The People's Reich - A German Democratic Republic AAR

At the start of June, supplies, volunteers, and arms were sent out to communist partisans all across Europe, from the Balkans to Scandinavia to Asia Minor. Before the week was out on June 7th the first results were already coming in. In Turkey, the People's Communist Party of Turkey was found out by the government and their revolt failed. Many party members were able to escape into the Soviet Union through Armenia and even across the Black Sea. In Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia was able to overthrow the government of Peter II and secure power in Belgrade. A Comintern envoy was sent to meet with the party and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was proclaimed and welcomed into the Communist International. The event was the cause of some friction with the German envoy, who believed that the execution of Peter II and many of his ministers was unnecessary. Tito replied saying that Germany had been way too lenient lately with matters like Zog of Albania and Vittorio of Italy, and pointed out there own desire to do the same to Wilhelm II. Thälmann hit back, saying that the two situations were not the same. Peter was harmless, while Wilhelm single-handedly brought about Germany's downfall, and calling his brutality 'very Mongol in nature'. This comment didn't sit well with the Mongolian envoy, and verbal arguments broke out among the delegation. Stalin stepped in and put a stop to it all before it escalated any further. Apologies were exchanged, and the envoy continued on about the Comintern's newest member. Exactly one week later on the 14th, the Communist Party of Denmark was able to secure hold of Copenhagen. Christian X was forced to abdicate, and fled to Norway. The Comintern met with Danish Communist Party leader Aksel Larsen, and the People's Republic of Denmark was proclaimed, and welcomed into the Communist International. The addition of Denmark was especially welcome, as the Comintern now had control of Copenhagen, and therefore access to the Baltic Sea.


On the 17th, partisans were able to secure power in Prague and Warsaw. The Comintern met with officials of the Communist Parties of Poland and Czechoslovakia, and welcomed the new states of the People's Republic of Poland and the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic into the Communist International. With the eastern, northern, and southern borders of Germany now meeting with friendly states, all divisions were relocated to the western border with France, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg.


While the party was delight with the rate at which the International was gaining new allies, the addition of Czechoslovakia and Poland presented a major obstacle to Phase I. Not wanting to create further division between the Comintern and the Communist Party of Germany, the claims on Bohemia and Poland would be temporarily rescinded, but the plan would remain.


On the 23rd, the party pressed it's claim on the Free City of Danzig. Now without the support of Poland, and assistance from the western Allies not likely, the Free City of Danzig agreed to annexation and once again became a part of Germany. On the 26th, partisan forces further gained power. Sven Linderot of the Communist Party of Sweden secured Stockolm and declared himself leader of the new republic. King Gustav V was warned of the imminent coup beforehand and was able to escape to Norway. His support for fascism was well known, and he surely wouldn't have survived the communist takeover. In Bulgaria, Georgi Dimitrov of the Bulgarian Communist Party stormed the office of Tsar Boris III and issued an ultimatum: abdicate, or face a firing squad. Boris refused, and forces still loyal to him attempted to smuggle him into Romania. He wouldn't make it far, however. The Comintern established relations with the two parties, and extended formal invitations to the Swedish Socialist Union and People's Republic of Bulgaria.


In September, all forces had reached the western border. Even by themselves they outnumbered all who stood in front of them. Each province was manned by six to seven armeekorps, with each one at least two divisions strong. With Red Army support, they would be unstoppable. All they had to do was wait for the order. That order wouldn't come, not yet at least, as on November 1st the Soviet Union pressed their claim on Karelia. The Finns refused, and the Soviets declared war.


Germany assembled three armeekorps under Field Marshal Stahel to be sent to assist. The operation would be in two parts: the main force would land north at Vaasa, with a smaller group landing at the capital of Helsinki. The group boarded the transport fleet at Wilhelmshavin, and Einsatzgruppen Soumi set off for the Baltic Sea. Field Marshal Stahel had been developing Germany's army doctrines since the party had assumed power, so while he was away, a scientist was brought in by the name of Werner Heisenberg. Heisenberg was well educated in the field of nuclear fission, and presented an idea to the Council of Ministers. What it was, no one knew, as it was kept under extreme secrecy, but it received funding and began immediately.


On the 21st, Stahel landed in Vaasa. On the 11th of December, General Hillert landed in Helsinki. On the 13th, with the majority of the country occupied by Soviet, German, and Swedish troops, the Kremlin once again pressed the claim of Karelia. This time the Finns accepted, and the Moscow Peace Treaty was signed between Finland and the Comintern. The task force loaded back onto to the transports and headed back home to Germany.


