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“That’s just karma, isn’t it?”

Not only the existing White Army generals but also the new generation joining us, like Zhukov, Tukhachevsky, Vlasov, and Vasilevsky, agreed with my method.

“If we do this, we can rebuild the Danube and German land, and France, which always flips regimes and is a threat, won’t even be able to raise an army freely.”

This solves everything. If we can’t kill them all barbarically, we simply strip them of their capacity to start a war at all.

“Then, let’s capture their main forces head-on.”

We’ve got them pinned down here and are applying pressure from the south, so it’s advantageous for us, not unfavorable.

If we push forward recklessly and get hurt, it might look like we’re using a nuke as an asymmetric weapon due to our lack of strength.

We’ll apply overwhelming pressure here sporadically, and if they refuse to surrender even then, we’ll throw it at them.

This should give us enough justification.

And we have Pétain, who will take the blame for us.

They are probably trying to target me, gathering forces and shelling our side, but those who attempt such things turned to ashes from our bombers and artillery.

And soon after, a disaster befell the Commune.

“Your Majesty, British forces have landed in Brittany.”

“Brittany, you say?”

The British have landed directly in Brittany?

“Yes, Your Majesty. The French Commune forces didn’t defend properly and succeeded in the landing.”

So this was what they were hiding.

If it started in Brittany, Normandy wouldn’t be far behind.

This would deal quite a blow to the French Commune.

Could Britain really pressure Paris now?

I bet Churchill is truly well-prepared this time.

Even Churchill, well, he became Mister Dunkirk, but will he really end up as Mister Brittany?

With the British Army threatening from the north and the Spanish and Italian Federal armies coming from the south, yet they refuse to surrender. That’s a bit much.

“The Italian Federal Army is fighting better than expected.”

“Well, ultimately, it was Mussolini who was the problem.”

With Mussolini out and Italy divided, the armies of the Two Sicilies, the Papal States, and the Kingdom of Piedmont are moving quickly.

“The Unthinkable Operation you planned, Your Majesty, to rearm the Italian Army was truly a great plan.”

“But they are following us surprisingly well.”

“To survive, they have no choice.”

Having felt our overwhelming power, the Italians have to act to curry favor with us.

“Since I thought their combat capacity was terrible anyway, I was just thinking of using them as cannon fodder. However, unexpectedly, them fighting well can be seen as their will to present themselves favorably to us, given how Mussolini messed it up.”

“But if it continues like this, they’ll just be destroyed. Isn’t it time to make a decision? The Commune must know that the British have landed, yet they aren’t surrendering. It seems they truly want to perish.”

“Hmm, that’s true. Let’s summon Pétain.”

The end of the Commune will come at the hands of our General Pétain.

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Not long after, members of Free France who had joined us came to see me.

Pétain had become even more haggard in just a few days.

He must be acutely aware that the country is at its end.

“General Pétain, have you made a decision? Whether our allied forces value their lives more or not is up to your judgment. Of course, we will encourage the citizens to evacuate by air in Paris for a few days. We’ll lend you weapons, so please finish it with the strength of France. This way, it’ll seem like Free France has done enough after the war. We will provide the stage for you.”

Isn’t it right for you to finish it with your own hands?

That’s the plan; to finish it off with French bombers.

“I understand. I will strike the Commune leadership.”

“Yes. We will gladly assist.”

Pétain gulped, his throat twitching, then bowed his head deeply.

He must realize how difficult the situation has become.

“Anyway, we have no choice, do we? Please do it.”

“Tsar, please show mercy to France. Please.”

De Gaulle stepped forward.

To ask for mercy for France. But it’s too late for that.

It’s clear that the entire nation is flipped upside down because revolutionary elements are mixed in the bodies of the French people.

So purifying it with nukes is fitting.

“I have seen Commander de Gaulle during the Red-White Civil War. Out of respect for that relationship, I’m allowing you to maintain even a bit of the mainland.”

“How can that be? Isn’t that impossible?”

Naturally, it’s impossible. If it were just my thought, it wouldn’t matter, but Hitler agreed on the tearing point, and Churchill, too, wants to tear it apart somehow.

