Rogue Generals V2 Reboot: A Different Post-EDSA Uno Philippines TL

Okay, thanks.

You would be surprised by the upcoming update, and I do have plans for the Vizcondes, as their massacre would be butterflied away.

Sorry for the long delay, everyone, as I had a surgery lately, so I wasn't able to get caught up on the updates. Moreover, I'm also planning a new TL centered around the Philippine-American War with an 1899 PoD, so stayed tuned to it. Finally, I would probably need help with the ideas and scenarios for the long overdue overhaul of my first serious TL that I made in ah.com, which was a realistic scenario resulting in the Pearl of the Orient under the rule of the Tsar.

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CHAPTER THIRTY FIVE: THE SECOND RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR PART ONE - BLOOD

BREAKING! MOLDOVAN SEPARATIST FORCES LAUNCH JOINT ATTACK AGAINST SOVIET UNITS STATIONED IN TRANSNISTRIA ALONGSIDE UKRAINIAN PRO-INDEPENDENCE FORCES
Sydney Herald
May 31, 1990


Romanian Army units enter Moldovan territory as they make their way to the Transnistrian frontlines. Romania's intervention in the Transnistria conflict has helped the breakaway Moldovan Republic break free from the Soviet Union.

(Tiraspol, MOLDOVAN SSR) - Approximately 0200 hours Moldovan time, Soviet officials had announced that the Soviet forces stationed in the breakaway republic of Transnistria had been subjected to an artillery barrage from Moldovan paramilitary forces. The sudden attack against the Soviet Army inside Moldova comes at a time when much of the former Warsaw Pact nations are dealing with violent anti-communist uprisings that ended their unpopular regimes. From the downfall of Poland's communist regime to a short military coup launched by Bulgarian officers against the regime of Todor Zhivkov back in early January of 1990, the communist bloc is on the verge of complete collapse. The Moldovan surprise attack had also been carefully planned with the help of both Ukrainian pro-independence forces and Romanian military intelligence agents sent to facilitate the planned reunification of Moldova with Romania. While both the Moldovan and Ukrainian pro-independence paramilitary units outnumber the Soviet 14th Guards Army, which was commanded by Lieutenant General Yuri Netkachev. Though the surprise attack was sudden, the Soviet 14th Guards Army have been reinforced by other regiments and brigades that are coming back from their tour in Afghanistan. Soviet Premier Anatoly Lukyanov has also announced a general preparedness for all Soviet forcces throughout all of the 15 republics within the Soviet Union, including the breakaway republics seeking independence.

"Make no mistake about this. The Union has now come under attack from within as Romanian irredentists, along with Ukrainian counter-revolutionaries and ethno-separatists, are seeking to start the breakup of the Soviet Union," says Lukyanov during an emergency session in the Kremlin, where several delegates from the Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Moldovan and Ukrainian republics have chosen to walk out of the session, declaring their intention to suspend their participation in the Politburo. "However, even within the breakaway republics, we still have loyalists who are interested in preserving the Union, and will not hesitate to punish those secessionists."

Moldovan and Ukrainian paramilitary forces only had a month to prepare for their planned war of independence, but events outside their control had spiralled out of control, with the infamous Clash of the Dinamos that marred the 1990 Soviet Cup grabbing the attention of the international press. Moreover, additional unsanctioned gatherings had degenerated into riots between Soviet OMON personnel and pro-independence groups seeking confrontation with the Soviet government, as various separatist leaders are now openly calling for the dissolution of the USSR and the independence of their respective republics. In Moldova, newly elected President Petru Lucinschi has announced the formation of a new Moldovan military that will consist of defecting and deserting Moldovan soldiers fleeing from the Red Army, while asking for assistance from neighboring Romania for help as well. Additionally, Ukrainian pro-independence groups have seized control of both the Mariinskyi Palace and the building where the newly established Verkhovna Rada holds its inaugural meeting, with Kyiv itself coming under the control of the protesters. Additionally, several Soviet military formations have opted to switch their allegiance to the newly established Ukrainian National Republic, although the Soviet nuclear weapons units are also divided between those who favor independence, those who want to remain with the Soviet Union, and those who are seeking to secede from the Ukrainian National Republic to form their own breakaway republic.

