The People's Reich - A German Democratic Republic AAR

JodelDiplom said:

looks fine to me (in the latest update)

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I originally had each pair of screenshots side by side. Now they are aligned vertically, at least to me anyway. I think it looks weird and I don't like it.

Xie said:

Finally over, nice AAR. Epilogue up ASAP!

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Not quite yet. It's only 1956, there's still eight possible years of story left. I might not use it all, but I still have some plans in China and on the Arabian Peninsula.

Kroisistan said:

Very nicely done! I'd love to see complete maps of the world.

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The world as of June 5th, 1957:



Now some of you will probably be wondering, what happened to Poland? That will come very soon.

JodelDiplom said:

Perhaps it's just an issue with your browser window width? They display side-by-side when I put the browser on the 1900x1280 monitor screen but vertical when I put it on the 1300x700 laptop screen.

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It was indeed my browser width. I just recently switched to a bigger monitor and hadn't set dimensions yet.

After the news of the Canadian surrender, a week of celebration was declared all across the Comintern. Executive Committee Resolution 207 made July 18th "Victory Day", a national holiday in all member states. Victory parades were held in every capital city as triumphant troops marched before their cheering citizens. The largest was held in Moscow, capital of the Soviet Union and the Communist International, as soldiers from every nation gathered to march before the Executive Committee in Red Square, to the backdrop of large portraits of every chairman and first secretary in the Executive Committee, all underneath larger portraits if Marx, Engels, and Lenin. Red banners flew high wherever one could be affixed. Secretary of the Executive Committee Khrushchev began with a speech, followed by a playing of The Internationale by the Massed Military Bands of the Moscow Military District. The combined voices of the troops and attendees signing along to the anthem of communism in each of their native tongues could be heard from every corner of the city. Then began the procession. The ground column was headed by the newly christened 1. SK-Fallschirmjäger-Division "Ernst Thälmann", formed from the division that ended the war, in their new jet black uniforms, adorned with the party hammer and sickle armband, "Ernst Thälmann" cuffbands, and armed with chrome MPi-K's, fresh off the assembly line in Suhl. Following behind them was the rest of the SK, including the SK panzer divisions, showing the new Panzer V, and then handpicked regulars from the army, navy, and air force, all personally led by Marshal of the German Democratic Republic Erwin Jollasse and Volksführer Erich Mielke. They were then followed by the Soviet troops led by Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov, and so on in predetermined order with every nation showing the pride of their armed forces. The Moscow Victory Parade was a glorious demonstration of the military might of the Communist International. The United States was invited to participate, as the new government led by the American socialist and communist parties was recognized as a victor of the war. President Thomas declined to attend, with him and many in the American government still not wanting anything to do with the Communist International. The parade was attended by William Z. Foster, chairman of the Communist Party USA and a few communist cabinet members, however, as Foster was a firm supporter of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and expressed an interest in getting the American Communist Party into the Comintern.


However, for many, the occasion was not as joyous. Exact numbers would never be found, but an estimated tens of millions died over the course of the war, and those numbers are limited to just military personnel. Four million Germans fell in field of battle, with equal numbers for the Soviet Union. Five million American servicemen perished in the fighting, and this number still climbed as the war with Japan, who at this point has lost a staggering sixteen million, raged on, giving justification to their loathing of the Comintern. The smaller member nations would still lose upwards in the hundreds of thousands. Keep in mind, these are just military figures. The railway platforms in every city were filled to the brim with people there to receive their friends and family and take them home. Some were reunited with their fathers and sons and brothers for the first time in a long time. Many others were sent home disappointed, hoping tomorrow's train would be the one. Day after day this continued, as transport fleets pulled into port with as many as they could carry, and then ship back out to get the rest. Many in the army wondered just what the point was to it all, and only felt angry and confused. This feeling carried over to many in the German government, who felt that Germany had done most of the work while the others sat and did nothing, particularly Walter Ulbricht, who was recently appointed as the new first secretary of the Communist Party of Germany, who held a deep disdain for Poland, who, despite having a large army, contributed to none of the fighting. But for now, these feelings would have to be put aside, as there was much work to be done in the post-war world, beginning the with the demobilization of the armed forces, the process of which began on July 28th.


