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Hmmm.... I'm thinking maybe, in light of recent events, a liberation of the peoples of western europe is in order to face the nationalist enemies in central europe?
Aliasing - Glad you did!
KotoR45 - I have something similar in mind...
Zzzzz... - Misguided comrades...but they will see the light lol
Plus since they don't involve themselves with government it's mostly left to the Communist party
Red Cesar - I was wondering about the size of the updates...since you asked I will try to make them longer (unless someone else objects)
Kryten - Working on that, and thanks, I thought the Communist Spain flag in vanilla DH lacked "flavour" so i took a CNT flag(has enough red in it) and added a white hammer and sickle which was historically used by both the PCE (Communist Party of Spain) and the POUM (which was ideologically trotskyist)
KotoR45 - I have something similar in mind...
Zzzzz... - Misguided comrades...but they will see the light lol
Plus since they don't involve themselves with government it's mostly left to the Communist partyRed Cesar - I was wondering about the size of the updates...since you asked I will try to make them longer (unless someone else objects)
Kryten - Working on that, and thanks, I thought the Communist Spain flag in vanilla DH lacked "flavour" so i took a CNT flag(has enough red in it) and added a white hammer and sickle which was historically used by both the PCE (Communist Party of Spain) and the POUM (which was ideologically trotskyist)
No I won't do that, I had some issues with my computer but they're fixed and I am back :laugh:
Expect regular updates (already writing one)
Expect regular updates (already writing one)
Chapter VIII Rise of the Comintern
With the new government the popular militias came back with all force though a good portion voluntarily joined the new official army. Still there was a great degree of autonomy for commanders and even the unhappy anarchists continued to work freely. A good portion of the old officers resigned but enough of them remained together with the newly promoted popular commanders.
Private property was abolished and all the communes and worker councils were granted permanent control over all of the economy. Capitalists fled the country, most to the UK, but others to the US, Italy and Germany. The later were absolutely horrified with the prospects of a worldwide revolution and were eagerly welcomed by the fascists and nazis.
Then it was time to end the nationalist threat once and for all. The socialist government ordered an all-out offensive in coordination with the militias, that would not stop until all the reactionary armies were defeated and every single village was liberated. The Basque country quickly fell, and even the highly conservative population welcomed the communists warmly as they had suffered nationalist abuses for months. The new proposed constitution for the Popular Republic of Spain also promised a high degree of autonomy for their region and others. This combined with famine and the militarist tyranny convinced many basque soldiers to defect.
The nationalist forces were being routed or anihilated over and over again. Many were also captured and were treated well, with the exception of Falangist (fascist-like)and Carlist(absolutist, ultra-catholic) militias which were executed immediately. Chaos and panic began to spread amongst their forces. Many generals who had originally orchestrated the coup had already fled to right wing dictatorships such as the neighbouring Portugal. Many others also fled to Latin America, Italy or Germany. The few left behind were clearly given suicide orders to hold the red advance for as long as possible without any hope of real victory.
The north african units which were forced to serve their spanish overlords rebelled en masse. Slaughtering their commanders and spreading all over the country. The italian, german and portuguese forces returned home broken and ashamed and had to face the wrath of their governments. The UK and France braced themselves for the rising tide of leftism in their countries and popular celebrations took over the streets.
Finally on July 5 1937 the Civil war had been won.
The victorious communists entered a full military alliance with the Soviet Union. Thus becoming the second succesful revolution in the history of the International. On both countries a holiday was declared and festivals were organised on many cities. There flags of nationalist spain were burned as well as fascist and monarchist symbols.
The trials of the captured reactionaries soon followed, the most important or monstrous(those who commited war crimes) were quickly executed by firing squads. Other sentences were lighter ranging from life long imprisonment or exile to staying a few months in prison. Among the notable rightists executed were the General Francisco Franco one of the main leaders of the nationalist forces and pratically the entire Falangist and Carlist leadership.
