A bloody XX century (April-June, 1910)

Slavic Africa: Katanga]

April 30, the colonial administration of Katanga (the Russian Congo) and the Russian Red Cross to fight against the spread of Congolese epidemics, creates the 'Health Card'.

The Katanga health card aims to monitor the health of various Katanga citizens (settlers and colonial subjects) in their hospital visits.

Allowing to a certain extent to administer medical assistance and prevention for diseases, better monitor quarantined areas, etc.

In particular at this time, the Congo region was experiencing an epidemic of African trypanosomiasis (a parasitic infection originating in insects that passes to humans).

Currently the administrations of the Imperial Federation, Norway and the German Empire would adopt similar measures to combat African trypanosomiasis in their parts of the Congo.

Although mainly under the name of Health Passport or Internal Passport, which rather served to block the mobility of African subjects and their job opportunities within the aforementioned colonies.

While Katanga suffered from epidemic problems, like all parts of the Congo to some extent, the truth is that it was a heart of medical development in the middle of the jungle.

The problem was precisely that in a colonial world, said heart is very isolated, the neighboring Congolese colonies were not connected to Katanga. Hindering possible humanitarian support between nearby settlements and colonies.

Simply because the infrastructure was not developed to connect with each other.

Still, Katanga had some success in dealing with some illnesses and made significant progress in the medical and healthcare bureaucracy. A health card, above all, helped the care of infants, reducing infant mortality to a certain extent (or at least making the medical follow-up of infants a lot easier).

However, due to the nature of the region, the emergence of disease nests or the transmission of diseases across borders would be relatively frequent.

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[Russian Air Force]

On June 5, Prince Alexander Sergeevich Kudashev joins the projects of the Russian air force.

Kadashev came from a princely family that arose around the time of Catherine II, graduated in engineering and with experience in construction (later as a lecturer and professor of construction at the Polytechnic Institute of Emperor Alexander II in Kiev). Although Kadashev's experience was first with railways and buildings (urban planning), not with airplanes.

For the period 1910-1911, Kadashev had already designed and built 3 new aircraft for Air Force experimentation.

The so-called Kadashev-1, Kadashev-2 and Kadashev-3.

Although these aircraft would not be one of the great advances in aeronautics (in regards to their construction-design), Kadashev had notable successes in other areas.

Among them the training and recruitment of other useful elements for the Air Force, establishing the production of other aircraft models in the Russian industry (collaborating with the government and companies) and theoretical developments with regard to aeronautics.

Kiev became one of the main centers of aeronautical development in the Russian Empire thanks to Kadashev, who recruited such personalities as the mathematician Nikolai Borisovich Delone and a young enthusiast named Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky.

Kiev would be the site of some of the largest aeronautical study and construction centers thanks to Kadashev and his sponsorship (associated with state sponsorship), and the activism of men like the aforementioned Nikolai Delone.

Not only this, but thanks to this decision, a young Sikorsky could get what he needed for precursor-prototype projects from him in the development of aircraft such as helicopters (although of course, this would take a few years-decades).

Although of course, personalities and innovation are not enough without the industrial base, and it is here again that the state, the air force and Kadashev have utility.

With the policies of Premier Stolypin, the new industrial capacity of Central Siberia had partly military purposes, from here the state was already beginning to build parts or entire aircraft for the Air Force.

But not only this, through contracts and relationships between the state and private / semi-private companies, it was possible to establish a belt for the production of equipment for aircraft and aeronautics.

A belt that ran from the Baltic to Central Siberia, branching out to a lesser extent to other portions of the Russian Empire.

Kasahev was an important piece in this expansion and technological-industrial planning.

Although of course in case of war and invasion (where the enemy came close to or attempted to take the western portions of the Empire), counter-plans were made to facilitate the transport or destruction of the western parts of the aeronautical belt, to prevent it from helping the invader.

Either way, it is clear that 1910 was a year of considerable expansion for Air Force capabilities, useful when joint navy and air force projects were drawing closer.

*Among them were precisely the first prototypes of Aircraft Carrier.

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[Russosphere: Rio Grande do Sul]

Rio Grande do Sul was one of the neutral countries during the great Latin American wars, and the only Latin American country within the Russosphere.

