Ivangorod Prosperous Ver. 2.0
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It would be on CF.net only, the revised edition as I didn't want to duplicate this thread more than I can already have.
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You're welcome. I am currently creating new ideas for the CF.net version though, but the biggest changes will be in Asia-Pacific and Australia.
And now, I've come up with the national anthem of Primorye:
Arise, Great Primorye (adopted in 1945):
Arise, Great Primorye!
The Motherland calls for her children,
We fight bravely and die gloriously,
So Primorye shall rise in glorious freedom!
Glory to the Primorian nation,
The warrior spirit dwells within us,
Glory to the Primorian nation,
Our struggle shall not be in vain!
Our enemies shall always fail,
In their attempts to subjugate us,
The eternal war that we've always fought,
We shall tell the world of our sacrifice!
Primorye, our battle scarred homeland,
Bountiful land of milk and honey,
The glorious prize our enemies seek,
Oh precious homeland, we fight to defend!
Warriors, our struggle continues anew,
Fellow Slavic brothers, watch how we fight,
As the thunder strikes from our Primorian skies,
For our immortal motherland, we fight to the death!
For Faith, Tsar and country, thus we shout:
Arise once again from the ruins, Primorye!
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Chapter Thirty Two: The Dawn of a New Century Part Two
Germany Joins the War:
On August 27th, the Hungarian troops stationed at the border with Italy marched towards the Ligurian Sea, hoping to cut off the Italians from their French allies. At the same time, Germany itself had changed dynasties when the last Solberg king died and the new monarch, King Maximillian I von Lothringen, eager to reclaim the Duchy of Lothringen from France, joined the Hungarians in attacking the Franco-Italian Dual Kingdom. Three days after Hungarian troops attacked the Italian forces in Parma; German forces launched a surprise attack on the French forces in Lothringen. Just as the Hungarians purchased the Brassers Gun, so did the Germans, as the French General Jean Marc Beaulieu (who will become famous in the First Great World War) reported on a large number of Brassers Guns deployed by the German Army. Within just three and a half weeks of fighting, the Germans entrenched themselves in Lothringen, making the French counteroffensive difficult to achieve.
German military doctrine emphasized on deep infiltration tactics in order to catch the enemy off guard, something the military leadership in Aachen had to develop in order to counter the defensive strongholds that the French relied on. Artillery barrages were often launched in the initial stage, followed by a sweeping German infantry advance deeper into the strongholds until they were in a position to undermine the defenses from within. One such place where the Germans accomplished this feat was in Epinal on September 7th, 1904. In just five weeks of attrition, 32,000 German soldiers managed to pin down and trap over 45,000 French soldiers inside their own fortresses when it became apparent that the strongholds were being undermined. Still, Germany paid heavily for their success in Epinal when the French defenders chose to get involved in close quarters combat, resulting in just 500 survivors from both sides remaining.
Louis II Gaston immediately planned for a massive French counteroffensive into Lothringen and by October 27th, the so-called Voudreau Offensive (named after French General Henri Voudreau, the commander of the army taking part in the offensive) began. Unlike with what happened in Epinal, the Germans chose to dig trenches in order to slow the French advance down while machine gun nests were placed in crucial parts of the entrenchment. In addition, Louis II Gaston also brought in an additional 23,000 Italian troops to help with the Voudreau Offensive, and their experience from the recent conflict against Hungary came into handy when on one occasion the Italian troops actually managed to capture three trench lines before being forced to fall back in face of German resistance.
Voudreau’s army met with a large German force commanded by Brigadier General Oskar Nieumann (1) in the major city of Strasbourg, where a major battle would take place. Initial Franco-Italian gains were made between October 30th and November 4th but German artillery positions made a counter-barrage deadly. Yet they could not make any more gains after November 5th because of logistical issues on the Franco-Italian part. As the onset of winter approaches, the Germans realized that they were completely unprepared for the cold and thus they continued to resist until King Friedrich I Solberg could authorize the issue of winter clothing to all his soldiers. The static warfare in the outskirts of Strasbourg was taking a toll on the Franco-Italian forces that also came unprepared for the winter. Unlike their German counterparts, the Franco-Italian armies also faced their own logistical issues, making the Voudreau Offensive a de facto failure.
Yet worse news was to follow the Franco-Italian Union: Gabor II Laurinaitis chose to strike at the advancing Italian contingent on November 22nd in a blitz attack that stunned the French. The 120,000 Franco-Italian troops that were stuck in Hungarian occupied Venice now began to retreat, but Hungarian officers were given orders to cut off all road networks in Italy in order to deny the trapped soldiers a chance to retreat and to help with the Voudreau offensive. At the same time, the Hungarian Navy continued its raids on Italian ports and thanks to Gabor II Laurinaitis’s purchase of three Russian built Pochtovy-class submarines, they were deployed to attack a large Franco-Italian fleet based in Palermo before joining up with the main Hungarian fleet. In addition, a large Austrian force converged upon the trapped Franco-Italian contingent, forcing them to surrender en masse.
Warsaw Armistice:
Poland called for all warring nations for a ceasefire and negotiations as France-Italy, Germany and Hungary sent their delegates to Warsaw on December 4th, 1904. Though it was not a formal end of the war, the Warsaw Armistice was just the stepping stone to what will become the First Great World War. The contested region of Elsace-Lothringen became a demilitarized zone; with both France-Italy and Germany banned from stationing their soldiers there while Hungary demanded reparations totaling around 8,000,000 Swedish Krona, a payment the Franco-Italian Union had no choice but to comply. Because it was referred to as an armistice, there was no formal peace treaty with either nations, but on December 7th, the Warsaw Armistice also extended to the nations involved in the First Anti-Ottoman War as most soldiers of the nations involved were forced to withdraw from territories they occupied.
Arms Race:
In just ten years, the Warsaw Armistice would eventually become pointless because most of the Great Powers now focused on engaging in an arms race that saw the first mass production of submarines and battleships. In 1905 the Haroldsson brothers (2) impressed the whole world when they invented a flying machine that will later be called an aircraft. They tested their invention in Vinland for just thirty minutes in Liefstad, but they’ve had experience with using gliders as experiments. Greater Scandinavia under Johan Wilhelm’s son Frederick III Vasa (1856-1924) thought that it was a good idea to share the secrets of the glider and the proto-aircraft with Russia and England, thinking that they’ll just use it for commercial purposes. Of course, the new Vasa king was proven wrong when the Russians demonstrated that with retooling, the airplane could be used for war. Though both Sweden and Russia didn’t know it, they began an arms race against each other mainly by developing new kinds of weapons that would be used in the future.
