The nationalist revival came about very much as part of the German invasion, Stalin seeking every unifying influence and propaganda tool he could find.
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The nationalist revival came about very much as part of the German invasion, Stalin seeking every unifying influence and propaganda tool he could find.
Not really, it had started far before then, during the 1930s*, as instituting Socialism in One Country demanded Russification. Consider the forced settlement of the nomadic population, the exclusion of Jews from high office, and, as mentioned, Eisenstein's work (as well as many others).
*Though obviously wartime policy accelerated it massively.
I'll be posting some appendix stuff over the next weeks prior to 2017/1941.
Operations list, People of Importance, places of importance, etc.
If anyone wants to help me out filling out information just drop me a PM, or a comment here, and I'll be sure to credit you.
Operations list, People of Importance, places of importance, etc.
If anyone wants to help me out filling out information just drop me a PM, or a comment here, and I'll be sure to credit you.
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OPERATIONS LIST
ALLIES:
Operation Alfred
(September '39 - The scrapped plans for an invasion of Germany through the Siegfried Line.)
Operation Bernard
(September '39 and re-worked on several occasions - The creation of a large defensive line, later dubbed The Gort line, stretching from the Maginot line to Dunkirk.)
Operation Dynamo
(October '39 - The contingency plan for a large scale evacuating of the entire BEF through Dunkirk, Cherbourg, or Brest, back to the British Isles.)
The Heligoland Wall
(October '39 - The informal name for the partly successful operation involving 1500 British planes in an attempt to stop Luftwaffe movement over the Heligoland Bay.)
Plan R5
(January '40 - The defence operation of Norway by sending Allied troops to Aalesund.)
Plan R6
(January '40 - The last minute re-work of plan R5, sending the Auxiliary fleets to Aalesund, Kristiansand, and Oslo.)
Operation Pike
(January '40 - The scrapped contingency plans for bombing the Soviet Baku Oil fields in case of war)
Operation Charlie
(February '40 - The failed bombing run on Wilhelmshaven and Kiel, resulting in 424 British planes shot down, and an intense debate in the House of Commons.)
Operation Dutch Rabbit
(March '40 - The scrapped contingency plans for a push trough the Lowlands in order to meet the invading Germans head on.)
Operation Carpathia
(May '40 - The scrapped plans for an invasion of Denmark from Norway.)
Operation Quantum
(April 40' - The massive supply operation for Allied forces in Europe in response to trench war attrition.)
Operation Janus:
(April '40 - The contingency plans for a possible war with Spain.)
Operation Ascension
(April '40 - The retreat operation for Allied forces in the Italian Alps back to Milan, Parma, and Bologna. To what was to be later dubbed the Ironside line.)
Operation Diesel
(June '40 - The retreat of Allied forces in the Lowlands to fall behind the Gort Line.)
Operation Brother
(August '40 - The failed evacuation of the encircled 21e corps d'armée from Pola.)
Operation Mustache
(September '40 - The attempted, but later aborted encirclement of Axis forces in Gothenburg.)
Operation Jorvik
(October '40 - The successful encirclement of Axis forces in Jonkoping by the Allies capturing Malmo.)
Operation Hammerfall
(October '40 - The successful destruction of German XI Armee-korps, and one Hungarian voluntary corps in Jonkoping.)
Foxhound
(October '40 - The SIS program ordered with finding a way to assassinate Hitler.)
Operation Venus
(October '40 - The failed Allied encirclement of the German army in Sedan.)
Operation Tommy
(October '40 - The contingency plans for a large scale retreat, and evacuating of the entire BEF from France, through Dunkirk, and Italy.)
Plan O1
(December '40 - The early contingency plans for mobilising troops in case of a Soviet invasion of Turkey, and/or Iran.)
Plan H1
(December '40 - The plans for mobilising troops to the Auchinleck line.)
Program Sidney
(December '40 - A joint SIS/Chiefs of staff program labeled most secret, ordered with mapping out the long term battle strategy against the Soviet Union in event of a German surrender.)
Operation Morning
(January '41 - The successful last offensive into Trier after the extensive bombing raids.)
