The Silver Knight, a Lithuania Timeline
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Can we get rough figures for fatalities in the Great European War and related conflicts (the Turkish Revolution and the Russian War of Independence) and what country had the most fatalities?
The first paragraph of chapter 75 has the answer to your question:
It's hard to tell which countries were the most affected, though. I would probably guess the Entente powers - France, Lithuania and the Ottomans.
Fair enough. Also, how many people have died so far in either the War of the Danube or the Russo-Lithuanian War? Or would that be spoiling stuff.
It's hard to say, because as I think you've seen by now, this is less of a uniform conflict like the Great European War and more of a series of somewhat related different wars across the world.
I would guess that so far, 2-2.5 million people have died in the former Visegrad and the Balkans, counting both military deaths from all sides and various atrocities. The Russo-Lithuanian War has probably reached a million casualties and counting. Other wars have yet to get anywhere close to that.
Chapter 90: Delusions
Short, but important chapter.
Part 90: Delusions (Jul 1940)
In the middle of 1940, the Sarmatian state of Lithuania was at it's apogee. The Vadas commanded over lands from the amber-rich coasts of Prussia to the cold wastes of the Northwestern Territories. Their opponent in the Russo-Lithuanian War had lost much of their land and was on the ropes, it's collapse clearly only a matter of time. It's nation fully militarized, even the civilians donating to the cause through public works, forced labor and the National Lottery. It's army numbering over a million men. It's government holding totalitarian control over the lives of all of their citizens, whether they like it or not. With Operation Pacas nearing completion, the Revival Front could begin their preparations for what they planned to be the post-war order in the soon to be "reunited" Sarmatia.
Petras Cvirka, commander of the Green Beret organization since 1937, including the semi-militarized Zikherhayt - Jewish paramilitary squads. A devout Sarmatist and National Lindemanist, Cvirka steadily strengthened his grip over the Lithuanian government in the later stages of the war.
In July of 1940, the theoreticians in the Revival Front, led by Petras Cvirka, organized the "General Plan for the Reorganization of the Lithuanian State and the Establishment of Permanence of Sarmatian Statehood Across Eastern Europe", known more simply and referred to as the General Plan for the Establishment of Sarmatia (Generalinis Sarmatijos įkūrimo planas), fully uncovered by historians in 1955, although it had been suspected from various document references far earlier. It was the ultimate plan of action of the Revival Front, the culmination of their doctrine, and on the very first page, the goals of the planned post-war order in Europe were set: "To ensure the endurance of the future Sarmatian state and the restoration of the nation-state for the Sarmato-Lithuanian peoples".
The basic principle of the General Plan was simple - the Lithuanians must be elevated to eternally superior status in the Sarmatian state and must be "molded" into a "master race", while their Slavic counterparts were planned to be reduced to a subservient race of serfs and slaves, constructing the utopia for them. This was no simple plan of operations lasting for a few years, but rather a generational plan for the very long term, spanning decades and, in liberal cases, perhaps even centuries. The goal of this project was, as stated earlier, to make sure that the Lithuanian state in Eastern Europe never falls or suffers national humiliation again, and was planned to be executed in three general stages.
Stage I was planned to be the most bloody - in order to remove any direct threat of Slavic rebellion or resistance, certain populations and strata were planned to be completely eliminated. This "blacklist" included strata the Revivalists were most concerned with - all Slavic intellectuals and their families, any members of the Krutovist government of the pre-annexation Krajina leadership, religious figures and the clergy, any Slavs showing anything but complete loyalty to the new regime. As well as a good portion of the innocents to make sure that the rest don't try anything stupid. All in all, the Revivalists planned to eliminate 20-30 percent of the Russian and Ruthenian populations in the span of five years, and a number of potential methods were concocted by Cvirka and his officers for achieving the quota in time - forced famines, deportations to the Northeastern Territories and mass executions were just a few of the ideas put up in the General Plan.
Stage II would be executed alongside Stage I, and it was appropriately titled "Incorporation". All towns and cities in Russia with over 10 000 inhabitants were planned to be torn down and their inhabitants sent to the countryside, while completely now Lithuanian-inhabited towns were going to be built on the ashes. These towns would embody the Revivalist ideal, carry no memories of the ancient Slavic towns below them and, interestingly enough, have no churches - it was an open secret that the Revival Front hoped to destroy the "degenerate and Western" Lithuanian Orthodox Church after the war in favor of reviving the ancient Baltic pagan faith. All mentions of "Russia", "Ruthenia" or "Krajina" were to be erased from all documents and official history rewritten to describe the Russian Democracy as "particularist chaos" and the pre-Lithuanian Rus principalities as "uncivilized tribes which forgot their Sarmatian past". All Slavs were to be barred from any education above the first two primary classes, and "actions shall be taken" against any clearly gifted Slavic children - while on the opposite side, free mandatory higher education was planned for all Lithuanian children. Distributed birth control and forced sterilization was going to make sure Slavic birth rates stay low, about 1 or 2 children per mother, while wide natalist policies were planned to be implemented in post-war ethnic Lithuania. It was all a package of plans to firm a wide rift between the Slavs and the Lithuanians - not just a some sort of linguistic or societal one, but also an outright genetic one. The Slavs were meant to be the servants and the Lithuanians were meant to be the overlords, and each one needed to gain abilities fit for their role.