In August, Comintern officials met with the Irish government through the Irish Workers' Party to discuss the reunification of Northern Ireland with Ireland. The Communist International would relinquish control of the area to the Irish government, on the condition the they take steps to ensure no violence occurs between Irish nationalists and former unionists, or catholics and protestants, and for Ireland to take no opinion and remain neutral on any Comintern matters that do not directly involve them. Failure to comply with any of the conditions would cause Comintern intervention. The Irish were a little suspicious at such simple terms, but gladly accepted, and on the 14th, the deal was signed, and Ireland became whole again after thirty four years. The Irish Workers' Party and Communist Party of Northern Ireland merged to reform the Communist Party of Ireland, which would see an immense rise in popularity over the years, being seen as the reunifiers of Ireland, which had been the Cominterns' plan all along. The CPI would be allowed entry into the Communist International, but only as an observer party, as they were not the ruling party of their nation. They could voice their opinion on Comintern matters, but couldn't officially vote on the Executive Committee. While the Irish negotiations were being completed, discussions were also going on with Guatemala over the fate of Belize City. The conditions remained much the same: ensure peaceful coexistence between the the current and incoming population, and to stay out of Comintern matters that did not concern them. At the conclusion of the deal, the Guatemalan Party of Labor was offered entry as an observer party, which they happily accepted.


Towards the end of August, the subject of Phase I was brought to the round of discussion during a session of the People's Chamber. Following the entry of Czechoslovakia and Poland into the Comintern, the plan was put on indefinite hold. Now, with the conclusion of the war, perhaps the plan could be put back into action. The plan to obtain the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia was axed from the plan, as nobody in the Chamber could agree to such a thing after the North American Campaign, where German and Czech troops shed blood together in what would eventually take the United States out of the war. Instead, on the 29th, the Munich Agreement was signed between the Communist Parties of Germany and Czechoslovakia, which forever cemented both states' recognition of the Czech-German border, and allowed German citizenship for any ethnic Germans living in the Sudetenland if they wished to have it. Poland was a very different story, however. When the time came to discuss West Prussia, the Chamber exploded into angry rants about how Poland did nothing to contribute to the war effort, yet they get to enjoy the same victory with the rest of them. This would carry over into a session of the Executive Committee, where Ulbricht would launch into a tirade of insults against Polish president Bolesław Bierut. He was surprised to find that he wasn't alone with this, as the Soviet group joined in with a rant of their own. A few others would as well, to the point that Bierut had to be escorted out of the building over the fear that it would turn violent. Ulbricht suddenly had an idea, and decided to share the information of Phase I with Khrushchev, who was intrigued by it. The nation of Poland was created after the Great War out of German and Russian soil. Poland's newly acquired position as the Comintern pariah presented a prime opportunity to reclaim the land that was taken from them.


Late in the evening of the 29th, a group of Soviet GRU stormed Bierut's hotel room and took him into custody. While this was going on, Khrushchev was delivering a speech to the Executive Committee. In his speech, he heavily denounced Josef Stalin. He was critical of the reign of Stalin, making everyone aware of the cult of personality that he surrounded himself in, for example when he had the very lyrics of the Anthem of the Soviet Union to sing praise about himself, or during the Great Purge when he eliminated anyone he perceived as a threat to his power, and not to the state or the people. Brilliant strategic minds such as Tukhachevsky, and Blyukher. Loyal Old Bolsheviks that had been with the party since the Revolution. All murdered in his mad paranoia. He took quotes straight from Marx himself that denounced the "cult of the individual". His speech brought left many in utter disbelief. Many of Comintern were completely unaware of just how brutal Stalin was. Some even took this a revisionist propaganda and refused to believe that Comrade Stalin could do such things, and that this was Khrushchev just securing his own power. While the main point of the speech was to begin moving the Comintern away from Stalinism and more towards Leninism, he also used the opportunity to oust some who might pose a threat to the new direction, specifically Bierut, who was a known hard-line Stalinist. Him and those who followed him in the Polish government were labeled as traitors and removed from their positions. Władysław Gomułka was appointed in his place as First Secretary, and had agreed beforehand to declare Poland in a state of emergency, allowing security forces to be deployed onto Polish soil. German and Soviet troops were moved into West Prussia and Eastern Poland to "ensure the stability of the Polish state" for an unspecified amount of time. Thälmann's plan to fully reunify Germany had finally reached fruition, and nobody would be any the wiser.


