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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Mar 2, 2021 5:53:58 GMT
Chapter Forty: The Second Russian Civil War Conclusion
“The fall of Moscow to the National Redemption Army had an electrifying effect on the entire Union, as it was also followed by the defeat of the Soviet loyalist forces in the Baltic States. Starting on February 18, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania became the next three Soviet republics to secede from the USSR, after Azerbaijan and Moldova. Soon after, Belarus and Ukraine seceded on August 15, 1994, while Georgia and Armenia would both secede on September 21, 1994. Finally, in the greatest irony of all, Russia itself would formally secede from the Soviet Union on November 7, 1994, the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. After Russia’s formal secession from the USSR, only the Central Asian republics remained in the rump Soviet Union, as China began to assert itself as the only revolutionary state to carry on the socialist struggle, with the rump USSR’s leaders comparing its decline and collapse to that of the Roman Empire, with the USSR has the Western Roman Empire, and China as the socialist Byzantium. For a while, Shymkent was the seat of the entire USSR, as it began to take on a more, Asiatic appearance, with an increase in its emphasis on its Turkic culture among the now-dominant Turkic peoples of the rump USSR. What was left of the Slavic population of the rump USSR was subjected to intense persecution, as Operation: Batyr had targeted the Russian minorities there for summary expulsion, mainly to Russia, but also to the Pritobolye, Priirtyshye, and Priuralye Free States. The Koryo-saram population were split, since most of them were resettled there on Stalin’s orders, but many of the Russified Koryo-saram chose to immigrate to Russia, in the Russian Far East, close to their Korean homeland. In the Caucasus, the successful Azeri offensive against the Armenians of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region had resulted in significant losses, but not before proceeding to expel over 145,000 ethnic Armenians from the areas surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh, in a military operation, codename Khojaly, after the UNAACP’s last stand in Khojaly. Armenian forces would retaliate by invading the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic within Azerbaijan and annexing three raions from the NAR while expelling the Azerbaijani population there. The expelled Azeris from the three raions occupied by Armenian forces would end up in Iran, where Iranian authorities would take them in, while at the same time, threatening Armenia with military intervention, should there be additional expulsions of Azeris from Nakhichevan.” From “The Second Russian Civil War, and the Rise of Modern Russia”, released by TASS, 2012.
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AZERBAIJANI SOLDIERS LIBERATE XANKENDI FROM ARMENIAN MILITIAS AS QARABAG BECOMES FULLY INTEGRATED INTO AZERBAIJAN
Azerbaycan
June 22, 1994
Xankendi, SANCAK OF QARABAG – The remaining Armenian forces still occupying what is left of the breakaway Qarabag region that is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, has surrendered to the victorious forces of the Azerbaijani Army, as Armenian civilians began to flee from the region, in fear of retribution from Azeri civilians who were expelled from the region by Armenian fedayi forces. The campaign against the Armenians of Qarabag, was brutal and difficult, with much of the mercenary forces from Russia and the Balkans falling under Azerbaijani custody. Many of these mercenaries would be deported back to their countries of origin, where they will stand trial for war crimes, and other human rights violations. In addition, the Azerbaijani government under Dadash Ryazaev has pledged to award the UN peacekeepers who fought against the Armenian fedayi during the Last Stand at Khojaly, and has even sent an attaché to the Philippines, where he will represent the Azerbaijani military inside the Philippines under noted military ruler Artemio Tadiar. In the Azerbaijani capital of Baku, the victorious soldiers of the Azerbaijani Army held a parade to celebrate their victory, as the top military staff of the Azerbaijani military are pushing for an invasion of Armenia, in conjunction with the Turkish government, but the government of Iran had threatened to intervene against Azerbaijan if an invasion were to occur. It is also worth noting, that Iran also threatened Armenia with the same military invasion if they did not stop with the attacks on Azerbaijani civilians in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic.
