Die Rotfront Marschiert

Summary

The Spartacus League successfully overthrew Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1918. The Workers and Soldiers establish a German socialist state. they immediately sue for peace and because of this don't lose as much land, only losing Alsace-Lorraine. Germany remains incredibly powerful and devoted to advancing Socialism.

1910s

Russia

After losing to Germany in 1917 the Russian Empire lost massive amounts of land in eastern Europe, because of this loss to the german the Tzar was forced to abdicate the throne. After his abdication, the Russian Republic was established but not long after they would be overthrown by the Bolsheviks, and the Russian civil war would begin. The Russian civil war would go from 1917 to 1921 when the Reds would fight against the Whites, the Polish, Austria, Japan, and Western intervention but would win against all odds creating the USSR.

Germany

in 1917 Germany won a great victory against the Russian empire and was able to reroute troops from the East to the West. Although it might look like Germany might win now with the eastern front won but it wouldn't be that easy as the stalemate continued.

with the continuation of the stalemate so did the slow starvation of Germany. the German people were sick and tired of the war so they revolted against the Kaiser and overthrew and exiled him, he later tried to flee to the Netherlands where he was shot by a Dutch border guard angry at the former Kaiser for the atrocities committed in Belgium. Right after this, they sue for peace with the Entente. in the Treaty of Versailles Germany was to pay reparations and give territory. Germany lost Alsace-Lorraine and paid some reparations but stopped paying in 1921. a Communist Germany sacred the entente, so they would try and sabotage it by starting a civil war. After the successful revolution, Germany gave all the territory it won in the treaty brest-litovsk back to the Soviets allowing them to have extra manpower letting them win the civil war in 1921.

German Civil War (1919 - 1920)

Kaiser Willhelm II was killed but his son now Whillhelm III was able to escape Berlin in time. he fled to the Netherlands before returning to Germany and go and try to retake his throne. He started his counter-revolution in Hanover where there was still a strong loyalist force, this force was called white forces by some in parallel with white Russian monarchist forces. soon he was able to take a good part of northwestern Germany. this Civil War was short-lived and ended not long after Whillhelm III was assassinated. after the defeat of the White forces, no attempt at counter-revolution would ever happen again.

Austria-Hungary

After Germany leaves the war Austria-Hungary quickly falls apart and loses control of Hungary with all of the lands of the Kingdom of Hungary revolting, not for an independent kingdom but a Soviet republic. Now just Austria again the Austrian Empire now has to fight on multiple fronts, in Italy, Hungary, and Galicia. the Hungarian soviet republic has to fight against the Austrians but Slovak nationalists, the Kingdom of Romania, and Yugoslavia.

this all only ends in 1923 after the war in Transilvania ended with the Soviet invasion of Bessarabia forcing Romania to surrender and The Communist Revolution in Bohemia and Moravia ending the Austrian empire.

the Hungarian Soviet Republic was able to keep a majority of its territory only losing Croatia.

France

France was ruined by the war and Germany refused to pay war reparations and with British moderatism France would receive no reparations and although they technically won the great war they had lost greatly.

Belgium

Belgium was one of the worse off after the great war being left destroyed after the war and many dead. After the great war Belgium became a British puppet state.

Romania

Romania faced humiliation during the great war but did eventually pushed back the Austro-Hungarians. Romania was not done with war and immediately entered the transylvania war with the Hungarian Soviet republic. Romania would lose alot of territory it had gained from the past few years after they lost the transylvania war and Soviet-Romanian war.

Serbia

Serbia took Bosnia and it united with Montenegro after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and wanted to expand further, it joined the war against the Hungarian Soviet Republic for Croatia and actually won against them unlike everyone else going to war with them and was able to push the Hungarians out of Croatia and the Austrians out of Slovenia.

Italy

After the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Italy immediately took Trieste and south Tyrol but was not allowed to take any more territory in the east Adriatic coast because the new Yugoslavia had established itself. not gaining as much territory as promised, Italy felt betrayed, and with their economy in ruins the future didn't look good.

Bulgaria

Bulgaria was the second to capitulate in the great war, it was unable to sustain the war after the Germans sued for peace and stopped supporting the central powers. The rest of the central powers fell apart after the German peace deal as they supported the entire central powers. Bulgaria lost all the territory it had annexed during the Great War and lost land in Macedonia after the war. With the Bulgarian economy in tatters the future of Bulgaria looked red.

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire had been on the verge of collapse for decades now after the loss of its Balkan lands its end drew even closer. when the Great War started the Ottoman Empire quickly began losing ground and worse for them, Arabs had begun revolting against them and were winning massive victories along with the British and French invading. after the end of German involvement in the Great War the Ottoman Empire was unable to support itself and soon would go into civil war and fighting to keep its independence.

Greece

Greece was split from the beginning on what side to join the Great War, but it eventually decide to join the Entente in the summer of 1917. Because of this decision, Greece would be forever divided politically. With Greek participation on the winning side of the war, Greece was going to win the spoils of war and gain more land, taking over all of southern Macedonia and plans to take more territory from the Ottomans. With this victory, it might seem that Greece may be one of the best-off countries in Europe and may become a world power but those dreams were ruined by piling debt after the Great War and Depts they were owed being unable to be paid. The War had only just begun for Greece.

1920s

Germany

After the end of the German civil war and the defeat of the whites, the new Communist government's next task was to rebuild Germany from the ground up by beginning the collectivization of the economy. although these collectivization efforts were accepted and welcomed by the majority of Germans it was opposed by German kulaks in the more rural areas in the east like Pomerania, Silesia, and Prussia. This would lead to the kulaks threatening to burn crops which many did but the Government Reacted quickly and seized crops and arrested kulaks.

