The North Star is Red: a Wallace Presidency, KMT Victory, Alternate Cold War TL

1. Lyndon Larouche will play an important role in the democrats when we reach the 80s and be a leader in its hardline mcarthyist and increasingly authoritarian faction. he will probably play a role in turning america into something akin to the mexican "perfect dictatorship" a process we´ve already seen starting now with the response to sillers presidency.
I just want a timeline to have LaRouche man
 
As a result, East Germany quickly became the government on Earth with the most mysterious and poorly understood leadership - unlike other Communist parties with relatively opaque but still analyzable democratic centralist organization, East Germany was a true mystery. Some Marxists would actually conclude East Germany was the best example of actually existing "organic centralism", as advocated in the early 20th century by Italian left-Communists (who concluded Leninist/Stalinist democratic centralism was overly liberal democratic).​

This is actually a mistake.

I hate to nitpick because, while I am not exactly a left communist myself, this is actually wrong. It's actually apparent, at least to me, that Bordiga and the leftcoms, either Bordigist or councillist leftcoms, will heavily criticize the East German dictatorship as a "left Blanquist" or "left Bonapartist" regime.

Bordiga may have been a self-proclaimed "anti-democrat" (meaning being against the pluralist, liberal constitutional democratic model of government) but it doesn't necessarily mean that he's against diversity of opinion and intraparty factionalism and democracy within the framework of a single working class vanguard party and a dictatorship of the proletariat, thus, why he will certainly NOT favor the ultra-secretive East German political party model ITTL. It's apparent, at least for me, that he will be completely against this. His advocacy of communist parties needing to have factionalism, which he called "fractions", is actually the reason why he and his faction got expelled from the Comintern. By Gramsci's faction, no less.

It's his criticism of "democracy" as an "elite manipulation of society as a formless mass", making it a manipulated oligarchic system composed of election rituals, etc. It could be either the capitalist ruling class through a pretense of a multiparty democracy or by a vanguardist party elite creating unanimity of votes, it's all the same. The vanguardist manipulation by the communist parties is all the worse but it's still very much a culmination of "bourgeois democracy", thus why Leninism/Stalinism is still considered "liberal democratic" or "bourgeois democratic".

Organic centralism is not democratic centralism IOTL but put into extremes, it's actually the opposite. It's actually about the allowing of diversity of opinions and their open expression within the programmatic content of the vanguard party, creating that 'organic' nature. The centralist part is in the implementation of policies once the open debates have led to a final decision. That's organic centralism.

Real facts lead us to recognise that the divisions of Communist parties into fractions, and the differences that sometimes turn into conflicts between these parties and the International are not isolated exceptions, but the rule- Bordiga, Communist Organization and Discipline, 1924

So Bordiga is not really anti-democrat. He's very much PRO-DEMOCRACY. It's just that what he considers "democracy" is what Murray Bookchin calls the "Roman model", which both of them hate a lot, as opposed to the true democracy, which is the "Athenian model", which Bordiga in this situation advocates within the framework of the vanguard party and a dictatorship of the proletariat via the "fractions".

Now there could be a split within the Bordigist movement, as small as it already is, where one faction decide to treat East Germany more favorably and with rose-tinted glasses. But I'm not sure I really see it, especially if Bordiga's still alive during all of this ITTL.

Not to mention the fact that Bordiga is very much an internationalist. This is the same guy that advocated that the Soviet Union in the 1920s be governed not by the Russian Bolshevik Party but by the Comintern itself. The East German turn towards embracing Wilhemine and Bismarckian nationalism is going to be completely criticized here, no doubt.

So I don't know what you have to do about this. But this is just my opinion.

I admire the effort to create an alternate ideology here. But I don't think this part of it really fits.
 
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This is actually a mistake.

I hate to nitpick because, while I am not exactly a left communist myself, this is actually wrong. It's actually apparent, at least to me, that Bordiga and the leftcoms, either Bordigist or councillist leftcoms, will heavily criticize the East German dictatorship as a "left Blanquist" or "left Bonapartist" regime.