On March 16, 1941, a meeting of all top Comintern officials was called. The delegation of the now fourteen nation powerful alliance arrived at Moscow to be briefed on the next direction of the Communist International. At the congress, Stalin presented the Plan for the Liberation of Europe. He stressed on three major points for the plan to succeed: The British-held Gibralter, Suez, and Malta. If Comintern forces could capture and maintain possession of these three areas, victory would be assured. Control of the straits would block any allied fleets from entering the Mediterranean Sea, and any already in the Sea would be cut off from supply and be easily picked off. The Comintern could then move into the rest of Africa unopposed, and from there, to the rest of the world. The meeting was concluded, and the delegates were sent home with the orders to await further instructions.


Early the next morning, on the 17th of March, 1941, a telegram arrived at the office of every member of the Comintern. The order that everyone was waiting for had arrived. The Final Struggle had begun.

Marshal Jollasse gathered his staff on the morning of March 17th and met with the cabinet and how to deal with France. He presented an altered Schlieffen Plan from the Great War for the Council of Ministers to consider, saying he was absolutely sure it could work. The cabinet reminded him that the Schlieffen Plan had failed, with the German advance only making it to the Marne before getting stuck and being turned around. Jollasse pointed out two major differences from the old plan: The empire had been fighting a two front war, with the army being split across both sides. This time, the entirety of the army was on a single front. The second difference being that they had the support of the International, with the Red Army alone being ten times bigger than the NVA. The army would be separated into two groups: Group one would man the Blumenthal Line and hold against the French, while group two would advance through the Low Countries and move behind the Maginot Line, creating a pocket and destroy the French within. Afterwards they would continue west to take the rest of France, and they would begin the plan to deal with the British. Some doubted the chances of success, but many remembered Jollasse's success against the Italians and decided to give it a chance.


On March 18th, the grand offensive began. On the western border, the Dutch Offensive began. In Africa, German Forces Command Libya began to move into French Tunisia and British Egypt. German Forces Command East Africa were told to hold position and wait for reinforcements to be sent down.


The United States of America announced that they would assist in combating the communist threat, and petitioned to join the allies. The United Kingdom was more than happy to accept, and on April 2nd the United States declared war on the Comintern. The following day on April 3rd the first Red Army divisions reached the front line and joined the defense on the Blumanthal Line and the offensive into the Netherlands.


On April 8th, the British Raj announced that it was going to remain neutral in the war, leaving the west with one less potential ally. The German cabinet still drew up plans for an invasion, should the situation ever call for it. A friendly India could tip the balance of power in the region in favor of the Comintern. On April 10th, the offensive had reached Arnhem in the Netherlands and continued south into Nijmegen. Along the Line, the Germany's first major defeat occurred at Mainz. The joint German-Soviet forces there were overrun by a French attack and had to retreat to Darmstadt. On the 16th, the Soviets responded with an offensive into Luxemburg. The government there fled into France and the small nation was annexed into Germany. The cabinet decided that Luxemburg would be integrated directly into Germany, and became a Länder.


With the successes along the western front, everyone had seemed to fail to notice just how terrible things were going along the Italian front. French forces had reached as far as Bologna, with the Italian Union army pushed south. A Soviet army group on it's way to Strasbourg was redirected south to assist in the counterattack. On May 2, Soviet forces trapped what remained of the Dutch army in Amsterdam while German forces continued south into Nijmegen. Troops moving through the city of Doorn were ordered to stop and hunt down Wilhelm II, who had went into exile in the city, and put an end to him. They were able to trace him to the Huis Doorn, a manor just outside of the city, and went there to find him. The major in charge of the team that entered the building, himself a veteran of the Great War, found the old Kaiser in the dining room, observing portraits of Germany's past monarchs. Wilhelm asked "Who is there?" and turned to see who had entered. Without a word, the major shot the old man once in the chest. The man who many blame for Germany's greatest defeat lay dead in front of a portrait of his father, Frederick III. The party had ordered his body to be returned to Germany to be buried in an undisclosed location in an unmarked grave so that he could not be honored. Before leaving, the major turned to look upon the man he had previously swore an oath to and uttered "Juden hassende Schwein..." before departing to regroup with the main force moving south into Belgium.


