Our Soviet Union (USSR)

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Chapter One: Death of Lenin

Born out of the ashes of the Russian Civil War in 1922, the Soviet Union was shaken by the Death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924 that ended the federal Leninist one-party socialist republic under Lenin’s totalitarian dictatorship and left many to wonder, what would come next. Lenin’s testament itself criticized Bolshevik leaders, like Zinoviev, Kamenev, Trotsky, Bukharin, Pyatakov and Stalin, warned of a split of the party leadership between Trotsky and Stalin and ordered Stalin’s removal from his position as the General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party's Central Committee. It suggested the Party’s Central Committee to be increased, the State Planning Committee to be given legislative powers and the nationalities policy implemented by Stalin. These Bolshevik National Delimitation in the Soviet Union, creating national territorial Soviet Socialist Republics (SSR) as nation states and indigenization that had formed the Transcaucasian SFSR out of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, but were also seen as the main reasons, the Byelorussian SSR and the Ukrainian SSR, as well as to a lesser extent the Bukharan SSR and the Kjorezm SSR had been willing to join with the Russian SFSR into a unified Soviet Union. The question if more regional controlling unions or more ethnic SSR should be created rose again, while others questioned the overall central authority of the Soviet Union in General, claiming the major influence and position of the Russian SFSR was nothing more then Greater Russian Chauvinism to dominate the other SSR hegemonic. Then there was the overall question if the Soviet Union should overall support, or even lead other left-wing political socialist, Bolshevik and soviet parties in the Rest of the World, or led them fight for their local revolution as part of a greater Global Revolution on their own, as local circumstances could differ greatly from the Russian Imperial one, meaning more localized methods could be preferable. Among the possible candidates to succeed Lenin were; Lev Kamenev, who was eager to get the position, had led Moscow Soviet, secured the city for the revolution, was very intelligent, but had disagreed with Lenin often and his loyalty had been questionable as he had opposed the 1917 armed uprising. Then there was Grigory Zinoviev, who was interested in the position as well, had been the 1918 head of the Petrograd Soviet, had been a close associate of Lenin, but had opposed the 1917 armed uprising and because he was very ambitious had gained many enemies. Nikolai Bukharin, who did not want the position was never the less very influential as well, as the editor of the Pravda, Lenin even had called him the darling of the party, he was very popular, his easy readable introduction to communism created by him sold very well, but he had headed the Left Communists who opposed Lenin’s peace deal with the German Empire ans beside begin a right candidate was not a skilled politician.

Then there was Alexei Rykov, who was not eager to get the position, but was the Chairman of the Council of the People’s Commissars of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), who had many supporters for his development of the agrarian sector to finance industrialization, which made him popular with farmers and peasants, despite him being a right candidate. Next was Leon Trotsky, who did not outright seek the position and was also be opposed by most of the Central Committee. While his leadership had greatly aided the Bolshevik victory during Russian Civil War and was the Commissar of Foreign Affairs, People's Commissar of Army and Fleet Affairs and Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council, who was very popular for Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, had raised soldier morale, was supported by Red Army and the young, radical party members, among which he was very popular, the majority of peasants hated him because of grain requestion squads during Civil War, he had a Menshevik background and joined the Bolsheviks only in 1917, so the Communist Party also opposed him as he was not a devote party member and because his popularity with the Red Army many feared he would mean military dictatorship. Further more Trotsky formed the United Opposition between Left Opposition and New Opposition lead by Grigory Zinoviev. Another candidate was Mikhail Tomsky, the Chairman of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, originally a Russian Socialist Democratic Labour Party and a right wing Bolshevik since 1904. Other candidates included Grigory Zinoviev, leader of the New Opposition, Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet and Chairman of Communist International, who massively opposed Trotsky and was very influential. Last there was Joseph Stalin, who wanted to succeed Lenin badly, the Proletariate favored his humble background, he was the former General Secretary of the Communist Party, had common touch with the regular people unlike Bukharin and Trotsky as intellectuals. Stalin’s promotion of the Lenin Cult made him even more liked, but Lenin’s testament had revealed that Lenin felt that Stalin had more power than he could handle and might be dangerous if he was Lenin's successor, which was why Lenin had recommended Stalin's removal from the position of General Secretary of the Party.

 

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Voted in as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), as well as the de facto leader of the Soviet Union, Alexei Rykov would begin an Era known in the Soviet Union as that of so called Rykovism. As part of the Council of People’s Commissars accompanied by Bukharin, Kamenev, Zinoview and in coalition with Molotov and Kalinin, as well as others, the future of the new, young Soviet Union had to be decided. His heavy taxation on Vodka later on would give the drink the nickname Rykovka inside the Soviet Union and abroad.

Some of the major decisions to undergo, were regarding the Ukraine and Central Asia, were Soviet control and influence was not yet total. Because of that the National delimitation in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics had to further specify the territorial national units and define them, as Soviet Socialist Republics (SSR), or Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics (ASSR), while also deciding if it was better to leave as many of them as smaller, more localized ethnic and religious regions of their own, or form bigger multi-nation regions (like the proposed Vostokslavia East Slavic Union Republic) to help with a new type of Soviet Union nation building and merging them into a more homogeneous Union over time. This was a response to the Question if Marxism was a National and International Question, in support of the Deceleration of Rights of the People of Russia by the Bolshevik Government and the idea to create a federated union of nationalities as a new form of government and nation state.

Then there was the question of the Trade-union debate, the dividing possibility if the Trade Unions should be tasked with being educational organizations and school administrations, control economic management and the spread of communism and it’s control over the means of production overall. It soon escalated into the question how much influence the CPSU itself should have in top-down control, or if the people should control it all from down to top. As a part of that the elected Soviets were meant to form a government structure, with committee and ministries aiding in the administration. Sme belied that the model of the NEP (new economic politics) market oriented/ NEPmen or NEPmani noubeau riches (new riches) of letting people make their own production and market decisions was right, others argued that would lead to injustice in form of capitalism again and that at least some form of state control and regulation should be ensured to keep the competition fair and just, to ensure economic benefits and a better standard of living for all. Some even hoped for foreign Capital investors, or the Soviet Union Jews to help them build up the new state, despite some seeing them as negative because they resembled capitalists in the eyes of many in the new regime.

Then there was the question how the still feudal, Soviet peasantry should be brought on pair with the overall industrial countries and nation states of Europe, many of which feared and rivaled the Soviet Union out of the sheer terror the Soviet Regime had brought to most of their monarchies thanks to the Execution of the Romanov family in Yekaterinburg. Logistics, infrastructure and urbanization were all in worse shape then before the Russian Civil War and internal powerful groups, like the Petrograd Soviets and the circle around Stalin still remained as potential dangers.

With grain being the most the Soviet Union at the moment had to offer foreign markets to finance their rebuilding, modernization and industrialization, but also needing it to feed it’s own population after the Russian Civil War, further questions arose how to balance this without creating more suffering for the Soviet people, or slow down their own attempts of rebuilding, modernization and industrialization alike.

 

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Inside the Soviet Union under Chairman Alexei Rykov a mix of multi-national unions and ethnic or religious nation states was created by combining related and closely related to one another, like the Rus SSR which would encompassed the Russian SSR, White Russian SSR and the Ukrainian SSR. At the time the new Soviet hierarchy, allowed Trade Unions, Committees and Councils form on their own to give them self-determination and more influence, while also trying to balance their power out with their local advisers and experts be overlooked by our own commissaries for traitors against the Revolution- To supply their need for modernization with modern machinery and instruction on how to use it, while also form commune unions and guide smaller groups so they are more efficient in competing with bigger ones without to direct state control and ownership. In their attempt to form the war-torn Soviet Union citizens with our grain first and stock some reserves for bad times, then sell the rest to finance our modernization and industrialization and other needs as we had few other successors to sell in large enough quantities to the outside world.

