AN - This is my first fic. Hope you like it. This is gonna be a "good" or "paragon" Soviet Union.
Timeline
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1917 April - Lenin and other revolutionaries return to Russia from Germany.
1917 October - Bolsheviks overthrow provisional government led by Alexander Kerensky, with workers and sailors capturing government buildings and the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, and eventually taking over Moscow, Royal Family was to be executed but under orders from Lenin the Children are spared and is sent to the care of Dowager Empress Marie.
1918 - Treaty of Brest-Litovsk according to which Russia ceded large tracts of land to Germany; Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan proclaim their independence from Russia.
1918-20 - Civil war between Bolsheviks, or Reds, and anti-Bolsheviks, or Whites, ravages Russia. In northern Russia, British, French and US troops capture Murmansk and Archangel until 1919, while in the Russian Far East they occupy Vladivostok, which was held by the Japanese until 1922
1918-21 - Policy of "war communism" is proposes but is revoked by Lenin on the grounds that should the state take control of the whole economy; millions of peasants would starve to death as the army would confiscate their grain for its own needs and the needs of urban dwellers. Lenin in turn propose a massive food production policy to see all would be fed.
1920 - War with Poland.
1921 - Peace treaty with Poland signed.
1921 - New Economic Policy ushers in a partial return to the market economy and a period of stability through fair salary and better working conditions for the workers and establishing new railways, roads, and ports.
1922 - Union treaty formally joins Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Transcaucasus - which were divided in 1936 into Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan - into the Soviet Union.
1922 - Germany recognizes the Soviet Union.
1923 – Joseph Stalin killed by last remnants of Bolshevik loyalist before they are killed by Soviet soldiers near the area.
1924 - Soviet Union adopts a semi-democratic constitutional dictatorship. Lenin dies and is replaced by Leon Trotsky.
1928 – Premier Trotsky sets the first Five-Year Plan, with the state setting goals and priorities for the whole economy, based on the New Economic Policy only a more refined version.
Agricultural Economy booms with the new policy clearing way for other economic sectors to rise also gives way for better housing and comforts for its citizens.
1929 - Wall Street Stock Market Crashes but thanks to the Five-Year Plan it doesn't do any severe economic damages.
1936-38 - Announcement of the discovery of a plot against Trotsky's regime headed by the late Stalin's supporters ushers in a large-scale operation in which thousands of supporters in the armed forces, the Communist Party and the government were sentenced to death or long imprisonment.
1933 - United States recognizes the Soviet Union.
1934 - Soviet Union admitted to League of Nations.
1936 - With the clear rise in hostilities by the Fourth Reich Premier Trotsky orders the militarization and modernazation of the military.
1939 August - Soviet Union and Nazi Germany conclude a non-aggression pact but only to give the military more time to build up its forces. Germany invades Poland, triggering World War II.
1939 September - Soviet troops enter Poland, their official reason was to also invade and conquer but secretly a deal was struck between the Polish government and Russia where every Polish land they advance through would face no hostilities seeing that they are better off with the Soviets than the Nazis, many flee to the Soviet line as fast as they could. The country is soon divided between Germany and the USSR.
1939 – Finland is peacefully annexed by the USSR after diplomatic talks end.
1940 – USSR annexes Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia peacefully; Romania cedes Bessarabia and North Bukovina to the USSR.
1941 April - Soviet Union and Japan sign a non-aggression pact giving Soviet commanders much relief since spies report that Japan has their eye's set on America. Soviet commanders focuses their attention on the European front.
1941 June - Germany invades the USSR, caught in a quick and sudden surprise attack and with their lines spread too thin sends the army in disarray and by the end of the year occupies Belarus and most of Ukraine, surrounds Leningrad. Although a Soviet counter-offensive saves Moscow, by June 1942 the Germans were at the gates of Trotskygrad and close to the Caucasus oil fields.
1943 - Germans fail to take Trotskygrad. Soviet troops launch a general counter-offensive which eventually culminates in the capture of Berlin in May 1945.
1945 - Soviet Union and the Allies reach understanding on postwar spheres of influence in Europe during the Yalta and Postdam summit conferences.
1945 August - Soviet Union declares war on Japan, USSR gives Japan an ultimatum, unconditional surrender to the Soviet Union or to the United States. Seeing the damage caused by American bombings on their cities and the dropping of the Atomic bombs the Japanese are more angry at the Americans than the Russians and decide to have the last laugh by surrendering to the Soviets on the grounds that the Imperial family is spared. The Soviet Union agrees and also as a social experiment they leave their culture alone see how it would coexist with communist ideals.
1948-49 – Soviet Union allows supplies to be brought to east Berlin from west Berlin seeing that their own supply lines has yet to be fully established. And to get supplies faster Allied force use planes to drop supplies. This will later be known as the Berlin Airlift.
1949 - Soviet Union explodes its first atomic device; recognizes the Communist government in China. NATO established.
1950 - Soviet Union and China sign 30-year alliance treaty.
1950-53 - Outbreak of Korean war sees relations between the Soviet Union and the West deteriorate markedly. North is backed by China and Russia but favors Russia more. After the war North Korea and the Soviet Union retain close relation.
1953 March – Trostsky dies of illness and is succeeded by Gregory Zhukov as Primier and by Nikita Khrushchev as first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.
1953 August - Soviet Union explodes its first hydrogen bomb. KGB foils CIA plot to overthrow the Iranian government. Evidence is given and Iran allies with the Soviet Union.
1954 - A coup in Guatemala fails with the aid of the KGB in secret.
1955 - Annexed Soviet countries are given independence but retain close relation, former annexed countries create the Warsaw Treaty Organisation or Warsaw Pact and becomes the Soviet Union's NATO.
