u/DressSuccessful7916

The POD of this timeline is that Fanny Kaplan's assassination attempt on Vladimir Lenin is successful and it also doesn't happen in 1918 but ~4 years earlier. This means that the civil war started in 1915, not 1917. in 1916 the communist revolutionaries declare surrender. Because the civil war is won by the whites, the Holy Russian Empire is proclaimed on august 6th 1916 with Alexei I the Renewer as the Emperor. Because of the recent civil war, The II Polish Republic is proclaimed on the terrains of the Congress Poland. In the aftermath of the civil war, Alexei, though only 13 and suffering from hemophilia (which has started to heal, due to the healing method of eating a lot of pork fat as it has high contents of Fibrinogen which is responsible for blood clotting), implements military reforms worthy of a brilliant military strategist (as later studies of his brain would show, he had an iq of 131). Because of the reformes, the HRE's military is renewed with modern equipment and innovative training methods and military strategies. Alexei also introduces the industrial and agrarian reforms act, which lays a solid backbone for the process of shifting the economy from an agrarian model to a one that is more industrially-focused. So the revolutionaries focus their sight on france. Because of the rising tensions between the workers, abused by the industrial demands of ww1, and the system, the bolsheviks step in as the saviours of the french proletariat adopting french names and learning french. In august 1916, 6 months after their defeat in Russia, the revolutionary insurgency of France declares the french commune and starts the French Revolution. The revolutionary front stages multiple sabotage actions and uses guerilla war tactics in the french alps (the soldiers engaging in this part of the war will later be known as the "alpine lions of revolution"). The revolution from the beginning easier for the socialists as the republic's army was moving from the german front, the open fields of central France were quickly turned red. Because of that, the socialist insurgency was also able to establish outposts in the Pyrenese and Alps, so if the republicans managed to come all the way there, they would be tactically and positionally inferior to the revolution. After 5 months of warfare and 300k casualties on the republic's side & 50k casualties on the socialist side, the republic's government resigned and was executed, still in the Luxembourg Palace & Palace of Bourbon. The Blue-White-Red flag of France was lowered, and it's copy with a red star in the center, and a yellow hammer&sickle in the top-right corner was flown, and the Worker's Marseillaise was played all over Paris. As the French commune establishes, the leader Leon Trotsky who has changed his name to a more french-sounding "Léon Dutoit" conjures a plan to make communism spread into a later called "Red Belt" (fr. Ceinture Rouge) which is a plan to make a front of communist countries along the west coast of Europe (Spain, Portugal, France, Benelux, Germany, Poland) to make a solid socialist barrier for any capitalist empires that want to trade with Europe. A year later the french war preparations to save the proletariat of Spain are almost finished, but there is something more interesting going on in the HRE. On the 11th of September 1917 "The Ethnic Border Reforms Act of 1917" is passed in the duma, declaring 7 new states:
-The Republic of Finland
-The Kingdom of Estonia (kinda like isle of man but instead of Britain it's Finland)
-The Kingdom of Latvia (Latvia without the eastern coast)
-The Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Byeloruss
-The Cossack Princedom of Ukraine, Krasnodar and Adygea
-The Caucasus Collective of Nations
-The Central Asian Federation (All Russian terrains in central asia)
In Alexei's words "I, as the emperor of this country, I want the Holy Russian Empire to be truly Russian" This was true, but only a piece of the truth. These states were also created to serve as buffers from the french communism that everyone clearly saw preparing to expand, or to serve as cheap sources of different resources, for example grain from the cossack host or the newly discovered metal "Uranium" i suppose they call it. Back to France for a moment. On December 16th the Spanish Communist Party has seized the military from the monarchy and organized a coup d'état to overthrow the Spanish crown. The coup d'état lasted 1 week. During that, the army, now called The front of the Spanish workforce (sp. "El frente de la fuerza laboral Española") surrounded the cities of Madrid and Barcelona, arresting important figures as hostages for the Crown, also holding hostage king Alfonso XIII's newborn son Infante Alfonso. After this week of turmoil in Spain, the Communist Republic of Iberia was declared, launching a military operation on Portugal to unite the peninsula. The operation lasted 3 weeks of marching straight to Lisbon and a 1-month seige of the royal palace and other significant buildings. After the almost 2 months of military opperation (you couldn''t really call it a war because of no significant engagments other than the series of seiges in Lisbon) the royal family resigned

Is this pin a fake (got it at an antique store in bulgaria)

Funny Polish Punctuation Names

Cities: Skylines Problem

I got this shit from my dream (only some of it) so be BRUTAL in the comments. (The map of this universe at the point of action of the story i want to write in it will be attached to this post in the comments)