Rogue Generals: A Different Post-EDSA Uno Philippines TL

[gillan1220]

Jan 20, 2021 4:06:21 GMT TheRomanSlayer said:

She held a cabinet position IOTL as well, though I am sure they would have changed this rule ITTL.

Elizabeth Dole was the Secretary of Transportation under Reagan while her husband was a Senator.

[TheRomanSlayer]

I will have to change that, I almost forgot that she held a post under OTL Bush Sr., so she wouldn’t hold one under her own husband.

EDIT: Now it is changed to Libertarian candidate for the 1990 Colorado Gubernatorial Election David Aitken.

[stevep]

  TheRomanSlayer ,

  Interesting that Gore has ended up with the Republicans here rather than the Democrats.  Since we know that Jackson will win in 92 and then a right wing Republican I suspect he's not going to have much success in the longer term.

  I had to grin at the idea of "Secretary of Education: Dan Quayle" given his notorious tomato incident.

  Was China causing problems in SA Asia in 1992 then as you mention the importance of Vietnamese and Filipino votes but elsewhere your referring to the huge bombing of both countries being in 1995?

  Steve

[TheRomanSlayer]

Jan 20, 2021 11:26:16 GMT stevep said:

  TheRomanSlayer ,

  Interesting that Gore has ended up with the Republicans here rather than the Democrats.  Since we know that Jackson will win in 92 and then a right wing Republican I suspect he's not going to have much success in the longer term.

  I had to grin at the idea of "Secretary of Education: Dan Quayle" given his notorious tomato incident.

  Was China causing problems in SA Asia in 1992 then as you mention the importance of Vietnamese and Filipino votes but elsewhere your referring to the huge bombing of both countries being in 1995?

  Steve

The bombing didn’t start until 1995, but the military operations against the Philippines would not start until late 1992, mainly because the PLAN didn’t have enough vessels yet, but the skirmishes between China and Vietnam might have still been ongoing before 1992.

What was the tomato incident that Dan Quayle had gotten himself into?

Never mind: the OTL former VP made an elementary spelling error.

[stevep]

Jan 20, 2021 15:45:33 GMT TheRomanSlayer said:

Jan 20, 2021 11:26:16 GMT stevep said:

  TheRomanSlayer ,

  Interesting that Gore has ended up with the Republicans here rather than the Democrats.  Since we know that Jackson will win in 92 and then a right wing Republican I suspect he's not going to have much success in the longer term.

  I had to grin at the idea of "Secretary of Education: Dan Quayle" given his notorious tomato incident.

  Was China causing problems in SA Asia in 1992 then as you mention the importance of Vietnamese and Filipino votes but elsewhere your referring to the huge bombing of both countries being in 1995?

  Steve

The bombing didn’t start until 1995, but the military operations against the Philippines would not start until late 1992, mainly because the PLAN didn’t have enough vessels yet, but the skirmishes between China and Vietnam might have still been ongoing before 1992.

What was the tomato incident that Dan Quayle had gotten himself into?

Never mind: the OTL former VP made an elementary spelling error.

  Well the awkward thing is he would probably have got away with it under other circumstances but he was [not] correcting a 12 year old who had actually spelt it properly.

  Plus as Dan_Quayle#Gaffes shows he made a lot of other rather confusing statements.  Anyway given his reputation I wondered if you had made him Secretary of Education as a jokey reference to his notoriety for lack of knowledge.

  Thanks for clarifying about the dates of the conflict with China.

[TheRomanSlayer]

I may have named Dan Quayle as Secretary of Education out of just random guessing, and not out of irony, as I didn’t know about his gaffes until now.

[TheRomanSlayer]

Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Second Russian Civil War Part Three

A/N: Do you guys remember the scandal from previous updates involving the Filipino peacekeepers going AWOL, only to be found eating with three Azeri families? That is coming back here as well. Also, I will need some help and assistance with the planned "Rogue Generals" TV Tropes Page in the Future, but I already have an idea to what the beginning would be like: "What happens when you take the bats-t insanity from 'Zhirinovsky's Russian Empire' and injected it into, say, a certain SE Asian nation whose dictatorship is on the verge of collapse? The answer: Rogue Generals: A Different Post-EDSA Uno Philippines."

FIRST TROOPS FROM SOUTHERN GROUP OF FORCES ARRIVE IN UZHHOROD, WHILE NORTHERN GROUP OF FORCES CAPTURE KALININGRAD FROM SOVIET LOYALIST
Sydney Herald
January 14, 1991


Uzhhorod, (Breakaway) REPUBLIC OF UKRAINE – The first soldiers returning from their occupation duties in Eastern Europe had arrived in the city of Uzhhorod, in the de facto breakaway Ukrainian Republic, as the Southern Group of Forces had to stop a potential pro-loyalist mutiny from spreading within their own group. The commander of the Southern Group of Forces, Lieutenant General Viktor Shilov, was persuaded by junior officers, who were mostly of Ukrainian origin, to declare for the anti-Soviet opposition centered around Alexander Lebed and Gennady Burbulis. However, one section of the Southern Group of Forces, mainly consisting of Ukrainian conscripts, had deserted the group and began to form their own pro-independence militia, often with the help of sympathetic UNA-UNSO members who arrived in Uzhhorod to begin their campaign to recruit people into the organization. Yuriy Shukhevych, the son of former Ukrainian Insurgent Army officer Roman Shukhevych, was soon appointed commander of the UNA-UNSO, and it was under his instructions that non-military personnel would be trained differently from Ukrainian soldiers who deserted the Red Army.

In contrast, the Northern Group of Forces have safely arrived in the Baltic city of Kaliningrad, where they managed to take the city by surprise, capturing some of the loyalist soldiers and officers who were on guard for any potential invasion from either the ex-Warsaw Pact members who sided with NATO, or actual NATO troops seeking to go through Polish territory. Viktor Dubynin, the commander of the Northern Group of Forces, issued a command for all inhabitants of Kaliningrad to appear in the city square, where he would read the manifesto that is written by General Lebed days after he declared the Sverdlovsk Mutiny back on June 2, 1990. However, when the Northern Group of Forces later met the people of Kaliningrad, a major demonstration began, with the inhabitants there demanding the release of the detained loyalists and denouncing Dubynin as a traitor to the Soviet Union.

“Comrade General Dubynin has betrayed his oath of loyalty to this Union by siding with the arch-traitor and the Vlasov of this new generation, Alexander Lebed,” Boris Pugo said during an emergency meeting inside the Soviet Politburo. “As such, he is to be arrested as soon as he arrives inside Soviet soil. Furthermore, all other officers who chose to follow the traitor Dubynin are to be arrested as well, and their families to be sent to re-education camps as well.”

Unfortunately for the Soviet government, the various gulags that are still operational across the Soviet Union are under attack from Justice Brigade militias, which often targeted KGB commandants for assassination missions, while at the same time freeing the inmates of the gulags, who were sent to the medical doctors working for the National Redemption Army. Moreover, the Siberian regions of the USSR are also under rebel attack, as the NRA had launched another attack on the city of Chelyabinsk. Unlike the earlier attempt to capture Chelyabinsk during the opening stages of the civil war inside the Soviet Union, the second attempt was successful, mainly by focusing more on the towns surrounding Chelyabinsk. Dolgoderevenskoye, Kremenkul, Poletayevo, Sineglazovo, and Kopeysk, have been captured in quick succession by elements of the Justice Brigades, often with the help of the rebel bomber pilots who took turns bombing Chelyabinsk to take out what remained of the loyalist defenders in that area, though the rebel bombers sustained severe casualties. With the fall of Chelyabinsk, only Troitsk remains as the last major city still under loyalist control, while most of Chelyabinsk Oblast have fallen under the control of the Russian Provisional Government.

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UZBEKISTAN ERUPTS INTO BITTER CIVIL WAR BETWEEN LOYALISTS, PRO-INDEPENDENCE FACTION, AND PRO-ISLAMIST GROUP
Edmonton Journal
January 29, 1991


Tashkent, UZBEK SSR – Soviet authorities have confirmed of reports coming from Tashkent, in the Uzbek SSR, of a nationalist uprising against the local communist authorities there. Uzbek nationalist forces, though without any confirmed leaders now, had seized control of three key Uzbek cities: Samarqand, Kokand, and Bukhara, with the third mentioned city having the largest presence of Uzbek nationalist forces there. However, a disturbing report coming from the Uzbek border with Afghanistan of what appeared to be Al-Qaeda operatives entering the Soviet border with Afghanistan, mainly at the Afghan border town of Hairatan, close to the Afghanistan-Uzbekistan Bridge. The border posts, which had been deserted, prior to the entry of Al-Qaeda operatives, had been taken over by followers of Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, and the first Uzbek town to fall under the control of Al-Qaeda was Termez. In contrast, the Soviet loyalist forces have managed to keep the Uzbek SSR’s capital Tashkent under their control, with the bulk of the Turkestan Military District’s garrison troops being deployed to keep the peace but fears of a potential civil war breaking out in neighboring Kazakhstan has resulted in the Kazakh contingent of the Turkestan Military District’s troops being diverted to guard the entire territory of the Kazakh SSR.

“I can say for certain that nationalist elements have been confined to the city of Bukhara, but at the same time the Karakalpaks are also agitating for separation from the Uzbek SSR and wished to become a separate SSR. I have to council our Karakalpak comrades that breaking away from the Uzbek SSR would only embolden the Russian Provisional Government, which is technically an illegal organization under Soviet law,” comments former Uzbek Communist Party chairman Rafiq Nishonov, during an emergency meeting among the top echelons of the Uzbek Communist Party in Tashkent. “In addition, we are also receiving reports from the border guards who have apparently deserted their posts that Al-Qaeda forces under the command of Abdullah Yusuf Azzam have seized the town of Termez and has started to recruit local collaborators there. We need the Turkestan Military District to stop the Al-Qaeda invasion of the Soviet Central Asian Republics there before it is too late.”

Although the federal Soviet authorities have not yet made it official, they are holding talks with the Chinese government on the possible military intervention by the People’s Liberation Army into Soviet Central Asia to stop the potential Al-Qaeda invasion from spreading into Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan. Those three nations mentioned above share a border with China, especially the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, where the Uyghur independence movement, the Turkistan Islamic Party, have established training camps in the Kazakh SSR, often without the knowledge of the local Kazakh authorities there. However, Uyghur militants have used the border between Soviet Central Asia and Chinese Xinjiang to stage raids into the latter’s border towns. Most recently was the town of Tacheng, which was subjected to a rocket attack launched by the Uyghur militants.

“The situation in Xinjiang has reached a point where even Al-Qaeda may use the territory of Soviet Central Asia to spread its reign of terror into the rest of the region. Xinjiang, with the Uyghur minorities there, is vulnerable and susceptible to foreign infiltration from these Islamist groups,” comments Chinese PLA general Ye Fei when asked about the possibility of the PLA being sent to clear out the Uyghur militant camps inside Soviet Central Asia. “If the Soviet government will give its permission for our troops to conduct a joint operation with the Red Army on the destruction of these Uyghur training camps, we would be happy to also bring stability to this volatile region as well.”