At the instigation of the still influential Catholic Church, the Franco-Italian Union began to negotiate with Spain on the possibility of a military pact similar to the Savoy Union. However, the Spanish delegates were not in the mood to revive the dead horse that is the Savoy Union, knowing too well that the dysfunctional union was the main reason for the loss of their Asian empire. Still, it did not stop King Pablo I from pondering about the Savoy Union’s revival, but as a military alliance. He also realized that the Latin Bloc might be revived if Portugal was also included, though nations like Hungary and even Poland were considered as potential candidates. Before the Latin Bloc could be revived though, Venice and Austria would have to be pried off from Hungary’s orbit and merge it into a single entity. Unfortunately, the strength of the Hungarian forces in Venice plus Austria’s unwillingness to cooperate with any other nation would ensure that the Latin Bloc’s revival remained a pipe dream.
Yet the Catholic nations continued to manufacture their own weapons and Spain itself had finally unveiled their first modern battleship, the Inquisitor-class battleship. Its design was rather modest but revolutionary. They decided on making their battleships smaller in order to emphasize on its speed, a lesson not lost on Greater Scandinavia and Russia as they replied back by unveiling their own warships. Greater Scandinavia unveiled the Hadrada-class battleship while Russia unveiled its first modern battleship, the Stroganov-class dreadnought (3). Curiously enough, most European nations with the exception of England, had neglected to pay attention to the potential use of the submarine as a seaborne guerrilla weapon that can sink merchant shipping.
Russia was also under pressure to come up with a new kind of rifle that will not only be much easier to use, but doesn’t actually give off any smoke and has a greater range of firepower. Once again, Dutch arms manufacturers came to the rescue in 1904 when they proposed the new kind of bullet for the proposed rifle: a cartridge of 6.8x52mm. The new rifle that was designed and built emerged as the Yumashin rifle, but several defects were detected from the get-go:
- Frequent jamming and misfires from the rifle that was tested.
- Extreme difficulty in cleaning.
- Shockingly long periods of time in disassembling of the rifle.
To counter these problems, the Dutch officer who led the military attaché to Russia, Colonel Willem Sanders proposed to help design the bolt action rifle. After an additional eight months of drawing up the designs on paper, the final prototype was designated as the Yumashin-Sanders rifle (4). The length of the Yumashin-Sanders rifle is only 41.6 inches but the Russian military’s insistence on making the rifle easier to carry for close combat purposes (and because some of the rifles that would be made for the Primorian and Alaskan soldiers who are somewhat shorter than their Russian counterparts) made it easier to carry.
The problems that faced the original Yumashin rifle were now addressed with the Yumashin-Sanders rifle. Cleaning the new rifle would be easier, as Russian troops would be taught how to clean the barrel of their newly issued Yumashin-Sanders rifles with a cloth or tying several knots on old shoelaces for additional cleaning precision. Cleaning the rifle would have also avoided the jamming and misfires by adding cleaning oil on the barrels to avoid rusting. Finally, the Yumashin-Sanders rifle would also have a slot for bayonets that will allow soldiers to engage in close combat.
Artillery was also upgraded as a deadly weapon employed by all nations, as the Netherlands’ Brassers Gun became a hot item for any nation that wishes to improve on their military arsenal. However, the Madigan Gun, though not as effective as the Brassers Gun, also became popular because it could be sold cheaply, and its ammunition was relatively easy to make. Yet in 1910 Russia would make its mark in the development of artillery pieces when it introduced its variation of the Brassers Gun, the Obukhov Gun (5). Obukhov Guns were partly inspired by the Brassers Gun, but its competitor the Gorshakov State Plant (6) produced the Gorshakov guns that were tailored more for coastal and urban defenses while the Obukhov Guns were used for laying waste to enemy towns and taking out enemy defensive positions.
Primorye – The Prelude to War:
A couple of decades past since Ivaylov took up the post as Governor General of Primorye, several more governor generals would hold the post by the time the Great World War arrived. After Ivaylov, Mikhail Desyatkov held the post from 1864 until 1876 when he retired and the post was handed over to a Cossack Voyvoda named Ivan Kadurinsky, who held the post from 1876 until 1892 when he was succeeded by another Cossack called Bogdan Loskutov who held it from 1892 until 1905. After 1905, the post of Governor General of Primorye was passed down to a non-Russian. This time, it was a Serb Cossack named Dushan Dmitrovic who was Governor General from 1905 until 1931.
As Russia continued its military buildup in preparation for war, the bulk of the Russian Navy was stationed in the Central Pacific. Primorye, Gavaya and many other islands in the Pacific switched into shipbuilding as orders for new destroyers, submarines and battleships came from Moscow itself. Not only that, the Russian Army constantly improved on its military doctrine and even introduced a new uniform for its soldiers. Gone were the 1878 versions of the Russian uniform and in its place, a field green uniform and a peaked cap was adopted as the new Russian headdress, although a radically different headdress was also made.
A Russian officer stationed in Primorye named Fyodor Chubarov (7) came up with a design for a new helmet that later became popular in modern militaries due to its protection of the soldier’s head from injury. The helmet, which was later called the Chubarovka, was also adopted by the Dutch and French Armies because of its practicality. Yet the Chubarovka would not be worn until 1915 when Russian casualties from head injuries became extremely high that the Russian Army decreed that the Chubarovka be worn instead of the peaked cap. The Chubarovka was worn by colonial troops too, though before they adopted the Chubarovka the Alaskan colonial troops wore the peaked cap while Primorian troops wore the shaykacha instead.
The new Russian Army uniform worn during the early 1900s. All of Russia's soldiers, including colonial troops, wore this standard uniform. The only way to tell the difference between a regular Russian soldier and a colonial soldier is by the headdress before the Chubarovka helmet was introduced.
By this time, Primorian nationalism had just started to bloom with the completed dictionary of the Primorian language being published in February of 1910 by a descendant of Goran Pulyev named Vladislav Ivashenko(8). When the Primorian colonial authorities acquired the Primorian dictionary, they were rather surprised at the huge South Slavic influence that was acquired into what was supposed to be a Russian dialect. For instance, here are the two sentences that are different but have the same meaning:
Russian: Ya ne puteshestvuyu, chtoby Novobelozersk.
Bulgarian: Az ne putuvam do Novobelozersk.
Serbian: Ya ne putuyu u Novobelozersk.
Primorian: Az ne patuvam do Novobelozersk.
