It was the New Year's Eve. The people were singing in Hammarby Sjöstad, Stockholm. And the (former) soldiers of the crown were singing along.
I follow the Royal Canal
Down to Hammarby Sjöstad
Listening to the
Wind of Change.
September fall night,
soldiers passing by
Listening to the
Wind of Change.
A song written by Claus Måine had quickly became the anthom for the Socialist victory.
The world is closing in,
did you ever think
that we could be so close,
like brothers?
Never before had the nation felt so united, so.. complete.
The future's in the air,
can feel it everywhere
blowin' with
the Wind of Change.
6 months ago the peasants had been in hunger, now they were on a literacy program! Chairman Sundin sure had made a difference.
Exiled from Stockholm in 1924, Sundin had lived in Germany, from where he had secretly pressed the buttons to start the revolution.
On august 8th, while the peasants and even some of the nobility had been getting more and more upset about the Three Crown Rule, Sundin had send an innocently-looking telegram from Berlin to Uppsala.
"It is time. Start the agitation progress."
A month later Sundin returned, and was greeted as a hero. Meanwhile, Stockholm was in flames.
By the New Year, things had settled down. The first elections had just been held and the much softer socialists had won the hard-line communists 55-45, meaning that Sundin would now officially grab the power. And so, newly-built factories had quickly been filled with unemployed people. The new socialist regime was quickly increasing the nation's productivity.
Meanwhile, negotiations went on with European powers regarding the Danish independence.
"If separation from their Scandinavian brothers is what they want", said Chairman Sundin to the German ambassador, "then separation those sellouts shall have. However, we cannot do that without ensuring their friendliness towards their former mother country.."
And as 1925 turned into 1926, the negotiations went on.
Walking down the street,
distant memories
buried in the past
forever.
I follow the Royal Canal
down to Hammarby Sjöstad
Listening to the
Wind of Change.
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OOC: Socialist victory over Communists can be considered the same as if the RL Mensheviks had won in Russia instead of Bolsheviks in 1917.