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Passionariyy Organization

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Official Name: Provisional Government of the Russian State

Gumilyov: Central Eurasian Provisional Authority (regional), State of Eurasia (superregional)

Shafarevich: Western Russian Republic (regional), Russian Republic (superregional)

Serov: Western Russian Soviet Republic (regional), Russian National Soviet Republic (superregional)

Taboritsky: Imperial Regency of Western Russia (regional), Holy Russian Empire (superregional)

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General Tropes

• Adventurer Archaeologist: In Gumilyov's Project Agartha, he sends Dmitry Ivanov, a former soldier and scientist, to travel to Tibet and plunder ancient relics closely guarded by isolated monk guards.
• Ambiguous Situation: If Ivanov goes to the monastery or village and explores the valley, he spots some movement on the end of a cave, but as he rushes over, only a footprint is left behind in the snow. Who or what he saw is never revealed.
• Asshole Victim:
  • If the KPK candidate was elected in 1963, they may declare the Passionariyy to be unconstitutional and outlawed, a much harsher action than just shutting them out of the National Assembly electorally, but no less deserved.
  • As Gumilyov begins centralizing the economy for himself to control, it will inevitably start abusing and taking away the power of the aristocratic class, who seek to exploit the rest of the nation to selfishly inflate their own profits.
• Association Fallacy:
  • In Project Agartha, Ivanov can go to the mountain pass and analyze the rocks to find evidence of Tibetans having a shared history with Russians and proving the Eurasian concept. His geologist finds that the rocks found in Tibet are the same ones found in the Urals, using this as evidence that the geology of Eurasia is continuous and concluding that Tibetans must be of the same superethnos as Russians. Conversely, if they study the river, they find it to be much cleaner than the ones in Russia, thus coming to a different conclusion that Tibet is automatically not associated with Russia and breaking the Eurasian concept.
  • Meanwhile, if Ivanov traveled to the village and questioned the elders, he will hear familiar mythology of creatures like demons and witches, so he concludes that Russia and Tibet must've once been united under a Eurasian entity.
• Les Collaborateurs: Some of the Passionariyy's generals, like Viktor Larionov and Gleb Sluchenkov, used to be members of the Russian Liberation Army who collaborated with the German Reich.
• Circular Reasoning: Gumilyov can commission Project Golden Legacy to uncover ancient sites in West Russia that would prove the superiority of the Eurasian civilization. However, in the success scenario, the excavators treat any find as superior because it is of Eurasian design; essentially stating that the artifacts are superior because they're Eurasian and the Eurasian culture is superior because the artifacts are good.
• Enemy Mine: All of the Passionariyy leaders have wildly different ideologies from each other and only aligned based on mutual enmity with the Left and Center.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Most of the Passionariyy finds Taboritsky to be mad, even by their standards. They can attempt to sideline him as a pariah and the only reason why they can work with him is because his popularity is useful to their cause.
• The Farmer and the Viper: If Ivanov and his team reach the monastery, they can request the monks there to show them their sacred texts. The monks hospitably oblige, but come the next day, they find their libraries completely empty and their guests gone without a hint of gratitude.
• Hidden Depths: If Ivanov chooses to meditate with the monks in the monastery, his team's equipment will rust and fail the expedition, causing Ivanov to begin cursing the "unfair government and cruel tyrants" that rule the world, indicating that he's aware of the broken world he's living in and not truly committed to the Eurasian cause.
• Ignored Expert: In Project Solar Flare, Gumilyov sends a Eurasian delegation to visit a museum in Shanxi and examine their artifacts to determine if China is a part of Eurasia. As they draw similarities to the artifacts found in Russia and use it as evidence of a shared Eurasian history, the curator tells them the unlikelihood of their theory, noting the stark temporal and geographical differences of the objects. Unfortunately, he ends up ignored under the justification that new discovers are constantly being made and the delegation sticks to their pseudoscience.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: One of the Passionariyy leaders commits so many horrific atrocities that the other three pale in comparison. It's Taboritsky.
• Missing Steps Plan: If Ivanov reaches an isolated village during his expedition, he can try to eavesdrop on any gossip to find information proving Tibet to be connected with Russia and verifying the Eurasian concept. Unfortunately, he didn't come up with any plan to make the villagers spill any useful information and, by the time the helicopters arrive to pick up the team, Ivanov has nothing to show for his investments.
• Multi National Team: Gumilyov's Eurasianists play host to many ethnicities, even ones that had once been oppressed by the Russian Empire, such as the Tatars.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Most of the Passionariyy are varying degrees of racist towards Russian ethnic minorities. It's very telling that one of the only major things the various factions of the Passionariyy share in common is anti-Semitism; even Gumilyov, who is generally much more accepting of virtually every other kind of minority in Russia, discriminates against the Jewish population.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Even though Gumilyov founded and leads the Passionariyy, their candidate for the 1963 election is Shafarevich because he's the only one of its leaders who's not wildly unorthodox or batshit insane.
• Red Scare: The Passionariyy is vehemently opposed to communism and one of their first actions after their coup is to target Suslov and his band of fellow ideologues.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In the fail scenarios of Projects Steppe Sun and Across the Wall, the Eurasian raiding party will be beaten and forced to retreat the regions they are trying to invade.
• Shadow Archetype: The ideologies of the Passionaries can be seen as hateful perversions of ideologies present elsewhere in Russia. Shafarevich's "Compassionate Conservatism" is a corruption of actual conservative liberal democracy; Serov's Ordosocialism of Marxism, and Taboritsky's Imperial Cult of Russian monarchism and Orthodox Christianity.
• Signed Up for the Dental: Many bureaucrats work for Gumilyov's empire because the pay is good and it's better than being worked to death in the factories and sent to die in the army.
• The Stool Pigeon: In Serov's Russia, the citizens and soldiers are pressured into naming anyone who breaks the Ordosocialist doctrine. When Serov demands a crowd to raise their hand if they know any suspected traitors, he gets worried looks at first, until he raises his voice again and intimidates them to start confessing.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: If Gumilyov makes it to the superregional stage, a mining crew finally gets a stroke of luck when they find a vein of gold and now have the wealth to cover their debts, a rare triumphant moment in the miserable living conditions of Eurasia.

Heads of State

Lev Gumilyov

Role: Head of State (Passionariyy election)

Party: Passionariyy^note Passionarians

Ideology: Eurasianism^note Despotism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}Lev Nikolayevich Gumilyov, the only child of famous poets Anna Akhmatova and Nikolay Gumiylov, spent most of his youth being persecuted by the Soviet power for his unreliable ancestry and unorthodox scholarly views. In the years of his exile and wandering across Russia, he thoroughly studied history and ethnography, introducing the concept of passionarity, which postulates that the rise and fall of every historical ethnos is driven by the Passionariyy, the few people who change their environment and society to their vision, driving the history of their people forward. Instead of reducing his discovery to a merely academic matter, he saw that the salvation of Russia lies in the practical application of his theory and fancied himself as the one who will bring the passionarity of the Russian super-ethnos to its maximum heat. Being rejected and ignored by Russian warlords, Gumilyov found his supporters in Komi, among those Russians who felt betrayed and disenfranchised by the Bolsheviks and democrats alike.

Gumilyov's deep erudition, amiable personality and impeccable charisma attracted almost every shade of the right-wing in Ust-Sysolsk under his banner, making him the patriarch of the Russian nationalism overnight. The Passionariyy initially were considered an underdog of the Komi politics, however, as Gumilyov proved himself not just as an ardent Russian patriot and charming, if slightly eccentric, ideologue, but also as a ruthless manipulator who does not shun any means to achieve his goals, the right-wing extremism became a force that prevailed over every other political group in Komi.

Though Gumilyov emerged as an indisputable master of Ust-Sysolsk, his ultimate agenda remains unknown to anyone due to his chameleonic and sometimes even opportunistic nature. Whether if he wishes to appeal to the whims of his nationalistic supporters or he decides to pursue his own dream of the Eurasian civilizational empire, the whole Russia stands in waiting of his Scythian advance to bring the dying Western world down.

Russian intellectual turned the leader of the Passionariyy. After the Soviet collapse, Gumilyov took up politics and developed to a political version of his Eurasian superethnos theory, and founded the Passionariyy to organize nationalist political support. Now a major player in Komi politics, Gumilyov envisions a reunified Eurasian civilizational state, a great empire descended from the steppe civilizations, able to bring down the decaying civilizational enemies of Eurasia.