At the same time the new members of our party and the liberties we would allow the liberated masses, also posed the dangers of power gliding out of our hands, until another, more unified group would oust and oppose us like the Bolsheviks. New party members could therefore not be entrusted with positions of power in the new government, or military easily. Because of that those parts of our revolution, new government and overall society that hinders the Revolution and what it tried to archive in liberating the people of Russia and ultimately the world. To truly liberate our Proletariat on the inside, wee need not only to End our oppression from the aristocratic monarch of the Czar, but of those opposing out Class struggle by other means. Those contesting out party and power need to be stopped, so that banking could revitalize financing, infrastructure and logistics be repaired and expanded upon so the rural agricultural areas of the Soviet Union would not only get more efficient, but help us finance a modern, industrious society even better. Our system of elected representatives, advisers and commissaries looking over them should equip our party with the means to keep everyone under control and in line with our revolution.

The Soviet Councils, Trade Unions and other such groups would thereby strike a balance from bottom-up and top-down while keeping both sides in control. At the same time the Saint Petersburg 4th and 5th Petrograd Soviets, opposition in Siberia and Central Asia who are counter-revolutionary breeding grounds. While our society and the working class had to be liberated trough revolution, they now needed to be protected from, including counter revolutionary people and groups hiding in our midst. Because of them to much centralization is dangerous for the freedoms won by our revolution and to the support of some national soviet republics who are members of the Soviet Union, just like to few risks the national ethnic soviets breaking away for full autonomy. People need to be encouraged to work in the factories and rebuild them and our cities once the food supplies are guaranteed and secured once more in the farms.

Clearly we need to organize ourselves better then those enemies in our midst and outsmart them, show them as the criminal reactionaries they truly are. At the same time the French Revolution has once swept over Europe, but our Soviet Revolution has failed in Bavaria (Germany), Hungary, as well as other places. It would be wise to support the White Russian SSR and the Ukrainian SSR as an overall part of the Rus Upper Socialist Soviet Republic USSR/ VSSR to use the White Russian and Ukrainian ethnic irredentism in our struggle against the Polish in Eastern Poland with the need of their own local bases and socialist or communist parties to fall in line with those of the local White Russian SSR and the Ukrainian SSR. At the same time the Urkainians resist the most to the Ukrainian SSR with their own Ukrainian People’s Republic backed by the Whites, a resistance still felt to this day. The question now is how to approach this remaining internal and external threats and enemies, so the Soviet Union can be secured for good against all our rivals and enemies. Simultaneously many Finnish Reds wish to oust the Finnish Whites in Finland from Mannerheim, as well.

 

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Hope the three main subdivisions (Rus, Caucasus and Central Asia can be seen)!

 

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The Communist International (ComIntern)

With the Soviet Union made up by the Rus Soviet Federative Socialist Union Republic (RSFSUR), also known as Vostokslavia (East Slav, Eastern Slav, or United Eastern Slav) according to the national delimitation of the Soviet Union, that was made up of the Russian Soviet Federation Socialist Republic (RSFSR), the Byelorussian or White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR) and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (UkSSR), the Transcaucasian Socialist Federation Soviet Republic (TSFSR) Union of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (ArSSR, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (AzSSR) and Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (GSSR), as well as the Srednyaya Aziya Federation Socialist Soviet Republic (SAFSSR) made up by the Bukharan Soviet Socialist Republic (BuSSR), the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (KaSSR), the Khorezm Soviet Socialist Republic (KhSSR) and the Turkistan Soviet Socialist Republic (TSSR), later increased by the Uzbeck Soviet Socialist Republic (UzSSR). The Soviet Union Leadership had realized, that they needed to consolidate their internal control and power first, before the Revolution could spread across the world, just like Revolutionary France had done in Europe around hundredth years earlier. This meant crushing the Basmachi Movement (Bek) in Central Asia, annexation of the Far Eastern Republic, crushing the White Cossack's under Bockkaryov, the Yakut White Revolt (both later reemerging as the All-Tungus Congress Revolt), retaking control over the most northern areas of the native Chukchi and Nganasan people, establishing a peace deal with the Japanese Empire and negotiating the retreat of their forces out of the Russian Far East, Sakhalin and Northern Manchuria, were the North Manchurian Railway was under Russian management. The partial Japanese backed Manchurian Warlords, the Fengtian clique in it’s quest to become the sole recognized government of China however had seized the Chinese Eastern Railway for their own control, nearly sparking a Soviet Union intervention and invasion of Manchuria. Then there was also the issue of Wrangel island, occupied first by the British/ Canadians and then given to the Americans, that had previously been rightfully Russian land. To gain this control the Red Army was used inside the Caucasus and Central Asian Republics alike, were especially Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkish Islamic warlords and ambitious mans supported the Muslim rebels against the atheist Soviet Union there.

The local SSR and SSRU, as well as the USSR needed to be prevented to establish government rivaling movements to step up, as well as prevent local autonomy and independence movements to organize. The ethnics, religions, government organization, classes and casts all needed to be brought into line without increasing civil unrest and creating to many Autonomous SSR and Oblasts which overall could weaken the Soviet Union central cooperation and one-nation-state as a whole. At the same time economic, technical and other specialists were needed to continue their work, even when their loyalty was questionable. A clear balance between to much centralization and to few had to be found. At the same time the Five-Year-Plan and overall need for foreign economic investment opened up the Soviet Union to foreign investment, as well as capitalist influence. All of this meant the Soviet Union was not capable and willing to continue fighting and intervening in Finland, the Baltic Nations, Poland, Eastern Turkestan, Mongolia, Manchuria and the Far East. Instead the Soviet Union would focus on it’s ethnic minorities in these regions to insight unrest and have an additional support pillar beside the communists and socialists there. Many of this local communists and socialists therefore became stronger influenced and depending on the Soviet Union over time. To show at least some form of more direct support beside propaganda and minor supplies of foods and other goods leftover from the Russian Civil War, the Soviet Union hosted the first Communist International (ComIntern), were delegates from various communist, socialist and syndicalist movements and parties would meet in Moscow, among them delegates of the failed Chinese, German (Bavarian/ Hannoveran) and Hungarian Soviet Republics. Here Poles, Czechs, Slovaks and Sorbs would form the Zapadslavia (West Slav, Western Slav, or United West Slav) Delegation, either to create a Western Slavic Union of Soviets themselves, or join the Soviet Union as the Western Slavic Federation. Similarly the Serbian led Yugoslavia (South Slav, Southern Slav, or United South Slav) Delegation of Serbians, Bosnian, Croats, Montenegrin, Slovene, Bulgarian and Macedonians did the same following their example. The East Asan Delegation meanwhile led by the Communist Party of China, also comprised of Tunna Tuvan, Mongolians, East Turkestani, Manchurians, Koreans and Japanese, while African and South Asian delegates mainly focused on an anti-colonial, anti-imperial ambitions and ideal.

 

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Between the Soviet Union and the Empire of Japan, a Peace Treaty was reached that resulted in the Japanese keeping Southern Sakhalin/ Karafuto and their influence in Southern Manchuria, the Russians meanwhile regained the Far East and at least on paper the Northern Manchurian Railways, which were taken over by the local Chinese Warlord for now, as the Red Army was not send out to strike at a neighboring nation in East Asia, after their recent conflicts had left the Polish and Finnish resentful for revenge and territorial claims, who could use a potential new war between Russia and Japan to strike again from the West and force the Soviet Union into a two-front war, the same problem that had defeated the powerful Imperial German Army before. This way the Soviet Union could much better focus on overall rebuilding after the Russian Civil War and begin projects that would aid them in the reconstruction of their war-torn nation. First among those was the renewal of their infrastructure, including roads, railways and bridges, to ensure trade, supplies and overall needed goods would once more reach the people they were supposed for.