The Federation of Rio Grande do Sul was doing well economically and the country was undoubtedly going through great political-social stability, compared to other countries.

However, with the development of external situations (both in Uruguay and in the Latin American wars) and internal, it gave rise to developments within the country, which differentiated it from other Brazilian states.

The generations had passed since the Empire of Brazil had been divided, although there was still an old guard that wanted a greater unification among the Brazilian countries, the truth is that the new generations were less and less interested in the monarchy or unification.

Coming from such a large country, with the division, it is not surprising that peripheral areas such as the Federation of Rio Grande do Sul began to take their own path with regard to certain cultural, political and socio-economic aspects. Distancing itself from other Brazilian states.

Regarding this interesting aspect of differences, the Saravia family (Aparicio and his family, not Gumercindo Saraiva, Aparicio's older brother) returned to Uruguay after an amnesty.

Of course this was because in Uruguay the central power had been consolidated and the process of democratic reform had been applied (for which Aparicio had fought). The era of civil wars in Uruguay ended and the country would go to future elections (where Jose Battle y Ordoñez, from the Colorado Party, would win).

However, with Saravia, not all the White exiles had returned, many remained in Rio Grande do Sul and together with Saraiva's followers, the White and Spanish-speaking influence continued in the federation (especially in the south, with its border with Uruguay).

* The closeness, a relatively open border between both countries and the presence of many Uruguayans since these times, would lead to cultural similarities between Uruguay and the Federation of Rio Grande do Sul, such as the popularity of mate.

The possibility of military revolts or civil wars in the Federation of Rio Grande do Sul had been greatly reduced, and the country was in good relations with its neighbors, under the protection of the Russian Empire.

New democratic reforms similar to those occurring in Russia and Uruguay had been established, centralizing the central power of democracy at the federal and local levels.

Although of course, not without problems, the elites of Rio Grande do Sul continued to exist at the economic-political level and there were several segregationist policies in the country.

And there were no guarantees that peace with the Republic of the United States of Brazil would last forever (after all, sooner or later another Brazilian state could try to unify everyone).

Returning to the new generation of politicians, one of these was Getúlio Dornelles Vargas, who began his career as a state deputy after his military service and studies.

Vargas was a new generation of unified post-Empire Brazil politicians, third-way federalists, not a monarchist but with right-wing elements, not a socialist but with left-wing elements and left-wing populism, etc.

In future decades it would be men like Vargas who would lead the federation.

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[First Duma: reform of June 30]

On June 30, the First Duma under Premier Pyotr Stolypin creates new legislation, supervised by Tsar Alexander III and Tsesarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich Romanov.

The new legislation was a set of laws that continued the previous policies of the government and other new points for the next elections in the Russian Empire.

If we talk about old policies, once again the government was fighting against lobbying and other possible interference-fraud in the democracy of the Russian Empire. As well as introducing the new preparations for the next wave of votes (which now included men and women from all over the Empire after a certain age).

As for the new parts of the legislation of the Russian Empire, these included laws about the announcement of candidates, a specified period of election campaigns and restrictions associated with these, among other laws.

* A candidate for Premier of the Russian Empire had to be announced throughout the month of August (any day is valid) by the newspapers and/or official spokesmen of his/her party.

It meant that a certain party had already selected a candidate, in case they formed the majority of the Duma or the majority of the ruling Duma coalition.

** The candidate could come from any gender or culture-ethnic group, as long as it was a natural citizen of the Russian Empire.

* Electoral campaigns begin on September 1 and end on October 31, setting a fixed period for the aforementioned candidates for the position of Premier and their parties to establish programs, make propaganda and events, etc.

* However, these electoral campaigns had limitations, including racist rhetoric (against any type of citizens of the Russian Empire, of diverse ethnic-cultural origin), certain insults to the monarch or damage to the collective interests of the Russian Empire (quite vague in the latter, but generally being thins like boycotts for inappropriate reasons, such as the boycott of Jewish businesses by Polish autonomists).

**The violation of this could include from fines to imprisonment, cancellation of candidacy, etc.

* During the August-October period, all parties were expected to submit not only their platforms and candidates, but also the pertinent paperwork regarding their expenses, donations, and other financial information.

This is in part the fight against corruption and lobbying in the Russian Empire.