Back in the USSR the Revitalization Plan moved on improving working, living and transport conditions. Once again industrial production slowed down slightly but improvements in quality became noticeable as soviet products began to beat foreign products of similar design. The Soviet Union still had much to modernise, but cooperation with the new Spain was helping it immensely. (and the opposite was also true). Both countries traded what they needed with each other with little focus on profit or having an edge against the other as is common in capitalist deals.
Still the rising tide of socialism did not go unnoticed by it's enemies. Germany and the national "socialists" were quick to react by forging the anti-comintern pact. The already significant tensions between fascists and communists began to rise and these parties openly clashed on the streets of many countries. Japan made many military maneuvers close to Siberia in preparation for a possible future conflict. And Hitler himself often requested extraordinary meetings with military leaders and advisors of the Reich. He needed a solution for his plans of expansion to the East.
With the new government the popular militias came back with all force though a good portion voluntarily joined the new official army. Still there was a great degree of autonomy for commanders and even the unhappy anarchists continued to work freely. A good portion of the old officers resigned but enough of them remained together with the newly promoted popular commanders.
Private property was abolished and all the communes and worker councils were granted permanent control over all of the economy. Capitalists fled the country, most to the UK, but others to the US, Italy and Germany. The later were absolutely horrified with the prospects of a worldwide revolution and were eagerly welcomed by the fascists and nazis.
Then it was time to end the nationalist threat once and for all. The socialist government ordered an all-out offensive in coordination with the militias, that would not stop until all the reactionary armies were defeated and every single village was liberated. The Basque country quickly fell, and even the highly conservative population welcomed the communists warmly as they had suffered nationalist abuses for months. The new proposed constitution for the Popular Republic of Spain also promised a high degree of autonomy for their region and others. This combined with famine and the militarist tyranny convinced many basque soldiers to defect.
The nationalist forces were being routed or anihilated over and over again. Many were also captured and were treated well, with the exception of Falangist (fascist-like)and Carlist(absolutist, ultra-catholic) militias which were executed immediately. Chaos and panic began to spread amongst their forces. Many generals who had originally orchestrated the coup had already fled to right wing dictatorships such as the neighbouring Portugal. Many others also fled to Latin America, Italy or Germany. The few left behind were clearly given suicide orders to hold the red advance for as long as possible without any hope of real victory.
The north african units which were forced to serve their spanish overlords rebelled en masse. Slaughtering their commanders and spreading all over the country. The italian, german and portuguese forces returned home broken and ashamed and had to face the wrath of their governments. The UK and France braced themselves for the rising tide of leftism in their countries and popular celebrations took over the streets.
Finally on July 5 1937 the Civil war had been won.
The victorious communists entered a full military alliance with the Soviet Union. Thus becoming the second succesful revolution in the history of the International. On both countries a holiday was declared and festivals were organised on many cities. There flags of nationalist spain were burned as well as fascist and monarchist symbols.
The trials of the captured reactionaries soon followed, the most important or monstrous(those who commited war crimes) were quickly executed by firing squads. Other sentences were lighter ranging from life long imprisonment or exile to staying a few months in prison. Among the notable rightists executed were the General Francisco Franco one of the main leaders of the nationalist forces and pratically the entire Falangist and Carlist leadership.
Back in the USSR the Revitalization Plan moved on improving working, living and transport conditions. Once again industrial production slowed down slightly but improvements in quality became noticeable as soviet products began to beat foreign products of similar design. The Soviet Union still had much to modernise, but cooperation with the new Spain was helping it immensely. (and the opposite was also true). Both countries traded what they needed with each other with little focus on profit or having an edge against the other as is common in capitalist deals.
Still the rising tide of socialism did not go unnoticed by it's enemies. Germany and the national "socialists" were quick to react by forging the anti-comintern pact. The already significant tensions between fascists and communists began to rise and these parties openly clashed on the streets of many countries. Japan made many military maneuvers close to Siberia in preparation for a possible future conflict. And Hitler himself often requested extraordinary meetings with military leaders and advisors of the Reich. He needed a solution for his plans of expansion to the East.