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• The Assimilator: According to him, all Eurasians are part of the same superethnos and their cultures must be subordinated into a union, albeit still keeping their distinct identities through Constituent Ethnostates that make up the nation as a whole.
• Aristocrats Are Evil: He reestablishes the socially stratified hierarchy of the old Tsardom, where most of the population is ruled by a "masterocracy" of Eurasian elites. He even specifically encourages these elites to flaunt their wealth to show off their noble status.
• Bait the Dog:
  • When informed that his economic restrictions are putting a strain on small businesses, Gumilyov agrees to ease up his taxation policies. That is, if these businesses agree to a voluntary buyout so they're now owned by a corporation.
  • One of his seemingly kinder actions is to establish the Eurasian Food Bank so no one will go hungry. Unfortunately, the only food given out are grains and vegetables native to the recipient's culture. Luxuries like meat and alcohol are strictly reserved for the elite. In some places, like Perm, it's enough to buy the citizens' loyalty anyway.
• Beneath the Earth: Eurasia builds underground bunkers as part of trying to equip itself with nuclear weapons.
• Boring, but Practical: Gumilyov relies on submarines to rebuild the navy. They're unimpressive, but cheap and easy to crew, making them sufficient tools to project into the Pacific.
• Broken-System Dogmatist: Gumilyov ignores any social ills that come with the neo-medieval hierarchy he establishes. In order to be a Eurasian, one must exhibit the values of purity, loyalty, and strength, which means not complaining about one's station in life and enduring whatever disadvantages they face.
• Bullying a Dragon: After reunifying West Russia, Gumilyov sends a letter to Germany and Italy, denouncing them as an enemy to the Eurasian superethnos and swearing to destroy their empires in a merciless invasion to destroy the Romano-Germanics. The foreign ministries' only response is to call him a barbarian.
• But Thou Must!:
  • In Project Like Father, Gumilyov sends an expedition team to Iran so they can excavate some remnant of Timur the Great's legacy, but the Iranian government demands something in return for access to Khorasan. Gumilyov can offer steel, military assets, or aluminum mines, but they all lead to a partial success, with the team finding some pottery and tools, but end up ambushed by a bandit attack and unable to find any direct connection linking Timur to Eurasia.
  • In Project Old Mother, Gumilyov discovers a Mughal fortress in India that could be significant to Eurasia's history, but before he can send a delegation to investigate, he must give some form of aid to the local villages so they can be allowed to excavate the area. He can offer modern equipment, hunters to help them find food, or funding so they can support themselves, but all of these choices lead to a success, where the team is allowed to loot the Mughal fortress of its artifacts.
• Cheaters Never Prosper: Inverted in his debate over the Eurasian concept's legitimacy. When his opponents select five, unbiased judges, Gumilyov can cheat by either replacing some of them with his own supporters or bribing them to favor his arguments, but both options will give an early advantage to him and he won't get caught for it.
• The Chessmaster: Like Suslov, Gumilyov is also trying to manipulate events in Komi for his own political gain.
• Condescending Compassion: Gumilyov disdains the "ethnos of tradesmen and hucksters" who are out to soil the Eurasian superethnos, but he tries to remove some blame from them by claiming they just had bad fortune with evolution and unwillingly became a "culture of vampires". And that's before he deports them out of Eurasia to be rid of them.
• Crazy-Prepared: Gumilyov sets up numerous backups and contingency plans in case his Eurasian experiment goes awry and to ensure that it remains efficient at all times.
• Days of Future Past: After Gumilyov unites Western Russia, he works to create a highly-stratified anti-modernist socio-economic structure embodying the Eurasian superethnos called the "Masterocracy". It mimics ancient societies with fierce warriors, exploited peasants, and a rich state-associated nobility. He also persecutes the bourgeoisie in order to distance his society from "Atlanticism".
• Deadly Euphemism:
  • He praises his own economic policies as a fortune for Russia and expects the other Eurasian ethnoses to embrace it. However, Gumilyov darkly notes that there will need to be "some encouragement" to make this transition.
  • Anyone who questions his encouragement of hyper-militarism is sentenced to "some re-education".
• Defeat Means Menial Labor: After sending the military to crack down on a wide scale protest, Gumilyov offers mercy to those who agree to work in the factories as a slave.
• Defiant Stone Throw: After several rounds of his debate over a Eurasian nation's legitimacy, Gumilyov gets hit with a small stone by one of the audience members, causing the entire court to devolve into violence and half ot he university to burn down.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: In the Eurasian Dream mission, Gumilyov can send a message of condemnation to Germany, Japan, and the United States, deeming them all inferior to the Eurasian superethnos and promising to destroy them when the time is right. The superpowers react with indignation to his audacity.
• Didn't Think This Through: Gumilyov integrates specialized ethnic regiments to the military so they can be commanded by Russian officers, but he neglected to offer any education so they can speak and comprehend Russian. This ends up creating a Language Barrier hindering the military's capabilities, frustrating the commanders.
• Enemy Mine: While his ultimate goal is Eurasianist, Gumilyov can decide to throw a few strategic bones to Russian nationalists in his nation, trading the long-term legitimization of his ideology for short-term political stability.
• Enlightened Self-Interest: A very myopic and self-righteous example. Gumilyov genuinely believes that he's doing the Jewish and Roma people a favor by deporting them out of the country by preventing future conflicts with the Eurasian superethnos, which will free his own civilization of their "burden".
• Equal-Opportunity Evil: Being a Eurasianist, Gumilyov sees Eurasian minorities like the Tatars, the Kazakhs, or the Buryats as equals to Russians. Whereas other far-right Russians would persecute these Russian minorities, Gumilyov is willing to accommodate them as Eurasians. He is however antagonistic/"racist" towards other superethnoses, especially the Romano-Germanics (i.e. the Europeans). More specifically, Gumilyov wants to recruit the Central Asian nations in their coming war to liberate Moskowien and the Caucasus, using the term "Komplementarnost" to highlight the complementary natures of their ethnicities and the need to find strength through unity.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Gumilyov has pretty eccentric, elitist beliefs, but he thinks that Taboritsky's ideas are completely insane.
  • He personally disapproves of becoming a singular autocrat in the vein of the Tsars or dictators in Europe, though this is more out of disgust of taking inspiration from Romano-Germanics. However, he also has the option to forgo this standard and embrace this idea, justifying that tyranny is a key tenet of Eurasianism.
  • Despite proclaiming the necessary conflict between Eurasians and Atlanticists, Gumilyov isn't single-mindedly focused on conquest, correctly believing that it would just lead Eurasia to destruction.
  • Gumilyov is disgusted by the Russian nationalists who call themselves "Eurasianists", namely in their blatant prejudice against ethnic minorities who they should be working with.
• Extreme Speculative Stratification: Social mobility is not a thing that exists in Gumilyov's Eurasia. The lower classes are taxed so much that they are barely able to survive, the middle class is all but non-existent, and the higher classes are despots whose every word is law. They have no need for 'checks and balances' when they possess a purity of purpose that eclipses all else they might desire.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: The idea of pan-nationalism and cooperation across superethnoses eludes Gumilyov's mind, who is boggled by how the United States can be home to many races across the world and avoid disintegrating from ethnic tension.
• External Combustion: Gumilyov can get assassinated while he's trying to flee Komi when his car is rigged to explode, ironically when he's in the middle of pondering over how he can recover from this setback and continue the Eurasian dream.
• Face Death with Dignity: If Tukhachevsky conquers the Komi Republic, Gumilyov bids an affable farewell to his executioners before being killed, contrasting with how the other members of the Passionariyy begin to panic at their impending deaths.
• Failure Is the Only Option:
  • Inverted with some projects of the Eurasian Dream mission.
    • Project Cold Waters, in which Gumilyov's expedition will always recover lost Russian vessels in the Arctic , with one specifically named "Zaytseva".
    • Project Solar Flare, in which a Eurasian delegation visits the Xi'an Banpo Museum in Shanxi and note similarities in the Chinese artifacts with the ones in Eurasia, thereby concluding that China is a part of Eurasia.
    • Project Old Mother, in which an excavation team is sent to plunder a Mughal fortress in India and find important treasures there, including a weapon from the Caucus that is perceived evidence for a Eurasian nation's existence.
  • However, it's played straight for others.
    • Project Porcelain King, Gumilyov's effort to locate the tombs of ancient Chinese emperors. The scenario can only end with the Nanjing government rejecting their request to start an excavation or with the Eurasian delegation only able to find a mass grave of those killed in a Mongol invasion, but nothing of true worth.
    • Project Final Rest sends a team of scientists to Mongolia so they can find the remains of Genghis Khan, but it will never succeed.
    • Project Far Flung has some Eurasian scientists travel to Vietnam so they can investigate a theorized battle with Mongolian invaders that would prove the Eurasian concept. However, even if the Vietnamese government gives them permission to access their land, the scientists are unable to find hard evidence proving their theory and just find some skeletons and rusted weapons that could be spun by the propagandists.
    • Project Brutus organizes a bombing attack against the Colosseum in Rome to destroy a key symbol of Romano-Germanic civilization. However, the agent is only able to smuggle in a messily created, small bomb that detonates before he can reach the Colosseum, dealing limited damage to the structure. It can only really be called a success because it kills or injures several people, thereby terrifying the Italian nation. The scenario can also end in an even less triumphant outcome, if the police track him down early and force the terrorist to blow himself up in an isolated farmstead.
• Faux Affably Evil: He seems polite enough to his subordinates and compliments them whenever they tell him what he likes to hear. However, if they express any hesitancy about his ideas, Gumilyov's demeanor darkens.
• Got Volunteered:
  • If there's anyone who can't serve in the military, Gumilyov forces them to work in the factories, whether they want to or not.
  • To develop nuclear weapons, Gumilyov will conduct a nationwide search for any nuclear scientists who have since retired after the Soviet Union fell, forcibly conscripting them to renew Bukharin's old nuclear program from the 1940's.
• Hero-Worshipper:
  • Some of Gumilyov's idols include Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, and Catherine the Great, seeing them as powerful leaders and conquerors who managed to unite the Eurasian people in their empires.
  • Many of his military reforms are inspired by Attila the Hun, whom Gumilyov considers one of the greatest commanders in history and a blueprint for the Eurasian army.
• Historical In-Joke: Gumilyov's flag for the State of Eurasia has the color palette of the flag of Aleksandr Dugin's Eurasia Party, and the symbol of a Scythian deer from the flag of the New Scythians movement.
• Historical Villain Upgrade:
  • Gumilyov's beliefs in TNO are far more politicized and supremacist than OTL, with many Duginist influences. The real Gumilyov had little interest in "physicalizing" his theoretical Eurasia into a Eurasian empire. Politically, the real Gumilyov was largely apathetic, and, unlike the far-right Neo-Eurasians that appropriated his theories, he never criticized democracy, liberalism, or Russian Catholicism, and he certainly wasn't interested in pushing Russia back into the Middle Ages with "Masterocracy".
  • One other key difference is that the real-world Gumilyov did not go so far as to argue for the supremacy of one ethnose over all others; that was largely a misappropriation of his ideas by later disciples.
• Hordes from the East: Gumilyov embraces the ferocious military culture of the Hunnic and Mongolian nomads, and applies it to his Eurasian National Army.
• Hypocrite: For all his talk of opposing Romano-Germanic culture, he bases the Eurasian Constitution off of Germany's Führerprinzip.
• Insult Backfire:
  • Gumilyov is mockingly called a spider for his complex manipulations in Komi politics. Gumilyov embraces this title and intends to use his careful planning to guide a Eurasian revolution.
  • Many have decried Gumilyov's reign as a blatant dictatorship that oppresses the middle and lower classes, encourages militaristic sentiments, and creates a permanently unequal society where mobility is virtually non-existent. Gumilyov does not deny a single one of these accusations and is actually proud of them.
• I Work Alone: Unlike most other Komi leaders, Gumilyov has no wish to pursue foreign diplomacy, considering it a potential avenue for corruptive Atlanticist ideas.
• Intellectually Supported Tyranny: Gumilyov prefers to privilege the intelligentsia where he can, placing the best and brightest Eurasianists in his inner circle to be guided by and eventually succeed him. When dissident academics challenge his Eurasianist theories at the regional stage, he has the option of purging them as he would anyone else, or humoring them with a debate (which he can attempt to rig to his benefit if he so chooses). How successful Eurasia has been in their archaeological expeditions and in reclaiming territory from Finland determines how well the debate goes for him. Although he has no compunctions about purging "minor" academics in defeat, he desires scholarly acclaim for the Eurasian concept.
• Just the First Citizen: Downplayed. Gumilyov can reject the notion of being the singular ruler of Eurasia and identify himself as a spiritual leader who guides and shares power with an Ideocratic elite. However, pamphlets still emphasize him as the great savior of Eurasia.
