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Soviet Union Proper

Perm Soviet Government

^{Flag of the Union of Sovereign Socialist Republics}

^{Flag of the Federal Republic of Russia}

Official Name: Perm Soviet Government, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (National unification), Union of Sovereign Socialist Republics (Kruglov Reforms), Federal Republic of Russia (Post-Kruglov PDR Revolution)

Ruling Party: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza - Naródnyy Komissariát Vnútrennikh Del^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union - People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs

Ideology: NKVD Socialism^note Revolutionary Communism

The remnants of the defeated Soviet Union, now based in Perm. Stalin disappeared at the end of the German-Soviet War and was succeeded by Mikhail Kalinin, who died of natural causes in 1946 and was succeeded by NKVD director Lavrentiy Beria. Beria's purges fractured the union and caused the Zhdanov-Zhukov faction to establish an opposition Soviet government in Novosibirsk, though they too had collapsed due to Zhdanov and Zhukov's political conflicts.

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• Police State: Under Beria's leadership, the NKVD's power greatly grew in the rump USSR. They have been actively purging 'enemies of the state', and the streets of Perm run red with blood from these summary executions.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: Beria dealt with two ambitious generals of his, Ivan Konev and Andrey Vlasov, by reassigning them to thankless and distant posts in Kazan and Kazakhstan, respectively. Can result in a Reassignment Backfire, since both can launch coups against the government in Perm and seize power for themselves. If he maintains power this is also how he deals with most of his political rivals, sending Nikolai Bulganin to "manage the arctic fisheries" and Suslov to manage a backwater town.
• Shocking Defeat Legacy: Due to the trauma of defeat in the Second World War and the ensuing chaotic political situation in the Union under Beria, most Soviet politicians and generals have ideologically shifted to some degree.
• Short-Lived Leadership: Mikhail Kalinin was General-Secretary for a short period but it proved enough to create a splintering ideology known as Marxism-Leninism-Kalininism based on his tenure.
• Vestigial Empire: After losing to Nazi Germany in World War II, the Soviet Union now only controls Western Siberia and the northeastern part of European Russia.
• We ARE Struggling Together: The politics of Perm are very prone to power struggles, purges and coups between its different factions.

Lavrentiy Beria

Role: General-Secretary^note Country Leader

Party: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza - Naródnyy Komissariát Vnútrennikh Del^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union - People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs

Ideology: NKVD Socialism^note Revolutionary Communism

In-Game Biography (NKVD Faction Leader) ^{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.

In-Game Biography (General-Secretary) ^{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.

By 1952, he commands the remnants of the Soviet Union and the Red Army from his base in Perm, safe from German attacks due to its distance and isolation. His power, however, is not the total command Stalin enjoyed, and he faces fierce competition within the Communist Party as to who will lead to the Soviet Union through reunification and liberation of the European homelands. Noticing that the people and government officials are increasingly hostile towards Beria's rule, he has voiced his sympathy to enact radical reforms in an effort to quell any future hostility. Which, might be threatening to the Politburo and Communist Party at large.

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• Allohistorical Allusion: Beria's "trial" and execution after the palace coup against him are practically the same as what happened to him in IOTL.
• Cincinnatus: A particularly unsympathetic example; once Beria reunifies Russia his public image is too toxic to remain as leader and he is forced to retire, leading either to a crony continuing his regime, or his regime giving way to genuine reformists.
• Dirty Communists: Beria is a notorious rapist and one of Stalin's closest henchmen, and played a large role in his purges. After assuming power in the rump USSR following Kalinin's death in 1946, he has been ruling it with an iron fist, and is hated by both the people and his own subordinates as a result.
• Fat Bastard: Rather like the real Beria in the 1950s, TWR's Beria is quite fat in addition to being a totalitarian ruler.
• Pragmatic Villainy: In an attempt to keep himself in power, Beria intends to enact radical reforms in the Soviet system. Unfortunately for him, this results in him getting accused of being a revisionist.
• Kangaroo Court:
  • If a palace coup is organized against Beria, he will ironically be victim of one.
  • If he kept power Beria will organize one for Bulganin and one for Suslov, both ending with their execution.
• The Purge: Beria used his position as Interior Minister to not only purge his own political enemies but also amass great influence.
  • After successfully holding on to power at the 19th Party Congress, Beria will order a purge of NKVD members he pins all of his own crimes on and of former Partisans to destroy Turkenich's support base.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: As in real life, Beria is a serial rapist, which disgusts many within the Soviet government.
• Secret Police: Beria will create the State and Security Bureau (BGB) by merging the different intelligence agencies into a single one.
• The Usurper: Beria ousted Kalinin's successor and took power for himself after Kalinin's death.

Nikolay Kuznetsov

Role: Minister of the Navy, General-Secretary^note Country Leader (Beria resigns willingly, Reformist choice or Turkenich succession)

Party: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza - Naródnyy Komissariát Vnútrennikh Del^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union - People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs

Ideology: Neo-Communism^note Revolutionary Communism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}A famous Soviet admiral, Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov is a war hero. During the first stages of the Great Patriotic War, his actions as the Minister of the Navy saved the Soviet fleet from complete destruction. Despite the deteriorating situation of the war, Kuznetsov maintained command cohesion and organised a stiff resistance towards the Kriegsmarine.

In the aftermath of the relocation to Perm and Stalin's disappearance, Kuznetsov retained his positions as Minister of the Navy. Eventually, as Perm's dependence on the military grew, Kuznetsov gained influence in party leadership, becoming a somewhat esteemed speaker of the reformist wing, publishing several articles criticizing the party's interference in military affairs and the state's lack of dedication to legal procedures. And finally, Kuznetsov emerged as a victorious black horse of the Communist Party, being the admiral-leader that most might not have expected.

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• Dark Horse Victory: Nikolay Kuznetsov is the dark horse candidate to succeed Turkenich.
• WarHero: Kuznetsov is a hero of the German-Soviet War, saving the Soviet fleet from complete destruction.

Vsevolod Merkulov

Role: General-Secretary^note Country Leader (Beria resigns willingly, Hardliner choice)

Party: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza - Naródnyy Komissariát Vnútrennikh Del^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union - People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs

Ideology: NKVD Socialism^note Revolutionary Communism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}A former member of Lavrentiy Beria's "Georgian mafia", Merkulov had serious experience in the field of intelligence prior to his rise in power. In 1941, he was made leader of the People's for State Security, but was heavily overshadowed by the duties and the state's reliance on the NKVD. But, despite his ties to Beria, Merkulov joined the faction that would eventually overthrow Beria's reformist regime, establishing close ties with the Suslov faction. His efforts yielded great results, as the new administration would promote Merkulov to the position of NKVD leadership, effectively making him the de-facto leader of two separate departments, both loyal to the Orthodoxist ideal.

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Alexander Poskrebyshev

Role: General-Secretary^note Country Leader (Beria, Palace coup)

Party: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Ideology: Stalinism^note Marxism-Leninism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Alexander Nikolaevich Poskrebyshev is a long time Communist Party functionary. His peers have described him as hard working and Poskrebyshev served the former General Secretary Joseph Stalin with great dedication. However, Pokryshev was sidelined during the Kalinin period, and his influence evaporated upon Beria's rise to power.

During this time, he accepted his new reality and continued to be somewhat active in politics, working under the radar on the side of the hardliners. Unexpectedly, Beria's palace coup would once again bring Pokryshev back to the center of political power, being elected by the Central Committee to serve as General Secretary.

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• The Coup: Alexander Poskrebyshev can organize a palace coup to remove Beria.

Ivan Turkenich

^{As a puppet of the Komsomol}

^{As a puppet of the Young Guard}

Role: General-Secretary^note Country Leader (Party Congress, Kalininist victory)

Party: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Ideology: Marxism-Leninism-Kalininism^note Revolutionary Communism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}A former partisan and a leader of the "Young Guard" resistance organization, Ivan Turkenich fought against the German authorities in occupied Krasnodon. For few years, Turkenich successfully performed hit and run raids against German patrols and expanded the "Young Guard". But, patrois German authorities eventually discovered the plot and arrested the majority of its leadership. Turkenich narrowly escaped German prosecutions, fleeing to Soviet held territories as a national hero.

During Mikhail Kalinin's adminstration, Ivan Turkenich took advantage of the Soviet power vacuum, becoming a trusted ally of the regime and Kalinin's protege. Turkenich rapidly rose through the ranks of the Communist Party, eventually becoming the face of the Union's "Kalininist Faction", successfully dodging the numerous purges and political fights within the establishment.

Now as the leader of the Soviet Union, Ivan Turkenich can finally realise plans of bringing about a union of Mikhail Kalinin's dreams.

In-Game Biography (Puppet General-Secretary) ^{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.

Reduced to a symbolic figurehead of a powerful collective leadership commanding in the shadow, Ivan Turkenich's authority has been fully usurped. He is now nothing but another Mikhail Kalinin, a withering man that everyone has learnt to not take seriously.

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• Allohistorical Allusion:
  • Turkenich's rule and the zeal of the young members of the radical Young Guard are reminiscent of China during the Cultural Revolution.
  • Turkenich can create a Jewish ASSR, alluding to the Jewish Autonomous Oblast established IOTL.
• Kangaroo Court: If the coup agaisnt Beria failed, Turkenich will be put on trial for "Bonapartism" and expelled from the Communist Party.
• Puppet King: Both the Komsomol and the Young Guard seek to turn Turkenich into their puppet and may succeed or be defeated.
• The Purge: General-Secretary Turkenich will eventually purge Suslov, allowing him to keep his pensions and benefits in exchange of his resignation.
• Regime Change: Turkenich can spark a civil war in Afganistan to install a Soviet-friendly regime.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: If puppeted, Turkenich will change to an outfit reflecting the faction of his puppet masters.
• Spared By Adaptation: Turkenich died in 1944 IOTL fighting in the Red Army against the German Reich.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Turkenich and his Kalininist faction are the most idealist of the many pragmatic factions in Perm, trying to establish a more free and yet still communist nation.
• Young and in Charge: Turkenich is born in 1920, making him one of the youngest possible Russian leaders.

Alexander Milchakov

Role: Leader of the Komsomol Faction

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}From 1928 to 1929, Milchakov served as the First Secretary of the Komsomol, then went on to become a leader of a department in the Central Committee. However, during Stalin's regime, Milchakov was repressed, stripped of his positions and sentenced to hard labour. In this time, Milchakov grew to resent Joseph Stalin, and toiled away away in the harsh conditions. However, when Mikhail Kalinin assumed the role of General Secretary, Milchakov was exonerated, released and returned to Perm. Using his past experience, Milchakov returned to lead the Komsomol, aiding Kalinin, and later Lavrentiy Beria in ruling the youth.

Ultimately, Milchakov chose to side with Ivan Turkenich, seeing him as a valuable partner and the pathway to greater political relevance.

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• The Pardon: Milchakov was exonerated and released under Kalinin after having been sentencedto hard labor under Stalin. This led Milchakov to become a convinced Kalininist.

Victor Tretyakevich

Role: Leader of the Young Guard Faction

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}A colleague of Ivan Turkenich, Tretyakevich was a commissar of the resistance organization "Young Guard". During the evacuation of the partisans, Tretyakevich fled to Perm alongside Turkenich's echelons. In Perm, Tretyakevich became the de facto deputy of Turkenich's faction, handling affairs with Turkenich's permissions. And during all this time, Tretyakevich did not hold any official party positions, but still managed to sway many officials to the Turkenich line.

With Turkenich rising to the position of General Secretary, Tretyakevich has assumed the leadership post of the Young Guard, leading his very own political faction with the goal of expanding the radical agenda.

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• The Political Officer: Tretyakevich worked as a commissar in the Young Guard resistance against Nazism.

Pyotr Masherov

Role: General-Secretary^note Country Leader (Turkenich succession, Chosen as Head of Government)

Party: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Ideology: Marxism-Leninism-Kalininism^note Revolutionary Communism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Mironovich Masherov is a man that has experienced and shaped history. Born in 1919, Masherov's early life was one of the harsh poverty of the Civil War, and Masherov was forced to become the head of the family at an early age after his father's arrest and death during the Great Purge. But it was not long before he overcame the odds, becoming a teacher in his hometown.

When the Germans invaded, Masherov volunteered, and was soon captured along with his mother. While en route to certain death in Germany, however, Masherov jumped out of the train along with his mother, and made his way back home, where he organised the first cells of what would become the massive Belarusian partisan movement. Masherov, working with Ponomarenko, Mazurov, and his own men, fought through thick and thin, and led during the long years after the fall of Moscow. His tenacity proved to win out in the end, for eventually, the Russians returned, bringing with them liberation from the fascist occupation.

Masherov proved himself to be a close ally of comrade Turkenich - no surprise, given both were partisan men - and quickly rose through the ranks in the reborn union. Sidelining the revisionist elements who sought to bring the dear leader in line with their own treacherous views, Masherov was seen as the heir presumptive to the General Secretary - something that proved true with the latter's resignation. Now, Pyotr Mironovich is the boss once more - this time, not as a soldier, but as a politician.

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• Action Politician: Masherov was a leader of the Belarusian Partisans.

Nikolai Bulganin

^{After reorganizing the Interest Groups}

Role: General-Secretary^note Country Leader (Party Congress, Revisionist victory)

Party: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza - Reformistskaya Fraktsiya^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Reformist Faction

Ideology: Bulganinism^note Paternal Autocracy

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Formerly served as the chief political commissar on the Western Front under Marshal Timoshenko, Nikolai Bulganin worked under similar capacity throughout the leaderships of Stalin, Malenkov, and Kalinin.

However, after Lavrentiy Beria assumed the leadership position, a power vacuum allowed Bulganin to greatly advance his political career, becoming the leader of a reformist wing of the Communist Party. Due to his formlessness in terms of political beliefs, Lavrentiy Beria would ally Bulganin, promoting Bulganin to the position of ministership and a sitting member of the Politburo.

As of now, Bulganin has managed to win the ultimate prize of securing the premiership, gaining the full authority to enact his reformist ideals.