By May 24th, French forces had entered the Italian capital of Rome. The situation on the southern front was becoming dire. The Soviet forces already there just weren't enough, and Germany couldn't spare to redirect anyone down that way. A glimmer of hope appeared when Italian forces were able to defeat the French in the city and force a retreat. For now, they just had to hope that France doesn't get much farther. On the 18th of July, Comintern forces had reached the French border. A joint Czech-German offensive made it's way into Brussels, while German, Czech, and Polish forces had Belgian troops encircled at Namur. By the 26th, the encirclement closed on the Belgians, the offensive broke through Brussels, and all of Belgium had been secured. The Belgian government fled to their territory in the Congo and attempted to regroup what was left of their army in France. A counterattack against Mainz was successful and front was stabilized.


On August 9th, a German division advanced into Ameins, leaving ten French divisions trapped in Calais. On the 12th, an uprising occurred in southern Italy and Sicily, adding even more problems to that theater. On the 21st, British forces in Africa began to move into Abyssinia. Field Marshal Elbenstein requested an update on the reinforcements, stating that German Forces Command East Africa was greatly outnumbered. Several unessential divisions were taken off of the front to be sent down to help in Abyssinia, but the cabinet soon realized they had made a huge mistake. As the British still controlled the ports of Gibraltar and Suez, Comintern naval forces couldn't leave the Mediterranean. Field Marshal Elbenstein received the telegram stating that reinforcements weren't coming. German Forces Command East Africa, only ten divisions strong, was left to fend for themselves. Field Marshal von Dewitz zu Kreb was told to pick up the pace in Egypt and take the Suez Canal. Back in Europe, the Calais Pocket was overrun on September 2nd, and German forces had reached the outskirts of Paris, while Soviet forces were moving south to encircle the French at the Maginot Line. On September 10th Field Marshal Elbenstein attempted to breakout of Abyssinia and regroup with von Dewitz zu Kreb up north in Egypt by launching an attack against the British at El Qadarif. By the 13th, zu Kreb had defeated French forces at Fuqa and continued his advance eastward.


On the 15th, British forces in El Qadarif began to retreat and Elbenstein started moving north, promising to return for Abyssinia with more soldiers. That same day, Comintern officials placed Joseph Jacquemotte of the Communist Party of Belgium in charge of the newly declared People's Republic of Belgium, and met with the Communist Party of the Netherlands to declare the Dutch Socialist Union. Both states were welcomed into the Communist International and joined the war effort.


On September 21st, Marshal Jollasse ordered his forces forward into Paris. The battle for the City of Lights had begun.

SnichtheWalrus said:

What about the operations for Malta and Cyprus? Have they been completed? How many states in the International are pro-German or pro-Soviet?

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Malta will come when Gibraltar and Suez are taken to trap whatever fleets might be based there. Cyprus might take a different course of action, however..
And as for pro-German and pro-Soviet, I hadn't really thought about that. I'll get back to you on that one.

JodelDiplom said:

A long, hard-fought war between the western Allies and his supercharged Comintern would be much more fun to read, than a quick cakewalk-type victory. In fact, given the enormous superiority of the Comintern (Germany+USSR+everything between) over the barely-prepared Allies at this time in the game

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Oh don't worry, it won't be over any time soon. I've stopped playing ahead to catch up story-wise, but I can tell you that it's gonna get messy. Stay tuned.

The Battle of Paris lasted three days. Marshal Jollasse oversaw the operation personally, directing troop movements throughout the city. It was noticed in the initial siege of the city that there was a distinct lack of resistance. Only nine French divisions were present to put up any sort of fight. As they entered the city many saw signs of battle already present, with French dead and wounded scattered about, including what appeared to be armed civilians. This was the furthest extent of the front, no one else could have possibly been through already. In the distance sounds of scattered gunfire and fighting became audible as troops continued forward. Eventually a German division came upon a firefight between a squad of French army soldiers and armed Parisians. The division surrounded the fight and got all parties involved to drop their weapons and surrender. Questioning of both groups revealed that the Parisians were members of the French Communist Party. When Comintern forces first advanced onto French soil, the government started purging members of the communist party to prevent any resistance movements from assisting the advancing German army. The party members resisted and armed groups all throughout France started combating Allied forces, with the heaviest fighting in Paris. The group commander was sent to speak with Jollasse and gave him resistance and army positions. Armed with this knowledge, troops were sent to assist the resistance and deal the the army. The fight to take the capital was expected to last much longer with heavy casualties, but with Parisian assistance the NVA was able to rapidly move through and secure key positions. On September 23rd the French army was forced to retreat from their capital. Later that day American forces attempted to stage a counterattack with French support. Despite being numerically outnumbered, Jollasse was able to hold while attacks where launched at Le Havre to the west and Troyes to the south.


