America: Write Your Own History

Sucks that it failed but the fact that it's helping to increase anti-USSA sentiment even more is a plus.

1939-1940: For the Glory of Guns



Post-Tea Party

There was nowhere not seen by the Chancellor's gaze. With Trotsky eliminated and the offensive against Browder's administration a deemed failure, even the once loud and active minds of the American people -- in addition to their quiet mouths -- began to crumble and capitulate to the might and righteousness of the Communist Party. The secret police were closing in, and there was no longer any viable sources of rebellion within the borders. Sitting in front of the television, young kids would watch the strong and charismatic face of Chancellor Browder as he shouted and proclaimed military strength and the need to spread communism throughout the world. Now rarely making public speeches, his life was both speculative and widely fabricated. With the Communist Party Headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland now destroyed, the Party met directly in Browderville in a newly constructed building meant for "re-instating" Congress, although this was merely for show and had no political influence outside the Communist Party.



The War Effort

As the war progressed, economic advisers within the Party began worrying about the stress being taken by fighting a full-scale naval battle against Japan, Italy, and Britain while fighting a land-war in Australia. Chancellor Browder pounded his fists, stating that his job is not to fix such problems that should be taken care of by those entrusted with it! Pounding his fists over and over again, he further proclaimed that if any problem should occur, that if ANY small detail is not perfect, that he will be watching in utter enjoyment the public execution of those responsible along with their entire bloodline! Relaxing, the Chancellor continued his intimate and friendly chat with his Communist officials over a glass of whiskey.

Orders arrived from Browderville: Arabia is requested to give a quarter of their oil to the USSA without promise of repayment. Having already a strong trading relation, and not willing to risk angering the Egyptian neighbors, Arabia agreed to this. The extra oil helped re-stimulate the economy and continue to strong military offensive.


The Russian Federation, now with Joseph Stalin, former American communist and political scientist, controlling his puppets in power, opened borders with America in late 1939. The exchange of political ideologies and wares boosted the economy, and strengthened ties. The Third Reich of Germany became weary of the growing friendship, and visits from the Fuhrer began declining throughout the next couple years.


The Third Reich was becoming an unstoppable military force. Although smaller than Australia and America, the tactics and technology used by the Germans pummeled through Dutch forces. In 1940, the Netherlands surrendered to Germany, and Germany had secured their northern border. With bombings overhead in England, Germany now focused on attacking northern Italy.


South Africa, the territory that became an Australian Commonwealth following the USSA's secessions, gained influence within the Commonwealth when Portuguese colonies in Africa were seized. With war raging in Australia and the government in peril, many Commonwealth politicians discussed moving the capital to Salisbury in South Africa.


Morocco declared independence from Portugal during the Empire's loss of their colonies. Morocco, which established an archaic theocracy and refused to adhere to both capitalist and communist propaganda, became a useful tool to America when they agreed to war Italy and the Commonwealths. Passage out of the Mediterranean was now impossible for Italy, and their colonies soon suffered this.


Battles Throughout Australia



With Australia's navy defeated, the air force occupied in defending Britain, and the mainland being threatened with constant American attacks, the continent no longer saw the war as a defense, rather a resistance. Brisbane, famous for its huge national park, set ablaze as American tanks rolled over trees and Australian guerrillas dropped bombs from branches. American tanks in Guinea met with strong resistance from mechanized infantry, which resulted in large casualties on both sides. A constant supply of soldiers arrived from the States, while Australia's drafting system was near collapse as many fled the continent feeling the war futile. Yet despite all this, the relatively unknown city of Darwin gained national recognition as it fought off legions of American advances. Using the terrain and the will of the people, Darwin repelled months of American offensive attacks, embarrassing the USSA military and infuriating Browder.