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• Allohistorical Allusion: Bulganin's position to temporarily transform the country into a capitalist system in the hopes for an eventual transition back towards communism is largely identical to the theories of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, or Dengism, in real life.
• Broken Pedestal: Bulganin, formerly a loyal Stalinist, became utterly disillusioned with socialism after the fall of the Union, and is currently the most radical reformer in the rump USSR.
• The Purge: Bulganin will launch a purge after taking power.
  • After the Russian reunification, he may also choose to make a purge of corrupt officials, including Saburov and Karpov.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: 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.
• Resigned in Disgrace: In the Turkenich path, Bulganin will be forced to resign after being implicated alongside the rest of his faction in corruption by an investigation and attacked in his home by demonstrators led by the Young Guard.
• 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.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: Bulganin's suit will be exchanged for a military uniform if he decides to deal with corruption in his ranks with a purge.

Semyon Ignatyev

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

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Currently Minister of Security Affairs, Ignatyev benefited greatly from Stalin's Great Purge. He ascended the ranks of the Communist quickly, filling the void left by purged politicians. Initially serving Moscow, he was promoted to serve as the First Secretary of the Buryat-Mongolian керов Republic. Soon after the start of the Kalinin Administration, Ignatyev was once again assigned special duties in the provisional capital of Perm. He was appointed to handle security affairs in the central party, gradually building connections with the Reformist faction, becoming an ally of Nikolai Bulganin.

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• Status Quo Is God: In the Bulganin path, Ignatyev and the National Security Group will welcome any change or stepback as long as the status quo of the one-party Soviet state is maintained.

Maksim Saburov

Role: Leader of the National Business Council/Business Faction (Bulganin)

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Former Gosplan chairman, Maksim Saburov's life within the Communist Party was fairly straight forward. His work revolved around the economy, and during the Beria years, Saburov maintained a low profile, not wanting to provoke the dangerous NKVD during the time when Malenkov was removed in a dramatic power struggle. During this time, he distanced himself from the Malenkovites and aligned himself with the Bulganin faction.

This investment paid off, and with Nikolai Bulganin assuming power, Saburov was made to represent the business interest, an important task in the Bulganin administration.

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Georgy Karpov

Role: Leader of the Rural Affairs Committee/Ruralist Faction (Bulganin)

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}A theologian, Georgy Karpov had a religious upbringing. Later in his life, he participated in the Cheka during the Soviet Union's early days, gradually rising through the ranks of the Communist Party.

During the Beria regime, the possibility of reforming ties with the Russian Orthodox Church was discussed, leading to the formation of the Council for the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church, which Karpov would lead. Since then, Karpov kept leading the council, gaining newfound power and influence from the revisionist Bulganin regime.

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• Status Quo Is God: Karpov and the Rural Affairs Committee oppose any radical changes to the current status quo.

Vladimir Kirillin

Role: Leader of the National Business Council/Business Faction (Saburov removed)

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}By all means an outsider figure, Vladimir Kirillin was picked by the party for this exact reason.

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.

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Mikhail Smirtyukov

Role: Leader of the Rural Affairs Committee/Ruralist Faction (Karpov removed)

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Unlike many members of the committee, Mikhail Smirtyukov is not a religious man. However, his peasant upbringing did fit the criteria of being a rural representative.

Smirtyukov graduated from from the faculty of Soviet Law of Moscow State University in 1931, finding his way into the state apparatus shortly afterwards. For some time, he worked for Anastas Mikoyan, then eventually climbed his way into the Secretariat the Council of Ministers by 1947. During his work in the Secretariat, he forged ties with Nikolai Bulganin and the reformist faction. This move guaranteed his prospect in the Bulganin administration, and while he waited for more influential figures to fall, his time to replace them is finally here.

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• Status Quo Is God: Like his predecessor Karpov, Smirtyukov represents a faction hostile to any radical changes to the current status quo.

Mikhail Suslov

Role: General-Secretary^note Country Leader (Party Congress, Orthodox victory)

Party: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Ideology: Marxism-Leninism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Mikhail Suslov was a teacher and an influential leader of Stavropol during Stalin's regime. In the early stages of the war, Suslov led a local guerrilla formation, spending much of his time rallying workers to fight against the Germans. However, as the outcome of the war became increasingly grim, Suslov performed a series of political maneuvers, allowing him to be extracted and recalled to serve as a member of the Orgburo and later, the Secretariat.

Suslov would lay low during the unstable leaderships of Malenkov and Kalinin, gradually aligning himself with the hardliners of the party. And after a failed coup against Lavrentiy Beria's rise to power, Suslov chose to stay in Perm and filled the power vacuum, forming an ad-hoc alliance Ince with Beria and wiggled his way to the leadership position of the hardliner faction. While this alliance was beneficial for political stability, the two partners were constantly against one another due to policy disagreements.

Now with Lavrentiy Beria out of the picture, it is now up to Mikhail Suslov to lead the union as he sees fit.

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• Good Old Ways: Suslov is an ardent anti-revisionist, and if he takes power in the USSR he will seek to reverse Beria's reforms and restore many of Stalin's policies.
• Just the First Citizen: Suslov styles himself as merely the first among equals within his collective leadership system.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: As in real life, Suslov will oversee an anti-Semitic campaign against "rootless cosmopolitanism" in the Union.
• The Purge: As the main opponent of Beria's revisionist policies, Suslov will purge many of Beria's supporters from the government including Bulganin.
• Reassigned to Antarctica:
  • If the coup attempt against Beria was foiled, Suslov will have to resign and will be reassigned to steel production in Magnitogorsk.
  • If Bulganin comes to power, Suslov will be assigned to handle transportation affairs in Komi ASSR.

Andrei Grechko

Role: Leader of the Red Army Faction (Suslov)

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}A party man and a promising general, Andrei Grechko earned his fame during the war. Grechko remained loyal during the exodus of military staff, successfully preserving himself amidst the troubling period.

Remaining under the radar until Mikhail Suslov's rise, Grechko was placed in charge of the Red Army's political affairs, becoming Chuikov's public face in the collective leadership system.

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• Puppet King: Grechko serves as Chuikov's public face in Suslov's collective leadership system.
• WarHero: Andrei Grechko is a famous veteran of the war against Germany.

Vyacheslav Molotov

Role: Minister of Foreign Affairs, Leader of the Orthodox Faction (Beria stays), General-Secretary^note Country Leader (Suslov resigns)

Party: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Ideology: Stalinism^note Marxism-Leninism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vyacheslav Molotov was thoroughly disgraced by the defeat of the German-Soviet War and the disintegration of Stalin's government, reducing him into an insignificant player at Perm.

Vyacheslav Molotov eventually lost his leadership position of the Stalinist-Hardliner orthodoxist faction to the Mikhail Suslov, at the time a rising star within the Communist Party.

(Orthodox Faction Leader) ^{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.

(Suslov, Minister of Foreign Affairs) ^{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.

(General-Secretary) ^{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.

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Mikhail Pervukhin

Role: General-Secretary^note Country Leader (Suslov resigns)

Party: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Ideology: Marxism-Leninism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Mikhail Georgievich Pervukhin originally served as a deputy and a minister in the Stalin administration. Pervukhin contributed to the war effort and other military affairs by serving as Minister of Chemical Industry, and made himself a prominent hardliner conservative member in the Perm government.

While his power stagnated during the Kalinin-Malenkov-Beria period, the rise of Mikhail Suslov allowed Pervukhin to rise in power and influence. His war efforts have also led to him having closer ties with certain hardliner military leaders, making him the perfect face of a military-dominated collective leadership after Suslov.

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Vasily Moskovsky

Role: Head of the Propaganda Department/Agitprop (Suslov), General-Secretary^note Country Leader (Suslov resigns)

Party: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Ideology: Ultravisionary Marxism^note Marxism-Leninism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Since 1926, Vasily Moskovsky has served as an officer within the Red Army, with his profession being specialized in political warfare. Utilizing his knowledge, Moskovsky was made editor-in-chief of different military newspapers several times in his career. With his biggest accomplishment being his assignment as the editor-in-chief of the front-line newspaper of the North-Western Front.

Since then, Moskovsky remained active in the propaganda field, eventually becoming head of the propaganda and agitation department of the Central Committee, a role that Moskovsky retained from Lavrentiy Beria's regime to Mikhail Suslov's administration.

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• Propaganda Machine: Moskovsky is the head of Suslov's propaganda department, promoting the govenrment views to the population.

Sergey Kruglov

Role: Leader of the NKVD Faction (Red Army coup), General-Secretary^note Country Leader (NKVD countercoup), Premier^note Country Leader (Presidency created), President^note Figurehead (Kruglov becomes president)

Party: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza - Naródnyy Komissariát Vnútrennikh Del^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union - People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs

Ideology: NKVD Socialism^note Revolutionary Communism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}A powerful commissar during the German-Soviet War, Sergei Kruglov served as the Deputy Chief of the NKVD. His true allegiance was never revealed and he low profile since Joseph Stalin's demise.

But after Lavrentiy Beria was removed from power, Sergei Kruglov finally took over the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, effectively assuming the role of leader for the NKVD faction.

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• Allohistorical Allusion: Kruglov is generally a stand-in for Gorbachev-era Soviet politics, as he is a pragmatist following a securocratic and unpopular leader who tries to reform the system for the better, whose attempt to devolve the USSR draws the ire of Soviet hardliners, and whose reign can even lead to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the institution of a democracy in Russia.
• Balkanize Me: Allowing Kruglov to remain in power will see him turn the USSR into the Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics, where the constituent Union Republics become autonomous countries.
• The Coup: If the NKVD has enough support after the palace coup against Beria, Kruglov can seize power for himself while restoring the NKVD government.
  • Kruglov can also become victim of one if he is not President, resulting in either the PDR or the opposition within the Communist Party coming to power.
  • During his post-unification gameplay, Kruglov will enter into a power struggle with hardliners in the Communist Party, who can overthrow him in a coup if the military backs them. Alternatively, the army can back Kruglov in a counter-coup.
• Internal Reformist: While he is still an adherent of Beria's NKVD Socialism, Kruglov embarks on a series of reforms of the Soviet system in order to salvage the NKVD's (and by extension, his) popularity.
• The Political Officer: Kruglov was a political commissar during the German-Soviet War.
• President for Life: Kruglov becomes Premier for life is the reform creating the presidency goes through and he is not elected President himself.

Viktor Abakumov

Role: President^note Figurehead (Kruglov, Presidium election), General-Secretary^note Country Leader (Zhukov, Pro-Serov Zhukov succession)

Party: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza - Naródnyy Komissariát Vnútrennikh Del^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union - People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, Ob'edinennyy Narodnyy Patrioticheskyy Front^note United Popular Patriotic Front (Pro-Serov Zhukov succession)

Ideology: NKVD Socialism^note Revolutionary Communism, Zhukovism^note Socialism (Pro-Serov Zhukov succession)

In-Game Biography ^{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 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.

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• Puppet King: As President, Abakumov is a mouthpiece of Kruglov and the NKVD clique.

Polina Zhemchuzhina

Role: President^note Figurehead (Kruglov, Presidium election)

Party: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza - Naródnyy Komissariát Vnútrennikh Del^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union - People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Conservative coup crushed)

Ideology: Marxism-Leninism-Kalininism^note Revolutionary Communism, Stalinism^note Marxism-Leninism (Conservative coup crushed)

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Polina Semyonovna Zhemchuzhina is a politician and wife of Vyacheslav Molotov. She Zhemchuzhina was the director of the Soviet national cosmetics trust from 1932 to 1936, Minister of Fisheries in 1939, and head of textiles production in the Ministry of Light Industry from 1939 to 1950. Her career was greatly effected by her husband's fall from grace and eventual obscurity. However, Zhemchuzhina correctly involved herself in Krugolav era politics, currying favor in the newly formed conservative wing. Much like her husband, Zhemchuzhina is a staunch Stalinist and a believer of revolutionary practices. Her personality and unique position quickly made her the leader of the new hardliners.

Most importantly, as a female politician, Zhemchuzhina's ultimate rise was a result of both progressive gesturing and a triumphant for the hardliners.

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• Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Zhemchuzhina can become the first female Soviet leader.

Nikolai Podgorny

Role: First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine, President^note Figurehead (Kruglov, Presidium election)

Party: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza - Naródnyy Komissariát Vnútrennikh Del^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union - People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs

Ideology: Council Communism^note Revolutionary Communism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Unremarkable and largely unknown, Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny is one of the many Ukrainian Communist officials that have fled to Perm. While he was quite influential in the Ukrainian SSR government, these power and positions were largely meaningless, due to the fact that the Ukrainian SSR only existed on paper. Eventually however, after the flight of the Second Union, Podgorny became the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

Podgorny remained largely powerless in his time as First Secretary of the CPU, and with his only achievement being a comprehensive yet hypothetical reconstruction plan of the Ukrainian SSR. Regardless of this status of political limbo, Podgory was soon elevated to the Central Government with Kruglov's blessing, as he saw the dire need of a proper Communist Party functionary as an ally.

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• Authority in Name Only: Podgorny holds the position of First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine but since Ukraine is under German occupation his position is largely powerless.

Mstislav Keldysh

Role: Country Leader (PDR Revolution, Election)

Party: Demokraticheskaya Rossiya^note Democratic Russia

Ideology: Sakharovism^note Liberalism

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Viktor Davidenko

Role: Country Leader (PDR Revolution, Election)

Party: Nezavisimaya Demokraticheskaya Partiya Rossii^note Independent Democratic Party of Russia

Ideology: Fiscal Conservatism^note Conservatism

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Igor Kurchatov

Role: Country Leader (PDR Revolution, Election)

Party: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Ideology: Liberal Socialism^note Social Democracy

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Vasily Chuikov

Role: General-Secretary^note Country Leader (Party Congress deadlock, Red Army coup)

Party: Raboche-Krest'yanskaya Krasnaya Armiya^note Workers' and Peasants' Red Army

Ideology: National Communism^note Marxism-Leninism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Before the war, Vasily Chuikov functioned as the Soviet military attache to the Republic of China. Once the German-Soviet War broke out, Chuikov was recalled and placed in charge of a sector of the frontline.

While the Soviets continued to retreat further and further into the interior, Chuikov earned fame by holding the northern flank of Gorky, even when Georgy Zhukov took most of the credit for winning the battle.

But after the mass exodus of Red Army officials to the pretender government, Chuikov became a valuable asset of the Perm government, promoted to the position of Marshal of the Soviet Union, while harbouring a great distaste for the dysfunctional Soviet system.

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• Cincinnatus: Once the Perm Soviet Government has reunified the Soviet Union, with his job done, Chuikov will step down and restore civilian rule back to the Communist Party.
• Cult of Personality: Chuikov will build a personality cult around himself.
• Military Coup: 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.
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: Chuikov will promote a militarized society gearing for total war to reunify Russia.

