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THE FREEDOM OR SOVIET SPACE STORY DISCLAIMER Dear reader, Please consider this book a pamphlet. It describes a future world, a possible future. You will see many conflicts including wars and future empires dividing the Earth. Please note that I intended not to discriminate any ethnic group and anyone. Everything I wrote here comes from a single question: what if? The action does not occur in a specified time. You will find only one clearly shown date: the year 0, which everything is connected to. The year 0 is the birth of the New Soviet Empire. Consider the year 0 to be roughly 80 years from now, where now is the moment you start reading this novel. Best whishes, Abida – Cemis (Ana Imfinity). PART 1 – HOW IT ALL STARTED “Who is Iosif Leonov?” “He is the Supreme Soviet”. “And who are you?” “I am his only daughter, Ana Leonova. The purpose of my existence is to explore the cosmos”. THE THREE CRISES What if everything you know will one day change? If you take a knight from the Middle Ages and show him the world that existed 100 years ago, with electricity, with cars and television, he will hardly accept it and very hardly adapt to it. The same will happen if you take someone from 100 years ago and show him the world we live in today. All the things people took for granted at that time, today no longer exist. Iosif Leonov, Windows To The Past. So many things changed in the last hundred years. The elders can still tell us about their youth, about an era when democracy was the hope of anyone. In that time, people had plenty of fossil fuels. The climate was different. Everyone was seeing that the world was heading to globalization, a single world federation ruled by many governments and by international laws. How surprised people from that time would be to see that everything they believed turned apart. Some people warned that this is going to happen. Many analysts, but also people pretending to have the gift of prophecy, warned the world that many things will change beyond our imagination. It was the year –50, when the world was hit by a major crisis. At that time, states were borrowing money to pay their debts, which resulted from the many social programs they started. Politicians did this for votes. As time passed, their states and governments could hardly pay their debts. World economies tried to help each other, but at some point it was useless. Some equilibrium still existed until the largest economies in the world could no longer support the massive debts. Banks wanted their money back. They wanted their own governments, their own controlled states. In a desperate attempt to take their states back, politicians took the last solution: hyperinflation, printing money to pay their debts. But it was too much. World economies collapsed almost instantly. Before this, a cup of coffee costs in the USA 5 dollars. After only a few months, it costs over a billion. This caused all currencies to be useless. World trade came to a halt. Goods could no longer be shipped to the places where they were needed. Soon, famine took over the world. A billion people died of starvation in that period. But, people came with new solutions, like using gold again as a currency. World economy recovered, only that this time nobody cared about the environment any longer. Nobody tried to limit carbon emissions and pollution. Well, things did not last like this for long. Around the year –40, a new crisis stroke the world. This time, Mother Earth was fighting against everyone. The glaciers started to melt at an alarming rate, flooding coastal cities. Massive storms, hurricanes, droughts, hail storms and fires, devastated the land. The Nile ran dry and the Danube was one time larger then the Congo. Another billion lives were lost. Desperate, world governments tried everything. They diverted massive rivers for irrigation and built huge dams to stop the floods. China and India went on war for water. It was a brutal war, which destroyed both states and broke them in small independent provinces. Finally, world climate reached a new equilibrium state, but people did not understand that they caused all this evil. Then, around the year –30, a third crisis emerged. This time, it was the fossil fuels that went out. The world tried to survive by using all natural resources that could be extracted: tight oil, shale gas, inferior coal that can be transformed into gas, anything. But soon, people found out that even these resources were exhausted. There was no more fuel for agriculture, no more fuel for transportation and no more fuel for heating homes. Another billion lives were lost. It was time to find a new solution. Luckily, Mother Earth provides us with alternatives. Still, many rivers were not dammed. Still, there was enough room for wind turbines. The oceans also have tides and waves. Nuclear fuel still is enough and will be enough around us for many centuries. The world needed time to find alternative solutions and to be reborn… for the third time. THREE DEMONS FROM THE PAST I see three demons sent by Satan to conquer Earth. They are the reincarnation of evil spirits that ruled empires before we were born. They spread terror all over the world and they will do the same. Now, they are at our world’s door, beating and waiting to get in. Behold, world! The crisis you’ve seen so far are nothing compared to what is to come. They will all three meet in our times and destroy what little is left. A prophecy from the year –23. Economists warned that violent incidents are possible in the near future. As many states were drawn to anarchy and corruption rose to unprecedented levels, the rise of tyrants is not of question of it, but of when. In the year –21, the first tyrant came to our world. His name was Samuel Rosenstein. He was a Jew and took power over Israel. He was very young, only 22, but had a strong vision of defeating anyone that ever attacked or discriminated a Jew. Once in his life, he went to a hypnosis regression. There, he found out that in his last life he was Adolf Hitler, that he spent all the time in hell, paying for his cruel actions. He never believed it and sworn that he will punish all Germans for all the bad they did to the Jews. Rosenstein started a crusade against all Muslim states surrounding Israel. His actions were of extreme cruelty. All he did, was just the way Hitler did a long time ago. Even more, he was strongly against Christian, Jewish religion and Islam. His religion was more idolatry. Even the Jews hated him, but they followed their charismatic leader. He annexed all the Middle East, as far as Afghanistan. He conquered the Northern Sahara and Turkey. At that time, the USA and Europe accepted the situation, since many terrorists came from the Muslim World. They thought this will end terrorism. Then, Rosenstein started a second crusade, against anyone and any state that ever discriminated and tortured Jews. His main target was Germany. But to get there, it was a long way. The first and most violent fight was to conquer Romania, which supported Hitler in world war II. It was a bloody fight, as all states in Western Europe fought against Rosenstein. But still, many European states did not send troops, as they all knew the atrocities committed by Nazi forces against the Jews. Millions died on the battlefield, but, nevertheless, he won. After this, he annexed Hungary and Croatia, which also helped Hitler. Then, he conquered Austria and Germany. There, what he did, is nothing else but a genocide. He killed all Germans in detention camps, using the same methods the Nazi used against Jews. He did not stop yet. Other states that joined Hitler and to pay the price: Italy, Spain, Ukraine, which killed its Jews to gain support from the Germans, Sweden and Finland, all were conquered. And in all territories, Rosenstein made large scale massacres, killing sometimes 40% of the population. It seems that nobody could stop him. Then, he heard that Stalin sent all Jewish defectors back Nazi Germany. Rosenstein wanted to teach the Russians a lesson… and so, he tried to conquer Moscow. It was a failure. The Red Army managed to stop him. Just like Napoleon and Hitler, Rosenstein was defeated by a cold winter. Still, he destroyed all cities on the way. Finally, he targeted Argentina, which protected many fugitives from Nazi Germany. This time, the Argentinean government agreed and gave him all German descendants in exchange for peace. After this, he conquered China and India, which were no longer two large states, but a multitude of small provinces. As many Jews wanted to, Rosenstein tried to rebuild the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. Work started, but, without explanation, everything that was built, crashed in less then a day. This lasted for about 10 years. No scientist could find a solution. Rosenstein himself went to the building site and executed all the workers twice. The third time he visited the site, everyone could hear all buildings collapsing and a voice saying: It is not to be in your time. The temple will be rebuilt, but not now. Rosenstein, after this, turned against God and towards idolatry. The second important figure took power in the year –9. He is Leonard Bohr.
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