At the same time the three federal republican unions of the Soviet Union debated if a single head of state should be elected among them, if a triumvirate council of three people should be elected, or if a middle ground should be pursued. A question that would also play a major role for the Western Slavs and Southerner Slavs, should their own unions in the future join the Soviet Union as well. Some suggested a model close to the Swiss Confederation, or that of the Untied States of America should be chosen, were the representatives of the various Republics, would become part of the Union Republics, like in a Council, House of Representatives, or Senate and that a separate political chamber for the whole Soviet Union should exist beside that. This way a Chairman, President, or Supreme Soviet could be elected as a representative of the whole Soviet Union, without diminishing the votes of single Socialist Soviet Republics, who would all gain one vote, so that the largest, most populous ones would not automatically dominate the rest hegemonic ally.

Another Question the Soviet Union needed to decide was if they would be willing to participate in modern sport events and competitions. If doing so could bring glory to the Soviet Union and proof the Soviet Citizen could with his will triumph about the cast and class system professional athletes of other nation states, or if doing so would give financial and legitimization to the capitalist, reactionary cilonial powers and empires the Soviet Union opposed ideologically, politically, and in the future even economically and militarily if possible.

Then there was the question of the future of Soviet Union culture, society and religion, if the Party and thereby the State and the People forming both from within their middle should solely be the moral, ethnic and spiritual guidance of the new Soviet People, or if maybe a party and state aligned and controlled new Orthodox Church, should support a form of Socialist Christianity, which might be capable of making the Socialist and Communist Ideology more popular among some within the former Russian Empire and many more within the rest of Europe and the World, or if the new state union government should form their own guidelines for culture, society and religion without any other faction and power interfering and influencing it’s people in the future.

 

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Regarding the Leadership of the Soviet Union it was agreed upon that the smaller Union SSR would get a leading national or cultural union President/ Chairman Soviet each atop of the minor ones, that then together would form a Council of Chairman/ Presidents that would together form another branch in the Soviet Union Government, a representative body of the smaller SSR Unions, as well as a body atop the overall Union Council in which every small SSR President and Chairman would be represented within all together, but with much more limited influence (mainly on their own SSR), while the overarching Council of the smaller Union Chairman would be granted the power to not only represent their smaller unions, but decide on behalf of the whole Soviet Union. Atop of it as a speaker and representative would be the Supreme Soviet Chairman Alexei Rykov as a representative of it all towards the public, a head speaker and the one person guaranteeing order within debates and the overall institution. Regarding international sport and similar events it was decided to no longer support the Capitalist Reactionary games used by Despots, Tyrants, Emperors, Kings and Capitalist to promote their own superiority and propaganda, but to instead create their own Spartakiad, were the freely liberated Socialist and Communist nations of the world could compete fairly and just among brothers, while at the same time proving that they were as capable in ranging the same sports top athletes, then the corrupt, bribing and drug using western system they this way opposed, as well as partly competed with by proving that their version of the Olympic Games would be the more superior one. In regards to religion it was decided that it would not be completely opposed, but molded in accordance to the Party, Ideology and overall Soviet Union, that those aspects of it fitting would be enhanced and prioritized to create a new form of Socialists Christianity, Socialist Buddhism, Socialist Islamism and other religions and religious movements inside the Soviet Union. To do so the Russian Orthodox Church was transformed into the Soviet Union Socialist Christian Church, were the state would control if priests would share a religious message in line with the party, ideology and union. The same would be true for the Islamic branches of Sunni Hanafi (Caucasus and Central Asia) and Shia Ismaili (Azerbaijan) who would be unified under the new Soviet Union Socialist Mohammedan Ummah, were Immam would be brought in line with the party, ideology and union, as well as the Soviet Union Socialist Buddhists in Kalmykia, Buryata and Tuva, whose priests would also be brought in line.

At the same time the Soviet Union had to decide if they opened up more to foreign nations and trade, as their economy, industry and army needed time to restructure, adapt and modernize, including neighboring countries, nation states, or simply those willing to do so like the internationally equal isolated Weimar German Republic. Like the Western Slavic Union, especially the White Russian SSR and Ukrainian SSR, Germany also had ethnic territorial claims against Poland, located in between them that might be persuited easier if the both of them worked together, especially if a socialist-communist government, or coalition would be in charge of the German Republic, like at the moment with the Social Democratic Party under Hermann Müller, Otto Wels, and Arthur Crispien and the Communist Party of Germany under Ruth Fischer and Arkadi Maslow and the German Democratic Party of Erich Kocj-Weser, who together held 208 of 493 seats in the Reichstag. Beside economic, industrial, trade and military cooperation, it was also a question how direct and how much such local socialist and communist parties should be supported with finances, propaganda and even guided, or directly controlled from Moscow overall, like it was the chase with the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) or the rivaling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and left-leaning Kuomintang (KMT) in China. Clearly if they all could cooperate and unite their affords under the Communist International (Comintern), the Global Revolution would be closer to total victory, but doing so might alienate and frighten other parties to form counter-coalitions against the growing influence of socialist and communist Comintern aligned parties.

 

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Inside the Soviet Union, the Soviets divided that they should use the Comintern in regards to other socialist and communist parties and movements around the world to support them with propaganda, advisers and finances. Especially as any attempt of the support them in direct, violent uprisings and coups might make them enemies not only in the targeted nation states, but also their allies and friends. At the same time a too direct Comintern control was seen as contra productive in the eyes of Moscow, as it might alienate those who would otherwise support their ideology and ideas. At the same time Saint Petersburg (Petrograd) was renamed Leningrad, in honor of the now dead former leader of the Revolution and the Soviet Union; Lenin. Meanwhile in Italy, the socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti speaks out against Fascism, resulting in him being kidnapped and murdered in Rome. Shocked by this development of overall political violence, that in Russia had lead to the Civil War, many Socialists and Communist condemned this violence and some questioned if some form of criminal persecution of those responsible should be demanded, as Fascist Italy itself did not seam to keen on truly investigating the chase and many feared the socialist and communist movements could loose all influence in Italy, now that the Fascist control and hegemony in the Italian Nation State grew.

 

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Regarding the death of Giacomo Matteotti the Soviet union choose to demand an investigation by the Italian Fascist State, as well as prepare security for Italian comrades, while they at the same time did not wish to outright alienate and make relations between them to hostile at the same time, as some still hoped that the Italian Fascists could be Socialist brothers against the Capitalist and Royal Kingdoms, Empires and Nation States in the rest of Europe. At the same time the Red Army of the Soviet Union was undergoing a series of modernization and reorganization, to craft it into a modern army, on pair with the other major European powers, while the Soviet Union itself became more on pair with modern industrialized European Nation States at the same time. The question was what kind of advisers the Russians would hope to get, from other major powers, British, French, or Germans who all had been major players in the last Great War, as during the same time it was questionable if those actually would support them, as many of them had opposed the Red Army and the Revolution during the World War/ Great War and/ or Russian Civil War and instead aided the White Factions. Ironically one of the major European Powers most likely willing to overall do so was the German Republic, which nearly had become the German People Republic, which at the time had a left-leaning government made up by the SPD (Social Democratic Party) that might be willing to extent diplomatic and partial economic ties to the Soviet Union to End their own isolationism and surrounding in the landscape of Europe after the German loss in the Great War, while also allowing the Germans to train and implement more modern weaponry, which they legally can't do in Germany itself, because of the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles. Other countries in Europe with strong socialist and communist movements overall were France, Spain, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, At the same time countries with high populations still working in the agrarian farm sector (up to 48%) of the overall population and therefore ripe for Russian-like Revolutions were overall Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Poland, Romania, Turkey, Albania, Greece, Turkey, Spain and Portugal. At the same time there were also string far-right, Fascist and Nationalist political movements in the Baltic States of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, in Norway, Great Britain, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Turkey, France, Spain and Portugal, who were partially increasingly supported by Italy, as well as a similar strongly growing National Movement in Germany rather soon.