Ivan Khokhlov

Role: General-Secretary^note Country Leader (Chuikov succession)

Party: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Ideology: Marxism-Leninism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}A soldier turned politician, Ivan Sergeyevich Khokhlov served in local district-level communist governments before entering the heart of power. In 1938, Kholkoz entered the Supreme Soviet, and in 1940, he became the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR. He became involved with the Military Council of Western Front, where Kholkoz served in the capacity of a quartermaster and focused on handling military logistics. After the relocation to Perm however, Kholkoz briefly resumed his duty as Premier of the Russian SFSR before being relocated to serve in the Ministry of Trade. After a handful of years without much political importance, Kholkoz's background made him a desirable candidate for Chuikov's transitional rule, a perfect bridge between statesmen and military.

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• Action Politician: As his biography notes, he is a soldier-turned-politician.

Kazan Military Okrug

^{Flag of the Soviet Union (Konev)}

^{Flag of the Soviet Union (Stalin)}

Official Name: Kazan Military Okrug, Soviet Reclamation Government (Regional unification - Konev), Kuybyshev Military Soviet Government (Regional unification - Stalin), Soviet Union (National unification)

Ruling Party: Okkupatsionnyye Administratsiya Kazanskogo Okruga^note Kazan Okrug Occupation Authorities

Ideology: Ultravisionary Marxism^note Marxism-Leninism

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• Big, Screwed-Up Family: 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 was 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.
• Dirty Communists: Kazan is staffed by some of the most ruthless and radical members of the Soviet military and security apparatus, and in their most extremist pacification paths they can engage in de-Tatarization and use scorched earth tactics against the Tatar insurgents and VSOU fascists.
• Military Coup: The Perm government will seek to annex Kazan over their scheduled deadline for pacification and complete annexation, Kazan may accept or use the opportunity to march back to Perm and take over the Soviet Union, replacing the civilian Soviet government with their own extremist military junta.
• The Purge: Both Konev and Stalin are prompt to bloody purges.
• Renegade Splinter Faction: Kazan Military Okrug gathers the two most extreist Soviet factions of the former Soviet Union and may openly split from the Perm Government when it moves to re-annex it.
• Timed Mission: Kazan has 100 days to take Perm during the Soviet Civil War, failure means capitulation.

Ivan Konev

^{After restoring civilian rule}

Role: Country Leader, General-Secretary^note Country Leader (Regional unification)

Party: Okkupatsionnyye Administratsiya Kazanskogo Okruga^note Kazan Okrug Occupation Authorities, Sovet Natsional'nogo Spaseniya^note National Salvation Council (Regional unification)

Ideology: Ultravisionary Marxism^note Marxism-Leninism

In-Game Biography ^{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 ally with and 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, where their enemy. This only continued when the USSR began to fracture, and Konev was disgracefully sent to deal with the Tatars and the 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.

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• Deadly Gas: Konev may develop chemical weapons with Project Orchid.
• Dirty Communists: Konev's Ultravisionary Marxism is characterized by its infinitely expanded state power and extreme militarism.
• General Ripper: Konev is extremely bitter about the Soviet defeat, and feels that all of the West, not just Germany, are enemies of the Soviet Union.
• Name To Run Away From Really Fast: Konev's regional unification name, "Soviet Reclamation Government".
• Please Select New City Name: Konev's path has him transform the city of Kuibyshev into [[Kaliningrad (after the late General-Secretary Kalinin) early on.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: After taking the focus "A Life Dedicated to the Communist Party!" Konev will trade his military uniform for a civilian suit.
• Staged Populist Uprising: 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.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: Konev is reassigned to Kazan by Beria as a soft-exile. This also gives him an independent power base from which he can launch a revolt.

Vasily Andrianov

Role: President^note Figurehead (Konev stays)

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}A relatively unremarkable politician, Vasily Mikhailovich Andrianov served as the first secretary of the Sverdlovsk regional committee.

His reign was mostly uneventful and uncontroversial. Perhaps it was these traits that led to the government's decision to bring Andrianov into the Central Government, or the government recognizes talent when they see one.

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• Puppet King: Andrianov is set up to be the civilian face of Konev's regime as its headof state, but a powerless one.

Vasily Stalin

^{After keeping military rule}

^{After restoring civilian rule}

Role: Country Leader (Coup against Konev), General-Secretary^note Country Leader (Regional unification)

Party: Vsesoyuznaya Kommunisticheskaya Partiya^note All-Union Communist Party

Ideology: Ultravanguardist Marxism^note Marxism-Leninism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}It is often said that the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children, but in the case of Vasily losifovich Stalin, perhaps the sins are cumulative. The infamous son of Stalin was born in 1921 and had lived a relatively comfortable childhood until his mother's suicide in 1932. Becoming a heavy drinker and rowdy troublemaker after her death, Vasily would eventually get his break from academic failure after barely passing the Kachinsk Military Aviation School in 1940.

The Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union presented a unique opportunity for the young Stalin to make a name for himself, however, as the German Blitzkrieg brought the USSR closer and closer to collapse he found himself more often staring at the end of a bottle than behind a cockpit. When his father unexpectedly disappeared it broke young Vasily, and his superior officers even wondered if he would take his own life. Instead, he joined Ivan Konev's ultravanguardist clique in the Kazan Pacification Initiative.

Now having overcome impossible odds in outmaneuvering both his former ally and the corrupt bureaucrats of the Beria regime, Vasily Stalin hopes to bring the Cubs of Russia back together under his late father's vision by any means necessary.

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• Allohistorical Allusion: Vasily's Ultravanguardist Marxism somewhat resembles North Korean Juche with its extreme focus on isolationism and autarky.
• Dirty Communists: Vasily's Ultravanguardist Marxism is in a nutshell Stalinist "Socialism in One Country" taken up to eleven. His "Socialism in One Country" involves political totalitarianism, economic autarky, international isolationism, and mass deportations of minorities.
• Fictional Country: Vasily creates two tiny "Liberation Republics" in the middle of Kazakhstan to serve as the destinations for his minority deportations. One is the Liberated German Socialist Republic, which holds German minorities, and the other is the Soviet Socialist Republic of Aralsk, which holds all other non-Russian, non-German minorities.
• Red Baron: Vasily becomes known as Little Stalin in his hardliner path.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: At the start, he wears a military uniform. Should he launch a second purge, he changes to a more fancy uniform with a Commissar Cap, more resembling his father's attire. Should he choose not to purge, he changes to a civilian suit.

Sergey Grishin

Role: Head of the Politburo^note Figurehead (Hardliner Stalin)

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Lazar Kaganovich

Role: General-Secretary^note Country Leader (Moderate Stalin steps down)

Party: Vsesoyuznaya Kommunisticheskaya Partiya^note All-Union Communist Party

Ideology: Stalinism^note Marxism-Leninism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Considered one of Stalin's closest confidants, few don't recognize the name Lazar Kaganovich, and there are even fewer that know of his deeds. Born to a family of Jewish-Ukrainian peasants in 1893, he joined the Bolshevik cause at a young age, spurring recruitment at the shoe factory where he worked. A commissar by the October Revolution, he led communist revolts in Belarus and made a name for himself in crushing the Basmachi rebels of Turkestan with great efficiency and brutality. A notable ally of Joseph Stalin in him his rise to power, Kaganovich rose alongside him becoming General Secretary of the Ukrainian SSR's communist party in 1928. Tasked with the job of collectivizing the Ukrainian countryside and liquidating the rich kulaks, his methods cemented his place at Stalin's side against the weaning Left and Right opposition within the party.

With the disappearance of his beloved General Secretary, "Iron Lazar", a nickname earned for his ruthlessness, found himself marginalized when Lavrently Beria's NKVD clique returned to the old New Economic Policy. Fearing the worst, he allied himself with Stalin's son Vasily and joined the eccentric young Stalin's "Crown Prince Clique" in Kazan with the hopes of rebuilding the Stalinist dream within a broken Russia. With Vasily's resignation, his chance may have finally arrived.

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• Red Baron: Iron Lazar, as IOTL.

Kazakh Military Okrug

^{Flag of the Western Soviet Government, and USSR (Vlasov)}

^{Flag of the Western Soviet Government, and USSR (Rakov)}

Official Name: Kazakh Military Okrug, Western Soviet Government (Regional unification), Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (National unification)

Ruling Party: Okkupatsionnyye Administratsiya Kazakhskogo Okruga^note Kazakh Okrug Occupation Authorities

Ideology: Pragmatic Socialism^note Paternal Autocracy

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• Divided We Fall: Played with, the Kazakh government is built off of a united front between Andrey Vlasov and Vasily Rakov. Though they are capable of working together to oppose Beria's government in Perm, the two are ideologically opposed, Vlasov being a pragmatist and Rakov being an idealist. The instant the government in Perm is defeated the two begin jockeying for influence. It is possible to restore a united front, but it is exceptionally difficult.
• Military Coup: Like Kazan, the Kazakh Military Okrug also has a path where they coup Beria's government and install Vlasov as the new leader of the Soviet Union.

Andrey Vlasov

Role: Country Leader, Premier^note Country Leader (Regional unification)

Party: Okkupatsionnyye Administratsiya Kazakhskogo Okruga^note Kazakh Okrug Occupation Authorities

Ideology: Pragmatic Socialism^note Paternal Autocracy

In-Game Biography ^{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 War began, Vlasov became a leading General in the defense of the USSR, further climbing the Ranks as other generals were sacked or killed.

By the end of the War, and Beria's ascension, Vlasov was one of the most powerful generals in the Army. Then Zhukov left, Rokossovsky left, and Konev was sent to Kazan, Vlasov thought he was about to be given Command of the Soviet army. He was not. He was then himself sent to Kazakhstan, to pacify and reintegrate the region, against his will. He has since stewed in his dislike of Beria and Bolshevism, to the point where he has become a true wildcard in the former USSR. He now bides his time waiting for his pacification to end, and for his return to Perm, where he will take his rightful place as a new Soviet Marshal.

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• Devour the Dragon: If he has more influence than Rakov, Vlasov will have his second in command executed.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Vlasov may be a cynical opportunist, but he is legitimately disgusted by Beria's various crimes.
• Historical Villain Downgrade: Vlasov in TWR did not betray the Soviet Union and defect to Germany, though he remained a cynical careerist.
• Not in This for Your Revolution: Vlasov, already an unideological individual, had largely abandoned Bolshevism after Beria came to power, and headed straight down the path of revisionism. His ideology Pragmatic Socialism is Socialist in name only, being categorically a right-wing authoritarian ideology. He still fights for the Soviets because he wants to climb the social ladder.
• Pet the Dog: Vlasov has the option to grant autonomy to the Soviet Union's minorities.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Vlasov cares little for socialist ideology, and will pursue any course of action that furthers Soviet (and his own) power. To this end he pursues limited capitalist reforms to the economy, recruits defeated personnel into his army, restores autonomy to the Soviet Union's various minorities, and even forges alliances with some mujahadeen in Kazakhstan (as well as selling others out to the Republic of China).
• The Purge: After defeating Perm, Vlasov will make a purge of Beria's remaining loyalists.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: Beria sent Vlasov to Kazakhstan against his will to get him out of the way.This also gives him an independent power base from which he can launch a revolt.

Vasily Rakov

Role: Deputy Premier (Regional unification), Premier^note Country Leader (Power struggle victory)

Party: Sotsialisticheskaya Partiya Obnovleniya SSSR^note Socialist Party of the Renewal of USSR

Ideology: Radical Socialism^note Socialism

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• The Coup: In the power struggle that follows the defeat of the Perm Soviet Government, if Rakov and his Socialist Clique have the most power he will successfully coup Vlasov and become Premier.
• The Dragon: Rakov is Valsov's second in command.
• Dragon with an Agenda: Rakov has his own political agenda and may overthrow and arrest Vlasov if he becomes more powerful than him.
• Number Two: Valsov will make Rakov his Deputy Premier after defeating the Perm Government.
• Pet the Dog: Rakov will go even further than Vlasov in his favorable policies towards minorities.

Siberian Russian Splinters

Soviet Republic of Novosibirsk

Official Name: Soviet Republic of Novosibirsk, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (National unification)

Ruling Party: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza - Novosibirskoye Sobraniya - Fraktsiya Men'shinstva^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Novosibirsk Assembly - Minority Faction

Ideology: Zhdanovshchina^note Marxism-Leninism

A Soviet opposition government based in Novosibirsk, headed by Andrei Zhdanov and his faction of the Communist Party.

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• Allohistorical Allusion: The Communist Party in Novosibirsk is split between minority and majority factions, just like the the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (the predecessor of the CPSU) was between the Mensheviks (Minority) and Bolsheviks (Majority).
• Balkanize Me: Novosibirsk's territory was reduced by the split of Zhukov's Krasnoyarsk Government.
• In Spite of a Nail: Yuri Gagarin can still become the first cosmonaut despite significant and dramatic changes to the situation of the USSR.
• Renegade Splinter Faction: The Soviet Republic of Novosibirsk is controlled by the hardline Stalinists having split from the Perm Government to avoid being purged by Beria.
• Succession Crisis: The deaths of Zhdanov and Shcherbakov will lead to power struggle between Voznesensky and Khrushchev for leadership of Novosibirsk.
• We ARE Struggling Together: The Minority and Majority factions bitterly oppose each other.

Andrei Zhdanov

Role: General-Secretary^note Country Leader

Party: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza - Novosibirskoye Sobraniya - Fraktsiya Men'shinstva^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Novosibirsk Assembly - Minority Faction

Ideology: Zhdanovshchina^note Marxism-Leninism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}General Secretary Andrei Zhdanov was born on February 26th, 1896, into a family of Educational workers in Ukraine. Originally studying at a commercial institute for business, Zhdanov found himself drafted into the Imperial Army in WWI, and later joined the Red Army during the civil war as a commissar. After the war, Zhdanov held a series of commissar civilian positions within the party until he found his way into the Politburo in the 1930s. Largely sidelined by Lavrentiy during the Great Patriotic War, Zhdanov took this as a personal affront, one he did not forget.

Once Lavrentiy Beria became premier in the USSR and began his purges, Zhdanov and any other officials afraid of Beria fled to Siberia, where they formed the Soviet Republic of Novosibirsk However, this young soviet republic was unstable and found itself split when Georgy Zhukov and his forces fled to Krasnoyarsk. Since then, Zhdanov's health has continued to decline, and his grip on the party has as well, with his protege Voznesensky and Khrushchev constantly draining his already strained mental resolve. Now he is but a puppet of the party, clinging to life and a bottle of vodka with his final breaths.

