Comintern Red Front (PA:HP)

**Dev. Status** | Original units and building In-game

*Before us - unprecedented ways:*
Astronauts and dreamers say

That apple trees will bloom on Mars.

It's good to have comrades with you

The whole universe to pass and pass.

Stars will meet with the Earth blooming,

And apple trees will bloom on Mars.

I made friends with distant stars,

Don't worry about me and don't be sad.

Leaving our Earth, we promised

That apple trees will bloom on Mars!

- *"Apple Trees will Bloom on mars"*
The *Front of Proletarian States of the* *Third Communist International* or *Comintern or Red Front* for short is an international association of socialist states and revolutionary organisations. Comprised out of what had once been several separate Socialist alliances including the INPROV, the Vladivostok Compact, and the Eurasian People's Alliance; the Red Front was coalesced into a single unit by the rigours of world war two into a colossal alliance of enormous power that has emerged from two world wars as a world spanning military, economic, cultural, and technological titan, in the aftermath of the devastation of the third world war it finds the once largely bipolar world order that had been established since the revolutionary waves of the early 20th century has now given way to something far odder.

*"The Internationale unites the world in song!"*

## At a Glance

 **Motives** | Global Communist Revolution, Advancement of Science and Prosperity, Destruction of Autocracy, Elitism, and Oligarchy

## Background

The Communist movement started out strong and grew stronger. Workers and Peasants overthrew the owners of the means of production across virtually every continent in the years between 1917 and 1934. Even in places where they did not assume full power; forming part of popular fronts, their influence was potently felt and the great networks of capital were shaken to their core. Isolated revolutions could be forced to heel by cutting off access to this or that resource or section of the world's technological bounty. Such a worldwide chain reaction in just about every latitude or longitude offered no such solace of containability. Containment failed from the very moment of Red October and Red and Black Banners were adorning halls in every continent while symapthetic actios by labourers brought attempts to support the reactionaries to their knees with widespread strike actions and sabotage.

Upper and Oriental Germany, upper and Lower Russia, upper America, three of the four Chinas and more all would embrace revolutionary socialism in whole in a span of a generation, and the red march increasingly found itself having to operate as an ever more international movement under the auspices of the Third International; the Communist International, born of the dissolution of the Second International following its divisive breakages over the issue of the Great War. The Comintern would organise the question of consolidating a revolutionary order built on proletarian class rule and the planning of the dismantlement of Capitalism and Feudalism within the areas of their influence; including in areas with parties that do not rule but still sit in the Comintern.

With great optimism, the likes of Rosa Luxemburg and Vladimir Lenin would charter a path that they believed would lead to the inevitable end of class rule and the divisions of nation and state. After all with Communism so far spread, who would in their right mind, seek to challenge the various regional alliances of Proletarian states? Better then, to sell the Communists the rope that they would hang the Bourgeois with and make a buck on their path towards the ash heap of history. Of course, some did not see things this way, with some like Tukhachevsky, Bordiga, and Mao believing that the Socialist Islands would not be permitted to live in peace and slowly cut off Capital from its markets while fermenting revolution in its borders.

A somewhat secretive but forceful aide by the name of Nadezhda Zelenkov would particularly argue for the need to take for a harder, "fortress" position against the Liberal, Reactionary, and Fascist powers and that the current direction of internal development and passively encouraging and supplying revolutionaries would eventually just give the other powers an excuse to strike first rather than start the war on their own terms once the uprisings begin. While there were of course, many debates on the internal path towards socialism and the true democracy of the working people as well as often acrimonious divisions on how to progress in the elimination of capitalism as capitalism had done to feudalism before it; it was generally agreed that there would probably be a war at some point.

However as the fourties largely passed without any real incident save for the Circum-Pacific War, civil war in and a number of relatively localised and isolated conflicts and incidents, some were starting to think that Nazezhda, or "Nadia" as she was generally called, was quite simply wrong. They had all the time in the world clearly, and the old world order would wither away with a gentle push from the new world being born. Development and progress had made even poor regions enjoy all the fineries of modern living as the MCV industrial revolution allowed for wondrously quick and automated construction and many were looking forward to the benefits that the rapidly advancing technology of Computers and Cybernetics would allow for, seeing in the ore crediting system the means to do away with the tyranny of money altogether.

