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Brilliant update on the internal state of the USSR. Kruschev really went Gorbatchev here didn't he (in a certain sense, it was not the Perestroika but you are far from Stalin 
) ? He wasn't this radical OTL ?
) ? He wasn't this radical OTL ?From Wikipedia:
I would think with the stress of the war that Brezhnev's health would get even worse.
I would think with the stress of the war that Brezhnev's health would get even worse.
Well he is dead already no ? Or he is very weak and used as a puppet by the Kremlin officials
The economic clout and technological level of the USSR in this time line gave Khrushchev the ability and political capital to embark on a more ambitious and longer lasting reformist program than OTL, bear in mind the Sino-Soviet split never really happened due to the way in which China was formed from Japanese occupation after WW2 and consequently the Soviet bloc of influence has never dissipated in the way it did in OTL in the 50's and 60's
Brezhnev is effectively living, barely concious rubber stamp for the politburo, however the war and Red Flu has made his physical condition far worse than it was in OTL, he wont be around for much longer.
Brezhnev is effectively living, barely concious rubber stamp for the politburo, however the war and Red Flu has made his physical condition far worse than it was in OTL, he wont be around for much longer.
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After thinking about it, Brezhnev would never be suffering this indignity if he hadn't ousted Khrushchev so I no longer feel bad for him.
The next couple updates are going to be interesting
You could say, they may be a bit revolutionary to the war effort
You could say, they may be a bit revolutionary to the war effort
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Red Dawn, Part One - May 1977 - August 12th, 1977
The war was approaching a critical period for both sides, while the Soviet Union had undoubtedly won a major military victory in the conflict, the American and British refusal to come to terms for a negotiated peace kept the war ongoing. Out of its major victories the USSR had also suffered major economic and political defeats. Its Empire now composed of a faltering economic system struggling to prop up its vast network of client states, China suffered yet another coup by the Pro Moaists and was on the verge of collapse at the best of times, in complete anarchy at the worst, the Middle East was a tinder box ready to erupt in flame with no feasible plan for how to deal with the region yet coming forth, Europe was a confusing mess. Spain was now the global leader in cancer rates due to the lingering radioactive effects of the Iberian campaign, France and the Low countries suffered popular insurgencies against their efforts to build socialism in these countries, compounded by British raids on their coast with impunity, Germany went from one paranoia to another, Mittags' policy to try and abolish individuality itself was causing resentment in the former East Germany, revolt and revolution in the West, thousands went into the underground resistance or fell into the hands of Stasi traps. Mittag was widely viewed as having being driven insane from his bout of Red Flu and power entrusted to him, when elements of the Volks Armee attaché in Moscow flouted the idea of a military coup to the KGB and politburo, they were given assurances the USSR wouldn't oppose the move as long as the new regime remained loyal and re-established the DDR as the supposed head of the European Socialist Congress that is was lauded to be. While this wasn't a beneficial exercise on the part of the Moscow establishment to help the German people from the exhortations of a deviant form of socialism, it was like all Soviet war time policy towards its bloc, that of keeping them in the war.
NVA movements in Berlin Developed an Air of ''Coup'' Around them Through the Summer of 77
For almost a year now the main thrust of NATO/Pact confrontation was the tit for tat bombing of each others cities and strategic assets, while the mass terror bombings of World War 2 were attempted in the first months of the war, they were quickly phased out due to the large losses, redundancy to a potential nuclear strike and infavour of much more cost effective ''Slipstrike'' Raids. Named after the ongoing American strategic bombing campaign known as Operation Slipstrike, it emphasised the use of a small number of bomber aircraft or strike fighters to slip into enemy airspace through radar blindspots in remote regions and then traverse enemy territory towards either predesignated targets or targets of opportunity, strike them and then use the same evasion methods to slip back out of enemy airspace. The most notorious of these routes was across the Afghan valleys and into Soviet Central Asia, a constant source of contention between Moscow and Kabul.
