History Characters / TWRRussia

Serving a lengthy prison sentence when the war began, Varlam would soon be free again. When the Union all but collapsed, Shalamov's GULAG was abandoned, and many of the inmates fled east to Buryatia, away from Stalinism. Shalamov was one of these, and he eventually met up with former SR friends, and friends, and joined the organization soon after settling down in Ulan-Ude. However this peace would not last, as the Russian Fascist Party began and not began an insurgency across much of the far east, and began terrorizing many of Shalamov's Shalamar v's friends and neighbors. This would lead to the militarization of the SRS in Buryatia, in an attempt to fight the influence, and perceived Republican terror from Vladivostok. Shalamov rapidly became a leader of these militarist SRs, as a man whom the people could untie behind, and know was not a Stalinist sycophant. Now he has risen up, leading his comrades to a brighter future, one illustrated by the wise words of Marx, Lenin, and Trotsky.[[/labelnote]]

After completing college, the young Kirillin started working as a labourer, eventually becoming a locksmith. He pursued higher education, enrolling in the Moscow Power Engineering Institute by 1931, graduating in 1936. He continued work and his study throughout the years. Kirillin defending his PhD in 1943, then went on to become a professor on Engineering Thermophysics in 1952. During this time, he caught the attention of several Bulganinist elements of the party, his qualifications and renown in the intellectual community made him a valuable asset. And since the inception of the Bulganin administration, Kirillin has been assigned various roles related to education, with his ultimate appointment being the representative of the business council.[[/labelnote]]

A fascist Turkmenistan ruled by veterans of the German collaborator Turkestan Legion.

* LesCollaborateurs:

%%!!''Islamic Revolution Movement''
%%->'''Party:''' Islamic Revolution Movement
%%----

%%!!''Zakhar Lavrentievich Lavrentyev''
%%->'''Party:''' Pan-Russian League of National Bolsheviks
%%----

! Formables
[[folder:Soviet Socialist Republic of Aralsk]]
->'''Official Name:''' Soviet Socialist Republic of Aralsk
->'''Ruling Party:''' Liga Kommunistov[[note]]League of Communists[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Marxism-Leninism

!!''Antanas Sniečkus''
[[quoteright:156:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/antanas_snieckus.png]]

->'''Party:''' Liga Kommunistov[[note]]League of Communists[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Marxism-Leninism

[[folder:Liberated German Socialist Republic]]
->'''Official Name:''' Liberated German Socialist Republic
->'''Ruling Party:''' Sovetsko-Germanskaya Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Solidarnosti[[note]]Soviet-German Communist Solidarity Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Stalinism[[note]]Marxism-Leninism[[/note]]

!!''Yakov Dzhugashvili''
[[quoteright:156:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yakov_dzhugashvili.png]]

->'''Party:''' Sovetsko-Germanskaya Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Solidarnosti[[note]]Soviet-German Communist Solidarity Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Stalinism[[note]]Marxism-Leninism[[/note]]

!!''Alfred Kurella''
[[quoteright:156:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/alfred_kurella.png]]
->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Local Government)
->'''Party:''' Kommunistische Einheitspartei Wolga-Deutschland[[note]]Communist Unity Party of Volga-Germany[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Marxism-Leninism
----

[[folder:Russian Autonomous Republic]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/twr_russian_collab.png]]
->'''Official Name:''' Russian Autonomous Republic

* LesCollaborateurs: The Russian Autonomous Republic is a rump Russian state set up by the Nazis.

!!''Vladimir Ilyin''
[[quoteright:156:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vladimir_nikolajevich_ilyin.png]]

* TheQuisling: When Germany invaded the USSR, Ilyin aided the Nazis by publishing a pro-Nazi Russian newspaper. After the war, he fully committed to Nazism. If Germany manages to conquer Western Siberia, he'll become the First Chairman of the Russian Autonomous Republic.

