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Finally! It's here! This is a sequel to my last map (A deceptive Peace: www.deviantart.com/truebananak… ) set 64 years later.

I've had this finished for about 1 1/2 months now but I wasn't really feeling like writing a description for this. I really hate writing descriptions for these maps to be honest. I'm not exactly happy with releasing this piece of shit map with this description either, but this has been giving me anxiety for the past month. The description reads more like a fever dream about various bits of trivia and lore mashed together, but that's fine for now, I might edit a few things later on, add info and such.

Nuclear symbols by SRegan

I got a few other maps in the cooking, including but not limited to a DBWI of this setting, a rework of a previous map+it's respective DBWI, and a Cold War-centered one.

The basic premise of this one: a Cold War between a lefty US+allies and a far-right Germany+allies (also featuring: *Asia*, the Ottomans and resurrected Leninists). If you have any questions, feel free to ask or something.

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The new order established by Germany following World War 1 proved to be short-lived, and by the mid-1930s an anti-German axis had been firmly established by the defeated Entente powers. The freefall of the German economy in 1926 paralyzed the continental hegemon long enough to guarantee the temporary survival of Soviet Russia (re-animated after the 1928 fraud presidential elections) and France's slip from the Teuton's grasp. The coming-to-power of fascists* in Great Britain additionally unraveled the shaky interwar order. The final nail in the coffin however either was the second American Civil War or the outbreak of open hostilities between Japan and (re-unified) China.

"Real" Nazism didn't develop right away in Germany after World War 1, but a "Prussian Fascism" of sorts slowly matured instead, with a foundation very similar to that of our world's german fascism; both are the final product of 18th century prussian militarism clashing with 19th century social darwinism, the effects of the industrial revolution and urbanisation, and the experiences made during the first fully mechanized and totalised war.

The American Civil War: Already troubled by recession and closed European markets, America took a nose-dive with the global economic crash in 1925, and by 1932 the public had been sufficiently radicalized to allow for a Radical to rise: the third party candidate that successfully won the 1932 presidential election in the end wasn't (or rather, wouldn't have been) very different from our world's Roosevelt, if only for his rhetoric (which was significantly more red-tainted) - regardless, some members of the military as well as various industrialists became very anxious over his election (the recent rise of the Soviet regime still in mind) and in the end saw him forced out of Washington, replaced by his main rival during the presidential election, Huey B. Long of the Democratic Party. Shortly after civil order broke down, as supporters of the elected president and the constitution rallied in their defense, opposed by anti-socialists, hard-right conservatives, Longists and the odd fascist. The Buisness Plot alliance would break up mid-way through the war, Britain, Japan and Canada would all become involved in the conflict to some extent (the latter two later housing the exiled Longist/"traitor" regimes), and the Democratic-Socialist alliance would emerge victorious (and furious at the foreign supporters of the traitor government).

Once again the Fatherland sent it's sons to die in the endless trenches and battlefields of Europe, slowly bleeding the continent dry.

The war in Europe finally came to an end with the capture of Bordeaux by german forces, Soviet Russia previously having been broken by the detonation of the first-ever nuclear bomb on Volgograd. Britain was never invaded by either german or american forces, despite plans by both, as the fascist government was toppled shortly after news of the destruction of Volgograd reached the British Isles. Subsequently US troops secured the island, refusing to let Germany occupy any part of it.

When the war had ended a new Germany arose from the ashes, finally freed from the last vestigal restraints that had burdened it, parliament and emperor reduced to powerless figureheads.

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Strained by years of political instability, a stagnating economy that hadn't entirely recovered from the Great Depression and the inability of the ruling elites to find a solution to the "nationalities problem", Austria-Hungary finally collapsed in the aftermath of World War 2. The process that lead to the total state collapse experienced in 1946 already began in the middle of the war, when the empire tried to centralize the dual monarchy again in an attempt to emulate the relative success of the totalised war machinery of Germany. The subsequent civil war between loyalists, ethnic seperatists and Austromarxists fought post-war found a quick end when german, romanian, etc. armies marched in.

