieces of old Bogota, reminders of what the war had taken away from so many millions of people, of things that could never be returned to this world after having been destroyed in shocking acts of cruelty. Records, testimonies, and film strips are kept there, and while it is a museum dedicated to remembering the defeat of fascism in South America, it is not a happy place, there is no sense of triumph or glory, only somber mourning for so many futures that had been stolen. Every 20th of March, the Brazilian Imperial family convenes with representatives of other combatant countries to speak about the high price of war and the dangers of fascism and makes a point to visit the victims of Integralism memorial to pay their respects. For many, this display of shame by the Imperial government rings hollow as Brazil often struggles with its past and culpability for its actions. It is recognized as a public holiday in much of the world, including the entirety of the Comintern, and Victory Day parades are held in most of the UN combatant nations that participated in the defeat of Integralism, though certainly it is in Latin America that these celebrations are at their most lavish; being as much a struggle for existence against horrific evil as the War in the Pacific is to China and the war in Europe is to the Soviet people. For Cuba, it is perhaps their finest hour; a moment most people in the so called United States of America can take some pride in. For countries such as Venezuela, it has a complicated and often confused legacy, one strained by the current leadership’s rabid hatred of the UASR. For much of the rest of the world however, it is a forgotten theater; overshadowed by the titanic struggles against Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan across Africa and Eurasia.
The Sigma symbol has become synonymous with Tyranny and evil for most of the world, just as the Swastika, Littorio, and Rising Sun symbols. Much like those symbols, displaying the Sigma symbol outside of appropriate contexts (such as in ancient greek documents, historical contexts, or out of necessity such as with Integralist villains in media) is a criminal offense throughout the Comintern and greatly frowned upon by the Brazilian center, center-right, and left; though the Brazilian far right rallies to it in the hopes of restoring the Integralist dream. As the Brazilian Empire has become a global power with global influence with a population of hundreds of millions, nuclear armaments, a formidable military with a potent blue water navy, and some discuss whether it is or may soon become a superpower; the refusal of the Brazilian far right to let go of Salgado or even acknowledge him as one of history’s villains deeply troubles many. And it is the complicated relationship Brazil has with its fascist past that does much to injure Brazil’s attempts at reconciliation with the Union of Latin Socialist Republics as the two giants of the continent continue to stare down one another at the borders of Brazil’s satellites and the Latin League’s member states while their fleets pass by each other daily in the Caribbean and the South Atlantic. Ultraright Integralist guerillas; most notoriously the NGVI (Nueva Guardia Verde Integralista/Nova Guarda Verde Integralista) would be a perennial issue across South America, both for the League and the Empire, with the reactionary guerillas having essentially unlimited space to hide in the continent’s enormous and trackless forests, mountain ranges, and wetlands. And so to many, the battle against Integralism has not yet been won. Especially when many would seek to downplay, whitewash, or deny what happened.
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The war comes to an end in South America rather sooner than expected, although that is a blessing for the people of South America.
Saglado dies in a suitably pathetic way - he may not have been the most murderous of the Axis leaders but he is definitely in the running for being the most insane of the lot.
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Saglado dies in a suitably pathetic way - he may not have been the most murderous of the Axis leaders but he is definitely in the running for being the most insane of the lot.
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There might be short stories, more detailed posts, and in universe articles and AH threads that cover South America in the future but yeah it's all over now.