"Many of the oblasts within the now-extince Ukrainian SSR have declared their secession from the Soviet Union and are joining the Ukrainian National Republic. We welcome their courage and determination to free themselves from the chains of Soviet terror and Russian imperialism," says newly appointed Defense Minister Ihor Tenyukh, during a military procession of the new soldiers that are now parading under the Ukrainian flag. "With God's help we will not only succeed in preserving our independence, but we will also reclaim the lands that the Muscovites have stolen from us, from the Donbass to the Don-Kuban region!"

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SOVIET LOYALIST FORCES IN EASTERN UKRAINE SEIZE CONTROL OF ADMINISTRATIVE BUILDINGS, TWO NEW BREAKAWAY ENTITIES FORMED WITH SOLE INTENTION OF ADMISSION INTO RUSSIAN SFSR AS NEW REPUBLICS
Vancouver Sun
June 12, 1990


Soviet troops formerly stationed in Hungary arrive at a military base, just outside Belgorod. The former Southern Group of Forces, which had been stationed in Hungary, prior to January of 1990, had withdrawn into Soviet territory, but would not arrive at the Russian SFSR until June of this year.

(Slavyansk, UKRAINIAN SSR) - In response to the unilateral declaration of independence announced by the newly formed Ukrainian government under the control of the National Emergency Committee, several Soviet loyalist forces, along with self-declared anti-fascist groups and Russian refugees fleeing from other parts of Ukraine, have launched a revolution of their own. Early yesterday morning, local time, approximately 900 Soviet Red Army soldiers have led a procession into the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk as pro-Soviet demonstrators have seized control of various administrative buildings throughout eastern Ukraine. Two new breakaway republics have been formed as a result of the pro-Soviet protests that have now dominated much of the wider Donbass region: the Chernozyomskoye Sovereign Republic that declared Kharkov as its capital, and the Priazovye Sovereign Republic, which declared Slavyansk as its capital. Additionally, Soviet forces stationed in the region have announced their allegiance to the two breakaway republics, while over 5,000 Soviet Red Army soldiers have opted to defect to the breakaway Ukrainian Republic. As a result, there's several outbreaks of skirmishes that have broken out throughout the entirety of Eastern Ukraine, as the two breakaway republics are seeking to consolidate their control before pursuing talks of a merger.

"Fascism will never pass through these lands, as long as there are many loyal citizens of the Union that will prevent these new breed of Banderists from conquering us!" says the newly self-appointed leader of the unrecognized breakaway Chernozyomskoye Sovereign Republic Viktor Nazarenko, who had opted to remain loyal to the Union instead of defecting. "We are loyal citizens of the Ukrainian Soviet Sovereign Republic, and we intend to defend the legitimate territorial integrity of the UkSSR."

In addition to the appointment of Brigadier General Nazarenko as the new head of the Chernozyomskoye Sovereign Republic, another Soviet general who was acting as the head of the Siberian Military District in the Russian SFSR before Premier Lukyanov has appointed him as the new commander of the Soviet forces stationed in both Crimea and the other breakaway Priazovye Sovereign Republic in Oleksander Zatynaiko. General Zatynaiko had been recalled from his Siberian post to help organize and train the paramilitary forces that are defending the PSR, while Brigadier General Nazarenko helped organize the armies of the ChSR. In response, the National Emergency Committee under new head of state Ihor Tenyukh has issued orders for the liquidation of those two Soviet generals organizing the breakaway republics's armies. However, Admiral Tenyukh has more pressing matters, as Soviet forces are poised to besiege and attack the Ukrainian border city of Sumy.

"The residents of Sumy are well prepared to resist the Soviet reconquest of the city, and we're helping them too. We have given the Sovoks the bloody nose in Ribky, and we're not afraid to do so again," says Kyrylo Naumchuk, a volunteer within the newly formed Ukrainian Defense Force, which was organized by Admiral Tenyukh as the premier military of Ukraine. "With the help of God and the West, we will preserve our independence from Russian imperialist revanchism."