 

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As it was decided the Soviet Union should work with the Germans under a left-wing government to benefit both nation states, as well as to archive their mutual border disputes and ambitions against Poland, that might even lead to a secretive pact for more direct action, a pact the Lithuanians laying claim on Wilna/ Wilno/ Vilna could also be interested in to isolate and pressure the Polish into giving up the lands they desire. To not worry the French, who had been great allies to the Russians against the Germans and other Central European threats also endangering them, the growing good relations with Germany had to be sought with a balance with France as well as the British to approach Western Europe overall and to end Soviet Union isolation in Europe, while at the same time also addressing British fears of French growing hegemony that had arisen after the defeat of Germany in the Great War. The good historic relations of Russia with all of these nations were therefor highlighted abroad, not so much inside the Soviet Union, were close ties with these aristocrat nobility kingdoms and empires were propagated as treason to the Revolution by the former Imperial Russian despotic tyranny and regime. In the hopes of portraying the Soviet Union, not Poland as the best bet for France to secure the post-war borders and treaties in Eastern Europe, Central Europe and the Balkans against local German, Austrian, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Italian and other ambitions, the Soviet Union hoped to align closer with Germany and France at the same time, playing them against each other, while also isolating and weakening Poland in general.

While at the same time the basics for Rykovism were overall a balance between local national and religious groups and overall unity without favoring one over the other to much, like many of General Secretary Alexei Rykov moderate approaches, a definition for communist and socialist parties abroad was needed and the idea of it’s definition as a regional socialism, religious socialism and market socialism emerged, as caring human socialism with an emphasis of not outright destroying the old, but molding it into something new and better, an evolution of modern mankind into a utopia. While opposed and seen as a betrayal to the revolution by some hardliners, even they could not deny the effects this had especially on the Orthodox Church, Islamic and Jewish groups inside the Soviet Union, who now had not only some prominent leaders in support of the new nation, state, government and ideology, but the majority of their churches as well, who saw opportunity after the anarchy and chaos of the revolution for stability and a more liberal, free, prosperous future for their follows. The question however remained how much influence the churches/ religions and how much influence the state would have at first, a question soon eliminated with the organization of the Socialist Churches/ Religions alongside the same trade union and party liens then the rest of the Soviet Union, with religions embracing the socialist elements fo their faith, founders and teachings more then ever, something that also made Rykovism much more popular then more atheist communist and socialist ideals in Western Europe, North America, Latin America, or Asia.

Under the slogan “Workers of the World, come build a Utopia”, the Soviet Union also attempted to reach immigrants of all flocks of life, especially farmers and workers to migrate and settle in the Soviet Union as their new homeland and nation, to help rebuild some of the damages of the Russian Civil War, by giving out now free land whose owners had died during the revolution and civil war to incoming families and collective groups of them in hopes to attract more and more migrants (soon 80,000, of wich 50% were German or Austrian, 25% were American, and the rest were Finnish, Czech, Italian, French, Spanish, Swedish, and Japanese, who would carry back the new socialist communist Soviet Union and Rykovists ideals back home into their own nations with them later on). So while the United States Immigration Act of 1924 included an Asian Exclusion Act, many Chinese, Koreans and Japanese were therefore attracted to the Soviet Union instead. This would bolster the Soviet Union economy and industries, aid in the repairs and rebuilding and attack especially many people from Eastern Europe, South Asia and East Asia, as before Russian Serfs had basically been slaves and now they could directly own and dictate the means of production and work inside the Soviet Union like nowhere else in the world. And while direct actions in Europe were not yet seen as as favorable, the Fall of the Chinese Empire and the instability of the Chinese Republic made things seam different in China. Leon Trotsky, seen as an unstable potential threat and danger inside the Soviet Union by many Rykovists was therefore send to China by train, to meet with the Kuomintang, Chinese Socialist Party and Chinese Communist Party, to seek a Left-Wing Chinese United Front to unite the Chinese Republic into a Chinese People’s Republic and Chinese People’s Union, subduing the various cliques and warlords and aid spread socialism and communism across Asia, partial by means of force and Trosky’s envisioned World Revolution, just like Trosky had been a major part of the Russian Civil War, he now was meant to play an equal part in the Chinese Civil War aiding Chiang Kai-shek, Wang Jingwei and Mao Zedong.

 

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Wangism

A hero of the Xinhai Revolution, Wang Jingwei actively opposed the Qing Government and 1911 and gained fame as a public speaker for Chinese nationalism, who plotted to assassinate rgent Prince Chun, for which he would remain in jail from 1910 to the Wuchang Uprising in 1911, becoming a national hero, after being freed. Beginning with the Revolution, Wang opposed Western Imperialism and Colonialism in China. By 1920 Wang held posts in the Sun Yat-sen's Revolutionary Government in Guangzhou and became a member od Sun’s most inner circle and would even travel with him outside of Kuomintang (KMT) held territory. During this time Chiang Kai-shek managed to take control of the army and even altered Sun’s will to take over immediately after Sun’s death in 1925, but the Soviet Union support for Wang stabilized his position as leader of the left-KMT. Because of that Communist and Socialist remained in the KMTand strengthened their influence in Guangdon and in general, as the left wing of the KMT, was sympathetic to communists and communism, but in opposition to Chiang, who became a main rival for Wang and leader of the Right-KMT. Wang’s left-leaning KMT outright adopted a policy of cooperating with the Chinese communists in Wuhan, the Chinese Communist Party. With the capture of Shanghai in 1927 the KMT moved the capital to Nanjing, while Wang formed a coalition and collaboration with leading communists, among them especial Mao Zedong, Chen Duxiu, and Borodin, adopting a land reform policy for the KMT alongside them. Wang’s Wuhan Nationalist KMT Government, also known as Wuhan Government, Wuhan Regime, or Hankow Government dominated the Left-Wing of the KMT, firs led by Eugen Chen, was by now completely under control of Wang Jingwei. The differences between the Left-KMT and the Right-KMT, also known as the Wuhan-Nanjing Split further escalated during the planning of the Norther Expedition against the Northern Warlords.

Fearful that afterwards Chiang might use the National Revolutionary Army (NRA) as their commander-in-chief to eliminate internal enemies and rivals as well, Wang and the Warlords allied to his Left-Wing KMT, or simply opposed to Chiang and his Right-Wing KMT prepared their own actiongs against them with the aid of their own formed Wuhan Government and soon both sides started Purges against one another before the Northern Expedition, to End this separation and to unify the KMT under themselves. With the so called Nanking Massacre and Shanghai Massacre, the Right-Wing KMT got severely weakened and Left-KMT, alongside the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) further prepared their own operatonsm fully aware that most likely the Right-KMT and the other Warlords would not be so easily defeated. Right-Wing KMT elements however were severely weakened from this first strike and the Left Chinese Nationalist KMP Party while expelling to hardcore Communism and Nationalists from their rank, to form something new and own, calling for a full purge of all opposing political groups and individuals, before they, like Chiang could plot against them. As a result of that the Guangzhou Clique group and the CCP completely rallied being Wang, believing claims of Chiang having planned a Purge of his own against them. Within weeks the purges and attacks against one another would escalate to full-out open warfare between the Left-KMT and Right-KMT groups and preventing their prepared KMT offenses north, or major urban offensive and ending the Chinese United Front and internal KMT Unity alike. Together with his allied Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan, Wang formed a new central government in opposition to Chiang, drafted a new constitution and served as Prime Minister, later President, first in aid of Yan’s government, later his own. His anti-Chiang Coalition consisted of Wang Jingwei Wangist Wuhan Government, closely aligned and allied Warlords opposing the Nanking KMT, Zhili Clique and Fengtiang Clique alike, mainly the Guominjun, Shanxi Clique (Yan Xishan), Guangxi Clique and others, under leadership of Wang Jingwei, Yan Xishan, Feng Yuxiang, Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi, Fu Zuoyi, Zhang Fakui, Tang Shengzhi and others.