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FIGHTING ERUPTS IN DISPUTED NAGORNO-KARABAKH REGION, AS UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL PROPOSES PEACEKEEPING MISSION IN THE AREA
Melbourne Sun
February 14, 1991


New York City, STATE OF NEW YORK, USA – Armenian militias that have emerged in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, have launched devastating raids against Azeri positions in the region, as ethnic conflict between the two peoples have started. Monte Melkonian has declared full responsibility for the initial attack on the Azerbaijani town of Zangilan, while other Armenian militias have launched a full-scale attack on other parts of Western Azerbaijan. Azeri forces responded by launching an invasion of southern Armenia, to cut off the Fedayi militant forces that have been launching repeated attacks on Azeri border posts. However, Armenian troops under the command of Movses Hakobyan had retaliated by advancing towards the town of Qubadli, to cut off the advancing Azeri troops from their supply lines. So far, both sides have reached a stalemate on the conflict, although reports of Turkish volunteers arriving at the Turkish-Azeri border have been released, official Turkish authorities have denied the claims that their citizens are going to Azerbaijan as volunteers to fight on the Azeri side. However, an Azeri government official confirmed an alarming report that Russian and Serbian ultranationalist militias have arrived inside Armenia, through Georgian territory, to take part in the growing conflict between the Armenians and Azeris.

“We have received an official confirmation of known mercenaries fighting for the Armenian fascists arriving inside Armenia,” comments Heydar Aliyev during a cabinet meeting with his ministers in Baku. “Russian ultranationalists separate from Alexander Lebed’s National Redemption Army, mostly the militiamen of both the Russian National Self-Defense Organization and the Russian National Unity group, have converged on the Armenian town of Kapan, in preparation for an invasion of our territory. In addition, Azeri officers have also told me that Serbian nationalist mercenaries under the guidance of Vuk Draskovic, though mainly led by former UDBA agent turned paramilitary commander of the newly established Serbian Volunteer Legion, Zeljko Raznatovic.”

Inside the United Nations, the delegates there debated on the necessity of sending peacekeepers into the disputed area, although the Soviet delegate at the UN have insisted that their troops would be up for the job, only for the French representative to comment that the Soviet Union itself is in a middle of a civil war, and that their presence in Nagorno-Karabakh would be problematic. In the end, it was under the authority of the Security Council and the General Assembly that the United Nations Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict Prevention Force would be established to safeguard the peace and security of the region. It was suggested by the American Representative Thomas R. Pickering that Turkey, Indonesia, the Philippines, Chile, and Thailand would be allowed to send their soldiers into the disputed region as peacekeepers, but the Chinese ambassador was appalled by Pickering’s suggestion of including Philippine troops as peacekeepers.

“The government of the People’s Republic of China is outraged at the idea of the American representative’s suggestion of inviting the Tadiar regime to send its troops into the peacekeeping mission in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Who knows what kind of human rights violations that the Philippine soldiers would commit while acting under the guise of peacekeeping?” Li Daoyu asked the rest of the delegates, but Pickering was not interested in listening to the Chinese representative’s complaints.

“I have relayed my suggestion to President Dole to let Artemio Tadiar know that he may have a chance to lift those sanctions, or at least easing up on the economic portions of the sanctions, in exchange for Philippine participation in this peacekeeping mission. In addition, while the Turkish government is also eager to send its troops to act as peacekeepers in the disputed areas, their troops would follow the orders of the commander selected for the mssion,” Pickering replied, much to the disgust of Li Daoyu.

Unfortunately, Representative Li’s outrage was not misplaced when the Security Council had revealed the name of the commander for the UNAACP peacekeeping contingent that is being deployed to Nagorno-Karabakh. The fact that Alvaro Corbalan, one of the most notorious military figures of Augusto Pinochet’s regime who is known for leading the National Information Center, Chile’s top intelligence agency, that is tasked with combating left-wing activists within and outside its territorial jurisdiction, is appointed on the suggestion of, surprisingly enough, Lord David Hannay, the United Kingdom’s representative at the UN, is an indication that the peacekeeping mission may have already been compromised to begin with.


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Portions from the Interview with Former Philippine Army Soldier and UNAACP Peacekeeper, Sergeant Bryan Galang

Sky News AU Interview, published August 19, 2018


Discussing the Zangilan AWOLGate, or the Event Where Five Filipino Peacekeepers Went AWOL to Have a Meal with Three Azeri Families

Interviewer: Although I have interviewed various people who fought on all sides during the Second Russian Civil War, this is the first time that I am interviewing a former Filipino soldier who acted as a peacekeeper in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, and the first time that a Filipino ex-soldier has been given an interview in front of international media since the resignation of former Major General Artemio Tadiar, who is now on trial in the Hague as a part of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Republic of the Philippines. How are you today, Bryan?

BRYAN GALANG: I am good, ma’am.

Interviewer: All right, so you were with the other Filipino contingent that took part in the peacekeeping mission in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. What was it like to see the civil war unfolding in the former Soviet Union?

BRYAN GALANG: It was the first time since the Marcos regime that we have been deployed outside the Philippines, but it was certainly my first time going into the area of what used to be the former Soviet Union. We grew up hearing tales about how tyrannical the Soviet Union is, and they certainly are not lying.

Interviewer: I see. The infamous AWOLGate incident where you and four other Filipino peacekeepers were found by the UNAACP authorities inside three Azeri houses, sharing a meal with Azeri civilians, I can understand it as the incident that was started by the selling of military rations to the starving civilians instead of consuming it. What led to your contingent force deciding to do something one might consider as something stupid?

BRYAN GALANG: Well, the economic sanctions have taken a toll on the Philippine economy, and the Tadiar regime was running out of money to purchase more weapons to fight the communists and the Moro secessionists, although it was just the MILF now, since the MNLF had decided to join Tadiar to gain more autonomy for the Muslims in Mindanao. As a result, we would sell the military rations that we were issued to the Armenians and Azeris, or we would trade them to both armies in exchange for weapons. The M-16 rifle that I had back then was constantly jamming against the dust in Zangilan, so I sold that to the Azeris in exchange for money. My other friends in the military did likewise, but we also traded our weapons for the better AKMs that the Azeris had taken from dead Armenian soldiers. Of course, the Chileans had their IMI Galil rifles to use, the Turks had the HK33, the Indonesians had the SS1, and the Thai military had the FAMAS bullpup rifle.

Interviewer: That must have been one gigantic scandal that the Philippines had gotten itself into, and I take it that the Tadiar regime had punished the entire contingent when they returned to the Philippines. Is this true?

BRYAN GALANG: It is indeed true, but the Filipino officer who led the Filipino contingent in the UNAACP mission, Brigadier General Maxuel Oxales, had gotten angry at Tadiar for the economic sanctions that was imposed on us because of his idiotic behavior. From the arrest and incarceration of former President Corazon Aquino, to even the brutal torture of Jesse and Leni Robredo. What was worse for us, was that Tadiar had also invited known Chilean graduates of the infamous School of the Americas to help reform our military. The reforms were effective, but it turned us into bloodthirsty fanatics.

Interviewer: OK. (pauses) So, going back to the whole ‘weapons for food’ trade that your forces had going on, was that the only scandal that the UNAACP faced?

BRYAN GALANG: You mean, in addition to the UNAACP authorities finding us eating at the homes of three Azeri families? There was only one other scandal, and it involved a Turkish ultranationalist group called the Grey Wolves, and they were smuggling old AKMs that they took from dead PKK terrorists and shipping it to the Azeris. Imagine their shock when those same AKMs had accidentally landed into the hands of both the Armenian Fedayi and Russian ultranationalist forces operating in southern Armenia. That was a huge propaganda bonanza for the Armenians, and the Russians, who now have proof that the Turks are not honest peacekeepers at all. That was enough for the UN to give General Corbalan authority to expel the Turks out of the UNAACP, but even he was hesitant to do it. In the end, the Turks pretended to desert their unit and join their Azeri brothers, and their tasks were being completed by Indonesian peacekeepers.

Interviewer: So, are you telling me that the Turkish attempt to smuggle weapons to the Azeris, had somehow gone wrong, and ended up in the hands of Armenian militias?

BRYAN GALANG: That is exactly what I am saying. Now, I seem to recall the meal I had with the Azeri family. One of their daughters was around the same age as I am, and we hit it off. Her family took a liking to me, even though I was raised as a Catholic and my then-girlfriend Zafina was raised as a Shia Muslim. My best friend Jordan, who was also with the Filipino contingent, was found eating with an Armenian family, in another part of Nagorno-Karabakh when they arrested him.

Interviewer: What did they do to him?

BRYAN GALANG: Initially, they wanted to send him back to the Philippines, where he would certainly face a court martial for what he did. They were going to do the same to us when they caught us.

Interviewer: What did you do afterwards? Did you accept the punishment?

BRYAN GALANG: Yes, so our punishment was three months in the brig when we arrived back in the Philippines, followed by a two-rank demotion to Corporal, in my case. I did not regain my rank of sergeant back until when I was sent to Laoag to help the anti-air defenses during the Chinese bombing of the Philippines in 1995.

Interviewer: By then, many Armenian and Azeri families were sending their daughters to marry UN peacekeepers. I have heard of quick Vegas style weddings, but never a Caucasian style quick weddings where the families there are giving their daughter’s hand in marriage to the peacekeepers. It must have been weird for you, isn’t it?

BRYAN GALANG: Yes, and that is how Zafina and I got married. The wedding portion was complicated, since both of us were of different faiths, but by then the Tadiar regime had already severed relations with the Vatican, and passed the 1994 Civil Marriages Act, which legitimized non-religious marriages.

Interviewer: The war brides, as Tadiar called them, eventually became a political force. However, it was not until 1999 that the peacekeepers became a source of opposition to the Tadiar regime. How did you lose your faith in your former commander?

BRYAN GALANG: That was easy: our military was in shambles after the West Philippine Sea War, and we knew that we had lost. Rather than accept the defeat, Tadiar has managed to turn our defeat into a rallying cry for patriotic fervor. To be honest, it was under Zafina’s influence that I began to speak out, and she even told me to go to the Australian Embassy to ask for asylum, but Tadiar’s secret police made it harder. It was not until during one of the patriotic rallies in Kabankalan that we managed to head to the Australian Embassy in Manila and asked for asylum. I told the Australian ambassador that I wanted to defect, and my wife Zafina wishes to defect as well.

Interviewer: And now you and your wife have made it to Australia. How do you like Australia so far?

BRYAN GALANG: It was not bad. I honestly like living in Melbourne, and it was much better than being a Philippine Army soldier. I resigned my NCO position from the military a week before I defected.

Interviewer: And I think you made the right decision in the end. Thank you for the interview.

BRYAN GALANG: You’re welcome.

[TheRomanSlayer]

Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Second Russian Civil War Part Four



UNITED NATIONS SUSPENDS MEMBERSHIP OF SOVIET UNION FROM ORGANIZATION ON SOVIET GOVERNMENT’S REQUEST, CITES CIVIL WAR AS REASON
Le Monde
January 29, 1991


New York City – Upon the request of the Soviet government, the United Nations had suspended its membership, citing its inability to perform its functions due to the emerging civil war inside the nation. The Soviet representative to the United Nations, Yuli Vorontsov, had expressed his “deep regret” that the Soviet Union could not, in its current capacity, continue to exercise its role in both the General Assembly and the Security Council, but promises to restore its membership should the Soviet loyalist government manage to win its conflict against the emboldened rebels within the Russian Provisional Government. However, two UN member states, Iraq, and Syria, have already recognized the authority of the Russian Provisional Government as the legal representative of the Russian state, having seen the Soviet Union as ‘no longer operating in its official status as a sovereign nation’. Furthermore, there are also talks that the former Eastern Bloc is set to recognize the legal status of the Russian Provisional Government as a de facto ‘successor state’ to the USSR, with Poland being the leading candidate. In the Western bloc however, none of its members are quick to recognize the legal status of the Russian Provisional Government.