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"The fall of Tiraspol to the joint Romanian-Moldovan-Ukrainian forces in July 3 of 1990 had been a significant turning point in the Moldovan theater of the Second Russian Civil War. Once that city had fell, the Romanians, Moldovans, and Ukrainians have started to launch a campaign of terror against the Russian residents of the region as they gave them approximately 48 hours to pack their belongings and to leave their homes throughout Transnistria. This, in conjuction to the other attempts to expel the predominantly Russian speakers of southern Ukraine by the Tenyukh regime, has galvanized much of the Russian public, as they were now calling to help save their compatriots that are now in danger of being massacred. In response, the Soviet Black Sea Fleet had mobilized its warships, plus deploying several transport vessels as well to help evacuate the Russian speaking civilians, plus the actual ethnic Russian residents of southern Ukraine from Transnistria and southern Ukraine. The expellees that have left Transnistria and southern Ukraine have now resettled in both Crimea and the two eastern Ukrainian breakaway republics of Priazovye and Chernozyomskoye. Most of these expellees would go on to form paramilitary forces that would be sent to southern Ukraine against the Ukrainian army, alongside the Priazovye Self-Defense Force as they aimed at expanding their territory from beyond the Donbass to Odessa. With such brutality against anti-Soviet elements within eastern Ukrainian society, the Russian paramilitaries operating in southern Ukraine would gain a reputation for violent behavior and destructive temper, as reprisals were sadly common. In sharp contrast, the Soviet siege of Sumy from July 2nd to August 19th surpassed the Siege of Leningrad as the bloodiest siege in Soviet history, with additional 34,000 civilians being killed in action. Violent acts of ethnic cleansing had now broken out throughout the western regions of the former Soviet Union, as Baltic and other Russian paramilitary forces operating in that region had began to massacre each other's population in an orgy of ethnic hatred. Danzig Baldayev, one of the few Soviet NKVD interrogators and later appointed head of the notorious Siberian Taiga Brigade, which consisted of Siberian and primarily non-Russian ethnic minorities who were sent to the Baltic States to help the Russian paramilitaries there with the slaughter of a large number of Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians, had been convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The presence of the infamous Taiga Brigade had already galvanized much of Europe's far-right movements and encouraged the formations of anti-communist volunteer units under the banner of a new pan-European quasi-legion called Europa Invicta. Formed on the ideological basis of anti-communism, neo-fascism, extreme white nationalism, and cultural chauvinism, the European volunteers were trained by ex-Red Army officers that defected to their respective breakaway republics. In addition, noted former US National Security Advisor during the Carter administration Zbigniew Brzezinski had also helped organize the non-European (primarily American, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealander) volunteers to fight the Soviet Red Army, but his enlistment of notorious ex-KKK Grand Wizard David Duke's assistance had resulted in his political career declining until the Kemp administration's decision to appoint him Secretary of State, in light of his 1995 eventual defection from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party. Moreover, Brzezinski's decision to recruit a large number of former and active KKK members was seen as a huge mistake on his part, because both the KKK and Europa Invicta had began to cultivate an alliance that eventually spelled doom for the non-white minorities that were living in Europe, North America, and Australia. Shockingly enough, a few KKK members and various Europa Invicta personnel had also reached out to Artemio Tadiar's regime in the Philippines in hopes of expelling the Filipino political exiles from the West, and back to the Philippines, where they are certainly going to be executed for opposing the military junta. The first deployment of Europa Invicta brigades was in the town of Kortelisy, where they were placed in charge of the settlement's defenses against an expected Soviet thrust from southwestern Belarus. To the horror of Europa Invicta, the Soviet Air Force opted to drop a large number of white phosphorus and incindiary bombs into that settlement, wiping out most of the defenders there, allowing the Soviet forces to launch a ground attack on Kortelisy, which they easily took within six hours after the fires had subsided." From 'The Death of the Soviet Union Episode One: Blood'

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ANTI-UN PROTESTS ERUPT ACROSS RUSSIA AS COMMEMORATION OF USSR'S DISSOLUTION AS EXTREME FACTIONS WITHIN RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT CALL FOR DEPARTURE FROM UNITED NATIONS
Edmonton Journal
August 23, 2020


Far-left and far-right protesters gather in Isetgrad as they called for Russia's withdrawal of its membership in the United Nations. Almost over 86% of the population across Russia favor leaving from international organizations, with Russophobia as their main reasoning.