“It won’t do for Free France, but anyway, the Commune government dominated the mainland, and they have caused us irreparable damage. At the very least, they must pay the price. I managed to persuade Chancellor Hitler and Prime Minister Churchill with all my might to let Free France maintain even a bit of the mainland they’ll govern, considering my relationship with General de Gaulle. Chancellor Churchill also said he would approve if the French military directly eliminated the Commune so that Free France becomes the legitimate French government.”

A bit of embellishment was added, but based on Churchill’s character, it’s a possibility.

However, our Mr. de Gaulle doesn’t seem easily convinced.

“France cannot be torn like this!”

“General de Gaulle, if the nation can at least persist, it will unify again someday, right?”

Just like East and West Germany did.

Though I didn’t persuade, a fitting stage has been set for it, but I didn’t ‘desperately’ persuade directly.

From the start, Hitler was only concerned with liberating the south of Germany, beating Serbia, and dealing with the betrayer Italy, so he had no particular interest in the downfall of France.

Churchill only wanted Brittany and Normandy. He didn’t say anything more. Anyway, he just made appropriate remarks.

Now, since Pétain gave his consent, what remains is nothing but the nuke.

“Well, since Free France also wants to eradicate the Commune, we can’t spare them any longer.”

Now it’s time for the all-powerful nuke.

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Russian Republic, Moscow

The National Duma of the Russian Republic tasked Alisa Rosenbaum, who worked at the Moscow Broadcasting Station and reported news from the Kremlin, to inform the entire Russian populace about the justification for nuclear weapons via radio.

Very concisely and briefly.

[People of the United States. Our Tsar, concerned for the sacrifices of the White Army, made a gracious proposal to the French Commune and Belgrade for conditional surrender, demanding the leaders face war crimes trials and disarmament, but they laughed it off and ignored it. Thus, after much deliberation, His Majesty decided to accept the proposal of the Free France government and create a new sun in Paris. Belgrade will meet the same fate. Now they will taste our Majesty’s wrath. A new sun will rise over Paris and Belgrade. God, protect the Tsar. Protect our Russia!]

A weapon, second to the authority of God to end the war, headed towards Paris and Belgrade.

Meanwhile, Paris, France, was in a slightly better situation than Belgrade.

Even though they were still under pressure from the south, the Spanish and Italian Federal allied forces were manageable.

However, the landing of British forces was not yet known to the citizens due to orders from above.

If the citizens found out about the British landing in the current situation, the Commune leadership would be dragged out by the citizens.

Even if they were to die, they felt they must resist until the very end.

Of course, many hoped to preserve their lives, fearing being summoned for war crimes.

As the resistance continued, something unusual happened one day.

For some strange reason, the anti-air coalition’s Russian troops had gathered at the Belgian border but stopped advancing, only bombarding the People’s Army’s positions and shooting rockets, which destroyed Paris repeatedly while dropping leaflets encouraging the citizens to surrender.

But the citizens of Paris still had no intention of doing so.

The fact that the Russian army wasn’t advancing proved their People’s Army was successfully defending against them!

The previously crumbling Republican Army was incompetent, but the People’s Army was strong!

They almost became a defeated nation but then became a new ally with Germany, living fat while the people of Paris didn’t care what kind of regime it was, as long as it was for the great France.

Of course, not everyone believed that France would win.

At the very least, those with military knowledge were well aware that this war would inevitably lead to France’s defeat.

Amidst that complex and strange mindset of the Parisians, leaflets issued by the imperialist forces fell once more today.

With Paris lacking even paper, it was ridiculous that the enemy was throwing around leaflets like this.

As usual, they viewed it as a surrender suggestion, and still, citizens picked up the leaflets tossed by the imperialists.

“Looks like they’re in such a good state that they can waste paper like this.”

“Since we lost the war anyway, is there any point in holding out?”

“Shh, keep quiet. Don’t you know you’ll be labeled a reactionary for saying anything now?”

“What’s this, though?”

But today was different somehow.

The writing on this leaflet was not a surrender suggestion.

‘Soon, this city of Paris will vanish under the decision of the true government of France, the Free France government, along with the Commune leadership. Citizens of Paris, leave the city before great wrath befalls you.’