The new German state was going to need a new name and flag, the new name of this state would become the Freie Sozialistische Republik Deutschland, or Free Socialist Republic of Germany, and use the same flag as the Spartacist League. This new state would also move the capital from Berlin to Frankfurt for its symbolism during the 1848 revolutions. The FSRG wanted to appear different from the soviet union as the leader of the FSRG Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg had their disagreements with Lenin, but they did want to keep good relations with the Soviet Union because they now shared an even bigger border since the USSR took Galicia from Austria, and the Red Army was Massive. The rule of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg would sadly be cut short after Karl was assassinated in 1923 by a Freikorp operative and Rosa Luxemburg later retired in 1925 after increasing fear for her life. The successor to these two would change the history of Germany forever, this man's name was Ernst Thälmann, the New Chairman of the new KPD.

Ernst Thälmann would radically change the FSRG first by changing the flag back to the German tri-colour of black, red, and black with the symbol of the KPD on the flag. The Second was to start good relations with the USSR, Thälmann was far more pro-soviet and thought that the new Germany should ally itself with the USSR. The third was to move the capital back to Berlin and create the Volkskammer in the old Reichstag building. The fourth was to change the name of the country from the Freie Sozialistische Republik Deutschland to the Deutsche Demokratische Republik or the German Democratic Republic.

USSR

The civil war ends in 1921 with Soviet victory but another potential war starts after the Japanese who are still angry about their losses in Siberia tried to take the port city of vladivostok but fail after a quick reaction by the red army. Because of this Soviet-Japanese tensions rise high and the next war the Soviets fight will likely be against Japan.

In 1921 only a few weeks after the end of the civil war the Soviet union joins the anti-Austria[1] coalition and goes to war with what's left of the austrian empire and begin what's know as "The galician war." They absolutely crush the Austrians with Hungarian support and also arm revolutionaries in bohemia-moravia against the Austrians. By 1922 the Austrians surrender to Hungary and the Soviet Union, in the treaty of Bratislava bohemia-moravia becomes and independent socialist state and Austria is forced to recognize all its losses during the war.

In 1924 lenin passes away from a stroke and is succeeded by stalin, trotsky and bukharin both oppose this from each of their sides but both are purged, bukharin is ousted from the party later arrested and executed, trotsky and some of his supporters flee to Norway then france where then they make their way to Mexico.

In 1928 the leaders of Germany, the Soviet union, Finland, Hungary, bohemia-moravia, and Mongolia meet in Budapest to create an Alliance between the socialist states and create the Budapest pact, a defensive but also economic and general military alliance between socialist nations.

Finland

Finland was under a German puppet until 1918 when the new german government gave all the territory they won from Russia back to the Soviet union, Finland stated under Soviet control but was allowed Independence as a socialist state. In 1920 the Finnish Socialist republic was born.

Italy

Italy was on the winning side of the great war and the anti-Austrian war but had come out with a terrible economy, it had suffered greatly against Austria-Hungary and when it pushed back against Austria it was a very costly offensive. Not to mention the millions now unemployed after the end of the great war and now italy seemed like it would collapse. But then in 1922 a man marched to the Capitol and demanded he be made prime minister, this man was Benito Mussolini.

France

After the war much of northern France was destroyed and the economy fell apart and became more reliant of America and Britain. After the great war ended extremism became popular in France as everything only seemd to get worse. In 1922 inspired by Mussolini's fascists in Italy far-right politician Francois Rocque leader of Le parti radical national leads a coup of the French third republic. This coup was also joined by Victor Napoleon, who wanted to reestablish the French empire and the imperial throne, Francois agreed to this believing he could use louis as a puppet while he did the actual ruling. In 1923 Victor was declared Napoleon V and with this the third French empire was created.

United States

In 1923 the United states helps found the league of nations after peace has finally been settled.

In 1928 the great depression happens which causes all of capitalist Europe to crash as well as they were dependent on American investments for their economy to stay afloat. The great depression would have grave consequences and change the history of European countries like Yugoslavia, UK, Spain, France, and many more but also, their own country.

1930s

Austria

After the abdication of Karl I Austria became a republic, this didn't change the fact that Austria was just humiliated in two massive wars and was left in ruins. The problem seemed to be fixed after American investors arrived but that quickly failed after 1928. All of this instability led to a syndicalist revolution in 1935 creating the Austrian commune. The Austrian commune denounces the Budapest pact and the Grand entente causing them to be surrounded by enemies, this leads to the Austrian civil-war in 1937 which leads to the defacto collapse of the Austrian commune as they now only control the north-east while fascists control the south. This civil war quickly ended though with German intervention, Germany occupied Austria and annexed it in 1938.

Germany

After the annexation of Austria Germany seeks to integrate Austria into the rest of Germany by collectivizing its economy into the Greater German economy.

In 1939 Germany has grown to be one of the world's strongest economies and has a population of 120 million.

because of Mussolini's imperial ambitions, the German annexation of Austria was met with strong opposition from Italy. this laid the seed for a future war.