The Venerable American B-52 was the Mainstay of Operation Slipstrike
First targeting military targets in the first years of the war, the bombings steadily turned towards bombing of cities as targets of opportunity when suitable military targets couldn't be found. In a war where nuclear weapons had been used on mainly civilian targets the moral argument against this was largely lost. While Japan and China with their air defence networks either devastated or never progressed to an effective levels, the armadas of the World War two era returned, American and Soviet bombers levelled the Asian cities of their respective enemies through 1975 and onwards. In China it was yet another factor feeding into the implosion of a state and its people, the great Beijing fire-storm sparked by American and Canadian bombing of December 1976 left tens of thousands dead and almost a million homeless. Japanese cities suffered a similar fate, almost three years of Soviet onslaught had reduced the once respectable Japanese Airforce to ruins and the nation with it. However American bombing of Soviet oil refineries in Central Russia or weapons factories near Moscow were of more concern than the failures of China to protect itself, Moscow wanted the means to be able to strike at the mainland USA in retaliation to these American raids.
The Aftermath of an American Bombing on Omsk, 1977
A Soviet secret Project long in the works had started to be put into fruition in Spring of 1977, Soviet bombers never had managed to penetrate the sophisticated American and Canadian air defence radar and interceptor network to any large degree. The raids on the ICBM detection systems in the opening months of the war had been the high watermark of Soviet strikes at US assets from the air in the Western Hemisphere. This was to change, for the past decade Soviet scientists had delved into the stealth technology in the utmost secrecy, their efforts resulted in the designs for a supersonic, highlevel Soviet stealth bomber, the PAK DA. It completed testing the previous years and the first operational aircraft had narrowly missed detection and destruction in the American raid on Krasnovodsk. By March twelve wings of three aircraft had been completed and assembled, in April these aircraft took flight from their secretive base in Yakutia. Flying across the Arctic and the Northern Pacific, the bombers proceeded to strike the Beoeing aviation plants in Seattle, the motor works in Detroit and Chicago, the Northrop research and development complex in Utah, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California and the US navy facilities at Hampton roads before the aircraft passed unseen across the Atlantic, over Africa and into the Southern USSR. The April 18th raids across the US while dealing out substantive disruption but not decisive damage to the targets were a major propaganda coup to the USSR, demonstrating that the entire United States was now a target for Soviet bombers, of which there would be twenty total raids across 1977.
A Pair of PAK's in High Altitude Moving to Targets Along the Western US Seaboard.
The more pressing concern for the Politburo was to try and bring an end to the war when NATO was obstinate to carry it on. Four years of war had taken a heavy toll, the economy was in crisis, food rationing had become deeper, especially after the poor harvests of 1976 and the added pressure of feeding half of Europe, China and the Middle East off Soviet agricultural production. Over 62 million were estimated to have perished in the war, 12 million Soviets alone, this did not take in the estimated 82 million globally thought to have died from the first full year of Red Flu. An extension of the terms of conscription brought in more youth to fill the thinning ranks, but power outages, shrinking food stocks, harsher winters and the ever steady stream of the dead were sapping Soviet domestic morale. With Brezhnev falling into a coma in May 1977, the politburo had decided a final decisive campaign was needed to shake the Americans out of their arrogance and settle for a negotiated peace on Soviet terms.
Brezhev Fell into a Coma on May 8th, he Finally Died on June 13th, Officially his Death was Announced on June 23rd, Collective Government by the Politburo had been enforce for a Number of Years, now it was Officially seen to be so
With political uncertainty now facing the USSR, yet another counter coup in China, an ecological collapse in Central Asia wiping out vast swathes of once productive farmland and deepening insurgencies across the Soviet Empire, time was against Moscow. Through out Spring and Summer 1977 Soviet forces were on the move, NATO intelligence were anxious with the naval build up in the South China seas and the disappearance of the Soviet Pacific fleet. The build up of Chinese and North Korean troops around Busan and evidence of a massive Soviet build up around Vladivostok pointed to an imminent communist invasion of the Pacific Alliance states. The increasing rate of Soviet air-strikes on Japan led NATO central command seen the writing on the wall, the long prepared for US Pacific Expeditionary Force began embarking for Formosa and Taiwan. Naval skirmishes across the Eastern Pacific increased in number and ferocity as both sides began to dig in for the next great stage in the conflict, the battle for the Pacific.