**In the event that a party was late or had financial problems, its candidacy or similar would not be annulled, but it would initiate pertinent investigations by state commissions and would put some suspicion on them (which could be harmful).

This set of laws involved increased organization and preparation when it came to Russian democracy, much more formal and established candidates in the public arena, laws about rhetoric and the economy of parties, pertinent paperwork and preparations for the polls.

Of course Russian democracy was not that advanced yet and had problems, it was not a liberal democracy in any sense of the word, but the point is that it worked for Russians.

Perhaps most importantly, the army, religion and secret services still played a role within the clique factions of government and public life, but this is an analysis for another period in Russian history.

At the local level, the whole country was excited, from Finland to Alyáska. It seemed that in the beginning, there was much to gain and little to lose.

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[International]

*[Socialist Italy: Bordiga]

April 1, Amadeo Bordiga joined the Communist Party of Italy, led at that time by the Secretary General and president of the Federative Socialist Republic of Italy, Costantino Lazzari.

Bordiga is a native of the Neapolitan Socialist Republic, son of Oreste Bordiga (a scholar of agricultural sciences who helped to modernize the southern Italian peninsula under socialist rule) and Zaira degli Amadei (descendant of an old Florentine family, daughter of Michele Amadei, count during the Risorgimento). And nephew (thanks to his father) of the militant, mathematician and university professor, Giovanni Bordiga.

We can say that Borgida, who was born before the establishment of the FSR of Italy, was already part of a first generation of a new Italian socialist intelligentsia. Amadeo Bordiga's education was radical but highly scientific.

Of course this was in a certain sense contradictory, his maternal family descended from the petty nobility, which gave a certain stigma in southern Italy.

But the paternal family gave prestige, especially in the work of Amadeo's father in the agricultural planning of the south, along with other capable minds.

Fortunately or unfortunately, this contradiction did not prevent Amadeo Bordiga from starting to write about socialist theory, where Bordiga was getting closer to the socialists of northern Italy, instead of staying close to the Italian socialists of the south.

* In 1912, Amadeo Bordiga would form the Karl Marx Circle, precisely in these theoretical-academic activities.

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April 3, Theodore Roosevelt, a writer from the United States, visits the Vatican then led by the American Pope, Pius X (James Gibbons, former Archbishop of Baltimore).

* [War in Bengal]

Important coups occurred to the Indian-Bengali separatist movement on April 4, 1910, one of the first founders and active guerrilla leaders was killed in combat by the troops of the Imperial Federation, Pramathanath Mitra.

On the same day, Sri Aurobindo was executed after his capture by British troops. Aurobindo after the partition of Bengal at the hands of Lord Curzon, was part of the militants, escaping capture, until 1910.

This meant that Anushilan Samiti society, part of the Bengali rebels (aligned with socialism, the left, Indian nationalism, Hindu-Muslim unity, etc.), lost two of its most vital leaders.

Because of this, Barindra Kumar Ghosh, Sri Aurobindo's younger brother, becomes the main leader of the Anushilan Samiti, which continues to lead society on the revolutionary path against British authority.

But obviously there are changes in Barindra Kumar Ghosh after the execution of his brother, something must be done regarding the revolutions in Bengal and Punjab.

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April 5, Democratic Peru obtains an important victory against Civilist Peru, advancing towards the northern regions of the country, the wars in the region are inclined in favor of the Argentina-Acre-Paraguay- (Democratic) Peru side.

Of course this is questionable or limited, as some isolated territories (mountainous or very rural) generally remain outside the control of both sides.

In southern Latin America, Argentina continues to successfully pressure Chile, whose financial situation, military production, and consumer goods production is lagging behind and in serious trouble.

Many Chilean mineral resources are not being sold, partly because of the Great Depression, but also because of the blockades of various commercial zones (the Tehuantepec canal in Mexico and Cabo de Hornos).

Only the Pacific would remain, but again, due to the Great Depression, products like Chilean copper are not selling as well as they used to.

April 6, in the United States occurs the so-called Brownsville Affair, where a military court of investigation "confirmed" convictions for a total of 167 members of the 25th United States Regiment, of African American origin.

Accused of complicity in a shooting that occurred in 1906, which was against two white men in Brownsville (Texas). The African-Americans were dishonorably discharged.