(Isetgrad, RUSSIA) - For the third straight day, numerous political factions across Russia have held political demonstrations against their country's membership in the United Nations, citing the international organization as the main reason for the expulsion of the former Soviet Union from the UN for various war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Second Russian Civil War. The anti-UN protests, led by noted Russian ultranationalist and known far-right activist Ilya Cherkasov, had been rather peaceful, until a few disturbances transformed the peaceful gathering into a violent demonstration. The protesters had not only called for Russia's departure from the United Nations, but also called for Russia's voluntary suspension of its participation in every inernational organization, citing their 'subversive' role in undermining Russian national sovereignty. Far-left protesters participating in the event agreed with their ideological opponents' call for Russian withdrawal from all international organizations, though they are also calling for the strengthening of the Eurasian Union State, which has come to replace the forcibly dissolved USSR.

"Although we are not comfortable with the presence of Nazis and fascists on these streets, they have the right idea on what to do with Russian national sovereignty," says Igor Lopukhin, a 27 year old Russian navy conscript who is participating in the march. "It is about time that we integrate much of Central Asia into a new Soviet Union, and my parents and grandparents are proud members of the National Bolshevik Party."

The re-admission of not only Russia, but the other republics that were a part of the Soviet Union, was controversial within the Russian public, as the UN's demands for a complete dissolution of the Soviet Union was one of the prerequisites for the re-admission. Former Russian President Gennady Burbulis had presided over the unpopular decision to accept the UN's demands for re-admission, which eventually led to his 2000 presidential electoral defeat to Aman Tuleyev, who only served for one term until 2005 when he was eventually unseated by Dimitry Rogozin. Rogozin would go on to become the first President of Russia to serve two terms, before succeeding by Aleksey Zhuravlyov. Both Rogozin and Zhuravlyov had campaigned for Russia's withdrawal of its UN membership during their presidential campaign, though so far, there has been a small progress in their efforts. However, only the liberal and center-right factions have opposed Russian withdrawal of its membership from the UN, citing it as a necessary measure in rehabilitating its image after the Second Russian Civil War.

"Why are we seeing a lot of people calling for Russia's departure from not only the UN, but all the other international organizations? In the age of globalization, we cannot afford to remain isolationist. Look at what happened to the former North Korea before it reunited with the former South Korea. They have a lot to catch up on after decades of isolation, and the Korean Federal Republic is not helping itself when its citizens are also calling for their country to withdraw from international affairs," says Andrey Nechaev, who leads the reformist political party Societal Alternative. "We are not helping ourselves when we allow fringe elements to hijack the anti-globalization movement, which can easily harm Russia's image in the world."

However, the majority of the Russian public isn't in the mood to listen to those politicians who opposed them. Noted Rogozhin protege Nikolay Kuryanovich, who is a rising star in the Russian National Salvation Party, had also voiced his support for Russia's withdrawal from the UN, citing the UN's role in the notorious fringe conspiracy theory of being the vehicle of a one world government. Moreover, Kuryanovich has also been a staunch follower of notorious Russian neo-pagans in the late Aleksey Dobrovolskiy and Valeriy Yemelyanov, whose works on the neo-fascist Hyperborea ideology, which has been the driving force behind the policies that he supports.

"I don't care if our country's image is tarnished in the eyes of the so-called international community. After all, they are naturally against us and has a deep seated loathing of everything Russian," says Kuryanovich during the rally when asked by sympathetic reporters aligned to the National Salvation Party. "Mr. Ivanov-Sukharevsky always said that the entire world will always be against Russia and its interests because they seek to subjugate us in the name of globalism. We are fighting against that destructive and subversive force."

