History Characters / TNOKomi

!![[center: [- [[Characters/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope Main Character Index]] -]]][[center: [- '''Superpowers:''' [[Characters/TNOGermany Großgermanisches Reich]] ([[Characters/TNOSpeer Speer's Germany]] | [[Characters/TNOBormann Bormann's Germany]] | [[Characters/TNOHeydrich Heydrich's Germany]]) | [[Characters/{{TNOUSA}} The United States of America]] ([[Characters/TNOSixtiesUSAPresidents 1964-1968 American Presidents]] | [[Characters/TNO1972USAPresidents 1972 American Presidents]]) | [[Characters/TNOJapan Dai-Nippon Teikoku]]-]]] [[center: [- '''Major Powers:''' [[Characters/TNOItaly Regno d'Italia]] | [[Characters/TNOIberianUnion Iberian Union]] | [[Characters/TNOTurkey Republic of Turkey]] | [[Characters/TNOBurgundy Ordensstaat Burgund]]-]]] [[center: [-'''Other Countries By Region:'''-]]] [[center: [- '''Africa:''' [[Characters/TNOAfrica Northern & East Africa]] | [[Characters/TNOWestAfrica West Africa]] | [[Characters/TNOSouthernAfrica Southern Africa]] | [[Characters/TNOPostColonialCentralAfrica Post-Colonial Central Africa]]-]]] [[center: [- '''Asia:''' [[Characters/TNOAsia Mainland China & Oceania]] ([[Characters/TNOGuangdong State of Guangdong]] | [[Characters/TNOSixtiesGuangdongChiefExecutives 1964-1972 Guangdong Chief Executives]] | [[Characters/TNOGuangdongFlavorCharacters Guangdong Flavor Characters]]) | [[Characters/TNOSoutheastAsia Southeast Asia]] ([[Characters/TNOIndonesia Republic of Indonesia]]) | [[Characters/TNOSouthAsia South Asia]] | [[Characters/TNOMiddleEast Middle East]] | [[Characters/TNOCentralAsia Central Asia]]-]]] [[center: [- '''Europe:''' [[Characters/TNOEurope Northern & Western Europe]] ([[Characters/TNOBritain British Isles]] | [[Characters/TNOFrance French State]]) | [[Characters/TNOSouthernEurope Southern Europe]] | [[Characters/TNOEasternEurope Eastern Europe]] ([[Characters/TNOUkraine Reichskommissariat Ukraine]] | [[Characters/TNOMoskowien Reichskommissariat Moskowien]])-]]] [[center: [- '''Americas:''' [[Characters/TNOAmerica North America]] | [[Characters/TNOSouthAmerica South America]] ([[Characters/TNOBrazil United States of Brazil]] | [[Characters/TNOArgentina Argentine Republic]] | [[Characters/TNOUruguay Oriental Republic of Uruguay]])-]]] [[center: [- '''The Russian Anarchy:''' [[Characters/TNORussia West Russia]] ([[Characters/{{TNOWRRF}} West Russian Revolutionary Front]] | '''Komi Republic''' | [[Characters/TNOKomiCommunist Communist Party of Komi]] | [[Characters/TNOKomiPassionariyy Passionariyy Organization]] | [[Characters/TNOTaboritsky Taboritsky's Russia]]) | [[Characters/TNOSouthernUrals Southern Urals]] | [[Characters/TNOWesternSiberia Western Siberia]] | [[Characters/TNOCentralSiberia Central Siberia]] ([[Characters/TNOSiberianBlackArmy Siberian Black Army]]) | [[Characters/TNOFarEast The Far East]] ([[Characters/TNOHarbinThree Harbin Three]]) | [[Characters/TNOAfterMidnight After Midnight]]-]]] [[center: [- '''Miscellaneous:''' [[Characters/TNOAntarctica Antarctica]] | [[Characters/TNOMisc Miscellaneous Content]] | [[Characters/TNONonCanon Non-Canon Content]]]]-]

!![[center: [- [[Characters/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope Main Character Index]] -]]][[center: [- '''Superpowers:''' [[Characters/TNOGermany Großgermanisches Reich]] ([[Characters/TNOSpeer Speer's Germany]] | [[Characters/TNOBormann Bormann's Germany]] | [[Characters/TNOHeydrich Heydrich's Germany]]) | [[Characters/{{TNOUSA}} The United States of America]] ([[Characters/TNOSixtiesUSAPresidents 1964-1968 American Presidents]] | [[Characters/TNO1972USAPresidents 1972 American Presidents]]) | [[Characters/TNOJapan Dai-Nippon Teikoku]]-]]] [[center: [- '''Major Powers:''' [[Characters/TNOItaly Regno d'Italia]] | [[Characters/TNOIberianUnion Iberian Union]] | [[Characters/TNOTurkey Republic of Turkey]] | [[Characters/TNOBurgundy Ordensstaat Burgund]]-]]] [[center: [-'''Other Countries By Region:'''-]]] [[center: [- '''Africa:''' [[Characters/TNOAfrica Northern & East Africa]] | [[Characters/TNOWestAfrica West Africa]] | [[Characters/TNOSouthernAfrica Southern Africa]] | [[Characters/TNOPostColonialCentralAfrica Post-Colonial Central Africa]]-]]] [[center: [- '''Asia:''' [[Characters/TNOAsia Mainland China & Oceania]] ([[Characters/TNOGuangdong State of Guangdong]] | [[Characters/TNOSixtiesGuangdongChiefExecutives 1964-1972 Guangdong Chief Executives]] | [[Characters/TNOGuangdongFlavorCharacters Guangdong Flavor Characters]]) | [[Characters/TNOSoutheastAsia Southeast Asia]] ([[Characters/TNOIndonesia Republic of Indonesia]]) | [[Characters/TNOSouthAsia South Asia]] | [[Characters/TNOMiddleEast Middle East]] | [[Characters/TNOCentralAsia Central Asia]]-]]] [[center: [- '''Europe:''' [[Characters/TNOEurope Northern & Western Europe]] ([[Characters/TNOBritain British Isles]] | [[Characters/TNOFrance French State]]) | [[Characters/TNOSouthernEurope Southern Europe]] | [[Characters/TNOEasternEurope Eastern Europe]] ([[Characters/TNOUkraine Reichskommissariat Ukraine]] | [[Characters/TNOMoskowien Reichskommissariat Moskowien]])-]]] [[center: [- '''Americas:''' [[Characters/TNOAmerica North America]] | [[Characters/TNOSouthAmerica South America]] ([[Characters/TNOBrazil United States of Brazil]] | [[Characters/TNOArgentina Argentine Republic]] | [[Characters/TNOUruguay Oriental Republic of Uruguay]])-]]] [[center: [- '''The Russian Anarchy:''' [[Characters/TNORussia West Russia]] ([[Characters/{{TNOWRRF}} West Russian Revolutionary Front]] | '''Komi Republic''' | [[Characters/TNOKomiCommunist Communist Party of Komi]] | [[Characters/TNOKomiPassionariyy Passionariyy Organization]] | [[Characters/TNOTaboritsky Taboritsky's Russia]]) | [[Characters/TNOSouthernUrals Southern Urals]] | [[Characters/TNOWesternSiberia Western Siberia]] | [[Characters/TNOCentralSiberia Central Siberia]] ([[Characters/TNOSiberianBlackArmy Siberian Black Army]]) | [[Characters/TNOFarEast The Far East]] ([[Characters/TNOHarbinThree Harbin Three]]) | [[Characters/TNOAfterMidnight After Midnight]] ([[Characters/TNOAfterMidnightWest After Midnight Western Russia]] | [[Characters/TNOAfterMidnightEast After Midnight Eastern Russia]])-]]] [[center: [- '''Miscellaneous:''' [[Characters/TNOAntarctica Antarctica]] | [[Characters/TNOMisc Miscellaneous Content]] | [[Characters/TNONonCanon Non-Canon Content]]]]-]

->'''Official Name:'''
--> '''Centrists:''' Komi Republic, Western Russian Republic (regional unification), Russian Republic (superregional unification)
---> [[spoiler:'''Stalina (Despotic):''' Western Russian Reconstruction Government (regional), Russian Reconstruction Authority (national)]]
--> '''Communists:''' Komi Soviet Republic
---> '''Suslov/Bukharina:''' Soviet Republic of Western Russia (regional), Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (superregional)
---> '''Zhdanov:''' Soviet Federation of Western Russia (regional), Federation of Soviet Socialist Republics (superregional)
--> '''Passionariyy:''' Provisional Government of the Russian State
---> '''Gumilyov:''' Central Eurasian Provisional Authority (regional), State of Eurasia (superregional)
---> '''Shafarevich:''' Western Russian Republic (regional), Russian Republic (superregional)
---> '''Serov:''' Western Russian Soviet Republic (regional), Russian National Soviet Republic (superregional)
---> '''Taboritsky:''' Imperial Regency of Western Russia (regional), Holy Russian Empire (superregional)

!![[center: [- [[Characters/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope Main Character Index]] -]]][[center: [- '''Superpowers:''' [[Characters/TNOGermany Großgermanisches Reich]] ([[Characters/TNOHeydrich Heydrich's Germany]]) | [[Characters/{{TNOUSA}} The United States of America]] ([[Characters/TNOSixtiesUSAPresidents 1964-1968 American Presidents]]) | [[Characters/TNOJapan Dai-Nippon Teikoku]]-]]] [[center: [- '''Major Powers:''' [[Characters/TNOItaly Regno d'Italia]] | [[Characters/TNOIberianUnion Iberian Union]] | [[Characters/TNOTurkey Republic of Turkey]] | [[Characters/TNOBurgundy Ordensstaat Burgund]]-]]] [[center: [-'''Other Countries By Region:'''-]]] [[center: [- '''Africa:''' [[Characters/TNOAfrica Northern & East Africa]] | [[Characters/TNOWestAfrica West Africa]] | [[Characters/TNOSouthernAfrica Southern Africa]] | [[Characters/TNOPostColonialCentralAfrica Post-Colonial Central Africa]]-]]] [[center: [- '''Asia:''' [[Characters/TNOAsia Mainland China & Oceania]] ([[Characters/TNOGuangdong State of Guangdong]] | [[Characters/TNOSixtiesGuangdongChiefExecutives 1964-1972 Guangdong Chief Executives]]) | [[Characters/TNOSoutheastAsia Southeast Asia]] ([[Characters/TNOIndonesia Republic of Indonesia]]) | [[Characters/TNOSouthAsia South Asia]] | [[Characters/TNOMiddleEast Middle East]] | [[Characters/TNOCentralAsia Central Asia]]-]]] [[center: [- '''Europe:''' [[Characters/TNOEurope Northern & Western Europe]] ([[Characters/TNOBritain British Isles]] | [[Characters/TNOFrance French State]]) | [[Characters/TNOSouthernEurope Southern Europe]] | [[Characters/TNOEasternEurope Eastern Europe]] ([[Characters/TNOMoskowien Reichskommissariat Moskowien]])-]]] [[center: [- '''Americas:''' [[Characters/TNOAmerica North America]] | [[Characters/TNOSouthAmerica South America]] ([[Characters/TNOBrazil United States of Brazil]] | [[Characters/TNOArgentina Argentine Republic]])-]]] [[center: [- '''The Russian Anarchy:''' [[Characters/TNORussia West Russia]] ('''Komi Republic''' | [[Characters/TNOTaboritsky Taboritsky's Russia]]) | [[Characters/TNOSouthernUrals Southern Urals]] | [[Characters/TNOWesternSiberia Western Siberia]] | [[Characters/TNOCentralSiberia Central Siberia]] | [[Characters/TNOFarEast The Far East]] | [[Characters/TNOAfterMidnight After Midnight]]-]]] [[center: [- '''Miscellaneous:''' [[Characters/TNOAntarctica Antarctica]] | [[Characters/TNOMisc Miscellaneous Content]] | [[Characters/TNONonCanon Non-Canon Content]]]]-]

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[[folder:General Tropes]]
* AllForNothing: Tasked by Suslov to stabilize the ruble's viable by setting it to the gold standard, an individual economist wonders to himself if all his hard work will ultimately be rendered null when the Soviet industry becomes more organized and money can finally be abolished, but he pushes these thoughts aside, believing that this dream will become a reality one day.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Some [[spoiler:Ultravisionary scientists come up with extremely odd proposals for new inventions, such as an "ape-man" supersoldier or a species of regenerating cattle. As impressive as they sound, the person going through the proposals knows that such concepts will never happen and puts them in the discard pile.]]
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: The communists reform the Red Army by studying past strategies used during past conflicts like the Second World War or the reunification wars, learning from history to repeat successes and avoid certain blunders.
* CondescendingCompassion: If Zhdanov takes power and reunifies West Russia, he opens the newly formed Soviet Union to the outside world and welcomes socialist delegates from all around the world. However, they are unable to represent every country in their meeting, so they cast Russians in their role and portray how they would likely act. Though they mean well, one American visitor lampshades the troubling implications of their act, especially when they're representing groups like the "oppressed African peoples".
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Suslov offers a milquetoast proclamation of social equality, a woman proclaims this as a victory, but her feminist friends chastises her for celebrating so soon, pointing out how it doesn't address the core issues creating gender equality in the first place. As her friend leaves, the woman wonders to herself why she's so upset.
* EffectiveKnockOff: The military will blatantly copy the design of the established AK-47 to produce their own standard battle rifles for the Red Army, mirroring their efficiency.
* EnemyMine: Despite the fact that they hate each other, the communists can cooperate with the Center to neutralize the Passionariyy, if either Andropov or Zhdanov was elected in 1963.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Dmitry Shepilov, Zhdanov's economic minister, is unnerved [[spoiler:by the insanity of the visionaries' projects and experiments, being one of the few men to voice such criticism to Zhdanov's face.]]
* HesBack: When Suslov restores the education system, a student returns home to tell his drunk uncle about how he's learning about Vladimir Lenin. The uncle, traumatized since the horrors of World War II, is reinvigorated for the first time in years, having idolized Lenin as the last hope for Russia.
* InsaneTrollLogic: While Suslov is recruiting Khrushchevites from West Siberia, the interviewer questions one of the applicants why he was found with drunkards and women. He responds that it's how he can know the people he's representing, which doesn't impress the interviewer.
* KangarooCourt: If the KPK takes over Komi, they will conduct rigged trials against "counter-revolutionaries" that inevitably ends with their executions. Among those killed are Elena and Yevgeny.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: If the KPK candidate was elected in 1963, they may declare the Passionariyy to be unconstitutional and outlawed, a much harsher action than just shutting them out of the National Assembly electorally, but no less deserved.
* NecessarilyEvil: Should the KPK get elected into power from the 1963 election, they will pass the Popular Apportionment Act to allow the President to dissolve the Assembly to prepare for future elections, as well as redraw election districts so the KPK can always maintain a plurality. This gets frequently criticized as an undemocratic move, but the President justifies it as a necessary move to take power away from the bourgeoisie and return it to the workers.
* NeverRecycleABuilding: {{Subverted}}. All three potential leaders will reopen the previously defunct Kazan Military Academy, now intended to train new Red Army officers rather than provide a secondary, military-focused education.
* NewTechnologyIsEvil: When Bukharina hands out industrial farming equipment to the peasants, one individual becomes annoyed by their presence for ruining one of his grilled cutlets and refuses to use them himself out of principle.
* OnlySaneMan: One of the more [[spoiler:rational members of Zhdanov's cabinet is Yekaterina Furtseva, who focuses on revolutionary social reform rather than the more unrealistic prospect of conquering space.]]
* OpinionFlipFlop: In Suslov's route, a group of bureaucrats go to a tea shop and order drinks, but their opinion of it always changes to whoever speaks up. At one point, one could call the tea "quite good" and someone could later call it "bitter", but everyone murmurs in agreement when these two comments are given. It's a sign of Suslov's well-organized and legalistic bureaucracy, which expects all of its members to obey the law and abate their ambitions for the good of the whole.
* ThePurge:
** If either Andropov or Zhdanov get elected in the 1963 election, Chelomei will be tasked with firing mid-ranking officers who could threaten to overthrow their communist government.
** Additionally, if the Left comes to power through a coup, they will review the Komi Republican Army and remove any officers who could be disloyal to their cause.
* {{Realpolitik}}: Despite their opposing ideologies, every communist leader will conduct diplomacy with the OFN and Scandinavian nations, opening trade and requesting diplomatic recognition.
* TheScapegoat: If Bukharina assassinates Suslov after taking control, the local Muslim community will be blamed because Suslov was found in one of their halal slaughterhouses. It results in the government issuing a Revolutionary Directive to investigate the site and begin harassing the citizens, such as forcing the women to take off their veils or driving them to flee their homes.
* ScienceIsGood: Every communist leader, especially Zhdanov, increases funding for schooling and science, considering innovation to be a monumental benefit to the communist movement.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: When Bukharina opens vocational schools, a pair of Russian parents learn about their children learning how to press metal, in which the father teases his son that he can repair a tractor and impress the neighborhood girl he has a crush on. The son gets flustered and tries to deny it by angrily throwing a reed of grass at his dad, but everyone just laughs, not believing him.
* SilkHidingSteel: Yekaterina Furtseva is one of the few women in Zhdanov's cabinet and often either ignored, courted by other politicians, or exploited by others as proof of their policy's widespread support. In truth, Furtseva is much more shrewd and can manipulate others into supporting her social reform proposals, eventually securing future support for her entire agenda in the Presidium by promising that better infrastructure would allow them to achieve their more ambitious projects.
* TheStoolPigeon: The People's Commissariat of Science under Zhdanov is not just tasked with observing culture shifts in the population [[spoiler:They've also required by duty to rat out anyone who speaks ill of Zhdanov so they can be sentenced to reeducation and effectively destroyed personality-wise.]]
* StunnedSilence: If Zhdanov conquers Western Siberia, he sends messengers throughout the region, proclaiming their liberation under Soviet superculture and blaring propaganda that the Soviet Federation will one day conquer the cosmos to spread the revolution of Ultravisionary thought. In one village, the entire audience stares at the messenger with wordless befuddlement.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork:
** The KPK has an infamous reputation for infighting, so the Presidium must pass a decree outlawing factionalism after their coup, so they can keep the government stable enough to weather counter-coups.
** Chelomei and Kardashev do not have a good working relationship. The former wants a speedy progress [[spoiler:for the Ultravisionary projects they oversee]], while the latter urges for caution and careful planning.
* WeWillUseLasersInTheFuture: As some [[spoiler:Ultravisionary scientists discuss how to rebuild the military, a controversial idea brought up is the use of laser weapons that will become the new form of combat in the future, but this idea [[{{Subverted}} gets discarded]] as too far out in the future and the group returns their focus to more traditional military strategies.
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[[folder:Mikhail Suslov]]
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->'''Role:''' Premier[[note]]Head of Government[[/note]] (Presidium of the KPK cabinet), Head of State (KPK election)
->'''Party:''' Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Komi (Ortodoksal)[[note]]Communist Party of Komi (Orthodox)[[/note]], Kommunisticheskaja Partija Sovetskogo Sojuza[[note]]Communist Party of the Soviet Union[[/note]] (Regional Unification)
->'''Ideology:''' Bolshevism[[note]]Communism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Despite his humble origins, having been born in a rural community near the Volga, Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov has made a name for himself in his homeland. Starting from the Communist Youth, Suslov quickly became a prominent member of the Bolsheviks in Rostov and even managed to entangle himself in the local administration of the Party.\\\
When the Germans attacked, Suslov was designated to orchestrate guerrillas in the Caucasus. With the arrival of Wehrmacht forces, he was nowhere to be seen. There were rumours that he continued fighting in the woods, or that he was hanged by the garrison, but these rumours were soon proved false for the people of Arkhangelsk, as the man appeared in the city so far away from his home. Soon, just like when he was young, he entered the political stage of the West Russian Revolutionary Front. Climbing up the hierarchy, he became one of the most prominent WRRF politicians, and soon, was granted the prestigious position of Minister of Foreign Affairs. With the passage of time, Suslov was becoming even more influential and it was believed he could be the next Premier. Then, the West Russian War happened.\\\
As the West Russian Revolutionary Front collapsed, Suslov found himself in the city of Syktyvkar, along with economic planner Nikolai Voznesensky. Together, they carefully created the Komi Republic, but soon this uneasy pact would end as each side had a different vision for the country. Suslov quickly used his position as leader of the red paramilitaries to gain power and influence, and managed to make himself an integral part of the Republic in political and military affairs, which meant removing him from the equation would not be easy. Having remained a puppet master for a long time, Suslov has finally come out to assume leadership as the Komi Republic has become a socialist state, allowing him to carry out his plan for governing the country.[[/labelnote]]