Of course, the results of the investigation are quite dubious, it would be concluded, DECADES after the event, that it would actually be concluded that the African-American soldiers were innocent.

April 7, the German Empire and the Imperial Federation approach for greater cooperation of a technological nature.

In another context, this could be good for the economy, but in reality it is to continue throwing money at the technological development of military ships.

This cooperation puts a certain end to the Anglo-German arms race, with certain improvements in relations between the two countries (although of course, Fashoda has not yet been completely forgotten, however the death of Wilhelm II is a good excuse to improve relations) . But it does not end the extreme economic spending on the navies of both countries.

April 9, the re-construction process of the People's Republic of France continues with some success, collectivization continues apace, former imperial sites (palaces and the like) are turned into museums, and there are several infrastructure projects successfully built .

Although not everything is so good in the French People's Republic on a political-ideological level, in particular when Jules Guesde continues his purges against 'Revisionists' and the socialist division.

April 12, the Imperial Federation develops the "Final Solution" to the Native American population of Canada.

Duncan Campbell Scott, associate of the Superintendent of Indian Affairs (and superdintendent himself since 1913), wrote a document that declined concerns about high Native American infant mortality rates in residential schools, but not only that. Duncan Scott called for a reform of the law, so that all Native American children from the age of 7 and up, were sent to year-round boarding schools.

The residential school system for Native American children is practically a genocide, figurative and literal, attacking the culture and the very life of Native Americans (the death rates are incredibly high).

And sadly, Duncan Campbell Scott's Final Solution would be accepted between 1911 and 1913 (when he became superintendent).

April 15, incident of Submarine No. 6 of the Empire of Japan, a cause of national shame at this time in 1910, hitting the empire hard.

The submarine was in Hiroshima Bay, during a dive an outer vent had been left open, causing the crew to fight for two hours to try to lift the submarine. But they were overcome by carbon monoxide.

There were no survivors, but the commander of the submarine, Lieutenant Tsutomu Sakuma, wrote a letter to the emperor himself during these moments (while he was dying). Said letter surprisingly survived the crew and the submarine.

The lieutenant urges the emperor "Study the submarine until it is a perfect machine, absolutely reliable. We can then die without regret."

April 18, after Elihu Root's presidency, there are developments in the women's suffrage movement in the United States, the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) presents around 500,000 signatures for Congress, President Bryan and the Vice President.

April 21, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American writer better known as Mark Twain, dies.

April 23, a fire breaks out in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States, leaving more than 2,000 people homeless in the southern United States.

April 27, the herd of elephants from the center of the USA, in Kansas increases its number, moving to the east the group obtains 9 new members who escaped from a local circus in Missouri.

At least 100 properties are damaged.

At least now the elephants got captured and put into a zoo of Missouri...for the moment.

(OOC: Currently 9 elephants actually escaped this day causing damage to at least 100 properties, but it was in Illinois, not Missouri).

April 28, the 'revolutionary' measure of the 'People's Budget' is rejected in the Imperial Parliament (Imperial Federation), the name partly caused panic by possible socialist affiliations, but it was a rather liberal proposal. But that little red scare wasn't the main reason of the rejection.

The People's Budget proposed the need for new taxes on land and income, for the formation of social programs.

Obviously the upper classes were against such reforms, as they were the ones who owned the most land and income in the Imperial Federation (most of the properties in the Home Islands were owned by the nobility).

* [Death in the family]

On May 1, Prince George Frederick Ernest Albert son of the late King Edward VII has serious medical problems, associated with his addiction to tobacco, the refusal of certain medical assistance and a sudden bronchitis caused by a cold after a cold weekend and rainy.

The bronchitis soon turned into pneumonia and by May 5 (a Thursday), Prince George, younger brother of King Albert Victor I, died.

This caused a small period of mourning in the Imperial Federation, for the death of a member of the royal family (the king's brother) and damage to the liberal-moderate movements opposed to the Social Aristocracy, which used to favor George over their older brother, Albert Victor.

The monarchy of Albert Victor I and Prime Minister Louis Alexander Mountbatten called for a legislative activity to make certain decisions, about whether it was positive to let one of the daughters of Albert Victor I inherit or something should be done with Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, son of Prince George.