• Know When to Fold 'Em:
  • Gumilyov has given up on building a massive navy on the basis that Eurasians are not known for fighting at sea, citing the Russo-Japanese War as proof. The Eurasian National Navy is specifically designed for defensive purposes only.
  • If set to be captured after his exile, Gumilyov will hear the government soldiers raid his hideout, but do nothing to escape, since there's nowhere left to go. Instead, he smokes his last cigarette before he goes to prison and even hands his packet to the soldier who finds him so he can buy time to finish his own.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: Though tyrannical, Gumilyov does advocate cooperation and integration with some ethnicities, unlike his Russian nationalist supporters who manifest all of his worst qualities, combine them with an even more xenophobic streak, and become increasingly at odds with their leader. Tellingly, Gumilyov leads the moderate, despot Evraziytsy wing of the Passionariyy in contrast to the more extreme Shovinistry wing that make up the fascist and ultranationalist slots.
• The Leader: Gumilyov is the leader of the Passionariyy in both ideology and in spirit, uniting the diverse band of far-right factions into a coherent force by endorsing ultranationalist ideals and appealing to populism.
• Master Race: Gumilyov considers Eurasians to be the noblest and mightiest of all superethnoses in the world, while the others are soft, weak and not even worth ruling over. He can descend even further into this trope if he accepts the idea that Russians should be acknowledged as the supreme ethnos above all other Eurasians.
• Meet the New Boss:
  • Despite claiming all Eurasian races to be equal to each other, many ethnic minorities find little difference in their socio-economic status because the hierarchy is so stratified that social mobility is non-existent. Worse still, the ruling class is largely made up of Russians, essentially repeating the pattern of Russian autocracies dominating ethnic minority groups.
  • While he himself isn't prejudiced against Eurasian groups, he does play host to Russian nationalists who hate having to integrate ethnic minorities into their empire and spread ideas that Russians alone should rule, indicating that the country might once more backslide into rampant racism and ethnic cleansing.
    Russia for Russians; Eurasia will be no different.
• MegaCorp: Gumilyov relies on some private corporations who are managed by the state bureaucracy and given contracts to extract a quota of resources. Those who prove themselves worthy will be rewarded and given more privileges.
• Monumental Damage: Gumilyov plots to have the Colosseum in Rome bombed to "prove" the superiority of the Eurasian peoples over the "Romano-Germanics".
• Never Recycle a Building: Subverted. Gumilyov specifically recycles the old bunkers in Omsk to conduct confidential nuclear tests there.
• No True Scotsman: Gumilyov does not consider European Slavs to be like Russians and therefore in the same superethnos. According to him, these races have been "assimilated" into the Romano-Germanic superethnos and thus just as much of an enemy as the Germans and Japanese.
• Not Helping Your Case: While trying to garner support for a Eurasian state, Gumilyov will be challenged by a group of professors who offer to debate him over the concept. However, Gumilyov can reject their offer and send the secret police to arrest them, but this deals a massive blow to the legitimacy counter of the Eurasian Dream.
• Obliviously Evil: As Gumilyov creates a stratified hierarchy with himself on top, he denies accusations that it's a power-grab and justifies it as a return to the "natural structure of Eurasian society".
• Older Is Better: In Project Across the Wall, Gumilyov sends a raid party to the Ural Mountains to obtain some relic from the area, but he specifically wants an ancient artifact that would be relevant to Eurasia's past. If the team succeeds, they only recover a potentially useful experimental weapon, but have to add a coat of paint and some "touch ups", so it looks older.
• Opportunistic Bastard: While Kazakhstan is still divided and vulnerable, Gumilyov initiates a military expedition into Kostanay to steal some of their artifacts to both recall the Eurasian past and unveil the might of the Eurasian National Army.
• Patriotic Fervor: Above all else, Gumilyov values the Ideocracy, the socio-political structure that governs Eurasia and binds it together. Everyone must put aside their own individual desires to serve the state. He even commissions a historical documentary series Eurasia: Passion and Power to remind the people of past Eurasian conquerors like Attila and Alexander Nevsky, inspiring a wave of nationalism.
• Perpetual Frowner: Gumilyov is a stern individual who usually has a serious demeanor. Seeing a celebration in his name and reflecting on his successes by the superregional stage is one of the few times he ever smiles.
• The Philosopher King: Gumilyov proclaims the principle of the Ideocracy, a socio-political structure which puts Gumilyov's own Eurasianist ideology at the forefront of all state policies.
• Plausible Deniability: In Project Brutus, Gumilyov will try intimidating the Atlanticists by staging a terrorist bombing in Rome's Colosseum, but denying all responsibility so no one can be certain of their involvement.
• The Political Officer: Gumilyov creates a "Passionarist Commissar Corps of Eurasia" to instill Eurasianist ideals in his soldiers, and also keep watch on dissenters.
• Pragmatic Villainy:
  • After finding out that brutal suppression is making people less likely to support his regime, Guymilyov resorts to less violent, but no less insidious means to educate the people on the concept of Eurasianism so that they'd be less likely to protest.
  • He retains the government's exclusive right to produce their own arms and prevent manufacturers by enriching themselves through weapons trafficking, but only because he thinks that such activity would harm Eurasia.
  • Gumilyov establishes a food bank and gives out provisions to everyone, regardless of economic status, because he needs to keep them appeased.
  • For some of the businesses nationalized, Gumilyov gives offers to the owners of a better replacement job so that he can keep them loyal.
  • After taking West Siberia, Gumilyov offers free farmland to anyone willing to move out of the cities, largely to amplify the productivity of rural areas and increase food security.
  • To build legitimacy in Project Steppe Sun, Gumilyov orders an army to trespass and steal artifacts from Kostanay, but he sends a raiding party rather than a full-blown invasion force because Eurasia's logistics are incapable of supporting such a large endeavor.
  • In Project Old Mother, Gumilyov can offer some villages in India either modern equipment, hunting aid, or funding for local projects. However, this is only so that they can be more inclined to allow a Eurasian delegation to enter their territory and locate a Mughal Fortress that could provide answers to Eurasia's history.
  • When his debate with the professors leads to a violent uproar in the audience and causes half of the university to burn down, the best response from Gumilyov is to write a formal apology about his own rowdy supporters and thus seem more appealing to the peasants. Denying responsibility has no effect and accusing the opposition of staging the raid will make them seem more palatable.
• Pretender Diss: If he accepts the professors' challenge to a debate over Eurasia's authenticity, Gumilyov will silently insult his opponents as "stupid pigs" who are fake historians who fall prey to many logical fallacies.
• Propaganda Machine: Project Right Mind is all about organizing a massive propaganda campaign that legitimizes the concept of Eurasia.
• Proud Warrior Race: Gumilyov tries to cultivate a Eurasian warrior culture in his Eurasian National Army, teaching his soldiers to be as aggressive as possible and become heroes for the superethnos. He even specifically creates the "Passionarist Commissar Corps of Eurasia" to propagate Eurasinist ideals and get them to fight harder out of ideological drive.
• The Purge: Unwilling to let any opposition grow against him, Gumilyov passes out lists for his subordinates to liquidate any suspected individuals who have or used to have connections with the other political parties.
• Realpolitik: Gumilyov gives the barest diplomatic acknowledgement to the United States, seeing them as the most useful superpower to combat Germany and Japan.
• Reconcile the Bitter Foes: As part of his belief that the Eurasian superethnos must work in tandem, Gumilyov gives shared responsibilities between normally rivaling bureaucrats so they will not be bogged down in factionalism and cooperate with each other.
• Red Scare: He calls socialism to be one of the many corruptive Western values that plague Russia and will seek to uproot it.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: In Project Porcelain King, Gumilyov will need to get permission from the Nanjing government before he can start an excavation of rumored underground graves belonging to Chinese emperors. He can either bribe the officials to let them in, offer the regional government a larger sum of money, or spend an even larger amount of money to negotiate an official theory. The chances of diplomatic success increase with the expenses, with the last option guaranteeing that the Republic will accept.
• Stupid Evil: Subverted. Giving more power to the masterocracy sounds like a bad idea that would inspire treachery, but Gumilyov is actually aware of this and smart enough to tie their wealth to the bureaucracy, so that he can monitor their activities and discourage rebellion.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Gumilyov's earliest followers have a rivalry with more traditional Eurasianists who reject their ideas that all Eurasian ethnic groups are equal and promote Russian supremacy. Gumilyov can choose who's interpretation of Eurasianism to side with in the regional stage.
• This Is Gonna Suck: When Gumilyov reunifies Russia, the world event notes that Eurasia has a "propensity for extreme violence".
• Totalitarian Utilitarian: Many of his economic policies involve nationalizing many small businesses and depriving the owners of their autonomy for the good of the national economy and Eurasia as a whole. Any resistance to the idea is harshly dealt with.
• Victory by Endurance: Gumilyov's military doctrine relies on attrition and scorched earth tactics to wear down the enemy and then use superior numbers to overwhelm them.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Zig-Zagged. Gumilyov is the most influential figure of the Passionariyy and commands a deal of respect from his audience, but his esoteric and complicated views only appeal to a niche audience and becomes harder to swallow for wider demographics, like the peasants. His Eurasian Dream mechanic is dedicated to raising more support by proving the concept of Eurasia with pseudoscientific claims and expeditions. Depending on how much legitimacy he builds, Gumilyov can play this trope straight to varying degrees or subvert it.
• Villainous Breakdown: If Shafarevich and Serov form a coalition and seize control of the Passionariyy, Gumilyov can't take it and breaks down, ranting that it's all some kind of Romano-Germanic conspiracy, and tarnishing him in the eyes of all his followers on the spot. Taboritsky takes it better.
• Visionary Villain: Gumilyov has grand, continent-spanning ambitions to forge Russia into a multi-ethnic Eurasian empire, united under a supra-national entity not bound to the same degradations that other civilizations suffer from.
• We ARE Struggling Together: By the superregional stage, Gumilyov's party is irreconcilably divided between traditional Eurasianists and Russian nationalists, each becoming more dogmatic in their ideology and making it increasingly urgent for Gumilyov to pick a side.
• We Will Meet Again: If the Passionariyy fails to take power and Gumilyov flees to Vyatka, he will silently curse the politicians in Komi for ruining his grand plan and swear that he will return to exact revenge on them.
• Weapon of Mass Destruction: Eurasia has a unique focus tree to pursue nuclear armament at the superregional stage under Project: BLUE SKY.
• Windmill Crusader: Gumilyov blames every economic problem to hit Russia on the merchant class, claiming that they gouge the city folk by selling them goods at marked up prices and instilling liberal values in them, until they are sucked of all material value. When Gumilyov rules Russia, he will establish agricultural autarkic laws to combat the imagined threat.
• With Us or Against Us: He divides the geography of Eurasia to judge who is worthy of joining his superethnos. Anyone past the Baltic coastline and the Carpathians is an enemy and not worth assimilating. Everything else on the other side is invaluable. There's little in between those categories.
• White Man's Burden: He considers Russians to be the eldest member of the Eurasian family and states that they have a "responsibility" to help their sibling cultures. Worse, he can adopt a more chauvinistic stance on this issue and proclaim Russia to be a "stern tutor" who needs to firmly advance their "lesser ethnoses".
• Won the War, Lost the Peace: Even if Gumilyov manages to reunify West Russia, his troubles will be far from over. In his newly integrated territories, most of the population is ignorant of the Eurasian concept and he must inflame their nationalism through the "Eurasian Dream" mechanic, embarking on various projects to remind the people of their glorious past and build his regime's legitimacy.
• Worthy Opponent: Though Suslov hates him, he begrudgingly respects Gumilyov as a credible threat to the KPK, more so than the democratic coalition.
• Xanatos Gambit: If the democratic coalition targets the Left, pro-communist soldiers will go on strike, but can be replaced with troops sympathetic to the Passionariyy. Recruiting these soldiers traps the government into a scheme by Gumilyov, where they are pressured to give these troops some concessions. If they refuse, more soldiers will go on strike and give Gumilyov an opportunity to infiltrate the high command with his own supporters, so they can appease the agitators and cement their leader's hold over the military. If they accept, Shafarevich's influence will soar and strengthen Gumilyov's coalition anyway.
• You Are a Credit to Your Race: In contrast to his strict hatred for Atlanticist civilizations, Gumilyov has some respect for the United States and is willing to initiate an exchange of archaeologists in Project Great Minds because they descended from Europeans and thus are "honorary Eurasians".
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After securing his power, Gumilyov ends his alliance with the far-right political parties he aligned with and outlaws them.

