Communist International

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

*"As I was walking that ribbon of highway,*

*This land was made for you and me."*

- *"This land is your land" by Woody Gurthie*
The *Third Communist International* or *Comintern* for short is a collection of socialist states that grew out of the alliance formed between the Union of American Socialist Republics, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Socialist Federal Republics of China, and numerous revolutionary governments in Latin America from Mexico to Chile and the assorted leftist parties in Capitalist nations. Though once divided by the bickering between the USSR and the UASR and the other large players over the path of the Communist movement, the Comintern now stands as a united popular front for the success of Socialism in the world; united by their common struggle to defend the hard won gains of the revolutions from Capitalist reaction. The Alliance of Free States hoped to break the Comintern in the second and third world wars; but has only pushed them closer together.

Now with the task of rebuilding the world set before them in the wake of the third world war; the Comintern continues to look for ways to spread the revolution and defend its gains. Though China was lost in the fiery conclusion to the Chinese civil war as red and blue China annihilated each other; gains were made in the middle east, asia, and Africa as the Communist movement continues to flower. But the world has become an increasingly strange place, and the Capitalists are also recouping lost strength and assessing ways to grow their exploitive system in the aftermath of the third world war. But as has been said before "The Revolution is not a dinner party", and the optimistic spirit of the Comintern continues to burn bright and the swift moving forces of the Comintern are ready to meet the challenge.

*"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

### World War 2

*"There can be no question, this war must be fought by all the workers of the World for the future of all in the World!"*

-- Upton Sinclair
On the Halloween day of 1950, the seeming quiet of the post-American civil war 30s and 40s was shattered instantly. Allied forces streamed from their strongpoints in every inhabited continent of the world to attack. What had once been near-rivals arguing for the soul of Socialism had now become blood brothers, and the likes of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Georgy Pyatakov, Soong Ching-ling, Elvia Puerto, and others came together to declare that the Comintern had become more than a forum for the discussion of the advancement of the worker's revolution, but was now a military alliance to the finish.

Initial frantic discussions of what to do hampered initial Comintern defensive efforts. Once neutral Poland, Finland, Romania, and the Baltic states were quickly being overrun despite the initial rush to defend them, Allied troops were moving to try and seize the American interior and Alaska from Canada while Allied troops in South and Central America and the Caribbean were trying to shut down the Panama canal and put paid to the Latin Socialists. Integralists in south America were making hard advances against their Cyberbolivaran Federation neighbors, Iran and the Soviet Union were facing attacks from the middle east, and Allied troops were advancing from the Raj, Indochina, and Siam to rescue Xishan's beleagured troops. Even in Liberia, massive fortifications step up with the aid of SPAM technology were being tested.

In land, air, and sea, the Comintern fought for the future, for a world where all men were equal and there would be no further barriers to divide the universal brotherhood of humanity. When Fuller and his cronies' Blue Army struck, they found themselves met with an Iron will. Still, an Iron Will was not sufficient to dissuade Fuller. The Comintern was caught off guard by the sheer scale of the attack and internal difficulties plagued the initial war effort. Distance, mutual suspicion, surprise, the sheer weight of force thrown at many important Comintern members, logistical difficulties and more would conspire to weaken their starting positions. It was a cocktail of these attributes that would help Fuller get the advances he desired.

However, the Comintern put in massive amounts of effort to restructure and defend itself, and with allied forces advancing deep into Comintern territory; the treaty of Tegucigalpa was signed by the heads of government of all Comintern states in June of 1951. Bowl Helmeted American G.Is would fight alongside armor wearing Soviet Shock Troops, brave Mexican Guerreros, patriotic Chilean Vigilantes, Houp'Ean marines, Lemurian Tankers, and fanatical Chinese regulars. American John Henry tanks would drive alongside Soviet Forge tanks who would take reconnaissance advice from Polish Uhlans operating with Mexican commandos fresh from engaging in raids to help Red Chinese Tank destroyers. In the air, American heavy bombers flew alongside Soviet aircraft while Chile provided safe training sites for Red Chinese pilots. In every essence, it was a war that demonstrated the benefits of international cooperation and one that would, with reformations to military production and structure; prove to be the mightier force than the Allies in terms of industry and manpower.