[[folder:German-Formed Ural]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/reichskommissariat_oral.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Flag of the Reichskommissariat Oral]]
%%[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Flag of Ordensstaat Oral]]
%% [[/labelnote]]]]

->'''Official Name:''' Reichskommissariat Oral[[note]]Reich Commissariat of the Ural[[/note]] (Nazi Germany puppet state), Ordensstaat Oral[[note]]Order-State of the Ural[[/note]] (SS puppet state)

!!''Dietrich Klagges''
[[quoteright:156:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dietrich_klagges.png]]
->'''Role:''' Reichskommissar[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Nazi Germany puppet state)

!!''Ernest Damzog''
[[quoteright:156:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ernst_damzog.png]]
->'''Role:''' Country Leader (SS puppet state)
----

[[folder:German-Formed Turkestan]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/turkestan_rk.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Flag of the Reichskommissariat Turkestan]]
->'''Official Name:''' Reichskommissariat Turkistan[[note]]Reich Commissariat of Turkestan[[/note]] (Nazi Germany puppet state), Ordensstaat Turkestan[[note]]Order-State of Turkestan[[/note]] (SS puppet state)

!!''Gustav Simon''
[[quoteright:156:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gustav_simon.png]]
->'''Role:''' Reichskommissar[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Nazi Germany puppet state)

!!''Erwin Schulz''
[[quoteright:156:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/erwin_schulz.png]]
->'''Role:''' Country Leader (SS puppet state)
----

[[folder:German-Formed Siberia]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/reichskommissariat_sibirien_6.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Flag of the Reichskommissariat Sibirien]]
->'''Official Name:''' Reichskommissariat Sibirien[[note]]Reich Commissariat of Siberia[[/note]] (Nazi Germany puppet state), Ordensstaat Sibirien[[note]]Order-State of Siberia[[/note]] (SS puppet state)

!!''Karl Weinrich''
[[quoteright:156:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/karl_weinrich.png]]
->'''Role:''' Reichskommissar[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Nazi Germany puppet state)

!!''August Heissmeyer''
[[quoteright:156:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/august_heissmeyer.png]]
->'''Role:''' Country Leader (SS puppet state)
----

[[folder:German-Formed Far East]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rke_rk_2.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Flag of the Far Eastern Confederation]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Flag of Ordensstaat Fernost]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rke_ss.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->'''Official Name:''' Far Eastern Confederation (Nazi Germany puppet state), Ordensstaat Fernost[[note]]Order-State of the Far East[[/note]] (SS puppet state)
Nazi Germany's commissioner government in the Russian Far East.

* LesCollaborateurs: Since Germany's influence cannot reach the Russian Far East, the Far Eastern Confederation is administered by Russian governors appointed by Germania.

!!''Heinz Hitler''
[[quoteright:156:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/heinz_hitler.png]]
->'''Role:''' Country Leader (SS puppet state)

* OldSoldier: Baksheev is a veteran of the Russi-Japanese War, the Great War and the Russian Civil War.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Toka is noted in his biography to be a Stalinist but is classified in-game as a Revolutionary Communist (with the Council Communist subideology) rather than a Marxist-Leninist, even tough the Stalinist ideology exists within it.

* MeetTheNewBoss: Mikhailov dictatorship is continuation of Rogozhin's dictatorship with a new "democratic" face, and reforms only towards the economy and few formalities to appease the pro-democratic groups.

!!''Konstantin Rodzayevsky''

->'''Role:''' Country Leader

->'''Role:''' Country Leader
->'''Party:''' Rossiyskaya Fashistskaya Partiya - Gruppa Matkovskogo[[note]]Russian Fascist Party - Matkovsky Group[[/note]], Obshcherossiyskaya Fashistskaya Front[[note]]All-Russian Fascist Front[[/note]] (RFP merges with Vonsitasky's Russian Fascist Organization)

->'''Role:''' Country Leader

* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Despite officially being democratic, the "elections" are closer to fights between parties with violent coersion of voters.

* WeAreStrugglingTogether:

* {{Warhawk}}: Brzehnev and his ideology are particularly belligerent.

* TheDictatorship: Type 3. Dolgikh establishes a one-party dictatorship with his Krasnoyarsk Protection League (and later the Russian Protection Party). This can be softened by the introduction of intra-party democracy.

->'''Party:''' Liga Zashchity Krasnoyarskaya[[note]]Krasnoyarsk Protection League - Civilians[[/note]], Rossiskaya Partiya Zashchity[[note]]Russian Protection Party[[/note]] (Form the RPZ), Rossiskaya Partiya Zashchity - Fraktsiya Aysberga[[note]]Russian Protection Party - Iceberg Faction[[/note]] (Formation of factions)

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Drozdov may become a democratic leader while Dolgikh can never be better than an authoritarian democrat.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: ...you can also turn it into a Putin-Style authoritarian hellhole with a dysfunctional economy and constant internal conflict, with no hope of any of theese facts ever improving. Thus making the sacrafices of potentialy milions who died under your command complely pointless as Russia simply flips from one despotic regime to another.

