Chapter 1
The Second Chinese Civil War
Verne Palenga and Gaspard Baga-Leon got a machine for themselves on their flight to Athens. The pilot of the small plane told them, that it is a Potez 62, one of the rare early ones. With a derogative gesture, he said that he sits in this plane, because his boss don't like him, all the others got the newer model, the Potez 621.
Gaspard, who has never flown before, got the impression, that the rustling of the plate was getting loader with every mile. Only Verne managed to sleep a lot, this fact calms him down a bit and soon the pilot''s permanent babble made him sleep too.
In Athens, Palenga ordered a rusty bus to bring them to Istanbul. Gaspard watched him, while he settled the voyage in fluent English speech with the driver (who optically didn't fix to the old, rusty bus). Verne was a gardener in British Cameroons before the revolution, if his masters had expected him to be in Athens someday, being on his way to change world order in East Asia? Of course that snobs hadn't! Would be astonishing, if they even would kept his name in mind.
The Greek landscape was interesting to see, they saw villages as poor as African ones, at least they looked like that. A face of Europe he hadn't seen till then.
In Istanbul they met Khalid. Gaspards first impression was the confident look on his face. They gathered in an small but fancy suite in Sisli. Menad introduced a man called Kunishev to them, who presented himself as an employee of the Comintern. After saying that, he stayed in the background, while Khalid told, how he got contact to the Indians – and except for a comment, that they owe them a lot, Kunishev took a back seat.
Khalid reported, that he met an French-Vietnamese communist in Marseille, which told him that India intervened in the Second Civil War by then – as it is called by most political observers. The problem, the Indian army got, is, that Indians where allowed to serve in the army indeed, but they lack of qualified and able generals. Most of the officers are princes of the many Indian noble houses, which haven't a clue about military leadership. They where just in their position, because they are many men ready to follow them in their nascent national consciousness.
The Russians hesitate to send their instructors, because the already present Chinese communists have chosen the Japanese Empire as their supporter, and Moscow doesn't want to antagonize them yet. So they need non-Russian generals and who could be more fitting than the exiled African socialist generals? So connections have been made and this meeting was arranged. In the meantime, Kunishev went to Delhi to speak to President Roy, which happily agreed and now awaits them.
The next morning they entered their next plane, a Tupolev ANT-9, a machine witch looked much more trustful than the last.
A bit surprised, Gaspard noticed, that the pilot is none other than Kunishev himself.
Kunishev has told them, that the British colonial look of Delhi has been wore off completely and thats what they saw when they arrived on Willington Airport, now known as Safdarjung Airport: Some parts of the building looked like ruins or at least untenanted, where the entire European influence was purged. Unlike the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the Presidential Palace, where they had been taken by a luxury limousine.
President Roy received them already at the stairs of the amazing building.
As a confident communist, it was impossible to not hear something about Manabendra Nath Roy: He was the first to found a communist party outside Russia (in Mexico in 1917) and favorite of Lenin himself. The great revolutionist regarded the refining proposals of the young Indian with benevolence. Even Stalin valued his theses. But after a disagreement with the Chinese communists, he had been banned from the Comintern, where he got a leading position. Nevertheless, he still sees his aim in pushing to World Revolution.
The first meeting was surprisingly short, as Roy ordered some servants to show them their rooms. He announced an explanation of the situation for the next day.
On the 26th of June, the announced meeting was held.
“Dear comrades, we are in the honorable situation to prove ourselves. Kuomintang-China is in its final struggle and there are two factions to decide it's future and thereby the entire Asia's. Our opponent is the Communist Party of China, backed by the Japanese and supported by Li Zongren and his warlords. The Xinjiang clique failed, and the region is now controlled by the nationalists. If Mao Zedong reaches to get control over entire China, war with him will be unavoidable, as they depend on Hirohito. Shortly after the begin of the China crisis, the warlord Long Yun requested our help. He controls the province of Yunnan, which might be a good basis for our intervention in Chinese future government.
Mao's forces retreated to Samosa for now
As you see, we got 34 divisions at the border, of which 22 are Chinese ones, with more on the way.
The nationalists are outnumbered, but the territory is too mountainous to gain a smashing victory.
Fortunately, Yan Xishan's Shanxi clique remained neutral, so the Imperial army only got Indochina as base of operations. It seems like they concentrate there troops on the mainland now, the last weeks they advanced to Guangzhou, so we got to hurry.
We planned a new operation when general Cariappa arrives at the front line – he is our most able general. He got the honor, to free the Nepalese people and overthrew their monarch. You will support his offensive, I've already arranged a meeting. The generals you will displace, will command the troops in the Xinjiang province.
Now I'll give you a short introduction in our industry.
In the period after the revolution, we focused on infantry, to be able to engage a British counterrevolution. We are looking forward, to release three powerful battleships to secure our coasts. After their construction, we will focus on tactical bombers.
Our industrial power can match with European countries, with our advantage that we do not lack of any resources. The only problem we got in the past was our low money output, but fortunately Cariappa, brought the Nepalese royal treasury along, which they unlawfully stole from the people!
Actually, most of the money is spent on research.
The revolutionary government looks like this:
There will be changes in the cabinet very soon, as there are just to many ideologies present.
Got some questions, comrades?”
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