Third World War

Third World War was a global conflict that was fought between May 1990 and February 1991, sparked by the invasion of NATO countries by communist states all across the globe, spearheaded by the Soviet Union and China. The war was fought mostly in Europe, with Northern America, Africa and Asia serving as minor battlegrounds. South and Central America was left untouched, excluding the invasion of Cuba after the assassination of Fidel Castro.
The war ended in a NATO victory, after the death of Aleksander Rukov which sparked the total surrender of the Soviet Union. While the war itself only lasted a year, it is widely considered an escalation of the Cold War which was ongoing since 1947.
==History==
===Prelude===
In 1947 to 1990, a period of geopolitical tensions known as the Cold War took place, with most of the world dividing into two blocks - the Eastern Bloc, and the Western Bloc. NATO and the communists fought a series of proxy wars during that time, such as the war in Vietnam.
In 1985, a man known as Aleksander Vitalevich Rukov was chosen as the next premier of the Soviet Union. This man was an agressive, fearless and authoritarian leader even for Soviet standards - he even became known as the Second Stalin, a title he wholeheartedly enjoyed. Despite the Soviet economic downfall of that time, Aleksander decided that it's time to strike. Over the next two years, he begun conspiring in secret with other communist leaders of the world for the big day - the invasion of Europe, Asia and North America in 1990.
Bases were built, armies were at the ready, new technology was being unleashed and superweapons primed. All the time, NATO was not suspecting anything, only getting ready for the inevitable fall of the Soviet Union. It was evident that the Soviet rule is crumbling, starting with Poland leaving the Eastern Bloc in 1989, and fall of the Berlin Wall in Germany the same year. Aleksander realized it's time to strike before it's too late - now or never.
Day before the invasion, Spetsnaz operatives in the US invaded US Army outposts and stole many intelligence documents from them, giving them crucial information on the enemy.
===Soviet Invasion===
thumb|250px|Soviet Naval Infantry storming Alaska; VDV paratroopers fighting in KansasOn May 1990 the war begun - Soviets and their sattelite states invaded Europe and both coasts of the United States, while China and it's allies invaded Asia. Soviet bombardments of Los Angeles killed over a thousand people, and New York fell soon after the invasion begun. In the first weeks of invasion, the city of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia was besieged by China already.
The American government decided to react by firing ICBM missiles at the Soviet Union, but was unable to, as Specnaz operatives destroyed all major ICBM complexes across the United States, leaving US Army to fight on it's own.
Soon, the Soviets started controlling large swathes of US coastal territory and began working their way inward. In the meantime, the Chinese government suggested to the Soviet Premier, that the Red Army should use the war to re-take Afghanistan; the Soviet army. That was a ruse, made to double-cross the Soviets into having their most skilled operatives killed in action, to weaken them, but the Premier was unaware of that. One of the operatives survived, and even managed to destroy a NATO base nearby.
In that base, the operative found secret documents, which revealed that the US is planning a bombing raid using their Nighthawk stealth bombers, attacking important metropolitan areas of the USSR; including Soviet factories and the Kremlin. The Soviet army wouldn't be able to shoot them all down in time, and opted to instead send an operative to blow up the secret air base which contained them.
The last stronghold of free Europe, Poland fell shortly after; the war only lasted for three months, and there was alreeady seemingly no hope for the free world.
===NATO Counterattack===
Several weeks after Gdańsk fell, US Army begun to retake it's Soviet-invaded lands, city by city, county by county; soon enough, all Soviet occupiers were driven back, and USA could begin their campaign in the European theathre. In the meantime, US Army sent it's commando to retrieve secret Mishima Corporation]] documents from Japan before the Chinese.
The first country to be liberated by the US Army was the United Kingdom, large swathes of which were occupied by the Reds like the USA was not long time ago, the liberation starting with a intelligence security operation undertaken by elite US Army and SAS operatives.
Before the US army could aid mainland Europe by landing on it's beaches, a Soviet naval base which could potentially meddle the landing plans had to be destroyed, and soon enough, it did - however, not by the hands ot the operative sent there, as China also desired to destroy that base - with the operative inside. Chinese soldiers entered it, killed some personel, and caused it to explode, thankfully, the operative escaped unharmed via a raft. China's second ruse was left undiscovered by the Soviets, who blamed it on the American operative...
Some time later, the first Comintern country fell during the war when Fidel Castro, the premier of Cuba, was assasinated, and Cuba became occupied by joint American and Brazilian forces.
During the fall season of 1990, NATO begun dispatching secret agents, to deal blows to the Comintern. The Chinese heard of this, and decided to once more meddle in the plans of their enemies, to sway the war in their favor - they tricked the NATO command into believing that the so far neutral Yugoslavia was stockpiling nuclear weapons to use against NATO; causing the command to send an agent to destroy major Yugoslavian ammo depots, including a whole cargo train.
After the operation was discovered by NATO to be another Chinese ruse, they realized that the Chinese wanted the agents occupied so that they'll be able to finish their most powerful doomsday weapon; fortunately, the weapon was destroyed, and the man behind it, Egg Fu, killed, marking this operation the first time blood was spilled on Chinese soil since the war begun.