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• King on His Deathbed: Zhdanov's health and mental capacity have been declining for a long time, and he is on death's door in 1952.
• Principles Zealot: Zhdanov's ideology, Zhdanovshchina, is characterized by its purist dedication to Soviet Communist ideology, and is also noted for being hardline Stalinist.
• Puppet King: Zhdanov is a weak and dying leader and a puppet to his party and his proteges, the Dvoyka of Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Voznesensky.
• Start My Own: When Beria began his purges, Zhdanov and Zhukov's political/military factions fled to Novosibirsk and started a "Second Union" that opposed the Perm Government, headed by Zhdanov and a Troika consisting of Zhukov, Khrushchev, and Voznesensky. This "Second Union" originally controlled most of Central Russia, but has since collapsed due to Zhukov's disagreements with Zhdanov.

We Hardly Knew Ye: Zhdanov dies early in the game, after a short, five focuses long, tree.

Aleksandr Shcherbakov

Role: Deputy Premier, General-Secretary^note Country Leader (Zhdanov succession)

Party: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza - Novosibirskoye Sobraniye - Fraktsiya Men'shinstva^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Novosibirsk Assembly - Minority Faction

Ideology: Zhdanovshchina^note Marxism-Leninism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}A dedicated Bolshevik from an early age, Aleksandr Scherbakov joined the Red Guard in 1917 when he was only sixteen years old. Studying as an administrator after the war, he quickly rose through the ranks of the Communist Party as Stalin's purges kicked into overdrive. Finding work with Zhdanov in 1936, the two quickly became close friends. As the USSR suffered defeat after defeat at the hands of the advancing Germans, Shcherbakov worst nightmare became reality as his beloved Stalin mysteriously disappeared and the despised Beria took the reigns in his absence. Fleeing east to escape the wrath of the NKVD, Scherbakov became known by many in the Novosibirsk government as an obese and boisterous drunkard. Shcherbakov's leadership has become even more loose and incompetent than that of his predecessor, As many ambitious party-men have wasted little time in maneuvering behind his back. As his health continues to decline and his grip on power slips away, his days are numbered at best.

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• Short-Lived Leadership: Zhdanov's Deputy and successor, Shcherbakov himself will die not one week after Zhdanov, due in no small part to his extreme weight and life of heavy drinking.

Nikolai Voznesensky

Role: Premier (Zhdanov's final speech), General-Secretary and Premier^note Country Leader (Shcherbakov succession)

Party: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza - Novosibirskoye Sobraniye - Fraktsiya Men'shinstva^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Novosibirsk Assembly - Minority Faction, Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza - Fraktsiya Men'shinstva^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Minority Faction (National Unification)

Ideology: Zhdanovshchina^note Marxism-Leninism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}An unassuming economic bureaucrat on the surface, Nikolai Voznesensky's handsome figure is matched only by his intelligence. This intelligence didn't go unnoticed as his future protege Andrei Zhdanov appointed him to run the GOSPLAN during the Great Patriotic War. As his beloved project came crashing down crashing down when the Germans pushed deeper into Soviet territory, Voznesensky was thrown completely off-guard when Beria took the reigns of the Soviet Union in Stalin's absence. Fleeing east to a new power base in Novosibirsk, Voznesensky's cunning power grab has finally paid off as his former proteges have both died in a pool of their own alcoholic decadence, leaving him as the sole leader of a vengeful state opposing everything that the revisionist forces in Perm represent.

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• 0% Approval Rating: After reunifying Russia, Voznesensky dies secretly hated by all, in fact they are relieved by his death.
• The Alcoholic: Much like Zhdanov, Voznesensky loves his vodka, a vice that only grows stronger as he takes back the USSR, eventually claiming his life.
• Meet the New Boss: Voznesensky continues the Zhdanovshchina after taking power, aiming to finish implementing Zhdanov's purist cultural policies.
• The Pardon: He will offer to Zhukov a pardon for splitting from Novosibirsk if he peacefully rejoins them.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Surprisingly, considering Voznesensky's commitment to Zhdanovist ideology, he has the option of peacefully reuniting with Zhukov, recognizing that it is more expedient to acquire his expertise in the fight to reunify Russia than to simply purge him.

Yegor Ligachev

Role: Head of the Komsomol/Leader of the Apathist Faction (Voznesensky), Premier^note Country Leader (Apathist takeover)

Party: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza - Fraktsiya Men'shinstva^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Minority Faction

Ideology: Zhdanovshchina^note Marxism-Leninism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Few men could get to where Yegor Ligachyov is now, some say it was through hard work and dedication, others may say that Zhdanov was simply playing favourites. Born to a family of Tomsk villagers in 1920, the young Ligachyov had initially dreamed of becoming an engineer before his motherland fell into disarray and chaos.

A young, idealistic Ligachyov had joined the Novosibirsk Soviet Government Komsomol 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 Chernenko'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.

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• The Cynic: Ligachev and the Apathists think Marxism-Leninism has grown bleak and is becoming bleaker under Voznesensky, with no bright future ahead as long as he remains in charge.
• Young and in Charge: Ligachev is born in 1920, making him as young as Turkenich.

Georgy Popov

Role: Deputy Premier (Voznesensky), Premier^note Country Leader (Voznesensky succession)

Party: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza - Fraktsiya Men'shinstva^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Minority Faction

Ideology: Zhdanovshchina^note Marxism-Leninism

Georgy Popov takes over in te interim following Premier Voznesensky's death.

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Nikita Khrushchev

^{As a puppet of the Realists}

Role: Premier^note Country Leader (Shcherbakov succession)

Party: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza - Novosibirskoye Sobraniye - Fraktsiya Bol'shinstva^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Novosibirsk Assembly - Majority Faction, Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza - Fraktsiya Bol'shinstva^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Majority Faction (National unification)

Ideology: Neo-Communism^note Revolutionary Communism

In-Game Biography ^{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, 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.

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• Allohistorical Allusion: Khrushchev's rule will be little different from his OTL tenure.
• Anti-Hero: Khrushchev is a grey zoned character, who despite having rather heroic goals achieves them using moral questionably methods.
• Internal Reformist: Khrushchev seeks to reform the government and rid it off corruption and oppressive politicians.
• Please Select New City Name: He will rename the city of Vladimir to Zhdanovgrad in honor of the late General-Secretary.
• Puppet King: Khrushchev may become a puppet of the Realists if they grow too influential in government.
• The Purge: After taking power, Khrushchev will purge Voznesensky and the rest of the Zhdanovist faction.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: If puppeted by the Realists, Khrushchev's portrait will change to one reflecting this change.

Konstantin Chernenko

Role: Head of the Komsomol, Leader of the Idealist Faction (Khrushchev), Premier^note Country Leader (Anti-Party coup)

Party: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza - Novosibirskoye Sobraniye - Fraktsiya Bol'shinstva^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Novosibirsk Assembly - Majority Faction, Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza - Fraktsiya Bol'shinstva^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Majority Faction (National unification)

Ideology: Neo-Communism^note Revolutionary Communism

In-Game Biography ^{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 from the sadness that has plagued her for centuries.

Rapidly rising throughout the local communist party organizations from a Young age, Chernenko is a man of vision. From his post as head of the Komsomol, he emerged as the clear leader of the Soviet youth in a time of great need. He led those seeking change, seeking a life worth living, seeking a sense of Idealism. Chernenko has since mobilized these so called "Idealists" into a force from which he dominates Soviet society. However, for a man so driven by a sense of Idealism and morality, it has become evident that these beliefs do not always necessitate positive concrete changes when applied in reality...

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• Allohistorical Allusion: The Anti-Party Group is the name given to a Stalinist group opposing Khrushchev's policies and which unsuccessfully tried to coup him IOTL.
• The Coup: The Idealists can coup Khrushchev if they become too influential.
• Kangaroo Court: If Voznesensky comes to power, Chernenko will be excuted after a purge trial.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Idealism is what defines Chernenko's faction, down to its name. They look to the future with hope.

Vasily Blokhin

Role: Leader of the Realist Faction (Khrushchev)

In-Game Biography ^{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 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.

Rising through the ranks of the Cheka as an extremely efficient executioner, Stalin wasted no time in promoting him to the head of the NKVD's execution branch a mere five years later. In spite of Stalin's purges of NKVD chiefs and others in the NKVD, he not only maintained his standing but thrived as well, particularly his "suppression" of Polish "counter-revolutionaries" in 1940.

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.

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• Evil Chancellor: Blokhin and the Realists seek to turn Khrushchev into their puppet and may succeed if they get enough influence.
• Status Quo Is God: The Realists support pragmatism and reforms that will not distrub the status quo.

Yeniseysk Governorate

^{Flag of the Soviet Confederation}

^{Flag of the Russian Confederation}

^{Flag of the Second Soviet Union}

^{Flag of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic}

Official Name: Yeniseysk Governorate, Soviet Confederation (National unification - Frenkel), Russian Confederation (National unification - Ioseliani), Russian Federation (National unification - Democratic Opposition)

Brezhnev: Norilsk National Revolutionary Government, Russian National Soviet Republic (National unification)

Vrachev: Norilsk Soviet Government, Second Soviet Union (National unification)

Sirotkin: Yeniseysk Republic, Russian Soviet Socialist Republic (National unification)

Ruling Party: Liberal'naya Rabochaya Sotsialisticheskaya Partiya^note Liberal Workers Socialist Party

Ideology: Democratic Socialism^note Socialism

A democratic government set up in the remote city of Norilsk by revolting GULAG inmates.

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• Allohistorical Allusion: The backstory of the Yeniseysk Governate is based on the Norilsk uprising of 1953.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Despite officially being democratic, the "elections" are closer to fights between parties with violent coercion of voters.
• Authority in Name Only: Norilsk claims a large chunk of Russian territory as the Yeniseysk Governate, but most of the territory is actually autonomous and are only weakly influenced by the Norilsk government.
• Disaster Democracy: The desperate situation the people of Norilsk are in have united the diverse populations under a brotherhood of freedom and democracy.
• The Famine: Due to the lack of resources in the region, Norilsk is currently having a massive famine.
• Let No Crisis Go to Waste: The former GULAG inmates took advantages of the revolts against Beria rocking the region to take control of their own piece of Siberia.
• People's Republic of Tyranny: The openly fascist group in Norilsk calls itself the Democratic Sector.
• We ARE Struggling Together: The different political parties of Norilsk regularly engage in streetfights through their paramilitaries and it is through this violence that the winner of the election will be decided.

Pavel Frenkel

Role: Country Leader

Party: Liberal'naya Rabochaya Sotsialisticheskaya Partiya^note Liberal Workers Socialist Party

Ideology: Democratic Socialism^note Socialism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Pavel Andreyevich Frankov, born in 1904 in Moscow, educated as a mechanic and locksmith, was one of the many political prisoners during a period of political purges in the Soviet Union. He was sentenced to 10 years of hard labour in the Norillag.

Under the Kalinin premiership, Beria's reign as interior minister resulted in more and more prisoners being relocated or sent to the Norillag. He began to form a group within the GULAG system, plotting a series of strikes demanding better treatment. However, before any actual strikes could happen, the prison was shut down and the prisoners were granted amnesty. During this period of utter confusion, Pavel Frenkel organized the stranded personnel, forming an ad-hoc government and bringing democracy to the region.

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• Allohistorical Allusion: Frenkel was the leader of the OTL Norilsk uprising. Here he never leads the revolt as they are granted amnesty but still became a leader among his fellow inmates.
• Chummy Commies: Frenkel is a socialist with democratic aspirations.
• The Pardon: Frenkel and his fellow inmates were granted amnesty as the prison where they were held was shut down.

Leonid Brezhnev

^{After Suslov's resignation}

Role: Country Leader (Elections or Suslov, Suslov resigns), Head of Government (Suslov)

Party: Kommunisticheskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Partiya^note Communist Socialist Party, Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Suslov resigns)

Ideology: National Bolshevism^note National Socialism, Marxism-Leninism-Sovietism^note Marxism-Leninism (Suslov succession)

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}First sentenced by Lavrentiy Beria to rot in the Norillag, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev's political life is more than legendary.

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, and incoporated aspects of Nationalism and Bolshevism, appealing to both Marxist theory and the locals' traditionalist sentiments.

In-Game Biography (Suslov succession) ^{Click to Show}First sentenced by Lavrentiy Beria to rot in the Norillag, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev's political life is more than legendary.

First serving as a political commissar in the Great Patriotic War, Leonid Brezhnev caught the attention of the party and recieved quick promotions during the early period of the Perm government. However, as Kalinin's authority evaporated under the Malenkov-Beria diarchy, Brezhnev was targeted by Beria, resulting in his imprisonment in the Norillag. However, during the chaotic period of Yeniseysk democracy, Brezhnev became the dominant figure of the syncretic 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.

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• Commie Nazis: His KSP combines Marxism, nationalism, and traditionalism while also being allied with the openly fascist Democratic Sector.
• Dirty Communist: Brezhnev is a despotic leader adhering to communism blended with Russian nationalism, although he is classified in-game as a National Socialist.
• Emergency Authority: After winning the election, his first act will be to pass the Emergency Powers Act.
• The Political Officer: Brezhnev used to be a Soviet political commissar.
  • If elected he will set up "Clerical Commissars".
• Tyrant Takes the Helm: Brezhnev will rule as a dictator if elected and will reopen the GULA Gs to welcome new inmates, political oppenents and others "undesirables".
• Warhawk: Brezhnev and his ideology are particularly belligerent.

Ivan Vrachev

Role: Country Leader (Elections)

Party: Al'ternativnaya Kommunisticheskaya Partiya^note Alternative Communist Party

Ideology: Trotskyism^note Revolutionary Communism

In-Game Biography ^{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 he 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 was oppressed, becoming a victim of regular exiling.

However, at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Vrachev successfully convinced Stalin to allow him 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.

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• Back from the Brink: The Trotskyists can reunify the USSR under their control, undoing Trotsky's defeat in the power struggle against Stalin decades prior.
• The Political Officer: Vrachev will introduce political commissars after taking power.
• Tyrant Takes the Helm: After winning the election, Vrachev and the AKP will declare themselves the only true representatives of the working class and abolish Norilsk's rump democracy.