“The Soviet government is theoretically the legal representative of the entire Soviet Union, but we have various Soviet republics that have declared themselves sovereign within the Union, like Estonia, and even Russia itself. However, the biggest challenge the Soviet government is facing is the likely prospect of outright secession of other Soviet republics with secessionist aspirations, like Georgia, Armenia, and even Ukraine,” comments US President Bob Dole in front of reporters in the White House on the question of whether or not the United States will back the Russian Provisional Government over the legally recognized Soviet government. “Moreover, the United States cannot be seen as a backstabber to the Soviets because of our role in helping them with the Spitak Earthquake, and their role in the Loma Prieta Earthquake.”

However, various officials within the US government are not only pushing for the recognition of the Russian Provisional Government, but have also encouraged its additional destabilization, with prominent National Security Chief Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski pushing for the faster collapse of the Soviet Union.

“There is not a better time for the United States to emerge from a potential end of the Cold War in a dominant position where it can impose its will on the entire world. By letting the USSR break itself apart, we can also put an end to Russian aspirations to its value as a geopolitical rival to an eventual unipolar world, that is dominated by the US,” Brzezinski told his colleagues while discussing about the American role in the Second Russian Civil War. “I think that we must let the Soviet government and the rebels bleed each other dry, like what we did with Iraq and Iran in their war, so that neither of them would emerge victorious.”

However, other US politicians from both the Democrats and Republicans, have expressed their horror and outrage over Brzezinski’s suggestion of letting the USSR bleed itself to extinction.

“No offense to Mr. Brzezinski, but a fractured former USSR would only become an attractive target for Chinese geopolitical aspirations, and the fact that we would support its violent demise a few years after we helped them with the Armenia earthquake is beyond disgusting. We need to use this opportunity to build bridges with the rebel faction,” says the American ambassador to the USSR, James Baker. “A democratic USSR or Russia would be a better American asset and ally, since we can use them to stop China’s potential emergence as a superpower.”

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“Various American officials, who relished at the idea of seeing the USSR break itself into a thousand pieces, were behind the efforts to increase American aid to secessionists fighting the Soviet government in the Baltics, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. However, not a single American aid was sent to the Russian Provisional Government, mainly because they feared that a sovereign Russia, even if it were democratic, would become a major rival to the United States. Finally, various American corporations with ties to multinational companies run by globalist actors, are seeing the death of Russia as an opportunity to get involved in crony capitalism, writ large. Therefore, both the Dole and Jackson administrations did not recognize the authority of the Russian Provisional Government as the legitimate successor to the Soviet government. They needed to fracture Russia into several successor states to help establish pro-corporate control over its territories. However, the surprise victory of the Russian Provisional Government, the Ukrainian and Belarusian pro-independence movements, and the various Caucasian separatist movements, over their Soviet government enemy, had upended their plans. Moreover, the first official election held in Russia that took place three months after the Second Russian Civil War had ended, resulted in a victory for Gennady Burbulis, who emerged as a surprising player on the international arena. Yet, the new Russian constitution had effectively declared that the President could only govern the country for one term, with five years being the limit, to prevent the rise of potential future strongmen from overturning the constitution. Thus, Burbulis worked with the President of the newly formed Union State of Ukraine and Belarus, Mykola Azarov, in the reunification of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Thus, in 2000, in a referendum recognized by the international community and organized by Azarov himself, the referendum resulted in favor of reunification of the three East Slavic states, with Azarov becoming the candidate for the 2000 Russian Presidential elections, that also saw candidates from Ukraine and Belarus taking part. The forgone conclusive victory of Azarov would pave the way for Russia’s integration into the world community. However, during the Burbulis years in power, President Burbulis had not only stunned the world by revealing the crimes of the Soviet regime but had also admitted that it was the Soviet Union that killed 20,000 Polish officers in the Katyn Massacre, and killed over 7,500,000 Ukrainians in the Holodomor, in addition to the many deaths from the man-made famine among Belarusians, Russians, North and South Caucasians and Central Asians. When the Russian government officially recognized the Holodomor as a genocide, during President Burbulis’s 1999 trip to Kiev, he openly wept in front of the Ukrainian audience, begging for forgiveness. Finally, Burbulis’s humanitarian approach to repairing Russia’s tattered reputation had also resulted in its international prestige being restored, though most of Eastern Europe would remain distrustful of the Russian Federation for its past crimes. In sharp contrast, the Soviet loyalists did win the civil war, only in Central Asia, where loyalist control was much stronger. However, the formal dissolution of the USSR on January 7, 1995, and the emergence of the five successor socialist regimes would play a role in the stronger presence of Islamist groups in Central Asia, and the successive terrorist attacks carried out by Al-Qaeda against targets in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Georgia, would pave the way for the 2000 Russian military intervention in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, resulting in Russia’s War on Terror being the main topic of international news for three years.” From the Russian documentary “The Second Russian Civil War and the Rise of Modern Russia”, made by TASS, June 13, 2010.

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KHABAROV LEADS REBEL FORCES IN RAPID CAPTURE OF ENTIRE PRIMORSKY AND KHABAROVSK KRAIS, AND AMUR OBLAST, WHILE CHECHEVATOV LEADS FORCES IN SECURING SOVIET FAR NORTH REGION
The Province
April 21, 1991


Khabarovsk, RUSSIAN SFSR – Two National Redemption Army forces, led by rebel generals in Leonid Khabarov and Viktor Chechevatov, have launched their offensives into the rest of the territories under the control of the Soviet Far East Military District, with Khabarov’s forces making their way into the rest of Primorsky and Khabarovsk Krais, and Amur Oblast, while forces under the command of Viktor Chechevatov have moved northwards, towards the town of Okhotsk. The offensives launched by the two rebel generals have resulted in numerous liberations of gulags scattered throughout the Soviet Far East, with Justice Brigades paramilitary troops collaborating with the National Redemption Army in taking out the gulag commandants and freeing the gulag inmates. In addition, the National Redemption Army have also come across descendants of Baltic deportees sent to Siberia as part of Josef Stalin’s deportations of the Baltic population when the USSR retook it from Nazi Germany after the Second World War. Under Khabarov’s authority, the Baltic deportees and their families were to be sent to liberated Sverdlovsk, where the Russian Provisional Government will work on a deal with the Estonian and Latvian independence movements on a population exchange involving the returning Baltic deportees and Russian settlers sent to the Baltic during Stalin’s time.

On the other hand, Chechevatov’s forces have also collaborated with the naval arm of the NRA in securing the Kuril Islands, to prevent both the Soviet loyalist forces, and Japanese military troops, from taking the islands legally recognized as Soviet territorial gains from Japan after the Second World War. The former Soviet Pacific Fleet were instrumental in blockading the ports of Magadan, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, and Okhotsk, to force the skeleton garrison to surrender. So far, only the defenders of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy surrendered to the National Redemption Army, due to lack of food and supplies. The garrison forces of Magadan on the other hand, mutinied against the Soviet loyalist forces there and killed an entire KGB garrison force guarding the Magadan gulag and freed the inmates there. Only the loyalists in Okhotsk opted to resist the rebel advance, though lack of supplies would also mean that their surrender is only a matter of when it will happen.

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MONGOLIAN GOVERNMENT MOBILIZES MILITARY IN RESPONSE TO CHINESE MILITARY INTERVENTION IN SOVIET CENTRAL ASIA
Seoul Times
August 24, 1992



Ulan Bataar, MONGOLIA – President Davaadorjiin Ganbold of Mongolia had announced the partial mobilization of the Mongolian Armed Forces in response to the deployment of the People’s Liberation Army soldiers inside Soviet Central Asia, though acting in accordance with the request of the Soviet loyalist government. The President of Mongolia, having won the country’s first free elections since the establishment of the communist regime in Mongolia, was a pivotal figure in the 1990 Mongolian Revolution that saw the fall of the communist regime, and the transition to a full-fledged democracy. However, various elements of Mongolian society had clamored for the liberation of Mongolic-speaking territories in the Soviet Union from the Soviet communist regime there, though by now Buryatia and both Irkutsk and Chita Oblasts have fallen to the National Redemption Army and the Russian Provisional Government. In addition, President Ganbold’s government became the fifth nation to recognize the legal authority of the Russian Provisional Government, after Iraq, Syria, South Korea, and India.

“Mongolia condemns China’s military adventurism in Central Asia and is also weary of a potential Tibetan scenario involving our country. Under my authority as President of Mongolia, I am also deploying the military to guard our border with China. However, this does not mean I am going to abandon our brethren inside Inner Mongolia, who are facing a danger of being assimilated by the larger Han Chinese population,” says Ganbold during an emergency meeting in Ulan Bataar. “The Mongolian government also pledges additional support to our Russian neighbor in the north in their fight against Soviet communism, since we owed them our gratitude for saving our nation from being subsumed by China.”

However, the Chinese government was not pleased with the sudden knee-jerk reaction by the Mongolian government on its deployment of its troops, and in fact, Premier Jiang Zemin had sharply criticized President Ganbold’s actions.

“Let our neighbor in Mongolia know that China considers its actions close to our border as a hostile move that will undermine Sino-Mongolian relations,” Premier Jiang comments during a meeting in the National People’s Congress. “If Mongolia persists with its offensive posturing, we will not hesitate to pacify our Mongol brothers in the same manner as how we brought stability to our wayward Tibetan brothers.”

Anti-Chinese demonstrations broke out throughout Mongolia in response to China’s threat to militarily invade Mongolia as a response to President Ganbold’s deployment of the Mongolian forces close to the border. In addition, Mongolians living in Inner Mongolia were spotted at the border between China and Mongolia, trying to defect, with Mongolian soldiers providing protection against Chinese border guards, while PLA forces stationed at the border had shot would-be defectors trying to get into Mongolia. In addition, Mongolian nationalists have also rallied in Ulan Bataar, calling on President Ganbold to help the Inner Mongolians gain their freedom from the Chinese communist government and help reunify Inner Mongolia with the current Mongolian state.

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“Both of our governments helped each other during the earthquakes, and this is how the Americans repay us for the help we gave them in their earthquake situation? By hanging us out to dry and encouraging additional chaos within the soon to be ex-Russian SFSR? You can never trust the Americans to do the right thing regarding our movement. Both the Dole and Jackson administrations have stabbed us in the back, from time to time, and it was only thanks to Jack Kemp that our relationship with the United States have been restored. However, we need to keep the Americans at an arm’s length, because they did not make it a secret to see us destroyed. They destroyed us in Afghanistan, and they wanted to destroy us when we are down. We will not tolerate any more of their shenanigans!” Alexander Lebed, after hearing about why the United States did not help the Russian Provisional Government, April 19, 1999.

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SOVIET LOYALIST FORCES INFLICT FIRST MAJOR DEFEAT TO NATIONAL REDEMPTION ARMY, WITH SUCCESSFUL COUNTER-OFFENSIVE AGAINST REBEL ADVANCE TOWARDS AKTOBE, ANTI-RUSSIAN POGROM REPORTED IN ALMATY IN RESPONSE TO INCURSION
Die Welt
May 18, 1992



Aktobe, KAZAKH SSR – In a surprising twist to the endless rebel successes, Soviet forces under the command of Pavel Grachev, had managed to entrap and destroy much of the 14,000 National Redemption Army soldiers under the command of Alexander Lebed, inflicting the first major defeat of the civil war to the rebels. The successful Soviet counter-offensive against the National Redemption Army, occurred when Kazakh soldiers within the Red Army had ambushed a Justice Brigade contingent force and captured several paramilitaries, who were interrogated by them. After revealing the plans that General Alexander Lebed had for the incursion into the Kazakh SSR, the Kazakh forces reported the information to General Grachev, who responded by attacking National Redemption Army positions in Yaysan, cutting off the bulk of Lebed’s forces poised to attack Aktobe. However, the Soviet loyalists had failed to capture General Lebed himself, who was commanding the main NRA force that eventually retreated from Aktobe, and into the city of Orsk, where his forces dug in and waited for a potential offensive.