English: I am not traveling to Novobelozersk.
Russian: Ty ne moy brat’.
Bulgarian: Ti ne si brat’ mi.
Serbian: Ti nisi moy brat’.
Primorian: Ti ne si moy brat’.
English: You are not my brother.
Russian: Ya panimayu pa-Russki.
Bulgarian: Az razbiram Ruski.
Serbian: Ya rezumirem Ruski.
Primorian: Az panimayam pa-Russki.
English: I understand Russian.
One could easily detect the differences between the tones used in the Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Alaskan and Primorian simply by hearing how the person expresses themselves. For instance, Ukrainian and Belorussian share the same soft tone with the Alaskan dialect of Russian, while Primorian shares the guttural tone of Serbian and Bulgarian. Another example is the vocabulary itself, which most languages in Europe seem to borrow from other European languages while Primorian vocab loanwords are strictly of other Slavic languages or of Asian origin. For example, the word ‘pineapple’ in Russian, Ukrainian and many other European languages, it’s labeled as ananas, from the French word ‘ananas’. The Primorian word for pineapple though, is borgotsa, from the Mongolian word borgotsoy.
Even the word telephone in Russian and other European languages is telefon, while the Primorian term for telephone is denavka, from the Japanese word denwa or denwaki. This is because Primorian linguists (many of whom were South Slavic Orthodox priests) wanted to emphasize on the development of the Primorian language as a Slavic language with a huge Asiatic influence and as a Russian language with a South Slavic influence. The popularity of the Primorian language would become the cornerstone of Primorian nationalism.
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(1) Oskar Nieumann is TTL’s version of Erich von Lundendorff, though there will be a Polish equivalent to him.
(2) The Haroldsson brothers are TTL’s version of the Wright brothers.
(3) The Stroganov-class dreadnought is TTL’s version of the Gangut-class battleship.
(4) The Yumashin-Sanders rifle is TTL’s version of the famous Mosin-Nagant rifle used by the Russian military IOTL from the 1900s to 1945.
(5) The Obukhov Gun is similar to the OTL 6 inch 35 caliber naval gun manufactured by Obukhov State Plant, only in this case Obukhov would also become famous for its unusual production of Russian artillery pieces.
(6) The Gorshakov State Plant is TTL’s name for the Kirov Plant, which used to be called the Putilovsky Plant.
(7) Fyodor Chubarov is TTL’s version of General Brusilov but he also references Semyon Budyonny, the inventor of the Budenovka.
(8) Vladislav Ivashenko is TTL’s version of Ivan Vazov, the Bulgarian poet and novelist.
Germany Joins the War:
On August 27th, the Hungarian troops stationed at the border with Italy marched towards the Ligurian Sea, hoping to cut off the Italians from their French allies. At the same time, Germany itself had changed dynasties when the last Solberg king died and the new monarch, King Maximillian I von Lothringen, eager to reclaim the Duchy of Lothringen from France, joined the Hungarians in attacking the Franco-Italian Dual Kingdom. Three days after Hungarian troops attacked the Italian forces in Parma; German forces launched a surprise attack on the French forces in Lothringen. Just as the Hungarians purchased the Brassers Gun, so did the Germans, as the French General Jean Marc Beaulieu (who will become famous in the First Great World War) reported on a large number of Brassers Guns deployed by the German Army. Within just three and a half weeks of fighting, the Germans entrenched themselves in Lothringen, making the French counteroffensive difficult to achieve.
German military doctrine emphasized on deep infiltration tactics in order to catch the enemy off guard, something the military leadership in Aachen had to develop in order to counter the defensive strongholds that the French relied on. Artillery barrages were often launched in the initial stage, followed by a sweeping German infantry advance deeper into the strongholds until they were in a position to undermine the defenses from within. One such place where the Germans accomplished this feat was in Epinal on September 7th, 1904. In just five weeks of attrition, 32,000 German soldiers managed to pin down and trap over 45,000 French soldiers inside their own fortresses when it became apparent that the strongholds were being undermined. Still, Germany paid heavily for their success in Epinal when the French defenders chose to get involved in close quarters combat, resulting in just 500 survivors from both sides remaining.
Louis II Gaston immediately planned for a massive French counteroffensive into Lothringen and by October 27th, the so-called Voudreau Offensive (named after French General Henri Voudreau, the commander of the army taking part in the offensive) began. Unlike with what happened in Epinal, the Germans chose to dig trenches in order to slow the French advance down while machine gun nests were placed in crucial parts of the entrenchment. In addition, Louis II Gaston also brought in an additional 23,000 Italian troops to help with the Voudreau Offensive, and their experience from the recent conflict against Hungary came into handy when on one occasion the Italian troops actually managed to capture three trench lines before being forced to fall back in face of German resistance.
Voudreau’s army met with a large German force commanded by Brigadier General Oskar Nieumann (1) in the major city of Strasbourg, where a major battle would take place. Initial Franco-Italian gains were made between October 30th and November 4th but German artillery positions made a counter-barrage deadly. Yet they could not make any more gains after November 5th because of logistical issues on the Franco-Italian part. As the onset of winter approaches, the Germans realized that they were completely unprepared for the cold and thus they continued to resist until King Friedrich I Solberg could authorize the issue of winter clothing to all his soldiers. The static warfare in the outskirts of Strasbourg was taking a toll on the Franco-Italian forces that also came unprepared for the winter. Unlike their German counterparts, the Franco-Italian armies also faced their own logistical issues, making the Voudreau Offensive a de facto failure.
Yet worse news was to follow the Franco-Italian Union: Gabor II Laurinaitis chose to strike at the advancing Italian contingent on November 22nd in a blitz attack that stunned the French. The 120,000 Franco-Italian troops that were stuck in Hungarian occupied Venice now began to retreat, but Hungarian officers were given orders to cut off all road networks in Italy in order to deny the trapped soldiers a chance to retreat and to help with the Voudreau offensive. At the same time, the Hungarian Navy continued its raids on Italian ports and thanks to Gabor II Laurinaitis’s purchase of three Russian built Pochtovy-class submarines, they were deployed to attack a large Franco-Italian fleet based in Palermo before joining up with the main Hungarian fleet. In addition, a large Austrian force converged upon the trapped Franco-Italian contingent, forcing them to surrender en masse.
