I believe he is referring to the plans regarding economic development and militarization.Of course,the whole point of corporatism/crony capitalism is to have the benefits of a planned economy without having to expropriate those of the upper classes whose support was needed.
The four year plan for instance, massive public works and state direction of industry. By the late 30's the fact the plant was still nominally in private hands didn't mean very much as you made what you were told to...or else. Also alot of social policy, and the party as the state. They may have had fundamentally incompatible goals but the Nazi's still borrowed alot from the Communist's.
Especially as they're not really Fascist anyway but "Whatever got us power," and a big part of the Nazi movement (notably the SA leadership) took the Socialist bit rather literally. Where as beyond "Power, land and dead Jews," the top Nazi's never really had a program they observed in anything more than the breach.
The four year plan for instance, massive public works and state direction of industry. By the late 30's the fact the plant was still nominally in private hands didn't mean very much as you made what you were told to...or else. Also alot of social policy, and the party as the state. They may have had fundamentally incompatible goals but the Nazi's still borrowed alot from the Communist's.
Especially as they're not really Fascist anyway but "Whatever got us power," and a big part of the Nazi movement (notably the SA leadership) took the Socialist bit rather literally. Where as beyond "Power, land and dead Jews," the top Nazi's never really had a program they observed in anything more than the breach.
I'm going to stop you right there because if we start splitting hairs enough to say that the Nazis weren't Fascist, then no one is Fascist. Fascism has never really been a hard ideology, but more of a sort of uber-nationalism that has had broad-stroke similarities across nations. Nazism isn't the same as Italian Fascism, but it hits most if not all of Umberto Eco's 14 Points of Ur-Fascism.
Just a quick question about the South American theatre - has Buenos Aires actually fallen or are the Brazilians driving towards the Colorado west of the city in an effort to encircle it?
Just a quick question about the South American theatre - has Buenos Aires actually fallen or are the Brazilians driving towards the Colorado west of the city in an effort to encircle it?
Buenos Aires is currently under a state of siege, and has proven to be impossible to take with the current disposition of forces; the drive towards the Colorado is primarily to prevent INTREV forces in the Platine region from breaking the siege.
EDIT: Also in Saldago's fevered brain encircle and liquidate the majority of INTREV-South America and basically close that theater.
One thing is assured:If Plínio Salgado fails he will be overthrown by the Brazilian Armed Forces and the reputation of Eurico Gaspar Dutra might be tarnished
The sequence that leads to Brazil going to war with Uruguay starts with Britain using its extensive leverage over Uruguay to cancel its military access agreement with Brazil backed by a guarantee of independence that will have Commonwealth troops soon stationed to ensure Brazil minds its own business. This one act cripples much of Brazil's logistics in the Southern Cone, and Salgado's resolution to solve this is to roll in some of the fresh troops that wouldn't be able to be logistically supported in the Southern Cone front anyway to cross the Quarai and Jaguarao rivers in the expectation that Uruguay's generally unimpressive military will collapse in short order. This underestimates both the Coloradist government's determination to not let an army that already has a reputation of barbarism as bullied and drunk conscripts vent their frustrations on vulnerable targets and psychotic paramilitaries engage in brutish violence to hunt enemies of the regime real or imagined as well as how quickly Entente forces can arrive.
With contingencies already in place for timely interventions in the new world against America and its Latin allies, the Entente can quickly shuttle in spare regiments from Ireland, Canada, and South Africa as the 1st Platine expeditionary division while also mobilising to protect Guiana and Venezuela. While the Brazilian navy is willing to brawl with the Chilean and Argentine fleets; the addition of the Royal Navy to the Americans' South Atlantic patrols gives them a much more noted case of cold feet. Especially as RN submarines that would be of limited use in Europe are sent to the South Atlantic and Indo-Pacific to close a tight noose around any transatlantic axis traffic and make sure the Brazilian navy isn't being naughty/try to slow down the Japanese juggernaut by any means possible and shuttle supplies to the trench warfare in the Malaysian peninsula in the face of general IJN superiority in the Southern Front of the Pacific theatre.
Though in the early phase of the Pacific Theatre, the near constant victories of the IJN until 1944 have many consider the Japanese navy to have become the strongest in the world as it repeatedly clobbers the WFRN and RN in one major battle after the other; with the seemingly endless success of the Concordists at sea only stopping with the failure of the planned knock out invasions of Ceylon and Hawai'i in 1944. The IJN is still very much a going concern by the time of the final capitulation of Germany and Italy in 1945 and the Japanese High Command at first isn't too worried since they seem to still have a commanding advantage over much of the Indo-pacific.
