The Red Banner - An American Communist Timeline

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Extracted from The CFRA: How It Works

To summarise, the CFRA's government has three branches: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial.

The Executive Branch is that of the Premier and the Cabinet, and was for the early years of the CFRA by far the most important, particularly during the Jones Administration, with both other branches of government being essentially a rubber stamp for Alfred F. Jones and his Cabinet. Nevertheless, reforms by James O'Brien decreased the prominence of the Executive Branch, and it was reduced in power to being what it is today.

The Legislative Branch consists of two Houses - Congress and the Bureau. The Bureau is more important than Congress, although the support of both (and the Executive Branch) is required to get a bill signed into law.

The Judicial Branch is the Red Star Ultimate Court, where the highest of cases, both civil and criminal, are heard. The court consists of six judges, who are appointed directly by the Premier. No more than three judges can be replaced in the transition from one Premier to another, although more can be replaced later.
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Extracted from The American Diaspora

With the Revolution, the upper political and military echelons of the United States fled to the only piece of US territory safe from Communism - the Philippines. The nouveau riches, the Rockefellers and J.P Morgans, as well as a sizeable slice of the American middle classes, were not so lucky, and had to run as fast as they could to any port that could take them, hoping that the places they were fleeing to wouldn't be in Red hands by the time they arrived.

Also, whole families ran across the border to Canada, as it swiftly became clear that this was not a simple series of riots. As many as 200,000 people are estimated to have fled the U.S during this period, in every direction, some to their ethnic European homelands, but most to Britain and Canada.

With the CFRA's conquest of Canada, many of these people became once more American citizens, an irony that was not lost on them.

However, the Philippines eventually grew into a hybrid American/Hispanic culture, as the two groups mingled with each other. The Philippines remain to, this day, the last outpost of the United States of America, now neither American, made up of States, or united.
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The flag of the Worker's State of Japan (not my own, but I asked):
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Extracted from Film-making in the Early CFRA

The most famous director in the early CFRA was Karl Eisenstein, who directed propaganda films for Alfred F. Jones. The two had a heavy partnership - Jones gave Eisenstein plot ideas and funding and Eisenstein would bring them to life as films. Eisenstein made heavy use of extras - for instance, he used more extras in his film The Storming of the White House than took place in the actual event.

His magnum opus was his epic Liberty or Death released in the early 1950's, dealing with the Second American Civil War, being shot wholly in colour (then incredibly expensive), and lasting about three hours. For the battle scenes, Eisenstein used realistic props and vehicles. He also dealt realistically with warfare, pleasing Jones, who said that 'it shows the great struggles of Revolution realistically'.

Liberty or Death
was shown across the CFRA, and was widely watched - sometimes, whole towns would gather to see it, and thousands of cinemas were built simply to show it. It was also a massive exercise in propaganda. Eisenstein outlived Jones by a decade, but his later films, dealing extensively with World War Two, were not as famous as his piece de resistance.
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The revised map, with internal divisions:
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Extracted from The London Pact

The London Pact was Mosley's brainchild, created by him to contain the French and Germans, whom he saw as Britain's enemies. Originally, it contained three nations - Italy, Britain, and Poland, but expanded to include Japan and China after the creation of the Triple Alliance (consisting of France, Germany and Russia), Mosley keeping the two in line by threatening to stop trading vital oil and metal supplies with Japan if the two nations commenced hostilities.

On the 16th January, Poland declared war on Germany after a break-down in negotiations over Danzig, and thus began World War Two...
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Extracted from A Strategic Analysis of the Second American Civil War

Victory in the Second American Civil War was a matter of two things: morale, and supplies. The Communists always kept up a high level of morale.

There are several reasons for this. One was Alfred F. Jones, a skilled propagandist as well as an excellent military commander. He created several myths about the war, the most notable of which was the Myth of Atlanta, which claimed that during the Battle of Atlanta, during an attack on machine-gun posts (intended to divert the attention of enemy forces), the young men charging into battle had sung The Red Flag as they were mercilessly gunned down, as depicted in Karl Eisenstein's Liberty or Death (note the slow-motion scene in which the singing of The Red Flag is heard as Communists attack a machine-gun post and are slaughtered, a powerful moment if there ever was one). It is known that soldiers sometimes sung The Red Flag into battle, but actual singing during an attack is extremely unlikely.

The second was that the Communists had the conviction that even in death, their sacrifices would earn victory.

Meanwhile, the Communists had other advantages, namely using conscription while the Blues were still trying to get people to volunteer. This increased their available manpower vastly as the Blues were still trying to play catch-up. There were also mutinies on the side of the Blues, while the Communists suffered from few issues with discipline.

Finally, while the rest of the world did nothing to help the Blues, from 1932 onwards the Reds received supplies, weapons and equipment from Russia, and this eventually won them the war.
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THE CITIZEN'S FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF AMERICA
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CITIZEN'S FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF AMERICA


Capital: Washington D.C

Form of Government: Federal Communist Republic with Legislative Body (Bureau)

Head of State and Government: Premier

Official Language: None (Predominantly English)

Official Religion: None

Monetary Unit: Freedom Dollar

GDP:
$20,000,000,000,000


Demographics


Population: 311,000,000

Sex Distribution: 51% Female; 49% Male

Religous Affiliation:
Christian 72%; Jewish 3%; Islam 2%; nonreligous 22%; other 1%

Major Cities: New York City (15,000,000); Alfred City (5,000,000); Chicago (3,500,000); Houston (2,500,000); Detroit (2,230,000)


Military


Total Active Duty Military Personnel: 2,000,000 (Army 40%; Navy 28% Air Force 22%; Marines 10%)

Military Expenditure of GNP:
10%
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THE PANOPTICON WORLD FACTBOOK

WEIMAR REPUBLIC
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WEIMAR REPUBLIC

Capital: Berlin

Form of Government: Federal Democratic Republic

Head of State and Government: Chancellor (Reichskanzler)

Official Language:
German

Official Religion:
None

Monetary Unit:
Deutschmark

GDP: $17,000,000,000,000


Demographics


Population: 135,000,000

Sex Distribution: 51% Female; 49% Male

Religous Affiliation: Christian 88%; Jewish 3%; Islam 2%; nonreligous 4%; other 1%

Major Cities: Berlin (5,000,000); Konigsberg (4,500,000); Vienna (3,500,000); Hamburg (2,500,000); Cologne (1,230,000)


Military


Total Active Duty Military Personnel:
356,000(Army 40%; Navy 28% Air Force 22%; Marines 10%)

Military Expenditure of GNP:
5%
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THE PANOPTICON WORLD FACTBOOK

FEDERAL RUSSIAN UNION

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FEDERAL RUSSIAN UNION


Capital: Saint-Petersburg

Form of Government: Federal Social Democratic Republic

Head of State and Government: President (президент)

Official Language:
Russian

Official Religion:
Orthodox Christianity

Monetary Unit: Ruble

GDP:
$15,000,000,000,000


Demographics


Population: 293,047,571

Sex Distribution: 51% Female; 49% Male

Religous Affiliation:
Orthodox Christian 88%; Jewish 3%; Islam 2%; nonreligous 4%; other 1%

Major Cities:
Saint-Petersburg (5,000,000); Moscow (4,500,000); (3,500,000); Vladivostok (2,500,000); Vasilyevsk (1,230,000)


Military


Total Active Duty Military Personnel: 1,000,000(Army 40%; Navy 28% Air Force 22%; Marines 10%)

Military Expenditure of GNP:
7%
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