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The Secret History of GI JOE: The Joe Colton Story
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09-24-2017, 12:06 PM
DerStahlhelm
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"In the wake of the Declaration of Union of Transylvania with Romania on December 1, 1918 and the Declaration of Unification of Banat, Bačka and Baranja with Serbia on November 25, 1918, most of the Banat was (in 1919) divided between Romania (Krassó-Szörény completely, two-thirds of Temes, and a small part of Torontál) and Yugoslavia (most of Torontál, and one-third of Temes). A small area near Szeged was assigned to the newly independent Hungary. These borders were confirmed by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles , but in a last minute change, the area of the Banat originally to be part of Romania was instead designated as the independent Kingdom of Latveria by the 1920 Treaty of Trianon. A young Baron of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, Vladimir Vassily Gonereo Tristian Mangegi Fortunov, was installed as King. The capital of the new nation of Latveria was Timișoara, which the new, German speaking King Vladimir renamed Haasenstadt. The southern city of Resita was also renamed Aniana, after the King's beloved mother."
-"Iron and Sable: The History of Latveria, Symkaria, and the Zefiro", Béla Tokár, Empire State University Press, 1985
April 24th, 1948, Yugoslavian airspace
Joe Colton, once again a corporal in the US Army, looked down from his window in the passenger compartment of his Douglas C-54 Skymaster.
Somewhere down below was the border between Yugoslavia and Latveria. Latveria was his destination, a pissant little Balkan state carved off the rump end of Romania when old Austria-Hungary was being divvied up at the end of the First World War, or so the briefings had explained.
It had never been of any importance to anybody, really, and would have remained that way, if the Latverian's homegrown little fascists, the Steel Sword Party, hadn't convinced King Vladimir to side with the Nazis in 1940. Even then, it might have remained in obscurity, if hadn't turned out to be the one place in Eastern Europe that the Nazis had managed to hold out until the end of the war.
That, too, was almost an accident. The Wehrmacht and Waffen SS forces pushed west by the advancing Red Army had decided to fortify around Latveria's capital, forming what had come to be called the Haasenstadt Pocket. The Germans had intended to hold off the Soviet's westward drive there, but the Russians, in their hurry to get to Berlin, had simply ignored the pocket and gone around, intending to mop up after.
After the German surrender in Berlin, King Vladimir had appealed to the western Allies, and Latveria was divided up into the Soviet occupied south, the new Democratic Republic of Symkaria, and the nominally western-allied Kingdom of Latveria in the north.
That had all been well and good, until the Soviets, looking to consolidate their hold on Eastern Europe decided to blockade the two islands of western influence in their newly gained territories: West Berlin and Latveria.
Bordered on all sides by newly communist nations, Romania in the east, Hungary in the North, Yugoslavia to the west, and Symkaria on the south. the Latverians found themselves in a tight spot.
Unlike Berlin, they were at least mostly self sufficient in food production, but had desperate need of industrial and medical aid. To that end, the US had been operating, out of Italy, a smaller scale version of the airlift that was supplying West Berlin.
The airlift was working, so far, but the real problem for Latveria was the communist insurgency. Symkarian backed guerrillas had been operating out of the western Carpathian Mountains that dominated the terrain in eastern Latveria.
That was why Joe was here.
Joe's woolgathering was interupted by the sudden appearance of two Yak-17 jet fighters alongside the plane. The other soldier's had noticed the red star markings on the plane's tails and started to clamor.
The pilot's voice came over the passenger cabin's address system.
"No need to worry, folks," the pilot said, "We're about to cross into Latveria and they've just come to see us off. Happens every flight."
Colton wasn't sure how reassured he felt, thinking how the Skymaster would be easy prey for the nimble Russian fighters.
The red jets abruptly peeled off, marking the C-54s entry into Latveria Airspace. Joe allowed himself a breath of relief, but he'd be happier once they were safely on the ground in Haasenstadt.
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