Igor Shafarevich

Role: Chairman of the National Assembly^note Head of Government (Provisional Government cabinet), Head of State (1963 election or Passionariyy election)

Party: Rossiyskaya Natsionalnaya Partiya^note Russian National Party

Ideology: Paternalistic Conservatism^note Conservatism (Façade), National Conservatism^note Paternalism (Provisional Government), Fascist Populism^note Fascism (Actual)

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich is many things to many people. Fascist. Democrat. Reformist. Radical. Anti-semite. Patriot. But if there's one thing that people do not call him, it is unintelligent. Shafarevich, born to a moderately successful family living in Moscow, was from a young age gifted at mathematics. A remarkable genius for his age, he was enrolled in a university level math course, even entering his final undergraduate year at Moscow University without having finished the 9th grade. His future never seemed brighter, until the German arrived.

Forced to flee Moscow, he was evacuated to the east, in Komi, never to see Moscow again. As Russia was consumed in warlordism, Shafarevich became involved in politics in Komi, a rump state carved up after the failure that was the West Russian War. There, he rose up the ranks of the right wing Passionariyy organization, leading the party's moderate faction, much to the chagrin of Gumilyov and his faction.

Developing a right wing ideology known as 'Passionate Conservatism', Shafarevich has made himself popular among more reformist rightists in the party, those favoring working within the democratic system. Despite this, he has been accused of fascism, anti-semitism, as his hatred of the 'small nation' (a group of 'anti-national elites' whose values are completely at odds with Russia) echoes that of the hatred of Jews and other minority groups. Now, as leader of Komi, he will fully implement his vision of a better, more stable, order.

Soviet mathematician turned Komi politician, running on a platform of Russian nationalism and law-and-order. Though accused of fascism, racism, authoritarianism, and many other unpleasant -isms, Shafarevich maintains that he is a firm democrat working entirely within the confines of Komi democracy.

