The Eurasian War By jbkjbk2310 Watch

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Current year: 1953



Scenario: Rasputin's Legacy



As with so many other great wars of history, it's difficult to pin down exactly what caused the Great Eurasian War. German and British historians will say that the Soviets helped rebel groups in their territories gain power, which is undoubtably correct, and that this is what eventually led to the war. Soviet historians will point out that the neverending pressure and poking of the western powers against the Soviets made the war inevitable, which there certainly is some truth to as well. The western powers of Germany and Britain had been attempting to contain and put pressure on the russians for well over a decade when the war broke out, yet socialist revolutionary groups kept cropping up no matter how many times they were brutally supressed. After the Chinese Civil War ended with the Kuomintang sending the remanining chinese communists fleeing northwards into Mongolia and Manchuria, the capitalist powers hoped that they had halted the spread of socialism for a while, but just within the five years following the civil war, socialist revolutions succeeded in at least six different nations, and were attempted in many more.

The immediate cause of the war is just as debatable as the overall leadup and escalation that eventually lead to it. Germans justified their war by clashing border claims in Livonia, Ruthenia and Belarus (claims who's legitimacy is still up for debate), the Brits joined the war as they were already fighting against soviet-backed regimes and rebels in India, Japan had a burning desire to get back at the Soviets for pushing them out of mainland Asia during the Chinese Civil War. In short, every nation or empire had its own reason for joining a war against the Soviets.



Following the initial German-led invasion of Russia in 1952, the german command quickly realised that they weren't going to be able to fight a sustained war of attrition against the Soviets, as they were simply outnumbered, and since the Soviets had the weather on their side. The solution was a tactic made possible by the modern technology of the time: Blitzkrieg. The strategy of rapid advance through heavy use of tanks and air-cover was exceedingly successful during the early months of the war, but eventually the german war-machine ground to a halt as it crushed against the Soviets. It would take two crucial turning-points in the war for this stalemate to be solved: The first was the entry of the Japanese Empire into the war. This diverted crucial resources away from the Soviet western front, allowing the Germans to re-energize their push towards Moscow and Leningrad. In October of 1953, Leningrad fell to the Germans after a prolonged and bloody siege. However, after the fall of Leningrad, the war-effort began slowing down yet again as the Soviets became more desperate and were able to re-group around Moscow. It would take a much more significant event to break this second stalemate, and in July of 1954, that event came: The death of Joseph Stalin and the subsequent coup-attempt by coalition-supported rebels. This coup, while initially a failure, manage to destabilize the Soviet government to the point where the coalition forces were able to yet again re-energize their advance and capture Moscow before christmas that year. Despite what the German government assumed, the fall of Moscow did not lead to the immediate surrender of the Soviet government. In stead, they fled to the city of Samara, where they held out until the 23rd of May, 1955, when the Germans took the city and the Soivet government finally agreed to being negotiations. The war was over, but negotiations were dragging out. In October of '55, the Coalition forces had had enough, when they exiled the Soviet government to Siberia and installed the new Russian Republic in the european parts of Russia.



In the end, the war resulted in the creation of a whole 15 new states in eastern europe, the caucasus and central asia, as well as one rump-state of the former USSR and one region which is still in a civil war. They were the Duchies of Livonia, Belarus and Ukraine, all protectorates of the German Empire. In the caucasus there were six nwe nations: The Republic of Abkhazia, the Kingdom of Georgia, the Republic of Ossetia, the Azeri Republic and the Kingdom of Armenia, as well as the attempted Caspian Federation, in the Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia provinces of the former USSR, which quickly decended into civil war. In central asia there were also six new nations: The Republic of Kazakhstan, the Karakalpak Republic, the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan and the Republic of Turkmenia. Lastly, the two states in the former Russian SFSR are the ostensibly democratic Russian Republic, and the rump-state of the former USSR: The Siberian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.





Key:

Dark brown: The German Empire and its colonies

Medium brown: Protectorates of the German Empire

Light brown: Other members of the German Coalition



Dark red: The Soviet Union

Medium red: Puppet-states of the Soviet Union

Light red: Other allies of the Soviet Union

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Published : Jan 13, 2017