Bordiga may have been a self-proclaimed "anti-democrat" (meaning being against the pluralist, liberal constitutional democratic model of government) but it doesn't necessarily mean that he's against diversity of opinion and intraparty factionalism and democracy within the framework of a single working class vanguard party and a dictatorship of the proletariat, thus, why he will certainly NOT favor the ultra-secretive East German political party model ITTL. It's apparent, at least for me, that he will be completely against this. His advocacy of communist parties needing to have factionalism, which he called "fractions", is actually the reason why he and his faction got expelled from the Comintern. By Gramsci's faction, no less.

It's his criticism of "democracy" as an "elite manipulation of society as a formless mass", making it a manipulated oligarchic system composed of election rituals, etc. It could be either the capitalist ruling class through a pretense of a multiparty democracy or by a vanguardist party elite creating unanimity of votes, it's all the same. The vanguardist manipulation by the communist parties is all the worse but it's still very much a culmination of "bourgeois democracy", thus why Leninism/Stalinism is still considered "liberal democratic" or "bourgeois democratic".

Organic centralism is not democratic centralism IOTL but put into extremes, it's actually the opposite. It's actually about the allowing of diversity of opinions and their open expression within the programmatic content of the vanguard party, creating that 'organic' nature. The centralist part is in the implementation of policies once the open debates have led to a final decision. That's organic centralism.

Real facts lead us to recognise that the divisions of Communist parties into fractions, and the differences that sometimes turn into conflicts between these parties and the International are not isolated exceptions, but the rule- Bordiga, Communist Organization and Discipline, 1924

So Bordiga is not really anti-democrat. He's very much PRO-DEMOCRACY. It's just that what he considers "democracy" is what Murray Bookchin calls the "Roman model", which both of them hate a lot, as opposed to the true democracy, which is the "Athenian model", which Bordiga in this situation advocates within the framework of the vanguard party and a dictatorship of the proletariat via the "fractions".

Now there could be a split within the Bordigist movement, as small as it already is, where one faction decide to treat East Germany more favorably and with rose-tinted glasses. But I'm not sure I really see it, especially if Bordiga's still alive during all of this ITTL.

Not to mention the fact that Bordiga is very much an internationalist. This is the same guy that advocated that the Soviet Union in the 1920s be governed not by the Russian Bolshevik Party but by the Comintern itself. The East German turn towards embracing Wilhemine and Bismarckian nationalism is going to be completely criticized here, no doubt.

So I don't know what you have to do about this. But this is just my opinion.

I admire the effort to create an alternate ideology here. But I don't think this part of it really fits.
Thanks so much for the input. I'll go and make the appropriate revisions when I have free time.
 
Thanks so much for the input. I'll go and make the appropriate revisions when I have free time.

Not a problem. If I may add, there is also the fact that Bordiga will also hate the "market socialism" of the GDR, given that his vision of socialism, is that of a moneyless and marketless economy. He doesn't want the cooperatives, given that he considers it all as proletarian-managed capitalism. Not even the USSR's planned economy works for Bordiga, calling it "state capitalist". The guy is just too radical.

For me, continuing a left communist fascination with East Germany will actually mean the development of the following;

- The SED allowing open internal party factionalism while adopting some kind of "Bordigism without Bordiga" kind of an ideological shift. Like the rhetoric of "polycentrism" by Togliatti (who Bordiga hates IRL) while putting it in practice. Changes that are still covered with Marxist-Leninist rhetorical conventions but are deviations from it in practice.

The problem is that this can compromise the ultra-secretive centralized leadership model that you've already established in the long run, if you want to keep it.

- The SED declaring a ideological shift, probably quietly, in its definitions of socialism or the dictatorship of the proletariat, by regarding the latter as preceding the former, which does not fit the conventional Marxist-Leninist definition. Doing this though and declaring East German socialism as "aspirational socialism" meant that the market incentives are going to be considered part of the dictatorship of the proletariat AND NOT SOCIALISM.

