amadeus
burning out his fuse out here alone
打倒俄寇,反共產,反共產
消滅朱毛,殺漢奸,殺漢奸
Down with the Russian bandits
Oppose communism! Oppose communism!
Eliminate Zhu and Mao
Kill the traitors! Kill the traitors!
—real song written by Chiang Kai Shek, 1952
After the capture of Sakhalin and Okinawa, the Japanese were on their last legs in British India, Borneo, and northern Australia. The air force is gone, the fabled IJN reduced to a single decrepit battleship listlessly straggling in the Pacific.消滅朱毛,殺漢奸,殺漢奸
Down with the Russian bandits
Oppose communism! Oppose communism!
Eliminate Zhu and Mao
Kill the traitors! Kill the traitors!
—real song written by Chiang Kai Shek, 1952
However, in April 1944, a new threat arises: Russia! As the Generalissimo had feared, Stalin unwisely threw his lot in with the communists and attempted an invasion of East Turkestan. The KMT was ready with a large force spread across the whole front.
May saw the death of fathead Mao Tse-tung as he was killed by an American volunteer airstrike outside a small village in the Taklamakan desert, as well as the capture of Japanese-occupied Siberia by the KMT. The communists also saw their artillery whittled down to nothing as the Nationalist air force bombed everything red in sight, leaving only a few weak guerrilla units trying to flee to safe Outer Mongolian lines.
Besides the civil war, over the autumn and winter in Chungking, Chinese scientists were working on a powerful super-bomb that had the capacity to eliminate an entire city. Stalin, hearing about this development, still refused to negotiate with the Generalissimo until the capture of the Kamchatka peninsula in April 1945.
Japan is being turned over to civilian (Neutral) oversight as the KMT has no need to keep an occupation force in the pacified country.
On the European front, the Germans took back Paris from the Americans and the British Empire has launched its own offensive, liberating Denmark and capturing the important industrial city Hamburg. The eastern front continues to see tired German and Russian armies fight for rubble—will the end of the second front against China mean that Stalin turns his full might against the remaining Axis powers of Germany, Hungary, and Croatia?