1937, part I
In his new year speech of 1937 Stalin announced a significant advance on the Central Asian and Middle Eastern fronts. Besides, he stressed two things: "We will never be defeated, and all defeatists are going to be punished for their mistrust in the world revolution!" As a result, two traitors were ordered to service in a special penal platoon, which soon enough was air transported to the south Ukrainian pocket. You can see the names of these quislings in the posts #3 and 5#, just above this update.
"Me no likey."
Trying to take all the VPs from Afghanistan.
My new policy of not tolerating any kind of treason seems to have had a significant effect on the war effort. Also, concentrating all my motorised force to the weak Romanian border may have helped. Even Budyonnyi is perfoming well! It seems that the traitors of the motherland didn't survive long enough, though--well, they had their chance to survive. Sadly they rather surrendered.
Another nice pocket closing. The American air force is still weak, but their expeditionary fleets are still giving some much-needed help, making enemy defences fall earlier and thus saving a lot of my valuable manpower. (Yes! Manpower--valuable--as the USSR--with the old manpower system!)
This means that by late march 1937 I have encircled three enormous pockets. As you see, our late Romanian friends didn't last for too long. The other pockets will take some time to reduce, though, due to their size.
The Spanish in the north have already been more or less wiped out by the lack of supplies. The provinces are slowly being recaptured by a sole infantry division. Sadly I will not have enough motorised guys for so such a low-profile job. (I actually remembered now, that I a cavalry corps somewhere, but on the other hand, they probably will have better job to do, and those North-East European provinces don't anyway possess anything valuable.)
Encircled Poles have quite a lot of divisions and decent organisation, so killing them will take some time, but is assured anyways. The British are still advancing, but they don't have troops defencing their supply lines and the bulge they made after the landing already has been cut in two--I have sent one mechanised corps (led by good ol' Pavel Rybalko) to end their desperate adventure quickly. I want my IC back! :angry: In short: the British invaders are gone too. As are the Afghans, as you can note. It seems the Soviet graphicists get some more job to do: they may design yet another superb flag with a beautiful contrast between red and pastel colours.
All in all, everything is going surprisingly well, though the
American front is unbelievably passive. I even deleted the non-aggression pacts to prevent this from happening, and I guess both Americans and the Canadians should have built remarkably large armies to this point. As for the British and Polish pockets, both were destroyed by mid-April. I was thus able to send some more divisions to the Persian, Turkish, and Romanian theatres. Also, two to five infantry divisions are finished monthly, so I'm soon able to wage a new major offensive.
I had almost forgotten the Japanese front. Unfortunately. It is however a fact that this is not my fault, but that of my completely untalented generals, not to mention the defeatists that have poisoned the mighty Red Army. Even the recently finished 1939 infantry division will not help if my soldiers can't hold the Japanese invader for puny half-a-year. I just came to a conclusion that Deus Eversor was acting like a defeatist too, as saying "you need a lot of luck" implies an assumption that I need luck. That is a lie, of course, because I'm a certain winner. As a result, Deus Eversor took part in the Battle of Birobidzhan. Sadly that was not enough to decide the battle in my favour--or perhaps it was because of him. No one will ever know.
See ya!