Prologue
When the guns fell silent in 1945 at the end of the Second World War the world had been forever changed. Both the British and French Empires were spent and it would only be a matter of time before their empires fall apart. Two new large great, and some would say superpowers rose in this horror war to replace them on the global stage.
The first was the capitalist nation of the United States of America. She really didn't want to rise to the position that she had to take on in the post war. But the British and French couldn't stand up to the second of the two superpowers, the Soviet Union. Because of this America was forced into the role of leading the west and the new alliance known as NATO which was formed in 1949.
The Soviet Union was the second of the two superpowers in the post world war. Unlike the republic and capitalism of the United States, she was a communist nation led by the Man of Steel Joseph Stalin. The Soviet Union, unlike the United States had been battered in the Second World War by Operation Barbarossa, a German attempt to destroy the communist nation.
With Operation Barbarossa and the later Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Grand Alliance was formed between the capitalist west and communist east. This alliance was great at removing the fascist powers that had rose to power in Germany, Italy, and Japan in the 1920s and 1930s. Then later plunged the world into a war of a truly epic scale never seen before. This war left over 80 million men, women, and children dead.
Even before the end of the Second World War a divide between the Grand Alliance was already forming. But neither side came to open blows at the end of the Second World War like some believe would happen, but blood was still let loose. The first was when the Soviets wanting to arrest Andrey Vlasov a former Soviet General who had been taken prisoner by the Nazis in 1942. Soon after Vlasov had turned on the Soviet Union and when in the Nazis were fighting just to stay in power they armed Vlasov and other ex-Soviets who wished to fight against their former nation.
This did little to help the Nazi cause, but made them all marked men. Vlasov had skillful disengaged the Soviets and led his small army to western lines and surrender to the 8th Infantry Division of the American Army as the guns were falling silent in Europe. But Soviets wanted Vlasov back. Three days after he surrender to 8th Infantry Division, Vlasov was being escorted by a platoon of American MPs and was being taken to a military interrogation center when a Soviet tank company crossed into the American Zone to take Vlasov.
Not even today, no one knows who fired the first shot in what could be called the first battle of the Third World War. 9 Americans and 3 Soviets died in the brief fire fight. The Soviets then forcibly took Vlasov to their zone of Germany and he was later hung for treason by the Soviets. President Truman refused to press the Soviets about this breach of agreed on rules of diplomatic issues. He had to have General Patton remove from Germany and forced him into retirement as a part to keep this quiet. If he would had taken a stand here, the Third World War might not have happen, but it was not to be.
At the time the US still wanted Soviet support in defeating the Japanese which were fighting hard in the Pacific. That war ended only months later when the US dropped three nuclear weapons on the cities of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Kotura between August 6 and 11. This was something of a risk because the US didn't test any of these weapons before the first one was dropped on Hiroshima on the 6th. But between all three weapons over 350,000 men, women, and children died in three second sun risings.
Between 1945 and 1950 there were a number of test between the two superpowers. One of the most notable was the Berlin Airlift of 1947-8. The west led by the United States led an airlift of epic scales to keep West Berlin in their hands and out of the Soviets. But the Soviets also drew even more western blood as they shot down 7 transports that had left the three transit lanes the Soviets had allowed the west to keep open after they had shut down road, rail, and river traffic to West Berlin. Again the west did nothing about the Soviets killing their soldiers and airmen.
Then in 1950 the communist state of North Korea attacked the western back nation of South Korea starting the Korean War. This war when back in for between 1950 and 1951. When the west seem to be on the verge of victory, the communist Chinese enter the war driving the western allies back from the Yalu River that drove back the west back into South Korean territory. The west not wanting to risk a wider war decided to try and push back and work out a peace agreement to end the Korean War.
For Stalin all he saw out of the west was weakness. His troops had by this point killed well over hundred western allies in their own uniforms, even more flying in North Korean and Communist Chinese colors in the Korean War. He believed that the west wouldn't stand in fight and it was time to bring the glories of communism to western Europe. He issued the orders for what became known as Operation Freedom in the west after the war.
Freedom is the wrong word for what would happen in the Third World War. It would make the Second World War look like it was a peaceful and mild affair with the number of deaths that would come out of this struggle between capitalism and communism. No nation that fought in the Third World War was untouched, and every nation lost civilians in the hundreds of thousands.
It was a truly bloody war that would lead to nuclear and chemical weapons being banned by international law and any nation that is believed to be trying to make either would be a enemy of the people of the world and the government would be removed by the International Mobile Force of the Second United Nations.