Secondly, help would come from an unexpected quarter. The reclusive Solar Empire of Japan, or Japan as it was simply known, emerged from its general seclusion at the behest of Emperor Yoshiro to speak to the Comintern with an offer. Japan was willing to offer aid and join on a total war footing if certain possessions were recognized as Japanese and payments were made. Reluctantly, the Comintern accepted; giving Japan what it wanted. And in 1953, Japan struck. Allied pacific forces were shocked and hammered by unexpected surprise attacks from the sea by a power they never expected to have to fight.

With the might of Japan throwing the Allies for a loop in the pacific and helping to stabilize the situation in China while clearing out corridors for aid from the Americas to enter the Pacific, the Comintern could swing the tides of war back to the side of revolution over reaction. With the initial pace of the Allied "blitzkrieg" having slowed down dramatically over the years of war, the Comintern moved to actually halt their advance altogether.

Crucial to these were Comintern developments in military technology. The notes and research of the brilliant Nikola Tesla allowed them to weaponize the very force of Electricity itself, Helicopters developed by Igor Sikorsky whose initial misgivings about Socialism were put to rest when he saw how different the American experiment was from the Soviet one thundered across the skies of the world, bringing death and airborne troopers into unpleasant places. The initial advantages of air superiority the Allies enjoyed with aircraft like the Vampyr and the Nimbus were dealt with by revolutionary new fighters from the assembly lines of the Comintern. out of the skies and advancements in naval warfare helped to deal with the deadlock at sea.

Commanders such as Patton, Eisenhower, Zhukov, Rokossovsky, Kwai, Bradley, Vasilievsky, Tao, and Fai became household legends as they ground the Allies to a dead stop and then began pushing them back. While the Char G2Rs, Thunderer Heavy Tanks, and even the enormous Uber panzer II Mammuts were perhaps individually superior to the Comintern tanks in terms of firepower and durability, there were more Comintern tanks, there were faster Comintern tanks, and the measure of Allied armor had been seen. And while the Allies would produce wide arrays of Wonder Weaponry; the Comintern managed to deal with each in turn and make their own wonder weapons.

Allied forces were slowly pushed entirely out of America, the Federation, and Soviet territory and the last years of the war would prove a frantic race by the allies to try and prevent their own counterinvasion. Thanks to a new wave of wonder weapons, the demonstration of the willingness to slather battlefields with chemical weapons and destroy whole cities to slow down the Comintern advance and the magnitude of Allied fortifications set up in six years of war, the Comintern finally heard out allied requests for peace. On Christmas day in 1956, the guns fell silent and millions had died or been displaced for only minor swaps of territory on the map.

### Cold War is Best War

*"We seek peace above all else, but we will not allow ourselves to be bullied by those who worship strength over brotherhood"*

-- American Chair of the Presidium Martin King Jr
With the Treaty of Warsaw signed, the Allies and the Comintern settled into a staring contest that would be known as the Cold War, a term also occasionally used for the seventeen year period between the formation of the UASR and the start of WW2, which is generally known as the Antebellum. Rather than fight directly, the Allies and the Comintern would instead fight through more underhanded methods. Spy games and attempts to cause trouble in each other's backyards. The continuing conflict in China and the burgeoning conflict in Indochina as well as brushfire conflicts in Africa and Latin America proved to be particularly fierce hotbeds of contention between the Allies and the Comintern. For a time, there was hope that Fuller's assassination and replacement with Rupert Thornly as the Chairman of the Alliance of Free States would mellow them out, and for a time it seemed that these hopes were panning out

Thornley did indeed liberalize the Allied States; bringing back democratic elections (though accused of varying degrees of deceitful means of ensuring the Allied Unity Party and its Cadets remained in power by outside observers) and doing much to de-Fullerify the Allies. But despite assurances that this peace would last, the Allies continued to support anti-communist movements, it made close ties to the new Technate that grew out of the ashes of the Integralist bloc and continued to stymie any colonial independence movements, and continued to sanction the sinister works of the Epsilon advanced research division, expanding on the rudimentary experiments of the mysterious Geoffrey from World War 2. It was clear that while armed conflict had ended; hostilities had not. And so the military nature of the Comintern remained in place after World War 2, with moves towards increased integration on a political level as well.