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• Allohistorical Allusion: His Vast Bureaucracy that ensures controlled opposition is reminiscent of Putin's presidency, and the frequent use of Russophobia as a scare tactic is also reminiscent of Putinism, though unlike Putin who focuses on foreign nations who supposedly hate Russia and plot against it, Shafarevich targets minorities at home.
• Bait the Dog:
  • Rather than outright cheat the system and turn the country into an effective one-party state, Shafarevich can allow opposing parties to run in the elections and give some choice to the people. Unfortunately, Shafarevich clearly doesn't intend to ever give the opposition a fair fighting chance by using propaganda to favor his own party in the vote.
  • Once he conquers Western Siberia, Shafarevich will seemingly adopt a light hand against the people living there, offering them the chance to integrate in his democracy. He then darkly notes that "special measures" will be taken for those who refuse.
• Beneath Notice: Even before taking power, many observers of Komi's rightwing politics set their focus on Gumilyov and the fringe factions of Passionariyy, with Shafarevich's climbing their ranks being rather quiet. When establishing a new nation, he slowly expands his power over the institutions by avoiding an outwardly-oppressive appearance, with anyone recognizing the true nature of his policies being quieted or far too late in realizing.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: The leader of the more moderate factions in the Passionariyy Organization, who nonetheless holds just as much ambition and capacity for oppression as his peers. Upon taking leadership, he has the other leaders purged like any other winner of the power struggle, even looking back on having done so with nostalgia.
• Big Brother Is Watching: Downplayed in that they don't use sophisticated technology for their surveillance, but there are often shadowy figures operating in the crowds to watch the populace.
• Conspicuous Trenchcoat: Shadowy figures enforcing Shafarevich's rule, such as those helping distribute the ballot stuffing or spying on the population, disguise themselves in overcoats.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: If he's been exiled from Komi, he finds some comfort settling in a church community and finding companionship with the convent. When the government soldiers raid the church and his brothers move out of the way so he can be captured, Shafarevich doesn't blame them for it.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He and his followers value the environment of Russia and want to protect and avoid harming it as much as possible. They view the option to cover their lands with industrial factories as against cultural values.
• Evil Reactionary: Shafarevich vehemently opposes values he deems contrary to Russo-Christian principles and considers scientific progress to be a corruptive influence on the people.
• Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: Shafarevich hates ethnic minorities he dubs "small nations". He believes that they're values are inherently incompatible with Russian culture and that they're secretly out to oppress Russian people, self-justifying his own discrimination against them.
• The Fundamentalist: He calls Russia a Christian nation and expects everyone to follow its morals. Shafarevich blames any social immorality on the lack of Christian values and bans all other religions for trying to "subvert" the people's faith.
• Get It Over With: If he's been exiled from Komi and hunted down to be shot, Shafarevich gives himself up in a monastery and begs them to get the job over with.
• Heel–Face Turn: Exploited if he's been exiled and about to be killed. With his executioners closing in on his location, Shafarevich prays to God in the hopes he will spare him, promising to not harm another living being if his prayer is answered. However, it's just a move in desperation rather than a genuine atonement for his actions.
• Hidden in Plain Sight: If he manages to flee Komi after the Passionariyy fail to take power, Shafarevich makes it onto a train and passes the security guard, simply by disguising himself among the crowd and appearing to be a normal citizen.
• Hypocrisy Nod: Reluctantly, Shafarevich can compromise on his agrarianism by investing in industrial and heavy-mining businesses that would negatively impact the environment. He considers this a betrayal of his values, but deems it an acceptable cost.
• Hypocrite: Shafarevich calls for a genuine Russian democracy, free of elitism and other bars on the people's vote. However, he never extends this same standard towards ethnic minorities, who are disenfranchised.
• I Control My Minions Through...: Political indoctrination. To ensure the army's loyalty, Shafarevich politicizes them through reeducation campaigns and promoting loyalists to higher positions.
• Illegal Religion: Any faiths different from the Christian majority of Russia are branded as "Russophobic" and subversive, and any attempts to preach them are met with jail sentences.
• Immoral Journalist: On Radio Free Syktyvkar, Shafarevich will search for any dirt he can find on his political opponents to discredit them, even requesting for his audience to send tips for him and specifically highlighting photos as a plus.
• In Harmony with Nature: Shafarevich is one of the most eco-friendly leaders who can take power in Komi, passing numerous laws to protect the natural environment and prevent corporations from exploiting it.
• Insistent Terminology: He makes sure his "democracy" avoids comparisons to totalitarian regimes by using certain words and deceitful applications of democratic functions. He is not purging minorities with an iron fist, but instead fighting "Russophobia" from "smaller nations" as a "compassionate conservative", with ballots that just so happen to be seriously in his favor.
• Ironic Echo: Shafarevich is introduced doing some street planning and deciding to build a path that would hasten his own trip to the National Assembly at the cost of some property damage, finding enjoyment out of his work. In the beginning of the superregional stage, Shafarevich is planning to build another road that would destroy some city property, but now finding his work to be pretty pointless, yet still taking pride in it. It shows that, despite being in a much more powerful position than he was before, he's still going to keep up the status quo of a broken democracy because it's easier to rule that way.
• Join or Die: After taking over the Passionariyy, Shafarevich offers the other factions to join his side, lest they be purged like the liberals and communists.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: Shafarevich purges ethnic minorities from the government and effectively rules a reactionary dictatorship, but he avoids the overt extremism and general insanity of the rest of the Passionariyy.
• Loophole Abuse: Shafarevich's government follows the structure and policies that define a democracy, but how it's conducted throughout its development makes it function as a discriminative order, escaping criticism with manipulative Weasel Words. For example, ethnic minorities are forced to go through a complex and slow pre-registration process before they can vote, so that they technically have a vote by law, but are deprived of it in reality.
• Master Race: According to the Infantryman's Manual published by Shafarevich's government, the Russian people and the Russian way of life are infinitely superior to that of other cultures. It's a really downplayed ethnosupremacist rhetoric, but it's still supremacist rhetoric.
• Metaphorically True: The government established under him uses the functions and tenets a democratic order would, but with controlled opposition and a downplayed nationalist agenda constantly obstructing minority groups, the nation slowly maneuvers into becoming an oppressive de facto one-party dictatorship.
• Mood Whiplash: His introductory event starts with him planning to build a road in Syktyvkar, expressing much passion for his work. Then, the event takes a dark turn when Shafarevich realizes that his plan will require some property damage, which he nonchalantly accepts, foreshadowing his more sinister side.
• Mundane Horror: Part of what makes Shafarevich and his storyline more insidious is how his route shows the very real risk of conservative viewpoints being manipulated to advance authoritarian means. Unlike his rivals in the Passionariyy, who follow fringe ideologies and would realistically never be anywhere near real power if it wasn't for the Warlord era, Shafarevich is by far the most grounded among the four, and can rebuild Russia as an authoritarian regime that has a good shot at outlasting its creator. Notably, a not-insignificant number of fans have likened the droll dictatorship of Shafarevich to a more insidiously racist version of the state-sanitized, slowly-backsliding real life regimes of Vladimir Putin, or Hungary's Viktor Orban.
• Necessarily Evil: Exploited, being part of his usual public justification for his tactics. Played Straighter with his party's view on creating more factories across Russia, finding the industrialization of their lands to probably be a "betrayal" of cultural values but nonetheless needed.
• Never Recycle a Building: Subverted. Shafarevich reopens many military academies that were closed down in West Russia so he can train new commanders and rebuild the army.
• Nostalgia Filter: Shafarevich longs for a return to the old, rural traditions of Russians living on an idyllic farm, away from the choking influence of urbanization and respecting customs like hard work and family.
• Not So Similar: Shafarevich's Russia tries to advertise itself as democratic by drawing parallels to the United States, with Shafarevich even living in his own White House. However, events repeatedly show that this is a massive deception to hide Shafarevich's status as a President for Life by cheating the ballot system.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Shafarevich adjusts the constitution so that he and his party can hold more power. Shafarevich claims that it's needed to free the government from petty infighting and put it in more capable hands, but it's a lie so that he can corrupt the democratic system for himself.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: Invoked by Shafarevich and his government officials, with red tape hindering groups and potential movements against him so that nobody can ever mount any effective opposition.
• Ominous Mundanity: As part of his rule being Mundane Horror, events that show how he prevents objection to his oppressive reign with complicated forms and offices, such as one designated "Small National Voter Pre-Registration Application".
• The One Thing I Don't Hate About You: Shafarevich hates the Bolsheviks, but he accepts their idea of aligning the military to a political ideology. While reforming the army, Shafarevich emphasizes the theory of an "organic Russian nation" by defining a stricter hierarchy so that each soldier knows their role and will be more willing to fight to keep what's theirs.
• Pet the Dog:
  • Shafarevich is a racist autocrat who turns Russia into a sham democracy that really answers only to him, but he also implements some of the most generous welfare policies of the Komi unifiers, with taxes weighted toward the wealthy and heavy penalties in place for those who would exploit the Russian worker.
  • If he gets elected in 1963, Shafarevich will spend the first days in office setting up a welfare program for retired workers and veterans as a reward for their service.
  • His party also values the environment and wants to keep it protected by placing restrictions on steel and chemical factories.
  • If a business provides essential services, like hospitals, Shafarevich will bail them out in case of bankruptcy or collapse, since they are essential to the government and the people.
• Pragmatic Villainy:
  • After the PSD tries to nationalize Radio Free Syktyvkar and silence his messages, Shafarevich tries to rehabilitate his station's reputation by hosting a charity drive to provide relief to bombing victims.
  • If he gets elected in 1963, Shafaverich may temporarily cooperate with politicians from the Center during the transition because it could give him the early edge needed to secure more power.
  • The façade of being a democratic institution is kept around as a useful tool to keep Russia both stable and under his reign.
  • Shafarevich allows some opposing voices to live in his Republic, but only to be promoted into ceremonial positions where they can never post an actual threat to him.
  • He offers free public transportation to a polling station during election time, but only for RNP voters who will keep Shafarevich in power.
• President Evil: Shafarevich is the only member of the Passionariyy who can run in Komi's elections and get democratically elected as President. In this case, he's initially classified as a Conservative Democrat before revealing his true colours as a dictator.
• President for Life: The Russian Republic under Shafarevich is supposedly a democracy with elections, but the only name on all ballots is that of Igor Shafarevich. It also doesn't help that he provides free public transportation to the ballots for RNP voters, further rigging the entire system in his favor.
• The Purge: After being elected in 1963, Shafarevich organizes a purge in the military's ranks to replace with his own supporters and keep the army loyal to the RNP. Shortly after, PSD sympathizers within his own Defense Ministry will be fired so they can't overthrow him in a military coup.
• Realpolitik: There are many political disagreements between Shafarevich and the United States, but the two can form diplomatic ties to unite against their common enemy, Germany. Notably, Shafarevich gets the United States to ignore his "authoritarian leanings" by reminding them of the shared suffering they endured through World War II.
• Red Scare:
  • During his time on Radio Free Syktyvkar, Shafarevich spread scandalous rumors of communists trying to take over Komi, such as accusing Zhdanov of controlling Voznesensky through their friendship or linking the opening of gulags in Ust-Kolom as a sign of a return to Bukharin.
  • If Shafarevich gets elected in 1963, he quickly mobilizes to purge the communists from Komi, starting with Suslov, who he compares to Mephistopheles. Meanwhile, decommunization will be initiated to destroy all Soviet iconography and bury the communists' influence before they can threaten his power.
• Reminiscing About Your Victims: Upon regional unification, Shafarevich looks back on his journey and fondly recalls his previous political rivals after having purged them, before moving his focus back into his current plans.
• Repressive, but Efficient: Shafarevich's nominal democracy is politically stable and relatively prosperous. The corporations can run smoothly, the cities are being rebuilt, the living standards are rising for most Russians, and the workers enjoy a generous social net, yet many minorities wallow under systemic racism and the democratic system is heavily slanted in favor of the RNP.
• Retired Monster: If the reigning government decides to hunt down Shafarevich and capture him, they find him attending a Sunday service at a church, having retired from politics.
• Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman: Historically, Igor Shafarevich was a famous mathematician who was involved in anti-Soviet dissidence and flirted with nationalist politics. Here, he is the leader of the Russian National Party, the moderate faction of the Passionariyy.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: He's not wrong that Bukharin had some blame for the Soviet Union's defeat to the Germans, except that he blames their military defeat on flawed bureaucratic structures created by "members of a Russophobic intelligentsia".
• Running Both Sides: Elections under his republic have different parties to cast votes to, but ultimately, all papers end up reading "Shafarevich" when being distributed.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: If he escapes a coup made against him, he'll swear off politics and become a math teacher.
• Shown Their Work:
  • Shafarevich's Russian chauvinism justifying itself as "anti-Russophobia" and his theory of "small nations" are both taken from Shafarevich's real-life essay Russophobia.
  • Zig-Zagged with the usage of the term "small nations" itself. While the term is frequently used to refer to minorities (especially indigenous ones) in Russia, Shafarevich himself used it differently. In his works, the "small nation" (in the singular) is a supposed evil Jewish-led Ancient Conspiracy that plots against the Russian people. This Conspiracy Theorist aspect of Shafarevich's personality is actually less pronounced in his TNO depiction.
• Sudden Soundtrack Stop: When Shafarevich unifies Russia, the song that accompanies his superevent is suddenly turned off just a few seconds before it would otherwise end, as if playing from a radio by a man who then sighs wearily.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: During an interview, he's asked about how he feels about his rhetoric and government being compared to fascism. He responds by questioning if his nominal democracy even closely resembles that of the Nazis, or if he's said anything blatantly bigoted. With the answer of no, he remarks that "all is well".
• Thoughtcrime: Subtly applied. Anything going against Shafarevich's vision for Russia may be branded as "Russophobia" and charged as a crime, such as the distribution of Islamic pamphlets in the Christian-majority country.
• Token Good Teammate: Extremely downplayed. Shafarevich is the only member of the Passionariyy whose Russia is inarguably better than the warlord era, providing national unity, rigorous environmentalism, and generous welfare policies. However, he's still very much a dictator and a massive racist - tellingly, he can appoint noted raving Nazi lunatic and camouflaged Esoteric Nazi Taboritsky as Governor of Vyatka - who only barely bothers to disguise these parts of his government.
• Ungrateful Bastard: To him, it doesn't matter how long one has served the government or how much loyalty they've expressed to them in the past. If they're a part of the "small nations" (read: not Russian), Shafarevich will fire them out of blatant racism.
• Unusually Uninteresting Name:
  • Shafarevich calls himself a "compassionate conservative", which communicates his commitment to democracy, but masks his discreet discrimination against ethnic minorities.
  • One of the first legislation he passes in the superregional stage is the mundanely named Election Security Act. It's actually about disenfranchising people who vote against the RNP and slanting the system in favor of Shafarevich.
• Vast Bureaucracy: Those that Shafarevich's party stands against are usually subjected to a complex bureaucratic system intentionally designed to impede them, as a form of controlling the opposition.
• Vote Early, Vote Often: Shafarevich uses generous stuffing of ballots to make sure his "democracy" produces the outcomes he wants.
• Villain Has a Point: Shafarevich can send a letter admonishing the United States for being too isolationist in World War II and allowing Germany to defeat and conquer Russia. While "allow" may be too strong of a word, he does make an arguable point that their lack of intervention played a key role in the Nazis becoming so powerful in the first place.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Shafarevich remains a committed authoritarian nationalist behind his façade of moderation and democratic reform, rigging elections and using the state to persecute Jews, "Small Nations," and "Russophobes." Some of his events literally involve using PR and spin to hide or obfuscate opinions he knows to be indefensible.
• Villainous Friendship: He's friends with his old student and colleague, Evgeny Golod, who in turn is one of his most fervent supporters.
• Weasel Words:
  • He responds to critics of his chauvinistic papers and policies with careful language meant to deflect resistance to his plans. Should his tactics end up hindering certain groups and parties, it's only because they happen to stand against his party's intention to "guarantee prosperity".
  • He also points to how he isn't overtly calling for racial purity or the teardown of other groups, while his policies quietly obstruct specific groups and minorities from participation. Any explanations given for them are just short of outright discriminatory statement.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Shafarevich's political view is centered around the idea of "moral government," and he genuinely seems to believe that his Christian autocracy is what's best for Russia. To a degree, he even does right by his people through robust welfare and labor policies; his thinly-veiled racism and not-at-all-veiled authoritarianism are what blacken his intentions.
• A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: He offers more moderate approaches in his politics compared to the rest of the Passionariyy, and his starting ideology is Conservatism. The rest of his path shows this to really be downplayed rightwing rhetoric meant to usher in a reactionary dictatorship, with a "democracy" only in name.