Warsaw Armistice:
Poland called for all warring nations for a ceasefire and negotiations as France-Italy, Germany and Hungary sent their delegates to Warsaw on December 4th, 1904. Though it was not a formal end of the war, the Warsaw Armistice was just the stepping stone to what will become the First Great World War. The contested region of Elsace-Lothringen became a demilitarized zone; with both France-Italy and Germany banned from stationing their soldiers there while Hungary demanded reparations totaling around 8,000,000 Swedish Krona, a payment the Franco-Italian Union had no choice but to comply. Because it was referred to as an armistice, there was no formal peace treaty with either nations, but on December 7th, the Warsaw Armistice also extended to the nations involved in the First Anti-Ottoman War as most soldiers of the nations involved were forced to withdraw from territories they occupied.
Arms Race:
In just ten years, the Warsaw Armistice would eventually become pointless because most of the Great Powers now focused on engaging in an arms race that saw the first mass production of submarines and battleships. In 1905 the Haroldsson brothers (2) impressed the whole world when they invented a flying machine that will later be called an aircraft. They tested their invention in Vinland for just thirty minutes in Liefstad, but they’ve had experience with using gliders as experiments. Greater Scandinavia under Johan Wilhelm’s son Frederick III Vasa (1856-1924) thought that it was a good idea to share the secrets of the glider and the proto-aircraft with Russia and England, thinking that they’ll just use it for commercial purposes. Of course, the new Vasa king was proven wrong when the Russians demonstrated that with retooling, the airplane could be used for war. Though both Sweden and Russia didn’t know it, they began an arms race against each other mainly by developing new kinds of weapons that would be used in the future.
At the instigation of the still influential Catholic Church, the Franco-Italian Union began to negotiate with Spain on the possibility of a military pact similar to the Savoy Union. However, the Spanish delegates were not in the mood to revive the dead horse that is the Savoy Union, knowing too well that the dysfunctional union was the main reason for the loss of their Asian empire. Still, it did not stop King Pablo I from pondering about the Savoy Union’s revival, but as a military alliance. He also realized that the Latin Bloc might be revived if Portugal was also included, though nations like Hungary and even Poland were considered as potential candidates. Before the Latin Bloc could be revived though, Venice and Austria would have to be pried off from Hungary’s orbit and merge it into a single entity. Unfortunately, the strength of the Hungarian forces in Venice plus Austria’s unwillingness to cooperate with any other nation would ensure that the Latin Bloc’s revival remained a pipe dream.
Yet the Catholic nations continued to manufacture their own weapons and Spain itself had finally unveiled their first modern battleship, the Inquisitor-class battleship. Its design was rather modest but revolutionary. They decided on making their battleships smaller in order to emphasize on its speed, a lesson not lost on Greater Scandinavia and Russia as they replied back by unveiling their own warships. Greater Scandinavia unveiled the Hadrada-class battleship while Russia unveiled its first modern battleship, the Stroganov-class dreadnought (3). Curiously enough, most European nations with the exception of England, had neglected to pay attention to the potential use of the submarine as a seaborne guerrilla weapon that can sink merchant shipping.
Russia was also under pressure to come up with a new kind of rifle that will not only be much easier to use, but doesn’t actually give off any smoke and has a greater range of firepower. Once again, Dutch arms manufacturers came to the rescue in 1904 when they proposed the new kind of bullet for the proposed rifle: a cartridge of 6.8x52mm. The new rifle that was designed and built emerged as the Yumashin rifle, but several defects were detected from the get-go:
- Frequent jamming and misfires from the rifle that was tested.
- Extreme difficulty in cleaning.
- Shockingly long periods of time in disassembling of the rifle.
To counter these problems, the Dutch officer who led the military attaché to Russia, Colonel Willem Sanders proposed to help design the bolt action rifle. After an additional eight months of drawing up the designs on paper, the final prototype was designated as the Yumashin-Sanders rifle (4). The length of the Yumashin-Sanders rifle is only 41.6 inches but the Russian military’s insistence on making the rifle easier to carry for close combat purposes (and because some of the rifles that would be made for the Primorian and Alaskan soldiers who are somewhat shorter than their Russian counterparts) made it easier to carry.
The problems that faced the original Yumashin rifle were now addressed with the Yumashin-Sanders rifle. Cleaning the new rifle would be easier, as Russian troops would be taught how to clean the barrel of their newly issued Yumashin-Sanders rifles with a cloth or tying several knots on old shoelaces for additional cleaning precision. Cleaning the rifle would have also avoided the jamming and misfires by adding cleaning oil on the barrels to avoid rusting. Finally, the Yumashin-Sanders rifle would also have a slot for bayonets that will allow soldiers to engage in close combat.
Artillery was also upgraded as a deadly weapon employed by all nations, as the Netherlands’ Brassers Gun became a hot item for any nation that wishes to improve on their military arsenal. However, the Madigan Gun, though not as effective as the Brassers Gun, also became popular because it could be sold cheaply, and its ammunition was relatively easy to make. Yet in 1910 Russia would make its mark in the development of artillery pieces when it introduced its variation of the Brassers Gun, the Obukhov Gun (5). Obukhov Guns were partly inspired by the Brassers Gun, but its competitor the Gorshakov State Plant (6) produced the Gorshakov guns that were tailored more for coastal and urban defenses while the Obukhov Guns were used for laying waste to enemy towns and taking out enemy defensive positions.
Primorye – The Prelude to War:
A couple of decades past since Ivaylov took up the post as Governor General of Primorye, several more governor generals would hold the post by the time the Great World War arrived. After Ivaylov, Mikhail Desyatkov held the post from 1864 until 1876 when he retired and the post was handed over to a Cossack Voyvoda named Ivan Kadurinsky, who held the post from 1876 until 1892 when he was succeeded by another Cossack called Bogdan Loskutov who held it from 1892 until 1905. After 1905, the post of Governor General of Primorye was passed down to a non-Russian. This time, it was a Serb Cossack named Dushan Dmitrovic who was Governor General from 1905 until 1931.
As Russia continued its military buildup in preparation for war, the bulk of the Russian Navy was stationed in the Central Pacific. Primorye, Gavaya and many other islands in the Pacific switched into shipbuilding as orders for new destroyers, submarines and battleships came from Moscow itself. Not only that, the Russian Army constantly improved on its military doctrine and even introduced a new uniform for its soldiers. Gone were the 1878 versions of the Russian uniform and in its place, a field green uniform and a peaked cap was adopted as the new Russian headdress, although a radically different headdress was also made.