Operation Seawater
(February '41 - The failed invasion of Aaland/Ahvenanmaa.)
Operation Bone
(February '41 - The contingency plan for the general scale evacuating of the entire British, and Commonwealth military force from Scandinavia.)
Operation Mermaid
(March '41 - The successful transportation of the 1st British Armoured army to Fredrikshavn, Denmark.)
Operation Tail
(April '41 - The flanking manoeuvre of Hannover involving 54 Allied divisions attacking from 4 provinces.)
Operation Victoria
(April '41 - The successful attempt to link up the Italian front with the French and subsequent encirclement of the entire German 1st army.)
Operation Piaf/Sparrow
(May '41 - The flanking of Berlin by reinforcing Swedish forces in Stralsund and pushing into Frankfurt.)
Symphony
(May '41 - The British and French research program into use of Uranium for a Bomb and as a source of power.)
Operation Poudre
(May '41 - The French attack in Tromso in order to push the Russians back from their invasion of Norway and Sweden)
Operation Colombe
(June '41 - The rejected French plans for a second invasion of Aaland/Ahvenanmaa)
AXIS:
Fall Weiss
(September '39 - The successful invasion of Poland.)
Operation Weserübung
(January '40 - The successful invasion of Denmark, but failed invasion of Norway.)
Fall Gelb
(May '40 - The successful invasion of the Lowlands.)
Fall Grau
(June '40 - The attempted, but subsequently failed first invasion of Lille, and France.)
Operation Schach
(September '40 - The desperate invasion of Sweden coinciding with a massive push into Sedan, and Italy.)
Operation Herz
(March '41 - The encirclement and destruction of part of the Soviet 12th army in Sulina, Romania.)
COMINTERN:
Red Sirius
(December '40 - The build up, and invasion of Romania, Germany, and Finland.)
Operation Titan
(December '40 - The direct Soviet invasion of Germany and Romania as part of the larger Red Sirius.)
Operation Sol
(May '41 - The Soviet invasion of Norway and Sweden)
Operation Zarya
(June '41 - The Russian offensive into Poland and Romania)
THE EMPIRE OF JAPAN:
Operation X
(June '41 - The military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, sinking a large portion of the US Pacific fleet.)
Operation KZ
(June '40 - The successful invasion of Hong Kong by the Imperial Japanese Army.)
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Fall Gelb is included, but Fall Rot isn't, Fall Rot was the actual invasion of France
For new readers:
- Norway and France still stands
- Japan never joined the Axis
- Soviet union is at war with the Axis, as well as the Allies
- Italy has surrendered to the Allies
- Sweden, and Finland has joined the Allies
- Hitler and Mussolini are dead
- Norway and France still stands
- Japan never joined the Axis
- Soviet union is at war with the Axis, as well as the Allies
- Italy has surrendered to the Allies
- Sweden, and Finland has joined the Allies
- Hitler and Mussolini are dead
18 - 25 December '40 - Christmas in war-torn Europe
"This is a strange Christmas Eve. Almost the whole world is locked in deadly struggle, and, with the most terrible weapons which science can devise, the nations advance upon each other."
- Winston Churchill, December. 1940 -
(London)
MORE CONVOY ESCORTS:
THE NORTHERN FRONT:
THE BATTLE OF RIBERSBORGS BEACH:
THE BATTLE OF ALTA:
AT THE GATES OF HELSINKI:
THE ISSUE OF AHVENANMAA/AALAND:
Well the Norwegian units did say they wanted to go home.
THE ITALIAN FRONT:
THE BATTLE OF THE IRONSIDE LINE:
ITALIAN MILITIA ARMY SHOWS UP:
THE ITALIAN COMMUNIST PARTISANS DESTROYED:
THE WESTERN FRONT:
For the first time this war we are now out of the trenches and on the fast pace moving East. The French have been quite cautious, fearing a backlash within their own ranks. But the opposite has occurred. Paris has been as quiet as ever. First with Weygand's destruction of Mussolini's Italy, and now with General de La Porte du Theil and De Gaulle's quick push through the Lowlands with minimal casualties. The French population is rather pleased with this turn of events.