With combined forces, they would be conquering Beijing and Nanjing for the KMT-CCP, United Front following Central Government and the Nationalist Revolutionary Army (NRA), against the Nanjing Right-KMT Nationalist Government under Chiang Kai-shek and the Zhili Clique and Fengtian Clique (also known as the Beiyang Government), purging Communists, Nationalists, Zhili and Fengtian alike in the so called Eastern Expedition, or Lower Yangtze Plains War, leading to the political split between Left-Wing KMT and Right-Wing KMT. With their victory, between 1931 and 1932, the Central Government would remain victorious over the regime of Chiang and others in their victories in the Battle of Beiyang, Battle of Nanjing and Battle of Shanghai. Surviving, Chiang would flee overseas to Europe, were he would become an honored guest of Italy and Benito Mussolini, as well as Germany and Adolf Hitler, who paraded him around as the legitimate right-wing Fascist and Nationalist KMT and Chinese leader, while Wang began a civil war against remnants of the Communists and Nationalists alike in what he now called the Pacification of the Warlords and China. Wang was uncertain in China could withstand the single attack of a foreign outside power, like Britain, France, Soviet Union, or Japan at this time and in fear of such dominance and influence also opposed foreign outside alliances, even more so with nations that had occupied and stolen rightfully Chinese lands and territories. Despite his opposition to growing Japanese influence, like in Southern Manchuria however, Wang also opposed other foreign influence replacing it and any foreign influence in China in general and saw the White Devilish Powers (Soviet Union, Britain and the United States) as much more greater dangers then Japan, who were Asian Brothers with a similar history and fate then China). To keep China independent a massive modernization and education program was needed Chiang believed. Despite all this Wang was a realist, ready to ally with the Soviet Union if that was what would keep China independent, especial as the Soviet Union Socialist and Communist groups had so greatly supported him during the Chinese Revolutions and Chinese Civil War.

As a result of this Wang would approach the Soviet Union and Japan alike, hoping to sign a so called Anti-Colonial, or Anti-Imperial pact against the ambitions and holdings of other American and European Powers in Asia. Remnants of the Right-Wing KMT meanwhile organized themselves as a rebellion and guerrilla alongside structural lines of European Fascists and Nationalists alike. If both the Soviet Union and Japan could side with his China, so believed Wang, China could withstand any Western Imperialist Colonial Power. At the same time Wang also met with Left-KMT inspired anti-colonial figures in Hanoi, French Indochina, to voice his support for pan-Asian anti-Colonialism, both in a move to look better in the eyes of the Soviet Union and the Japanese Empire alike. He explained his China would oppose Fascism and Western Imperialism alike and that soon foreign power exterritoriality in China would End and China would retake what was rightfully his. His Three New principles were Pan-Asianism, anti-Colonialism and opposition to Chiang. Under him luxuries would not be so sparse anymore and rebuilding and opening up China to the international market began anew. Some shortcomings and restrictions created a black market that Wang tried to eliminate with his Tewu, a secret intelligence agency and military police force. His control mainly held the coast, rivers, railways and major cities, while the south, west and north was more controlled by various degrees of allied, but more so independent warlords, as well as enemy guerrilla movements and groups for now. His hipe to Unify all Races of China under one Flag resulted in Wang being seen as a traitor by Fascist and Nationalist Han Chinese supporters. His new education and land reforms aimed to create a workforce for the farms, mines and industries alike to modernize China. To many modern Chinese he became the Father of a new China, a liberator from foreign American and European, as well as Han Colonialism and Imperialism alike, from Fascism and Nationalism. Seen as the true heir of Sun Yat-Sen and the great mediator between the Left-KMT and the CCP for a United Central Government.

 

[CountofDooku]

Inside the Soviet Union, the so called Council of Union Security, also jnown as he Soviet Security Council, or Union Security Council was set up as a constitutional consultative body of the government, tasked with it’s security affairs and matters of strategic interest. Made up by the defense ministers of the Socialist Soviet Republic, it’s goal was first to develop a guideline for a all-Soviet Union policy on national defense, nationality issues, state security, the pace and scope of economic reforms and security, coping with natural disasters and other emergencies, to ensure stability and legal order in Soviet society, but also to give insight and input in their own localized, ethnic and religious national affairs in such matters and explain when, how and if they would collide and overlap with Soviet Union ones and what to do if both goals were at odds with one another. Another main topic for the first session of this Security Council was the Creation of the Leningrad Pact, so called because it was signed in Leningrad, the city or the revolution and it’s ideal under Lenin, designed as a collective security system for the Socialist and Communist nation states of the world willing to join it and in theory a diplomatic, more direct extension of the idea and politics of the Comintern (Communist International) itself. Each member agreed upon ending all diplomatic and economic relations with their enemies and rivals and to aid one another in the event of a foreign, enemy attack. At the same time the United People's Republic's of China while an observer of said pact in hopes of having the Soviet Union as an ally and partner against any colonial/ imperial aggression by other American and European Powers stated that it would only be willing to fully join, if the Soviet Union recognized it’s new united Chinese socialist/ communist government as legitimate, which in China’s eyes meant to also denounce the Mongolian People's Republic and Tuvan People's Republic as illegitimate, as they were rightfully United People's Republic's of China land and territories alongside some border regions with the Soviet Union. At the same time Wang declared that if the Soviet Union was willing to accept their demands, they could be fellow brothers against the reactionary powers of the world and after Mongolia and Tuva were integrated into China, maybe even find a solution for the Soviet Union need of a railway and ice-free harbor in the East at the Coast of the Pacific Ocean.

At the same time the most elite forces of the Soviet Union Russian Civil War Veterans Red Army were reorganized into a more elite, modern trained and well equipped Revolutionary Guard Corps, an elite force and military police alike aiming to protect the Soviet Union and it’s political system from enemies, both foreign and within, made up by ideological fanatic volunteers of other military branches and at the same time overlooking them, their Admirals, Generals and other commanders down to officers, with their own Guard Officers, the so called Commissars watching out for dissidents, enemy spies, saboteurs, or simply traitors to the Revolution and the Soviet Union. At the same time the increas of foreign volunteer workers seeking their own future in the Utopian Soviet Union had given rice to the Workers of the World Recruitment Center, both tasked with preparing the skills and ideology of those volunteering to build a new future within the Soviet Union, as well as prepare those of them willing to return home after their work was done to influence local Trade Unions, Socialist and Communist Movements and Parties along the lines of Rykovism and guide the Socialist International (Socintern) and the Communist International (Comintern) alongside such guidelines towards an untied front and united goal as well, by creating local recruitment and secretly ideological centers in other nation states targeting skilled and well educated foreign workers above all others, so the Soviet Union economy could modernize and industrial with them, while also aiding them to prepare for their own final liberation. Similar organizations inside the Soviet Union also had another task at hand, equality for man and woman, not so much for the sake of an equal society and females, but more so to educate and use another major part of the population in the most productive, most resource economic profitable way humanly possible, by giving education and jobs to them, so they too became a part of the economy and even politics and military force given a proper education and training on pair with that of man.

At the same time the achievements of Trotzky in the Russian Civil War and later the Chinese Civil War had backfired, making Trotzkyism and his idea of a Global World Revolution more popular then ever, which was why many supported to take another route with Stalin and his clique. Having served well as Lenin’s Secretary before and no friend of Trotzky, Stalin as an intelligent and capable politician was therefore rewarded the position of General Secretary of the Socintern and Comintern (Gesesoco) were his talent was meant to help manage the socialist and communist parties and movement around the world. A role equal meant to please his massive ego and ambitions, as well as to eliminate the Stalinist supporters influence in the Soviet Union itself, which could especially be felt in Georgia and the Transcaucasian SFSR and in neighboring Turkey, Kurdia and Persia. Similarly to the Trotskyists before Stalin’s supporters were spread thinly across the Soviet Union, so that it became harder for them to organize and spread their holding and influence, while at the same time their absence from Leningrad and Moscow was sold to them as their work and abilities being needed in the less centralized regions of the Soviet Union, like Siberia to keep them in line. A part of the Gesesoco foreign relations and activities Comrade Molotov was sent as a special plenipotentiary of the USSR to the German (Weimar) Republic, were he not only was tasked with working on a Soviet Union-German economic, military and diplomatic cooperation long-term, but also keep the local Socialist and Communist Parties unified and in power as a government coalition as best as possible to forward the creation of an All German People’s Republic, or a pan-German People’s Republic, which like the right-wing parties to steal some of their steam and attraction to the masses now too supported the integration of the German Austrians into a Greater German People’s Republic. To support Soviet Union propaganda better, the Soviet Movie Industry was backed to help spread the new society and culture, as well as back it’s message around the globe in a never before seen mass movement incorporated with modern technologies like not only newspapers, but radio and later even television, which were sponsored by the government for exactly this purpose. The Soviet Union Movie Industry and overall Socintern and Comintern propaganda was therefore soon known as Rykovmovs (Rykov Movies) or Rykovprov (Rykovist Propaganda) respectively.