A Russian officer stationed in Primorye named Fyodor Chubarov (7) came up with a design for a new helmet that later became popular in modern militaries due to its protection of the soldier’s head from injury. The helmet, which was later called the Chubarovka, was also adopted by the Dutch and French Armies because of its practicality. Yet the Chubarovka would not be worn until 1915 when Russian casualties from head injuries became extremely high that the Russian Army decreed that the Chubarovka be worn instead of the peaked cap. The Chubarovka was worn by colonial troops too, though before they adopted the Chubarovka the Alaskan colonial troops wore the peaked cap while Primorian troops wore the shaykacha instead.
The new Russian Army uniform worn during the early 1900s. All of Russia's soldiers, including colonial troops, wore this standard uniform. The only way to tell the difference between a regular Russian soldier and a colonial soldier is by the headdress before the Chubarovka helmet was introduced.
By this time, Primorian nationalism had just started to bloom with the completed dictionary of the Primorian language being published in February of 1910 by a descendant of Goran Pulyev named Vladislav Ivashenko(8). When the Primorian colonial authorities acquired the Primorian dictionary, they were rather surprised at the huge South Slavic influence that was acquired into what was supposed to be a Russian dialect. For instance, here are the two sentences that are different but have the same meaning:
Russian: Ya ne puteshestvuyu, chtoby Novobelozersk.
Bulgarian: Az ne putuvam do Novobelozersk.
Serbian: Ya ne putuyu u Novobelozersk.
Primorian: Az ne patuvam do Novobelozersk.
English: I am not traveling to Novobelozersk.
Russian: Ty ne moy brat’.
Bulgarian: Ti ne si brat’ mi.
Serbian: Ti nisi moy brat’.
Primorian: Ti ne si moy brat’.
English: You are not my brother.
Russian: Ya panimayu pa-Russki.
Bulgarian: Az razbiram Ruski.
Serbian: Ya rezumirem Ruski.
Primorian: Az panimayam pa-Russki.
English: I understand Russian.
One could easily detect the differences between the tones used in the Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Alaskan and Primorian simply by hearing how the person expresses themselves. For instance, Ukrainian and Belorussian share the same soft tone with the Alaskan dialect of Russian, while Primorian shares the guttural tone of Serbian and Bulgarian. Another example is the vocabulary itself, which most languages in Europe seem to borrow from other European languages while Primorian vocab loanwords are strictly of other Slavic languages or of Asian origin. For example, the word ‘pineapple’ in Russian, Ukrainian and many other European languages, it’s labeled as ananas, from the French word ‘ananas’. The Primorian word for pineapple though, is borgotsa, from the Mongolian word borgotsoy.
Even the word telephone in Russian and other European languages is telefon, while the Primorian term for telephone is denavka, from the Japanese word denwa or denwaki. This is because Primorian linguists (many of whom were South Slavic Orthodox priests) wanted to emphasize on the development of the Primorian language as a Slavic language with a huge Asiatic influence and as a Russian language with a South Slavic influence. The popularity of the Primorian language would become the cornerstone of Primorian nationalism.
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(1) Oskar Nieumann is TTL’s version of Erich von Lundendorff, though there will be a Polish equivalent to him.
(2) The Haroldsson brothers are TTL’s version of the Wright brothers.
(3) The Stroganov-class dreadnought is TTL’s version of the Gangut-class battleship.
(4) The Yumashin-Sanders rifle is TTL’s version of the famous Mosin-Nagant rifle used by the Russian military IOTL from the 1900s to 1945.
(5) The Obukhov Gun is similar to the OTL 6 inch 35 caliber naval gun manufactured by Obukhov State Plant, only in this case Obukhov would also become famous for its unusual production of Russian artillery pieces.
(6) The Gorshakov State Plant is TTL’s name for the Kirov Plant, which used to be called the Putilovsky Plant.
(7) Fyodor Chubarov is TTL’s version of General Brusilov but he also references Semyon Budyonny, the inventor of the Budenovka.
(8) Vladislav Ivashenko is TTL’s version of Ivan Vazov, the Bulgarian poet and novelist.
MarshalBraginsky
Banned
Chapter Thirty Three: The First Great World War Part One
The 20th century in the minds of contemporary peoples today would be dominated by two major conflicts that shaped the modern geopolitics of the world. Ethnic tensions in the British Isles remained tense, and any flare-ups would instantly trigger wars that will drag in allies of participant nations, while the economic powerhouses of Poland and Germany remained at odds with each other. Only Russia remained at the pinnacle of world supremacy, but as the two world wars will demonstrate, they may have started to lose their edge and would eventually lose some territory as the years go by.
On August 8, 1914, the Spanish monarchy was celebrating their anniversary with a diplomatic tour in Ireland with Crown Prince Juan Antonio leading the delegation. Unknown to the Spaniards, there was a pro-English Leinsterian terrorist organization called the Nightwatch (one of MI2’s cells) that tracked the movements of the Spanish delegates, with their mission to assassinate at least one Spanish official. As Catholic Irish civilians cheered for the Spanish prince while he rode in the carriage, Juan Antonio would stop at a café just to order one cup of coffee. At 3 PM, one of the assassins followed the Spanish prince into the bathroom stall where an hour earlier, the second assassin had planted a bomb inside the ventilator. When Juan Antonio was finished relieving himself, the assassins detonated the bomb, killing the Spanish Crown Prince inside.
News of Juan Antonio’s death reached Madrid where King Oliviero I grieved for three days before his intelligence officers reported to him that England was responsible for the assassination. Thereby, Juan Guillermo II gave England the ultimatum: allow Spanish military agents to investigate the death of the Crown Prince. The succession within the Spanish monarchy was shaky: Juan Guillermo II was murdered by Spanish Equalist revolutionaries in Barcelona back on July of 1908, forcing the regent Oliviero to formally assume the throne, elevating Juan Antonio into the status of the Crown Prince. The death of his only heir would become one of the reasons for Carlos Felipe’s son Carlos Enrique’s coronation as King of Spain and Colombia.
In London, King Arthur I’s successor Richard V Wellesley (1866-1924) learned of the Spanish ultimatum and denied giving orders for the assassination of Juan Antonio. He reiterated his stance that ‘radical sectors within the English military wanted war against Spain’, but Oliviero did not believe him. Furthermore, as the Spanish Navy leaders had warned, the rise of the English Navy would be dangerous if it wasn’t contained or taken out. Thus Oliviero formally declared war on the English Kingdom, with the Franco-Italian Empire following suit and surprisingly, the Ottoman Empire. The only reason for the growing Spanish-Turkish rapprochement was simple: they saw Russia as their dangerous rival that had to be defeated. Plans for the partition of Russian territories were already made, with the Spanish Empire retaking Russian Primorye and the Ottoman Empire taking the Muslim inhabited areas of Russian Primorye, plus territories in the Caucasus and the Balkans.