Then, Kosygin's life began to rapidly unravel. With the ascension of Kalinin, Kosygin was made the de facto civilian leader of Siberia as Kalinin named he First Secretary of the region. This was due to Kalinin and Kosygin sharing a more modern and progressive understanding of the needs of the Union, and Kosygin's noted competence. It would nor last, and with Kalinin's death, Beria's ascension led to Kosygin being purged, with nearly the entire Zhdanov faction. When the Novosibirsk Soviet was formed, Kosygin joined his old mentor Zhdanov as the Party Secretary for Krasnoyarsk. Then the Novosibirsk government further collapsed, and Kosygin's position changed yet again. He now stands as the civilian leader of Marshal Zhukov's government, with the potential to one day achieve full power by sidelining the Marshal himself...[[/labelnote]]

* EvilChancellor: To Zhukov. If Kosygin successfully outmaneuvers him he will become the true power behind the Premier.

->'''Role:''' Leader of the Sniper Clique, Secretary of the Party[[note]]Figurehead[[/note]] (Krasnoyarsk Collapse)

!!''Sabit Orudzhev''

->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]An Azberbaijani by nationality, Sabit Atayevich Orujev made a name for himself in the oil industry. Through some lucky bet hedging, Orujov quickly climbed to this higher position by demonstrating fierce loyalty to the party.[[/labelnote]]

->'''Role:''' Premier[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Krasnoyarsk Collapse)

->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Supreme Marshal Rodion Malinovsky was born on November 23rd, 1898, to a broken family in western Ukraine. His father having died before his birth, his mother was forced to work odd jobs, and eventually moved to Southern Russia. She quickly remarried, however her husband refused to accept Rodion, eventually expelling him from the household at the age of 13. Malinovsky soon joined the imperial army during the Great War, eventually fighting in France with the Russian Expeditionary Corps, and then the Foreign Legion after the Revolution began. He later would travel through Japanese-held Siberia to join the Red army, quickly rising through the Ranks until he was enlisted in the Frunze Military academy, despite having no formal education at all. He then later served as a General in Spain during the civil war, his absence from Russia during which helped him to escape Stalin's Military Purges.\\\

->'''Party:''' Liga Zashchity Krasnoyarskaya[[note]]Krasnoyarsk Protection League - Civilians[[/note]], Rossiskaya Partiya Zashchity[[note]]Russian Protection League[[/note]] (Form the RPZ), Rossiskaya Partiya Zashchity - Fraktsiya Aysberga[[note]]Russian Protection League - Iceberg Faction[[/note]] (Formation of factions)

After Beria came to power however, Dolgikh found himself fleeing east with the other Guard Divisions, his commanders supporting Marshall Zhukov and his faction in the Novosibirsk Troika. He found his faith in Socialism further weakened, as the Novosibirsk Government fractured yet again, and his division fled east with Zhukov, to Krasnoyarsk. However this was not the end of his struggles, as this government would also would also collapse due to the Death of Zhukov as a result of the Tuvan insurrection, finally shattering Vladimir's Vladimir's faith in Socialism as a whole. When When the capital descended into Anarchy, and the guards fled to Malinovsky, Vladimir stayed and defended his new home. He quickly organized the the only remaining red army units, with the help of the City police, and soon restored a semblance of order. He now rules a provisional government in the city, intent on protecting it from the grasping hands of delusional socialists, whom have yet to accept the failures of the USSR.[[/labelnote]]

* EmergencyAuthority: Dolgikh sets up an emergency government when the Krasnoyarsk Government collapses.

->'''Party:''' Rossiskaya Partiya Zashchity - Fraktsiya Aysberga[[note]]Russian Protection League - Iceberg Faction[[/note]], Rossiskaya Partiya Zashchity - Tayga Aysberga[[note]]Russian Protection League - Taiga Faction[[/note]] (Taiga Faction won intra-party election)

* DefectorFromDecadence: The Tuvan nationalist insurgents were previously a part of the Plurinational Committee, but split with the Committee and Zhukov due to their distaste for Zhukovism and a perceived "Pro-European Treatment" in the Committee.

RebelLeader: Toka is the leader of the Tuvan insurgency.

* SignificantWardrobeChange: Zhukov's portrait will change depending on who the Secretary of the Party is, and has no less than four different portraits.