It could be said as an excuse that the Imperial Federation, being a new country with a new parliament, could alter its traditional methods of succession.

Surprisingly, King Albert Victor himself would push to avoid a pragmatic sanction that would prevent his daughters from passing over male heirs, in exchange for certain concessions (especially around the tutelage of Prince Edward Albert).

Edward Albert was adopted by King Albert Victor I and Queen Alix of Hesse, in all but name.

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May 4, begins the expansion of the presence of the Royal Navy of the Imperial Federation, with the construction of more ships in the Home Islands and Canada.

May 5, in Costa Rica an earthquake occurs in the city of Cartago, which leads to its destruction and the death of 1500 people (at least).

Costa Rica's new administration, led by Romualdo Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno, will focus (among other issues) on rebuilding the damage caused by earthquakes and other natural disasters.

May 8, reconstruction in Canada, Imperial Federation, after a fire in General Explosives Company near Hull (Quebec) caused the death of 15 people, 100 injured (mostly to avoid the orders of the authorities to leave the area) and the destruction of many windows in Ottawa, Ontario.

The reconstruction process also leads to part of the great economic projects of the Imperial Federation, more factories, private monuments, great architecture, etc.

May 10, around 200 Latin American women gather in Buenos Aires for the first International Women's Congress (International Women's Congress), which includes women from Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Peru (democratic).

On the other hand, in Santiago, Chile, a similar congress is held, but with women from Chile, Bolivia and Peru (civilist).

May 16, in the great Latin American wars, after various conversations, Ecuador joins the war on the side of Chile and Peru Civilist to fight against the now victorious Democratic Peru.

In Gran Colombia there are talks for this country to join the war on the Argentine side, with the promise that Ecuador will be annexed by Gran Colombia.

Ecuadorian troops enter northern Peru (civilist territory) to support the Chilean side against Democratic Peru.

May 18, at the University of Kazan, Russian Empire, the reading of "On Partial Judgments, the Triangle of Opposition, the Law of Excluded Fourth" is carried out, with this paper Nicolai Alexandrovich Vasiliev (logician, philosopher, psychologist and poet) introduces the non- Aristotelian logic to the world.

An explosive incident occurs between the border of Gran Colombia and Ecuador, causing the death of 100 border soldiers (the deaths are from both sides).

The accident was the explosion of 1,370 kilograms (3,000 pounds) of dynamite.

The Congress of Gran Colombia (whose civil government was led by President Rafael Uribe Uribe) was convinced by General / Field Marshal Juan Vicente Gomez for a declaration of war.

For this reason, Gomez is considered one of the main potential suspects responsible for what happened in this incident, counting the situations that occurred before and after the event, but no investigation was able to verify this 100%.

General Gomez leads the army, while President Uribe Uribe leads the civilian government.

Gomez would invade Ecuador shortly after, for Gran Colombia to rejoin, cement his popularity as a military leader outside of Venezuela and other geo-political targets in the region.

May 20, in a desperate situation, Chile increases its foreign debt by borrowing from the Imperial Federation for more than 13 million pounds. Trying to save itself from the problems generated by the great Latin American wars.

However, the situation is much more complicated, after the interference of Gran Colombia in the war, the Brazilian sides take a more active position.

The Republic of the United States of Brazil aligns itself with Chile and the Empire of Brazil of Dom Pedro III aligns with Argentina, while the Empire of Brazil of Isabel I remains neutral (in any case, the prospects of victory are slim in any alliance for Isabel I and her goverment).

The iron and steel industry in the Empire of Japan begins to unionize, in the midst of all this, some Japanese socialists begin to deny the cult of the emperor already, such as the communist-anarchist Takichi Miyashita.

The division between socialism and anarchism was very diffuse in Japan at this time, Takichi Miyashita and others like Kanno Sugako (socialist, reporter, women's rights activist and author), Tadao Niimura (anarchist-socialist) and Rikisaku Furukawa (anarchist), collaborated despite ideological differences.

This group of 12 people, led by Takichi Miyashita, planned to assassinate the Meiji Emperor with explosives in this unstable period of Japan.

But this failed and enough information was gathered (in theory) to arrest these terrorist-revolutionaries in the so-called Akashina incident.

