Comintern

Comintern is the umbrella term utilized to describe the Soviet Union and it's allies that fought NATO and it's allied countries during the Third World War. The were also referred to as The Reds, Pinkos or Commies. They were defeated after just a year of armed conflict, in 1991.
===Origin===
Across the 20th century, there were many attempts by the Communists to band together. Starting with Vladimir Lenin's own Comintern, which existed from 1919 to 1943, and members of which were many communist parties of countries such as Ukraine, United Kingdom or even United States, and then with the Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers' Parties (Cominform) which existed from 1947 until it's dissolution during the de-Stalinization in 1956. But the closest thing to a Red alliance was the so-called Warsaw Pact, officially known as the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance.
The Warsaw Pact consisted of the Soviet Union itself and it's sattelite states - Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania. The Pact, and NATO fought a series of proxy wars during the 20th century, such as the Vietnam War.
Other important organization of the Commies was the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, also known as COMECON in short, which consisted of Warsaw Pact countries, and other socialist states such as Cuba, Mongolia and Vietnam.
Many Communist states did not like eachother - China for example, was a Soviet ally until the Sino-Soviet split in 1960, and some oddball countries such as People's Republic of Angola would outright ally with the United States, and some just were there without doing much, such as People's Republic of Congo.
Several geopolitical theorists and political commentators knew however, that while divided in a period of relative peace - if the Cold War could be called that - if cornered or roused to battle a common foe via a charismatic leader, all Communist states would band together and do something very stupid.
===Aleksander===
thumb|250px|A collage of Comintern armies; here presented are Soviet, Chinese, North Korean, Albanian, Cambodian and Cuban armed forcesIn 1984, premier Yuri Andropov of the Soviet Union passed away, and as usual, a new premier was chosen; Aleksander Vitalevich Rukov. Born in 1930, Aleksander was one of Joseph Stalin's most trusted allies, and that is saying a lot if anyone knows just how paranoid that man was - and how young for a politician Aleksander was back then.
Many people looked on with caution and fear at the new premier, especially NATO heads of state; they saw the man bring up the decaying empire back from it's economic downfall. What's worse, he was getting ready for war. From 1987 to 1989, across many trips, meetings and hours-long phone calls, Aleksander promised the socialist countries of the world a beautiful vision - a world truly belonging to the people. A socialist world. Global communism. The only catch to fulfilling this dream? They had to band all together - just this once. Even China agreed to this alliance, something which shocked even Aleksander himself. As the 80's progressed, Aleksander knew he had to play the cards fast - In 1983 the United States invasion of Grenada occurred, eliminating the communist Grenada government. Then the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan proved itself to be a failure and in 1989 the Red Army had to bail out of the graveyard of empires after being defeated by the US-aided Mujahideen. Even worse, as 1989 rolled around, communism itself started to thaw. Hungary and Poland ceased to be socialist countries, and the Baltic republics of the Soviet Union begun to crack. It was time to act.
===Third World War and aftermath===
thumb|250px|Wartime photographs of Czechoslovak soldiers during the invasion of Poland and Bulgarian infantry fighting in GermanyOn May 1990, a date agreed upon by all the socialist states, the war with NATO begun. All of the world's socialist countries banded together to attack NATO and neutral countries. China and other socialist states of Asia focused on invading Asia, while Warsaw Pact countries focused on Europe and the United States.
The Third World War ended in February 1991, and Comintern has lost the war, even with the Soviet Union deploying some of it's most powerful and experimental weaponry. The communists underestimated NATO, while simultaneously overestimating their own combined strength. Additional factors, such as the assassinations of Fidel Castro and Kim Il Sung, or the Sino-Soviet infighting that ended in China bailing out of the war, caused further chaos.
After the war, Soviet Union was divided into several states, and China democratized. All other Asian Reds bailed out of the Third World War after China did. It is true, that almost all of them only barely aided China in invading Asia, so they just pretended not to be there, while the Soviets were getting all the blame. After the Chinese Democratic Revolution, they played the victim card, proclaiming to be Chinese puppets, despite many of Asia's communist states not really being that well aligned with China in the first place. All of them sooner or later democraticized; Cambodia in 1991, Laos in 1998 and Vietnam in 2000, with Vietnam's peaceful democratization being welcomed with much rejoicing by many of the Vietnamese who left their homeland because of communism. North Korea was dissolved, and united with South Korea, reforming the long-gone United Korea.
As for the African and Middle Eastern communist states, they disappeared with a fizzle. New leaders were elected, civil wars were fought, and everyone even forgot they were there. Truth be told, they didn't do much during the Third World War, only sending weapons and small infantry units to Europe during the initial 1990 invasion, or trying to invade their neighbours.
The remaining European Communist states - Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Albania - also gave up in 1991 and democratized, with Czechoslovakia eventually also splitting into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1992. That same year, the only communist state to remain neutral during the Third World War - Yugoslavia - crumbled into the chaotic vortex of a massive years-long civil war, which led to the formation of many countries, such as Croatia, Slovenia or Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Europe was free of communism, but alas, for many more years up until the 2020's, a nostalgia for communism and the "good old times" was lingering in the minds of these countries' older generations, even with the grim memories of the Third World War.
==Member States==
*Soviet Union
*China
*Cuba
*North Korea
*Bulgaria
*Czechoslovakia
*Romania
*Albania
*Angola
*Somalia
*Benin
*Congo
*Ethiopia
*Mozambique
*South Yemen
*Laos
*Vietnam
*Cambodia
*Mongolia
==Appearances==
*Reds Over World
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