Italy emerged from the war as the hegemon of the Meditteranean Sea, having acquired all of the italian irredenta as well as French N. Africa and Malta, all without sacrificing anywhere near as many lives as Germany or France. This strategy of demanding concessions before entering the war on Germany's side turned out to be a major mistake however, when their former ally, enraged by their disloyalty and arrogance, had the Heer march onto Rome.
Italy was broken up into it's constituents and deprived of it's colonies. The north of Italy in particular was made into a "Kingdom of Lombardy", lorded over by the Kaiser as "King of the Lombards".

What was once the sick man of Europe became a great power almost over night. Their external enemies destroyed, internal opposition crushed and now in control of the Baku oil fields, the Ottomans were at their zenith of power - or so it seemed.
The small explosion heard in Istanbul would send shockwaves across Western Asia and beyond, as the formerly thought unassailable triumvirate ruling over the Ottoman Empire was now dead, it's government removed from power by the "Brotherhood of Turan" (a former faction of the CUP turned secret society supporting even more extreme ideas than their parent organisation). The new turkish regime that emerged was more radical, fanatical and most importantly more paranoid than it's predecessor, culminating in multiple purges of the military and bureaucracy, as well as an unprecedented expansion of their armed forces (the invasion of Italy and it's subsequent destruction was still in the mind of the turkish leadership, after all). Relative peace only came, when for the first time a mushroom cloud appeared in the arabian desert.

Since then, 3 decades have passed.
Germany and the US remain pitted against one another, two polar opposites, two magnets repulsing one another; on the one side: democracy, the rule of law, humanism - on the other: despotism, disregard for human life, militarism.
For a brief time in the 1980s it had seemed like things were going to change for the better, when the reform-minded Thomas Pabst was appointed imperial chancellor. By that point the german political system had been deteriorating for over 3 decades, german economic growth had begun to stagnate (in large part due to the ever-increasing military expenditures Germany had to pay to keep it's global empire intact, as well as the decline of profits once made from exploiting it's client states in Europe), and the people of Germany were growing increasingly agitated. The German Spring, as it was called at that time (now refered to as the German Fall), began when for the time in 2 decades an emperor went against the military cabal (the last time a Kaiser tried asserting his authority he regrettably became the victim of a food poisoning) by refusing to appoint another DKP (German Conservative Party) figurehead chancellor. The military old guard was well aware of the state of Germany and as such, fearing a revolution (like certain powerful industrialists), allowed the appointment of Christian Schneider as chancellor, who died only a year later, to be replaced by Pabst.
This era found it's unfortunate end when in 1988 hardliners within the military attempted to halt the process of democratisation within Germany by removing both Pabst and the emperor from power.

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The Forum of Berne is an eurasian political, economic and security alliance made up of the German Empire, China and countries aligned to them. It's original purpose was twofold: increasing political and economic cooperation between Germany and China (the latter at the time having distanced itself from the US over Korea), as well as containing the Ottoman Empire.

Russian political thought by 1988 is very strange. Witnessing the defeat of Radical Socialism (Bolshevism the first time, Bolshevism with significant nationalist influences, if not always very apparent, the second time) twice in a lifetime and the continued prevalence of quasi-fascism in Germany, russian political strategists and analysts have come to some very *odd* conclusions to say the least*.

