For the Confederacy, it all went South from there
yea I'll give a speech about these pricks, yea listen...
RECENT EVENTS IN THE GROΓDEUTCHESRIECH HAVE LEFT ME VERY DISSAPOINTED OKAY? LIKE FUCKIN PISSED
THANKS SPEER, REINHARD HEYDRICH, AND MARTIN BORMANN AND HERMANN GORING FOR KILLING MY FAVORITE FUCKING COUNTRY OKAY?
AND HEINRICH HIMMLER? YEA, I HOPE YOU ENJOYED YOUR CHAOS. AND YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF DEGENERATES AND I HOPE YOU CHOKE ON YOUR FUCKING SPit yadroolinguntermensch
oke- yoU'RE RE- I'M ASHAMED OF YOU GUYS! YOU MAKE ME SICK! FUCK YOU!
I am learning a lot about the American Civil War and I cannot seem to find any information about the political, social, etc. significance of the war.
On the 23rd of September, 79 AF, amphibious and airborne troops of the Emerald Federation landed in Pervinca, taking the territory by storm amid a heavy fog. The attack seemed to be the beginning of the end of the Periwinkle Civil War which had broken out in 75 AF over a parliamentary dispute in which the populist Emerald political alliance struggled for power with a conservative bloc which became known as the Crimsons, due to the predominance of the traditional aristocracy of the Periwinkle Kingdom, the "Rednames" (including Empress Sahdee of Periwinkle herself), in opposition to the radical Emerald agenda, as Emerald forces reached the mainland of western Chroma for the first time.
In response to the intractable political and constitutional impasse of 74 AF, Emerald leaders activated plans that for centuries would have been unthinkable; Civil War. An attempted coup d'etat was launched but backfired when Crimson forces foiled an Emerald attack on Snooland, which in turn crippled Emerald plans to seize the Periwinkle capital, Cote D'Azur. Emerald forces instead retreated to the stronghold of their popular support, East Chroma, establishing a political capital at New Periopolis, the former Orangered capital Oraistedearg, and a military headquarters at the Viridian Union, home territory of several Emerald leaders. From this base, Emerald leaders declared the independence of eastern Chroma as the Emerald Federation, an unnecessarily bilingual state espousing their values of federalism, separation of powers, and liberal reform. In opposition to this, the Periwinkle Kingdom, now reduced to Western Chroma, mobilised forces and enacted emergency laws to reconquer the rebel east, forming a powerful, flexible central government intended to win the civil war and form the backbone of a new, post-war Periwinkle Kingdom. This became referred to as the Crimson Empire, and increasingly adopted the imagery of their political faction over that of the Periwinkle Kingdom it had been formed from.
A grinding conflict ensued, spanning 5 years. The two sides jockeyed for position in Chroma's central channel, struggling to capture the central islands. The Emerald forces began to gain the upper hand, seizing many of the channel islands, including occupying neutral Nordwalder and attracting the support of the indecisive territory of Bezold. Crimson forces meanwhile took remained in control of Snooland, which they had defended in 74 AF, and seized the Island of Warriors in the sou
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See a summary of Preston's view of Orwell's depiction of the POUM in Preston's guardian piece, " George Orwellβs Spanish civil war memoir is a classic, but is it bad history?" The main area where they conflict is Preston says at one point hundreds of POUM soldiers left the Aragon front in protest to new Spanish Republic military policies. He says they went back to Barcelona and held 60,000 weapons from the Republic, refusing to give the weapons up or fight themselves. Orwell directly contradicts this 60,000 weapons story in "Homage." He argues it's simply communist propaganda, and the POUM in Barcelona more likely commanded not even 1,000 weapons.
I think their views are somewhat reconcilable, as it seems the POUM did much more to help rather than hurt the war effort, as they had thousands of troops protecting the Aragon front throughout the war, and only a small portion left (Preston says hundreds left). At the same time, the POUM was pro-revolution, according to Orwell and Preston, while the majority of the Spanish Republic wasn't, so if the Fascists were defeated, there may have afterward been a conflict between the POUM and the Spanish Republic.
