Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or USSR for short was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. As a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, it was a flagship communist state. The Soviet Union was composed of 14 Soviet socialist republics and one Soviet Federative Socialist Republic - the Russian SFSR.
In 1990, the Soviet Union and it's communist allies invaded their neighboring countries, sparking a one-year long conflict known as the Third World War, which ended in it's total destruction and occupation by NATO forces.
==History==
===Pre-Cold War===
The Soviet Union has it's roots back in the days of Tsarist Russia. Angry at the ruler's incompetence and ignorance of the working man's rights, a certain political group rose to prominence - the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, who would later adopt the name of Vladimir Lenin. After the First World War, the Bolsheviks rallied against the provisional government and Tsar Nicolas II in an event that went down in history as the October Revolution.
The Bolsheviks - led by Lenin and Leon Trotsky - murdered Tsar Nicolas and his family in cold blood, and in Tsardom's place instated a socialist government. They faced almost no opposition, as everyone had enough of poverty, famine, the incompetent provisional government and corruption in the previous Tsarist government.
The Russian Civil War erupted, and took place from 7 November 1917 to 16 June 1922, between Bolsheviks and their political opponents - the White Army; despite several countries sending aid to the White Army, they have lost, and the Soviet Union was born. During the late 1910's and early 1920's, the Soviet Union was humiliated during their first armed incursion into Europe, when they attempted to invade Poland, and were beaten easily by the Poles. After 1991, many Polish historians saw this as an eerie glimpse into the things that were to come.
When Lenin passed away in 1924, his successor was Joseph Stalin, a Georgian; he was previously Lenin's thug and a petty street criminal. Under Stalin, the Soviet Union agreed to a pact with Nazi Germany during the Second World War, before the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, but were pushed back. Back then, the Soviets were allies of the United States and the United Kingdom, and together defeated the Nazis; Soviet Union forms the lands it liberated from Germany into it's socialist puppet states, something which the then-president of the US, Franklin D. Roosevelt agreed upon during the Yalta Conference.
In 1945, the Soviet Union initiated the mutant program, led by Vladimir Demikhov and Lev Surov, inspired by the earlier theories of a Soviet scientist called Ilya Ivanov, who desired to produce human-chimpanzee hybrids, the Humanzees, as far back, as the 1910's and 1920's via artificial impregnation. In 1940, the Soviet scientist Sergei Brukhonenko have also experimented with reviving separated dog heads via life support - yet another twisted research branch that eventually would merge with Demikhov's and Surov's research into the mutant programme.
===Cold War===
thumb|250px|Propaganda poster of Stalin and the Soviet armyAfter the Second World War ended, tensions started to grow between the Soviet Union and the United States. The USSR desired to control more of Europe, and America was starting to grow suspicious of the emerging superpower. In his final days, Stalin came up with a final solution, a failsafe in case there will be no further - the Dome Of Light project; the only person he mentioned it to was a young CPSU member, Aleksander Vitalevich Rukov. He died of a stroke just mere hours afterwards, his guards too afraid to check if he's alright.
Nikita Khrushchev won the following power struggle, and in 1956, he denounced Stalin and his actions during a period known as the de-Stalinization. In the late 1950's, a confrontation with the communist state of China regarding the USSR's policies led to the Sino-Soviet split. This resulted in a break throughout the global Marxist-Leninist movement, with the communist governments in Albania, Cambodia and Somalia chose to ally with China instead of the USSR. 
During the 1950's and 1960's, the Soviet Union and United States engaged in the Space Race - the Soviets launched it's first first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1 in 1957; a living dog named Laika in 1957 and the first human being, Yuri Gagarin in 1961 among other achievements. During the Cold War, the Soviets also engaged in military interventions in Czechoslovakia, Korea and Afghanistan.
After Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev led the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982. His rule was later linked with the decline in Soviet economy. He was succeeded by Yuri Andropov, who died a few years later and was succeeded by the old Konstantin Chernenko, who due to his senior age passed away a mere year after taking office.
After Cherdenko passed away, he was succeeded by Aleksander Rukov, who quickly revealed himself to be an aggressive, fearless and authoritarian leader even for Soviet standards - he even became known as the Second Stalin, a title he enjoyed, as he was close to Stalin during his youth. Despite the Soviet economic downfall of that time, Aleksander decided that it's time to strike. Over the next two years, he begun conspiring in secret with other communist leaders of the world for the big day - the invasion of Europe, Asia and North America in 1990, even managing to renew Sino-Soviet relations just for the invasion's sake. Bases were built, armies were at the ready, new technology was being unleashed and superweapons primed. All the time, NATO was not suspecting anything, only getting ready for the inevitable fall of the Soviet Union.
It was evident that the Soviet rule is crumbling, starting with Poland leaving the Eastern Bloc in 1989, and fall of the Berlin Wall in Germany the same year. Aleksander realized it's time to strike before it's too late - now or never. 