By October 16th, Red Army forces had reached Verdun, Chaumont and had overran the French positions at Longwy while German forces had advanced into Caen. The western front was becoming a major success for the International. On the southern front, however, the Italian Union continued to disappoint. French troops had retaken Rome and continued south into Anzio, with a division making it through Venice and reaching the German border at Belluno. The partisans had made a steady advance north and had Union troops caught between them and the French. Still unable to spare troops to send south, the KPD demanded that the Italians get it together or they would remove the Italian Communist Party from power and split it apart back to how it was before the Risorgimento.


On the 27th, the Soviets continued to close the gap on the Maginot Line while German forces continued east. A Soviet division ahead of the main force secured the town of Avranches, trapping several French divisions on the Normandy coast. On November 1st, Field Marshal Elbenstein's attempt to break out of Abyssinia failed. Severely outnumbered, he was defeated and had to retreat back to Debre Marqos. Up north, zu Kreb was stopped at Alexandria, after the Allies sent reinforcements to the region. After many attempts to breakthrough their lines failed, he was ordered back to Libya to hold at the border. Elbenstein, with no other options, could only wait and hope for a miracle. Marshal Jollasse sent a telegram saying that he would try to find a way to get to him, but until then there was nothing he could do. He recommended that he have everyone prepare final letters home, just in case.


On November 16th, news began to spread around French Africa that Paris had fallen. Some in the southern areas by the coast saw the French government as failed and started an uprising. This would eventually lead to many more. On the 22nd, the Communist Party of Finland, which had fled to the Soviet Union after being defeated in the civil war, managed to make their way back into Helsinki. Now with Comintern support, party leader Otto Kuusinen assembled a group of volunteers and took control of the parliament building. Any forces sent against him were cut down before they could even get in the door. After several hours of fighting, Kuusinen declared the Finnish Democratic Republic, and assumed control. The new Finnish state was welcomed into the Communist International, and several divisions were sent to help gain control of the situation. The divisions along the Finnish-Soviet and Finnish-Swedish borders on both sides were redeployed to the western and southern fronts. On December 17th, twelve new divisions of the NVA completed training and were assigned to their new armeekorps. All twelve were sent to the southern front to assist in removing the Allied forces from Italy.


On the 20th, the British took notice that Aalborg wasn't guarded and landed an invasion force there. Within the day they had advanced as far as Flensburg in Germany and Odense in Denmark. The following day the divisions sent to assist in Italy were turned around and sent north to combat the British. On the 26th, the Soviets closed the gap on the Maginot Line and trapped a sizable amount of French divisions in Colmar. The pocket only lasted a few days before the French had to surrender. With Marshal Jollasse's altered Schlieffen Plan a success, he was awarded his second Hero of the German Democratic Republic medal. It was only a matter of time now before France fell.


On the 18th of January, German forces intercepted the British just outside of Berlin and forced them back at Neuruppin. The Soviet Union had sent divisions to Copenhagen a few days earlier on the 7th, and had already begun pushing through to Odense. The British surprisingly didn't put up much of a fight. The western flank beat the retreating Brits to Hamburg and cut off a division from the North Sea and met up with the Soviets at Abenra, where the two armies forced the surrender at Aalborg. The eastern flank did the same at Rostok. With the attempted landing a failure, the divisions were sent back on their way to Italy, with a division being left at Aalborg to prevent any more landings. By February major fighting along the fronts had calmed down. Any and all engagements were small and never lasted more than a few hours. Elbenstein continued to hold on in Abyssinia at Addis Ababa.


On March 14th, the people of Cyprus became fed up with British and declared independence. This delighted the German cabinet, as that would be one less area to have to dedicate troops to. By the 17th, the majority of mainland France had been secured. Soviets troops moved into Montpellier, separating Allied forces in Italy from what little bit of France remained. German forces were closing the pocket around Canadian troops on the Brittany peninsula, while the Soviet Union landed troops at La Rochelle and had reached the Spanish border, forming a large encirclement around the Midi-Pyrénées region.


