Those Damn Commie Germans

Hello! This is my first alternate history so all constuctive criticism is welcome, this will also be done oral history style.
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Part 1:Before

It has been exactly 30 years since the German-Soviet Conflict, and it seems that the war has left the minds of everyone not directly affected by the hell that swept across eastern Europe. I decided to write this book to shed light on the horrors of the most violent war in human history. Though these stories are not mine. They are the stories of the victims and witnesses of this time of uncertainty and death. Some of these stories will be those shared by millions of others while other stories will be individual to help shed light on what was happening in the minds of some of the most influential people during the conflict. I am doing this because if we do not know of the mistakes of the past than we are doomed to repeat them.
 
Part 2: Day by day

New York City, New York

I'm in New York to speak with a man who was at one point the most powerful person on the planet. Former President James Earl Carter Jr. insists on meeting me at a small restaurant down the street from the League of Nations building, the place where he does most of his current work.

"Hello Mr.Carter", I say to the elderly man sitting across from me.
"Please call me Jimmy!" He replies with his trademark laugh and smile.
"So-"
"I assume you want to hear of my perspective of the conflict." The former president interupts.
"Yes I do, if you don't mind." I mutter sheepishly.
"Well we weren't as surprised as most of the world thought we were. The aggression between the already tense relations of the USGR (United Socialist German Republic) and the USSR (United Soviet Socialist Republics) was expected by myself and my military advisors ever since the border conflict of 81'. We just didn't think that either Honecker or Yenayev had the guts to make the war go nuclear. On the first day of this horrible mess that you call a conflict, there was only some skirmishes on the border of the countries. This wasn't anything new this stuff would happen every few years, what was different was on day three when the Red Air Force started massive bombing raids on Warsaw and Lublin. It wad after that I held a meeting with the Chief of Staff and some military heads to discuss different scenarios on what could happen. On day seven the fighting really intensified and there were reports of chemical weapons being used by both sides, it was at that moment that our nation went to Defcon 3. Defcon 3 wasn't something that we rarely used though, as Connolly and Reagan used it quite often, but it did tell the military to keep an eye on both of the nations. On day 11 the league tried to mediate peace talks between the two, with the league's power know you would think that would work, but back then the league had no power at all. On day thirteen the peace conference was called off by the Germans when the Red Army found a hole in their defenses and blitzed towards Lublin. That day we went down to Defcon 2, which was very important, and reaffirmed to the American people that war was imminent. On day seventeen there was already heavy building to building combat in Lublin, but the Red Army was being held back by the German Luftwaffe and German armor divisions just outside of Warsaw. Day eighteen was the calm before the storm, the front lines did not move at all and there was only minimal fighting in Lublin, sadly we'd later find out that it was not calm on the diplomatic channels as all of the smaller communist countries started taking sides and the USGR and USSR failed to make an armistice. On 'Judgement Day', we first realised that something was wrong when the ambassador from the ROFF (Republic of Free France) alerted us of missile launches all across central and eastern Europe we soon got similar reports from Norway and Denmark. At that moment I was rushed to the President's Emergency Operations Room and briefed on the full report and the confirmation of mushroom clouds over many cities in both nations. A lot of different people say what they thought I was thinking the moment I saw the videos from our reconnaissance planes, they are all wrong, I wasn't thinking about getting involved in this war or what the American people would think, no, I was only thinking about the hell that was just starting to sweep across Europe!"
The former president took a deep breath and sighed and said
"I'm sorry about that, it's just hard to remember that tragedy and to have been in a position where you could have stopped it. Would you like to talk about anything else?"
"Um, yes. How is the peacekeeping work going in the Indochinese Union?"
 
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