Stage III, titled "Completion", was the most vague and was only composed of three pages. It held the least information about Revivalist post-war policy, too - what was there was a pipe dream describing that the General Plan would somehow result in the construction of a pure superpower in Eastern Europe, "one which would bring prosperity to the Sarmatian man and ensure the longevity of the Sarmato-Lithuanian species". There is an interesting thing to note, however - Stage III poised that this new Lithuania shall be neutral in all foreign affairs, despite it's "superpower" status - instead, complete autarky would have to be built here, in Eastern Europe.
All in all, the General Plan for the Establishment of Sarmatia was planned to be the largest and perhaps the most insane act executed by the Revival Front. It was an unprecedented combination of National Lindemanist declarations of racial struggle and racial superiority, Sarmatist inherent anti-Slavism and genocide on a scale never seen in Europe. It was based on the outlandish idea that Lithuania was powerful enough to mess with human nature itself, aiming to form two separate "species" of people based on the ancient ideas of servitude and serfdom. On July 17th, 1940, the General Plan was officially reviewed by the Council of the Hetmans and later by the Vadas himself, and after this overlook, Augustinas Stankevičius gave it a seal of approval.
Members of the 7th "Samogitian" Green Beret Command in Kiev
That's not the only thing which happened on July 17th, 1940 in Lithuania.
The Revivalist Government were well aware of who was making sure that the Russians held out for as long as they did, despite being pushed into a corner. Espionage information, extracted information from Russian prisoners of war and analysis of captured equipment informed them well about the extent of the Zinovievschina and other types of Volgak support for their western brethren. It had become clear that in order to fully eliminated the separatist Russian threat - especially if the Russo-Lithuanian War devolves to a war of resistance - was to eliminate their primary supplier of arms and equipment. Once and for all.
And the Lithuanians had plenty of border problems and grievances with Volga-Russia to find a necessary casus belli. The steppes of the Don, held by the Volgaks, but formerly a part of the Empire of Lithuania, were home to a small Lithuanian minority, the descendants of Imperial colonists here in the 19th century - and this minority was loyal to their country, even if they had fallen under the Revivalists. In May, an espionage mission was sent by the Council of Hetmans to the Don steppe, led by Jonas Mačiulis, and their task was to use this to their benefit. Despite a number of close calls, the Rostov Operation was successful, and after coercion, negotiation and a few eliminated local governors, Mačiulis procured a document signed by a number of the leaders of the Lithuanian minority in the Don Steppe, declaring Volga-Russia to be an "oppressive, illegitimate regime" and calling for swift action from Vilnius to end this tyranny.
This published "declaration" took Volga Russia by surprise, being a completely unprecedented and unexpected act, but they didn't get the time to be surprised for long. As if it was their cue on the scene, the Revivalists immediately approved the declaration as "an act of defiance by an oppressed minority". Any calls by Chairman Gennady Zinoviev to negotiate or even to discuss the situation were declined immediately.
On July 17th, 1940, Lithuania declared war on Volga-Russia.
Part 90: Delusions (Jul 1940)
Petras Cvirka, commander of the Green Beret organization since 1937, including the semi-militarized Zikherhayt - Jewish paramilitary squads. A devout Sarmatist and National Lindemanist, Cvirka steadily strengthened his grip over the Lithuanian government in the later stages of the war.
The basic principle of the General Plan was simple - the Lithuanians must be elevated to eternally superior status in the Sarmatian state and must be "molded" into a "master race", while their Slavic counterparts were planned to be reduced to a subservient race of serfs and slaves, constructing the utopia for them. This was no simple plan of operations lasting for a few years, but rather a generational plan for the very long term, spanning decades and, in liberal cases, perhaps even centuries. The goal of this project was, as stated earlier, to make sure that the Lithuanian state in Eastern Europe never falls or suffers national humiliation again, and was planned to be executed in three general stages.
Stage I was planned to be the most bloody - in order to remove any direct threat of Slavic rebellion or resistance, certain populations and strata were planned to be completely eliminated. This "blacklist" included strata the Revivalists were most concerned with - all Slavic intellectuals and their families, any members of the Krutovist government of the pre-annexation Krajina leadership, religious figures and the clergy, any Slavs showing anything but complete loyalty to the new regime. As well as a good portion of the innocents to make sure that the rest don't try anything stupid. All in all, the Revivalists planned to eliminate 20-30 percent of the Russian and Ruthenian populations in the span of five years, and a number of potential methods were concocted by Cvirka and his officers for achieving the quota in time - forced famines, deportations to the Northeastern Territories and mass executions were just a few of the ideas put up in the General Plan.