“Paris will disappear? What nonsense is that?”

“This must be a threat. Our People’s Army is invincible, so there’s nothing to worry about.”

What kind of weapon exists to do that?

It was surely the Moscow witch spreading nonsense to make people surrender.

On the contrary, the fact that the Russian army, under the order of Anastasia, had stopped advancing led the citizens of Paris to believe that it signified the end of the Russian offensive. If they just hold their defense, the imperialists might negotiate in exhaustion.

Even the Free France government? After showing incompetence and getting cleansed during the war, isn’t it an unworthy government to be still around?

Though they might be enduring through special rations, surely they could overcome it someday.

But after a few days of this continued situation, the missile strikes and bombings on Paris completely ceased.

There were no attacks directed toward Paris anymore, nor were there any notable battles even on the front line.

The core citizens of Paris, the Commune, could instinctively feel that something was going wrong.

Some intellectuals left Paris, but as the numbers increased, the People’s Army blocked people from leaving.

“The imperialists are merely bluffing! If anyone is misled by the sound and tries to escape Paris, they will be deemed collaborators with the imperialists and executed!”

Already, several people had been publicly executed as a warning across Paris.

The very idea of a weapon capable of erasing Paris? No matter how strong Russia is said to be, could they create such a thing?

In the underground bunker of Paris, members of the Commune, like Thorez and the Communist German Goebbels, were skeptical.

“There’s no way such a weapon exists.”

“Indeed. This is likely Russia’s plan to divide us.”

Thorez, being the last remnant of the Red Front, shouted that surrender would be akin to the French Republic and vowed to fight to the end. Goebbels, Kaitel, and Yodel, among the Communist German command, likewise resolved to fight until the end since they had come this far.

And at last, that day arrived.

On a day like any other, as citizens were receiving rations and struggling to survive while enjoying this inexplicable peace, suddenly, an airplane appeared in the skies over Paris.

The aircraft, boldly proclaiming “This is a French plane!” displayed a squadron of bombers decked in the flag of Free France.

Unlike the usual atmosphere of dropping leaflets, this felt different.

All anti-air installations, aircraft, and everything had been neutralized, so sending interceptors against those bombers was hardly easy; citizens could only flee.

The bombers opened their bomb bays to drop a single bomb and then turned back.

The squadron busied itself retreating as if to evade the aftermath of that explosion.

Citizens fleeing couldn’t help but wonder why they would drop only a single bomb. For just a brief moment, they found it odd, but soon felt the reason in their very bones.

Boom!

That unfathomable bomb detonated at 500 meters in the air, enveloping Paris in a magnificent explosion and bright flash.

Beeeeeep!

Citizens, witnessing that blinding light as if they had seen the sun rising from the ground, burned their eyes out, and soon their bodies were engulfed in that light.

The human body is hardly more than a scrap of paper before the power of a saint.

Those who were at the very center of the explosion vanished, leaving no time to feel pain, and were fortunate to go without knowing they had died.

Citizens witnessing the blast from a distance had their eyes burned, skin melted away, and their flesh fused with their clothes, and even if they were lucky enough to survive, their bodies were already beyond repair.

Countless people screamed and moaned, turning Paris into a hellscape in an instant.

In the far future, the Eiffel Tower, which was hailed as a masterpiece alongside the Statue of Liberty, will be described as an eyesore that marred the beauty of Paris during its construction, now standing solemnly in a city turned to ruins from the nuclear fallout.

Streets filled with the debris of buildings that had long been neglected.

The melted Eiffel Tower bizarrely held its ground in the heat of the nuclear blast.

Citizens, whose bodies were melting and unable to die, wandered the streets in search of water.

The city of Paris, once the city of art, now fully embodied the art of hell.

Belgrade fared no differently.

With nothing to show for its efforts, Serbia’s capital, once the spark of World War, met a fitting end as the ax of evil.

The pilots from France, who dropped nukes on Paris and Belgrade, along with their Russian counterparts, felt fear in the face of that overwhelming destructive force and returned.

Thus.

On November 7, 1942, a new sun rose over Paris and Belgrade.

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