I'm a big fan of alternate History, and also being interested in leftist ideas has led me to come up the following, although it is partly inspired by other what if's I have read it is largely my own idea. So let me know what you think.
April 1918, Rostov
General Kornilov looked on as the battle raged just a few hundred yards away. What was important about this particular town nobody knew, yes a few thousand Red troops occupied it but those godless Bolsheviks occupied most of Mother Russia and those parts not occupied by the Bolsheviks were occupied by the Germans.
But not for long thought Kornilov, soon he would liberate Russia and then the motherland would be free. Yes free from the Germans and more importantly the Bolsheviks. 'We will show the Reds what vengance is and they will know pain', one officer was heard to remark.
As the Red artillery landed closer and closer to the makeshift HQ that the Whites had set up, the officers became more nervous. Kornilov sensed this, but he knew how to inspire men. Ofcouse attacking a town occupied by a few thousand of the enemy is allways dangerous. Doing it with just a few hundred men armed with little more than outdated rifles was just suicide. But the officers didn't dare make their views heard, not if they knew what was good for them anyway.
A few hours later and Kornilov's men were showing those Reds who had not fled what pain was. But the General had bigger fish to fry. This was just the first town, tommorrow he would liberate Mother Russia from all who oppressed her.
May 1918, outskirts of Moscow
Boris Savinkov was deep in thought. The one time poet, gambler, revolutionary, womaniser, government minister, terriorist and freedom fighter was about to add something else to his carreer. Namely flying ace, ofcourse he wasn't doing any of the flying but the history books wouldn't say that. No they would say that Boris Savinkov took part in the great battle in the sky's that was going on over this small town.
Of course it all came back to the peasants in the end. They could turn on you in a second, and when they did the sights weren't pretty. As the local Bolsheviks had found out. Savinkov was cautious they were allready getting angry at those dam flying machines which were clearly the work of the Devil. And if the peasants found out that Savinkov was planning on linking up with the Whites for a assualt on Moscow then his throat would be cut faster than he could say 'Revolution'.
No for the time being he would wait and buy his time. Boris looked outside the window, there stood the two Royal Navy 'advisors' who had somehow got caught up in all this mess. Royal, Boris thought to himself. It was then that Boris came up with a idea.
May 1918, the Kremlin.
Vladimir Ilich Lenin had reason to be upset. The White Armies of counter-revolution backed up by the foriegn Imperialists now threatened the very existence of the Soviets, the workers and the peasants. The 'Birthplace of the revolution' as Trotsky called Petrograd could be taken by the Germans at any moment if they so desired. The Japanese had essentially annexed Siberia and along with their puppet (and in some cases not so 'puppet' like, hell what some of them were doing just defied good taste) Cossack warlords spread terror throughout the land. Red intelliegence reports that they have struck an alliance with Kornilov which will just make things worse.
But for now Moscow was safe, the Imperialists had supply lines to and that rebellion to the east was better left of ingnored. As Lenin took another sip of wine, his stomach began to feel pain. Nevermind he thought, the Revolution needed him and somehow Lenin knew that the Imperialists would be crushed. History dictated that at the very least........
Those were the very last thoughts of Vladimir Ilich Lenin, victim of poison which was almost certainly a assaination. A week later the Bolsheviks united in Red Square for there leaders funeral, it would be the last time they would do so.
'What is 11 million dollars compared to the love of 11 million Cubans' Felix Savon
''That morning, my father took my hand and we went out. I saw how upset all the Algerians looked and how the French were rejoicing. I asked my father what had happened. He gravely replied: 'Stalin is dead...' I asked who Stalin was. My father said: 'He was the greatest man of our time. He was the leader of the Soviet Union, the greatest revolutionary country. Stalin was the son of a cobbler.' And I thought the son of a cobbler, someone like me...' Algerian Revolutionary in fight against French Imperialism.
The World Revolution is ongoing history. Even if you win the war, which I don’t think you will, the World Revolution will not and cannot be stooped by military means, Your very powerful army can do much harm to us, can kill many of our people - but it cannot kill ideas! Its movement might seem dormant to you at the moment, but it s there and will come to the fore again out of the awakening of the poor, the downtrodden orginary people the world over in Africa, the Americas, in Asia and Europe too. People in their masses will one day understand that it is the power of capital over them which not only oppresses and robs them, but stifles their human potential, which either uses or discards them as mere pawns to make monetary profit out of the,. Once the people grasp that idea, it will mature into an almost material force in popular uprisings like spreading wildfires and will do what has to be done in the name of humanity. It will not be Russia who will do it for them, although the Russian working people were the first who have borken the chains. The people of the will do it for themselves in their own countries, against their own oppressors, in their own ways and in their own time!’
A 'Stalinist Beuracrate' to his Fascist Guards in Nazi Camp.
