From Alternative History
Russia invades west Germany discovering an American plot to break down the wall. All countries of the world sign the Non-nuclear treaty, vowing not to launch missiles, however it is soon broken.
[edit] War begins
Soviet tanks invading West Germany
The Soviet Union discover a U.S plot when their spies manage to get into a top secret miltary base. So on May ,1, 1981 the USSR declared war on the United States of America and her allies, and the Warsaw Pact builds up its forces and they invade West Germany. The battle becomes a war of attrition that the Soviets expect to win, having greater reserves of men and matériel. NATO holds the Warsaw Pact forces to small but continual advances, but only through unsustainably high ammunition usage, and as the Soviet success in destroying the Atlantic convoys begins things start to look grim for the NATO forces. One of the strategic masterstrokes of the Soviet Union's opening moves is its seizure of Iceland, capturing the NATO air station at Keflavík. This disrupts the GIUK SOSUS line (American seabed hydrophones), expected to prevent the Soviet Navy from operating effectively in the Atlantic by making it impossible for their ships and submarines to enter the Atlantic undetected. In addition, the Soviet Navy isolate and protect their SSBN fleet, freeing their SSN force. The Soviet Navy is able to act as an offensive weapon, and the Warsaw Pact seriously damages NATO's war effort by interdicting resupply convoys coming from North America with both aircraft and submarines. This advantage is put to immediate use, as a NATO carrier battle group, led by USS Nimitz, USS Saratoga and the French carrier Foch, is successfully attacked by Soviet Backfire bombers. Foch is sunk, the amphibious assault carrier Saipan explodes, taking 2,500 Marines with her, and the two American carriers are forced to spend several weeks in drydock at Southampton, England. With carrier threat removed the Soviets can target NATO convoys at will. Even though with the NATO stockpile running out, the NATO forces inflict massive casualties on the advancing Soviets by utilizing in airpower. But the Soviet forces end up destroying a lot of NATO aircraft. Within two weeks after the start of the war, Russian forces had reached the English Channel causing massive surrender of NATO forces. By the next week Soviet forces had driven into Paris and the NATO European countries had surrender to the USSR
[edit] Invasion
Soviet forces in the Rocky Mountains
A civil war in Mexico result's in that country falling behind the Communist "Iron Curtain." In a parallel to Operation Barbarossa, the Soviet Union, now wants to invade its primary enemy, and thousands of troops from satellite nations augment their own armies to prepare for an invasion of the united states. The Soviets utilize a three-phase attack. First, they use strategic nuclear strikes(breaking the Non-nuclear treaty) to destroy key points of communication including several major U.S. cities (Omaha, Kansas City and Washington, D.C. are specifically cited). Strategic nuclear weapons are also used to destroy ICBM bases in Montana and the Dakotas. In addition, it is hinted that Cuban infiltrators aid in confusing U.S. forces by raiding Strategic Air Command bases throughout the Midwest and Texas. Coupled with these nuclear attacks, Soviet transport aircraft containing elite Soviet VDV and Cuban paratroopers slipped through the U.S. radar disguised as commercial airliners. The second phase see's Cuban and Nicaraguan armies (with small contingents of Soviet forces) pouring across the U.S.-Mexico border into the Great Plains of the United States. The third phase involved a Soviet invasion of Alaska across the Bering Strait from Siberia. They crossed into Canada occupying the Yukon, British Columbia and Western Alberta, most likely including Calgary,and cut the Alaskan Pipeline, but are decisively stopped at the U.S.-Canadian border by U.S. forces (thus preventing a link-up with Soviet forces occupying the Great Plains). The Communist forces manage to occupy and control a large region of the central United States, extending as far west as the Rocky Mountains, and north to Cheyenne, Wyoming, across Kansas to the Mississippi River in the east. Denver is also under siege. Conditions in Denver are particularly bad, with people living on "rats, sawdust bread, and, sometimes, each other. The remaining holdouts most likely won't survive. The initial landings are made by airborne divisions and Spetsnaz (special forces) brigades. Their objects are to gain control of key military and government installations. Once the lines are stabilized, it quickly becomes a conventional war with both sides ceasing their use of nuclear weapons. The Soviets are reluctant to use any more nuclear weapons, as they want to conquer the United States, not destroy it utterly, and the U.S. government is unwilling to use tactical nuclear weapons on or over their own soil against the invading armies. The Soviets work through American collaborators, at the local level to help them maintain order. The United States was in chaos and it did'nt look like help was coming.