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I wonder why reactionary Carlist militias are spared and the Falangist (who weren't Fascist) ruthlessly executed.
yeah, i agree, a global coalition and fascisation of noncommunist countries will occur, thou in my theories many states will still be outside of the coalition, like china, or uk-france and usa, there fore be an object of early warfare, but after loosing asiatic/middleeastern posetions they would to get fasci and join the coalition.
the problem is that even with all those succcesses and not being gamey, the only way for ussr to be victorious after liberating asia, would be to wait till fasci regimes get rotten and start loosing controll over their collonies, in the mean time ussr would consolidate with its asian posetions, industrialize, build pan asiatic infrastructure. but all those projections of mine consider Trotzky to rule since 1924... but economically ussr would match global anticommintern by 1955 if not later, so even matching or being slightly superior (it would be hard to be superior) in military tech and quantity woudlnt be enough in long run.
the problem is that even with all those succcesses and not being gamey, the only way for ussr to be victorious after liberating asia, would be to wait till fasci regimes get rotten and start loosing controll over their collonies, in the mean time ussr would consolidate with its asian posetions, industrialize, build pan asiatic infrastructure. but all those projections of mine consider Trotzky to rule since 1924... but economically ussr would match global anticommintern by 1955 if not later, so even matching or being slightly superior (it would be hard to be superior) in military tech and quantity woudlnt be enough in long run.
Viden- My mistake, fixed. Don't worry carlists are scum. On the the nature of the Falange much can be argued, still at that time specially in the Civil War it was heavily influenced by fascism. In any case I change the part "(fascist)" to "(fascist like)" to avoid further confusion among readers who know little about the group.
Deus Eversor - I agree, but for the sake of the AAR and gameplay I am not going to be as realistic. (it would be a very very complicated if realistic game) Still I will work a bit on that regard. I will make an event for an attempt of alliance between some liberal capitalist nations and fascist ones but it will mostly fail due to disagreements and opposing demands. Still there will be a much higher simpathy for fascism in these countries than there was historically.
As for the war, I don't want to spoil the story but I will let the axis overextend before facing them. Facing a reasonably sized Germany is suicide, specially without modernising the soviet army. But after it expands it may provide a lot of opportunities as their forces spread thin. Also contrary to RL USSR I won't be isolationist, I will try to build a slightly bigger Comintern until then.
Red Cesar - Thanks a lot :laugh: And have no doubt, you will have more and SOON (probably tomorrow)
On the the nature of the Falange much can be argued, still at that time specially in the Civil War it was heavily influenced by fascism. In any case I change the part "(fascist)" to "(fascist like)" to avoid further confusion among readers who know little about the group.Deus Eversor - I agree, but for the sake of the AAR and gameplay I am not going to be as realistic. (it would be a very very complicated if realistic game) Still I will work a bit on that regard. I will make an event for an attempt of alliance between some liberal capitalist nations and fascist ones but it will mostly fail due to disagreements and opposing demands. Still there will be a much higher simpathy for fascism in these countries than there was historically.
As for the war, I don't want to spoil the story but I will let the axis overextend before facing them. Facing a reasonably sized Germany is suicide, specially without modernising the soviet army. But after it expands it may provide a lot of opportunities as their forces spread thin. Also contrary to RL USSR I won't be isolationist, I will try to build a slightly bigger Comintern until then.
Red Cesar - Thanks a lot :laugh: And have no doubt, you will have more and SOON (probably tomorrow)
Viden- My mistake, fixed. Don't worry carlists are scum.
That's better.
Spanish Phalanx had some fascist traits, but on the other hand they had they were quite left-wingers.
That's better.
Spanish Phalanx had some fascist traits, but on the other hand they had they were quite left-wingers.
I think it's kinda like the left wing of the NSDAP. It had the many of the structures of fascism but argued for leftist (even if not exactly socialist) policies (like social welfare, state control ect)
It's a good comparison, I think, but without all the racial stuff.