Yugoslavia

Economic depression effects Yugoslavia too in 1928 and the country goes on a downward spiral. Ethnic conflict explodes and the country is taken over by a regent council after King Alexander I was assassinated in 1930 and his heir Peter II was only 7. This council is later taken over by the military and Yugoslavia officially becomes a military dictatorship. This military dictatorship doesn't last as the country is split in 2 with fascists in Croatia and communists in Serbia. Yugoslavia luckily was able to avoid civil war and dissolved in 1932 creating the Croatian state as a fascist dictatorship and the People's Republic of Serbia as a Communist State.

France

In response to rising communist states France and some of the former allied powers members of the great war form the Grand Entente. The Grand entente members are France, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, the UK, Croatia, and Romania.

Italy

In October of 1935 Italy starts the Second Italo-Ethiopian war. With the Support of the Grand entente. The war is bloody and the Ethiopian fought to the very end but they lost the war. Emperor Haile Selassie went into exile and was invited to in exile in Berlin of all places. The Budapest pact Although an Alliance of Communist Republics decided to support the Ethiopian empire Against Italy and continued to support the Arbegnoch Partisan's fight against the Italian invaders.

In 1939 Italy took over Albania and turned it into a protectorate.

In 1938 Italy denounced the annexation of Austria and would mobilize troops to the border in tyrol, Germany met this with thousands of tanks and twice the soldiers. Thalmann then threatened to crush Italy and with this they backed down.

Spain

Spain had been under a military dictatorship since 1923, when the great depression hit in 1928 the Communist party rose massively in popularity leading to the military dictatorship tightening their grip, but his only led to more resistance until the Pact of San Sebastián peacefully overthrew the monarchy.

The republic was unstable from beginning quickly seeing violence between communists and fascists. The violence culminated in the 1936 election being won by Jose diaz and his communist party. This led to Francisco franco to take the Spanish African army and attack the mainland, starting the Spanish civil war.

The civil raged one from 1936 to 1939 and was won by the Republicans with help from the Budapest pact. José Diaz look over and created the people's republic of Spain cementing spain is now communist and this was a massive loss to the grand entente as Spain still controlled north Morocco and thus the Strait of Gibraltar which allowed the Budapest pact to close off the Mediterranean. This would be another seed planted for a future second great war.

China

in 1936 the Budapest Pact decided to stop supporting Chiang Kai-shek's nationalists against the Japanese. this came as a shock to the nationalists as the Budapest pact supplied them with the majority of their ammunition, guns, and armored vehicles. without their support, the nationalists would fall to the Japanese in the next war. but in 1938 the Soviet Union invaded the Ma clique and occupied their territory and told all Chinese communists to either hide until the right time or come to Xinjiang.

in 1937 japan invaded mainland China and without Budapest pact support they didn't stand much of a chance and lost even more land by 1939.

Japan

in 1935 the Taisei Yokusankai (Imperial Rule Assistance Association) took over and set up a totalitarian government and banned all parties and dissolved parliament and created the imperial assistance council.

Japan went to war with China starting the Second Sino-Japanese War. the National Revolutionary Army although large had many supply problems to was unable to properly feed its soldiers and they fell apart into mutiny and lost in 1939. Japanese established a puppet government made up of Kuomintang collaborators.

although it seemed like the Soviet Union and the Budapest pact gave up on China, the truth couldn't be further from that.

1940s

Japan

In 1940 the Japanese military junta made a terrible mistake. after their massive victories in finally conquering China, the Japanese military was incredibly over confident, so over confident that they would try to do something other countries only imagined in their nightmares, go to war with the Soviet Union. in March of 1940 the Japanese Navy and Japanese Airforce attacked the port city of Vladivostok, they then tried to attack the city of Magadan but before they could reach the city they met by Soviet ship who wiped out the small fleet. these attacks were part of attempts for Japan to take parts of Siberia to gain access to it's resources. What Japan didn't know is they just gave the Soviet Union a valid reason to justify war against them, something which they had wanted for quite some time now.

USSR

in 1940 Trofim Lysenko became director of the Institute of Genetics within the USSR's Academy of Sciences, he had big plans for the Soviet plan of transformation of nature. for these plans, he moved out to the Central Asian republics to lead the project. Most of the early years were begun with small-scale irrigation in Uzbekistan to create more farmland which was a success and doubled the available farmland in the republic, but Lysenko had bigger plans. his biggest idea was to increase the size of the Aral Sea and reshape the terrain so arable land would increase, along with massive canal and river projects across all the central Asian republics. the Aral Sea was increased 3x in size and hundreds of rivers and canals were created, stretching out in every direction. this massively increased arable land and as a consequence, the population increased to 100 million in the region, the USSR had created a whole new breadbasket for the country. in 1944 the city of Tashkent was renamed to Lysenkograd in his honor.

in 1940 the Soviet Union gathers 5 million troops at the border of Manchuria and another 5 million gathered in Xinjiang, with them are 6 million German troops, 1 million Hungarian troops, 500000 Bohemian-Moravian troops, 100000 Finnish troops, and another 100000 Mongolian troops. supporting them are estimated 10 million Chinese communist guerilla fighters. these massive armies would invade the Japanese puppet states in a massive war going from 1940 to 1943 known by the Budapest pact as "The War of Chinese Liberation" but known to the rest of the world as "the China War" or "the Soviet-Japanese war." Japan surrendered and gave up all it's territory outside of the mainland.

Mexico

In 1941 an assassination attempt on leon trotsky fails, motivated by this attempt on his life Trotsky rallied support and overthrows the Mexican Government and installs himself as president of Mexico now the People's Republic of Mexico.