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WANTED NOTORIOUS FORMER VOLUNTEER CAPTURED IN BHUTAN AFTER DECADES OF MANHUNT
Japan Times
May 21, 2013

(TRONGSA, BHUTAN) - The international community has reacted with shock and surprise when it received news that former member of the notorious Siberian Taiga Brigade Gansukh Pagaspas, had been apprehended by Bhutanese authorities while attempting to cross the border into the Tibet Autonomous Region. Gansukh Pagaspas, better known as Hubert Webb Pagaspas, had been a volunteer in the Second Russian Civil War from 1991 until the end of that conflict in 1995, in which he would later resettle in Mongolia to study Vajrayana Buddhism after he converted in a private ceremony. Though he initially lived in the United States, Pagaspas would eventually travel to Asia for vacation, with his layover in Japan, before flying over to the Soviet Union. Though he initially wanted to visit the Soviet Union as a tourist, Soviet authorities had apprehended him on the grounds that he didn't have a proper tourist visa. It was only after he returned to Japan from his incursion into the USSR that he would visit the Soviet Embassy in Tokyo, asking the Soviet ambassador there to apply for a tourist visa, before being asked if he wanted to volunteer his services in the emerging civil war. Pagaspas's tenure as a member of the notorious Taiga Brigade was marked by his basic training under the leadership of known war criminal, the late Danzig Baldayev. Pagaspas would eventually be sent into the Baltic Front, where he and other Siberian and Asian paramilitaries within the Taiga Brigade were known to have massacred innocent civilians in Estonia and Latvia. Among other activities, Pagaspas was known to have personally tortured Estonian POWs and members of Europa Invicta under Russian and Soviet captivity by water torture and slicing their skins.

"When I was placed in a makeshift POW camp just outside Torvandi, I saw that animal stab one guy in the hand with a knife. My brother told me that he also saw him and a number of his friends dragging female civilians into a small room, and we could hear their cries as those Taiga thugs were raping them," says an unnamed Estonian former paramilitary, when asked about the news of Pagaspas's capture. "Those vicious thugs had taken pleasure in assaulting those women, just to frighten those EI guys that came to fight against Russian aggression."

When the Second Russian Civil War had ended in 1995, Pagaspas would eventually leave the Taiga Brigade to relocate to Mongolia after he visited a Buddhist temple in the Russian Republic of Kalmykia. As he wanted to know more about Buddhism, coupled with his growing anti-Catholic attitude, he had thoughts of going to his native Philippines to serve the Tadiar regime. Unfortunately, the Tadiar regime's emerging relations with Ukraine and its leader in Admiral Ihor Tenyukh had soured his ambitions of serving the noted former military dictator, as the Tadiar regime had promised to help hunt down any Asian volunteer that commmitted war crimes in the former Soviet Union, though the number of Filipinos that joined that warzone was only in dozens, and only nine of them had actually fought for the Soviet loyalist side as former members of the New People's Army. Thus, Pagaspas would stay in Mongolia from 1995, until ten years later when the Korean peninsula reunited and he was tasked by the head of the local Mongolian Vajrayana Buddhist temple in Gandandarjaalin Monastery, located in Khovsgol Province, to help establish a mission in the former North Korea, leading to its foundation of the first Vajrayana Buddhist mission, with Kaesimsa temple as the headquarters of the new Korean Buddhist missionary work. Pagaspas was still an apprentice monk under the leadership of a Bikkhu simply named Batjargal when he was stationed in Kaesimsa. It was there that he changed his name from Hubert to Gansukh, and shaved his head to make himself unrecognizable. In 2010, Kaesimsa temple played host to the 14th Dalai Lama, despite China's protests. Just before Korean Federal Republic authorities learned of Pagaspas's presence in Chilbosan Mountains, the Vajrayana Buddhist clergy had secretly smuggled him out of Korea, through China, and back to Mongolia, where he kept himself on a low profile. His arrival in Bhutan had occurred in 2014, when the Mongolian Buddhist leadership had tasked him with improving ties between Mongolia and Bhutan. His attempt to travel to Tibet had however, ended badly when Bhutanese police, acting upon Interpol's instructions, had captured him, just as he was about to cross the border into Tibet. When news of Pagaspas's capture had also reached his family, most of his family had disowned him as they learned of his activites in the former Soviet Union. His brother Freddie Webb was shocked to hear that one of Pagaspas's favorite pastime was to lock up innocent civilians inside a church, and set it on fire.

"I don't know who that man is, but he only looks like the Hubert Webb that we once knew. That man who looks like him now, he is nothing but a barbaric thug," says Pinky Webb when asked about her opinion of Pagaspas. "As far as I know, he can burn in hell."