They're not entirely wrong to still be relatively confident. It does indeed take until the very end of 1946 to finally bring Japan down, replete with a surprise landings at Korea and Formosa to try and cut the mainland IJA off in China and hack apart Japan's industrial network before the invasion of the Home Islands. Taking advantage of an opportunity opened when much of the IJN has sallied southwards to repel renewed Allied naval offensives against its rubber and oil supplies in Southeast Asia; leaving the Communists a chance to cut right through Japanese home waters with the aid of a secret weapon and the biggest fleet they've got. Eventually paving the way for the landings on Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Honshu and the several-month campaign in the Japanese autumn and winter to forever set the rising sun as well as the Chinese blitz to crush the Reorganised republic while the Allies sweep Japan out of Indonesia and smash Thailand into the dirt.
My reasoning was that a restoration of the Empire of Brazil was more easily accepted because the federal structure created by the 1891 Republican Constitution of Brazil was retained.
I was also sure the 1934 Brazilian Constitution still existed in the Reds! universe and that makes the two republican constitutions of Brazil from the pre-Integralist period the only two constitutions to have been legitimate.
Still surprised the Americans manage to turn Japan communist.OTL as I understand it the Japanese Communists didn't get as much of a foothold as the German or Italian ones.
Still surprised the Americans manage to turn Japan communist.OTL as I understand it the Japanese Communists didn't get as much of a foothold as the German or Italian ones.
Still surprised the Americans manage to turn Japan communist.OTL as I understand it the Japanese Communists didn't get as much of a foothold as the German or Italian ones.
I imagine it's less "managed to turn them communist" and more "the country was occupied and the government established at the point of a sword."
That's basically what happened OTL, after all, and it's not like the UASR is somehow less earnestly fanatical about communism than the USA is about capitalist democracy.
Still surprised the Americans manage to turn Japan communist.OTL as I understand it the Japanese Communists didn't get as much of a foothold as the German or Italian ones.
I mean, it's not so much 'turning them communist' as it is giving the citizens the power to control their country democratically in all aspects, after the initial period of military occupation and de-programming of fascist ideals you'd be hard-pressed to convince them to give that up.
Plus, even OTL the Japanese Communists were actually legitimately powerful and popular in the wake of the horror and fuckery that was the last fifteen or so years, after having recovered from a truly terrible nadir.
It's just that they weren't going to get anywhere because the US Government was in charge... not that I think "oh, we would have had a successful Communist Japan if it wasn't for the US" was in the cards, but it could have become the primary opposition party and had a more... Europe-like history than it did, for better and worse.
All that changes is that those elements are put in charge of the government and then use the authority to beat down challenges from their right (and probably at least some from their Left.)
Plus, even OTL the Japanese Communists were actually legitimately powerful and popular in the wake of the horror and fuckery that was the last fifteen or so years, after having recovered from a truly terrible nadir.
It's just that they weren't going to get anywhere because the US Government was in charge... not that I think "oh, we would have had a successful Communist Japan if it wasn't for the US" was in the cards, but it could have become the primary opposition party and had a more... Europe-like history than it did, for better and worse.
All that changes is that those elements are put in charge of the government and then use the authority to beat down challenges from their right (and probably at least some from their Left.)
More than likely there wouldn't be many challenges on their left, between changes influenced by America's socialism in the 1930s and a subsequent invasion, the vastly different Comintern and socialist ideological environment, and the USSR being more preoccupied with Eastern Europe and giving America more prominence in Japan, this would likely lead to the JCP following America's model or America "encouraging" them in that direction.
We don't know for sure. It depends on how things go. We know that they're the dominant party in the immediate postwar period... but the "dominant party rule" in America also existed for a time and gave way to a "three main parties" system.
The Former Nihonjin Empire has prospered quite well following its defeat and reconstruction in the face of Operation Damocles launched by the Union of American Socialist Republics, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Socialist Republic of Zhongguo, and the Pan-American Pacific Task Force. Damocles, the last Comintern operation of the war, was the VOSCOM invasion of the home islands of Nihon itself. Though the largest amphibious assault in world history was also one of its most explosive military campaigns, the scars have in larges part, healed.
