Germany is a country divided. The Soviets fear that a pastoral Germany will never be able to pay war reparations, and American businessmen have financial interest in the rebuilding of Germany. Under the Potsdam treaty, Germany and Berlin itself have been split between the victorious powers. The Marshall Plan outlines plans for the reconstruction of Germany, but the Soviet Union instead takes entire factories as reparation.
What will the future hold?
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2021 9:22 am
by RadiantCowbells
A number of Soviet occupied countries in Eastern Europe have new 'peoples republic' governments installed, with strong ties to the Soviet Union. The western powers consider this in violation of agreements made at the Yalta conference. It becomes increasingly clear that the Soviet Union has no intention of allowing countries such as Yugoslavia to self govern.
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2021 11:21 am
by RadiantCowbells
The combined areas of Germany under the governance of the western powers have unified as West Germany. In an attempt to seize control of West Berlin, the Soviet Union has prevented all land access to the city. The western powers have responded by creating an airlift that has kept Berlin fed, watered, and supplied. Although this Berlin Blockade has failed, the divide between East and West is furthering.
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2021 11:26 am
by RadiantCowbells
An iron curtain has descended across the European continent, from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe….All these famous cities and the populations around them lie in…the Soviet sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in some cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow. Communication between East and West is failing and the world, for the moment, has been divided into two.
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2021 2:53 pm
by RadiantCowbells
A new day dawns on the world.
Check your day start PM for further details.
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2021 3:23 pm
by RadiantCowbells
Night falls on the world and will end at 1 pm Monday.
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2021 6:05 pm
by RadiantCowbells
Dawn will transition to day at about 5 EST PM tomorrow.
From now on we will be moving to a 12/24/12 hour Twilight/Night/Dawn phase, where players are allowed to submit actions early that will remain in play as long as they remain legal.
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2021 1:24 pm
by RadiantCowbells
Many years have passed. The two superpowers have skirmished politically and through several proxy wars in countries such as Korea and Vietnam. Berlin remains split in half by the massive Berlin Wall. In the Soviet bloc, many massive famines occur and Stalin commits many awful purges of the intelligentsia. In the west, McCarthyism persecutes suspected communists and many democratically elected communist parties are violently overthrown by US-Friendly autocrats.
People around the world practice drills for nuclear war and build bunkers in their backyards in the hope of waiting out a nuclear winter. It feels like only a matter of time before one of the two superpowers launches a pre-emptive strike, with Able Archer 83 being seen as one and nearly provoking a Soviet first strike. Many near misses with the potential for a nuclear apocalypse go by, most notably when Vasily Arkhipov overrode his captain before a 10-kiloton nuclear payload was fired at the American fleet.
The space race goes by as the two superpowers compete first to pass through the boundaries of our atmosphere, then land a man on the moon. The United States wins a peaceful victory, taking a small step for man but a giant leap for mankind. In 1985, Gorbachev is elected Communist Party General Secretary. He pushes for reform, and a major breakthrough is made when the INF is signed, marking the first step towards disarmament.
In a speech in West Berlin, then-President Ronald Reagan asked that Gorbachev, if he sought peace with the west and liberalization, to tear down the Berlin Wall, symbol of the curtain dividing the two spheres of the world. In November 1989, the wall finally falls, and the iron curtain dividing the world ends.
Not Voting: Gypyx, Sakura Hana, Cheeky Wings, Deimos27, Good Luck Buddy,
Ydrasse
, Clemency, T3, Something_Smart, Galron, Gamma Emerald, Loftwing, Not Known 15, Taly
With 14 alive it's 8 to lim.
The day will end in (expired on 2021-12-21 21:00:00).
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2021 1:48 pm
by RadiantCowbells
I'm trying to stick the landing, okay? Please don't ask to see the missing flips, they'll be available at some point after we're past the 'start of the day' ish time period.
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2021 2:09 pm
by Good Luck Buddy
First
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2021 2:10 pm
by Sakura Hana
Well I hope your side was at least more exciting than ours.
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2021 2:11 pm
by Good Luck Buddy
44 pages of amazing chess play.
we yeeted scum in ours. no thanks to me tbh.
how did urs go
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2021 2:13 pm
by Sakura Hana
4 pages of people doing practically nothing and a townie got yeeted.
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2021 2:14 pm
by Good Luck Buddy
i was hoping u could push people to be active but ngl kind of expected it
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2021 2:14 pm
by Good Luck Buddy
Ohh also NK15 is one who caused that shit to happen btw.
but anyways datisi who died said this person was next on the shit list: VOTE: T3
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2021 2:15 pm
by Sakura Hana
Spent almost 24 hours (or probably actually 24 hours) without a single post, i started asking some people for scumreads, then i was gonna wagon loftwing to get him to start playing but ratmans got eliminated instead.
Not Voting: Gypyx, Sakura Hana, Cheeky Wings, Deimos27, Clemency, T3, Something_Smart, Galron, Gamma Emerald, Loftwing, Not Known 15, Taly
With 14 alive it's 8 to lim.
The day will end in (expired on 2021-12-21 21:00:00).
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2021 2:18 pm
by Taly
we killed scum
GMO
in our PT
ironically the 3 people who most deliberated and openly suspected
GMO
were
me/glb/cw
and we werent on final wagon lol
t3
needs to go
still not getting results
VOTE: T3
titus
can no longer post in our PT - did she get NKed or was she eliminated?
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2021 2:18 pm
by Good Luck Buddy
In post 6121, Taly wrote:titus can no longer post in our PT - did she get NKed or was she eliminated?
night killed
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2021 2:19 pm
by Galron
I'll cop to the ratmans quickhammer. Like I said in thread I had warning that he was on E-1 but for whatever reason wasn't thinking and hammered anyway.