“Our forces have managed to restore confidence in the Soviet people, in the fight against the new Vlasovites in Alexander Lebed and his gang of mutineers,” General Grachev bragged after he reported to his superiors in Moscow on his success. “The so-called National Redemption Army is a joke, since they can only rely on rag-tag deserters who joined that unit, and paramilitary forces that are poorly trained.”

In response to the increasing ineffectiveness of the Justice Brigades, Alexander Lebed had ordered all Justice Brigade formations to merge with the defected troops who deserted the MVD, to form the unofficial Russian National Guard, or Rosgvardiya, as it is informally called. He also ordered all former Justice Brigade paramilitaries who have merged with the defected ex-MVD troops to coordinate their activities with Rosgvardiya officers appointed by Lebed. Finally, Lebed authorized the formation of the National Redemption Army’s General Staff to help facilitate the strategizing activities of its top senior and junior officers. Furthermore, under his command, the new Rosgvardiya troops would be retrained by the National Redemption Army officers, with Rosgvardiya officers being trained by the same NRA officers as well.

[TheRomanSlayer]

OMAKE SIX: What Remains of an Empire



A DISASTER AFTER THE FALLOUT! JOHN MAJOR RESIGNS FROM POST AS PRIME MINISTER AFTER BUNGLED EXPERIMENT WITH EXCHANGE RATE MECHANISM
The Sun
September 21, 1992


Prime Minister John Major discusses his resignation as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during an economic summit in London, after the infamous Black Wednesday event, in which the British experiment with the Exchange Rate Mechanism had gone horribly wrong, resulting in a slightly larger inflation rate of 19% of the Pound sterling.

London, UNITED KINGDOM – A financial crisis that resulted from a worsened Black Wednesday event when Great Britain was forced to withdraw from the Exchange Rate Mechanism has led to the abrupt resignation of John Major as Prime Minister of the UK. As of 1800 hrs on September 19, 1992, the former Prime Minister sent his resignation letter to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, expressing his remorse in playing a role in destroying the economy of the United Kingdom. With the resignation of John Major, it is expected that the Queen or Parliament will call for an early general election to decide who will become the new Prime Minister. So far, the Tories are scrambling to find an Acting Party Leader after Major also resigned as Party Leader of the Conservatives, while Labour would initially go with newly elected leader John Smith, but due to his health condition, he would not run for the office of Prime Minister. Instead, Bryan Gould, Smith’s opponent in the 1992 Labour Party leadership election, would run as the representative for Labour in his place.

“It is regrettable for us to hear of the Conservative government’s role in the biggest economic crisis in Britain since the Second World War, and even worse for us, is that our opponents in Labour and even the Liberal Democrats might pounce on our errors to gain more power, at our expense,” former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher commented after hearing about Major’s resignation. “I fear for the survival of the Conservative Party’s reputation after this.”

Opponents of the Exchange Rate Mechanism were loud in their objections to Britain’s entry into such a system, and the fact that the British pound has suffered a significant amount of inflation has vindicated much of their opposition. Within the European Economic Community, the planned signing of the Maastricht Treaty was delayed until the following year, mainly due to the collapse of the Major government, and the upcoming elections that would replace it. However, some skeptics within the EEC had believed that the current civil war in the Soviet Union, as well as additional political upheavals in the Balkans, had resulted in the delay. Most recently, the German reunification was strongly opposed by the French government, due to historical grievances, and the Mitterand government had pushed for the proposal of creating a new, pan-European currency that will serve as the official currency of the EEC, the Ducat. The Ducat, named after the medieval currency of the European kingdoms during the Middle Ages, was also viewed with some support by the Italian and Dutch governments as a potential replacement for their national currencies, in exchange for the EEC accepting German reunification.

In contrast, German Chancellor Helmuth Kohl had announced that after the November 9, 1991 event in which West and East Germany formally reunited (only after internal chaos prevented an earlier reunification, involving the mutiny of the former East German military in response to the Brandenburg Gate Massacre in 1989), the reunited German government will establish the “Autonomous Recovered Territories” charter, where the territories of the former East Germany will be governed in a different manner, with each former province receiving economic assistance and political reforms that will allow that selected former East German province to develop in a similar manner to the former West German provinces, and once their economic and political stability has been declared satisfactory, the former East German province would be declared as ‘economically and politically integrated’ into the reunited Germany, losing its autonomous recovered territory status. It is also expected that the process of re-integrating the former East German provinces into the reunited German state will take at least 25 to 30 years.


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MAASTRICHT TREATY RATIFICATION FAILS, CITES FRENCH OBJECTION TO GERMAN REUNIFICATION AND LOUDER PUSH FOR ACCEPTANCE OF ‘DUCAT’ CURRENCY AS OFFICIAL EEC CURRENCY
Die Welt
February 3, 1993


Maastricht, NETHERLANDS – In a shocking turn of events, approximately 58% of the French public had rejected the new Maastricht Treaty that would formally transform the European Economic Community into a formal, political union. The French public, along with their government, had expressed their loudest objection to the German reunification event where the former East German government had reunited with their former West German counterparts, resulting in a reunited, German state. Both President Mitterrand and newly elected British Prime Minister Bryan Gould had also expressed their reservations on the Maastricht Treaty, fearing for the potential loss of their sovereignty in a new, European Union, that is being pushed by the Europhile faction of the EEC.

“It is our greatest desire to maintain the sacred value of French sovereignty, in the face of global challenges that we are facing. We have said this before, and we will say it now: the Maastricht Treaty will result in the rise of a German Fourth Reich, wrapped in the flags of pan-European integration!” President Mitterrand said as he addresses his supporters during a national rally in Paris. “The French people have said no to German economic hegemony twice, and we will say it again for the third time!”

The French opposition to the Maastricht Treaty has been influential in the rest of the EEC member states rejecting the treaty, mainly because of their leftover fears of German economic domination over Europe, although the method that the French had resorted in pushing for the new Ducat as the pan-European currency to be used by the EEC has rubbed the German public the wrong way. In addition, German Chancellor Helmuth Kohl has reacted furiously at his French counterpart, for the way his government has behaved towards the rest of Europe.

“The French president may have managed to sabotage the aspirations for an integrated Europe, but he has not managed to stop its ultimate demise! We know from the start that France will be the ones to oppose the reunification of the two German states, but at this point, we do not care about what Francois Mitterrand thinks,” Chancellor Kohl said while addressing the Bundestag the day after the Maastricht Treaty was rejected. “And now, he is pushing for the creation of the Ducat as the pan-European currency. This is no longer about integration of Europe: this is basically the revanchist spirit of a nation that has yearned to gain its glory back, at our expense! It was the French who opposed the unification of the German states into the German Empire, and now we are seeing the same scenario played out once again.”


Francois Mitterrand explains the French position on the failed ratification of the Maastricht Treaty, in front of his political supporters, while simultaneously pushing for the creation of the pan-European currency, the 'Ducat'.

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BRYAN GOULD WINS UK GENERAL ELECTION, BUT FAILS TO GAIN THE NUMBER OF SEATS NEEDED TO FORM MAJORITY GOVERNMENT
The Sun
December 9, 1992


Newly elected Prime Minister Bryan Gould addresses his supporters after winning the December 1992 United Kingdom general election.

London, UNITED KINGDOM – To no one’s surprise, Bryan Gould, the representative of the Labour Party, has won the December 1992 United Kingdom Election, only a few months after John Major and the Conservatives have won their election. However, the Labour Party had only managed to win a paltry 42 seats, bringing it up to 315, while the Conservatives have lost over 147 seats, bringing it down to 196. The unexpected beneficiary of this election was Paddy Ashdown’s Liberal Democrats, whose gains of 130 seats, was the result of both the Conservative Party’s role in the Exchange Rate Mechanism debacle, and the poor campaign of Bryan Gould, that resulted in the unexpected change of fortunes for Paddy Ashdown.

“Honestly, it was John Smith’s biggest mistake to let his opponent in the Labour Party leadership race to run for the seat of Prime Minister. However, his health has prevented him from carrying out the necessary duties needed as Leader of the Labour Party. All of the members of Labour feared that Mr. Smith might have another heart attack during the campaign, so he allowed his one-time opponent to run as his representative,” comments Labour Party member Jeremy Corbyn after hearing of Labour’s modest gains. “As it stands, we will have to form a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats, and we will work hard to repair the damage the Conservatives have inflicted on the economy.”

Upon taking the post as Prime Minister, Mr. Gould would formally approach Mr. Ashdown for a request for Labour to form a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats, to which the latter would certainly accept in this case. This would be the first time in the history of the Labour Party that it would lead a minority government and will form a coalition with not only just the Liberal Democrats, but Plaid Cymru, the Scottish National Party and Ulster Unionist Party. Though the British public is nervous at the possibility of the Gould government’s instability because of a weaker Labour Party dominated administration, its cooperation with the other smaller parties will give it much needed support. In addition, the Gould government has also received a similar response to the Maastricht Treaty as the French did: over 55% of the British public rejected the terms of the treaty, but would support its revision, if it concentrated only on the easing of trade barriers, and maintaining the right to petition the EEC for trade deals with other sovereign nations.


Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown speaks in front of his supporters after it was announced that the LibDems have gained the most seats in the British Parliament, sparking their fortunes a bit further.

[stevep]

Jan 25, 2021 6:09:09 GMT TheRomanSlayer said:

OMAKE SIX: What Remains of an Empire



A DISASTER AFTER THE FALLOUT! JOHN MAJOR RESIGNS FROM POST AS PRIME MINISTER AFTER BUNGLED EXPERIMENT WITH EXCHANGE RATE MECHANISM
The Sun
September 21, 1992


Prime Minister John Major discusses his resignation as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during an economic summit in London, after the infamous Black Wednesday event, in which the British experiment with the Exchange Rate Mechanism had gone horribly wrong, resulting in a slightly larger inflation rate of 19% of the Pound sterling.

London, UNITED KINGDOM – A financial crisis that resulted from a worsened Black Wednesday event when Great Britain was forced to withdraw from the Exchange Rate Mechanism has led to the abrupt resignation of John Major as Prime Minister of the UK. As of 1800 hrs on September 19, 1992, the former Prime Minister sent his resignation letter to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, expressing his remorse in playing a role in destroying the economy of the United Kingdom. With the resignation of John Major, it is expected that the Queen or Parliament will call for an early general election to decide who will become the new Prime Minister. So far, the Tories are scrambling to find an Acting Party Leader after Major also resigned as Party Leader of the Conservatives, while Labour would initially go with newly elected leader John Smith, but due to his health condition, he would not run for the office of Prime Minister. Instead, Bryan Gould, Smith’s opponent in the 1992 Labour Party leadership election, would run as the representative for Labour in his place.

“It is regrettable for us to hear of the Conservative government’s role in the biggest economic crisis in Britain since the Second World War, and even worse for us, is that our opponents in Labour and even the Liberal Democrats might pounce on our errors to gain more power, at our expense,” former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher commented after hearing about Major’s resignation. “I fear for the survival of the Conservative Party’s reputation after this.”