By April 19th, German and Soviet troops had reached the border of Italy on both sides, trapping French and American divisions in Nice, and French divisions in Alessandria. Within the week the pockets were closed and they had grouped up with the Comintern forces there to begin the push south. Southern Italy was a mess. Everything south of Florence was held by the French, the region of Apulia was held by the British, and all of Sicily save for Siracuse was under partisan control. To make matters worse, the transport fleet was intercepted by an Allied fleet in the Adriatic Sea after recovering Field Marshal von Dewitz zu Kreb from Libya. This left the fleet with only one transport division left. Work began immediately on more transport ships.


Comintern officials met with Maurice Thorez, leader of the French Communist Party, and Jacques Duclos, a senior official of the party, to discuss the terms of a friendly French government in Paris. On April 23rd, control of the German Occupation Zone was handed over to the party and the People's Republic of France was proclaimed, welcomed into the Communist International, and joined the war effort against the Allies. In Abyssinia, Field Marshal Elbenstein gathered what forces he could and on June 6th tried to breakout again, assaulting British positions in Awasa.


Marshal Jollasse and his staff discussed with the cabinet on what to do about Gibraltar. Being able to secure the strait would deal a crippling blow to the Allies. Any troop movements would need to land in Africa, move on foot to any transport fleets already in the Mediterranean Sea, and go from there. Anything else would have to sail all the way around Africa and enter through the Suez Canal, which would take much time and supplies to do. There were only two ways into Gibraltar: by land, or by air, and the German army didn't field any paratroopers. This left them with only one course of action: to go through Spain. The cabinet, who by now had zero reason to doubt Marshal Jollasse's organizational genius, agreed and on June 7th, war was declared. The German forces at the border met with nearby Soviet forces and began the advance into Spain. The liberation of Europe was still yet to come.

Mein Gott, comrades. I've been playing ahead a bit more and some crazy stuff just went down. Stay tuned, you're not gonna want to miss this.

JodelDiplom said:

Oh that sounds like fun!! Let's hear it!!

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I really want to, but Chapter IX isn't quite done yet and I have to work tonight, so for now, I must sleep. But tomorrow...tomorrow the action starts.

Through the course of the war, Field Marshal Stahel, the current developer of Germany's army doctrine, had been going over reports from engagements of various size and length and began to notice certain patterns in how the NVA fought. A typical German infantry unit was equipped with Mauser rifles or carbines and a light or medium machine gun, with some submachine guns. Soldiers armed with rifles were effective at fighting at range, but were difficult to maneuver in close quarter combat situations, where as submachine guns were the opposite, being ideal for urban combat while not very effective beyond 100 meters. Over the past year many attempts were made at combining the mobility of a submachine gun with the lethality of a rifle. C. G. Haenel Waffen und Fahrradfabrik presented a prototype weapon to the Council that fired a 7.92x33mm round. Many in the Oberkommando were intrigued by the design, including Marshal Jollasse. A thousand rifles were ordered for testing. The new weapon, designated the Maschinenkarabiner 1942, or MKb 42, was distributed among the front for the advance into Spain. A few were given to the Soviets to get an impression from them as well, as the Red Army issued mostly submachine guns in some divisions.


On June 8th, German and Soviet forces began to move into the Spanish State. As none of the Comintern armies had paratroopers, it was the only way into Gibraltar. The plan was to secure Madrid, set up a friendly government, and give them administration of the Gibraltar territory, and with it, control over the strait. After Spain fell, they would move into Portugal and do the same. With the Iberian invasion underway, Marshal Jollasse proposed an idea to the Council. The advance into Spain was dominantly Soviet. The majority of German troops were in Italy dealing with the trapped Allied forces, with a large contingent sitting in Germany awaiting orders. He proposed they make a move against the United Kingdom. The first group would land at Edinburgh in Scotland. This would draw any troops in England and Wales north to deal with the situation. Once they've left, a second group would land at Dover and push north to group one, and together they would secure the rest of the island. So far none of Marshal Jollasse's plans had failed. The Council approved the plan, and forces were gathered at Wilhelmshavin to begin. On June 30th, after being absolutely sure of minimal Royal Navy activity in the area, the Volksmarine began to make it's way north. The main fleet would provide protection and support while the transport fleet unloaded troops at the shore.


On July 7th, the landing force arrived to meet absolutely no one. Edinburgh and the surrounding area was devoid of British activity. This came as a great surprise to everyone involved. German Forces Command UK quickly took advantage of the situation and sent a group to secure nearby Glasgow while the main force set up a defensive perimeter. On June 9th, German Forces Command Libya had moved into French Tunisia and installed a friendly government under the African Committee in Tunis.