Ivan Serov

Role: Head of State (Passionariyy election)

Party: Ordosocialisticheskaya Rabochaya Partiya - Pravo^note Ordosocialist Workers' Party - Right

Ideology: Ordosocialism^note Fascism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}Ivan Alexandrovich Serov is a man to which the term 'former' has often - and correctly - been applied. Former friend and political ally of Mikhail Suslov. Former supporter of orthodox Marxism-Leninism. And, now, former political contender. For having established firm control over the state as a whole, he is now in a position to determine its future.

That future is his own vision of the political philosophy of so-called 'Ordosocialism' - an eclectic mixture of far-left socialism and far-right nationalism, and one where Russian exceptionalism, in many fields and areas, is strongly emphasized. Although considered an inherent oxymoron by many, Serov is firmly committed, as least ostensibly, to ensuring its representation within the policies of the state.

Though none can say with certainty what the positions he intends to take will be, it can be reasonably expected that, under the tenets of Ordosocialism, they will include the formation of a strong authoritarian state, a dramatic increase in military expenditures, a rise in revanchist propaganda, and aggressive approaches to territorial expansion.

Former NKVD officer and former member of the Communist Party of Komi, now an independent politician subscribing to his own ideology of "Ordosocialism". Born from Serov's personal revisions on socialism following the Soviet collapse, Ordosocialism grew into a syncretic ideology hybridizing Marxist socialism and Russian ethnonationalism. Finding support in (fringe parts of) both Komi Communists and Komi nationalists, Serov intends to fully realize Ordosocialism and spearhead Russia's rebirth.