A prominent statesman under the WRRF, now the ''de facto'' head of the Communist Party of Komi, known as a cunning "Red Eminence" with wide-reaching influence in Komi's shadow politics. Ideologically, Suslov is an Orthodox Marxist-Leninist, and intends to create an incorruptible socialist Russia should he take power.
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* AllohistoricalAllusion: Downplayed. Suslov's USSR can be rather similar to how the OTL Soviet Union had been during Leonid Brezhnev's rule, during which time the real Suslov served as the de facto chief ideologue. On the other hand, Suslov can make mild reforms that can mitigate if not prevent the stagnation which came to define that era.
* ActionHero: Mikhail Suslov, chief puppet-master of the Komi far-left, isn't just able to hold his own in the political scene: an event sees him [[AssassinOutclassin personally kill a far-right assassin]] for what is apparently not the first time.
* AntiHero: Suslov starts out as a major antagonist in the early-game (at least from the perspective of the Center) and resorts to some underhanded tactics to kickstart a communist revolution. However, if he succeeds, Suslov's Soviet Union provides stability and a relatively good living standard for its citizens and guarantee their safety from bandits and reactionary forces.
* AssassinOutclassin: In one of the first events in Komi, Suslov personally kills an assassin sent by the Passionariyy Organization, and offhandedly makes a comment that implies that this wasn't the first time he had to dispatch an assassin himself.
--> ''Suslov:'' [[DeadGuyOnDisplay Leave him on the steps of the National Assembly]]. Gumilyov hasn't gotten the message yet, it seems.
* BaitAndSwitchTyrant: Despite being a master manipulator and a ControlFreak (with a racist streak), his obsession with orthodoxy means that he fully implements collective leadership, ensuring that his Soviet Union is a one-party state rather than a [[TheDictatorship one-man state]], and he is willing to accommodate some social reforms as long as his party line isn't touched. This ends up making his incarnation of the USSR less autocratic than Yagoda's Dengist PoliceState, Kaganovich's Stalinism or Zhdanov's Space Stalinism.
* BeneathTheMask: Outwardly, Suslov projects himself as a stoic, unflappable individual. In private, Suslov is actually afraid of failure, fearing that the factionalism and revisionism plaguing the KPSS will doom the Soviet Union and wondering if his dream of democratic collective rule is even possible.
* BlankStare: His default expression is a blank stare at the person he's conversing with, intimidating even those close to him, like Ponomaryov.
* BlindWithoutEm: When he's shoved by a mugger during a midnight stroll, Suslov loses his glasses and is left blind on the ground. He doesn't take any more night walks after that.
* BoringButPractical: What defines Suslov's USSR is just how ''banal'' it is compared to other potential Soviet Unions. It's merely comparable to the directorial era between Stalin's death and Gorbachev's rise or your average 70s non-Stalinist Soviet bloc government, and that's about it. There's no obvious bias in favor of factions such as the military and secret police, and while he's not very democratic, he's not a vicious tyrant either. Suslov's approach is simply just maintaining the USSR without anything too extreme, keeping order and pragmatism as a priority and making him a useful benchmark against which to compare other socialist Russias to see how far off-course they get.
* BreakingTheGlassCeiling: {{ZigZagged}}. He can give women more opportunities to explore the same career options as the opposite sex, but unlike Bukharina, it's implied he's only doing it for pragmatic reasons, remarking "Perhaps they'll stop complaining now". Alternatively, Suslov can pay mere lip service to the idea, proclaiming social equality, but not doing anything to address the actual issue.
* BrokenPedestal: Suslov can potentially repudiate Bukharin for not only destroying the USSR through his policies, but also for deviating from Marxist-Leninist principles in alienating his critics.
* TheChessmaster: Suslov is said to be the shadow master of Komi, manipulating the events in Komi so he comes out on top.
* ConsolationPrize: Suslov doesn't personally believe in progressive values and welfare for the disadvantaged, considering it a burden on the state, especially while Russia is still divided. However, he's willing to pay lip service to the idea and offer some consolation policies to those who demand it.
* ControlFreak: Suslov, a hardline communist ideologue in real life, leads a faction of orthodox Marxist-Leninists in Komi, who are derisively called 'Dogmatists' by his rival Svetlana Bukharina. Suslov wants ''everyone'' in the Communist Party to adhere to his socialist Orthodoxy; no revisionism, reformism, or deviation from the party line is allowed.
* CorruptPolitician: {{Downplayed}}. Suslov isn't normally corrupt, but when his initial anti-corruption measures fail, he resorts to bribery for party officials to rat out the colleagues.
* CripplingOverspecialization: {{Subverted}}. Suslov is aware that relying on a few industrial cities would make the Soviet Union vulnerable, so he helps industrialize large agricultural towns to diversify.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath:
** In the coup-countercoup stage of Komi, if Taboritsky takes over, [[spoiler: he can decide to assassinate Suslov and his inner circle with the Syktyvkar Arsenal's poison gas. If he successfully does so, Suslov and his lieutenants perish as they are locked inside their safe house and die an agonizing death.]]
** If Bukharina decides his influence in exile is simply too great to allow him to continue to live in the regional stage, [[spoiler: he gets murdered and shoved into a meat grinder. Hopefully in that order.]]
* DefectorFromDecadence: Suslov used to be the foreign minister the Front, but he lost faith in them after their failure to retake Moskowien during the West Russian War and joined Voznesensky's secession.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: If Suslov adopts an uncompromising stance against imperialism, he writes a letter to each of the three superpowers, condemning their interference in foreign countries and oppression of the helpless. All three recipients react with dismissiveness, belittling his audaciousness.
* DragonInChief: While Suslov doesn't take any higher positions within the Communist Party, it is clear to everyone that he is the main force behind the Komi left. He doesn't involve himself in public affairs as long as he is confident in his ideological and organizational power over the Communist Party. Appropriately enough, his in-game leader trait is called "Red Eminence".
* EnemyMine:
** After nominating Zhdanov for the upcoming election, Suslov realizes that he's becoming too powerful to control and tries to form an alliance with Bukharina to curb his influence.
** In his Soviet Union, Suslov cooperates with non-Marxist-Leninist socialists, knowing that division and infighting would harm the country in the long run.
** Though he ideologically opposes the United States and can criticize their imperialism, Suslov can also contact the White House in the superregional stage, offering to coordinate a mutual strategy to isolate and attack Nazi Germany.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** He despises fascism and will purge Serov's followers from the party when they reveal their [[CommieNazis true convictions]].
** Beyond his hatred for "revisionist" strands of communism, Suslov also despises Stalinism and the Black League for the litany of crimes they've committed against the Russian people.
* TheExtremistWasRight: Compared to Voznesensky (who still considers himself a socialist, but prefers to bring forth socialism through liberal democracy), Suslov is an orthodox communist with a hardline anti-revisionist stance. Should Komi unifies the western half of Russia while remaining a liberal democracy, as Konstantin Katushev takes over the SMR and drops socialism entirely and turns his party into a neoliberal one, Suslov's prediction that revisionism leads to the betrayal of socialism is proven correct all along.
* FaceDeathWithDignity:
** Should Tukhachevsky conquer Komi and put all of its leaders (except Bukharina) to death, Suslov decides to not grant him the pleasure of either mounting a defense or begging for his life, choosing instead to simply tell the court "I have nothing to say."
** Pinned down by Bukharina and Zhdanov's bodyguards during their coup, Suslov tries his best to maintain his confidence and dares them to finish him off. However, no one in the conspiracy wants him actually dead, since they need him alive to legally surrender his power to them.
* FeelingTheirAge: Suslov's old age has made him less physically capable of defending himself and using his concealed pistol, as shown when Bukharina and Zhdanov launch their coup and have their bodyguards easily disarm him.
* HistoryRepeats: If Suslov reunifies Russia, it's effectively a return of the old Soviet Union under a Marxist-Leninist government.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He promotes Bukharina as a prominent speaker in the KPK to attract more support with her charisma. Unfortunately for him, her personality proves too mesmerizing and she ends up building her own support base to potentially challenge his control of the KPK.
* HopeSpot: If Suslov is targeted for capture after his exile, heis remaining supporters hold off the government soldiers long enough for their leader to burn his office of sensitive documents and make it to his escape van. Just as he seems on track to a safe getaway, Suslov's driver is suddenly shot while trying to reverse out of the garage, as several soldiers close in on the Shadow Master and arrest him.
* TheInfiltration: After Voznesensky tries to suppress the Left, many members of the Voznesensti will mutiny in protest. Following an investigation, it turns out that these mutineers aren't acting on their own; they're actually Suslovite agents who have been encouraging dissent in the DSNP so that negotiations with the protestors is impossible.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Though his punishments are unforgiving, Suslov has a point that corrupt officials and power-hungry Soviets are a drain on the bureaucracy's efficiency and need to be stopped before they harm the nation as a whole.
* KickedUpstairs: If the reformists take power in the Communist Party, Suslov will either be forced to resign or be "promoted" to the largely useless position of the head of the "Bureau of Ideological Analysis".
* KnowWhenToFoldEm:
** Suslov knows that his starting navy in the regional stage is small and vulnerable, so he tasks them with defending the port of Arkhangelsk rather than trying to project Russian influence overseas.
** After reunifying Western Siberia, Suslov may refrain from open antagonism to the OFN because they still need their cooperation to combat the German threat.
* LongGame: He renews the Gosplan to rebuild the economic damage Russia has suffered, in which it'll start off relatively weak, but grow with continued, long-term funding until it is as powerful as it was in Bukharin's days. Eventually, Suslov will cement his control and oversight of the economy to carefully control how it grows.
* LoveInterestTraitor: In Bukharina's path, two members of the party end up falling in love with each other and have a temporarily stable relationship, until an investigation reveals one of them was a Suslovite mole all along. His partner feels absolutely betrayed by this reveal, commenting that she should have never fallen for him and cutting all ties with him.
* MakeAnExampleOfThem:
** After casually outwitting and murdering an assassin sent after him, Suslov tells his bodyguard to leave his body on the steps of the National Assembly as an unspoken warning to Gumilyov, the assassin's contractor.
** Suslov, after booting Serov from the party, also purges his followers as well during a party meeting. One of Serov's followers arrived at the meeting whereas the rest of them fled; that man is immediately executed by Suslov in the middle of the meeting to show his party what happens when they show fascist sympathies.
** In preparation of the coming 1963 elections, Suslov and his supporters kill and mutilate one of Voznesensky's men, publicly displaying him with a sign reading "SOCIAL FASCISTS WILL NOT BE SPARED WHEN THE REVOLUTION COMES".
* TheManBehindTheMan:
** Zhdanov is the official head of the Komi Communist Party, but everyone knows that Suslov is the real one calling all the shots in the party.
** After Suslov coups the Komi government, he appoints his puppet underling Boris Ponomaryov as General Secretary of the Komi Soviet Republic, while he himself becomes Premier. If the player goes down Suslov's path, the two will later swap positions, making Suslov the General Secretary and Ponomaryov the Premier.
* ManipulativeBastard:
** If Voznesensky tries to reinforce the Center and cuts ties with Zhdanov, Suslov will frame a Voznesentsi politician of leaking Voznesensky's connections to the Left and ramp up hysteria of Suslovite agents infiltrating the DSNP. In the ensuing panic, Voznesensky will ruin his reputation by unjustly punishing the accused leaker and thereby weaken the democratic coalition through division.
** If Voznesensky refuses to budge on his truce with Zhdanov to target Gumilyov exclusively, Suslov will leak evidence of Voznesensky's tie with Zhdanov to exaggerate him as a plant by the Left, while also spreading rumors of internal party division to Vozenesensky himself. His gambit hinges on a bitter Stalina and Morozov sharing this information so that the coalition can turn on Voznesensky and divide the Center. In the alternative that Voznesevsky walks back on his truce, Suslov leaks this betrayal and Voznesensky's connections to Zhdanov, destroying his friendship and his public reputation in the coalition.
** If Stalina's reconstruction government plan is rejected by Voznesensky, Suslov leaks the President's collaboration with Zhdanov to Morozov and Stalina, gambling on the chance that they will investigate the matter secretly and inevitably get caught, which will permanently destroy the coalition parties' trust in each other.
* MortonsFork: Suslov tries to strike one of Gumilyov's presses at the Kuratov Street loading dock, where he can either commit all of his resources to the operation or hold himself back. Both options end disastrously, with Gumilyov's men slaughtering most of Suslov's agents and forcing him into damage control with the help of either Bukharina or Andropov.
* MuggingTheMonster: During a midnight stroll at the start of the game, he ends up mugged for his wallet by someone who has no idea about Suslov's reputation in Komi or the type of power he wields. Fortunately for the thug, Suslov also forgot his gun back at home and doesn't have anyone nearby to help him, so Suslov is [[SubvertedTrope forced to give up his wallet without a fight]], much to his frustration.
* NotSoStoic:
** If he flees from Komi when one of the other factions consolidate their power, Suslov's normally stoic demeanor falters into worry in his getaway vehicle, as the drive to Vologda takes longer than he expected and the fear of being pulled over sets in. Fortunately for him, the ride goes without a hitch in this scenario.
** Should he be targeted while trying to flee Komi, Suslov and his getaway van will be ambushed by gunmen, who manage to kill the driver. Upon realizing this, Suslov panics and desperately tries to take control of the wheel, but to no avail when the van flips over and kills him in the crash.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** Suslov, normally a stoic and collected individual, explodes in fury when Serov sends him a letter containing the details of his [[CommieNazis Ordosocialist]] Manifesto, utterly enraged at seeing that Serov's socialist ideology has gone from mere revisionism to straight-up fascist-sympathetic reactionary thought.
** PlayedForDrama with two events that deal with Suslov's wife Yelizaveta struggling with and eventually dying of cancer. The otherwise unflappable Suslov left emotionally vulnerable and powerless due to her death.
* PetTheDog:
** After reunifying West Russia, Suslov introduces democratic centralism so that the people can vote and have a say in the party.
** Besides his anti-semitism, Suslov is more progressive to other ethnic minorities, affording more autonomy to groups like the Tatars by reforming their [=ASSRs=].
** Contrary to his usual dogmatism of orthodox Marxist-Leninism, Suslov can allow young politicians to come up with new political theories to guide the next generation rather than suppress their thought.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: At the superregional stage, one event shows Suslov trying to grasp how and why Lazar Kaganovich, Leon Trotsky, and Vyacheslav Molotov opposed Bukharin's ascent to power, which in his mind helped bring Russia to ruin in the lead-up to World War II. He comes to an ugly conclusion: because of their Jewish ethnicity (or in Molotov's case, that of his wife plus his susceptibility to outside influences), he determines and announces to his followers that they had been part of a Zionist plot to destabilize the Soviet Union.
* PrinciplesZealot: PlayedWith. Suslov is an ardent ideologue who will not accept ''any'' significant deviation from orthodox Marxist-Leninism and its principles. That said, however, he's not above making pragmatic compromises and concessions to ensure that socialist Orthodoxy remains a viable system, at least for as long as such policies don't go against the party line.
* PropagandaMachine: To ensure everyone remains committed to communist doctrine, Suslov will create a propaganda machine to produce mass media instilling socialist values and calling for workers to unite so they can build a better world.
* PuppetKing: If Bukharina and Zhdanov coup him, Suslov is reduced to a puppet leader of the Party, still considered an official member, but forced to cede his power and retire to his dacha forever.
* ThePurge:
** In one of Komi's first events, Suslov bans Ivan Serov and his followers from the Komi Communist Party upon discovering Serov's fascist sympathies, resulting in his clique joining the Passionariyy. After taking over Western Siberia, he also purges what remains of the Black League and Lazar Kaganovich's followers, viewing the former as fascists, the latter as revisionists, and both as traitors.
** In the regional stage, Suslov purges his administration of any corrupt or incompetent officials to set an example to everyone that they are a beacon of efficiency.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Despite his obsession with maintaining orthodox Marxist-Leninism, Suslov pursues several lenient social policies to fix some of its past mistakes, such as reprioritizing the interests of the farmers.
* RebuiltPedestal: Downplayed. Suslov can retroactively rehabilitate Stalin as a Soviet hero unduly slandered by Bukharin. On the other hand, the only Stalinists he's willing to tolerate and listen to are the ones led by Khrushchev, while Kaganovich and his supporters are purged for being traitorous revisionists.
* RelativeRidicule: Potentially falling prey to a pre-regional coup by Bukharina and Zhdanov, Suslov insults the former as a bastard born from an affair between Bukharin and his secretary.
* ReluctantRetiree: Suslov can be forced to retire if the reformists led by Zhdanov and Bukharina take power in the Communist Party.
* RightfulKingReturns: In the superregional stage, Suslov reasserts the Soviet Union's position as the vanguard of international socialism, reclaiming its rightful position after it was temporarily destroyed by the Reich.
* TakingUpTheMantle: Suslov takes up Lenin's role as the vanguard of a new socialist revolution, one where the workers can reunite and rebuild Russia.
* VictoryIsBoring: {{Subverted}}. After Suslov reunifies West Russia and hosts the All-Union Communist Party's First Congress, he thinks back to the days of Bukharin and how chaotic, yet exciting it was to navigate the ferocious political atmosphere then. However, Suslov snaps back to reality and considers the stability he fought hard for to be better.
* WelcomeBackTraitor: If Tyumen manages to unite Western Siberia, not only can Suslov potentially incorporate it peacefully. Moreover, he'll directly bring Nikita Khrushchev and his clique into the Party, as they're the only Stalinists he deems reasonable and anti-revisionist.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: {{Subverted}}. Suslov criticizes Bukharin's reign for its overreliance on industrial cities to keep its economy afloat and will avoid repeating history by prioritizing the wellbeing of the rural peasants, financing a large agricultural mechanization program for the farmers to collectivize on Kolkhozes.
* YouCannotKillAnIdea: Even if Suslov is eliminated by his rivals, many of his followers will remain, still clinging to their ideals of an orthodox socialist democracy.
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[[folder:Andrei Zhdanov '''(UNMARKED SPOILERS)''']]
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (1963 Election, KPK Election)
->'''Party:''' Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Komi (Reformist)[[note]]Communist Party of Komi (Reformist)[[/note]], Reformirovannaja Kommunisticheskaja Partija Sovetskogo Sojuza (Dal'novidnaja)[[note]]Reformed Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Visionary)[[/note]] (Regional Unification)
->'''Ideology:''' Revolutionary Front[[note]]Socialism[[/note]] (façade), Ultravisionary Socialism[[note]]Socialism[[/note]] (actual)
->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov - a name surrounded by either love or suspicion, depending on how much one actually knows about the man. Zhdanov is one of Komi's key politicians, a proud socialist leader with experience from chairing the Leningrad Communist Party before the Great Patriotic War, Zhdanov ended up entangled with the government of the West Russian Revolutionary Front, serving as an influential figure in an attempt to encourage Russian cultural unity against the Germans.\\\
However, the Front fell, and with it, Zhdanov's beloved universal cultural program. When the government fled to Syktyvkar and promptly dissolved, Zhdanov stayed behind, forming ties with Mikhail Suslov in the series of coups and power struggles that preceded the formation of the Republic. Despite his more authoritarian socialist stances in the early days of the Republic, Zhdanov has recently taken to pushing for more libertarian initiatives - democratization of a Komi socialist state, encouraging growth of minority culture, and reconciliation with the center-left. Additional initiatives he has supported include a greater synthesis of universal culture, science, and ideology into a general doctrine of Zhdanovshchina, increasing prioritization towards research into scientific management within the Communist Party, and creating standards for 'revolutionary art'.\\\
Still, paranoia seems to follow him, as persistent rumors push the idea that his true nature is not truly changed, but rather lying deep below the surface, waiting for him to acquire true power.[[/labelnote]]
->'''In-Game Biography (Post-Regional Unification):''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]An Ultravisionary future is within grasp, and Andrei Zhdanov has no intention of allowing it to slip through his, or the state's, fingers.\\\
Having occupied senior positions in Bukharin's old Soviet Union, the Komi Republic's old Assembly and now, of course, in the position of highest authority within the Federation, Zhdanov is well-accustomed to power, which he has used to advance not only his own cause, but also the cause of the Ultravisionary movement in general.\\\
He carried it to victory through the chaos of the late Republic. He presented it with a clear path forward. With well-defined objectives that he had meticulously crafted and patiently explained to lesser men. And he had thought his confederates to have supported his view entirely.\\\
But such was not the case. The rot had set in. Compromise and deviancy had corrupted the agenda, diverting resources and attention from critical projects, scientific and otherwise. The very destiny of the Federation itself was at stake, and as a true visionary, Zhdanov could not remain idle.\\\
Roundly denouncing and taking decisive action against the libertarians and other holders of unorthodox interpretations of the Ultravisionary agenda, Zhdanov has now reasserted his authority over the movement. Now firmly in absolute control, he can turn both his attention and the resources of the state, finally and once again, outwards.\\\
To the stars - and beyond.[[/labelnote]]