“Our soldiers have liberated all the territories held by the enemy, and as a result, we have punished the Armenian terrorists for their crimes committed against our nation. Today, we have liberated Xankendi, and tomorrow or in the future, we shall take Syunik from Armenia and connect it with our brothers and sisters in Nakhchivan! Our dreams of a unified Greater Turkey come closer, with our brothers in Anatolia and Rumelia wishing for the same dream!” says Abulfaz Elchibey, during the Victory Day parade. “With the help of our fraternal brothers in Anatolia, who bear the Turkish identity, as well as our new blood brothers from Indonesia, we will prosper far into the future.”
The campaign against the Armenian fedayi had been long in the making, with much of the early Azerbaijani failures attributed to the inexperienced soldiers who were not used to the conflict, but they had some help in training from veterans of the Soviet War in Afghanistan. Ryazaev, who also fought in Afghanistan, had been instrumental in training the infant Azerbaijani Army in guerrilla tactics, as well as counter-terrorist strategies and tactics. In contrast, the Armenian fedayi had been staffed with Armenian volunteers, both from Armenia, and in the Diaspora, where the influential Armenian overseas community had been instrumental in raising money for their cause. Moreover, the Armenian community of France, the United States, and Great Britain, had been pushing for the recognition of the 1915 incident as a ‘genocide’, despite Turkey’s attempts to rectify and explain their side of what happened during the 1915 incident.*
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NATIONAL REDEMPTION ARMY CAPTURES LENINGRAD, RENAMES IT BACK TO PETROGRAD AS CIVILIANS CELEBRATE THE END OF THE BATTLE
Sydney Herald
November 7, 1993
Petrograd, (Breakaway) RUSSIAN SFSR – In what has become the ultimate irony, the National Redemption Army has captured the city that was the epicenter of the Bolshevik Revolution, on the very same day as the actual revolution that had broken out. Though it was rather symbolic, the fall of Leningrad, and its renaming back to Petrograd, had signified the escalating de-Bolshevization of Russia, as communist symbols are taken down, and properties owned by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union have been confiscated by the victorious National Redemption Army soldiers. Thousands of civilians who were affected by the rebel siege were given medical attention by the NRA doctors, who also proceeded to deliver much needed supplies into the war-torn city. In addition, most of the Baltic Fleet that joined the rebel side had by now, purged itself of loyalist officers as they were taken prisoner and held in the same island fortress of Kronstadt, where they will be placed on trial for war crimes. The rebel victory in Petrograd has also raised a morale among Russia’s exiled former dynasty, who saw the recapture of the former Tsarist capital as an event worth celebrating.
“The liberation of Petrograd from the communist monsters who murdered my distant cousin, the late Tsar Nicholas II, and his family, is not just a cause for celebration, but a cause for commemoration, as the House of Romanov grieves for not only our relatives who were also killed by the Bolsheviks, but the millions of innocent people who were murdered in the name of peace, land, and bread,” comments Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia, after hearing about the success of the National Redemption Army’s capture of Petrograd. “It is rather appropriate that an army calling itself the National Redemption Army, would lead a path of redemption for all of Russia. We also await the Great Resurrection of Holy Mother Russia, as she is being freed from her chains imposed by the communists.”
Rumors of a possible return of the members of the former Imperial dynasty to Russia for the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution are rife, though the disputes regarding the actual head of the House of Romanov have marred the former dynasty and their chances of ever returning to Russian soil. However, a representative of the Vladimirovichi line, the Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna, and the representative of the Nikolayevichi line, Prince Nicholas Romanovich, had plans to meet with the Russian Provisional Government, and Nicholas Romanovich even planned to travel to Yekaterinburg (now renamed to Isetgrad as of November 5) for a special inter-government summit with Acting President of the Russian Provisional Government, Gennady Burbulis, and the Generalissimo of the National Redemption Army, General Alexander Lebed. However, those plans were stalled by the current condition that the country faces, as the Second Russian Civil War continues to rip apart the crumbling Soviet Union.
“All of us within the Romanov Family Association are doing their part to contribute to the final victory of the National Redemption Army against the Soviet Red Army, and this means that the Russian émigré organizations who were formed by exiled former White Army officers must also contribute, mainly by raising money, and even volunteering to fight on the side of General Lebed,” says Romanov Family Association President Nicholas Romanovich. “After this civil war is over, I would like to award General Alexander Lebed, and all other officers of the National Redemption Army with the award of the Order of Saint Michael the Archangel, for their efforts in freeing Russia from the Bolsheviks.”