On the 22nd of November, the last of the German forces in India set off from the port at Karachi. A few divisions were sent to Indochina, designated as security forces, to ensure regional stability and assist in training and formation of the Vietnamese, Laotian, and Cambodian armies. On the 24th, the United States dropped a nuclear weapon on the Japanese city of Yokohama. The Thomas administration use this projection of power so close to the capital to order the Japanese surrender, and if they refused, they would hit them with another until they did. The United States didn't want to have to launch a conquest of the home island, and were hoping this deterrent would prove successful.


In an effort to ease relations with the United States, the Arab Federation expressed an interest in possibly obtaining the province of Kuwait. A group of left wing militants seized power in Kuwait from the United Kingdom during the war, and exchanged hands a few times between the Arab Federation and the United States during the American campaign in Africa. Arab Foreign Minister Faris al-Khouri went to the United States to see if Kuwait would be negotiable. His attempts were successful, and after securing the proper amount of funds from the Executive Committee, Kuwait became a state within the Arab Federation on March 13th, 1957.


On the 13th and 14th, the beginning of Rodos Naval Base was starting to take form. A naval quick reaction force will be stationed on the island to observe activity around the Suez Canal, and, if necessary, engage any hostile fleets that attempt to make their way through.


On May 28th, with no response from the Japanese government for some time, the United States kept it's promise and dropped a second bomb on the city of Osaka, and again demanded the unconditional surrender of Japan. The emperor couldn't ignore them this time. The Pacific War had turned against them long ago, and it was bleeding them dry. All that remained of Japan now was the home island. The Kuomintang had dissolved Manchuria, and the United States had liberated Korea and taken all of Japan's Pacific possessions. Emperor Hirohito was had begun consulting with senior government officials to consider the progress of the war.

500Artichoke said:

Something tells me it isn't over...

But still, it looks like a win! What's left now, the wrap-up? Some "what happened in the future" posts? After all, the Comintern and the USA are battered, but there's still the rest of America and China to take into consideration (and the rest of Europe, I guess?). And if any of the socialist regimes collapse in a way similar to the USSR, well... that's a whole different can of worms.

And a Socialist rebuilding of Japan. Hm. Imagine the effort the Americans might go to in order to break the imperial war-cult/deification and, heck, even the grammatical idea of honorifics. I'm sure the post-nuclear Red Americans aren't exactly in the mood for "live and let live" on this issue, especially against a semi-feudal power. No sans, no chans, no senpais. Too reactionary, after all.

Can't help but wonder what kind of media they'll produce later. Might get a Godzilla fairly on-schedule because of the bombs, but can you picture anime with socialist themes? (I don't even watch the stuff, I swear. Forgive the nerdery on display here!)

... on the other hand, I'm sure the casualty count you've given us means Japan is going to turn out... different anyway. Ah well, congrats on taking it this far!

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Looking through my screens, I'd say about 3-5 more updates and then I'll wrap it up. It's currently mid-1960 in game and I can't think of anything else to do. I thought about maybe starting some Yugoslav wars between hardline Stalinists and Leninists, or perhaps around ethnic causes like in the actual wars. We'll see. I don't think full on war will ever happen between the US and Comintern. I do have some good Cold War events though. I'm currently trying to think of how a possible collapse would happen, as communism is now the dominate ideology in the world and has no real competition. As for Japan, I'll look into Japanese culture and develop some ideas for that.

On June 18th, 1957, Emperor Hirohito announced the surrender of the Japanese government to the United States in a radio address to the nation. Many in the army listened to their emperor and stood down their troops. There was, however, a group of officers who refused to accept the dishonor of defeat and the possibility of a socialist Japan, and attempted to launch a coup. Several days before the emperor's speech was to be broadcast to the people, a group of officers had tried to convince War Minister Korechika Amani to attempt to block the surrender. General Amani refused to help them commit treason. After gathering support from elsewhere, the would eventually take over the Imperial Palace to find and destroy the recording. After having looked for the greater portion of a day, they were unable to locate it. General Shizuichi Tanaka, commander of the Eastern District Army, learned of the attempt, and he personally went to the Palace to berate the officers and demand that they return to their barracks. He had already refused to help when asked, and had told the officers to go home once before. Fueled more so by the fear of socialism than dishonor, they refused, and sent him away, threatening to shoot him if he tried to stop them. Tanaka had no choice but to order the EDA to put an end to it. Around mid-afternoon, the troops arrived and had the palace surrounded. After calls to give themselves up went unanswered, they stormed the palace and, after a short firefight, had them arrested and executed for treason. The emperor's speech would be broadcast the next day, telling the people that the government had accepted the American conditions, and that the war was over. Delegates from the United States and Kuomintang met in Tokyo to sign the surrender.


