Secrecy and Deception (Countryhumans Cold War)

Hostilities Begin

Event: Stalin's Hostile Speech

Location: Bolshoi Theater, Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Date: February 9, 1946

Stalin was giving a speech today in the Bolshoi Theater addressing voters, which Soyuz was here to listen to. He knew the speech was important, but he felt as if there were other things he could do, such as helping my puppets, the Republic of Mahabad, and the Azerbaijan People's Government in Iran.

America was unhappy about that: Soyuz's puppets or the conflict. However, Soyuz pushed those thoughts away as Stalin entered the rostrum to give his speech, and immediately, the crowd rose to their feet and began cheering.

"Cheers for great Stalin!" Soviet heard someone call.

"Long live great Stalin, Hurrah!" Another person said.

"Cheers for our beloved Stalin!"

The cheering lasted several minutes, but as soon as it stopped, Stalin began talking.

Stalin began his speech by discussing the events of the past eight years, from carrying out the Third Five-Year Plan to the Second World War, the war that dominated the past eight years.

He was right, of course. While the Five-Year Plan was essential to Soyuz, the Second World War impacted all nations and revealed everyone's strengths and weaknesses. It changed the world and opened new opportunities for the Soviet Union and its people.

Stalin then explained how the war did not break out accidentally or through blunders committed by politicians (although blunders were committed) but instead broke out as a result of a world order built on capitalism—a world order that does not proceed smoothly but instead proceeds through violent war, a world economy full of crisis and military conflict.

Soyuz knew capitalist countries enjoyed their wars and enjoyed trying to kill each other off to gain more power. They caused the First World War, and then they caused the Second. They caused all the deaths in those two wars and the other wars they had started. They were a problem for the world and would continue to perpetuate the cycle unless someone did something about it. That was Soyuz's job, he felt. To end the cycle that the capitalist countries created and start a new world economy, free of war, where all countries could live as one big, peaceful family.

Stalin then explained how capitalist countries disturb the world system of capitalism by fighting over spheres of influence and raw materials, splitting the world into hostile camps that break into war.

Soyuz exhaled a small breath of a laugh. There were probably more than two camps, as capitalist countries will each fight for their own interests. They always end up at war with each other. They were greedy and violent and didn't understand how to get along, and their wars were always so costly, especially for the innocents suffering in their colonies. Soyuz hated them for it. They were just like the Russian Empire. Uncaring and cruel.

Stalin then began to explain how wars over raw goods could be avoided, but how the current system did not allow for that, and how the crises caused by that system led to both World Wars.

Soyuz knew if something weren't done, the pattern would point towards a Third World War. Which Soyuz knew nobody wanted, especially since America had the atomic bomb. Provoking America without something to deter him from using that weapon was a death wish. Provoking the capitalist alliance without a way to control America was a death wish.

Stalin then explained that just because the World Wars had the exact causes, it did not mean they were identical. He describes how the fascist states destroyed bourgeois-democratic liberties in their own countries before beginning their cruel reign, how they trampled on the sovereignty and free development of small countries in their goals of world domination and spreading fascism, and how they wanted to carry out their threat to enslave all freedom-loving peoples.