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LEBED, BURBULIS, AND MEMBERS OF BOTH THE NATIONAL REDEMPTION ARMY AND THE RUSSIAN PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT, TO BE AWARDED THE ORDER OF SAINT MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL IN SPECIAL CEREMONY
Moscow Times
November 7, 1999
Moscow, RUSSIAN FEDERATION – Only a few weeks before the official merger of the Russian Federation with the Union State of Ukraine and Belarus, the President of the Romanov Family Association, Prince Nicholas Romanovich of the Nikolayevichi line of the House of Romanov, has announced that all the members of the Second Russian Civil War era Russian Provisional Government and its militant arm, the National Redemption Army, are awarded with the recently re-established Order of Saint Michael the Archangel, for their efforts in liberating Russia from godless communism, as well as the coveted and also re-established Order of Saint Vladimir as a military award for exemplary military service. Among the candidates qualified for the Tsarist-era awards, President Gennady Burbulis, General Alexander Lebed, and Russian business tycoon Boris Yeltsin are prominent in that Prince Nicholas Romanovich will personally award the ribbons to them. Moreover, officials connected to the relatives of the House of Romanov continue to serve in the Russian government, especially in areas like education, the economy, and judicial matters.
“While the awards from the Tsarist period are re-established, there is also a possibility that a few candidates would theoretically be qualified to hold the title of Knight or Dame, in the latter’s case regarding the female candidates for the awards. However, since there is no such law governing the status of former noble families in Russia today, there is no chance of these candidates for such awards to be elevated to nobility,” explains Prince Nicholas Romanovich. “So, unfortunately, we will not call General Lebed as Count Alexander, or even Duke Alexander.”
To the surprise of the Romanov Family Association, a few of the candidates announced by Prince Nicholas Romanovich that will be awarded the coveted Order have come from Ukraine and Belarus, given their historical grievances against the Romanov family. Nikolay Azarov, the President-elect of Russia and incumbent President of the Union State of Ukraine and Belarus, is also the recipients of the award, as well as Aleksander Milinkevich of Belarus. Boris Yugai, the Koryo-saram officer of the Red Army who defected to the National Redemption Army after a failed coup against the Soviet loyalist government in Kyrgyzstan resulted in a brutal crackdown, is surprisingly not a recipient for the Order of Saint Michael the Archangel but is qualified for the award of the Order of St. George, though in the 4th class. Since his defection and subsequent service with the National Redemption Army, General Yugai has become a de facto spokesperson for the Koryo-saram community in Russia, and has so far, requested to President Burbulis to recognize the deportation of the Koryo-saram from the Russian Far East to Central Asia as a form of ethnic cleansing.
“The Koryo-saram, in their full eagerness to integrate into Russian society, have suffered through a great ordeal. We therefore ask the Russian government to recognize our tragedy as an intricate part of Russia’s diverse history, though marred by heartbreak,” explains General Yugai from his home in Nakhodka. “We continue to express our gratitude to Russia for allowing our ancestors to settle in their lands since the 1860s, when they escaped from the lands controlled by the former Joseon Dynasty due to poverty and famine.”
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CHIAPAS ERUPTS IN REBELLION AS ZAPATISTA MILITANTS LAUNCH UPRISING, MEXICAN ARMY DEPLOYED TO REBELLIOUS PROVINCE
Dallas Morning News
January 2, 1994
Altamirano, CHIAPAS – The Mexican province of Chiapas had greeted the New Year’s Day celebration with a shocking news of a left-wing uprising, instigated by the Zapatista National Army of Liberation, over the marginalization of Mexico’s indigenous population, which was a chronic issue since the days of Spanish colonialism in Mesoamerica. The Zapatistas, under the leadership of a man commonly referred to as Subcomandante Marcos, had intended to wage a guerrilla war to force the Mexican government to give concessions to the indigenous autonomous communities, and to pressure them into implementing greater democratization reforms to stop the rise of what they perceive as the neo-liberal political culture in Mexico. The Zapatistas had also intended to push forward a series of ideological emission into the rest of Mexico’s poverty-stricken regions, mainly by propagating the ideology of libertarian socialism, which had recently been garnering popularity among post-secondary students and returning socialist veterans of the Second Russian Civil War who were disillusioned with the rigidity of Soviet bureaucratic communism.