%%->'''Party:''' Pan-Russian League of National Bolsheviks (VLNB)

After Beria came to power however, Dolgikh found himself fleeing east with the other Guard Divisions, his commanders supporting Marshall Zhukov and his faction in the Novosibirsk Troika. He I his faith in Socialism further weakened, as the Novosibirsk Government t fractured yet t again, and his division fled east with Zhukov, to Krasnoyarsk. However this was not the end of his struggles, as this government would also would also collapse due to the Death of Zhukov as a result of the Tuvan insurrection, finally shattering Vladimir's Vladimir's faith in Socialism as a whole. When When the capital descended into Anarchy, and the guards fled to Malinovsky, Vladimir stayed and defended his new home. He quickly organized the the only remaining red army units, with the help of the City police, and soon restored a semblance of order. He now rules a provisional government in the city, intent on protecting it from the grasping hands of delusional socialists, whom have yet to accept the failures of the USSR.[[/labelnote]]

* DefectorFromDecadence: The Tuvan nationalist insurgents were previously a part of the Plurinational Committee, but split with the Committee and Zhukov due to their distaste for Zhukovism (their leader Salchak Toka prefers Stalinism instead) and a perceived "Pro-European Treatment" in the Committee.

----

* PragmaticVillainy: In an attempt to keep himself in power, Beria intends to enact radical reforms in the Soviet system. Unfortunately, this results in him getting accused of being a revisionist.

* BalkanizeMe: [[https://www.reddit.com/r/twrmod/comments/lu1ky6/collapse_of_krasnoyarsk/ If the Tuvan insurgency gets out of hand]], Zhukov will be killed and Krasnoyarsk will collapse into four chunks: the remnants of the Krasnoyarsk Government, an independent Tuvan state (Tuvan People's Republic), a liberal democratic resistance group (PDR-Command Siberia), and an anti-communist Krasnoyarsk city government (Krasnoyarsk Emergency Government).
* DefectorFromDecadence: The Tuvan nationalist insurgents were previously a part of the Plurinational Committee, but split with the Committee and Zhukov due to their distaste for Zhukovism (their leader Salchak Toka prefers Stalinism instead) and a perceived "Pro-European Treatment" in the Committee.

* StartMyOwn: Zhukov created the Krasnoyarsk Governement after splitting from Zhdanov's Novosibirsk Government.

* SparedByAdapation: Turkenich died in 1944 IOTL fighting in the Red Army against the German Reich.

* ReassignedToAntartica: If the coup against Beria is foiled, Bulganin will be made "Minister of Arctic Fisheries" and sent to the northernmost naval hub of the Perm Government.

* ReassignedToAntartica:

* TimeMission: Kazan has 100 days to take Perm during the Soviet Civil War, failure means capitulation.

* StagedPopulistRevolt: Konev's government will set up and fund the Anti-Soviet Patriot Front to draw out and destroy the remaining opposition forces in the Soviet Union when they rise up.

* ZeroApprovalRating: After reunifying Russia, Voznesensky dies secretly hated by all, in fact they are relieved by his death.

* AllohistoricalAllusion: Turkenich can create a Jewish ASSR, alluding to the Jewish Autonomous Oblast established IOTL.

* PuppetKing: Turkenich can be turned into a puppet by either the _ or the _.

* {{Retcon}}: Bulganin in the first released version of TWR subscribes to "Duumvirist Federalism" (categorically Paternal Autocracy), an ''extremely wacky'' hybrid of socialism and capitalism that divides Russia into a capitalist southern half and a communist northern half. He's toned down to a more conventional Dengist-styled reformist in the Russia rework.

* ReassignedToAntartica: If the coup attempt against Beria was foiled, Suslov will have to resign and will be reassigned to steel production in Magnitogorsk.

* PuppetKing: Grechko serves as Chuikov's public face in the collective leadership system under Suslov.

->'''Role:''' Country Leader

->'''Role:''' Country Leader

->'''Role:''' Country Leader

* MilitaryCoup: One of Kazan's political paths sees them go into conflict with the Perm government (likely over their scheduled deadline for pacification and complete annexation), causing them to march back to Perm and take over the Soviet Union, couping the civilian Soviet government and replacing it with their own extremist military junta.