The Comintern would become a political confederation with its own free elections and its own Soviets. And ultimately; its own Premier and Chairmen.In the Soviet Union, the de-stalinization begun under Molotov, Kirov, and then Frunze after Stalin's untimely demise in 1941 would give way to Premier Chuikov and chairman Lyudmila Pavlichenko, who both agreed with a need to be prepared for a rematch with the Allies should their suspicions about Rupert Thornley and his ilk like Field Marshall Bingham, James Lockhart, LeClerc, Franco, or their pets whether they be the Syndicate or the IPTO and their myriad closely aligned states. The years of peace would be used to further develop and advance the Comintern arsenal, strongly applying themselves to new and strange branches of physics and anything that could let them get and maintain an advantage over their foes. There was precious little doubt in the Comintern that World War 2 had been anything but a prelude for the showdown to come.

When Power in America shifted to the hardline anti-allied Ackerman and the militarised internationalist faction of the Comintern came to power, it seemed increasingly obvious that war was inevitable at this point. The only question was what would be the trigger for the second great contest between Capitalism and Communism. The answer to that question would come some twenty five years later when on January 3rd, 1982 an Alliance spy plane was shot down over the German border by pursuing MiGs, giving Thornley all the excuses he needed to start his war with the already mobilized Allied army. In a grim repeat of history, Allied vehicles once again crossed every border with the Comintern they had. The Third World War had begun.

### It's a Mad World.

*"The Motherland Calls!"*

-- Communist Propaganda poster
The Third World War was in many ways; something of a repeat of the second one. However, Thornley's blue legions were made of sterner stuff than Fuller's forces and managed to advance far despite the much more prepared Comintern forces this time around. The Earth was burdened by the weight of the warships on her waters, the tanks driving across her fields, the infantry marching on her streets, the planes crowding her skies, and the bases built to control her lands and seas; it was in every way, a total war. This time the Enemy's advance brought them to the suburbs of Moscow and the gates of the Manhattan Commune, but it would not be an advance they would long savor. At first the Allied advance seemed all but unstoppable, with plans being discussed to shift Comintern industry even further east and continue the fight elsewhere if the worst came to the worst (though the first wave of counter-attacks pushing the Allies back to a safe distance alleviated those concerns). However, this time, World War 3 would be rudely interrupted by two events.

Geoffrey's betrayal of the allies and the defection of his Epsilon Advanced Research Division to form his own army at an attempt at world conquest; and the sudden attack of the Solar Empire of Japan and it's allies, immediately changing the character of the war. But with grit and steel, the Comintern pulled through, managing to push back the tides of the Allies, the so called Epsilon Dominion, and the forces the Empire unleashed. The war was now a truly global one that spared no continent or country from the devastation as millions fought and died for their respective causes. And even at the war's grimmest stages, the International remained resolute in its resolve to push back the forces of reaction wherever they were. There would be no surrendering to the forces of the enemies of the people, and those who had hoped to find the end of Communism instead found Communism rallying to end *them*.

And the foes who challenged the International would find out what sort of power came with the might of solidarity as the nations of the Comintern stood side by side to ride out the storm of a world at war. The International's planes would come out to blot out the skies in just about every continent, its fleets would burden every ocean, its armies would battle on every continent. The tide was pushed back from the brink of disaster ever closer to final victory as the International began to roll back the forces of the Allies, the Empire's Axis, and Epsilon. Epic maneuvers such as the landings at Bulgaria and Poland to catch allied forces in eastern Europe off guard; the Island hopping campaign to drive the Empire across the pacific, the "Liberation" offensive that sent the Pan-African league reeling from the Union of West African Socialist Council republics, the Rainforest campaign that drove back the technocrats and threatened Rio di Janerio itself, and the assault on the Antarctic peninsula to stop Geoffrey's mad scheme to dominate the minds of the entire planet were all part of maneuvers to put the Comintern back on the upper footing.