“We see the resurgence of the fascist reactionaries who have been enhanced by the global capitalists, and indeed, they have been instrumental in the exposure of the decrepit falsehood of Soviet centralization of the socialist ideology. Unlike the Soviet government, our movement does not seek to centralize everything, but to build a network of autonomous communities founded on sustainment,” Subcomandante Marcos explains in front of curious onlookers after his subordinates had raided a police station for weapons. “We are also prepared for an armed conflict with the Mexican government if they choose to suppress our movement, since they are the main lackeys of the global capitalists who have neglected the welfare of the marginalized communities for decades.”
Although the Mexican government has come out in opposition to the Zapatista uprising, President de Gortari has made it clear that the Mexican military can combat the uprising. However, various unconfirmed reports released by whistleblowers indicate that elements of the Mexican military and Mexican intelligence are seeking assistance from the United States, Chile, and the Philippines, in the fight against the Zapatistas, should the suppression of the uprising end in failure. However, a bigger problem has arisen for both the Mexican and American governments, as the Sadinista government of Nicaragua is interested in aiding the Zapatista in their struggle, in return for Nicaragua opening its borders for potential Zapatista followers who wished to escape from Mexican government retribution. A prominent general of the Mexican Army, one General Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro, has not only criticized the inability of the Mexican police to foil the Zapatista raids into various police stations throughout Chiapas province, but has threatened the Chiapan provincial government with military intervention unless they demonstrate their capability to restore order.
“We have the Nicaraguans coming out in support of these terrorists in Chiapas, and I am insisting to the Mexican government, and the military, to root out the terrorists before they deal any more damage,” General Chaparro complains in front of his subordinates during a meeting in Jalisco. “The Americans have failed to stop the Sadinistas, and they are retreating back to the United States with their tails between their legs. If the Americans fail to stop the Nicaraguans, who then, will stop the Sadinistas from joining forces with the Zapatistas and engulf Central America in flames?”
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“It looks like our friends in the Mexican military are becoming worried about the influx of Second Russian Civil War veterans who fought on the loyalist side inside Chiapas. General Chaparro has contacted Mr. North for assistance, and I think we can convince our Cowboy pals to lend us a hand. It looks like we will ask General Corbalan for assistance as well, since his boys recently came back from their mission in the Caucasus, and they are up for the job as well. As for General Tadiar, I think that the newly retrained and reformed Philippine military will be assessed for their performance in this conflict, and because they will fight on the offense, instead of on defense, I think Tadiar’s boys will impress a lot of people within our Agency. Well, I guess it is time for us to prep the old planes and let the head honchos in the Corporate Air Services know that they are getting new passenger planes for their business. Moreover, ‘Racoon’ has just told me that our contacts within South Korean intelligence has expressed their interest in establishing connections with the Mexican military, to see if they are interested in having their officers and soldiers retrained, though not by the Chileans, but by the South Koreans. Gentlemen, it looks like we Corsairs are about to rake in the dough, by the millions. We also get the juicy bonus of taking out some Reds in our own backyard as well, to make up for our screw ups in Nicaragua.” ‘Mistress’, about the CIA Corsairs’ request made to them by General Chaparro for assistance against the Zapatistas.