A Joint Dictatorship of the Proletariat of Occupying Nations was established over the country to administrate it for ten years, longer than most save for Romania and Turkiye due to the lack of immediate threat that would require being brought back onto their feet like in the case of Deutschland or Italy and the desire to create a model socialist society out of the ruins of Concordist folly. A further ten years of supervisory military presence would be maintained after the formal end of the JDPON before the VOSCOM's military force would fully end its powers of supervision over Nihon.
Nihon was less devastated than Deutschland by the end of the war, not subject to the same intensity of strategic bombing and with the fighting in the land campaigns being against a resource-starved Nihon cut off from its bounty in mainland and insular southeast Asia and a population that was starting to grow disillusioned with asiofuturism. It was fierce, but it was not the apocalypse that was initially feared, though it remains the most casualty intense single campaign in American history in terms of looses to American military personnel. But unlike Italy and Deutschland, it was wholly occupied by a singular authority and so provided an opportunity to test the JDPON model with minimal restrictions.
Reconstruction would be overseen by a commission that included Lyndon Baines Johnson, Anastas Mikoyan, the young but promising Jane Jacobs, Ji Chaoding, Henry Wallace, and a wide array of Nihonjin personnel. In charge of the committee that would draft the new law system of Nihon was Smedley Butler, the man who had planned and conducted Damocles and the defeat of Nihon and wanted his final military legacy to be one of transforming a once Imperial country into a free proletarian state. Something on which he had extensive cooperation and advice from Nihonjin Marxists such as Yamakawa Hitoshi and his wife Kikue, and converts such as Inejiro Asanuma.
The "Butler Commission" would face the heavy task of continued terrorism from remnants of the Nihonjin right, including the last elements of the Kodoha and Toseiha cliques as well as Concordist diehards and an eclectic array of cults, ultranationalist cells, dispossessed nobles and landowners, and those who bought into the ideal of never surrendering a bit too hard. Though the defeat in the war had crushed most conventional resistance, guerilla warfare would plague the JDPON in the "arduous march" period of the Comintern as the USSR and UASR focused on rebuilding over confrontation with the Imperialist Alliance. It would be a long war, and it would be one Butler would not see the end of as he finally retired at the age of 70 in 1951, passing on command to Marshal Vasilievsky.
The anti-terrorism campaign would however, be contrasted to Asanuma's "self-purification" campaign where the man who had taken to socialism with the zeal of a convert sought to purge all reactionary elements in Nihonjin culture. Repression campaigns against centres of Asiatic arts, Shinto or Buddhist shrines, and attempts to target the parts of the former Imperial family that remained in Nihon in a redefined, priestly role towards its primary religion were launched under Inejiro's orders and inflamed the issues of terroristic resistance and guerilla cells. But with Asanuma at the head of the clique of former concordists, toseihaites, and kodehans "reborn" as communist zealots he was difficult to deal with; particularly for the first head of the post-JDPON supervisory command; Juan Domingo Peron.
De-Concordisation required the acceptance of converts, and for the most part the converts were genuine in their communism, but they took the combative zeal of their old beliefs and inverted it into an internal campaign of violence and repression. A belief that their country had committed a grave spiritual offense and must be made to pay for it with interest. Perhaps understandable if mistaken given the violence of the Indo-Pacific theatre of the war, but unrestrained and ultimately overly moralistic.
It would not be until 1959 that one last incident would see Anasuma ousted from power following his public declaration of the "new purity of nihon" following the annihilation of the "Imperial restorations society" in a midnight raid on its headquarters in the outskirts of Kyoto only for the "Kamikaze Brotherhood" to publicly attempt to assassinate him not even three years after the end of the JDPON. Though Inejiro lived, Kikue would force his retirement to "recover" from his injuries while Peron had his most zealous followers demobilised with the assistance of the Nihonjin Red Guard.
The Republic would endure, and the country would return to more orthodox visions of socialism less ridden with self-loathing as the long war with terrorism finally ended with the success of "Operation Condor" formulated by the Nihonjin Red Liberation Army in cooperation with Peron's command. Thus ensuring that following Peron's retirement from the post and the military in 1961 and passing of the torch onto Lin Biao, the last military supervisor of Nippon would have a relatively quiet term that would be mostly concerned with the final preparations for the end of occupational military presence.
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Countries like Hungary, East Germany, North Italy, and Romania undergo similar processes to tear out all reaction root and branch. East Germany and North Italy only have a singular JDPON term and one term of supervision, Hungary and Korea have just one JDPON term with no follow-up occupation, Bulgaria has no JDPON at all, Turkey has two JDPON and two supervisory just like Japan, and Romania has a record breaking three JDPON terms and three supervisory terms.