In Italy, Comintern forces had retaken Rome and pushed the Allied forces back to southern Italy. On the 28th, British forces had arrived from southerm England to attempt to repel the landing. An offensive was launched into Dumfries to back off the English armored divisions. A second offensive moved south into Sunderland to broaden the defensive area. On August 15th, the offensive into southern Italy was successful. The partisan and Allied forces were defeated, and control was reestablished. German troops moved into the Italian province of South Tyrol, which had a majority German ethnic population, and declared the province part of Germany. The Italian Communist Party submitted a complaint to the Executive Committee of the Communist International, saying that South Tyrol was Italian and that Germany had no right to it. Germany responded by saying that South Tyrol has always been ethnically and culturally German, and the Italian Union has recently shown themselves too incompetent to protect them. The Committee, still disappointed over the Italian Union's inabilities, ruled in favor of Germany and administration of South Tyrol was given to the district of Austria.


On September 27th, Soviet forces had the Spanish capital of Madrid surrounded. By October 21st the city had been taken and Soviet forces had advanced as far south as Cordoba. It was in the capital that a Soviet division happened upon Mussolini and Franco. Franco had a hidden bunker complex underneath Madrid for just this sort of occasion. Unfortunately for him, a group of Red Army soldiers happened to stumbled upon the entrance while moving through Madrid and found the two with a group of Franco's ministers. Mussolini was arrested and sent back to Italy while Franco would be held in the city, his fate to be decided later. The Communist Party of Italy tried Mussolini for his illegal seizure of power, and for various crimes committed against the Albanians, Abyssinians, and Libyans. The former fascist dictator was executed and his body hung from the parliament building for all to see.


On October 29th, the second group landed at Dover and began to move west into Portsmouth to establish a front. Group one in Scotland started to make their way south and meet up with Group two. On November 10th, the Danish territory of Iceland declared independence from Denmark, and partisans seized control of the territory of Greenland. Denmark found this unacceptable and declared war against the rebellious state. The Comintern assured the Danish Communist Party that they would retrieve it's lost territory but for now they had more important matters at hand. The Danes agreed and the matter was set aside for the moment.


On the 11th, German forces entered Gibraltar, cutting off Allied access to the Mediterranean from the west. The Soviet Union forced the Spanish surrender later that afternoon and the Spanish State was annexed. All forces turned west and began the advance into Portugal. On the 6th of December, Soviet troops entered Lisbon. With the Portuguese surrender, all that remained of western Europe were the British. Reports of the MKb 42 during the Spanish front came back overly favorable. With the exception of the occasional jamming, every issuing soldier voiced their preference for it. The Red Army asked if they could have the designs to make their version. More rifles were ordered to be put into service at the British front for further testing. On the 18th, Group one in Scotland was starting to become overwhelmed. The entire group was ordered south to meet with group two. An offensive was launched at Hull to open a path.


On the 28th, reports were coming in that revolts were erupting all over French Africa. From Algeria to Niger to Central Africa, native Africans were rising up in defiance against the French government. The Comintern African Committee was given resources to assist them and further weaken France's ability to fight. Field Marshal Elbenstein in Abyssinia still continued to hold out. The march north into Egypt wasn't working. He could only get so far before his advance was ground to a halt by the Allies. When the Soviet Union annexed Portugal, however, they also obtain the Portuguese African colonies. Elbenstein was told that if he could make his way into Soviet-held Mozambique, they might be able to extract him, with British East Africa not having as many Allied divisions. With no other options other than to sit and wait for the British to come and get him, Elbenstein again gathered what remained of GFC East Africa and began the march south. While there was less opposition, the dense jungle ensured a long trip, but he had to try. By now, all focus had shifted to the UK. Divisions were being sent across the channel as fast as they could get them there. The British were also bringing home as many as they could to combat the landing. The home island wasn't going to go without a fight.

Battle bunny said:

Wouldn't it be a good idea to load up as the Soviet Union and fix all that goodness? Give back the French provinces to Germany, who can pass them on to France, and release the Iberians? As well as those random African colonies the SU inherited... It's interesting to see the Africans rebel, considering their chances of doing so are generally very low. Very fitting into this whole liberation war theme.

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I think the French provinces at the moment are occupied, so I can't take them as long as France still exists. I just like it call it the Soviet Occupation Zone. Iberia, I probably should have just switched to SU. I acceptall'd instead (you can see Madrid is German in the picture). The Portuguese colonies and Africans are actually going to lead into some interesting things later.