My brothers Keeper, an SI as the twin brother of Stalin (Reworked)

[Siryapsalot]

With the framework on religions set up, the MC is trying to leverage it into political power. I'm also guessing the casual antisemitism is just to play on the average Russian's prejudices, even if the hatred for Trotsky is very real.

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Yep the moment I read that line it was basically hook. line, and sinker it doesn't matter if they aren't totally convinced sweet talk them then throw in xyz Jewish person/people for a 20th cenutry Russian as far as I know with the Pogroms if anyone wants to correct any blindspots I appreciate it in advance.

 

[ReluctantCrusader]

Yep the moment I read that line it was basically hook. line, and sinker it doesn't matter if they aren't totally convinced sweet talk them then throw in xyz Jewish person/people for a 20th cenutyr Russian as far as I know with the Pogroms if anyone wants to correct any blindspots I appreciate it in advance.

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You're correct, especially about the pogroms part. OTL, I think the closest pogrom committed to the current year of the story are the ones committed by Kolchak

 

[Alenco98]

I paused, and made myself say what came next, because politics and survival came before morals. "And then there's Trotsky. Lev Davidovich Bronstein. A Jew. An avowed atheist. Ask yourself honestly, do you believe that blood sucking jew will ever offer you terms as favorable as these? Do you genuinely want that man running Russia when Lenin is gone?"

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I should probably emphasize and state that I don't endorse anti semitism and if you unironically agree with this to please unfollow this story. Given the state of things these days I should have probably wrote a disclaimer at the start of the chapter.

And yes, he's not anti semitic, he's just pandering to the crowd he's speaking to.

 

[Alenco98]

Wikipedia page on Operation Storm 333

Operation Storm-333

Operation Storm-333 (Russian: Шторм-333, Shtorm-333) was a Soviet military operation executed in Equatorial Guinea on May 1, 1975. Drawing on special forces and airborne troops, Soviet units stormed the heavily fortified presidential villa of Francisco Macías Nguema in his home village of Mongomo, subsequently killing Nguema, his family, and the members of his cabinet. The operation marked the beginning of a broader Soviet intervention that would fundamentally reshape the political character of Equatorial Guinea within weeks.

Background

The Republic of Equatorial Guinea had, since independence, been governed by Francisco Macías Nguema, a leader who, after breaking with his Spanish patrons, had oriented the country toward the Communist Bloc and cultivated alliances with the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and Korea. In practical terms, Equatorial Guinea served as a transit point through which the Soviet Union channeled weapons and internationalist volunteers to the MPLA in Angola. Nguema exploited this arrangement systematically, repeatedly threatening to terminate the alliance as a means of extracting additional financial support from his Eastern Bloc partners.

Over time, Nguema's governance deteriorated into what Soviet observers would come to characterize as anarcho-tyranny. Declassified reports from Soviet psychologists sent to evaluate him indicated a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia, and his behavior in office reflected it, mass executions of government ministers, members of the National Assembly, senior officials, and members of his own family became routine features of his administration. Each successive purge further hollowed out the state apparatus, and by the early 1970s the country's governmental infrastructure had entered a condition of accelerating collapse.

The immediate catalyst for Soviet intervention was the Carnation Revolution of 1974 and the subsequent fall of Portugal's Estado Novo regime, which opened the prospect of civil war in Angola and made a stable, reliable logistics base in the region an urgent strategic priority. With Nguema's erratic behavior rendering Equatorial Guinea increasingly dysfunctional, and increasingly embarrassing to its Soviet patrons, Moscow concluded that the costs of maintaining the relationship had come to outweigh its benefits. The decision to remove Nguema was made at the highest levels of Soviet leadership.

The Operation

Storm-333 was the centerpiece of a larger coordinated effort designated Operation Baikal-79, which targeted approximately twenty key installations across Equatorial Guinea, including military headquarters, communications infrastructure, prison facilities, and port installations.

In the days preceding the operation, roughly one thousand Spetsnaz troops, traveling under cover as internationalist volunteers bound for Angola, were flown into the country and dispersed to positions near their designated objectives. The concealment was effective; Guinean security forces reported no unusual activity in the period immediately before the assault.

At midnight on May 1st, the operation commenced simultaneously across multiple sites. Soviet Mil Mi-24 helicopter gunships struck the presidential compound at Mongomo as well as military and naval installations throughout the country. Spetsnaz troops then descended into the compound, overwhelming Nguema's presidential guard, itself modeled on the Soviet Kremlin Guard Regiment, after a brief but intense engagement. The majority of Nguema's guards either surrendered or fled once the identity of their attackers became apparent. Nguema, his family, and the assembled cabinet were located within the villa and shot.

Concurrently, Soviet units seized the national radio and television stations, the international airport, all major ports, and the Black Beach Prison, releasing its population of political prisoners in the process.

Aftermath

In the hours following the assault, the bodies of Nguema and his inner circle were paraded through the capital. Radio broadcasts announced the fall of the regime and the establishment of a provisional Soviet administration. Evidence of the systematic atrocities committed under Nguema's rule, mass graves, prison records, survivor testimony, was compiled and released to the international media in the weeks that followed, providing the public justification for the intervention that Soviet planners had anticipated would be necessary.

Within weeks of the operation, a Communist Party of Equatorial Guinea was formally constituted, drawing its initial membership primarily from political prisoners freed from Black Beach Prison. Elections for a new president and parliament were called the following month. The trials of surviving members of the Nguema government were conducted under a military tribunal framework, with the death penalty applied uniformly to those found guilty of crimes against the population.

Equatorial Guinea subsequently acceded to the Collective Security Treaty Organization and joined Comecoorg, formally integrating itself into the Soviet-aligned international order. The country would go on to serve as one of the primary logistics hubs for Soviet and allied operations across sub-Saharan Africa throughout the late 1970s and into the following decade.

 

[Chaoswind]

I should probably emphasize and state that I don't endorse anti semitism and if you unironically agree with this to please unfollow this story. Given the state of things these days I should have probably wrote a disclaimer at the start of the chapter.

And yes, he's not anti semitic, he's just pandering to the crowd he's speaking to.

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The shadow of the ADL covers all, even original alt history fiction that uses historical events and situations at their base.

I see no problem with what you wrote and unless you have plans to go out of your way to write in a way that glorifies pre WWII antisemitism then I don't see the point of even addressing it. Commentary on current politics is absolutely banned by default in this site so there is no need to make allusions to it.