American occupation authorities placed Chairman Nosaka Sanzō of the Japanese Communist Party in charge as Prime Minister. Little did they know, Sanzō has long been an loyal agent of the Comintern, and would keep close tabs on the United States. While the Thomas administration very much wanted to get rid of Emperor Hirohito and the royal family, Sanzō strongly advised them to retain the position of Japanese Emperor. The emperor had ruled Japan since the year 660, and was an important part of Japanese culture. To remove it could possibly alienate parts of the population beyond reconciliation. Instead, he advised that Emperor Hirohito be abdicated in favor of his son, Crown Prince Akihito, and for all power to be stripped from the position, given it only symbolic purpose. Occupation authorities reluctantly agreed, and wrote in the new Japanese constitution to state that the role of the Emperor was only ceremonial. He has no powers, no authority, and and his opinion had no sway on anything in the Diet. Occupation authorities torn down what remained of the mostly burned out Imperial Palace, and the emperor's family was made to live in an ordinary Tokyo residence, among the regular populace. These events would cause several more small mutinies in the army, all of which would be brutally put down by the occupying Americans and the reformed Japanese Sekigun, Red Army.


With the Pacific War over, the victorious Kuomintang severed all ties with Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party and resumed the civil war that they had been engaged in before the Japanese invaded. With the annexing of several warlord territories and the Japanese Manchu puppet state, their power had increased several times. The engagement was quick. KMT troops quickly made their way into Yan'an and secured control. A KMT general was put in charge of bringing the area under control, and heading the manhunt for Mao and other top communist generals, who were able to escape the initial fighting and go into hiding. The issue was brought before the Executive Committee by Comintern agent Otto Braun, a military adviser to the Chinese Communist Party. He claimed that the Chinese communists would not win this war and recommended immediate action from the Comintern.


The vote to assist China was unanimous. On June 28th, the Comintern declared war on the Kuomintang in defense of the Chinese Communist Party. German Forces Command - Indochina was mobilized along the Vietnam-China border, and fifty one divisions began the advance into Chinese territory.


The KMT were able to gain further support with the declaration of war. On July 7th, the Yunnan clique announced their support for the KMT and Ma clique, and joined the war on their side. On the 15th, German and Indian troops made the first advance into Chinese territory.


On the 28th, a large contingent of KMT troops were cut of from the mainland on Hainan Island and made an attempt to breakthrough, which was swiftly repulsed by German troops in Naoming. On the 1st of August, Soviet forces had advanced past the Argun River in Manchuria.


On the 4th, troops on Naoming launched a counter attack on the island of Hainan. The KMT garrison there was overrun and wiped out by German forces, at the cost of many more men. On the 6th, the English army landed an advance armored force at Macao. While reinforcements were en route, they were tasked with holding the region until they arrived. Despite being outnumbered and attacked from multiple directions, they were able to hold the line. Several German divisions were sent to assist and ensure success. Further north along the coast, the French army landed troops at Fuzhou, and began moving south to link up with the main force.


By the 23rd, the Macao force had advanced north into Guanzhou and began assaulting KMT positions in Jiangmen. The divisions moving east from Vietnam were working with subpar Vietnamese supply lines, and weren't getting the proper amount of supplies to function. The connection to Guanzhou would put them on more effective Soviet supply lines. On October 7th, a group of air cavalry reached Zhangzhou and successfully linked up with French forces in Xiamen.


By the 17th, Soviet troops in Manchuria had pushed the KMT back behind the Liao and Songhua Rivers. On November 2nd, Field Marshal Cuno was able to trap and eliminate several Ma divisions in Wengzhou. With the rapid expansion of Comintern forces in the north and south, the KMT were quickly beginning to realize just how much trouble they were in. On the 6th, the decision was made to transfer the industry to the interior to prevent it from falling into Comintern hands.


Along the Mongolian border, Soviet armor was able to break through the Chinese lines there and start the beginning of encircling Manchuria. In the south, Field Marshal Stahel was doing the same, sending troops to Huaiyin to cut off lines from the KMT capital of Nanjing.


On the 25th, they reached Nanjing, and with four other divisions, began the siege of the Kuomintang capital.

