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The crowned heads tremble, for the ultimate triumph of the People is fast approaching.

It began over a century ago, in Russia. The Tsar was toppled from his throne, and the people rose up in revolution. What followed was chaos. The speartip of the revolution, Lenin, was killed by an assassin’s bullet in 1918. The Bolshevik movement fractured, like the White movement before them. The collapse of the White and the Red saw patriot and revolutionary alike bemoan the impossibility of true victory, and both were threatened by the possibility of a Russia divided and under foreign domination. Russia was torn asunder, but in the chaos emerged a new order. A marriage of old and new, with the benefits of both and the flaws of neither. Tsarism was the thesis. Bolshevism was the antithesis. Smenovekhovty was the synthesis.

The solution was National Bolshevism, marrying the working class nature of Bolshevism with love for the Russians as a culture and a people. Marxist Bolshevism was blinded by its internationalism. The fundamentals are flawed: it is clear to everyone that there are key differences between the differing types of people who inhabit the Earth. There is no one “mankind,” and class, while an important division, is certainly not the only division between people. Why spread the revolution, when it is every people’s responsibility to bring it about for themselves? Internationalism, and international revolution, will only bring ruin. Capitalism, after all, is a foreign, Anglo-Jewish concept, one that only served to benefit the upper crust of any society. Nationalism and Bolshevism married in the aptly-named National Bolshevik Party, otherwise known as the

Many Bolsheviks and White generals joined, interpreting the Bolshevik future as the next step in the evolution of the Russian state. Men such as Brusilov joined the movement, and its ranks swelled, eventually consuming the Bolshevik movement from within.

Trotsky, Lenin’s protégé and head of the Bolshevik movement, advocated for internationalism and world revolution. For that, he faced the firing squad, as the

seized power. His rival, Stalin, took power, and after crushing the remaining Whites and foreigners, he forged a new Russia with himself as head. The fruit of his labor is the People’s Empire. It was said to be the people’s will made manifest, but in truth it was Stalin’s will made manifest. Stalin, as Vozhd and Chairman of the National Bolshevik Party, was not officially an emperor, but he has more power than any Tsar. The successful reconquest of Poland and Finland helped solidify Stalin’s power, succeeding where Trotsky could not. However, the People’s Empire was stopped cold at the German border, where the Red Army was successfully defeated by the reorganized German Army.

In Germany, the forces of reaction triumphed. The Reichswehr and associated militias united to crush the Red revolt, although the Reds were close to victory. An unstable republic replaced the Kaiserreich, one that was now dominated by British and French financial interests rather than the old houses of Prussia. This angered many on the German right, who believed that they were betrayed after their service in the Great War and in the German Civil War. One of them, Corporal Adolf Hitler, would be assigned to spy on the German Workers' Party, a new political movement inspired by the Russian Revolution. While disliking the Russians himself, Hitler would come to admire the German Workers' Party's views, and would later join the party and become its most ardent champion. Along with other great figures in the movement, such as the Strasser brothers and Doctor Joseph Goebbels, the German Workers' Party would raise a massive army, both from disaffected right-wing militias and the now-shattered left. The Workers' Party's Sturmabteilung, or stormtroopers, would succeed in taking over Germany through its own violent revolution in 1925, as the effects of the Great Depression really hit.

The Second German Civil War would see intervention by the People's Empire on behalf of the SA, and Anglo-French intervention on behalf of the German government. The SA triumphed, Hitler was proclaimed Chancellor of the Greater German Reich, and he made an alliance with Stalin. The Entente, fearing another European war, did not push the issue further. In Italy, the socialists under Benito Mussolini seized control of the country, and quickly formed a pact with Moscow and Berlin. This National Bolshevist Axis then ate away at the states of southern and eastern Europe, shattering Yugoslavia and Spain in civil war. The Russian invasion of Scandinavia was the straw that broke the camel's back, forcing Britain and France into war with Germany, Italy, and Russia. The Second Great War had begun.

The Axis responded to the Entente declaration by outright invading and conquering Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. Then, France fell; although the French fought well, the Axis drowned the country in steel and flesh. Britain stood alone, the Axis navies incapable of truly challenging the Royal Navy for much of the war. The Axis opted to starve the British to submission, launching a campaign throughout the Middle East, supporting the nascent Baathist movement to shatter the British Empire. India was likewise inspired to revolution, as was China. America, embroiled in its own civil war, could not help the British. In 1947, the Axis were finally strong enough to invade the British Isles, which they did, placing the Totalist Labour politician Oswald Mosely in power. The British Empire was dismantled, and a new world order was imposed over all of Eurasia.

The People's Axis still dominates Eurasia, with Moscow and Berlin sharing leadership. The National Bolshevik societies of Eurasia are governed similarly, as one party regimes where the government has tremendous control over all aspects of life. Most have cults of personality - Stalin for the Slavs, Hitler for the Germans, etc. Religion is either coopted to serve the regime, as in Russia and Spain, or destroyed and replaced with a new state religion revolving around the leader, as in Italy, the Balkans, and Britain. Leadership either rests in one dictator, a ruling junta or council, or an unofficial grouping within the ruling political party. The economy is centrally planned, although there are varying degrees of market reform, particularly in the Western European states.