SECOND RAF FIGHTER COMMAND REDEPLOYED:
With the fast movement on the Western front, the Luftwaffe decided to mobilise large wings of bomber planes to assault the vast Allied forces moving out in the open. To remedy this we have diverted RAF Air Chief Marshall Portal and his Second Fighter command from his post in Sweden to Metz in order to protect our boys on the ground. The Fighting RAF is back in Europe again
THE BATTLE OF TRIER CONTINUES:
THE FRENCH CAPTURES NEUWIED:
BIELEFELD CAPTURED:
THE BATTLE OF WILHELMSHAVEN:
CHRISTMAS IN FRANCE:
THE EASTER FRONT:
Soviet wounded/captured/killed: 40 000
Axis wounded/captured/killed: 25 000
SOVIETS ADVANCING INTO ROMANIA:
THE FIGHT FOR POLISH GROUND:
THE FUTURE OF PLAN O1:
Speaking of the Bloody Reds. Ironside, and Control have been vocal in their fear of an invasion of Iran and Turkey in order to open up a front against our undefended North Africa. We do not believe Stalin has the means to do so in the mids of December. But it could come soon enough. Therefore we are devising a contingency plan to discourage him of doing so. As of now we know we will need to divert 20 divisions to the African continent in order to delay any enemy movement against our African colonies. If the Turks are invaded we could also hopefully use their troops to our benefit. But the possibility of them being coerced into joining the Comintern is also very real. As we speak the 2 Australian divisions on route will be the first deployed to plan O1. Now I know, I know, old boy. 20 divisions are a lot of men. But we aren't talking about the best of the best. We just need enough cannon fodder to bluff our way out it.
Oh, and before you go back to your family. Churchill held a speech yesterday at BBC. The newspapers wrote all about it and I thought you should have a read before you jump in you car.
I'll see you here next week.
Oh, and before you go back to your family. Churchill held a speech yesterday at BBC. The newspapers wrote all about it and I thought you should have a read before you jump in you car.
I'll see you here next week.
CHURCHILL'S CHRISTMAS SPEECH:
"Ill would it be for us this Christmastide if we were not sure that no greed for the land or wealth of any other people, no vulgar ambition, no morbid lust for material gain at the expense of others, had led us to the field.
Here, in the midst of war, raging and roaring over all the lands and seas, here, amid all the tumult, we have tonight the peace of the spirit in each cottage home and in every generous heart. Therefore we may cast aside for this night at least the cares and dangers which beset us, and make for the children an evening of happiness in a world of storm. Here, then, for one night only, each home throughout the English-speaking world should be a brightly-lighted island of happiness and peace.
Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us, resolved that, by our sacrifice and daring, these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied their right to live in a free and decent world.
And so, in God's mercy, a happy Christmas to you all."
Here, in the midst of war, raging and roaring over all the lands and seas, here, amid all the tumult, we have tonight the peace of the spirit in each cottage home and in every generous heart. Therefore we may cast aside for this night at least the cares and dangers which beset us, and make for the children an evening of happiness in a world of storm. Here, then, for one night only, each home throughout the English-speaking world should be a brightly-lighted island of happiness and peace.
Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us, resolved that, by our sacrifice and daring, these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied their right to live in a free and decent world.
And so, in God's mercy, a happy Christmas to you all."
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You should make it a returning thing, a "kilometers to Berlin" statistic, can give it a bit more of a "need to rush" feel
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If only they had miniguns, then the Soviets would be screwed. Well, add some powerful tank destroyed and ain't tank and your just fine.