Despite being very numerically outnumbered, German air cavalry swiftly secured the capital of Nanjing on the 27th of November. They were quickly followed by divisions from the Soviet Union and Kashmir, who made sure no Chinese escaped from the pocket. In the north, the Soviet offensive in Manchuria had reached the Bohai Sea on December 27th, encircling a large amount of Chinese and Ma divisions. Divisions of the minor Comintern nations were tasked with closing the pocket while the Red Army continued to push west towards Beijing.


Field Marshal Cuno of the I. Armeekorps reached the city of Lingqui on the 5th of January, 1958, securing a link between the northern and southern offensives, and encircling even more Chinese in the east. The bulk of German forces in the west continued on with the task of defeating the Yunnan clique on the 16th, pushing hard from the right to force the Chinese retreat, while the Burmese army hit from the left to pick off whatever remained.


Field Marshal Stahel was tasked with assaulting into the former territory of the Chinese Communist Party, locating Chairman Mao and his staff, and extracting them to Mongolia via helicopter. On February 3rd, his air cavalry reached Yan'an and engaged the assimilated communist troops there. Communist divisions under Nationalist leadership were declared traitors and were to be eradicated completely. On the 15th, panzers of the XLI. Armeekorps arrived in Pingliang to support the cavalry's push into Yan'an.


The Battle of Yan'an concluded on the 19th, with General Li Youbang and the troops under his command being executed by 3. Kavallerie-Division for their betrayal of the Communist Party. The XXII. continued north into Yulin while the XLI. moved west to engage more assimilated communist troops in Ma territory. On the 28th, one final aggressive push was made against the Yunnan clique, with a large Soviet contingent attacking from the south.


On the 6th of March, the Yunnan government collapsed with the capture of General Long Yun by Soviet troops. On the 8th, Chairman Mao and the Communist Party of China was found by German troops in Yulin, and successfully evacuated to Mongolia. Mao specifically requested amnesty for General Yun, wishing to possibly offer him a position in his government. Yun was taken to Mao in Ulan Bator at his request.


March 14th saw the beginning of the offensive into Ma territory, spearheaded by German panzers of the XLI. The last remaining Nationalist holdouts in Kunming were eliminated by German troops on the 30th. A document found on a Nationalist officer indicated that their presence there was to eliminate General Yun, to prevent the possibility of collaboration with the communists. This revelation was made to Yun, who decided to join the communists and take Mao's offer to be reinstated as governor of Yunnan, distraught that Chiang would betray him like this.


The month of April was spent hunting down and killing the remaining Ma. On the 5th, a pocket of Nationalists were herded into Tianshoui and eliminated. On the 25th, the last of the Ma army made their final stand in Ge'ermu. Comintern troops issued no quarter to the trapped soldiers, putting them down one by one. Whether an attempt to give up would have been made was purely academic. Mao wouldn't have accepted it anyway.


General Ma Bufang stated that his people would never surrender to communism, and took his remaining family and fled to Saudi Arabia. Mao very much wanted all of their heads, but he was reassured that the time for that will come. For now, they had to focus on Chiang, and building the new China. By May 5th, the Ma lands were firmly under Soviet control. On June 1st, for reasons still unknown, it was revealed to the Comintern that Chairman Nosaka Sanzō of Japan was planning to reveal critical information to the United States. This couldn't be allowed to happen. KGB moles in Japan were contacted to find a solution to the problem, and to find it fast. Yamaguchi Otoya, a member of the Young Communist League of Japan, took it upon himself to complete the task. When Sanzō took the stage to give a speech in Tokyo, Otoya rushed the podium and thrust his tantō into Sanzō. He attempted to stab Sanzō a second time was quickly foiled when a mass of Japanese politicians and American MPs immediately rushed in to separate him from the Chairman. Sanzō was rushed to a hospital and miraculously survived, to the great dismay of the Comintern. An agent was able to slip past his heavy guard and issue him a stern warning: do not continue with your plan, or they would make absolutely sure to kill him next time.


June 28th began the final offensive against the Nationalists, the Siege of Shanghai. Overwhelming force was projected against them as hundreds of divisions forced their way into the city. While the Soviet Union led the charge from land, Germany launched an invasion from the sea. The defense was fragile, collapsing in only two days. Chiang Kai-shek barely escaped with his life, fleeing to American Taiwan under an alias on a merchant ship. On the 2nd of July, the Nationalist government on the mainland was dissolved and outlawed, and the process of transitioning control over to the Communist Party of China began, who were formally offered and accepted a position on the Communist International Executive Committee.


