Massive funding is approved for the support of communist partisans in neighboring European countries, in the hopes that the workers of Europe can liberate themselves. With the stunning successes of the make-work programs, the KPD looks outwards. Those who were convinced the revolution would collapse under its own weight seem to have been proven wrong- dissent is under control, the economy is in the first stages of recovery, and the Treaty of Versailles is dead.
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Ultimately, however, it is the moderates who win out, and the full force of the German government is brought to bear against the problem of unemployment in public works projects of an enormous scale. The Trotskyists support massive investment in the military to spread the People’s Revolution, as the coup in 1933 is now officially known, throughout Europe. The left-communists, who, while a minority, are not as persecuted as their fellows in Russia, advocate for a focus on retooling German industry to cutting-edge standards. Tremendously successful, the greater ease of transportation immediately swells German industrial production.Īs the new year opens, the first formal budget of the German Democratic Republic opens for negotiation.
On November 16th, the first Autobahns are unveiled. These fears would not prove to be unfounded. German troops begin massing on the Austrian border, fearing intervention by the virulently anti-communist fascists in Austria and Italy. While opposition to the KPD still remains, this, combined with its success in the Rhineland, seem to have won over many of those at the bottom of the old capitalist order. The move is followed up with the institution of a national recovery plan, to rebuild the industry lost in the Depression. Minor protests are raised in the League of Nations, but no substantive action is taken by the Entente. In August, the KPD government, in protest against the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, marches a single brigade into the Rhineland. The German team is not invited, in a show of stunning arrogance.
With the end of the fighting, Germany turns to its economy, attempting to collect capital- but not, you understand, bourgeois fiat currencies, in order to repair the damage done by the capitalist pig-dogs. Adolf Hitler, however, is nowhere to be found. On April 23rd, the fighting in Munich finally comes to an end, and with it, the threat of any organized resistance from the Nazi Party.