Hello, glorious Soviet comrades!
This is a little tidbit I want to pass through you. I'm not sure if I'll actually commit to this, but I'll put the first few chapters through and see what you think. I don't think there's been any Cold War themed fics in here, so maybe I've got a gem. Who knows? Read and review!
The Human Complex
Episode One: Cold War
The Year is 1950.
The Second World War has come to a close just five years earlier. Hitler is dead, but the new world order is hardly an optimistic one. Two armed camps have formed from the conflicting ideologies of Smith and Marx, a camp that has literally torn the world in half.
Josef Stalin's Soviet Union is now a world power, earning its position on the blood and sacrifice of thousands of her troops on the Ostfront. The Man of Steel now has hundreds of millions under his iron fist, and hundreds of millions more at his influence.
Harry S Truman's United States, on the other side of the world, has come out of the war relatively well-off – while it has lost a great deal, it has not suffered attacks on its home soil as had happened in Europe, and its wealth and power are felt worldwide.
Both superpowers have access to the devastating and earth-shattering power of the atomic bomb – all life on Planet Earth relies on their ability to negotiate without resorting to armed warfare. For atomic warfare is a kind of war that has no winners, only losers.
In a bold new world, the former imperial powers of old Europe find themselves as unacceptable vestiges in a post-Nazi world. Slowly and reluctantly, Great Britain, France, Belgium and the Netherlands dismantle their empires and accept change. Sometimes this is peaceful, such as the independence of India in 1947. Other times, independence is achieved after bloody struggle, as is the case in French Indochina and the Dutch East Indies, which transform into Vietnam and Indonesia.
In the Caribbean Islands, British forces are in the final phases of peacefully evacuating a small island in preparation for the creation of a new republic. Lodged between the interests of the USA and the USSR, the new country will have a difficult world to attend to.
Unfortunately, fate will not be kind to the burgeoning domain…