How America Fell (5) (734 hits)
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Submitted by Axolotl (View user info) at 2007-09-10 15:38:43 EDT
Chapter One: http://www.ubersite.com/m/111287
Chapter Two: http://www.ubersite.com/m/111317
Chapter Three: http://www.ubersite.com/m/111383
Chapter Four: http://www.ubersite.com/m/111515
Chapter Five: The Third War with the United States of America
The mood in America after the French War was one of the worst a country can be in-—apathetic. The youth of America either didn't care and expected America to lose, or they realized that Russia was an empire that was impossible to defeat. The older generation attempted to rouse patriotism and idealism among the young, but it was in vain. The generation born between 2035 and 2050 (approximation) was known as the Downfall of Western Civilization by the elders.
Meanwhile, in Russia, the Renaissance of Universality was fading, and the newer generations being born. The children of the 2030s, who had never grown up under Russian federalism, and had known Universality their entire life, were less impressed with Alexei than their parents and older brothers. However, it was they who were sent off in the summer of 2057 beyond the Ural Mountains to subdue the wild men of central Asia and Siberia.
In 2057, the 5th and 8th Russian Armies departed from Yekaterinburg to subdue and consolidate holdings in Siberia, supported by a flight of bombers and a fleet sailing port-to-port in the Arctic Sea. Using the islands of Novaya Zemblya and October Revolution as bases, the vast swaths of tundra and mineral ore came under the control of Alexei, who began to industrialize the region. People were moved into the area, attracted by cheap land and benefits, much as the cowboys and settlers moved into the American West.
However, there were still obstacles. Alexei's power stopped at the borders of the Tunguska region, because the United States of America had taken over eastern Russia.
Though America had been utterly defeated in France, the state of war still existed between Russia and America. America and Canada had colonized or taken over the lands of Kamchatka, the resource-rich provinces of eastern Siberia. In those mountains and snowy forests and hills, oil and gold were common as sand in a desert, and a joint military force of Canada and the USA guarded the precious fields.
This military cooperative alliance was the forerunner of the USCN, the dissolution of borders in North America and the joining of the nations of the USA and Canada. While this merger would gradually occur between 2062 and 2064, the two countries' presidents were closely cooperating against Russia in Asia.
The American and Canadians jointly shared a zone of influence in Kamchatka Krai, Magadan Oblast, Chukotka Okrug, and parts of Khabarovsk Krai in the southern part of Siberia, down toward Vladivostok. Japan and the USA had troops stationed on Sakhalin Island, taking back Japan's old land. Major cities of the region were Uelen, Anadyr, Khabarovsk, and the American base at Magadan.
As the Russians pushed into central Siberia, they entered the independent Sakha Republic, a nation set up after the fall of Federal Russia. It was a large Siberian democratic republic with its capital at Yakutsk, on the Lena River. To the west of the city was the vast Tunguska forests and river systems. The following battles would be collectively called the Tunguska Campaign.
Alexei had given warnings to the Americans and Canadians to evacuate the territory, but the proud Americans refused utterly, and despised Alexei. Talks were begun with China on both sides, but the stalwart empire of 2 billion could not be swayed to either party. Alexei seized the city of Irkutsk and the land around Lake Baikal, while the Sakha Republic just north of the vast lake prepared to be a battlefield. China guarded its borders, and sent an army to Mongolia to ensure that neither side would cross their borders.
The Russian battle group was made up of four powerful mechanized infantry divisions, two guard divisions, and a tank division. Almost the entire XVIII US Airborne Corps had been deployed to the Siberian region, as well as Canadian Group Central. Here is a short rundown of the troops, in the order they were deployed.
ADVANCE TROOPS - The 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) as well as the Army Rangers had been sent as a vanguard to the actual line.
2nd US Marines
75th US Rangers
FRONT LINES - The 10th Mountain and the 42nd Infantry, a National Guard unit were the main strong points of the line.
10th US Mountain Division (Yakustk)
31st Canadian Brigade (Yakutsk)
42nd New York Infantry (South Sakha)
33rd Canadian Brigade (South Sakha)
BACK BEHIND - Not too far behind the lines were the heavy troops, including the 2nd Armored, 2nd Canadian Mechanized, and the powerful 3rd US Infantry.
2nd US Armored Cavalry (Lena Mountains)
2nd Canadian Mechanized Brigade (Anadyr)
30th North Carolina Brigade (Anadyr)
40th California Infantry (Khabarovsk)
32nd Canadian Brigade (Magadan)
3rd US Infantry (Magadan)
WAY BACK - Behind the lines guarding the Aleutians and Alaska were auxiliary units, as well as paratroop units.