The US Fleet Sailing Across the Pacific to Japan and Formosa
As news and media reports over the Summer buoyed up each sides odds and stakes in the coming battle, there was an air of the decisiveness of the coming clash. Pact Naval strength built up in the South China sea and land forces in Korea and near Vladivostok. A major naval clash in the Formosa straits was strategically inconclusive, but the Chinese and Vietnamese navies were badly mauled and only saved from destruction by the Soviet Pacific fleet intervening from the North. July seen major airbattles fought over Formosa and Southern Japan, American intelligence reported an armada of Asian Pact transports were loading hundreds of thousands of Chinese and Korean troops. in the Early Morning mists of the 6th of August Soviet and Korean paratroopers began to float out of the sky over Eastern Japan, a deluge of Soviet aircraft struck any targets they could find across the all of Japan, by midday a new Soviet weapon, Ekranoplans had brought the first of the seaborne Korean invasion force ashore, by midnight the lumbering Chinese transports began disembarking the invasion force. The Invasion of Japan had begun.
The Soviets Were Coming back to Japan
While NATO was focused on this invasion, a far more ambitious endeavour was in the fruition. To the far north for months Soviet special forces had been brooding, infiltrating, preparing, listening and scheming. With all eyes on Japan, the in the darkness of the 6th of August, Soviet bombers took off from their airbases in Chukotka, American radar, airbases, barracks, SAM sites and other critical military infrastructure were hit in a three hour window in the deep morning of the 7th of August, it was as if ''some one poked us in the eyes in Alaska, we were blind'' as Robert McNamara later put it.
Soviet Bombers Lunching Cruise Missiles Against Targets Across Alaska
By early dawn on August 8th Soviet paratroopers were being dropped all across far Western Alaska and into Anchorage itself. In confusion the national guard dissolved in the initial fighting, only the airbases managed to resist into the night. Dutch harbour was the only place to repulse the initial airborne assault, at great cost, however the listening installations is the town were able to report to Western command in Seattle that a massive Soviet carrier fleet had emerged out of the morning mist and with it hundreds of Soviet transport ships. Alaska was facing the full brunt of a Soviet invasion.
Soviet VDV Infantry and Light Armour being Dropped as Part of the First Wave
Both Japan and Alaska are now battle grounds in this hellish World War
The war was approaching a critical period for both sides, while the Soviet Union had undoubtedly won a major military victory in the conflict, the American and British refusal to come to terms for a negotiated peace kept the war ongoing. Out of its major victories the USSR had also suffered major economic and political defeats. Its Empire now composed of a faltering economic system struggling to prop up its vast network of client states, China suffered yet another coup by the Pro Moaists and was on the verge of collapse at the best of times, in complete anarchy at the worst, the Middle East was a tinder box ready to erupt in flame with no feasible plan for how to deal with the region yet coming forth, Europe was a confusing mess. Spain was now the global leader in cancer rates due to the lingering radioactive effects of the Iberian campaign, France and the Low countries suffered popular insurgencies against their efforts to build socialism in these countries, compounded by British raids on their coast with impunity, Germany went from one paranoia to another, Mittags' policy to try and abolish individuality itself was causing resentment in the former East Germany, revolt and revolution in the West, thousands went into the underground resistance or fell into the hands of Stasi traps. Mittag was widely viewed as having being driven insane from his bout of Red Flu and power entrusted to him, when elements of the Volks Armee attaché in Moscow flouted the idea of a military coup to the KGB and politburo, they were given assurances the USSR wouldn't oppose the move as long as the new regime remained loyal and re-established the DDR as the supposed head of the European Socialist Congress that is was lauded to be. While this wasn't a beneficial exercise on the part of the Moscow establishment to help the German people from the exhortations of a deviant form of socialism, it was like all Soviet war time policy towards its bloc, that of keeping them in the war.
