Remember when I mentioned the UDMS-KKK was supposed to be a world standard of democracy? I may regret this but whatever.
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End of the Sosnkowski Era? First Elections of the UDMS-KKK.
Shortly after the defeat of Japan, while people celebrated that there would be at least a year without more offensive wars, an uncertainty began to loom over the future of the UDMS-KKK, and by extension, of humanity. Established in 1941, the young State would soon complete 4 years of existence. Four years was the established term limit for the temporary government by the former Polish government-in-exile, and for all governments to come.
Thus a time of inanity was coming soon, but the shifts in society boiled things to a point that moderate political parties were the exception rather than the rule. Sosnkowski, having saved Amerikwa from a seemingly inevitable doom, having led the survivors through the darkest times, had a very strong popularity, although some still wanted for an Amerikkkwan president to be their representative rather than a Pole refugee.
And many disagreed with the classical liberalism that was followed as the official ideology of the temporary government. Some claimed it was surpassed by the growing Objectivist movement, while others accused it of being a tool to exploit to oppressed proletariat, and others claimed that a society is unable to survive without welfare. And there was an even stronger movement among all of them, specially in South America: a new take on fascism that deviates from the previous doctrines in its clearly anti-racist and internationalist values, called the New Integralism.
It was a bit more interesting due to the quite balanced popularity between six rather than only two or three political parties. But that was coming in November. It would be a long time yet.
After the fall of Japan, a Soviet diplomat received a message from Osha confirming they stand for the independence of Korea. Nobody cared, after all, the Soviet Union was simply a wreck, a corpse of a fallen nation that refused to rest for unknown reasons.
Along the tense climate of incoming elections, the Multinational Congress would support a very polemic law suggested by a young conservative politician and actor called Ronald Reagan. Britain protested against the proclamation, but there was little they could really do while settlers from Kwanzania began to change population statistics in the island and territories. Claims will be based upon shared language, which essentially means that Centroamerica and Union Suramerican shall have 50/50 the Spanish isles in Atlantic, Brazil will get claims over all the Portuguese islands in the Atlantic, the United States will take the British-controlled part of the Guyanas and some isles of the Caribbean, United French States will get French Guyana and also some isles of the Caribbean and Suriname and Corazon will become an autonomous region because of being the only dutch-speaking region of all Kwanzanias.
Amerikkkwa for the Amerikkkwans!
A new problem has risen after the fall of Japan. The amount of partisans have increased to near-problematic levels after the annexation. Before, many hoped that the UDMS-KKK would give Japan the right to become a sovereign democracy, but now it was no longer true, and thus things were heating up in a serious insurgency, which combined with the Japanese culture and Kamikaze concept, would lead to the first cases of terrorism and suicide bombers in Earth.
But for now, things were more or less under control despite the large percentage of Japanese civilians waging guerrilla warfare.
In another very risky operation to infiltrate another alien base, where certain things have been seen that cannot be unseen, other members of the Death Watch have once again managed to come back alive with their discovery: the alien equivalent of
The War Nerd regarding quality in an article about ancient Aerial Tactics. At least it was better than the aliens' National Geographic about synthetic fossil fuels.
Meanwhile, if the intelligence report is reliable, the enemy has more than 13 million soldiers across Europe, Asia and Africa and legions of tanks and aircrafts. The only good thing, if this report is right, the victory at San Jose and the subsequence sabotage of as many alien fighters as possible before they could take off have crippled the enemy air superiority capabilities, considering once they had more than a hundred of fighters.
The equivalent of Operation Paperclip being done involving the greatest Japanese minds is showing its benefits. Not only now the UDMS-KKK has access to minds specialized at carrier-centric naval warfare tactics, but also far more superior tech teams than anything they had before.
There may be peace in the surface, but the air is filled with enemy aircrafts. England has become a Bunker Country to be able to survive through years of bombardment, and deep underground construction is happening every day, while on surface as many brave men as possible attempt to stop the flames and repair the daily damage. The British are the only of all Foedus of Man members that respect the UDMS-KKK, and thus, the new Battle of Britain shall be a perfect testing ground for the soon to come turbojet fighters.
Impatient about the goodwill of Britain, and having massive reserves of valuable resources, the UDMS-KKK negotiates one by one all the territories under British control claimed by the Reagan doctrine. These territories will also give the UDMS-KKK access to Eurasia and Africa without having to rely on foreign ports for setting up future amphibious operations. Things have, all in all, slowed down. All that happened was for most of the troops in Japan but a few, kept there in case of larger problems with insurgents, to have returned home, and for a few isolated naval skirmishes with nuisance flotillas of the aliens. The surviving ships of the two battlefleets that fought at the Inland Sea were undergoing repairs, as many of them suffered severe damages from that battle, and thus it was decided to, for now, not pursue the nuisance flotillas. It was up, once again, for the Death Watch to bring the most interesting events from the time between the end of the Kwan-Japanese War and the first elections of the UDMS-KKK.
A secret found, right under their noses, right under them.