On the other hand, the SED can still continue the synonymous definitions of dictatorship of the proletariat and socialism in conventional Marxist-Leninist style by saying that East Germany is under "primordial socialism" as opposed to "advanced socialism" that is more Bordiga-like. Kind of what China IOTL is trying to do by saying that Chinese state capitalism forms a "primary stage of socialism".

- The SED adopting a more bellicose anti-Western internationalist rhetoric that is almost Maoist in content. Not sure how that goes with the military but I imagine that the Wilhemine and Bismarckian nationalism can be fitted easily in this through propaganda like how the German Empire is a proto-internationalist empire or something. Even Bismarck's "State Socialism" can be put into use here by saying that Bismarck is some kind of a proto-communist, I don't know.

It's up to you to keep them around or not but if you want to keep the leftcoms around, this is how I suggest you do it. Thanks!
 
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Chapter 227 - Operation Durga's Trishul
Operation Durga's Trishul
By the 1970's, the Indian Air Force had actually more or less become the most experienced, most modern air force in the entire Asian continent. With the Indian occupation of Sri Lanka increasingly loathed by locals, the Indian Army became increasingly reliant on air power to stabilize the front. This led to the increasing sophistication of Indian bomber capabilities, which only further developed as India purchased a very large chunk of America's decommissioned and surplus airpower. Although Operation Durga's Trishul was widely believed to have been planned in coordination with British and French forces, the Indians had actually rebuffed French assistance as unnecessary (the British had actually not offered assistance, contrary to public perceptions both in Britain and in South Asia).

Indian intelligence had understood that the Pakistani nuclear weapons program was far more advanced than originally believed. Although Western intelligence agencies dismissed the program as merely an East German vanity project, the actual driving force for the scientific development was Pakistani, chiefly the brilliant Abdus Salam. Believing that a war from NATO was imminent, the East Germans harried the Pakistanis to simply speed the project up. Instead of constructing a separate nuclear facility for uranium enrichment, the enrichment facilities simply became a side-annex to the Karachi Nuclear Power Complex. The Soviet military noted with rather deep unhappiness that despite not supporting this program in any way, the KNPC was literally just based on stolen designs of the new Soviet RMBK-1000 model, introduced only five months before construction on KNPC had begun, which led many scientifically-minded Soviets (otherwise well-predisposed to the present state of affairs in the USSR) to also start believing that the "Second Revolution" had seriously harmed the national security capabilities of the USSR.

Cognizant of the natural dangers of constructing nuclear tests in Pakistan's second largest city and capital (only Dhaka was larger), the Pakistani government was able to secure top-of-the-line anti-air defense capabilities from the Warsaw Pact and North China to defend the installation, which quickly became one of the most heavily defended sites on Earth (at least from aerial assault). The IAF had access to some of the most advanced bombers in the world (namely American-built F-111As), but was given the task of bombing the unbombable. An idea was floated by a surprising source, former Luftwaffe ace Hans-Ulrich Rudel, then-serving as a freelance advisor to both French forces in Cambodia and Indian forces in Sri Lanka. His proposal was simple: if you couldn't bomb the uranium enrichment facilities, then blow up the entire nuclear reactor next to the facility.

The problem with the design of Soviet nuclear reactors being pitifully easy to steal by the Pakistani ISIS meant that they were at least possible for the Western powers to steal. Having such plans, the Indians determined severe weaknesses in the design. On a stormy morning in June of 1971 (in the middle of monsoon season), a squadron of IAF planes took off to commence Operation Durga's Trishul. The ability to fly at near max speeds barely hundreds of feet above ground level (or building level) meant that the F-111As were able to evade most Pakistani anti-air defenses, while the monsoon weather scrambled the ability of the Pakistanis to respond. As a result, much to the shock of the Pakistanis, IAF bombers were able to deliver all of their payloads before being shot down (of which many were shortly after on the way back). Successive strikes on coolant and water pumping stations more or less guaranteed a meltdown. Multiple massive explosions ripped through the plant, further worsened by the monsoon conditions (which made it essentially impossible to drain water as needed).