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The Jesse Jackson Administration (1992-1996)
President: Jesse Jackson
Vice President: Jerry Brown
Secretary of State: Bob Kerrey
Secretary of Treasury: Dianne Feinstein
Secretary of Defense: George Joulwan
Attorney General: Janet Reno
Secretary of the Interior: Joseph "Joe" Biden
Secretary of Agriculture: Mike Espy
Secretary of Commerce: Alan Greenspan
Secretary of Labor: Bill Clinton
Secretary of Energy: Hazel R. O’Leary
Secretary of Education: Maggie Wallace Glover
Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Wesley Clark
Counselor to the President: Madeleine Albright
Director of the Office of Management and Budget: Hilary Pennington
United States Trade Representative: Ann Veneman
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Portions from the NBC Interview with Former Counselor to the President Madeleine Albright
NBC (Interview broadcasted on February 17, 2008)
Discussing the Filipino-Chilean Joint Venture in the Zapatista Uprising
Interviewer: Madam Albright, the news of the entry of Filipino and Chilean volunteers, many of whom had served in the peacekeeping mission in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, into Mexico, was something of a shock to the Jesse Jackson Administration. I recall hearing President Jackson’s angry rants about ‘destabilizing the Mexican province of Chiapas’ as something counter-productive to the prosperity of the Western Hemisphere. What was your opinion on that?
Albright: I do not blame President Jackson for losing his temper like that, especially when I brought up the Chilean graduates of the infamous School of the Americas to his attention. Suddenly, I started talking to Filipino American political refugees and asked them on their opinion of Artemio Tadiar’s military adventurism in Latin America, and they did not like it one bit. In fact, one of the veterans of the Filipino Civil War told me that different volunteers had replaced the perpetrators of the infamous AWOLGate scandal, and that his former best friend is among the volunteers.
Interviewer: The presence of Filipino and Chilean volunteers in Chiapas was rather controversial, given that Chilean military officers who graduated from the School of the Americas, were hired by Major General Tadiar to help retrain and reform the Philippine military. Alvaro Corbalan was reported to have selected junior officers who were given positions in the Philippine Military Academy, and he also had a hand in selecting Chilean officers who had experience in running the death camps back in Chile, to help train Filipino security officers run their death camps in the Philippines. Do you agree with the assessment that the Philippines is transforming into, and to quote your own words, ‘the bastard child of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan on the Equator’?
Albright: Yes, I agree with the statement. Given that one of the camps that was operational in the Philippines held experiments, using captured left-wing activists as guinea pigs, it certainly invokes the nightmare of Unit 731. The camp close to the city of Cabanatuan, as I heard a rumor about it, had a primitive gas chamber. That is something straight out of Auschwitz.
Interviewer: All right, sorry for getting off topic. Official reports obtained by the US Department of Defense revealed that Oaxaca was the primary destination for the arrival of the Filipino and Chilean mercenaries, as the Zapatistas called them. Did it not make more sense to simply drop them off at Chiapas?
Albright: Well, the Corsairs were a kind of people that mostly kept to themselves, but the main plan was that all the mercenaries would invade Chiapas from Oaxaca. The invasion plan ran into several problems, mainly the issue of the airfields, and the level of secrecy involved. Well, the secret was already out of the bag when a Corporate Air Service aircraft came under a minor anti-aircraft fire while flying over Chiapas.
Interviewer: Yes, that is true. We did not get any member of the CIA Corsair faction for this interview, but it has become common knowledge that Oliver North belonged to the Corsairs, correct?
Albright: (nods in agreement) North was the only public face of the Corsairs, just as former Vice President Bush Sr. was the public face of the Cowboys. It is also worth mentioning that the Cowboys did not travel to the Philippines for their activities because they had a competition with the Corsairs on what kind of illegal activities would they conduct.
Interviewer: All right then. (pauses) How was it that the entire world had suddenly became more sympathetic to the Zapatistas, who were, until now, a minor nuisance within the Mexican government?
Albright: It was in March of 1994 that the Zapatistas made a wild claim that they found a makeshift internment camp where their captured troops were being kept, and they also claimed that they found them in an emaciated condition. However, the next month, more Zapatista captives rescued by their friends had revealed that they were subjected to all kinds of torture, degradation, and dehumanizing torment.
Interviewer: I see. Should we just pause for a moment to warn the audience about this?
Albright: (shakes her head) No. Although it pains me to do so, I must repeat what I read in the official reports.
Interviewer: All right, so the audience should be prepared for some uneasiness as we hear the contents of the report. We recall that this report was made by the Brazilian Ambassador to Mexico when he was contacted by Subcomandante Marcos to reveal the horrors that his comrades had gone through. Can you please tell us?