Another major problem in all future rivalries with the West, economical, political and military was at the same time the United States of America, a Union of States on first glance not unlike the Soviet one, beside some ideological and political differences, but one in favor and support of capitalism and industrialist reactionary ideas. As it had shown during the Great War it was among one of the strongest western nation states and one secured by it’s location on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean thanks to it’s or it’s allies strong navies. An own strong Soviet Union Red Navy was therefore needed in the future, but for now under comrade Litvinov good relations with the USA were aimed at, as well as a better organization and coordination of local Trade Unions, Socialist and Communist parties, which had their main backing in the Rust Belt, as well as Seattle at the West Coast. No longer as isolated in Europe as before thanks to some good internal and external policies, the Soviet Union aimed to turn around the tide against fascist and nationalist right-wing regimes, movements and parties in Europe, especially the Fascist Italian Kingdom under Mussolini, which inspired so many other ones in the Balkans, Central Europe, the Baltic and Southern Europe alike. Mussolini who had referred to himself as an authoritarian communist and Marxist was seen by many as a misguided son, one who maybe could be brought back into the fold of the Socintern and Comintern, especially in view of his former roots in Socialism and overall Italian Irredentism against Western Powers like France, which was why a meeting between Rykov and Benito Mussolini was viewed as a good option. During such a meeting his recent Fascist, anti-Communist views and movements, as well as his support by the Catholic Church and the Aristocratic Monarchy of Italy would need to be discussed. At the same time Rykov could point out how Paris and London had betrayed Russia and Italy alike and British and French interests, claims and holdings made Italy an increasing rival of both powers.

One of the main needs to oppose the Western Powers in the future was to rebuild the former Imperial Russian Navy into a Soviet Union Red Navy. But the current rulers of the worlds oceans had a numerical, modern superiority and supremacy which could not only not easily broken, especially not as the Soviet Union Red Navy was in a bottle-neck in the Baltic Ocean and the Far East as well. New funding and training for the Red Navy was therefore needed, as well as the creation of new ships and naval doctrines fitting the Soviet Union. One potential solution was to seek out the former Entente and try to buy older Central Powers ships from then, which while no ideal purchases, at least overall strengthened the numbers of the Soviet Union Red Navy. Much of the Imperial German Navy had been interned and sunken in Scapa Flow after the Great War, with Cox & Danks Shipbreaking Co. Salvaging many of them, while the rest became the basis for the Weimar Republic Reichsmarine (Imperial Navy). Made up by no submarines, six pre-dreadnought battleships, six light cruisers, twelve destroyers, and twelve torpedo boats originally. From Weimar Germany the Soviet Union Red Navy managed to buy the two Bremen-class cruisers SMS Hamburg (renamed Revolyutsiya) and SMS Berlin (renamed Sovetsiy), the Gazelle-class cruiser SMS Niobe (renamed Soyuz), and SMS Thetis (renamed Rykova), while the former Austro-Hungarian Navy over Croatia, France and Italy gave the Red Navy access to the Tegetthoff-class battleship SMS Tegetthof (renamed Grazhdanin), the Radetzky-class battleship SMS Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand (renamed Volya), Ironclad Warship SMS_Kronprinzessin Erzherzogin Stephanie (from 1889, renamed Chervona Ukraina), the Novara class (sometimes called the Helgoland class or the Admiral Spaun class) SMS Saida (renamed Moskwa), SMS Novara (renamed Grozny) and SMS Helgoland (renamed Uragan), the Tátra-class destroyers SMS Tátra (renamed Tbellisi), SMS Balaton (renamed Baku), SMS Csepel (renamed Slava) and SMS Orjen (renamed Komsomol), the Ersatz Triglav-class destroyer Dukla (renamed Lev), the 250t-class torpedo boats Tb 81 T (renamed Yaguar) and Tb 83 F (renamed Kursk), the Kaiman-class torpedo boats 54 T (renamed Orlan), 60 T (renamed Berkut), 61 T (renamed Krechyet) and 69 T (renamed Akula), the Schichau-class torpedo boats D1 (renamed Ryby) and D2 (renamed Losos), the submarine SM U-14 (renamed Treshchiny), the Enns-class river monitor SMS Enns (renamed Rybamech) as well as the Sava-class river monitor Sava (renamed Tunets) would in their majority all become part of the Soviet Union Baltic Red Navy.

Most of them had been former German and Austria-Hungarian ships bought mainly from France, Italy and Yugoslavia, as well as partially Weimar Germany, who either planned, or had already phased them out, planning to replace them with newer models, but they still could serve a vital role for the Soviet Union Red Navy. The weakness of the former Imperial Russian Ruble and nof the Soviet Union Ruble, or Soviet Ruble however meant that most of these ships were paid in successors like coal, oil, steel and grain, efficiently meaning older ships were paid by whatever the selling country needed to produce newer variants of these models, that were updated and modernized. While some in Italy protested, Mussolini and the Fascist Royal Italian Navy knew that in the Soviet Union these outdated ships would be far away from Mediterranean rivals like the French and British, so they would not be able to aid them against the Fascist Kingdom of Italy. At the same time the United Chinese People’s Republic allowed the Soviet Union Red Navy to station some of it’s ships in Dalian and Quingdao (for the right leasing price to be allowed to do so), leasing not the city, or harbor itself like with the treaty ports itself, but their spot at the harbor, meaning coal and other fuel had to be costly bought from the local Chinese authorities as well. Despite being rivals to the Americans and British, the Japanese Empire was unwilling to agree to any military cooperation with either the Soviet Union, or the United People’s Republic of China, but was instead willing to sign trade deals and non-aggression pacts with both for the duration of twenty years as long as Japanese merchants and trader had free access to the Chinese and Russian markets, which also brought new goods and money into the Soviet economy and infrastructure. Some of it also allowed to pay the interests for the planned rebuilding and modernization of Vladivostok, but any attempts to build a direct Soviet controlled naval Base in Manchuria, Korea or Japan was outright denied on principle that the Japanese arsistrocrats, monarchists, nationalists and even the democratic and republican elements did not trust the Soviets, the Chinese People’s Republic or their very own socialist and communist movements and parties after what had happened to the Romanov Family. Some western powers, partially the Americans and British, or rather American and British companies also helped rebuild and modernist some Soviet Union harbors, so their own trade with the country could flow. Similar deals were also made by the Chinese United People’s Republics with open access to the Chinese Market and resources in exchange for Chinese authority and control over the treaty and port cities once more. At the same time the Red Army was modernized on the principles of what it had learned itself during the Russian Civil War and Chinese Civil War, as well as from some Socialist and Communist foreign advisers and trainers, mainly that for short range concentrated firepower assault rifles, grenades and machine-guns were preferred over long-range rifles, which means the production needed to be focused around them, as well as the securing of enough ammunition. To better coordinate artillery and mixed Red Army forces, overall radios (coming from the mass-produced and sometimes unreliable and easy listening-in propaganda models at first) a decentralized firepower control and good training were introduced. The new military arm that was the air force was used to scout and coordinate/ inform the other branches, not only to ground attack with guns and bombs. Overall the logistic abilities, railroads, streets and overall transportation capacities of the Soviet Union needed to be massively improved in comparison to the Great War and the Russian Empire. Coordination and mobility was important, but so was also morale as the Red Army forces aiding the Revolution against the Czar had shown.

