[ WP ] After the communists win the third world war , communism spreads across the globe . 50 years later , the world and society as a whole is actually better than it ever has been .

A lot of us dropped out of school before things fell apart. The news was fall of the reds sweeping through Europe, through Africa, we knew crossing the ocean was next on the list. Nobody cared about school anymore, we just wanted to live for a bit before the bombs fell. I was 19 then, more excited than I'd ever been to start a new year. I never imagined that I would be one that would start a new life, a new world, in the wake of what warmongers brought to our shores. Chemicals, bioweapons, diseases that ripped through cities across the world but could n't reach our continent without a carrier. Canada and the US, we watched every other country melt away, the spreading curtain sweeping over any stragglers, any survivors. The communists though, they rushed it. We'd all assumed they would have spent so much time preparing this slaughter that there was no way around it, but people like me did n't even have to try to stand against them. 
 
 It was a disease we found out, and here and there in handfuls among the cities of millions were people that were immune to it. When it hit our coast I watched my family die, but it had no effect on me. I wo n't forget my brother closing his eyes, not understanding why I still had the energy to carry him back to bed. Most of the survivors offed themselves before they really realised that the torch had been passed to us, that the communists had n't even invaded yet. It took years for them to bother, and we did n't thrive but we were alive in the meantime. The only thing they did prepare before they let death loose was an immunization for it, but the damned thing of it all is that they did n't even bother to study it. They were prepared to extinguish billions, to snuff out whole countries and they would n't wait long enough to realise their `` super-cure'' had a side effect that would have ended the human race if their had n't been those like me that were naturally immune. Male sterility, complete, every single man that had a dose of their cure. There was n't an important communist alive that had n't been treated before they realised the plague, and there would n't be a communist baby born after it had done its work. 
 
 That's how we got where we are today. The greatest murder suicide in all of history, and we only persevered because of a mutation. Maybe if the communists had realised there were survivors on our continent earlier they would have ensured no one out lasted them, but in a way we've carried on their legacy. They wanted a communist rule for this planet and even if they did n't live to see it its what they got. You see, we have enough now. So many billions are just names in the wind but them farms that fed them kept going. We have true communism now, a shared society that we did n't need to force because there's just so much damn space left over, so much food, more than any of us could have dreamed of before the war. The people like me, who saw what happened, we're just reminders now. It took three tries, but the war to end all wars finally manifested. My kids live in skyscrapers that have given birth to their own ecosystems, and their kids are growing up in what really is an urban jungle. The Earth is reclaiming itself, and we still have all we could ask for. If it was paradise then so many would not have needed to have died to get here, but we have n't wanted for resources for half a century. It may have been years ago that it was said, but really, we're better red than dead.