->'''Role:''' Country Leader, Premier[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Regional unification)

->'''Role:''' President[[note]]Figurehead[[/note]]

->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Coup against Konev), Premier[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Regional unification)

->'''Role:''' Premier[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Civilian Stalin steps down)

->'''Role:''' Premier[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Power struggle victory)

->'''Role:''' Premier[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]]

->'''Role:''' Deputy Premier, Premier[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Zhdanov succession)

->'''Role:''' Premier[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Shcherbakov succession)

* MeetTheNewBoss: Vozensensky continues the ''Zhdanovshchina'' after taking power, aiming to finish implementing Zhdanov's purist cultural policies.

->'''Role:''' Leader of the Apathist Faction, Premier[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Apathist takeover)

->'''Role:''' Premier[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Voznesensky succession)

->'''Role:''' Leader of the Idealist Faction, Premier[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Anti-Party coup)

->'''Role:''' Leader of the Realist Faction

->'''Role:''' Premier[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]]

* DidYouGetANewHaircut: Zhukov's portrait will change depending on who the Secretary of the Party is, and has no less than four different portraits.

->'''In-Game Biography''' (Premier) [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Head of the NKVD, Lavrentiy Beria served as Stalin's de facto right hand man before and a renowned state-sanctioned rapist, having a large role during Stalin's purges, and following the collapse of the USSR and the disappearance of Stalin, Mikhail Kalinin assumed the role of leader, with Beria remaining as the head of the NKVD. But in 1946, Kalinin died of natural causes, which created power vacuum which only Beria could fill.\\\

->'''Role:''' Minister of the Navy, Premier[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Beria resigns willingly, Reformist choice or Turkenich succession)

->'''Role:''' Premier[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Beria resigns willingly, Hardliner choice)

->'''Role:''' Premier[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Beria, Palace coup)

->'''Role:''' Premier[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Party Congress, Kalininist victory)

->'''In-Game Biography''' (Puppet Premier) [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Like a puppet on a thousand strings, Ivan Turkenich is no longer a leader of free will. Serving as the mouthpiece of the revolution and a pretty face for the party.\\\

->'''Role:''' Premier[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Turkenich succession, Chosen as Head of Government)

->'''Role:''' Premier[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Party Congress, Revisionist victory)

->'''Role:''' Minister of Security Affairs/Leader of the NKVD Faction (Suslov/Bulganin Path), Leader of the National Security Group/National Security Faction (Bulganin)

->'''Role:''' Premier[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Party Congress, Orthodox victory)

->'''Role:''' Minister of Foreign Affairs, Leader of the Orthodox Faction (Beria stays), Premier[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Suslov succession)

->(Premier) [[labelnote:Click to Show]]But, after Suslov's embarassing failure against Lavrentiy Beria, Molotov retook control of the faction. After all these years, Molotov has finally realized the potential of being Stalin's protege, once again rising to lead the Soviet Union as her paramount leader.[[/labelnote]]

->'''Role:''' Premier[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Suslov succession)

->'''Role:''' Head of the Propaganda Department/Agitprop (Suslov), Premier[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Suslov succession)

->'''Role:''' Leader of the NKVD Faction (Red Army coup), Premier[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (NKVD countercoup), President[[note]]Figurehead[[/note]] (Kruglov becomes president)

* TheCoup: If the NKVD has enough support after the Palace coup against Beria, Kruglov can seize power for himself while restoring the KNVD government.

->'''Role:''' President[[note]]Figurehead[[/note]] (Kruglov, Presidium election), Premier[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Zhukov, Pro-Serov Zhukov succession)

->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]A career NKVD officer, Viktor Semyonovich Abakumov was originally a member of the Joint State Political Directorate but was seen as unfit to Becoming becoming a Chekist. However, by 1934, the reorganization turned Abakumov into a member of the NKVD. Abakumov worked in multiple departments within the NKVD, from the 1st Section Chief Directorate of of Economics Department, Chief Camps and Labour Colonies (GULAG), to eventually his most powerful job yet, working as head of a section in the Main Directorate of State Security. Abakumov assisted with Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, and soon became the head of the NKVD unit of the Rostov Oblast. Abakumov returned to Moscow HQ on 12 February 1941 as a Senior Major of State Security and, after the reorganization and creation of the new NKGB, he became one of the deputies of Lavrentiy Beria. During the war, he reported directly to Joseph Stalin, but soon forged new connections with Lavrentiy Beria and Sergei Kruglov. Abakumov entrenched himself in the web of complicated allegiances within the state security apparatus, becoming a prime candidate of the influential agencies.[[/labelnote]]