Theme
Since ITZ, the Nellis Air Force base, near Roswell in Nevada, has been abandoned, and the new government saw no strategic purpose in a base so distant from the coast. Next to it, at the Groom Lake, a far more secretive facility existed, and by coincidence, it was found out.
Old warnings from the previous government still lied there. They ignored them. The place was completely derelict. After a long walk they reached the large blast door buried into the mountain. It was half open. That is where the report ends. The four members of the team simply came back with some considerable amounts of blueprints and even with a crude Alien language to English dictionary. They couldn't remember what really happened while they were inside, they just said that it was like suddenly seeing the material in their hands, and thus they safely returned, the mystery of this Groom Lake facility still remaining unexplained.
And they brought back something of immense value. A set of blueprints that could be used to create better turbojet engines and better airframes for flight at higher speeds than those piston prop airframes were used to. And even more importantly, a prototype of a stealth aircraft. This has been the most successful operation of gathering of intelligence regarding alien technology to this date.
It was the last significant event before the day the future of the UDMS-KKK would be decided.
11th of November of 1944, the Independence day of Poland would become the day of the first elections in the new American Superstate. Six parties, six radically differently ideologies disputing for power, for their visions for the New World. All while two major technological breakthroughs happened.
At one side, the Poles-only cabinet of the Social-Democrat Party, with a plan to establish public education, public healthcare and an extensive Welfare State under the guidance of Keynesian economics, while also being completely opposed to any laws restricting immigration. Their candidates are the Prime-Minister
Boleslaw Wieniawa-Dlugoszowski and the President
Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski.
The temporary government was reformulated under the premises of the
Liberal Party. Promoting a laissez-faire economical model combined with a conservative and jingoistic set of values that please all the militias of North Amerikwa, and having the public support of the Amerikwan actor Ronald Reagan, who managed to survive ITZ, it is, by its very nature, successful policies and for having a war hero as the Prime Minister, a strong one. Hoping to take some votes from the Objectivists, Kazimierz Sosnkowski has promised to make the laissez-faire even more laissez-faire, together with the Austrian economist
Joseph Schumpeter as President.
The Objectivist Party is essentially a more radical subset of the Liberal Party, which agenda is to gradually dismantle the State and let the invisible hand of the free market eventually handle everything, including law, arbitration, security and national defense. Although not as radical as the anarcho-capitalists, it still has some very unorthodox ideas, and will turn the UDMS-KKK immediately into a Minarchy, with serious cut downs of its military as a consequence, and conversion of the remaining military into several PMCs despite the long-term plans. If they win,
Ayn Rand, the youngest of all candidates, shall be the Prime Minister, with the known Austrian economists
Friedrich Hayek as President, and
Ludwig von Mises as Chief of Armaments to facilitate the conversion of the military into a set of private organizations.
After tha fall of fascism across the world, several proeminent South Amerikwan think-tanks and military leaders have created together the political ideal of the New Integralism. Differently from the old
Integralism, the New Integralism preaches the break of all national boundaries and unification of humanity as one people, one culture and one State, all organic, with many different roles and no focus on equality like socialism, where the State itself is not a mean to achieve an end, but an end. It has a very strong support of the Catholic Church, and combined with populism, have convinced large quantities of the people in South America to support the Party. The New Integralism movement has openly announced that by voting for them, the people are voting that they think Democracy sucks and would rather have their ideal of government. Its candidates are the Brazilian Prime Minister
Getulio Vargas, the Argentinian President
Juan Domingo Peron and the Quebecois Jacques Moreau as the Minister of Security.
Almost as new as the New Integralism, the Democratic Communism Party is essentially an asnwer to the ultimate failure of the Soviet Union to achieve what was in theory its goal. With no weight in the world anymore, the atrocities commited by Lenin and Stalin and their totalitarian nightmare soon became common knowledge of those who survived ITZ in 1941. A group splitted off from the mainstream communism, by promoting an idea of establishing a communist state through the "democracy of the proletariat" instead of the "dictatorship of the proletariat". If elected, they will immediately turn the economy into a centrally planned one. The poorest strata of society tends to support either them or the Juche Party, that accuses them of being revisionist puppets of the bourgeoisie. Their candidates are the Mexican Prime Minister
Manuel Avila Camacho and the Amerikwan President
James P. Cannon
And finally, the infamous Juche Party, established by the communist vision of a Korean refugee named Kim Il-sung while the visions of Stalin and Lenin have lost popularity, the Juche is an authoritarian party that sees the establishment of communism as only achievable through a communist Party government because "democracies will always be bribed by the upper classes". Not only they will immediately start a command economy if elected, but also most likely launch great purges against the bourgeois and traitors. Their promise of creating a perfect society through violent and sometimes authoritarian means and a same degree of populism as seen in the New Integralism have drawn part of the lower classes that didn't embrace Democratic Communism to their ranks. Their candidates are the Canadian Prime Minister
Tim Buck, the Brazilian President
Luis Carlos Prestes, and of course,
Kim Il-sung as the Minister of Security to hunt traitors and make them vanish.
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