Opponents of the Exchange Rate Mechanism were loud in their objections to Britain’s entry into such a system, and the fact that the British pound has suffered a significant amount of inflation has vindicated much of their opposition. Within the European Economic Community, the planned signing of the Maastricht Treaty was delayed until the following year, mainly due to the collapse of the Major government, and the upcoming elections that would replace it. However, some skeptics within the EEC had believed that the current civil war in the Soviet Union, as well as additional political upheavals in the Balkans, had resulted in the delay. Most recently, the German reunification was strongly opposed by the French government, due to historical grievances, and the Mitterand government had pushed for the proposal of creating a new, pan-European currency that will serve as the official currency of the EEC, the Ducat. The Ducat, named after the medieval currency of the European kingdoms during the Middle Ages, was also viewed with some support by the Italian and Dutch governments as a potential replacement for their national currencies, in exchange for the EEC accepting German reunification.

In contrast, German Chancellor Helmuth Kohl had announced that after the November 9, 1991 event in which West and East Germany formally reunited (only after internal chaos prevented an earlier reunification, involving the mutiny of the former East German military in response to the Brandenburg Gate Massacre in 1989), the reunited German government will establish the “Autonomous Recovered Territories” charter, where the territories of the former East Germany will be governed in a different manner, with each former province receiving economic assistance and political reforms that will allow that selected former East German province to develop in a similar manner to the former West German provinces, and once their economic and political stability has been declared satisfactory, the former East German province would be declared as ‘economically and politically integrated’ into the reunited Germany, losing its autonomous recovered territory status. It is also expected that the process of re-integrating the former East German provinces into the reunited German state will take at least 25 to 30 years.


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MAASTRICHT TREATY RATIFICATION FAILS, CITES FRENCH OBJECTION TO GERMAN REUNIFICATION AND LOUDER PUSH FOR ACCEPTANCE OF ‘DUCAT’ CURRENCY AS OFFICIAL EEC CURRENCY
Die Welt
February 3, 1993


Maastricht, NETHERLANDS – In a shocking turn of events, approximately 58% of the French public had rejected the new Maastricht Treaty that would formally transform the European Economic Community into a formal, political union. The French public, along with their government, had expressed their loudest objection to the German reunification event where the former East German government had reunited with their former West German counterparts, resulting in a reunited, German state. Both President Mitterrand and newly elected British Prime Minister Bryan Gould had also expressed their reservations on the Maastricht Treaty, fearing for the potential loss of their sovereignty in a new, European Union, that is being pushed by the Europhile faction of the EEC.

“It is our greatest desire to maintain the sacred value of French sovereignty, in the face of global challenges that we are facing. We have said this before, and we will say it now: the Maastricht Treaty will result in the rise of a German Fourth Reich, wrapped in the flags of pan-European integration!” President Mitterrand said as he addresses his supporters during a national rally in Paris. “The French people have said no to German economic hegemony twice, and we will say it again for the third time!”

The French opposition to the Maastricht Treaty has been influential in the rest of the EEC member states rejecting the treaty, mainly because of their leftover fears of German economic domination over Europe, although the method that the French had resorted in pushing for the new Ducat as the pan-European currency to be used by the EEC has rubbed the German public the wrong way. In addition, German Chancellor Helmuth Kohl has reacted furiously at his French counterpart, for the way his government has behaved towards the rest of Europe.

“The French president may have managed to sabotage the aspirations for an integrated Europe, but he has not managed to stop its ultimate demise! We know from the start that France will be the ones to oppose the reunification of the two German states, but at this point, we do not care about what Francois Mitterrand thinks,” Chancellor Kohl said while addressing the Bundestag the day after the Maastricht Treaty was rejected. “And now, he is pushing for the creation of the Ducat as the pan-European currency. This is no longer about integration of Europe: this is basically the revanchist spirit of a nation that has yearned to gain its glory back, at our expense! It was the French who opposed the unification of the German states into the German Empire, and now we are seeing the same scenario played out once again.”


Francois Mitterrand explains the French position on the failed ratification of the Maastricht Treaty, in front of his political supporters, while simultaneously pushing for the creation of the pan-European currency, the 'Ducat'.

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BRYAN GOULD WINS UK GENERAL ELECTION, BUT FAILS TO GAIN THE NUMBER OF SEATS NEEDED TO FORM MAJORITY GOVERNMENT
The Sun
December 9, 1992


Newly elected Prime Minister Bryan Gould addresses his supporters after winning the December 1992 United Kingdom general election.

London, UNITED KINGDOM – To no one’s surprise, Bryan Gould, the representative of the Labour Party, has won the December 1992 United Kingdom Election, only a few months after John Major and the Conservatives have won their election. However, the Labour Party had only managed to win a paltry 42 seats, bringing it up to 315, while the Conservatives have lost over 147 seats, bringing it down to 196. The unexpected beneficiary of this election was Paddy Ashdown’s Liberal Democrats, whose gains of 130 seats, was the result of both the Conservative Party’s role in the Exchange Rate Mechanism debacle, and the poor campaign of Bryan Gould, that resulted in the unexpected change of fortunes for Paddy Ashdown.

“Honestly, it was John Smith’s biggest mistake to let his opponent in the Labour Party leadership race to run for the seat of Prime Minister. However, his health has prevented him from carrying out the necessary duties needed as Leader of the Labour Party. All of the members of Labour feared that Mr. Smith might have another heart attack during the campaign, so he allowed his one-time opponent to run as his representative,” comments Labour Party member Jeremy Corbyn after hearing of Labour’s modest gains. “As it stands, we will have to form a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats, and we will work hard to repair the damage the Conservatives have inflicted on the economy.”

Upon taking the post as Prime Minister, Mr. Gould would formally approach Mr. Ashdown for a request for Labour to form a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats, to which the latter would certainly accept in this case. This would be the first time in the history of the Labour Party that it would lead a minority government and will form a coalition with not only just the Liberal Democrats, but Plaid Cymru, the Scottish National Party and Ulster Unionist Party. Though the British public is nervous at the possibility of the Gould government’s instability because of a weaker Labour Party dominated administration, its cooperation with the other smaller parties will give it much needed support. In addition, the Gould government has also received a similar response to the Maastricht Treaty as the French did: over 55% of the British public rejected the terms of the treaty, but would support its revision, if it concentrated only on the easing of trade barriers, and maintaining the right to petition the EEC for trade deals with other sovereign nations.


Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown speaks in front of his supporters after it was announced that the LibDems have gained the most seats in the British Parliament, sparking their fortunes a bit further.

  TheRomanSlayer,

  This is a significantly worse ERM disaster for John Major to resign like that and prompt a new election.  I suspect, given they had recently won a majority the Tories would seek to select a new leader quickly and continue on with their majority in parliament.  That would be deeply unpopular in the country but given their majority in Parliament and previous behaviour it would need enough Tory MPs to refuse to support the government for it to be forced to allow a new election.

  Also given that John Smith had apparently gotten over his heart problems - see John_Smith_First_heart_attack for details of the lifestyle changes he made - I doubt he would drop out of the running like that and allowing the candidate he defeated to stand to become the PM.  There's no real scope for this in the British parliamentary system, at least that I'm aware of.  You might see him taking things a bit more carefully, although he lead a pretty active life.  He had taken up Munro bagging - i.e. climbing mountains.  There is the possibility that the stress of an election could cause him to have another heart attack, which might either kill him or force him to stand down in the midst of the campaign.  This could be the cause of the success of the LibDems as the Tories are deeply discredited after 12+ years in power and repeated disasters and Labour are now left rudderless in mid-campaign although given the reforms of Labour and the huge difficulty for a 3rd party to break through while I could see a 2010 type result with the party getting between 50-100MPs and holding the balance of power but gaining 130 seats is probably too many.

  Such an alliance would be interesting as the LibDems were committed to the EU, although that could be unpopular after the ERM disaster and with the deepening mess in Europe with France and Germany especially at such loggerheads.  The big issue for them would be could they get PR established which would prevent the sort of thing in the 80's where a party with only ~40% support could have an overwhelming majority in Parliament but many in Labour would be as deeply opposed to this as the Tories were.

  If Bryan_Gould did become the effective PM then it could be interesting as he seemed to be more wary of Europe - resigning from Smith shadow cabinet because it refused to accept a referendum on the Maastrich Treaty.  It is noted however he only got about 9% of the vote when he was defeated by Smith so if Smith was forced to step down due to ill health I suspect the defacto Labour leader would be Smith's deputy leader, Margret Beckett, although you could see a call for a new leadership election once the general election was over.  Which could have a different result to the OTL party election after Smith's death as he would have largely moved the party into power.

  I would personally suggest however that the most likely approach would be for Smith to win the election for Labour, although possibly with enough of a LibDem surge that their needed as coalition members and that then he dies a year or two later because of the stress of leadership.  Which would be increased by the need for a coalition and the messes in Europe and in Russia as well as a right winger winning in the US in a few months.  Possibly some of the other British members who were about at the time could comment as well on the issue.

  Steve

[TheRomanSlayer]

What I am trying to do here is to give Smith at least two to three extra years of additional life, which he would actually play a significant part in a future diplomatic venture here, on a similar role to Lord Carrington, but slightly larger. A Gould administration might also provide an opportunity for either the Acting Labour leader of OTL or Tony Blair to position himself as the successor to both Smith and Gould. I also made a note on why Gould wasn’t able to garner enough seats to outright win a majority, seeing as he might have campaigned poorly (hence his OTL and TTL leadership race loss to Smith), but in this case the Conservatives didn’t lose enough seats yet. Come around 1997 on the other hand, you could easily see an even bigger Labour victory, with either Beckett or Blair riding on the potential of the Gould administration. Let us not forget that the LibDems could easily lose those seats to either a more popular Labour, or a resurgent Conservative Party, though given the disaster the Tories played in the economic disaster, the former might be more likely. I might also do a retcon to this latest update to have Smith either win the same results as TTL Gould, or he somehow dies earlier on the campaign trail.

Also, my original plan was for the Second Russian Civil War Arc to be done in five parts, but because of a massive potential for the conflicts (Baltic, Caucasian, Western/Belarusian-Ukrainian, European Russian, Siberian, Far Eastern, and Central Asian Theaters) to cover, it might be stretched up to fifteen. In some of these updates, I will fly back to the Philippines portion, because we can't forget good old Tadiar and his merry band of junta officers, right? So here is going to be the rundown so far for future updates:

Chapter 30: Second Russian Civil War Part Five (Ukraine, Belarus, Siberia, and events in Europe that will touch base from OMAKE SIX) (Complete)
Chapter 31: Second Russian Civil War Part Six (Far East, Japan, Koreas, Philippines - the aftermath of the US military evacuation from the Philippines after Mount Pinatubo's eruption) (Complete)
Chapter 32: Second Russian Civil War Part Seven (Caucasus, Central Asia, Afghanistan, and events in the Balkans with a Kadijevic junta) (complete)
Chapter 33: Second Russian Civil War Part Eight (European Russia, Scandinavia, Baltics - Estonia and Latvia, plus events inside the European Economic Community) (Complete)
Chapter 34: Second Russian Civil War Part Nine (Siberia, Far East, Central Asia - Turkmenistan and maybe Kyrgyzstan) (Complete)
Chapter 35: Second Russian Civil War Part Ten (Ukraine, Belarus, European Russia - the Battle of Chernobyl, aka: the Soviet Battle of the Trident) (Complete)
Chapter 36: Second Russian Civil War Part Eleven (Caucasus, European Russia, Siberia, and the Balkans, plus India) (Complete)
Chapter 37: Second Russian Civil War Part Twelve (Central Asia, East Asia - China's military intervention, Iran - aftermath of the Iranian pyrrhic victory in Iran-Iraq War) (Complete)
Chapter 38: Second Russian Civil War Part Thirteen (Baltics, European Russia, Far East - North Korea, North America) (Complete)
Chapter 39: Second Russian Civil War Part Fourteen (European Russia - Battle for Moscow - aka: Soviet "Sack of King's Landing", Central Asia - the Soviet relocation to Shymkent, Far East) (Complete)
Chapter 40: Second Russian Civil War Part Fifteen (Conclusion - Rebel victory and mop up, the Soviet Provisional Government of Central Asia/aka: The Central Asian republics as the entire Soviet Union, Americas - Chiapas Conflict) (Complete)
Chapter 41: Philippines, the Americas, Vietnam, and the buildup to the South China Sea/West Philippine Sea Conflict (Complete)
Chapter 42: The Chinese Bombing of Vietnam and the Philippines, Aftermath (Complete)
Chapter 43: 1994 FIFA World Cup, Olympics (Complete)
Chapter 44: North America, South America (Mexican Civil War, Venezuela) (Complete)
Chapter 45: Union State of Ukraine and Belarus in greater detail, Philippines, the Media (Complete)