Asia: A Political Shift


Japan had conquered the Eastern Pacific. The Philippines, Northern China, Manchuria, Korea, Vietnam, and parts of Mongolia had all bowed before the Trotskyist nation. Proclaiming to liberate the continent from both corporate imperialism and Browderist lies, the nation arose as a world power when previously it was seen as a backwards island. The Republic of China, humiliated by mass defeat, announced by late 1940 that the nation had joined the Australian Commonwealths and was expecting reinforcements. A young man by the name of Mao Zedong was energized by such a disgrace, and Chinese Communism arose to oppose both Japanese imperialism and National China's capitalist embarrassments. The rising of communism in China was met with high praise from America, but fascist Germany and Italy saw it as a missed opportunity to gain an ally. When the United Nations met in early 1941 to discuss ending the war, the rise of communism highly offset capitalist influence, and Earl Browder proudly announced that the USSA had won representation of the United Nations by just one vote. Indonesia, inspired by Mao's rise to power in opposition to Nationalist China, declared independence from the failing Australian governorship and began implementing authoritarian changes.

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We will not surrender until every single one of our cities taken, and every single one of our soldiers and civilians defeated!

Down with Browderism!

My high (and still rising) blood pressure is deceiving those near me about my actual condition. I am active and able to work but the outcome is evidently near. These lines will be made public after my death.



I have no need to refute here once again the stupid and vile slander of Browder and his agents: there is not a single spot on my revolutionary honour. I have never entered, either directly or indirectly, into any behind-the-scenes agreements or even negotiations with the enemies of the working class. Thousands of Browder's opponents have fallen, victims of similar false accusations. The new revolutionary generations will rehabilitate their political honour and deal with the Browderite executioners according to their deserts.

I thank warmly the friends who remained loyal to me through the most difficult hours of my life. I do not name anyone in particular because I cannot name them all.

However, I consider myself justified in making an exception in the case of my companion, Natalia Ivanovna Sedova. In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate has given me the happiness of being her husband. During the almost forty years of our life together she remained an inexhaustible source of love, magnanimity, and tenderness. She underwent great suffering, especially in the last period of our lives. But I find some comfort in the fact that she also knew days of happiness.

For forty-three years of my conscious life I have remained a revolutionist; for forty-two of them I have fought under the banner of Marxism. If I had to begin all over again I would of course try and avoid this or that mistake, but the main course of my life would remain unchanged. I shall die a proletarian revolutionist, a Marxist, a dialectical materialist, and, consequently, an irreconcilable atheist. My faith in the communist future of mankind is not less ardent, indeed it is firmer today, than it was in the days of my youth.

Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence and enjoy it to the full.

Leon Trotsky.

February 27th, 1939

Color photography was first experimented with back in the 1840s, and became available to the general public in the 1890s. However, even as late as the 1950s, black and white photography was the norm. Here is a list of color pictures taken from the Browder Era, when it was becoming something more than a plaything for hardcore photography enthusiasts, from around the world:

Germany*


Iran


America


Australia


Britain


OOC: The Iranian photos are anachronistic; the war scenes were taken from the Iran-Iraq War, which happened in the 1980s. All the other photos were actually taken from the time period, though some details were changed to fit into the alternate history.

*OOC Warning: These photos contain Nazi symbols, namely the swastika, that are banned in countries like Germany and Hungary.

Holy cow that was actually really interesting. The images are really cool! Good work!


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1940: Rally of Brotherhood



With a hole created by the lack of elections, the Communist Party (now centered in Browderville after the destruction of Bethesda) organized a lavish and extravagant rally in the new Browderville Plaza. Chancellor Browder, making his first public appearance since the "Tea Party Massacre", appeared remote and distant walking to the podium. With American flags towering hundreds of feet in the air and with a large military presence to showcase America's new-found power, the Chancellor took a sip of water while waving his hand towards the crowd of cheering supporters.

"For hundreds of millions of citizens outside this capital city, for hundreds of thousands of crusaders on distant seas, the symbol of America is equally as powerful; if not more. The triumphant political and social Communist Revolution of the old fighters and comrades lives on and reminds us of the struggles we endured and overcame to be capable of holding a Rally of Unity and Brotherhood instead of a corrupt and primitive electoral sham. And perhaps a large majority of crusaders on distant shores, despite the forced civility and courteousness commanded by social code and military standards, will return with patriotic hearts and bless our United Socialist States with wisdom and valor achieved from our mandated wars. This is not a war of imperialism nor greed like the wars of past presidents, but instead a war for universal brotherhood and liberation of the working class. Previous presidents, as we remember, made days miserable as it was difficult to proudly show communist colors.