Alexander Sirotkin

Role: Country Leader (Elections)

Party: Avangardnaya Partiya^note Vanguard Party

Ideology: Marxist-Leninism

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

In his earlier days, Sirotkin was a soldier in the Imperial Army. After the October Revolution in November 1917, he went over to the Bolsheviks and fought for them in the subsequent civil war. On November 10, 1936, he was appointed head of Border and Internal Protection Directorate of the NKVD of the West Siberian Military District. During the Norilsk Uprising, Sirotkin's unit was tasked with the revolt's suppression, but similar to how he went over to the Bolsheviks before, Sirotkin and his unit went over to the revolution, forming the backbone of Yeniseysk's military power. Since then, he became a prominent figure in Norilsk politics, and would lead the militarist Vanguard Party to political significance.

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• Bait-and-Switch Tyrant: This would've been expected, but if he wins the election, Sirotkin will not hold his promise of maintaining Norilsk's democracy and cooperating with the opposition parties.
• Emergency Authority: After winning the election, his first act will be to declare martial law.
• Tyrant Takes the Helm: After winning the election, Sirotkin will break his promise of cooperating with the opposition and re-institute Soviet-style despotism.

Jaba Ioseliani

Role: Country Leader (Military coup)

Party: Republikanskaya Militsiya^note Republican Militia

Ideology: Despotism^note Paternal Autocracy

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Jaba loseliani is a criminal turned commander. Born on July 10, 1926 in Khashuri, loseliani was insignificant. Soon after the retreat to Perm however, loseliani was one of the many citizens that have relocated eastwards. In 1944, he was arrested for robbery in the city of Sverdlovsk and was sentenced to 11 years of hard labour in the Norillag.

During the revolution of the Norillag prisoners, loseliani organized the Norilsk Militia, becoming a prominent fighting force before the arrival of the defectors. Since then, his Militia unit became the police unit of Norilsk, granting him significance as the commander of the city's stability.

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• Military Coup: If no party is able to claim victory, the Republican Militia led by Colonel Jaba Ioseliani will coup the government and take over.
• Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman: In real life, Ioseliani only came to prominence in 1989 after founding the Mkhedroni paramilitary group. In 1952 however, Ioseliani was only a minor bank robber, having only entered into politics much later.

Nikolay Urvantsev

Role: Country Leader (Ioseliani desposed, Snap elections)

Party: Partiya Demokratizatsiya Rossii^note Party For the Democratization Of Russia

Ideology: Sakharovism^note Liberalism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Nikolay Nikolayevich Urvantsev, born in 1893, worked as a geologist and explorer. Most notably, Urvantsev's expedition practically found the location of Norilsk and was responsibile for the first house built what grew to become the city of Norilsk. Of course, Urvan Urvantsev went on went on more expeditions and was a relatively renowned explorer at the time. However, in 1938, he was arrested and sentenced to 15 years in correctional camps. In February 1940, the sentence was overturned for lack of corpus delicti, but in August Urvantsev was again arrested and sentenced to 8 years. Urvantsev had to serve his sentence in Karlag and ultimately, Norillag.

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 the 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.

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• La Résistance: Urvantsev is the leader of the local organization of the PDR, the underground democratic resistance across Russia.

Walter Ciszek

Role: Country Leader (Ioseliani desposed, Snap elections)

Party: Khristiansko-Demokraticheskaya Partiya^note Christian Democratic Party

Ideology: Christian Democracy^note Conservatism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Walter Joseph Ciszek is an American-Polish Jesuit priest who conducted clandestine missionary work in the Soviet Union. Born on November 4, 1904, in the mining town of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, Ciszek entered the Jesuit novitiate in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1928. He volunteered to serve as a missionary to Russia. In 1934, Ciszek was sent to Rome to study at the at the Pontifical Russian College. In 1938, Ciszek was sent to the Jesuit mission in Albertyn in eastern Poland. After the Soviet Union occupied eastern Poland and forced Ciszek to close his mission, he arrived in Lviv. Ciszek realized that it would be very easy for a priest to enter the Soviet Union amid the streams of exiles going East. After securing the permission of higher church authorities, he crossed the border in 1940 under the identity of Władymyr typynski. He traveled to the logging town of Chusovoy, in the Ural Mountains and worked as a logger while discreetly performing religious ministry, before being discovered by the NKVD and sentenced to 15 years of hard labour for espionage.

He was sent to serve in the Norillag, and even in the camp, Ciszek used his Russian language skills to perform secret religious work within the prison. He was a passive participant in the Norilsk Revolution, but his ministry work built him a solid supporter network within the city, leading to the decision to form a political party based on Christian values.

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• Badass Preacher: Ciszek is a clandestine American-Polish Jesuit missionary preaching despite the risk of arrest by the Soviets.

Alexandra Zelenskaya

Role: Country Leader (Ioseliani desposed, Snap elections)

Party: Sotsialisticheskaya Partiya^note Socialist Party

Ideology: Liberal Socialism^note Social Democracy

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Aleksandra Matveevna Zelenskaya, born in 1927 lived her life as an ordinary citizen. Zelenskaya was one of the many Ukrainians that fled from Ukraine when it became concrete that the Germans had no intention of treating Ukrainians as equals. Zelenskaya started her new life as a member of a collective farm near Orenburg. However, old documents and reports from partisan cells implicated Zelenskaya, she was accused of cooperating with the infamous UPA during her time in occupied Ukraine and was subsequently sent to the Norillag.

During the start of the Norilsk Revolution, Zelenskaya became leader of the women's section, representing the female prisoners and became a movement leader. Zelenskaya continued and expanded her scope of leadership after the success, becoming the chairperson of the Socialist Party, representing minority democratic interests in the political system.

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• Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Alexandra Zelenskaya can potentially become Russia's first female elected head of state.

Krasnoyarsk Soviet Government

^{Flag of the USSR under the Plurinational Committee}

^{Flag of the USSR under the Sniper Clique}

^{Flag of the USSR under Kosygin}

Official Name: Krasnoyarsk Soviet Government, Siberian Soviet Government (Regional unification), Perm Soviet Government (Superregional unification), Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (National unification)

Ruling Party: Ob'edinennyy Narodnyy Patrioticheskyy Front^note United Popular Patriotic Front

Ideology: Zhukovism^note Socialism

Another Soviet opposition government based in Krasnoyarsk that split off from the Novosibirsk Government, headed by Marshal Georgy Zhukov.

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• Balkanize Me: If the Tuvan insurgency gets out of hand by underfunding the NKVD, 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).
• Eagle Squadron: Siding with the Plurinational Committee will make exiles like Mao Anying and Erich Honecker as generals.
• The Purge: After conquering the Russian Republic, Krasnoyarsk will proceed with a purge of White sympathizers.
• Secret Police: There is a "Little NKVD" inside Krasnoyarsk headed by Ivan Serov, OTL Deputy Commissar of the NKVD and later head of the KGB and GRU. Zhukov apparently doesn't like Serov and his Little NKVD, but if he doesn't fund Serov enough, the local Tuvan insurgency will worsen and collapse Krasnoyarsk.
• We ARE Struggling Together: Krasnoyarsk's political struggles consists of a struggle between Zhukov and his head of government Alexei Kosygin, as well as a factional struggle between two political factions that also got exiled by Beria and Zhdanov: the Plurinational Committee, which represents minority interests in the Soviet Union, and the Traditionalist Socialists (a.k.a. the Sniper Clique).
• We Cannot Go On Without You: Krasnoyarsk is only held together by Zhukov's personal charisma, should he die, the whole nation will collapse.

Georgy Zhukov

^{Under the Plurinational Committee}

^{Under the Sniper Clique}

^{As a puppet of Kosygin}

Role: Field Marshal, Premier^note Country Leader

Party: Ob'edinennyy Narodnyy Patrioticheskyy Front^note United Popular Patriotic Front

Ideology: Zhukovism^note Socialism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Grand Marshal Georgy Zhukov was born on December 1st, 1896, to a peasant family in western Russia. He spent the early parts of his life rising through the ranks of the Imperial and then Red Armies, quickly becoming a leading Soviet Tactician by the late 1930s. During The Great Patriotic War, Zhukov would find himself tasked with the ultimately unsuccessful defense of Moscow, famously remarking; "I can hold the damn city! I could hold the entire damn nation if only I had the power!". After the fall of Moscow, Zhukov would again be tasked with the defense of Arkhangelsk, only to be forced out by A German Naval blockade. Zhukov quickly found himself out of favor with the Soviet Government, and in a dangerous position.

When Lavrentiy Beria began his purges upon taking the Premiership, Zhukov joined those who fled to Siberia with Zhdanov and formed the Novosibirsk government. He, along with Nikolai Voznesensky and Nikita Khrushchev formed a Troika, ruling the state from behind the scenes. However, the Stalinist Orientation of Zhdanov's government continued to drive Zhukov away from the central government, and he once again took his supporters and fled to Krasnoyarsk, beyond the reach of Beria or Zhdanov. Now he bides his time, building his forces, waiting for the time to reclaim the Motherland and punish those who have harmed her.

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• Action Politician: Zhukov is the leader of Krasnoyarsk and a Field Marshal in its army.
• Assassination Attempt: Zhukov will be victim of one and it will succeed only if he overfunded Serov's NKVD, being behind the attempt.
• General Ripper: Zhukov, much like Konev, has been radicalized in the aftermath of the Soviet defeat. His ideology Zhukovism infuses militarism and nationalism into socialist economics, and Zhukov is hell-bent on reconquering the Soviet Union and avenging their loss of the German-Soviet War.
• Puppet King: Should his second in command, Kosygin, outmaneuver him, Zhukov will be left as nothing but a red stamp for his secretary's policies.
• The Purge: After conquering Novosibirsk, Zhukov will push to purge Rokossovsky and high command.
• Shout-Out: The focus for declaring war on Germany is called "Their Land, Their People, Their Blood".
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: Zhukov's portrait will change depending on who the Secretary of the Party is, and has no less than four different portraits.
• Start My Own: Zhukov created the Krasnoyarsk Governement after splitting from Zhdanov's Novosibirsk Government because he became alienated from it.
• Warhawk: Zhukov supports an hawkish foreign policy, particularly in regard to Germany.

Alexei Kosygin

Role: Secretary of the Party^note Figurehead

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}First Secretary of the Party Alexei Kosygin, was born on February 21st 1904, to an ordinary Russian family in St Petersburg. Having lost his mother in his infancy, he and his father grew very close, with Alexei often following in his father's footsteps throughout his early life. This continued when the revolution erupted, as Alexei and his father both sympathized with and supported the Bolsheviks. Joining a labour army during the war, Alexei became a devoted student of Lenin, particularly with regards to Socialist Economics. Thanks to his patronage by Andrei Zhdanov, he rapidly rose through the ranks of the Soviet government following the Great Purge. This continued until the German-Soviet War, when Kosygin oversaw much of the evacuation of industry from the west to the Krasnoyarsk area of Siberia.

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 not 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...

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• Evil Chancellor: To Zhukov. If Kosygin successfully outmaneuvers him he will become the true power behind the Premier, the Shadow Secretary as a focus names him.
• The Pardon: After conquering Novosibirsk, Kosygin will push to pordon and integrate Rokossovsky and his high command into Krasnoyarsk's army.
• The Purge: Kosygin as unofficial leader of Krasnoyarsk will purge Serov and his allies from the NKVD.
• Regime Change: Kosygin may offer support to Afghan exiles seeking to oust the pro-German king and propose to become Soviet allies in exchange for a Soviet military intervention.

Vasily Zaytsev

Role: Leader of the Sniper Clique, Secretary of the Party^note Figurehead (Krasnoyarsk collapse)

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Vasily Zaytsev is a renowned Soviet sniper, having a confirmed kill count of over 300 German soldiers. With this renown, and his choice to back the Zhukovites, it was easy for him to gain a political footing in the newly created Soviet government. During this time, he began to formulate the practices of "Traditional Socialism", forming a clique of fellow minded individuals, being commonly referred to as the "Sniper Clique".

Since the formation of this clique, Zaytsev influenced the policies of the Zhukov and the government to enact traditionalist policies. This has however, forced him and the Sniper Clique into a political conflict with the relatively moderate Plurinational Committee of Andrey Vyshinsky for favor with the Marshal.

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• Evil Reactionary: Zaytsev and the Sniper Clique look to the past for the political direction of the Soviet Union. They are Russian nationalists and chauvinists who favor re-establishing the influence of the Orthodox Church and are hostile to other Churches.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: The Sniper Clique are Russian chauvinists and will push for blacklisting Ukrainian officers if favored by the government.
• The Remnant: Zaytsev becomes Krasnoyarsk's Secretary of the Party if it collapses.

Andrey Vyshinsky

Role: Leader of the Plurinational Committee

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Andrei Vyshinsky is an older Polish man, who simply wishes what is best for all peoples. Having fled to the USSR earlier in his life, Vyshinsky became a low level party member. After the union split into rival claimants, Vyshinsky and many minorities supported Zhukov, as he had proven less repressive than any of his rivals. The supporters of these minorities quickly formed a political body known as the Plurinational Committee with Vyshinsky at its lead.

Since the formation of the committee, Vyshinsky has spent his time applying pressure to Zhukov and the army to enact pro minority policies. This has however, forced him and the Committee at odds with the traditionalist Sniper Clique of Vasily Zaytsev for favor with the Marshal.

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Aleksandr Aleksandrov

Role: Secretary of the Party^note Figurehead (Sniper Clique favored)

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}A musical composer by trade, Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov is the composer of the State Anthem of the Soviet Union. He also composed the famous song "The Sacred War". While his field is not related to political affairs at all, a symbolic figurehead with great artistic talent is a great unifying figure.

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• Authority in Name Only: Aleksandr Aleksandrov as Secretary of the Party has in truth llittle power and is not the leader of the Sniper Clique, his real role being as symbolic and unifying figure for the government.

Sabit Orujov

Role: Secretary of the Party^note Figurehead (Plurinational Committee favored)

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}An Azberbaijani by nationality, Sabit Atayevich Orujov 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.

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Ivan Muzychenko

Role: Premier^note Country Leader (Anti-Serov Zhukov succession)

Party: Ob'edinennyy Narodnyy Patrioticheskyy Front^note United Popular Patriotic Front

Ideology: Zhukovism^note Socialism

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Rodion Malinovsky

Role: Premier^note Country Leader (Krasnoyarsk collapse)

Party: Ob'edinennyy Narodnyy Patrioticheskyy Front^note United Popular Patriotic Front

Ideology: Neo-Communism^note Revolutionary Communism

In-Game Biography ^{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.