Albright: (sighs) According to the Brazilian Ambassador, there were five male Zapatista captives who were found with severed fingers, broken jaws, and skins flayed off. They were flayed while being hung upside down. In addition, six female auxiliaries of the Zapatistas were found to have been raped and impaled alive, and they even told us that four Filipino mercenaries trained by Chilean graduates of the School of the Americas had applied what they learned. In May of 1994, on the coast from the town of Chahuites, several local fishermen noticed a pack of Mexican hornsharks circling around the water and they saw a severed leg on the jaws of the hornshark. It was revealed that the captured Zapatistas were tied up and were shot before their corpses were thrown into the sea.
Interviewer: I am guessing that it was the Filipino mercenaries who committed this war crime, right?
Albright: Yes, because in 2005 a former Philippine Marine Corps officer who defected to Australia had come forward with photographic evidence of mass executions committed by the Philippine Navy, in which seven dozen left-wing activists were machine gunned into the waters of Asid Gulf, and the sharks were lured by fresh blood. Whoever taught them this kind of execution method, I honestly hope that they get a life sentence for each murdered victim.
Interviewer: All right. In any case, the war crimes committed by the mercenaries had singlehandedly revitalized the Zapatista movement, to the point where the uprising has become a de facto civil war, with Mexico falling into a de jure civil war in July of 1995, when Chiapas was virtually taken over by the Zapatistas. It was at that moment when General Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro became known to the entire Mexican state as another authoritarian who would crush the Zapatista revolt. In fact, around this same period, we saw Alvaro Corbalan launch his own coup, when it became apparent that the leftists were trying to regain power in Chile. Coupled with Tadiar’s near death experience during the Chinese conflict, it looked like the world was on the brink of a Third World War.
Albright: In hindsight, President Jackson’s naivety in foreign policy, along with Vice President Brown’s inability to rely on foreign policy experts had doomed the Jackson administration. Half of the time that the Jackson administration ran foreign policy, I was usually consulted. The events in the Balkans had bothered me a bit, since we saw the Croats virtually annex Hercegovina without a peep of protest from the international community, but in the Caucasus, the Azeri victory over Armenia, because of the UN peacekeepers’ intervention in the Last Stand at Khojaly, had evaporated any sympathy that the Armenians had left from the same international community. On top of that, the execution of Abdullah Ocalan in September of 1995 had added the fuel to the flames of the Kurdish revolt, but Turkey, Iran, Syria, and Iraq did not care if it escalated, because that was an excuse that they were looking for when they decided to launch a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Kurds within their own countries. The Kurdish populations of Iran, Turkey, and Syria were forced at gunpoint to move to Iraqi Kurdistan, and that added another set of problems to Saddam Hussein, who now had to deal with more Kurds in his country, in addition to a Shia uprising in the south, and the Basra SAJ that Iran had propped up, suddenly became more powerful, with the addition of Iraqi Army conscripts who defected to the Basra SAJ. To be honest, it was President Kemp who oversaw the unexpected event that happened on December 30, 1996: Saddam Hussein’s regime had simply collapsed, with the Iraqi dictator being shot by one of his guards, a certain Ra’ad al-Hamdani, who had become disgusted with the amount of corruption that was going on in Iraq.
Interviewer: And it might also explain why Iraq retaliated by expelling its Turkmen population by sending them into Turkey, which the Turkish government was all too happy to take them in. The depopulated areas of Rojava were then resettled with Assyrians, or Syriac Christians. It would also explain Armenia’s weird romance with China, given the geographical distance between them.
Albright: To be honest, the Azeri victory was also partly due to the peacekeepers being led by their emotions, rather than their brains, though I am impressed at the amount of Azeri war brides immigrating to Indonesia and the Philippines. However, in hindsight, the foreign policy failure on the part of President Jackson is exactly how Jack Kemp capitalized on it, and used that to win the 1996 US Presidential Election.
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* Azerbaijan IOTL had never recognized the Armenian Genocide, and thus would follow Turkey's official stance on it, calling it the '1915 Incident'. The same happens here ITTL, though even Azerbaijan's TTL allies might recognize the Armenian Genocide as a 'massacre', though not calling it a genocide, to avoid angering Turkey and Azerbaijan.
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