Update 21 - Year 1922.
Global Events:
Panamese Republic is now effectively an independant state. In gratitude to the Aztecs, they agreed to return half of the Incan Central America to Azteca. Panama held its first election and communists won by a landslide.
Russo-British fleet continues to blockade Brazil. For the first time in perhaps all of history, the Russian and British fleets are fighting together, not each other. Meanwhile, the Russian, Madagascaran and White Helmet forces continue to advance throughout Brazil. Under effective assault, most of the coast has fallen - Iago III suffered a major defeat at Salvador where he was attacked from all directions. Russian helicopters assisted them in destroying numerous Brazilian bases, and the war is nearly over as Brazilians are running out of supplies. Incan attack from the east is proving quite effective at dismoralizing the Brazilians. Rumors are that Iago III is considering surrender.
(-16 Brazilian divisions, -5 Brazilian air wings, -4 Madagascaran divisions, -1 White Helmets division, -3 Russian divisions, -2 Russian air wings, -2 Incan divisions)
The nuclear pollution in Buenos Aires area was cleaned up, but the city is not yet rebuilt. The spirit of many Brazilians remains broken after their great empire was toppled by a sudden attack.
General Antuan Ferros and 10 divisions loyal to him suddenly disappeared. It is believed by the press (and several intellegence services) that they were the former vanguard of the Black Army, thus the unit that is responsible for 75% of the atrocities in India. With this, Brazil practically has no army left - what little they still have is disintegrating very quickly.
The Ulster Rebellion is now officially over. Democracy is reestablished in Ireland.
A new wave of terror spread through Germany. Von Dunkelheit and the Red Baron have barely survived a assassination attempts, but several German leading party officials died from the Burgundian terrorists, and so did, to the mourning throughout the Comintern, Erwin Rommel. Two-thirds of Germannias Volkstag blew up - the surviving third survived because of Volksabwehr sappers locating the explosives there. Several military bases were sabotaged, too. BLA has taken blame for this - apparently, however, it activated nearly all of its terrorist cells for this flood of terror.
German industry has started yet another leap upwards. Steel and automobile industries are perhaps the best in the world. Also, the first human being in the orbit is a German woman, Edda Skadi. This is yet another propaganda victory for Germany, especially since all the communist nations have universal suffrage, in the same time as quite a lot of capitalist democracies do not have it yet.
Balkamonov makes the first airplane production leap to challenge Germanys title as the Queen of the Air.
Albeit the Fascist Egyptians fight on fanatically, their industries are being wrecked (-1 Economy) by the new Arabian strategic bombers. Cairo is fully under Arabian control, and so is all Egypt east of Nile. One of the surviving theocrat leaders of Egypt approached the Arab leadership today and made them an offer they are unlikely to refuse.
(-4 Arabian divisions, -7 Arabian air wings, -6 Fascist Egyptian divisions, - 4 Fascist Egyptian air wings)
Brazil is doing even worse in her colonies then on the home front. Congolese and Zulu forces, assisted by the transferred Ehre Korps crush Vargas despite fearsome resistance, and in the east Madagascaran and Russo-FES advances link up. The native population welcomes the anti-Brazilian forces as liberators. In a gesture of good will, Liberia withdrew from the Huanvilla, but didnt leave the entire colony as requested.
(-9 Brazilian divisions, -1 Brazilian air wing, -6 Zulu divisions, -5 Congo divisions, -1 Ehre Korps division, -2 Ehre Korps air wings, -3 FES Divisions, -1 Madagascaran division)
The Chinese scientists have finally finished the designs for getting and using sufficient solar energy. However, alittle more research and investments will be required before the first solar power station is set up.
Indochina's military seems to be amassing near Oceania's border. Indochina, however, claims it is an exercise in "jungle and marine warfare".
A new nuclear disaster takes place - this time, in Oceania.
(this and other Oceanian news below)
(-2 NZPA air wings, -2 Oceanian air wings)
Random Events:
Riots in support of the Burgundian Resistance begun in Brussels, soon spreading throughout most of the Old Burgundy (save for most of the French Burgundy where the locals already feel themselves more French then Burgundian). Inspired, 5 divisions worth of former Burgundian soldiers have joined the Resistance.
Several incidents happened on the Sweden-Finland borders, where Swedish Scandinavists raided Finnish territory in North Sweden and then escaped back into Sweden. After the Swedish government spoke out against them, the Scandinavists decided to move to Norway.
Spotlight:
Nuclear Terrorism in Oceania?
The communists will stop at nothing. So will we.
- Marshall Neville. 1920.
In July 5th 1922, Brisbane and Jakarta were destroyed by nuclear explosions. Soon after, a footage was released of the communist leadership supposedly taking blame for this and saying that this was the punishment for the anti-Marxist democracy. The communist leadership denounced it soon after, so the desertions from the NZPA and other communist organizations were not very high. The government still does say that the communists are responsible.
This event did, however, bring in more volunteers for the Capitalist Oceanians (as did the launch of the first capitalist satellite into the orbit). Nevertheless, a large political opposition appeared, enraged at the militarys incompetence, demanding the removal of martial law and court-martialing of Marshall Neville, whose troops were allegedly placed around those two cities prior to the explosions. Population is quite dismoralized as well by the success of those attacks.
The explosion in Jakarta enraged the Muslims of Java. Blaming both the communists and the government forces, the Javans rebelled to create an independent Muslim state. The rebels failed to take all of the island, though. Also, luckily, they are only supported by the radical part of Muslim population.
The remaining Australian Communists either went into the underground, either were evacuated to New Zeeland. Oceanians established a blockade around New Zeeland, but two Oceanian ships seem to have been attacked by submarines or sabotaged, allowing some of the Australians to sneak through.
Oceania failed to achieve air supremacy over New Zeeland as NZPA pilots were better trained then expected. Some say that it is merely a matter of time, though.
NPC Diplomacy:
From: Panama
To: The Comintern
We would like to join your alliance.
From: Brazil
To: DU
We are willing to negotiate peace.
From: Ireland
To: DU
We will join your organization and will set up a complete democracy IF you promise to send peacekeeping troops to assist us if the Army of Ulster threatens peace again.
From: Finland
To: Norway
We demand that you hand us the terrorists that escaped to you from Sweden. They threaten the peace and stability in this region.
From: Theocrat Leader
To: Arabia
I have secured the support of the anti-Fascist resistance groups and of a fairly large percentage of the population in making this proposal to you. We ask you, the Caliph of Arabia, to take control over the Arabic nation of Egypt, thus bringing Egypt under the control of the Caliphate after the Fascists are crushed.
From: Java
To: Islamic League
We request your assistance against the Oceanian heathens.
From: NZPA
To: Oceanian People
We have nothing do with those outrageous nuclear explosions. The footage was obviously fabricated, especially since we are fighting FOR democracy and against capitalist oligarchy.
From: NZPA
To: The World
We suggest that an international investigation team should be sent to discover who was responsible for the explosions.
OOC:
Sheep2, you dont have a legal Communist party. Its leadership is currently in NZPA.
Everybody, sorry about the possible poor quality of the update and the spotlight. Also sorry about the length, or lack thereof.
P.S. I hope I didn't just doublepost it.