For new readers:
- Norway and France still stands
- Japan never joined the Axis
- Soviet union is at war with the Axis, as well as the Allies
- Italy has surrendered to the Allies
- Sweden, and Finland has also joined the Allies
- Hitler and Mussolini are dead
- Norway and France still stands
- Japan never joined the Axis
- Soviet union is at war with the Axis, as well as the Allies
- Italy has surrendered to the Allies
- Sweden, and Finland has also joined the Allies
- Hitler and Mussolini are dead
25 December '40 - 1 January '41 - The Axis is slowly collapsing
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,"
- W. B. Yeats, November. 1919 -
(London)
THE BLOODY BATTLE OF TRIER CONTINUES:
NAZI FORCES IN AMSTERDAM:
THE BATTLE OF ALTA WON:
PLAN H1:
FINLAND ON THE ROPES:
OSTFRONT:
Soviet wounded/captured/killed: 55 000
Axis wounded/captured/killed: 35 000
The Russians have inherited our abysmal casualty numbers as Torun finally fell to the Reds. All over the East-front the Axis have slowly, but surely lost valuable territory. Warsaw is in real threat of being encircled, and the German fighting moral must be at an all time low. This all brings us to our own problem. When the Axis fall, and fall they will. What do we do with the Russians? Halifax's insistent attempts to negotiate a peace has been met with a stone wall from Moscow. They know that a peace now will stop their conquest of valuable countries ripe for the picking.
A port to the Mediterranean sea. Naval bases in Norway. Industry in Poland and Germany. All of which can be Stalin's if he plays his cards right, for we are rather desperate to reach a peace now. I suspect he might talk to us when he reaches Berlin, or perhaps Trondheim. He'll capture a little more than what he needs, and then give us just enough to keep our finger off the trigger. We need to get the upper hand somehow. SIS and the Chiefs of staff have opened up a dossier, a project into this. It is to be called Program Sidney: The overall battle strategy for winning the war against the Soviet Union.
A port to the Mediterranean sea. Naval bases in Norway. Industry in Poland and Germany. All of which can be Stalin's if he plays his cards right, for we are rather desperate to reach a peace now. I suspect he might talk to us when he reaches Berlin, or perhaps Trondheim. He'll capture a little more than what he needs, and then give us just enough to keep our finger off the trigger. We need to get the upper hand somehow. SIS and the Chiefs of staff have opened up a dossier, a project into this. It is to be called Program Sidney: The overall battle strategy for winning the war against the Soviet Union.
ASSAULT ON PARMA:
The Ironside line has been a resounding success, and will go down in military history as the greatest tactical retreat The British ever pulled off. Too bad the bloody German mad man General Busch insists on throwing his men to the wolves. This week they launched another attack, this time on Parma, as the other 2 provinces have been successfully reinforced and defended. As is his memo, General Ironside ordered his cavalry men from Milan to move down to reinforce the boys. Soon or later the Huns must realise this war is lost.
THE CANADIAN ARMOUR FACTORY:
More good news. The Canadians are producing motorised infantry as never before. As a result the 6th Canadian division arrived in Halifax this week, and we, as always, sent the Auxiliary fleet I to pick them up. They should be back in France by 22nd January, and then ferried to Norway for Plan H1, to reinforce the Auchinleck line.
RED WOLVES OFF THE COAST OF PORTUGAL:
Ah, the bloody Russian submarines popped up again this week off the coast of Portugal. Our own Admiral Vian gave them a solid licking and as a result they lost 2 submarines. Not enough to take down one of their packs, but enough to give them something to think about.
ROYAL NAVY PACIFIC SUBMARINE FLEET:
NEW YEARS CELEBRATIONS:
The celebrations in London went off without a hitch. We have been careful to divert a good amount of industry to keep up consumer needs. To keep the Joneses happy so to speak. We still have a certain amount of black outs in the cities, but the Luftwaffe have not been seen over our skies in half a year. Therefore we weren't too strick on controlling the crowds. let them enjoy life. It will help the unlucky ones cope who have to see their boys coming home in a casket.
A short meeting this time chap, get back to your family.
Next week we'll discus program Sidney in details. See if we can't find a way to win the war over the Soviets, as this Great Ternary war is slowly coming to an end.
Until then.
England Expects.
A short meeting this time chap, get back to your family.
Next week we'll discus program Sidney in details. See if we can't find a way to win the war over the Soviets, as this Great Ternary war is slowly coming to an end.
Until then.
England Expects.
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In the Words of Canada in all the wars we have thought in:
"Hold the Bloody Line!"
"Hold the Bloody Line!"