When our party only consisted of only seven members, it already had two principles. First, it would be a party with a true ideology. And second, it would be uncompromisingly the one and only power to govern America.

We had to remain in the minority, because we mobilized the most valuable elements of struggle and sacrifice in the nation which have always been not in the majority, but in the minority. Memories swirl in my mind references to the Revolutionary War, but that war pales in comparison to the historic and painful communist revolution that made the final liberation for the American people.

And because we are brothers and sisters laboring together, we can show the proudest self-esteem of any nation, and claim power for America and shun corporate greed and Machiavellian barbarism, and proudly announce ultimate faith in the American Communist Party. The American people has organized itself into a single party with ever-growing numbers and ever-strengthening influence and unity.

The American people are happy in the knowledge that a constantly changing vision has been replaced by a fixed pole! Whoever holds deep in their hearts faith in the Communist vision, and knowingly uses it to support his neighbors and his nation, will never relinquish it!

There is always a section of the American people that stand out as the epitome of Communist comrades, and more is expected from them than the hundreds of millions of American comrades in the general population. For them it is not simply enough to make the pledge "I believe!" Rather, the affirmation "I fight!"

For all time to come, the Communist Party will be the source of all political leadership for the American people. It has been shown that all upstanding Americans become Communists. Only the best Communists, however, are Communist Party comrades!"

By now, the cheering and applause from the crowd broke out in a united chant, "Chancellor! Chancellor! Chancellor!" Chancellor Browder, now fully positioned as a man of power and unshakable influence, raised his fist clenching a hammer and stopped reading his script and looked directly at the American people.

"Once our enemies worried us and prosecuted us and, from time to time, removed the lesser elements of the movement from us! Today, we must examine ourselves and remove from our midst the elements which have become bad, and therefore do not belong with us! It is our wish and will that this Party and this United Socialist States last a thousand years. We can be entirely happy to know that the future belongs to us!

Enemies at our doors: capitalists, secessionists, false communists, moderate socialists, imperialists, and wicked men; these men lack the conviction of ultimate truth and dignity which can only be achieved by unfaltering faith in the Communist way. With the largest army in the world, the largest navy in the world, and the greatest and most equal economy in the world benefiting every family and laborer, you and I can be sure that America will win over the Australian commonwealths, crush the Italian fascists who mock us, and unite the world under a just and public Communist order!"

So with Browder becoming chancellor, will there be "elections" still, or will Browder stay in power until he dies/retires/gets kicked out?

The 1936 Election post is a good answer to that question.

Ah, I only asked that as I thought Ford had left presidency of his own accord.

It appears I was wrong.

You need to give him credit, that was a fine speech.

Browder is just setting himself up for a bigger fall.

Well yeah but that was one heck of a speech. I don't think those guys had to be as enthusiastic as they were. He might be a dingus-head but he can sure make a good speech. Anyways. When he falls there will be a purge. What wasn't original Washington DC and is the creation of Browder will be destroyed. I had a feeling the statue will go first.


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I hate Browder probably more than most of you, but even i agree that was a pretty good speech

Moai_Spammer said:

I hate Browder probably more than most of you, but even i agree that was a pretty good speech

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That's his way of resisting our efforts to bring him down, if his speeches were horrible or non-existant probably someone would have killed him and taken his place already, or opened america to freedom again.

Like Hitler, one of the worst men to walk this Earth but when he spoke it was like thunder and you had to listen.


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January-June 1941: Rise of Greater Germany



After months of constant bombardment from ships and airplanes, the seemingly dangerous Italian offensive against the Caribbean was reduced to a tidbit of collapsing colonies. The last Italian colony in the Caribbean was lost in mid-January, leaving only Australian troops in South Chile' in the Americas.