Trotsky would take absolute power as Generalissimo of the People's Republic of Mexico, he would rapidly industrialize and modernize Mexico similar to that of the Soviet Union. Trotsky would grow paranoid and would kill those he suspected of trying to betray him. Under Trotsky, Mexico did actually see prosperity and an increase in birth rate and the population was very fond of the new state. because of this Trotskyism became popular in Western communist circles.

Trotsky would also rapidly militarize Mexico building up its military and locally making tanks and fighters.

Trotsky as part of his permanent revolution invaded Central America after the locals te Belize overthrew the colonial government in 1943. after the colonial government was overthrown Belize became occupied by the PRM and after this, the PRM decided to invade the rest of Central America. Trotsky wins many battles in the war and occupies most of Central America but is stopped under threat of American intervention and his invasion stops at Honduras.

United States

In 1940 the United States was in a very deep depression, FDR's New Deal had worked temporarily but didn't fix all the economy's problems. With this continued depression a new ideology came to prominence, that ideology was technocracy. The failure of the New Deal only led to the technocrats gaining more and more popularity and this led to the victory of Technocracy Incorporated in the 1944 elections in a landslide. Howard Scott would become President and would use his power to dissolve the Senate and the Congress. After the dissolution of the Senate and Congress Technocracy Inc formed the United Technates of America and created the Technocratic Directory as the main and only legislature. Howard Scott would end the Presidency instead replacing it with the Head of the Directory, a government position which made him the most powerful man in the country.

Technocracy inc was full of different factions. there were many but the biggest were, the moderates who wanted to keep the old America alive just with some changes to its economy, the Radicals who sought to drastically change American culture like banning religion and revising history, and the Pragmatists who wanted to do some of both the moderates and radical, they also were advocates for neutrality in the cold war between the Grand Entente and the Budapest Pact, there were the Socialist who wanted a more planned economy based on the Soviet Union's Planning but were less populist than the Communist Budapest Pact, but they still wished to either join them or ally with the Budapest pact, the Fascists who wanted a more class collaborationist economy but were also ultranationalistic and militarist and wanted to side with the Grand Entente, the smallest of the Factions were the liberals who were more capitalist and pro-free trade and less isolationist.

The UTA was not universally loved by the people and saw many strikes across the UTA, wildcat strikes happen in Chicago as some of the Technocrat's reforms were not supported like the 24/7 services and little time off as well as local Technocrat inc bosses treating workers poorly led to the Great Chicago Strike of 1945 which threatened to be the beginning of the Greater workers revolution across the UTA and it almost seemed like the UTA was over but Howard Scott intervened and got a good deal.

The Technocrats wished to create one large technate across the whole North American continent so the UTA started invading and couping Central American and Caribbean Governments and would directly invade Cuba and annex it.

in 1947 after a coup attempt on Trotsky failed, the People's Republic of Mexico went to war with the UTA that very same year, Starting the Second Mexican-American War.

The war saw a great initial success for Mexico With them even navally invading New York, they also are able to Crush UTA Puppets in Central America by 1948. in June of 1949, the Mexican army launches two massive offenses in an attempt to encircle Washington pushing further north and overextending their forces and starting the siege of Chicago and the battle of Washington both ending in American Victories. By November 1951 the Mexican forces are pushed back into Mexico and by mid-1952 the UTA launches a full scale invasion of Mexico and

China

In 1945 Mao Tse-tung is in Beijing, it October the 1st and Mao Tse-tung and the central committee of the Communist Party of China stand at Tiananmen Square, and in a fiery speech, Mao Tse-tung declares the creation of the People's Republic of China.

The new China would refuse to be divided so it United fully incorporated all of mainland China, the island of Taiwan, Mongolia, and Tuva.

Mao Tse-tung would begin Massive campaigns the like that had never been seen before, the first two were the land reform campaign started in 1945 which eliminated the petit-bourgeois landlord class and collectivized land, and Zhen Fan in 1946 the campaign to stamp out any remaining Kuomingtang resistance. the last campaign of the decade would start in 1948-1949 Known as the Three-anti and Five-anti Campaigns, the first campaign the Three-anti Campaign was launched against Corrupt CPC members Former Kuomingtang Members, and Bureaucratic capitalist politicians and officials. the Second campaign Started in 1949 and was mostly centered in the bigger cities and mostly targeted the industrial bourgeois class and collectivized industry in the big cities.

The thing that separated Chinese Communism from the likes of Soviet or German Communism was the massive populism and cultural changes they enacted, rather than it being just another policy the actions changed the culture of China from that of a backward superstitious land to a modern intellectual and artistic land which abandoned the ways of the past and marched forward.

Bulgaria

Bulgaria had been suffering for many years as it was on the losing side of the great war and was forced to pay reparations which destroyed its already fragile economy which fell apart after Germany left the war. American investors did seem to come to the rescue as many Americans wanted to Invest in the upcoming rose oil craze. With this Bulgaria's economy grew exponentially, but the same as many other countries with the start of the great depression in 1928 Bulgaria's economy lost all investment. Although even with this loss in investment one thing remained, a new petit bourgeois class had risen from the rose oil craze and were still able to remain influential in the country. During the great depression in Bulgaria, the Soviet Union offered to support Bulgaria economically and their claims to southern Dobruja so long as they could use Bulgaria's ports on the Black Sea. Bulgaria's Tzar knowing the infamous relationship between Tzars and communists refused. Because of this, the USSR increased funding to the Bulgarian communist party which skyrocketed in popularity among the working class. Over the next few years the rose oil barons and the industrial bourgeois would increasingly take control of the government, many in Bulgaria saw this and saw Tzar Boris III as incompetent and overthrew him in the 1943 juin revolution. After the revolution, the communist party would take over Bulgaria and later that same year joined the Budapest Pact.