A veteran Communist and the second in command of the Communist Party of Komi. Formerly an authoritarian ideologue, Zhdanov has made a turn to libertarian socialism in Komi. However, rumors accuse him of feigning his beliefs to garner public support, and some say the old ideologue is making plans for an extreme syncretic vision of science, culture, and ideology, one of a so-called "Ultravisionary Socialism"...
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* AintTooProudToBeg: If the Left is exiled from Komi and Zhdanov flees, he will make his getaway to the WRRF, where he's stopped by the border guard. When they express hesitancy about letting him in, Zhdanov resorts to begging that they let him pass, believing that it's his only chance to contribute to the socialist cause in any substantial form. After an uncomfortable amount of time, the guards relent.
* AlasPoorVillain: Zhdanov might've been an oppressive tyrant and authorized inhumane experiments, but the aftermath of Chelomei becoming Vice Premier highlights Zhdanov's old age and failing health in a pitiful light, as the Paramount Leader reflects on his own mortality and how little time he has left in the living world.
* AllohistoricalAllusion:
** Most of Zhdanov's projects did exist in reality in some manner, though some are only loosely based on real projects.
** A policy that Zhdanov can adopt in the superregional stage is Zhdanovschina, but rather than promoting censorship of art like in OTL, it now calls for the Soviet superculture to encompass the entire world before it presents itself to extraterrestrial civilizations, lest it appear too weak.
** Some of the "Psychological Revolution" experiments bear resemblance to those conducted by the CIA in OTL during [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra Project MKUltra]].
** The Human Utopia Project is human version of the Mouse Utopia Project. The Human Utopia Project's results fortunately are not a complete 1:1 reproduction of the nightmarish results of the mouse experiments; the test subjects simply go back to basic tribalism (though with child neglect), and in the failure event, a fire happens and forcibly shuts down the project.
** Almost all of Zhdanov's Experimental Weaponry projects have real counterparts:
*** Project TREZUBETS: German Korobov's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TKB-059 TKB-059]].
*** Project AEROFLOT: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Sea_Monster Caspian Sea Monster]]
*** Project SOTKA: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_T-4 Sukhoi T-4]]
*** Project SZHATIE: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1K17_Szhatie 1K17 Szhatie]]
*** Project CHEREPAKHA: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_279 Object 279]]
* AlwaysABiggerFish: Zhdanov’s Ultravisionaries are this to Magnitogorsk, having potentially much more reach and power than Lysenko could only dream of.
* ArcWords: Each starting focus for a regional focus tree begins with "A Vision for the X".
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: After forming an alliance with Bukharina, Zhdanov further builds his influence by contacting Voznesensky and requesting his support to countering Suslov power. When Voznesensky expresses hesitance about how it would benefit his own party, Zhdanov subtly hints at Suslov's infiltration of the DSNP with his supporters and rhetorically asks him if he really needs to explain why they need to eliminate him. The question catches Voznesensky off-guard and pressures him to accept Zhdanov's offer.
* BaitAndSwitch: After assembling a team to build a space shuttle, Zhdanov tells them that he expects their work to be done in a mere six months and threatens to execute them if they fail. A few seconds after letting the terror set in, Zhdanov laughs and reveals that he was kidding, informing them that he will treat them for their work with caviar and champagne.
* BeneathTheMask: For all of Zhdanov's grandstanding about progress, he couldn't care less about how absurd and pseudoscientific his more ambitious plans are. All so long as they help maintain ideological purity and control.
* BoringButPractical: One of his more grounded proposals is to increase industrialized farming by providing more plows and tractors to the farmers, a necessity to keep the country fed.
* BrainComputerInterface: The Human Cybernetics Initiative under Zhdanov attempts to develop an implanted and functional brain-computer interface. It fails, because the technology just isn't there yet, and the scientists' attempts to replace sections of the brain with mechanical interfaces leads to several horrific deaths. The bit of technology that does work in the partial success scenario works purely through physical motion rather than brain activity, showing potential in small, motion-based implants for the future, but nothing more.
* TheCakeIsALie: After promising through the Revolutionary Decrees that he would return power to the people, Zhdanov can go back on his word, stating "the government has the right to break its promises for the good of the nation". No one is happy when news of this breaks and riots break out throughout the nation.
* CallARabbitASmeerp: Since Zhdanov was the USSR's foreign minister during the Winter War (instead of Vyacheslav Molotov like in real life), the weapon known in real life as ''molotov cocktails'' are instead called ''zhdanovs'' in ''TNO''.
* ColorMotif: Many of his focus icons are colored blue, giving a science-fiction vibe befitting his ideology.
* CoolButInefficient: Zhdanov's experiments can be summed up both as this and AwesomeButImpractical. On paper, they look like technological wonders that would be incredibly impressive even in present day OTL. When put into practice, however, it becomes clear why these technologies aren't available for us either: the tech available for the experiments just isn't advanced enough to perform them effectively, and some of the projects are based purely on pseudoscientific theories that never had any chance of working in the first place. For the most part, only his Experimental Armaments researches end up producing truly positive results. Moreover, at least for some of the more ambitious projects, they aren't ''supposed'' to succeed as intended, being little more than glorified excuses to enforce ideological purity.
* CorruptPolitician: To deal with the remaining Suslovites, Zhdanov will bribe those "reasonable enough" with "economic incentivization".
* CrazyEnoughToWork: For all his outrageous experiments, there are a couple of them that have a chance of working, such as the Optimized Language Initiative and Project TARAKAN.
* CulturallySensitiveAdaptation: The Revolutionary Literature program is meant to rewrite classical literary works to better enforce and fit with Soviet values, which means rewriting ''War and Peace'' to be set in the Civil War, ''The Last of the Mohicans'' to portray the Native Americans as living in a communist society, and ''The Legend of King Arthur'' to rewrite the Round Table as a Soviet fighting for the mud worker communes. In the partial success scenario, only the young children have their worldview changed by the new books. In the inconclusive scenario, nobody is thoroughly changed and the scientists conclude that they must instead focus on rewriting cinema and music, more popular mediums with younger audiences.
* DeadlyEuphemism: As he consolidates his power, Zhdanov mentions that some politicians can be convinced to join his side, while others will find themselves on the "political persecution" list.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: After conquering West Siberia, Zhdanov recruits several scientists from Sverdlovsk who can develop new technology and make themselves useful to the superculture.
* DefectorFromDecadence
** Once an official working in the [=ComIntern=]. Zhdanov joined Voznesensky's secession of the Komi ASSR when the WRRF was facing defeat during the West Russian War.
** He specifically distinguishes Ultravisionary Socialism as a different ideology from Marxist-Leninism, one that has evolved from the faults of its origin and will run the country by relying on machines.
* DidntThinkThisThrough:
** In the Human Cybernetics Initiative, Zhdanov tries to link brain activity to mechanical devices by implanting artificial interfaces to the subjects' brains. However, Zhdanov didn't consider if his subjects could survive with such implants, as they end up dying several minutes afterwards and forcing a reevaluation of how to augment the brain.
** One of his more mundane, but no less ambitious, projects is tying the ruble's value to the state energy output, ignoring the fact that it would destroy all confidence in the currency and force the state into total autarky. Many Ultravisionaries find this idea too far and convince Zhdanov to delay the "excellent" idea, until Russia has been liberated.
* DirtyCommunists: Zhdanov outright fabricates a façade of libertarian reform and makes promises of "Revolutionary Decrees" that he never intends to deliver on, all in order to propel his political career. His actual Ultravisionary Socialist rule is a big case of UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans, with many totalitarian and even immoral acts done in order to create a technologically advanced socialist utopia.
* EnemyMine: After either he or Andropov are nominated in the election, Zhdanov offers to form an alliance with Bukharina against Suslov's control of the KPK so they can take power themselves.
* EmperorScientist: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Zhdanov's ideology is known as "Ultravisionary Socialism", and advocates for using scientific knowledge and technology to achieve socialism. Though superficially technocratic, Zhdanov is actually highly ideological, promotes only scientists and engineers that suit his ideology to power, and engages in many [[HollywoodScience pseudoscientific]] pursuits in the name of ideology. It is not until Zhdanov's death that actual scientists can succeed him, but even they only see science as a means to achieve socialism and not an end to a truly technocratic society.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: He's introduced as "The Visionary", out on an excursion not known by even Suslov, dedicating his time to watching the stars through a telescope. In his stargazing, Zhdanov dreams for a better future, where humanity has managed to progress beyond their current turmoil and conflict through intellectual pursuit. All while hiding [[MadScientist the true nature]] of such pursuits.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** When given plans for a type of biological weapon that would specifically target Germans, paving the way for genocide, Zhdanov shuts it down on the basis that it's unethical and puts the scientist behind the idea on probation.
** For all the excesses done in the name of Ultravisionary Socialism, even Zhdanov is genuinely shocked at how insane Lysenko's misadventures in Magnitogorsk truly are. While some of the "research" is salvaged, much of it's either destroyed or dismissed as worthless.
** He doesn't want to be a BadBoss to his subordinates, considering such an attitude to be like a Nazi.
* EvilAllAlong: Zhdanov pretends to be a libertarian socialist before he takes power, and drops the façade immediately after, revealing his true colors as an ambitious, ideological and pseudo-scientific, if not outright Stalinist dictator.
* EyeMotifs: Several of his focus icons feature the image of an eye, symbolizing the "enlightening" aspects of Ultravisionary Socialism.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Some of Zhdanov's more outlandish projects cannot succeed at all, with their possible outcomes being a case of bad outcome vs. worse outcome.
** Specifically, the projects for the Psychological Revolution Initiative are likely to fail and can only end in either a partial success or inconclusive result in the most optimal scenario.
** For the Socialist Society Initiative, only the Optimized Language Initiative can truly succeed, with most ending in either a partial success or inconclusive result and the Subliminal Immersion Project always ending in failure.
* TheFederation: Zhdanov doesn't just see his country as a mere nation; he envisions it as a future federation which will spawn the socialist superculture and encompass the entire world in a global revolution. Then, he will spread the Federation out into space, conquering planet after planet to educate the extraterrestrial workers of Ultravisionary Socialism and liberate the universe under a single power.
* FictionalDocument: To smoothen the integration of West Siberia, Zhdanov writes the Great Soviet Encyclopedia to illustrate the ideals of Ultravisionary Socialism and ideologically unite the country behind one cause.
* {{Foil}}: Zhdanov is one to Trofim Lysenko. While there are parallels in how both have pseudoscientific pursuits in the name of ideology and aren't letting things like ethics stand in the way of progress, Lysenko has all but bought into his own delusions of advancing "Soviet science". Zhdanov, meanwhile, doesn't let it all get to his head and only sees Ultravisionary Socialism, even at its most audacious, simply as a means of enforcing ideological purity through a science-obsessed veneer.
* ForScience: Zhdanov believes that scientific progress is intertwined with socialism, as both facilitate the advancement of the human race by freeing them of their superstitions. He creates a People's Commissariat to facilitate the growth of this experimental superculture and, more unethically, authorizes cruel experiments tested on humans to collect data. There are three overarching ideas he can invest in:
** The "Socialist Society Initiative" is the ultimate goal of Zhdanov: to reshape Soviet society and culture so that it can prepare to expand into the cosmos.
** The "Psychological Revolution Initiative" is dedicated to unlocking new abilities of the human mind and how human will and thought can be controlled.
** The "Experimental Weapons Initiative ", as the name implies, is about developing new weapons to combat the forces of fascism and capitalism.
* GalacticSuperpower: Zhdanov's long term goals are to spread Ultravisionary Socialism beyond the petty confines of Earth, and create an Intersolar Soviet Federation, whose Intersolar Red Armada would liberate alien planets from feudalism, capitalism, and fascism, and eventually create a final Universal Soviet Federation of eternal peace, tranquility, and liberty.
* GarbageHideout: If he's been exiled from Komi and sentenced to be imprisoned, Zhdanov will try to hide from some nearby patrols in a dumpster. It does him no good luck when the soldiers find him anyway and drag him out.
* GloriousLeader: Zhdanov, after revealing his true colors, takes up the position of Paramount Leader, fusing together the positions of General Secretary and the Premier.
* GotVolunteered: To repair the damaged infrastructure from the German bombings, Zhdanov organizes a mass urban resettlement program for the rural populations, forcibly transferring them to the nearest city so they can get to work.
* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: The People's Commissariat of Science is a ministry that Zhdanov creates after unifying Western Russia, dedicated entirely to the cause of unfettered scientific development.
* HiddenDepths: Though Zhdanov trumpets the Soviet superculture, he still enjoys American rock music that he listens to in his office.
* HistoricalInJoke:
** One of Zhdanov's late-game focuses is "Poyekhali", which historically was Yuri Gagarin's farewell to Sergey Korolev as Vostok 1 launched into space.
** In our world, Zhdanov led a faction of the Soviet leadership that emphasized ideological purity above all, being opposed to Malenkov's faction, which sought to promote scientists and the heavily educated to top government positions. In ''TNO'', ironically, it is Zhdanov who leads those obsessed with science, even if it is for ideological purposes.
* HiveMind: The Collective Consciousness Initiative attempts to create a shared consciousness and possibly revolutionize human existence. The Initiative is a failure; in the failure scenario, the uplink simply electrocutes all test subjects to death, while in the inconclusive scenario, several dozens of test subjects were electrocuted to death, and a final group of survivors report that they did have some hive mind experience, but the scientists feel like they might be reporting good results so they can leave, so they can't make any conclusions.
* HollywoodScience: Zhdanov's Psychological Revolution and Socialist Society projects delve heavily into fringe science, pseudoscience, and bizarre theoretical science projects that are often highly unrealistic but fits into his vision of a far-future socialism. They often [[DidntThinkThisThrough end predictably poorly]].
* HumansAreBastards: His Human Utopia Project ends up showcasing this viewpoint in both the inconclusive and failure scenarios. Despite adequate living conditions being given to a sample population, they devolve into cliquish infighting and neglect the children they produce through birth control failure. In particular, the latter scenario involves the experiment being cut short because of a fire breaking out in the compound, with some suspicion that one of the subjects was behind the incident.
* TheInfiltration:
** Disgusted by the experiments committed by Lysenko, Zhdanov sends his agents to Magnitogorsk, either to spy on him or collect information on them, if Lysenko was overthrown by the NKVD.
** He also spends spies to infiltrate Orenburg and search for any potential troublemakers, such as an "anarcho-ultravisionarist" trying to mesh Ultravisionary Socialism with anarchism.
* InternalReformist: Zhdanov leads a faction of reformists in the Communist Party, and desires to reform the socialist Orthodoxy with libertarianism and Zhdanov's own visionariness. The trope is eventually subverted after Zhdanov unites Western Russia, as Zhdanov reveals that he hated libertarianism all along and was just playing along as a reformist to boost his political influence.
* KentBrockmanNews: His New Names program gets covered by the local station, Radio Pravda, who glorify the new patriotic direction he's heading in and bring in a family who have named their son "Melz", after Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Zhdanov. Behind the scenes, the family didn't even want to be part of the program, only doing so after being paid to and given scripts so they can gush about the good work Zhdanov is doing.
* LanguageEqualsThought: Zhdanov believes that altering the Russian language through the Optimized Language Initiative can make it harder to express counter-revolutionary ideas and concepts deemed "unhealthy to a functional socialist society". It's one of the projects that can unambiguously succeed, creating a "New Russian". Otherwise, it can't be considered a complete failure, as the project can also end in a partial success or inconclusive result, where they show that the environment can play a role in how likely it is for an individual to accept the new language.
* LoopholeAbuse: He centralizes more power to himself by carefully placing his supporters in key locations during party meetings so their applause can be louder and pressure the other delegates to clap along with them so as to conform with the majority. Without doing anything technically illegal, Zhdanov can merge the offices of Premier and General Secretary, effectively turning Russia into a dictatorship without anyone in the Party to stop him.
* MadScientist: Even though he's not a scientist himself, his highly authoritarian and unrealistic vision of Ultravisionary Socialism means that he actively promotes some truly outrageous ideologically-motivated scientific ventures. The Psychological Revolution and Socialist Society projects in particular are often extremely immoral, with Gulag prisoners being used as test subjects.
* ManchurianAgent: The Subliminal Trigger Project is an MK-Ultra-like project aimed at brainwashing individuals so they will respond to implanted subliminal triggers. The most optimal outcome of the experiment is having one subject become completely adverse to violence and raise future psychological questions of the human mind. Otherwise, the project's original goal is a failure in both possible scenarios, as none of the subliminal triggers works, and a couple of subjects (and guards, when they are attacked by a subject in the failure scenario) die during the intense brainwashing.
* MeaningfulRename: While he calls himself a communist, when Zhdanov reunifies Russia, he does not restore the USSR but instead calls his state the Federation of Soviet Socialist Republics to espouse the need for a new Russia.
* {{Newspeak}}: The Optimized Language Initiative attempts to create a variant of the Russian language that is harder to express anti-socialist ideas, making its speakers more receptive of socialism. This project appears to have produced some positive results in the children that they tested the language on, but the conclusion is later changed to inconclusive due to the limited positive effects, which are attributed to proper orphanage guidance more than using the new language.
* PatrioticFervor: Zhdanov forges a new national identity that glorifies the Soviet Union as the greatest country on Earth and promises to have it encompass the entire world one day.
* PetTheDog: Zhdanov is generous about giving welfare to the poor and repairing national infrastructure, which he sees as necessary for the Soviet superculture to ascend.
* PragmaticVillainy:
** If Voznesensky decides not to cut ties with him to strengthen the Center, Zhdanov thanks him by leaking important intel on Suslov's plans to undermine the democratic coalition, which the DSNP can accept. However, Voznesensky suspects that Zhdanov didn't do it for purely altruistic reasons and that he expects some repayment in the future. Even when Voznesensky rejects Zhdanov's offer in the first place, there is a stated possibility that Zhdanov's sadness is not out of emotional hurt, but disappointment that his plan was foiled before it could begin.
** After taking power away from corrupt party officials, Zhdanov can honor his promise to empower the people rather than keep it, but only because he knows the alternative will inspire a mass backlash.
* PresidentEvil: Zhdanov's willingness to run in Komi's bourgeois democratic elections (in contrast to the anti-electorialist Suslov and Bukharina) is only part of his reformist libertarian façade, before he reveals his true colours as a totalitarian and pseudo-scientific Ultravisionary Socialist dictator.
* PsychicPowers: Several Psychological Revolution projects research into the possibility of developing psychic powers like {{Telepathy}} or extrasensory perception.
** The Mental Communication Initiative researches all kinds of psychics, telekinetics, and other paranormal individuals like plant communicators in an attempt to develop technology useful to the state. The inconclusive result scenario shows a story of two emaciated lovers who volunteered for the project managing to "communicate" their love to each other through a bulletproof glass, while the failure result scenario is an EpicFail as the scientists realize that literally everyone they've gathered up are {{Phony Psychic}}s, and they've wasted a ton of time and money for nothing.
** Project RAINBOW BODY researches into extrasensory perception, going into an out of body transcendental state, and possibly affecting the world in this transcendental state. The project is a failure, and no ESP is achieved. In the inconclusive scenario, two of the subjects go into mental breakdown and the third seems to accurately find the source of war sound recordings, though it's left ambiguous if it's coincidence or an accurate prediction they're making. In the failure scenario, the subject starts hallucinating, but never achieves the ESP the researchers were looking for.
* ThePurge: KPK members who don't fall in-line with Zhdanov will be expelled from the party, which effectively kills their political career.
* QualityOverQuantity: Believing that the Soviet Union can't match the Wehrmacht in numbers, Zhdanov turns to developing experimental weapons, which will be few in number, but powerful enough to compensate for the numerical disadvantage.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After unifying West Russia, Zhdanov will write a letter to the German government, condemning the long list of atrocities they've inflicted against Russia and swearing to destroy every trace of the Nazis, once Russia is ready.
* RepressiveButEfficient: Though his actions are autocratic and his experiments less than well thought-out, Zhdanov's economic policies are fairly efficient, repairing the infrastructure damaged from the German bombings and kickstarting a Five Year Plan to rebuild their industrial sectors.
* RousseauWasRight: Zhdanov's Collective Environment Initiative can prove this viewpoint right in the partial success scenario. After forcing fifty people to cohabitate in a transparent compound with no privacy, the subjects can end up bonding with each other and being highly sociable with each other by the end of the experiment, save for two individuals who are detained for further questioning. However, it can also be {{subverted}} in the inconclusive outcome, where the subjects divide into cliques, fighting, killing, or driving each other mad.
* RuleOfDrama: In OTL, Zhdanov died of ill health in 1948, and had no plans for anything even remotely similar to Ultravisionary Socialism. However, by being a Stalinist ideologue with some unusual cultural theories, his OTL antics fits the needs for the highly authoritarian and unorthodox theories of TNO's Ultravisionary Socialism. As such, Zhdanov's life in TNO has been purposefully extended to 1972 so he can develop the ideology, even though it is highly unlikely he could've survived to this point given the worse conditions in TNO.
* ScrapbookStory: Some of the results from Zhdanov's projects are presented as documents reporting the test results to Zhdanov.
* SecretPolice: Zhdanov sets up the Directorate for the Investigation of Special Circumstances, which can "forcefully correct" any deviation from Ultravisionary Socialism and target dissenters for reeducation.
* ShoutOut:
** The setup of Project RAINBOW BODY is a WholePlotReference to [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2498 SCP-2498]] in the Website/SCPFoundation, where during the Cold War a government tried to create psychic agents who can enter a transcendental state and use extrasensory perception to gather intel. Unfortunately for Zhdanov, he lives in a political AlternateTimeline story, and not a supernatural conspiracy thriller, so Project RAINBOW BODY fails.
** The SCP Foundation is also referenced more generally in the ScrapbookStory presentations of some of the project results, and some of them even include [DATA EXPUNGED] and [REDACTED] sanitization notes.
** The Collective Consciousness Initiative is very likely a reference to the Common Consciousness (C-Consciousness) from ''[[VideoGame/{{Stalker}} S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl]]'', being a HiveMind research project initiated by the Soviet government.
** The Optimized Language Initiative, Subliminal Trigger Project, and Collective Environment Initiative are references to ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', ''Literature/AClockworkOrange'', and ''Literature/{{We}}'' respectively.
* SignificantWardrobeShift: When he unifies Western Russia, Zhdanov switches his green uniform for a white one and also puts on a sailor's cap, as he reveals his true colours not as a libertarian reformer, but as the quasi-Stalinist Ultravisionary Socialist who seeks to build a universal-spanning Soviet Federation.
* SovietSuperscience: Zhdanov aims to create a visionary socialist utopia through the power of science and technology, and creates an entire ministry called People's Commissariat of Science and generously funds their outlandish projects in order to accelerate Soviet science past its fascist and capitalist competitors. [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] and [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in most cases, as the resulting technology will often be too impractical, since the resources and technology of the 1960s and 70s just aren't capable enough, or won't work at all by being outright pseudoscience.
* SuperiorSuccessor: While Zhdanov considers himself to be better than his Soviet predecessors, his own successors are undoubtedly superior to him, by virtue of actually ''being'' competent scientists and specialists who know what they're talking about. This is especially the case for Nikolai Kardashev, who seeks to reform Ultravisionary Socialism into a genuinely benevolent force for the people. Whereas Vladimir Chelomei continues Zhdarnov's status quo as it benefits his ambitious plans to advance space exploration.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Zhdanov's scientific pursuits are highly expensive, and recklessly funding all of them will result in a massive national debt. Most of them also end predictably poorly, due to human nature, insufficient technology, or just because they're pseudoscientific. In general, the Experimental Armaments projects are likely to produce good results, while the Psychological Revolution and Socialist Society projects are likely to end in failure. The failure scenario for the Mental Communication Initiative in particular ends with the scientists realizing that all of the psychics they found are {{Phony Psychic}}s with no supernatural powers whatsoever.
* TotalitarianUtilitarian: Through "Revolutionary Decrees", Zhdanov shifts the party away from privileging the few politicians and reorienting them to focus on improving the nation as a whole.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: After taking power away from comparatively reasonable communist politicians, Zhdanov merges the offices of Premier and General Secretary, effectively becoming Russia's newest autocrat.
* UndignifiedDeath: If he gets targeted for execution in his exile, Zhdanov gets killed while trying to hide in the janitor's cupboard and screaming in terror when the gunmen kick down the door.
* TheUnfettered: Zhdanov will stop at nothing to realize his vision for an advanced, technological Soviet Union. In the regional stage, Zhdanov specifically rebukes ideas that he's already accomplished his goals, noting that he's just laid the groundwork to achieve even greater heights.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Zhdanov justifies his public manipulation, totalitarianism, and unfettered (sometimes immoral) scientific development with his vision of a grand socialist utopia that stretches across the stars.
* VillainRespect: Though he criticizes Rokossovsky as man who would not assimilate into the Soviet superculture, he respects his military talents and adopts his legacy through the Sverdlovsk Design Bureau, which will be useful in developing new military technologies.
* VisionaryVillain: PlayedWith. Zhdanov is a radical ideologue with an insanely ambitious vision for the future of the Federation of Soviet Socialist Republics. He wants to technologically accelerate the nation beyond all other nations on Earth, spread the ultravisionary socialist superculture across the planet, and then ''go beyond Earth'' and eventually create a Universal Soviet Federation stretching across all of the universe. On the other hand, much of that is simply a means for him to enforce ideological purity with a scientific veneer, suggesting that he doesn't really believe in the more ambitious aspects of his own system.
* WeUsedToBeFriends:
** If Voznesensky tries to strengthen the democratic coalition, he may decide to end his friendship with Zhdanov because it'd make him seem too friendly with the communists.
** After Voznesensky's attempts to suppress the Left backfire and bleed support for the DSNP, Zhdanov will offer to end the hostilities if he turns on Gumilyov instead. If Voznesensky rejects his offer, Zhdanov betrays him by cutting off his favors to him and threatening to expose his ties with him, if he doesn't give him more concessions.
** During the Center's campaign against the Right, Voznesensky may form a truce with Zhdanov to focus on the common threat, but then walk back on his deal when pressured by Stalina and Morozov. Unfortunately, his plan to betray Zhdanov gets leaked by Suslov before it can get initiated, irreparably destroying the friendship between the two.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Many of his dictatorial measures are justified by his belief that the people can easily fall prey to demagogues and bourgeois elites, so he and his clique need to defend Russia by centralizing all authority to themselves.
* WhamLine: For most of the early game, Zhdanov seems to care about ruling on behalf of the people's will. Until he finally takes power and makes a speech revealing himself to be a dictator all along.
-->'''Zhdanov:''' "If we wish to seize our destiny, we cannot wait for popular consensus, but must establish it ourselves."
* WickedCultured: When he's in his office, he's listening to jazz music in his office and drinking vodka.
* TheXenophile: While observing the stars through his telescope, Zhdanov fantasizes about the existence of aliens who have freed themselves of the typical vices that blight humanity and considers them a model for his species to follow.
* YouCannotKillAnIdea: Even if Zhdanov himself is eliminated, the idea of Ultravisionary Socialism will survive through his remaining supporters in the KPK.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: Zhdanov knows that his advanced age will eventually catch up to him, which is how Chelomei tries to get his appeal to become Vice Premier and his designated successor. Right after reunifying all of Russia, Zhdanov finally bites it after getting cardiac arrest and leaving it up to the Vice Premier to fill in his position.
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[[folder:Svetlana Bukharina]]
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (KPK election)
->'''Party:''' Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Komi (Reformist)[[note]]Communist Party of Komi (Reformist)[[/note]], Kommunisticheskaja Partija Sovetskogo Sojuza - Levaya[[note]]Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Left[[/note]] (regional unification)
->'''Ideology:''' Left Communism[[note]]Communism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Svetlana Nikolayevna Bukharina was brought up at the very top of Soviet society, being the daughter of General Secretary Nikolai Bukharin. She spent her youth in the Union's best academies, attending galas and cultural exhibitions with the Party's uppermost echelons, and carefully observing her father's debates and political maneuvers. When the Union disintegrated and Bukharin vanished, so did Svetlana. Rumors flew that she had escaped with her father and gone into hiding, gotten "disappeared" by a political rival, or even hiding in a secret bunker complex beneath Moscow. Those rumors were quashed when she eventually resurfaced in Syktyvkar, capital of the (relatively) democratic post-Soviet Komi Republic. But her idle years had not dulled her political edge.\\\
Many in Komi's socialist movement saw that having her as a figurehead would be a massive propaganda coup, and quickly worked to gain her willing support. But they did not anticipate that she would have ambitions of her own. Through careful manipulation and backroom deals, Svetlana was able to build up a powerful support base, and ended up launching an internal coup against the ideologues who once tried to control her. Now that she sits at the top of Komi's political ladder, people wonder - or fear - what her next move will be. Few believe that her vaulting ambition has run out, and many suspect she may soon turn her eye toward the rest of her father's former domain...[[/labelnote]]