An armored and mechanized force to prevent an easy breaking of the own infantry was therefore needed. Standartisation for mortars (60 mm/ 80 mm/ 120 mm), guns (76 mm/ 105 mm/ 152mm), light machine-guns, general-purpose machine guns, infantry anti-tank weapons, rifles and assault rifles, light tanks, medium tanks, heavy tanks, self-propelled artillery tanks, anti-air tanks and other variants were needed, as well as canvas trucks, box trucks and tanker trucks, as well anti-tank and anti-air versions of them, with some plans calling for regular wheels, other for an additional number of those, or tracks for mechanized variants. Support vehicles included more light medical ones all the way to those capable of recovering and salvaging damaged, or destroyed trucks and tanks, sp they could be salvaged, or repaired after a battle. Similarly to infantry commanders and later officers, truck and tank group commanders (later all vehicles and their crews) would be equipped with radio communication, for better coordination of orders, organization and cooperation of the various arms to create a new modern Red Army and Red navy, heavily inspired especially by the main American, British, French and German ones. The port and harbor of Arkhangelsk and Murmansk were rebuild partial by the British and Norwegians, as well as companies from their nation states, Leningrad was rebuild by the Germans and French, or rather German and French companies, Odessa and Sevastopol by the Italians, Yugoslavians, Greeks and Turks, or their local national companies, while Vladivostok was in part rebuild by the Americans and Japanese In exchange all participating companies, conglomerates, Zaibatsu and nation states would get consciousness when buying Soviet resources from these treaties, as well as pay less taxes and other fees of their own products sold there for the duration of the next 99 years. Some had economic reasons and interests, other more political and military ones, hoping to profit from the Soviet economy themselves, while at the same time with these local projects being capable of keeping a very close eye on the Soviet Union.

 

[CountofDooku]

Wangist Left-KMT and the CCP for a United Front/ United Central Government inside the United People's Republic's of China:
A) End the Unequal Treaties and Leased Territories, instead sign new Equal Treaties wich will keep the ports and cities open for international business, but under Chinese authority and control.
B) Militarily occupy the Unequal Treaties and Leased Territories ports and cities of necessary.
C) Wait until a situation presents itself that is more suited to give the Europeans such demands.

 

[CountofDooku]

With the United People's Republic's of China decision to End the Unequal Treaties and foreign rule over Leased Territories, to instead sign new Equal Treaties that would keep the ports and cities open for international business, but under Chinese authority and control, the maybe most surprising part was the backing for the Soviet Union for such a move, partially as a show the socialists and communists would treat their Asian brothers as equals, instead of treating them like children, or subjects, partially also to show the Soviet Union was unlike the European and American Western Capitalist Colonial and Imperial Powers. Sure this had the danger of the Americans and Europeans in retaliation later backing Chinese ambitions against the Soviet Union, but for now the demands of Wang were accepted by the European powers who gave back the territories, both to have good relations with China, instead of a conflict and because an overall sentiment of de-colonization had begun to grow in influence and could change the outcome of future elections as holding onto any form of Empire became increasingly unpopular after the Second World War, so that instead the British proposed a Union of Commonwealth Nations of their colonies and the French a Union Community of their colonies. The Soviet Union also hoped that would encourage the United People's Republic's of China further to consider joining the Leningradskiy Dogovor (Leningrad Pact). Meanwhile stronger United nations regulations, controls and overall world views had prevented the United States of America to conduct a series of nuclear tests in uninhabited the Pacific Ocean Islands.

A few weeks later a series of bombs explode in Jerusalem, sabotaging relations between the local Arabs, Jews and the British Transjordan League of Nations (United Nations) Mandate. At the same time the Soviet Union searched for the Tsarist Gold, which had gone missing during the Russian Civil War and which at least in parts had been stolen by retreating White Forces. Now they feared the White Russian emigres abroad could use it to finance counter-revolutionary ideas and movements, both within and outside of the Soviet Union, which was why the Soviets demanded it back from whichever country it might have stolen to and was now hidden, or secretly owned by. At the same time the Soviet Union outright denied paying any debt of the former Russian Empire, or the White Movements, claiming they were a new government and state that had nothing to do with their spending, economics and commitment to pay any of it back. It was partially a means of dividing the former White Movements and their foreign supporters during the Russian Civil War over an economic and financial division. At the same times questions about what to do with former Tsarist and Imperial White supporters still remaining in the Soviet Union. Some argued their expertise and skills could be needed in building up the Soviet economy, industries, government and even military, others feared their influence and agitation might lead to the spread of counter-revolutionary ideas and start a Second Russian Civil War against the Whites.

 

[CountofDooku]

True but if we want the Nazis not come to power we can make Hitler or other Nazi party members have an "accident".

In theory yes, but no one back them knew how dangerous they truely were, or would become, so it would be mroe logical to focus on other main rivals for the time being and be more indirect/ subtile against them to not get to much ASB ;D

@CountofDooku can we get an updated world map with recent changes in China?

Only minor coastal changes for now, nothing too big.

 

[CountofDooku]

We should put this to a vote, comrade!

DA! (YES!)

Vote on a Korean Exile Government/ Korean People's Republic:
A) Support a Chinese larger Korean local minority Exile Government/ Korean People's Republic and Korean Liberation Army/ Korean Independence Army.
B) Don't give the Chinese so much control and influence, back only a smaller Russian minority Exile Government/ Korean People's Republic and Korean Liberation Army/ Korean Independence Army.
C) Let us cooperate with the Chinese in this matter and bring us, the Chinese and the Koreans together as brothers against Anti-Colonialism and Anti-Imperialism.
D) Don't support any minority Exile Government/ Korean People's Republic and Korean Liberation Army/ Korean Independence Army until we managed to get favorable deals with the Chinese and Japanese beofre we do anything about the Korean Peninsula.

 

[CountofDooku]

The overall situation of former Whites in the Soviet Union saw a few of them pardoned in exchange for them working loyal to the new Red government, especially those in former high, influential positions and with important skills that were needed. More minor ones were stricter controlled and their questionable loyalty frequently tested, while those that could outright never be trusted were shipped to prison camps in Siberia. With the Shah in Persia not very liked, the Soviet Union also began to support local People’s Parties and independent People’s Republics, like the Kurdish, which they would also back in Turkey and Iraq, as well as the Southern Azerbaijan (which would most likely connect to Northern Azerbaijan SSR, once they became independent) in the Northwest of Persia and the Turkmenis/ Turkmen in the Northeast (which would most likely connect to Turkmenistan SSR, once they became independent). Meanwhile for his services in the Russian Civil War and Chinese Civil War, Trotsky was given the title of Marshal of the Soviet Union and stationed in the Far East, were he and his Trotskyist supporters felt a World Revolution could be started by means of anti-colonial and anti-imperial revolutions. To do so he would lead Soviet Affairs in the Far East (officially called the People's Commisar of Military/Naval and Political Affairs of Soviet Far Eas), meet with the Chinese and Japan, as well as represents of other Asian Nation States, Countries and groups, like the Viet Cong (Vietnamese Communists), who dreamed about rebelling against France in Indochina to gain independence as an Indochinese People’s Union under Vietnamese leadership.