India had been disunited and in a state of civil war ever since the collapse of british authority in the region. Once the northern Provisional Government had subdued all the warlords and princely states east of Balochistan and west of Burma, it set out to pacify the southern warlords (the Deccan Confederation). After several initial border clashes and attempted infiltrations it became clear that a head-on confrontation would be extremely costly, if at all feasable. Meanwhile tensions within the Confederation arose regarding the Confederation's foreign policy, with the princely states (chiefly Hyderabad) in support of aligning themselves with the British Empire to thwart northern aspirations of conquering the south, and the republican members supporting either an alliance with Japan or closer cooperation with the PG (if not outright integration). To forestall a return of british power to the subcontinent, Madras and Bombay (the two republican members of the Deccan Confed.) entered a secret pact with the north to jointly destroy and carve up the princely states, with future integration left open for discussion afterwards. After the destruction of the princely states, the indian republics of Bombay, Madras and Tamil Nadu (formed from the princely state Travancore) joined the Indian Union as autonomous provinces.
The provinces of Assam and Gujarat (later also Sindh) would join the Union on their own terms as well, following an anarcho-agrarian 'Confederalist' ideology.
The three capitals of the Indian Union are Dheli (legislative), Calcutta (executive) and Mumbai/Bombay (judicial).

Japan was governed by a republican, pro-US administration since the abolition of the monarchy in the wake of World War 2. The country was always plagued by anti-american and anti-republican terrorism, culminating in the 1973 coup d'etat/revolution that overthrew the democratically elected Fujihara government and replaced it with an ultranationalistic, revanchistic regime. The new Takeshita government set out to achieve autarky and restore it's previously held military supremacy in East Asia (going so far as to start their own nuclear program).

German influence in the Americas, while always fairly minor (reaching it's relative peak in the early 1960s when Brazil was ruled by an anti-american military junta), has been gradually declining, reaching a low point in 1983 when the Peru-Bolivian Confederation broke apart. In more recent years there have been some limited successes, such as the construction project of a canal in Nicaragua being awarded to german companies. The only remaining major pro-german powers in South America are Bolivia (former Peru-Bolivia) and Argentina, both of which are totalitarian falangist regimes, decades ago bolstered by spanish and portugese émigrés fleeing their country after the civil war.
Despite this, the Americas are perhaps the most prosperious and politically stable continent in the world, increasingly united through the Organisation of American States.

Africa was under almost complete german control after World War 2, the only exceptions being Liberia (which then already controlled the formerly british Sierra Leone), North Africa (until the Italo-German war), South Africa (which would eventually align itself with Germany), Egypt and Sudan, both under turkish control. Over time Germany would generally rid itself of most of it's colonies deemed unprofitable, de-colonizing them by either empowering a local, pro-german african strongman or setting up joint white settler-Askari minority governments. The German Community was an organisation established with the express intention of maintaining control over the former colonies by supporting it's respective regime financially and militarily, as well as extract any economic value from them.
Meanwhile the Germans would back the arab nationalist Kingdom of Libya as a potential counterweight and destabilizing factor against the Ottomans; Kenya and South Africa were quickly brought into a closer partnership, essentially acting as enforcers of the status quo in the region. This setup would not work for very long, however.
The first major blow to the german dominance in Africa was the fall of the Askari regime in Cameroon at the hands of socialist revolutionaries. This of course wasn't the first time a german-backed government had fallen, but Cameroon was one of the most developed colonies, in a strategic position (which now threatened the german client governments in Biafra, Central Africa and Gabon). Long-forgotten socialist ideas were revived (such as the vanguard party, democratic centralism, large-scale collectivisations, etc.), and soon spread across all of Africa, inspiring revolutionaries everywhere.

Officially, the United States support no armed revolution in Africa. Despite this, the foreign office regularily complains, african insurgents, be it in Angola, the Ivory Coast or Arewa, are often seen carrying factory-new M11 rifles.

*compare to OTL modern russian far-right thought

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Other notes
1: The german base in Sevastopol was seized by the Ukraine when news of the German Revolution reached Kiev. It's not an oversight that it's not coloured in german grey.
2: The Matagalpa Agreement is the treaty that established the Matagalpa Area/Free Movement Area, in wich internal border controls have largely been abolished

3: An explanation of Indonesia: the Dutch East Indies are invaded by Japan during the Pacific War, an independent Indonesia is established after the japanese capitulation and the US block the Dutch/Germans from re-establishing control over it. The Republic is decidedly more lefty and backed by the US throughout the Cold War. To explain the colours: Indonesia is divided into six states/republics (such as Indonesia (Java-Sumatra) and Borneo/Kalimantan), each of which has some degree of autonomy, but may also have internal autonomies.