At this time, rumors have been spread about a secret Soviet project that they plan to unleash; a NATO agent was dispatched to Mauritania to get information about the location of secret Soviet projects from Doctor Mussahad, a valuable informant. A VDV unit tried to kill the agent and Mussahad, but failed.
Soviets begun reactivating an old facility in the Bieszczady mountains, build by Edward Gierek, in which top secret atomic research took place, where they planned on continuing the development of a dangerous weapon, known as the Desolator Cannon, and other dangerous weaponry, with the research being spearheaded by the disgruntled former communist puppet-dictator of Poland, Wojciech Jaruzelski, who desired to take revenge on his own country. Thankfully, the complex's staff was terminated in a military operation, and all documents and prototypes were aquired by NATO.
Mussahad's documents revealed, that the Soviets, utilizing a front company, are developing something on Nauru using a civilian company as a front to their operations. A NATO agent was dispatched to the company building, where he discovered the shocking truth - Soviets were ready to unleash another deadly weapon, the Mutants. He was unable to relay the information to NATO, as he was captured, and taken to a Gulag concentration camp.
===South American Theathre===
When the Third World War erupted, Central and South American countries had to pick a side. The first country to be forced do so was Mexico after it was invaded by the Soviets alongside the United States. The Mexican army fought bravely against the invading Soviet troopers. Latin America was spared from too much fighting - the only country attacked by the Soviets was Mexico, as the Red Army was more focused on invading the United States itself, with Aleksander's plan assuming that socialist guerillas will overthrow the governments in the meantime, giving him a nice, freshly made Communist continent to rule over as a gift once his forces subdue North America and Europe. Fortunalely, while local socialist guerillas were a nuisance to the governments desperate in aiding the Red invasion, they were no match for them, and many of them such as Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes, or the Guatemalan Party of Labour were eradicated by force and it's members usually imprisoned for treason.
===Stalemate in Europe===
The new year of 1991 arrived, and Europe was gripped by the harshest winter in ages; the Soviet presence in mainland Europe weakened, and NATO begun to push back farther and farther, especially utilizing it's new weapon - the American Paladin robots. The Soviets managed to re-take Zabrze in Poland, and destroy the Paladin factory in Canada, dealing a crippling blow to the NATO effort, but soon after, they themselves suffered catastrophic losses.
The satellite states of the Soviet Union begun to show cracks; Romania surrendered and joined NATO. It was at that time, that the Soviet Union realized that the Chinese have ben steering the war in their favor. Thus, an operative was send to assasinate the PLA leaders and destroy their most secretive base in Tibet. The operation was a success - China, now mortally crippled by the loss of their high command, bailed out of the war and retreated into isolationism on all fronts.
It was not the end of Soviet operations, however - sometime later, they sent an undercover team of Specnaz operatives dressed as American soldiers into the infamous Area 51, and proceeded to raid it and destroy a large part of it by planting bombs.
===Invasion of the Soviet Union===
United States Government was in shock by the fact that for the first time, the mythical Area 51 has been breached, but there was no time to cry over it. There was only one Asian red state that didn't bail out of the war alongside china - North Korea. It was soon dealt with, when US Army assasinated it's leader, Kim Il Sung. Sometime later, the US Army also tried to aquire hardware for new weaponry in Africa, which resulted in the creation of the Laser Rifle.
The invasion of the Soviet Union begun, and soon enough, NATO forces reached the Belarussian Soviet Republic. Soviets begun utilizing their new weapon, the mutated soldiers, unleashing them on NATO forces. This forced the US army to research the topic of the mutants further and ultimately, destroy the main mutant-making lab in Kholat Syakhl.
Because of all the chaos across the Soviet Union, A massive breakout took place in the secretive Black Dolphin prison, in which a previously-imprisoned operative escaped and soon reached Europe via plane.
NATO forces were closing in on Moscow itself. The only thing between them and Moscow was a gigantic defense wall; however it was soon dealt with by an operative who blew up a large opening inside of it by destroying a massive Tesla reactor that powered the whole wall, allowing the NATO troops to pour in, and ride on to Moscow.
In a matter of weeks, Moscow was besieged by NATO forces from all sides. Argentine, Chilean and Brazilian armies sent infantry units during the NATO Invasion of Moscow as support, potentially eager to gain some good PR in their relations with the US Government. By the time NATO was conquering Moscow, most Soviet politicians and leaders called for surrender to spare just a few lives of the Soviet people, Premier Aleksander however desired not to give up. He left the other politicians and military leaders behind in Moscow, escaping via a private plane with his loyalists deep into the Kamchatka peninsula, into his secret base inside an active volcano.
The Soviet government led by Dmitry Yazov surrendered to NATO; the war however was not over - there was still Premier's base in Kamchatka. NATO concluded a final raid on the Premier's base. Much to NATO's horror, Aleksander was getting ready to activate the Dome Of Light, the last measure Soviet doomsday weapon - a energy weapon that when fully activated would form a slowly-growing dome of solar light that would expand upon the entire globe, instantly burning alive all humans except those hiding in the Kamchatka bunker. Luckily, Aleksander was killed, the superweapon was turned off before it could fully activate, and the Kamchatka base was destroyed in a volcano eruption. The war was over.
==Appearances==
*Reds Over World (First appearance) 
*The Stories Of The World #1 - ZDoom Forums lore post
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