[edit] Occupation
The areas which are now occupied are quickly engaging resistance against the resulting Soviet-allied occupation. The Soviets knew it was important to use the best and most highly-motivated Soviet troops for the Occupation, to permit rapid and effective response to any resistance, however with the overwhelming resistance that began the Soviet field commanders had to abandon the plan. The rebels begin to proceed to attack the occupying forces using ambushes, booby traps, guerrilla-style bombings on Soviet positions, and raids on the occupiers' supply depots and convoys. The most elite units of the Soviet ground, sea, and air forces are used in the initial occupation. As the result of escalating guerrilla attacks, the Soviet field commanders now view the resistance as a serious threat. Initially the occupiers had tried terror tactics, executing groups of civilians following every Wolverine attack, to intimidate the local population and the rebels into halting their attacks. However, this tactic backfired resulting in the civilians lending increasing support to the Resistance. Following a rise in popular support for the resistance, Strelnikov, a Soviet counter-resistance specialist, arrives to declare that there will be no more reprisals against civilians. Instead the specialist sends Spetsnaz commandos into the mountains to eliminate the rebels. This new strategy fails when the commandos are ambushed and killed by the rebels over a very short period of time.
[edit] R.S.E(Red Star Empire)
Flag of the Red Star Empire very similar to the Soviet flag
The United States receives word that the People's Republic of China has entered the war on the Soviet side. Chinese troops occupy Mongolia and launch attacks into Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and India; additionally, the People's Liberation Army Navy sends an invasion fleet to reinforce the Soviet beachhead in Seattle. Chinese ground forces quickly occupy Taiwan and withhelp from North Korea manange to defeat South Koran troops.
Chinese forces bein abd China starts using nuclear strikes destroying Tokyo and other major cities which quickly leades to Japan surrendering and Chinese
[edit] Shadow over Europe
Europe was falling, trying to hold West Germany off the Red army . The Soviet Union invaded all of Western Europe trying to establish the "Iron Curtain" on the entire continent. NATO aircraft manage to reduce Soviet ground superiority early in the war by using first-generation stealth planes and tactical fighter-bombers to eliminate five Soviet Mainstay AWACS aircraft, several bridges, bridge equipment and crews, and Soviet tactical fighters, but this advantage is short-lived. In West Germany, the battle becomes a war of attrition that the Soviets expect to win, having greater reserves of men and matériel. NATO holds the Warsaw Pact forces to small but continual advances, but only through unsustainably high ammunition usage, and as the Soviet success in destroying the Atlantic convoys continues things start to look grim for the NATO forces.
[edit] Asian Iron Curtain
The counties in yellow show all the countries that are occupied by the Communists
Though China did not follow Stalinism they did like the idea of the Iron Curtain and just like the Soviet Union began setting pro-communist satellite states in all of south east Asia.
Europe had turned into a nuclear battlefield
[edit] Tide Turns
When a brilliantly timed naval attack on Russian bomber bases with submarine-launched cruise missiles cripples the Soviet bomber force, the Soviets lose their most effective convoy-killing weapon. The Red Army proves unable to capitalize on its breakthrough, which leads the Politburo to consider the use of tactical nuclear weapons at the front to regain the initiative. Alekseyev, realizing that a tactical nuclear exchange would almost certainly lead to a strategic nuclear exchange, seeks and obtains control of his theatre's nuclear weapons in order to ensure they would not be used. A captured Soviet pilot from the Iceland campaign also (under heavy “medication”) reveals to the NATO forces why the war was started. The NATO forces immediately reevaluate their bombing tactics over the front and start blowing up every fuel depot they can find (which had been widely spaced and smaller than usual); this cripples the Soviet tanks, keeping them from launching at least one major attack which would have caught the NATO forces shorthanded and allowed reinforcements to arrive prior to the battle, NATO forces slowly get ground while inflicting terrible losses on the Red Army. Meanwhile Soviet forces are being crushed as the tide in America has also turned.
[edit] Cease-Fire
As Europe begins to push back the invaders they are able to send troops to the united states. American forces are now able to defeat the enemy with the invasion through the U.S border is now halted and pushed back. U.S-Candian forces defeat the Russian army seiging the Seattle. Upon the arrival of armies from Europe they begin to get more luck and soon U.S forces reach Mexico city and capture it, the Red army are on full retreat in the rocky mountains. A coup d’état begins, replacing the Politburo.
In the last phase, Soviet troops prepared and executed their withdrawal from Afghanistan. They hardly engaged in offensive operations at all, and were content to defend against mujahideen raids. The one exception was Operation Magistral, a successful sweep that cleared the road between Gardez and Khost. This operation did not have any lasting effect, but it allowed the Soviets to symbolically end their presence with a victory.
A cease-fire is sought by the Soviets and accepted by an exhausted NATO. The war has ended after 8 years with the cost of millions of lives. Russia pulls it's forces back from Afghanistan in 1989 and Iran in 1990 in defeat.