4: Not really important at all, but I imagine the german army wielding some sort of HK G11-esque rifle (remember, it's the E i g h t i e s)

Updates:

-Updated the Germany-Lithuania border according to the preceding map's update (Suwalki border strip)

-Gave French Burgundy to Germany (just forgot to add this the whole time, was planned from the beginning). Note the lack of revolutionaries here: similar to the East and the border strips, the locals have mostly been deported and replaced with people loyal to the regime (a lot of veterans)

-Slight changes to Yugoslavia

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- Jürgen Ackermann -

Chairman of the People's Assembly
In office: 12 November 1988 - 13 November 1988
Vice Chairman: Tanja Schröder
Preceeded by: Office established
Succeeded by: Florian Pfeffer

Leader of the German Democratic Party
In office: 23 March 1982 - 10 November 1988
Preceeded by: Office established
Succeeded by: Office abolished (party outlawed)

- Personal details -
Born: 11 June 1949, German Empire
Died: 13 November 1988
Cause of death: Assassination (gunshot wound)
Political party: Independent (1976-1982)
German Democratic Party (1982-1988)

Jürgen Ackermann was a german politician and reformer shortly before, and during, the reform decade in Germany (1981-1988), as well as the first chairman of the People's Assembly during the German Revolution. He was a close ally of reformist chancellor Thomas Pabst and pushed for constitutional changes strengthening parliament during his tenure as MP. He went underground following the November Coup and re-emerged shortly after to head the Widerstand, serving as the People's Assembly chairman until his assassination by far-right terrorist Heinrich Faber.

^ originally I was going to detail the German Revolution through written news reports and short conversations in online chatrooms, but I abandoned that idea fairly quickly. This is a remnant of that, sort of.

I also have a complete timeline up until the early 60s, but just uploading a timeline is boring, innit?

Description

Finally! It's here! This is a sequel to my last map (A deceptive Peace: www.deviantart.com/truebananak… ) set 64 years later.

I've had this finished for about 1 1/2 months now but I wasn't really feeling like writing a description for this. I really hate writing descriptions for these maps to be honest. I'm not exactly happy with releasing this piece of shit map with this description either, but this has been giving me anxiety for the past month. The description reads more like a fever dream about various bits of trivia and lore mashed together, but that's fine for now, I might edit a few things later on, add info and such.

Nuclear symbols by SRegan

I got a few other maps in the cooking, including but not limited to a DBWI of this setting, a rework of a previous map+it's respective DBWI, and a Cold War-centered one.

The basic premise of this one: a Cold War between a lefty US+allies and a far-right Germany+allies (also featuring: *Asia*, the Ottomans and resurrected Leninists). If you have any questions, feel free to ask or something.

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The new order established by Germany following World War 1 proved to be short-lived, and by the mid-1930s an anti-German axis had been firmly established by the defeated Entente powers. The freefall of the German economy in 1926 paralyzed the continental hegemon long enough to guarantee the temporary survival of Soviet Russia (re-animated after the 1928 fraud presidential elections) and France's slip from the Teuton's grasp. The coming-to-power of fascists* in Great Britain additionally unraveled the shaky interwar order. The final nail in the coffin however either was the second American Civil War or the outbreak of open hostilities between Japan and (re-unified) China.

"Real" Nazism didn't develop right away in Germany after World War 1, but a "Prussian Fascism" of sorts slowly matured instead, with a foundation very similar to that of our world's german fascism; both are the final product of 18th century prussian militarism clashing with 19th century social darwinism, the effects of the industrial revolution and urbanisation, and the experiences made during the first fully mechanized and totalised war.