Stahlpakt and Entente invasions of Neutral nations that refused to allow their troops through to deal with internal communist and labour unrest as a pretext to pushing their borders towards the Communist bloc would break all those plans.

### Die Waffen, Legt An!

The vote to intervene on behalf of these revolutionaries who were being cut down by the advancing hordes of Schleicher, Ciano, Edward and more was contentious, but ultimately passed, only to be met with the refusal of yet further countries to let the armies of the action committee of the Communist International represented by represenatives of the Stalin-Thalmann-Mao line. Though Stalin had once been adamantly in favour of the gradual, peaceful route, his relation with Nadia had lead him to slowly adopt her viewpoint, even making the strange choice to rehabilitate Trotsky after sparing Tukhachevsky from the purges and declare that he had the best interests of the human cause of revolution at heart.

None of course, were aware that Kane had been working in the shadows to get a world war and one as big as he could at that. The idea of an ancient conspiracy being able to pull at the strings of history was farcical to the Marxist viewpoint of historical materialism and its focus on trends, forces, conditions, and existing movements. While there were some unusual agents caught by the International Secretariat of Public Safety, the idea that there was some enormous underlying force beneath them was simply too ridiculous for people who had largely rejected the antisemitism of the 19th century on the grounds that even if an entire religion would want to do such things, history does not unfold at the whim of such shadowy overseers removed from empirically evident forces.

In most cases they would be right, but it was much too late to avert things from spiralling out of control as a spiral of escalation would begin, with one nation or power bloc after the other getting involved in an eerie repeat of the slide towards all out global conflict that marked the first world war going far beyond a simple regional spat over the wounded pride of the Hapsburgs. When the Volkspakt was joined by other socialist allies and then the Entente by the Liberal Allies and then finally the Axis decided to attack both; it was far too late to do anything but see this ride all the way through as the world went through more than eight years of gruelling conflict. Battles on every continent would erupt, and it is a sad truth of war that it is impossible to fight an entirely clean conflict; especially one so ideologically charged.

Brutal unpleasantries were traded back and forth, mixed in with more typical heroism and earnest attempts to fight for what one or the other believed was right. Whereas the initial plan of the brotherhood was to rely on Fascism to provide an all consuming global enemy in a war of annihilation, this protracted; shades of grey conflict was more than suited for Kane's plans as Nadia and Kane wheeled and dealed between the two factions. The Red Front would charter the International Revolutionary Red Army as a unified military command for militaries under the Comintern parties' control along side the Comintern Volunteer Corps to supplement national armies with select formations of the best that the red bloc had to offer; met with the Warfighters and Peacekeepers of their enmies.

## International Revolutionary Red Army

*"The Codename for reports of the IRRA's arrival in the Blue Bloc is "Dies Irae", the Day of Wrath. They called it this because when it descended in full upon a target, it was like the end of the world itself. Even outnumbered by all the hordes of Yuri's Epsilon Army, it was the tip of the spear that brought a stop to the end of free will itself. Even the very mention of the Paradox Engine created by its genius is enough to make hardened men break out in cold sweats born of fearful memories. Every piece of it comes together to make for a nearly unstoppable whole that covers its own weaknesses and builds into an irresistible force and immovable object. It holds no loyalty to any power but the Communist International and the Worker's Revolution it represents, and its banner has been raised in victory across every continent because it can appear anywhere at any time."*

- *Doctor Leona Tsukulous*
### Structures

*"We have seized the means of construction, eh, eh, get it? No? Aw come on, that was funny."*

- *Anonymous MCV driver.*

### Specialist Structures

*"Now you see them, soon you don't."*

- *Superweapon Corps Motto MCV driver.*

### Infantry

*"Man that is a nice gun..."*

- *Indian Sepoy on the receiving end of Red Front fire.*