Romania

In 1943 after the June Revolution in Bulgaria Succeeded in overthrowing the Tzar, the Romanian Monarchy feared the same would happen to them, this led to Ion Antonescu to convince Carol II to make him prime minister, saying "he would defend Romania and it's independence." Ion would later join the Grand entente as some of his first actions in office and immediately hand over Romania's struggling over to French Companies.

Ion's reforms although they seemed to fix many of Romania's problems at first, were incredibly unpopular among some nationalists and workers as French companies extracted many of Romania's natural resource and exploited workers for profit in exchange for "protection."

Greece

The 1940s were an unstable time for Greece, the popular George II died in 1947 and without him there was nothing holding back the Rising Metaxists from taking power and joining the Grand Entente, however their power wasn't absolute as the All People's front also rised in popularity and many thought a civil war was on the horizon. the anxious people in the middle were right and the civil war started that same year.

the civil war could go on from 1947 to 1949 and end in communist victory and Nikos Zachariadis taking power over greece.

1950s

Mexico

in February of 1953, Mexico City falls but Trotsky flees to Villahermosa and vows to continue the fight, but the UTA shocks the world by using the first-ever nuclear weapon on a populated city, Nuclear weapons had existed since 1948 but their destructive power had never been seen publicly. In the explosion, Trotsky was killed and the remnants of the government held up in Campeche capitulated.

With this Trotskyism failed and this led to an unintended consequence, this loss made all forms of Communism seem like a failure except for one, which was Marxism-Leninism, and it would be the hegemonic leftist ideology of the world.

UTA

After the Second Mexican-American War was over the UTA annexed Mexico and the rest of central America, with this victory Howard Scott got closer to his dream of a United North American Technate.

To consolidate power technocracy inc merged many labour unions into single unions to have better control over the workers like creating the AFL-CIO, in response the IWW created a branch specifically for North America called industrial workers of America, this grew to be even bigger then the AFL-CIO but was forced underground by the UTA. The IWA would also gain support from the Budapest pact in secret as they were planning a Worker's uprising. It's not known if Howard Scott knew about the Budapest Pact's support for the IWA but many believe if he did he wouldn't actually alienate the Budapest pact, because as a pragmatist he wouldn't want to make a very strong and growing stronger enemy.

USSR

USSR went into a political crisis after Joseph Stalin passed away in 1953, nobody knew who was going to take power and some outside of the USSR would worry that revisionists would take over the USSR. the person wanting to stop that from happening was Thalmann. He would work with Kliment Voroshilov to overthrow and imprison any opposition to the new person he was going to put in charge, the person he chose to succeed Stalin was an old friend of Stalin and someone important to his rise to power, Lazar Kagnovich. in 1957 Voroshilov overthrew Khrushchev and imprisoned him and his allies. after Khrushchev was imprisoned Lazar Kagnovich Became General Secretary of the CPSU.

Stalin's now successor was actually incredibly popular due to his important role as Minister of Construction Materials Industry aka his role in the mass industrialization of the Soviet Union, so when it was public that he was going to become general secretary everyone would be delighted by this new and be completely behind him. Lazar would rule alongside some of Stalin's other great friends like Voroshilov and Molotov.

in 1957 Lazar and Voroshilov decided to begin military reform of the Red Army changing it to the Red Armed Forces and creating branches. the Branches were the Red Army, the Red Navy, and the Red Airforce, this reform was to simplify and split it to have a proper airforce and navy outside of the Army.

In 1958, the Red Armed Forces had a Strength of 20 million soldiers.

Bohemia-Moravia

In 1952 the People's Republic of Bohemia-Moravia went into crisis as ultranationalist militants led an uprising in the countryside. at first, the Budapest Pact was not worried and believed all they would have to do was keep supporting the Bohemia-Moravia military and they would put it down on their own, but it came as a surprise to everyone when the ultranationalists started winning and after that, it was declared that the conflict became a civil war. the ultranationalists were also ethnonationalist and began killing Germans in The Sudetenlands and in response, the German People's Army occupied The Sudetenland.

later that same year the ultranationalists won major battles against the People's Republic of Bohemia-Moravia and were at the gates of Prague the Budapest pact decided to intervene and quickly defeated the ultranationalists preventing a fascist foothold in Central Europe.

During this intervention a new tank had been seen on the Battlefield, it was over 35 tonnes of steel and used a 100mm gun. it was nicknamed the Red Beast, and soon word spread of this new deadly medium tank.

Germany

After the intervention of the Budapest Pact in what was called the Bohemia crisis, Germany occupied Bohemia-Moravia. there were calls for Germany to annex the Sudetenlands and some even called for the full annexation of Bohemia-Moravia.

a referendum was held in 1953 to ask whether they wanted to join Germany or stay independent. the referendum was majority won by the join Germany option as many in the region saw the old government as unable to protect them from another uprising. so they decided to join Germany.

With this Thalmann said that "the Country is no longer just Germany, so it must change to reflect that." in 1954 Thalmann declared the change from the German Democratic Republic to the Central European Democratic Republic.

Turkey

Turkey had become divided ever since the death of Mustafa kemal ataturk and faction of kemalism rapidly formed of all different sides.