Malinovsky would find himself in command of sizable forces during the German-Soviet war, however he inevitably was forced to retreat like all soviet officers, into the areas east of the AA line. However, Malinovsky would be demoted by Beria soon after his ascension to power, leading to Malinovsky's infamous defection to Novosibirsk, during which he convinced every officer he met to join him. Malinovsky did not remain long however, as he quickly fled with Zhukov's forces after the Troika collapsed, quickly becoming the highest ranked member of the Krasnoyarsk Red Army. His influence further solidified, when he developed a close friendship with the Marshal, due to their many hours spent together. However, yet again, Malinovsky would have to flee, this even further east from Krasnoyarsk, as the deaths of Zhukov and Antonov, along with many civilian party members, had thrown the Capital into chaos. Malinovsky now leads the last shred of True Patriotism in the USSR, from which he will bring Zhukov's vision of a militaristic Union to fruition.

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• Action Politician: Malinovsky is a general and leader if Krasnoyarsk collapses.
• Eagle Squadron: He fought in France with the Russian Expeditionary Corps during WWI, and then the Foreign Legion after the October Revolution.
  • As leader, he will form the International People's Legion, composed of non-Soviets.
• The Purge: Premier Malinovsky will purge non-Zhukovite officials.
• The Remnant: Malinovsky becomes the leader of the remains of the Krasnoyarsk Government if it collapses.

Collapsed Krasnoyarsk Factions

Krasnoyarsk Emergency Government

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Official Name: Krasnoyarsk Emergency Government, Federal State of Russia (National unification)

Ruling Party: Liga Zashchity Krasnoyarskaya^note Krasnoyarsk Protection League - Civilians

Ideology: Warlordist Autocracy^note Paternal Autocracy

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• The Dictatorship: Type 3. Dolgikh establishes a one-party dictatorship with his Krasnoyarsk Protection League (and later renamed the Russian Protection Party). This can be softened by the introduction of intra-party democracy.
• Emergency Authority: Vladimir Dolgikh sets up an emergency government when the Krasnoyarsk Government collapses.
• Team Switzerland: After reunifying Russia, it will form a non-aligned movement.

Vladimir Dolgikh

Role: Country Leader

Party: Liga Zashchity Krasnoyarskaya^note Krasnoyarsk Protection League - Civilians, Rossiskaya Partiya Zashchity^note Russian Protection Party (Form the RPZ focus), Rossiskaya Partiya Zashchity - Fraktsiya Aysberga^note Russian Protection Party - Iceberg Faction (Formation of factions)

Ideology: Warlordist Autocracy^note Paternal Autocracy, Authoritarian Democracy^note Paternal Autocracy

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}In the anarchy of Zhukov's death, an unlikely savior emerged to end the chaos in the city of Krasnoyarsk. That man was Vladimir Dolgikh, who was born on December 5th, 1924, in the Yeniseysk governate of the USSR. He would enthusiastically support Socialism, becoming a a Young Pioneer, and even joining the Red the Red Army when the German-Soviet war began. It was here however, that his life began to worsen. Becoming a political Commissar, he would be injured on the front line multiple times, only to be sent back in due to manpower shortages among educated commissars. This began to alienate Vladimir, as the very idea he fought for was attempting to murder him time and time again. He would find himself in the 6th Guards Infantry Division when Kalinin came to a power, and he slowly began rising through the ranks of Commissars.

After Beria came to power however, Dolgikh found himself fleeing east with the other Guard Divisions, his commanders supporting Marshal 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.

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• Defector from Decadence: If Krasnoyarsk collapses, Dolgikh will be completely disillusioned with Socialism and will create a new anti-communist government after taking control of the former capital Krasnoyarsk.

Vladimir Drozdov

Role: Country Leader (Dolgikh succession)

Party: Rossiskaya Partiya Zashchity - Fraktsiya Aysberga^note Russian Protection Party - Iceberg Faction, Rossiskaya Partiya Zashchity - Tayga Aysberga^note Russian Protection Party - Taiga Faction (Taiga Faction won intra-party election)

Ideology: Authoritarian Democracy^note Paternal Autocracy, National Conservatism^note Conservatism (Taiga Faction won intra-party election)

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• A Lighter Shade of Grey: Drozdov may become a democratic leader while Dolgikh can never be better than an authoritarian democrat.

Tuvan People's Republic

Official Name: Tuvan People's Republic

Ruling Party: Narodno-Osvoboditel'nyy Front Tuvintsy^note Tuvan People's Liberation Front

Ideology: Council Communism^note Revolutionary Communism

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• Defector from Decadence: 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.
• Occupiers Out of Our Country: The Tuvan insurgency wants independence from the Krasnoyarsk Government.

Salchak Toka

Role: Country Leader

Party: Narodno-Osvoboditel'nyy Front Tuvintsy^note Tuvan People's Liberation Front

Ideology: Council Communism^note Revolutionary Communism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Salchak Toka, born on December 15th 1901, would be the man most responsible for the existence of Tuva as a state. Born in a rural town, Toka found himself working for Russians, and developing an affinity for Russian ideology. This only continued after the Russian Revolution began, which later sparked the independence of Tuva from China, it would be with Socialist Russian support. However, it would be another decade before Tuva would fully embrace socialism, and cast off the remnants of Feudalism. Toka took this opportunity to become a leading member of the New Tuvan government, and shortly later came to lead it himself. However, his pro-soviet policies continued, which culminated in Tuva joining the USSR in 1943, upon Stalin's personal request.

Toka came to regret this decision, more than any other in his life. He could not have foreseen the rise of Beria and Suslov, whom corrupted Socialist ideology, while oppressing the very minorities they claimed to defend. However, Tuva soon found itself under the Novosibirsk government, which embraced the Stalinism Toka himself so desired. But it was not to last, as this government shattered, and Zhukov came to control the area containing Tuva and the Altai. After a brief period of collaboration, with Toka and the Tuvans on the Plurinational Committee, this status quo collapsed. Zhukov's desire to reform socialism along his personal lines alienated the Tuvans, who once again began a war for independence. This war succeeded, with Toka at the head of Tuva's underground army, leading to the deaths of Zhukov and many of his greatest supporters. Toka now stands head of a once again independent Tuva, one he will fiercely defend, from Zhukovist fanatics and Liberal Capitalists alike.

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• Gameplay and Story Segregation: 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 with the Stalinist subideology.
• Rebel Leader: Toka is the leader of the Tuvan insurgency.

PDR-Command Siberia

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Official Name: PDR-Command Siberia

Ruling Party: Partiya Demokratizatsiya Rossii^note Party for the Democratization of Russia - Centre

Ideology: Liberal Conservatism^note Conservatism

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• Let No Crisis Go to Waste: The PDR-Command takes advantage of Zhukov's death and Krasnoyarsk's collapse to rise up and take over the region.
• People's Republic of Tyranny: The PDR is ostensibly a liberal democratic rebellion against Soviet authoritarianism. However, even at best the PDR-Command's democracy will be lacking with a weak opposition undermined by the government.
• The Purge: If the PDR-Command goes fully authoritarian it will secretly eliminate opposition to its rule.
• La Résistance: The PDR is the pro-liberal democracy resistance to Soviet remnants in Russia.
• Video Game Caring Potential: It's fully possible for the PDR to turn Russia into a semi-democratic wealfare state, with an actual opposition (although a pretty weak one), small but efficient economy and high living standards. However...
• Video Game Cruelty Potential: ...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.

Mikhail Leontovich

Role: Country Leader

Party: Partiya Demokratizatsiya Rossii^note Party for the Democratization of Russia - Centre

Ideology: Liberal Conservatism^note Conservatism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Doctor Mikhail Leontovich is a figure whom many claim to support, and yet few understand. Born on February 22nd 1903, to a family of Academics and Mechanics, he learned early in life to value education and science, especially with regards to Politics. Quickly rising through the ranks of Academia, he became one of the most physicists in the entire USSR, being so well respected that he earned a doctorate without even submitting a thesis. This life course continued during the German-Soviet war, as Mikhail was evacuated east with other prominent scientists. It was then in Perm, that he met Andrei Sakharov, a man whom would become one of his closest friends in the years of Stalin and Kalinin. Andrei years would help Mikhail propose a new Research expedition to central Siberia, to search for better locations for facilities, during which he decided on Irkutsk as a likely candidate.

Good things do not last in Russia however, and Mikhail is no exception. While Mikhail was on a research trip to Irkutsk, Beria became premier of the USSR, after which Sakharov and many other scientists voiced opposition, for which they was declared an enemy of the people. This would be the turning point in Mikhail's life, as Andrei asked him and many other prominent scientists to join him in resisting the last decayed Remnants of the USSR. Many refused, however Mikhail did not, organizing a local cell of the PDR in Irkustk and rising to become the Right hand man of Sakharov. Mikhail now stands as the leader of the PDR in Siberia, and he has a unique opportunity. Zhukov's death has enabled the PDR to emerge from the Shadows, and begin removing the stain of Communism from the land, a scenario which Mikhail will take full advantage of.

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• Defector from Decadence: Leontovich is one of the several scientists led by Andrei Sakharov who entered into resistance with the PDR against the Soviets after Beria took power.

Pyotr Pokryshev

Role: PDR Marshal^note Figurehead

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}A defector to the PDR, Pyotr Afanasyevich Pokryshev first served as a relatively successful fighter pilot and fighter squadron commander. He joined the Second Union and followed the Zhukovists to Krasnoyarsk.

Soon after Krasnoyarsk's collapse however, Pokryshev joined the revolutionaries, serving as a great military commander for the otherwise amateur fighting force.

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• Defector From Decandence: Pyotr Pokryshev will defect to the PDR if Krasnoyarsk collapses.

Russian Republic Proper

Russian Republic

Official Name: Russian Republic

Ruling Party: Rossiyskiy Voyennyy Sovet^note Russian Military Council

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Paternal Autocracy

An American-backed, nominally democratic republic established following the collapse of Soviet authority in the Far East. Formerly headed by President Alexander Kerensky, Kerensky was assassinated by the Russian Fascist Party in 1951, causing the Republic's military to take over the country's leadership.

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• The Alliance: The Republic may join the Toronto Accords or form its own alliance, the Moscow Pact.
• Allohistorical Allusion: The Russian Republic will introduce Economic Shock Therapy in the formerly Soviet territories it conquers.
• Authority in Name Only: 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".
• People's Republic of Tyranny: 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. Depending on what Rogozhin does, this can either be downplayed with a sham democracy under ally Mikhailov or outright subverted should Rogozhin step down and hold free elections.
• Old Soldier: The Russian Republic's entire army general staff are veterans of the first Russian Civil War and were officers in the original White Army.

Anatoly Rogozhin

Role: President^note Country Leader

Party: Rossiyskiy Voyennyy Sovet^note Russian Military Council

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Paternal Autocracy

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Possibly one of the most controversial men in modern Russian history, Anatoly Rogozhin was born in 1893 to a cossack upbringing. A veteran of the Great War, he made a name for himself during the tumultuous Russian Civil War, eventually fleeing to Yugoslavia when the White armies collapsed. Serving the interests of White emigres in Yugoslavia until the state's dismemberment by the Third Reich, he joined the newly-founded Russian Republic in the far east. Having been one of the few remaining high ranking officers in the Republic, he was appointed as Chief of Staff by Alexander Kerensky in 1948. After Kerensky's unexpected assassination in 1951, Rogozhin assumed emergency powers to the dismay of the citizens who quickly found themselves under the boot of his armed forces. A deeply unpopular figure amongst pro-democracy supporters and extremist fascists alike, Rogozhin's grip on power remains tenuous at best as the calls for his dictatorial rule to end grow louder by the day.

Anatoly Rogozhin was the former Chief Of Staff under President Kerensky, who took power after he was assassinated by the Russian Fascist Party. Ruling the republic with an iron fist, he has grown deeply unpopular with both the people and pro-democracy activists alike.

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• 0% Approval Rating: Rogozhin's rule is tenuous and deeply unpopular as a pro-democracy movement grows in popularity in the Russian Republic. After stepping down, Rogozhin thinks to himself that only Lenin and Hitler are much more despised than him.
• Blatant Lies: 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, and celebrations fill the streets of Vladivostok with the rebirth of Russian democracy on the horizon.
• Cincinnatus: Rogozhin can choose to step down from his position and let democratic elections take place. These can either be genuine democratic elections, or completely rigged elections that will put his ally and Grey Eminence Mikhailov in power.
• Emergency Authority: Following president Kerensky's assassination in 1951, Rogozhin, Chief of Staff of the Russian Republic's armed forces, assumed emergency powers and has since then ruled as a dictator.
• Failure Is the Only Option: As Rogozhin himself notes in one event, he can't keep his hold on power no matter what he does. Choosing to continue ruling as a dictator would lead to the US eventually growing sick of him (ultimately culminating in him being assassinated and the US garrison taking over) while holding elections would lead to a landslide victory for the democratic opposition. Rogozhin can rig the elections in favor of his favored successor Mikhailov, but this still means that Rogozhin will be forced to retire from politics while somebody else continues his military dictatorship.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: If Rogozhin tries to keep his military dictatorship instead of reforming it into a democracy or a "democracy", he will get assassinated and cause the US garrison to take over and form an emergency government, who will quickly transition into... a democracy.

Ivan Mikhailov

Role: President^note Country Leader (Authoritarian Rogozhin succession)

Party: Natsional'no Trudovoy Soyuz^note National Alliance of Russian Solidarists - Moderates

Ideology: Authoritarian Democracy^note Paternal Autocracy

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Ivan Mikhailov is a figure few in Russia knew before his taking power, within the Russian government however he is notorious for his secretive deals with corporate leaders and his reactionary political views. Born in 1891 to a family of dissidents, he stood out as an extremely gifted student in economics. As various sociopolitical movements gripped the Russian Empire in Ivan's youth, he followed in his father's footsteps joining dissident groups that put him under the scrutiny of the Okhrana.

Joining the Provisional Government in the February Revolution of 1917, Mikhailov quickly climbed the political ladder in the department of agriculture and economics. Fleeing Petrograd following the Bolshevik revolution, he worked under the wing of Supreme Leader of the White Movement Alexandr Kolchak. Earning his reputation as an extremely hard-working and shadow-like figure behind the Kolchak government, he became known in the Russian government as the "Grey Eminence." As Kolchak's far-east government ment collapsed, he fled to Harbin, organizing an economic bureau for the Chinese Eastern Railway. Collaborating with the Japanese government when they occupied Manchuria, his personal wealth and power skyrocketed.