[TheRomanSlayer]

Chapter Thirty: The Second Russian Civil War Part Five



SVERDLOVSK COMES UNDER SIEGE BY SOVIET LOYALIST FORCES, COLONEL ALEKSEY LEBED APPOINTED COMMANDER OF SVERDLOVSK DEFENSE GARRISON
Sydney Herald
May 27, 1992



Sverdlovsk, RUSSIAN SFSR – Buoyed by the victory earned against the National Redemption Army in Aktobe, in the Kazakh SSR, Soviet loyalist forces under the command of Pavel Grachev had started to advance into the cradle of the Sverdlovsk Mutiny and the Second Russian Civil War itself, the city of Sverdlovsk. Commanding over 35,000 Red Army forces and over 2,900 pro-Soviet socialist and communist militias recruited from within the oblasts under NRA control, Grachev soon began to surround the city, with artillery pieces being positioned at various points away from the city. Commanding the garrison forces defending the city is Colonel Aleksey Lebed, the younger brother of the mastermind of the Sverdlovsk Mutiny, Alexander Lebed. Under Colonel Lebed the Younger’s command, he has over 15,000 NRA soldiers, 14,000 Rosgvardiya personnel and over 2,800 unintegrated Justice Brigade paramilitary soldiers, but he also had in his arsenal over 140 medium artillery pieces and several anti-air missiles stationed throughout the city.

“Here we stand, as the defenders of the cradle of our national revolution that shall bury the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics forever,” says the younger Lebed in front of his soldiers while Soviet loyalist artillery pieces have begun to fire. “While older brother Sasha is forced to retreat elsewhere, I will do my best to hold this city until my last breath. This, I can do, to make up for his failure to capture Aktobe.”

Although official Soviet sources say that they have an advantage over the rebels, numerous guerrilla attacks on Soviet supply lines by both Justice Brigade and Rosgvardiya troops have dwindled much of their supplies. Moreover, foreign volunteers from the newly created Grey Legion are rumored to have finished their formal training and would be sent to help the Rosgvardiya troops engage the Soviet loyalist forces advancing towards Sverdlovsk. In addition, the Soviet Air Force’s 22nd Guards ‘Donbass Red Banner’ Heavy Bomber Aviation Division have deployed much of their heavy bombers to reduce Sverdlovsk into rubble. In response, the newly created air arm of the National Redemption Army (consisting of defected former Soviet Air Force personnel from the 46th Air Army) have retaliated by bombing Soviet loyalist air bases within the European core of the Russian SFSR. Thus far, both sides sustained casualties in terms of number of aircraft that have been shot down and pilots killed.

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SOVIET LOYALIST BOMBERS FLATTEN HISTORIC CATHEDRAL IN UKRAINIAN CITY OF LVIV, RESULTS IN OVER 143 PARISHIONERS DEAD
The Sun
June 4, 1992



Lviv, (Breakaway) UKRAINIAN REPUBLIC – Over 100 bombing sorties from the Soviet loyalist-aligned 26th Air Army have resulted in the most brutal war crime committed against civilians in the increasingly bloody civil war unraveling in the crumbling Soviet Union, as the historic St. George’s Cathedral in the city of Lviv was destroyed by heavy bombing. Over 143 parishioners from the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, including the parish priest, were among the civilian casualties of the conflict. Ukrainian pro-independence forces were outraged by this heinous atrocity committed by the Soviet loyalists, ensuring that all of Ukraine would now become the first Soviet republic to come under complete rebel control, though the rebels running Ukraine in this case would be those who are fighting for its independence. Among the parishioners killed by Soviet bombing was the famous commander of one of the cells belonging to the Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian National Self-Defense Organization, Oleksandr Muzychko, who attended mass to pray for the victory of the Ukrainian independence movement.

“Olek was a martyr who did not hesitate to give up his life for an independent Ukraine. His death by the Soviet butchers only gives us strength to fight for our only goal: the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union,” says Andriy Shkil, who summarily took over Muzychko’s former cell and was also subsequently appointed as the new commander of the UNA-UNSO organization after Yuriy Shukhevych’s resignation due to ill health. “Our war with the Soviet Union continues, but we will approach both the Belarusian and Russian rebels for a ceasefire and coordinate our efforts in defeating the Soviet forces before deciding on our next step.”

Although Soviet officials did not comment on the casualties suffered by the rebel side during their heavy bombing campaign against them in Lviv, some Soviet Red Army officers, most notable of them Gennady Troshev, who was assigned a Red Army brigade charged with retaking the city of Kaliningrad from the National Redemption Army forces holding the city under Viktor Dubynin’s command, had this to say about the bombing of Lviv.

“Lvov was the epicenter of the most radical of the Ukrainian nationalist movement. Our forces had struck fear into their hearts by bombing the hornet’s nest containing the descendants of the Banderites who plagued the Ukrainian SSR after the Great Patriotic War had come to an end in our victory,” Troshev commented while being asked about the Lviv bombing. “With the help of our other comrades who remained loyal, we will eventually retake the entirety of the Ukrainian SSR, and we will be able to complete what Comrade Stalin had started, by wiping out the fascist leftovers who threaten the peace of our Union.”

It is expected that more Ukrainian conscripts within the Red Army would be expected to desert from the Red Army, and either join the growing UNA-UNSO cells that have sprung up throughout the rest of the Ukrainian Republic, or to form the Ukrainian version of the National Redemption Army, or even join the NRA themselves. In addition, the Belarusian theater of the Second Russian Civil War is seen as a civil war within a civil war, where Belarusian nationalists are split between those who favor total independence from the Soviet Union and those who prefer to remain with Russia, but under a non-communist Russian government, as was the case with Alyaksandr Milinkevich’s faction, which had reached a temporary alliance with Gennady Burbulis’s Russian Provisional Government. Moreover, the Belarusian nationalists of both factions are also at war with the Belarusian loyalists of the Soviet government, of which is led by a chicken farmer by the name of Aleksander Lukashenko. Yet unlike the other Soviet loyalist figures who cheered on their air force bombers as they dropped their payload on innocent civilians inside the famous St. George’s Cathedral, which is controlled by the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Lukashenko criticized the Lviv bombing as ‘counterproductive’.

“Every day we gain new enemies, both within and outside the Union. The latest carnage will only give power to the reactionaries, who will spin this as the godless communists targeting innocent Christians in the Soviet Union,” Lukashenko commented after hearing about the carnage in Lviv. “As a result of this incident, we have confirmed reports that almost the entire leadership of the Ukrainian Communist Party had voted to disband itself, and to defect to either the nationalist factions, led by the UNA-UNSO, or the federalist faction, which favored an alliance with the Russian Provisional Government. We are looking at a worst-case scenario from our perspective.”

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“The Siberian Theater from April 1992 onwards was dominated by skirmishes between paramilitaries of opposing sides. The communist and socialist militias that were sponsored by the Soviet government, often called the People’s Guard, had clashed with Rosgvardiya troops, in a series of small-scale battles throughout Siberia. One of the Rosgvardiya commander who emerged from the Siberian Theater was an unheard-of man by the name of Yuri Budanov. Although he was only 29 years old, he became the youngest officer to command an entire Rosgvardiya regiment, with his subordinates all hailing from the city of Tobolsk, hence the nicknamed ‘Tobolsk Battalion’. Budanov’s Tobolsk Battalion became one of the most battle-hardened regiments of Rosgvardiya, with several of their troops taking part in numerous minor battles throughout Tyumen Oblast. At one point, they also took part in the covert smuggling of foodstuffs and other medical equipment into the besieged city of Sverdlovsk, often with the help of former Soviet politician turned business entrepreneur Boris Yeltsin. In addition, the Tobolsk Battalion would also get involved in skirmishes with regular troops of the Red Army, but their preference for guerrilla warfare would be effective in inflicting severe casualties upon the hapless Red Army soldiers that when they asked them to surrender during one battle in the town of Kularovo, many wounded and able bodied Red Army soldiers took up on their offer and sent them to a makeshift POW camp, just outside the town of Kalachinsk, where medical doctors tended to them. Some of these wounded Red Army prisoners of war would eventually defect to the National Redemption Army, once Oleg Baklanov had re-issued the infamous Order No. 270, in which all Red Army troops taken prisoner of war by any enemy would be shot once they were rescued, and their families would be sent to labor camps. However, the infamous Order was revised in June of 1992 to summary execution, once the Soviet government learned that almost 89% of all Soviet gulags were already under rebel control, and the former gulag inmates started to join both the unintegrated Justice Brigades and Rosgvardiya in droves, with revenge as their main motivation.” From the Russian documentary “The Second Russian Civil War and the Rise of Modern Russia”, made by TASS, June 13, 2010.

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GOULD GOVERNMENT BEGINS ITS TERM BY ADDRESSING FAILED MAASTRICHT TREATY, PROPOSALS FOR REVISED VERSION TO FOLLOW
The Sun
February 7, 1993



London, UNITED KINGDOM – The topic of the failed acceptance of the Maastricht Treaty became the focus of discussion in the new Brian Gould-led administration, as many of the newly elected Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs were clamouring for closer economic integration of the European continent, without the loss of their national sovereignty. Paddy Ashdown, one of the key coalition leaders of the Gould government, had added his suggestion that the EEC, should be able to negotiate trade agreements with foreign nations as the entire organization, with additional inputs from its member states. The Europhile faction of the Gould government had agreed with the plan, but instead of accepting fault for the rejection of the failed Maastricht Treaty, the Europhiles blamed the apathetic British public for not paying attention to what closer political and economic integration with the rest of Europe would be like.

“Look, I think that the British public have not been sufficiently educated about the affairs of our neighbors across the Channel, and our subjects in the Channel Islands have the greatest exposure to EEC politics, just by their proximity to France,” Liberal Democrat Party member and Junior Spokesperson for European Integration Nick Clegg commented. “In addition, the EEC would eventually become integrated, with the possible collapse of the Soviet Union and the attractive prospect of EEC membership for the former Eastern Bloc member states.”

The Liberal Democrats’ proposal for the revision of the Maastricht Treaty would include the establishment of a common ground rule for economic trade, the right of member states to retain their laws regarding economic activities (especially important regarding the fisheries in the UK), as well as the establishment of a European Development Bank, which would help invest in the economies of poorer European nations, as well as to help them with their fiscal reforms to meet membership application criteria should they join the EEC. Finally, the revision of the Schengen Area is an important topic in the minds of the British public, as they also wanted more control over internal and external immigration, both from within the EEC and outside Europe as a whole, but the last bit about the Schengen Area had aroused fears of xenophobia from within the Gould government.

