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The Red Army's march through Poland destroyed the nascent Polish state utterly. Though the Polish attempted a heroic defense in the Battle of Warsaw, Soviet forces triumphed and pushed west. The Soviets attempted to spread the revolution to Germany, but were stopped by an impromptu coalition between German and Entente forces. The new alliance pushed the Soviets back to the pre-war border between Russia and Germany, and it was on these borders that a ceasefire was set. The Soviets succeeded in maintaining a communist state in Hungary, but everywhere else they were contained.

Instead, the Soviets turned their efforts to other parts of the world. The Middle East was swept up by socialist revolutions, and when the Republic of China collapsed, the People's Republic of China emerged, with the Japanese taking a few bits and pieces along the way. Europe turned inward and fearful of the Soviet menace, even losing a series of small wars against Japan and independence movements out of fear that overt commitment to these conflicts would give an opening to the USSR. Meanwhile, Britain and America turned inward, focusing on their own affairs and leaving the rest of the world behind.

By 1975, the primary conflict is between the European Security Council and the International Soviet. The ESC has been radicalized by decades of red scares and the losses of colonial empires, and is dominated by fascist politics. The Fascists of Italy were the first, followed by Action Française in France and the NSDAP in Germany. Though all of these parties planned a great crusade against Bolshevism, the rivalry between the parties let no common plan come to fruition before the first Soviet nuclear test. Now, the ESC is united and has abandoned internal rivalries, instead pursuing their nationalisms internally.

The International Soviet remains under Soviet domination. Under the leadership of Leon Trotsky, the Soviets pursued a policy of spreading communism worldwide, with the Soviets themselves as the "global revolutionary vanguard." The Soviets' greatest achievements are India and China, both anti-democratic communist states within the Soviet model, but these powers are starting to grow stronger. Moscow may lose control of them soon, especially as India liberalizes and China discovers the ideas of one Joseph Stalin, a Soviet exile who wrote very critical pieces on the Trotsky regime from Madrid.

The British and Americans remain isolationist. Being powerful capitalist democracies separated from conflict zones by bodies of water, both states have pursued this policy to some success. The British Empire continues even after the loss of India, which gave the British the idea of granting more self-rule to some of its remaining colonies and giving independence (under friendly regimes) to others. Indeed, the British have pursued a policy of setting up friendly regimes in a post-colonial world to counter the Soviets, even if MI6 needs to terminate a few bad eggs. The Americans have stayed in the New World, exempting conflicts with Japan over the Philippines prior to that country's independence.

The Japanese Empire is starting to crumble. Though the militarism and the Japanese supremacy has died down, the GEACPS is still overwhelmingly pro-Japanese to little benefit from everyone else. The warnings of neo-colonialism rings hollow when Japanese trade with the British and Americans is at an all-time high. The Japanese are turning to pan-Asianism and anti-communism to save them, and with China and India backing communist factions in the Japanese sphere, this tactic is becoming more credible by the day.

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The Red Army's march through Poland destroyed the nascent Polish state utterly. Though the Polish attempted a heroic defense in the Battle of Warsaw, Soviet forces triumphed and pushed west. The Soviets attempted to spread the revolution to Germany, but were stopped by an impromptu coalition between German and Entente forces. The new alliance pushed the Soviets back to the pre-war border between Russia and Germany, and it was on these borders that a ceasefire was set. The Soviets succeeded in maintaining a communist state in Hungary, but everywhere else they were contained.

Instead, the Soviets turned their efforts to other parts of the world. The Middle East was swept up by socialist revolutions, and when the Republic of China collapsed, the People's Republic of China emerged, with the Japanese taking a few bits and pieces along the way. Europe turned inward and fearful of the Soviet menace, even losing a series of small wars against Japan and independence movements out of fear that overt commitment to these conflicts would give an opening to the USSR. Meanwhile, Britain and America turned inward, focusing on their own affairs and leaving the rest of the world behind.

By 1975, the primary conflict is between the European Security Council and the International Soviet. The ESC has been radicalized by decades of red scares and the losses of colonial empires, and is dominated by fascist politics. The Fascists of Italy were the first, followed by Action Française in France and the NSDAP in Germany. Though all of these parties planned a great crusade against Bolshevism, the rivalry between the parties let no common plan come to fruition before the first Soviet nuclear test. Now, the ESC is united and has abandoned internal rivalries, instead pursuing their nationalisms internally.

The International Soviet remains under Soviet domination. Under the leadership of Leon Trotsky, the Soviets pursued a policy of spreading communism worldwide, with the Soviets themselves as the "global revolutionary vanguard." The Soviets' greatest achievements are India and China, both anti-democratic communist states within the Soviet model, but these powers are starting to grow stronger. Moscow may lose control of them soon, especially as India liberalizes and China discovers the ideas of one Joseph Stalin, a Soviet exile who wrote very critical pieces on the Trotsky regime from Madrid.

The British and Americans remain isolationist. Being powerful capitalist democracies separated from conflict zones by bodies of water, both states have pursued this policy to some success. The British Empire continues even after the loss of India, which gave the British the idea of granting more self-rule to some of its remaining colonies and giving independence (under friendly regimes) to others. Indeed, the British have pursued a policy of setting up friendly regimes in a post-colonial world to counter the Soviets, even if MI6 needs to terminate a few bad eggs. The Americans have stayed in the New World, exempting conflicts with Japan over the Philippines prior to that country's independence.

The Japanese Empire is starting to crumble. Though the militarism and the Japanese supremacy has died down, the GEACPS is still overwhelmingly pro-Japanese to little benefit from everyone else. The warnings of neo-colonialism rings hollow when Japanese trade with the British and Americans is at an all-time high. The Japanese are turning to pan-Asianism and anti-communism to save them, and with China and India backing communist factions in the Japanese sphere, this tactic is becoming more credible by the day.