The group of 12 rebels narrowly managed to escape to the Chinese region before being arrested, wandering through Chinese secret societies and colonial territories such as Hainan (Second French Empire).

Similar to how Chinese revolutionaries like Sun Yat-sen were relatively free in Japan thanks to certain situations, only with the roles reversed (Japanese revolutionaries for China).

* Later movements would be created to prove that at least some members of the plot were innocent, such as the anarchist Rikisaku Furukawa.

May 20-27, battles between American troops and Nicaraguan troops under General-President Estrada against new rebels emerging in the country.

These conflicts occur mostly in coastal areas, with the rebels generally losing or escaping, but the destruction of the country [Nicaragua] continues.

May 21, General Gomez obtains important initial victories over Ecuador in his invasion plans for the country.

May 27, the German parliament rejects the possibility of female suffrage.

Protests against the current voting system are intensifying in the German Empire.

May 28, the Second Mexican Empire (based in Cuba) and the German Empire are almost completely expelled from Mexican territory. The Tehuantepec canal is placed under siege by Mexican troops by land and the US Navy makes movements in the nearby waters.

It does not signify any temporary alliance between Mexican revolutionaries and Americans.

The Mexican revolutionaries are preparing to continue fighting against the Americans after expelling the Germans from Tehuantepec. This led the revolutionaries to obtain artillery and other supplies, captured from Imperials and Germans.

June 3, Ecuador's position is weakened, a considerable part of the troops destined to support the Peru Civilist have to return to protect the country, invaded by Gran Colombia.

Saving (in a sense) Democratic Peru from some problems, while complicating the situation of the coalition led by Chile.

June 4, finally the guerrilla-revolutionary coalition managed to expel the German Empire from the Tehuantepec Canal, also causing the Second Mexican Empire to be reduced only to Cuba.

This marks a serious problem of economic-financial decline in Germany (plummeting in the Berlin stock market) and by extension to the world, the Tehuantepec canal remains closed due to conflicts.

The United States now wanted to force the Mexicans to peace and give up certain policies regarding Tehuantepec, however the guerrilla-revolutionaries did not give in and now they are fighting 100% against the Americans.

The German Imperial Navy will try to intervene in the coming months.

June 5, Nanking Exposition in China, a world fair for small Chinese industrial development in progress (especially some Anglo-Germanic railways in central China and other small improvements).

June 10, the Imperial Parliament includes in the Imperial Federation the direct control of London over the British Raj, but a Governor-General was still needed (who replaces the Viceroy, being the same but with a different name).

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, uncle of King Albert Victor I, was made Governor-General of India.

The most pressing thing would be to defeat the guerrillas in Bengal and Punjab, but you cannot negotiate with them as they are anti-British and the parliament will not give concessions. For this administrative reforms would be vetoed and the governor-general would suffer many assassination attempts.

June 12, flooding of the river Ahr causes 200 deaths in Germany.

June 15, at least a few hundred native rebels rise up in British Mozambique, they are killed without much inconvenience by troops from the Imperial Federation.

June 17, in the United States tycoon James A. Patten and other American businessmen manage to create a monopoly on the raw cotton industry, which in the long run harms the South in several ways, but that is another matter.

June 19, Father's Day is observed for the first time in the United States as the result of the action of Mrs. John B. Dodd, that wanted to honor her late father (William Smart) and all other fathers in general.

The city of Spokane, Washington, later proclaimed the third sunday in June as Father's Day, a date that later received recognition nationwide.

June 20-24, beginning in Tegucigalpa (Nicaragua) and spreading to other countries, mainly Mexico (with less success in Honduras and El Salvador), various anti-American (U.S americans) demonstrations and acts are held

Hundreds and thousands of inhabitants of Latin America opposed to the war and occupation of their territories, violence spreads between American troops and said protesters-opponents.

By the same period, Arizona and New Mexico become states of the United States.

June 25, in the Russian cultural export, Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky, 28, becomes popular overnight with the first show of his work, the ballet Жар-птица / Zhar-ptitsa (The Firebird or L 'Oiseau de feu).

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* Perspective, People's Republic of France.

"Revisionists. Revisionists. Revisionists." Jules Guesde begins, proclaiming in front of a group of opponents and allies. "You are all revisionists. None of you are free from revisionism."