NVA movements in Berlin Developed an Air of ''Coup'' Around them Through the Summer of 77
For almost a year now the main thrust of NATO/Pact confrontation was the tit for tat bombing of each others cities and strategic assets, while the mass terror bombings of World War 2 were attempted in the first months of the war, they were quickly phased out due to the large losses, redundancy to a potential nuclear strike and infavour of much more cost effective ''Slipstrike'' Raids. Named after the ongoing American strategic bombing campaign known as Operation Slipstrike, it emphasised the use of a small number of bomber aircraft or strike fighters to slip into enemy airspace through radar blindspots in remote regions and then traverse enemy territory towards either predesignated targets or targets of opportunity, strike them and then use the same evasion methods to slip back out of enemy airspace. The most notorious of these routes was across the Afghan valleys and into Soviet Central Asia, a constant source of contention between Moscow and Kabul.
The Venerable American B-52 was the Mainstay of Operation Slipstrike
First targeting military targets in the first years of the war, the bombings steadily turned towards bombing of cities as targets of opportunity when suitable military targets couldn't be found. In a war where nuclear weapons had been used on mainly civilian targets the moral argument against this was largely lost. While Japan and China with their air defence networks either devastated or never progressed to an effective levels, the armadas of the World War two era returned, American and Soviet bombers levelled the Asian cities of their respective enemies through 1975 and onwards. In China it was yet another factor feeding into the implosion of a state and its people, the great Beijing fire-storm sparked by American and Canadian bombing of December 1976 left tens of thousands dead and almost a million homeless. Japanese cities suffered a similar fate, almost three years of Soviet onslaught had reduced the once respectable Japanese Airforce to ruins and the nation with it. However American bombing of Soviet oil refineries in Central Russia or weapons factories near Moscow were of more concern than the failures of China to protect itself, Moscow wanted the means to be able to strike at the mainland USA in retaliation to these American raids.
The Aftermath of an American Bombing on Omsk, 1977
A Soviet secret Project long in the works had started to be put into fruition in Spring of 1977, Soviet bombers never had managed to penetrate the sophisticated American and Canadian air defence radar and interceptor network to any large degree. The raids on the ICBM detection systems in the opening months of the war had been the high watermark of Soviet strikes at US assets from the air in the Western Hemisphere. This was to change, for the past decade Soviet scientists had delved into the stealth technology in the utmost secrecy, their efforts resulted in the designs for a supersonic, highlevel Soviet stealth bomber, the PAK DA. It completed testing the previous years and the first operational aircraft had narrowly missed detection and destruction in the American raid on Krasnovodsk. By March twelve wings of three aircraft had been completed and assembled, in April these aircraft took flight from their secretive base in Yakutia. Flying across the Arctic and the Northern Pacific, the bombers proceeded to strike the Beoeing aviation plants in Seattle, the motor works in Detroit and Chicago, the Northrop research and development complex in Utah, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California and the US navy facilities at Hampton roads before the aircraft passed unseen across the Atlantic, over Africa and into the Southern USSR. The April 18th raids across the US while dealing out substantive disruption but not decisive damage to the targets were a major propaganda coup to the USSR, demonstrating that the entire United States was now a target for Soviet bombers, of which there would be twenty total raids across 1977.
A Pair of PAK's in High Altitude Moving to Targets Along the Western US Seaboard.
The more pressing concern for the Politburo was to try and bring an end to the war when NATO was obstinate to carry it on. Four years of war had taken a heavy toll, the economy was in crisis, food rationing had become deeper, especially after the poor harvests of 1976 and the added pressure of feeding half of Europe, China and the Middle East off Soviet agricultural production. Over 62 million were estimated to have perished in the war, 12 million Soviets alone, this did not take in the estimated 82 million globally thought to have died from the first full year of Red Flu. An extension of the terms of conscription brought in more youth to fill the thinning ranks, but power outages, shrinking food stocks, harsher winters and the ever steady stream of the dead were sapping Soviet domestic morale. With Brezhnev falling into a coma in May 1977, the politburo had decided a final decisive campaign was needed to shake the Americans out of their arrogance and settle for a negotiated peace on Soviet terms.