===Third World War===
thumb|250px|Soviet Armed Forces during the Third World WarOn May 1990 the Third World War begun - Soviets and their allies invaded Europe and both coasts of the United States, while China and their allies invaded Asia. The American government was unable to launch their ICBM missiles at the Soviets, as Spetsnaz operatives destroyed all major ICBM complexes across the United States. Soon, the Soviets started controlling large swathes of US coastal territory and began working their way inward. In the meantime, the Chinese government suggested to Rukov that the Red Army should use the war to re-take Afghanistan, which was in fact a ruse, made to double-cross the Soviets into having their most skilled operatives killed in action, to weaken them, but the Premier was unaware of that.
By August 1990, the US Army begun to retake it's Soviet-invaded lands, city by city, county by county; soon enough, all Soviet occupiers were driven back, and USA could begin aiding the Europeans. As 1991 arrived, the Soviet presence in mainland Europe weakened. The satellite states of the Soviet Union begun to show cracks; Romania surrendered and joined NATO. It was at that time, that the Soviet Union realized that the Chinese have been steering the war in their favor. Thus, Yuri Semashkoshov, an elite Spetsnaz operative was send to assassinate the PLA leaders and destroy their most secretive base in Tibet. The operation was a success - China, now mortally crippled by the loss of their high command, bailed out of the war and retreated into isolationism on all fronts.
The invasion of the Soviet Union begun, and soon enough, Soviets had to finally unleash the mutants; this forced the US army to research the topic of the mutant project further and destroy the main mutant-making lab in Kholat Syakhl. NATO forces were closing in on Moscow itself, and in a matter of weeks, Moscow was besieged by NATO forces from all sides. By the time NATO was conquering Moscow, most Soviet politicians and leaders called for surrender to spare just a few lives of the Soviet people, Aleksander however did not give up, still knowing about Stalin's failsafe - the Dome Of Light. He left the other politicians and military leaders behind in Moscow, escaping via a private plane with his loyalists deep into the Kamchatka peninsula, into his secret base inside an active volcano where the Dome Of Light was being kept.
The Soviet government led by Dmitry Yazov surrendered to NATO; the war however was not over - there was still Premier's base in Kamchatka. NATO concluded a final raid on the Premier's base, where they destroyed the Dome Of Light. After Aleksander's death, the country became occupied by NATO forces.
==Description==
thumb|250px|Soviet cities during the second half of the 20th century, each photo showcasing a city from a different republicThe Soviet Union was composed of 14 Soviet socialist republics, those being the Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Byelorussian SSR, Estonian SSR, Georgian SSR, Kazakh SSR, Kyrgyz SSR, Latvian SSR, Lithuanian SSR, Moldavian SSR, Russian SFSR, Tajik SSR, Turkmen SSR, Ukrainian SSR and the Uzbek SSR. The government kept a close eye on it's citizens, especially under the Stalin administration, and would control almost all businesses and institutions.
Soviets repressed religion and culture, proclaiming religion to be the opium for the masses; there were many victims of the Soviet war on culture and religion, including Christians, Siberian indigenous religion worshipers, Crimean Tatars, Jews - many of which Stalin ordered to kill, fearing they were conspiring against him - or the Cossacks. Many cultures that formed the Soviet Union were russified and homogenized, and the government would even outlaw harmless pleasures and many pieces of Russian culture and history. Other victims of political repression in the Soviet Union also included the so-called "Kulaks", intellectuals and artists, and much more.
Soviets caused much grief to their neighbors - among their crimes were the Holodomor famine in Ukraine, the Katyń massacre during which many helpless Polish officers were murdered, mass rape and abuse of women in Germany and Poland (including sending Asiatic soldiers to rape German women so that the women brainwashed by the Nazi politics would commit suicide), the armed invasion of Czechoslovakia, the many lives lost in the sattellite states and much more. These tendencies also showed during the very brief occupation of the United States in 1990, where under Vladimir Gulashnikov, Americans were subjected to starvation, lack of water and deliberate energy shortages.
Soviets would place problematic people, anti-communists, and other people they government did not like keeping around into mental wards or worse, the Gulag concentration camps. Many unlucky men and women sent there would die in horrendous conditions, or worse - be sent to Demikhov's labs to be turned into mutants.
==Army==
thumb|250px|Some examples of Soviet motor pool in an American educational graphic from the Cold War eraAccording to most NATO analysts during the post-Third World War period, the Soviet doctrine was to almost always simply enough flood the enemy with cheaply-produced garbage - it worked for their fight with the Third Reich, and it worked during the Third World War, to an extent. The Soviet Infantry was brutal, very numerous, and very easy to muster from the country's inexhaustible human population. Their firearms consisted of pistols, AK-74 and it's derivatives, SVD rifles, RPG-7 launchers and much more. Their army's basic vehicles were the "T-" series tanks, from the T-80 to the T-34, BMP and BMD infantry fighting vehicles, BTR APC's, Shilka anti-aircraft guns, Hind helicopters, various tactical ballistic missiles and multiple rocket launchers, and many more to count. 
The Soviets also dabbled into more experimental technology, starting with the Teletank project, first exploited during the 1920's and culminating in the T-1000 Vezdekhod; they also attempted to create combat humanoid robots and prosthetic-enhanced supersoldiers during the Third World War period.
The Soviets based three pieces of their military technology on the writings of Nikola Tesla, those being the Tesla Reactors, Tesla Coils and finally, the Tesla Troopers.
==Appearances==
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