The Italian government, after Morocco's declaration of independence, lost a viable route to the Atlantic and their military aspirations and economy both spiraled into darkness. Morocco, an Islamic state which has gained praise from both Nazi Germany and the United Socialist States for willingly blocking Italian and Commonwealth navies, drastically turned the tides of war. Italy, however, did still have a route to their Ethiopian and East African territories via Libya. However, with their offensive against Greece destroyed by Germany, and their last city in Spain also lost, they were quick to sign a peace treaty. Chancellor Browder supported peace with Italy, and congratulated Germany on their success.


With Germany's annexations and miraculous economic growth, trade with the German regime nearly tripled. German goods, such a jewelry and Volkswagen automobiles were seen as great buys.


Trade also opened with India, which met with Chancellor Browder in February. After finally agreeing to negotiate, the Chancellor compromised on an open trade agreement if India accepted Eugene V. Debs-Era environmental economics.


Brazil, after several scandals and riots throughout the nation, including pro-Argentine riots in their former capital, began reverting back to a democratic capitalist nation similar to Australia. Chancellor Browder, in an attempt to stop the spiral, armed the Communist Party with funds and modern airplanes. The Communist Party of Brazil, holding similar rallies of that of America and Germany, and manipulating the media to favorably portray communism, managed to regain control of Brazil. The re-communization of Brazil strengthened America's ties.


Conquest of Darwin


Darwin had become famous for defeating American offensives one after another. With less soldiers and primitive Victorian War-Era weaponry, the Anzac troops relied on guerrilla ambushes and clever traps. John Lavarack, lieutenant of Darwin's defense, reportedly led victory against 4 American regiments and personally killed 367 American soldiers. The defense was so successful, that the Communist Party even urged the Chancellor to retreat. The Chancellor, not allowing defeat to be a result, instead punished those who retreated with the death penalty. By early May, Americans began winning when Darwin's forests were simply burned down with oil captured from Australian oil rigs. Out in the open, the city was bombed with airplanes and modern tanks were sent in. Lieutenant Lavarack reportedly escaped, although confirmation is difficult as the invasion obliterated the city.





Asia



In Asia, Japan refused to become overshadowed by the increasing power of Nazi Germany. Orders were given to not only execute defeated soldiers who refused suicide, but pillage their households and pawn their belongings to fuel the war engine. Genocide was committed against the Korean people to increase Japanese influence over the client state, and prostitution of their women on the battlefront humiliated Korean pride. Japan's troops by now had captured a large amount of Indochina and was closing in on Thailand; their ultimate goal to get them to capitulate. War with China was successful, as the Commonwealth's promises of reinforcements returned empty. Chancellor Browder became worried that a shift in their focus to the United Socialist States would prove catastrophic. Thus in mid-1941 Browder ordered troops to withdraw from the Australian battlefronts and focus on Japan. Some military tacticians saw this as disastrous, as it gave Australia a chance to recuperate.


Back in Europe



France had also shown signs of a surge in nationalism. After their colonies in Algeria and Tunisia were kicked out by Moroccan independence, troops went south and captured several Malinese nations. American trade with Morocco nearly stopped as their access to the Atlantic was cut. France's communist leader, De Gaulle, became as much of a national figure as Browder, Tojo, Gandhi, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler. Although in private conversation he often showed signs of worry about the totalitarianism of Germany and America, in public he bragged about France's strong position in the world and their growing claims to colonies and international diplomacy.


French power was shadowed by Germany nearly doubling in territory following peace with Italy. The Republic of Austria, after declaring independence from the relatively inactive Russian Federation, was met with an ultimatum from Germany. After a gigantic German army was put on the Austrian border, Austria surrendered and agreed to join Greater Germany. The Anschluß, or union, was met with a national rally in which Hitler's oration and commanding aura rivaled Browder. The Chancellor, now fearing the increasing power of Germany in Europe, began meeting with military officials daily to discuss both Japan and Germany; the Commonwealth did not pose a threat; in fact, Greece and Turkey, both formerly Commonwealth client nations, renounced the Commonwealth after aid had ceased. Greece, with Nazi forces coming down from Albania, joined Greater Germany. Russian forces also came through Georgia and skirmishes between Turkey and Russia devastated the Armenian countryside.

Holy crap everything is happening! Oh, and Bra Bra Bra Bra Brazil!