But a truce at the Western Front would have significant consequences in Russia and the Grand Duchy as well. The OTL Finnish Civil War was caused by very specific chain of events, and such a major butterfly would reshuffle the situation quite a bit. For starters, the Petrograd Ingrian Finnish...
Get the reformist middle class on board again by giving the Duma and zemstvos genuine power. Instill a martial law to Grand Duchy of Finland to remove the terrorist safe haven from the outskirts of Petrograd. Offer a land reform to calm the Finns down.
Continue the Stolypin land reform plans...
Everyone attacking everyone else and burning their prewar armies and munition stockpiles down in the process.
Form follows function, but somehow I envision this war will feature less mud and more hills and mountains than the OTL 1914-18 slugfest.
The situation in occupied Eastern Europe is interesting.
Starting from North:
1. Murmansk is full of supplies, and Vikzhel (The executive committee of the All-Russian Union of Railwaymen) is still united and the de-facto kingmaker in the country.
2. The Senate declares itself as the highest...
Stay tuned.
Nah, stating something so obvious is not harsh at all.
As it is, I have a backlog of researched material that I'll compile into updates whenever there is time to do so. Summer months are thus more active than winters, on average.
He and his fellow republicans at Xiamen are smuggling in weapons from Japanese Taiwan, trying to figure out their next steps in a brand new post-Qing China.
This is merely the beginning of a long journey, so worry not.
This is what he wanted to do historically.
Only a random incident where he heard a British officer mock a local Indian officer for his European-styled haircut in the street made him repeal his decision after he had already been...
Threadmarks: Chapter 323: "The ink of the scholar's pen is holier than the blood of a martyr."
The boy would follow his brother Abdul Jabar to Peshawar.
It was a defiant decision, but one made by a man who had won the respect and support of his peers a long time ago.
The villagers knew their khan was both a devout Muslim and someone who followed his own moral compass.
Behram Khan had...
The Soviet forces from the 32nd Army and the forces of the Medvezhyegorsk and Maselgskaja Operational Directions were the following: 263rd Division, 66th Separate Infantry Brigade, 61st Separate Infantry Brigade, 367th Division, 289th Division, 65th Separate Marine Brigade and 186th Division...
They had the manpower available at this time, that is certainly true. Real life is not a Paradox game, though, and transfering forces to the far north from Central Asia would take time. If they were available to begin with, that is. The Soviets were fully expecting a Finnish offensive in OTL...
tl;dr The Soviets did not have troops and supplies by the trainloads at the time when the Finns historically contemplated, prepared for, and then called off the offensive against Sorokka. The RKKA forces holding the Sorokka (Belomorsk) front were tired and understrength after the summer months...
Finns would be hard-pressed to refuse future German demands to attack Sorokka. Cutting the northern line of Murmansk Railway here is not impossible, but holding it against Soviet counterattacks would be a harder feat.
Murmansk itself will hold regardless, since defending wilderness with only a...