Eventually, the Japanese Emperor was killed, a stalemate had once again settled at the German border as the Allies rallied to guard their heartlands from what was feared to be inevitable communist revenge, the Pan-African league, Technocrats, and Guardians of Monarchy managed to stiffen their resolve and present a formidable obstacle to further progress, and the forces of Geoffrey demonstrated vast defense networks in their antarctic base. But the war did not officially end for a little longer yet, as Thornley was preparing for a counter-offensive of his own. It would not be until Marshall Manning decided that enough was enough and ended the war with a coup against Thornley taking place resulting in his bizarre escape into space in a final drama in Manchester aided by the International. Manning proved eager to broker peace, particularly with the recent destruction of virtually all of China in a nuclear conflagration, and from there; the guns of all four of the power blocs began to fall silent at long last.

However, the world has changed. Not only have the major powers found themselves in altered situations, new powers have arisen and some that have hid in the shadows are now starting to come out of the wood works. But come what may, the Comintern shall face them all with fire in its heart.

## Worker's and Farmer's Revolutionary International Military

*"Drawn from more than a dozen nations, the Worker's and Farmer's Revolutionary International Military has twice repelled the Alliance and serves as a beacon of hope and progress in countless brushfire wars. It can strike at the enemy from the skies, the land, and the sea with grace and precision and stand on their molars before they know they're in mortal danger. It is comprised out of millions of people willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to protect the ideals of freedom and democracy from those who would turn back the clock. Fear it or love it, there is no getting away from the simple fact that the International's armed forces are respected the world over."*

- *Lieutenant Olivia Tsukolous of the Red Army*
### Structures

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

- *Anonymous MCV driver.*

### Defences

***"TALK CRAP, GET ZAPPED"***

- *Sign placed on a Tesla Coil*

### Advanced Defenses

***"TALK CRAP, GET ZAPPED"***

- *Sign placed on a Tesla Coil*

### Infantry

*"The Communist Infantry corps may seem soft in their concern for human life and the welfare of all; even their enemies, but they are soft the way water is soft. They can easily drown someone when one is not careful, and when whipped into a storm, they can smash even the strongest of walls and sweep away all before them. We had underestimated them in the prior war, and they brought war to our very doorstep. I would advise that you not make the mistake we made. Be cautious and respectful of them."*

- *Epsilon Proselyte Ingrid Braun to her apprentice.*

### Vehicles

*"At first we thought that the walkers and tanks of the communists could not match the might of the Alliance's endless rows of heavy machines. Then when we attempted to invade America and the Soviet Union, we found how wrong we were. They struck like lightning and could outfight what they could not outrun and outrun what they could not fight. And when they came to the home islands, their vengeance was swift and terrible."*

- *General Akifume on the failures of the invasions of the USSR and UASR*

### Utility Vehicles

*"Every job starts with its workers"*

- *Utility corps motto.*

### Drones

*"You never learn to trust drones more than when they stop and overwhelm an entire Syndicate attack so that you and your buddies won't have to wade through hell to do it yourselves. Drones are our comrades too, and I owe my life to them. I wish the inventors of them were here with us now, then I'd buy them a Vodka"*

- *General Defender Sasha Vladmirovna*

### Heavy Drones

*"You call that Armor?"*

- *Warrior Drone to Malice Tank*

### Experimental Units

*"Though I mourn any occasion that Science must be turned to destruction, the Comintern's unmatched devotion to the advancement of science and technology needs to be safeguarded by turning some of that progress to defending the revolution from the repeated aggression of those afraid of our system and gains."*

- *Carl Sagan*

### Aircraft

*"Wait till they see our red wings of fire!"*

- *American pilot Uriah Jameson*

### Advanced Aircraft

*"I see nothing here but ants!"*

- *Paradox Starship A.I deployed against Formicans*

### Watercraft

*"WLA fleet in our sights, launching aircraft and moving in for missile bombardment. Keep the submarines on high alert, I don't want any of them getting out. With luck we'll have them under control within an hour."*

- *Iranian Admiral Jasmine*

### Heroes and Epic Unit

*"God in his heaven, what is that?"*

- *Anonymous Order of the Hawk Soldier*

## Protocols

A list of protocols used by the International.