In the 1950s a fascist faction of the Republican people's party became increasingly popular, with this came increased violence against Armenian in turkey. The rise of the fascism in turkey concerned the Budapest pact so they had plans to overthrow the government if fascists took complete power. The Budapest Pacts worst fears came true as fascists led a successful coup in 1955 Turning turkey into a fascist dictatorship with plans to join the Grand entente, the Budapest pact wouldn't except this and would react before turkey could join the Grand entente by invading Turkey 1 week after the coup.

Balkan Budapest pact countries immediately marched to take thrace and Istanbul while the Red army went from the east into great Armenia area. The Red army quickly reached Ankara in just 2 weeks but turkey still held the line in thrace so the Red Navy decided to cross the black sea and go to Istanbul and into the bosphorus and bomb Istanbul. The very threat of bombing Istanbul caused Turkey to surrender, and in the subsequent treaty of Skopje Turkey was to give up a majority of thrace to Bulgaria and Greece and let the red army occupy the greater Armenia area and Istanbul.

South America

At the beginning of the 1950s revolutionary spirit was high in South America. One of the most notable was the Guerilla War in Argentina led by Ernesto Che Guevara. Che's popularity was rising across all of South America and Around the world gaining almost celebrity status in the Soviet Union as a Brave revolutionary fighting across Argentina in all climates.

Conflict was brewing all across South America as Conflicts between the Military and Government Became more frequent. The ideology pushed by the militaries and governments varied, some governments wanted land reform and to create better worker's rights while the military became controlled by the upper-class statesmen like in Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela. sometimes the roles reversed with authoritarian capitalist governments trying to be brought down by the military wanted to create a socialist state like Brazil, Peru, and Chile.

Brazil

Brazil was once again thrown into conflict as the military overthrew Getúlio Vargas, this opened a window of opportunity for Communists and Integralists to begin another uprising.

this began the Brazilian Civil War in 1955 with three factions, the interim military government, the Communists, and the Integralists, and on top of that, the Several States who wanted independence from Brazil.

the Civil War went from 1955 to 1958 and ended with Integralists' victory with help from the Grand Entente.

this conflict would only be the first in the long string of wars and civil wars in South America.

Rio de la Plata

In the wake of the Brazilian Civil Revolution spread across South America, in Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, and Argentina. The Greater Revolutions began in masse after Che reached Buenos Aires. Che Guevara then declared the creation of the People's Republic of Rio de La Plata, with plans to expand to the whole of South America.

the Revolutions in Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Chile soon became successful and joined the People's Republic of Rio de La Plata.

Albania

Albania had been under Italian subjugation since 1939, Ever since Albania became an Italian protectorate there was always resistance, the biggest resistance was started by a Young man by the name of Enver Hoxha who was the leader of the National Anti-Fascist Liberation Movement. Hoxha's National Anti-Fascist Liberation Movement had one important battle in Vlora in 1954, this started a Greater resistance across all of Albania and from 1954 - 1955 the National Anti-Fascist Liberation Movement grew massively and began a winning streak and it all ended in the battle of Tirana in august 1955 which was a final victory that was able to push the Italians out of Albania

1960s

Road to Der Große Volkskrieg

Tensions grew higher and higher as the years went by, and the two sides of the Cold War, the Grand Entente and the Budapest Pact Struggled for influence wherever they could. Some of the leaders that have been around since the beginning grew old, in the year 1965, both Thalmann and Mussolini died, which led to a crisis for their successors, in the CEDR they eventually decided on an influential politician by the name of Paul Verner, but in Italy, there was no one to succeed the late duce, so Italy went into internal crisis and on the verge of civil war, and worse king Umberto II has denounced the Fascist government and called for liberal democracy and even saying "I would rather be in Moscow then this wretched Fascist Rome." this led to a Split in the Fascist Government and with a Civil war about to happen, Bologna goes into worker's revolt. The Grand Entente accused the Budapest Pact of trying to install a socialist government in Italy, and with this, The Second Great War or Der Große Volkskrieg as it would come to be known, began.

Endings

Canon ending

The French saw at first, Great victories against the Budapest Pact from 1966-1968 as its strategies combined with seemingly infinite resources and soldiers from its colonies gave it a great advantage, allowing it to occupy most of western Germany. but soon all across Africa, Asia, and Arabia, Revolutions began, Revolutions for independence, these revolutions Gained massive support from the Budapest Pact. these Revolutions sabotaged resources going to Europe and many soldiers were split across their country's empires to help keep it in order. in the middle of these resource problems, Frances Armies were going to try a huge offensive into Saxony after the attempt to take Mecklenburg failed. they did this thinking the German military was destroyed, they didn't take into consideration the massive increase in Soviet presence in Germany. the French 42nd, 43rd, and 44th charged into Saxony with ease inflating their overconfidence, when they reached Dresden, they met an Army far larger, The entire 1st Polish front of 1.5 million soldiers was there compared to the force of 600 thousand had, with this, the French Forces were smashed and sent running. By 1969 the Red Army had pushed back the French Army far away from Saxony and were heading for Munich, getting breathing room from the Soviet pushing the French back, the NVA was able to conscript a new large force that was to join the red army at Munich as their first assignment. In 1969 the NVA and Red Army entered Munich and liberated the city after 16 days. After the Victory of the Budapest Pact on Munich, the outcome of the war was evident. This didn't stop French emperor Napoleon VI from wanting to take 2 million troops and head straight for Moscow in the hopes of taking out the Budapest pact's strongest member. In late 1969 Napoleon went out into battle himself to lead and massive force of 2 million to make a mad dash through Soviet Territory to Moscow, he just dashed past the Soviet defense losing many of his men but eventually by traveling the countryside made it to Moscow. He would spend weeks going across the Soviet Countryside raiding a pillaging. He would later in October of 1969 attempt his assault on Moscow but with only half the men he started with, he split his forces into smaller armies to Assault the city from all sides and he would command the largest of these armies coming from the south. To cut the head of the snake the Soviet forces that were to defend Moscow had a great idea, Bomb Napoleon himself. And as he led the charge on Oct 22nd the Red airforce sent bombers and artillery to bomb Napoleon's personal army. When the bombers and artillery let out their payloads and fired their shells and rockets, 300 thousand became less than 10 thousand in minutes, and in the middle of all this, a 152mm artillery shell hit Napoleon's horse, incinerating him.