When the guns fell silent in 1945 at the end of the Second World War the world had been forever changed. Both the British and French Empires were spent and it would only be a matter of time before their empires fall apart. Two new large great, and some would say superpowers rose in this horror war to replace them on the global stage.
The first was the capitalist nation of the United States of America. She really didn't want to rise to the position that she had to take on in the post war. But the British and French couldn't stand up to the second of the two superpowers, the Soviet Union. Because of this America was forced into the role of leading the west and the new alliance known as NATO which was formed in 1949.
The Soviet Union was the second of the two superpowers in the post world war. Unlike the republic and capitalism of the United States, she was a communist nation led by the Man of Steel Joseph Stalin. The Soviet Union, unlike the United States had been battered in the Second World War by Operation Barbarossa, a German attempt to destroy the communist nation.
With Operation Barbarossa and the later Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Grand Alliance was formed between the capitalist west and communist east. This alliance was great at removing the fascist powers that had rose to power in Germany, Italy, and Japan in the 1920s and 1930s. Then later plunged the world into a war of a truly epic scale never seen before. This war left over 80 million men, women, and children dead.
Even before the end of the Second World War a divide between the Grand Alliance was already forming. But neither side came to open blows at the end of the Second World War like some believe would happen, but blood was still let loose. The first was when the Soviets wanting to arrest Andrey Vlasov a former Soviet General who had been taken prisoner by the Nazis in 1942. Soon after Vlasov had turned on the Soviet Union and when in the Nazis were fighting just to stay in power they armed Vlasov and other ex-Soviets who wished to fight against their former nation.
This did little to help the Nazi cause, but made them all marked men. Vlasov had skillful disengaged the Soviets and led his small army to western lines and surrender to the 8th Infantry Division of the American Army as the guns were falling silent in Europe. But Soviets wanted Vlasov back. Three days after he surrender to 8th Infantry Division, Vlasov was being escorted by a platoon of American MPs and was being taken to a military interrogation center when a Soviet tank company crossed into the American Zone to take Vlasov.
Not even today, no one knows who fired the first shot in what could be called the first battle of the Third World War. 9 Americans and 3 Soviets died in the brief fire fight. The Soviets then forcibly took Vlasov to their zone of Germany and he was later hung for treason by the Soviets. President Truman refused to press the Soviets about this breach of agreed on rules of diplomatic issues. He had to have General Patton remove from Germany and forced him into retirement as a part to keep this quiet. If he would had taken a stand here, the Third World War might not have happen, but it was not to be.
At the time the US still wanted Soviet support in defeating the Japanese which were fighting hard in the Pacific. That war ended only months later when the US dropped three nuclear weapons on the cities of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Kotura between August 6 and 11. This was something of a risk because the US didn't test any of these weapons before the first one was dropped on Hiroshima on the 6th. But between all three weapons over 350,000 men, women, and children died in three second sun risings.
Between 1945 and 1950 there were a number of test between the two superpowers. One of the most notable was the Berlin Airlift of 1947-8. The west led by the United States led an airlift of epic scales to keep West Berlin in their hands and out of the Soviets. But the Soviets also drew even more western blood as they shot down 7 transports that had left the three transit lanes the Soviets had allowed the west to keep open after they had shut down road, rail, and river traffic to West Berlin. Again the west did nothing about the Soviets killing their soldiers and airmen.
Then in 1950 the communist state of North Korea attacked the western back nation of South Korea starting the Korean War. This war when back in for between 1950 and 1951. When the west seem to be on the verge of victory, the communist Chinese enter the war driving the western allies back from the Yalu River that drove back the west back into South Korean territory. The west not wanting to risk a wider war decided to try and push back and work out a peace agreement to end the Korean War.
For Stalin all he saw out of the west was weakness. His troops had by this point killed well over hundred western allies in their own uniforms, even more flying in North Korean and Communist Chinese colors in the Korean War. He believed that the west wouldn't stand in fight and it was time to bring the glories of communism to western Europe. He issued the orders for what became known as Operation Freedom in the west after the war.
Freedom is the wrong word for what would happen in the Third World War. It would make the Second World War look like it was a peaceful and mild affair with the number of deaths that would come out of this struggle between capitalism and communism. No nation that fought in the Third World War was untouched, and every nation lost civilians in the hundreds of thousands.
It was a truly bloody war that would lead to nuclear and chemical weapons being banned by international law and any nation that is believed to be trying to make either would be a enemy of the people of the world and the government would be removed by the International Mobile Force of the Second United Nations.