The daughter of General Secretary Nikolai Bukharin, now a Communist politician in Komi. Although a ''de facto'' figurehead leader used for propaganda purposes, Svetlana harbors real political ambitions and skill beneath an unassuming surface. Should she maneuver her way past her competitors in the party and the state, Svetlana aims to create a renewed Soviet Union that can be genuinely accountable to its people.
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* BaitAndSwitchTyrant: One event makes it seem like Bukharina is a tyrant when she shows up at a peasant family's home and announces she is there to liquidate them. [[spoiler: She's actually there to make sure they're involved in her initiative to [[InsistentTerminology liquidate illiteracy]] in Komi.]]
* BeneathTheMask:
** She doesn't show it to anyone after she betrays and murders Zhdanov during their conspiracy, but Bukharina feels remorseful about killing another person and wistfully wonders to her pet bird that it will only get easier with time.
** During her first days as leader, Bukharina comes to quietly hate the bureaucratic side of running the country, finding it to be overwhelming and mentally screaming to herself in frustration.
* BreakingTheCycleOfBadParenting: Her implementation of creches is intended to prevent awful parents from instilling negative values into their children and put them in the proper care of the community. Even if Bukharina doesn't break the family structure, Russians are still encouraged by her egalitarian values to end their families' unsavory traditions, such as the idea of women being forced to work at home.
* BreakingTheGlassCeiling: As a woman, Bukharin places special emphasis on gender equality and establishes the Gender Equality Commission so that women can enjoy the same liberties and living standards as men.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Svetlana Bukharina is the only potential leader of Komi that Tukhachevsky spares if he captures Komi, as he sees her as a valuable propaganda tool due to her popularity and name recognition.
* ChummyCommies: Bukharina is a genuinely progressive council communist, and rules over a democratic USSR, where the workers are empowered by a bicameral legislature and human rights are guaranteed by the legislature.
* DespairEventHorizon: If caught in her exile and about to be killed inside her getaway ZIS by an LMG, Bukharina loses all hope and whispers an apology to the Party, her friends, and, more importantly, her father for failing them.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Suslov promotes Bukharina because her magnetic charisma, intelligence, and relation with Bukharin will boost the popularity of his party. However, Bukharina has no interest in becoming his stooge for long and will try to take power herself when the opportunity arises.
* EnemyMine: In the upcoming elections, Bukharina is contacted by Suslov and Zhdanov about joining forces to eliminate the other. Bukharina knows that she won't be friends with whoever she allies with, but decides to pick either one so that she can accelerate her ascension.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: She is introduced as "The Seeker", where every member of the Communist Party in Komi can't help but constantly bring her father Nikolai up in every greeting and conversation with her. After brushing off their remarks and paying lip service to his legacy, Bukharina turns her attention to the upcoming meeting with analysis of the social developments amongst their numbers. She deduces Serov will soon be out of their ranks and takes note of the growing discontent the rest of their members have against Suslov and Zhdanov, biding her time until she can enter the scene as a player in her own right. Though many brush her off as living in her father's shadow, Bukharina lets it known that [[SilkHidingSteel she has her own agenda and the planning needed to see it happen]].
* EveryoneHasStandards: Though Bukharina is opposed to the idea of religion, she can condone violence against its proponents if she adopts a moderate stance to the issue, condemning a group of socialists for attacking five Muslim women.
* FishOutOfWater: She finds herself more comfortable meeting and negotiating with the common worker than being in her office or giving a speech to the Presidium, as she usually finds herself in her job.
* GoodIsNotDumb:
** Bukharina empowers the local soviets so they can represent themselves in the government and set their own quotas in the workplace. However, Bukharina is no fool and knows that people will take advantage of her idealism to lie in their reports and cheat the system. As such, she establishes a Directorate of Revolutionary Preservation to monitor potential dishonesty.
** She's aware that integrating West Siberia will not automatically make their populations loyal to her government, so she can optionally ramp up surveillance there to ensure that no violent revolts happen.
* GoodIsNotSoft: She advances a noble cause, but Bukharina is also willing to resort to murder or policing to remove her political rivals and climb up the hierarchy.
* HeroWorshipper: One of her idols is Alexandra Kollontai, one of the few female Old Bolsheviks who championed gender equality and the idea of Marxist feminism.
* HeroesGoneFishing:
** After cementing her rule in West Russia and eliminating potential political rivals, Bukharina relaxes in her private quarters by making some tea and silently conducting to the jazz music playing from her record player, all while lazily lounging in her chair.
** When Western Siberia is conquered, Bukharina takes a break from her job so she can enjoy a pleasant walk through Omsk and enjoy its natural beauties.
** Another one of her hobbies when not working is to read books about the rest of the world, analyzing images of Incan statues, African masks, and other cultural objects.
* HistoryRepeats: {{Defied}}. If Bukharina flees Komi after a different faction takes over, she will make the dangerous and difficult trek into Vologda, refusing to perish and repeat her father's presumed fate. With enough determination and her pet bird by her side, she succeeds.
* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: The real Svetlana Gurvich (as Bukharin's daughter was forced to take her mother's name after his execution) lived a rather uneventful life as a historian. Here, she is one of the most prominent members of the Komi left, and a politician capable of reunifying Russia under her banner and turning it into a benevolent Council Communist state through ruthless measures.
* HonestyIsTheBestPolicy: {{Downplayed}}. While Bukharina knows some things must be kept confidential, she can be transparent with the citizens and declassify state documents for the public to see and expose any corrupt government official for punishment. However, it can also be {{subverted}}, if Bukharina decides to keep these records classified for the sake of security, letting those officials escape justice.
* HopeSpot: When exiled in Komi and marked for capture, Bukharina will not waver in the face of overwhelming odds and gather her most devoted followers to organize and underground resistance. As her hopes soar and she hugs the nearest Unionist, government soldiers raid their meeting and arrest everyone present, in which it's implied that the person she hugged was the person who sold them out.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Despite proclaiming her devotion to egalitarianism, she may compromise on this principle if she doesn't legalize homosexuality on the basis that it'd be too troublesome, forcing this demographic to continue their relationships in secret rather than in the open.
* InternalReformist: Bukharina is a rising voice within Zhdanov's reformist faction in the Communist Party, espousing the need for stronger social equality, workplace democracy, and human rights.
* IronLady: Chairwoman Bukharina is willing to use coercive forces (including Yuri Andropov's SecretPolice) to keep watch on her government, preventing it from falling into anti-libertarian revisionism.
* NecessarilyEvil:
** Learning of the potential threat that Suslovite and Zhdanovite supporters pose to her rule, Bukharina commands the Directorate for Revolutionary Preservation to purge them. She feels guilty about resorting to such measures, but assures herself that they are necessary.
** She justifies her use of surveillance as a necessity to keep the government stable and ensure all people are being treated equally.
* NervousWreck: While she is nominating candidates for the Congress of the Soviets, Bukharina can't suppress her nerves and she begins trembling visibly. At one point, she jitters and stumbles, almost into a trip while trying to leave the podium.
* OddFriendship: Bukharina, a council communist, has a very good relationship with Yuri Andropov, the orthodox Marxist-Leninist secret police chief working for Suslov.
* OhCrap: If exiled and targeted, Bukharina will see a car driving up to her escort's old ZIS and visibly freak out when she sees that it's picking up more speed, hollering at her driver to go faster.
* PetTheDog:
** Bukharina is unfailingly kind to her pet bird, Karba, showing that, despite having a ruthless side, she's still a good person with noble goals in mind.
** Despite having an opportunity to assassinate Suslov and remove him as a political rival in the regional stage, Bukharina can also spare him because it would be immoral.
* PowerOfTrust: She may accept the idea that the people in West Russia weren't necessarily loyal to their reactionary government and try to build trust with them by smoothly integrating them, building a better country by the end.
* PragmaticHero:
** Bukharina is willing to ruthlessly purge her opponents, but she is a progressive and aims for the greater good of the people. It helps that her opponents are usually not very good people.
** Though Bukharina would like to start experimenting with small-scale communal raising through creches, she may deem the issue too troublesome and instead try to reform the family structure to be more egalitarian.
* ThePurge: In order to cement her rule and enforce her progressive social and economic policies, Bukharina will have to expel most of Suslov's and Zhdanov's supporters from the Party and keep watch on them for the rest of their lives, so they could not usurp power.
* RedeemingReplacement: She admits that Bukharin engaged in his fair share of repressive tactics and will redeem her family legacy by building a more benevolent incarnation of the Soviet Union, where the people do not need to fear being oppressed.
* ReligionIsWrong: Bukharina is opposed to organized religion as a tool used by the wealthy to keep the poor distracted and justify the unequal social hierarchy.
* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: In real life, Svetlana Gurvich-Bukharina, daughter of Nikolay Bukharin and his second spouse Esfir Gurvich, was a historian. In this timeline, she followed in her father's footsteps to become a politician, after witnessing Russia's destruction at the hands of fascists.
* ShootTheDog:
** After seizing power, Svetlana will subject many members of the centrist democratic government to show trials and execution.
** Bukharina can have Suslov [[spoiler:assassinated in the regional stage, if she decides that Suslov's influence, even after his demotion, is still too great and too harmful to her cause.]]
* SilkHidingSteel:
** Though Bukharina appears to be an easy target for Soviet ideologues to control, she does have her own political ambitions and can outmaneuver the other factions and come out on top.
** This trope also applies to how Bukharina rules: though she is genuinely progressive and libertarian, she is willing to use strong coercive measures to ensure that nobody can challenge her and stop her from realizing her vision.
* SixthRanger: Bukharina is the latest rising star in the KPK, eager to join the political scene and spearhead a revolution that will bring Russia back to its glory days.
* TheSpook: Bukharina is a mysterious figure who becomes the source of many rumors when she makes herself known. Some didn't even believe that she existed before her arrival.
* TakingUpTheMantle:
** Bukharina sees it as her duty to continue the legacy of Alexandra Kollontai, one of the few female Old Bolsheviks and an early champion of women's rights, who spearheaded the idea of Marxist feminism. Gender equality is enshrined as a significant part of the new Union's ideology and policy, ensuring that Russia is entrenched as a champion of equality and one of the first nations to truly confront the matter.
** In a more {{downplayed}} case, Bukharina will adopt similar economic policies to her father, reviving the Siberian Development Plan to build Russia's economy and infrastructure.
* WalkingTheEarth: After the Soviet Union collapsed and her father disappeared, Bukharina wandered aimlessly throughout West Russia, arriving in Komi when Operation Suvorov of the West Russian War started and only deciding to stay and get into politics when she witnessed the horrors of war inflicted on her country.
* WhatsUpKingDude: Her favorite part of the job is getting to personally meet with the unions and workers to befriend.
* WorthyOpponent: While she and Andropov are eating together, Bukharina tries to interrogate him about potential disloyalty in the Directorate, having a sniper monitor the situation and subtly pointing a pistol through her handbag at him. Andropov instantly notices and mentally notes some mistakes she's making, but he's nonetheless impressed by her boldness and leaves while giving her a tip on assassinations, leaving the Chairwoman flustered.
* YouCannotKillAnIdea: Even if she gets captured by the government after being exiled, Bukharina shows no fear to her captors, defiantly whispering to one of them that her work will leave a lasting legacy that will outlive her and one day liberate Russia.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After initiating her coup against Suslov in the pre-regional stage, Bukharina may turn on her co-conspirator, Zhdanov, at the last second, deeming him no longer useful to her plans and recognizing that she can force the vulnerable Suslov to give up his power anyway.
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!!Ultravisionary Successors (Unmaked Spoilers)