Aware of the Spanish-Turkish alliance with France-Italy, Russia declared war against the informal “Second Latin Bloc” along with Greater Scandinavia and the Netherlands by October 10th, 1914 in support of England. Formal mobilization orders were given to the reservists and to the active soldiers in the barracks, while the Russian fleets around the world were being mobilized for combat against any Spanish naval attack on their Pacific possessions. Dutch arms manufacturers entered into contracts with the Dutch government for the production of weapons and ammunition and Greater Scandinavia shifted its economy into total war status, though the transition was rather slow.
The Russo-Polish border had transformed from a peaceful frontier into the most heavily fortified border in Europe and the fortifications were built as early as 1904. Colonial forces were shipped from Alaska as early as September of 1914 (Primorye and Gavaya were exempted because Russia knew well that these two islands would be Spain’s main targets) while the Primorian colonial forces also mobilized. However, the Pacific Theater of the First Great World War will start in Gavaya when a Spanish fleet led by Rear Admiral Carlos Topete (1) sailed from Spanish Polynesia and headed north towards the main Gavayan islands of Oahu. A smaller but more mobile Russian fleet met the Spanish Polynesian fleet, with the submarine flagship the IRF-(K)02-Medved’ leading the attack.
Overnight, Oahu was dominated by warships opening fire upon each other while Russian coastal battery defenses struggled to throw off the incoming Spanish and Colombyolese infantry. Gavayan colonial troops fought bravely in delaying the enemy’s entrance into Honolulu, although some Gavayans chose to retreat into the jungle where the bulk of the Russian forces waited to commence irregular warfare. Other Spanish and Colombyolese troops made their way into islands like Maui, Hawaii and Kauai where the more experienced Gavayan resistance fighters soon met them in battle, although these fighters were outnumbered.
In Primorye however, the bulk of the Spanish troops was sent there (as the Colombyolese troops were assigned to defend their homelands from the imminent Scandinavian-Vinlandic invasion. Leyte Island was the first island that the Spanish troops attacked, and it was in the beaches of Leyte that the Primorian Army fought their former Spanish overlords for the first time since 1780. Hatred was present on both sides as each side slaughtered the other without mercy, often taking no prisoners in the process. In the Littoral Sea (OTL Philippine Sea), Primorian Coast Guard ships operated in mosquito fleet units, slowing down the Spanish fleet heading in their direction.
Battle of Zhemchuka Harbor:
On the morning of December 9th, 1914, the Spanish Navy began its bombardment of Honolulu at 0745 hrs. Russian Rear Admiral Anatoly Oleshin received reports that the Spanish fleet also carried four troopships with 28,000 soldiers aboard. He instantly gave orders for the deployment of the Russian coastal battery guns to slow down the Spanish invasion while Russian Pochtovy-class submarines began to sail towards the edge of the harbor. Inside Zhemchuka Harbor, three Svetlana-class cruisers and two Imperator Yaroslav IV-class destroyers (2) were about to pull their anchor when news of the Spanish fleet’s arrival alerted them to engage them.
Fortunately for the Russian defenders, the Spanish fleet was unable to land their soldiers in the islands due to excellent defensive positions, plus the abundance of pineapples meant that Gavaya had no other foodstuffs that were grown in the rest of the islands. Rice cultivation would not be introduced until 1936, and the Spanish warships had to carry rations for their troops. Unfortunately for Russia though, the attack on Gavaya was merely a diversion to the larger Spanish invasion of Primorye. That invasion though, would be the first time since 1780 that Spain would set foot in its former colony, and instead of finding ‘flimsy indios’ who would run away, the Spanish and Colombyolese troops would encounter battle hardened Primorian soldiers.
The naval battle around Zhemchuka Harbor would eventually end in a stalemate, but the Spaniards were unable to achieve their objective. Fearing the possible loss of their men, the Spaniards opted to conquer the much less populated Dutch Polynesia. Unlike Gavaya where Russian troops were numerous, Dutch Polynesia was less well defended by the Dutch, as their troops were stationed in Dutch Oceania and New Zeeland. Before they could launch an attack on the Dutch positions, the Colombyolese government received a message that Vinlandic troops had invaded Colombia’s northern frontier. The Colombyolese would then appoint a Portuguese man to take charge of the North American theater.
North American Theater:
January 1915 - Vinlandic troops engage the Colombyolese troops in the town of Culiacan against three Colombyolese divisions. The Siege of Culiacan would become one of the bloodiest sieges in the 20th century, with casualties as high as 80,000 on both sides over a period of five and a half months. However, Culiacan would fall to Vinlandic control, who seized the town and proceeded to attack Durango and Torreon.
February 8th, 1915 - Durango comes under heavy Vinlandic artillery barrage as the Colombyolese troops divide their forces, with the other half heading towards Torreon in order to deter the Vinlandics from taking the town. At the same time, the first naval engagement in North America between the Vinlandic auxilliary navy and its Colombyolese counterpart will take place just outside Tainomark.
February 14th, 1915: Colombyolese warships bombard Nyamalmo for the first time, forcing the Vinlandic coastal fleet stationed there to meet the incoming Colombyolese ships. However, the UCGD will deploy their first submarine, the A-4 class attack submarines which they used effectively in sinking five Vinlandic frigates. It will not be until mid-October of 1915 that Vinland will deploy their own first submarines, the Tumlaren-class submarine.
April 1915 - Both Vinland and Colombia engage in an aerial dogfight for the first time over the skies of Torreon. In addition, Colombyolese biplanes carry out the first aerial bombardment against Vinlandic defensive positions in occupied Culiacan, resulting in major losses for the Vinlandic forces.
July 1915 - Culiacan was retaken by the Colombyolese forces after a surprise attack that left the Vinlandics panicking enough to retreat in a disorderly manner. However, Vinlandic General Thorvaldsson manages to rally his troops to force another siege in Culiacan.
Primorye Theater:
Excerpts from the movie, “From the Pan, Into the Fire” (3)
by: Nikolai Ivaylovich Ponomarev
SugFilm Productions.