->'''Role:''' President[[note]]Figurehead[[/note]] (Kruglov, Presidium election)

->'''Role:''' Premier[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Party Congress deadlock, Red Army coup)

->'''Role:''' Premier[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Chuikov succession)

->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Elections or Suslov succession), Head of Government (Suslov)
->'''Party:''' Kommunisticheskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Partiya[[note]]Communist Socialist Party[[/note]], Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza[[note]]Communist Party of the Soviet Union[[/note]] (Suslov succession)

->'''Role:''' Premier[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]]

->'''In-Game Biography''' (NKVD Faction Leader)[[labelnote:Click to Show]]Leader of the regime and the NKVD, Lavrentiy Beria needs no introduction. Beria has played his character well to fit into both sides of the party, from his reign of terror under Stalin and Kalinin to his now "reformist" character, Beria has morphed the NKVD into his own loyal clique, proponent of a shapeless form of Soviet ideology unique from any other.[[/labelnote]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' (Premier)[[labelnote:Click to Show]]Head of the NKVD, Lavrentiy Beria served as Stalin's de facto right hand man before and a renowned state-sanctioned rapist, having a large role during Stalin's purges, and following the collapse of the USSR and the disappearance of Stalin, Mikhail Kalinin assumed the role of leader, with Beria remaining as the head of the NKVD. But in 1946, Kalinin died of natural causes, which created power vacuum which only Beria could fill.\\\

->'''Role:''' Minister of the Navy, Premier[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Beria resigns willingly, Reformist choice/Turkenich succession)

->'''In-Game Biography''' (Puppet Premier)[[labelnote:Click to Show]]Like a puppet on a thousand strings, Ivan Turkenich is no longer a leader of free will. Serving as the mouthpiece of the revolution and a pretty face for the party.\\\

* WideEyedIdealist: Turkenich and his Komsomol faction are the most idealist of the many pragmatic factions in Perm, trying to establish a more free and yet still communist nation.

* {{Retcon}}: Bulganin in the first released version of TWR subscribes to "Duumvirist Federalism" (categorically Paternal Autocrat), an ''extremely wacky'' hybrid of socialism and capitalism that divides Russia into a capitalist southern half and a communist northern half. He's toned down to a more conventional Dengist-styled reformist in the Russia rework.

->(Orthodox Faction Leader)[[labelnote:Click to Show]]But, now with Suslov's embarrassing failure against Lavrentiy Beria, Molotov has once again assumed the leadership, now leading a much weaker political force.[[/labelnote]]
->(Suslov, Minister of Foreign Affairs)[[labelnote:Click to Show]]But, now with Suslov's leadership affirmed, Molotov's role in the ministry and his political experience have granted him significant influence.[[/labelnote]]
->(Premier)[[labelnote:Click to Show]]But, after Suslov's embarassing failure against Lavrentiy Beria, Molotov retook control of the faction. After all these years, Molotov has finally realized the potential of being Stalin's protege, once again rising to lead the Soviet Union as her paramount leader.[[/labelnote]]

* TheCoup: If the NKVD has enough support after the Palace Coup against Beria, Kruglov can seize power for himself while restoring the KNVD government.

* MilitaryCoup: If the Party Congress ends up deadlocked, the Red Army under Chuikov will move on Perm, arrest leading members of the Communist Party and form a junta.

->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Elections/Suslov succession), Head of Government (Suslov)

->'''In-Game Biography''' (Suslov succession)[[labelnote:Click to Show]]First sentenced by Lavrentiy Beria to rot in the Norillag, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev's political life is more than legendary.\\\

[[center: [-[[Characters/ThousandWeekReich Main Character Index]] | [[Characters/TWREurope Europe]] ([[Characters/TWRSoutheasternEurope Southeastern Europe]] | [[Characters/TWREasternEurope Eastern Europe]]) | '''Former Soviet Union''' | [[Characters/TWRAsia Asia]] | [[Characters/TWRAfrica Africa]] | [[Characters/TWRNorthAmerica North America]] | [[Characters/TWRSouthAmerica South America]]]]-]

[[center: [-[[Characters/ThousandWeekReich Main Character Index]] | [[Characters/TWREurope Europe]] ([[Characters/TWRSoutheasternEurope Southeastern Europe]] | [[Characters/TWREasternEurope German Eastern Europe]]) | '''Former Soviet Union''' | [[Characters/TWRAsia Asia]] | [[Characters/TWRAfrica Africa]] | [[Characters/TWRNorthAmerica North America]] | [[Characters/TWRSouthAmerica South America]]]]-]