Believe it or not, we actually have Buddhist temples in Manila. Most of the temples belong to either the Mahayana or Vajrayana schools of Buddhism (the latter being the Tibetan Palyul Center at Santa Mesa). Fo Guang Shan is the dominant Mahayana school in the Philippines, although given the later stages of the Tadiar regime's growing anti-Chinese paranoia, some of those Mahayana temples might end up being taken over by the Nichiren school, which is another branch of Mahayana Buddhism.

I might actually see the Philippines wanting to sponsor an independent Tibet, though that might also have risks of its own, given the Philippines's own separatist problems. However, in the original version, we saw the formation of a government in exile of a Third East Turkestan Republic, so Tadiar sponsoring a rival to the 14th Dalai Lama might actually pose problems for the Tibetan independence movement. In this case, the Tibetans could thank the junta by obtaining permission to expand their missionary work of promoting Vajrayana Buddhism. Theravada Buddhist monks could be sent from Thailand and Myanmar, as a way of shoring up their ties to Tadiar as well. (I am thinking of either keeping the scenario of Aung San Su Kyi acting as the Burmese Cory, or keeping the OTL junta in place, though with the latter, I might even find a Burmese candidate to become the Burmese Tadiar)

Well, it's been a while since I posted an OMAKE, but I also forgot that a few days ago, it was the 3rd or 2nd anniversary of the original Rogue General series. As this TL is increasingly been placed on a backburner in favor of "El Camino de la Sangre", here's another OMAKE to make up for it.

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Re-OMAKE 10: DAZZLING STAR

"The decline of the Philippine film industry went as far back as the last months of the Marcos dictatorship, but it was Artemio Tadiar's regime that really placed the entire nation's film industry on a stasis, as various Filipino filmmakers fled from their homelands, often ending up in the United States and Canada. Yet, there was one country in which the Filipino political exiles employed in film and cinema had really shined in their work. Australia, which emerged as one of the most popular Anglophone destinations for the Filipino political exiles after the United States and Canada, had a thriving film industry there that was almost unheard of until the rise in popularity among the Australian actors and actresses that were featured on popular screens. While Sydney has been the powerhouse of the Australian film industry, one could not easily write off the town of Mandurah as the emerging second bastion of the Australian film industry. Ambitious film directors that failed in Sydney had migrated to Mandurah to get a fresh start, such as John Hillcoat, who rose to fame for his work on the popular Australian sit com, Boathouse. Boathouse features Brendan Cowell as the main protagonist Jerry Chymes, who was evicted from his Perth apartment by his divorced ex-wife and is now living on the boat that he owned prior to his marriage. Boathouse's work was also aided by an exiled Filipino director named Johnny Manahan, who gave most of his idea to Hillcoat, based on a planned show that he wanted to do back in the Philippines before the Tadiar regime rose to power. Originally called Home Along Da Riles, or Home on the Railroad, much of the ideas and plot lines of that planned show was eventually adopted by Hillcoat for Boathouse. Australia was not the only place where the seeds for the rebirth of the Philippine film industry is being planted. A significant number of Filipino political exiles, along with their families, were stranded in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, since 1988-89, when the former communist government there allowed the Filipino migrant workers in the Middle East to enter Yugoslav territory at a time when much of the rest of Europe and the Anglosphere nations were completely unprepared to take in such large numbers of refugees. On the sleepy town of Adzinci, an emerging film industry was being built to challenge the established centers of film production in Yugoslavia. It was in Adzinci that another Filipino political exile named Edgar Ilarde had collaborated with fellow exile Helen Vela and Princess Punzalan on continuing a popular show that aired since the 1980s called Lovingly Yours, Helen. Adzinci, along with Kosovska Mitrovica, Kragujevac, Pirot, and Bosilegrad, were places that the sequel to Lovingly Yours, Helen had been filmed. The title of the sequel to Lovingly Yours the Movie, My Dear Love Helen, or Ljubavi Moja Jelena in Serbian, features Princess Punzalan as Helen Magtibay, and Coney Reyes as Marina Palad. My Dear Love Helen would be the first Filipino TV series to be filmed entirely in Yugoslavia, owing to the plot of the movie where Helen's life was dramatically changed by the EDSA Revolutions and the Filipino Civil War. Even after the death of Tadiar and the subsequent rise of Hector Tarrazona as the interim dictator until the first free elections were held in 2010, Filipino cinema remained on stasis. It was not until President Grace Poe's administration that entire new Filipino TV shows and movies were being made. Of people worth noting is Ana Yanevska, whose entire life in exile was spent in Bulgaria, where she made a career in singing and acting. Her marriage to Stanislav Yanevski was the highlight of Bulgarian show business, as they would eventually land roles in Game of Thrones after becoming famous for their roles in the TV show Trayko. Romeo Arcilla, who began his career in the military, followed by being casted in various pro-Tadiar propaganda films, was initially stigmatized for being one of the few Filipino actors to remain in the Philippines, until he revealed that he had to stay behind to ensure that he witnessed the history of the Philippines under the Tadiar junta. Eventually, Arcilla's fame would recover, as evident by his role as the President of the Philippines in the People's Champion, which tells a fictional story of the President as he navigates through the murky waters of the post-Tadiar years." From 'The Decline and Rebirth of Filipino Cinema', courtesy of Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation.