The American Civil War: Already troubled by recession and closed European markets, America took a nose-dive with the global economic crash in 1925, and by 1932 the public had been sufficiently radicalized to allow for a Radical to rise: the third party candidate that successfully won the 1932 presidential election in the end wasn't (or rather, wouldn't have been) very different from our world's Roosevelt, if only for his rhetoric (which was significantly more red-tainted) - regardless, some members of the military as well as various industrialists became very anxious over his election (the recent rise of the Soviet regime still in mind) and in the end saw him forced out of Washington, replaced by his main rival during the presidential election, Huey B. Long of the Democratic Party. Shortly after civil order broke down, as supporters of the elected president and the constitution rallied in their defense, opposed by anti-socialists, hard-right conservatives, Longists and the odd fascist. The Buisness Plot alliance would break up mid-way through the war, Britain, Japan and Canada would all become involved in the conflict to some extent (the latter two later housing the exiled Longist/"traitor" regimes), and the Democratic-Socialist alliance would emerge victorious (and furious at the foreign supporters of the traitor government).

Once again the Fatherland sent it's sons to die in the endless trenches and battlefields of Europe, slowly bleeding the continent dry.

The war in Europe finally came to an end with the capture of Bordeaux by german forces, Soviet Russia previously having been broken by the detonation of the first-ever nuclear bomb on Volgograd. Britain was never invaded by either german or american forces, despite plans by both, as the fascist government was toppled shortly after news of the destruction of Volgograd reached the British Isles. Subsequently US troops secured the island, refusing to let Germany occupy any part of it.

When the war had ended a new Germany arose from the ashes, finally freed from the last vestigal restraints that had burdened it, parliament and emperor reduced to powerless figureheads.

---

Strained by years of political instability, a stagnating economy that hadn't entirely recovered from the Great Depression and the inability of the ruling elites to find a solution to the "nationalities problem", Austria-Hungary finally collapsed in the aftermath of World War 2. The process that lead to the total state collapse experienced in 1946 already began in the middle of the war, when the empire tried to centralize the dual monarchy again in an attempt to emulate the relative success of the totalised war machinery of Germany. The subsequent civil war between loyalists, ethnic seperatists and Austromarxists fought post-war found a quick end when german, romanian, etc. armies marched in.

Italy emerged from the war as the hegemon of the Meditteranean Sea, having acquired all of the italian irredenta as well as French N. Africa and Malta, all without sacrificing anywhere near as many lives as Germany or France. This strategy of demanding concessions before entering the war on Germany's side turned out to be a major mistake however, when their former ally, enraged by their disloyalty and arrogance, had the Heer march onto Rome.
Italy was broken up into it's constituents and deprived of it's colonies. The north of Italy in particular was made into a "Kingdom of Lombardy", lorded over by the Kaiser as "King of the Lombards".

What was once the sick man of Europe became a great power almost over night. Their external enemies destroyed, internal opposition crushed and now in control of the Baku oil fields, the Ottomans were at their zenith of power - or so it seemed.
The small explosion heard in Istanbul would send shockwaves across Western Asia and beyond, as the formerly thought unassailable triumvirate ruling over the Ottoman Empire was now dead, it's government removed from power by the "Brotherhood of Turan" (a former faction of the CUP turned secret society supporting even more extreme ideas than their parent organisation). The new turkish regime that emerged was more radical, fanatical and most importantly more paranoid than it's predecessor, culminating in multiple purges of the military and bureaucracy, as well as an unprecedented expansion of their armed forces (the invasion of Italy and it's subsequent destruction was still in the mind of the turkish leadership, after all). Relative peace only came, when for the first time a mushroom cloud appeared in the arabian desert.