On July 11th, 1958, the Communist Party of China set up the new government in Beijing, and the first chunks of Chinese land began the transfer to their administration. Comintern intervention in China was declared a victory, and all but the most necessary troops began the trip home.

Many apologies for such a long delay. I had not forgotten about this AAR, I've just had more important things that needed to take precedence. But I'm back to it, and I'm going to finish.

The news of the KMT surrender was not taken well by the Socialist Bloc. Both the administration and the general public of the United States were shocked at the hostile takeover of yet another country by the communists. President Frank Zeidler issued a strong condemnation of the Comintern intervention, and condemning Germany's new found position as a "world police" with a need to interfere with other nation's affairs. Chairman William Z. Foster of the Communist Party of America voiced support for the intervention, citing a need to help the Chinese proletariat. These differing opinions of the Comintern would add to the already present friction between the pacifist anti-Comintern Socialist Party of America, and the pro-Comintern Communist Party of America, which began when the Socialist Party advocated support for the KMT, while the Communist Party had advocated support for the CCP.


On the 20th of September, 1958, Chairman Mao Zedong of the Communist Party of China stood before a large crowd in the city of Beijing and announced to the world the proclamation of the People's Republic of China.


In his speech, he praised the Comintern forces for their assistance in China's struggle, and officially accepted the Soviet Union's invitation to the Communist Party of China to represent China in the Communist International. Executive Committee Resolution 367 was passed on September 30th, in which all member nations officially recognized the People's Republic of China as the sole representative of the Chinese people, disavowed the Kuomintang, and gave China it's position in the Communist International. The Comintern Security Council sent a team of officers to oversee the training and creation of the new Chinese military, of which could possibly rival that of Germany or the Soviet Union in just a decades time.


In early October, the Comintern contacted the United States in an attempt to negotiate territorial disputes. The cities of Dandong and Hunjiang still remained under American control after the liberation of Korea in 1955. The American government agreed to the return of the cities, if the Chinese would agree to a demilitarized zone that extended four miles out on both sides of the Yula River. Neither side was comfortable with bordering a hostile nation, the United States especially with Comintern aligned Canada already to their direct north. The Sino-American Treaty of 1958 was signed between the two nations, and was ratified by the Comintern as Resolution 380, setting the border on the Yula River, with the eight mile wide Yula DMZ, preventing Comintern and American forces from gathering on either side.


The status of Taiwan would be a little more complicated. The Americans were adamant in their refusal to give it to China, much to the anger of the Chinese. No amount of justification of historical Chinese territory or Chinese population would change their mind, to the point that the Executive Committee had to request that the Communist Party of China ease off, as they were starting to become very aggressive, and the Committee didn't want to risk war over an island. The news that the American government had appointed Chiang Kai-shek as Governor General of Taiwan only made the Chinese even more aggressive in their stance of sovereignty over the island, with the additional demand of turning over any and all Kuomintang officials to be tried as traitors and criminals. When it became apparent that China was starting to mobilize troops towards the strait, the Committee cut off all talks with the United States. The Communist Party of China received several reprimands from the Executive Committee for breaking down negotiations, as they were hoping to at least have another DMZ established along the Taiwan Strait.


On October 14th, the Committee decided to dissolve Kashmir, and divide the territory accordingly with it's neighbors. The northern areas were given to Pakistan, Jammu was given to India, and Aksai was given to China. Soldiers in the Kashmir army were given the decision of transferring into either the army of either three. The majority was split between Pakistan and India, with a small amount of Uyghurs going to China.

Zzzzz... said:

Nice! I like the Red schism going on. How's the German-Soviet relations?

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In my mind, German-Soviet relations were always good. At the beginning of the war, Thälmann and Stalin were ideological crusaders of communism, ready to spread the revolution to the west that betrayed them during the Great War. Now with the great revolution over, and both leaders having since passed, Ulbricht and Khrushchev look back and say "What have we done?" and try to move the Comintern away from radical Stalinism.