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MY DEAR LOVE HELEN/LJUBAVI MOJA JELENA

The sequel to Lovingly Yours the Movie, My Dear Love Helen was filmed in 1996, during the regime of Milan Pancevski in Yugoslavia. Officially, it was declared a joint Filipino-Yugoslav film production, despite the Filipino political exiles' residences in various parts of Yugoslavia. The movie would become a classic hit of the 1990s, as it opened the doors to both newly emerging Filipino actors and actresses, as well as long established Yugoslav actors. Princess Punzalan and Coney Reyes were eventually joined by Ljiljana Blagojevic and Zarko Lausevic, and Rade Serbedzija would later join as well.

Plot:

Helen Matigbay and her family have settled in the city of Bosilegrad after initially living in Iran as migrant workers until the Iran-Iraq War had made their lives precarious. As her family also led a double life as anti-Marcos political activists, they were in danger of returning to the Philippines when Artemio Tadiar rose to power. Life in Bosilegrad was hard for Helen: the locals were suspicious of the Filipino refugees that they thought were staying temporarily, until the governments of Western Europe and the Anglosphere constantly dragged their feet around the issue of Filipino refugees. Even in the midst of discrimination and prejudice, Helen's life would change when she meets Bojan (played by Zarko Lausevic), a local entrepreneur who owns an auto repair shop and a shoe making shop. Both of their families did not approve of their relationship, more so on Helen's family, as they wanted her to remain a Catholic and were not comfortable with dating an Orthodox Christian man. Likewise, Bojan's family was not impressed with his choice of a prospective wife, as they were constantly trying to set him up with another local girl named Radoslava. Things get more complicated when Helen's beauty also attracts the attention of an aspiring saxophone player named Goran (played by Dzej Ramadanovski), who is of Roma desccent. Eventually, the confrontation between the families of Helen and Bojan come to a head, with the family of Goran the Roma saxophone player getting caught up in the middle of it all. The movie ends with Goran eventually falling in love with Radoslava (who is played by Snezana Babic), and Helen marrying Bojan after their families nearly lost them to a car accident.

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CONTROVERSIAL JAPANESE FUTURE HISTORY FILM RELEASES ON WIDE SCREEN ACROSS THE WORLD AS THE REST OF ASIA CALLS FOR THE BAN ON MAHOROBA
Tokyohive
April 17, 2019


Anti-Japan Chinese protesters march through the streets of Beijing in response to the release of a widely acclaimed Japanese future history film Mahoroba.