Following the chaos in Stalin's disappearance and disillusionment with Beria's economic policies, he joined Zhdanov and Khrushchev in Novosibirsk as a full member of the Novosibirsk Soviet Government's politburo. Blokhin's pragmatist clique in the new politburo is one representing the wheels
of bureaucracy and the men who keep it turning...by any means necessary.[[/labelnote]]

* BigScrewedUpFamily: Stalin's two sons, Yakov Dzhugashvili and Vasily Stalin, are prominent members of the Kazan Military Okrug; both were troubled individuals in OTL (Yakov was suicidal while Vasily is an alcoholic), but after their father's death and the defeat of the Soviet Union, both became political extremists, with Yakov becoming a ruthless NKVD interrogator and Vasily becoming the leader of the ultra-radical Ultravanguardists, who are ''even more radical than the Ultravisionaries''.

->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Marshal Ivan Konev was born on the 28th of December, 1897 to a peasant family in Western Russia. Spending his early life in parish schools, Ivan would quickly become ally h become a Lumberjack by the age of 16, possessing an unusually high mental drive. He was drafted into the Imperial Army during the first World War, only to join the Reds after being Demobilized with no work prospects. A personal protege of Kliment Voroshilov, Konev would attend top military schools in the interwar period, and rose to the rank of general by the time of the Great Patriotic War. During the war, Konev showed excellent strategic intuition, and quickly became a leader of the Red Army, despite the failure of the war.\\\
When the union was defeated, Konev quickly radicalized even further. He began to feel that the world had betrayed the Union to the the Germans, and that all of the west, not just Germany, was their enemy. This only continued when the USSR began to fracture, and Konev was disgracefully sent to deal with the Tatars and VSOU around Kazan on Beria's order, an attempt to soft-exile the powerful general. Now he spends his days fighting a German sponsored insurgency, and watching Beria sully the good name of Socialism in Perm. However one day soon, the time may come to deliver justice to not just Beria, but the entire World.[[/labelnote]]

* GeneralRipper: Konev is extremely bitter about the Soviet defeat, and feels that all of the West, not just Germany, were enemies to the Soviet Union.

->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born on the 14th September, 1901 to a family of lower class Russians in Western Russia. Andrey Andreyevich vlasov spent his early life in Theological Schools, only to abruptly join the Red Army when the revolution began. Never particularly ideological, Vlasov climbed through the Ranks due to his ability and lack of enmity with other officers. He then spent much of the 1930s in China, where he was an advisor to the KMT, and where perhaps he gained a distaste for Bolshevism. When the Great Patriotic where occured, Vlasov became a leading General in the defense of the USSR, further climbing the Ranks as other generals were sacked or killed.\\\

* MeetTheNewBoss: Vozensensky continues ''Zhdanovshchina'' after taking power, aiming to finish implementing Zhdanov's purist cultural policies.

A young, idealistic Ligachyov had joined the Novosibirsk Soviet Government Komosomol in the hopes of making a name for himself, only to be met with more squabbling between Zhdanov's Sovietification line and Zhukov's alleged revisionism.\\\
Ever since taking the reigns of the Komsomol in Chemenko's absence, he has become an adherent to the belief that Marxism-Leninism has become a bleak shell of its former self, but is being dragged through the mud even more by its former head Nikolai Voznesensky. Now in control of the Soviet Union at an incredibly young age, his leadership is expected to be one of ineptitude and stagnation...especially given his allies in the government.[[/labelnote]]

->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born in Ukraine in 1894, Nikita Khrushchev joined the Bolsheviks in 1918, rising through the ranks of the par party and gaining favour with Stalin. Initially supportive of Stalin's purges, through the late 1930s seeing loyal party officials being denounced, includin including himself, caused him to question the nature of Stalin's rule. His confidence in the Soviet government as it was, shaken by the misguided purges, was shattered by the utter failure of the Soviet forces at the hands of the invading Nazis, especially in the bloody defeat at Stalingrad where he was present. While he is still openly a loyal member of the Communist Party, he has gradually shifted his position away from the type of rule championed by Stalin, instead looking to a much more open version of socialism.[[/labelnote]]