Since then, 3 decades have passed.
Germany and the US remain pitted against one another, two polar opposites, two magnets repulsing one another; on the one side: democracy, the rule of law, humanism - on the other: despotism, disregard for human life, militarism.
For a brief time in the 1980s it had seemed like things were going to change for the better, when the reform-minded Thomas Pabst was appointed imperial chancellor. By that point the german political system had been deteriorating for over 3 decades, german economic growth had begun to stagnate (in large part due to the ever-increasing military expenditures Germany had to pay to keep it's global empire intact, as well as the decline of profits once made from exploiting it's client states in Europe), and the people of Germany were growing increasingly agitated. The German Spring, as it was called at that time (now refered to as the German Fall), began when for the time in 2 decades an emperor went against the military cabal (the last time a Kaiser tried asserting his authority he regrettably became the victim of a food poisoning) by refusing to appoint another DKP (German Conservative Party) figurehead chancellor. The military old guard was well aware of the state of Germany and as such, fearing a revolution (like certain powerful industrialists), allowed the appointment of Christian Schneider as chancellor, who died only a year later, to be replaced by Pabst.
This era found it's unfortunate end when in 1988 hardliners within the military attempted to halt the process of democratisation within Germany by removing both Pabst and the emperor from power.

---

The Forum of Berne is an eurasian political, economic and security alliance made up of the German Empire, China and countries aligned to them. It's original purpose was twofold: increasing political and economic cooperation between Germany and China (the latter at the time having distanced itself from the US over Korea), as well as containing the Ottoman Empire.

Russian political thought by 1988 is very strange. Witnessing the defeat of Radical Socialism (Bolshevism the first time, Bolshevism with significant nationalist influences, if not always very apparent, the second time) twice in a lifetime and the continued prevalence of quasi-fascism in Germany, russian political strategists and analysts have come to some very *odd* conclusions to say the least*.

India had been disunited and in a state of civil war ever since the collapse of british authority in the region. Once the northern Provisional Government had subdued all the warlords and princely states east of Balochistan and west of Burma, it set out to pacify the southern warlords (the Deccan Confederation). After several initial border clashes and attempted infiltrations it became clear that a head-on confrontation would be extremely costly, if at all feasable. Meanwhile tensions within the Confederation arose regarding the Confederation's foreign policy, with the princely states (chiefly Hyderabad) in support of aligning themselves with the British Empire to thwart northern aspirations of conquering the south, and the republican members supporting either an alliance with Japan or closer cooperation with the PG (if not outright integration). To forestall a return of british power to the subcontinent, Madras and Bombay (the two republican members of the Deccan Confed.) entered a secret pact with the north to jointly destroy and carve up the princely states, with future integration left open for discussion afterwards. After the destruction of the princely states, the indian republics of Bombay, Madras and Tamil Nadu (formed from the princely state Travancore) joined the Indian Union as autonomous provinces.
The provinces of Assam and Gujarat (later also Sindh) would join the Union on their own terms as well, following an anarcho-agrarian 'Confederalist' ideology.
The three capitals of the Indian Union are Dheli (legislative), Calcutta (executive) and Mumbai/Bombay (judicial).

Japan was governed by a republican, pro-US administration since the abolition of the monarchy in the wake of World War 2. The country was always plagued by anti-american and anti-republican terrorism, culminating in the 1973 coup d'etat/revolution that overthrew the democratically elected Fujihara government and replaced it with an ultranationalistic, revanchistic regime. The new Takeshita government set out to achieve autarky and restore it's previously held military supremacy in East Asia (going so far as to start their own nuclear program).

German influence in the Americas, while always fairly minor (reaching it's relative peak in the early 1960s when Brazil was ruled by an anti-american military junta), has been gradually declining, reaching a low point in 1983 when the Peru-Bolivian Confederation broke apart. In more recent years there have been some limited successes, such as the construction project of a canal in Nicaragua being awarded to german companies. The only remaining major pro-german powers in South America are Bolivia (former Peru-Bolivia) and Argentina, both of which are totalitarian falangist regimes, decades ago bolstered by spanish and portugese émigrés fleeing their country after the civil war.
Despite this, the Americas are perhaps the most prosperious and politically stable continent in the world, increasingly united through the Organisation of American States.