The president of the People's Republic of France attacked (not literally), before the vote and results of the opponents' trial.

André Léon Blum was among them, a socialist who had followed Jean Jaurés, a socialist opposed to Jules Guesde during the last civil war. "Sir, if you are a Marxist, it is clear that I am not a Marxist." Blum exclaims, a modified phrase from the words Friedrich Engels himself once used to Guesde.

* "what is certain is that if they are Marxists], then I myself am not a Marxist" (ce qu'il y a de certain c'est que moi, je ne suis pas marxiste).

The vote and decision of the judiciary indicated that the opponents were guilty.

Most were sent to forced labor camps, some specifically were executed.

Blum was sent to forced labor camps on the periphery of the People's Republic of France, a kind of exile for him to rot.

"Your doctrine is truly impressive, Comrade Guesde." He praises one of Guesde's close allies, Paul Faure, part of the bureaucratic apparatus (a kind of assistant).

"Without a doubt Mr. President. But now there are other matters to attend to." Indicates Ludovic-Oscar Frossard, from the propaganda ministry, another of the president's allies.

"In particular, part of the objectives of public transport and military defense have been completed in various parts of the country." Jean-Laurent-Frederick Longuet adds. Longuet was part of the party, although not with a very high ministerial position, but notable for being the grandson of Karl Marx.

Under the French Cultural Revolution, the age of the wolves and the Red Terror, a number of party members had risen or begun to rise to notable positions by association with Jules Guesde.

Elements that were not exactly good for French socialism, Jules Guesde would consider these people revisionists, if he had discovered the nature of this corruption caused during his life.

Usually this groups of corrupt or revisionist that scaped the purge, were called "Gang de loups" (Wolf Gang), the more famous one being the one of Paul Faure and Ludovic-Oscar Frossard.

"The revisionists favor notions of individualism and freedoms of a bourgeois character, inherent in the movements and thoughts of the petty bourgeoisie and the upper bourgeoisie.

Libertarianism-Anarchism, Social Democracy [Social Chauvinism] and Liberalism are just some examples of this type of revisionist elements harmful to socialist development.

They are based on intangible notions that harm the labor movement, which should be based on Marxist analysis, materialism and quantifiable material notions, which would help measure and plan for improvement in society.

Otherwise, the working class, the most oppressed and exploited class, cannot be liberated. "

-Jules Guesde in one of his thesis against revisionism.

The thought of Guesde and other thinkers of the first decades of the 20th century would lead to the development of Eastern Socialism and Western Socialism.

A division between the orthodox and the 'revisionists', the authoritarians and libertarians, etc.

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* Perspective, London, Imperial Federation.

"Why choose your nephew over your daughters?" Prime Minister Mountbatten asks his king, Albert Victor.

"This world is a wreck in many ways." Albert Victor mentions with some really weird calm. "My daughters are simply not made to reign, they are fragile and not just because they are women, they just lack our way of doing things. Also, I don't think aristocrats accept a woman's reign, or at least one where they don't try to take advantage of her, and we already saw that the monarchy of my grandmother had certain problems for her giving too much to the designs of the inappropriate parliamentarians. "

"I see, and in the case of Edward Albert, we could train him to be a suitable successor." Mountbatten indicates.

"Indeed." Albert mentions Victor in a strange moment of lucidity.

In private, all alone, King Albert Victor had been unable to help, but laugh.

"The death of my brother caused a lot of fun for me that day.

I survived a chemical-explosive attack by a French rat once, and he dies from a rain and tobacco.

This is what is called, destiny?

Without a doubt, the destiny is funny. Poetic or perhaps ironic.

I notice that Alix strongly hates my new heir, although I don't think she (or my daughters) intend to assassinate him soon or later.

I (You!) should keep an eye on Edward Albert's siblings just in case.

In any case, it is clear that I can mold my nephew (to a certain extent).

As with many noble children, he lacks a certain paternal affection, raised for so long by babysitters.

I can use that to (break!) train him a bit more, and some military discipline will help too.

My blood (blood!) boils with the excitement of how I can have fun ... ".

-Albert Victor's diary, later destroyed.

After this the king consumed a lot of morphine and some other drugs, treated as common medicine for the time. Addiction or need, caused by constant pain.