In the East, the united front between Mao and Chiang outlasted both men, suspected to have been murdered by Russian agents. Taking over the nascent Chinese independence movement was a strange choice - a Korean guerrilla leader name Kim Il-sung. Although Korean by blood, Kim had grown up in China and was eager to create a united East Asia, free from Japanese domination. With Axis assistance, Kim led Chinese forces to victory in Asia, although it was Axis bombing and ships that allowed the Chinese to finally triumph over Japan. Kim quickly established a cult of personality in East Asia, erasing the old national identities in favor of a pan-Oriental ideology. In fact, names such as China, Korea and Japan were erased entirely, and replaced with the term "East Asia." Integrating the ideas of Marx and Stalin with ancient East Asian philosophies, Kim created a new ideology, which he termed "Obliteration of the Self." An extremely collectivist ideology, it believes that humans should be organized in an almost-parody of an ant community, although in practice it served as justification for the most totalitarian society on the planet. After Kim's death, he became the de facto god of East Asia, his will enforced through a system which continues to believe he is still leading the country.

In the Middle East, the Union of Arab Republics has replaced British domination. It is one of the freer societies on Earth, with each Arab Republic having its own local Baathist party and leadership. The leader of the Union, the Party Chancellor, has his powers limited by these local movements. The Baathists believe that a strong state, promoting pan-Arabism, is the only way the Arabs can be independent of foreign influence and backwards superstition. The Union of Arab Republics is extremely rich because of its oil reserves, all state-owned, and this allows the state to fund a large military and extensive social welfare programs that (theoretically) assist all Arabs. Of course, the Union of Arab Republics exists for the Arabs; ethnic minorities do exist within its borders, but they are often hauled off to ghettos to languish, if they weren't exterminated outright during the early days of the regime's existence.

In the United States, the Great Depression brought civil war, which ended in the triumph of America's own socialist movement. Although orthodox Marxists in the beginning, the leadership of the new socialist America increasingly turned to National Bolshevism. Indeed, they went further than any of their counterparts in the New World, believing that only the white race is capable of true socialism, and that all other races and cultures must be wiped off the face of the Earth before mankind can achieve this lofty goal. Believing that this Universal Order must be achieved by any means, the Americans have committed horrific atrocities against their own people and foreign societies. Black Americans were forced out - the American leadership having made an alliance with black nationalist Marcus Garvey - to Liberia; those that would not, or could not, leave were liquidated. All other peoples deemed to be "incapable of the ethno-cultural traits of altruism and intelligence necessary for socialism" were also exterminated. Abroad, the Americans support terrorists of all sorts, believing that a third world war would be a perfect opportunity to tear down the old systems and bring about the Universal Order. The Americans aren’t picky: they support Islamists in the Middle East, independence movements in East Asia, and orthodox Marxists in Latin America, Iberia and France. The development of American nuclear weapons in the 1980s is a major threat, one that the rest of the world is still deeply concerned about.

In the global south, the forces of reaction remain. The British Empire fled for Australia, where a ruling military junta continues the myth that Britain will prevail and reconquer the home islands. The junta, mostly senior officers of the Royal Navy, may not have long for this world, as the new British queen voiced dislike for the system during the reign of her mother, Elizabeth II. The British, while claiming to be the last bastion of freedom, have absolutely no tolerance for any ideas approaching National Bolshevism, leading to mass censorship and arrests for the expression of "unsocial" opinions. South Africa, once part of the British Empire, broke off after disagreements on apartheid. Although a democracy, much of the black population of South Africa cannot vote in national elections, making their claim to be the world's last democracy rather hollow.

The Integralists in Brazil and the Peronists in Argentina make no such pretenses, and although ideologically they may be closer to National Bolshevism than their British allies, they consider themselves to be conservative regimes who distrust the rabid populism that National Bolshevism inspires. The Integralists have become old school fascists, although in a Brazilian fashion: the racial purity of a single individual is more important than which race they are actually a member of. The Peronists, on the other hand, use populist rhetoric but mostly just reinforce the preexisting Argentine system. The Brazilians and Argentines are both jockeying for power in South America, threatening to shatter the fragile alliance between them. Fortunately, the threat of revolution keeps them cooperating.

The global order is maintained mostly with a careful balance of power and the threat of nuclear annihilation. The old reactionary forces are decaying, so the National Bolshevists are starting to turn on each other. The People’s Axis distrusts the growing power of East Asia, as its massive population would prove a threat if that state were to ever industrialize properly. Likewise, Axis is dependent on Arab oil, while the Arabs are militarily weak compared to the Axis. The People’s Empire and Germany have military dominance, but they cannot conquer all of Eurasia. The proxy wars in Africa are already costly, and those are against rotting reactionary regimes. And of course, all of the great powers are armed with nuclear weapons. The true spanner in the works is America, which has spent decades rapidly building up its nuclear arsenal, and its tendency to give away weapons of mass destruction to just about anybody which it believes will use them against the other powers makes it a very threatening rogue state. There are great plans to take down the Americans, but this may cause such a shift in the balance of power that it would bring about the great cataclysm that the Americans wanted all along.