(Tokyo) - A hotly anticipated future history film is being released on theaters across the world, as Mahoroba is set to shatter box office records in Japan. The movie Mahoroba, tells the story in a future where the entire Asia-Pacific region is teetering on the edge of war as a nationalistic Japanese government is set to announce the first launch of the country's first ballistic nuclear submarine, the Mahoroba-class submarine. The Mahoroba-class ballistic submarine is the brainchild of the joint French-Japanese naval development as a means of diversifying Japan's military technology development, and its presence has alarmed the entirety of the Eurasian Security Treaty Organization, which viewed a nuclear-armed Japan as a dangerous threat to the entire world. However, the Japanese nationalist government's aim in this case, is a rematch of the Pacific War against the United States, only this time their aim is to provoke the US into opening up the first phase of a global nuclear war. Several actors were casted in their roles, including several familiar names that are normally associated with their roles as seiyuus in anime. Fukuyama Jun, Kaida Yuko, Miyano Mamoru, Takeuchi Junko, and Ishida Akira have joined traditional actors like Odagiri Jo, Watanabe Ken, and Sanada Hiroyuki for the movie. Before the official start of the film's production, all of the actors were given basic training by the Japan Maritime National Defense Force, as to familiarize themselves with the military jargon that they're expected to use. Additionally, they also spent three months aboard one of the decommissioned submarines, the JS Arashio. Under the Tamogami government, all of the decommissioned submarines were to be converted to training ships, or sold to friendly allies.

"Working inside a real submarine felt scary at times, and we were coached by various sailors and naval officers of the JMNDF on how they normally interact with each other inside the submarines and surface vessels," Takeuchi comments, when asked about her experience inside the JS Arashio. "We also had to get used to eating the same diet as the JMNDF personnel, but they cooked their meals rather well."

The militaristic tone of Mahoroba has infuriated the populace of China, the Korean Federal Republic, and various other parts of Asia that were occupied by the Japanese during the Greater East Asia War as warmongering propaganda. Various anti-Japan rallies were organized in cities like Beijing, Seoul, Pyongyang, Shanghai, Shenyang, and even in the Russian Far Eastern cities of Khabarovsk and Vladivostok, though the Russian protests there were more aimed at criticizing Japan's real life nuclear ambitions. However, it is also expected that Mahoroba would also be shown in theaters in the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, and India, despite the political protests there. Mahoroba is set to be released on the wide screen on April 20th of this year, adding the fuel to the protests in Russia, as the chosen date of the film's release coincides with the birth of infamous German dictator Adolf Hitler.

"Who is the idiot that decided to release this kind of propagandistic movie on the same birthday as the monster who destroyed Europe?" asks an angry elderly Russian man who served during their country's conflict with Germany from the Battle of Stalingrad to the Soviet Invasion of Manchuria. "It doesn't surprise me that Japan allows the rebirth of fascism to occur, as they were allies with the Nazis."

I did watch Silent Service that was on YouTube, so I did have a little bit of an inspiration from that movie, but I've also taken some inspirations from Hunt for Red October and Widowmaker regarding the nuclear submarine. You could see how a nuclear armed Japan would make the entire world uncomfortable, especially Russia, China, and the United States as well. 

Moreover, I'm not sure if your family was familiar with Loving You, Helen, because from what I heard, it was really popular in the 1980s, and OTL it returned to Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation. ITTL, with the Filipino Civil War happening and Tadiar rising to power, the tone of Loving You Helen would be even more depressing. At least I managed to rework the elements of Home Along Da Riles into TTL's Australian sitcom Boathouse. 

I might also throw in some references in future updates to one of the most iconic songs of the 1970s, Awitin mo At Isasayaw Ko*, as a part of the political exiles' happier times.

*Translates to You Sing and I'll Dance

ITTL, with Japan lifting Article 9, that also opens up several new opportunities for Japan to diversify its military hardware development, and given that the EU would most likely be the bloc that can give Japan the military tech it needs, it would make Japanese weapons a lot more appealing to Third World nations that have a small budget. Mini-submarines would definitely be on top of the list of Japan's naval needs, followed by ASW vessels as well. Unlike what happened in canon Silent Service, its TTL counterpart would involve America being forced to turn to Russia and China in order to stop Japan from becoming a nuclear armed rogue nation.

Chances are that the Shake, Rattle, and Roll horror anthology series might not have a sequel, given that the actors involved would reside in several different countries, so a lot of the famous Filipino films that were popular in the 1990s would not be made. TTL's Filipino cinema would be in stasis, or it would be converted into constant propaganda machine for the Tadiar regime. Come to think of it, VST and Co. ended their active service in the music industry in 1983, long before Tadiar even became a notorious figure. I could also see the scenario from the POV of a political exile and their lives abroad in exile, while playing VST's songs. However, Eat Bulaga would abruptly end by 1990.