Stage II would be executed alongside Stage I, and it was appropriately titled "Incorporation". All towns and cities in Russia with over 10 000 inhabitants were planned to be torn down and their inhabitants sent to the countryside, while completely now Lithuanian-inhabited towns were going to be built on the ashes. These towns would embody the Revivalist ideal, carry no memories of the ancient Slavic towns below them and, interestingly enough, have no churches - it was an open secret that the Revival Front hoped to destroy the "degenerate and Western" Lithuanian Orthodox Church after the war in favor of reviving the ancient Baltic pagan faith. All mentions of "Russia", "Ruthenia" or "Krajina" were to be erased from all documents and official history rewritten to describe the Russian Democracy as "particularist chaos" and the pre-Lithuanian Rus principalities as "uncivilized tribes which forgot their Sarmatian past". All Slavs were to be barred from any education above the first two primary classes, and "actions shall be taken" against any clearly gifted Slavic children - while on the opposite side, free mandatory higher education was planned for all Lithuanian children. Distributed birth control and forced sterilization was going to make sure Slavic birth rates stay low, about 1 or 2 children per mother, while wide natalist policies were planned to be implemented in post-war ethnic Lithuania. It was all a package of plans to firm a wide rift between the Slavs and the Lithuanians - not just a some sort of linguistic or societal one, but also an outright genetic one. The Slavs were meant to be the servants and the Lithuanians were meant to be the overlords, and each one needed to gain abilities fit for their role.
Stage III, titled "Completion", was the most vague and was only composed of three pages. It held the least information about Revivalist post-war policy, too - what was there was a pipe dream describing that the General Plan would somehow result in the construction of a pure superpower in Eastern Europe, "one which would bring prosperity to the Sarmatian man and ensure the longevity of the Sarmato-Lithuanian species". There is an interesting thing to note, however - Stage III poised that this new Lithuania shall be neutral in all foreign affairs, despite it's "superpower" status - instead, complete autarky would have to be built here, in Eastern Europe.
All in all, the General Plan for the Establishment of Sarmatia was planned to be the largest and perhaps the most insane act executed by the Revival Front. It was an unprecedented combination of National Lindemanist declarations of racial struggle and racial superiority, Sarmatist inherent anti-Slavism and genocide on a scale never seen in Europe. It was based on the outlandish idea that Lithuania was powerful enough to mess with human nature itself, aiming to form two separate "species" of people based on the ancient ideas of servitude and serfdom. On July 17th, 1940, the General Plan was officially reviewed by the Council of the Hetmans and later by the Vadas himself, and after this overlook, Augustinas Stankevičius gave it a seal of approval.
Members of the 7th "Samogitian" Green Beret Command in Kiev
The Revivalist Government were well aware of who was making sure that the Russians held out for as long as they did, despite being pushed into a corner. Espionage information, extracted information from Russian prisoners of war and analysis of captured equipment informed them well about the extent of the Zinovievschina and other types of Volgak support for their western brethren. It had become clear that in order to fully eliminated the separatist Russian threat - especially if the Russo-Lithuanian War devolves to a war of resistance - was to eliminate their primary supplier of arms and equipment. Once and for all.
And the Lithuanians had plenty of border problems and grievances with Volga-Russia to find a necessary casus belli. The steppes of the Don, held by the Volgaks, but formerly a part of the Empire of Lithuania, were home to a small Lithuanian minority, the descendants of Imperial colonists here in the 19th century - and this minority was loyal to their country, even if they had fallen under the Revivalists. In May, an espionage mission was sent by the Council of Hetmans to the Don steppe, led by Jonas Mačiulis, and their task was to use this to their benefit. Despite a number of close calls, the Rostov Operation was successful, and after coercion, negotiation and a few eliminated local governors, Mačiulis procured a document signed by a number of the leaders of the Lithuanian minority in the Don Steppe, declaring Volga-Russia to be an "oppressive, illegitimate regime" and calling for swift action from Vilnius to end this tyranny.
This published "declaration" took Volga Russia by surprise, being a completely unprecedented and unexpected act, but they didn't get the time to be surprised for long. As if it was their cue on the scene, the Revivalists immediately approved the declaration as "an act of defiance by an oppressed minority". Any calls by Chairman Gennady Zinoviev to negotiate or even to discuss the situation were declined immediately.
On July 17th, 1940, Lithuania declared war on Volga-Russia.
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Well, Stankevicius (AKA the Fuhrertar), you just went full Hitler. Never go full Hitler.
What are the proposed eastern borders of Sarmatist Lithuania? Does Sarmatist Lithuania envision one day to share a land border with China after destroying the Volgaks?
I hope who ever takes power if the Revivalists ever fall doesn't espouse a Lithuanian Sonderweg nonsense theory and thus allows a "Glorious Constitutional Monarchy via Restoration TM" in the ashes of this potentially broken Lithuania.
"Two days ago, July 4th, the 23rd year of the Jiaqing era - a date which will live in infamy - the Empire of the Great Shun was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the naval and air forces of Union of Japan"
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You ask such random questions sometimes.
The answer, once again, depends on how you define "wealthiest".
Sorry about that. On that note, what country has the largest economy, then?