In addition to the failed acceptance of the Maastricht Treaty, the Gould government also established their official cabinet, with John Smith being appointed as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Second Lord of Treasury (a controversial appointment, given that as the legally recognized leader of the Labour Party, Smith would be obliged to have a higher role in Gould’s government, but citing health concerns over his earlier heart attack, a lighter duty for Smith would have been seen as appropriate). Paddy Ashdown was appointed the Leader of the House of Commons, although Margaret Beckett was appointed Deputy Prime Minister. Already, several Conservatives have criticized the haphazard selection of appointees in key positions of power made by Brian Gould, with former Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major being the most vocal.

“Mr. Gould’s lack of knowledge in the people he had selected for positions of power, and his poor decision-making skills in general, is the reason why he lost the Labour Party leadership race to Mr. Smith, but he ends up as Prime Minister of the UK because Labour is scared that Mr. Smith might have a heart attack during a Cabinet meeting,” Thatcher commented sardonically, but her comments had aroused anger from Labour MPs who were still furious with the Conservatives over their botched handling of the Black Wednesday crisis.

“Ms. Thatcher and Mr. Major both played a role in the destruction of our economy, and we are left cleaning their mess up. If this were a Michelin star restaurant, the two former Prime Ministers would cock up in their management of that restaurant,” Margaret Beckett snapped back during a Parliament speech.

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TENSIONS MOUNT BETWEEN GREEK CATHOLICS AND RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT OVER STATUS OF EASTERN CATHOLIC CHURCH INSIDE RUSSIA
The Eastern Orthodox Daily Tribune
July 19, 2004



Kiev, RUSSIAN FEDERATION – The status of the existing Eastern Catholic Churches within the Russian Federation was the vocal point of the tensions between the Eastern Catholic population of Russia and the official ecclesiastical leadership of the Eastern Orthodox Church of All Rus’, as the predominantly Orthodox Christian majority there had objected to the recognition of the Greek and Roman Catholic Churches as the legal religion of parts of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus where the Catholic population reside. The tension began when the Ukrainian Greek Catholic clergy in Lviv had approached the Russian government with a proposal to rebuild St. George’s Cathedral, which was destroyed by Soviet heavy bombers during the Second Russian Civil War. As of today, the church itself was not yet rebuilt, mainly because of the objections of the Orthodox majority of Russia, which had long viewed the Catholic churches as its primary rival. Moreover, fundamentalist elements of the Eastern Orthodox Church of All Rus’ had also advocated the expulsion of Catholics from Russia, a move that is opposed by both the Russian government and the Eastern Catholic minority.

“Our objections to the restoration of Catholicism in the soil under the control of the Russian Federation is rooted in our doctrinal difference to them, as well as the fact that many Orthodox Christians living here are just rediscovering their ancient faith. To allow Catholic priests to freely roam around Russia would be problematic for us,” Patriarch Diomid said in front of reporters while asking about the status of the Eastern Catholic Churches within Russia. “While we would always allow freedom of worship for our Catholic brothers and sisters, our doors will always remain open to them should they realize the errors of their ways.”

The hardline stance of the Eastern Orthodox Church of All Rus’ received a similar response from the Vatican, which had long viewed the predominantly Orthodox Christian Russian state as its greatest nemesis. In addition, members of the infamous Opus Dei have also been accused of sending Catholic missionaries to Russia under the pretext of tending to the needs of the Ukrainian and Belarusian Catholic population there. Most recently in 2000, a diplomatic spat occurred between the Azarov government and the Vatican over the former’s objection to the legalization of Catholicism in Russia after the reunification of Russia with the Union State of Ukraine and Belarus. However, under his tenure as President of the Union State of Ukraine and Belarus, Azarov had also cracked down on Catholic activism inside its territory, making it worse for the Catholic minority of the Union State.

“The Vatican had long played a role in the tensions between the Catholics and Orthodox Christians of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. I am not so eager to allow this kind of animosity to tear this country apart, after so much hard work was placed into the merger,” Azarov said when asked about the role of the Catholic minority in the former Union State. “That is not to say, we will not persecute the Catholics as much as the Catholics used to persecute us. The fact that our merger with Russia will also result in bigger anti-Catholic attitude from the Russian public that had used religion as a rallying point during the civil war in the former Soviet Union.”

When the reunification between the Union State of Ukraine and Belarus with Russia was completed on October 27, 1999, with it becoming official by January 1, 2000 (the completion of the merger was done on the anniversary of the Treaty of Pereyslav where the territories of the former Cossack Hetmanate had aligned itself with the Tsardom of Russia, through Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s pledge of allegiance to Tsar Alexis I), there were fears in Eastern Europe that the Azarov-led Russian government would start expelling the nation’s Catholic minority. To their relief, the expulsion did not occur, but numerous Greek and Latin Catholics had fled from Russia, citing religious persecution, and had settled in Poland, Croatia, Italy, and the Anglophone countries. Zbigniew Brzezinski, the most vocal Russophobe in the American government, had called on the Kemp administration to punish Russia for its religious intolerance, but before adding that ‘perhaps now would be a good time to do what the Teutonic Knights and King Sigismund III had failed to do’, causing outrage in the Russian public.

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Chapter Thirty-One: The Second Russian Civil War Part Six



YAKUTSK FALLS TO REBEL FORCES AS MAJORITY OF YAKUT ETHNIC MINORITY VOTE IN FAVOR OF POWER SHARING AGREEMENT WITH RUSSIAN PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT, BURYATIA TO FOLLOW SUIT
Sydney Herald
June 7, 1992



Yakutsk, YAKUT ASSR – Yakutia, one of the constituent republics within the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, has declared itself sovereign in opposition to the Soviet government by entering an alliance with the Russian Provisional Government. Earlier today, Yury Prokopyev, the First Secretary of the Yakut RCCCPSU, had been deposed by pro-Lebed elements within the Yakut autonomous government and invited the National Redemption Army to restore order into the city of Yakutsk. The acting Head of the Yakut Provisional Autonomous Government, Mikhail Nikolayev, had been appointed by Gennady Burbulis as the acting leader in response to Prokopyev’s deposition from power. The fall of Yakutia to the rebel forces represents a major shift in the balance of power between the Soviet loyalists and the rebel factions in eastern Siberia and the Far Eastern region of the Soviet Union.

“The Soviet government has shown itself to be illegitimate in that it has committed a heinous crime against the people. By its own definition, the Soviet government that sanctioned the unprovoked bombing of the Ukrainian city of Lvov, has now been declared the ‘enemy of the people’,” Mikhail Nikolayev says in front of Sakha’s regional council after the declaration of the Yakut Provisional Autonomous Government. “We the people of Yakutia, condemn this heinous act of barbarism and stand in solidarity with the people of the Ukrainian Republic.”

Nikolayev’s omission of the term ‘Soviet Socialist’ in the official naming of the Ukrainian SSR has garnered significant clamor from both the Soviet loyalist authorities and the Ukrainian independence movement, in that an autonomous entity within Russia itself has decided to join the fight against Soviet tyranny. In addition, the Buryat ASSR’s top leadership were arrested by the advancing National Redemption Army forces, led by famed General Leonid Khabarov. Khabarov’s forces entered the Buryat capital of Ulan-Ude to stop the Buryat ASSR from declaring for the loyalist side, which was made difficult by the demonstrations made by the Buryat population inside Ulan-Ude, declaring their opposition to both the Soviet loyalists and the rebel forces. A few of the Buryats even clamored to reunify with the independent Mongolian Republic, but the remaining Buryats who were inspired by the power sharing deal made between the Yakut PAG and the Russian Provisional Government, now wanted the same deal that the Yakuts made.

“The people of the Buryat ASSR have seen how a power sharing agreement made between our fraternal neighbors in the Yakut ASSR and the Russian Provisional Government. We would like to approach Mr. Burbulis with a similar deal for the creation of a Buryat Provisional Autonomous Government,” Leonid Potapov, the acting leader of the newly established Buryat PAG, said, after he announced its creation. “Also, with the support of the National Redemption Army, we would gladly participate in any liberations of labor camps that are established within our territory.”

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“The defection of Irkutsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai from the Soviet loyalist forces to the rebel faction had resulted in much of the eastern half of the entire former Soviet Union coming under the control of the rebel forces. When Gennady Burbulis heard of this news, he immediately called for the entire leadership of the Russian Provisional Government to relocate to Krasnoyarsk, though he did it secret and left only minor officials who could pose as actual leaders of the RPG for the Soviet loyalist forces to deal with, should Sverdlovsk fall to the loyalists. Despite their efforts to bring the rebellious city under heel, Colonel Aleksey Lebed’s stubborn determination to hold on to the cradle of the later declared ‘Russian Revolution of 1990’ had transformed a hopeless situation to that of a life-or-death struggle. His rebel forces started to fight more frantically, as guerrilla attacks launched by the unintegrated members of the Justice Brigades and the troops from Rosgvardiya had resulted in more casualties among the Red Army forces. It did not help their cause when Oleg Baklanov’s revised version of Order No. 270 was constantly broadcasted from within Sverdlovsk that morale within the Red Army had began to drop. At the same time, the fall of Irkutsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai had also resulted in the defection of two additional autonomous republics to the Russian Provisional Government’s side: Khakassia and Altai. Both of its constituent leaders would declare their loyalty to the Russian Provisional Government and even gave the National Redemption Army crucial information on the locations of various gulags still under operation. Finally, the offensive launched by Viktor Chechevatov against the sparsely defended loyalist positions in the Russian Extreme North had been successful, only in forcing the loyalists to either surrender or defect to the rebel faction once their food supplies had run out and no reinforcements were going to arrive. Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Magadan Oblast, and Kamchatka Krai would hold out a bit longer until the winter in January of 1993, when all of the remaining Soviet loyalist forces who survived the winter opted to surrender and defect to the National Redemption Army.” From the Russian Documentary “The Second Russian Civil War and the Rise of Modern Russia”, TASS.

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Excerpts from “The Origin of Korea’s Tumultuous Reunification”
By: SBS (Broadcasted on April 29, 2017)



“Today’s reunited Korea could trace its origins back to when the two Koreas were still separate states, though the real catalyst for the road to reunification was during the Second Russian Civil War when the Soviet loyalist government requested for assistance from fellow socialist nations to put down an armed rebellion led by Alexander Lebed. While China deployed the People’s Liberation Army to Soviet Central Asia, the North Korean government under Kim Il-Sung had also approved of the plan to send a large North Korean army to besiege the rebel-held city of Vladivostok, currently under the control of the National Redemption Army. However, a major incident in the autonomous city of Rason would capture the headlines of every major news outlet throughout Asia, even reaching as far as the Middle East and North Africa. On April 24, 1992, the North Korean army was issued an order by Kim Il-Sung himself to ‘liberate’ the Soviet city of Vladivostok from the hands of ‘rebellious reactionaries’ who were in the process of undoing the socialist revolution. Three KPA corps were stationed in North Hamgyong province, among them the famous VI Corps. The commander of the VI Corps, Kim Chang-son, was recently appointed commander of the VI Corps and assessed the situation at the borders between the former North Korea, China, and the Far Eastern regions of what is today the Russian Federation. When he took command of the corps, he found its fighting strength to have been less than what he was told, mainly because of various defections that were happening under his command. However, when the North Korean Army crossed the border to Primorsky Krai, they found the National Redemption Army waiting for them as they walked straight into an ambush. Unlike the later engagements between the National Redemption Army and the PLA, the National Redemption’s Army with the North Korean military was swift and decisive, with only one battle being waged between them, resulting in a predictable NRA victory. What shocked the NRA next however, was the capture of the entire VI Corps, led by Kim Chang-son, who was also captured by NRA soldiers as well. After being shipped to a makeshift POW camp just outside Khabarovsk, the captured North Korean POWs were given the choice of either staying in the Russian Far East as prisoners under NRA custody, or to defect and join the National Redemption Army. Although General Kim was hesitant to accept the offer, news of the capture of the VI Corps had reached Pyongyang, where Kim Il-Sung had reacted furiously to the news. However, his meltdown would eventually lead to a fatal stroke, leading to his death. Officially, on April 29, 1992, Kim Il-Sung was declared officially dead, from a stroke caused by his anger at the news of the VI Corps’s capture by the NRA.