Disgusted with his former acquaintances in the Russian Fascist Party, he quickly joined Alexander Kerensky's new Russian Republic once Japanese control in Manchuria inevitably collapsed. Proving himself once again a competent minister under Kerensky's tenure, his shock at Kerensky tenure, his shock at the president's sudden assassination turned into an opportunity as he allied himself with the widely-unpopular Rogozhin. As anarchy gripped the Republic, Mikhailov primed himself as Rogozhin's successor. As his political gambles have finally paid off, his ideas of a Russian rebirth through mass public works and militarism now find themselves increasingly popular among the Republic's weary populace.

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• Meet the New Boss: Mikhailov's dictatorship is a 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.
• People's Republic of Tyranny: Mikhailov's dictatorship hides behind a thin democratic façade.
• Pet the Dog: Mikhailov seeks to clean and polish the image of the dictatorship that ruled the republic. Things like ending the martial law and helping the poor is not done out of the good of Mikhailov's heart but more because he needs to do them to appease people.
• Old Soldier: Mikhailov was originally part of the of the Provisional Government after the February Revolution and also was part of Admiral Kolchak's government where he got his nickname of "Grey Eminence". After the civil war he operated in Manchuria where he got his massive personal wealth before joining Kerensky's republic.

Randolph Pate

Role: Country Leader (Rogozhin assassinated)

Party: Rossiyskiy Voyennyy Sovet^note Russian Military Council

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Paternal Autocracy

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• Cincinnatus: Randolph Pate becomes provisionally leader of the Russian Republic after Rogozhin's assassination and stays so only until new elections are held.
• Emergency Authority: Randolph Pate leads the American garrison in Vladivostok, and forms an emergency government if Rogozhin tries to stay as a military dictator and gets assassinated.
• Short-Lived Leadership: General Pate, knowing that he is a foreigner to Russia, does not intend to stay in power for very long, and quickly holds new elections to find a proper Russian leader.

Grigory Pomerants

Role: President^note Country Leader (Rogozhin assassinated, Elections)

Party: Russkoye Vozrozhdeniye^note Russian Revival

Ideology: Social Liberalism^note Liberalism

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• The Alliance: Pomerants will create the European Union, an alliance formed with other pro-democratic forces, after defeating the Third Reich.

Boris Pasternak

Role: President^note Country Leader (Rogozhin assassinated, Elections)

Party: Vtoroye Rozhdeniye^note Second Birth

Ideology: Christian Democracy^note Conservatism

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• The Federation: Pasternak's leadership pursues a new Russian nationalism where all of the nation's minority populace are included and proud to be Russian citizens.
• Good Old Ways: Pasternak's christian democratic leadership pursues conservative social norms, an encouragement of the Orthodox church and of the classic nuclear family unit most notably. Compared to Solzhenitsyn's extremely conservative leadership, however, Pasternak is more moderate.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Role: President^note Country Leader (Cincinnatus Rogozhin, Elections)

Party: Soyuz 17 Oktyabrya^note Union of 17 October

Ideology: National Conservatism^note Conservatism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Alexandr Solzhenitsyn is somewhat of a dark horse in the scene of Russian politics. He was born in 1918 to a family of wealthy landowners and when his Tsarist officer father was killed in a hunting accident, the young Solzhenitsyn was raised by his widowed mother to be a devout Orthodox Christian. An aspiring novelist at the height of Stalin's great purges, his doubts about the moral fabric of the Soviet system began implanting themselves in him as the Soviet government seemed more focused on maintaining "ideological purity" than fighting the Germans. Deserting his unit in 1944, the battle-hardened Solzhenistyn fled East from the Wehrmacht and took refuge in the small city of Blagoveshchensk. Embracing staunch Russian nationalism as American troops intervened as in the far-east, he quickly rose through the ranks of the Russian community's centre-right political circles as a young firebrand that could rally many to his calls for a return to the of Russian return to the days of Russian prestige. Taking control of the Octobrist Party shortly after Rogozhin's resignation, Solzhenistyn has campaigned tirelessly to fulfill his dreams of a Russia made great again, despite the years of political instability that rocked the young Republic. While a controversial figure among secularists for his deep religiousness and minority groups due to rumours of his antisemitism, his following of die-hard supporters see President Solzhenitsyn as the first true saviour of Holy Russia since the days of the Tsars.

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• Cultural Posturing: Solzhenitsyn believes the Russian culture as superior than all others, though he's not quite a fascist, his regime is focused on bettering the life of Russians first.
• Good Old Ways: Solzhenitsyn's regime is ardently Russian traditionalist, bringing many things back to how they were when the tsars were in power.
• Occupiers Out of Our Country: Solzhenitsyn is a Russian nationalist, and has a great distaste for the west. If he takes control, he will distance the country from America and the Toronto Accord.

Vladimir Nabokov

Role: President^note Country Leader (Cincinnatus Rogozhin, Elections)

Party: Konstitusionno-Demokraticheskaya Partiya^note Constitutional-Democratic Party

Ideology: Classical Liberalism^note Liberalism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Vladimir Nabokov was born in 1899 to a wealthy family of Russian nobles. A predominantly liberal household, his father had been a powerful lea of the Russian Empire's Kadet party. Nabokov's childhood had been an extremely pampered one, spending much of his youth in the family estate. Forced to flee Russia when the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, Nabokov and his family took their wealth and fled to Berlin. Traumatized by his father's murder at the hands of Russian monarchists in 1922, the young Nabokov took to writing, becoming a renowned poet and author within the Russian emigre community. Having married a young Russian-Jewish woman, they fled to the United States in 1936 as Nazi antisemitic rhetoric became increasingly violent. Settling in the United States, Nabokov was delighted to hear the news of America's Siberian intervention and was one of the first prominent emigres to return Russia. Following in his father's footsteps, Nabokov helped re-establish the old Constitutional Democratic Party with Vasily Maklakov. Leading the party in the wake of Maklakov's retirement, the hearts of the Russian people now rest beneath the stroke of the president's pen.

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• The Alliance: Nabokov is the only leader who always pursues full integration of the Russian Republic into the Toronto Accords.
• Allohistorical Allusion: Just like in OTL, Nabokov is a firm believer in classical liberalism and seeks to push classical liberal policies in the republic.

Pitirim Sorokin

Role: President^note Country Leader (Cincinnatus Rogozhin, Elections)

Party: Partiya Sotsialistov-Revolyutsionerov^note Socialist-Revolutionary Party

Ideology: Liberal Socialism^note Social Democracy

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}The life of Pitrim Sorokin is one of great tragedy. Born in 1889 to a family of traveling salesmen in a small Russian village, his childhood was wrought with trouble ouble regarding his alcoholic father. Fleeing his abusive household alongside his brother at the age of eleven, the two moved to Saint Petersburg University and gradually made a name for themselves as artisans. Sorokin would go on to study criminology at Saint Petersburg University, working as a professor. Joining the Socialist-Revolutionary Party when the Tsar abdicated, Sorokin became a close confidant Alexander Kerensky and the Provisional Government. Moving to the United States after the Russian Civil War, he continued work as a professor until the re-establishment of the Russian Republic. Joining the restored SRS alongside his old colleagues, the thought of leading the Republic's strongest party following the unexpected deaths of Alexander Kerensky and Viktor Chernov had caught him off-guard. While it is a heavy mantle to carry, the leadership of the beloved "Kerenskyites" is one that Sorokin now flaunts with the grace and cunning of a modern statesman.

Pitirim Sorokin is a prominent member of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party who takes the role of leadership after the untimely death of Vitkor Chernov.

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• Taking Up the Mantle: Sorokin became the leader of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party following Chernov's death, and will seek to fulfill the dreams of President Kerensky should he be elected as President.
• You Are in Command Now: Sorokin only becomes leader of the SRs due to Chernov's untimely death. He's initially caught off-guard with the responsibility, but soon adjusts to it with ease.

Buryatia

Buryat Military Okrug

Official Name: Buryat Military Okrug

Ruling Party: Buryatskiy Voyennyy Okrug^note Buryatia Military Council

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Paternal Autocracy

The Russian Republic's military district in the Buryatia region. The region is rife with insurgents and terrorists from the Russian Fascist Party and socialists under the revived Socialist Revolutionary Combat Organizations.

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• Authority in Name Only: The Buryat Military Okrug has a very weak grasp on the region, as the far-left and far-right rebel groups stretch the local military forces to their breaking point.
• But Thou Must!: To continue any further as them, the player has to decide whether to get rid of the Fascists or the Communists first. Whoever they didn't take care of, will be fought in the civil war.
• Civil War: The insurgents Buryatia did not focused on will rise up against it, taking the form of a civil war.
• The Famine: Much like Norilsk, Buryatia is also suffering under the Central Russian Famine due to lack of resources and inefficient governing.

Alexey Baksheev

Role: Country Leader

Party: Buryatskiy Voyennyy Okrug^note Buryatia Military Council

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Paternal Autocrat

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Alexey Baksheev is not the kind of person one would expect to run anything in his old age, let alone a disastrously unstable state such as Buryatia. Born in 1873, Baksheev was raised in a Trans-Baikal Cossack host where he quickly enrolled in military school. A seasoned veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, the Great War and the Russian Civil War, Baksheev fled with his cossack battalion to Manchuria when the Bolsheviks won the civil war. A political figure amongst cossack emigres in Manchuria, he cooperated with the imperial Japanese forces in the hopes of liberating his homeland from communism. When the Japanese Empire collapsed in the wake of American military campaigns, Baksheev fled to the newly-formed Russian Republic, being assigned as governor of Buryatia. Turning Buryatia into his personal fiefdom, Baksheev's authority disappeared as radical socialist paramilitaries fight the now-resurgent Russian Fascist Party in the streets. As his forces become stretched to their breaking point, the days remaining for Buryatia's old marshal are much shorter than he might believe.

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• Enemy Mine: He cooperated with the Japanese and took refuge in Manchuria after Russia fell to communism.
• Old Soldier: Baksheev is a veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, the Great War and the Russian Civil War.

Russian Fascist Party

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Official Name: Russian Fascist Party, Russian National State (Regional unification)

Ruling Party: Rossiyskaya Fashistskaya Partiya - Rodzaevskisty^note Russian Fascist Party - Rodzaevskyists

Ideology: Ultranationalism^note National Socialism

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• Les Collaborateurs: Much of the RFP's military is composed of veterans from the Asano Brigade, who were trained by Japan in Manchukuo during WWII.
• Fascists' Bed Time: After conquering the Republic, the RFP reintroduces curfews to crack down on dissent.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Anti-Semitism is an integral component of the RFP's ideology. Rodzaevsky himself is an especially ruthless anti-Semite, who eventually openly calls for the total destruction of Jewish life and culture in Russia. The RFP's blackshirts also casually assault other Russian minorities during their pogroms, though not as viciously as their attacks on Jews.
• The Pardon: The RFP will reintegrate monarchist generals after its victory, finding common ground in their mutual opposition to the Russian Republic.
• The Purge: The RFP will launch a mass purge against socialists after conquering Perm and reunifying Russia.
• State Sec: The RFP's paramilitary is called the blackshirts, though Rozaevsky's lackey Alexander Bolotov leads a special security division called the "Special Division", acting as the personal attack dogs for Vozhd Rodzaevsky.

Konstantin Rodzaevsky

Role: Vozhd^note Country Leader

Party: Rossiyskaya Fashistskaya Partiya - Rodzaevskisty^note Russian Fascist Party - Rodzaevskyists

Ideology: Ultranationalism^note National Socialism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}The Terror of the East, Konstantin Vladimirovich Rodzaevsky, was born on August 11th 1907, to a family of middle class Siberians in the city of Blagoveshchensk. Fleeing from the Soviet Union in 1925, his family moved across the border into the land of Chinese warlords, and settled in Harbin. This flight would have a lasting effect on Rodzaevsky, as he would develop a life-long hatred of socialism and the USSR as a result of his flight. He found himself a member of the Emigre Russian Fascist Party, rising to become the party's secretary by 31, and the leader of the entire Russian fascist movement by 1934. Along with Anastasy Vonsyatsky and Mikhail Matkovsky, Rodzaevsky would spend the 30s and World War Two continuing to grow the RFP.

However, when the Union collapsed, Rodzaevsky saw a chance to achieve the RF Ps long awaited revolution, so he and his followers crossed into Siberia, intent on establishing a fascist state. However the Americans beat them too it, setting up a Republican government in Vladivostok under Kerensky. Rodzaevsky and the RFP then began an insurgency in the republic, attempting to expel the Amero-Judaic forces from the area. Rodzaevsky was even supposedly killed in 1949, only narrowing escaping death to continue the insurgency. Following a period of decreased activity, Rodzevsky resumed the Buryatian insurgency in 1951, rapidly making Buryatia into a war zone again. However since his supposed death, the RFP has been biding its time, waiting to once again truly rise up with all its available might in an attempt to establish their long envisioned Fascist Russian utopia, and Rodzaevsky will lead them to it.

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• Beard of Evil: Rodzaevsky, who is easily the most violent leader in Russia outside of the Kazan extremists, has a huge beard in his portrait. He had a beard in real life, but it's nowhere near as big as the one photoshopped onto his portrait.
• Corrupt Church: Rodzaevsky appoints an RFP-friendly Patriarch to serve as their religious mouthpiece, spreading the RFP's self-righteous and hateful version of Orthodox Christianity.
• Corrupt Politician: Rodzaevsky tolerates the criminal underworld, as long as the RFP gets to profit from the criminal activities.
• Cult of Personality: After restructuring his country along the lines of Nazi Germany, Rodzaevsky creates a Hitler-styled cult of personality for himself.
• The Dreaded: He is called by titles such as The Madman of the Amur or The Terror of the East.
• Final Solution: Soon after coming to power, Rodzaevsky embraces a-semitism as formulated by the Hungarian Arrow Cross Party^note A particularly extremist version of antisemitism (yes, really) that calls for a society completely absent of Jews, and lets loose the RFP's paramilitaries in a violent pogrom.
• Prisoner's Work: Rodzaevsky introduces prison labor to political prisoners, and tells them that they will be set free if they work for the country for a few years, even though he has no intention of actually setting the "undesirables" free.
• The Purge: If Rodzaevsky maintains control over the RFP after the First Congress of the Russian Fascist Party, he will eventually purge the Matkovsky group in a covert operation to totally snuff out dissent.
• The Quisling: Rodzaevsky is openly pro-German, and advocates for the creation of a National Socialist "White International" with the Reich, united in their opposition of Judeo-Bolshevism.
• Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: The Russian Republic believed that they killed Rodzaevsky during a joint Russian-American Anti-Fascist Pacification Campaign in the 1940s. However, Rodzaevsky didn't actually die, and can even have a comeback and retake Buryatia.
• Sigil Spam: Rodzaevsky prominently uses the Swastika to represent the Russian Fascist Party, and one of his later focuses spams the symbol across Russian buildings and households to remind people of Russian fascism.