[[folder:Vladimir Chelomei]]
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->'''Role:''' People's Commissar of Defense[[note]]Security Minister[[/note]] (Presidium of the KPK and Zhdanov cabinet), Vice Premier[[note]]Heads of Government[[/note]] (Chelomei-favored Zhdanov cabinet), Head of State (Zhdanov succession)
->'''Party:''' Reformirovannaja Kommunisticheskaja Partija Sovetskogo Sojuza (Dal'novidnaja)[[note]]Reformed Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Visionary)[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Ultravisionary Socialism[[note]]Socialism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]A longtime member of the Ultravisionary faction, Vladimir Nikolayevich Chelomei became a household name within the movement through his tireless participation - and enormous success - within the Federation's space program.\\\
Trading on this recognition, as well as his ability to muster support amongst a broad range of influential figures within the Federation, he has been able to rapidly advance his standing, ascending to fill the office of Paramount Leader.\\\
One of the most prominent members of what could be considered the 'orthodox' wing of the Ultravisionary movement, Chelomei unsurprisingly holds true to many of the core tenets laid down by Zhdanov and other central figures. This includes strong support for initiatives relating to space exploration as well as the ideological concept of the ultravisionary superculture.\\\
Indeed, he believes this to such an extent that he holds it as a simple fact that space is the natural 'next frontier' of the terrestrial Cold War. Securing victory in space, therefore, means securing victory on Earth, and vice versa.\\\
And he intends to do everything possible to ensure that the Federation achieves that victory.[[/labelnote]]
The People's Commissar of Defense and the leader of the "Orthodox faction" of the Ultravisionary Communist Party, he wants to continue much of Zhdanov's core tenets and batshit crazy experiments.
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* BaddieFlattery: To secure her support, Chelomei can appeal to Furtseva, complimenting all the hard work she's done for Russia and promising her ample funding, if she backs his succession to become Vice Premier.
* BoringButPractical: One of his more grounded ideas is the Visionary Management Techniques program, which will introduce modern computers to the People's Commissariat of Central Records to make their work easier. Though less flashy than something like mind control, it's still a noteworthy advancement and, more significantly, prioritizing its implementation makes it more likely for the Commissariat to support him in the race to become Vice Premier.
* BrokenPedestal: Chelomei used to be idolized by Kardashev as a scientific genius and a model Ultravisionary. Unfortunately, when the two met, their conflicting work philosophies put them at odds with each other.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: After succeeding Zhdanov, Chelomei moves into his office and takes in satisfaction of what he'll do next, mainly thinking about what new programs he'll have to sponsor to advance the Ultravisionary cause. However, just as he's about to get to work, the game ends.
* CoolButInefficient: Like Zhdanov, Chelomei is entranced with inventions that sound cool on paper, but would be unfeasibly to actually deploy. For example, he rejects a proposal to increase agricultural productivity in Central Siberia so that there can be space for an electroconductive fluid to fuel exoplanetary mining.
* CrazyEnoughToWork: While trying to convince Mstislav Keldysh and the People's Commissariat of Science to support him becoming Vice Premier, Chelomei can promise to fund a project to achieve a Mars landing by 1980, a far more ambitious proposal than funding military technology. There's a far rarer chance to convince Keldysh if this option is chosen, but there's still a chance.
* EmperorScientist: Chelomei is an engineer by profession, and seeks to advance the Federation of Soviet Socialist Republics's space program.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Though he works for Zhdanov and believes in the potential of Ultravisionary Socialism, he's taken aback by Zhdanov's suggestion to create a currency based on energy rather than a traditional material, like gold, silver, or even national confidence. However, as he and Igor Kurchatov work harder on the proposal, he comes around to the idea as a liberation from monetary exploitation.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: An in-universe example when Chelomei is building support to become Vice Premier by currying favor from Alexander Sheremetyev. In their meeting, Chelomei presents a dossier of his economic plan called "Visionary Social Commitments". As Chelomei lampshades, the plan does what it's title implies, namely in shifting the country's industrial burden to the citizens so as to relieve the People's Commissariat of Industry from closely managing so much territory.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: {{Inverted}}
** When garnering support from the military, who will always support him in his bid to become Vice Premier, unlike Kardashev, who may have to resort to compromising to scrounge even the barest support from them.
** Vladimir Semichastny will also always support his bid, if he's approached before Kardashev.
* ForScience: Like Zhdanov, Chelomei is obsessed with new, cutting-edge technology. He specifically courts support from the People's Commissariat of Science by making lofty promises about funding more ambitious projects, including new weapons, mind control, or even a landing on Mars by 1980.
* GracefulLoser: If Kardashev wins a narrow victory to become Vice Premier, Chelomei will clearly be disappointed in the results, but nonetheless show grace to his opponent and accept his defeat with dignity.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: If Kardashev's influence is only slightly higher in the upcoming Presidium vote, Chelomei will recognize the futility in winning by that point because the winner would simply be too controversial to get anything done, so he can contact Kardashev to withdraw from the contest in exchange for some benefits, like a guaranteed seat in the Presidium.
* MadScientist: PlayedWith, as Chelomei isn't so much mad as he is amoral. Unlike Zhdanov, he actually is a competent scientist who knows what he's talking about. Nonetheless, he upholds his predecessor's tenets anyway because they let him justify his ambitious plans of securing the stars, at the expense of those on Earth.
* MeetTheNewBoss: Chelomei is the leader of the "orthodox" wing of the Ultravisionaries and seeks to maintain the core tenets and policies of Zhdanov's regime.
* MoodWhiplash: While looking for the enigmatic Vladimir Semichastny so he can count on his vote, Chelomei is led to a hidden room by a suspicious individual, where he feels intimidated by the darkness and isolation of the office. After what feels like an eternity for Chelomei, Semichastny finally arrives and suddenly cuts the suspense by abruptly informing him of his support, without so much as looking up at him. As he's being led out, Chelomei ends the scenario on a humorous note by thinking that Semichastny could've just sent a letter or a phone call.
* PragmaticVillainy: Chelomei can cease the persecution, possible pardon, the Old Reformers who were once oppressed by the Ultravisionaries in exchange for their support to become Vice Premier.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: If Kardashev secures his succession, he'll have Chelomei exiled to Orenburg, removing him as a future rival.
* RousingSpeech: {{Double Subverted}}. While presenting his bid to be Vice Premier, Chelomei makes a grandiose speech to the Board for Intersolar Activities, promising to expand the Soviet superculture across the stars and calling his opponent an unworthy successor who can't match the ambition of his goals. Unfortunately for him, the only reaction to his lecture is an awkward cough, with one of the audience members requesting for more specific promises before they commit to him. However, Chelomei can recover and gets a standing ovation if he sets a goal, particularly if it's a bolder one.
* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: In real life, Chelomei was an engineer who facilitated the creation of many weapons, such as the first anti ship cruise missiles and the Universal Rocket (UR) system. Here, he is a potential successor to Andrei Zhdanov as Paramount Leader of the Federation of Soviet Socialist Republics.
* TakingUpTheMantle: Chelomei is one of the two potential candidates for the Vice Premier when Igor Kurchatov retires and opens the position, establishing him as the second-most powerful person by Zhdanov and second in-line to the succession.
* TranquilFury: If his bid to win support from the Old Reformers fails, Chelomei will quietly fume over his failure, knowing that the power struggle with Kardashev has just gotten more difficult.
* VillainousBreakdown: If the People's Commissariat of Science rejects his proposal to support his Vice Premier bid, Chelomei will crumple up the paper and angrily mock their attempt to be impartial.
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[[folder:Nikolai Kardashev]]
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->'''Role:''' Vice Premier[[note]]Head of Government[[/note]] (Kardashev-favored Zhdanov cabinet), Head of State (Zhdanov succession)
->'''Party:''' Reformirovannaja Kommunisticheskaja Partija Sovetskogo Sojuza (Dal'novidnaja)[[note]]Reformed Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Visionary)[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Ultravisionary Socialism[[note]]Socialism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]One of the youngest senior figures within the Ultravisionary faction, Nikolai Semyonovich Kardashev is also perhaps one of the most prominent, inextricably linked with the movement through his development of one of its foundations - the eponymous Kardashev scale.\\\
A method of evaluating the level of technological advancement of a society he, along with everyone else within the faction, ensures that every policy acts to increase it. This, together with his natural administrative abilities and affable personality, allowed him to rapidly advance towards the office of Paramount Leader.\\\
A physicist by education and trade, Kardashev takes his goal of scientific advancement very seriously. Despite this, however, he is not a member of the so-called 'orthodox' wing of the faction, and indeed disagrees with many of their projects and pursuits. Dismissing the many pseudo-scientific pursuits of others towards a nebulous 'superculture,' he instead concentrates upon economic affairs.\\\
This expresses itself in his tireless advocacy and pursuit of developments supporting what he considers to be true ultravisionary socialism - a fusion economy where science serves the people and permits the creation of a post-scarcity society. Though many scoff at this dream, Kardashev knows it is achievable.\\\
And he intends to make sure that it is so realized.[[/labelnote]]
The People's Commissar of Energy under Zhdanov. He is not a member of the orthodox wing of the Ultravisionary party, and seeks to move away from Zhdanov's pseudo-scientific developments in favor of more practical scientific-economic developments.
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* BadassPacifist: Unlike Chelomei, Kardashev advocates a peaceful, exploratory program that will search the cosmos and non-violently industrialize space for the good of the human race. Compared to his rival, his agenda has far better reception when it is presented to the Board for Intersolar Activities.
* BoringButPractical:
** Compared to Chelomei, Kardashev's proposed space technologies are relatively grounded and practical, such as zero-gravity experiments and programs on how to travel space safely.
** Another grounded proposal of his is to increase productivity in the industry sector and presenting this plan is how he can rally support from Alexander Sheremetyev, the People's Commissar of Industry. His scheme can rely on modest sources like increased electrical availability per year rather than nuclear fusion. The more practical it is, the more likely it is for Sheremetyev to throw his support behind Kardashev.
** While trying to convince Alexey Poskonov and the People's Commissariat of Central Records to support him becoming Vice Premier, Kardashev presents the relatively feasible program of cybernetic management, which means using computers to make their work easier and increasing the bureaucracy's efficiency.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: The final event of his succession ends with Kardashev sitting in Zhdanov's office and moving his stuff in before he starts thinking about what needs to be fixed in the country and preparing to get to work.
* ADegreeInUseless: {{Subverted}}. With the Soviet Union in anarchy, Kardashev's doctorate is effectively worthless and he's seemingly condemned to a life of writing useless intellectual theories, but it finally comes in handy when Zhdanov finds his work and recruits him to the People's Commissariat of Science.
* EmperorScientist: Kardashev is a physicist by education and trade, and takes his goal of scientific development very seriously. Compared to Zhdanov and Chelomei, Kardashev is generally less authoritarian and strongly disagrees with the nebulous HollywoodScience of the orthodox Ultravisionaries, believing that more grounded scientific advancements can achieve their desired, classless society.
* EveryoneHasStandards: He is among the many Ultravisionaries who are horrified by Zhdanov's proposal to back the ruble's value on state energy output, knowing the catastrophic ruin it would bring to the economy.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: {{Inverted}}.
** When assembling support from the Old Reformers to become Vice Premier. As the less politically repressive of the two potential successors, Kardashev will always earn their support by easing the government's suppression of them.
** Despite being unable to locate his office, Kardashev can always rely on the support of Vladimir Semichastny when he's focused on, with the latter sending a letter pledging his approval.
* GoodCounterpart: In contrast to Zhdanov, Kardashev genuinely believes in the promises of Ultravisionary Socialism, but believes that science should serve the people, not the other way around. While in contrast to Trofim Lysenko, he not only rebukes pseudoscientific ideological pretentions, but also adopts a more benevolent hand to help the people instead of treating the population as fodder for experiments.
* GracefulLoser: If Chelomei gets narrowly elected to become Vice Premier, Kardashev will be displeased, but remain calm and respectfully accept his defeat.
* HeelRealization: While Kardashev joined the nascent Ultravisionaries under the assumption that Zhdanov's claims of reform and progress were sincere, it didn't take too long before he caught to what was being passed for "orthodoxy". He thus begins advocating for a genuine Ultravisionary Socialism where science and the disciplines serve the people, not the other way around.
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Famous as an astrophysicist that devised the Kardashev scale, which indicates how much power a civilisation uses. Not only does he adopt involvement in politics, but he also strives to either reform the worst excesses of a totalitarian regime (if he succeeds Zhdanov) or overcome a mad regime's collapse (when he ends up leading the Chelyabinsk Institute after Sergey Taboritsky's Holy Russian Empire collapses).
* HistoricalInJoke: If Kardashev is narrowly voted into the position of Vice Premier, Chelomei (instead of Kardashev, in the full victory scenario) will promote a member from the state's nuclear directorate to take his position of the People's Commissar of Energy: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Dyatlov Anatoly Dyatlov]], the OTL deputy chief engineer of the [[UsefulNotes/{{Chernobyl}} Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant]], and the supervisor of the safety test that resulted in the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
* InSpiteOfANail: Despite the changed circumstances, his idea of a civilization scale garners the approval of Zhdanov and named the Kardashev Scale in his honor.
* InternalReformist: Kardashev disagrees with the orthodox wing of the Ultravisionaries in many ways, most prominently their pursuit of the ultravisionary superculture, and seeks to reform Ultravisionary Socialism toward his vision, away from the hardliners' pseudoscience. However, he will face an uphill battle getting rid of Ultravisionary Socialism's worst elements.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: If Chelomei only holds a slight lead in the Presidium vote, Kardashev may take a deal with Chelomei to make the latter Vice Premier on several conditions because continuing the roughly even struggle could have adverse effects on the country.
* TheLastDJ: Kardashev is a true believer in Ultravisionary Socialism, or rather what it ought to be. Given the chance, he would see that it actually lives up to the name in the service of the people. Whether it's by succeeding Zhdanov or surviving the post-Taboritsky wasteland.
* LongGame: Kardashev's ultimate, long-term goal is to set up a fuel economy, dependent on fuel, a resource common in space. Though the plan impresses Zhdanov, Kardashev has to keep this plan on the downlow because the infrastructure needed to kickstart it will take years and especially because the succession crisis of Kurchatov is of greater importance to the Presidium. It's much better for Kardashev to heed caution than continue advertising fusion's importance because it makes it more likely that Zhdanov will favor him as a successor.
* NervousWreck: Kardashev is a brilliant scientist, but also wracked with nerves and occasionally imprudent.
* PostScarcityEconomy: Kardashev's ultimate goal is the creation of a post-scarcity society fueled by a fusion economy where science serves the people, something which he considers to be true Ultravisionary Socialism.
* RankUp: After being recruited by Zhdanov, Kardashev finds himself rapidly promoted through the ranks, up to becoming the People's Commissar of Energy. Kardashev feels pretty overwhelmed by how quickly he's advancing in a short timeframe.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: If Chelomei secures his succession, he'll have Kardashev reassigned to Sverdlovsk as a nuclear power plant supervisor, effectively exiling him.
* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: In real life, Kardashev was an astrophysicist famous for devising the [[JustForFun/AbusingTheKardashevScaleForFunAndProfit Kardashev scale]], which indicates how much power a civilisation uses, but never had any involvement in politics. Here, he is a prominent member of the Ultravisionary movement, and a potential successor to Andrei Zhdanov as Paramount Leader of the Federation of Soviet Socialist Republics.
* ScienceHero: Kardashev is determined to build a better society through science, whether he succeeds Zhdanov or establishes the Chelyabinsk Institute after the Holy Russian Empire falls into anarchy.
* TakingUpTheMantle: After Igor Kurchatov retires from being Vice Premier in the superregional stage, Kardashev can succeed him in this role and become Zhdanov's second-in-command and future successor.
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Not so much "cruelty" as in "apathy". When Kardashev is trying to curry support from the People's Commissar of Science for his bid to become Vice Premier, Kardashev can talk about investing in asteroid mining or other impressive technologies without mentioning its benefit to the people. Doing so makes it more likely for the department to withdraw support and remain neutral in the vote.
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!! Other Important People
[[folder:Boris Ponomaryov]]
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (KPK takeover), Chairman of the Council of Ministers[[note]]Head of Government[[/note]] (Suslov cabinet)
->'''Ideology:''' Marxism-Leninism[[note]]Communism[[/note]]
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* BaitAndSwitch: Early on, Boris Ponomaryov arrives to Komi, with fears circulating that he's going to be a rising star among the communists. A subsequent police investigation reveals that Ponomaryov is a lot more mediocre than they thought, being a toady for Suslov who would never be a threat on his own.
* GenericGuy: Beneath his bravado, Ponomaryov is a terribly uninteresting figure. He's spent most of the Russian anarchy being a lacky to Suslov inside the WRRF before being recalled back to Komi.
* TheFace: He's impressive at delivering speeches and swaying the masses against the Center, but he's virtually powerless on his own and is a tool for the true mastermind, Suslov.
* PokeThePoodle: Whenever he went out drinking with his friends, Ponomaryov would often skip paying the bill.
* PuppetKing: If the KPK violently takes over Komi, Ponomaryov will be installed as a figurehead leader until Suslov, Bukharina or Zhdanov can gather enough influence.
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[[folder:Yuri Andropov]]
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Election), Minister of State Security[[note]]Security Minister[[/note]] (Presidium of the KPK, Suslov/Bukharina cabinet)
->'''Ideology:''' Marxism-Leninism[[note]]Communism[[/note]], Revolutionary Front[[note]]Socialism[[/note]] (Election)
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* DragonWithAnAgenda: Andropov works for Suslov, but he's also keenly interested in Bukharina and her surprising expertise in politicking. Impressed by her rise to power, he later joins her cause, defecting from his old boss in the process.
* TheDreaded: Throughout the KPK, Andropov is feared as Suslov's attack dog, interrogating and purging those deemed a threat to the General Secretary's vision. Even when he is imprisoned by the Ultravisionaries, a general feeling of unease still surrounds the man.
* GreatEscape: If Zhdanov outplays Suslov and Bukharina, Andropov is thrown in jail and held there, until he masterminds an elaborate escape plan that goes off without a hitch.
* HistoricalDowngrade: Yuri Andropov, the third to last General-Secretary of the USSR in our world, is merely a member of the Communist Party branch in Komi. He's a supporting character in Bukharina's campaign and works as her security minister, but does not have the chance to lead the reborn Union.
* HyperCompetentSidekick: {{Downplayed}}. Suslov and Bukharina are powerful schemers in their own right, but Andropov plays a key role in building up their political power. Once he defects to Bukharina's side, she quickly rises to become one of Suslov's chief rivals.
* NonAnswer: When Suslov asks for a report on Bukharina, Andropov gets nervous for a brief second and suggests that they ignore her as a minor threat. Despite the vague answer, Suslov catches on to Bukharina's power play to take control of the KPK and sets the stage for a conflict between the two.
* PragmaticHero: On the surface, he's a shady individual who purges those who pose a threat to his superiors, but he does help Bukharina in her quest to create a free and democratic USSR.
* TheSpymaster: Andropov is one of Suslov's most important enforcers, tasked with eliminating anyone in the KPK who earns his ire. If Bukharina takes over Komi, she tasks him with the same job of rooting out counter-revolutionary activity.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Whether working for Suslov or Bukharina, Andropov will always have the same work of searching through dossiers and judging who can be spared and who should be killed to secure his boss' power. The only substantial change Andropov notes while working for Bukharina is that his coffee tastes better.
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* AdventurerArchaeologist: In Gumilyov's Project Agartha, he sends Dmitry Ivanov, a former soldier and scientist, to travel to Tibet and plunder ancient relics closely guarded by isolated monk guards.
* AmbiguousSituation: If Ivanov goes to the monastery or village and explores the valley, he spots some movement on the end of a cave, but as he rushes over, only a footprint is left behind in the snow. Who or what he saw is never revealed.
* AssociationFallacy:
** In Project Agartha, Ivanov can go to the mountain pass and analyze the rocks to find evidence of Tibetans having a shared history with Russians and proving the Eurasian concept. His geologist finds that the rocks found in Tibet are the same ones found in the Urals, using this as evidence that the geology of Eurasia is continuous and concluding that Tibetans must be of the same superethnos as Russians. Conversely, if they study the river, they find it to be much cleaner than the ones in Russia, thus coming to a different conclusion that Tibet is automatically not associated with Russia and breaking the Eurasian concept.
** Meanwhile, if Ivanov traveled to the village and questioned the elders, he will hear familiar mythology of creatures like demons and witches, so he concludes that Russia and Tibet must've once been united under a Eurasian entity.
* LesCollaborateurs: Some of the Passionariyy's generals, like Viktor Larionov and Gleb Sluchenkov, used to be members of the Russian Liberation Army who collaborated with the German Reich.
* CircularReasoning: Gumilyov can commission Project Golden Legacy to uncover ancient sites in West Russia that would prove the superiority of the Eurasian civilization. However, in the success scenario, the excavators treat ''any'' find as superior because it is of Eurasian design; essentially stating that the artifacts are superior because they're Eurasian and the Eurasian culture is superior because the artifacts are good.
* EnemyMine: All of the Passionariyy leaders have wildly different ideologies from each other and only aligned based on mutual enmity with the Left and Center.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Most of the Passionariyy finds Taboritsky to be mad, even by their standards. They can attempt to sideline him as a pariah and the only reason why they can work with him is because his popularity is useful to their cause.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: If Ivanov and his team reach the monastery, they can request the monks there to show them their sacred texts. The monks hospitably oblige, but come the next day, they find their libraries completely empty and their guests gone without a hint of gratitude.
* HiddenDepths: If Ivanov chooses to meditate with the monks in the monastery, his team's equipment will rust and fail the expedition, causing Ivanov to begin cursing the "unfair government and cruel tyrants" that rule the world, indicating that he's aware of the broken world he's living in and not truly committed to the Eurasian cause.
* IgnoredExpert: In Project Solar Flare, Gumilyov sends a Eurasian delegation to visit a museum in Shanxi and examine their artifacts to determine if China is a part of Eurasia. As they draw similarities to the artifacts found in Russia and use it as evidence of a shared Eurasian history, the curator tells them the unlikelihood of their theory, noting the stark temporal and geographical differences of the objects. Unfortunately, he ends up ignored under the justification that new discovers are constantly being made and the delegation sticks to their pseudoscience.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: One of the Passionariyy leaders commits so many horrific atrocities that the other three pale in comparison. [[spoiler:It's Taboritsky.]]
* MissingStepsPlan: If Ivanov reaches an isolated village during his expedition, he can try to eavesdrop on any gossip to find information proving Tibet to be connected with Russia and verifying the Eurasian concept. Unfortunately, he didn't come up with any plan to make the villagers spill any useful information and, by the time the helicopters arrive to pick up the team, Ivanov has nothing to show for his investments.
* MultiNationalTeam: Gumilyov's Eurasianists play host to many ethnicities, even ones that had once been oppressed by the Russian Empire, such as the Tatars.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Most of the Passionariyy are varying degrees of racist towards Russian ethnic minorities. It's very telling that one of the only major things the various factions of the Passionariyy share in common is anti-Semitism; even Gumilyov, who is generally much more accepting of virtually every other kind of minority in Russia, discriminates against the Jewish population.
* PragmaticVillainy: Even though Gumilyov founded and leads the Passionariyy, their candidate for the 1963 election is Shafarevich because he's the only one of its leaders who's not wildly unorthodox or batshit insane.
* RedScare: The Passionariyy is vehemently opposed to communism and one of their first actions after their coup is to target Suslov and his band of fellow ideologues.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In the fail scenarios of Projects Steppe Sun and Across the Wall, the Eurasian raiding party will be beaten and forced to retreat the regions they are trying to invade.
* ShadowArchetype: The ideologies of the Passionaries can be seen as hateful perversions of ideologies present elsewhere in Russia. Shafarevich's "Compassionate Conservatism" is a corruption of actual conservative liberal democracy; Serov's Ordosocialism of Marxism, and Taboritsky's Imperial Cult of Russian monarchism and Orthodox Christianity.
* SignedUpForTheDental: Many bureaucrats work for Gumilyov's empire because the pay is good and it's better than being worked to death in the factories and sent to die in the army.
* TheStoolPigeon: In Serov's Russia, the citizens and soldiers are pressured into naming anyone who breaks the Ordosocialist doctrine. When Serov demands a crowd to raise their hand if they know any suspected traitors, he gets worried looks at first, until he raises his voice again and intimidates them to start confessing.
* ThrowTheDogABone: If Gumilyov makes it to the superregional stage, a mining crew finally gets a stroke of luck when they find a vein of gold and now have the wealth to cover their debts, a rare triumphant moment in the miserable living conditions of Eurasia.
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[[folder:Lev Gumilyov]]
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Passionariyy election)
->'''Party:''' Passionariyy[[note]]Passionarians[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Eurasianism[[note]]Despotism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Lev Nikolayevich Gumilyov, the only child of famous poets Anna Akhmatova and Nikolay Gumiylov, spent most of his youth being persecuted by the Soviet power for his unreliable ancestry and unorthodox scholarly views. In the years of his exile and wandering across Russia, he thoroughly studied history and ethnography, introducing the concept of passionarity, which postulates that the rise and fall of every historical ethnos is driven by the Passionariyy, the few people who change their environment and society to their vision, driving the history of their people forward. Instead of reducing his discovery to a merely academic matter, he saw that the salvation of Russia lies in the practical application of his theory and fancied himself as the one who will bring the passionarity of the Russian super-ethnos to its maximum heat. Being rejected and ignored by Russian warlords, Gumilyov found his supporters in Komi, among those Russians who felt betrayed and disenfranchised by the Bolsheviks and democrats alike.\\\
Gumilyov's deep erudition, amiable personality and impeccable charisma attracted almost every shade of the right-wing in Ust-Sysolsk under his banner, making him the patriarch of the Russian nationalism overnight. The Passionariyy initially were considered an underdog of the Komi politics, however, as Gumilyov proved himself not just as an ardent Russian patriot and charming, if slightly eccentric, ideologue, but also as a ruthless manipulator who does not shun any means to achieve his goals, the right-wing extremism became a force that prevailed over every other political group in Komi.\\\
Though Gumilyov emerged as an indisputable master of Ust-Sysolsk, his ultimate agenda remains unknown to anyone due to his chameleonic and sometimes even opportunistic nature. Whether if he wishes to appeal to the whims of his nationalistic supporters or he decides to pursue his own dream of the Eurasian civilizational empire, the whole Russia stands in waiting of his Scythian advance to bring the dying Western world down.[[/labelnote]]