One of the most surprising supporters of the Russian Provisional Government was one of Kim Il-Sung’s sons, Kim Pyong-il. Though he has worked as a diplomat on behalf of his government in Pyongyang, Kim Pyong-il has come under scrutiny for some of his scandalous behavior while working abroad as North Korea’s ambassador to various nations that were under socialist regimes. Although he also retained his connections with the Soviet loyalist government as well, even being trusted by Oleg Baklanov and Boris Pugo with crucial information on their next move against the rebel faction, Kim Pyong-il would make a rare blunder and offer to mediate between the Soviet loyalist government and the Russian Provisional Government, much to the outrage of the North Korean government, as he had no authority to do so as a mere diplomat representing a socialist nation. When Kim Pyong-il heard of his father’s death, he quickly made his journey back to North Korea, but to his frustration, Kim Jong-il was already proclaimed as the successor to his father and was stopped from re-entering North Korea. Kim Pyong-il would even face one assassination attempt on his life, authorized by Kim Jong-il himself, who pledged to continue his father’s pro-Soviet policy, leading to one of the most unthinkable event happening in the history of North Korea: Kim Pyong-il, the younger, paternal, half-brother of the new North Korean dictator, would declare a formation of the so-called Provisional Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, on May 9, 1992, in the Soviet-turned-Russian Far Eastern city of Vladivostok. Though the PGDPRK would not control any territory within North Korea, it would serve as an alternative government to Kim Jong-il’s government in Pyongyang. Moreover, the PGDPRK has gained a powerful ally: the VI Corps that were POWs inside the Russian Far East, would now serve as the backbone of the Korean National Liberation Army. However, the KNLA would not be used by the NRA for any combat missions, but only to serve as auxiliary troops guarding the city of Vladivostok. Moreover, the KNLA would also serve as mediators between the NRA and the Armed Forces of the Republic of Korea during meetings involving the PGDPRK. President Roh Tae-woo officially recognized the legitimacy of the PGDPRK, with Kim Pyong-il as its de facto head, though talks of Korean reunification would not occur until 1999, four years after China’s military action in the South China Sea incident.”

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US FORCES EVACUATE FROM THEIR PHILIPPINE BASES IN AFTERMATH OF MOUNT PINATUBO ERUPTION, TADIAR UNABLE TO REACH AGREEMENT WITH DOLE ADMINISTRATION ON EXTENSION OF LEASE
Manila Times
December 9, 1991



Manila, NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION – The Tadiar-led junta had been dealt a major blow when US forces stationed in the Philippines evacuated from both the Subic Bay naval base and Clark Airfield, because of the Mount Pinatubo eruption. The fallout from the volcanic eruption had been severe enough to force the Dole administration to close their naval bases, with Artemio Tadiar unable to reach an agreement on the extension of the lease on the military bases the United States possess in the Philippines. In addition, American military officials estimate that it will take five to six years for the military bases to repair and become operational once again, even with Tadiar’s offer to lower the price tag on the rental expenses that the US military would have to pay to the Philippine government. In addition, various human rights violations reported by fleeing Filipinos escaping the Tadiar regime had convinced President Bob Dole to withhold any further military aid to the Tadiar regime until it tones down on their abuses.

“I regret to see the American forces leave our country, for even Mother Nature does not stop to consider the feelings of human beings,” Tadiar said during a live conference in Manila after the news of the US military’s evacuation from the Philippines was made official. “To make sure that our bases will be made operational for any foreign governments to use that are considered our allies, we will undertake its repairs and renovations to meet the standards requested by the foreign governments in question.”

The Dole administration also came under fire from Democrat members in both the House of Representatives and the Senate when it was revealed that several Chilean officer graduates from the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation have traveled to the Philippines on Tadiar’s invitation to help reform the Philippine military. Tadiar was influenced by his recent trip to Chile to mend relations with the Pinochet regime to the point where the two military dictators began to collaborate on security issues. Philippine military officials were impressed by the training regimen and logistical reforms imposed on them by their Chilean counterparts, and in fact the logistical reforms came in handy during the Mount Pinatubo eruption and the 1990 Luzon Earthquake, resulting in only 19 civilians killed and 24 injured, in contrast to the huge death toll from the Loma Prieta Earthquake in the United States. Tadiar’s military reforms also extended to the navy and air force, which saw several of its navy and air force officers being sent to the United States for additional training, as well as Great Britain, Canada, and Australia.

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PRIME MINISTER MIYAZAWA ORDERS PARTIAL MOBILIZATION OF SELF-DEFENSE FORCE IN RESPONSE TO GROWING CONFLICT IN EASTERN REGION OF USSR
Japan Times
July 19, 1992



Tokyo – The Japan Self-Defense Force in all its major branches, have been ordered by Prime Minister Miyazawa Kiichi to mobilize for a snap drill in response to an increase in both Soviet loyalist (or what remained of it) and Russian rebel naval fleets in the Sea of Japan. Citing the dangers that both opposing sides of the Second Russian Civil War to Japan’s national security, various troops, sailors, and pilots of all branches of Japan’s military conducted a defensive maneuver in case either one of the two sides have accidentally fired on them. Moreover, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s naval vessel have been deployed to northeastern Hokkaido, close to the disputed Kurile Islands, where five Russian rebel vessels are stationed to monitor the maritime border with Japan. The move by Prime Minister Miyazawa had garnered criticism from both the South Korean and Chinese governments, viewing the partial mobilization as a ‘mistake’.

“We urge the Japanese government to not react in a rash manner, and to negotiate with both sides of the civil war in the Soviet Union in case things go really bad,” Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang said during the meeting in the National People’s Congress. “Asia must not witness the resurgence of Japanese militarism, as we remember the scars from its brutal legacy.”

The Chinese premier’s comments had divided public opinion in Japan, with much of the pacifists criticizing the Miyazawa government for conducting a partial mobilization as an ‘overreaction’ on their part, while the realists who are campaigning for the repealing of Article 9 of the Japanese constitution that renounces war as an official part of its policy, are supporting the mobilization call. However, the radicals within the pro-remilitarization movement in Japan are also calling for a full mobilization, going so far as to show up at JSDF recruiting stations to enlist in the military. In addition, the growing crisis within the Soviet Union, and most recently, the crisis in North Korea because of Kim Il-Sung’s death and the rise of Kim Jong-il had also resulted in increased tensions between the borders of both North and South Korea.

“Although the Armed Forces of the Republic of Korea are prepared for a possible confrontation with the military of the Pyongyang regime, we will also not hesitate to stamp out any traces of Japanese militarism in the region. The move by Japanese Prime Minister Miyazawa to order a partial mobilization of the Japan Self-Defense Forces raises a valid fear within the Korean public, which remembers the last time Japan deployed its troops outside its territory,” South Korean president Roh Tae-woo said during a briefing in front of local and international reporters. “We also call upon the international community to mediate between the two opposing sides in the increasingly brutal civil war that is being waged in the Soviet Union.”

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“The CIA’s continued presence in the Philippines had been approved by the Tadiar regime, though it was done in secret, as any exposure would have resulted in the downfall of whichever American president presided over this scandal. Although one of the Tadiar regime’s scandals occurred during the UNAACP mission in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, the scandal itself was also being engineered by the CIA, which bribed the Philippine junta with lucrative black market style arms deal for any weapons they would request. However, the CIA through its shell corporations, would constantly circumvent any loopholes found in the UN sanctions imposed on the Philippines, until the Chinese bombing campaign against the Philippines in 1995, when most of the CIA agents almost died by Chinese bombs. In addition, while the Kemp administration had proposed to lift the arms embargo on the Philippines, the Chinese had vetoed the lifting of the arms embargo, citing the continued state of war between the Philippines and China, even though the original opponent of the Chinese were not Tadiar, but rather, Vietnam. Another proposal to lift the arms embargo on the Philippines was issued in 1999, which once again, was met with a Chinese veto. The result of constant Chinese interference in the attempts by the Philippines to secure weapons for itself had forced the Tadiar regime to develop its own indigenous defense industry. Most importantly, both the CIA and Japanese military intelligence were deployed to the Philippines in the aftermath of the South China Sea war, to assess the extent of the damage that the Philippines suffered from the PLAAF aerial bombardment. To the horror of the entire world, the Chinese bombing campaign resulted in over $9 billion dollars in property damage, and an official casualty count of only 5,431 killed, and 15,234 wounded, debunking much of Tadiar’s claimed count of over 500,000 people dead. Unfortunately, the bombing campaign had also resulted in the virtual destruction of much of its food supplies, with the rice fields being torched to the ground by the Chinese deployment of napalm bombs on agricultural production, causing an additional 400,000 Filipinos who died from hunger. Tadiar, to the surprise of the world, admitted that while he knew he had lost the war against China, he would not sign a peace treaty, if ‘500,000 dead Filipinos remain unavenged’, according to him. The famine caused by the aerial bombardment had forced the international community to send humanitarian supplies to the Philippines, and even Indonesia sent foodstuffs and agricultural equipment to help the Philippines regain its food production capabilities. Still, Ye Fei’s policy of making China a regional power had resulted in not only 400,000-500,000 Filipinos dead, but over 420,000 Vietnamese civilians who perished from the bombing campaign, both in terms of being killed by bombs and starved to death, because of its rice fields being napalmed to oblivion. The sheer horrific atrocity by the PLAAF and the indifference by the Chinese public and government, had resulted in the United States proposing to place a trade embargo on China, as well as economic sanctions, until it withdrew from the Spratly Islands and compensated all of SE Asia for its military aggression. Even as China predictably rejected the American offer, the UN General Assembly was no longer willing to tolerate China’s behavior. Consequently, the Philippines after 2000 would eventually flirt with dangerous, far-right ideologies in scenes not seen since the 1930s, with an even more dangerous fascist movement led by Nicanor Faeldon, acting as Tadiar’s protégé and possible successor.” From Alex Jones’s documentary, “The Multipolar Disorder: The Age of Geopolitical Instability”, sponsored by “The American Cause”.

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If you need help for the JMSDF ORBAT, here's one I found for January 1, 1990. So they would have the JS Hiei, JS Haruna, JS Shirane, and JS Kuruma as its most powerful vessels, backed by their Hatsuyuki-class destroyers. The JS Kongo, the first AEGIS destroyer of the JMSDF, only entered service in 1993. The U.S. Congress approved the sale of AEGIS combat system to Japan in 1988.

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  TheRomanSlayer ,

  Interesting but I'm a bit uncertain about the actions of the S Korean government in recognising the PGDPRK which is basically one man along with some POWs in Russian rebel hands.  This very much mean breaking with the government in Pyongyang and is going to make it very hostile.  I would strongly suspect another Korean war breaking out under those circumstances, probably with the north backed by China so not sure Seoul would risk such a crisis?

  So we have a clearer idea on deaths from Chinese attacks against both the Philippines and Vietnam.  The direct bombing deaths sound low considering the size of them but both victims losing 400k-500k from famine is a serious disaster not to mention is going to be viewed as a war crime by much of the world I would expect.

  Otherwise looking good and gives a clearer idea of why some of the things that happened did so.

  Steve