Africa was under almost complete german control after World War 2, the only exceptions being Liberia (which then already controlled the formerly british Sierra Leone), North Africa (until the Italo-German war), South Africa (which would eventually align itself with Germany), Egypt and Sudan, both under turkish control. Over time Germany would generally rid itself of most of it's colonies deemed unprofitable, de-colonizing them by either empowering a local, pro-german african strongman or setting up joint white settler-Askari minority governments. The German Community was an organisation established with the express intention of maintaining control over the former colonies by supporting it's respective regime financially and militarily, as well as extract any economic value from them.
Meanwhile the Germans would back the arab nationalist Kingdom of Libya as a potential counterweight and destabilizing factor against the Ottomans; Kenya and South Africa were quickly brought into a closer partnership, essentially acting as enforcers of the status quo in the region. This setup would not work for very long, however.
The first major blow to the german dominance in Africa was the fall of the Askari regime in Cameroon at the hands of socialist revolutionaries. This of course wasn't the first time a german-backed government had fallen, but Cameroon was one of the most developed colonies, in a strategic position (which now threatened the german client governments in Biafra, Central Africa and Gabon). Long-forgotten socialist ideas were revived (such as the vanguard party, democratic centralism, large-scale collectivisations, etc.), and soon spread across all of Africa, inspiring revolutionaries everywhere.

Officially, the United States support no armed revolution in Africa. Despite this, the foreign office regularily complains, african insurgents, be it in Angola, the Ivory Coast or Arewa, are often seen carrying factory-new M11 rifles.

*compare to OTL modern russian far-right thought

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Other notes
1: The german base in Sevastopol was seized by the Ukraine when news of the German Revolution reached Kiev. It's not an oversight that it's not coloured in german grey.
2: The Matagalpa Agreement is the treaty that established the Matagalpa Area/Free Movement Area, in wich internal border controls have largely been abolished

3: An explanation of Indonesia: the Dutch East Indies are invaded by Japan during the Pacific War, an independent Indonesia is established after the japanese capitulation and the US block the Dutch/Germans from re-establishing control over it. The Republic is decidedly more lefty and backed by the US throughout the Cold War. To explain the colours: Indonesia is divided into six states/republics (such as Indonesia (Java-Sumatra) and Borneo/Kalimantan), each of which has some degree of autonomy, but may also have internal autonomies.

4: Not really important at all, but I imagine the german army wielding some sort of HK G11-esque rifle (remember, it's the E i g h t i e s)

Updates:

-Updated the Germany-Lithuania border according to the preceding map's update (Suwalki border strip)

-Gave French Burgundy to Germany (just forgot to add this the whole time, was planned from the beginning). Note the lack of revolutionaries here: similar to the East and the border strips, the locals have mostly been deported and replaced with people loyal to the regime (a lot of veterans)

-Slight changes to Yugoslavia

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- Jürgen Ackermann -

Chairman of the People's Assembly
In office: 12 November 1988 - 13 November 1988
Vice Chairman: Tanja Schröder
Preceeded by: Office established
Succeeded by: Florian Pfeffer

Leader of the German Democratic Party
In office: 23 March 1982 - 10 November 1988
Preceeded by: Office established
Succeeded by: Office abolished (party outlawed)

- Personal details -
Born: 11 June 1949, German Empire
Died: 13 November 1988
Cause of death: Assassination (gunshot wound)
Political party: Independent (1976-1982)
German Democratic Party (1982-1988)

Jürgen Ackermann was a german politician and reformer shortly before, and during, the reform decade in Germany (1981-1988), as well as the first chairman of the People's Assembly during the German Revolution. He was a close ally of reformist chancellor Thomas Pabst and pushed for constitutional changes strengthening parliament during his tenure as MP. He went underground following the November Coup and re-emerged shortly after to head the Widerstand, serving as the People's Assembly chairman until his assassination by far-right terrorist Heinrich Faber.

^ originally I was going to detail the German Revolution through written news reports and short conversations in online chatrooms, but I abandoned that idea fairly quickly. This is a remnant of that, sort of.

I also have a complete timeline up until the early 60s, but just uploading a timeline is boring, innit?