(Scene takes into the trenches where General Ognyan Zubov rides his horse to meet his soldiers)
Zubov: For centuries, we have struggled to develop our national identity thanks to Mother Russia’s willingness to grant us the basic education we desperately wanted. While Russia is struggling to pay its debts to itself and to other nations for its economic success, we have spent centuries in our fortifications, like dogs in kennels. Now where will the prosperity go? (Explosions occur) Primorye only has 10 million people; Spain and Colombia have over 50 million people, I’m not sure how many. For years, they’ve been talking crap about ‘Reconquista’ of their precious ‘Pearl of the Orient’; even to suggest that we be brought back into the Papal fold by fire or by blood. I’ve never heard such a disgusting comment that talks about bathing a nation in fire. Well, what shall we do to them when they dare step into our lands again, lads!?
Primorian Soldiers: Kill them or we die!
Zubov: Exactly! This will be a hard battle, unlike anything we’ve ever experienced before. Primorians! The moment has come when we shall be tested and judged whether or not we are worthy to exist as a sovereign nation under the blessings of Holy Mother Russia, the bearers of the true, Orthodox faith. It’s a moment where even a tiny amount of failure will doom our children and grandchildren to a renewed Papal tyranny. No one here should be afraid to die. We’re all prepared to sacrifice our lives for the baptism of fire that Primorye will endure. When our offspring will ask us what we have done during the Great War, we’ll tell them that we fought our old Spanish oppressors and won. We’ll tell them of the countless lives of soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice for our Fatherland.
Primorian Officer: (salutes) The Spaniards have arrived, gospodine! What are your orders?
Zubov: Launch an artillery barrage first. When they are pinned down, then we charge! I don’t care if you lose even a part of your body, you can still screw them even in death! (Primorian soldiers arise) Charge!
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(1) Carlos Topete is TTL’s version of Pascual Cervera y Topete.
(2) Imperator Vasily IV is TTL’s version of the Imperator Aleksandr III-class destroyer. In this case, Imperator Vasily IV is named after former Tsar Vasily IV Dolgorukov.
(3) From the Pan, Into the Fire is TTL’s version of the Serbian movie “St. George Slays the Dragon”.
The 20th century in the minds of contemporary peoples today would be dominated by two major conflicts that shaped the modern geopolitics of the world. Ethnic tensions in the British Isles remained tense, and any flare-ups would instantly trigger wars that will drag in allies of participant nations, while the economic powerhouses of Poland and Germany remained at odds with each other. Only Russia remained at the pinnacle of world supremacy, but as the two world wars will demonstrate, they may have started to lose their edge and would eventually lose some territory as the years go by.
On August 8, 1914, the Spanish monarchy was celebrating their anniversary with a diplomatic tour in Ireland with Crown Prince Juan Antonio leading the delegation. Unknown to the Spaniards, there was a pro-English Leinsterian terrorist organization called the Nightwatch (one of MI2’s cells) that tracked the movements of the Spanish delegates, with their mission to assassinate at least one Spanish official. As Catholic Irish civilians cheered for the Spanish prince while he rode in the carriage, Juan Antonio would stop at a café just to order one cup of coffee. At 3 PM, one of the assassins followed the Spanish prince into the bathroom stall where an hour earlier, the second assassin had planted a bomb inside the ventilator. When Juan Antonio was finished relieving himself, the assassins detonated the bomb, killing the Spanish Crown Prince inside.
News of Juan Antonio’s death reached Madrid where King Oliviero I grieved for three days before his intelligence officers reported to him that England was responsible for the assassination. Thereby, Juan Guillermo II gave England the ultimatum: allow Spanish military agents to investigate the death of the Crown Prince. The succession within the Spanish monarchy was shaky: Juan Guillermo II was murdered by Spanish Equalist revolutionaries in Barcelona back on July of 1908, forcing the regent Oliviero to formally assume the throne, elevating Juan Antonio into the status of the Crown Prince. The death of his only heir would become one of the reasons for Carlos Felipe’s son Carlos Enrique’s coronation as King of Spain and Colombia.
In London, King Arthur I’s successor Richard V Wellesley (1866-1924) learned of the Spanish ultimatum and denied giving orders for the assassination of Juan Antonio. He reiterated his stance that ‘radical sectors within the English military wanted war against Spain’, but Oliviero did not believe him. Furthermore, as the Spanish Navy leaders had warned, the rise of the English Navy would be dangerous if it wasn’t contained or taken out. Thus Oliviero formally declared war on the English Kingdom, with the Franco-Italian Empire following suit and surprisingly, the Ottoman Empire. The only reason for the growing Spanish-Turkish rapprochement was simple: they saw Russia as their dangerous rival that had to be defeated. Plans for the partition of Russian territories were already made, with the Spanish Empire retaking Russian Primorye and the Ottoman Empire taking the Muslim inhabited areas of Russian Primorye, plus territories in the Caucasus and the Balkans.
Aware of the Spanish-Turkish alliance with France-Italy, Russia declared war against the informal “Second Latin Bloc” along with Greater Scandinavia and the Netherlands by October 10th, 1914 in support of England. Formal mobilization orders were given to the reservists and to the active soldiers in the barracks, while the Russian fleets around the world were being mobilized for combat against any Spanish naval attack on their Pacific possessions. Dutch arms manufacturers entered into contracts with the Dutch government for the production of weapons and ammunition and Greater Scandinavia shifted its economy into total war status, though the transition was rather slow.
The Russo-Polish border had transformed from a peaceful frontier into the most heavily fortified border in Europe and the fortifications were built as early as 1904. Colonial forces were shipped from Alaska as early as September of 1914 (Primorye and Gavaya were exempted because Russia knew well that these two islands would be Spain’s main targets) while the Primorian colonial forces also mobilized. However, the Pacific Theater of the First Great World War will start in Gavaya when a Spanish fleet led by Rear Admiral Carlos Topete (1) sailed from Spanish Polynesia and headed north towards the main Gavayan islands of Oahu. A smaller but more mobile Russian fleet met the Spanish Polynesian fleet, with the submarine flagship the IRF-(K)02-Medved’ leading the attack.
Overnight, Oahu was dominated by warships opening fire upon each other while Russian coastal battery defenses struggled to throw off the incoming Spanish and Colombyolese infantry. Gavayan colonial troops fought bravely in delaying the enemy’s entrance into Honolulu, although some Gavayans chose to retreat into the jungle where the bulk of the Russian forces waited to commence irregular warfare. Other Spanish and Colombyolese troops made their way into islands like Maui, Hawaii and Kauai where the more experienced Gavayan resistance fighters soon met them in battle, although these fighters were outnumbered.