Russian intellectual turned the leader of the Passionariyy. After the Soviet collapse, Gumilyov took up politics and developed to a political version of his Eurasian superethnos theory, and founded the Passionariyy to organize nationalist political support. Now a major player in Komi politics, Gumilyov envisions a reunified Eurasian civilizational state, a great empire descended from the steppe civilizations, able to bring down the decaying civilizational enemies of Eurasia.
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%%* AllohistoricalAllusion: Gumilyov's TNO Eurasianism, which is politicized and focuses on building a Russian-centered Eurasian empire, is closer to the Eurasianism of infamous Russian far-right political philosopher Aleksandar Dugin.
* TheAssimilator: According to him, all Eurasians are part of the same superethnos and their cultures must be subordinated into a union, albeit still keeping their distinct identities through Constituent Ethnostates that make up the nation as a whole.
* AristocratsAreEvil: He reestablishes the socially stratified hierarchy of the old Tsardom, where most of the population is ruled by a "masterocracy" of Eurasian elites. He even specifically encourages these elites to flaunt their wealth to show off their noble status.
* BaitTheDog:
** When informed that his economic restrictions are putting a strain on small businesses, Gumilyov agrees to ease up his taxation policies. That is, if these businesses agree to a voluntary buyout so they're now owned by a corporation.
** One of his seemingly kinder actions is to establish the Eurasian Food Bank so no one will go hungry. Unfortunately, the only food given out are grains and vegetables native to the recipient's culture. Luxuries like meat and alcohol are strictly reserved for the elite. In some places, like Perm, it's enough to buy the citizens' loyalty anyway.
* BeneathTheEarth: Eurasia builds underground bunkers as part of trying to equip itself with nuclear weapons.
* BoringButPractical: Gumilyov relies on submarines to rebuild the navy. They're unimpressive, but cheap and easy to crew, making them sufficient tools to project into the Pacific.
* BrokenSystemDogmatist: Gumilyov ignores any social ills that come with the neo-medieval hierarchy he establishes. In order to be a Eurasian, one must exhibit the values of purity, loyalty, and strength, which means not complaining about one's station in life and enduring whatever disadvantages they face.
* BullyingADragon: After reunifying West Russia, Gumilyov sends a letter to Germanyand Italy, denouncing them as an enemy to the Eurasian superethnos and swearing to destroy their empires in a merciless invasion to destroy the Romano-Germanics. The foreign ministries' only response is to call him a barbarian.
* ButThouMust:
** In Project Like Father, Gumilyov sends an expedition team to Iran so they can excavate some remnant of Timur the Great's legacy, but the Iranian government demands something in return for access to Khorasan. Gumilyov can offer steel, military assets, or aluminum mines, but they all lead to a partial success, with the team finding some pottery and tools, but end up ambushed by a bandit attack and unable to find any direct connection linking Timur to Eurasia.
** In Project Old Mother, Gumilyov discovers a Mughal fortress in India that could be significant to Eurasia's history, but before he can send a delegation to investigate, he must give some form of aid to the local villages so they can be allowed to excavate the area. He can offer modern equipment, hunters to help them find food, or funding so they can support themselves, but all of these choices lead to a success, where the team is allowed to loot the Mughal fortress of its artifacts.
* CheatersNeverProsper: {{Inverted}} in his debate over the Eurasian concept's legitimacy. When his opponents select five, unbiased judges, Gumilyov can cheat by either replacing some of them with his own supporters or bribing them to favor his arguments, but both options will give an early advantage to him and he won't get caught for it.
* TheChessmaster: Like Suslov, Gumilyov is also trying to manipulate events in Komi for his own political gain.
* CondescendingCompassion: Gumilyov disdains the "ethnos of tradesmen and hucksters" who are out to soil the Eurasian superethnos, but he ''tries'' to remove some blame from them by claiming they just had bad fortune with evolution and unwillingly became a "culture of vampires". And that's before he deports them out of Eurasia to be rid of them.
* CrazyPrepared: Gumilyov sets up numerous backups and contingency plans in case his Eurasian experiment goes awry and to ensure that it remains efficient at all times.
* DaysOfFuturePast: After Gumilyov unites Western Russia, he works to create a highly-stratified anti-modernist socio-economic structure embodying the Eurasian superethnos called the "Masterocracy". It mimics ancient societies with fierce warriors, exploited peasants, and a rich state-associated nobility. He also persecutes the bourgeoisie in order to distance his society from "Atlanticism".
* DeadlyEuphemism:
** He praises his own economic policies as a fortune for Russia and expects the other Eurasian ethnoses to embrace it. However, Gumilyov darkly notes that there will need to be "some encouragement" to make this transition.
** Anyone who questions his encouragement of hyper-militarism is sentenced to "some re-education".
* DefeatMeansMenialLabor: After sending the military to crack down on a wide scale protest, Gumilyov offers mercy to those who agree to work in the factories as a slave.
* DefiantStoneThrow: After several rounds of his debate over a Eurasian nation's legitimacy, Gumilyov gets hit with a small stone by one of the audience members, causing the entire court to devolve into violence and half ot he university to burn down.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: In the Eurasian Dream mission, Gumilyov can send a message of condemnation to Germany, Japan, and the United States, deeming them all inferior to the Eurasian superethnos and promising to destroy them when the time is right. The superpowers react with indignation to his audacity.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Gumilyov integrates specialized ethnic regiments to the military so they can be commanded by Russian officers, but he neglected to offer any education so they can speak and comprehend Russian. This ends up creating a LanguageBarrier hindering the military's capabilities, frustrating the commanders.
* EnemyMine: While his ultimate goal is Eurasianist, Gumilyov can decide to throw a few strategic bones to Russian nationalists in his nation, trading the long-term legitimization of his ideology for short-term political stability.
* EnlightenedSelfInterest: A very myopic and self-righteous example. Gumilyov genuinely believes that he's doing the Jewish and Roma people a favor by deporting them out of the country by preventing future conflicts with the Eurasian superethnos, which will free his own civilization of their "burden".
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Being a Eurasianist, Gumilyov sees Eurasian minorities like the Tatars, the Kazakhs, or the Buryats as equals to Russians. Whereas other far-right Russians would persecute these Russian minorities, Gumilyov is willing to accommodate them as Eurasians. He is however antagonistic/"racist" towards other superethnoses, especially the Romano-Germanics (i.e. the Europeans). More specifically, Gumilyov wants to recruit the Central Asian nations in their coming war to liberate Moskowien and the Caucasus, using the term "Komplementarnost" to highlight the complementary natures of their ethnicities and the need to find strength through unity.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Gumilyov has pretty eccentric, elitist beliefs, but he thinks that Taboritsky's ideas are completely insane.
** He personally disapproves of becoming a singular autocrat in the vein of the Tsars or dictators in Europe, though this is more out of disgust of taking inspiration from Romano-Germanics. However, he also has the option to forgo this standard and embrace this idea, justifying that tyranny is a key tenet of Eurasianism.
** Despite proclaiming the necessary conflict between Eurasians and Atlanticists, Gumilyov isn't single-mindedly focused on conquest, correctly believing that it would just lead Eurasia to destruction.
** Gumilyov is disgusted by the Russian nationalists who call themselves "Eurasianists", namely in their blatant prejudice against ethnic minorities who they should be working with.
* ExtremeSpeculativeStratification: Social mobility is not a thing that exists in Gumilyov's Eurasia. The lower classes are taxed so much that they are barely able to survive, the middle class is all but non-existent, and the higher classes are despots whose every word is law. They have no need for 'checks and balances' when they possess a purity of purpose that eclipses all else they might desire.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: The idea of pan-nationalism and cooperation across superethnoses eludes Gumilyov's mind, who is boggled by how the United States can be home to many races across the world and avoid disintegrating from ethnic tension.
* ExternalCombustion: Gumilyov can get assassinated while he's trying to flee Komi when his car is rigged to explode, ironically when he's in the middle of pondering over how he can recover from this setback and continue the Eurasian dream.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: If Tukhachevsky conquers the Komi Republic, Gumilyov bids an affable farewell to his executioners before being killed, contrasting with how the other members of the Passionariyy begin to panic at their impending deaths.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption:
** {{Inverted}} with some projects of the Eurasian Dream mission.
*** Project Cold Waters, in which Gumilyov's expedition will always recover lost Russian vessels in the Arctic , with one specifically named "Zaytseva".
*** Project Solar Flare, in which a Eurasian delegation visits the Xi'an Banpo Museum in Shanxi and note similarities in the Chinese artifacts with the ones in Eurasia, thereby concluding that China is a part of Eurasia.
*** Project Old Mother, in which an excavation team is sent to plunder a Mughal fortress in India and find important treasures there, including a weapon from the Caucus that is perceived evidence for a Eurasian nation's existence.
** However, it's played straight for others.
*** Project Porcelain King, Gumilyov's effort to locate the tombs of ancient Chinese emperors. The scenario can only end with the Nanjing government rejecting their request to start an excavation or with the Eurasian delegation only able to find a mass grave of those killed in a Mongol invasion, but nothing of true worth.
*** Project Final Rest sends a team of scientists to Mongolia so they can find the remains of Genghis Khan, but it will never succeed.
*** Project Far Flung has some Eurasian scientists travel to Vietnam so they can investigate a theorized battle with Mongolian invaders that would prove the Eurasian concept. However, even if the Vietnamese government gives them permission to access their land, the scientists are unable to find hard evidence proving their theory and just find some skeletons and rusted weapons that could be spun by the propagandists.
*** Project Brutus organizes a bombing attack against the Colosseum in Rome to destroy a key symbol of Romano-Germanic civilization. However, the agent is only able to smuggle in a messily created, small bomb that detonates before he can reach the Colosseum, dealing limited damage to the structure. It can only really be called a success because it kills or injures several people, thereby terrifying the Italian nation. The scenario can also end in an even less triumphant outcome, if the police track him down early and force the terrorist to blow himself up in an isolated farmstead.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He seems polite enough to his subordinates and compliments them whenever they tell him what he likes to hear. However, if they express any hesitancy about his ideas, Gumilyov's demeanor darkens.
* GotVolunteered:
** If there's anyone who can't serve in the military, Gumilyov forces them to work in the factories, whether they want to or not.
** To develop nuclear weapons, Gumilyov will conduct a nationwide search for any nuclear scientists who have since retired after the Soviet Union fell, forcibly conscripting them to renew Bukharin's old nuclear program from the 1940's.
* HeroWorshipper:
** Some of Gumilyov's idols include Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, and Catherine the Great, seeing them as powerful leaders and conquerors who managed to unite the Eurasian people in their empires.
** Many of his military reforms are inspired by Attila the Hun, whom Gumilyov considers one of the greatest commanders in history and a blueprint for the Eurasian army.
* HistoricalInJoke: Gumilyov's flag for the State of Eurasia has the color palette of the flag of Aleksandr Dugin's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasia_Party Eurasia Party]], and the symbol of a Scythian deer from the flag of the [[http://newskif.su/2017/4520/ New Scythians]] movement.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade:
** Gumilyov's beliefs in TNO are far more politicized and supremacist than OTL, with many Duginist influences. The real Gumilyov had little interest in "physicalizing" his theoretical Eurasia into a Eurasian empire. Politically, the real Gumilyov was largely apathetic, and, unlike the far-right Neo-Eurasians that appropriated his theories, he never criticized democracy, liberalism, or Russian Catholicism, and he certainly wasn't interested in pushing Russia back into the Middle Ages with "Masterocracy".
** One other key difference is that the real-world Gumilyov did not go so far as to argue for the ''supremacy'' of one ethnose over all others; that was largely a misappropriation of his ideas by later disciples.
* HordesFromTheEast: Gumilyov embraces the ferocious military culture of the Hunnic and Mongolian nomads, and applies it to his Eurasian National Army.
* {{Hypocrite}}: For all his talk of opposing Romano-Germanic culture, he bases the Eurasian Constitution off of Germany's Führerprinzip.
* InsultBackfire:
** Gumilyov is mockingly called a spider for his complex manipulations in Komi politics. Gumilyov embraces this title and intends to use his careful planning to guide a Eurasian revolution.
** Many have decried Gumilyov's reign as a blatant dictatorship that oppresses the middle and lower classes, encourages militaristic sentiments, and creates a permanently unequal society where mobility is virtually non-existent. Gumilyov does not deny a single one of these accusations and is actually proud of them.
* IWorkAlone: Unlike most other Komi leaders, Gumilyov has no wish to pursue foreign diplomacy, considering it a potential avenue for corruptive Atlanticist ideas.
* IntellectuallySupportedTyranny: Gumilyov prefers to privilege the intelligentsia where he can, placing the best and brightest Eurasianists in his inner circle to be guided by and eventually succeed him. When dissident academics challenge his Eurasianist theories at the regional stage, he has the option of purging them as he would anyone else, or humoring them with a debate (which he can attempt to rig to his benefit if he so chooses). How successful Eurasia has been in their archaeological expeditions and in reclaiming territory from Finland determines how well the debate goes for him. Although he has no compunctions about purging "minor" academics in defeat, he desires scholarly acclaim for the Eurasian concept.
* JustTheFirstCitizen: {{Downplayed}}. Gumilyov can reject the notion of being the singular ruler of Eurasia and identify himself as a spiritual leader who guides and shares power with an Ideocratic elite. However, pamphlets still emphasize him as the great savior of Eurasia.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: As Gumilyov begins centralizing the economy for himself to control, it will inevitably start abusing and taking away the power of the aristocratic class, who seek to exploit the rest of the nation to selfishly inflate their own profits.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm:
** Gumilyov has given up on building a massive navy on the basis that Eurasians are not known for fighting at sea, citing the Russo-Japanese War as proof. The Eurasian National Navy is specifically designed for defensive purposes only.
** If set to be captured after his exile, Gumilyov will hear the government soldiers raid his hideout, but do nothing to escape, since there's nowhere left to go. Instead, he smokes his last cigarette before he goes to prison and even hands his packet to the soldier who finds him so he can buy time to finish his own.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Though tyrannical, Gumilyov does advocate cooperation and integration with ''some'' ethnicities, unlike his Russian nationalist supporters who manifest all of his worst qualities, combine them with an even more xenophobic streak, and become increasingly at odds with their leader. Tellingly, Gumilyov leads the moderate, despot Evraziytsy wing of the Passionariyy in contrast to the more extreme Shovinistry wing that make up the fascist and ultranationalist slots.
* TheLeader: Gumilyov is the leader of the Passionariyy in both ideology and in spirit, uniting the diverse band of far-right factions into a coherent force by endorsing ultranationalist ideals and appealing to populism.
* MasterRace: Gumilyov considers Eurasians to be the noblest and mightiest of all superethnoses in the world, while the others are soft, weak and not even worth ruling over. He can descend even further into this trope if he accepts the idea that Russians should be acknowledged as the supreme ethnos above all other Eurasians.
* MeetTheNewBoss:
** Despite claiming all Eurasian races to be equal to each other, many ethnic minorities find little difference in their socio-economic status because the hierarchy is so stratified that social mobility is non-existent. Worse still, the ruling class is largely made up of Russians, essentially repeating the pattern of Russian autocracies dominating ethnic minority groups.
** While he himself isn't prejudiced against Eurasian groups, he does play host to Russian nationalists who hate having to integrate ethnic minorities into their empire and spread ideas that Russians alone should rule, indicating that the country might once more backslide into rampant racism and ethnic cleansing.
--->''Russia for Russians; Eurasia will be no different.''
* MegaCorp: Gumilyov relies on some private corporations who are managed by the state bureaucracy and given contracts to extract a quota of resources. Those who prove themselves worthy will be rewarded and given more privileges.
* MonumentalDamage: Gumilyov plots to have the Colosseum in Rome bombed to "prove" the superiority of the Eurasian peoples over the "Romano-Germanics".
* NeverRecycleABuilding: {{Subverted}}. Gumilyov specifically recycles the old bunkers in Omsk to conduct confidential nuclear tests there.
* NoTrueScotsman: Gumilyov does not consider European Slavs to be like Russians and therefore in the same superethnos. According to him, these races have been "assimilated" into the Romano-Germanic superethnos and thus just as much of an enemy as the Germans and Japanese.
* NotHelpingYourCase: While trying to garner support for a Eurasian state, Gumilyov will be challenged by a group of professors who offer to debate him over the concept. However, Gumilyov can reject their offer and send the secret police to arrest them, but this deals a massive blow to the legitimacy counter of the Eurasian Dream.
* ObliviouslyEvil: As Gumilyov creates a stratified hierarchy with himself on top, he denies accusations that it's a power-grab and justifies it as a return to the "natural structure of Eurasian society".
* OlderIsBetter: In Project Across the Wall, Gumilyov sends a raid party to the Ural Mountains to obtain some relic from the area, but he specifically wants an ancient artifact that would be relevant to Eurasia's past. If the team succeeds, they only recover a potentially useful experimental weapon, but have to add a coat of paint and some "touch ups", so it looks older.
* OpportunisticBastard: While Kazakhstan is still divided and vulnerable, Gumilyov initiates a military expedition into Kostanay to steal some of their artifacts to both recall the Eurasian past and unveil the might of the Eurasian National Army.
* PatrioticFervor: Above all else, Gumilyov values the Ideocracy, the socio-political structure that governs Eurasia and binds it together. Everyone must put aside their own individual desires to serve the state. He even commissions a historical documentary series ''Eurasia: Passion and Power'' to remind the people of past Eurasian conquerors like Attila and Alexander Nevsky, inspiring a wave of nationalism.
* PerpetualFrowner: Gumilyov is a stern individual who usually has a serious demeanor. Seeing a celebration in his name and reflecting on his successes by the superregional stage is one of the few times he ever smiles.
* ThePhilosopherKing: Gumilyov proclaims the principle of the Ideocracy, a socio-political structure which puts Gumilyov's own Eurasianist ideology at the forefront of all state policies.
* PlausibleDeniability: In Project Brutus, Gumilyov will try intimidating the Atlanticists by staging a terrorist bombing in Rome's Colosseum, but denying all responsibility so no one can be certain of their involvement.
* ThePoliticalOfficer: Gumilyov creates a "Passionarist Commissar Corps of Eurasia" to instill Eurasianist ideals in his soldiers, and also keep watch on dissenters.
* PragmaticVillainy:
** After finding out that brutal suppression is making people less likely to support his regime, Guymilyov resorts to less violent, but no less insidious means to educate the people on the concept of Eurasianism so that they'd be less likely to protest.
** He retains the government's exclusive right to produce their own arms and prevent manufacturers by enriching themselves through weapons trafficking, but only because he thinks that such activity would harm Eurasia.
** Gumilyov establishes a food bank and gives out provisions to everyone, regardless of economic status, because he needs to keep them appeased.
** For some of the businesses nationalized, Gumilyov gives offers to the owners of a better replacement job so that he can keep them loyal.
** After taking West Siberia, Gumilyov offers free farmland to anyone willing to move out of the cities, largely to amplify the productivity of rural areas and increase food security.
** To build legitimacy in Project Steppe Sun, Gumilyov orders an army to trespass and steal artifacts from Kostanay, but he sends a raiding party rather than a full-blown invasion force because Eurasia's logistics are incapable of supporting such a large endeavor.
** In Project Old Mother, Gumilyov can offer some villages in India either modern equipment, hunting aid, or funding for local projects. However, this is only so that they can be more inclined to allow a Eurasian delegation to enter their territory and locate a Mughal Fortress that could provide answers to Eurasia's history.
** When his debate with the professors leads to a violent uproar in the audience and causes half of the university to burn down, the best response from Gumilyov is to write a formal apology about his own rowdy supporters and thus seem more appealing to the peasants. Denying responsibility has no effect and accusing the opposition of staging the raid will make them seem more palatable.
* PretenderDiss: If he accepts the professors' challenge to a debate over Eurasia's authenticity, Gumilyov will silently insult his opponents as "stupid pigs" who are fake historians who fall prey to many logical fallacies.
* PropagandaMachine: Project Right Mind is all about organizing a massive propaganda campaign that legitimizes the concept of Eurasia.
* ProudWarriorRace: Gumilyov tries to cultivate a Eurasian warrior culture in his Eurasian National Army, teaching his soldiers to be as aggressive as possible and become heroes for the superethnos. He even specifically creates the "Passionarist Commissar Corps of Eurasia" to propagate Eurasinist ideals and get them to fight harder out of ideological drive.
* ThePurge: Unwilling to let any opposition grow against him, Gumilyov passes out lists for his subordinates to liquidate any suspected individuals who have or used to have connections with the other political parties.
* {{Realpolitik}}: Gumilyov gives the barest diplomatic acknowledgement to the United States, seeing them as the most useful superpower to combat Germany and Japan.
* ReconcileTheBitterFoes: As part of his belief that the Eurasian superethnos must work in tandem, Gumilyov gives shared responsibilities between normally rivaling bureaucrats so they will not be bogged down in factionalism and cooperate with each other.
* RedScare: He calls socialism to be one of the many corruptive Western values that plague Russia and will seek to uproot it.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: In Project Porcelain King, Gumilyov will need to get permission from the Nanjing government before he can start an excavation of rumored underground graves belonging to Chinese emperors. He can either bribe the officials to let them in, offer the regional government a larger sum of money, or spend an even larger amount of money to negotiate an official theory. The chances of diplomatic success increase with the expenses, with the last option guaranteeing that the Republic will accept.
* StupidEvil: {{Subverted}}. Giving more power to the masterocracy sounds like a bad idea that would inspire treachery, but Gumilyov is actually aware of this and smart enough to tie their wealth to the bureaucracy, so that he can monitor their activities and discourage rebellion.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Gumilyov's earliest followers have a rivalry with more traditional Eurasianists who reject their ideas that all Eurasian ethnic groups are equal and promote Russian supremacy. Gumilyov can choose who's interpretation of Eurasianism to side with in the regional stage.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: When Gumilyov reunifies Russia, the world event notes that Eurasia has a "propensity for extreme violence".
* TotalitarianUtilitarian: Many of his economic policies involve nationalizing many small businesses and depriving the owners of their autonomy for the good of the national economy and Eurasia as a whole. Any resistance to the idea is harshly dealt with.
* VictoryByEndurance: Gumilyov's military doctrine relies on attrition and scorched earth tactics to wear down the enemy and then use superior numbers to overwhelm them.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: ZigZagged. Gumilyov is the most influential figure of the Passionariyy and commands a deal of respect from his audience, but his esoteric and complicated views only appeal to a niche audience and becomes harder to swallow for wider demographics, like the peasants. His Eurasian Dream mechanic is dedicated to raising more support by proving the concept of Eurasia with pseudoscientific claims and expeditions. Depending on how much legitimacy he builds, Gumilyov can play this trope straight to varying degrees or subvert it.
* VillainousBreakdown: If Shafarevich and Serov form a coalition and seize control of the Passionariyy, Gumilyov can't take it and breaks down, ranting that it's all some kind of Romano-Germanic conspiracy, and tarnishing him in the eyes of all his followers on the spot. ''Taboritsky'' takes it better.
* VisionaryVillain: Gumilyov has grand, continent-spanning ambitions to forge Russia into a multi-ethnic Eurasian empire, united under a supra-national entity not bound to the same degradations that other civilizations suffer from.
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: By the superregional stage, Gumilyov's party is irreconcilably divided between traditional Eurasianists and Russian nationalists, each becoming more dogmatic in their ideology and making it increasingly urgent for Gumilyov to pick a side.
* WeWillMeetAgain: If the Passionariyy fails to take power and Gumilyov flees to Vyatka, he will silently curse the politicians in Komi for ruining his grand plan and swear that he will return to exact revenge on them.
* WeaponOfMassDestruction: Eurasia has a unique focus tree to pursue nuclear armament at the superregional stage under Project: [[blue: BLUE SKY]].
%%* WickedCultured: Gumilyov is a bright intellectual and also an Ultranationalist with a dream for a great Eurasian Empire united under a Eurasian super-ethnos. His personal national spirit is "Diabolical Political Mastermind."
* WindmillCrusader: Gumilyov blames every economic problem to hit Russia on the merchant class, claiming that they gouge the city folk by selling them goods at marked up prices and instilling liberal values in them, until they are sucked of all material value. When Gumilyov rules Russia, he will establish agricultural autarkic laws to combat the imagined threat.
* WithUsOrAgainstUs: He divides the geography of Eurasia to judge who is worthy of joining his superethnos. Anyone past the Baltic coastline and the Carpathians is an enemy and not worth assimilating. Everything else on the other side is invaluable. There's little in between those categories.
* WhiteMansBurden: He considers Russians to be the eldest member of the Eurasian family and states that they have a "responsibility" to help their sibling cultures. Worse, he can adopt a more chauvinistic stance on this issue and proclaim Russia to be a "stern tutor" who needs to firmly advance their "lesser ethnoses".
* WonTheWarLostThePeace: Even if Gumilyov manages to reunify West Russia, his troubles will be far from over. In his newly integrated territories, most of the population is ignorant of the Eurasian concept and he must inflame their nationalism through the "Eurasian Dream" mechanic, embarking on various projects to remind the people of their glorious past and build his regime's legitimacy.
* WorthyOpponent: Though Suslov hates him, he begrudgingly respects Gumilyov as a credible threat to the KPK, more so than the democratic coalition.
* XanatosGambit: If the democratic coalition targets the Left, pro-communist soldiers will go on strike, but can be replaced with troops sympathetic to the Passionariyy. Recruiting these soldiers traps the government into a scheme by Gumilyov, where they are pressured to give these troops some concessions. If they refuse, more soldiers will go on strike and give Gumilyov an opportunity to infiltrate the high command with his own supporters, so they can appease the agitators and cement their leader's hold over the military. If they accept, Shafarevich's influence will soar and strengthen Gumilyov's coalition anyway.
* YouAreACreditToYourRace: In contrast to his strict hatred for Atlanticist civilizations, Gumilyov has some respect for the United States and is willing to initiate an exchange of archaeologists in Project Great Minds because they descended from Europeans and thus are "honorary Eurasians".
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After securing his power, Gumilyov ends his alliance with the far-right political parties he aligned with and outlaws them.
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[[folder:Igor Shafarevich]]
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->'''Role:''' Chairman of the National Assembly[[note]]Head of Government[[/note]] (Provisional Government cabinet), Head of State (1963 election or Passionariyy election)
->'''Party:''' Rossiyskaya Natsionalnaya Partiya[[note]]Russian National Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Paternalistic Conservatism[[note]]Conservatism[[/note]] (Façade), National Conservatism[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]] (Provisional Government), Controlled Democracy[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]] (Actual)
->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich is many things to many people. Fascist. Democrat. Reformist. Radical. Anti-semite. Patriot. But if there's one thing that people do not call him, it is unintelligent. Shafarevich, born to a moderately successful family living in Moscow, was from a young age gifted at mathematics. A remarkable genius for his age, he was enrolled in a university level math course, even entering his final undergraduate year at Moscow University without having finished the 9th grade. His future never seemed brighter, until the German arrived.\\\
Forced to flee Moscow, he was evacuated to the east, in Komi, never to see Moscow again. As Russia was consumed in warlordism, Shafarevich became involved in politics in Komi, a rump state carved up after the failure that was the West Russian War. There, he rose up the ranks of the right wing Passionariyy organization, leading the party's moderate faction, much to the chagrin of Gumilyov and his faction.\\\
Developing a right wing ideology known as 'Passionate Conservatism', Shafarevich has made himself popular among more reformist rightists in the party, those favoring working within the democratic system. Despite this, he has been accused of fascism, anti-semitism, as his hatred of the 'small nation' (a group of 'anti-national elites' whose values are completely at odds with Russia) echoes that of the hatred of Jews and other minority groups. Now, as leader of Komi, he will fully implement his vision of a better, more stable, order.[[/labelnote]]