Prime Minister Hasim ultimately made the fatal decision to not evacuate the Pakistani government from Karachi, even though an attempt to evacuate the civilian population was made. However, given Karachi's massive population (almost four million), it was deemed essentially impossible to evacuate most of the civilian population. However, that would not stop most civilians from fleeing the "Black Monsoon. of 1971." So much (radioactive) dust had been swept into the monsoon itself, the rains across almost the entirety of West Pakistan dripped black. Given widespread panic and flight of hundreds of thousands of civilians, it became quickly impossible to stop the reactor fire.

Civil order in West Pakistan, already under significant threat from the Safir Revolution, began unravelling. Paramilitary forces under the Indian-backed Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan quickly dusted off old weapons, attacked government buildings, and specifically targeted Ahmadiyya Muslims (Abdus Salam, the head of the Pakistani nuclear program, was notably an Ahmadiyya Muslim, who were often seen as the strongest supporters of Pakistani socialism). Chaos on the streets of West Pakistan only further but erroneously convinced the the Pakistani leadership that an existential invasion from India was imminent.

In Bangladesh, unprecedented fury convulsed the population as hundreds of thousands of retired veterans and reservists quickly began answering volunteer organizations. Condemnation quickly rolled in against India from more or less the entire Eastern bloc and global South, with the Western bloc remaining palpably silent, with some even denying Indian involvement. Prime Minister Gandhi was taken back by the criticism, having been essentially ensured by most advisors and foreign diplomats that the international community would accept the rationale of destroying an illegal nuclear weapons program. However, it ended up that most of the world did not buy the Western narrative that the destruction of the Karachi Nuclear Power Complex was only an incidental "accident."

In the crucial next days, Prime Minister Gandhi largely spent her time coordinating humanitarian refugee programs at the Indo-Pakistani border, evacuating Indian residents from the effects of the Black Monsoon, and trying to make the case to non-aligned nations that the Karachi disaster was largely an incidental disaster caused by the Pakistanis intentionally placing their nuclear weapons program next to their largest nuclear power plant. These seemingly sincere efforts actually quieted a significant amount of international fury and outside of the Social Camp, calls for an anti-Indian embargo quickly died off. However, it did nothing to quiet the omnipresent calls for revenge in both West and East Pakistan and would be considered by some as a form of "dithering" before a Pakistani response that quickly exceeded even the wildest expectations of the Eastern bloc.

Ironically enough, despite the massive destruction and misery wrought by the Karachi disaster, the uranium enrichment facilities of the Pakistani nuclear power program were built under such formidable bunkers, they had actually mostly survived intact, even if significantly delayed.
 
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. However, it did nothing to quiet the omnipresent calls for revenge in both West and East Pakistan and would be considered by some as a form of "dithering" before a Pakistani response that quickly exceeded even the wildest expectations of the Eastern bloc.

Ironically enough, despite the massive destruction and misery wrought by the Karachi disaster, the uranium enrichment facilities of the Pakistani nuclear power program were built under such formidable bunkers, they had actually mostly survived intact, even if significantly delayed.
Oh Dare
 
Operation Durga's Trishul
By the 1970's, the Indian Air Force had actually more or less become the most experienced, most modern air force in the entire Asian continent. With the Indian occupation of Sri Lanka increasingly loathed by locals, the Indian Army became increasingly reliant on air power to stabilize the front. This led to the increasing sophistication of Indian bomber capabilities, which only further developed as India purchased a very large chunk of America's decommissioned and surplus airpower. Although Operation Durga's Trishul was widely believed to have been planned in coordination with British and French forces, the Indians had actually rebuffed French assistance as unnecessary (the British had actually not offered assistance, contrary to public perceptions both in Britain and in South Asia).