By 1971 the French colonial empire had totally collapsed and the French had been pushed back to the Rhine. the beginning of the end for the third French Empire began at the Battle of Cologne or "the Great Battle of Cologne." this battle saw a massive defeat for the French and the Budapest Pact had achieved the mantra they had been repeating since the Battle of Dresden "CROSS THE RHINE!" By 1972 Paris had fallen and a Provisional government was established after the top leaders of France committed suicide in a bunker, this Provisional government signed the Treaty of Tripoli declaring their surrender on may 9th 1972.

but the was not just over yet as the UK had not surrendered. The UK was in no position to fight after losing all of its colonial possessions and being bombed since the beginning of the war, but they were going to try to keep fighting anyways. the Budapest Pact in Response started moving massive supplies to the Channel coast and preparing for an invasion of the British Isles, and just when they were getting ready a Revolution began in Britain, overthrowing the monarchy and the fascist government and making Britain a Socialist Republic. the New Socialist Union of Britain negotiated peace with the Budapest Pact and signed the Treaty of Amsterdam on july 12th, 1972, ending the Second Great War.

after the war, Europe was now entirely Socialist[2] with different borders. Some new Countries to be Created post-war were, the Romanian socialist Republic, the People's Republic of Yugoslavia, the Italian Democratic Republic, the Batavian Communard Republic, the Belgian People's Confederation,[3] the Iberian Union, the Danish People's Republic, the Norwegian Democratic republic, the Socialist Republic of Sweden, and The French People's Commune.

But years after this victory, some rifts grew between the new Western Socialist States and the older ones in the East. Eurocommunism and other Reformist branches of Socialism were Growing.

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bad ending

When the Second great war turned on France and the Grand Entente, they decided to use the Nuclear option and nuked Kyiv and Leningrad in 1969, the Budapest Responded by nuking Paris, Lyon, and London, as well as Grand Entente soldier positions. the Budapest Pact won after that but, at the cost of millions more pointless deaths.

life across Europe degraded after the Nukes dropped and while the war was over, it was far from at peace.

la Victoire Ending

The French were able to Crush the Revolt in their colonies, the 1st Polish front was late to make it to Dresden and so the NVA was crushed and the French made it to Berlin. The Budapest Pact decided to make peace and the ignorant fool Napoleon VI was he decided to take this peace. The CEDR had fallen and was split into many countries, the Confederation of the Rhine, the Archduchy of Austria, and the Kingdom of Prussia. With this, The Grand Entente had won Germany but lost most of Italy with Rome, Naples, and Sicily becoming a Socialist Republic and the North being annexed by France and the duchy Venicia-Lombardy being created.

With this peace, the Budapest Pact Grew its forces back and prepared for retaliation. a third Great War will definitely happen within the next 50 years

Wieder 1066 Ending

At the start of the Second Great War in 1966, the British Isles hadn't been invaded for 900 years, since the old conquest by the Normans in 1066 led by William the Conqueror.

By 1972 Paris Had fallen, what was left of the old imperial government surrendered, and now, the Budapest Pact sent Trains from all across Europe to send supplies to a grand army assembled on the North Western coast of France from Dunkirk to La Havre.

National Defense Minister Heinz Kessler Holds a Congress of the Budapest Pact members in The Palace of Versailles to decide their actions moving forward, mostly discussing what to do with France and the coming invasion of Britain. At the end of the congress, Heinz Kessler speaks. he says "This war has been harsh, millions have died, all because of the ignorance of a few men, but this war was always been about one thing ever since they invaded and attacked our Motherlands, to push the back and send from whence they came, it had become a war of Liberation, a Great Patriotic war, a People's war. this war is not over yet, what is left of imperialism is left in the place where the once greatest empire sat, Britain. they are what's left of the imperialism order. they think they are undefeatable, well to that I say to that, 1066 again!"

In July of 1972, thousands of ships bringing millions of soldiers would land in Britain from the sides of the island. this invasion of the British Isles would be the Hardest fought front of the Whole war, and millions would die on both sides. but after another 3 years, by 1975, the United Kingdom was defeated, and on May 1st, the same day the Union was declared, a new union was declared, a union of four socialist republics, The Socialist Union of Britain.