Soviet mathematician turned Komi politician, running on a platform of Russian nationalism and law-and-order. Though accused of fascism, racism, authoritarianism, and many other unpleasant -isms, Shafarevich maintains that he is a firm democrat working entirely within the confines of Komi democracy.
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* AllohistoricalAllusion: His VastBureaucracy that ensures controlled opposition is reminiscent of Putin's presidency, and the frequent use of Russophobia as a scare tactic is also reminiscent of Putinism, though unlike Putin who focuses on foreign nations who supposedly hate Russia and plot against it, Shafarevich targets minorities at home.
* BaitTheDog:
** Rather than outright cheat the system and turn the country into an effective one-party state, Shafarevich can allow opposing parties to run in the elections and give some choice to the people. Unfortunately, Shafarevich clearly doesn't intend to ever give the opposition a fair fighting chance by using propaganda to favor his own party in the vote.
** Once he conquers Western Siberia, Shafarevich will seemingly adopt a light hand against the people living there, offering them the chance to integrate in his democracy. He then darkly notes that "special measures" will be taken for those who refuse.
* BeneathNotice: Even before taking power, many observers of Komi's rightwing politics set their focus on Gumilyov and the fringe factions of Passionariyy, with Shafarevich's climbing their ranks being rather quiet. When establishing a new nation, he slowly expands his power over the institutions by avoiding an outwardly-oppressive appearance, with anyone recognizing the true nature of his policies being quieted or far too late in realizing.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: The leader of the more moderate factions in the Passionariyy Organization, who nonetheless holds just as much ambition and capacity for oppression as his peers. Upon taking leadership, he has the other leaders purged like any other winner of the power struggle, even looking back on having done so with nostalgia.
* BigBrotherIsWatching: {{Downplayed|Trope}} in that they don't use sophisticated technology for their surveillance, but there are often shadowy figures operating in the crowds to watch the populace.
* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: Shadowy figures enforcing Shafarevich's rule, such as those helping distribute the ballot stuffing or spying on the population, disguise themselves in overcoats.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: If he's been exiled from Komi, he finds some comfort settling in a church community and finding companionship with the convent. When the government soldiers raid the church and his brothers move out of the way so he can be captured, Shafarevich doesn't blame them for it.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He and his followers value the environment of Russia and want to protect and avoid harming it as much as possible. They view the option to cover their lands with [[ToxicInc industrial factories]] as against cultural values.
* EvilReactionary: Shafarevich vehemently opposes values he deems contrary to Russo-Christian principles and considers scientific progress to be a corruptive influence on the people.
* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: Shafarevich hates ethnic minorities he dubs "small nations". He believes that they're values are inherently incompatible with Russian culture and that they're secretly out to oppress Russian people, self-justifying his own discrimination against them.
* TheFundamentalist: He calls Russia a Christian nation and expects everyone to follow its morals. Shafarevich blames any social immorality on the lack of Christian values and bans all other religions for trying to "subvert" the people's faith.
* GetItOverWith: If he's been exiled from Komi and hunted down to be shot, Shafarevich gives himself up in a monastery and begs them to get the job over with.
* HeelFaceTurn: {{Exploited}} if he's been exiled and about to be killed. With his executioners closing in on his location, Shafarevich prays to God in the hopes he will spare him, promising to not harm another living being if his prayer is answered. However, it's just a move in desperation rather than a genuine atonement for his actions.
* HiddenInPlainSight: If he manages to flee Komi after the Passionariyy fail to take power, Shafarevich makes it onto a train and passes the security guard, simply by disguising himself among the crowd and appearing to be a normal citizen.
* HypocrisyNod: Reluctantly, Shafarevich can compromise on his agrarianism by investing in industrial and heavy-mining businesses that would negatively impact the environment. He considers this a betrayal of his values, but deems it an acceptable cost.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Shafarevich calls for a genuine Russian democracy, free of elitism and other bars on the people's vote. However, he never extends this same standard towards ethnic minorities, who are disenfranchised.
* IControlMyMinionsThrough: Political indoctrination. To ensure the army's loyalty, Shafarevich politicizes them through reeducation campaigns and promoting loyalists to higher positions.
* IllegalReligion: Any faiths different from the Christian majority of Russia are branded as "Russophobic" and subversive, and any attempts to preach them are met with jail sentences.
* ImmoralJournalist: On Radio Free Syktyvkar, Shafarevich will search for any dirt he can find on his political opponents to discredit them, even requesting for his audience to send tips for him and specifically highlighting photos as a plus.
* InHarmonyWithNature: Shafarevich is one of the most eco-friendly leaders who can take power in Komi, passing numerous laws to protect the natural environment and prevent corporations from exploiting it.
* InsistentTerminology: He makes sure his "democracy" avoids comparisons to totalitarian regimes by using certain words and deceitful applications of democratic functions. He is not purging minorities with an iron fist, but instead fighting "Russophobia" from "smaller nations" as a "compassionate conservative", with ballots that just so happen to be seriously in his favor.
* IronicEcho: Shafarevich is introduced doing some street planning and deciding to build a path that would hasten his own trip to the National Assembly at the cost of some property damage, finding enjoyment out of his work. In the beginning of the superregional stage, Shafarevich is planning to build another road that would destroy some city property, but now finding his work to be pretty pointless, yet still taking pride in it. It shows that, despite being in a much more powerful position than he was before, he's still going to keep up the status quo of a broken democracy because it's easier to rule that way.
* JoinOrDie: After taking over the Passionariyy, Shafarevich offers the other factions to join his side, lest they be purged like the liberals and communists.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Shafarevich purges ethnic minorities from the government and effectively rules a reactionary dictatorship, but he avoids the overt extremism and general insanity of the rest of the Passionariyy.
* LoopholeAbuse: Shafarevich's government follows the structure and policies that define a democracy, but how it's conducted throughout its development makes it function as a discriminative order, escaping criticism with manipulative WeaselWords. For example, ethnic minorities are forced to go through a complex and slow pre-registration process before they can vote, so that they technically have a vote by law, but are deprived of it in reality.
* MasterRace: According to the Infantryman's Manual published by Shafarevich's government, the Russian people and the Russian way of life are infinitely superior to that of other cultures. It's a really downplayed ethnosupremacist rhetoric, but it's still supremacist rhetoric.
* MetaphoricallyTrue: The government established under him uses the functions and tenets a democratic order would, but with controlled opposition and a downplayed nationalist agenda constantly obstructing minority groups, the nation slowly maneuvers into becoming an oppressive de facto one-party dictatorship.
* MoodWhiplash: His introductory event starts with him planning to build a road in Syktyvkar, expressing much passion for his work. Then, the event takes a dark turn when Shafarevich realizes that his plan will require some property damage, which he nonchalantly accepts, foreshadowing his more sinister side.
* MundaneHorror: Part of what makes Shafarevich and his storyline more insidious is how his route shows the very real risk of conservative viewpoints being manipulated to advance authoritarian means. Unlike his rivals in the Passionariyy, who follow fringe ideologies and would realistically never be anywhere near real power if it wasn't for the Warlord era, Shafarevich is by far the most grounded among the four, and can rebuild Russia as an authoritarian regime that has a good shot at outlasting its creator. Notably, a not-insignificant number of fans have likened the droll dictatorship of Shafarevich to a more insidiously racist version of the state-sanitized, slowly-backsliding real life regimes of UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin, or Hungary's Viktor Orban.
* NecessarilyEvil: Exploited, being part of his usual public justification for his tactics. Played Straighter with his party's view on creating more factories across Russia, finding the industrialization of their lands to probably be a "betrayal" of cultural values but nonetheless needed.
* NeverRecycleABuilding: {{Subverted}}. Shafarevich reopens many military academies that were closed down in West Russia so he can train new commanders and rebuild the army.
* NostalgiaFilter: Shafarevich longs for a return to the old, rural traditions of Russians living on an idyllic farm, away from the choking influence of urbanization and respecting customs like hard work and family.
* NotSoSimilar: Shafarevich's Russia tries to advertise itself as democratic by drawing parallels to the United States, with Shafarevich even living in his own White House. However, events repeatedly show that this is a massive deception to hide Shafarevich's status as a PresidentForLife by cheating the ballot system.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Shafarevich adjusts the constitution so that he and his party can hold more power. Shafarevich claims that it's needed to free the government from petty infighting and put it in more capable hands, but it's a lie so that he can corrupt the democratic system for himself.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: {{Invoked|Trope}} by Shafarevich and his government officials, with red tape hindering groups and potential movements against him so that nobody can ever mount any effective opposition.
* OminousMundanity: As part of his rule being MundaneHorror, events that show how he prevents objection to his oppressive reign with [[VastBureaucracy complicated forms and offices]], such as one designated "Small National Voter Pre-Registration Application".
* TheOneThingIDontHateAboutYou: Shafarevich hates the Bolsheviks, but he accepts their idea of aligning the military to a political ideology. While reforming the army, Shafarevich emphasizes the theory of an "organic Russian nation" by defining a stricter hierarchy so that each soldier knows their role and will be more willing to fight to keep what's theirs.
* PetTheDog:
** Shafarevich is a racist autocrat who turns Russia into a sham democracy that really answers only to him, but he also implements some of the most generous welfare policies of the Komi unifiers, with taxes weighted toward the wealthy and heavy penalties in place for those who would exploit the Russian worker.
** If he gets elected in 1963, Shafarevich will spend the first days in office setting up a welfare program for retired workers and veterans as a reward for their service.
** His party also values the environment and wants to keep it protected by placing restrictions on steel and chemical factories.
** If a business provides essential services, like hospitals, Shafarevich will bail them out in case of bankruptcy or collapse, since they are essential to the government and the people.
* PragmaticVillainy:
** After the PSD tries to nationalize Radio Free Syktyvkar and silence his messages, Shafarevich tries to rehabilitate his station's reputation by hosting a charity drive to provide relief to bombing victims.
** If he gets elected in 1963, Shafaverich may temporarily cooperate with politicians from the Center during the transition because it could give him the early edge needed to secure more power.
** The façade of being a democratic institution is kept around as a useful tool to keep Russia both stable and under his reign.
** Shafarevich allows some opposing voices to live in his Republic, but only to be promoted into ceremonial positions where they can never post an actual threat to him.
** He offers free public transportation to a polling station during election time, but only for RNP voters who will keep Shafarevich in power.
* PresidentEvil: Shafarevich is the only member of the Passionariyy who can run in Komi's elections and get democratically elected as President. In this case, he's initially classified as a Conservative Democrat before revealing his true colours as a dictator.
* PresidentForLife: The Russian Republic under Shafarevich is supposedly a democracy with elections, but the only name on all ballots is that of Igor Shafarevich. It also doesn't help that he provides free public transportation to the ballots for RNP voters, further rigging the entire system in his favor.
* ThePurge: After being elected in 1963, Shafarevich organizes a purge in the military's ranks to replace with his own supporters and keep the army loyal to the RNP. Shortly after, PSD sympathizers within his own Defense Ministry will be fired so they can't overthrow him in a military coup.
* {{Realpolitik}}: There are many political disagreements between Shafarevich and the United States, but the two can form diplomatic ties to unite against their common enemy, Germany. Notably, Shafarevich gets the United States to ignore his "authoritarian leanings" by reminding them of the shared suffering they endured through World War II.
* RedScare:
** During his time on Radio Free Syktyvkar, Shafarevich spread scandalous rumors of communists trying to take over Komi, such as accusing Zhdanov of controlling Voznesensky through their friendship or linking the opening of gulags in Ust-Kolom as a sign of a return to Bukharin.
** If Shafarevich gets elected in 1963, he quickly mobilizes to purge the communists from Komi, starting with Suslov, who he compares to Mephistopheles. Meanwhile, decommunization will be initiated to destroy all Soviet iconography and bury the communists' influence before they can threaten his power.
* ReminiscingAboutYourVictims: Upon regional unification, Shafarevich looks back on his journey and fondly recalls his previous political rivals after having purged them, before moving his focus back into his current plans.
* RepressiveButEfficient: Shafarevich's nominal democracy is politically stable and relatively prosperous. The corporations can run smoothly, the cities are being rebuilt, the living standards are rising for most Russians, and the workers enjoy a generous social net, yet many minorities wallow under systemic racism and the democratic system is heavily slanted in favor of the RNP.
* RetiredMonster: If the reigning government decides to hunt down Shafarevich and capture him, they find him attending a Sunday service at a church, having retired from politics.
* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: Historically, Igor Shafarevich was a famous mathematician who was involved in anti-Soviet dissidence and flirted with nationalist politics. Here, he is the leader of the Russian National Party, the moderate faction of the Passionariyy.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: He's not wrong that Bukharin had some blame for the Soviet Union's defeat to the Germans, except that he blames their military defeat on flawed bureaucratic structures created by "members of a Russophobic intelligentsia".
* RunningBothSides: Elections under his republic have different parties to cast votes to, but ultimately, all papers end up reading "Shafarevich" when being distributed.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: If he escapes a coup made against him, he'll swear off politics and become a math teacher.
* ShownTheirWork:
** Shafarevich's Russian chauvinism justifying itself as "anti-Russophobia" and his theory of "small nations" are both taken from Shafarevich's real-life essay ''Russophobia''.
** ZigZagged with the usage of the term "small nations" itself. While the term ''is'' frequently used to refer to minorities (especially indigenous ones) in Russia, Shafarevich himself used it differently. In his works, the "small nation" (in the singular) is a supposed evil Jewish-led AncientConspiracy that plots against the Russian people. This ConspiracyTheorist aspect of Shafarevich's personality is actually less pronounced in his TNO depiction.
* SuddenSoundtrackStop: When Shafarevich unifies Russia, the song that accompanies his superevent is suddenly turned off just a few seconds before it would otherwise end, as if playing from a radio by a man who then [[ThisIsGonnaSuck sighs wearily]].
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: During an interview, he's asked about how he feels about his rhetoric and government being compared to fascism. He responds by questioning if his nominal democracy even closely resembles that of the Nazis, or if he's said anything blatantly bigoted. With the answer of no, he remarks that "all is well".
* {{Thoughtcrime}}: Subtly applied. Anything going against Shafarevich's vision for Russia may be branded as "Russophobia" and charged as a crime, such as the distribution of Islamic pamphlets in the Christian-majority country.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Extremely downplayed. Shafarevich is the only member of the Passionariyy whose Russia is inarguably better than the warlord era, providing national unity, rigorous environmentalism, and generous welfare policies. However, he's still very much a dictator and a massive racist - tellingly, he can appoint noted raving Nazi lunatic and camouflaged Esoteric Nazi Taboritsky as Governor of Vyatka - who only barely bothers to disguise these parts of his government.
* UngratefulBastard: To him, it doesn't matter how long one has served the government or how much loyalty they've expressed to them in the past. If they're a part of the "small nations" (read: not Russian), Shafarevich will fire them out of blatant racism.
* UnusuallyUninterestingName:
** Shafarevich calls himself a "compassionate conservative", which communicates his commitment to democracy, but masks his discreet discrimination against ethnic minorities.
** One of the first legislation he passes in the superregional stage is the mundanely named Election Security Act. It's actually about disenfranchising people who vote against the RNP and slanting the system in favor of Shafarevich.
* VastBureaucracy: Those that Shafarevich's party stands against are usually subjected to a complex bureaucratic system [[InvokedTrope intentionally designed]] to impede them, as a form of controlling the opposition.
* VoteEarlyVoteOften: Shafarevich uses generous stuffing of ballots to make sure his "democracy" produces the outcomes he wants.
* VillainHasAPoint: Shafarevich can send a letter admonishing the United States for being too isolationist in World War II and allowing Germany to defeat and conquer Russia. While "allow" may be too strong of a word, he does make an arguable point that their lack of intervention played a key role in the Nazis becoming so powerful in the first place.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Shafarevich remains a committed authoritarian nationalist behind his façade of moderation and democratic reform, rigging elections and using the state to persecute Jews, "Small Nations," and "Russophobes." Some of his events literally involve using PR and spin to hide or obfuscate opinions he knows to be indefensible.
* VillainousFriendship: He's friends with his old student and colleague, Evgeny Golod, who in turn is one of his most fervent supporters.
* WeaselWords:
** He responds to critics of his chauvinistic papers and policies with careful language meant to deflect resistance to his plans. Should his tactics end up hindering certain groups and parties, it's only because they ''happen'' to stand against [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny his party's intention to "guarantee prosperity"]].
** He also points to how he isn't ''overtly'' calling for racial purity or the teardown of other groups, while his policies quietly obstruct specific groups and minorities from participation. Any explanations given for them are just short of outright discriminatory statement.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Shafarevich's political view is centered around the idea of "moral government," and he genuinely seems to believe that his Christian autocracy is what's best for Russia. To a degree, he even does right by his people through robust welfare and labor policies; his thinly-veiled racism and not-at-all-veiled authoritarianism are what blacken his intentions.
* AWolfInSheepsClothing: He offers more moderate approaches in his politics compared to the rest of the Passionariyy, and his starting ideology is Conservatism. The rest of his path shows this to really be downplayed rightwing rhetoric meant to usher in a reactionary dictatorship, with a "democracy" only in name.
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[[folder:Ivan Serov]]
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Passionariyy election)
->'''Party:''' Ordosocialisticheskaya Rabochaya Partiya - Pravo[[note]]Ordosocialist Workers' Party - Right[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Ordosocialism[[note]]Fascism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Ivan Alexandrovich Serov is a man to which the term 'former' has often - and correctly - been applied. Former friend and political ally of Mikhail Suslov. Former supporter of orthodox Marxism-Leninism. And, now, former political contender. For having established firm control over the state as a whole, he is now in a position to determine its future.\\\
That future is his own vision of the political philosophy of so-called 'Ordosocialism' - an eclectic mixture of far-left socialism and far-right nationalism, and one where Russian exceptionalism, in many fields and areas, is strongly emphasized. Although considered an inherent oxymoron by many, Serov is firmly committed, as least ostensibly, to ensuring its representation within the policies of the state.\\\
Though none can say with certainty what the positions he intends to take will be, it can be reasonably expected that, under the tenets of Ordosocialism, they will include the formation of a strong authoritarian state, a dramatic increase in military expenditures, a rise in revanchist propaganda, and aggressive approaches to territorial expansion.[[/labelnote]]