Indian intelligence had understood that the Pakistani nuclear weapons program was far more advanced than originally believed. Although Western intelligence agencies dismissed the program as merely an East German vanity project, the actual driving force for the scientific development was Pakistani, chiefly the brilliant Abdus Salam. Believing that a war from NATO was imminent, the East Germans harried the Pakistanis to simply speed the project up. Instead of constructing a separate nuclear facility for uranium enrichment, the enrichment facilities simply became a side-annex to the Karachi Nuclear Power Complex. The Soviet military noted with rather deep unhappiness that despite not supporting this program in any way, the KNPC was literally just based on stolen designs of the new Soviet RMBK-1000 model, introduced only five months before construction on KNPC had begun, which led many scientifically-minded Soviets (otherwise well-predisposed to the present state of affairs in the USSR) to also start believing that the "Second Revolution" had seriously harmed the national security capabilities of the USSR.

Cognizant of the natural dangers of constructing nuclear tests in Pakistan's second largest city and capital (only Dhaka was larger), the Pakistani government was able to secure top-of-the-line anti-air defense capabilities from the Warsaw Pact and North China to defend the installation, which quickly became one of the most heavily defended sites on Earth (at least from aerial assault). The IAF had access to some of the most advanced bombers in the world (namely American-built F-111As), but was given the task of bombing the unbombable. An idea was floated by a surprising source, former Luftwaffe ace Hans-Ulrich Rudel, then-serving as a freelance advisor to both French forces in Cambodia and Indian forces in Sri Lanka. His proposal was simple: if you couldn't bomb the uranium enrichment facilities, then blow up the entire nuclear reactor next to the facility.

The problem with the design of Soviet nuclear reactors being pitifully easy to steal by the Pakistani ISIS meant that they were at least possible for the Western powers to steal. Having such plans, the Indians determined severe weaknesses in the design. On a stormy morning in June of 1971 (in the middle of monsoon season), a squadron of IAF planes took off to commence Operation Durga's Trishul. The ability to fly at near max speeds barely hundreds of feet above ground level (or building level) meant that the F-111As were able to evade most Pakistani anti-air defenses, while the monsoon weather scrambled the ability of the Pakistanis to respond. As a result, much to the shock of the Pakistanis, IAF bombers were able to deliver all of their payloads before being shot down (of which many were shortly after on the way back). Successive strikes on coolant and water pumping stations more or less guaranteed a meltdown. Multiple massive explosions ripped through the plant, further worsened by the monsoon conditions (which made it essentially impossible to drain water as needed).

Prime Minister Hasim ultimately made the fatal decision to not evacuate the Pakistani government from Karachi, even though an attempt to evacuate the civilian population was made. However, given Karachi's massive population (almost four million), it was deemed essentially impossible to evacuate most of the civilian population. However, that would not stop most civilians from fleeing the "Black Monsoon. of 1971." So much (radioactive) dust had been swept into the monsoon itself, the rains across almost the entirety of West Pakistan and Northwest India dripped black. Given widespread panic and flight of hundreds of thousands of civilians, it became quickly impossible to stop the reactor fire.

Civil order in West Pakistan, already under significant threat from the Safir Revolution, began unravelling. Paramilitary forces under the Indian-backed Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan quickly dusted off old weapons, attacked government buildings, and specifically targeted Ahmadiyya Muslims (Abdus Salam, the head of the Pakistani nuclear program, was notably an Ahmadiyya Muslim, who were often seen as the strongest supporters of Pakistani socialism). Chaos on the streets of West Pakistan only further but erroneously convinced the the Pakistani leadership that an existential invasion from India was imminent.

In Bangladesh, unprecedented fury convulsed the population as hundreds of thousands of retired veterans and reservists quickly began answering volunteer organizations. Condemnation quickly rolled in against India from more or less the entire Eastern bloc and global South, with the Western bloc remaining palpably silent, with some even denying Indian involvement. Prime Minister Gandhi was taken back by the criticism, having been essentially ensured by most advisors and foreign diplomats that the international community would accept the rationale of destroying an illegal nuclear weapons program. However, it ended up that most of the world did not buy the Western narrative that the destruction of the Karachi Nuclear Power Complex was only an incidental "accident."