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• Allohistorical Allusion:
  • Ordosocialism, with its vague definition and big-tent nature, conceptually resembles almost every Commie Nazi ideology conceived in real life (and perceived on the Internet).
  • For all his bitter hatred of Suslov, Serov's campaign against "rootless cosmopolitanism" is named after an antisemitic campaign Suslov oversaw in real life.
• And Then What?: He asks himself this question when he thinks about the aftermath of reconquering Moskowien from Germany, specifically about whether Ordosocialism should embrace its Marxist ties or incorporate the right wing and how Russia can be a guardian for the proletariat.
• Appeal to Force:
  • Anyone that resists Serov's government and Ordosocialism may be threatened with execution or torture until they have no choice but to accept it.
  • Russia can strongarm its Nordic neighbors into cooperation, sending military agents to back their ultimatums and plans.
• Bait the Dog: Serov offers a People's Provisions Package that seemingly promises a minimum wage and healthcare to those who verify their citizenship. Unfortunately, these benefits are strictly limited to Russians alone, with one citizen being denied based on his Armenian descent.
• Bizarre Taste in Food: Serov implements a "Cuisine Optimization" program to create dishes more befitting to his conformist "Ordosocialist" ideal, distributed as factory rations. The results include a pasta so plain and tasteless that it's revolting. One man even comments that it's worse than his aunt's cooking and she was blind.
• Black Market: Serov's plans include sending influence and taking opportunities in the world of black markets. He is not above sending enemies of the state and selected government agents to parties looking for cheap manual labor and mercenary forces respectively, sending agents to negotiate with smugglers in Brittany. He also seeks to dominate the thriving black market of Germany via RK Moskowien's lines and cache of powerful weapons and drugs, which could challenge Brittany themselves in terms of quality.
• Blood Knight: If the Passionariyy fail to take power and Serov is marked for death, he will welcome a firefight with his assassins when he's caught, killing several of them and ultimately dying with a manic grin on his face.
• Boring, but Practical: Serov's navy is relatively small, being based on Arseniy Golovko's fleet during World War II. However, it's more than sufficient to protect the country's supply lines and ports in the North.
• Bring It: If he's caught trying to flee Komi and targeted for death, Serov will stand his ground in an alleyway and use his PPSh and Tokarev pistol to kill as many as possible before going down himself.
• Bullying a Dragon: Before even invading Moskowien, Serov antagonizes Germany at the Moskowien-Russian border, feeding Germany misleading information on geographical landmarks and putting the borderlines in flux. Serov's agents even manage to uproot a German checkpoint twice to make the border more confusing.
• Can't Kill You, Still Need You: For as much as he preaches of capitalism and its followers' evils, he may choose to temporarily rely on Switzerland's economy to keep Russia stable and in Europe's marketplace, promising himself and his followers that capitalism's end will come eventually.
• Commie Nazis: Ivan Serov creates a new type of socialism, "Ordosocialism", that blends together Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy with chauvinist Russian nationalism and some actual fascist policies. At some points, Serov will have to choose between leaning towards the communist or nationalist parts of Ordosocialism.
• Conspiracy Theorist: Serov promotes all sorts of conspiracy theories to explain how the Soviet Union could have collapsed so easily to the Germans, such as blaming a global cabal of capitalists and corporatists secretly sabotaging the Russian war effort.
• Crazy-Prepared: Though Serov has faith that he will emerge triumphant in the game of Komi politics, he's well-prepared to flee in case the Passionariyy fails to consolidate their power, having a getaway car he anonymously bought and forged papers as "Anatoly Maksimov" to flee to the WRRF.
• Cult of Personality: The focus "The Guiding Star" creates a cult of personality for General Secretary Serov, and Ordosocialism eventually sings his praises as "the new Marx."
• Dead Guy on Display: He delivers a speech in front of five corpses strewn across two radio towers behind him, each one maimed and executed for being different "reactionaries" opposed to his ideology.
• Deadly Gas: While his generals study Tukhachevsky's military doctrines, Serov authorizes them to potentially use chemical weapons.
• Defector from Decadence: Serov defects from the orthodox Bolshevik movement to promote his own take on the ideology, reasoning that Russia can only thrive if it blends communist doctrine with ultranationalist sentiments.
• Developer's Foresight: While trying to access the black market through Moskowien, Serov sends a strike team to start a border war, where they can pierce through or be driven back. However, if Shishki owns the state where the border war is supposed to happen, a special event plays out where the strike team encounters no resistance, since there is no German garrison.
• Dirty Communists: Ordosocialism can be viewed as a mix of communism and ultranationalism: non-Russians are treated as second-class citizens and broadly persecuted as potential threats to Russia, Russian chauvinism is deliberately left unchecked, and socialism is used to strengthen the Russian nation in addition to class liberation.
• Disproportionate Retribution: In Serov's mind, minor offenses, like the use of certain words, is still enough to justify an arrest and severe punishment.
• Et Tu, Brute?: If marked for capture after his exile, Serov gets picked up and driven by a chauffeur handpicked by one of few remaining supporters. As they make it to a road, the car gets stopped by a barricade and the driver does nothing to escape, revealing himself and his employer as traitors. Being bound and taken to a truck, Serov is enraged by the betrayal and swears to never forget it.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Serov doesn't enjoy some of the lip service he has to give to the Right so he can stay in their good graces. While writing his latest treatise on the "Rights of the Sovereign Nation", Serov calls it an "incoherent jumble of ultra-nationalistic sentiment" and only finishes it so he can appease the Passionariyy.
• Family-Values Villain: One of the core tenets of Ordosocialism is respecting the family unit and raising the children well.
• Fantastic Drug: During a discussion with a Breton smuggler, a Russian agent is offered a substance concocted from mixing different kinds of opioids. It sends the soldier into a high that renders them delirious yet strong in a short span of time.
• Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: He can never accept Suslov's idea of a Soviet Union that treats all races equally, believing that integrating these minorities contributed to the Soviet Union's collapse in the first place.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Serov could rise from being a disgraced has-been to becoming the leader of an Ordosocialist powerhouse that also happens to be one of the more stable bad endings for Russia.
• Hero-Worshipper: Despite his animosity towards Bukharin and Suslov, Serov still worships Lenin as the father of the Soviet Union and has the education system celebrate his crusade against the Tsar.
• Historical Villain Upgrade: While Serov was a brutal KGB General who directly participated in many atrocities and was a casual anti-Semite, he historically did not advocate for a mix of Marxism-Leninism and Russian ethnonationalism which argued that only Russians can achieve socialism◊.
• Hope Spot: The introduction to policies for his Provisions Packages. One Armenian man eagerly applies to receive support and imagines a future of prosperous solidarity inspired by Serov's passionate speeches. Then the receptionist denies him from engaging in the project, as unbeknownst to him, his status as a minority marks him as a security risk to the government.
• The Horseshoe Effect: Serov proudly calls himself a socialist and isn't fond of working with the Right, but his ultranationalist and belligerent policies make him classified as a fascist.
• Human Traffickers: When pursuing economic support by forcing Switzerland to work and trade with Russia, it's mentioned how those marked as enemies of the state may be offered as a cheap workforce to markets across the world.
• Hypocrite: He condemns the three nuclear superpowers as "Capital-Fascists", even though he fits enough criteria to be classified as a fascist himself.
• I Work Alone: After Serov develops nationalist wing of Ordosocialism during the superregional stage, he will promote the doctrine of "Socialism in One Country", rejecting the idea of internationalism and proclaiming Russians will not rely on anyone else.
• Individuality Is Illegal:
  • He ranks "cosmopolitanism" as a threat equivalent to capitalism. His cultural projects uphold a principle of conformity and sense of "unity", making citizens wear nearly identical fashion and rendering food extremely plain.
  • One approach his government can take is a radical rejection of federal division, forcing several groups of different professions, industries, and companies to merge into simplified bodies that are organized into a few levels.
• Industrialized Evil: Several programs are enacted to force the Russian population to abandon diversity in lifestyles and culture, compounded with emphasis on toeing the party line. Later, torturous experiments are enacted to teach its subjects to stop resisting Serov's rule and to discourage others from defending those who continue to rebel.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: Early on in a Komi playthrough, before his expulsion from Komi's Communist Party, Serov presents his manifesto of Ordosocialism to Suslov, who verbally tears him apart over it. Serov takes it very badly, and his early focuses and events are fixated on purging the Suslovites and otherwise getting back at Suslov. This mostly tapers off by the superregional stage, barring the occasional tirade in the focus tree against "Suslovite" internationalism.
• The Infiltration:
  • After constructing a black market network to access the German economic bloc, Serov sends his agents into Finland so they can move goods to and from Russia through Scandinavia.
  • Turning his eye to Central Asia, Serov sends more of his spies to infiltrate the local governments there, orienting their foreign policies in favor of Russia and turning these countries against each other to keep them divided.
• Insignia Rip-Off Ritual: When Serov and his followers head to Gumilyov's doorstep, they make their defection known from having their uniforms completely lacking every Soviet badge and patch that was rewarded to them, a gesture of disdain towards their old allegiances.
• Insistent Terminology: Though he admits his politics have shifted from left-wing to right-wing, he refuses to identify as a fascist. He both publicly and privately swears that he still identifies as a socialist, just one accepting principles not held by "doddering fools" or "naïve idealists" of more orthodox socialism.
• It's All About Me: Serov adulates himself with posters, songs, and monuments dedicated to his name, forcing everyone to know about his "greatness".
• King Incognito: At the superregional stage, Serov goes undercover◊ in Syktyvkar to admire what he's done with Russia as a whole. One of the things he spots that he approves of is a young man being harassed and then assaulted by a Red Army Youth Corps group for being a "rootless cosmopolitan".
• Last Villain Stand: Serov is many things, but not a coward. When marked for execution and caught during his escape from Komi, Serov uses whatever firearms he has left to shoot his attackers and he holds his own for a while before someone shoots him through the heart.
  Tough son of a bitch.
• A Lesson Learned Too Well: He tends to seek success by learning from his and Russia's enemies. Much of his motivations stem from having observed the regimes of the Nazis and Imperial Japan, believing their more hateful elements to be part of what makes them successful.
  • He intends to adopt the teachings of racial supremacy and a less federalized structure from the Axis Powers, intertwining them with Communist ideals and forcing government factions to merge.
  • He describes relying on capitalism through Switzerland's economy as simply tolerating the enemy's presence until the nation develops enough, intending on crushing them when they eventually aren't needed. He justifies this by comparing it to how the Nazis tolerated the USSR while preparing their resources before WWII.
  • Defeating warlords like Tukhachevsky allows Serov to study their military doctrines as a basis for his own.