In May of 1959, preparations were underway for the 19th anniversary of the beginning of the June Revolutions of 1940 on June 7th, when Tito and his Yugoslav communists secured power and began the chain of events that would rapidly push communism into a position of world domination. While the general public of the Comintern enjoyed it's first celebration during a time of peace, another war had been long underway in secret on the Arab peninsula. Comintern agitators were engaging with agents of Saudi Arabia for dominance of the region. The plan of the Arab Federation was to capitalize on the Sunni-Shia rivalry, and turn the large Shiite populations of Iraq and Yemen against Sunni majority Saudi Arabia to cause a disturbance, after which the Federation army would move in to take control, uniting the peninsula under a single federation of socialist Arab states. That opportunity came in late December of 1958, when a group of Shiites, suspected of being communists, were publicly executed in Yemen. When it was discovered that they were in fact not communists and just regular Shia muslims, the Iraqi Communist Party made sure to be the first to spread the news, spinning it to say that Sunnis from the House of Saud had been able to infiltrate a Shia country and enforce it's brand of Islam on the people. The plan worked, and outrage and fear erupted throughout Iraq and Yemen. Agents on the Sunni side then launched their own counter-propaganda against the 'Shia liars' and got similar results. The second phase of the plan began, with propaganda praising the Arab Federation and it's secular policies, how if Iraq were to join, this would never happen, how all branches of Islam in the Federation are treated equally and co-exist in peace. This would give the Federation very much needed support among the people. Federation agents in the armies of Iraq and Saudi Arabia began spreading rumors on both sides of a Saudi invasion of Iraq and vice versa. The tribes in Yemen were being recruited for the 'coming war against the Saudi invaders". The armies of all three nations were mobilized to quell the disturbance and return peace. After months of careful preparation and planning, the time had come to initiate the plan. Elements of the German Spartakuskorps and Luft-Kavallrie were loaned to the Federation to assist in seizing vital areas and quietly moved into position in Kuwait and Oman. On the 21st of May, the Federation government declared a state of emergency on the peninsula, denouncing Saudi aggression and the inability of the Iraqi and Yemeni governments to protect their people, and Federation troops crossed the border.


In a month's time, Arab troops had secured northern and western Iraq, along with northern Saudi Arabia and along the coast, including the holy city of Mecca on the 15th of June. The Arabs were to careful to prevent fighting of any kind within the city itself. The outskirts of the capital of Baghdad had been reached on the 21st. The English Republic had also sent an armored task force that entered into Basra. The English were warned to tread lightly, as many in Iraq still remembered the days of British control. One wrong move could bring the whole operation crashing down on top of them.


Federation armor were able to push into the Saudi capital of Riyadh, at the consequence of losing Mecca to the retreating Saudi troops, while German SK troops had been fighting the Yemeni army for control over Sana'a. With Federation forces just outside the city, the Iraqi Communist Party launched a coup, declaring the 'failed government' disbanded and seizing power, which was then handed over to the Arab Federation. The ICP was then put in charge of the newly annexed Iraq and Kuwait to form the State of Iraq on June 26th.


On the 30th of June, all of Saudi Arabia was occupied by Federation forces. King Saud, in exchange for the lives of himself and his family, agreed to stand down and accept annexation. He and the other members of the House of Saud were moved to a location in Palestine for their safety, as many still believed that they were at fault for the situation. The Communist Party of Saudi Arabia, now the Communist Party of Najd, became the representation for the State of Najd. The following week on July 7th, Yemen was annexed. The Yemeni Socialist Party was formed to rule and represent the State of Yemen in the Arab Federation.


To help consolidate power in the region, the Executive Committee passed Resolution 556, as part of the recent reforms of the Communist International, which required all member states to adopt secular policies. While communism was inherently anti-religion, it was recognized as an important part in the life of the average citizen. This was most relevant in the Middle East, and the Arab Federation passed laws giving protection to Shiites and Sunnis from both each other and the government. The Comintern would not interfere with any religious practice, so long as it did not bring harm to anyone or anything or attempt to sway politics in any form. The city of Mecca was given special administrative region status to be ruled by a local council to prevent the disruption of the annual Hajj. The city would be a demilitarized zone, and the rule of no non-muslims allowed would be respected, so long as it didn't cause any issue. The Comintern then initiated a pact of non-aggression with Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh of Iran, stating that the Comintern has no intent nor reason to ever set foot on Iranian soil unless forced to, to ease concern from the Iranians over the recent fighting possibly crossing their side of the border and had begun to mobilize. July of 1959 saw the last major obstacle to communist power in Europe collapse, and what historians would later say was the beginning of an era of peace and prosperity in the world.