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

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* AllohistoricalAllusion:
** Ordosocialism, with its vague definition and big-tent nature, conceptually resembles almost every {{Commie Nazi|s}} ideology conceived in real life (and perceived on the Internet).
** For all his bitter hatred of Suslov, Serov's campaign against "rootless cosmopolitanism" is named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Suslov#Antisemitism an antisemitic campaign Suslov oversaw in real life]].
* AndThenWhat: He asks himself this question when he thinks about the aftermath of reconquering Moskowien from Germany, specifically about whether Ordosocialism should embrace its Marxist ties or incorporate the right wing and how Russia can be a guardian for the proletariat.
* AppealToForce:
** Anyone that resists Serov's government and Ordosocialism may be threatened with execution or torture until they have no choice but to accept it.
** Russia can strongarm its Nordic neighbors into cooperation, sending military agents to back their ultimatums and plans.
* BaitTheDog: Serov offers a People's Provisions Package that seemingly promises a minimum wage and healthcare to those who verify their citizenship. Unfortunately, these benefits are strictly limited to Russians alone, with one citizen being denied based on his Armenian descent.
* BizarreTasteInFood: Serov implements a "Cuisine Optimization" program to create dishes more befitting to his conformist "Ordosocialist" ideal, distributed as factory rations. The results include a pasta so plain and tasteless that it's revolting. One man even comments that it's worse than his aunt's cooking and she was blind.
* BlackMarket: Serov's plans include sending influence and taking opportunities in the world of black markets. He is not above sending enemies of the state and selected government agents to parties looking for [[HumanTraffickers cheap manual labor and mercenary forces respectively]], sending agents to negotiate with smugglers in Brittany. He also seeks to dominate the thriving black market of Germany via RK Moskowien's lines and cache of powerful weapons and drugs, which could challenge Brittany themselves in terms of quality.
* BloodKnight: If the Passionariyy fail to take power and Serov is marked for death, he will welcome a firefight with his assassins when he's caught, killing several of them and ultimately dying with a manic grin on his face.
* BoringButPractical: Serov's navy is relatively small, being based on Arseniy Golovko's fleet during World War II. However, it's more than sufficient to protect the country's supply lines and ports in the North.
* BringIt: If he's caught trying to flee Komi and targeted for death, Serov will stand his ground in an alleyway and use his [=PPSh=] and Tokarev pistol to kill as many as possible before going down himself.
* BullyingADragon: Before even invading Moskowien, Serov antagonizes Germany at the Moskowien-Russian border, feeding Germany misleading information on geographical landmarks and putting the borderlines in flux. Serov's agents even manage to uproot a German checkpoint twice to make the border more confusing.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: For as much as he preaches of capitalism and its followers' evils, he may choose to temporarily rely on Switzerland's economy to keep Russia stable and in Europe's marketplace, promising himself and his followers that capitalism's end will come eventually.
* CommieNazis: Ivan Serov creates a new type of socialism, "Ordosocialism", that blends together Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy with chauvinist Russian nationalism and some actual fascist policies. At some points, Serov will have to choose between leaning towards the communist or nationalist parts of Ordosocialism.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Serov promotes all sorts of conspiracy theories to explain how the Soviet Union could have collapsed so easily to the Germans, such as blaming a global cabal of capitalists and corporatists secretly sabotaging the Russian war effort.
* CrazyPrepared: Though Serov has faith that he will emerge triumphant in the game of Komi politics, he's well-prepared to flee in case the Passionariyy fails to consolidate their power, having a getaway car he anonymously bought and forged papers as "Anatoly Maksimov" to flee to the WRRF.
* CultOfPersonality: The focus "The Guiding Star" creates a cult of personality for General Secretary Serov, and Ordosocialism eventually sings his praises as "the new Marx."
* DeadGuyOnDisplay: He delivers a speech in front of five corpses strewn across two radio towers behind him, each one maimed and executed for being different "reactionaries" opposed to his ideology.
* DeadlyGas: While his generals study Tukhachevsky's military doctrines, Serov authorizes them to potentially use chemical weapons.
* DefectorFromDecadence: Serov defects from the orthodox Bolshevik movement to promote his own take on the ideology, reasoning that Russia can only thrive if it blends communist doctrine with ultranationalist sentiments.
* DevelopersForesight: While trying to access the black market through Moskowien, Serov sends a strike team to start a border war, where they can pierce through or be driven back. However, if Shishki owns the state where the border war is supposed to happen, a special event plays out where the strike team encounters no resistance, since there is no German garrison.
* DirtyCommunists: Ordosocialism can be viewed as a mix of communism and ultranationalism: non-Russians are treated as second-class citizens and broadly persecuted as potential threats to Russia, Russian chauvinism is deliberately left unchecked, and socialism is used to strengthen the Russian nation in addition to class liberation.
* DisproportionateRetribution: In Serov's mind, minor offenses, like the use of certain words, is still enough to justify an arrest and severe punishment.
* EtTuBrute: If marked for capture after his exile, Serov gets picked up and driven by a chauffeur handpicked by one of few remaining supporters. As they make it to a road, the car gets stopped by a barricade and the driver does nothing to escape, revealing himself and his employer as traitors. Being bound and taken to a truck, Serov is enraged by the betrayal and swears to never forget it.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Serov doesn't enjoy some of the lip service he has to give to the Right so he can stay in their good graces. While writing his latest treatise on the "Rights of the Sovereign Nation", Serov calls it an "incoherent jumble of ultra-nationalistic sentiment" and only finishes it so he can appease the Passionariyy.
* FamilyValuesVillain: One of the core tenets of Ordosocialism is respecting the family unit and raising the children well.
* FantasticDrug: During a discussion with a Breton smuggler, a Russian agent is offered [[PsychoSerum a substance concocted from mixing different kinds of opioids]]. It sends the soldier into a high that renders them delirious yet strong in a short span of time.
* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: He can never accept Suslov's idea of a Soviet Union that treats all races equally, believing that integrating these minorities contributed to the Soviet Union's collapse in the first place.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Serov could rise from being a disgraced has-been to becoming the leader of an [[CommieNazis Ordosocialist]] powerhouse that also happens to be one of the more stable bad endings for Russia.
* HeroWorshipper: Despite his animosity towards Bukharin and Suslov, Serov still worships Lenin as the father of the Soviet Union and has the education system celebrate his crusade against the Tsar.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: While Serov was a brutal KGB General who directly participated in many atrocities and was a casual anti-Semite, he historically did not advocate for a mix of Marxism-Leninism and Russian ethnonationalism [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/645229684208041986/766475051796398121/dc5a17c7126052d6d95f1c14954751b6.png which argued that only Russians can achieve socialism]].
* HopeSpot: The introduction to policies for his Provisions Packages. One Armenian man eagerly applies to receive support and imagines a future of prosperous solidarity inspired by Serov's passionate speeches. Then the receptionist denies him from engaging in the project, as unbeknownst to him, his status as a minority marks him as a security risk to the government.
* TheHorseshoeEffect: Serov proudly calls himself a socialist and isn't fond of working with the Right, but his ultranationalist and belligerent policies make him classified as a fascist.
* HumanTraffickers: When pursuing economic support by forcing Switzerland to work and trade with Russia, it's mentioned how those marked as enemies of the state may be offered as [[MadeASlave a cheap workforce]] to markets across the world.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He condemns the three nuclear superpowers as "Capital-Fascists", even though he fits enough criteria to be classified as a fascist himself.
* IWorkAlone: After Serov develops nationalist wing of Ordosocialism during the superregional stage, he will promote the doctrine of "Socialism in One Country", rejecting the idea of internationalism and proclaiming Russians will not rely on anyone else.
* IndividualityIsIllegal:
** He ranks "cosmopolitanism" as a threat equivalent to capitalism. His cultural projects uphold a principle of conformity and sense of "unity", making citizens wear nearly identical fashion and rendering food extremely plain.
** One approach his government can take is a radical rejection of federal division, forcing several groups of different professions, industries, and companies to merge into simplified bodies that are organized into a few levels.
* IndustrializedEvil: Several programs are enacted to force the Russian population to [[IndividualityIsIllegal abandon diversity in lifestyles and culture]], compounded with emphasis on toeing the party line. Later, torturous experiments are enacted to teach its subjects to stop resisting Serov's rule and to discourage others from defending those who continue to rebel.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Early on in a Komi playthrough, before his expulsion from Komi's Communist Party, Serov presents his manifesto of Ordosocialism to Suslov, who verbally tears him apart over it. Serov takes it very badly, and his early focuses and events are fixated on purging the Suslovites and otherwise getting back at Suslov. This mostly tapers off by the superregional stage, barring the occasional tirade in the focus tree against "Suslovite" internationalism.
* TheInfiltration:
** After constructing a black market network to access the German economic bloc, Serov sends his agents into Finland so they can move goods to and from Russia through Scandinavia.
** Turning his eye to Central Asia, Serov sends more of his spies to infiltrate the local governments there, orienting their foreign policies in favor of Russia and turning these countries against each other to keep them divided.
* InsigniaRipOffRitual: When Serov and his followers head to Gumilyov's doorstep, they make their defection known from having their uniforms completely lacking every Soviet badge and patch that was rewarded to them, a gesture of disdain towards their old allegiances.
* InsistentTerminology: Though he admits his politics have shifted from left-wing to right-wing, he refuses to identify as a fascist. He both publicly and privately swears that he still identifies as a socialist, just one accepting principles not held by "doddering fools" or "naïve idealists" of more orthodox socialism.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Serov adulates himself with posters, songs, and monuments dedicated to his name, forcing everyone to know about his "greatness".
* KingIncognito: At the superregional stage, Serov [[https://i.imgur.com/CbwQ5iM.png goes undercover]] in Syktyvkar to admire what he's done with Russia as a whole. One of the things he spots that he approves of is a young man being harassed and then assaulted by a Red Army Youth Corps group for being a "rootless cosmopolitan".
* LastVillainStand: Serov is many things, but not a coward. When marked for execution and caught during his escape from Komi, Serov uses whatever firearms he has left to shoot his attackers and he holds his own for a while before someone shoots him through the heart.
-->''Tough son of a bitch.''
* ALessonLearnedTooWell: He tends to seek success by learning from his and Russia's enemies. Much of his motivations stem from having observed the regimes of the Nazis and Imperial Japan, believing their more hateful elements to be part of what makes them successful.
** He intends to adopt the teachings of racial supremacy and a less federalized structure from the Axis Powers, intertwining them with Communist ideals and forcing government factions to merge.
** He describes relying on capitalism through Switzerland's economy as simply tolerating the enemy's presence until the nation develops enough, intending on crushing them when they eventually aren't needed. He justifies this by comparing it to how the Nazis tolerated the USSR while preparing their resources before WWII.
** Defeating warlords like Tukhachevsky allows Serov to study their military doctrines as a basis for his own.
* MakeAnExampleOfThem: During a military march, Serov stands behind a chain of wires displaying five mutilated corpses, who represent various political enemies to Ordosocialism and a warning to those who would betray his vision.
* MandatoryMotherhood: When he reunifies West Siberia, Serov bans all contraceptives so that women will be forced to give birth and boost the population growth.
* MasterRace: Serov's Ordosocialism tries to downplay this by espousing the promises of socialism. Albeit ones that only Russians could achieve, in contrast to "Hereditary Reactionaries" and other perceived enemies of the state.
* MegaCorp: Adopting Bukharin's incomplete NEP, Serov will invest in several government-controlled corporations that can develop the civilian sector of the economy.
* MiseryBuildsCharacter: After appealing to the communist wing of Ordosocialism, Serov will institute harsher working conditions on the justification that suffering builds strength.
* MyWayOrTheHighway: He forces people to obey him and his party's ideals, and he cannot tolerate having his own inner circle of [[YesMan Yes-Men]] being unable to follow his standards with as much dedication as him. To Serov, people ''will'' learn to love his vision of unity, one way or another.
--> ''"We'll continue this until you get it right."''
* NoSympathy: When he hears that his Five Year Plan will lead to a massive shortage of consumer goods, Serov brushes off the concern, thinking that "true citizens of the Soviet Union" will bear this temporary cost. Anyone who doesn't want to will be [[DeadlyEuphemism "persuaded"]] to.
* NoTrueScotsman: According to him, leftists that do not subscribe to Ordosocialism are deemed too weak or cowardly to truly follow socialist ideals. This is so thoroughly ingrained in his followers that, should he and Buryatia's Valery Sablin make it to the superregional stage, a captured Ordosocialist agent will refer to ''Sablin'' as a "reactionary crypto-fascist."
* NotSoStoic: Serov is a relatively quiet and stoic man, but he can't help but feel joy seeing his Ordosocialist experiment work and the people celebrate an end to "capitalist degeneracy".
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Serov can threaten and strongarm people into accepting his new ideology and nations into cooperating with his plans, all at the barrel of a gun.
* PatrioticFervor: A Russian nationalist, Serov celebrates iconic figures from his country's past and dreams of a Russian empire that will become the new superpower encompassing the world like it used to during its height.
* PersonaNonGrata: After Serov makes his ideology and manifesto known to Suslov, he is exiled from the Communist Party of Komi, and anyone even slightly sympathetic to him are denounced and barred from staying in it.
* PlausibleDeniability: In the regional stage, Serov builds a secret transportation network so that Russia can import and export foreign goods in closed markets, like the German sphere, while having enough plausibility to deny its existence.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain:
** Serov is racist against Russian minorities, and it is implied that he justifies his racism as a socialist one with his theory of "Hereditary Reactionaries" in his Ordosocialism Manifesto. In one event that happens after Serov unites Western Russia, he introduces a socialist People's Provisions Package, but excludes minorities like Armenians from participating in it.
** Like Serov himself, the ministers in his cabinet are both hardline Communists and anti-semites, some of whom were associated with the antisemitic [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors%27_plot Doctors' plot]] in the Soviet Union. %% His head of government Sergei Kruglov however appears to be included because he is a close associate of Serov; he doesn't appear to be too much of a Russian chauvinist as far as my research shows.
* ThePoliticalOfficer: Serov reinstates the old Soviet Union's commissar system to ensure the military's loyalty to Ordosocialism.
* PragmaticVillainy:
** Serov can expel the right-wing elements in his party because their presence indicates that his regime is divided and vulnerable to the opposition.
** He can permit some limited, private ownership of local businesses and land because it can encourage economic growth.
** In the regional stage, Serov will prioritize agricultural development and collective farm to increase productivity because starvation would foment public outrage and lead a revolution, akin to the one that overthrew the Tsars.
** Serov arms anti-colonialist movements in regions like the Middle East and Africa, but not because he sympathizes with their cause. He just needs them to subvert the global supremacy of the three superpowers.
** In the superregional stage, Serov will recruit some officers from the defeated WRRF, if they are loyal enough, because their expertise and potential value can't be denied.
* PropagandaMachine: Serov mass produces propaganda media to glorify himself and the Ordosocialist cause, with the Propaganda Department of the Media Ministry responsible for organizing such campaigns.
* ThePurge: The "Mamlukization" is a large-scale purge that Serov enacts after uniting Western Russia, purging individuals within the government that may potentially harbor dissenting thoughts against Serov or Ordosocialism.
* {{Realpolitik}}:
** Disdained by the three superpowers, Serov's foreign policy involves backing any anti-capitalist and anti-colonialist resistance movement they can globally, even if they don't ideologically align.
** He forces the Swiss Bank to work with him and exert influence into Europe's markets, even though he despises the bourgeoisie and intends to eliminate them when it is optimal to do so.
* ReconcileTheBitterFoes: To ease tensions between left-wing and right-wing Ordosocialists, Serov can open some government positions to the latter and balance out their power.
* RightHandVersusLeftHand: The ''Ordosotsialisty'' party has both a left-wing faction and a right-wing faction, and occupies both the [[CommieNazis Fascist and Communist]] parties on Serov's political party chart after he unifies the regionals. The player, through decisions and national focuses, can strengthen either the left or the right wing of the Ordosocialists.
* {{Sadist}}: He takes an uncomfortable satisfaction with eliminating "internal enemies", having developed many methods of torture himself and comparing the screams of a man being tormented to a melody.
* TheScapegoat: Serov blames the Soviet Union's collapse on the ethnic minorities living in Russia, believing that they were never truly loyal to Moscow and can't ever be trusted to be treated as equal citizens.
* SecretPolice: Serov establishes and empowers an internal police agency to monitor all activities and punish anyone caught breaking the law or encouraging dissent.
* ShoutOut: One event is titled "Nekro", depicting Russia's agents striking a deal with a smuggler from Brittany, who proceeds to offer their latest street drug as part of an agreement to prepare and traffic agents like themselves across the world. Upon injection, the operative is sent into a euphoric and delirious state that provides strength and adverse side effects. It is essentially a [[CorruptedCharacterCopy darker, villainous and rather twisted take]] on the plot and setting of ''VideoGame/MotherRussiaBleeds''.
* TheSixthRanger: He joins the far-right alliance of Gumilyov right after Suslov dismisses him, quickly gathering influence among the dissatisfied bases of both radical wings and establishing himself as a political player in his own right.
* TheSocialDarwinist: Serov defines the world as a merciless arena where the strong thrive and the weak perish. As such, Russia is mobilized for war against the forces of capitalism and cosmopolitanism, while everyone is expected to follow Serov's directive to the letter, no matter how harsh or mundane their jobs are. Those who fail to keep up are eliminated.
* StillWearingTheOldColors: Even after defecting from the Communist Party to the Passionariyy, his clique in the Passionariyy are mentioned to be still wearing their old uniforms, just with [[InsigniaRipOffRitual all the old emblems ripped off]]. Serov's Russian National Soviet Republic maintains the aesthetics of the old Union, despite being a fascist dictatorship in all but name.
* SwissBankAccount: To steady Russia's economy, Serov can force the Swiss Bank to work with him and his agents, attributing loans and transactions under their names and jurisdiction so they can wield influence on Europe's, as well as much of the world's, markets.
* TakingUpTheMantle: A dark take on this trope, as Serov wants to be seen as a "New Karl Marx" who exceeds the legacies of Bukharin and Lenin. However, most would know that his violent, ultranationalist rhetoric is a gross corruption of communist doctrine and an unworthy successor to Marx's legacy.
* TheyCalledMeMad: A non-scientist version. Serov never forgets how Suslov angrily rejected his manifesto and had him and his faction purged from the Communist Party of Komi. He would become determined to prove his adversaries wrong, denouncing them as fools while proclaiming Ordosocialism to be the true step forward for Russia. Should he be elected into power, he looks back on everything as he [[WhosLaughingNow smiles at receiving the chance to put his theories into practice]].
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: If he is elected to lead Ust-Sysolsk, the assembly erupts into chaos and many display a look of surprise at how their latest addition to the organization managed to win. When Serov unifies Russia, the world trembles at the thought of the Cold War's new major power being a hyper-nationalistic version of the Soviet Union that is very willing to spread the Ordosocialist Revolution across the world.
* {{Thoughtcrime}}: Other than making life torturous for Russia's minorities, Serov also passes policies that severely punish anyone he believes to be an obstacle for everything he stands for. Capitalists, opposing leftists, cosmopolitans, and those straying too far from the standards of Ordosocialism are brutalized and marked for reeducation or execution. He constantly emphasizes "[[IndividualityIsIllegal unity]]" and is willing to instill his ideas into the populace by force whenever necessary.
* TortureTechnician: He personally tortures political dissidents in order to convert them to Ordosocialism.
* TheUnfettered: If Serov adopts a hardline economic approach, he will consider himself superior to Bukharin because he is not restrained by the same "liberal" tendencies and will viciously nationalize all private property for his autarkic policies. Anyone who protests will be mercilessly executed.
* UngratefulBastard: Even when the workers fulfill his quotas, Serov expresses no gratitude for their efforts and just sends another demand when he feels like it.
* VillainHasAPoint: Serov is far from a good guy himself, but he does correctly point out the hypocrisies of Japanese and American diplomacy, namely in the former's superficial excuse of Pan-Asianism to justify their colonization efforts and the latter's willingness to forgo liberal values to support anti-democratic regimes aligned to their interests.
* VillainRespect:
** While reforming the Red Army, Serov can borrow the military tactics utilized by Zhukov, considering him a great general who could've won the West Russian War.
** He likewise respects Tukhachevsky as a military prodigy whose expertise and strategies should be emulated.
* {{Warhawk}}: Serov is extremely hostile to foreign nations, considering total mobilization to be an ideal under Ordosocialism and preparing Russia to combat the forces of capitalism globally.
* WhosLaughingNow: If he is elected, he recalls how he gained infamy from being purged by the Communists of Komi and pursuing the rather lateral move of joining the Passionariyy Organization. He then smiles to himself for being able to seize control over the state, watching as several members of the assembly jump from their seats in shock at his victory.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Serov expects every factory to exceed their quotas and has a cutthroat attitude to those who don't. Failing to meet expectations will result in reduced funding, until they're forced to close down.
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[[folder:Sergey Taboritsky]]
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Passionariyy election)
->'''Party:''' Obshchestvo Vozdrozhdeniya Rossiyskoiy Imperii[[note]]Society for the Revival of the Russian Empire[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Clerical Fascism[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]
For his tropes, see his [[Characters/TNOTaboritsky dedicated page]]. '''Unmarked spoilers ahead!'''

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!! Other Important People
[[folder:Alexander Prokhanov]]
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->'''Role:''' Minister of Defense[[note]]Security Minister[[/note]] (Gumilyov cabinet)
->'''Ideology:''' Eurasianism[[note]]Despotism[[/note]]
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* GameplayAndStorySegregation: In the Smuta period, Shafarevich names Prokahov as the Defense Minister, though the country info screen shows that Larionov holds that position.
* IgnoredExpert: {{Inverted}}. Prokhanov is the expert on Komi's military status and capacity to unify western Russia. When Dikiy tries to interrupt him during the status report, Shafarevich cuts him off and lets Prokhanov finish his speech.
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[[folder:Aleksandr Korotkov]]
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->'''Role:''' Minister of Defense[[note]]Security Minister[[/note]] (Serov cabinet)
->'''Ideology:''' Ordosocialism[[note]]Fascism[[/note]]
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* StateSec: During the power struggle, Korotkov can be put in charge of the secret police to placate the Ordosocialists.
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* BloodKnight: He's, by far, one of the most trigger-happy member of the Center faction, orgnizing their paramilitary troops and outright pushing Voznesensky to use tanks to crush the Suslovites and the Gumilyovites.

->'''Role:''' Chairman of the Council of Ministers[[note]]Head of Government[[/note]] (Suslov cabinet)

->'''Role:''' Head of State (Election), Minister of State Security[[note]]Security Minister[[/note]] (Presidium of the KPK, Suslov, and Bukharina Cabinet)

->'''Role:''' Head of State (Passionariyy Election)

->'''Role:''' Chairman of the National Assembly[[note]]Head of Government[[/note]] (Provisional Government Cabinet), Head of State (1963 Election, Passionariyy Election)

* BaitAndSwitch: Early on, Boris Ponomaryov arrives to Komi, with fears circulating that he's going to be a rising star among the communists. A subsequent police investigation reveals that Ponomaryov is a lot more mediocre than they thought, being a toady for Suslov who would never be a threat on his own.

[[folder:Yuri Andropov]]
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Election), Minister of State Security[[note]]Security Minister[[/note]] (Presidium of the KPK, Suslov, and Bukharina Cabinet)
->'''Ideology:''' Marxism-Leninism[[note]]Communism[[/note]], Revolutionary Front[[note]]Socialism[[/note]] (Election)

* BeneathTheMask: For all of Zhdanov's grandstanding about progress and technocratic pretensions he couldn't care less about how absurd and pseudoscientific his more ambitious plans are. All so long as they help maintain ideological purity and control.

* EmperorScientist: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Zhdanov's ideology is known as "Ultravisionary Socialism", and advocates for using scientific knowledge and technology to achieve socialism. Though superficially technocratic, Zhdanov is actually highly ideological, promotes only scientists and engineers that suit his ideology to power, and engages in many [[HollywoodScience pseudoscientific]] pursuits in the name of ideology. It is not until Zhdanov's death that actual scientists can succeed him (and in case of Kardashev, try to turn the Federation of Soviet Socialist Republics into an actual technocracy).

* EvilAllAlong: Zhdanov pretends to be a libertarian socialist before he takes power, and drops the façade immediately after, revealing his true colors as an ambitious, ideological and pseudo-technocratic, if not outright Stalinist dictator.

* {{Foil}}: Zhdanov is one to Trofim Lysenko. While there are parallels in how both have pseudoscientific pursuits in the name of ideology and aren't letting things like ethics stand in the way of progress, Lysenko has all but bought into his own delusions of advancing "Soviet science". Zhdanov, meanwhile, doesn't let it all get to his head and only sees Ultravisionary Socialism, even at its most audacious, simply as a means of enforcing ideological purity through a technocratic veneer.

* PresidentEvil: Zhdanov's willingness to run in Komi's bourgeois democratic elections (in contrast to the anti-electorialist Suslov and Bukharina) is only part of his reformist libertarian façade, before he reveals his true colours as a totalitarian and pseudo-technocratic Ultravisionary Socialist dictator.

* SuperiorSuccessor: While Zhdanov considers himself to be better than his Soviet predecessors, his own successors are undoubtedly superior to him, by virtue of actually ''being'' competent scientists and technocrats who know what they're talking about. This is especially the case for Nikolai Kardashev, who seeks to reform Ultravisionary Socialism into a genuinely benevolent force for the people. Whereas Vladimir Chelomei continues Zhdarnov's status quo as it benefits his ambitious plans to advance space exploration.

* VisionaryVillain: PlayedWith. Zhdanov is a radical ideologue with an insanely ambitious vision for the future of the Federation of Soviet Socialist Republics. He wants to technologically accelerate the nation beyond all other nations on Earth, spread the ultravisionary socialist superculture across the planet, and then ''go beyond Earth'' and eventually create a Universal Soviet Federation stretching across all of the universe. On the other hand, much of that is simply a means for him to enforce ideological purity with a technocratic veneer, suggesting that he doesn't really believe in the more ambitious aspects of his own system.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Many of his dictatorial measures are justified by his belief that the people can easily fall prey to demagogues and bourgeois elites, so he and his technocrats need to defend Russia by centralizing all authority to themselves.

* MadScientist: PlayedWith, as Chelomei isn't so much mad as he is amoral. Unlike Zhdanov, he actually is a competent scientist and technocrat who knows what he's talking about. Nonetheless, he upholds his predecessor's tenets anyway because they let him justify his ambitious plans of securing the stars, at the expense of those on Earth.

* EmperorScientist: Kardashev is a physicist by education and trade, and takes his goal of scientific development very seriously. Compared to Zhdanov and Chelomei, Kardashev is generally less authoritarian and strongly disagrees with the nebulous HollywoodScience of the orthodox Ultravisionaries (making him an actual technocrat instead of a pretend technocrat).

* GoodCounterpart: In contrast to Zhdanov, Kardashev genuinely believes in the promises of Ultravisionary Socialism, but believes that science should serve the people, not the other way around. While in contrast to Trofim Lysenko, he not only rebukes pseudoscientific ideological pretentions, but also seeks to champion a genuine technocracy to help the people instead of treating the population as fodder for experiments.

* HeelRealization: While Kardashev joined the nascent Ultravisionaries under the assumption that Zhdanov's claims of reform and progress were sincere, it didn't take too long before he caught to what was being passed for "orthodoxy". He thus begins advocating for a genuine Ultravisionary Socialism where science and technocracy serve the people, not the other way around.
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Famous as an astrophysicist that devised the Kardashev scale, which indicates how much power a civilisation uses. Not only does he adopt involvement in politics, but he's also the leader of a benevolent technocratic movement that strives to either reform the worst excesses of a totalitarian regime (if he succeeds Zhdanov) or overcome a mad regime's collapse (when he ends up leading the Chelyabinsk Institute after Sergey Taboritsky's Holy Russian Empire collapses).

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* IndividualityIsIllegal: He ranks "cosmopolitanism" as a threat equivalent to capitalism. His cultural projects uphold a principle of conformity and sense of "unity", making citizens wear nearly identical fashion and rendering food extremely plain.

->'''Ideology:''' Marxism-Leninism[[note]]Communism[[/note]]

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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: In OTL, Shafarevich was no more than a mathematician and conservative dissident who was a bit controversial in some of the antisocialist writings he published, the contents of which are still being debated as to whether or not they were credibly anti-Semitic. Here, the less generous interpretation of his ideology is fully embraced, as Shafarevich is not only an influential authoritarian politician, but a full-on racist.
* HeelFaceTurn: {{Exploited}} if he's been exiled and about to be killed. With his executioners closing in on his location, Shafarevich prays to God in the hopes he will spare him, promising to not harm another living being if his prayer is answered. However, it's just a move in desperation rather than a genuine atonement for his actions.

->'''Role:''' Head of State (1963 Election, 1966/1967 Election, Voznesensky Resignation)

%%->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]] [[/labelnote]]

* NecessaryEvil: Should the KPK get elected into power from the 1963 election, they will pass the Popular Apportionment Act to allow the President to dissolve the Assembly to prepare for future elections, as well as redraw election districts so the KPK can always maintain a plurality. This gets frequently criticized as an undemocratic move, but the President justifies it as a necessary move to take power away from the bourgeoisie and return it to the workers.

--> See his entry on the [[Characters/TNORussia West Russia subpage]] under Ukhta section.

--> For his tropes, see his [[Characters/TNOTaboritsky dedicated page]]. '''Unmarked spoilers ahead!'''

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President Nikolai Alekseevich Voznesensky is a former Soviet statesman, and the creator of Komi's democratic system. Formerly the WRRF-appointed head of the Komi ASSR, Voznesensky was disappointed by the WRRF's incompetent and dogmatic Leninist policies that led Komi to ruin, and transformed Komi into an independent democratic republic after the West Russian War.
After initial prosperity, trouble quickly emerged: anti-democratic radicals flocked to Syktyvkar due to its acceptance of radical politics, and Voznesensky's own actions and connections have caused endless scandals. However, Voznesensky isn't gonna let go of his democratic vision so easily, and he won't go down without a fight.

Svetlana Iosifovna Stalina, daughter of purged Soviet bureaucrat Iosif Stalin, is a rising star in Komi's Democratic Coalition. Heading the big tent Sovereign Democratic Party, Stalina is a champion of anti-radicalism and democracy, and her strong principles had become a new supporting pillar of Komi's democratic center. Though her opponents decry her as an authoritarian and an opportunist, Stalina sees her own assertive and populist policies as a necessity to building a strong and democratic Russia.

Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov, the Red Eminence of Komi, is the puppet master of the Syktyvkar Left. A prominent member of the WRRF civilian administration during the days of the West Russian War, Suslov found himself stranded in Syktyvkar when the WRRF collapsed, and decided to work with Voznesensky and create his democratic Komi Republic. Soon afterwards, Suslov began manipulating in Komi's affairs and built up a significant influence, using his red paramilitaries as a proxy. His final goal is singular and straightforward: restore the Marxist-Leninist Orthodoxy in Komi, and from there recreate a socialist Russia free of ideological corruptions.

Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov is a veteran Communist and the second in command of the Communist Party of Komi. Known for his purist cultural policies in the past, Zhdanov has changed massively since then, and has aligned with progressive and libertarian trends in the KPK. But behind closed doors, Zhdanov has been exploring unorthodox policies in science and technology, and plotted plans for a society of "Ultravisionary Socialism". Though most believe that Zhdanov's vision will accomodate his newfound libertarianism, others warn that he is still his old self: an old snake with a penchant for pretentious grandiosity.

The daughter of General Secretary Nikolai Bukharin, Svetlana Nikolayevna Bukharina grew up with a prestigious education and social standing. After Bukharin vanished during the Soviet collapse in WWII, Svetlana too disappeared, but she later resurfaced in Syktyvkar, whose leftist factions quickly embraced her as a propaganda star. However, Svetlana is no powerless political puppet, and she has her own plans and ambitions beyond the Komi ideologues' wishes. She sees the need for Russia to embrace a form of socialism more accountable to its people, so that the people of Russia can truly stand up beneath the oppressors and free themselves.

Lev Nikolayevich Gumilyov, son of famed Russian poets Anna Akhmatova and Nikolay Gumilyov, is an erudite intellectual and the leader of the Komi far-right. Notable for his theories on ethnogenesis and the Eurasian superethnos, Gumilyov found interest in applying his theories to politics after the Soviet collapse, and created the Passionariyy Organization in Komi as an organized right-wing political force. With a political vision of a new Eurasia, Gumilyov intends to create a great Eurasian civilizational empire and bring down the enemies of Eurasia.

Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich was a mathematical genius with a hopeful future within the Soviet academia, a future that was crushed by the Soviet defeat. Taking refuge in Komi, Shafarevich took up politics after seeing Russia's devastation to participate in its restoration. A firm Russian nationalist, Shafarevich currently leads the moderate wing of the Passionariyy Organization, and developed his ideology of "Passionate Conservatism", a populist ideology that celebrates Russian nationhood and denounces the Russophobic forces of the "small nations". Though accused of being a would-be dictator, Shafarevich maintains that he is a firm democrat. He's nothing like the transparently totalitarian dictatorships of Western Europe, correct?

Ivan Alexandrovich Serov is everything the Soviet Union wanted: a committed Leninist, a loyal patriot, and a dutiful NKVD officer. But the Union's total collapse made even Serov doubt the path he took, and he began personally revising his ideology to find a better path for Russia. These ideas would coalesce into a new form of socialism: Ordosocialism, a synthesis of Marxist socialism and Russian ethnonationalism, to unite Russia in class and race. Now committed in his new beliefs, Serov will make sure that Russia rises again under the bright star of Ordosocialism.

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