172nd US Brigade (Kamchatka, Uelen)
25th US Division Elements (Vladivostok)
7th US Infantry Elements (Aleutians)
9th US Infantry Elements (Sakhalin)
218th South Carolina Infantry (Alaska)
101st US Airborne (Alaska)
On April 3, 2058, the US Army Rangers engaged a Russian column as they moved from Irkutsk to Yakutsk. With their expertise, the Rangers were able to deal heavy casualties on a numerically superior foe, but due to the large amounts of Russians being called to bear, the Rangers had to withdraw ground. In early January, both the Marines and the Rangers fought a guerilla campaign in the Tunguska wilds with the Russian front lines, with light casualties taken by both sides. The ability of the Rangers to appear within a minute's notice, fire killing shots, and disappear into the wilderness earned them the nickname Minutemen, evoking the patriots of years before.
On April 20, General John Mackenzie gave the order for the entire Allied front to advanced toward Lake Baikal.
The 10th Mountain Division made its way out of Yakutsk and into the wilds, while the Allies moved up heavier troops behind the lines. It was designed to be a feint; the first few brigades would attack and fall back, and the Russians would chase after them, only to run into the heavy armor of the US Army. The 10th Mountain Division along with the 31st Canadians ran into the entire Russian 5th Army, and as planned, engaged the Russians for 24 hours, and fell back.
Down southward, the Battle of Lake Baikal was fought, near the northern part of that lake. With fighter jets battling in the air and heavy artillery being fired on both sides, the 8th Army engaged the 50th New Jersey Brigade and the 33rd Canadian. The two brigades fought valiantly against a numerically superior foe, assisted by helicopters and Air Cavalry, but took on heavy losses. They were forced to withdraw after only 12 hours, and they retreated down the line.
As Alexei the Second ordered his troops forward, they were met on April 27 with the combined might of America and Canada's finest soldiers. Southeast of Yakutsk, the Russian front was assaulted by the 2nd US Armored Cavalry, the 2nd Canadian Mechanized, and the 3rd US Mechanized, and was caught by surprise by an airdrop of the 101st Airborne. The Russian 5th Army fought their way through the paratroopers into the city of Yakustk, and the Americans withdrew into the Lena Mountains.
Southward, the 8th Russian Army moved smoothly across the icy steppes, where the 40th Californian Division and several Canadian units gave them combat, defending the cities of Khabarovsk and Magadan. On May 10, the situation was the paratroops, marines and rangers concentrated in the north, with the Russians stuck below in Yakutsk while the US and Canadians were above in the Lena Mountains.
However, the 8th Russian army pushed up north in a large sweep, engaging and routing the 3rd and 40th US Divisions and sending them fleeing up north. The 42nd put up a fight, but realized that it was about to be enveloped, and retreated back to Anadyr.
The 5th and 8th Armies enveloped the US and Canadian forces in the Lena Mountains, and began one of the greatest artillery duels in history. The rapid firing of the immensely powerful guns was greater than in any war ever fought before. On the first day of the battle, May 17, over one million shells were fired upon the US and Canadians in Lena.
By the first of June, the US was trying to break out, and launched an assault on all sides, but in the battle of the Glorious First of June, the Russians held back the Americans, and continued the blistering artillery barrage.
Over 4/5 the allied force was trapped in the brutally cold mountain range under constant fire from the Russians, retreating further and further north toward the icy Arctic Ocean. Something had to be done, and together, the United States and Canadian navies launched a joint operating from the port of Barrow, Alaska, to rescue the trapped soldiers.
The several hundred thousand Americans and Canadians moved northwards, fighting all the way. They started boarding a fleet of ships and fishing boats, and were ferried back to relative safety in Alaska. Alexei realized this was going on, and dispatched a navy from Novaya Zemblya. The US Navy met them in the freezing waters of the Arctic.
In the Battle of October Revolution, the US navy decisively defeated that of Alexei's Empire, and helped rescue the soldiers trapped in Siberia. The rest of the US troops withdrew, and Alexei occupied the Kamchatka. A huge fleet guarded Alaska and the Aleutians, but no attack ever came.
Alexei had conquered all Russia. He didn't want Alaska, it didn't interest him. There was peace between the United States and Russia, and there would be for a decent amount of time.
The war was short, but decisive. The Russian navy of the Arctic had been crippled, and the US Army had been spared the horrible fate of their forces in France, kidnapped and tormented by the Russians. Though it was a strategic victory for Russia, it was also a pyrrhic one.
It had been another war of many, but this one seemed final. Alexei's forces now had an empire larger than any other in the history of the world. The conquered nations under his command feared him, but also loved him, and the freedom he bestowed.
Nowadays, we see that nobody can give freedom as a gift. The common man must fight for his own freedom; for if a government can give freedom, it can also take it away. However, there was peace within the borders of Alexei's empire.