In Primorye however, the bulk of the Spanish troops was sent there (as the Colombyolese troops were assigned to defend their homelands from the imminent Scandinavian-Vinlandic invasion. Leyte Island was the first island that the Spanish troops attacked, and it was in the beaches of Leyte that the Primorian Army fought their former Spanish overlords for the first time since 1780. Hatred was present on both sides as each side slaughtered the other without mercy, often taking no prisoners in the process. In the Littoral Sea (OTL Philippine Sea), Primorian Coast Guard ships operated in mosquito fleet units, slowing down the Spanish fleet heading in their direction.
Battle of Zhemchuka Harbor:
On the morning of December 9th, 1914, the Spanish Navy began its bombardment of Honolulu at 0745 hrs. Russian Rear Admiral Anatoly Oleshin received reports that the Spanish fleet also carried four troopships with 28,000 soldiers aboard. He instantly gave orders for the deployment of the Russian coastal battery guns to slow down the Spanish invasion while Russian Pochtovy-class submarines began to sail towards the edge of the harbor. Inside Zhemchuka Harbor, three Svetlana-class cruisers and two Imperator Yaroslav IV-class destroyers (2) were about to pull their anchor when news of the Spanish fleet’s arrival alerted them to engage them.
Fortunately for the Russian defenders, the Spanish fleet was unable to land their soldiers in the islands due to excellent defensive positions, plus the abundance of pineapples meant that Gavaya had no other foodstuffs that were grown in the rest of the islands. Rice cultivation would not be introduced until 1936, and the Spanish warships had to carry rations for their troops. Unfortunately for Russia though, the attack on Gavaya was merely a diversion to the larger Spanish invasion of Primorye. That invasion though, would be the first time since 1780 that Spain would set foot in its former colony, and instead of finding ‘flimsy indios’ who would run away, the Spanish and Colombyolese troops would encounter battle hardened Primorian soldiers.
The naval battle around Zhemchuka Harbor would eventually end in a stalemate, but the Spaniards were unable to achieve their objective. Fearing the possible loss of their men, the Spaniards opted to conquer the much less populated Dutch Polynesia. Unlike Gavaya where Russian troops were numerous, Dutch Polynesia was less well defended by the Dutch, as their troops were stationed in Dutch Oceania and New Zeeland. Before they could launch an attack on the Dutch positions, the Colombyolese government received a message that Vinlandic troops had invaded Colombia’s northern frontier. The Colombyolese would then appoint a Portuguese man to take charge of the North American theater.
North American Theater:
January 1915 - Vinlandic troops engage the Colombyolese troops in the town of Culiacan against three Colombyolese divisions. The Siege of Culiacan would become one of the bloodiest sieges in the 20th century, with casualties as high as 80,000 on both sides over a period of five and a half months. However, Culiacan would fall to Vinlandic control, who seized the town and proceeded to attack Durango and Torreon.
February 8th, 1915 - Durango comes under heavy Vinlandic artillery barrage as the Colombyolese troops divide their forces, with the other half heading towards Torreon in order to deter the Vinlandics from taking the town. At the same time, the first naval engagement in North America between the Vinlandic auxilliary navy and its Colombyolese counterpart will take place just outside Tainomark.
February 14th, 1915: Colombyolese warships bombard Nyamalmo for the first time, forcing the Vinlandic coastal fleet stationed there to meet the incoming Colombyolese ships. However, the UCGD will deploy their first submarine, the A-4 class attack submarines which they used effectively in sinking five Vinlandic frigates. It will not be until mid-October of 1915 that Vinland will deploy their own first submarines, the Tumlaren-class submarine.
April 1915 - Both Vinland and Colombia engage in an aerial dogfight for the first time over the skies of Torreon. In addition, Colombyolese biplanes carry out the first aerial bombardment against Vinlandic defensive positions in occupied Culiacan, resulting in major losses for the Vinlandic forces.
July 1915 - Culiacan was retaken by the Colombyolese forces after a surprise attack that left the Vinlandics panicking enough to retreat in a disorderly manner. However, Vinlandic General Thorvaldsson manages to rally his troops to force another siege in Culiacan.
Primorye Theater:
Excerpts from the movie, “From the Pan, Into the Fire” (3)
by: Nikolai Ivaylovich Ponomarev
SugFilm Productions.
(Scene takes into the trenches where General Ognyan Zubov rides his horse to meet his soldiers)
Zubov: For centuries, we have struggled to develop our national identity thanks to Mother Russia’s willingness to grant us the basic education we desperately wanted. While Russia is struggling to pay its debts to itself and to other nations for its economic success, we have spent centuries in our fortifications, like dogs in kennels. Now where will the prosperity go? (Explosions occur) Primorye only has 10 million people; Spain and Colombia have over 50 million people, I’m not sure how many. For years, they’ve been talking crap about ‘Reconquista’ of their precious ‘Pearl of the Orient’; even to suggest that we be brought back into the Papal fold by fire or by blood. I’ve never heard such a disgusting comment that talks about bathing a nation in fire. Well, what shall we do to them when they dare step into our lands again, lads!?
Primorian Soldiers: Kill them or we die!
Zubov: Exactly! This will be a hard battle, unlike anything we’ve ever experienced before. Primorians! The moment has come when we shall be tested and judged whether or not we are worthy to exist as a sovereign nation under the blessings of Holy Mother Russia, the bearers of the true, Orthodox faith. It’s a moment where even a tiny amount of failure will doom our children and grandchildren to a renewed Papal tyranny. No one here should be afraid to die. We’re all prepared to sacrifice our lives for the baptism of fire that Primorye will endure. When our offspring will ask us what we have done during the Great War, we’ll tell them that we fought our old Spanish oppressors and won. We’ll tell them of the countless lives of soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice for our Fatherland.
Primorian Officer: (salutes) The Spaniards have arrived, gospodine! What are your orders?
Zubov: Launch an artillery barrage first. When they are pinned down, then we charge! I don’t care if you lose even a part of your body, you can still screw them even in death! (Primorian soldiers arise) Charge!
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(1) Carlos Topete is TTL’s version of Pascual Cervera y Topete.
(2) Imperator Vasily IV is TTL’s version of the Imperator Aleksandr III-class destroyer. In this case, Imperator Vasily IV is named after former Tsar Vasily IV Dolgorukov.
(3) From the Pan, Into the Fire is TTL’s version of the Serbian movie “St. George Slays the Dragon”.
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MarshalBraginsky
Banned
Good to see this back.
Yes, well I do have to update this a lot more often since it's only 100 years before this TL will end, and I will definitely try to make a finished TL version and post this on the Finished Timelines section, but with heavily edited and retouched chapters.