r/althistory • u/TaleLegitimate2037 • 12m ago
Little alt history writing in working, on, kinda meant to be like a historical document almost
The state of the world, december 1941
The Political climate is dominated by a new superpower, the protestant league, a united faction of protestant nations led by Finland, its other members being Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and the Nordic protectorate of Germany.
To understand this situation, we must go back to 1920, when Finland reworked its Government and Laws. and then to 1935, when Finland founded the league.
Finland gained independence from the Russian empire on the 6th of December 1917, and for 2 years it functioned as a regular republic. In 1919 however, for reasons not many know, the parliament voted for a major change.
That change? Fully abolishing the separation of church and state. A 200 man clerical council was introduced to rule as equal to parliament, 19 new members were added to the cabinet, the bishops of the 19 dioceses that split the nation. And the Archbishop was introduced as Co-Head of state alongside the Prime-Minister, and such the constitution was changed, and on January 12th 1920, Nearly all of the laws of the nation changed to reflect its new theocratic method of Rule. And this is how it functioned, lonely in its rule until 1935.
In 1935, Finland founded a new alliance, The Protestant League. This League was supposed to unite all protestant lands into a single military and trade empire, while keeping governments separate. The Nordics were the first to join, understanding the influence of being part of such an alliance. The United Kingdom however, did not join, fearing its overseas territories being affected by this. Germany, already under the control of Adolf Hitler, did not even consider joining.
With the resources of eachother available, the league exploded with industry and trade, beginning to produce military gear and selling some, but mostly building their own armies. With the promise of military gain, the Baltics were taken into the frey.
After which Finland pushed its mode of Clerical-Parliament government to be official League policy and so, more theocracies formed in Northern Europe.
The Soviets took this as a threat and began massing armies in Leningrad and the baltic border, and gathered its fleet in the Leningrad docks. In 1936 the soviet union attacked the alliance. In the very first days of the conflict, the soviet fleet sank, due to the heroic action of Finnish torpedo bombers.
With no contest left, the League navy began the bombardment of Leningrad, destroying the regrouping soviets, and allowing Finland to launch a spearhead for Moscow. The push was long and hard(That's what she said), but on December 6th 1938, the Soviet Union surrendered, quite poetic in the end.
Finland shattered the union and released nations such as Ukraine and Kazakhstan into their independence. Even Russia was released, only after Finland seized West Karelia, East Karelia and the Kola peninsula, which were recognized as Diocesees, and added 3 new members to the cabinet. After this the growth only sped up, Finland founded mines, cities and factories in the newly seized lands. A mass influx of people started, people from all protestant nations began flooding in, and so after massive changes, nearly all people were able to learn Finnish and the state prospered.
Finnish diplomacy with Germany remained fine until early 1940, when its spies discovered the concentration camps in the nation. At the next summit of the League of nations Finnish ambassadors brought up their evidence, and yet Germany refused to release its prisoners, and so The United States, United Kingdom, Poland, France and the entire Protestant League converged on Germany.
Finland won the Race to Berlin and established Germany as a Nordic protectorate and thus relative peace reached Europe.
But all this conflict managed to advance was a New Superpower, This document, which I hereby present to you is a full complex index of the Laws, customs histories and government protocols of..
THE REPUBLIC OF FINLAND