Mikhail Matkovsky

Role: Vozhd^note Country Leader (Coup)

Party: Rossiyskaya Fashistskaya Partiya - Gruppa Matkovskogo^note Russian Fascist Party - Matkovsky Group, Obshcherossiyskaya Fashistskaya Front^note All-Russian Fascist Front (Merger with Vonsiatsky's Russian Fascist Organization)

Ideology: Clerical Fascism^note Fascism

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• A Lighter Shade of Black: Matkovsky remains a dictatorial fascist and an anti-Semite despite his pragmatism. However, he is not as oppressive or bloodthirsty as Rodzaevsky, and he doesn't turn a blind eye to Germany's brutal colonization of Russia, and will go to war with them to liberate the Russians. He also cracks down on organized crime in Vladivostok, unlike Rodzaevsky who lets them be.
• The Coup: If Matkovsky's Group gains the upper hand in the First Congress of the Russian Fascist Party, he will eventually assassinate Bolotov and coup Rodzaevsky.
• Internal Reformist: Matkovsky reforms the blackshirts from a band of thugs into an anti-criminal force, working to maintain stability instead of causing instability themselves.
• Meaningful Rename: After Matkovsky coups Rodzaevsky, he merges the RFP with the Russian Fascist Organization led by Anastasy Vonsiatsky, and renames the party to All-Russian Fascist Front. This signals a new start for the party under Matkovsky, severing its connection with the madman Rodzaevsky.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Matkovsky adopts a pragmatic outlook to fascism, and is willing to compromise with other interest groups in order to create a more efficient Russia. This includes creating autonomous republics for minorities, and allowing some concessions to Jewish activities.

Socialist Republic of Buryatia

Official Name: Socialist Republic of Buryatia, Russian Socialist Federative Republic (Regional unification)

Ruling Party: Boyevaya Organizatsiya Sotsialistov Revolyutsionerov - Agrarnoye Krylo^note Socialist Revolutionary Combat Organization - Agrarian Wing

Ideology: Agrarian Socialism^note Socialism

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• People's Republic of Tyranny: Depending on its path, the Socialist Republic will at best become an authoritarian democracy despite its claims of fighting for liberty and democracy in Russia.
• Pet the Dog: Wether the government is a very flawed democracy or a dictatorship, it will fight against racism against non-Russians, promote equality for all and grant autonomy to minorities.
• Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: From their own point of view, the SRs are freedom fighters for a free and democratic Russia. To the Russian Republic, they are dangerous insurgents who need to be put down.

Varlam Shalamov

Role: Country Leader

Party: Boyevaya Organizatsiya Sotsialistov Revolyutsionerov - Agrarnoye Krylo^note Socialist Revolutionary Combat Organization - Agrarian Wing, Boyevaya Organizatsiya Sotsialistov Revolyutsionerov - Trotskistskoye Krylo^note Socialist Revolutionary Combat Organization - Troskyist Wing (Trotsyists in control), Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskovo Soyuza - Tsentr^note Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Centre (Trotsyists in control, Formalize The Communist Party)

Ideology: Agrarian Socialism^note Socialism, Trotskyism^note Revolutionary Communism (Trotsyists in control)

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Varlam Shalamov was born on June 18th, 1907, to a family of educators and priests. His father, an Orthodox priest, had even spent a decade before the birth of Varlam as a missionary in Alaska with Varlam's older brother. Gaining a a love of poetry and education from his mother early in life, Varlam would attend one of one of the Empire's e's best schools starting in 1914. However World War One greatly affected Varlam's life, as his brother would die, and a new radical political thought would take over Russia: Bolshevism. Dismissed from school due to his father's role as priest, Varlam worked as tanner before entering Soviet law school instead, and becoming a student of literature. He particularly would come to to enjoy Dostoevsky, Pasternak, Pushkin, and even a well known SR, Boris Savinkov. But primarily he became acquainted with the writings of Leon Trotsky, who he came to see as the legitimate leader of Bolshevism, not Joseph Stalin. However, his connection to Trotskyists would lead to repeated arrests in life and detentions, at the hands of Stalin's ruthless NKVD.

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.

Vailam Shalamov is a former Soviet dissident and now presently leader of the militant Socialist-Revolutionary Party in the Buryatia, who have taken arms against both the RFP and the Republican government in Vladivostok.

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• Bait-and-Switch Tyrant: In the path where he keeps power, Shalamov will become a despotic leader, the very thing he claims to fight against.
• Benevolent Dictator: If Shalamov holds on to power, he will style his rule as an enlightened dictatorship.
• Pet the Dog: Trotskyist Shalamov can choose to be tolerant towards religion instead of attempting to simply crush it.
• Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman: Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov was a Russian writer and Gulag survivor known for his support to Leon Trotsky. In Thousand-Week Reich, he was released early from the Gulags and settled in Ulan-Ude, where he and some associates reformed a militarized Socialist-Revolutionary Party to fight against the RFP insurgency and what they perceive as Republican terror.
• Secret Police: A Trotskyist Shalamov will refound the OGPU.
• Story Branching: Depending on the player's choices, Shalamov can rule either as a Trotskyist revolutionary, a neo-Savinkovist militarized socialist, or reject dictatorship and transition into democratic socialism.

Andrei Sinyavsky

Role: President^note Country Leader (Civilian rule restored)

Party: Boyevaya Organizatsiya Sotsialistov Revolyutsionerov - Agrarnoye Krylo^note Socialist Revolutionary Combat Organization - Agrarian Wing

Ideology: Agrarian Socialism^note Socialism

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• A Lighter Shade of Grey: Sinyavsky's is much more democratic than if Shalamov remains in power, however this fledgling democracy only allows parties belonging to the SR's united front to participate.

Turkestan

Independent State of Turkmenistan

Official Name: Independent State of Turkmenistan

Ruling Party: TLW

Ideology: Falangism^note Fascism

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

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• Les Collaborateurs: The Independent State was founded by German collaborators from the Turkestan Legion.

Veil Kayyum Khan

Role: Country Leader

Party: TLW

Ideology: Falangism^note Fascism

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Commissariat of Uzbekistan

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Official Name: Commissariat of Uzbekistan, Turkistan Soviet Federative Republic (Kazakh Military Okrug puppet state)

Ruling Party: OKM

Ideology: Pragmatic Socialism^note Paternal Autocracy

An independent Uzbek state ruled by ex-Soviet generals. They are ideologically aligned with Vlasov's Kazakh Military Okrug to the Northeast.

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Shahmurad Olimov

Role: Country Leader

Party: OKM

Ideology: Pragmatic Socialism^note Paternal Autocracy

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• Just the First Citizen: Much of Olimov's legitimacy comes from his personal prestige as the son of the last Emir of Bukhara, and he is informally known as the Red Emir. Despite this, Olimov rejects both monarchism and monarchic titles, and instead rules nominally as a Soviet-style official.

Turkestan

Official Name: Unitary Turkestani State

Ruling Party: PWP

Ideology: Warlordist Autocracy^note Paternal Autocracy

The remnants of the State of Turkestan, a pan-Turkic state that once ruled most of Central Asia following the collapse of the Soviet authority in the region. After Turkestan's collapse, the rump state is currently held together by a loose coalition of pan-Turkics, Islamists, and Russian supremacist National Bolsheviks.

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• Vestigial Empire: It used to control the entire Turkestan region before it experienced a collpase of its own and is now reduced to a rump state.

Taimbet Komekbaev

Role: Country Leader

Party: PWP

Ideology: Warlordist Autocracy^note Paternal Autocracy

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Tajikistan

Official Name: Tajikistani National State

Ruling Party: TBHH

Ideology: Reactionary Nationalism^note Paternal Autocracy

A puppet state of Turkestan containing significant numbers of underground Socialist rebels.

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• Puppet State: Of Turkestan.

Baymirza Hayit

Role: Country Leader

Party: TBHH

Ideology: Reactionary Nationalism^note Paternal Autocracy

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Turkestan Liberation Army

Official Name: Turkestan Liberation Army

Ruling Party:

Ideology: ^note Paternal Autocracy

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Role: Country Leader

Party:

Ideology: ^note Paternal Autocracy

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Turkmen Socialist Republic

Official Name: Turkmen Socialist Republic

Ruling Party: TKP-I

Ideology: National Communism^note Marxism-Leninism

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• The Remnant: The Turkmen Socialist Republic is the last central asian state trying to preserve socialist rule.

Saja Batyrow

Role: Country Leader

Party: TKP-I

Ideology: National Communism^note Marxism-Leninism

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Turkestan Soviet Socialist Republic

Official Name: Turkestan Soviet Socialist Republic

Ruling Party: TKP-SF

Ideology: Warlordist Autocracy^note Paternal Autocracy

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Sharof Rashidov

Role: Country Leader

Party: TKP-SF

Ideology: Warlordist Autocracy^note Paternal Autocracy

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• Not in This for Your Revolution: While keeping the appearances of an SSR, Rashidov is actually a warlord with no care for ideology.

Emirate of Bukhara

Official Name: Emirate of Bukhara

Ruling Party: Mladobukharans

Ideology: Monarchism^note Paternal Autocracy

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• Back from the Brink: The Emirate had been abolished by the Soviets, but with their collapse it is back on the map.

Shahmurad Khan

Role: Monarch^note Country Leader

Party: Mladobukharans

Ideology: Monarchism^note Paternal Autocracy

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Shahmurad Khan, or Shahmurad Olimov born sometime around 1910 in Bukhara, is a symbol of both the end and beginning of Uzbek independence in Turkestan. The son of the last Emir of Bukhara, Olimov grew up during the Russian Civil War, in which his father's throne and nation were subsumed into the USSR. Shahmurad made the most of this however, and he denounced his father in order to progress through the Soviet system unlike his brothers, whose refusal to do so led to their deaths. Olimov would serve in the Red Army during the German-Soviet War, even losing a leg in the desperate fight against fascism. Olimov was sent home and retired from military life, but he soon found himself wedged in a repidly changing political climate.

Following he defeat of the Soviet Union and the subsequent, a group of "Young Bukharans" proclaimed the formation of a modern, moderate Emirate of Bukhara and nominated Olimov as the Emir. Since then, the "Warrior-Emir" has determined that this unusual restoration is his best way to defent the local peoples from the injustice of fascism and tyranny from the North.

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• An Arm and a Leg: Shahmurad Khan lost a leg during the German-Soviet War.
• Rightful King Returns: Shahmurad Khan is the son of the last Emir of Bukhara.
• Warrior Prince: He is known as the Warrior-Emir for his participation in the German-Soviet War.

Turkestan Republic

Official Name: Turkestan Republic

Ruling Party: Jadidists

Ideology: Authoritarian Democracy^note Paternal Autocracy

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Eshon Boboxon ibn Abdulmajidxon

Role: Country Leader

Party: Jadidists

Ideology: Authoritarian Democracy^note Paternal Autocracy

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• Overly Long Name: Boboxon's full name is Eshon Boboxon ibn Abdulmajidxon

Formables

Soviet Socialist Republic of Aralsk

Official Name: Soviet Socialist Republic of Aralsk

Ruling Party: Liga Kommunistov^note League of Communists

Ideology: Marxism-Leninism

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Antanas Sniečkus

Role: Country Leader

Party: Liga Kommunistov^note League of Communists

Ideology: Marxism-Leninism

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Liberated German Socialist Republic

Official Name: Liberated German Socialist Republic

Ruling Party: Sovetsko-Germanskaya Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Solidarnosti^note Soviet-German Communist Solidarity Party

Ideology: Stalinism^note Marxism-Leninism

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Yakov Dzhugashvili

Role: Country Leader

Party: Sovetsko-Germanskaya Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Solidarnosti^note Soviet-German Communist Solidarity Party

Ideology: Stalinism^note Marxism-Leninism

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Alfred Kurella

Role: Country Leader (Local Government)

Party: Kommunistische Einheitspartei Wolga-Deutschland^note Communist Unity Party of Volga-Germany

Ideology: Marxism-Leninism

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Russian Autonomous Republic

Official Name: Russian Autonomous Republic

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• Les Collaborateurs: The Russian Autonomous Republic is a rump Russian state set up by the Nazis.

Vladimir Ilyin

Role: Country Leader

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• The Quisling: 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.

German-Formed Ural

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Official Name: Reichskommissariat Oral^note Reich Commissariat of the Ural (Nazi Germany puppet state), Ordensstaat Oral^note Order-State of the Ural (SS puppet state)

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Dietrich Klagges

Role: Reichskommissar^note Country Leader (Nazi Germany puppet state)

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Ernest Damzog

Role: Country Leader (SS puppet state)

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German-Formed Turkestan

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Official Name: Reichskommissariat Turkistan^note Reich Commissariat of Turkestan (Nazi Germany puppet state), Ordensstaat Turkestan^note Order-State of Turkestan (SS puppet state)

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Gustav Simon

Role: Reichskommissar^note Country Leader (Nazi Germany puppet state)

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Erwin Schulz

Role: Country Leader (SS puppet state)

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German-Formed Siberia

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Official Name: Reichskommissariat Sibirien^note Reich Commissariat of Siberia (Nazi Germany puppet state), Ordensstaat Sibirien^note Order-State of Siberia (SS puppet state)

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Karl Weinrich

Role: Reichskommissar^note Country Leader (Nazi Germany puppet state)

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August Heissmeyer

Role: Country Leader (SS puppet state)

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German-Formed Far East

Flag of the Far Eastern Confederation

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Official Name: Far Eastern Confederation (Nazi Germany puppet state), Ordensstaat Fernost^note Order-State of the Far East (SS puppet state)

Nazi Germany's commissioner government in the Russian Far East.

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

Heinz Hitler

Role: Country Leader (SS puppet state)

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