In the crucial next days, Prime Minister Gandhi largely spent her time coordinating humanitarian refugee programs at the Indo-Pakistani border, evacuating Indian residents from the effects of the Black Monsoon, and trying to make the case to non-aligned nations that the Karachi disaster was largely an incidental disaster caused by the Pakistanis intentionally placing their nuclear weapons program next to their largest nuclear power plant. These seemingly sincere efforts actually quieted a significant amount of international fury and outside of the Social Camp, calls for an anti-Indian embargo quickly died off. However, it did nothing to quiet the omnipresent calls for revenge in both West and East Pakistan and would be considered by some as a form of "dithering" before a Pakistani response that quickly exceeded even the wildest expectations of the Eastern bloc.

Ironically enough, despite the massive destruction and misery wrought by the Karachi disaster, the uranium enrichment facilities of the Pakistani nuclear power program were built under such formidable bunkers, they had actually mostly survived intact, even if significantly delayed.
Glad to see this story again.
 
calls for revenge in both West and East Pakistan and would be considered by some as a form of "dithering" before a Pakistani response that quickly exceeded even the wildest expectations of the Eastern bloc.​

Ironically enough, despite the massive destruction and misery wrought by the Karachi disaster, the uranium enrichment facilities of the Pakistani nuclear power program were built under such formidable bunkers, they had actually mostly survived intact, even if significantly delayed.
Lovely friendship
 
In Bangladesh
Oh East Pakistan. The thorn in India's underbelly.
Prime Minister Hasim ultimately made the fatal decision to not evacuate the Pakistani government from Karachi, even though an attempt to evacuate the civilian population was made. However, given Karachi's massive population (almost four million), it was deemed essentially impossible to evacuate most of the civilian population. However, that would not stop most civilians from fleeing the "Black Monsoon. of 1971." So much (radioactive) dust had been swept into the monsoon itself, the rains across almost the entirety of West Pakistan and Northwest India dripped black. Given widespread panic and flight of hundreds of thousands of civilians, it became quickly impossible to stop the reactor fire.
Given the scale of the destruction and the description of the events Karachi's people walking dead. Black monsoon can only occur if ashes and soot are sent into the atmosphere, which a weapon explosion can but enough material cause black rain anywhere beyond Karachi or at most Sindh is unlikely, I am considering an even bigger meltdown than Chernobyl, but the heavy rain will likely occur quickly enough within 200- 300 kms in the North East Direction, Enough to contaminate Sindh. Radioactive materials will certainly travel far and spread out, Indian Punjab will be hit sure but at Bulgarian levels as a result of Chernobyl, the Punjab plains being as far away as Western Poland or Moscow was from Chernobyl.

The Monsoons don't discharge over Rajasthan and continue over it to Punjab and the Direction means that the monsoons that bring rain in the Indian North West are mostly not from the same winds that go over Karachi and furthermore the South West Monsoons from the East, where the Mountains force it to turn and head in the direction of the Gangetic plains of North India meet with the western Monsoon winds in Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, creating pressure conditions that don't allow the western Monsoons over Pakistan from entering India but rather cause rainfall in Northern Pakistani Punjab and the North West Frontier Province.
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So the Monsoon Winds over Karachi will go over Sindh and Pakistani Punjab and then very little part will enter India.

The Eastern Bloc Aid from the Soviet Union, North China and Pakistan Itself will do everything it can to Sindh and Punjab from being contaminated for thousands of years by seeding as much of the clouds as possible, so India will be affected at manageable levels.

IAF bombers were able to deliver all of their payloads before being shot down (of which many were shortly after on the way back).
Why did the IAF decide not to send F-4s or whatever the best they have to escort the Bombers home at the completion of their missions, Logically the Mission should be from Gujarat and over the sea to Karachi, The fighters should remain behind and meetup with the bombers back over the sea and wait for the PAF to catch up, which will take quite some time from their bases in Sindh and can be reinforced by fresh fighters from Gujarat, possibly from Jamnagar. Being the top air force in Asia means it would at least have some AEWACS capability to prevent losses.
Operation Durga's Trishul
I love the operation codename, its as fitting as it could be. On reading I first thought that it was going to be something like Neptune Spear but Maa Durga's Trident is just great.