Brezhev Fell into a Coma on May 8th, he Finally Died on June 13th, Officially his Death was Announced on June 23rd, Collective Government by the Politburo had been enforce for a Number of Years, now it was Officially seen to be so
With political uncertainty now facing the USSR, yet another counter coup in China, an ecological collapse in Central Asia wiping out vast swathes of once productive farmland and deepening insurgencies across the Soviet Empire, time was against Moscow. Through out Spring and Summer 1977 Soviet forces were on the move, NATO intelligence were anxious with the naval build up in the South China seas and the disappearance of the Soviet Pacific fleet. The build up of Chinese and North Korean troops around Busan and evidence of a massive Soviet build up around Vladivostok pointed to an imminent communist invasion of the Pacific Alliance states. The increasing rate of Soviet air-strikes on Japan led NATO central command seen the writing on the wall, the long prepared for US Pacific Expeditionary Force began embarking for Formosa and Taiwan. Naval skirmishes across the Eastern Pacific increased in number and ferocity as both sides began to dig in for the next great stage in the conflict, the battle for the Pacific.
The US Fleet Sailing Across the Pacific to Japan and Formosa
As news and media reports over the Summer buoyed up each sides odds and stakes in the coming battle, there was an air of the decisiveness of the coming clash. Pact Naval strength built up in the South China sea and land forces in Korea and near Vladivostok. A major naval clash in the Formosa straits was strategically inconclusive, but the Chinese and Vietnamese navies were badly mauled and only saved from destruction by the Soviet Pacific fleet intervening from the North. July seen major airbattles fought over Formosa and Southern Japan, American intelligence reported an armada of Asian Pact transports were loading hundreds of thousands of Chinese and Korean troops. in the Early Morning mists of the 6th of August Soviet and Korean paratroopers began to float out of the sky over Eastern Japan, a deluge of Soviet aircraft struck any targets they could find across the all of Japan, by midday a new Soviet weapon, Ekranoplans had brought the first of the seaborne Korean invasion force ashore, by midnight the lumbering Chinese transports began disembarking the invasion force. The Invasion of Japan had begun.
The Soviets Were Coming back to Japan
While NATO was focused on this invasion, a far more ambitious endeavour was in the fruition. To the far north for months Soviet special forces had been brooding, infiltrating, preparing, listening and scheming. With all eyes on Japan, the in the darkness of the 6th of August, Soviet bombers took off from their airbases in Chukotka, American radar, airbases, barracks, SAM sites and other critical military infrastructure were hit in a three hour window in the deep morning of the 7th of August, it was as if ''some one poked us in the eyes in Alaska, we were blind'' as Robert McNamara later put it.
Soviet Bombers Lunching Cruise Missiles Against Targets Across Alaska
By early dawn on August 8th Soviet paratroopers were being dropped all across far Western Alaska and into Anchorage itself. In confusion the national guard dissolved in the initial fighting, only the airbases managed to resist into the night. Dutch harbour was the only place to repulse the initial airborne assault, at great cost, however the listening installations is the town were able to report to Western command in Seattle that a massive Soviet carrier fleet had emerged out of the morning mist and with it hundreds of Soviet transport ships. Alaska was facing the full brunt of a Soviet invasion.
Soviet VDV Infantry and Light Armour being Dropped as Part of the First Wave
Both Japan and Alaska are now battle grounds in this hellish World War
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Is it only me or does every update become even better than the previous one? And I don't mean to say previous ones were not good at all. Also, nice choice of theme music!
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The PAK DA need to keep hitting oil refineries and naval yards. An invasion of the US or the UK would be impossible and too costly.
Sadly no, but it adds flavour to a modern invasion other than generic Transports
I, for one, welcome our new communist overlords.
Great AAR by the way, loving it!
Thanks! Glad to see some people enjoy it!
I can only say that this is epic. I would concentrate on command, control, communication and intelligence assets of the US/UK. You dont have the navy or the industrial resources to occupy three continents.