At the same time a secret agreement with the Chinese regarding the future of Korea was made first before in chase Japan should get hostile against either one of them and secretly ethnic Koreans in China and Russia were used to form a Korean People's Republic government in exile, as well as an anti-Japanese, anti-Colonial Korean Liberation Army (KLA)/ Korean Independence Army (KIA) to present China, the Chinese, Korea and the Koreans as brothers of the Russians, unlike the Japanese who were still ruled by aristocracy, monarchy and ruled others just like the European colonial empires did. Rebuilding of the Soviet Union meanwhile began new, exciting projects to further modernize and industrial the Soviet Union, like the Kuybyshev Hydroelectric Station, the Volga Hydroelectric Station, the Tsimlyansk Hydroelectric Station, the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant, the Volga-Don Canal, the White Sea-Baltic Canal, the Moscow Canal, the new large scientific and industrial complex located in Nizhny Tagil Uralvagonzavod, the large tractor manufacturing enterprise Volgograd Tractor Plant, the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant for tractor construction, the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works to catapult the Soviet Union into one of the largest steel producers in the world and become less depending on foreign produced steel, the heavy machine production plant Uralmash, alongside the automotive and arms industries plant Omsktransmash, the expansion and modernization of the Kiev Arsenal Factory, the rail freight rolling stock manufacturer located in Kamianske in Ukrainian SSR DniproVahonMash, the Instrument-Building Plant Novosibirsk Tool Plant and the Red Banner Textile Factory. At the same time many welcome the End of the Occupation of the Dominican Republic by the Untied States as a retreat of an Imperialistic Power from at least parts of the Caribbean.

 

[CountofDooku]

With the withdrawal of the United States of America from the Dominican Republic and anti-American sentiment high on Hispaniola, the Soviet Union attempted to use this sentiment in the Caribbean and Central America to break the Monroe Doctrine, by fighting American intervention and occupation forces in the region. Anti-American sentiments also grew in Cuba, were the local dictator was pro-United States American and to ensure the right man was doing the job, Joseph Stalin, known for his persuasion, his ruthlessness and good ability of organization and keeping those underneath him in line was given control over a local offshoot of the NKVD specialized in anti-Imperial, anti-Colonial and revolutionary operations, like the ones Trotzky had lead so successfully in Russia and later China. This way Stalin, like Trotzky was away from true centers of power and so that Trotzky and his Trotzkyists no longer would gain more support and influence, the overall vote fell on Stalin this time. As the regional head of operations he would lead the overall forces to oppose United States supported governments, companies and overall influence in the region, partially supported by the Stalinists he brought with him. Quickly the locals were rallied against American companies and intervention forces alike, who payed them poor loans and supported despotic dictators and tyrants in power, deposing legitimate governors and presidents of legal elected governments alike, to keep their own favorable puppets in power. At the same time the Soviet Union, while supporting local rebel and guerrilla groups with finances, instructors, propaganda and weapons, did not outright attack and oppose the United States to directly in fear of worsening relations between their two nations and to keep the look of anti-American actions coming purely from local sources. The United States of America tried to counter this movement, by withdrawing all forces, except those around the United States leased Panama Canal and encouraged local United States Company influenced, or ruled politicians, governments and presidents to form the so called Central American Federation (Federation de Centroamerica) out of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama as a marionette and puppet regime to keep the region under control. Local socialist, communist and national groups in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica therefore quickly rose up against the new federal nation state, as well as each other.

In the meantime the Soviet Union began planning for a new major city called Rykovgrad to show the superiority of new Soviet union architecture, planning and ideas. At the same time anti-British and anti-Imperial tendencies in the British Raj between Hindu/Hindi/Indians and Pakistani/ Mohammedans/ Muslims were also attempted to be exploited, as the local Pakistani/ Mohammedans/ Muslims minority, as well as the Dalits (Untouchable Cast/ Class of India) masses was also encouraged by the Socintern and Comintern alike with the promise of local ethnic and religious nation states for all oppressed within the British Raj and free People’s Republics and autonomy for all of them. One hope of doing so was the use of Socialist Christianity, Socialist Islamism and Socialist Buddhism alike, as it was already encouraged and coordinated in the Soviet Union. Social Christianity encouraged the caring acts and love for the community under Jesus Christ, while Social Islamism emphases the teachings of Mohammad and the Muslim community, while Socialist Buddhism followed the teachings of Buddha. All three claimed to archive Heaven, Jannah, or Nirvana already on Earth trough their political and ideological means, if people just returned to the true meanings of their own teachings, like their founders had preached them, claiming modern churches had poisoned the truth and profited from corrupting these religions and that socialism and communism, like Rykovism was instead the truest and most modern interpretation of this holy scriptures and teachings. Naturally this lead to a massive break with some of the established churches and religious heads over fear of loosing their leucine and those parts of the branches following Rykovism and falling under guidance by the new Soviet Union State. While the Dawes Plan agreed upon in Paris resolves some open questions of overall German reparations, the Soviet Union faces the August Uprising in Georgia, were several thousand supporters of the Committee for an Independence of Georgia rise up as Georgian guerrilla groups. While the uprising would be quickly crushed in brute force, it rises the question of the independent smaller Soviet Republic Unions being maybe to autonomous. At the same time some proposed the overall uprising could, despite a lack of evidence, be tied to Stalin and his Stalinists who had a stronghold in the Caucasian region, to purge them all for good and get rid of the thread that they posed within the Party and within the Soviet Union.

 

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In chase of the Central American Federation, the Soviet Union devises to aid local socialist and communist rebels with instructors, weapons and finances, but no actual own forces, while the Georgian Uprising saw the persecution of the true Georgian Independence Movement members and nobody else. Meanwhile in Europe the Soviet Union hot opposed trough the far-right coups on Poland and Lithuania, who brought to power hostile, anti-Soviet, anti-Communsit and anti-Socialist Governments. In May 12th to 14th the Polish Nation saw Jósef Piłsudski taken over Poland. On May 28th the Portuguese Coup saw Manuel Gomes da Costa establish the Ditadura Nacional (National Dictatorship), that would be followed by António de Oliveira Salazar's Estado Novo.While the Coup in Portugal seams far away, it means a potential strengthening and support of the Far-Right in Spain, which is heavily divided between a Left-Wing Republican and Right-wing Conservative Nationalist Block internally, a divide that would only grow. With the Treaty of Berlin the Soviet Union has it’s first major foreign political and diplomatic success with a major European Power, as both the Soviet Union and Germany pledge neutrality in the even one of them is attacked by a foreign power for the next five years. Later in December the Lithuanians would see their own Coup, when Antanas Smetona took power, by overthrowing a democratic elected government. Unlike in Portugal, this Coup has the Potential to unify the Nationalist, Fascist and Far-Right Governments of Lithuania and Poland to a new Polish-Lithuanian National Commonwealth, which also makes Polish Ambitions of a Intermarium (Międzymorze) Alliance and Defensive System aimed against German and Soviet Ambitions more likely. Some therefore claimed the Soviet Union should aid the local White Russians and Ukrainian dominating the provinces of Eastern Poland to rise up and join the Belorussian SSR and Ukrainian SSR, while also weakening the Polish Nationalists and their ambitious dreams. Others inside the Soviet Union meanwhile argue that the potential rivalries and growing anti-Soviet opposition in China might be weakened and the Far East secured, of the Soviet Union outright integrated Mongolia into the Soviet Union as a SSR and thereby opposed and weakened potential Chiense Irredentism and territorial claims in Central Asia and the Far East.

 

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While secretly the Soviet Union redirected some funds to create secret and secure centers of research and industrialization from the rebuilding funds and foreign investor capital coming into the Soviet Union, more important problems were cincentrated upon. The Polish Coup that brought to power Ignacy Mościcki as President of Poland under First Marshall of Poland Józef Piłsudski soon faces first resistance, by a growing unrest in the White Russian and Ukrainian regions, but without open rebellions. Instead the local Socialist and Communist Parties, as well as the Polish Farmers and the Polish Workers are encouraged to oppose the new government, as clearly the new regime opposes their liberties and freedoms as much as the White Russian and Ukrainians, at least that is what Soviet Union supported propaganda tells the Polish people, leading to increasing opposition and unrest against the new regime within the first days and weeks already. At the same time the Mongolian SSR was kept as a very depending, internally and externally guided, but official neutral independent nation state, to not outright alienate and rival the Chinese in the region to direct for now, giving the Soviet Union time to concentrate upon the threat of fascist and nationalist regimes in Europe instead.