Expecting retaliation, India must shut down every plant like Tarapur, Trambay(if hit, Bombay gone) and others.
 
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Oh East Pakistan. The thorn in India's underbelly.

Given the scale of the destruction and the description of the events Karachi's people walking dead. Black monsoon can only occur if ashes and soot are sent into the atmosphere, which a weapon explosion can but enough material cause black rain anywhere beyond Karachi or at most Sindh is unlikely, I am considering an even bigger meltdown than Chernobyl, but the heavy rain will likely occur quickly enough within 200- 300 kms in the North East Direction, Enough to contaminate Sindh. Radioactive materials will certainly travel far and spread out, Indian Punjab will be hit sure but at Bulgarian levels as a result of Chernobyl, the Punjab plains being as far away as Western Poland or Moscow was from Chernobyl.

The Monsoons don't discharge over Rajasthan and continue over it to Punjab and the Direction means that the monsoons that bring rain in the Indian North West are mostly not from the same winds that go over Karachi and furthermore the South West Monsoons from the East, where the Mountains force it to turn and head in the direction of the Gangetic plains of North India meet with the western Monsoon winds in Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, creating pressure conditions that don't allow the western Monsoons over Pakistan from entering India but rather cause rainfall in Northern Pakistani Punjab and the North West Frontier Province.View attachment 809282
So the Monsoon Winds over Karachi will go over Sindh and Pakistani Punjab and then very little part will enter India.

The Eastern Bloc Aid from the Soviet Union, North China and Pakistan Itself will do everything it can to Sindh and Punjab from being contaminated for thousands of years by seeding as much of the clouds as possible, so India will be affected at manageable levels.


Why did the IAF decide not to send F-4s or whatever the best they have to escort the Bombers home at the completion of their missions, Logically the Mission should be from Gujarat and over the sea to Karachi, The fighters should remain behind and meetup with the bombers back over the sea and wait for the PAF to catch up, which will take quite some time from their bases in Sindh and can be reinforced by fresh fighters from Gujarat, possibly from Jamnagar. Being the top air force in Asia means it would at least have some AEWACS capability to prevent losses.

I love the operation codename, its as fitting as it could be. On reading I first thought that it was going to be something like Neptune Spear but Maa Durga's Trident is just great.


Expecting retaliation, India must shut down every plant like Tarapur, Trambay(if hit, Bombay gone) and others.
Based on your map it looks like the Black Monsoon basically avoids India and just keeps fucking up Pakistan in Lahore area, then? Yikes
 
Based on your map it looks like the Black Monsoon basically avoids India and just keeps fucking up Pakistan in Lahore area, then? Yikes
Yeah, that's about right. Some radioactive particles will surely land on India but almost all of radioactive and soot covered rain will occur in Pakistan itself. As you can see that the two branches of Indian Monsoon winds meet in the Indian Punjab Plain, so meaning that the Monsoon winds above Pakistan remain there and don't divert east into India, some clouds definitely will but just that much. The low pressure area that drives the Moonsoons is centered on the North Pakistan Region in the area of Northwest Pakistani Punjab and North West Frontier Province, so all the winds are actually heading there and the mountains in the region forming a trough promoted the clouds to shed rain(The Summer heat causes a general low pressure over Land and concentrated in that region by the end of Summer and that acts as a magnet for monsoons) Some clouds cross over into Kashmir valley but ITTL Kashmir is an independent Muslim State backed by India so yes Pakistan is screwed and India survives. But luckily the rains will occur before Kashmir,(which is full of glaciers) after being seeded by radioactive soot because the Monsoon winds get weaker the further up in latitude that we go so easier to seed.
 