• Make an Example of Them: During a military march, Serov stands behind a chain of wires displaying five mutilated corpses, who represent various political enemies to Ordosocialism and a warning to those who would betray his vision.
• Mandatory Motherhood: When he reunifies West Siberia, Serov bans all contraceptives so that women will be forced to give birth and boost the population growth.
• Master Race: Serov's Ordosocialism tries to downplay this by espousing the promises of socialism. Albeit ones that only Russians could achieve, in contrast to "Hereditary Reactionaries" and other perceived enemies of the state.
• MegaCorp: Adopting Bukharin's incomplete NEP, Serov will invest in several government-controlled corporations that can develop the civilian sector of the economy.
• Misery Builds Character: After appealing to the communist wing of Ordosocialism, Serov will institute harsher working conditions on the justification that suffering builds strength.
• My Way or the Highway: He forces people to obey him and his party's ideals, and he cannot tolerate having his own inner circle of Yes-Men being unable to follow his standards with as much dedication as him. To Serov, people will learn to love his vision of unity, one way or another.
  "We'll continue this until you get it right."
• No Sympathy: When he hears that his Five Year Plan will lead to a massive shortage of consumer goods, Serov brushes off the concern, thinking that "true citizens of the Soviet Union" will bear this temporary cost. Anyone who doesn't want to will be "persuaded" to.
• No True Scotsman: According to him, leftists that do not subscribe to Ordosocialism are deemed too weak or cowardly to truly follow socialist ideals. This is so thoroughly ingrained in his followers that, should he and Buryatia's Valery Sablin make it to the superregional stage, a captured Ordosocialist agent will refer to Sablin as a "reactionary crypto-fascist."
• Not So Stoic: Serov is a relatively quiet and stoic man, but he can't help but feel joy seeing his Ordosocialist experiment work and the people celebrate an end to "capitalist degeneracy".
• An Offer You Can't Refuse: Serov can threaten and strongarm people into accepting his new ideology and nations into cooperating with his plans, all at the barrel of a gun.
• Patriotic Fervor: A Russian nationalist, Serov celebrates iconic figures from his country's past and dreams of a Russian empire that will become the new superpower encompassing the world like it used to during its height.
• Persona Non Grata: After Serov makes his ideology and manifesto known to Suslov, he is exiled from the Communist Party of Komi, and anyone even slightly sympathetic to him are denounced and barred from staying in it.
• Plausible Deniability: In the regional stage, Serov builds a secret transportation network so that Russia can import and export foreign goods in closed markets, like the German sphere, while having enough plausibility to deny its existence.
• Politically Incorrect Villain:
  • Serov is racist against Russian minorities, and it is implied that he justifies his racism as a socialist one with his theory of "Hereditary Reactionaries" in his Ordosocialism Manifesto. In one event that happens after Serov unites Western Russia, he introduces a socialist People's Provisions Package, but excludes minorities like Armenians from participating in it.
  • Like Serov himself, the ministers in his cabinet are both hardline Communists and anti-semites, some of whom were associated with the antisemitic Doctors' plot in the Soviet Union.
• The Political Officer: Serov reinstates the old Soviet Union's commissar system to ensure the military's loyalty to Ordosocialism.
• Pragmatic Villainy:
  • Serov can expel the right-wing elements in his party because their presence indicates that his regime is divided and vulnerable to the opposition.
  • He can permit some limited, private ownership of local businesses and land because it can encourage economic growth.
  • In the regional stage, Serov will prioritize agricultural development and collective farm to increase productivity because starvation would foment public outrage and lead a revolution, akin to the one that overthrew the Tsars.
  • Serov arms anti-colonialist movements in regions like the Middle East and Africa, but not because he sympathizes with their cause. He just needs them to subvert the global supremacy of the three superpowers.
  • In the superregional stage, Serov will recruit some officers from the defeated WRRF, if they are loyal enough, because their expertise and potential value can't be denied.
• Propaganda Machine: Serov mass produces propaganda media to glorify himself and the Ordosocialist cause, with the Propaganda Department of the Media Ministry responsible for organizing such campaigns.
• The Purge: The "Mamlukization" is a large-scale purge that Serov enacts after uniting Western Russia, purging individuals within the government that may potentially harbor dissenting thoughts against Serov or Ordosocialism.
• Realpolitik:
  • Disdained by the three superpowers, Serov's foreign policy involves backing any anti-capitalist and anti-colonialist resistance movement they can globally, even if they don't ideologically align.
  • He forces the Swiss Bank to work with him and exert influence into Europe's markets, even though he despises the bourgeoisie and intends to eliminate them when it is optimal to do so.
• Reconcile the Bitter Foes: To ease tensions between left-wing and right-wing Ordosocialists, Serov can open some government positions to the latter and balance out their power.
• Right Hand Versus Left Hand: The Ordosotsialisty party has both a left-wing faction and a right-wing faction, and occupies both the Fascist and Communist parties on Serov's political party chart after he unifies the regionals. The player, through decisions and national focuses, can strengthen either the left or the right wing of the Ordosocialists.
• Sadist: He takes an uncomfortable satisfaction with eliminating "internal enemies", having developed many methods of torture himself and comparing the screams of a man being tormented to a melody.
• The Scapegoat: Serov blames the Soviet Union's collapse on the ethnic minorities living in Russia, believing that they were never truly loyal to Moscow and can't ever be trusted to be treated as equal citizens.
• Secret Police: Serov establishes and empowers an internal police agency to monitor all activities and punish anyone caught breaking the law or encouraging dissent.
• Shout-Out: One event is titled "Nekro", depicting Russia's agents striking a deal with a smuggler from Brittany, who proceeds to offer their latest street drug as part of an agreement to prepare and traffic agents like themselves across the world. Upon injection, the operative is sent into a euphoric and delirious state that provides strength and adverse side effects. It is essentially a darker, villainous and rather twisted take on the plot and setting of Mother Russia Bleeds.
• The Sixth Ranger: He joins the far-right alliance of Gumilyov right after Suslov dismisses him, quickly gathering influence among the dissatisfied bases of both radical wings and establishing himself as a political player in his own right.
• The Social Darwinist: Serov defines the world as a merciless arena where the strong thrive and the weak perish. As such, Russia is mobilized for war against the forces of capitalism and cosmopolitanism, while everyone is expected to follow Serov's directive to the letter, no matter how harsh or mundane their jobs are. Those who fail to keep up are eliminated.
• Still Wearing the Old Colors: Even after defecting from the Communist Party to the Passionariyy, his clique in the Passionariyy are mentioned to be still wearing their old uniforms, just with all the old emblems ripped off. Serov's Russian National Soviet Republic maintains the aesthetics of the old Union, despite being a fascist dictatorship in all but name.
• Swiss Bank Account: To steady Russia's economy, Serov can force the Swiss Bank to work with him and his agents, attributing loans and transactions under their names and jurisdiction so they can wield influence on Europe's, as well as much of the world's, markets.
• Taking Up the Mantle: A dark take on this trope, as Serov wants to be seen as a "New Karl Marx" who exceeds the legacies of Bukharin and Lenin. However, most would know that his violent, ultranationalist rhetoric is a gross corruption of communist doctrine and an unworthy successor to Marx's legacy.
• They Called Me Mad!: A non-scientist version. Serov never forgets how Suslov angrily rejected his manifesto and had him and his faction purged from the Communist Party of Komi. He would become determined to prove his adversaries wrong, denouncing them as fools while proclaiming Ordosocialism to be the true step forward for Russia. Should he be elected into power, he looks back on everything as he smiles at receiving the chance to put his theories into practice.
• This Is Gonna Suck: If he is elected to lead Ust-Sysolsk, the assembly erupts into chaos and many display a look of surprise at how their latest addition to the organization managed to win. When Serov unifies Russia, the world trembles at the thought of the Cold War's new major power being a hyper-nationalistic version of the Soviet Union that is very willing to spread the Ordosocialist Revolution across the world.
• Thoughtcrime: Other than making life torturous for Russia's minorities, Serov also passes policies that severely punish anyone he believes to be an obstacle for everything he stands for. Capitalists, opposing leftists, cosmopolitans, and those straying too far from the standards of Ordosocialism are brutalized and marked for reeducation or execution. He constantly emphasizes "unity" and is willing to instill his ideas into the populace by force whenever necessary.
• Torture Technician: He personally tortures political dissidents in order to convert them to Ordosocialism.
• The Unfettered: If Serov adopts a hardline economic approach, he will consider himself superior to Bukharin because he is not restrained by the same "liberal" tendencies and will viciously nationalize all private property for his autarkic policies. Anyone who protests will be mercilessly executed.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Even when the workers fulfill his quotas, Serov expresses no gratitude for their efforts and just sends another demand when he feels like it.
• Villain Has a Point: Serov is far from a good guy himself, but he does correctly point out the hypocrisies of Japanese and American diplomacy, namely in the former's superficial excuse of Pan-Asianism to justify their colonization efforts and the latter's willingness to forgo liberal values to support anti-democratic regimes aligned to their business interests.
• Villain Respect:
  • While reforming the Red Army, Serov can borrow the military tactics utilized by Zhukov, considering him a great general who could've won the West Russian War.
  • He likewise respects Tukhachevsky as a military prodigy whose expertise and strategies should be emulated.
• Warhawk: Serov is extremely hostile to foreign nations, considering total mobilization to be an ideal under Ordosocialism and preparing Russia to combat the forces of capitalism globally.
• Who's Laughing Now?: If he is elected, he recalls how he gained infamy from being purged by the Communists of Komi and pursuing the rather lateral move of joining the Passionariyy Organization. He then smiles to himself for being able to seize control over the state, watching as several members of the assembly jump from their seats in shock at his victory.
• You Have Failed Me: Serov expects every factory to exceed their quotas and has a cutthroat attitude to those who don't. Failing to meet expectations will result in reduced funding, until they're forced to close down.

Sergey Taboritsky

Role: Head of State (Passionariyy election)

Party: Obshchestvo Vozdrozhdeniya Rossiyskoiy Imperii^note Society for the Revival of the Russian Empire

Ideology: Clerical Fascism^note National Socialism

For his tropes, see his dedicated page. Unmarked spoilers ahead!

Other Important People

Alexander Prokhanov

Role: Minister of Defense^note Security Minister (Gumilyov cabinet)

Ideology: Eurasianism^note Despotism

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• Gameplay and Story Segregation: In the Smuta period, Shafarevich names Prokahov as the Defense Minister, though the country info screen shows that Larionov holds that position.
• Ignored Expert: Inverted. Prokhanov is the expert on Komi's military status and capacity to unify western Russia. When Dikiy tries to interrupt him during the status report, Shafarevich cuts him off and lets Prokhanov finish his speech.

Aleksandr Korotkov

Role: Minister of Defense^note Security Minister (Serov cabinet)

Ideology: Ordosocialism^note Fascism

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• State Sec: During the power struggle, Korotkov can be put in charge of the secret police to placate the Ordosocialists.

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