In 2060, Alexei finally consolidated his holdings in the Mediterranean, taking Corsica, Sardinia, Crete, Italy, and other previously free outposts of capitalism. All of Europe was his now, but there was still a world yet for the taking.
In November 2060, Alexei had a heart attack. He was walking with his wife in a park in Paris, when he collapsed suddenly at the sound of a car accident. He was operated on at the University of Paris, and the doctors pronounced him all clear. His son was now 31 years old, and engaged to a Greek scientist named Theodora Orvegias he had met in his vast travels. Alexei came to a conclusion in the hospital in Paris:
"I've never regretted anything in my life. I've made my people what they are, but something still bothers me—no matter how you work, or what you've done in life, or whatever your accomplishments are, death comes as a surprise to all men."
It was part of a diary entry that went on to say:
"I am now seventy-one years old. I have an intelligent son who will be more powerful than me one day. My wife will stay with me to the end. When I depart, I will have three billion souls under my control. But I fear death, because I know in my heart that the oblivion I have professed is not true. Though my mind says that there is nothing after death, my heart says there is, and I shudder to think of what it holds."
These words were not released to the public until over fifty years after his death.
Alexei, his wife Olivia, and his son Alexei II left the Paris hospital together as a family on a crisp day in March 2061. It would seem that Alexei's change of heart had left him. The earth was stretched out before him, and he and his son together reached out to seize it.
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Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-09-11 14:34:20 EDT (#)
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Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2007-09-11 14:26:07 EDT (#)
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Submitted by EatMeCompletely (user info) at 2007-09-11 09:28:44 EDT (#)
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Submitted by ChaosJester (user info) at 2007-09-11 03:59:58 EDT (#)
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As before, it's obvious that you've worked really hard on this, but I just can't buy it.
Seriously, if America was getting its ass handed to it as bad as you say (with 100,000ish soldiers being tortured and brainwashed) the nukes would fall like rain and this Empire of Alexi's would become a radioactive cinder/memory.
Also, as has been said before, the Chinese would be doing a hell of a lot more than sitting back and waiting, especially if this Empire was becoming as powerful as you make it out to be. At this point in history, the Chinese would be shitting themselves because, by now, the only place to expand is China and Southeast Asia.
Don't get me wrong; I like what you're doing here. I just think that you are ignoring a lot of relevant facts about politics and warfare in favor of making your future-history look like an Alexander The Great/Napoleonic conquest.
Also, I just can't stand to see America being whipped so bad...and by Russians, of all people. Maybe the Chinese, but Russians?!? Ugh...
Submitted by MyNameIsTim (user info) at 2007-09-10 21:45:15 EDT (#)
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new jersey sucks
Submitted by St_Jimmy (user info) at 2007-09-10 20:12:06 EDT (#)
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Nice to see that in 2060 we're still holding on to Nigeria- The armpit of the world.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-09-10 18:54:19 EDT (#)
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well...
why withdraw from Kamchatka?
and the Cninese, they wouldn't sit this out...especially if the Americans cut them in for a slice.
I know, I know - you're just really pushing it far, for me.
Have you read 'The Domination of the Draka'? Now, THAT is pushing it.
Submitted by RabiedRooster (user info) at 2007-09-10 17:54:01 EDT (#)
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It's SOOOOOOO complicated!
Submitted by Fungah (user info) at 2007-09-10 17:51:06 EDT (#)
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MOOOO
Submitted by SgtHartman (user info) at 2007-09-10 17:13:25 EDT (#)
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I propose we make this into an epic movie...
Submitted by ShapeShifter (user info) at 2007-09-10 16:57:05 EDT (#)
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I most certainly haven't bothered reading a single one of these.
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2007-09-10 16:27:56 EDT (#)
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They're all stupid.
The way to startoff a winning world war campaign is to build up heavily in Australia, Oceana, and Southeast Asia.
Then you take the continental bonus, and build up your armies while everyone else fights over Europe and North America.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2007-09-10 16:27:29 EDT (#)
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Can't stop yall...til the early morn
Mowin down MCs like I'm mowin the lawn
Submitted by DirtyHarry (user info) at 2007-09-10 16:02:11 EDT (#)
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Submitted by HadToBeDone (user info) at 2007-09-10 15:58:52 EDT (#)
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This vaguely resembles writing and I can not condone or support this.
Fall in line and post pictures of skanky chicks in bad lingerie.
Submitted by Merlina (user info) at 2007-09-10 15:56:37 EDT (#)
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Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2007-09-10 15:56:33 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Method (user info) at 2007-09-10 15:51:07 EDT (#)
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Submitted by experima (user info) at 2007-09-10 15:44:23 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2007-09-10 15:42:11 EDT (#)
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It gets a little more interesting after this...more of a focus on Alexei and his family personally, rather than wars and battles.