Technate Joins the War ending (1)

the leader of the UTA, Howard Scott died on January 1st 1970, in the middle of one of the most tense political situations in the UTA's history, it was all because of the Second Great War. Howard Scott had been able to keep the Pragmatists the main faction in charge of the UTA preventing civil war and preventing it from being involved in any foreign war. After his passing, the order of the UTA was broken, and factions became ever more divided. the two that had become the most influential were the Fascists who were calling themselves the National Directors, and the Socialists who were calling themselves the February Group. The chaos and division had become so fierce that violence happened in the streets. although this may seem like the end for the UTA, at the last moment, members of the February Group in the Technocratic Directory convinced the military to back them, and with this support, the National Directors faction members were all arrested and the February Group would create what is now called, the March 17th Government.

the March 17th Government would declare war on the Grand Entente on the side of the Budapest pact on April 8th 1970, and while having very minor involvement, they did invade and occupy the Danish Government in exile in Iceland and faroe islands.

after the Second Great War was over the UTA would enter good relations with the Budapest Pact for the foreseeable future.

Technate Joins the War ending (2)

the leader of the UTA, Howard Scott died on January 1st, 1970, in the middle of one of the most tense political situations in the UTA's history, it was all because of the Second Great War. Howard Scott had been able to keep the Pragmatists the main faction in charge of the UTA preventing civil war and preventing it from being involved in any foreign war. After his passing, the order of the UTA was broken. In the wake of this chaos, a faction of Technocracy inc called the National Directors took power in a military coup establishing a junta. The National Directors Join the Second Great War on the side of the Grande Entente with the Promise of their North American colonies and more. The UTA makes its way to Europe just in time for the Battle of Cologne. the UTA Expeditionary force came in millions and help the Grande Entente win the Battle of Cologne.

With this Victory for the Grand Entente, the war would go on for many more years. the UTA would launch two offensives into Germany, the SGSOO (Southern German Strategic Offensive Operation) in the south towards Baden-württemberg, and the WGSOO (West German Strategic Offensive Operation) in the Ruhr Valley. these two offensives would not be an easy victory and the slog of urban warfare in the Ruhr and the vast black forest of the South would prove to be a massive advantage for the Budapest Pact with the Grande Entente Losing on the African Front there was only a finite amount of Resources left and with the SGSO being a failure this war was going to be very hard fought.

With the Victory of the Budapest Pact in Europe, the UTA Decides to Restart the War in Asia by invading Korea, China, Indochina, and Indonesia. although meant to split Soviet forces this failed as the locals were able to defend themselves completely by themselves with the Korean and Yangtze campaigns ending in miserable failure but the Indochina and now called the Borneo campaigns still holding for now.

Although facing initial losses the Grande Entente is able to Break the Budapest Pact lines by 1973 and slowly push them back to the lines of 1968 by 1975 and pushes them Back to the Berlin-Vienna line by 1976. In 1974 the People`s Republic of Spain capitulated being isolated From their allies in the East they Couldn`t hold Forever. but in the Spring of 1977, the Budapest Pact launches the largest counter-offensive in history that pushes the Grande Entente Back past the Rhine and destroys the Italian Social Republic. By the end of the counter-offensive, the Budapest Pact Defeated the Grande Entente in Italy and entered the core of France in Alsace-Lorraine. With Massive anti-war protests and strikes in the Grande Entente with rationing and rapidly decreasing quality of life, the Grande Entente sued for peace on Christmas Day 1977.

the Borders of the World changed, and the UTA absorbed Canada, the CEDR annexed Alsace-Lorraine and Luxembourg, South America united, the UTA left Asia including their colony in the Philippines, and all European soldiers and settlers to leave Africa, French Settlers are to leave Germany.

North Atlantic Unity ending

NOTE: This is custom ending made by Glencoe13 that may lead to a spinoff at some point in the future

In this the Battle of Cologne goes even worse for the Budapest Pact with the 1st Polish Front losing 1/2 of its men and two armies completely destroyed. As a result reinforcements meant for forces in south Germany don't receive them and as result the SGSO is much more successful with Struggartt and Munich falling to the combined UTA-French force. With this the Indochina, Buerno, Yangtze, and Korean campaigns are launched. The Korean campaign is still a failure but the other campaigns aren't with Budapest pact forces pushed out of Indonesia and Indochina and Shanghai and Nanjing Falling to UTA forces.

In Late 1974 the Grand Entente launch there winter offensive to great success with Berlin, Vienna, and Prague falling into Grand Entente hands and the Peoples Republic of Spain surrending. Around the same time what would go down in UTA history as the "Long March to Beijing" began. It would be a burtal campaign with the Chinese Peoples army fighting fanatically against the technocratic Advance however by 1976 the UTA flag was risen over timmean square and China again fell into warlordism. Also in 2076 the Grand Entente launched another Offensive this time to south to great successes with Rome and Zagreb being retaken.

However by this point Anti-War protests had reached a fever pitch in the Grand Entente and after a massive Soviet counteroffensive retook berlin, Prague, and Hamburg the Grand Entente agreed to peace and on Christmas Day 1977 the Second Great War ended.

The Borders in the World changed drastically as a result of the war. In Europe the CEDR lost major amounts of terroity with with Rhine Confederation, Kingdom of Hannover, United Kingdom of Württemberg-Bavaria, and Archduchy of Austria being formed with the Saarland and Holstein annexed by France and Denmark respectively. In Italy the North was annexed by France with the duchy Venicia-Lombardy and the Roman technate created. In addition to this Croatia lost much terroity to serbia and the Spanish technate was formed. In Asia China was balkenized the PRC cotuned to exist as a rump state in control of bejining, Manchuria, and Outer Mongolia while the rest of china was split into 3 UTA puppet states the Yangtze Technate, Formosa Technate and the Technate of south china with everything west of chonging becoming warlord controlled. Indochina became another technate and Indonesia was returned to the Dutch. While in south America the borders remained the same but Peru and Grand Colombia became UTA puppets.