1956 - Soviet troops help crush uprising in Hungary. Later investigation show that the uprising was supported by NATO.
1956 February - Khrushchev makes a secret speech to the 20th Communist Party congress Supporting Trotsky's rule and that his and Lenin's ideals should continue to pave the way to the future.
1957 - First-ever artificial earth satellite, Sputnik, orbits the earth.
1958 - Khrushchev becomes prime minister - in addition to Communist Party chief - after dismissing Bulganin.
1959 - Cuban Revolution Lead by Fidel Castro takes over Cuba with the aid of the KGB. Although he refrains calling his government a communist state he still retains close relations with the Soviet.
1960 - Soviet Union shoots down US spy plane U-2 over Soviet territory. China falls out with the Soviet Union over Moscow's policy of peaceful coexistence with the West.
1961 - Yuri Gagarin makes the first manned orbital flight. Bay of Pigs invasion fails. Castro is shown evidence of American backing and he ask for Soviet assistance in defending Cuba. Soviet Union agrees and begins preparation to move in troops.
1961 August - Berlin wall goes up after talks for the future of Germany fails. Seeing that the western powers would just make Germany a puppet state. Soviet forces ask civilians who wants to leave for west Berlin must leave now. Once the wall is erupted you must need a passport to cross the wall. Those who have families on the west leaves but the others stay seeing they are being treated fairly and have already made lives under Soviet rule.
1962 - Cuban missile crisis erupts over supposed presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba. When Soviet ships and transports were intercepted by the American blockade they ordered the Soviet fleet to turn around, the Soviet countered saying they are here to reinforce the Cuban military and that they have no nuclear weapons or any long range weapons capable of reaching the United States, The Soviet fleet furthered proved their point by allowing US personnel to inspect the transport ships for any radioactive material. This was considered the biggest American screw-up to date. US blockade fleet leaves and Soviet forces proceed to Cuba.
1963 - Soviet Union joins the US and Britain in signing a treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests; US-Soviet "hot line" set up.
1963 November – President Kennedy is assassinated, investigation shows he was killed by southern United States supporters. The KGB had knowledge of the assassination plan and sent KGB agent Lee Harvey Oswald to prevent it by he was to late and was only able to kill the sniper on the building and not the gunman on the Plaza's grassy knoll. Investigation turn up nothing on who shot the first gunman.
1964 - Khrushchev is replaced as first secretary of the Communist Party by Leonid Brezhnev; Aleksey Kosygin becomes prime minister. A military coup against Brazil's president Goulart stating that his economic reform proposals were Communist fails after KGB neutralizes high ranking coup leaders. Later investigation suggest American support on the coup. Brazil soon set up trade agreements the Soviet Union.
1965 - US bombing on North Vietnam is condemned by Soviet Union. US invasion on the Dominican Republic is repelled by a Soviet trained Cuban forces sent to aid the Dominican forces. Dominican Republic allies with Cuba and the Soviet Union.
1968 - Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia to aid in the revolt against Czechoslovakian government . "Brezhnev doctrine" enunciated, giving communist countries the right to intervene in other communist states whose policies threatened the international communist movement.
1969 - Soviet and Chinese troops clash across the border. Soviet forces managed to take Manchuria in the process. Chinese are angered by this but does not declare war. Libyan revolt succeeds and allies with the Soviet Union
1972 - Soviet Union and US sign SALT-1 arms control agreement, heralding the start of detente.
1973 – Coup in Chile ends in failure after government supporters and Soviet agents in secret fight against coup forces. Seeing the iron handed dictatorship of President Marcos in the Philippines Soviet Union sends an ultimatum to the Philippine government, step down or be invaded. They agree to step down, Filipinos rejoice in the streets as Marcos is imprisoned for his crimes. Ninoy Aquino is appointed as president and established close relations with the Soviet Union and also embraces communist ideals.
1974 - Soviet Union agrees to better trade agreements in return for most-favoured-nation trade status with the US.
1977 - Brezhnev elected president under new constitution.
1979 - Soviet Union and US sign SALT-2 agreement; Soviet Union annexes Afghanistan after reaching a diplomatic agreement.
1980 - Kosygin is replaced as prime minister by Nikolay Tikhonov; Kosygin dies.
1982 - Brezhnev dies and is replaced by KGB chief Yuri Andropov.
1984 - Andropov dies and is replaced by Konstantin Chernenko.
Glasnost, perestroika and Chernobyl
1985 - Chernenko dies and is replaced by Mikhail Gorbachev as general secretary of the Communist Party; Andrey Gromyko becomes president. Gorbachev begins an anti-alcohol campaign and promulgates the policies of openness, or glasnost, and restructuring, or perestroika.
1986 - A plot to sabotage the Chernobyl nuclear power station is foiled, investigation shows western involvement.
1987 - Soviet Union and US agree to scrap intermediate-range nuclear missiles.
1988 - Gorbachev announces that the Soviet Union will still continue to have military presence in Eastern Europe if said countries will allow them. No east Europe countries want Soviet forces to leave so they stay.
1989 – Soviet Premier Gorbachev and US President Bush meet in the Malta Summit and ends in good relations President Bush announces the end of the Cold War and Premier Gorbachev announces the start of tearing down the Berlin wall. Many in Berliners celebrates and aid in the walls destruction.
1990 May 9 – During the Victory Day parade that was being held in Japan as a sign of Peace and Unity between the People's State of Japan and the Soviet Union was attacked by a mysterious force from a large Gate that appeared in Ginza.
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So what do you think?
I admit I suck at writing and probably not continue this story depending on the reviews. This is mostly an experiment to see if my writing is actually good so I'll just look at the reviews and see where this leads me. I'm also open for ideas.