Pakistani response that quickly exceeded even the wildest expectations of the Eastern bloc
oh no


ok predictions
nuke- going to say no since they arent ready with it yet
prime minister dies in freak accident and Pakistan switches sides - has the unpredictability but my gut tells me no
suddenly advocating to join India - yeah not even crackheads could think of that and i dont think its happening
invading India - i see this as the most likely option its pretty obvious who did the bombing
invading Afghanistan- i dunno why even

going with invading India
 
Chapter 228 - The Siligurite Rebellion
The Siligurite Rebellion
By the late-1960's, the Indian Communist Movement had reached an ideological crossroads. Given the stunning success of the Communists in Burma, previously also a territory of the Raj, India's Communists ideologically styled themselves most closely after middle-of-the-road Communists abroad. However, the failure of the Communist movement to simply avoid being brutalized and tossed into jail by the dominant Indian government caused many to believe in an alternative model. Although the oldest, most well-established Communist movements were in the south, conditions in the east rapidly became highly conducive to radicalism. The east was poorer, more economically dependent on agriculture, more heavily dominated by landlords, and had less progressive governments. One thinker in particular, an intellectual from the eastern city of Siliguri, believed in a new way. More inspired by the Pakistani model than the Eastern European, an activist and intellectual by the name of Charu Majumdar agitated to eschew local politics (increasingly an obvious choice as Indian authorities continued to ban Communists from peaceful participation) and simply seize power by force.

Although the preparation had taken place for several months, the Indian bombing of Pakistan caused these cadres to significantly accelerate their plans, based on the assumption that a "final people's war in the Indian subcontinent" was inevitable. The Indians were generally prepared for this, especially around East Pakistan (which was conveniently surrounded by India on three sides), causing troop deployments to rush somewhat away from interior areas, with the exception of various states in Northeast India. These states, from Tripura to Mizoram to Nagaland, were awash in increasingly violent insurgencies. It was widely understood that the Indian government helped support anti-Communist rebels in Burma, which also caused Burma in turn to send significant amounts of military aid to separatist rebels in Northeast India.

As such, Indian authorities generally neglected evidence of growing movement in the Siliguri region. Majumdar himself had even published eight monographs, calling for a People's War in conjunction with foreign 'proletarian powers' to overthrow the Indian state, though this was simply dismissed as Pakistani propaganda. When the rebellion actually happened, officials were caught off-guards. Market reforms under the previous Rajaji administration (ironically, now he was banned from politics and himself facing jail time) had brought prosperity to most, but had not significantly improved labor conditions for landless farmers, who seethed at the unequal development in India and often blamed market reforms for pre-existing economic conditions. The Communists themselves were apparently shocked at how many peasants signed up to join their committees and militias - allowing them to seize wide swaths of ammunition and weapons from extremely understaffed local police (who saw much of their best forces deployed to Northeast India or the border with Pakistan). In a matter of days, a large militia army had managed to establish self-rule in most of the countryside in upper West Bengal. Although they were unable to siege Siliguri itself, omnipresent Communist presence in the countryside around the famous redoubt made extensive rail sabotage omnipresent, grinding commercial traffic through the railroad hub to a halt.

This did not go unnoticed. Indian military planners panicked, believing that the security of all of Northeast India was critically threatened. Indeed, as rebels in the various separatist movements in the northeast learned of the Siliguri siege, they stepped up their attacks, believing that this was their best chance ever. What forces could be redeployed from the border (of which there were not that many given difficult logistics) was quickly sent to crush the rebellion. However, forces were not as mobile as expected. In an widely controversial order, PM Gandhi signed off on the use of airpower (as was being used to decent effect in the Sri Lanka war) to bomb rebel villages around Siliguri and other regions in "Communist rebellion." However, the nature of the rebellion was to establish de facto village governments, turning wide swaths of rural east and northeast India into de facto targets. The Indian Air Force worked overtime, essentially bombing Indian territory, in a move that outraged many Indians and only caused more to flock to the red banner.

The Siliguri Rebellion would ultimately go down in history as one of the "Three Great Disasters" to strike India that year. Although itself not the only Communist rebellion in India at the time, the fact that it took place in an extremely strategic location, was backed by intellectuals who wrote quite a great deal about it, and played a major role in future events to come would make it emblematic to many of Indian Communist radicalism.
 
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