* AntiHero: Khrushchev is a grey zoned character, who despite having rather heroic goals achieves them using moral questionably methods
* InternalReformist: Khrushchev seeks to reform the government and rid it off corruption and oppressive politicans

->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Siberia has many children, be they Turkic, Mongol, Ugric, Yeniseian. But the Rus are not one, they are the adopted child, who have slowly taken the mothers attention. This fact however, has finally changed. In 1911, on a cold farm in Bolshaya Yes, a child was born. Konstantin Chernenko is the son of a Tofalar, and a Russian. He is a true child of Siberia, and he shall deliver he from the sadness that has plagued her for centuries.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]There are few men that would not shudder at the mere mention of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, or NKVD for short. The stories of their repressive methods and role in Stalin's reign of terror have almot become almost legendary, in particular that of chief executioner Vasily Blokhin. Born to a poor peasant family in 1895, the young Blokhin quickly found a career for himself in the Cheka and joined the Bolshevik cause in 1921.\\\

First serving as a political commissar in the Great Patriotic War, Leonid Brezhnev caught the attention of the party and recieved quick promotions during early period of Perm government. However, as Kalinin's authority evaporated under the Malenkov-Beria diarchy, Brezhnev was targeted by Beria, resulting in his imprisonment in Norillag. However, during the chaotic period of Yeniseysk democracy, Brezhnev became the dominant figure of the syncretic party of Norilsk Communist Socialist Party. While his party reached out to the reactionaries, Brezhnev himself remained a dedicated Marxist. He was eventually rehabilitated by Mikhail Suslov and promoted to high positions within the government, leading to this mythical rise to the top.[[/labelnote]]

->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Ivan Yakovlevich Vrachev was born in 1898. As a revolutionary and a soldier, Vrachev joined the Bolsheviks in 1917 and quickly became involved with party affairs and military affairs. Vrachev served as a commissar at the front, and after the served as a commissar a successful formation of the Soviet Union, Vrachev became a delegate of the All-Union Congresses of Soviets and the All-Russian Congresses of Soviets. And in 1923, Vrachev joined the Left Opposition and became a signatory of the "The Declaration of 46". Soon after Trotsky's fall from grace, Vrachev was expelled from the party and oppressed. Vrachev became a victim of regular exiling.\\\
However, at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Vrachev successfully convinced Stalin to allow Vrachev to return to military duties as a private. While he became a soldier once again, he did not see much action during the war, being assigned to garrison duties in the Far East. As the reality of the Beria-Malenkov diarchy began to materialize, Vrachev was once again suppressed, and this time, he was exiled to Norilsk. In Norilsk, he saw his chance at reviving the eternal revolution, convincing many of the convicts and fellow Trotskyists to form the Alternative Communist Party, the true leaders of the revolution.[[/labelnote]]

->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Alexander Savelievich Sirotkin is a military man. While he was never a resident nor a prisoner of Norillag, a strange twist of fate would result in Lieutenant General and NKVD Division Commander Sirotkin going over to the prisoners' revolution.\\\

From becoming a founder of the city to becoming a wronged prisoner in the same city which he discovered, the irony was never lost on Urvantsev. In Norillag, Urvantsev was contacted by the underground democratic resistance network of the Party For the Democratization of Russia (PDR). Urvantsev joined the organization and became secretary of the organization in Norilsk. After the successful revolution, Urvantsev's wing of the PDR went public, becoming an elitist political party operating within Norilsk, maintaining close communication with the other PDR cells.[[/labelnote]]

* AuthorityInNameOnly: The Russian Republic does not have control over its inland Siberian territories (represented by the fact that it doesn't have cores over many of its Siberian provinces), a situation that has been nicknamed the "Siberian War"

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Rogozhin's rule is tenuous and deeply unpopular as a pro-democracy movement grows in popularity in the Russian Republic.

* YouAreInChargeNow: Sorokin only becomes leader of the [=SRs=] due to Chernov's untimely death.

* AuthorityInNameOnly: The Russian Republic does not have control over its inland Siberian territories (represented by the fact that it doesn't have cores over many of its Siberian provinces), a situation that has been nicknamed the "Siberian War".

* BlatantLies: Rogozhin's resignation should he step down to hold elections is said to be due to "poor health" instead of his rampant unpopularity. The people don't care either way.

* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: Despite being supposedly a democratic republic, Rogozhin has been ruling the country as a military dictatorship following the death of President Alexander Kerensky in 1951.